Chapter 112: The Trajectory of History
When Lin Haijiang's reinforcements arrived in Pengcheng, there were rubble and ruins, the crumbling and collapsed city walls seemed to tell people about the previous tragic fierce battle, the corpses of the French were placed not far from the city gate, their own reinforcements came, and the enemy naturally retreated as a matter of course, almost every survivor of Pengcheng thought so.
But some people don't see it that way, Yuan Hong! A guy who looks like a cat with nine lives survived like a demon? However, there was also a kind of estrangement between the surviving officers and soldiers and Yuan Hong, which was an indescribable and insurmountable estrangement.
If it weren't for Yuan Hong's death-defying attack, attracting the French army to be exposed to artillery fire in a dense formation, and the two thrilling death squads, Pengcheng would have been lost long ago, and the corpses of all of them would have stinked there like the French, is it unfortunate or lucky to have such a Shangguan? No one can say clearly!
In the face of the inexplicable withdrawal of the French, Lin Haijiang sensed the smell, it was obvious that the two dog robbers of Britain and France had not reached an agreement on the sharing of the spoils before the robbery, and the French hit their heads in Pengcheng and broke their blood, which made the British laugh.
But then the British and French armies hoarded soldiers and ammunition in Hong Kong, which made Lin Haijiang feel more vigilant, and Lin Haijiang also learned that James, who had been promoted to general of Haijiang. William was the commander of the British Home Fleet and commanded the Far East Fleet.
James. William can be said to be an old acquaintance he has never met, for this old friend, Lin Haijiang is still a little grateful, everything in the old port is all thanks to him, James. William is not a wine bag, and Lin Haijiang has a hunch that it may not be long before he will have a fateful decisive battle with this resourceful British Royal Admiral on the sea.
For the defeat of the French army, the capture of 5,000 Yingyi people, Ye Mingchen also lost some temper, the people in Guangzhou sang and danced, firecrackers, gongs and drums, lion dances, dragon dances and so on.
What a victory! However, before Lin Haijiang was happy, Ye Mingchen invited Lin Haijiang to the Governor's Mansion, and as soon as he entered the Governor's Mansion, Lin Haijiang found that the atmosphere seemed to be wrong? Some people are even consciously hiding from themselves? Ye Mingchen and Bai Gui also looked angry?
The will of the imperial court soon came down, the Minister of Military Aircraft Jing Shou, the university scholar Guiliang and others negotiated peace with Britain and France, and Lin Haijiang, the commander of the Nanyang Navy Division, moved the troops without permission, and removed the top of the flower feather, temporarily acting as the Admiral of the Water Division, for which Ye Mingchen was reprimanded several times, and the court almost put all the blame on Lin Haijiang, and he was the only one who was punished.
In the New Year of 1857, Lin Haijiang was extremely depressed, and Britain and France, who had lost the war, actually got at the negotiating table what they could not get when they launched the war and were killed and wounded!
Minister of Military Aircraft Jing Shou, University Scholar Guiliang and others met with the British Plenipotentiary Envoy Bao Ling and the French representative Martin in Tongzhou. Wei Xijin signed the Sino-British, Sino-French "Tongzhou Treaty", the "Tongzhou Treaty" stipulated: foreign envoys to be stationed in Yanjing; Kainiuzhuang (later changed to Yingkou), Dengzhou (later changed to Yantai), Tainan, Tamsui, Chaozhou (later changed to Shantou), Qiongzhou, Hankou, Jiujiang, Jiangning (Nanjing), Zhenjiang are treaty ports; China Customs employs foreigners; Foreign missionaries freely preach in the interior; Foreigners travelling to the mainland for trade and commerce; Foreign merchant ships can travel between the mouths of the Yangtze River; China paid Britain 4 million taels of silver and France 2 million taels. Prior to this, China, Russia, China and the United States had secretly signed similar treaties.
Lin Haijiang trembled with anger with the so-called "Tongzhou Treaty", this "Tongzhou Treaty" is a copy of the Tianjin Treaty. How can there be such a bullshit regime in the world? Guangzhou's anti-foreign blood is completely in vain.
Britain and France appointed Pruce and Bourblon as ministers to China respectively, and these two men took office two years earlier because of historical changes? The shocking changes in history made Lin Haijiang worried.
However, there will always be things that remain the same, that is, Lin Haijiang was dismissed from his post because of the joint pressure of Britain and France, and he stopped the order and arrow banner of the commander of the Nanyang Navy Division, and temporarily signed the Admiral of the Guangdong Navy Division!
