Early in the morning, Lin Haijiang inspected the columns of each battalion as usual, as if last night's incident had not happened at all, and the sentries who were knocked out last night were all punished for running laps in the field this morning, because the sentry post was slack! For this new way of checking the sentry, the officers and soldiers below were a little nervous, for fear that the next unlucky person would be themselves, but after breakfast, Lin Haijiang unexpectedly received an invitation letter.

"Foreign firms? Or a joint invitation. ”

Lin Haijiang looked at the invitation in his hand and couldn't help laughing, the popular dance party in the foreign upper class, he had only seen it in those film and television dramas, even if he had never participated in it when he was studying abroad, those self-respecting nobles would only think that the attendant was the only role that an Oriental could play at the ball.

In China in the middle of the 19th century, unequal treaties not only crushed the backbone of the Chinese nation, but also wiped out the blood surname of the Han people.

At this moment, the foreign compradors doing business in China are basically very poor or simply uneasy in their own countries, and they come to the East with unscrupulous purposes in an attempt to get rich overnight, and it is the example of getting rich overnight that makes these Western beasts crazy.

The Treaty of Nanking made the British almost unscrupulous in the city of Guangzhou, they had their own concessions, their own garrisons, and the Far East Fleet of the British Empire anchored off the coast of Hong Kong.

In the evening, Lin Haijiang and Ye Mingchen, who was also invited, went to the British Concession together, Bai Gui because he got the news that Ye Mingchen went to the banquet, so he was naturally happy to spend a night.

However, when entering the concession, a British army lieutenant arrogantly demanded Lin Haijiang's gun, and in the eyes of the British lieutenant, Lin Haijiang was just a small guard!

People don't treat us as cadres, so can't we not treat ourselves as cadres?

Lin Haijiang, who was originally very reluctant to come, could let go of this God-given opportunity, and suddenly shouted in English that someone was robbing and at the same time punched the British lieutenant who tried to seize his gun, and the British soldiers on the side hurriedly surrounded him with guns, Ye Mingchen was afraid that Lin Haijiang would suffer, so he immediately ordered Goshha beside him to defend Lord Lin.

Who knew that Lin Haijiang beckoned, and a full two or three battalion leaders poured out from all directions, each holding a kind of foreign gun that had never seen a brand new before, surrounded dozens of British regiments in an uproar, and then punched and kicked them.

By the time Bao Ling, the British plenipotentiary in China, who heard the news, arrived, dozens of British soldiers had already been beaten to the point of insincerity, and Bao Ling was just about to get angry, but he found that there were five or six hundred people lying there groaning at the gate of the concession?

One of them he was very familiar with, Lin Haijiang, the commander of the Guangdong naval division, Lin Haijiang was lying on the ground with his stomach covered and screamed without a sound, and at the same time reprimanded the British soldiers of the janitor in English for trying to rob him of his finances in the name of collecting his body, and beat his soldiers, with the intention of creating a dispute between the two countries.

The last time the Hong soldiers besieged the city, Lin Haijiang looted all the foreign companies in the name of confiscating bandits, took away at least more than 10,000 rifles and dozens of artillery, and finally only returned more than 30 bad bird guns, and it was inferred that the rest were taken away by the Taiping army.

"If you want to, go to the Taiping Army? What are you looking for me for? I don't owe you anything? Is there an IOU? If you fall in love, you can sue me wherever you go, please sue me! As soon as Bao Ling thought of Lin Haijiang's sobbing face, his arms trembled slightly.

Some people in the parliament kept proposing to the empress to provoke a new round of war against the Qing after the end of the Crimean War, because the victory in 1840 came too easily and brilliantly, and the Qing was really too rich!

But use what is in front of you as an excuse for disputes? Bao Ling hesitated for a moment, Lin Haijiang is not a friendly person, according to the news from China, Lin Haijiang's name is impressively in the list of killed and pirates on the way to Egypt for sea training on the Phoenix training ship, and there is accurate information that once pointed out that one of the two third-class battle columns that was sunk by the Great Qing Kingdom was very similar to the Phoenix when it was active in the old port?

However, this intelligence was eliminated from the intelligence summary by Bao Ling, there is no need to set off senseless waves for a thing that cannot be verified, the domestic situation is also confusing, Bao Ling is not a very politically assertive person, and he also thinks that he has no far-sighted vision, since he can't accurately stand on the right team, then he can only seek a neutral position in the turmoil, do his own thing, less**.

