Chapter 124
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Burbulon's ship, the Garsini, sailed on the river surface of Zhenjiang, and was about to sail out of the waters of the Taiping Army. Xu Zongyang motioned to the captain to drop the anchor, and after saying goodbye to Burblon and the others, he returned to his warship with the guards along the spiral ladder.
The Garcini began to sail again. Looking at the minister who was still waving his hand at Xu Zongyang, who was gradually passing away, Gu Si didn't seem to be freed from Tianjing's nest, he patted off the side of the ship dissatisfiedly, and looked at the captain and interpreter Ma Jishi beside him, "Mr. Captain, their so-called escort is just a surveillance on us, and it is a humiliation for the soldiers of the empire. ”
The captain spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders. "They seem to have a lot of respect for us, don't forget, although we are just a kind of inspection, we enjoy the treatment of state guests." ”
Gu Si snorted disapprovingly, "That's their ignorance. ”
"Ignorance?" Bourblon turned around and looked him up and down a few times as if he didn't know him, "Sir, I think it's your ignorance. ”
"Your Excellency" Gu Si's face turned a little red, and he wanted to argue something, but was interrupted by Bourblon waving his hand.
"It was an ancient country that anyone would think of as a very closed country, a country so simple that trade required force to reach it. But right here, what do you really see? Bourblon glanced at the few people in front of him, and finally fell on Gu Si's body, "Have you been to the Imperial Palace of Versailles?" Definitely haven't been. I have been there, but even I don't know as much about the specific structure and layout of the Palace of Versailles as their King An. What does this mean? ”
Bourblon slowly left the side of the ship and walked towards the bow. He took a deep breath of the slightly chilly river breeze blowing in front of him and sighed, "It's incredible! They couldn't have been to the Empire, but why did they know so much about it? ”
He turned his head and shrugged his shoulders, "Gentlemen, don't repeat their mistakes. In my opinion, if they were as afraid of us as the Qing government in Beijing, then they would never have gotten the world they claimed. On the contrary, they are not afraid of anyone. If it weren't for the special intelligence sources in advance, knowing that we would be going to Tianjing, as early as the first time we passed through Zhenjiang, there would not have been any escort problem, it would have been very troublesome. No country would allow its warships to roam its own rivers. What the Empire needed was to pursue commercial interests here, at least for the time being, the Emperor of the Empire had no other meaning. No guns, no hatred, and the same maximum economic benefits, why should we choose war? ”
He looked at Gu Si, who was silent, and sighed, "It's not terrible to lose to a woman, the most terrible thing is your psychology." That girl is the commander of their Celestial Dynasty, equivalent to the fourth-grade official of the Qing government, and her status is higher than yours. If you don't get to know this new regime correctly, your position is not for you. ”
"Your Excellency, I understand," Gu Si hung his head in frustration, "I will think according to Your Excellency's wishes." Actually, I just want to emphasize the strength of the empire, and the conquest is for the empire."
"Conquest?" Bourblon smiled and pointed to the vast land on both sides of the river, "Gentlemen, if we talk about conquest, it may be more realistic to ask our French Empire to conquer all of Europe first. ”
Yang Fuqing is now in Xiangxiang, but he is in trouble.
All the wealthy families who had financed Zeng Guofan's formation of the Hunan army in the past were thoroughly investigated, and except for some who were fully proved to have been forced to extort, the others were without exception severely fined, their land confiscated, and distributed to those poor villagers who had long longed for their own piece of land. In particular, in the process of dividing the land and distributing the land, the Celestial Army widely announced that all those families who had been verified to still have family members serving as soldiers in the Hunan army would not be considered for the distribution of land.
In order to effectively cooperate with the distribution of land, Yang Fuqing, on the one hand, followed the experience gained from Wuchang and vigorously mobilized the poorest villagers to form rural governments at all levels.
