On this day 169 years ago, on October 8, 1856 (September 10, 1856 lunar calendar), the British made the "Yarrow Incident". The scene of the Guangdong people's heroic resistance to foreign invaders On October 8, 1856, the British invaders made the "Yarrow Incident". In 1853, Britain, the United States and other countries launched "treaty amendment" negotiations and failed. In March 1856, when the Crimean War between Britain, France and Russia ended, Britain couldn't wait to find an excuse to provoke a war of aggression against China. In early October, a 100-ton Chinese merchant ship, the "Yarrow", sailed from Xiamen to Guangzhou and docked at Huangpu. The sailors on board were all Chinese, and the owner of the ship, Su Yacheng, was also Chinese. The ship had been captured by pirates. In order to facilitate smuggling, the ship had obtained a registration certificate from the British government in Hong Kong. On October 8, the Guangdong Navy captured two Chinese pirates and 10 suspected Chinese sailors who were hiding on board. The British consul in Guangzhou, Parkes, said that the ship had been registered in Hong Kong and had a license. He even fabricated that the Chinese navy had ripped off the British flag on the ship and insulted the United Kingdom. He unreasonably asked the governor of Guangdong and Guangdong, Ye Mingchen, to release the arrested person immediately and apologize to the British. The actual situation is that the license expired on September 27, 1856, and the ship had not been flagged by the British for 6 days before it was captured. On October 10, when Ye Mingchen sent someone to return the nine sailors who proved that they were not pirates to the Arrow, Parkes refused to accept it. On the 21st, Parkes issued an ultimatum to release all the prisoners within 24 hours and publicly apologized to the British. But when Ye Mingchen returned all 12 people on the 22nd, Parkes still refused to accept it, and even the letters sent by Ye Mingchen refused to be opened. On the 23rd, the British Navy in China launched an attack on Guangzhou. The Second Opium War broke out. In this way, the "Yarrow incident" became an excuse for the British government to deliberately provoke a war of aggression against China. In 1890, Western overseas Chinese built a statue of Parkes, a British diplomat, at the intersection of Nanjing on the Bund to commemorate his establishment of the court system of the public concession (Parkes was the consul of Shanghai in 1862).