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Since the Han Dynasty, China's dynasties have always followed the nine-pin eighteen-level system, and the Qing Dynasty is no exception. Among the nine pin officials, the number of yipin officials is the highest level, and the welfare benefits enjoyed are also very high. However, in the late Qing Dynasty, because of the influence of the Opium War, there was a yipin officer who suffered a great shame and humiliation in his life at the end of the official period, he was ye Mingchen, an official of the Qing Dynasty.
Ye Mingchen (Web Photo)
Ye Mingchen, originally a Yipin official during the Xianfeng period, had entered high school at the age of twenty-eight and ascended to the throne of Guangdong at the age of thirty-nine. At that time, when the Opium War was over, China signed the Treaty of Nanking, which humiliated the country. In order to safeguard the rights and interests of the Qing government, Ye Mingchen did everything possible to negotiate with the British government, on the one hand to play Tai Chi to the British, on the other hand to plan the Guangdong people to protest and exert pressure, but also carefully studied the loopholes in the "Treaty of Nanking" and stifled the British back word by word. Such a heroic Ye Mingchen should have been passed down through the ages, but no one would have thought that in his later years, he was defeated because of the betrayal of the traitors, and even became a prisoner.
Treaty of Nanking (Online Photo)
At the end of 1857, the Anglo-French coalition attacked Guangzhou, saw Zhang Tongyun struggling to lead the way, resulting in the defeat of Guangdong, the British and French troops arrested Ye Mingchen, and also stuffed him into the British warship "Dreadnought" and escorted him to India. It is precisely because it was the Qing government at that time and the traitors who tried their best to defame his image, and there are rumors that he was locked up in a glass cage like a monkey and earned enough money for the British.
But is this really the case? British historical materials give another truth: Ye Mingchen has been strong on the way to escort, never complained, in order to see the British Empress angry at the British government, he is even more sick and clenched his teeth, but when he knew that his wish was disappointed, he resolutely chose to go on hunger strike, until he died.
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