In fact, Yilu was also in dire need of reinforcements, and although he suffered only 500 casualties during the capture of Dinghai and Ningbo, he suffered serious illness after landing.

His soldiers were not adapted.

The British army who set foot in Zhejiang for the first time encountered a serious infectious disease, and a large number of soldiers fell ill or even died every day, so that Yilu's threat to attack the Yangtze River became a lip service, at least until the reinforcements arrived, he was not able to attack any city, after all, he was so many, and the defense of Dinghai, Zhenhai, and Ningbo also needed a large number of soldiers. It is said that they have even appointed their own Ningbo prefect, and a missionary named Guo Shili served as the prefect of Ningbo, and was respectfully called Guo Ye by the locals, in this case, they really began to restore friendship with Yang Feng.

The latter controls the Pearl River estuary.

Yilu was confident that his fleet would be able to defeat Yang Feng's three warships, but he didn't think that the escort ships that reinforced his fleet could do the same.

However......

"The God Emperor doesn't want to see you!"

In front of the gate of the newly built Divine Emperor Palace on the shore of Liuhua Lake in Guangzhou, a female attendant in a red uniform said to Yilu, who was waiting.

At this time, the God Emperor finally had his own palace.

It's a little smaller, and it's basically a big landlord's house.

As for the waitresses, this is naturally indispensable, they are all the same height, long legs, high appearance, and they are all big feet.

"Well, I wonder when Your Majesty will be able to see the contemptible man?"

Yilu said.

"The Emperor says that Victoria is so angry at his betrayal of his friendship that he has severed all contact with Great Britain and the United Kingdom of Ireland, and that he will not see any of Victoria's emissaries until you have formally apologized to him and made reparation for the damage caused by your previous barbarism."

The waitress waved her hand, and the guards on either side immediately stepped forward with rifles raised.

Poor Yilu had to leave.

"What does he mean by that?"

Ma Dichen, who was traveling with him, said suspiciously in the carriage.

"His meaning is very simple, he will not care about our war with the Tatars, we will do whatever we like, including our reinforcement fleet going north, he will not stop it, but he will not provide convenience, such as allowing our fleet to call at his port. Of course, he will not recognize any of our treaties with the Tatars, no matter how much land we lease from the Tatars and how many privileges we get, he will not recognize anything, for example, Hailing Island, he will definitely take it back, for example, he will not give us Hong Kong Island, so our fleet can continue to go north, but do not go to Guangzhou, bypass the Pearl River estuary and go directly to Dinghai. ”

Yilu said.

"Then even if we defeat the Tatars and get everything we want, we must help them deal with this emperor, at least not let him go any further, he is not in our interests, let alone let him control China, then we will have to face a real enemy."

Ma Dichen said.

"Compared to his control of China, there is another thing that worries me more."

Yilu said as he pushed the car window, looking at the bustling street outside, and the obviously sunny faces on the street, which had been completely changed in just a year.

In the past, all he saw in the city was a seemingly infinite gloom.

The poor men in ragged clothes lived as humble as the walking dead under the sticks of the servants, they were yellow and thin, they were like rats watching every opportunity to get food, and they were also prostrate at the feet of those officials like rats, as if their waists could never be straightened, they had no dignity, they had no future, they had no soul, their lives were just surviving in the mire of poverty and darkness, like the Parisian paupers before the Great Geming, and even inferior to the latter, at least the latter and Voltaire, And they only have one Confucianism that teaches them that they should continue to live like this.

But now their backs are straight.

There were smiles on their faces.

They went from a group of slaves to people.

But this change is not without a price, but not for them, but for those who have trampled on them from above.

The rotten heads of these men still hang on the walls of the city.

However......

"What if one day, the poor people of London's East End, like them, hang our heads on London Bridge?"

He said suddenly.

"Uh, why do you think that?"

Ma Dichen was stunned.

"Don't you think His Majesty the Emperor is doing a gemming? His overthrow of the Tatars is just an excuse, he is just like the French of those days, he is going on a gemming, rich and poor, such as the noble and the low, there are no nobles and no landlords, he gives everything from the rich to the poor, how much is this like the France of the past, and even he is more advanced than the France of the year, the French destroyed the order of Europe with the plague they created, and he is also destroying the order of Asia with the plague he created, we have just defeated Napoleon in Europe, and now we see a new specter in Asia.

And now it is not the Middle Ages, and the arrival of the age of steam has brought us closer.