Ye Mingchen made a distinction for Lin Haijiang, but he was reprimanded, thinking of the salary at the bottom of the kettle at the time of the war, as well as the post-war pension was generous from all walks of life in Guangzhou, Ye Mingchen, Bai Gui, and Lin Haijiang got together and sighed with emotion, but Ye Mingchen and Bai Gui were glad that the big thing finally had a result, and then the bandits could be pacified and the people could be safe, otherwise they would come to Tai!
Lin Haijiang is not as elegant as Ye Mingchen and Bai Gui, will the shark who has already smelled the smell of blood feel at ease with a little bit of blood? What they are best at is dismembering their opponents, and only by dismembering the Qing Dynasty can they get the most benefits.
However, there is one thing that the British have not been able to achieve their wishes, that is, the captured personnel are bought back according to their weight, and the captured British officers and soldiers are strictly separated, and the officers are two to ten times the price of the soldiers, specifically according to the rank, the officers and soldiers of the British Empire were stripped to the underwear and rushed to the table for auction, like selling pork, thinking that they would be eaten, and many British soldiers were so frightened that they wept and cried, and the sensational effect was no less shocking than that of Queen Victoria running naked.
For the honor of the British Empire, these officers and soldiers were all bought, including the funds raised by the Baoling, the funds raised by the people, the ransom of the families of the captured officers and soldiers, relatives and friends, and more than 600,000 pounds into Lin Haijiang's pocket.
The two envoys to China, Pruce and Bourblon, appointed by Britain and France respectively, were two years earlier than in history.
Regarding the Guangdong Navy Division sent by the imperial court to receive him, Lin Haijiang sat in the camp with great enthusiasm and ignored the officers and soldiers under his subordinates, and Liu Quansi, Gao Qi, Zhang Zheng and others even made wild statements that they wanted the new Guangdong Navy Commander Shao Qing to stand up and go out.
Wang Faren and Xu Dawei, who died in Pengcheng this time, shouted that they only had Lin Haijiang in their eyes, and there was no bullshit in the court, and the soldiers below were even more worried that the new Admiral had come, and it was time for them to return to their original bitter words, Wang Faren's intelligence detective team, with the tacit consent of various supervisors, began to spread rumors everywhere, such as reducing the number of people, reducing salaries and various benefits.
The entire Navy Division camp is like a fried pot, but all this is only limited to the Navy Division camp, Lin Haijiang knows it, but Ye Mingchen and Bai Guike are worried all day long, if they provoke a mutiny, it will be piercing the sky, Ye Mingchen can't figure out what happened to the court? Not to mention the change of the order, he always does some self-destruction of the Great Wall, looking at the Qing Dynasty, who has the ability to bring the eighteenth battalion of the Guangdong Navy Division?
These fierce generals who have fought with foreigners and won in their blood are piled up by Lin Haijiang with silver? Lin Haijiang himself posted how much silver he pasted, let's not talk about it, the officials sent by the imperial court don't drink the blood of the soldiers and don't eat empty salaries? Bai Gui talked to Ye Mingchen in private, and the court was forcing Lin Haijiang to death! Ye Mingchen couldn't figure it out, just because they cut off their way to dump opium, could this reselling opium be comparable to the coastal defense of the Qing Dynasty? What good is it for those full members of the DPRK and China to force Lin Haijiang against him?
At present, not only is there no reward from the imperial court, but at the time of the war, the bottom of the kettle is also drawn, even if Lin Haijiang's top is gone, the bottom should be appeased, right? How can you not appreciate and speak up and down? Such a lack of kindness completely broke the hearts of the soldiers below!
Ye Mingchen only had a long sigh left at the moment, the bandits were powerful, the land route from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Liangguang had been cut off, and the sea route was not safe, General Guangzhou was an example, and the imperial court had not been able to arrange a replacement until now.
Besides, the newly appointed Admiral Shao Qing of Guangdong, after finishing the reception wine in the capital and taking over the agenda of his colleagues, suddenly stopped making a sound, no matter how the military department urged him to go on the road, he always denied it in every possible way, and he had already changed his face when he started to go to Jingshou to run for officials.
Shaoqing is not a fool, Lin Haijiang is a native of Guangzhou, and the Guangdong Navy Division is run by him, and his heavy money to raise troops has become a model of the Qing Dynasty.
Yuan Jingshou patted his chest and promised to ask Lin Haijiang, so that he could take office with the coercion of the imperial court, but now it was Lin Haijiang who cut off his crown and did not ask for the crime, and temporarily acted as the admiral of the sailor, just relying on the will of a few empty tops on the side of the imperial court to subdue this group of arrogant soldiers?
