The Russians can do this because their representative in Beijing is not a diplomatic representative, but a priest of the church, an Orthodox church, the famous Rakshasa Temple, their envoys can meet the Qing emperor, because the Russians know each other better than Britain and France, their envoys are willing to bow down to the Qing emperor, of course, not three kneeling and nine knocking, but symbolically kneeling and kowtowing, the Russian envoy's explanation is that he is not a Chinese subject and does not often knock to see the emperor, so he cannot do the degree of the Chinese, This is a technical problem, not an attitude problem, and the Manchu emperors have face and generally don't care much about this kind of slippery behavior. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Britain and France did not bow down, and wanted to see the emperor in person, but Xianfeng refused to let them enter Beijing even if he was killed.

If they were not allowed to enter Beijing, they would bring troops into Beijing.

The British exchange troops began to leave Shanghai and go north on June 9, and the American minister Warrenhan also arrived at Shanghi at this time, and the Americans were originally willing to exchange the treaty in Shanghai, not wanting to anger the Chinese on such procedural issues, but now that the Anglo-French troops were heading north, Warrenham also followed.

On June 17, the British fleet reached the mouth of Dagu and sent a letter to the Qing court to report the arrival of the minister. The ship delivering the letter crossed the barrage and was stopped by some civilians on both sides of the strait. In fact, these people were disguised by the officers and soldiers of the Seng Lingqin faction. They told the British that there were no officials there. The fortification on the river was carried out by the masses at their own expense. The purpose is not to deal with you foreigners, but to deal with traitors and pirates. The common people were willing to send a letter to Tianjin on behalf of the Yi people, and they would reply in three days.

The Qing court, which did not understand the diplomatic methods of Westerners, thought that it could evade the past by this means, without the official coming forward, and even if there was a conflict, it would not be bad to the end.

On June 20th, when the three-day deadline had arrived, the governor of Zhili, Hengfu, sent his men to the British ship, informing the governor that he would stop for a few days before he arrived, and that he would wait for a few days and continue to use the procrastination trick against the British.

As the number one and second power in the world at present, Britain and France are interested in playing this kind of children's game with the Qing court, saying that they will enter the White River today, and ask the defenders to withdraw the barrage, otherwise they will have to do it themselves.

The defenders did not agree, and the British sent men to land, but the defenders stopped them again. The British expressed their desire to see officials sent by the Governor of Naoli. The defenders said that you were too polite, and you left angrily as officials. The British asked for a note to be delivered and wanted to go ashore to procure food. Monk Greenqin's subordinates did not allow it, because Monk Greenqin was worried that foreigners would come ashore to make trouble, so he simply sent someone to send rice, noodles, pigs, sheep and vegetables to the British army. Xianfeng's reply hoped that Monk Greenqin would take the overall situation into account and not use force if he could, so let Monk Greenqin tell them that Guiliang was almost here, please wait a few more days; If they can't wait, they can go ashore from Beitang to Tianjin to wait, but they are not allowed to bring troops and weapons to disturb the people; Foreigner soldiers are not allowed to go ashore, and those who need vegetables and food will be sent to deliver them as a whole, and the people are not allowed to trade with foreigners.

After that, every day the British demanded that the Qing army remove the barrage and let them enter the mouth of the White River, saying that the White River was a natural river channel and they had the right of way.

However, the Anglo-French forces retreated to the open sea, telling the Qing army that once the Chin sent Guiliang arrived, let him send the treaty to the open sea.

On the 25th, Gui Liang, who was already in his seventies, was still hurrying to go from Shanghi to Beijing, Xianfeng urged him to hurry to Tianjue, and sent a message to Seng Lingqin, asking him to tell the foreigners to wait for Gui Liang in Haikou.

I really can't wait, so I landed from Beitang and allowed them to bring 20 people into Beijing, but it was not possible to lead troops.

But who knows, before his edict arrived, the two sides fought.

An artillery battle broke out between the British and French forces and the Dagu Battery, and four British gunboats were sunk, and even the naval commander Heb was wounded.

Then the two sides accused each other, the British said that the Qing army fired the artillery first, and the Qing army said that the British army fired the artillery first.

But judging from the results of the battle, it was not possible to figure out that it was Seng Lingqin who fired the cannon first.

The reason is this, according to the British, they had long planned to remove the barrier at the mouth of the White River, but the Americans asked them to postpone it, because one of the two warships brought by the American minister Warlord ran aground at the mouth of the White River, Warlord followed behind the Anglo-French forces, he originally wanted to try whether he could dock, the Americans did not want to offend, he hoped to directly listen to the advice of the Chinese after going ashore and take the lead in changing the treaty, he saw that the situation was not good, and he was worried that the treaty was yellow.

As a result, a small boat ran aground at the mouth of the river, and could not retreat, so the British and French troops were asked to delay it for two days, and it was not until the 25th that the British army eliminated the gunboats to clear the barrier at the estuary.

From morning until 3 p.m., there was an artillery battle between the two sides. The British said that they did not know the artillery positions of the Qing army at all, because the Qing army covered all the cannons with straw curtains, and when the other side lifted the straw curtains, the British found that all their gunboats were actually in the middle of the range of the cannons, and they were caught off guard and lost by the exchange of fire.

After the British destroyed the Dagu Fort last time, the Qing court sent the monk Gelinqin to re-strengthen the fort, added many 10,000 catties of cannons, and really did a concealed treatment, if it was hidden, the British could not find a place to open the cannons.

