Chapter 96: It can't be overthrown by foreigners
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Hong Xiuquan's ending is that he was killed by a eunuch, and then the eunuch was killed by Hong Xiuquan's sister. The people inside are crazy. All cannibalism, not a single one left. The farcical Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was wiped out in less than two years in a farce-like form in this era.
Qingyu asked people to sort out all the information, make their own prefaces, and let them publish it all over the country. Xianfeng finished reading it, but he actually had different opinions, and in his opinion, this was self-defeating. But Qingyu's article, he likes it. Of course, Qingyu didn't use her own name, but used a "author" as her name.
Qingyu also cited the example of Li Zicheng in the former Ming Dynasty, and then talked about the final results of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, emphasizing that Li Zicheng's program at that time was 'Welcoming the king, welcoming the king, and ushering in the king without paying food.' And what is Hong Xiuquan's slogan, 'thin taxes, equal wealth and poverty'. Then Qingyu began to settle accounts, using numbers to tell people who can read and write that their slogans are an ideal and cannot be realized.
There is not a single word in the whole article that does not make people rebel, but she is implying that if someone fools you into rebelling, please think about it first, what they say is not possible. Do you want to help these people realize their vision of getting rich first?
"You really don't object to their rebellion?" The book found a folk printing workshop to print and distribute, Xianfeng took the book that still exuded the fragrance of books and looked at Qingyu and smiled.
"Really, as long as they put forward a program that I think is acceptable." Qingyu nodded, she came from the twenty-first century, she has her own likes and dislikes, but she is also a modern person, look at the only remaining royal families in the world, to be honest, even if she is a Manchurian, she doesn't think there is anything good about this system.
However, the lesser of two evils, their main enemies now are those ambitious foreigners. So she now supports Xianfeng for self-improvement. But if there is a more advanced person who can defend themselves against foreign enemies, ask them to establish a constitutional monarchy, or simply abdicate them, she is not without it. But now it is obvious that these people cannot become stronger people than Xianfeng, so she can only work her own.
"What kind of program are you acceptable?" Xianfeng smiled, it was originally a small talk between husband and wife, so he didn't need to take it too seriously.
"I don't know, I'll know when they show up." Qingyu smiled, what kind of social system is the best for this country, it is not for her, but for the people themselves. Qingyu looked at Xianfeng, "Your Majesty, would you rather be overthrown, or would you rather be used as a puppet by foreigners and be the emperor?" ”
"I don't want to be overthrown by the sixth child!" Xianfeng said subconsciously.
"What if it's a Han Chinese?" Qingyu hesitated.
"Back then, the ancestor said that if they didn't want us to stay, we would go back." Xianfeng is very calm, these days, he reads Chery's letter, he also yearns for freedom outside the customs, and even reads Lao Qi's letter, he feels that his heart is much more open-minded. It's better to go back, which is what often turns in his head.
"We don't have to go back, we have actually become one with the Han people a long time ago, and we are closely related." Qingyu let out a long sigh, go back? Where to go! If the land is really divided, that is the sinner of the nation. However, Xianfeng is not the last emperor at all, and there are still fifty years before the end of the Qing Dynasty. It didn't really help telling him this yourself.
"Okay, what are you going to do with this, you want to see some British ladies in Beijing tomorrow?" Xianfeng decided to change the topic to a lighter one.
"Yes, I've really been talking about it for a long time, Lao Qi invited a few interpreters for the concubines, but there were no women in the interpreters, and the concubines didn't learn, so just let the interpreters be present on the day of the banquet." Qingyu has not been idle these days, in addition to dealing with the affairs of the Internal Affairs Office, she has been asking the Lifan Yuan to find a higher-level British. Fortunately, there is an open port in Shanghai, and a legation has been set up in the open port.
When the situation in the south was unstable, the Shanghai envoy also sent a telegram back to China, asking whether he supported the Qing court or the Taiping army. Of course, the reply is to let them protect the safety of the expatriates and the concession, and leave the rest alone.
When Qingyu was preparing to meet these ladies, it was also three months, and it happened that the Taiping army in the south was defeated, and the British side reacted immediately, and the minister in Guangzhou asked to see Ye Mingchen in February and wanted to submit his credentials, but he was refused, and received the letter, and the minister's wife from the five major ports all took the boat to Tianjin Gang, waiting for Qingyu's reception. The response was very fast.
"I heard from the sixth child, this time the wives of the five ministers are all here, and they live in the mansion prepared by the Li Fan Yuan."
"Well, before the Lifan Academy, they learned etiquette, and I let them forget it, each has its own way, and there is no need to make these false things. But the sixth child did a good job this time, and the wives of the five ministers are here, which is really good. Qingyu laughed.
"Why?"
"Because they are all here, the French government has also submitted an application to the sixth child, asking to see me." Qingyu smiled at Xianfeng again.
"Sandpiper and clam fighting?" Xianfeng looked at Qinghao's bad smile and almost understood what Qingyu meant.
"Almost, we have seen the British, the concubines have already heard about it, and the French ministers and wives have also arrived in Beijing, and they have also brought exquisite French works of art."
After waiting for three months, I let my favorite concubine receive me, which is an important signal, and I didn't see that France was directly from their government ward this time. For them, it was a direct channel of communication with the Qing court. Otherwise, how can you be so rushed.
"Artwork, you really want?"
"Nope! I think we're doing better. Qingyu plugged in, thinking of the state of mind when I saw Chinese art in a British museum, I really can't describe it in words. When I was studying, I went to France to see the Chinese Palace, where there was a room made by Chinese craftsmen, without using a nail, which attracted the world's amazement. What the tour guide said, the great thing is that these craftsmen were once not Chinese. Listening to it made her a young international student extremely depressed. So she has never changed her nationality, she is Chinese.
"Do you mean that Ye Gong is a good dragon? You yourself said that Zeng Guofan looked down on foreigners, this is not right, what about you? You look down on them too, do you? ”
"No, the concubine never dared to look down on anyone. You see, this time the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Originally, the concubine thought it would be difficult, but it turned out that it was not difficult to do. After clearing the arrears with the household department, and repaying the property that should have been returned to those nobles and officials, is no one saying that you should not clean up the internal affairs office? Even the concubine's mother-in-law sent a jade Guanyin into the palace. I gave her daughter a veritable princely palace. Qingyu laughed and took a deep breath, in fact, no matter what she did, she was to contact one party and strike at the other. Throughout the ages, this balance has always existed.
She insisted on returning the property, which was to entrap the nobles and courtiers, just like why Xianfeng let Duanhua Sushun enter the cabinet this time, which is also one of the ways to envelop.