Chapter 21 Smoke Disaster——The Unavoidable Pain of the Celestial Dynasty

In 1842, at the end of July in the lunar calendar.Beijing is still very hot at this time of year. In the Forbidden City, Emperor Daoguang felt a cold current with the smell of the sea roaring from afar, he recklessly pushed aside the closed palace gates, and penetrated into the bone marrow through the dragon robe.He shivered unconsciously. In front of him, a document was lying on his back on the dragon case in an unfamiliar and arrogant form: in the writing, he proudly raised two squares to show his supremacy. In addition to the only sacred title of "Emperor of the Qing Dynasty", which was said to be just a The incredible "British Monarch" for a woman in her twenties!By the way, for the first time, "Daying", who doesn't know where the country is, also enjoyed the same treatment as "Qing"——

In this document, the Qing Empire actually bent its stiff waist, clumsily sitting on an equal footing with the "foreign barbarians" who dismissed it in the past! What is even more unbelievable is that the content of the document turned out to be that the little barbarian aggressively ordered the Chinese dynasty, which commanded all nations, to pay compensation, cede land, and open ports for trade! The 60-year-old Daoguang had faintly protruding veins on his forehead, his hands trembling slightly, and he stood up abruptly. He really wanted to get angry, wanted to tear this arrogant document to pieces, wanted to arrest and behead the useless minister who signed this document, wanted to order the whole country, and concentrated all the energy of the Qing Dynasty to go to the seaside to show the power of heaven——

But the strong smell of gunpowder smoke between the lines on the document made him sit down slumped, and Daoguang closed his eyes weakly.He felt a weakness he had never felt before.Years of battered wars had already exhausted him. He just wants to cry now, and he feels very aggrieved: After all these years of hard work, frugality, and exhaustion, he can't even cure a little Yingyi who came to his door, and he has left such a man who has never been seen since his ancestors. The humiliating document that has ever existed—the "Jiangning Treaty" called the "Nanjing Treaty" by later generations!

He suddenly remembered Lin Zexu, why did he lose his head and send him to deal with those cunning barbarians?This Lin Zexu is also really hateful, he usually looks stable and capable, why did he get so out of control once he arrived in Guangzhou?Reckless and irritated, he opened his mouth and provoked lightly, the surname Lin couldn't escape the responsibility in today's situation!To put it bluntly, it is the culprit! Daoguang gritted his teeth fiercely, remembering that someone pleaded for Lin Shangzuo a few days ago, saying that he had made great contributions in regulating the river on the way of distribution, and hoped that he would be able to atone for his crime and use it.Daoguang sneered a few times, and ordered another order:

"After Lin Zexu joined the dragon, he still went to Yili!" Daoguang, who had nowhere to vent his anger, cast fire on Lin Zexu, who had placed high hopes in the past (of course, a single Lin Zexu was far from enough to bear the wrath of the emperor, and almost no one could escape severe punishment when there were imperial envoys flying all over the sky one after another in an emergency). One has no way of knowing whether Daoguang thought of a person, a notorious person who died three years ago, when he saw the treaty. Xu Naiji, a small fourth-rank minister of Taichang Temple, sparked a controversy in the empire for more than two years with just a few thousand words, and thus carved his name that was despised by most people in the long river of history.

Compared with his predecessors in the past, Daoguang is really unlucky.Executing the job of keeping the industry and keeping the people safe is already stretched and I have to deal with a strange opponent-opium.This wretched devil who has been living in the fingers of the heaven for many years has finally grown from an inconspicuous and weak flower into an ugly and strong vine everywhere. Contains the essence and blood lipid ointment of the descendants of the Yellow Emperor. The dirty black smoke spread with the waves, and finally reached the Great Wall, covering the entire empire; the silver in the treasury gushed out like a torrent, and the bloody court began to feel dizzy; The prosperous Celestial Dynasty has become full of ragged clothes, sallow and emaciated smokers everywhere, and even the national army is filled with countless haggard and weak generals with two spears...

