Section 12 Opportunities
Zhu Jinglun decided that he had to work hard to do this, but he knew very well that this thing was definitely not easy to do, not only in people, but also in the right time and place and in a hurry, simply put, there must be a good opportunity. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Opportunities sometimes come by waiting, sometimes they are created, capable people may not be able to create opportunities, Zhu Jinglun is not an incapable, but he has no resources in his hands now, and his ability cannot be displayed at all. So he can only wait slowly, while carefully continuing to work to enhance his network strength, which will be resources in his hands in the future.
The team of Chinese working in the British and French forces has grown more and more, from the beginning of Zhu Jinglun alone, in just one month, it has grown to more than 100 people.
The vast majority of them were recruited from Hong Kong, some from Macao, and none of them were local.
Most of the people were crowded into the yamen, and no matter how spectacular the governor's yamen was, it was quite crowded. Chu had to stay in a study room with four people, three of whom were from Hong Kong and one from Macau.
All three from Hong Kong come from the same background, having graduated from a church school in Hong Kong, then worked in the church, and were seconded by the Occupation Committee. Macau, on the other hand, was from a merchant family, and he was not so enthusiastic about translation work, and Zhu Jinglun couldn't figure out what he had in mind.
But he got along well with these people. He came earlier than these people, these people all regarded him as his senior, Zhu Jinglun did not take the shelf of his predecessors, and often helped them in his work, and after helping them through the difficult period when they first arrived, their feelings naturally increased a lot.
However, even with the help of such a large team of Chinese staff, the Anglo-French forces were still unable to completely control the city of Guangzhou, and the situation was getting worse and worse. It's not that these two men are openly antagonizing the Occupation Committee like Nanhai and Panyu County Commanders, they are just caught in the middle, trying to be impartial.
First of all, Bai Gui still issued notices to the outside world one by one that the Occupation Committee asked him to issue, and the notices stamped with the governor's seal were posted all over the city of Guangzhou. For example, "the Chinese and foreign families must not make trouble anymore and the people are reconciled", "in the future, it is not allowed to call Yi a devil, and when foreigners go to the countryside, they must be treated with courtesy", "if they beat foreigners and dare to use words to practice in groups, they will be punished as treason", and so on, and the notices with warnings were all written by Bai Gui, the head of the current civil officials, at the behest of the Occupation Committee.
The Anglo-French forces did occupy the city of Guangzhou, but they did not eliminate the Chinese resistance, because the resistance at this time had changed from the Eight Banners and Green Battalions in the city to the regimental training organizations in the countryside outside the city.
The Anglo-French coalition army now has more than 5,000 people, controlling the city of Guangzhou, and relying on the defense of the city is not a problem, but if you want to disperse to the countryside to capture the regimental training and the village bravery, it will not be possible at all.
The British and French were also just entering the modern age, and the code of conduct that they later called modern civilization was still in its infancy, and they had not yet shed the barbarism of the Middle Ages, so they had little patience at all.
The purpose of the British and French forces to occupy the city of Guangzhou, on the one hand, wanted to teach the Qing government a lesson, and on the other hand, they hoped to get a port to facilitate their supply of supplies, but Guangzhou has not been stable, so their situation is very passive.
If it is those civil officials in China, when they encounter such a situation, they generally use Huairou and kill people with soft knives. However, Britain and France did not have this kind of middle-of-the-road philosophy, they believed in force and forceful means, and they believed that Guangzhou had not been able to settle down so far because of the ineffective behavior of traitor officials such as Bai Gui, so they constantly put pressure on Bai Gui and them.
The occupation committee had temporarily moved out of the crowded governor's yamen, but instead of being freed, Bai Gui was placed under house arrest, and he and several family members were placed in the innermost layer of the governor's yamen, and guarded by foreign soldiers, and any officials who needed to see the governor were strictly interrogated.
The dignified governor was actually under house arrest, and even puppets like Bai Gui and Mukdenne could not be willing, so they slowly began to secretly do tricks.
Zhu Jinglun secretly remembered these situations in his mind, and he felt more and more that the opportunity was coming.
Zhu Jinglun was also surprised to find that his memory is excellent, he never forgets, and all the information he sees can be remembered in his mind word for word, he knows very well that this is because there are three million alien mechanical parts in his body all the time, and the products of these alien civilizations run in various body structures from the brain to the blood, from the bone marrow to the internal organs, and can be perfectly combined with the living body, using the energy of Zhu Jinglun's body to maintain the operation, but Zhu Jinglun's body can only support these mechanical bodies to run at the lowest power.
However, this minimum power also has extremely powerful functions, such as assisting Zhu Jinglun's memory, which can be completely unforgettable.
Zhu Jinglun not only wrote down a piece of the information he could see so far, but also remembered the map of Guangzhou drawn by the coalition forces without a trace, and saw a defense map that he did not know if it was expired or not.
After the chaotic March and April, the British and French troops tried to march outside the city several times, but they did not gain anything, they were completely unable to find the traces of the Xiangyong and regimental training hidden in the vast countryside, and they were worried about the problem of the back road, so they did not dare to go too deep, so they were never able to solve the security problem around Guangzhou.
To this day, the British and French forces are still transporting supplies from other places, the largest logistics bases are Nanyang and the Philippines, the Spaniards occupying the Philippines are allies of France, and the British have established colonies in Singapore and other places, but it is still difficult for these places to maintain the supply of more than 5,000 British and French troops for a long time, can only be a fantasy.
