Chapter 109 The Boat Army Rebels from the Taiping Army
The next day, many new prisoners were locked up in the prison.
What surprised Yang Xuan was that these prisoners were arrogant, without anklets or bracelets, and did not even have symbolic hemp ropes.
The prisoners who are usually powerful and powerful are now nodding and bowing in front of these prisoners, just like grandsons.
This is really strange. From ancient times to the present, the prisoners have been all old men and prisoners have all grandchildren. Why did they turn around today?
While Yang Xuan was wondering, a middle-aged prisoner lived next to Yang Xuan. He shouted in front of the prison guards, sometimes he thought the house was dark, and sometimes he thought the bedding in the cell was dirty.
A prison guard was careful to apologize: "This man, the oil lamp and bedding are delivered to you immediately. We have poor conditions here, so you forgive me, and I will only have one night. Tomorrow, Lord Nietai will take a process and we will send you out of prison immediately."
The prisoner was furious and said, "A little Nitai dares to arrest us and teach the people. Now the foreign warship is still waiting outside the estuary of the Pearl River, and a Nitai dares to act wildly in front of the foreign masters."
"I suffered a lot of grievances today and moved into a prison cell. If you don't serve me carefully, be careful that I will tell Lord Yang tomorrow that Nietai will remove your errands and take your job!"
The jailer was bent on the side and smiled carefully, "Don't rest assured. There are many people in the militia outside, and they all have guns and sticks. You are wronged here for a night, so Lord Nietai can also report to the militia. Those militia are lawless, why do you have to see them as much as you know?"
The prisoner snorted and said, "The militia are all silver-shaped gun tips. They dare to go against the foreign master, and they are simply impatient to live. Nietai is not a good person, so they are accomplices of the tiger. Go back and tell him not to think that he has the militia, so he dares to challenge the foreign master!"
The prisoner was still cursing, and the jailer no longer dared to answer.
Later generations all said that the Qing Dynasty was closed to the country, but it was not the case. Since the early Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty has been opening up Guangzhou, and the two people in Xiamen have traded abroad. Later, the Qing Dynasty closed the Xiamen port, leaving only one place in Guangzhou to trade abroad.
Guangzhou is a trading port, and foreigners are not allowed to enter the city, so they have to trade with thirteen merchants outside the city. This is the famous "Thirteen Businesses in Guangzhou" in history.
With its trade monopoly position, Guangzhou became the richest place in China, and the Thirteen-Strait merchants also made a lot of money.
After the First Opium War, the Qing Dynasty was forced to open five ports for trade. Since then, Guangzhou has lost its trade monopoly position and the city's prosperity has plummeted.
According to the Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing and the Five Ports Trade Constitution signed after the war, foreigners have the right to enter Guangzhou City and rent a house to live, do business and preach.
Foreigners showed off their power and their power once overshadowed the Guangzhou government. Many missionaries also mingled into Guangzhou City and actively carried out missionary work. Some illegal people took the opportunity to join the church and took advantage of the foreigners' power to do evil.
For example, Hong Xiu failed in the imperial examination and founded the God Worship Society. The basic teachings of the God Worship Society came from the Christian pamphlet he accidentally obtained during his examination in Guangzhou.
Later, Hong Xiuquan went to Guangzhou in person to worship the missionary Luo Xiaoquan, and carefully studied Christian doctrines.
When the people enter the church, they receive the protection of the church, which is called the church. When the church commits crimes, the church often comes forward to help, and the government dares not investigate it in depth.
Now, these religious people have entered prison, but they speak wildly and do not take the government seriously at all.
Seeing this, Yang Xuan was determined to stimulate the prisoner next door and asked:
"This brother, I heard that the current governor of Guangdong and Guangxi is Xu Guangjin. Lord Xu is Lin Zexu's admirer. He has a very tough attitude and organized a militia of hundreds of thousands. No matter how powerful the foreign master is, he is only a few thousand people. How can he compete with the 100,000 militia?"
When the priest heard this, he suddenly became excited and said, "Hey, I said you are really not up to the Tao. Although the foreign masters have few people, they have strong ships and powerful cannons. Although the militia is large, they are all mobs. With the mobs and powerful cannons, do you think Lord Xu has a chance of winning?
"I think Lord Xu is probably trying to gain fame and take the opportunity to seek credit from the emperor. If he dares to go to war with the foreigners, the sun will come out from the west. I will have to walk around when I pass by the Governor's Office."
This religious citizen has been imprisoned and is still so arrogant that even the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi do not take it seriously.
Watching a leaf will make you realize autumn.
An ordinary religious citizen, who relied on being protected by foreigners, dared to speak wildly. The Qing Dynasty officials were incompetent and the people had no national concept. It is not difficult to see from this that the Qing Dynasty had already shown signs of destruction.
Yang Xuan intentionally defeated the might of the pride of the priest of the people and said:
"This big brother, you can't say that. No matter what, we are also Chinese. No matter how good the foreign master is, he is still a barbarian. No matter how powerful the foreign master is, he can't even enter Guangzhou City without him?
"The militia group has a lot of people and the power is weak. The foreign master cannot enter the city outside the city. If you do whatever you want in the city, if you get angry with the militia group, will you still suffer the loss then?"
