Iribu, surnamed Ai Xinjueluo, was born with a yellow flag and served as the governor of Yungui, known as a noh vassal. During the Opium War, the British occupied Dinghai City, and the Daoguang Emperor thought about it and decided to use this man as the governor of Liangjiang to solve the thorny problem.
In the face of this once-in-thousand-year-old change, Nengchen also scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks and couldn't think of a way, but fortunately, he had a domestic servant who stepped forward at this time. This domestic servant's name is Hua An!
Well? Let's go!
Oh yes!
This domestic servant's name is Zhang Xi.
Zhang Xi, a native of Tianjin, served as a long-term attendant under Iribu. The so-called long follower is a way out for those who are hopeless in the field. In fact, it is to turn to high-ranking officials, and those who can withstand high are "masters", and those who are younger and younger can do some errands are "long follower". Of course, people like Hua An are even lower—selling themselves into slavery.
Zhang Xi, not high or low, is a long follow.
Iribu went to Liangjiang to receive the Holy Will, and the Daoguang Emperor wanted him to recover Dinghai at all costs.
However, when he arrived in the local area, Iribu discovered that the red-haired Yingyi's strong ship and cannon were really powerful, how could this be good?
Thanks to Iribu Hongfuqitian, the pie fell from the sky, and it turned out that the Qing army captured the British captain Antud and eight other Indian soldiers, and also captured 29 crew members of the wrecked British transport ship.
To this end, the British army specially sent a note to the Qing government: asking for the release of people, otherwise war will start.
At the same time, Iribu also listened to the British translator's words that "we don't necessarily have to fix the sea."
Ah, there are goods in hand, no worries about no business to do!
Iribu seized the opportunity and decided to trade hostages for Haicheng.
But Iribu was a sage reader, or a member of the imperial court, how could he be in danger and negotiate with the barbarians, so he summoned Chang Sui Zhang Xi and rewarded him with a six-pin top, so and so, so and so, so and so, you look at it.
Zhang Xi had the wind bones of the Warring States Gatekeepers, laughing at the sky and going out, the wind xiao Xiao was cold in the East China Sea.
Don't you say that Zhang Xi's first time going to the sea to negotiate, there is really some sense of Xiao Suo who is not outside the degree of life and death, and Qianzong, who is traveling with him, is scared by this monstrous wave and his legs and stomach are shivering - is this not the Qing Dynasty version of Qin Wuyang?
However, Zhang Xi did not have any fear, but instead criticized: "For the officials to be loyal to the country, how sorry to die!" "I feel that this is to negotiate, and it is clear that it is to stab Qin!"
Waiting for the boat, The Ying Chief Yilu took out a black bottle, poured a cup of red and purple liquid and handed it to Zhang Xi, Zhang Xi was not afraid, took it, no ambiguity, no matter whether you are poison or medicinal wine, drink it all. The British chieftain laughed. Shout:
"Pain, I rarely see you!"
So, I started to sit down and negotiate.
The process was slightly repetitive, but in the end the two sides complied with the agreement and exchanged prisoners of war (hostages) for Dinghai City.
In the process of negotiation with the British, Zhang Xi not only did not feel afraid, but felt quite respected by the other side, which Zhang Xi had never felt.
When he first boarded the ship, he was treated like a most honored guest.
During the meal, he sat in the center, and the British chieftain accompanied him on both sides.
When he slept, he also slept in a cabin with the British chief, and slept on the bed. This is something that I can't think of around Iribu, and around Iribu, Zhang Xi only has to stand and wait, and if he is given a seat, he will have to sit obliquely.
Zhang Xi felt very comfortable with these red-haired ghosts, and the other party seemed to be barbaric, but very polite, as long as what you said was reasonable, they would approve.
At the same time, on the other side's ship, Zhang Xi also really saw the strength of the Yingyijian ship's sharp cannon, so when he returned, he very carefully reminded Iribu of the importance of "a soldier who yields without fighting" and can not fight without fighting.
The Dinghai problem was successfully resolved, and Iribu, who was very happy, wrote to the Daoguang Emperor, of course, mainly saying that the emperor was mighty and the enemy chieftain surrendered to the city. However, in China, many Chaoyang officials who made reports and whistleblowed after the fact, reported that Yiburi and Yingyi were in cahoots, calling them brothers and brothers, and privately accepting each other.
As a result, Iribu was deposed and demoted to Zhangjiakou to drink the northwest wind, and Zhang Xi no longer mixed with negotiations, and was also taken into custody to ask about corruption and bribery.
The successor governor of Liangjiang held that "if the army is not victorious, its crime is light; if it does not move, its crime is serious." Political correctness and heroism were tough, and as a result, they were defeated and lost, and not only did Dinghai fall again, but zhenhai was also lost. And because the "Treaty of Nose-piercing Grass" signed by the Minister of Chincha Qishan and the British was rejected by the imperial court, the British fleet fought all the way from south to north to Nanjing.