Daoguang, the lord of the celestial dynasty, naturally tossed and turned every night covered in cold sweat.Those scholars and ministers who take the world as their own responsibility are even more anxious to find a good way to save the celestial dynasty from the billowing black smoke. In April of the 16th year of Daoguang (1836), Xu Naiji, who had been thinking hard for many years, finally submitted the famous memorial: "The stricter the ban on opium, the greater the harm, please urgently apply for a memorial." In the memorial, Xu Naiji pointed out that the imperial court's strict smoking ban did not play its due role, but instead "the stricter the ban, the greater the abuse".In order to resist the influx of opium and prevent the outflow of silver, the only solution is to relax the ban—lift the ban on opium trade, allow imports, tax according to medicinal materials, and legalize the opium trade.He put forward specific suggestions: first, opium trading is only allowed to be bartered, and silver is not allowed to be used to buy it; People in the interior grow opium poppies.

Xu Naiji believed that, if implemented in this way, "the leakage of more than one thousand ten thousand gold in the Central Plains can be saved every year", and "the profits of the barbarians will decrease day by day, until there is no profit to be made, and those who come from abroad will inevitably be cut off." . It is conceivable that Daoguang, who was troubled by opium and was anxious and restless, should have seen this memorial. He immediately criticized: "It is very good!" At the same time, he immediately transferred this memorial to the front line of opium smuggling: Guangdong.He wanted to hear the opinions of the ministers who had dealt with that kind of magic soil for many years.

It is said that the high officials in Guangdong at that time welcomed Xu Zuo very much, but before their second proposal was passed back to Beijing, Xu Naiji was already besieged on all sides. As soon as Xu Zuo came out, the upright people in the world burst into anger and beat the case.Represented by cabinet bachelor and minister of rites Zhu Zun, Bingke Shizhong Xu Qiu, and Jiangnan Dao Supervisor Yuan Yulin, they launched a fierce attack on Xu Naiji: You said barter, but my Qing Dynasty did not have so much tea raw silk to exchange for an endless supply of opium, wouldn't it be necessary to use silver in the end?

You advocate banning the export of silver, if it can be done, why not simply block the import of opium? Since you cannot prohibit the sale of opium, you cannot prohibit people from smoking it; if you say that only officers and soldiers are prohibited, don’t you know that officers and soldiers come from civilians? Most importantly, knowing that opium is a poisonous thing, but allowing it to be popular, how can such a political system come from such a dignified dynasty?You are only doing this for silver, our Huaxia dynasty, for billions of years, when will we only value silver and ignore the people?

