In a battle with Marshal Wu Ruxiao, the marines steadily killed and scattered the Zhenjiang defenders, a total of 10,000 land and water troops, without losing a single soldier, and all the soldiers returned to the Great Eastern before dark, which opened the eyes of Qi Taiyu and Xu Rongcun, two mountain villagers.

Qi Taiyu said excitedly: "Is this Zhenjiang, the military town of the Taiping Army?" How do you give us three times and divide five by two? Can we take the opportunity to occupy Zhenjiang and ask the imperial court for credit? ”

Tang Ning still has the old saying: "There is more than self-preservation, but there is not enough progress, our soldiers have an average of three bullets to solve a cold weapon Taiping Army soldier, and they have consumed two-thirds of the bullets, and they can't fight anymore, otherwise there will be certain dangers." ”

Qi Taiyu couldn't hide his disappointment: "Did you just leave quietly?" Killed so many bandits in vain? ”

Xu Rongcun was a little calmer than Qi Taiyu, because he knew that Tang Ning's energy was huge, and he was famous all over the world as soon as he invented wireless telegraphy, and then he continued to make great works, and he was even more against the sky, he invented a rifle with a very fast rate of fire, so he easily repelled the Taiping army, what's the big deal? He smiled and said, "Could it be that Brother Qi still wants to take credit from the imperial court?" Jiangsu Governor Gil Hang'a is in the camp of Jiuhua Mountain on the outskirts of Zhenjiang, do you dare to go? ”

Xu Rongcun was the person in charge of intelligence in the Qing Dynasty, so he naturally had a relatively comprehensive understanding of the battlefield.

Have you ever heard of good news and bad news? I don't dare to go to the good news, am I still a Jin merchant? No, am I still human? Qi Daring originally had an adventurous spirit, and this time he would not dare to be a magpie, and said at the moment: "Mr. Tang asked me to go, I will go, I will build yì to make a contribution to the governor of Jiangsu, and there will be people in our court in the future, right?" ”

Tang Ning said: "Then you go, Lao Xu pointed out the way." "Xu Rongcun is only three years older than Tang Ning, but because he has a beard and looks old, Tang Ning likes to call him Lao Xu.

The fighter plane was fleeting, and it was better to put down the life raft near Zhenjiang overnight, and let two subordinates of Xu Rongcai's intelligence system follow with telegraphs to keep in touch with Tangning's side at any time.

Early in the morning, Tang Ning asked his subordinates, and said that there was no news of the three messengers, Tang Ning felt bad, Lao Qi was in trouble? Tang Ning ordered 150 soldiers to be fully armed and prepare to go to the Jiuhua Mountain camp to find out.

The Qing soldiers patrolling the border of the Jiuhua Mountain battalion drank the group majestically, Xu Rongcun, the head snake, went to contact, talked for a long time, and gave the money to buy the road so that the patrol soldiers could report to the generals of the battalion, Tang Ning hated the "bad rules" of the Qing Dynasty the most, but for the sake of a small life, he still held back his anger.

After a full hour, just as Tang Ning was about to give the order to attack, finally, the three were carried out!

Lao Qi cried: "They don't believe that one of our warships defeated the sailors of the Taiping Army, and they suspect that I am a spy, and they beat 30 boards, woo woo......"

Tang Ning checked his injuries, and it was okay, yes, take the Great Eastern back to recuperate first.

Two of Xu Rongcun's subordinates were also beaten, and the three unlucky guys naturally thought that this meal was in vain, no matter how tough Lord Tang was, he couldn't convict the governor of Jiangsu of the Qing Dynasty because the three younger brothers were beaten, right?

Alas, good magpies were beaten into crows.

These guys in the green battalion are arrogant and will be dumbfounded, no wonder they can't even beat the rabble of the Taiping army.

It is impossible to engage in "consular jurisdiction" in the concession area with truly fair diplomacy, but in a place like the Great Qing Dynasty, where even those who report the good news are lightly punished and the system is extremely anti-human, the Europeans like to engage in extraterritoriality, and there is no way to do it, so how can the British rest assured that they will hand over criminal suspects to these stupid officials of the Great Qing Dynasty?

When the Taiping army conquered the capital of Jiangning, the British, French, and American envoys felt that the Qing court might lose the right to rule, and they all actively contacted the Taiping generals in different ways, and most of them were through the Taiping army's frontier town - Zhenjiang, that is, the territory of Wu Ruxiao, who repeatedly claimed that "our Heavenly King is the king of kings, the co-lord of all countries in the world", and perfectly inherited the arrogance and arrogance of the Heavenly Empire, which disappointed the ministers. There was even a strange incident in which a certain king of Tianjing put the minister under house arrest during his contact with the minister. The king of heaven, Hong Xiuquan, or the king of the east, Yang Xiuqing, these grass-headed kings, required the "Yiren" to kneel and bow, and the etiquette was no less low-key than that of the Qing Dynasty emperor's three bows and nine bows. In short, whether it is the Kingdom of Heaven or the Qing Dynasty, it is not an enlightened lord, compared to it, the Qing Dynasty is a little more reasonable, after all, he was beaten by fat in 40 years, and he knows how powerful foreigners are.