Only then did the Daoguang Emperor remember Iribu and his chief servant Zhang Xi. However, the emperor's face could not be lost, and he only said that he served in the Chincha minister Qi Ying.
However, by the time Iribu's master and servant returned to Nanjing, the situation was out of control, and the British fleet had captured Zhenjiang and was erecting cannons directly opposite the city of Nanjing.
At this time, Zhang Xi, who was temporarily wearing the top of the five pins, did not have much feeling of promotion, but only for the people in the city. So he quickly contacted the British and began negotiations.
Before the negotiation, to say a small episode, this time Iribu revived, Zhang Xi once suggested to the master that the truth of the front line be reported to the emperor when he was facing the saint, and he was like other officials, reporting good news but not worrying, always thinking about how to fool the emperor, only by letting the emperor know the real situation could he get the emperor's understanding. But unfortunately, the Daoguang Emperor felt sorry for Iribu and did not summon him at all.
This casts a shadow over the negotiations.
On August 8, 1842, Zhang Xi stepped on the ship again, and the first round was the so-called "full power" of the negotiators--the British side proposed that the representatives with full powers who came to negotiate must have full powers, and they had already tasted the Chinese perfunctory, so they must find a person to negotiate.
However, the Minister of Chincha, Qi Ying, did not understand what a "minister plenipotentiary" was, and regarded the English letter submitted by the British as a spell full of tadpole script.
Fortunately, Zhang Xi took the emperor's holy will to "Chincha act cheaply" to talk about things, and interpreted "cheap action" as "discretionary entrustment", and finally took over the first trick perfectly.
In fact, Zhang Xi has very little room to negotiate, and can only carry out arduous negotiations on the amount of indemnity.
Initially, the British offered to pay 30 million silver dollars (Note: the amount of compensation in the Treaty of Nanjing was silver dollars instead of the later silver two), and Zhang Xilen was reasonable with them, and finally the British agreed to see the face of their old friend Iribu to 21 million yuan.
This counts as a win for the second round.
But on the matter of reparations, from Chincha, to Iribu, down to the governor of Liangjiang, none of them dared to make a decision, and the British saw the situation and immediately wanted to open fire, or Zhang Xi stood up and said: When the two countries negotiate, if anyone threatens to fire at every turn, if you really dare to fire, Lord Iribu and I will really dare to go up to the city tower to defend the city of Nanjing, and then the jade will be burned.
The British were suddenly intimidated, thinking that Iribu and Zhang Xi were good people and should not shoot them, so they turned off the fire.
However, the foreigners shouted so much, and the 3 ministers softened first, and had to agree to the pledge.
On August 14, the formal negotiations were signed, but this time Zhang Xi could only stand next to the Manchu Officials, watching the poor performance of the delegates in the negotiations, zhang Xi suddenly had a sense of loss in his heart.
After that, Zhang Xi did not participate in the peace talks again, and a few months later, the Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing was signed, and China entered a historical stage of semi-feudalism and semi-colony.
For the Daoguang Emperor, this treaty was a humiliating alliance under the city, and there was no good end for everyone who signed the treaty, the governor of Liangjiang, Niu Jian, was dismissed from his post, Iribu was demoted to Guangzhou to do Yi affairs, and within a few years he died of illness and died in office, although Chincha Qiying was not punished at that time, but Daoguang died shortly after Xianfeng came to power, he was ordered to commit suicide.
When Iribu was demoted to the south, he asked Zhang Xi if he would go with him, but Zhang Xi refused on the grounds that his parents were old, and Qi Ying still wanted to keep Zhang Xi to serve him in Jiangnan, but Iribu said that Zhang Xidu would not go south with me, how could he stay with you.
Qi Ying asked incomprehensibly, "Doesn't he want a meritorious name?" ”
Indeed, Zhang Xi once said to Iribu:
"With great joy, the first wish is to end the Yi affairs, the second wish is to save Jiangsu and Zhejiang Cangsheng, and the third wish is to reinstate the officials of the Central Hall. Now that the big picture has been decided, the wish has been fulfilled, and nothing else is needed. ”
At this point, Zhang Xi received Iribu's thousand and two gifts and returned to his hometown, married a concubine and had children, and Yi retired his relatives. He is the author of two books, "Tanyi Sayings" and "Fuyi Diary", which record Iribu's evaluation of him:
"And the joy of the curtain to raise the orchestra, not for the loss of the tongue su Zhang."
At that time, someone commented on Zhang Xi and said:
"Come and bring peace to the heavens, and go to the old age to return to farming."
The two are loyal and filial to each other, and then they are determined to do the same thing.
Three thousand corrupt officials rely on decisiveness, and eighty thousand people rely on the voice of the heavy ocean.
He looked at the history of Qing under the pillar of the year, and the first meritorious man recognized his name. ”
Many people regard Zhang Xi as a figure like a warring states strategist, but is the magnificent world trend a cloth strategist, an unknown domestic servant leader who can influence it?
Text | Big Peng between the clouds
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