The sinking of the US warship with one shot must be reported to Bai Gui, which can play a role in scaring him and achieve Zhu Jinglun's goal. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

What is Zhu Jinglun's purpose, and is it just to scare the Guangzhou officials by constantly provoking the United States for so long?

The biggest purpose, of course, is to expand his power.

The Americans provided Zhu Jinglun with an excellent opportunity, and after the American businessman Thomas broke into Heshan and was killed, Zhu Jinglun began to operate.

The reason why he provoked the Americans again and again was to make the Americans jump over the wall in a hurry, and he was prepared for the worst, that is, the Americans would send warships to threaten them, even if the worst happened, Zhu Jinglun did not think it was a bad thing, he could still turn it into a good thing.

Because in that case, the Qing court would have to accede to the Americans' request to allow the Americans to investigate the killing of the American merchants.

Of course, the Americans did not only investigate the killing of a few merchants, they would definitely take the opportunity to break into the tea area of Guangdong, and the tea trade may continue to expand in the future, but in this way, Zhu Jinglun will receive less money.

But Zhu Jinglun will get a greater benefit, that is, to intervene in the Turkish and guest fights.

It's been a few years now, and it's in a precarious equilibrium.

Historically, the Guangdong Tuke Weapon Fight, starting from the fourth year of Xianfeng (1854) to the eighth year of Xianfeng (1858), was briefly calm for a while, not the end of the fight, but in the brewing of greater explosive power.

In the past four years, the Hakka people have taken advantage of the land of a large number of Cantonese people, and at present, the Hakka settlement areas in the seven counties of Heshan, Gaoming, Enping, Xinning, Yangchun, Kaiping and Gaoyao are almost connected, and the Cantonese villages between them in the past have been bulldozed by the Hakka people.

The most serious was Enping, less than a year after the start of the fight, the Tufu Turen village adjacent to Tuke was basically bulldozed, and more than 400 villages were destroyed. In Gaoming County, where the Hakka people are the most powerful, the Hakka people have taken away two-thirds of the land.

Objectively speaking, the Hakka people's combat effectiveness is indeed very strong, because most of them are mountain people, and they have been tempered by the difficult living environment since they were children, and the Hakka people themselves have a strong semi-military color, they live in the mountains, and in some places they are used to building tulou and walled houses like fortresses, not only to prevent wild beasts, but also because there has always been this extremely cruel and bloody tradition of fighting between the Hakka clans.

After such a group of people descended the mountain, the impact was indigestible for a while and a half by the Cantonese people in a long-term state of peace, and because a large number of Cantonese people participated in the uprising of the Tiandihui and other parties, the government was on the side of the Hakka people at the beginning, and it was not surprising that the Turen failed under the joint strangulation of the government and the Hakka clan group training.

However, the so-called natives are the first to come to the land of Guangdong to settle down, the ordinary people of the past dynasties of the government and the people, they have the largest number and the strongest economic strength, and they form complex low-level social ties with kinship, and the natives who have been taken away from their land and driven out of their hometowns are not cornered, and under the organization of the grassroots backbone and the squire class, the natives began to organize themselves in the periphery, and they also organized regimental training, purchased weapons, and are accumulating strength to fight back to their hometowns.

For the Chinese rural people, they can be pressured by the government, they can be exploited by the local tyrants and inferior gentry, as long as they can survive, they can all be people, they are a group of people who can sweat and cry, but if someone deprives them of the land they rely on for survival, then there is no way, the king of heaven is here, they also have to go up and take a bite.

Although the Hakka people are brave, but the Cantonese people account for the vast majority of Guangdong after all, the economic strength of the Cantonese people, the population base, so that they have an absolute advantage, once organized, coupled with the idea of fighting back to their hometown, and regaining the land, and avenging their relatives, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

In history, in the end, the Cantonese people almost wiped out the Hakka people in the seven counties where the Tuke armed fighting broke out, and millions of Hakka people were displaced and sold as piglets to the South Seas, to the Americas, to Africa, and became the largest labor supplement in the world's colonial system after the end of the black slave trade.

It made a great contribution to the construction of the white colony, but it was the most tragic fate and the most humiliating page of the Chinese nation.

It should be emphasized that the composition of the Cantonese people is mainly Cantonese Han and Sinicized Zhuang people, and the Hakka people are also an ethnic group of the Han nation.

Zhu Jinglun has heard of such a major historical event, and because the Hakka people were finally defeated and dispersed to the world, it can be said that it directly affected the distribution of Chinese people all over the world.

Historically, around 1860, the Cantonese people began a counteroffensive against the Hakka people, and the Hakka people began to retreat one after another, until they had no choice but to leave their homeland and go to all parts of the world. That is, next year, Zhu Jinglun had long planned to intervene in this civil war before this and quell this tragedy at the lowest cost.