The force could not solve the problem, so they constantly put pressure on Bai Gui and other puppet officials in Guangzhou, because at this time, those village warriors outside the city were still nominally controlled by Bai Gui and others, and the British and French forces believed that the Guangzhou government should be legally responsible for the resistance forces outside the city, and since Mukdenne led the Qing army to surrender, the village warriors outside the city should also surrender to the British and French forces.
No matter how Bai Gui pleaded, the Occupation Committee did not accept it, and he vigorously pressed Bai Gui to send people to convey orders to the rebels outside the city to lay down their arms.
Baigui was in a dilemma, and the rebel army had gradually formed an organization at this time, and Nanhai and Panyu Zhixian escaped from the city, collecting donations from merchants and landlords, and actively training their arms in Huaxian County, which was close to the city of Guangzhou, and openly waving the banner of recovering Guangzhou.
The British and French forces were helpless against them, so they could only put pressure on the governor of Baigui, but Baigui knew very well that the civil officials who organized the regimental training outside the city occupied morality at this time, and if he dared to completely stand on the side of the British and French forces at this time and spread to the ears of the emperor, he would die.
So Bai Gui is in a dilemma, and he can only keep making mud, just like what Ye Mingchen did before him, but this kind of officialdom is really not easy to use on arrogant and unreasonable foreigners.
Bai Gui tasted the bitter taste of being a traitor, and became more and more anxious.
In April, the regimental training outside the city was not only not wiped out by the British and French forces, but thrived and became a general climate, and the British and French troops could not even completely control the city of Guangzhou, and often overnight, the city was plastered with notices from the villagers outside the city, warning the officials in the city to let them get out of the city as soon as possible, so as not to be held hostage by the foreigners.
The people in the city are panicking, and the market is getting worse day by day.
The Anglo-French coalition forces had no choice but to continue to increase the pressure on the puppet officials in Guangzhou.
"You're going to cut off my head now, you're going to cut off my head now!"
At the end of April, there was a sudden noise in the governor's yamen, and Zhu Jinglun was translating an official document, and he was immediately attracted.
When I went out, I saw a few foreign soldiers pressing a few Guangzhou officials and walking towards the back house of the governor's yamen.
"What's going on?"
It happened that the person in charge of translating for foreigners was a clerk from Hong Kong, Zhu Jinglun took the opportunity to ask.
"Major General Pa Xiali thinks that it will be more convenient for these adults and the governor to live and work together in the governor's yamen, so he asked them to come over."
The people who were arrested, one is Heng Qi, the superintendent of Guangdong Customs, the other is Cai Zhenwu, the acting Guangdong inspector, and the other two are businessmen Wu Chongyao and Yu Wenzhao, Wu Chongyao and Yu Wenzhao are the thirteen merchant identities who have been responsible for communicating with foreigners in the past hundred years at the Guangzhou port, and Wu Chongyao's family is the owner of the famous Jardine House, and is evaluated by Americans as the richest person in the world in this era, and the famous Wu Bingjian is his father.
Businessmen have no status in China, but foreigners are not very clear about this matter, the world's richest man with the title of the first Wu family of the thirteen lines, in the eyes of foreigners, it seems that he still has a very high status, Yu Wenzhao is an official businessman, originally a Taoist in Sichuan, after being dismissed, he became a tea merchant in Guangzhou, and the business is very large, and the identity of the official businessman also makes the relationship with foreigners tense, Ye Mingchen relies on him as a middleman.
Because these people have been in contact with foreigners for a long time, these businessmen often deliberately show a posture that they have a lot of influence on the government in front of foreigners in order to raise their own value, which makes foreigners have a false impression.
So in order to put pressure on the Guangzhou government, Pa Xiali imprisoned them and Bai Gui together.
However, Pashali's pressure did not work, but made Bai Gui and others have a confrontational mood.
Just after the four of them were imprisoned in Baigui's mansion, Baigui suddenly sent a letter to the emperor, claiming that he was sick and took a three-month leave of absence for illness.
After these officials in Guangzhou completely did not cooperate with the foreigners, the situation in Guangzhou became even more chaotic, and Zhu Jinglun felt that his opportunity was one step closer, but he was still waiting to see what happened.
Seeing that the situation in Guangzhou could not be controlled, the foreigners made a plan to go north, and the British Minister Plenipotentiary of the British Dialogue Dialogue Ergin led the main force of the LinkedIn and French forces to the north by boat, intending to directly attack Tianjin and force the Qing government to sign a new treaty with them as soon as possible.
Zhu Jinglun knew that the opportunity he was waiting for was one step closer, but he was still waiting to see what happened.
After more than ten days, suddenly Pa Xia Li angrily broke into the governor's yamen and quarreled with Bai Gui, and later someone secretly rumored that Pa Xia Li directly slapped Bai Gui.
The reason is that because of the blue sky and white day, an Indian soldier was actually taken away from the city of Guangzhou, and the person who captured this Indian soldier was Lin Fuxiang Shui Yong, who had always been against the British and French forces.
At this time, Zhu Jinglun knew that his opportunity had come, he finally ended his dormancy and was ready to act, and the first step was to go back to Mr. Zhang Qian's house.