In short: "The poison of opium causes little harm to wealth, but great harm to the people. The people are the foundation of the country, and the wealth comes from the people-the poverty of the people can still be changed, and the people's weakness is incurable!" In the end, these impassioned defenders held their heads high and refuted Xu Naiji's point of view fundamentally: the stricter the smoking ban, the greater the harm, it is pure nonsense! ——You said that the more banned the more bribes, the worse the officialdom, and the more banned opium, the more it is just a matter of discipline.We don't believe it anymore: in the great dynasty, can't we choose a few clean and capable officials, so we can't control this little opium? ! ——What is your intention, Xu Naiji?Did he collude with profiteers and prepare to make a fortune in opium? The hearty memorial besieged the poor Xu Naiji to the point of utter dismay.Daoguang, who was lucky at first, also sweated secretly—no matter how poor he was, no matter how much he thought about money, he couldn’t ignore the moral issues behind the ban—that’s why he didn’t make arbitrary decisions at that time, but handed over the papers to others. The reason for the minister's discussion. For the Chinese dynasties based on Confucian benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and filial piety, as soon as the banner of morality is raised, any remarks that oppose it will immediately become pale, ridiculous, even sinister and despicable.The wind direction immediately turned 360 degrees, and the whole court and the whole world launched a criticism of Xu's views. Even the Guangdong side, which had agreed with Xu Naiji's proposal, turned around and corrected tactfully: "If you try hard to ban it for three years, it will be useless by then. It is not too late to consider other approaches." Over the next two years, the chanting of the Prohibition Theory became louder and louder, and the tune became louder and louder. Many people even beat their chests and screamed hysterically: Anyone who smokes again will be killed if caught!Neighbors are not strictly supervised, and you have to even sit! Well, don't try another way.Daoguang sighed softly, he knew very well that there was nothing he and his celestial dynasty could do.He rubbed his temples, flipping through the list of ministers and workers and their memorials over and over again.Finally—it was him—Daoguang tapped a name gently with his fingers: "Decree to call Lin Zexu, governor of Huguang, to Beijing!" Of course, he did not forget to give justice to the people in the world who were filled with righteous indignation: Xu Naiji, who talked absurdly, was demoted to the top rank of the sixth rank, and at the same time ordered to be an official - go home and hide and reflect! The next year, 1839, Xu Naiji died in panic. The history of the Qing Empire progressed along the track chosen by the monarch and his ministers. In the early morning of January 8, 1839, the Anding Gate in Beijing slowly opened. Amidst the sound of drums, many officials, relatives and friends watched a large sedan chair carried by eight people set off southward in the cold wind.The destination is the strange and distant Guangzhou. The bearers should not be very strenuous, Mr. Lin, who is not tall, really can't be regarded as a heavy burden.But if they can feel the mood of the imperial envoy at the moment, they will immediately feel that the sedan chair has become as heavy as Mount Tai. In the sedan chair, Lin Zexu's face was full of solemnity: he knew that the fate of the entire nation was on his shoulders. Along the way, he murmured from time to time the two words of Zheng Zichan in the Spring and Autumn Period: "Gou benefit the community, and life and death depend on it." No one wants to accept it, but it is a fact.The efforts started by Lin Zexu were exchanged for a bloody and cold "Nanjing Treaty". The Treaty of Nanking was only the beginning.The shame of being overwhelmed afterwards may have made Daoguang and his descendants forget Xu Naiji long ago. Decades later, Guo Songtao, the first batch of diplomats and the first minister to the UK, learned from the painful experience. When he looked back at this official case, he couldn’t help sighing with emotion: “If I could use Xu Naiji’s words back then, our Qing Dynasty might not have come to this point... " In good conscience, Xu Naiji's memorial required far greater courage than Zhu Zun, Xu Qiu, and Yuan Yulin.He has also come from the officialdom for many years, and he knows what this somewhat deviant note will bring him.There should be only one explanation for an idle minister who can completely carefreely take such a job at the risk of ruining his reputation: his sense of responsibility and the facts he saw forced him to do so. The reality he saw was that it was impossible to block the outside world, and it was impossible to stop the inside. This is a desperate situation. The ban on smoking did not start with Daoguang.As far back as the Yongzheng period, the imperial court keenly felt the threat of this mysterious black soil and issued a ban on smoking.Qianlong and Jiaqing were more strict than others, and Daoguang almost became the emperor who banned smoking.However, what is the effect of smoking ban for more than a hundred years? In the seventh year of Yongzheng (1729), 200 boxes of opium were imported annually; In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong (1773), 1,000 boxes of opium were imported annually; ... By the fourteenth year of Daoguang (1834), this number had reached 21885 cases! I don't want to make a scandalous description of the busy and public opium smuggling in Lingdingyang, Guangzhou.Just want to state a few facts.Everyone knew the market at that time: a box of opium cost 400 yuan, of which 150 yuan was the toll to go ashore; before Lin Zexu, almost none of the officials in Guangzhou did not accept opium money. Deng Tingzhen was no exception; when