Xiao Yungui got the news of the economic crisis in the United States a little later, he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, and when he found Hong Yuner to discuss, Hong Yuner remembered that he had really forgotten this history.

There will be many reasons for forgetting one thing, although Hong Yuner is well-read and has a strong memory, she is not very interested in the economy, so she automatically ignores this history, and since Xianfeng died ahead of schedule and listened to politics in advance, both of them think that the big historical context has been changed by the butterfly effect, and they rarely learn from the original history.

When he learned that the economic crisis broke out in the United States, Xiao Yungui was very angry, and he asked Hu Xueyan to increase investment in American railroads in the United States. Xiao Yungui, who was in a hurry, had to immediately send someone to the other side of the ocean to inquire about the news, and now he is far away from the United States, and it is inconvenient to contact, but Xiao Yungui can only be a dead horse and a horse doctor, and notify Hu Xueyan to stop the investment as soon as possible.

Under the shadow of a possible major failure in the investment business, Xiao Yungui was extremely painful, he and Hong Yun'er laughed at themselves and said that the two of them may be the most failed traversers, others crossed by knowing the history of the road in advance to make a fortune, and the two of them knew the history of the road but ignored it, not only could not make a fortune but also may lose money, which is really a mistake.

The British asked for instructions from home, but Xiao Yungui naturally did not stop it, and on the premise that the British promised not to take any hostile military action again, the negotiations between the two sides were temporarily suspended, and sure enough, a war that neither side was willing to fight was still not fought.

After there was no threat from the British, the 3rd Division, which had taken the Pearl River Estuary Fort first, continued to advance with great triumph. In just five days, they swept through Humen and other forts along the Pearl River, and by mid-June, they had completed the encirclement of the south of Guangzhou.

Meanwhile. The Second Detachment, under the leadership of Luo Xuan, escorted the officers and men of the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the First Army to Canton. The Admiral of the Luo Gang Detachment had three Western warships, the Chijin, Aoki, and Heitu, as well as more than 200 Hongdan ships, Fu ships, Dasha ships, and armed merchant ships, and more than 300 other cargo ships, troop carriers, and supply ships. This fleet accounted for almost half of the strength of the Taiping navy. In order to gather enough ships for this fleet, the Taiping army even drew ships from the fleets that sailed to Japan, Sakhalin and other places.

The inland naval fleet fighting near Wuchang was handed over to Admiral Lu Shunde, the general of the naval army, and continued to cooperate with Yiwang to maintain pressure on the Hunan army.

When the second detachment of the Taiping Army appeared in Lingdingyang, the British also felt unprecedented pressure, although the Taiping Army now had only three Western warships. However, there were quite a few gunboats of three or five hundred tons, such as the Red Single Boat, and although these ships were not very durable, the cannons carried on small boats were not vegetarians. If more than a dozen red single ships besieged a Western warship, it would also give the British a headache.

When the British fleet saw the convoy of the Taiping Navy covering the sky and the sun, the British fleet chose to stay in Hong Kong, and the sea was densely packed with ships and masts. The apricot yellow flag and seahorse military flag fluttering on the Chijin of the Taiping Army's flagship were displayed in the wind. Luo Xuan, who was standing at the bow of the ship, secretly admired, "With such a military situation, how can the Qing Demon not look at the wind and escape?" ”

Several Times reporters on board the British merchant ship Livingtown originally planned to transfer from Hong Kong to Shanghai to take over the work of their colleagues there, but when they saw such a huge fleet of the Taiping Navy arriving, they hurriedly set up their cameras to take pictures of the huge military strength of the Taiping Navy.

Later, they wrote in their domestic reports, "This elite rebel army in the Far East already has a large navy. Although their ships were generally the same as those of the Qing army, they were much more numerous than the Qing army's sailors. Moreover, their fighting qualities were not the same, and the ships of the entire fleet could only maintain a relatively balanced speed and advance in a tight formation in rough seas, which in itself showed that their naval officers and men were very well trained...... We have learned that there are two theories about the recent conflict between Britain and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, both of which accuse each other of being at fault first, but General Grant has a third theory, which is that this unexpected conflict was only due to a misunderstanding......"

In addition to the detailed reports on the conflict, reporters from the Times and other British newspapers in the Far East also sent back information about the conflict, including an interview with Nightingale, the goddess of lanterns.

In this interview, Nightingale vigorously praised the advanced experience and some systems obtained by the Taiping Army in medical care, and praised the Taiping Army as God's knights, they were very generous to teach these medical experience and systems to the British medical staff without reservation, and originally used the words of the King of the West, medicine has no borders, and he hoped that the British people could also get better medical care.

When talking about the recent Sino-British conflict, Nightingale did not hesitate to accuse the British Navy of arrogance and rudeness, and she was very dissatisfied with the British Navy's provocation and the conflict caused by the peace of the Taipings. Nightingale saw the British Imperial Navy in the Far East as unchivalrous, at odds with the Native navy fighting in the Crimea.

At the same time, reporters from the Times and other British newspapers also excerpted the contents of many Taiping Heavenly Kingdom newspapers and sent them back to China, including "Su Fu Xin Pao", "Declaration", "Suzhou Daily" and other heavyweight news newspapers under the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Much of it is devoted to the protests of the people everywhere against the British navy, and the views of the common people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom against Britain, many of whom were strongly hostile to Britain after this conflict, which is very bad.

