The British refused to let their envoy stay in a dangerous place without protection, so after Prussian stayed in Beiping, five hundred British soldiers also stayed, and Yi Xin didn't dare to say anything, he didn't have half a soldier in his hand now, and the emperor didn't return to Beijing, so many things couldn't be handled at all. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He had no choice but to do anything about his brother, listening to the situation secretly transmitted back to Beiping by some people around the emperor, the current emperor was very irritable, and he didn't listen to anyone's words, and not only was he in bad spirits, but his body was extremely bad, and his tuberculosis was very serious.

As an emperor, although it is a bit absurd to do these things, it is not a big rebellion, but Xianfeng has always refused to return to Beijing, whether it is the persuasion of the ministers or the persuasion of the king, the courtiers have smashed their heads, Xianfeng did not change his mind, saying that he was unwell and should not put on a fight, and happened to be recuperating in Chengde.

When the emperor left, he led people to run away in a hurry, and the ministers did not take them away, only brought a few close concubines, and the palace maids and concubines in the Old Summer Palace stayed, and finally these women died in the fire of the Old Summer Palace together with the eunuchs.

The emperor is not in Beijing, the ministers are there, and the basic office is still not hindered, but the problem is that the emperor is not there, and the person with the highest status in Beiping City has become him Yixin, when he and Xianfeng fought for the throne, although it was not as fierce as the Kangxi and Yongzheng eras, but both sides also tried their best to show their abilities to Emperor Daoguang, and in the end, Xianfeng used his benevolence to overwhelm Yixin's bravery, and became the emperor, and then he was strictly guarded against this younger brother, but now he left him alone in the capital.

Yi Xin has been cautious since the failure of the competition for the throne, and he is the most low-key prince in Beiping City, and he just wants to be a prince of peace for a lifetime, but just like this era, anything can happen, and anyone can have it.

During the days when Xianfeng was not in the capital, Yi Xin received more than one letter of persuasion, not only some undesirable civil officials, but also the magnates in the Eight Banners, which frightened Yi Xin, especially a secret letter hoping that he could follow the example of Emperor Ming Jing of the previous dynasty and call the emperor Jian.

Yixin has been careful for half his life, he has to think about three points about what happens, let him be Emperor Ming Jing, Ming Yingzong's personal expedition to Wara army was captured, Yu Qian and other ministers pushed Emperor Ming Jing to ascend the throne, and then Emperor Ming Jing What happened, Yingzong died soon after the reinstatement, the person who gave him this idea was not testing him, was warning him not to act rashly, was it the emperor's person?

Yixin was suspicious, and hurriedly wrote a letter to her brother, saying that she wanted to come to see her brother in Rehe and ask about her life.

As a result, Xianfeng still disagreed: "Don't go through half a year, Shi Si shook hands and talked." However, the cough has not stopped recently, and there is red phlegm from time to time, and it is still necessary to take it quietly, and it is not appropriate to say more, and it will be a face-to-face conversation in the autumn. ”

Xianfeng said that he began to cough up blood and needed to recuperate, so it was not suitable to talk more, and asked Yixin to wait until autumn to knock on him.

As for why Xianfeng refused to come back, Yixin knew that it was not as simple as being sick, if there was a disease, it was also a heart disease, the Old Summer Palace was burned, this garden is the symbol of the prosperous Kangqian era, it is a royal private garden, in order to repair this garden, the imperial court spent a huge amount of wealth, and the emperors of all dynasties valued him.

Many years ago, the Old Summer Palace Kyushu Qingyan and other palaces caught fire, their father Daoguang was a thrifty emperor, Xianfeng and Yixin were very clear, but Daoguang still allocated money to rebuild, and issued a document after completion, saying that it was not for pleasure, but to inherit the ancestral family business.

Ancestral family business, Xianfeng and Yixin grew up here when they were children, they all like it here, the rules here are not as big as in the palace, they can be a little presumptuous, there will definitely be no old master who jumps out to accuse them of losing their manners, after Xianfeng succeeded to the throne, he also likes to work here, and most of the year is in this garden.

But now the garden is burning!

Yi Xin was outside the city when it was burned, and he wrote to Xianfeng to describe the scene of the fire in the Old Summer Palace, and Xianfeng expressed his silence and never asked about the Old Summer Palace again.

But Yixin knew that his brother couldn't forget it, so where would he go if he went back to Beijing? He used to live in the Old Summer Palace, and now that the Old Summer Palace is gone, he will remember that he doesn't want to come back. The foreigners not only burned the Old Summer Palace and the Xianfeng Emperor's house, but also burned down his dignity as the emperor of the "heavenly mockery".

Yi Xin has been waiting for the autumn, and when the autumn comes, he can go to meet the emperor, he feels that it is necessary for him to persuade the emperor, and he must persuade the emperor back, otherwise he doesn't know what those ambitious ministers and magnates will do, and forcing him to be the emperor is tantamount to killing him.

Yi Xin has no ambition, the key is that he has no courage, he only hopes that the emperor will return and continue to be the emperor, and he will return to the palace to continue to be the prince.

