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Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. Could the coalition fight past these legendary forts and strangle Beijing enough to get their demands met? Now the coalition would fight their way to Beijing to force an audience with Emperor Xianfeng, but something lied in their way, the famous Taku forts at the mouth of the Bei He River.
Ye was replaced with a puppet named Pih-Kwei who would be nominally controlled by the European forces. They began with a bombardment and occupation of the grand city of Canton and then Ye Mingchen was hunted down and arrested.
Alongside his french counterpart Baron Gross, both men would overlook their military coalitions expedition in China to force the Qing emperor to abide by their treaty and some new demands. Last time we spoke the reluctant Lord Elgin took up the job as the new emissary to China.
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