news of envoy Lin Chin’s ban on smoking first spread to Macau, no opium dealers were alarmed. They just held a meeting to discuss it based on the experience of “the tighter the wind, the bigger the appetite” from years of dealing with Qing officials. "Is three hundred thousand taels enough" to deal with Lin Qin's mission... Zhu Zun and the others said it very simply, it was just a matter of discipline.That's right, it's just Tsunaki, but is it just the officials in Guangzhou who are greedy?Who doesn't know that thousands of miles away, the adults in Beijing stared fiercely at this easy-earned money like wolves, and couldn't bear to leave for a moment?Who dares you officials in Guangzhou not to be obedient and respectful?Unless you don't want to stay any longer - just throwing you a stumbling block is enough to make you lose your top hat. The silver dyed black by opium quickly flowed to every corner of every city in the Celestial Dynasty, even under the feet of the Son of Heaven, through the network of relationships woven by Guangzhou officials, together with the smoke of opium. In fact, the Qing Empire had already been obsessed with the poison of silver before the outbreak of the poison.Just say one thing.Daoguang wanted to change the trend, practice strict economy, and took the lead in wearing patched clothes. As a result, the patched clothes on the market were more expensive than the new ones. rudder.One day, Daoguang pointed to a minister's clothes and asked how much it cost to make the patch. After getting the answer, he sighed: "After all, it's cheaper outside - this patch costs five taels of silver!" The temptation of silver It made people disregard their lives, and even the emperor dared to scrape money unscrupulously. In such a situation, who has supernatural powers to rectify the discipline of the entire Celestial Dynasty, which has been corroded by silver? In such an officialdom, no matter how vigorous the ban on smoking is, it is just another name for corrupt officials to steal.Oh, and not just corrupt officials, but all officials who got or kept their positions on opium silver. Can you still hope that they will ban people from smoking-wouldn't that be self-defeating? What kind of etiquette, righteousness and shame, what kind of integrity, nothing can match the white money!What's more, a few slogans about rectifying Tsunaji? ——Isn’t the more banned the more bribes, the worse the officialdom, and the more banned opium? The records of a Western scholar have to make people doubt whether Lin Zexu’s smoking ban had the same effect on China as a whole at that time, regardless of moral factors. It can be said that it is almost as much as in any previous era, or even worse.” It is said that outside Guangzhou, many officials even took advantage of the drop in opium prices after the strict ban to buy and sell opium, and their profits doubled several times than usual. The more you understand the current situation, the more you will lose confidence in smoking ban.It can't be banned anyway, why not just face up to the reality and manage it openly, at least you can control it to some extent? More than two decades later, a Western thinker who has been grimly concerned about this criminal trade referred to Xu Naiji as "one of the most famous politicians in China". He is Marx. Marx called Xu Naiji "one of the most famous politicians in China" at that time, which should mean that he saw the corruption reality of the Qing court at that time more clearly than most people.However, Guo Songtao's emotion was that he regretted that the Daoguang emperor and ministers had missed an opportunity to avoid this disgraceful war.Perhaps many people would also think the same way: Yes, if they could use Xu Yan to produce opium by themselves, outsiders would have no profit, and naturally it would be boring, and they would go back to their hometown in desperation. Where did the entanglements and disputes come from? And look at today, the opium dealers who were somewhat secretive in those days simply swaggered and blatantly used warships to transport opium!Throughout the Qing Dynasty, who would dare to say no? Can it be said that Lin Zexu was ineffective in banning smoking?When the cigarettes were sold in Humen, didn’t even the few Americans who didn’t believe that the Qing government would burn a catty of opium and came to visit it be convinced?When I went back, I enthusiastically praised it in the newspaper: "Besides this, can we find better evidence to prove that the justice of paganism has defeated the corruption of Christianity?" Of course, as mentioned above, Lin Zexu's power can only be applied to a corner of the heaven - is there too little Lin Zexu in this world?How about a few more? As long as God bestows three or five more Lin Zexu, he will surely be able to sell cigarettes more cleanly and happily! It's natural to be happy, but what's the price?There is only one Lin Zexu, who only sells cigarettes in the country once, and the flames of war are ignited. The heavenly dynasty immediately fell from the clouds to the mud, and was trampled on mercilessly! However, if Xu Yan was used at that time, would it really be possible to avoid this war as Guo Songtao imagined? This, too, is just wishful thinking. When the world has developed into the era of capitalism, the British Empire, which is full of energy and vents on the earth, will never allow a market as large as China to hang high in the sky.Even if the sun never sets on the empire one day, the new powerful country will still want to tear China down and squeeze money from China's pockets. How far a businessman can go is how far he hopes to do business.When the adventurers wandering in the waves all the year round have gone through untold hardships and finally set foot on this country described by Marco Polo as a country full of gold, their excitement can be imagined—thank God for leaving us with such a vast land. Boundless treasure land!Listen to their