I can't die

The first-round defeat of the foreign gun team is of great significance to the court.It not only made Zai Chun have a new round of estimation of the military power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but also led to more fierce opposition from conservative diehards to the Westernization Movement.

After this matter spread to the capital, Woren, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, immediately wrote another letter to the Military Aircraft Department and the Empress. : In the war between nations, only benevolent and righteous teachers can win. Western barbarians, who drink blood like hair, are stubborn and despicable, not like internal thieves, it is really ridiculous. (In the battle of the country, only benevolent and righteous troops can win. Westerners, stubborn and low-minded, are even worse than the rebels of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It is simply impossible to rely on them to win.)

Zai Chun almost fainted after seeing this memorial from Wo Ren.Who are these people? !

He actually said that foreigners are inferior and uncivilized. Then the Qing court, which could not even defeat foreigners in the Opium War, was even more stupid and incompetent to the extreme? !

In a fit of anger, Zai Chun threw the memorial on the ground and cursed: "I think that the older Wo Ren is, the more he reads, the more his head is broken. It's not as good as handing over the Ministry of Industry to this person." Cut them all off!"

Hearing Zai Chun's words, the five military ministers and the two empress dowagers were silent. Obviously, although they were not happy with Wo Ren's words in their hearts, they were more calm than Zai Chun after all.

"Your Majesty, it seems that the Ministry of Industry is not active now."

It was Prince Gong who spoke at this time.

That's right, now that this is happening, after all, "facts speak louder than words," and the foreign gun team was defeated by Li Xiucheng's Taiping Army, and the direction of public opinion was suddenly very obvious, not to mention that there were many people among the original scholars I am extremely resistant to studying Westernization, and now it is all right, and it is even more noisy.

Damn!

Zai Chun only felt that corrupt Confucianism harmed the country.

"What do you think the emperor should do now?"

"Now that Pachari is still in the capital, I feel that Shanghai is a treaty port that the West attaches great importance to, and the energy that can be borrowed still needs to be borrowed."

It is obvious that Prince Gong disagrees with Wo Ren in his heart.

"Your minister had met with Pacharley before, and learned from him that the Taiping Army did not recognize the various treaties concluded between Britain and the Qing Dynasty, and has decided to fully support us."

After all, the people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom pushed the powerful powers to the Qing Dynasty by themselves.It's just that when Xia Chun heard Prince Gong's words, he felt uncomfortable. In fact, if he could, he would also like to tear up the treaty like Hong Xiuquan, but in the end. .Why. . .

"In this case, it is up to the emperor to deal with it. As for the memorials of those Confucian scholars, I will withhold them for a few days and don't hand them in. I am also upset after reading them."

Prince Gong heard the words, looked at Zai Chun, guessed that Zai Chun was always determined to reform, and finally nodded: "If this is the case, the servant will resign."

Then, Prince Gong withdrew from the Hall of Mental Cultivation together with the other four major military ministers.After leaving the palace, the five people said goodbye to each other, the person in charge of the household department went to the household department, and the person in charge of the punishment department went to the punishment department. Prince Gong hurriedly went to the Prime Minister's Office and asked the messengers to invite Pashali.

The Prime Minister’s Office of State Affairs was established during Xianfeng’s lifetime, referred to as the “Prime Minister’s Office” and “General Administration”. It is a central agency specially set up for the Qing government to handle foreign affairs and foreign affairs. No. 49 Dongtangzi Hutong was originally the residence of Sai Shang'a, a Qing University scholar.

Bacharley came to the Prime Minister's Office in a sedan chair carried by Commissioner Liyi? Yi's Office of the Prime Minister.

After entering the room, the British councilor directly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: "These disrespectful thieves don't respect the laws of the country, have no courtesy, and send troops unjustly. Our British Empire has exchanges with your country. It’s quite deep, and I will help myself.”

Prince Gong heard what Bacharley said, but he didn't expect that this British envoy, who was always shrewd and unprofitable, would so easily and proactively offer to help the Qing court against the Taiping Army. Did the Taiping Army get angry when they were negotiating?

Isn't it?Immediately after Li Xiucheng's peace talks with Pachari collapsed, he issued a letter of appeal, which directly addressed the British and French powers: If you don't respect our kingship, but turn to help the rebels and become evil, and fight against the enemy with our teachers, then It is moths to the flame, suicidal.

Such defiant remarks, it is rare that the British and French powers who have always set their eyes higher than the top and do not put the yellow race in their eyes are angry. The British have taken measures against the arms smuggling that occurred in the foreign gun team this time. The attitude of turning a blind eye.

"It's so good? Thank you Sir for your help, but after all, Shanghai is an important place for all countries, what about France?"

"French Navy Admiral Brod and I have a close relationship. Britain and France have always been friendly, so they will never stand by."

Always friendly?

Yi Yue felt that it would be more appropriate to change the word "collusion". The two countries have always played a role in the Qing Dynasty.However, no matter what, if France also makes the same move, the Taiping Army may be enough to eat a pot.After all, in the whole of China, there is no one who knows the power of the warships of the great powers better than Prince Gong Yi?

In this way, Pachari reached a promise with Yi Yue, promising to send troops soon.

Sure enough, right after the meeting between the two, Admiral Ho Bo of the British Navy and Admiral Brodt of the French Navy mobilized their troops on the Huangpu River in Shanghai, leading [-] troops, and headed for Jiangsu in a mighty way.

The Huangpu River is the estuary of the Yangtze River. It flows through the 11 districts of Qingpu, Songjiang, Fengxian, Minhang, Xihui, Huangpu, Hongkou, Yangpu, Pudong and Baoshan in Shanghai. Its water system extends in all directions and runs through the whole city. Current warships pass by.

When the British and French warships sailed to the Huangpu River, when they saw the Taiping Army camp, they attacked with a burst of fire. The extremely lethal long-range artillery fired directly at the military camp at the shortcut, killing the Taiping Army immediately.Western warships are all made of steel, and the long-range bows and arrows of the Taiping Army can hardly hurt them, even the rockets are extremely difficult to cause damage, and they are often in a state of being beaten one-sidedly.

At the same time, with the help of Britain and France, the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty immediately cooperated with Shire's foreign gun team to attack Jiading, Shanghai.In this way, the two armies of the waterway were strangled together, and within ten days, the Qing Dynasty successively broke through more than 100 company battalions in Songjiang, Sijing, Qingpu, Jiading, Baoshan and other places around Shanghai.

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