Section 87 Xianfeng Reading Letters

Hurd had long wanted to leave the prisoner of war camp, where they starved to death, but it was definitely not good, and he hadn't showered for months, which was definitely not decent. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But more importantly, the current situation is not in line with his perception. In the eyes of military experts, diplomacy is one of the means of war, and the Chinese say that the salute comes first, and diplomacy is just a politeness to inform the other side. However, in the eyes of diplomats, diplomacy is not only not a vassal of the military, on the contrary, the military is also a form of diplomacy, and it is an extreme way of diplomacy, a diplomatic method that is forced to be carried out when diplomacy is unbalanced or out of control. Therefore, if war breaks out, it means that diplomacy has failed.

In his opinion, after signing a diplomatic treaty with China, the war should not be continued, and the Chinese Xiangyong recovering Guangzhou did break the treaty, but what the British should do at first time is not to raise troops to attack, but should negotiate diplomatically, as long as the Chinese can ensure compliance with other contents of the treaty, occupying the city of Guangzhou is not the point.

Hurd knew very well that the purpose of Britain's military action to fight this war was definitely not simply to fight a war, but not to sign a decent treaty, and now that the treaty has been signed, then any means of war are not necessary.

So Hurd had asked him to leave the city many times before, and this time Zhu Jinglun persuaded Bai Gui to finally let him out of the city, and he couldn't wait to pack up and go out immediately.

Seeing that Hurd still maintained a positive work attitude under repeated blows, Zhu Jinglun couldn't help but be a little admired, no wonder he was able to dominate the Chinese customs for half a century, and when he left, he was commemorated by both China and Britain, and the Manchu court named him the crown prince, and the British government also named him a baron. His success is really not a fluke!

It's just that Hurd's broken face, and his completely unrecoverable left leg, limping out of Guangzhou made Zhu Jinglun really unbearable, these are all caused by himself.

Seeing Hurd away, Zhu Jinglun continued to return to the barracks, and the coolies had already risen. Zhu Jinglun gave five cigarette bubbles to each of the coolies who participated in the war as promised, so that everyone was very satisfied, as for those coolies who had been eliminated before and had no chance to fight, there was no hurdle that they couldn't get over if they were addicted to smoking, and they could still borrow some from their friends and companions, but they didn't know if they would be loaned out by usury.

There were also sacrifices in this battle, and a total of 10 prisoners were killed, including those who died of serious wounds. Another 30 or so suffered irreparable injuries and could no longer fight. In order to dispel other people's worries, Zhu Jinglun ordered the corpses of those coolies who died in the war to be sent back to their homes, and each person was given 100 taels of burial expenses. As for the injured, including the unlucky ones who broke their legs and lost two arms, Zhu Jinglun also let them continue to make a living in the army, and the military salary has not been reduced at all, and it is really cost-effective to use this money to reassure others. The problem is that Bai Gui doesn't have much money for him.

Qi Jiguang said that the core part of the training is to establish organizational relationships, and the core of organizational relations is managers, and the managers of the army are of course officers at all levels.

These coolies were organized, and Zhu Jinglun didn't intend to create chaos, so he didn't dare to break up their organizational relationships, and still let the leaders of various leaders and other leaders serve as officers. The whole army was divided into 20 posts, each with 80 to 100 men, and the commanders were the leaders. There are also teams below the whistle, with 10 people per team, and the captain has the captain appoint the whistle. 4 sentry is the battalion, and the battalion officer asks the four sentry commanders to discuss it themselves and report it.

The formation of the army at the three levels of battalion, sentinel, and team is different from the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion, but it is the same as the Hunan Army, and the Hunan Army refers to Qi Jiguang's method, so Zhu Jinglun's method of organizing and training the army is not out of the cabinet, and it will not cause criticism. At the same time, it also perfected the chaotic organization of the Qing army, you must know that the Qing army did not even have grassroots officers, and the smallest army green battalion unit was Xun, but a flood ranged from a few people to several hundred.

Of course, there are also people who are dissatisfied, such as Hou Jin is very disappointed, he didn't even get mixed up with a battalion officer.

Zhu Jinglun didn't plan to mix sand, he only asked these coolies to be used by him for the time being, so he didn't break up their organization, as for Hou Jin, he didn't appease, he needed to grind Hou Jin's temperament, he found that Hou Jin was a little anxious during this time, and he overrode himself above the coolie leader everywhere, thinking that he was Zhu Jinglun's right and left hand. The black dog was called and drunk, but this time, because of his identity as a leader, the black dog won over the other three dragon heads and became a battalion officer, but Hou Jin didn't get anything. He suddenly became a bare-bones commander, which would teach him a profound lesson.