In front of the Confucian Temple in Xiangxiang County, there are crowds of people, and thousands of people are crowded. Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guohuang, Zeng Guoquan, Zeng Guobao, Liu Rong, and more than a dozen wealthy gentry who were willing to fund Zeng Guofan's Hunan army and had public grievances, were tied up on the temporary wooden platform in front of the Confucian Temple, and knelt down in front of 10,000 people. Near the stage are their families and relatives, and a few dozen steps to the west is the execution ground. Dozens of sharp-edged ghost-headed machetes waited fiercely.
Yang Fuqing came to the stage, he looked at the quiet crowd, smiled, bent down to lift Zeng Guobao's big black braid behind him, and said loudly, "Fathers and brothers, do you know the origin of this braid?" I'm going to talk to you about it today. Before the Qing Demon entered our Central Plains, it was an ignorant barbarian who grew up in the bitter cold land of the north, living on nomadism, and did not even have their own writing. If it weren't for us Han people who taught them something, they would still be living in a beast-like environment. Look at this head, they are accustomed to this front part without hair, so as not to scatter hair to cover their vision when riding a horse, and affect them to kill for fun. The thick braid left behind the skull is intended to be used as a pillow for sleeping in the open. Because, they don't know how to make pillows at all. ”
According to the official document prepared for him by King Yi in advance, Yang Fuqing began to play to his heart's content. He talked about the slavery system practiced by the Manchus before they came to control the Central Plains, and talked about the barbarian people's burning, killing, plundering, and frantically slaughtering the cities, leaving thousands of miles uninhabited. He also taught his descendants what Genghis Khan said on his way back from his expedition to the west: "The greatest pleasure in life is to kill all the enemies, to rob them of all their possessions, to see their relatives weep bitterly, to ride their horses, to rape their wives and daughters." "Romance came to the mouth of the Qing demon.
He said that although the Manchu Qing Dynasty sang "Manchu and Han unity" orally, it seemed that they particularly admired the so-called science of the Han literati, but it was just the spirit of using science to enslave the Han nation. The Manchu dynasties themselves were sober and did not drink the poison of science at all. Kangxi once instructed his sons to "practice riding and archery in a timely manner", he did not allow the Han people to be martial, but he never forgot to teach his descendants to be martial, and he severely punished individual lost lambs who could not withstand the temptation and those who were contaminated with the bad habits of the Han literati. In the 31st year of Qianlong, the prince Yongxing wrote "Mirror Spring" in a fan poem, which was discovered by Qianlong, and he was so angry that he even scolded and instructed the prince not to follow the bad habits of the Han people and change the tradition of Manchuria's simple and heavy riding and archery for generations. At the same time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty engaged in "literary prison" and "sea ban" to destroy the culture of the Han people, regardless of the life and death of the people. For those who have the backbone of the Han nationality and have the spirit of independence, the Manchu Qing Dynasty hated them even more, and they did not hesitate to crush a literati Lu Liuliang like Yongzheng
Yang Fuqing finally threw Zeng Guobao's braid fiercely, and shouted excitedly, "It is these Qing demons and these traitors who recognize thieves as their fathers that have destroyed the thousands of years of tradition of our Han people. Look at the ugly faces of these cultured people, their holy teacher is behind them, and ask them one by one to ask themselves, are they right about the tablet of Confucius in the Temple of Literature? Are they worthy of their own fathers and fathers? The body is the skin, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it, and the beginning of filial piety is also. What is it talking about? It's about the demon maintaining the clothing and hairstyle of our Han nation, but it's not like keeping such a dog's tail that is not male or female. Confucius said well, all foreigners will have different hearts. Our ancestor Yandi Mausoleum is in Yuxian County, dozens of miles away, he is looking at us, looking at us, the descendants of Yan Huang, whether he wants to be an upright Han person, or would rather be a dog and a traitor! ”
As he spoke, waving his hand angrily, he ordered the soldiers guarding behind the prisoners to "lift up the faces of these vile, shameless people, so that everyone can get to know each other." ”
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