Chapter 166: When Beijing Meets Berlin XIX

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Prince Heinrich was very happy in the city of Beijing, not only himself, but also the officers and soldiers of the German Navy's Grand Fleet who went to Beijing to serve as his entourage.

Not to mention the abundant supplies of materials from Hong Kong to Beijing, which opened the eyes of the Germans, the Germans were dizzy by the courtesies and adventures they received in Beijing.

From the Shunzhi Dynasty, which set the capital in Beijing, to the Guangxu Dynasty, anyone entering and leaving Beijing City needed to pass documents. Although the imperial court is so requested, but the following has always been a policy and a countermeasure, the Han people-dominated southern city, as long as there is silver, power, and connections, it is not troublesome to enter and leave the city.

You can go from the south city to the north city, and since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the inventory has never been relaxed. Beicheng is not allowed to live if it is not Manchurian, even if you are a Hanchen dignitary, sorry, you can only live in the southern city, for example, Ji Xiaolan, an important minister of the Qianlong Dynasty, can only choose the southern city.

Beijing's southern and northern cities, or inner and outer cities, are an insurmountable gulf between the Manchus and the Han people, between the hygienic and the dirty, between the rich and the poor.

According to the system of the Qing Dynasty, in principle, foreigners, like Han Chinese, could only live in the outer city or the southern city.

How do the soldiers and officials guarding the gate in Beijing check the people who come and go, but a university asks, the highest level of this knowledge is to know how to do things, or in Beijing dialect, to have "eyesight".

A guard who has lived for a long time and has lived for a long time must learn the shape of the carriage or sedan chair, which belongs to the family of the emperor's relatives and relatives, and those who belong to the dignitaries and dignitaries, must be memorized one by one, which is a compulsory lesson for every guard.

If I remember it wrong, slow down, waiting for a stupid guard, it will inevitably be a slap in the face, and it will be light to be beaten, if you stop it wrongly, you will be dismissed and lose your mission, and you may even have to give an account of your life on the spot.

Since the fifth year of Guangxu, that is, in the summer of 1879, the guards guarding the nine gates of the inner city have remembered the latest rule, but if anyone is wearing a flag with a black eagle painted on a white background, even if it is a curfew night, you must not see it, and let it go.

At the same time of release, if you can shout loudly, it is better, and you can often let the old and young masters standing guard together provoke a thumbs up and shout to themselves, "Enough masters!" ”

As for the top bosses on duty on the side, at most they laughed and scolded, but they would never punish them.

Because now the gentlemen of Beijing Sijiu City know that the person who can play this Black Eagle Banner is now a hardcore friend of the Qing Dynasty, the Germans.

The Qing Dynasty made an unprecedented move to foreigners, to be precise, to let the delegation from Germany live in the inner city of Beijing, and there was no banner man who felt that this thing should not be done and did not conform to the ancestral system.

Before Heinrich entered Beijing, because of the German apology, it had made the old and young masters in Beijing feel that they had raised their faces and had more face, and when Heinrich entered Beijing, the Germans' battle plan was put in front of Prince Gong, and now the whole city of Beijing knew about it, and Germany was willing to help the Qing Dynasty teach that blind thing, the Japanese country.

It's been almost 40 years, nearly two generations of people in Beijing have been aggrieved, and in the teahouses in the capital, whenever foreigners are mentioned, either the one who came in today or will give the compensation tomorrow. With red hair, green eyes, white skin, and looks like a ghost, we can't afford to provoke these foreign devils, so we can only admit that we are unlucky.

But since the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, this day has changed again and become more depressing, and Japan, a small country, has become the latest country to dare to break ground in the Qing Dynasty.

Westerners are far away, and few scholars in Beijing know how big and where the Westerns are, but Japan, Fusang, and Waguo, these names are clear to scholars and even ordinary people.

It's just that the Western devils bullied the Qing Dynasty, you are a widow, and the little man dares to ride on the head of the Qing Dynasty to, which is unbearable, a small feudal state of the Celestial Empire, even dares to blow his beard and stare at the master with his eyes! Is there any royal law in this world!

The whole Qing country, especially Qingliu and the common people, have been shouting and shouting at Japan for nearly five years, and the battle plan brought by the Germans today has completely made the Qingliu and the common people in the capital boil.

