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Ye Mingchen and He Guiqing are both governors, and they inevitably have a sense of frustration such as physical injury, Ye Mingchen coughed lightly, turned the topic around, stared at Guo Songtao with his eyes as if unintentionally, stroked his beard and said: "Bochen, I still have time to ask you about your errand, what does the emperor mean by letting you come to Guangzhou?" ”

"Lord Governor," Speaking of his errand, Guo Songtao also straightened his face, and bowed slightly to Ye Mingchen to show respect, "Before leaving, I met in the Old Summer Palace, the emperor meant to let the lowly post come to Guangzhou to familiarize himself with some foreign affairs, and follow the Governor to negotiate with England and France, after all, some things in the sixth year of Xianfeng are always inappropriate," Guo Songtao said three words inappropriate, and saw Ye Mingchen's brows tremble suddenly, and hurriedly added, "This is the emperor's original words." ”

Although Guo Songtao said vaguely, Ye Mingchen's heart was bright, and he was talking about the "Yarrow Incident" and the "Ma Shenfu Incident" that happened last year.

In 1854, the British government invoked Article 35 of the Sino-French Treaty of Whampoa: "If there is any provision of the Treaty of Whampoa that should be changed between the two sides, the date and month of the exchange of the charter shall be completed and the number of years shall be verified before it can be renegotiated with China" and the "most-favored-nation treatment" clause in the Sino-British Treaty of Humen, hoping to renew the treaty for 12 years in order to sign a new treaty more favorable to Britain. See that the British demanded a revision, while the United States and France also demanded a revision. However, Qing officials (especially Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang) blindly prevaricated and blamed each other. Seeing that there was no hope of renewing the contract, the ministers of the three countries were indignant. At the same time, friction between Chinese officials and "foreigners" at treaty ports has always been one of the sources of conflict between the Qing court and the Western powers.

The Yarrow was a mixed Chinese and Western sailing ship built in Chinese mainland in 1854 by Hong Kong Chinese Su Yacheng, which became the fuse of the Sino-British conflict. It was later sold to Hong Kong resident Fang Yaming. In 1855, he registered with the British Hong Kong government, obtained a one-year license and hired Irish captains, all of whom were Chinese.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of October 8, 1856, the Guangdong Navy Division received a report from the robbed merchant that the British flag Yarrow was anchored in Huangpu, Guangzhou. Liang Guoding, the commander of the river patrol division, boarded the ship to search, and the captain was having breakfast on another boat and was not ready to sail. It was found that the license had expired for 12 days. Twelve Chinese sailors suspected of smuggling were detained. However, the captain claimed to have seen the whole process of the British flag being torn up, which was officially denied by the Qing Dynasty. In accordance with British maritime law, any British ship entering a port must unload its flag. If the flag was raised at that time, it means that the sailors were preparing to abscond without permission (the captain was not on board at the time of the search), and the veracity of this statement is already in doubt.

The British Acting Consul in Canton, Pasha Li, protested to the Governor of Liangguang, Ye Mingchen. demanded the return of the sailors and an apology, and demanded that the president be transferred. Two days after the incident (October 10), Ye Mingchen promised to release 9 people, but Pa Xiali refused to accept them. On October 16, the British Minister Bao ordered a note to Ye Mingchen:

If you don't make up for it quickly, you should ask your own sailors to make up for the shortcomings of the peace treaty.

This means that Britain's intention to use force is already very clear. Don't ask for anything. On October 21, Pasha sent someone to tell Ye Mingchen: "If the Vietnamese and Japanese do not meet the agreement, they will attack the city." And asked for a reply within 24 hours. Although Ye Mingchen promised to release all 12 sailors, he refused to apologize for not tearing down the British flag.

Bao Ling then ordered the British troops stationed in Hong Kong to sail into the mouth of the Pearl River, and before entering the city of Guangzhou, they coerced and agreed to allow the British to enter the city freely, and on the 27th, without a reply, they bombarded the governor's yamen every five or six minutes. Soon the British army entered the city, but did not capture the governor of Guangzhou, and soon withdrew, Ye feigned a great victory. December 15th. When the Chinese residents in the area of Guangzhou saw the retreat of the British troops, they set fire to the "foreigner" houses, turning the 13 lines of Guangdong into nothing.

In the third year of the Qing Dynasty, the French Catholic priest Ma Lai infiltrated Xilin County, Guangxi, and carried out aggressive activities under the cloak of religion. He recruited local ruffians and hooligans into the church, colluded with local officials and local tyrants, bullied the people, raped women, and did all kinds of evil. and connived at the harbor of believers Ma Zinong, Lin Ba and others to provoke in the countryside for no reason, and carried out robbery and adultery. There have been many accidents. They committed many evils and went unpunished for three years, arousing great indignation among the local people and taking control of the provincial officials. January 24 (February 29) of the sixth year. According to the villagers' accusations, Zhang Mingfeng, the new governor of Xilin County, arrested a total of 26 Ma Lai and the lawless believers and sentenced them to death in accordance with the law, and punished the rest separately.

The Xilin case took place during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it was from Guangxi that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began its uprising. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom worshiped the "worship of God". The religion is derived from Christianity. The Qing Dynasty officials were very vigilant about Christianity and strictly guarded against it. Ma Lai went into the interior of Guangxi to gather people to preach, and was mistaken by local officials for organizing a rebellion, so he was arrested, which led to the tragedy

Article 23 of the Sino-French Treaty of Whampoa stipulates that "Whoever violates this prohibition, crosses the border, or enters the interior of the country shall be subject to the investigation of the Chinese officials, but shall be sent to the nearest French consular officer for custody; Chinese officials and civilians are not allowed to beat, injure, or abuse the captured French in order to harm the reconciliation between the two countries. "By putting Marai to death, China violated its treaty obligation to deliver the arrested French to consuls. According to the legal viewpoint that procedural justice takes precedence, China is undoubtedly at a loss.

The two countries are ready to move, and now they have handed the knife handle to the hands of foreigners, Guo Songtao is of course exquisite, and the words can always reveal the emperor's dissatisfaction, "In the old years, I always stared at Jiangning, and now the affairs of this foreigner should be taken care of." The emperor's impatient words were clearly visible when he met Guo Songtao.

Although Emperor Xianfeng listened to the queen's meaning and asked Ye Mingchen to contact the foreigners and be sure to delay the time, Ye Mingchen was still a veteran scholar, and he also had the position of the minister of foreign trade and commerce, but he usually dealt with foreigners and pushed it as long as he could, otherwise there would not have been a degrading incident that the British army almost captured the city of Guangzhou last year. Ye Mingchen is also an official with personality, he does not change everything, he ignores all the British representations, and Guangzhou is not defended, and even in the sixth year of Xianfeng, after the British attacked Guangzhou, they fired at his governor's yamen every ten minutes, and he ignored it.

What's more, to such a point, still helping the beggars in the house, Guo Songtao sneered slightly, "If it can be solved in Guangzhou, it will be good if you can't go to the north like the first emperor." ”

Originally, Guo Songtao would not have said such hard words, a candidate platform, where is his reliance? (To be continued.) )

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