Guo Songtao took the crystal wine glass and touched the glass crisply with the British consul in Guangzhou, "Lord Guo, please use it," Pasha Li spoke in a pure London accent, raised his glass, and the interpreter on the side hurriedly translated, "This is the best whisky in the UK, from the Wales region, which is the fief of our country's prince, made with the best wheat, please try it." ”

Guo Songtao took a sip of amber whiskey, nodded slightly, noncommittal to the taste of whiskey, and looked at the British fleet anchored in Guangzhou Bay, Guo Songtao hurriedly spoke, outside the city of Guangzhou, there was the fleet of Yingyi on the side, Guo Songtao always felt frightened.

"Your Excellency, the wine is indeed good, but I still want to remind the Consul that the Consul sent a fleet to besiege the city of Guangzhou last year, which was a very impolite act and violated China's sovereignty, and I am very dissatisfied with this."

Pasha took a sip of whiskey, looked up at the weather arrogantly, there were already some signs of a typhoon coming in Guangzhou City in October, the sea breeze blowing from the east carried moist moisture, the originally bright gold medal on Paxiali's chest was covered with a layer of moisture, Pasha Li brushed away the water vapor, did not answer the question thrown by Guo Songtao, and looked around, "Lord Guo, do you know what kind of place this is?" ”

"I naturally know that this is Humen."

"Of course, this is Humen," Pashali pronounced Humen accurately, having been in China since the First Opium War and having witnessed the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing, although he thought it would be very unwise for a crappy language like Chinese to appear in foreign affairs. "More than 10 years ago, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in your country, Lin, held a grand cigarette sales campaign here, destroying 1.18 million kilograms of opium in more than 20 days. When the smoke is soaked through, pour a load of quicklime into the pool. Soon. Tumbling in the pool. Clouds of white smoke evaporate upward' This kind of behavior has caused great harm to our business, so," Pa Xiali glanced at Guo Songtao, who had a complicated expression, "Our country has punished China. It's the same now. Because the Treaty of Nanking stipulated that the British could enter the city of Guangzhou. Until now, this clause has not been reached, so I myself led the fleet into Guangzhou Bay. Enter the city of Guangzhou yourself! ”

"Not to mention the occurrence of such a thing as the Yarrow that greatly affects the relationship between China and Britain," Pashali finished drinking the whiskey in his glass, "I have to admit that our two countries are about to be at war." ”

The Hanyu wrench on Guo Songtao's thumb slammed into his palm, and there was no other way to deal with Pa Xiali's arrogant words at the moment except to be patient, thinking of the queen's advice before leaving, Guo Songtao said with a strong smile, "Lord Ba, I am very sorry for the Yaluo incident, the loss of the relevant crew and cargo owners, I have already reported to the Governor, and the Governor has given a promise to deliver all within ten days, and," Guo Songtao bowed his head slightly to apologize, "and will express a written apology." ”

This is Guo Songtao from Ye Mingchen's lobbying again and again to fight for it, "Dashuai, it's just for the country, why do you need to protect yourself, the palace ministers in Beijing learned that the lower officials were going south to take up the post of Guangzhou, and deal with the affairs of foreigners, they all mentioned their lives, and they had to lose the identity of the Heavenly Empire, just foreigners!" But this foreigner's guns, ships, and ships are really powerful, and the people in Beijing know that if we don't compromise and seek perfection, how can we do a good job and delay enough time for the Beijing division to pacify the long-haired traitors? ”

Guo Songtao also told the gossip widely circulated in Beijing to the officials of the Southern Frontier on this day, "Do you know what everyone in Beijing has been rumoring recently?" Said that the rebellion in Jiangning City was the idea of the queen's mother, the queen mother personally wrote an edict to Jiangning, saying that she was willing to divide the river with Yang Xiuqing and rule, which caused Hong Rebellion to kill in Jiangning City, the Yangtze River was dyed red, the queen is the mother of the world, and she does not hesitate to be infamy, and write the letter of state, just to weaken the rebellion, the handsome as the head of the feudal territory, why should he have such a thin reputation? Make every effort to take care of this matter, which is the most important thing! ”

After listening to Guo Songtao's words, Pa Xiali smiled coldly, like his expression when he saw the locals eating snake soup outside Guangzhou, vaguely disgusted, and seemed to be a little disdainful, "Is this just these insincere actions?" Lord Guo, then, what does Governor Ye mean when we enter the city of Guangzhou? ”

After the First Opium War, especially after the activities of the British army in Sanyuanli, the xenophobia in Guangdong was very serious, and foreigners (mainly British) were often killed by the villagers when they went out to play. After the Opium War, the Governor of Liangguang was Qi Ying, who had presided over the Sino-British peace talks, and he had a resolute suppressive attitude towards the vendetta and killing of foreigners, and he was absolutely intolerant, and killed people to pay for their lives, because such unrestricted development would certainly provoke new Sino-British contradictions.

In order to ease the tense Sino-foreign relations, the then Governor of Liangguang, Qi Ying, took great pains to rack his brains and offered to adopt the son of the first Governor of Hong Kong, Pu Cha Ding, as a "righteous son"; Or happily exchanging photos or paintings of his wife with Pu Cha Ding; In the letter of farewell to Governor Pu, he cherished the farewell feeling like a couple of young couples, and used extremely sensual words"...... In the future, people will say that although our bodies are two, our hearts are really one ......, and we are about to separate, and we don't know when and where we can meet again.

Although the elderly are more rational in maintaining the fragile Sino-British relations, in the eyes of ordinary people and scholars, the elderly are "foreign slaves", and we should be unanimous and tough on the outside world, how can we oppress the people to obey the feelings? Therefore, at that time, the Cantonese attacked him very badly, and he had to drive the foreigners out.

In 1846, under pressure from the British, the British agreed to the British request to enter the city. At that time, he sent Liu Xun, the prefect of Guangzhou, to discuss the date of entering the city with the British, but when Liu Xun returned from the British ship, thousands of people rushed into the prefect's yamen and burned his court beads and official clothes, so frightened that he jumped over the wall in the backyard and fled for his life. At that time, the patriotic xenophobia of the people was evident. (To be continued......)

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