In terms of his views on the issue of Xiangyong, Bai Gui can understand the emperor's thoughts, so he is unwilling to equate the recommendation of Zhu Jinglun with the dismissal of Xiangyong, only saying that Zhu Jinglun has outstanding ability and should recommend talents for the country. Of course www.biquge.info Huang Zonghan wanted to confuse Zhu Jinglun with Xiang Yong, believing that recommending Zhu Jinglun to help organize group training at this time was tantamount to expanding Xiang Yong's power.

Zhu Jinglun's matter was only a part of the human rights struggle between Huang Zonghan and Bai Gui, and this struggle also implicated Zhang Qianshan's exploits, Zhang Qianshan was recruited by Zhu Jinglun in the name of Bai Gui, because he later captured the fort and made great contributions, Bai Gui was willing to endorse it afterwards, and was willing to admit that Zhang Qianshan was recruited to aid Guangzhou under his arrangement. Similarly, Huang Zonghan still wants to oppose and resolutely refuse to recognize Zhang Qianshan's merits, not completely denying it, but thinking that Zhang Qianshan's entry into Guangzhou does not conform to the regulations of the army, and if he is given credit, it is to mess up the law of the imperial court, and it is more important to maintain the law of the court than the credit made by a small Qianzong.

Both sides are under the banner of various righteousness, in fact, they are just increasing their bargaining chips for their own power, although there is a clear system differentiation of power, but things are man-made, and some local governors are better than governors, because the power given to you by the system, will be used and will not be used are completely two concepts.

Bai Gui and Huang Zonghan seem to be fighting for the merits of two people, but in fact, they are fighting for their own power, if an official is always unable to take care of the people who do things for them, then who will do things for them with their hearts, who will follow their steps, there are also small groups in the officialdom.

In fact, Bai Gui and Huang Zonghan probably don't care too much about the merits of characters like Zhu Jinglun and Zhang Qianshan, but they just can't give in, especially Bai Gui, he is now much more down-to-earth than in the past, and he was worried about his life a few days ago, but with the merit of recruiting foreigners, he now has to think about the relationship with Huang Zonghan.

The governor theoretically has to listen to the governor, but if the governor is not good for the governor, the governor cannot sit still, then he still has to fight, if he wants to fight in the future, Bai Gui must have someone to help him do things, so he is now strong to ask Zhang Qianshan and Zhu Jinglun for credit, but it is to pave the way for the future, so that everyone can see that the governor will support him if he follows the governor of Baigui, so that the people who are attached to Baigui will be tied to him more closely, and will not betray at any time.

The weaker the people, the stronger they are, that's because they have no way out, Bai Gui is like this now, he has no way out, rather than being cornered by Huang Zonghan in Guangdong in the future, it is better to not give an inch now, as for the price of the struggle, it's just a big deal for the emperor to transfer himself out of Guangdong, that may be better.

The result of the fight is that neither side can make the other party compromise, Huang Zonghan's meritorious performance will not appear in Bai Gui's person, Bai Gui will write his own recital to the emperor to express his feelings, of course, his recital is not Huang Zonghan's countersignature, as for what the emperor will decide, it depends on the emperor's mood and trade-off.

If according to the normal state, the infighting between these two people is like two crickets, before being separated by the master, they will definitely keep biting until one bites the other to death, when the master separates them, it also depends on the mood of the master, if the master finds it interesting, maybe let them keep fighting.

But this was not the normal state of affairs, and the Englishman, like another naughty child competing for crickets, forced in, and tried to stretch out the stalks to pluck the two crickets.

But the crickets were not happy, the crickets were disciplined, unless the British child could snatch the whole cricket jar, they would continue to bite for the British naughty, and before snatching it, they decided to unite and bite the stalks that the British naughty boy had reached in.

The straw stalks were the four British warships that appeared on the Pearl River.

When the four British warships appeared, all the quarrels seemed to come to an abrupt end, and the civilians suddenly understood that they were at war!

Huang Zonghan even made an exception and invited Bai Gui to a meeting to discuss the enemy's strategy, he actually knew in his heart that Bai Gui couldn't do it, so simply let Bai Gui also participate, anyway, if something happened this time, it would be good to have one more person in the top tank, Huang Zonghan knew very well that they could take Guangzhou City from the foreigners, how many of them were coincidental, if there was no series of coincidences, this city would always reject them until the foreigners took the initiative to let them out.

The four British warships made them realize that they had beaten the foreigners, and now they came to the door. They were more or less aware of the Anglo-French alliance's march north to Tianjin, and they also knew that the main force of the Anglo-French alliance was as high as several thousand, and that 20 years ago, Britain fought from Guangzhou to Nanjing, all the way to conquer the city, and there was no general. Now Britain and France, according to the information they have gathered during this time, France can be a longer and shorter power in the European continent, and it is stronger than the British Army, extremely good at land warfare, and is the first land power in Europe.

One country can't stop it, let alone two countries?

They recovered the city of Guangzhou, and there was also a Zhu Jinglun who reported the news, and even copied out the defense map for them, and kept stirring up the internal discord between the British and French forces, and the Indian soldiers who were the main force of the British army were also harassed unintentionally in the war, although they have never recognized the role played by Zhu Jinglun, but Huang Zonghan knows very well that if any of these accidental factors are missing, the trouble they will encounter will increase a lot.

