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“…… This scene (because of habit, many people naturally call this condolence performance also called a play) should really keep it in our memories forever, and learn something from it. This was an almost helpless exclamation from Du Han, a member of the Manchu peace talks delegation and Minister of Military Aircraft, to the other delegates, including Zaiyuan and Seng Greenqin, after returning to the post house where they were staying.

In fact, just a few days of face-to-face physical contact, and the vigorous spectacle that is everywhere here, have forced these people to re-acquaint themselves with their opponents.

They deeply felt that what they were encountering now was not the ordinary mob that they had previously taken for granted in their minds. From the knowledge of various channels that they had been constantly experiencing, they also knew about the "power struggle" that had taken place within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they were even excited about it. Of course, they naturally knew what kind of "Communist Alliance" the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had newly set up, replacing the "God Worship Religion" in the past, as for what was the true meaning of this "Communist Alliance" that was hyped up by the other party? The Manchu civil and military officials of the Qing Dynasty couldn't understand anyone, and they didn't have the leisure to figure it out. However, how to follow their previous ideas, regardless of what kind of "will" he is, is always just a change of soup and not a change of medicine, just like the worship of God, it is just a "dog skin plaster" used to confuse the people into rebelling.

But what about the facts? Not to mention the information that has been obtained from the people who have gathered in the past few days, it is also incredible that the few plays staged today alone can make thousands of people in the audience excited and enthusiastic. They couldn't understand how these mud-legged people who came out of the ravine of Guangxi learned such superb craftsmanship, and they could be so incendiary?

If you think about it carefully, in fact, it is not difficult to understand that those people who have always thought that they have been greatly wronged, once they are given a chance to turn over, they can let go and liquidate their past enemies, how many of them will be honest? It is no wonder that wherever the Taiping army goes, the people will follow them regardless of life and death. Duhan, who was born in Hanlin, seems to see through this. However, he couldn't say it directly to his colleagues, because, for those people, his Daqing Dynasty can't even make up a small favor for the time being, let alone make the poor ghosts turn over, and it's useless to say it.

"Learn", what to learn? It's easy to say, they can't learn anything, and in the end they can only pat their heads and scream.

"Alas, if I want to say that I feel the most terrible, it is the two times at the beginning and the end. The first time it was thousands of people singing their national anthems, and the second time, thousands of people were singing their military anthems. I wonder if you have listened carefully to the words in the song? Honestly, but literally, it's really well written. When they sang these things to us outsiders present, especially to those foreigners, that kind of momentum ...... It's hard to describe. From the day they started the incident, it was only five or six years since they were full, but they actually had everything. Look at us again, we are too poor, not to mention anything else, even those court musicians in Ouchi, as well as the self-righteous Li Hongzhang, can't make up anything serious? They all say that their army can fight, alas, how can it not fight, even I, an outsider, feel hot and dry when I listen to them sing. If the soldiers rushed to the battlefield with these two songs in their hearts, it would be strange if they didn't win the battle. ”

Du Han's words made Zaiyuan and the others listen to it as if they had a pig's bitter gall in their mouths, and they only grinned bitterly.

Everyone remembers that on the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, the Empress Dowager Cixi, in order to express her gratitude to her Russian friends for their hard work, gave a grand reception to the officials of the Russian Legation and senior Russian generals in the Forbidden City. Since her Russian friends couldn't understand Peking Opera, the careful Cixi naturally wouldn't neglect this, so she ordered to imitate her Russian friends and put together a band. Who knows, not long after listening to the performance of the Qing Dynasty Royal Band, the Russian friends who were full of wine and food yawned and found various excuses to leave the table.

Duhan, who was also confused and restless, when he slipped to the pit again to clean his hands, he heard the words of the Russian minister and his attachés, "This Qing Dynasty has no music at all, it is just noise." As he said this, the big hairy head of Ignatiev shook so much that it almost fell off his neck.

When the national anthem is mentioned, it is even more ridiculous. Last year, to celebrate the founding of the Qing-Russian coalition, the Russian legation held a reception. At the reception, in order to welcome Cixi, who was rarely able to participate in this kind of activity, Bodhiyating expressed the close friendship between Russia and the Qing Dynasty, and specially arranged a band to play the national anthems of Russia and the Qing Dynasty when Cixi arrived.

Bodhiyating's mention yì, Li Hongzhang, who came to stand for the queen mother, suddenly made a fuss and the second monk was confused. National anthem? Is it the national anthem? Master Li is full of wealth, but he has never heard of what the national anthem is. But he couldn't show his ignorance in front of Bodhiyating, so the clever Li Hongzhang rolled his eyes and thought for a while, and suddenly opened his mouth.

Isn't it just a song of the Qing Dynasty, it's not easy. He immediately waved a big poem and quickly found an ancient song and handed it to Bodhiyating.

"The golden palace is heavy in the purple pavilion, the jade hibiscus on the cactus, the Taiping Son of Heaven faces the sky, and the five-colored cloud chariot drives six dragons." When the bejeweled Empress Dowager Cixi, supported by the great eunuch An Dehai, stepped on the rhythm of this "national anthem" and danced, the officials in the hall of Tsarist Russia were dumbfounded.

Absolutely, in their eyes, there is an authoritative queen mother, who is simply the number one dancer in the world.

I was fortunate enough to witness this scene of an imperial history, for this temporary "national anthem" that was not the dignity of the Heavenly Dynasty, after returning home, I cried bitterly for a whole night, and the next day I wrote to Cixi to impeach Li Hongzhang. Of course, although the content is written quite tactfully, who knows that the reply you get is "boring to the extreme!" Extremely obscene! ”。 yes, it's too boring, the Queen Mother likes it, it's a matter to you? So, under the shame and indignation, this imperial historian committed suicide by taking poison that day, and he couldn't afford to lose that person!

The long-awaited peace talks between the north and the south have finally begun in earnest.

The entire day of the first day was spent with Manchu delegates reading out their ideas.

Don't underestimate the Manchu delegation, although they were able to come to Jinan, it can be said that it took a lot of trouble, but they were very detailed about the specific content of the negotiations. Drawing on the returns received after the first pre-contact between the two sides at the end of May, and with the help of Russia's allies, this detailed set of negotiations is a comprehensive set of nearly 100 articles, large and small.

The members of the Celestial Empire delegation did not show the slightest disgust at such a tedious and rambling content, but listened carefully from beginning to end without tire, and even asked questions from time to time on some points that were still vague.

At the end of the day, they summarized each other's wishes roughly as follows:

1. The Qing Dynasty recognized the legitimacy of the Taiping regime, which had a sense of power over the areas under its control; As two independent countries, they do not invade each other, do not interfere with each other, and at the same time do not use slanderous words to attack each other;

2. The demarcation line between the two sides shall be to the east of Shaanxi and to the Yellow River, and the other areas shall be divided on the spot according to the actual line of contact between the two sides on 30 May, the armistice date agreed upon by the two sides at that time;

3. The Taipingtian ** team shall earnestly protect the lives and property of all Manchu people in the area under its control, and send special personnel to organize and escort the Manchu people from all over the country back to the north of the Yellow River;

4. Both sides should immediately release their respective prisoners of war, especially those of the Russian army captured by the Taiping Army in previous battles;

5. Tibet is a part of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty has canonized Tibet**,* in all dynasties, so the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government should immediately stop negotiations on Tibet......

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