The Governor of Jiangsu? What a big official, however, Tang Ning didn't take this goods in his eyes at all, after the battle with the Taiping Army, he has basically mastered the combat effectiveness of the Marine Corps, a thousand chasseurs are enough to crisscross the Qing Dynasty, as long as there is logistical support, it is estimated that he can destroy the Qing Dynasty before the British and French forces declare war on the Qing Kingdom, and what is lacking now may just be an excuse, it just so happens that Jill Ahang, an idiot, actually beat the Angelo I sent, which is an excellent excuse for war.

He needed an excuse mainly for the Europeans to see, not to make the Europeans think of themselves as a reckless warlord, as for what the Qing Dynasty thinks...... Anyway, he didn't know many people in the Qing Dynasty, so he could show the Qing people the big fist of the sand pot.

Public opinion propaganda began, Tang Ning personally operated, first described his friend who met in ** as a law-abiding, diligent businessman, the first worries of the world, the joy of the world after the joy of the world, the Grand Duke of Windsor was inspired by his old friend, hoping that the Great Qing Kingdom would end the war as soon as possible, so the Great Eastern visited Zhenjiang in a friendly manner, but the Zhenjiang guards fired indiscriminately, and the Great Eastern was forced to counterattack, because the Great Eastern was tall, and it was difficult for the Taiping warships to board the Great Eastern in the broadside battle, In the end, they were repelled by the Hessian mercenaries, and the Taiping army sailors fought to the death, but they were unable to break through the steel-armored giant ship, and finally the whole army was annihilated.

The matter of landing in Zhenjiang was deliberately concealed here, and then it was said that the businessmen who were worried about the country and the people were determined to hand over the war report to the Qing army, and since they had formed a mortal enmity with the Taiping army, they had to do their best to help the Qing army solve the civil strife as soon as possible, and return the people to a peaceful world, but the dim and incompetent governor of Jiangsu actually beat up three good people who could have become great heroes, if it were not for the Grand Duke of Luxembourg to arrive at the Qing army camp in time, I am afraid that it would have been difficult to save his life! For such a ridiculous thing, I hope that the Qing Emperor will give a reasonable explanation, so as not to hurt the harmony between the Qing Kingdom and the German Confederation of Luxembourg.

Now, Downing can do diplomacy in the name of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, otherwise, although he is the Duke of London, he does not hold any public office in Britain, and only the status of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, a European monarch, allows him to set his own foreign policy at will, and has nothing to do with the British Empire.

"Extra! Extra! The world's largest post** Dongfang broke the Taiping Army's Zhenjiang Water Division, and the Taiping Army lost more than 10,000 yuan! Shanghai's newspaper boys excitedly waved their newspapers in English and Chinese, and they expected their business to be good today.

This is too funny, a cruise ship will wipe out the heavyweight sailors of the Taiping Army, blow it, right? Anyway, buy it and take a look. There was no second Chinese newspaper in the Qing Dynasty, and the only one was the Chinese version of the Telegraph, which had very few pages due to the limitations of printing technology.

This is the first time that the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, a small mini-country equivalent to a small county in the Qing Dynasty, has appeared on the historical stage of the Chinese world, and the Qing people only knew England, France and the United States.

Of course, this is also quite a sensation in Europe, in the past, people used to call this god-level inventor and industrialist by the Duke of London, and now Tang Ning began to appear as a politician, the first appearance of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg in the international arena was so amazing, with a boat to break nearly 10,000 Taiping Army sailors, you know, the strength of the Taiping Army is thriving, and it has posed a threat to the rule of the ancient Eastern superpower Daqing State.

Tang Ning took advantage of the information asymmetry, in fact, he only defeated 3,000 sailors, and the other 6,000 people were the results of the landing, because he blurred the details of the battlefield, everyone thought that it was a big break of the Taiping Army's 10,000 sailors.

Surprisingly, this time the French people shared the same hatred with the Grand Duke of Windsor, and hated the evil laws of the Qing Dynasty.

In 1852, the French missionary Malay was sent by the Paris Foreign Mission Society to leave France to participate in the Catholic missionary work in Guangxi, China. After his stay in Guangzhou, he went to Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, in the spring of 1854. In December, he and Lu Tingmei traveled to Yaoshan Village in Xilin County, Guangxi, to meet with a Catholic community of about 300 people. On December 8, 1854, he presided over the first Mass for the first time. Guangxi is the birthplace of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Catholicism is similar to the worship of God in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the local government thought that he was gathering a crowd to rebel, and 10 days after his arrival, he was imprisoned in the Xilin County official office for 16 days.