When all the news came back to the UK, the reaction was different. Some hard-line British parliamentarians called for additional expeditionary forces to declare war on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, while some more sensible people analyzed the reasons why they could not go to war with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from an economic point of view, and the Rothschilds were naturally behind these people.

At the same time, the mysterious woman of the East, Li Xuanji, continued to play her role, and her anti-war appeal and Nightingale's remarks set off a wave of anti-war enthusiasm among the British people, and most British people still felt that the Far East Navy had done something inappropriate. After all, there was an agreement with the Taiping Army about ceding the Pearl River Estuary first, and then a naval battle broke out at the Pearl River Estuary, which shows that the British fleet has a motive for provocation in it, and it is very untrustworthy to ignore the signed treaty. It is no wonder that the Goddess of the Lantern Society has no chivalry in the Far Eastern Navy, because the British have always attached great importance to the spirit of contract.

After three days of fierce debate in the British Parliament, the British Parliament finally rejected the motion to start a war against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by 654 votes to 231 votes.

The day following the vote. Palmerston ordered the dismissal of the British Minister for the Far East and the Governor of Hong Kong and replaced him with James Scotsman. Bruce, also known as Sir Ergin, then Governor General of Canada. This Sir Ergin, Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er will definitely be no strangers. He was one of the culprits in the burning of the Old Summer Palace in history, and his crime was not only the burning of the Old Summer Palace, but also the looting of the Parthenon in Greece.

Elgin is a British aristocratic title, and Sir Elgin's real name is James. Bruce. But Xiao Yungui and the others are more accustomed to calling this person Ergin. The British also used to call him Sir Elgin.

Palmerston sent Erjin to replace Bao Ling, who had made a mistake, not only to give an explanation of the incident, but also to appease some dissatisfaction among the people in the country, and also to show weakness to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. But his real intention was to expand the interests of the Far East, because Ergin was more shrewd and tough than Bao Ling, and Palmerston believed that Ergin could do some things that Bao Ling could not. At the same time, Ergin shouldered the mission of resolving the conflict at the mouth of the Pearl River in Guangzhou, and the bottom line given to him by Palmerston was that the British Empire could not pay reparations no matter what!

Just as the British were making personnel adjustments, the Battle of Canton was coming to an end. In the face of the Taiping army's powerful naval and land armies, the Qing army did not resist for long. June 23. The Taiping army's navy that invaded the Pearl River, with the support of the forts on both sides of the river, completely annihilated the Qing army's Guangdong naval division. The poor Qing navy had been docked in Guangzhou because of the persecution of the British fleet, and then fought with the Taiping navy in the Pearl River. Half of the ships were sunk and damaged in less than half an hour, and then Huang Kaiguang, the commander of the Qing army's naval division, ordered the surrender to the Taipings. At this point, the Taiping army completely mastered the water passage, and subsequent troop carriers carried out large-scale landing operations directly near Guangzhou.

The fighting on land was more intense, with the Canton general Mukdena personally leading his troops to intercept the Taiping landing force, but was repulsed by the 3rd Division stationed near the landing ground. For two consecutive days, the Qing army sent troops to storm the positions of the 3rd Division, but in the face of the rifled rifles and new Western artillery of the 3rd Division, the Qing army's rout was faster than the speed of the charge. But like annoying flies, they drove them away and then regrouped and charged again.

On the third day, the 3rd Division began a counter-charge, just a charge made the Qing army taste the bitter fruit of a total rout, the 3rd Division of the Taiping officers and soldiers with bayonets to teach the Qing army a hard lesson, the Guangzhou general Mukdena died in the chaos, the Taiping army began to surround the entire city of Guangzhou.

The navy did not bombard the city of Guangzhou on a large scale, but only shelled the outlying areas and city walls of the Qing army, and the Taiping army did not want to hurt the civilians in the city too much. The ensuing battle for the periphery was also very simple, the Qing army had long lost its fighting spirit, and either surrendered or retreated into the city, and all the important places on the periphery of Guangzhou fell into the hands of the Taiping army.

The day after the fall of Guangzhou, the Taiping army occupied the thirteen lines of Guangzhou, and Ye Mingchen originally planned to send troops to burn down here, provoking the anger of foreigners to intervene in the war, but he did not expect the Qing army to lose too quickly, and since the beginning of the war, the British of the thirteen lines sent a lot of marines to guard here, and at the same time, foreigners from various countries spontaneously organized militia to defend the country, so that the Qing army did not succeed.

When the Taiping officers and soldiers of the First Division entered the 13 Xing Block in Guangzhou, they felt very surprised, the foreigners here were guarding on both sides of the street with all kinds of weapons, and when they saw them, these foreigners broke out into loud and noisy cheers, all kinds of hats were thrown into the sky, whistles, and gunshots fired into the sky made the officers and men of the First Division think that these foreigners were crazy.

When Captain Chris of the Marine Corps saw the commander of the Pioneer Company at the front of the 1st Division, he only said, "Thank God, you guys are finally here, those crazy Tatars want to burn this ......" (to be continued......