Ye Chenming, a senior official of the Qing Dynasty, was arrested in India as a monkey for people to watch. What was the situation then?

Ye can be said to be the most famous in the Qing dynasty? Make a fool of yourself? A governor, not only is he regarded as a monkey by foreigners, but even modern people think he is a monster.

Not everyone can be a big official in the Qing Dynasty. Ye can be the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and he must have his advantages. What I want to say here is that the eight governors of the Qing Dynasty (not counting the governors of the three northeastern provinces established in the late Qing Dynasty) were all powerful government officials. Ranked by strength, the first governor was Zhili, whose jurisdiction included Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other regions; Followed by the Governor of Liangjiang, whose jurisdiction covers Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui and other regions; The jurisdiction of the third governor of Guangdong and Guangxi includes Guangdong and Guangxi.

Zhili is important because it is close to the center of power, has a large jurisdiction and a large population, and the two rivers are the richest areas at that time, so it is also very important. Guangdong and Guangxi ranked third because the only trading port in the Qing Dynasty was established in Guangdong at that time, and the economy was also very developed.

According to reason, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi should be an oil-rich job, but foreign trade is also a double-edged sword for the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. On the one hand, it is really rich in oil and water, on the other hand, it is more troublesome to deal with foreigners, especially those who are eyeing China.

Therefore, from 1840, the governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi began to go back on his word and had trouble. Think about the Opium War, and your famous anti-smoking minister. Lin Zexu, a political star at that time, fell to the position of governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Qishan, who succeeded him, was also a powerful figure in the Qing Dynasty. The good times didn't last long. He was dismissed because of the Opium War.

It can be said that Guangdong was the only open window in the closed Qing Dynasty, and the people were open-minded and the public security was very poor. Therefore, Guangdong has always been the source of revolution. It is not easy for the leaves to dry from 1852 to 1858 for six years.

Ye was able to sit firmly as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi because he vigorously suppressed the peasant uprising during the period of Guangdong and Guangxi. Many people saw Ye's performance in the Second Opium War and thought Ye was a loser who didn't know how to fight and how to do it.

In fact, Ye is a very powerful person. 185 1 After the outbreak of jintian uprising, it quickly flooded into Guangdong from Guangxi and attacked Guangzhou. At that time, Ye was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. He led 15,000 soldiers and horses to resist the attack of 200,000 Taiping rebels and drove them out of Guangdong.

Ye is not a corrupt official. He belongs to the kind of family where money comes first and talent comes later. He was admitted to imperial academy and edited. There seems to be a tradition in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Those who have not joined imperial academy have no chance to join the cabinet. Therefore, his official career started at the highest level, with 1847 as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and 1852 as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. At that time, he was highly praised. Ye Xiang, who looked at Hanlin with clear eyes, was less than forty years old and beyond the reach of Xinjiang. He is tired of meritorious service, pretends to worship and doubts the winners of ancient and modern times. ?

Ye's attitude towards foreigners is also very tough. In him, I seem to see the shadow of Lin Zexu, but Lin Zexu is luckier. Shortly after the First Opium War, he was dismissed. On the contrary, people sympathized with him, thinking that as long as the Qing court did not replace Lin Zexu, the Opium War would surely win.

Ye's misfortune is that he may always regard Lin Zexu as his political idol, and his attitude towards foreigners is very tough. At that time, the people of Guangdong and the imperial court thought Ye was good.

1856, the Yarrow incident broke out. In fact, this incident has nothing to do with the British. Only this China merchant ship was engaged in trade under the banner of Britain, and the Qing court immediately arrested it. So, the British took the opportunity to make waves, thinking that the Qing government was engaged in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, and took the opportunity to ask the Qing government to recognize its rights and interests in China.

Ye Chenming also refused to negotiate with Britain with a tough attitude. As a result, the British occupied Guangzhou angrily, but to no avail, because the British did not prepare for the war, so they retreated. At that time, during the military heyday of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing army was losing ground. Emperor Xianfeng, who was trapped by internal troubles and foreign invasion, got the news that Ye defeated Britain and rewarded Ye for his kindness.

Encouraged by Emperor Xianfeng, Ye became even more afraid of the British, and then treated them with a tougher attitude. 1In September, 857, the British and French navies arrived in Guangzhou. What Yuzryha never expected was that the imperial court at that time blamed him for not starting the war when it was about to start. Without the support of the imperial court, Ye's resistance had no motivation to continue.

Soon after, the British fleet sailed directly into Guangzhou, demanding Ye to surrender immediately, but Ye did not respond, resist, surrender or escape, and was finally captured by the British army with a puzzled face.

As a winner, the British did not dare to neglect the powerful leaf of the Qing court and did not treat him as a prisoner of war.

Take it where? Fearless Warships, but also allowed him to carry servants and some daily necessities, so the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, the highest official of the Qing Dynasty, stayed on the intrepid for 48 days and was sent to Calcutta, India. Ye boasted? Su Wu at sea? Don't eat foreigners' food, only eat the food brought by China. After the food was finished, he died of hunger strike.

For someone like Ye? Wonderful? It is estimated that not only people at that time thought he was a monster, but also modern people could not understand him. Six. No, governor? It remains to be evaluated by history.