The resentment and anger against foreigners for many years suddenly turned into praise for the Germans, and Qingliu, who had previously spoken out against foreigners, became the most staunch pro-German faction overnight. The common people and Qingliu in Beijing were waiting for Prince Gong's Mansion and shouted, "Copy guys, do it!" ”

After waiting for a week, another week, Prince Gong's Mansion was like an iron lion in the Iron Lion Alley, not moving at all.

In the 48 alleys east of the inner city, the German mission was stationed in Xidi, and Minister Barland could only helplessly tell Heinrich that the reason for the tepid Qing court was that the efficient and enthusiastic Germans frightened the Qing country, and according to their own experience, the frightened Qing decision-makers were often like an ostrich, sticking their small heads into the sand and exposing their huge buttocks to be quiet.

This is the normal state of the Qing Kingdom, as a Chinese expert, I have long been accustomed to all this, but it is the performance of the Qing Kingdom more than a month ago that is subversive, and now the practice of Prince Gong's Mansion is normal in the eyes of Minister Barand.

Heinrich shook the robe on his body in a chic manner, and said with a smile, "Uncle Maximilien, Qingguo is really a magical place, for example, the material of this robe is completely different from the German silk I have seen, in this hot season, it will not stick to the skin like other silks and make people unbearable." ”

Heinrich turned his body in front of the waiting mirror, carefully examined the robe on his body, and then exclaimed, "The most amazing thing is that it is so light and unwrinkled." If you have to find a downside, it is that there is only one black color available, otherwise it will definitely sell well in Europe. By the way, Uncle Maximilien, last time you said, this fabric is called? ”

"Okay, okay!" Looking at Minister Barland, who looked unhappy, Heinrich raised his hands and said with a smile, "I admit that Commander Dietrich drafted this battle plan with an element of instigation. ”

"Uncle Maximilien, God told me that human nature is inherently evil, and I can't believe in human nature without a sword in my hand."

"I just think that a rose in one hand and a sword in the other are the truth of the Teutonic knights' negotiations with people. Also, Uncle Maximilien, I really don't think that reasoning alone can bring people to their knees, especially to a country. ”

"Before, I asked you to delay this matter for two weeks before reporting this matter to Berlin, to the Prime Minister, and to my father, in the hope that the Qing State would agree to this matter, at least let the Grand Fleet have international justice no matter what it does, after all, we are the army invited by the Qing State, and it is also said diplomatically to intervene in the Qing-Japanese dispute."

Heinrich scratched his hair vigorously and looked embarrassed, "At least, in the end, don't let my father and the chancellor think that I have caused too much trouble, and blame Admiral Dietrich, the commander of the fleet, whom I always respect." ”

"Alas, I really didn't expect that this is a group of guys who were scared when they heard about the national war, it's been more than three weeks, and there is still no reply." Heinrich, who was wearing a robe, shrugged his shoulders helplessly, "It seems that I have to go out and try little Jojo's method." ”

"Henry, it's a very good idea to accept the invitation of Lord Zhang Peilun to go to the Hanlin Academy of the Qing Kingdom to give a speech!" Barand raised his hands in approval of Heinrich's plan to go out today.

At least it makes more sense than you younger, energetic fellows to go to the south of Beijing to find prostitutes, and to the north to visit the Great Wall and the Qing Imperial Mausoleum.

The abstinence of long-term sea voyages, the brains of this group of sailors are no longer phosphate, but full of protein, protein on the brain of young men, in the search for female hormones, absolutely talented, to Beijing City less than a day, the German Navy sailors found the eight alleys in the south of the city.

For the Eight Great Hutongs, Minister Barland is still .... In Beijing dialect, it is still clear.

The characteristic of the eight alleys is that prostitutes and husbands flourish together. Cough! In the elegant words of the Qing Dynasty, they are called the women and men.

Women are prostitutes, men are preferred, and they are collectively called advocating excellence. You and Ling originally meant to be male and female actors engaged in acting careers, so the best of the advocates refers to male actors, especially the male actors in Peking Opera.

In the nineteenth century, without surgery and estrogen, the cultivation of a male dan was much more difficult than that of today's Thais, so hard and complicated that even Minister Barland did not want to understand.

In short, there are male and male Xianggong halls in the Bada Hutong, and there are also small classes for men and women.