Shaoqing wasn't stupid enough to do that, the only thing he regretted was how he let the lard blind his heart at that time? Spending money to find himself uncomfortable, offended Su Shun in the court, offended Ye Mingchen by foreign ministers, there were more admirals and deputy generals who died outside in the Qing Dynasty, and there were many people who died unclearly, and the silver he received in the capital to send him off was basically on top of the silver for Jing Shou to buy officials, so when he couldn't drag it out, he gave himself a stick on his leg, and the last guilty man resigned from his errand, neither offended Jing Shou nor offended Su Shun.
The storm is about to collapse the city! Lin Haijiang asked Wang Faren to make a ramp for the new Guangdong Navy Admiral Shaoqing, and wanted to stop Shaoqing on the way, but this Shaoqing had no intention of going out of Beijing at all, and Wang Faren couldn't kill him, so several task forces were consumed with Shaoqing.
On the other hand, Lin Haijiang secretly transported 3,000 marines from the old port to Pengcheng through Dutch merchant ships, and the 20 miles around Pengcheng were divided into a military restricted area.
Yuan Hong, who survived the defense of Pengcheng, was not well injured, so he cut his braids and stripped naked to join the Marine Corps, and finally took a set of uniforms from Li Changge, the commander of the first battalion of the Marine Corps, which made Li Changge cry and laugh.
Everyone moved the mind of changing clothes, but without the order of the Admiral, everyone had to wait, after all, cutting braids is not a trivial matter, this is a first-class equivalent to a rebellion, in fact, almost everyone has a mirror in their hearts, and the court is forcing their own Lord Lin to oppose that!
There are strong troops inside, there are old port bases outside, strong ships and artillery, and the Guangdong Navy Division battalion has completed the advanced study and training of all officers above the general level in the old port, and the spirit of the old port and the consciousness of the old port have taken deep root in their hearts, and replacing the original old class with a new profit-making class is revolution!
Lin Haijiang took the warlord route, why can the Manchurians have hardcore crops and be domineering, and why can the palace nobles be clothed and fed? Isn't the emperor also a man? Pull him off the horse, and you will be the new palace nobles, from the dragon's work!
In cooperation with the soldiers and even the whole, for the sake of the world, the suffering and oppressed people, etc.! Almost half of the officers trained by the Old Port Naval Ship Academy are political trainers of the Marine Corps Branch, and below, radicals such as Tang Zhiqiang, Qin Shuige, Ma Tao, Ma Jiang, and Guan Chao have established organizations such as the Iron-blooded Officers Youth League.
The core of the organization is to advocate the extreme personality cult of Lin Haijiang, to promote the extreme Han nationalist views, for this organization Lin Haijiang can be said to do his best to support, but also the fascist theory to the relevant personnel revealed, the members of the iron-blooded officer youth corps soon expanded to all the old Hong Kong officer system, and even many Guangdong naval division officers who participated in the training also quietly joined the regiment to take the oath.
Lin Haijiang then ordered people to improve the constitution, purpose, doctrine, creed, etc., and gave different textures of the regimental emblems according to the different positions in the regiment.
The sensitive Prussians gave a complete and detailed report on Lin Haijiang's system, and the Prussians were very interested in the fascist theory, and even sent special personnel to the old port to learn from it.
And Lin Haijiang also got a good news, that is, the Krupp Brothers company has developed a new type of artillery that is far more powerful than the same type, and the Hamburg shipyard has drawn up four armored protection cruisers with a full load displacement of 6,700 tons with a large number of new designs and are ready to install two high-horsepower coupling triplos-type steam engines, which makes Lin Haijiang's order in Prussia have reached nine, compared with Britain and France in this period of time only tried to build two and three, For this reason, Prussia has accumulated a lot of experience in the design and manufacture of ships, and this opportunity is an incomparably precious opportunity for the shipbuilding industry of any country in the world, which can not only make money, but also train technicians and technicians.
The Prussians, who had made a lot of money in arms purchases, built seven rifle production lines for Lin Haijiang in the old port, supporting chemical separation treatment plants, ammunition workshops, and other facilities, and the Krupp Brothers' field artillery production plant was also in the intensive commissioning stage.
What makes Lin Haijiang happiest is that the construction of the two C-shaped railways in the ring road has been completed, and the railway train guns with strong mobile surnames have been basically installed, which also means that the mobile train guns are combined with the fortress guns at the commanding heights.
The old port has become the backbone of Lin Haijiang, before the Guangzhou and Mawei shipyards were not formed, all the maintenance of ships had to rely on the old port, it can be said that the old port is the biggest help for Lin Haijiang.
Lin Haijiang didn't know that just as he was adjusting the production links in the old port, a group of robbers who had gained benefits but were not at all satisfied held a meeting in Hong Kong to jointly deploy the lower operations.
(To be continued)