But now they are here again, obviously with the main force, and those four ships are nothing, but they are a declaration.

What to do?

No one spoke.

At this time, whoever speaks will have to be responsible, whoever dares to say that he will fight, and he will definitely be responsible if he is defeated, and whoever wants to make peace will also be pushed on his head. Even if the peace talks are completed, there will still be people who find faults, and if they sell their interests, they will scold him for betraying the country, and if they do not sell their interests, they will say that he has insulted the national body, and he should not compromise with foreigners, saying that he has grown the ambition of foreigners, strengthened the prestige of the foreigners, and made the people despise me. After the war, these people who talked a lot will never remember why they didn't dare to speak up when they gave up their minds in the first place.

Bai Gui didn't come at all, saying that he had left his post and continued to live in the British military camp, threatening to appease Yingyi.

Huang Zonghan sighed, he has to be responsible, after all, he is the governor of Liangguang.

Huang Zonghan said wait and see.

Huang Zonghan spoke, others dared to speak, at this time someone made suggestions, not bad, a few of this group of Guangdong officials are willing to do things, Hua Tingjie believes that the fort should be strengthened, the number of troops stationed in the fort should be increased, and the artillery should be increased to train the gunners.

Although it does not solve the big problem, this is a constructive opinion after all, so they said that it was good, and said that the Huaxian County Decree was quite capable of doing things, and this matter was handed over to the Huaxian County Commander, among which the two old officials who belonged to the political envoy and the inspection envoy had the greatest support, and they completely forgot that just yesterday they also impassionedly sued Hua Tingjie in front of Huang Zonghan, and they looked incompatible with this corrupt county order.

The sound of artillery outside the city interrupted the meeting, and Huang Zonghan asked everyone to perform their duties and let Hua Tingjie preside over the defense of the fort.

The artillery battle lasted two hours before it ended, and the four British battleships, in fact, were small boats, gunboats in the British army, and each gunboat had only four guns on it, and these four guns fired at the East Fort for two hours, and they were unscathed, because they were too far away, three miles away.

The maximum firing range of the cannon on the turret is claimed to be able to hit nine miles, but the effective firing range is actually three miles.

The gunners on the turret knocked away the British warships, and there was a cheer, they actually didn't know how much information they had exposed, and the British came over with a few gunboats, and they tested the ability of the Chinese defenders to use the forts, including the ability to aim and the frequency of firing.

As for the performance of those cannons, the British knew very well, and they installed them at all.

After figuring out the level of the Chinese gunners, they can formulate corresponding tactics based on this information, and then move in earnest.

Zhu Jinglun saw the intentions of the British army clearly at a glance, but it was impossible for him to break the truth, so let those gunners think that they had repelled the British warships, and it was better to enhance their confidence than to despair after knowing the reality, even if this confidence was blind, it was better than running away without a fight in despair.

Of course, it is better not to fight, so Zhu Jinglun went to Bai Gui and suggested to Bai Gui that he should negotiate with foreigners this time, but Bai Gui said that he was shallow, and the foreigners were coming violently, how could he agree to peace talks, even if he wanted peace talks, I was afraid that he would have to cede land and pay compensation, which had to be decided by the emperor, and he could not be the governor of Guangdong, who had gone to office.

At this time, Bai Gui remembered that he had already left his job.

Bai Gui lived in the Xiezhen military camp in Guangzhou, where British prisoners of war were held, and Zhu Jinglun lived in the customs yamen not far away.

When he returned to his residence, Zhu Jinglun took out a pen and paper and began to write a diplomatic plan. It's not okay if you don't write it down, since the mechanical body is dormant, Zhu Jinglun has found that his brain power is starting to be insufficient, in the past, a plan was drawn up in a circle in his head, and he will never forget or omission, but now it doesn't work, if he doesn't write it down, there will always be problems.

It can't be beaten, everyone knows this, although no one dares to say it explicitly. Since they can't say it, they can only deal with it passively, and I'm afraid that this battle will have to be fought again, and those officials will only take the initiative when they are beaten, just like a donkey, if they don't whip them, they won't move.

Of course, they are much smarter than donkeys, if they don't fight, they will negotiate in vain, Qi Shan was an example, he didn't want to fight with Yingyi, and signed a nose grass contract without authorization, and as a result, he was "dismissed from his post and locked up, and his family property was confiscated", you must know that Qi Shan is a serious Manchurian magnate who is hereditary first-class, and they all end up with such treatment, not to mention them. So no one dares to talk about peace talks without authorization, but it's good to fight, and you can prove to the emperor that it's not that we don't want to repay the king's kindness, but our ability is really limited, and we can't beat it. After defeating, it is to make up for the loss and protect the territory for the emperor.

Under the rule of the Great Unification Emperor, such absurd stories will happen again and again.

So Zhu Jinglun knows that those civil officials are unreliable, it's not that they are incapable, but sometimes in order to protect themselves, they still have to pretend to be confused and wrong when they know that they are wrong.

But if they can fight a defeated battle, it is better not to fight, so that the effect of recovering Guangzhou will not only be not, but when they are lost again, the impact on national self-esteem may be greater.

Zhu Jinglun felt a dilemma of wanting to do things but not being able to do them.