26. The Outbreak of War (2)
In 1847, when the British soldiers came to the city to force themselves into the city, the elders had no choice but to allow them to enter the city two years later, hoping that the contradictions between the two sides might be alleviated after two years, and it would not be a problem to enter the city (it seems that the senior Ying is still quite able to see the problem from the perspective of development). Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 But before he could fulfill his promise two years later, Qiying's situation in Guangdong became more and more difficult day by day due to attacks from all sides (including the imperial court), so Emperor Daoguang transferred him to Beijing and promoted Xu Guangjin, the governor of Guangdong, to the governor of Liangguang.
The first sentence of Emperor Daoguang's edict to Xu Guangjin, the successor governor of Liangguang, was that "Xinjiang is important to the people, and if the people's hearts are not lost, foreign insults can be punished". Ye Mingchen, the governor of Guangdong at the time, was even more fierce in the "suppression faction", and his attitude towards foreigners was tougher than Xu Guangjin's.
In 1849, the two-year deadline agreed by Qiying expired, and the British demanded to enter the city according to the treaty, but they were strongly opposed by the people of Guangzhou, and the attitude of Emperor Daoguang was that "only temporary entry is allowed, and permanent residence is not allowed". After careful consideration, Xu Guangjin finally decided to adopt a boycott attitude in accordance with public opinion and organize the people to resist, while Ye Mingchen was a resolute resistance from beginning to end and had always resolutely opposed the British entering the city.
The gentry and people of Guangdong united and finally won a victory against the British entering the city. When Xu Guangjin played this good news to Emperor Daoguang, Emperor Daoguang was very happy, he said that he had endured humiliation for nearly ten years, and now he had achieved diplomatic victory, and his joy was overflowing. In order to reward Xu and Ye for their exploits, Emperor Daoguang named Xu Guangjin as a viscount, and the hereditary eyes were dazzling; Feng Ye Mingchen is a baron, hereditary flower feather; At the same time, a special decree was issued to commend the heroic deeds of the people of Guangzhou.
Refusing British diplomats to enter Guangzhou City is Ye Mingchen's political capital to win the emperor's heart and obtain the title of baron, even Guo Songtao did not dare to mention this matter directly, but anything that involved the British entering the city was quietly changed the topic by Ye Mingchen, Guo Songtao answered the question thrown by Pa Xia Li with a wry smile: "Mr. Pa Xia Li, this question is still not good at present." Seeing that Pa Xiali heard the interpreter's words, his face immediately changed, and Guo Songtao hurriedly continued to explain, "However, the Governor is willing to discuss this issue on the basis of the exchange of contracts. I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer. ”
"Swap? No, no, no, Lord Guo, we do not need to renew the treaty now, in view of the disdain and arrogance of your Governor General towards us British, as the plenipotentiary of the British Government in Canton. I will not have any more contact with your local government in Guangzhou, China," a young Englishman with brown hair and wearing a waistcoat and balloon sleeves came over and whispered a few times in Pashali's ear, the Chinese interpreter heard a few words, and immediately changed color, beads of sweat rolled down his face, Pashali listened to the man's message, his right eyebrow raised slightly, and his face was full of beard and danced proudly, Pashali looked at the sky with his eyes, and pointed at the nervous interpreter with his hand. He said a long sentence in English, and motioned to the interpreter to listen to Guo Songtao, who didn't know why, and when the interpreter heard Pashali's words, he was like a mourner, and after a while, his trembling blue lips trembled and listened to Guo Songtao:
"Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? By His Majesty Victoria's order, from now on, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will launch and commence ...... against the Qing Kingdom"
"Unfold what!" Guo Songtao asked impatiently.
"Unfold, all-round, armed attack." The interpreter insisted on finishing Pashali's ultimatum to the local government of Guangzhou, and could no longer hold back the fear in his heart, and collapsed on the beach.
Pa Xiali glanced at Guo Songtao, who was stunned. Convinced that he had heard himself relay the announcement of the British Imperial fleet, he turned away disdainfully, leaving this sandy beach that had changed the fate of the Chinese nation for more than a hundred years, a mixture of glory and humiliation.
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The Changchun Garden is not a simple extension and internal addition to the Old Summer Palace. Instead, a new garden with an area of about 1,000 acres was built on the east side of the Old Summer Palace. Different from the Old Summer Palace, the Changchun Garden is a work carefully planned and designed in advance, and it is a masterpiece of the imperial garden of the Qianlong Emperor. After the completion of "Forty Views of the Old Summer Palace", Emperor Qianlong's enthusiasm for architecture temporarily subsided. However, less than a year later, his enthusiasm for gardening was revived again. This time. According to Emperor Qianlong's own words, he was going to build himself a place to live in a banquet after his abdication, even though he was only a thirty-four-year-old young man at this time. Therefore, recuperation and leisure have become the biggest theme of Changchun Garden.
Compared with the Old Summer Palace, Changchun Garden is a veritable waterscape garden, with the water surface area accounting for two-thirds of the whole garden's area, and the width of the water area is about 1,200 meters, which is suitable for viewing the surrounding scenery far and near. In the overall layout, the Changchun Garden is also more reasonable, used to divide the water surface of the continent, bridge, island, embankment are scattered, arrange to stop evenly, Xingzhen came to visit the Changchun Garden, tsk surprise, to paraphrase a modern popular phrase: "everywhere shows the 'people-oriented'" design ideas and feelings.
The northern part of the Changchun Garden is a famous Western-style building, which is a group of European-style palace buildings, designed by missionaries Lang Shining, Wang Zhicheng, Jiang Youren and others. This is the first large-scale imitation of Western architecture and gardens in China's imperial palaces, which can be regarded as a model of the combination of Chinese and Western styles. It includes six groups of Western-style buildings, three groups of fountains and countless courtyard pieces. The whole scenic area is laid out on the east-west axis, and from east to west, there are fountains such as the line law wall, the square river, the line law mountain, the Yuanying view (the central axis), the Haiyan Hall, the square appearance, the harmonious curiosity, the bird cage, the water storage building, the ten thousand flower array and the big water law, the water viewing method, etc. Its architecture, environment and style are Baroque, while the decorative details have an oriental verve. Xingzhen has never been very interested in Western architecture, but went around to the front of Haiyan Hall, curiously looked at the zodiac avatar that was snatched away by the British and French forces at that twelve times, each of which used realism and hair (by the way, this is also designed by Lang Shining), if you can now sell tens of millions of euros for an avatar like in later generations, then you must have instigated Emperor Xianfeng to sell it for military salary, it is not very good-looking here, realism, everyone knows. (To be continued.) )
PS: Asking for a commuter pass!!!