It is necessary for Zhu Jinglun to aggravate this understanding of an Englishman. Soon after the Englishman questioned him, he immediately sent someone to Hong Kong to urge Jardine Matheson to deliver the goods as soon as possible. Jardine Matheson said that the contract was signed and the delivery was made in one year. They promised that Zhu Jinglun would send the guns before the end of the year.

Zhu Jinglun knew that this batch of artillery couldn’t be shipped. The first thing he urged was to give Jardine Matheson a shot to let them know that if they couldn’t deliver the goods at the end of the year, it would be their breach of contract. The second thing was to show the British Hong Kong government that they would continue to control the overall situation.
At present, Zhu Jinglun also knows very well that the British and French allied forces will not let it go, but I’m afraid the specific action has not yet been determined. No one here in Hong Kong can be the master, and everything has to wait for the British decision, but it is very likely that the situation in China has not yet returned to the UK.
Therefore, this is a delicate moment, and everyone is secretly preparing to wait for the final decision of the British Parliament.
It may not be clear to Proust that the British Parliament decided, but Zhu Jinglun knew very well that the British chose to continue the war and declared war on the Qing government again.
Despite knowing the historical trend, the search for information has not stopped. Those Chen brothers used to buy food in Xin ‘an City, but now they all go to Hong Kong to buy food. Every day, they send fresh fruits and vegetables to Hong Kong and then bring them back to Hong Kong. Where is the information? But after all, they are very unprofessional and can get information, which is mostly hearsay.
Zhu Jinglun also knows some inaccurate news, but compared with his memory, he can still get the correct answer from these messy information.
The detailed process of Dagukou campaign of British and French allied forces was also confirmed.
Representatives of Britain and France arrived in beijing on June 6 and 7, and soon heard that the Russians had exchanged the Sino-Russian Aihun Treaty and the Sino-Russian Tianqi Treaty in Beijing. The representatives of Britain and France immediately refused to continue wrangling with Gui Liang and other imperial envoys and left for the north with warships.
There is a historical reason why Russians can change their contracts in beijing while British and French ministers and American ministers can’t go to beijing. The essence of Russia has been stationed in Beijing as early as the Kangxi period, and whenever there are major events in China and Russia, envoys will be sent to pilgrimage to the Qing emperor.
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The Russians can do this because their representative in beijing is not a diplomatic representative, but a church priest, an orthodox church and a famous Luo Cha temple. Their envoys can meet the Qing emperor because the Russians are more sensible than Britain and France. Their envoys are willing to bow down to the Qing emperor, of course, not kneeling three times and knocking nine times, but symbolically kowtowing. The Russian envoy explained that he is not a China subject, and he can’t often knock on the emperor’s head to the extent that China people can’t. This is a technical problem, not an attitude problem. When the Qing emperor met, he generally didn’t care much about this slick line.
Britain and France did not bow down and wanted to see the emperor Xianfeng face to face, but they refused to let them go to Beijing.
If they are not allowed to go to Beijing, they will lead troops to Beijing.
On June 9th, the British contract exchange troops left Shanghai North one after another, and William, the American envoy, also arrived at this time. Hi, Americans came here to exchange contracts in the sea, and they didn’t want to annoy the China people on this procedural issue, but now the British and French Coalition forces have gone north, and William has followed.
On June 17th, the British fleet arrived in Dagukou, and the expatriates sent a message to the Qing court to report the arrival of the envoy. The messenger ship crossed the river sand and was stopped by some people on both sides of the strait. In fact, these people were disguised as Sengqin officers and soldiers. They told the British that there were no officials here, and the river fortification was for the masses’ own purposes, not to deal with you foreigners, but to deal with rebels and pirates. The people were willing to send letters to Tianjin on behalf of foreigners and reply three days later.
I don’t understand the western diplomatic style. The Qing court can avoid it. Even if there is a conflict, it’s not bad. This is a typical Chinese style of doing things.
