Guangzhou is an interesting place. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info said it is really a famous city and a big county, the Qin and Han dynasties set up Nanhai County, the Three Kingdoms for Wu according to, named Guangzhou, has been followed until the Ming and Qing dynasties, according to the original meaning of "Guang", is the meaning of "big", but in fact, since the Kangxi years ago, Guangzhou Prefecture is only a hundred miles, the population of the city is not more than 20,000, and the common mouth is called "Guangli" - compared to Beijing, it is only a larger lane. If it is said to be "small", it has always been famous without ambiguity, Guangzhou City is located across the Pearl River, with three rivers in the south of the Lingnan, and the natural shape of Wuhua Tianbao wins. Regardless of the Baiyun Mountain Gengling plum blossoms are brilliant in the world, the "delta state" fertile rice from Sanshui in the west, Shilong in the east, and Yamen in the south is one year old and three ripe. Not only the people in the territory are rich and the products are abundant, but also because of the wonders of the provincial walls, seas and islands, the good port wharves are dotted, and the length of the coast ranks first in the world. Western objects that are rarely seen in the mainland include glass mirrors, spotlight lanterns, mother-of-pearl oysters, and Western knives sharpened like clay in the early years...... In recent years, pocket watches, large self-striking bells, long and short Western horses, ivory carved Buddha Guanyin, foreign cloth ...... Even opium smoke, as long as there is money, there is nothing that cannot be bought. God seems to favor this plot in particular, other places are all year round, but there are only three seasons here, there is no winter, but the summer is not very hot, there are flowers in the season without ice and snow all year round, so it has the reputation of "flower city". In "Huanyu Zhi", it is said that "the five immortals rode the five-colored sheep and carried the six-spike torch" - I would rather not live in the sky and move to Guangzhou. Therefore, it is also called "Sui", also known as "Five Rams City".

This myth is certainly beautiful. But now the people in the city smell the "sheep" (foreign) change color. "Daoguang Ye" reigned for thirty years, lived to be sixty-nine years old, and his nickname was "Emperor Cheng". According to the holy priesthood: "Cheng: Rites and music are clearly said to be completed; The government of the people is completed; Jiu Dao Hua Long said. "Actually, none of the three are touched. The Qing Empire has descended since the three dynasties of Kang, Yongqian, and it seems that the number of qi has declined, and the floods, droughts, locusts, and disasters have been successive year after year, and the Tianli Sect, the Heaven and Earth Society, the Bagua Sect, the White Lotus and Red Lotus Sect, or even the Qinghong Gang are pulling flags and firing cannons today, and tomorrow they are making noise and making trouble, and the palace has become a eunuch to rebel, and all kinds of unbelievable changes have been repeated, with a water tank and two hands. I pressed this and that. Although it is not yet a "great chaos", since he ascended the throne, Wan Tanggui and Chen Tianpei in Yongbei, Yunnan Province rebelled, and it was quelled in February; In May, Hebei was in turmoil. The Zhang Ge rebellion followed, which lasted for eight years; After less than a year of calm, he returned to Xinjiang and was chaotic...... The silver is spent here, the opium smoke is spreading there, from the prince to the peddlers' pawns, they all use money to buy tobacco and soil. It's a mess inside and out, and everything is overstretched. In the eighteenth year of Daoguang, the state treasury had an outflow of more than 50 million taels of opium alone, nearly five times more than in the early years of Daoguang. The price of silver has soared, and the treasury is empty, and everyone with a little discerning eyes knows that opium is not forbidden, and the country is about to die. Therefore, in the eighteenth year of Daoguang, a holy edict ordered Lin Zexu, the governor of Huguang, to go to Guangdong to ban opium as the minister of Qin. As everyone knows, the British can't afford to provoke this Chinese hero. Seeing 20,000 boxes of opium burned in the lime pond and unable to bear this breath, he did not dare to attack Guangzhou, opened a warship to attack Fujian, and suffered another defeat in the hands of Deng Tingzhen; He went north along the coast, but he succeeded in Dinghai, and then took advantage of the victory to go north to Tianjin. Emperor Daoguang was a man who ate soft persimmons, and when he heard that the British were good at building ships and guns, they actually put the account of the defeat in the Dinghai Battle on Lin Zexu's head. In a fit of rage, Lin Zexu was removed from his post and investigated, and an inexplicable Qi Shan was sent to negotiate with the devil Yilu. However, at this time, the British Parliament had already seen that China, a behemoth, was not being attacked, and decided to beat China. If you can't talk, you will start fighting. In the twentieth month of Daoguang, Chen Bing captured Hong Kong on the sea, and in the first month of the twenty-first year, he set up a formation to capture the Humen Fort. In the first battle of Sanyuanli, the British touched the mold of the Cantonese again. Yishan, the general of Guangzhou, who was more than Chinese, was eccentric, not only did not take advantage of the victory to kill the foreign devils, but on the one hand, he sent people to rescue the righteous law that had been encircled solidly, and on the other hand, he falsely reported to the imperial court that he had taken the war exploits for himself, and coaxed Daoguang to say that the British only wanted trade and trade and had no malicious intentions, and said that the British's demand for compensation for military expenses was "to pay off commercial debts." There was no mention of the opium or the Hong Kong incident. It's a pity that Daoguang still believed it to be true, and ordered Lin Zexu and Deng Tingzhen to kill Ili.