wishful thinking: "If 400 million Chinese had their shirt hems an inch longer, our factories would be busy for decades!" "If the Chinese each used a nightcap, the factories in England would be too late to produce..." Some people even optimistically estimate that as long as some Chinese people learn to eat with a knife and fork, they will earn... Some people think that no matter how unique China is, music has no boundaries, so they naively transported hundreds of pianos across thousands of miles... I didn't find relevant records to record how many Western businessmen who have been in the business field for many years were beaten and bloody in front of the indifferent Qing Dynasty, but I suspect that it is normal to go bankrupt and commit suicide because of the long robes. Chinese people with long coats and pigtails seem to need nothing - knives, forks, nightcaps, pianos and so on are all waste: we have our own comfortable homespun cloth, flexible and convenient chopsticks, and even the melodious ancient zither flute and pipa. But the far west is increasingly inseparable from the magical leaves called "tea" produced in this ancient land, and the silk that has long been known.Then an embarrassing situation emerged: these businessmen who had left their homes all the way to catch up with them were actually sending money to the Qing Empire! From 1792 to 1807, Britain imported goods worth more than 27 million pounds from China, but only imported more than 16 million pounds.The British treasury feels a little empty, and we can't keep doing business at a loss. It was also a plant that reversed the situation: the poppy.Western businessmen finally found what Chinese people need most: happiness.That's right, happiness.What China lacks most is happiness.Especially for the people at the bottom of society, cheap opium is the only happiness they can consume.Under the dim oil lamp, I took a deep breath with the long bamboo tube, and the cloud and mist filled the room immediately brought the coolies of the world to the paradise of bliss.Of course, opium can not only forget worries, but also create a wonderful fairyland for the boring scholar-officials all day long. After all, compared with those thriving emerging empires, the old China lacks comfort and excitement too much.Aren’t you tired of: Prosperity, people’s suffering, death, people’s suffering, cycle after cycle; work at sunrise, rest at sunset, repeat day by day; a subset of classics and history that you can’t read, benevolence and morality that you can’t get close to, a lifetime The despair that cannot be changed by previous generations! As a result, these unattractive black soils gradually exerted a terrifying power: it is estimated that between 1800 and 1838 alone, 300 to 400 million silver dollars were looted in China for opium smuggling!The income from the opium trade once accounted for one-tenth of the entire British budget. Britain has become more and more dependent on this black wealth from the East. It is hard to imagine how much difficulty it will bring to Britain if China cuts off this thick vein of black blood. A well-mannered gentleman can only be found when he is full of food and wine, and his pockets are full; a man who is extremely hungry can do anything.Our ancestors had an old saying: "A man is innocent, but a woman is guilty." For a country that relies on commerce for a living, you have so much wealth, if you don't do business with me, and don't let me get rich, it is a sin!If you are guilty, you must be punished! The British are full of confidence, but also because they have long discovered that the so-called Celestial Dynasty is just a giant lion made of paper. In 1794, when Macartney, who shouldered the mission of negotiating with the Chinese Empire to exchange envoys and equal trade, was involuntarily planted with the banner of "tributary" when he returned home sadly, he wrote in his diary: "It seems that the Chinese army may not be available." ; his successor, Lord Lawrup, chief supervisor of trade in China, wrote to Palmerston, Foreign Secretary after being expelled by the Qing government: "Three or four clippers and brigs, plus some reliable British soldiers, can Winning is even easier than occupying an unnamed island in the West Indian Ocean Islands”; a missionary said: “A British frigate can defeat a thousand warships of the Chinese Navy”; The guns are weapons, let alone "fireworks"... enough!If the owner of huge wealth is seen through as weak and weak, sooner or later, the strong will compete for it.This kind of scramble occurs between two countries, which is war! The approach proposed by Xu Naiji may be able to temporarily ease the conflict and delay the conflict, but it will definitely not avoid this doomed war.The most convincing evidence is that when news of the ban on smoking in Guangzhou reached London, Lin Zexu was described in the newspapers as a big opium dealer who "owns thousands of acres of poppy plantations".Therefore, many people justly urged the government to use force against China to combat this unfair competition.From this, it can be inferred that if the Qing court really followed Xu Naiji's approach, these "barbarian people" would never be willing to go home honestly because "the benefits of opium are decreasing day by day, so that there is no profit to make". ". Opium is just an excuse.The Opium War should actually be called a "trade war." In fact, as early as the Qianlong period, when the Chinese government arrogantly asked the British special envoy who came to discuss trade to kneel down, the fuse of the war had already been buried quietly. Perhaps even earlier, it has to be counted from the day when China regarded open trade as a condescending "gift" to the barbarians... It takes time to find another excuse. For a dynasty, being able to temporarily ease the contradictions is meritorious service.For the Qing Dynasty, Xu Naiji's approach is reasonable, and it may indeed prolong the life of the regime.For