On June 2nd, 3rd, the deadline has expired. Governor Hengfu of Zhili sent a man to the British ship to tell the governor to stop for a few days before arriving. Please wait for a few days and continue to drag the words on the British. This is a trick of Sengqin. He intends to kill the foreigners’ spirit and make them wait. Instead, he asks him to ask him to disguise those people to help deliver letters.
At present, Britain and France, the world’s number one and number two powers, are not interested in playing this kind of children’s game with the Qing court, which means that they will enter the Baihe River in the next day. Please ask the defenders to remove the iron shovel or they will do it themselves.
The garrison refused to allow the British to send people to land on the garrison, and stopped them. The British said they wanted to see the officials sent by the governor of Zhili. The garrison said that you were too impolite to make people angry. The British asked for a note to buy food on the shore, and Sangrinqin was not allowed to send people to the British army because he was worried about the foreigners’ shore. I hope that Sangrinqin can take care of the overall situation and not use force. Let Sangrinqin tell them that Gui Liang is coming. Please wait a few days. If you don’t wait for the foreigners, you can wait in Tianjin from Beitang bank, but you are not allowed to lead troops and equipment to disturb the people; Foreigners’ soldiers are not allowed to send people to the shore with vegetables and food in need, and foreigners are not allowed to trade.
After that, every day, the British asked the Qing army to remove the iron lock of blocking the river and let them enter the Baihe Estuary, saying that the Baihe River is a natural river and they have access.
However, the British and French Coalition forces retreated to the sea and told the Qing army to send the treaty to the sea once the imperial envoy Gui Liang arrived
By the 25th, more than 70 people in Gui Liang were still rushing from Hi to beijing. Xianfeng urged him to hurry to Tianjun, and gave Senggelinqin a message to tell foreigners to wait for Gui Liang in Haikou.
If you really can’t wait, then land from Beitang and allow them to take two people to Beijing, but it’s not possible to lead troops.
But who knows that the two sides started fighting before his decree arrived?
A gun battle broke out between the British and French allied forces and Dagu Fort. Four British gunboats were sunk and the commander of Lian Haijun, Herb, was injured.
Then the two sides accused each other of saying that the Qing army fired first, and that the British army fired first. The two sides were so wrangling that people could not tell cause and effect for a while.
However, judging from the results of the battle, maybe it was Sengqin who fired first.
The reason is that, according to the British, they have been planning to remove the barrier at the White River Estuary for a long time, but the Americans asked them to postpone it. Because one of the two warships led by the American envoy William ran aground at the White River Estuary, William came behind the British and French Coalition forces to try to dock. No one in the United States wanted to offend him. He hoped that after landing, he would listen to the advice of the China people and take the lead in changing the contract. He was worried that the situation was not good and the treaty would be ruined.
As a result, a small boat ran aground at the estuary and could not retreat, so the British and French Coalition forces were asked to postpone it for two days. It was not until the 25th that the British army removed the gunboats to clear the obstacles at the estuary.
It was not until 3: 00 noon that there was a gun battle between the two sides. The British said that they didn’t know the artillery positions of the Qing army because the Qing army covered all the cannons with straw curtains. Only when the other side lifted the straw curtains did the British find that all their gunboats were in the range of other people’s cannons, and they lost.
After the British destroyed Dagu Fort, the Qing court sent Sengqin to reinforce the Fort, adding a lot of 10,000-kilogram cannons and really concealing them. If they were concealed, the British could not find a place for them even if they wanted to.
It is not impossible for the Qing army to say that the British fired first. Maybe the British fired indiscriminately. It is also possible that Senggerinchen saw that the British were cleaning up the estuary quickly and knew that it would be bad for him to delay. Anyway, the emperor asked him to stop foreigners from bringing warships to Beijing. If foreigners want to force Beijing to fight, it will be impossible. Then just fight.
There was always a fight, and the British defeated it.
In this matter, Zhu Jinglun doesn’t care who is responsible for the war. In fact, it doesn’t matter who is responsible for it. What matters is that it really broke out, so no matter who is responsible, the war will inevitably break out again.
