Chapter 150: The Edict of Guilt

The night walk of a hundred ghosts is accompanied by the night howl of a hundred ghosts, which is too worrying, sure enough, Tang with a tofu mouth and a tofu heart couldn't bear to hear a few sounds, and left the execution scene. Tang resolutely believed that Master Jiao would not hold out to the end.

Tang Ning took advantage of a little leisure time to visit His Majesty the Emperor to see if he had woken up from his coma.

Yi Guifei was taking care of the emperor, this Xianfeng Emperor woke up, but he was trembling, Yi Guifei held the emperor in her arms, not only distressed by the emperor, but also afraid of the future, and looked up at the "thief chieftain" who opened the dragon chariot. Maybe Concubine Yi is an ambitious and capable person, but she is also just a woman, and in such a desperate situation, she can only be full of fear. "Taking care" of the emperor are a few Hessian hunters, big tall, big nose, holding a gun magazine, and their eyes are full of murderous aura, this is a foreigner, no matter what emperor you are the emperor or not, if you are not honest, you will have to suffer.

It is understandable that Yi Guifei was arrested by foreigners, and she can also understand that she was arrested by the anti-thieves of the Qing Dynasty, but foreigners and Chinese people are mixed together, and the relationship between the two sides seems to be equal, which is incomprehensible.

Tang Ning frowned: "What's wrong with the emperor?" I'm still scared ......."

Seeing that the thief chief spoke politely, Concubine Yi dared to say: "The emperor needs longevity and ruyi ointment......

Tang Ning was puzzled: "Longevity Ruyi ointment? What is it? ”

The eunuchs who served were not all killed, otherwise who would serve Xianfeng Ye, they got Tang Ning's consent and brought the longevity ruyi ointment, Tang Ning saw that it was a cigarette stick for smoking opium. Alas, what kind of opium war, there is no help in the palace at all, the emperor himself is good at this, opium is really strictly banned, Xianfeng Ye is afraid that he will be the first to be in a hurry. Could it be that the Opium War was a joke at all?

Tang Ning's last bit of sympathy for Xianfeng disappeared, and he said coldly to Concubine Yi: "Didn't Daqing want to ban smoking? What's going on? ”

Concubine Yi said in a trembling voice: "The emperor has been ...... ten years ago I became addicted to smoking. ”

Downing: "Have you ever smoked opium?" ”

Yi Guifei: "Concubines don't smoke opium......"

Tang Ning was angry, and naturally there was a terrible aura, which made Concubine Yi unconsciously call herself a concubine, and she had forgotten her noble status as the second only queen, and Emperor Xianfeng did violate the ancestral teachings, the emperor was the most noble in the world, and the only thing that could be worried from the legal point of view was the ancestral training.

Tang Ning looked at the appearance of Concubine Yi, she should be the Empress Dowager Cixi in history, she was less than 25 years old and in her prime, but Tang Ning did not think she was a stunning beauty. The Merry Emperor Xianfeng took his Han girl Sichun and the empress and Yi Guifei to hunt in the north. The so-called four springs are the nicknames given by Xianfeng to the concubines with the names of four flowers, namely: peony spring, begonia spring, apricot blossom spring, and Tuoluo spring.

Sichun and the empress were paralyzed by fright, only Concubine Yi was still capable of taking care of the emperor, so Tang Ning thought she should be Cixi.

The emperor smoked opium, but the favored concubine was spared, this self-sustaining power is worthy of praise, Tang Ning couldn't help but glance at Yi Guifei, who is worthy of being a strong woman in politics.

In any case, first supply Xianfeng to Rehe, and then force him to quit opium when the time comes, a merchant can do whatever he wants, and an emperor will never allow this. He had just made this decision, and the torture and persecution over there had already taken effect. The torture master took off his mask and said with disappointment: "I was recruited at ......the entry-level level."

Just take it, how much resistance can these usually expensive ministers have, according to Tang Ning's estimate, this person who has received it is not bad, but others, they are already paralyzed with fright when they see the terrifying needle of the Hundred Ghosts Night Walking Needle.

The first thing Tang who usurped the right to write the edict was, of course, to solve the problem of the invasion of the British and French forces, the Qing Dynasty itself had already been disabled, and it was impossible to have any prestige, so Tang Ning needed an excuse to intervene, and he thought of a strange way to be by Emperor Xianfeng to issue an edict against himself, denouncing himself for not knowing the world situation to the point of making enemies with Britain and France, and would change his mind from now on, make great efforts to make the Qing civilization in line with the world, no longer call himself the Celestial Empire, no longer treat foreigners as razors, but call Britain, France, or Britain, France. Prince Gong, who remained in Beijing, was ordered to immediately and unconditionally release the 39 British and French diplomats who had been detained, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs would pay huge compensation, regardless of whether they were alive or dead.

Even the words "washing the heart and changing the face" have to be written, for an emperor, it is undoubtedly a matter of swelling his face, and Jiao Youying, who was already in poor health after being punished, was trembling and sweating profusely. This is just the beginning, and there are more exciting things to come.

Set up the "Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen" to be responsible for negotiating with European countries, the head of the yamen is a senior member of the Zhengyipin, must be the Minister of Military Aircraft, Prince Feng Gong is the first Prime Minister and Minister of National Affairs, and when the time is ripe, a professional who is proficient in the foreign languages of a major country and has experience in going abroad will be appointed. Going abroad to negotiate with Westerners should no longer be seen as a shame, but as a normal pre-state dealing. The Qing Dynasty should exchange envoys with European countries, and the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty will, in accordance with international practice, personally receive the new envoys when they take office, and abolish the ancient rites and adopt the internationally accepted bowing etiquette. This was Emperor Xianfeng's most taboo and absurd insistence, which was reversed by Tang Ning in one fell swoop.

