In July, Yang Fuqing surrounded Chao County, Bao returned to the army from Sanhe Town for support three times, but the encirclement of Taiping Army was not broken. In July, Wang Haiyang’s 100,000 troops surrounded Yangzhou from Guazhou North, and at the same time, they divided their troops to Yizheng and * * and opened a large Jiangbei base. Obviously, Wang Haiyang, the princes, were very concerned about expanding their sphere of influence.
As for the fierce battle between the Taiping Army and the Qing Army, they communicated too much with the envoys of Britain and France, and announced that they would remain neutral in this incident. They also hoped that all countries would not intervene forcibly to complicate the issue. Britain and France expressed the hope that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Manchu War would not affect the normal trade between the two countries in the sea.
During the Taiping Rebel’s attack on the sea, the Great Mediator made a pledge to mediate the neutrality of the sea, ensuring that neither side could let the sea fall into war, and that it would be responsible for protecting the city when necessary, while the British law should remain neutral during the war.
In fact, the University is responsible for the supervision and protection of the neutrality of the military forces of the mountains, seas, Britain and France, so that the two countries did not take the opportunity to intervene and dispatched two 10,000-ton armored ships in the North Sea, a fleet of ten large warships, and stationed in the six mouths on the other side of the Bund.
In order to let foreigners connect with Haixian County, Li Xiucheng generously leased a large piece of land in Pudong to Dazheng, and six families on the Bund were selected by the big navy to build it at the naval base. It can be seen that Li Xiucheng also attaches great importance to whether foreigners can remain neutral. Although he doesn’t care about fighting foreigners, he has always had an idea that foreigners are very good at water, even if most of them have to let them score three points.
In the mixed fleet composed of big armored ships and armored wooden ships, the foreigners really maintained a considerable degree of control. Britain sent a steamboat to cruise the Yangtze River to protect the ships, and the French fleet was directly on the Bund. After they lost the concession, they had no fixed base in the sea, and most French businessmen also entered the British and American public concessions to do business. Frankly speaking, they were not very interested in the war, mainly to prevent the French from taking the opportunity to find back the past and lose their interests.
But the French didn’t make trouble at sea, but they chose to make trouble in the south and Vietnam.
In September, when fierce fighting continued along the Yangtze River, France asked Vietnam to allow them to sail freely on the Red River, but the Vietnamese court refused. France asked businessman Jean Dubuy to hire people to enter the Red River privately in an attempt to find a passage to China and Yunnan.
Jean Dubuy’s people were shelled by the Vietnamese government in the Red River, causing many injuries. After that, the French colonial government sent General Francis garnier to the north to mediate with mediation. Of course, this Francis garnier is the so-called Red River channel in the West.
In 166, he formed a huge investigation team and led a team from the Mekong River basin to China, Yunnan and Sichuan, and then arrived in the sea along the Yangtze River Hankou in June 16. After two years of investigation, he submitted a report to the colonial government proving that the Mekong River was not navigable and pointed out that the Yunnan-Vietnam trade route should be the Red River.
His contribution to this survey was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Geographical Society in 17o, and his report also aroused the French interest in the Red River. If the Franco-Prussian War had not exploded, France would have expanded in the Red River.
It is worth noting that this Francis garnier is the one in the history of China. Later, An Ye was killed by the Black Flag Army led by Liu Yongfu at the border between and Vietnam.
Section five hundred and seventy-two eventful autumn
Or in September, the speculative wave in the new york market in the United States suddenly collapsed. The railway bond financing is famous. Jay Cook Bank suddenly declared bankruptcy because it held too many railway bonds.
The bankruptcy of the largest private bank in the United States, which grew up from the American Civil War, dealt a great blow to the mood of the American financial market. In an instant, the American market fell into a panic selling wave, and the hot railway stocks and bonds suddenly became popular. A large number of railway companies and banks were in a panic in the bankruptcy market.
Although the economic crisis was fixed at the Vienna bond exchange on May 9, when the stock depreciated by several hundred million rupiah in 24 hours, the crisis of the Vienna exchange quickly spread to other European exchanges.
Finally, the European countries stopped exporting American capital, which led the Bank of new york in the United States to stop allocating funds to railway companies and industries. This led to the bankruptcy of Jay Cook Financial Company, which owned a large number of bonds in the North Pacific Railway, on September 1, which ignited the flame of the American financial crisis.
However, we feel that this economic crisis mainly came from the United States, because Britain, the largest trading country, was not involved in this emergency crisis. It took five years for the British economic crisis to explode in the second trading country of the United States, which really affected the export of modern industries with a small number.
In just one month, a large number of American firms defaulted, which dragged down the bankruptcy of a large number of big businessmen, the collapse of banks and the incident of "one south and one north". Chunjiang Plumbing Duck Prophet newspaper introduced all kinds of economic crisis information for the first time. For the first time, ordinary people knew that there was a term that made those who were enthusiastic about promoting modern industry and semi-hanging culture white for the first time.
Compared with the Taiping rebels’ Northern Expedition, the government is obviously more concerned about the French invading the Red River basin. This river is not recognized by westerners. Even the value of this waterway is now that it is a Sino-Vietnamese unified commercial road.
Even the French saw the China merchant sailboat in the Red River to confirm that the river could be navigable and killed Anye Black Flag Army. In fact, it was through the collection of passing ships to pass through.
The involvement of the French in this waterway is a violation of the interests of big businessmen, but it is obviously impossible for a gentry official like Chen Zhiting to take care of the interests of businessmen. He is mainly worried that the French will retaliate because he has seized the French concession. The big officials are always worried that the French will find trouble sooner or later.
After the Franco-Prussian War, the French compensation has not been paid off. Obviously, they are unable to compete with Chen Zhiting and others, which is obviously worrying.