Bao Ling unexpectedly reprimanded the wounded British soldier and expressed his heartfelt apologies to Lin Haijiang, Bao Ling's attitude made Lin Haijiang instantly alert? If Bao Ling turned his face with himself today and even met with a knife, and even threatened to go to Yanjing to complain, then Lin Haijiang would be able to accept it, the British are not the masters who can swallow their anger, and they can only swallow their anger with huge interests?

Even the blind can see that when they are picking quarrels and provoking trouble, the British are too abnormal, Lin Haijiang realized that he Britain has increased its vigilance, although there are still two years before the outbreak point of the Second Opium War, and now the British are all in the Crimea, but they can't help but guard against the British are also taking precautions.

For a guy who has to bring thousands of guards to the street, Bao Ling still decided not to provoke Lin Haijiang, a recognized mad dog! Because he really can't provoke Lin Haijiang, who desperately talks about it at every turn.

Ye Mingchen is very disgusted with the so-called foreigners' banquets, because foreigners always tease him with some weird things, but this time Lin Haijiang is with him, and he has some bottom in his heart, after all, Lin Haijiang has lived in England for many years before, and Lin Haijiang himself is not a good stubble, and there is no one who dares to trouble him.

At the banquet, the British Consul General of Hong Kong in China, Bao Ling, after his speech, introduced Ye Mingchen and Lin Haijiang to two people, the acting consul of Guangzhou, Xia Bali, and the Canadian Governor General Ergin, who was passing by!

It is not difficult to see that the relationship between Bao Ling and Erjin is very close! And Shabali, who was wandering on the side, seemed to want to join the conversation between the two, but due to the disparity in status and status, he could only be anxious on the side.

Looking at Shabali and Ergin, Lin Haijiang's hand unconsciously touched the American Colt M1851 naval revolver on his waist, which was improved and processed by Prussia.

In Lin Haijiang's eyes, Shabali and Ergin are not good things, these two bastards who sing and harmonize can be said to be the main culprits in the looting and burning of the Old Summer Palace, Shabali, a British poor bastard who is too poor to wear pants, needless to say, as for Ergin, he comes from a famous family of bandits and tomb robbers, his grandfather and father are world-famous thieves of cultural relics, and the title of Earl Ergin is notorious even in Britain.

At present, Shabali looks very glamorous, ostensibly as a British diplomat, but in fact he is one of the top five opium dealers in the Far East.

Lin Haijiang was very strange, how did this beast not die of metal poisoning? It can be regarded as an allusion to the allusion that the turtle king bastard lived for thousands of years, who would have thought that Xia Bali was forced to come to China to seek refuge with her two sisters who had already come to China because of poverty. He first studied Chinese in Macao, served as the secretary and translator of Pu Dingcha during the First Opium War, participated in the battle to capture Zhenjiang, and later acted as the British plenipotentiary as the first governor of Hong Kong, Pu Dingcha's attaché, in 1854, he was promoted to the British consul in Xiamen, and in 1856, when he acted as the consul in Guangzhou, he created the Yarrow incident and deliberately provoked the Second Opium War.

As the son of the old Elgin who destroyed the Parthenon, Elgin was born in 1811 into a Scottish nobleman, named James Bruce, and in 1841 under a series of conspiracies, he narrowly inherited the title of 'Elgin' and became the eighth 'Elgin' Earl of England.

In 1842, he was appointed Governor General of Jamaica and in 1846 Governor General of Canada, a large shark that roamed between the British colonies, and in July 1857 Ergin served as British Plenipotentiary to China, and led an army and naval reinforcement force from the mainland to China to participate in the war.

In December 1857, the French army led by Ergin and Gro assembled in Hong Kong, and on December 29, the British and French forces captured Guangzhou. In the spring of 1858, the British and French forces marched north to Tianjin. In May, the Dagu Fort was captured. In June, the Qing Dynasty was forced to sign the Sino-British Treaty of Tianjin.

He returned to China in 1859 and soon became British Plenipotentiary to China, leading the Anglo-French forces to China with Gro. In August 1860, it captured the Dagu Fort and captured Tianjin. In October, he entered Yanjing and burned down the Old Summer Palace. According to the instructions of the British Foreign Office, the Qing Dynasty was forced to sign the "Sino-British Yenching Treaty" and cede the "Kowloon Division of East Guangdong".

For the cause of the Second Opium War and the process of the battle Lin Haijiang has long been in mind, it can be said that the British occupied a dominant position in the Anglo-French coalition army, and the Frenchman Gro became a loyal follower of the British in the incident, if it is said that the first Opium War opened the door of China, then the repetition of the Second Opium War can be said to be the process of the aggressor's ambition is constantly expanding and probing.