With organizational relations, Zhu Jinglun selected more than a dozen Indian soldiers and used them as deputy commanders to help train the troops.

After returning this time, Zhu Jinglun immediately dismissed the Indian soldiers, leaving only 50 of the more than 200 Indian soldiers, and the basis for the dismissal was their attitude.

When the British army landed on the same day, Zhu Jinglun found that not every Indian soldier had counterattacked the British army, and when he returned, he counted the ammunition and found that most of the Indian soldiers did not shoot at the British army.

The remaining 50 people are much more desperate. They had already shot at their masters, and they could only follow Zhu Jinglun all the way to the dark in the future. Among them was the aspiring young man Galava, whom Zhu Jinglun directly appointed as the sentry commander of the remaining 30 Indian soldiers, and asked him to appoint the captain below. Including the 20 deputy sentinels, these 50 Indian soldiers are now reliable mercenaries in Zhu Jinglun's hands.

After the army was organized and trained, and the organizational relationship was not disrupted, so there was no chaos, and after they began training according to the training methods of the British army, Zhu Jinglun turned his eyes to the British prisoners.

Although the Indian soldiers can barely be officers, they use their hands to temporarily help the coolie officers train soldiers, but there are very few real technical troops. For example, artillery, Zhu Jinglun does not have one.

During the artillery battle with the British army, the level of the Chinese gunners on the battery was really worrying, otherwise the British fleet would not dare to approach the battery so calmly, and would not leave unscathed.

After chatting for a while with a group of British officers and soldiers who were idle all day long, drinking crow drows and playing cards, I got to know these people, and forty percent of them were from Ireland, and the purpose of serving in the army was not to pursue honor, but to make money. From their tone, it can be found that these Irish do not identify with the British government very strongly, especially several of them, all of whom have obvious hatred of the British, and are also quite dissatisfied with the British army, believing that they have received discrimination from English officers in the army.

It's good to have dissatisfaction, but this dissatisfaction is not enough for them to have the courage to resist the British Empire, otherwise the Irish will not accept British rule, so Zhu Jinglun has to give them some courage.

To give some addicts courage, what else is useful to make his addiction useful? Therefore, Zhu Jinglun hopes to reduce the supply of crows for these people as appropriate.

It's just that the crows used by the British are not the same as the tobacco soil of the Chinese.

They use an industrially processed tincture called crow tincture, which is a medicine that comes in small glass bottles. When they surrendered, they even easily kept these things from Xiang Yong, who had seized their assets, because Xiang Yong thought that these were medicines, and if he knew that these were more pure crows, who would give them to them.

It is very suitable for Fang Shan to do this matter, he has more than 100 "heroes" who are three and nine streams, and he is also a running man, he is familiar with this kind of thing, so he asked him to find someone to quietly steal the British crow tincture, so as not to worry that these British people are not addicted.

At this time, Xianfeng, who was in BJ, was watching the music handed over by Bai Gui.

During the occupation of Guangzhou by the British and French forces, Bai Gui never stopped playing to Xianfeng, mostly explaining the situation between him and the foreigners, as well as defending himself for the impeachment of others, and sometimes reporting the situation of the GD.

But this letter was not about that, but reported to Xianfeng his plan to recover Guangzhou.

For the recovery of Guangzhou City, Xianfeng has never given up, even if he has signed a treaty with the foreigners, if there is a chance, he does not want to give up. Because he doesn't believe in foreigners at all. His worldview is completely Chinese, secular, pragmatic, and something that can be possessed, so why give it up?

Of course, it is not completely unbelievable, because the foreigners asked him for millions of taels of silver, saying that he would withdraw from Guangzhou after the silver was repaid, isn't this the ransom fee, Tong Guan of the Song Dynasty soon gave the Jin soldiers a ransom fee, and was able to get the sixteen states of Youyun that the Song Dynasty longed for hundreds of years.

It's just that Xianfeng is still a little hesitant, and when TJ was negotiating, he ordered Huang Zonghan to suspend military operations, and after the negotiations, he asked Huang Zonghan to act safely.