At this time, in the United States of America, a new, vibrant and contradictory country, the mission sent by Zhu Jinglun finally arrived in the middle of March after a hundred days of turbulence at sea.

Americans knew a month ago that a Chinese apology and trade mission would come to visit the United States of America, and President Lincoln, who had just been inaugurated a week earlier, was also the first president in the history of the Republican Party, and of course the Republican Party had just been established, replacing the Whig Party as the new political organization in the United States to compete with the Democratic Party.

Lincoln saw the arrival of the Chinese mission as the best gift for his inauguration, and he had hoped that the mission would arrive on the day of his inauguration so that they could attend his inauguration, but the sea was so unpredictable that the Minnesota was still more than a week late, despite its best efforts.

However, Lincoln received them with a high profile, and although it was not a regular mission, Lincoln needed a decent diplomatic outcome, because he had heard too much bad news during this time.

Last year, he won the election, and the southern state of Lena in South Cairo declared independence from the Union the following month, and before he announced his inauguration on March 4, Mississippi, Florida and other slave states broke away from the Union to form a Confederate State of America.

When the Confederate state, which was the largest source of cotton for the entire European industrial country, was established, Britain and France expressed their goodwill to her, announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with the allied country, and sent diplomatic ambassadors to Richmond.

At this time, the arrival of the Chinese is somewhat important, because they came to HSD (Watston) not Richmond, and they visited the United States of America instead of the Confederate States of America, which can be regarded as the political attitude of China, an Eastern country, towards the United States, at least Lincoln can make the American people understand that "the Chinese support the federal government."

The Chinese mission became the first mission to visit the United States and express its attitude after the split of the United States.

Lincoln welcomed the Minnesota with the mission and the American Minister Warren anchored in the harbor, and countless salutes rang out to warmly welcome the arrival of the mission from a mysterious country in the Far East.

Lincoln later received the mission himself, but regretted that the mission's diplomatic mission, which was to apologize to the families of the silent cruiser USS Mississippi, could not be accomplished, as the families of the battleship were all in the south.

Lincoln was too busy to communicate much with the mission, but he had already made careful arrangements, and even before he took office, he had figured out what to do with the mission of this closed country, and he had to show it the best things in the "civilized" world.

So there are special people, with them intensively visit the most developed New England region of the United States, visit where large textile factories and machinery factories appeared, visit the Erie Canal, take the train of New York, visit the city's high-rise buildings, visit universities and libraries, and unfortunately the US government did not arrange for them to visit the prosperous New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street, because in this era, Wall Street's reputation is more stinky than that of later generations, and the American elite all think that where the most immoral bastards gather, So it is impossible for them to show the "scars" of the United States to the guests of the East.

In spite of this, the members of the delegation were already dizzying, they had never seen cotton so easily turned into cotton yarn, and then all kinds of fabrics in the textile city, it was hard to imagine that one person could weave the fabric that two hundred people could weave, but what made these children of rich businessmen who had studied hard or mixed since childhood did not understand why those roaring terrifying steel monsters could do these jobs.

They looked at the machine factory and were horrified that steel could be pulled and crushed at will, like soft noodles, processed into all kinds of strange-shaped workpieces, and finally could form different machine monsters.

When taking the train, there are people screaming in horror along the way, and some people lying on the window cheering unbridledly, this kind of steel monster that does not need to pull a horse, and runs quickly on two railroad tracks, so that some people feel panic, and some people feel excited, in short, no one is indifferent.

The universities and libraries that Americans care about and are most proud of are not too surprising to them, compared with those products of industrial civilization, these books and the teachers and students who teach them are still more or less within their cognition, as for the Yili Canal, no one thinks that it is anything special than the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, they may not have seen the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but they know that the river is at least a hundred times longer than this canal.

In short, it was a huge shock of thought, and everyone was excited every day.

After the Meiji Restoration, RB (Japan) turned out to be a harmonious word? Is it necessary to exaggerate so much? They sent half of the high-ranking government officials around the world, and their delegations left six words for their impressions of Western civilization: first shocked, second drunk, and finally mad. RB people are shocked at first, then intoxicated, and finally crazy learning.

These children of businessmen should be said to be much more flexible in concept than the children of peasants than the landlord class, but they still can't do the attitude of RB people who can immediately abandon their own culture and study hard when they see newer things, because their country's heritage is much deeper than that of RB, and only others have learned from China, which makes their minds unable to turn this corner for a while.

But someone is already beginning to be silent.

Silence means thinking, among them there is a businessman in his thirties, he is a farmer family, the family has land, although he can not be rich and expensive, but he has no worries about food and clothing, can let him read calmly, he reads the hundred schools of thought, and his mind is the way of Confucius and Mencius.

He also has a business at home, in Vietnam, doing groceries and silk. He had the vision of a businessman, but the way of thinking about problems was still the way of Confucius and Mencius.

After visiting the textile mills of the Americans, when he stayed at the hotel at night, he wrote down the following words in the view of his Confucian and Mencian scholars: If one of them can do the work of two hundred people and receive the wages of thirty people, how can it be said that their strange and ingenious skills are barbaric? (To be continued.) )