Chapter 389: Birthday Banquet

The morning sun rises from the east of the city of Beijing as usual.

The ancient imperial capital, which had been silent all night, woke up as scheduled, exuding the same vitality as before in the shouts of breakfast shops and vendors from the north and south.

It's just that behind this vitality, there is a rotten smell that is so strong that you can't ignore it.

Especially the news from the foreigners in the Tianjin Concession half a month ago cast a layer of lingering haze on the upcoming grand event in the imperial capital.

In later generations there is a Cixi Great Birthday Curse.

On her fortieth birthday, her own son returned to heaven with the rule of the same time, and the white-haired person sent the black-haired person.

On her fiftieth birthday, the "Sino-French New Covenant" was signed, and China lost its toes; Japan went south, and China lost the Ryukyus.

On her 60th birthday, the Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed, and China lost Korea, Taiwan, and Penghu, and paid 200 million taels of silver in compensation.

Therefore, there is Zhang Taiyan's famous couplet:

"Today to Nanyuan, tomorrow to Beihai, when to ancient Chang'an? sighed that the blood of the people was all dry, and only one person was left to sing and celebrate.

Fifty cut the Ryukyus, sixty cut Taiwan, and now cut the three eastern provinces! The help of Chi County is getting worse, and every time you have a long life, you wish Xinjiang nothing! ”

In fact, when Cixi celebrated her fortieth birthday, it was not just a matter of death and treatment.

At that time, the invader of the Central Asian Khanate of Kokand, Aguba, invaded and seized most of Xinjiang.

It's just that Zuo Zongtang has been stunned for thousands of years, and he changed his life against the sky and reversed a piece of infamy for Cixi.

The times are different, and in this time and space, the law that there will be disasters when Cixi lives still works.

At this time, the young Yehenara Xingzhen could not have imagined that just a month before his thirtieth birthday, the damned Ming Dynasty, who crawled out of the underworld on the other side of the world, actually defeated France, the second most powerful country in the world today, and captured the French emperor, so that the French emperor was also deposed by a Parisian Yu Shaobao!

How dare he, Zhu Fugui, how can he do the story of the first master and arrest the French Emperor as Zhu Qizhen?

That's France, the unbeatable France!

France, Xingzhen, she is too familiar.

Six years ago, she was forced by the British and French to go on a Mulan autumn hunt with Xianfeng and fled from Beijing in a hurry.

It was that escape that became the biggest turning point in Yehnara Xingzhen's life.

It can be said that the French are her enemies and her nobles, but in the final analysis, they are the ones she cannot afford to provoke!

But is it that France, which is full of martial virtues, the first power in Taixi and the second power in the world, was so easily defeated by the Ming Dynasty?

Zhu Fugui: How did he do it?

Could it be that as the rumors say, he is a purple microstar descending to earth, and there are a hundred single eight stars to help?

Cixi listened to Li Lianying, and it is rumored that Zhang Tianshi of the previous generation of Longhu Mountain ascended the altar and accidentally let go of one hundred and eight demons.

Now there are:

【Tiangangxing, Jade Gelding, Li Chunfa】

【Heavenly Machine Star, Great Wisdom, Xing Jiuliu】

【Heavenly Fierce Star, Iron Tiger, Qi Wenchang】

【Celestial Brave Star, Big Bird, Yang Rokuro】

【Tian Yingxing, Xiao Hanxin, Zhang Changgui】

【Tianfuxing, Pingxi Wang, Tang Sangui】

【Sky Killing Star, White Whirlwind, Mo Bai】

【Sky Lone Star, Drum Flea, Yin Weasel】

【Celestial Stars, U**, Morishita】

……

Thinking of that person, everyone gathered under Zhu Fugui's command, Xingzhen couldn't sleep at night like other Manchu nobles.

The difference was that the other Manchu nobles were able to use opium and women's sex to relieve their fatigue and make themselves forget about these nightmares.

But Xingzhen can't.

As a partner of the Qingliu Party in the DPRK and China, opium cannot be touched.

And the male color ......

Xingzhen has been alone in the empty boudoir for six years!

Do you know how she has come over in the past six years?

Do you know?

You don't know!

In short, Xingzhen can only smoke the big back door one by one in the dead of night, comforting her lonely soul in front of her.

As for the thirtieth birthday this time......

To be honest, the 30th birthday is not in line with the etiquette system, but now the Qing Dynasty needs a grand event and a shot in the arm!

Originally, the grand event that the Qing Dynasty had been waiting for was supposed to be a great gift for recovering Jiangning and exterminating the bandits.

In the Qing Dynasty, the gift of prisoners was also preserved.

At that time, the Qianlong Dynasty had perfect martial arts, and with the virtue of writing poems by ten perfect old men, the gift of offering prisoners has always been huge.