the people who have experienced humiliation, if their own era can escape this catastrophe, they will definitely feel extremely lucky. But even if time is gained, will the Qing Dynasty foresee the future crisis and catch up?Certainly not.Even though it suffered years of humiliation, until the gunfire of the 1911 Revolution, the Qing government did not really see the general trend of the world. The so-called Westernization Movement, overseas inspections, preparations for constitutionalism, etc., were just pushed by the situation and had to The cutscenes were just one joke after another. Failure was inevitable. After Guo Songtao arrived in the UK, he finally saw it clearly. The sigh should be just a momentary sentimentality. What he did was: write his experience as an envoy into "Journey to the West", praised the Western political and religious system, and suggested that China follow suit.However, when he sent the book back to China, the Manchu scholar-bureaucrats considered him "colluding with foreigners" and asked him to be removed from his post for investigation. He was reprimanded by the Qing court and the manuscript was destroyed. In this land, for thousands of years, the monarchs and ministers of all dynasties have worked hard on how to centralize power and authorize.It is hoped that the first deep-rooted feudal dynasty in the world will abolish martial arts and turn to democracy, completely reform the political system, and move closer to the world trend. The difficulty is absolutely no less than letting him dig his own grave or seek skin from a tiger. Anyway, it will come sooner or later, it is better to come late than early.The Opium War, which is said to be a war between different centuries in the narratives of later generations, really hurts us.However, wars in different centuries are better than wars in different millennia!The sooner you find yourself falling behind in the fiasco, the easier it is to catch up; the sooner you get in touch with the ocean, the sooner the farmers who have worked hard in the fields for generations can learn to ride the waves. If Xu Naiji's method of compromise and concession is used to postpone the confrontation again and again, the longer the delay, the worse the defeat will be.To exaggerate a bit, such a result may even be that in a certain year, a farce-like war was broadcast live on global TV: a force equipped with a satellite positioning system and an infrared sight, only a few thousand people, three strikes and five strikes Two, it will solve the millions of Qing troops who still have greasy braids hanging down! ——If no one disturbs, the Celestial Dynasty, forgotten by time, may enjoy its own pleasure and sleep forever. In the 19th century, no one, whether Britain, France, or the United States and Russia, had enough national power to annex China, which was more than 10 million square kilometers.All they can do is blackmail and plunder as much as possible.But who can guarantee that in the 20th and 21st centuries, no country on the planet will be able to digest this extremely weak and dying power? —— Even at that time, didn’t the great powers put the partition of China on the agenda day by day? What's more, the price of delaying the war is the further sinking of the entire nation in the embrace of opium! "The people's poverty is changeable, and the people's weakness is hopeless!" Although Zhu Zun and Xu Qiu were too optimistic about the situation of the court, these words were absolutely true.If you continue to indulge yourself, maybe before the prelude to the war begins, the Chinese nation, exhausted and emaciated, will already be cut off from the forest of nations in the world. To the Qing Dynasty, Xu Naiji was a loyal minister; to the Chinese nation, Xu Naiji was against the current!Although he was kind enough to find a way out for the empire, even though he saw the truth of the empire—but he would not understand that the Qing Empire is not equal to the Chinese nation, and it is only a dynasty that cannot be cured, not the entire nation. In the face of backwardness, what the Chinese nation needs is not numbness or perfunctory, but severe pain.Only the severe pain can wake up the dream of thousands of years, and can see clearly in the shame: the Celestial Dynasty is not in the sky; the earth is not square; and China is not in the center of the world! In Humen, Lin Zexu, representing the Chinese nation, tore through the last thick curtain between the world and the world in a dignified and tragic way.From then on, the Celestial Dynasty returning to Earth will find its own coordinates in pain. Until the Eastern Sleeping Lion, who was stung, woke up completely. I have to look back even if I can't bear to look back. In July 1840, the British fleet led by Brigadier General Boehmer, seeking "compensation" for China's "aggressions" against British merchants, arrived at Dinghai, Zhejiang. On the evening of the 4th, the arrogant British invited their opponent, Yao Huaixiang, the magistrate of Dinghai County, to the battleship "Walesley" equipped with 74 cannons. They want to conquer Dinghai in the simplest and most humane way.They believe that as long as the opponent sees their own strength, it will disintegrate the fighting spirit of the defenders armed with bows, arrows, spears, large blades, and matchlock guns, so as to achieve what the ancient Chinese art of war says: "Surrender without fighting." After the translator took the trouble to introduce all kinds of the most advanced weapons in the world at that time on the warship, Yao Zhixian was sweating profusely and his face was pale. However, when Bomei proudly stroked his shiny mustache and asked him to give up unnecessary resistance, Yao Huaixiang, the official who defended the city two days later and committed suicide in the line of duty, straightened his clothes, straightened his chest, and answered each word slowly. : "Yes, I admit that our resistance is futile. But we still have to fight!"