The Qing army's claim was that the British fired the cannon first. It's not impossible, maybe the British are firing indiscriminately. It is also possible that Monk Lingqin saw that the British were about to clean up the estuary, and knew that it would be detrimental to him if he delayed any longer, anyway, the emperor asked him to block the foreigners and prevent the foreigners from bringing warships into Beijing.

In short, the fight began, and the British were defeated.

Zhu Jinglun didn't care about this matter, it doesn't really matter who is responsible for the war, the important thing is that the war does start, so no matter whose responsibility it is, the war will inevitably break out again.

What he never understood was why Britain and France, or more precisely the British, had to bring warships into Beijing, perhaps to deter the Qing government, anyway, Zhu Jinglun just couldn't understand the mentality of this hegemonic country.

The Qing government allowed them to enter Beijing by land, and said that they would be under the protection of the Qing army and could not carry weapons. Zhu Jinglun can understand this, because later generations of China did the same.

Few people cared about the fact that in Beijing in later generations, except for one or two military attachés stationed in China, the defense of foreign embassies was all in charge of Chinese soldiers, and no country dared to say that it was in charge of its own houses and brought its own troops to Beijing.

There is only one exception, that is, the United States, no one is in the embassy in Beijing, it is their own troops who are protecting, but the rule that China has set for them is that once they walk out of the embassy, they are not allowed to wear military uniforms, so there is often such a scene on the streets of Beijing, every morning, the US troops wear civilian clothes to run collectively on the streets, and return to the embassy to ship military uniforms. But that still can't obscure the unique status of the U.S. Embassy.

Similarly, in foreign countries, China also uses its own armed forces in the embassies of many countries.

To put it bluntly, what bullshit rules, in the end, it is still a fist with a high status. If China now has the national strength of future generations, will the British dare to lead troops into Beijing, and they will not even dare to mention this request!

The artillery battle ended around 4 o'clock, and the battle was not over at this time.

The British naval commander was still directing the battle, and when he saw that the Qing artillery fire had weakened, he thought that the Qing side was no longer good, so he ordered a landing operation.

The experience of the British army was that once they fought with Chinese soldiers, they could easily defeat their opponents. This time, they really underestimated the arrangement of Monk Greenqin.

When the landing force of 1,000 people boarded the sandy bank in front of the South Fort in a small boat, they found that the Qing army also had arrangements on the shore, and in front of them was a quagmire, and after rolling out of the quagmire with great difficulty, there were three trenches in front of them, and only about 100 people broke through the quagmire at this time, and after breaking through the first trench, there were only about 50 people.

It's not that they were all killed, in fact, most of them are fine, the reason why only so many people broke through was because the quagmire made most people's rifles unusable, so they could only stop attacking, and a small number of people dared to continue attacking, which was too underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Qing army.

Even if the Qing army is in the field, it is impossible to defeat them with 50 people, not to mention that there are some simple herdsmen brought from the grassland under Seng Lingqin, these people are not the children of the Eight Banners who have exhausted the courage of their ancestors in the Central Plains of Huahua, they also carry the cold wind of Mobei, and there is a natural spirit of bravery.

Therefore, the troops of the Anglo-French coalition army in front of the people's positions were basically solved by being chopped and chopped vegetables.

The landing battle failed, and the British and French forces had no choice but to retreat temporarily.

After the war, 11 British ships participated in the war, and 4 were sunk; More than 1,000 people participated in the battle, 89 were killed and 345 were wounded; The French army took part in 60 battles, 4 killed and 14 wounded. A total of 448 casualties were imposed. Of the 4,454 Qing troops who participated in the battle, 32 were killed.

Monk Greenqin fought such a victory, and he was immediately a little complacent, which laid the groundwork for his later tragedy at Bali Bridge.

And the commander of the British army, Hebb, inexplicably fought such a confused defeat, and was also a little confused, and reported to Pruss that now it seems that his forces cannot complete the task of escorting the exchange of contracts, and the French have no strength, and their main force is still fighting with the Vietnamese in Vietnam.

As soon as the ministers of the two countries discussed, they should withdraw first, withdraw to the south, withdraw to Shanghai or withdraw to Hong Kong.

They asked the American minister to go south with them, and the Americans played a trick at this time, it was you who fought with the Chinese, not me, he chose to stay, and hoped to complete the task of exchanging the treaty.

On June 29, Hua Ruohan found an opportunity to submit a note, saying that he had fought hard two days ago, so that he did not have a chance to submit the note, and now he wanted to enter Beijing to change the contract, and also give Britain and France a good start, the Qing court saw that the American was quite deferential, and immediately agreed.

The news came here, it was already August at this time, the British and French troops were still resting in Hong Kong, Zhu Jinglun sent people to keep an eye on their movements, and on the other hand, he began to hide from the world, because just two days ago, the Swedes merchant ship finally came, in addition to bringing him 40 64-pounder fortress guns, 10,000 rifles, and a shipload of machinery and equipment.

The cannon must be installed in the fort, the machine is used to build a factory, and as for the fact that these rifles do not have owners yet, Zhu Jinglun does not plan to recruit them immediately, because there are better soldiers waiting for him.

But now, Zhu Jinglun has to find a way to install these cannons on the fort before the British and French forces pay attention to him.