As a result, Zhu Jinglun told them that it was best not to take the initiative in this matter and not to interfere in the conflict between France and Vietnam unless one of them asked for mediation. Zhu Jinglun hoped that the Vietnamese pressure in France would be put into the big arms, but he didn’t know for what purpose the Vietnamese invaded France in recent years. According to the news from the Vietnamese court, Vietnamese officials were worried that driving the wolf into the room would lead to a greater threat to their northern neighbors than to the sea
The Vietnamese refused to bow their heads and said that they were not at the end of the road and nature could not make moves.
So I also sent a note to France and Vietnam, expressing the hope that the two countries will exercise restraint and that the dispute between the two countries will not affect the interests of Vietnam, and will remain neutral in the dispute between the two countries without touching the big interests.
After the declaration of great neutrality, the French people’s worries were greatly dispelled. What they were most worried about before was the sudden intervention of the big eastern powers.
Now, they put their hands on it, took more than 100 soldiers, forcibly captured the largest city of the Red River and the former capital of Vietnam, and then clashed head-on with the Vietnamese government.
After Anye successively captured Haiyang and some other towns and fortresses near the Red River Delta, he led the fleet to the border of Guangxi and Vietnam, and colluded with the peasant armed forces "Yellow Flag Army" on the border of Guangxi and Vietnam to wreak havoc.
At this time, Vietnam was worse than Manchu Dynasty. An Ye took more than a hundred expeditions to attack the river, not to mention humiliating the Vietnamese. An Ye recruited a 140,000-strong Vietnamese puppet army in Heshuqi only three days later, and then took control of most important towns in northern Vietnam in the Red River Delta area.
The local people in Vietnam, like the China people, have learned that the people’s resistance movement is generally the same. Instead of fighting the regular French invaders, they burned the pro-French Christian towns and looted the French merchant ships. After the Vietnamese government ended up unable to cope with the French aggression, just 20 years ago, the so-called Emperor Junming laughed at Lin Zexu for being unfavorable to foreigners. In the end, the Vietnamese performed worse than Lin Zexu.
After the Vietnamese government resisted by its own law, they did not choose to turn to the big government. Instead, as in history, they recruited China farmers to arm the Black Flag Army along the border between Guangxi and Vietnam.
It was this black flag army that once ravaged the western part of Guangdong. The peasant army first attacked Liu Yongfu after the Qing army, and led this army all the way to the border Shengbao (Old Street) to control the Red River channel and collect crossings from businessmen.
The conditions offered by the Vietnamese are attractive because the Vietnamese promised to hand over several counties in the border area to the Black Flag Army. Liu Yongfu did not hesitate to lead thousands of Black Flag Army to help the Vietnamese government suppress the Yellow Flag Army with the peasant army.
Playing the Black Flag Army is not an opponent, and the Chinese obviously can’t beat it, but it’s easy for the Chinese to recruit Vietnamese puppet troops. It’s no different to ambush in the river by dividing by three by five, killing and wounding Vietnamese Ukrainian Union and shooting back the French leader An Ye.
This time, the French sent a regular army officer, Flaster, to lead the French colonial regular army to the north. Before the war, France really moved, which can be regarded as an Ye, an explorer’s personal trip. This time, the French sent troops on the grounds that the people in northern Vietnam wantonly smashed churches and killed believers. He sent troops under the banner of protecting religion, which was criticized by westerners. Therefore, this is a just military action in the West that caused all these things. It is enough for the Vietnamese people to shirk their ignorance and explain it to the people of the country.
Dazhong emphasizes his own interests in the region, but this is not just a business problem of one or two businessmen, but a big problem.
Because Vietnam has become increasingly dependent on ore from Vietnam, Hongji coal should now not only monopolize the big market, but also be trafficked to various ports by big businessmen. Now the coal added is already this coal mine. Although the French are very greedy and followed by several coal mines in Hongji, there is no way to compete with the big businessmen who have the first advantage. Even if they extract coal, they actually sell it through big businessmen.
Although the Taiyuan iron mine in Vietnam can be mined very little at present due to traffic reasons, it should still be 100,000 tons per year, accounting for one-third of the imported iron ore. Moreover, although these Vietnamese iron ores also contain phosphorus and sulfur, they are allowed to be smelted according to the standards. Although weapons can be obtained, there is no problem in shipbuilding.
At present, these iron ores are based on the exclusive interests of big businessmen and local Vietnamese businessmen. Most of their local mines are mined by indigenous methods, and then they are transported by ox carts and boats to ports along the Red River, then loaded into big ships and transported to Guangdong, and finally into the smelting furnace of the arsenal.
For Taiyuan Iron Mine, the French are even more greedy, especially the industrial giant Schneider Company, which invests in steel mills and machinery factories in the great border. They are eager to take advantage of these iron mines. Naitaiyuan Iron Mine is too scattered and there is no modern means of transportation to help them finally get the raw materials here. Up to now, Schneider Iron Mine has mainly been imported from France, causing the prices of steel and machinery and equipment they produce to be much higher than the market prices. If it were not for its strong power, it would have closed down.
Squire bureaucrats like Chen Zhiting may not care much about the interests of businessmen, but they can’t care less about the source of raw materials in arsenals. They are also slowly changing their minds, and they are not so indifferent to business and industry, so they are naturally interested in these raw materials.
Just when there was a dispute between the French and Vietnamese in the Red River basin, Chen Zhiting repeatedly asked the navy to send warships to the neighboring areas to escort and ensure the transportation of coal, especially steel and ore.
However, at the official level, it was the most drastic measure to maintain restraint and finally adhere to its neutrality and send warships deep into the Red River to escort. Besides, there was no military action and there seemed to be no military action plan.