It won't be long before the plague he created spread from Asia to Europe, imagine when the poor people of England knew that they could cut off the heads of the nobles and divide up the land of the nobles, when the workers of the East End of London knew that they could organize unions to fight for their rights, and when the natives of our colonies knew that they could rise up and kill the colonists as he did with the Tatars......

It's horrible!

The plague even surpassed the French.

If the French only lit a little fire in order, he burned everything.

He will bring a catastrophe of order.

A catastrophe of civilization. ”

Yilu said emotionally.

At the same time, he patted a brand-new oracle book next to him with his hand, and on the first page of the spread out was a line of striking red letters:

Everything belongs to the laborers.

"You, you're too sensitive, aren't you? He's just an Eastern sorcerer, relying on what they call witchcraft to bewitch the people, but his is useless in Europe, we are God's people, and we don't believe in his things. What's more, all this of his is still based on his strong military strength in the final analysis, but his military strength is not worth mentioning to us, four third-class ships make him have to retreat in Guangzhou, and we have more than a hundred such or even more powerful warships, his soldiers are invincible against the Tatars, but our soldiers are also invincible against the Tatars.

We can strangle him to death at any time if we want to.

As for the people.

You should believe Her Majesty's subjects, who experienced the plague of the French, but they were not infected, and they also did their own to eradicate the plague, and if this emperor also wanted to spread the plague he created to Europe, then Her Majesty's subjects would also wipe it out.

And I don't think he has the ability either.

As for the colonies......

Do you mean India?

That's an exaggeration! ”

Ma Dichen said with a smile.

Obviously, he has completely different feelings on this issue, after all, it is still too early to talk about Yang Feng's ideology polluting the pure hearts of European workers, and the degree of industrialization in Guangzhou, there are few capitalist families to warn them with their own miserable experiences, for Ma Dichen, Yang Feng's copying of the landlord's home is far from so exciting, he is a capitalist and not a landlord, at most this kind of thing is also a British colony, but the problem is that the British colonies in this area are mainly India, For a guy like Madison who was familiar with India, the Indians would rise up against the British colonizers......

That's an exaggeration.

"Exaggeration? I hope so! ”

Yilu sneered.

But in any case, they got what they wanted, because of Yang Feng's acquiescence, a fleet full of 3,000 British reinforcements, after being resupplied by Brunei, immediately after penetrating the Taiwan Strait and heading north, and then before the end of the winter southwest monsoon, this valuable reinforcement arrived in Ningbo.

And at this time, for Daoguang, something even more tragic and even sad and angry happened.

Yilu knew what to do with him.

Originally, Yilu wanted to use Ningbo as a base to attack outward, and he even began to attack Cixi, but at this time, Guo Shili, the prefect of Ningbo appointed by him, told him that as long as Zhenjiang was defeated, and then cut off the transportation from Jiangnan to Beijing, Daoguang could obediently obey, and the princes and ministers of Beijing would rely on the canal to feed, and this poisonous plan was told to him by a local Confucian student, and the reason why the Confucian told him this secret was actually ......

Well, the latter didn't have the money to go to Beijing to take the exam.

He urgently needed a sum of money to go to Beijing to take the top prize.

Of course, it's not that simple, behind that Confucian is likely to be a certain gentry, for the gentry in eastern Zhejiang, as long as the British don't continue to fight in eastern Zhejiang, as for whether they cut off or not to cut off the gentry in eastern Zhejiang, the hardcore crops in Beijing are nervous about food, and they can't starve them anyway, but if the British army continues to fight in eastern Zhejiang, they will be unlucky, so they would rather let the British army go to fight Zhenjiang.

Of course, this is just speculation.

Anyway, Yilu, who knew how to choke Daoguang's neck, simply evacuated Ningbo, the city was useless to him, and then he led the fleet unceremoniously into the Yangtze River. Lin Zexu, who was originally planning a counterattack on Ningbo with Yijing and the new Zhejiang governor Yuqian in Zhejiang, hurriedly led various armies north to rescue, but unfortunately it was still a step too late. With the loss of a sixth-class ship, Yilu once again relied on the landing operation to break through the Wusong Fort, and then went upriver to kill Jiangyin, Lin Zexu had to urgently reinforce Jiangyin, but he was still a step late, and the British army successfully broke through Jiangyin, and then sailed to the next station, Zhenjiang.

This time, Lin Zexu finally grabbed the front.

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