Chapter 19 second quarter

There were two reasons why Colonel Galan did not immediately attack Longtu Mountain after occupying Rina Mountain. First, he thought that occupying Rina Mountain was just a warning to the Tibetans: the British must achieve their goal of occupying Lhasa and conquering Tibet.He hoped that the Tibetans would become wise after this warning and discuss it, preferably not to have any more armed conflicts.Occupying calmly without using weapons is the demeanor of the God-blessed British Empire. Tibetans cannot be allowed to think of God as a warring general or a murderous butcher as soon as they touch God.The second is that the negotiations between the British government and the Chinese imperial court are still going on. According to his judgment, after the occupation of Rina Mountain is under pressure, the result of the negotiations is likely to agree to all the conditions of the British.With such a good thing, why not wait?

The attack on Longtu Mountain did not begin until three days later. Because some of the porters recruited from Brookba and Zhe Mengxiong to deliver supplies suddenly ran away.They believed in Buddhism and did not want to be the accomplices of the British attacking Buddhist holy places.Colonel Galan sent another urgent recruitment until he was sure that the supply line was intact. In the morning, the vanguard led by Lieutenant Rong He approached Longtu Mountain in an emergency, and the speed was so fast that the Eagles were surprised: it was too late to send a letter to the Tibetans.The sad dust made a broken sound and shouted: The British are coming, the Crusaders are coming.The dust of Tibet is heading towards Tibet, sending a warning to all the mountains.

It is said that this morning, the sky has changed in both Tibet and Tibet, including Lhasa. The white clouds split open, and there was a surge of sorrowful black haze, which surrounded the regent King Dimu Living Buddha in a blink of an eye. That day, when the regent came to the official residence of Wen Shuo, the Minister of Tibet, Wen Shuo was ill. In fact, Wen Shuo, who took office not long ago, has been sick all the time.The Chinese doctor who came with him prescribed a patented medicine, but it didn't work, so he asked the Tibetan doctor in the Potala Palace for a diagnosis.The lama of Tibetan medicine made pulse diagnosis, urine diagnosis, bloodletting, facial features and fingers, and concluded that the soil is weak and water is dry, fire is full of energy, and the mucus needs to be drained to clarify the upper and lower chakras.The Tibetan doctor prescribed the Samadhi nectar that the Dalai Lama must enjoy when he leaves Lhasa to preach scriptures and walks elsewhere, and said: "When you first arrive in Tibet, your body and mind are not clean, and you will easily attract the Tibetan devil mountain ghosts, and eat rice dumplings mixed with incense ash. Ba, read the Buddhist scriptures with ghee, and gradually get used to it, the devil is a bully and fears familiarity." It means that the altitude sickness and the acclimatization of the environment will be enough.

As soon as the Tibetan medical lama left, the regent Di Mu came. In front of the government hall with a mixture of Chinese and Tibetan styles, Wen Shuo was sick and welcomed the presence of the regent.In Tibet, after the establishment of a minister in Tibet in the Qing Dynasty, the Kaxag government and the Dalai Lama no longer directly asked the court about matters. Everything was reported by the minister in Tibet, and the will of the court was also issued by the minister.Coupled with the fact that the emperor was far away from the mountain, it was impossible to have another supervision on Tibetan affairs.Whatever the ministers stationed in Tibet said, they did what they said, and if they showed their achievements, the emperor would reward them with awards.The minister in Tibet exercises power on behalf of the imperial court. Although it cannot surpass the regent, it also has an immeasurable role.

There were not many pleasantries, and the regent came in person, explaining that the matter was urgent.Wen Shuo asked people to place a yellow satin card mat to show respect, served tea again, and then shrank his thin and chilly body, and sat on the side of the nave across the table, waiting quietly for the regent to speak. The regent Di Mu didn't speak, but just hissed and drank his tea. He was sucking in the air-conditioning and frustrated, and didn't want to leave a grumpy and irritable impression on the representatives of the court.For a moment, Di Mu handed over King Zhe Mengxiong's handwritten letter without saying a word, and after Wen Shuo read the letter, he handed over the "Seven Articles of Anti-British War" he had drawn up.

Wen Shuo's face turned as pale as paper. He read the letter and the clauses over and over several times, stood up, and shouted tremblingly, "Come here." The regent Di Mu thought that the minister in Tibet was out of temper, and he was about to call out. The soldiers went to war and were about to comfort them, but Wen Shuo said to the attendant who appeared immediately: "Is the medicine ready? Bring me the leather robe again." In summer, he wanted to wear a leather robe. It was really cold. Or is it an excuse to show that you are sick? The regent stared at him: "My lord, are you afraid?"

"Am I scared? No, the imperial court, the imperial court...the Buddha Regent doesn't know anything." Wen Shuo is already incoherent.What he wanted to say was that it wasn't that he was afraid, but that the imperial court trembled when they met foreigners. Even the emperor said: "The world is difficult, and the earth is difficult, and it is the most difficult when foreigners come." And he was an official of the imperial court, so he could only tremble along with it.But he didn't want to hurt the dignity of the court at all, let alone express his worries.In his impression, the British are equivalent to opium, which is not a good thing. When that thing came, the Qing Dynasty ceded land and paid compensation. Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai all became treaty ports where foreigners haunted.After that, the Americans, French, Russians, Prussians, Portuguese, Dutch, and Danes all came, missionary, commercial, dumping opium, plundering Chinese laborers, warships and guns came and went, the result was Land cession and indemnity.The Qing Dynasty was already riddled with holes and could not bear further humiliation.But these vicious British people still couldn't let go, and they went around the Himalayas again. Could it be that they want to sell opium to Tibet again?If so, what should the court do?

Wen Shuo dared not express his opinion. If he said that resisting the British must be done, it would be against the imperial court's will;As a loyal and patriotic person, he would rather be criticized by others than have the slightest stain on the clean faces of the emperor and the court.Then shut up and say nothing. The impatient king regent didn't want to delay, pointing to King Zhe Mengxiong's personal letter and the "Seven Articles of Anti-British Resistence" and said: "Please report to the court, Tibet is about to go to war." "No, absolutely not." Wen Shuo said, sat down on the grand teacher's chair, gasped for a few times, and collapsed.He drooped his head and closed his eyes.

The regent wondered: What do you mean?Should we never go to war, or should we never report to the court?He said: "Don't worry, my lord, foreigners have demons, and Tibet has Buddhas. Demons have always been afraid of Buddhas." Seeing that Wen Shuo didn't respond, he realized that he had passed out.The regent exclaimed: "Oh, the black water and white beast scared Master Zhuzang to death."