Chapter 12 strange ending

As soon as Mr. Yilu got the news of Mr. Qishan's resignation, he knew that things had changed, so he acted first, and immediately ordered the British army to launch an attack. They occupied the two fortresses of Humen and Chuanbi again. The warships went straight to the city of Guangzhou and bombarded the city.Compared with Mr. Qishan, Mr. Yishan is even worse than a crab. He encountered this kind of scene as soon as he took office.Mr. Yang Fang was a famous general who attacked the White Lotus Sect and the Muslim rebels during the civil war.He found that the British fleet was able to hit the target accurately even when firing its cannon amidst the turmoil of the ship. This was obviously a sorcery of the resurrection of the White Lotus Sect.According to folk tales, the dirtier things are, the more they can make black magic ineffective, so he harassed the city of Guangzhou, collected a lot of pig blood, sheep blood, and feces, and listed them on the city.But the magic of the British fleet remained the same, the thunder of the cannons and the Ghost Crying God in the city made the commander-in-chief and the deputy commander-in-chief a pair of living treasures, heartbroken, escaped from Guangzhou in embarrassment, and sent someone to intercede with the British army.I can agree to any conditions, as long as the British army is not driven into the castle, I am willing to pay six million taels of silver coins immediately as a reward.Mr. Yilu pretended to be moved by Mr. Yishan's sincerity in "loving the people" and ordered a ceasefire.In fact, he did not dare to enter Guangzhou. What is the next move, he must wait for the British government's order on the "Nose Piercing Treaty".

The British army ceased fire, and China's "official" stunts had another chance to perform. Mr. Yishan believed that "spend a small amount of money, and avoid big disasters". The matter has passed, and even the "Nose Piercing Treaty" has passed. He asked his master, His Majesty Emperor Mianning The report said: "The general Yingyi came to Guangzhou to appeal his grievances. When the merchants paid off the six million taels owed to them, they left immediately. In order to show mercy to the people's difficulties, Yingyi was temporarily allowed to continue trading." Mr. Mianning After reading this memorial, Longxin was overjoyed.

The British government refused to ratify the "Nose-piercing Treaty". In fact, whether the British refused to reject it would not affect the pace of history, because the Manchu Qing government had long believed that the removal of Mr. Qi Shan was tantamount to abolition; even if the British ratified it, it would have to use violence , in order to teach the Manchu Qing government to perform.The reason why the UK refused to approve it, thinking that Hong Kong's tax revenue still belongs to China, how can it be called a cession?The compensation is six million taels, which is too small.So Mr. Yilu was dismissed and Sir Park Dingcha was appointed to replace him.Sir Pu Dingcha was even more aggressive. Immediately after taking office, he led the fleet to the north, first captured Xiamen, then landed in Zhejiang Province, and occupied Ningbo, the hometown of Mr. Sun Guanhan, the father of China's atomic science.Mr. Yuqian, the commander-in-chief (imperial envoy) of the East China War Zone who once vowed to use the tendons of Yingyi as a horsewhip, committed suicide after the entire army was wiped out.The emperor, Mr. Mianning, was shocked and angry, and appointed another pustulant, Mr. Yijing, as the commander-in-chief of the southeast theater (coordinating the defense of the southeast coast? General Yangwei) to conquer the British and barbarians.

In January of the following year (1842), Mr. Yijing personally commanded a huge corps of 20,000 elite troops to counterattack Ningbo, and was defeated by the British army of more than 1,000.British warships attacked Zhapu. The Eight Banners Corps, which the Qing government had been proud of for more than two hundred years, saw those British warships approaching like a mountain, with thick smoke billowing like monsters, and the sky was pitch black. They scattered. The British army soon captured Shanghai, traveled up the Yangtze River, and then captured Zhenjiang, cutting off the canal that transported grain from the south of the Yangtze River to Beijing, and then sailed to Nanjing and anchored in the middle of the river.An ultimatum was issued saying: If China does not accept the conditions proposed by the United Kingdom, it will bombard the city.

The pussy generals of the Manchu Qing government are now terrified of the tiny country that they have always looked down upon, Fanbang Yingyi.Civilian officials were even more terrified, and only wanted to settle this public case as soon as possible.In addition to writing some brash words on the memorial to show his ignorance and arrogance, Mr. Mianning had to hang his head in dejection in the end and appointed Minister Qiying as the plenipotentiary to raise a white flag on the city of Nanjing to accept the British government. conditions and signed the Treaty of Nanjing.The main content of the treaty is: China compensates Britain for the loss of opium and silver coins for military expenses of 21 million taels.ceded all sovereignty over Hong Kong.Five ports of trade—Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, and Shanghai, allowing Britain to set up officials (consuls) to station in free trade.Finally, the treaty stipulates that China and Britain are on equal footing.

The first Opium War ended like this, and China suffered a crushing defeat.But the strangest thing is that from London to Beijing, from Shanghai to Nanjing, a world-shattering war was originally caused by the sale of opium, but at the end, no one mentioned opium anymore.The United Kingdom deliberately avoids putting it into words, because using the treaty to protect drug trafficking will become a stain in history, especially once China wakes up and asks for reciprocity, it will also sell opium in the United Kingdom, so what will happen.In China, a group of "official" animals of the Manchu Qing government are already in a trance, but I am afraid that mentioning the ominous thing of opium will cause more trouble.Just in this kind of situation where everyone knows it, but no one dares to speak first.Quietly, opium imports resumed, and more than before, the number of Chinese drug addicts increased wildly.