But Xianfeng was worried that the foreigners would have a reason to invade the coast again, so he played a clever trick and told Huang Zonghan that he could only act in the name of Xiangyong.

instructed Huang Zonghan: "The antecedents were threatened by the British and the Buddhas. There are still two people who say that they are in agreement. The edict ordered Huang Zonghan to postpone the attack on the provincial capital of GD, fearing that once the troops were used, there would be revenge in the coastal areas, which would be at odds with the current situation of TJ. …… Although the TJ is still in the middle of the discussion, the GD is the righteous indignation of the gentry and the people, and the intention of the officers and soldiers to postpone the attack is not in the same way, and it makes the people know that it is difficult to offend, and in the future, the officials will turn around, and they can also make them aware of the fear and understanding. ”

and asked Huang Zonghan to "exercise the right to win and then raise it". That's why in history, Huang Zonghan attacked Guangzhou on July 21, but in this era, because of the appearance of Zhu Jinglun, they fought Guangzhou again and won.

Of course, this news has not yet reached Xianfeng's ears, and Xianfeng still sees the note issued by Baigui before the war.

What Bai Gui wrote is also in line with Emperor Xianfeng's thoughts, which is nothing more than to appease and suppress both, use the people to suppress the raze, and use the raze to control the raze, first launch an attack by the gentry and the people, and then the officials will mediate as a third party, and finally the foreigners will definitely be grateful to Dade.

This kind of strange logic is really incomprehensible to later generations.

After reading Bai Gui's recital, the emperor did not reply to Ben, but played the same old tune. But soon he received a note from Huang Zonghan, Huang Zonghan meant that he didn't want to fight Guangzhou twice, they had already fought once, and Huang Zonghan judged that Guangzhou was not easy to fight.

This is a bit interesting, the attitude of the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangzhou (departed) is different.

Xianfeng also paid attention to it, and asked him to send him an excerpt from GD as soon as possible.

After that, excerpts continued to be sent, about Huang Zonghan attacking Guangzhou again, Huang Zonghan and Bai Gui both said that they had successfully attacked the city of Guangzhou, and the foreigners were compressed to the new city, and at this time the two had different attitudes. Huang Zonghan advocated a long-term siege and used the method of sealing the port to make the foreigners trapped. Bai Gui, on the other hand, advocated the use of military coercion to subdue foreigners and disarm them.

The disagreement of the governor made the emperor think about it, these two people are not in harmony, the local governor and the governor are not in harmony, this is nothing to the emperor, if the governor and the governor are in causion, then the emperor has to worry. However, in order to maintain Huang Zonghan's status as the governor and messenger, Xianfeng still wrote an edict to reprimand Bai Gui.

Before this reprimand was issued, Xianfeng received information from Liangguang, including Bai Gui's unique letter, telling the emperor that he planned to enter the city alone to persuade foreigners to surrender and use benevolence and righteousness to influence foreigners. Huang Zonghan explained that Bai Gui did it on his own, not by forcing Yunyun by himself.

At this time, the emperor knew that the relationship between Bai Gui and Huang Zonghan had become fire and water, it didn't matter if the superintendent was not in harmony, and it was not good if there was discord in the war, but at this time the emperor could not reprimand, Bai Gui took the risk of entering the city alone, and also reprimanded, didn't it chill the hearts of the courtiers, especially Bai Gui's recital, so that he was still quite moved, and felt that when it came to the critical time, it was still the flag people who could be relied on, in the final analysis, the minions knew how to share worries for the emperor.

At this time, the emperor's heart was already biased towards Bai Gui.

Immediately afterwards, the emperor received a follow-up report from Bai Gui and Huang Zonghan, and couldn't help but shout hello, because this was Bai Gui's excerpt of the good news, telling the emperor that he had persuaded the foreigners, and thousands of Yingyi handed over their weapons. Of course, there are still differences in the excerpts, and Bai Gui and Huang Zonghan repay different people respectively.

Xianfeng thought about it, and immediately issued an order, and agreed to the requests of the two, including Bai Gui's request for reinstatement, including the content of the two people's request for credit. But he still reprimanded Bai Gui, but the content of the reprimand was not to accuse him of discord with Huang Zonghan, but to reprimand him for not taking risks, if there is any damage, it is a big crime.

One can imagine how happy Bai Gui was when he received this letter, and he couldn't help but want to show off.

The banquet must be held, Huang Zonghan, Hua Tingjie, and officials of all sizes in Guangzhou, including Zhu Jinglun.

However, Zhu Jinglun couldn't be happy, because the British seemed to be determined to occupy the city of Guangzhou.