A senior official of the Qing Dynasty was arrested and sent to India as a monkey. Who is this man?

Ye Chenming, an executive who is regarded as a monkey, is a patriot who is hard to evaluate. He was once captured and sent to India because he made a wrong decision, which led to the defeat of the British army.

Ye, a native of Hubei, was born in a scholarly family. Therefore, I have read a lot of poetry books since I was a child, and my cultural background is very rich. I was admitted to Gong Sheng before I was eighteen, and I was admitted to Jinshi when I was twenty-six. At the age of 38, he became the governor of Guangdong. Ye Chenming was cruel to the insurgents. He gained a great reputation by suppressing them, and Emperor Xianfeng praised him greatly. Ye also keeps getting a raise and promotion. He is called the governor of six noes. He insisted on "no war, no peace, no defense, no death and no surrender."

1849, the British army will enter Guangzhou, and Ye will lead everyone to prepare for guarding the city. Ye and Xu forged letters to prevent the British from entering the city, and he was made a baron.

During the Second Opium War, Ye Chenming arranged his own people to do business in Hong Kong occupied by Britain and get information from Britain. Ye Chenming also harassed the British army day and night, which made the British army helpless and chose to retreat. Ye continued to harass the British army when its morale was greatly weakened. He also poisoned many British people with arsenic in bread, and the British people fled to Macao because of fear.

Ye was calm in the days after repairing weapons and city walls, waiting for more fierce fighting. He still sent people to spy in Hong Kong, but the spy gave a false information that Russia defeated Britain and France in the Crimean War. In fact, the situation is just the opposite, so Ye thinks that Britain has no strength to launch a new round of offensive. When the British came to Guangzhou, Guangzhou's defense ability was very poor.

Coupled with the previous implementation of the trade embargo in Hong Kong, not only did Britain lose its interests, but also caused great losses to Guangdong, so Guangdong was unable to train.

On a Guangzhou ship intercepted by the British army, the British army got the news that Ye had no soldiers and no money. The British army immediately took action to occupy Guangzhou, and finally Ye was captured. The Qing government was afraid of involving its own interests and removed Ye from all his posts. Leaves become waste.

Finally, Ye Chenming boarded a warship in Calcutta and went to India. Indians seldom see Asians, and they all regard him as a monkey. Ye Chenming ate his own food and didn't eat any foreign food. He finally died of hunger strike.

In fact, Ye could choose to negotiate with the British army, which also had this idea at that time, and then slowly cultivated it, which is a pity.