Calming the tragedy itself is Zhu Jinglun's biggest goal, as for the benefits he can reap from it, it is only a matter of course, such as harvesting a Tuke village warrior who has been fighting with each other for four years, this will be a force that can help him start a career, the reason why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom swept half of the world, the core force is not the Hakka veteran from Guangxi.

The 10,000 rifles that Zhu Jinglun bought last time were waiting for the owners who were the strongest young men who crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood of the civil war, but they will no longer be the villagers who bleed and fought each other for a little land of their clan, but will become a surging force that Zhu Jinglun used to overthrow this old era, change the entire country, the entire nation, and change the fate of all people.

But Zhu Jinglun was only Xin'an Zhi County before, and he had no reason to intervene in the Tuke Armed Fight, and the area of the Tuke Armed Fighting was not within his jurisdiction at all, and let Zhu Jinglun give up Xin'an, a base with an excellent port and control the golden waterway of the Pearl River, Zhu Jinglun was also unwilling, not only could not operate to transfer himself from Xin'an to Heshan and other mountainous areas, but also did not want to give up interfering in the tragedy of the Tuke Armed Fight, he needed a very powerful reason.

The killing of a group of Americans just gave him the most powerful opportunity to intervene in the disputes between the Turks in Heshan and other places, because the Americans would not turn a blind eye to this, and they were following the words of guidance to intensify the incident, and finally the Qing government would react under the pressure of the Americans.

And dealing with foreigners is now Zhu Jinglun's responsibility, and at the same time, all Guangdong officials do not want to take care of it, so with a little operation, Zhu Jinglun can easily use the pressure of the Americans to give the Americans an explanation to interfere in the Turkish and guest arms fight.

Of course, he still needs to have some operations before, so that his intervention is natural, otherwise in any case, it is a taboo in officialdom to intervene in other counties across jurisdictions.

Originally, Zhu Jinglun would continue to operate for a period of time, but the sinking of the American warship by the Humen Fort made the conflict intensify to the brink of getting out of control in an instant, and Zhu Jinglun took advantage of the anger of the Americans at this time to put pressure on Bai Gui and them, so as to accelerate the process of his involvement in the Turkish and guest arms fight.

The first step was to report the sinking of the American warship to Bai Gui, and tell Bai Gui that the Americans were about to go crazy, and if they did not take action, the United States could follow the example of Britain and France at any time to send warships and troops to Guangdong, and also explained the history of the United States to Bai Gui a little, telling Bai Gui that the United States was independent from British rule, and that it was a country that had defeated Britain and was extremely powerful.

When the news that the cannon of the Humen Fort had sunk the foreigner warship was sent to him, he simply couldn't sleep well, and he had no intention of sleeping at all, so he sent his henchman Fu Li to Xin'an overnight to find out the specific situation, and at the same time brought Zhu Jinglun a letter with extremely harsh wording.

When Zhu Jinglun saw from this letter that since he was tied to Bai Gui, Bai Gui reprimanded him with such harsh words for the first time, he felt an emotion from it: fear!

Bai Gui was really scared this time!

Although countless scholars in later generations have discussed the relevant responsibilities, most of them attribute the responsibility to the ignorance of the Qing court, the blind arrogance of the Qing emperor, and the weak minds of Qing officials.

But from the perspective of Bai Gui's worldview, it is another reason, the imperial court has stipulated the route for foreigners to enter Beijing, which is the normal process of traditional Fanbang tribute, but Yangyi dared not to obey, and even more arrogantly asked to bring troops into Beijing, and also submitted the credentials in person, and refused to bow down to the emperor.

Therefore, it was serious in Baigui, and it was completely because of the barbarism of foreigners that they fought again in Dagukou. The affairs of the British, French and Yi people are not over, and if something happens to Guangdong again, it is not only a matter of Bai Gui's personal future, Bai Gui also deeply feels a sense of shame for the emperor, he really doesn't want to make trouble for the emperor at this time.

That's why he was really angry and really scared, so he wrote a letter for the first time to severely reprimand Zhu Jinglun, a capable leader.

Seeing that it really made Bai Gui feel unbearable pressure, Zhu Jinglun felt that his plan was half completed.

After reading the letter, he said very seriously to Fu Li, who was sitting next to him drinking tea:

"Rich brother, I don't know what other instructions the Governor has. Do you want to invite foreigners to Guangzhou? ”

Fu Li almost squirted out a mouthful of tea, and waved his hand again and again: "Don't let foreigners go to Guangzhou!" ”

Zhu Jinglun smiled secretly in his heart, of course he couldn't go to Guangzhou, if he didn't go to Guangzhou, he had to rely on Zhu Jinglun.

Sure enough, the second sentence of Fuli was: "Your Excellency the Governor has explained, you have full authority to handle this matter, and you must not let the foreigners find an excuse to raise an army!" ”

Zhu Jinglun was proud in his heart, but he sighed again and again, and he decided to complain to Fuli first.