The Great Qing Kingdom couldn't help but be good to Longyang, but fortunately, the laws of the German Empire made it a felony to be a man, so Minister Barand didn't worry about the guys who were in the brains of this group of sperm worms, and found the wrong person in Nancheng.

It is true that Bada Hutong is a place of wind and moon, but it is not a red light district in Berlin, and those ordinary station streets can be compared. The girls in the Eight Hutongs, according to their ranks, belong to the first and second class girls in Beijing, which is equivalent to the Camellia Girl written by Alexandre Dumas in Paris on a night in the nineteenth century.

If you insist on comparing it with the warblers on the streets of Berlin, it is about the same as the girls in the white houses in the Xizhimen area, which serve the coolies.

In short, Bada Hutong is the location of the high-end Fengyue place in Beijing, how advanced is it?

For example, it is said that there is a well-known tailor shop in Beijing in Bada Hutong, which is particularly good at tailoring the girls in the team, whether it is cutting or style, it is top-notch.

The girls in the team wore the latest clothes of the tailor shop, and after going to this sea and that garden to play (in fact, it was to go to the street to compare the beauty), the young grandmothers and young ladies of the rich and noble families often squeezed into the store, pointing to the back of the girls leaving, and asking for the same style.

Therefore, there is an old saying in Beijing, "the poor learn the rich, the rich learn prostitutes", which means that the Bada Hutong is the source of fashion and the top popular vane in Beijing.

Therefore, the only thing that Minister Barand was worried about was that in the Bada Hutong, these top courtesans of the Great Qing Kingdom would not entertain this group of German stallions, for fear that there would be a conflict in the end.

In the final analysis, the Germans came all the way to sign a contract, not to solicit prostitution, and it would be even more humiliating if they failed to engage in prostitution and then fight.

Fortunately, the officers and men of the navy, who were ordered to wear Qing robes for private trips, showed the same German chivalry as always, and not the same vulgar and unbearable sailors as the British and French naval counterparts who captured the strong men in the same way.

Although the Germans are looking for girls, and the Qing officials are looking for Xianggong, they can't stand it, everyone is looking for a good friend in Bada Hutong.

Since there are like-minded people, the good people can't stay, and a few days later, it is said that a certain opera troupe is under the influence of a few scholars, and actually makes a decent version of Zhaojun out of the plug, uh, it is the story of the prince and Sai Jinhua.....

The story is about a beautiful and touching love story between a German prince and the top card in a small class in Bada Hutong, a girl named Sai Jinhua..... Attention, not a love action story.

No matter what era, princes and beauties, heroes and beauties are the best drama themes, and the play "Sai Jinhua" has become popular in Beijing, or it is still a big hit.

When Barand heard about this for the first time, Barand couldn't help it, and asked Heinrich in euphemism if he had ever had this incident, Heinrich thought about it for a long time, and vaguely remembered that he did pass through one of the eight alleys to go to the private banquet of a certain Qing bigwig.

There were cherry blossoms and willows everywhere along the way, and there seemed to be a beautiful girl, leaning on the window on the second floor, smiling at herself in the summer twilight, and she did say hello in a chic manner.

"And then?"

"And then it's gone! I'm still a virgin..."

In the days when the grass grows and the warbler flies, when does the wind remember that he has seen the flowers in full bloom of the tree!

Heinrich was very happy to be the protagonist of the singing in Beijing in the summer, and even mentioned this matter when he was drinking with a group of Qing Qing Qing Liu, hoping to have the opportunity to appreciate himself in the Qing opera.

Everyone's happy!

"That's right, Henry." Minister Barland looked at Heinrich, who was about to go out, and said, "The fabric of this robe you wear, the Qing people call it relying on yarn, but I like its Cantonese name, Yunxiang yarn." ”

"Uncle Maximilien, you said that if I bring some of this back to Berlin, will my father and the Prime Minister be happier?" Heinrich winked at Minister Barland, "I haven't been criticized for the past two weeks, so it seems that the trouble I caused is not that big..."

"Henry, do you know I've reported to Berlin?"

"Hehe, Uncle Maximilien, if you put family affection above work, you are not a minister."

"Henry, I'm going to Tokyo soon, and I wish you good luck with your speech today!"

"Uncle Maximilian, I wish you good luck in Tokyo, too!"