After receiving personal intimidation, Ma Lai went to Guizhou in early 1855 and returned to Guangxi in December of the same year. On February 22, 1856, a relative of a new believer, Bai San, sued Ma Lai while the Yamen was on vacation. On February 25, Zhang Mingfeng, the new governor of Xilin County, issued an arrest warrant, and Ma Lai and some local Catholics in Yaoshan were arrested. Marai was beaten severely, and then he was put in a cage and put in a small iron cage, which hung at the prison gate. Eventually, Marai was tortured to death. His body was then decapitated.

The punishment station cage is an extremely cruel and potentially fatal form of corporal punishment, but it is a fairly common punishment in the Qing Dynasty, not to mention the county officials, even the squires have the right to exercise such a cruel punishment. Because the officials of the Great Qing Dynasty were only in charge of the county head, the security of the township was handled by the local tyrants and squires.

The story of Monsieur Marais spread through the network of telegrams and telegrams that soon spread throughout France, and how the murder of a venerable missionary did not arouse the public outrage of the French people? Therefore, the French are now quite sympathetic to the plight of this Qing businessman who is "worried about the country and the people", and the rotten regime of the Qing Dynasty, damn it!

Gilhang'a can be the governor of Jiangsu, it can't be a straw bag that can only beat people, he still believes in Qi Taiyu's report a little, so he sent someone to spy on the reality of the Taiping army in Zhenjiang, and found that the Taiping army may have really been hit hard by the foreigners, so he sent a large army to attack Zhenjiang city defense, the Zhenjiang defenders have been disabled, only a thousand defenders, no intention of fighting, Wu Ruxiao Marshal fled west, nowhere to be found, Zhenjiang, a major military town of the Taiping army, fell into the hands of the Jiuhua Mountain camp, Gilhanga excitedly reported to the imperial court.

Although the Qing court officials did not use the British telegraph company for fear that the foreigners would know about the military aircraft, after all, the Qing Dynasty was not all fools, and knew what this "instantaneous" speed meant to the military intelligence system, so some officials used the telegraph quietly. Among them, Zeng Guofan, the head of the military department (equivalent to the vice minister of defense), had the habit of having people translate the latest English version of the Telegraph and heavy intelligence-related news, because it was more timely and comprehensive than the Chinese version of the Telegraph, and he first found that Gilhanga did not mention the role of foreigners in the battle of Zhenjiang, and the Telegraph's statement was that the power of the Great Eastern defeated the Zhenjiang naval division, and Gilhanga had offended the German state called Luxembourg. Zeng Guofan also learned about what the German state was. His translation is also half a bucket of water, and he doesn't know that the monarch of this small country is still the Duke of London, a European god-level scientist and industrialist.

Zeng Guofan had just been defeated in the Western Expeditionary War with the Taiping Army Shi Dakai and Wei Changhui, and almost committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, trapped in Nanchang, after the victory in Zhenjiang, the Western Expeditionary Army returned to the eastern battlefield in large numbers, which greatly reduced the pressure on Lao Zeng, and he began to have the spare strength to report his doubts to the imperial court, his focus was not to question Gilhanga, but that the Qing Dynasty had been at odds with Luxembourg, and hoped that the imperial court would send envoys to negotiate, Zeng Guofan judged from the Great Eastern, the world's largest cruise ship, that this small country called Luxembourg was likely to be difficult to mess with, How else can we build the world's largest? And it is also possible that the Great Eastern ** defeated the sailors of Zhenjiang. （http：／/.）。

However, Zeng Guofan's non-key information revealed the possibility that Gilhang'a concealed the military situation, which made Gilhang'a very annoyed, and reported to the imperial court that Zeng Guofan was jealous of his victory in Zhenjiang, and the Hunan army had recently been defeated, and Lao Zeng wanted to regain face.

Zuo Zongtang, who served in the shogunate of Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Hunan, was more radical than Zeng Guofan's use of Western intelligence, and he persuaded Luo Bingzhang to write a letter to support Zeng Guofan, and he knew the other identity of this Luxembourg monarch, the Duke of London of the British Empire, the Duke of London who was awarded the highest title for his meritorious service in the Crimean War, and he also described the Crimean War as an important war between the British, French and Russian armies, and the soldiers dispatched by both sides were hundreds of thousands, and he even pointed out blatantly, The British army of 10,000 or 20,000 people can cause great damage in our Qing Dynasty, so this grand duke, who made the first contribution in the Crimean War, is not an idle person and cannot be taken lightly.

Emperor Xianfeng was very pleased with the victory in Zhenjiang, and reprimanded Zeng and Zuo for attacking their colleagues, raising the morale of foreigners and destroying their own prestige, how could a cruise ship defeat the Taiping Army's sailors? Is it a joke to be the naval guns of the Taiping Army?

In fact, Zeng and Zuo were also puzzled by the strength of the Great Eastern, arguing that the ironclad ship was too big to engage in broadside combat. Emperor Xianfeng still refused to accept it, and continued to commend the governor of Jiangsu, Lord Jier.