1855 United States Tycoon

Although the death squad successfully captured the Governor's Mansion, this success was not enough to change the result of the failure of the uprising. The Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Tan Zhonglin was soon sent to the governor's office and began to mobilize the army to besiege the insurgents who still occupy the Governor's Mansion.

Just over half an hour after Lu Haodong and the others occupied the Governor's Mansion and raised the Blue Sky and White Flag, the first batch of Qing troops appeared near the Governor's Mansion, but they did not immediately attack, but blocked the road first. They put up a refusal on the road and made a defensive interception posture. During this, a small group of clearing soldiers once launched a tentative attack. After successfully consuming a part of the grenade and bullets that were already in the hands of the death squad, they retreated. Then the battlefield fell silent for a while.

In the battle just now, Lu Haodong and the others almost ran out of the remaining ammunition. However, they were not able to really defeat many clearing troops. This time, unlike the raid, the two sides had a longer fighting distance. The lack of accuracy of the MacDonald 1890 submachine gun was very obvious. When the two sides were nearly 100 meters apart, most of the bullets I don't know where I flew. Even the members of the death squad were injured several times by the platoon guns of the Qing soldiers. A few Qing soldiers even boldly launched a charge. Of course, they were taught to be humans by grenade, but now Lu Haodong and the others almost ran out of ammunition. Fortunately, those clear troops were finally repelled.

Almost an hour later, there were more and more clearing soldiers around, but they never attacked, as if they were waiting for something. After a while, Lu Haodong and the others finally knew what the soldiers were waiting for. What they are waiting for is a few cannons, although these cannons are outdated: Napoleon cannons were sold all over the world after the United States government fought the Civil War. But even if it is outdated, it is definitely not something that the death squad can resist...

At the last time, Lu Haodong lit the prepared fuel, and the Governor's Mansion burned blazingly. Although the Qing troops tried to save the rescue, the Governor's Mansion was burnt halfway in the end. Under the cover of this operation, most of the people successfully escaped.

Half a month later, Mr. Sun also got mixed up in the caravan of United States and returned to Hong Kong. Then he left Hong Kong and went to Japan. Before leaving, he and Chen Guang agreed to visit Chen Guang in North America soon.

The impact of this unsuccessful uprising was not as great as Mr. Sun imagined at first, because in the Qing Dynasty, rebellion was a common occurrence. Because of the closure of news, (on the one hand, it is because of the Qing government's blockade, on the other hand, the bigger reason is the backwardness of the media industry.) Even in Guangdong, people in many remote places (below the county town) I didn't even know that such a thing happened in the provincial capital. As for the whole country, only the talents in those big places know a little about it vaguely.

But it would be wrong to say that there is no impact at all. In fact, the Manchu government paid much attention to this uprising and was even shocked. There are several reasons for this.

First of all, only twenty rebellious party elements can capture a governor's palace, which once again exposed the incompetence of the Manchus. Well, the Manchu Qing is incompetent. This is what everyone knows. Whether it is a Westerner or an Easterner, as long as it is a foreigner, I can beat my Daqing in a tricky manner. But that is a foreigner after all. I am still good at fighting Chinese people. At least, in the eyes of most people, I am still strong enough to suppress ordinary people. However, this time the match is also a Chinese. My Daqing is still so vulnerable, and this problem is serious. Although historical shit history books talk about the reason for a certain dynasty to obtain the fate of heaven, most of them are nonsense such as "being virtuous and benevolent, and being deprived of all desolation, and there will be a world in the end". But in the final analysis, a basic point for a dynasty or a regime to stand is that it is the most powerful violent organization on this land. If a country's violent power is to be suspected, then its rule cannot be stable. Even if he is "so virtuous and benevolent."

Of course, it was not uncommon for me to take a city by a few people in Qing Dynasty. Many years ago, Liu Lichuan of the Small Sword Society took the city of Shanghai with seven people, but at that time Shanghai was still very small. The small city of Guangzhou is completely incomparable with the current provincial cities like Guangzhou. In addition, the incident was happening in an era when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in the midst of the sky, so the attention it aroused and the impact it caused were far from being compared with this incident.

The second point is that these chaotic parties actually published messages in foreign languages ​​in foreign newspapers. This certainly gave the Qing government a reason to attack them with foreign countries, but the Qing government was really afraid that they would really get foreign support. Moreover, the propaganda of these chaotic parties is still much wiser than that of Mao Mao. In those days, Mao did what he did to worship God and turned Confucius and Mencius into evil spirits, which made them antagonize the local gentry. Later, the Manchus succeeded in suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the group training organized by the local gentry played the most important role. . If the local gentry did not actively join the Manchus, the Manchus would actually be unable to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In the present proclamations of the rebellious party, not only from the perspective of nationalism, they accuse the Manchu dynasty of being outside barbarians, but also openly propose that after the revolution, the various privileges of the Eight Banners should be abolished and the localities should be given greater powers. Practice "democracy" or something. Obviously, the local gentry would easily understand them as increasing their rights and share with them the benefits that were originally allocated to the Eight Banners. If the local gentry were really bewitched by them, then the future of Manqing would be really bleak. Because now a very simple fact is that the Manchus no longer has enough force to make the world surrender. Now his rule largely depends on the local gentry. Now the actions of the chaotic party have exposed their weakness to the local gentry. Even if those guys do not fall to the chaotic party, they will definitely demand a redistribution of power and interests. Although there are many principles for the distribution of benefits, the most basic one is violence.

In addition to these political shocks, other things also made the Manchu rulers take a sigh of relief. That is the weapon that was obtained from the insurgent who died in the battle: the grenade and the MacDonald 1890 submachine gun.

The ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty mentioned these two weapons in their memorials:

"People who mess with the party all use Citilink guns. They are short, but when stacked, they will not be too long. However, they can shoot very fast, like storms, ordinary firearms, less than ten. There are also grenade, which contains explosives, and it is outsourced. Steel ball. It weighs less than half a catty, and a strong person can throw a hundred steps. It will explode when it falls, and a thunder will fall. Within dozens of steps, it will be all rotten. It is no less powerful than a cannon, but it can't reach far and... , With this weapon, if you suddenly get into trouble, although there are many guards, it is difficult to be perfect...The minister thinks that when you tell the barbarian, you must not sell these sharp weapons to the chaotic party, and buy more of this thing for the purpose of guarding..."

Nonsense such as "tell the barbarian", of course, are just powdering his own face. Foreigners would not put this Manchu "tell" to put in one’s eyes, just as he fart. However, the Macdonald Infantry Weapons Company finally looked at the benefits of ordering a batch of submachine guns for the Royal Guard in Qing Dynasty, and agreed not to sell weapons to any Chinese who were not representatives of the Manchu Qing government. Of course, this kind of guarantee is actually meaningless, because the rebel leader Mr. Sun Wen is a United States citizen with United States nationality.

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