Chapter 121 I am in reverse in Tianjin [seeking a monthly ticket]
"What a historic moment!"
"I really wish I had a camera to record this moment!"
"It is also good for future generations to see how the Manchu officials betrayed their country." Mu Ying sighed with a smile.
"Who are you?" Zeng Guofan's face darkened and he shouted angrily.
"Dragon and Tiger General Mu Ying of the Ming Dynasty!" Mu Ying stood up and introduced solemnly.
"People who are hypocritical!" Zeng Guofan's pupils shrank.
"Come here, capture this traitor!" He ordered the officers and soldiers behind him while retreating.
Today's officers and soldiers are no longer the same as they were a few years ago. Both muskets and artillery have been updated several times.
He knew that Puppet Ming had a powerful martial arts team in his hands, but in the face of foreign guns, no matter how powerful the martial arts team was, they would suffer.
However, upon hearing his order, not a single officer or soldier behind him moved.
Zeng Guofan turned back and looked at Tianjin Magistrate Zhang Guangzao and Tianjin Magistrate Liu Jie.
"grown ups!"
"We can no longer serve as officials in the Qing court!"
"We are not willing to bow down to foreigners, let alone endure it!" Liu Jie took off his hat as he spoke.
He tore off the braid on his head.
It was a fake braid, and he had already shaved off all his hair at some point.
Zhang Guangzao remained silent, but his movements were exactly the same as Liu Jie's.
Seeing the two men acting like this, Zeng Guofan felt his body go cold, and he smelled the smell of death.
"General Gaines, quickly, let your people escort us back to your battleship as soon as possible!"
"There is a rebellion here, and I must return to Peking as soon as possible to report to the Holy Emperor!" Zeng Guofan whispered to the Frenchman beside him with an eager face.
Although the Frenchman didn't understand what these people were saying, he also felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere. He didn't hesitate when he heard the words, turned around and left first.
"Boom!" At this moment, a sudden and violent roar of cannons suddenly sounded.
"This sound...!"
"Isn't it the Dagukou Fort that is firing?"
Zeng Guofan was shocked, and his heart sank uncontrollably again.
Now, what is cruising in the Bohai Bay is the combined fleet of France and Russia. The artillery fired at Dagu Port at this moment is likely to hit them.
"Could it be that Chen Guorui, the commander-in-chief of Tianjin, has also rebelled?"
Zeng Guofan's feet were nailed there as if they were filled with lead, and he could not move even a step.
If Dagukou also rebelled, it would mean that the civil and military officials of Tianjin had defected to the Puppet Ming Dynasty at the same time. In this case, he, the governor of Zhili who came here alone, would have no chance of survival.
Dagukou Fort a few minutes ago.
Chen Guorui, who was in charge of the defense of the fort position, received the news that the showdown had been carried out at the execution ground. He suddenly broke the hood on his head, cut off the braid on the back with a knife, and then he couldn't wait to operate a cannon himself.
"French drafters, I see how arrogant you are today!"
"Hit me, beat me hard!"
"I still don't believe it. The French fleet is made of copper and iron."
"I have endured it for more than ten years, and today I want to get rid of this bad breath!"
"Boom, boom, boom!" The Dagukou Fort, which had been silent for more than ten years, suddenly erupted with dazzling fire, and countless artillery shells shot out. The French and Russian fleets swimming in the Bohai Bay were caught off guard and were hit.
Upright.
"Oh, God!"
"Are these people in the Qing court crazy?"
"How dare they attack us!" Frenchman Larkin said with disbelief.
"The fleet retreats and strikes back!" Tsarist Russian General Stolov said in a deep voice.
To be honest, he was a little surprised at this moment.
He is really not afraid of the Qing court jumping over the wall. The Qing court is dancing more happily at the moment, and when they are defeated, the more things they need to compensate.
Tsarist Russia has long regarded the entire Northeast as its own, including the ice-free port of Qingdao. If they can occupy Qingdao, they will have an outlet to the sea in the Far East, and their naval fleet can go straight into the Pacific from here, competing with Britain and the United States for control of the entire Pacific.
right.
"boom!"
However, before they could adjust their angle and fire back at the Dagukou Fort, another huge fleet sailed into the Bohai Bay behind them.
And fired directly at them.
Chang Yuchun stood on the deck of the main ship "Hero" in high spirits, looking at the French and Russian combined fleets opposite.
"Tell them that they have invaded my Ming Dynasty's waters, and they are required to raise the white flag and surrender within one minute, otherwise my Ming Dynasty's Royal Navy will let them all go to see the King of Hell."
"Commander, I'm afraid the foreigners don't know what the King of Hell is?" one of the sailors under his command laughed.
"They'll find out one day!"
"Even if they don't know, we will fight until they know!"
"These Ming bastards!"
"Why are they there!"
"This is a matter between us and the Qing court. What reason do they have to interfere?"
"This is Tianjin, not Shanghai!" Larkin gritted his teeth.
"Surrender!"
"We have no second choice!" Tsarist Russian General Stolov sighed deeply and spoke decisively.