The priest was furious and scolded, "Hey, what are you talking nonsense? We joined the foreign religion to abandon evil and do good, not to cling to foreign masters. The court did not keep its trustworthy and agreed to let foreign masters enter the city, but had no whereabouts yet.
"Now the foreign government is at the city, just to urge the court to implement the treaty, and there is no other intention. The Governor-General invites the militia to gather the militia without authorization, causing internal and external affairs in Guangzhou to deteriorate public security. In other words, the government always does too much evil. What does the foreign government do? What does the foreign government teach the people?"
After the First Opium War, the merchants of Guangzhou Thirteen-Trades lost their trade monopoly, their interests were greatly damaged, and they became the most determined group of haters and heroes. Guangdong gentry also unforgettable to the war and firmly opposed the entry of foreigners into the city.
Many years have passed since the war, and foreigners have never been able to enter Guangzhou. In the eyes of foreigners, this is because the Chinese do not abide by the treaty. In the eyes of Chinese, it is because foreigners invade first.
In 1847, then British Minister De Bi Shi led the British army to break through the Humen Fortress, and the troops were at the city of Guangzhou, demanding that the Qing Dynasty abide by the treaty and open up Guangzhou. The then governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was the "expert" of the Qing Dynasty's Westernization Affairs.
Qiying knew that Emperor Daoguang was old and wanted to embellish the peace, so he tried his best to appease Debi and promised to allow foreigners to enter the city two years later.
Now, two years have passed, and foreigners are clamoring to enter the city. The religious people in the city have also begun to use the power of foreigners to act illegally.
The current governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was replaced by Xu Guangjin, the main war faction. Xu Guangjin was unwilling to surrender and mobilized the people to form a militia, that is, the group trained armed forces, trying to use this to fight against foreigners.
A few days ago, the eccles and the militias clashed with the militias. The government arrested a group of eccles and civilians on the grounds of violating public order.
Seeing the sectarian saying a lot, Yang Xuan sneered and said, "Don't worry, I just advised you with kind words, worried that your elder brother would misconceive foreigners and would suffer a loss in the future."
The priest was still cursing, and Yang Xuan was too lazy to pay attention to him.
After a while, the prison guard brought a candle and illuminated the cell. The priest saw that Yang Xuan's cell was relatively clean, so he deliberately caused trouble and wanted to change rooms with Yang Xuan.
The prison guard did not dare to offend him, so he had to beg Yang Xuan to agree. Yang Xuan was about to have an affair, but he thought that he was Zhao Yonghou and was inconvenient to cause trouble again, so he endured it and exchanged a cell with the priest.
Yang Xuan's bedding was also occupied by the priests, so it was not necessary to say that. It was the first month of the year and the prison was very cold. Yang Xuan thought the bedding in the cell was too dirty and could not sleep well all night.
Early the next morning, the prison guard indeed let the priests go away. Yang Xuan saw it clearly. The priest even gave the priest a string of copper coins, saying that he was entrusted by Lord Nietai and asked the people to take care of him and not to spread rumors in front of foreigners.
Yang Xuan was filled with emotion and was even more disappointed with the government.
In the evening, Yang Tian went to prison in a panic. As soon as he met, he said with a sad face: "Young Master... Young Master, something is wrong. Old Master... Master, he... he..."
Seeing Yang Tian and two lines of tears flowing down, Yang Xuan felt bad and shouted, "Why are you panicking? Tell me slowly, what's wrong with the master?"
Yang Tian sobbed and said, "Old... the master is dead!"
My father died? Yang Xuan was shocked and asked hurriedly: "What's going on? How did the master die?"
Yang Tian stuttered and talked for a long time before he explained the matter clearly.
It turned out that the confrontation between the religious and militia groups in Guangzhou City has intensified in recent days, and armed fighting has occurred frequently. Yang Guozuo was a military officer and had to beg the governor to let Yang Xuan go, so he intended to show off in front of the governor and lead the militia group to suppress the religious and civilian groups.
However, foreigners outside the city helped many muskets and fire bullets to the religious people. At noon, the religious people fought again with the militia. The religious people used muskets to kill the militia, and then used fire bullets to attack the barracks of the regiment training bureau.
Yang Guozuo was old and could not hide, so he was burned to death by the fire, and even the capital could not be found!
Yang Xuan heard about the whole story and was so angry that his blood was thriving. He taught the people too much and the government was incompetent. How could he get revenge for his revenge for killing his father?
He was the descendant of Yang Zhongwuhou, and was imprisoned for participating in the Tiandihui. He was entrusted to Huizhou Prison as a first-ranked Guangdong Admiral.
The priests relied on being protected by foreigners. After committing crimes, the government not only did not dare to inquire, but also had to give them money.
What kind of world is this?
Now that Guangzhou is in chaos inside and outside, when will it be able to move to Huizhou?
My father's body is gone, when will he be revenged?
Yang Xuan felt sad from his heart. He pondered for a long time, and finally said viciously: "Yang Tian, if you go to the prison temple to find the prison head, you will say 'The surname Yang is looking for Lao Wang'."
Chapter completed!