The British did not get the official treaty of ceding Hong Kong from the imperial court, so where would they give up? In June, the northern attack captured Xiamen, and in August, Dinghai was captured again, and Zhenhai and Ningbo were captured. The general soldiers Ge Yunfei and Wang Xipeng were killed in battle, and the minister Yuqian committed suicide by sinking into the water, the whole country was in an uproar, and the courtiers played the bullets. Only then did Daoguang know that Hong Kong had already hung the rice flower flag, and that thousands of people in Hong Kong had become vassals of the British king, and in a fit of rage, he ordered to fight the British. It is a pity that there are no unscrupulous generals inside and outside, there are traitors above and below, and the officers and soldiers are all frightened by the British, and they all flee in despair. In April of the 22nd year of Daoguang, Zhapu fell, Baoshan Shanghai was lost in May, and the British soldiers captured Zhenjiang in June, and approached Nanjing along the Yangtze River, all the way into the land of no one. It was not until July 20, 22 that the "Treaty of Nanjing" was concluded, the five trade ceded Hong Kong in 13 articles, the British ships hoisted the national flags of the two countries on the Yangtze River and fired 21 guns, and the Opium War was initially terminated. China has opened up since chaos, the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty, and the Song Ancestors of the Tang Dynasty, so embarrassing, it is the first time that such a shame and great humiliation has occurred.

The country is the same as the people, and once the vitality is lost and the soul is not complete, then all the sorrows will come. Americans, French, Belgians...... A group of "sheep" (foreign) has become a wolf, and dignified China has become a feast for foreigners with "equal interests", and they are gnawed by this group of wolves like dead people...... Emperor Daoguang left in extreme anger, shame, frustration and helplessness. He himself believes in Buddhism, and his nickname is "Cheng", which is in response to the Zen saying, "Success is not successful, failure is success".

At noon on the twenty-fourth day of May in the seventh year of Xianfeng, a canopy boat slowly moored at the Xianbu Wharf in the south of the city in the drizzle. The captain let out a long "Hello to the shore-" and the prop slammed steadily towards the bridge, and a ripple stopped.

As soon as the oilcloth curtain on the canopy was lifted, two people, an old man and a young man, came out, both dressed up in Tsing Yi. The old man was in his fifties, and his braids and sideburns were gray; Xiao Xi Nu described her as only between twelve and thirteen, with a childish face. It seems that they have come to Guangzhou for the first time, and they have been watching the wharf on the wet cabin, which is enough to be a school yard, and all kinds of foreign goods are stacked like hills, and some of the barmen on the wharf are unloading their goods on the barge's "mountain dragon", and some are shouting in Cantonese to cover the rain with tarpaulins on the cargo pile, and they are busy like ants. The canopy was like a small beetle crammed into a flock of turtles, and no one paid any attention to them. After a while, only five or six barmen came over, but they didn't get on the boat, stood on the bluestone strip on the pier and asked, "The draft is so shallow, what goods can there be?" Where did it come from? Whose goods? (To be continued.) )