He didn’t understand what Britain and France, or rather, the British, had to bring warships to Beijing, perhaps to deter the Qing government. Anyway, Zhu Jinglun just couldn’t understand the mentality of this hegemonic country.
The Qing government allowed them to go to Beijing by land and said that they would be protected by the Qing army and could not carry weapons. On the contrary, Zhu Jinglun could understand that China did the same for later generations.
Few people care about the fact that in the future, except for one or two military attaché s in beijing, China soldiers are in charge of the embassy defense. No country dares to claim to be in charge of its own house and bring its own troops to beijing.
There is one exception, that is, no one in the United States is in the embassy of beijing, but their own troops are protecting it. However, China sets a rule for them that once they leave the embassy, they are not allowed to wear military uniforms. Therefore, there is often such a scene on the streets of beijing. Every morning, American troops wear them and run back to the embassy to ship military uniforms, but this still hides the unique position of the American embassy.
Similarly abroad, China is also its own armed force in many embassies.
To put it bluntly, what nonsense rules are finally fist-sized and high-ranking? If China has the national strength of later generations now, do the British dare to lead troops to Beijing? Even dare not ask for this!
The artillery battle ended around 4 o’clock, and the battle was not over yet.
The commander of the British navy was still directing the battle. He saw that the fire of the Qing army was weakened and the Qing side was dying, so he ordered the landing war.
The experience of the British army is that once they fight against China soldiers, they can easily defeat their opponents. This time, they really underestimated the arrangement of Sengqin.
When 1000 people landed on the beach in front of the South Fort in a boat, they found that the Qing army was also arranged on the shore. They were in front of a piece of mud, and after climbing out of the mud, it turned out to be three trenches in front of them. At this time, one person broke through the mud and broke through the first trench, and then five people came.
It’s not that they were all killed. In fact, most of them were fine. All these people broke in because of the mud, so that most people could stop attacking with rifles, and a few people dared to continue attacking. It’s really too small to underestimate the fighting capacity of the Qing army.
Even if the Qing army relied on five people, it would be impossible to defeat them. What’s worse, Senggelinqin’s hands are some simple herders who brought them from the grassland. These people didn’t spend all their ancestors’ courage in the flowers and flowers. They still have a natural courage with the cold wind in Mobei.
Before the British and French allied forces ran to other people’s positions, the army base was generally solved by chopping melons and vegetables.
The landing war failed, and the British and French allied forces had to retreat temporarily.
After the war, statistics show that 11 British warships were sunk and 4 were sunk. More than 1 person participated in the war, 9 people were killed and 345 people were injured; Six French soldiers died, four were injured, 14 were injured, 44 were killed and 4454 were killed in the Qing army.
After winning such a victory, Senggerinchen immediately felt a little complacent, which foreshadowed the tragedy in Liqiao later.
However, the commander of the British army, Herb, inexplicably fought such a confused defeat, and some of them reported in circles. Proust said that now it seems that his military law has completed the escort exchange, and the French are even less powerful. Their main force is still fighting the Vietnamese in Vietnam
As soon as the envoys of the two countries discuss it, withdraw first, withdraw south to Hi or withdraw to Hong Kong.
They invited the American envoy to join them. At this time, the South American played a tricky role. It was you who fought with the China, not me. He chose to stay and hoped to complete the contract exchange.
On June 29th, William Liew found the opportunity to submit the note, saying that he didn’t have the opportunity to submit the note because of the fierce fighting two days ago. Now he wants to change his contract in Beijing and give a good start to Britain and France. The Qing court agreed when he saw that the American was still submissive.
The news has arrived here. At this time, the British and French Coalition forces are still resting in Hong Kong. Zhu Jinglun sent someone to watch their movements on the other side. The operation of crossing the sea was because just two days ago, the Swedish merchant ship finally arrived. In addition to bringing him four 64-pound fortress guns, there were 10,000 rifles and a ship of machinery and equipment.