Why was Ye, a senior official of the Qing Dynasty, arrested in India and treated as a monkey?

In the second year of Qing Daoguang, a fortune teller came to Ye Jia Pharmacy in Hanyang.

The shopkeeper in Ye Jia has always believed in the knowledge of the Star of Destiny, that is, he asked the fortune teller to approve the life of his second son. The fortune teller asked about his birthday and said:

"Your second son is promising. In my opinion, these two will be either rich or expensive. The eldest son has a smooth career in the future, which is beyond words. He will get help from the emperor's life. The second son will do business in the future, and his money will be inexhaustible. "

The shopkeeper was very happy and rewarded the fortune teller with two dollars.

This incident left a deep impression on Ye's eldest son.

Later, at the age of 26, he became a scholar, but at the age of 38, he was promoted to the governor of Guangdong, which was really rapid.

Because of advocating simplicity and loyalty to honest and frank, he was very good at fighting bandits and was appreciated by the emperor. He was promoted to the university assisted by the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and was later named Tijen Pavilion University, which can be said to be exactly what the fortune teller said.

My younger brother inherited his father's drugstore, abandoned literature and became a famous businessman in Wuhan.

Ordinary people believe in numerology, but only seek psychological comfort when they are confused and sleepy and talk about life as a reference. However, Ye's fortune-telling experience when he was young was too magical and persistent, which slowly opened the prelude to the tragedy of his life in the future.

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1853, Guangdong suffered the worst flood in history, and refugees were everywhere. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom used this famine to incite members of the Heaven and Earth Society to unite with the victims to revolt.

Ye is not in a hurry, because he suppressed bandits many times in his early days, all of which were very successful.

As expected, before long, he assembled all his troops in Guangdong, driving the rebels of the Heaven and Earth Society to retreat.

At that time, the whole country was helpless to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Army, and Zeng Guofan struggled to organize the Xiangjiang Xiang Army. When the battle was shocked, Ye was named "Prince Shao Bao" by the imperial court, and his reputation in the whole country reached its peak.

Flowers bloom and fall, and at this time, the biggest crisis in Ye's life came.

1857, the British tried to start a war and prepare to shell Gwangju on the pretext that the crew of the merchant ship was detained.

In the face of the coming war, Ye was caught off guard: on the one hand, because the troops in the city were transferred from all over the country to fight bandits, there were no available soldiers; On the other hand, he set up an altar at home to worship Lv Dongbin and help himself. The result was:

"In fifteen days, everything will disappear."

He is very confident about the result of this divination, and thinks that everything will disappear as long as it is delayed for fifteen days. In the face of the British ultimatum, Ye gave in. He can release the illegal crew, but it is a matter of justice and dignity, and he will never apologize.

The British will naturally not give up. Ten days later, the British attacked Guangzhou, and Ye was captured, which happened to be the fourteenth day after the Reform Movement of 1898.

The plight of Guangzhou finally vanished, but it ended with the British occupying Guangzhou and Ye being imprisoned.

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Ye was captured and imprisoned in a foreign country. This "Prince Shaobao", whose reputation was in full swing a year ago, ushered in the darkest moment of life.

Regardless of the objective environment, the domestic Qing school did its best to ridicule him, blaming him for this defeat and jokingly calling him "the six no governors": no war, no discord, no death, no surrender and no separation.

In contrast, Marx, an industrialist thinker on the other side of the ocean, is quite pertinent to what he did in the incident:

"Governor Ye politely and calmly answered the outrageous request of the excited young British consul. He explained the reason for his arrest and regretted the misunderstanding caused by it. At the same time, he categorically denied any intention to insult the British flag. "

I feel sad all the way. He passed through Hong Kong first, and many people asked him to draw pictures as a souvenir. He silently agreed and only signed the "Su Wu at Sea"

By this time, the court had removed his official position, and there was no salvation. He wants to die, but he dreams of going to England, meeting the Queen in person, telling the truth, hoping to avoid ceding the land and paying compensation.

The British imprisoned him in India, but refused to take further action.

In India, many people came to see the senior official of China sitting in the prison car, but he always looked calm and smiled, trying to safeguard the pride and dignity of the ancient empire.

The food brought from the mainland has run out, and the British provide food for it. He flatly refused the barbarian's food.

The British admired his integrity and advised him to surrender, but he didn't say a word.

Ten days later, Ye died of hunger strike, leaving a poem on his deathbed:

There is no home in the ocean, and the geese are still passing the festival.

Overseas, it is difficult to find senior officials and Xiaomi, and it is also difficult to confront foreign envoys.

Frightened, frightened, the sound of the tiger eggplant is urgent, and the sun shadow is oblique.

Only spring still returns, and the partition wall is red all over kapok. Ye Chenming may know very well that he was born in Sri Lanka, an ancient empire, and his proud cultural orthodoxy is heading for catastrophe. But after the great robbery, there will be new life, and the ups and downs of Yin and Yang will inevitably lead to decline. This is the wisdom in the Book of Changes that he read when he was a child.

He thinks that his favorite culture is superior to the west, so he refuses to eat the food of barbarians; I believe that after the catastrophe, this ancient and exquisite culture will be brilliant again.

It's just that he'll never see it again.