In Lin Haijiang's view, it is precisely because of the strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that the British dare to participate in this gamble with very little investment and high returns.

At the banquet, Ye Mingchen said helplessly to Lin Haijiang: "Fang Zhenghan, the magistrate of Guangxi, this reckless guy, actually imprisoned a French priest and almost killed people, and now the French side has sued the court, and there are foreigners to exert pressure, and the court has not reached a conclusion so far, I really don't know what the military planes are busy with every day?" We, the feudal officials, show that we look majestic and glamorous, but in fact, this splint is less bearable? ”

Guangxi imprisons a French priest? Lin Haijiang couldn't help but fight a cold war, how could he forget about this stubble? What if you reminded Ye Mingchen early? Will France not be able to find an excuse to stir up trouble?

Could it be that I have misremembered the time of the incident with Father Ma? Or did it happen in advance due to the interference of some external factors, such as the detailed rules for the inspection of ships of various countries promulgated by oneself and the foreigner agreement of the Governor's Office? Lin Haijiang remembered that in history, it was this Guangxi magistrate Fang Zhenghan who ordered the execution of the French priest who was extremely angry, which caused the teaching plan and directly led France to enter the war.

"Is the priest who was arrested surnamed Ma?" Lin Haijiang's inquiry also made Ye Mingchen slightly stunned, and thought for a while: "I don't know much about this specific. ”

Lin Haijiang secretly despised Ye Mingchen, and took a deep breath, this is international politics, a contest between countries, there is only the difference between ripe and immature, whether there are objective interests, there is no so-called justice and injustice, right and wrong! It is believed that the Second French Empire, now ruled by Napoleon III, even if there is no Father Ma, will find other excuses to join this war with great interests.

Because both Britain and France had already completed the entire industrial revolution around 1840, what they desperately needed now was a huge market for their products to dump, and economic aggression was far more effective than the so-called colonization, after all, it saved the colonial occupation forces huge military expenditures.

The old colonial empires of Britain and France can also be said to be in the process of transitioning to a new economic aggression treaty-type colonial method, and with cows like the Qing Empire, they can milk as many times as they want.

However, God sent himself to this era that does not belong to him, is it just to fulfill his dream of an iron horse galloping on the blue sea? What to do for this suffering people? Let the countless tragedies of later generations not be repeated?

After the banquet, Lin Haijiang, who returned to the barracks, realized that there was not much time left for him to prepare, and the official model of the new Prussian magazine firing all-metal cartridge case was the Prussian 1854 rifle, which used a rotating bolt bolt and was produced and promoted by a little-known royal arsenal.

The main reason why Lin Haijiang chose this arsenal in the first place is because the arsenal on the site of Württemberg was established by King Frederick I of Prussia in Oberndorf, a small town in the Black Forest of Germany, and the factory was dedicated to the production of weapons for the Prussian army, and the famous Mauser brothers grew up here as apprentices.

It is commendable that the Prussian 1854 rifle has used the latest smokeless gunpowder, and Prussian chemical researchers have made countless attempts based on the recipe and process provided by Lin Haijiang, and the Prussian side has kept this latest achievement strictly secret.

However, this so-called smokeless gunpowder still needs to be improved, such as incomplete combustion, the waste residue after the combustion of real smokeless gunpowder should be the ratio of 0.1 per 10,000, and this new smokeless gunpowder roughly fires more than 100 rounds, and it still needs to be cleaned up.

In Lin Haijiang's view, the biggest beneficiary of the emergence of smokeless gunpowder will be the navy, smokeless gunpowder will make the navy's naval artillery a great revolution, but due to the limitations of metal metallurgy and the influence of the single-cylinder cycle of steam turbines, this effect can not be reflected in a short time.

Lin Haijiang's 18,000 officers and men on the roster under the Guangzhou Navy Division have all been issued with new weapons, but Lin Haijiang has strictly controlled ammunition, and in addition to target shooting, a management system of separating guns and ammunition has been implemented in the battalion.

Of the 2 million time-delay fuse grenades produced in Prussia, Lin Haijiang transported 300,000 to the Guangzhou Navy Battalion, but at present the officers and men are using practice bombs, and Lin Haijiang has not yet decided whether to throw live ammunition.

Lin Haijiang knew very well that the secret of the new smokeless gunpowder in Prussia would soon be known to the world, and the early application of smokeless gunpowder would cause a new butterfly effect. This Lin Haijiang is unknown, and his only concern at the moment is how to deal with the upcoming Second Opium War.

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