The holy decree was already dripping with Jiao Youying's sweat, and he couldn't wipe it clean no matter how he wiped it, and continued to sweat like rain.

As the Duke of London, who has a close relationship with London, Tang Ning of course knows the content of the Tianjin Treaty, and soon the two sides will sign it again, Tang Ning hopes to change the treaty and call opium a foreign medicine, then there is no problem, this is all a false name, and there is no problem with the legality of foreign medicine, and now opium is legal in all European countries, and it has no effect that he has promoted the restriction of opium in Britain for so long. This clause was changed to "as long as foreign medicines are legal in Britain, the Qing Dynasty shall not ban foreign medicines". When the time came, Downing vigorously promoted the ban on opium in Britain, and the Qing Dynasty could legally abolish it.

There is no problem with the consular jurisdiction of the concession, anyway, the judicial system of the Qing Dynasty is extremely unreliable, and it may be more civilized to judge cases by foreigners, but this is only a transition, and the treaty should be changed to when the trial of a concession case involves Chinese, there must be a Chinese jury member, and the concession is allowed to stipulate that only Chinese who have stayed abroad are eligible to be jury members. This is good enough to earn back a little face for the concession. The treaty still guaranteed that foreign merchants, who were mainly in the concessions, would dominate the judiciary, so Britain and France would not have refused.

As for the amount of compensation, it doesn't matter, anyway, I am very rich in the Qing Dynasty, and the foreigners will give as much as they want. But this time, since it is a criminal edict, there must be dry goods, and this dry goods is the key to Tang Ning's intervention - in order to punish himself, the Qing Emperor will sell the Imperial Forbidden Garden of the Old Summer Palace, open to buyers from all over the world, and hold an auction in Shanghai, and the highest bidder will get it. This time, the war reparations with Britain and France will be paid from this, so as not to increase the burden on the people, and make the Qing Emperor lose a place of pleasure to taste his courage.

After Tang Ning finished saying this, Jiao Youying finally couldn't resist the stimulation and fainted decisively.

Hey, why did you pass out? There's still important business to come! The auction will be held six months later, before which the Old Summer Palace will be handed over to the British East India Company, which may garrison up to 1,000 troops in the Old Summer Palace as a sign of its sincerity. That's the point.

Jing Shou attached to Ma Ye has been watching and listening to the side, his psychological life is much better, anyway, it is in the hands of thieves, even if the thief chief wants to write a holy decree of Zen, it is not strange, but now it is quite strange to help Emperor Xianfeng deal with the diplomatic crisis seriously. Master Jiao is really, what's the point of losing a garden? The problem now is that the emperor's life may be lost, and this is all a matter of the thief chieftain's words.

Tang Ning asked Master Jiao to continue to write the holy decree, of course, it was not written on the holy decree that Jiao Youying had already written just now, but it was a new one, and he would copy it when Master Jiao woke up, in case Master Jiao couldn't wake up again, it would have to be rewritten by Master Jiao.

Taking the opportunity of Master Jiao's coma, Tangning brought Western toys that opened the eyes of Ma Ye, in fact, this thing does not even have Western Ocean, this is the world's first and only Chinese typewriter. Tang Ning twisted the Chinese calligrapher in Singapore and Hong Kong, Pinyin expert Wei Tuma, language genius Hong Kong Governor Bao Ning and others and IBM to research the super era of black technology, using liquid crystal as the display and random access to make an artifact. In the initial stage, the cost of this goods was extremely expensive, and it was basically impossible to become a commodity, but because it could be combined with wireless telegraphy to send Chinese telegrams for the first time, it was a strategic item, and it was very suitable to be used as the emperor's command tool. Although the holy decree was good, it was too slow, and it took two or three months for it to reach the hands of the governors in various places, and the daylilies were cold. (http:／／.）。

Therefore, Tangning's second decree is to let all local officials have a messenger equipped with a Chinese typewriter. The world's unique radio decree is about to be born, the text part of the decree is naturally printed by electrostatic toner according to the heat transfer of the radio signal, and the end of the text is stamped with the emperor's treasure, inheriting the traditional style. If it is a particularly important decree, it must also be drafted by the imperial minister with a brush and transmitted in a pattern, a process that is quite time-consuming and resource-intensive, and if it is not a heavy dà event, a Chinese telegram with a treasure seal will do. If it is too important, the governors can demand the true traditional decree and wait until the traditional decree is delivered before executing it, but if there are too many such things, the delay in the major event will be punished.

Whether it is the liquid crystal display or the electrostatic heat transfer, the traces of the particles can be clearly seen, but the divine attribute of the artifact has completely overshadowed this small flaw.

After the invention of this Chinese typewriter, smart people learned it, and graduates of the International Academy who worked for Reuters in various places were soon assigned to local officials to teach them how to use this radio transmittor.

Jing Shou was stunned by this kind of artifact that instantly transmitted the holy decree, Western entertainment was really ...... It is no longer possible to use strange tricks to despise shì, this is simply a kind of witchcraft, if it weren't for Tang Ning giving him a general introduction to the principle of radio transmission, the attached horse master would have to encounter a magic obstacle.