They came here today just for a cruise and demonstration, so there were only eight warships in total.
The Ming fleet on the opposite side was obviously well prepared, with forty or fifty warships lined up densely. Stolov felt that if the opponent really wanted to hit them, a single shelling attack would be able to take them all away.
The most critical point is that they were caught between the Dagukou Fort and the Ming Dynasty warships. Now they are blocked in the Bohai Bay, with no room for maneuver.
The French have always been at the forefront of the world in assessing the situation, so Larkin was already mentally contemplating surrender without Stolov's persuasion.
Now that the two of them are on the same page, surrender is a matter of course.
In less than a minute, one of the battleships on the opposite side raised a white flag, and soon all eight battleships did the same.
"Haha, I knew these gringos would be like this!"
On the Dagukou fort in the distance, Zeng Guofan and the foreigners were taken care of. Mu Ying, who rushed here, saw this scene with a telescope and burst into laughter.
"We agreed, don't even think about blaming us for ten thousand treasures!" Mu Ying turned to look at Lan Yu, who looked beside her with a depressed look.
"These gringos, what a bunch of cowards!"
"He surrendered without firing a single shot. I have never seen anything like this!"
"It's simply worse than the Beiyuan people!" Lan Yu gritted his teeth.
"Brother, the time you came here was too short!"
"You'll know if you stay here for a few more years!" Mu Ying patted Lan Yu's shoulder with a meaningful expression.
Earn 10,000 yuan in vain, today is a good day!
An hour later.
Chang Yuchun, Mu Ying and Lan Yu sat in the lobby of the Tianjin County Government Office.
"I heard that a major case occurred in Tianjin a few days ago. There was kidnapping and trafficking of children in a church set up by the French. Local people in Tianjin caught them and beat several foreign priests to death on the spot. Is this true?"
Chang Yuchun looked around.
At this moment, the county government office is full of people.
In addition to the French and Russians, there were also consuls from the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain and other countries invited by Chang Yuchun.
"Sir, whether this is the case or not remains to be investigated. What you say is a bit arbitrary!" Gaines, the captain of the French fleet, said in a deep voice.
"Besides, Tianjin is the land of the Qing court. You have no law enforcement rights. It seems inappropriate to sit here, right?"
"Haha, Mr. Zeng, the governor of Zhili, thinks so too?" Chang Yuchun turned to look at Zeng Guofan and asked with a smile.
"snort!"
"If you want to kill or behead me, you can do whatever you want. Why humiliate me!" Zeng Guofan closed his eyes directly.
Chang Yuchun laughed at the high profile shown by this person at this moment.
"Okay, I'll just tell you!"
Chang Yuchun looked at everyone in the lobby with a smile: "At the same time that my fleet entered the Bohai Bay, I, Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, had personally led an army of 300,000 people, heading north in three ways to attack the puppet regime of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. If I
The information is good, one of the armies should be fighting the Hunan Army of Mr. Zeng in Anhui at the moment."
"In less than a year, our army will be able to sweep the world and build a prosperous Ming Dynasty."
"Do you think I will still have law enforcement rights in Tianjin by then?" Chang Yuchun asked with a smile.
"Poof!" Zeng Guofan, who heard this below, suddenly spat out a mouthful of old blood, and a trace of fear flashed in his eyes.
If he said he was not afraid of Zhu Hongwu from the south, that would be an absolute lie.
In the past two years, the Hunan Army has been working hard, spending all its resources to purchase equipment, and even building its own arsenal. In the end, it was still too frightened of the Ming Dynasty regime in the south.
This regime purged the gentry class too thoroughly. Nearly 70% of the entire southern gentry class was killed by Zhu Hongwu.
And precisely because of this, he has complete control over that piece of land, as well as all the resources and food on it.
Zeng Guofan knew very well how powerful such a regime could unleash.
This is also the reason why although they have repelled the Taiping Army's attacks many times in the past two years, they have never dared to fight back to the south of the Yangtze River.
The behemoth entrenched in the south is too terrifying.
Zeng Guofan knew very well that the so-called fight back to Hunan was just a slogan. As long as they could hold on to half of the country in the north, they would be lucky.
But obviously the other party doesn't think so, the other party wants more.
Chang Yuchun ignored Zeng Guofan, whose face was as pale as paper. Instead, he looked at everyone below with a smile and said, "You guys, please tell me, can I still take care of this case now?"
No one spoke, because this case was just a trivial matter, and envoys from all countries were thinking about an extremely serious issue at this moment.
If the Ming Dynasty really unified China, then according to Zhu Hongwu's tough character, wouldn't their interests in China be completely lost?
This is something that all powerful countries cannot tolerate.
Especially Stolov of Tsarist Russia, most of their interests in China are in the north, especially the northeast. Zhu Hongwu had warned them before that they should not get involved in the northeast again.
But the Northeast is the next strategic direction of Tsarist Russia. How could it be possible to just give up?
"It seems that we need to go back as soon as possible to inform Moscow of the great changes in the Far East. Tsarist Russia must not just watch the Qing Dynasty be destroyed and replaced by a tyrant like Zhu Hongwu."