To calm the balance of heaven, the Jingshi must pay a heavy salute.

However, two years passed.

Jiangning Mansion or Tianjing City is still impregnable, and King Hong not only gave birth to dragons and tigers, but also said to have given birth to a few more little heavenly grandchildren!

Seeing that this event is far away, but I am in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and the bad news is one after another, and I urgently need to find something to rush to joy.

So the Empress Dowager Cixi restored the Japanese country and added another tributary state to our Qing Dynasty, which was also counted as a total, and this year's birthday of the Empress Dowager was even more extraordinary, and it was grand!

"This birthday gift is not for me Xingzhen alone, but for my Qing Dynasty for thousands of years!"

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As early as the beginning of the year, the Tongzhi Emperor issued an edict, ordering the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to respect the generals, read the old classics, discuss the grand discussion in detail, and arrange the longevity celebration as completely as possible.

Now, after nearly a year of preparation, the venue is very complete and grand.

Whether it is the oil decoration in the venue or the clothes worn by the guests, everything is available.

Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province calcined 300,000 copies of dining utensils painted with the words "longevity without borders" and various auspicious patterns, Xingzhen personally ordered the design of "Longevity Scene Sketch", from Xihua Gate to the Summer Palace on the road of dozens of miles with colored silk to build more than 60 color sheds, stages, archways, altars and various pavilions and other point projects.

It can be said that the Manchu government made the imperial city into an auspicious and festive palace regardless of the cost.

As for what Ming people knock on, twist bandits and make chaos, and the Han army tail is big......

None of them exist!

I don't know if it was out of disgust with the Ming Dynasty, or because all the countries did not want to miss our Qing Dynasty, the ambassadors, ministers, chargé d'affaires, and acting counselors of the great powers in China were all gladly invited to attend, giving Cixi enough face.

You must know that in the past, when the devil six controlled the yamen of the foreign prime minister, these foreigners were not so obedient and gave face!

What does this mean?

This shows that my Da Xingzhen's bed diplomacy has far surpassed the silver diplomacy of Devil Six!

Not only is it more successful, but it also saves money!

This time, the British Empire not only personally attended the event as Minister Plenipotentiary and Governor of Commerce in China, but also allowed Burma, Nepal, Sikkim, Siam, and other countries to send envoys to attend Cixi's birthday as vassal states.

The French are paying more attention.

Not only did they allow the Khmer, Nanzhang and other countries to come to congratulate them, but they also persuaded the Spaniards to find two Filipino fishermen, dressed in the clothes of indigenous Africans, who claimed to be the king of Sulu.

They even upgraded the former Minister Plenipotentiary of the Second French Empire to China to the rank of Ambassador Plenipotentiary.

Don't underestimate the difference between the words, which was a huge difference in the nineteenth-century diplomatic system.

Before the twentieth century, European countries generally sent ambassadors only between major powers or allies or to the Papal States, and generally only sent ministers to other countries of the second class and below, with the highest diplomatic envoys, and the hierarchy was very high.

In other words, France's promotion of its envoy to China or to the Qing Dynasty to ambassador is actually an act of taking the initiative to touch the head of the Qing Dynasty and express its favor!

My Qing Dynasty now looks somewhat like the India of later generations.

Due to the existence of a certain Eastern power that would pose a fundamental threat to the Western world, India/Qing was seen as an important "partner" among foreigners.

In other words, my Ming martial arts shocked the world, but unexpectedly made the importance of the Qing Dynasty rise sharply, and it became hot in diplomacy.

The false Celestial Empire: The Son of Heaven is called the handsome, personally in charge of the three armies, building arts and sciences, and exhibiting science and technology, the soldiers are strong and strong, the second killing method chicken, and the name of Europa children crying at night!

The real Celestial Empire: The Russian soldiers guard the northern frontier, the British ministers control the customs, the Son of Heaven rules with the arch, and all the countries come to the court!

Make a judgment from above, and the Qing Dynasty may become the biggest winner!

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With nearly a year of careful preparation by the puppet court, and with the admiration of foreign adults, the scene of the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty came to my face for a while.

Yehnara Xingzhen lived behind the curtain through the beaded curtain, and together with the 10-year-old Aisin Jueluo Zaichun, he was called long live by hundreds of officials and the envoys of various vassals, and knelt three times and bowed nine times.

Of course, the ambassadors and ministers of Western countries will not kowtow.

Not to mention kowtowing, they paid the whole price of Erlang legs, drank coffee and black tea, and watched the oriental performances with a curious mentality of watching monkey performances.

The Anglo-Saxons were able to set India as a benchmark and call him the world's largest democracy, but this did not prevent them from treating Indians as monkeys.

And today's Manchu Qing is still far inferior to India in later generations.

And then there is the milk print, and people are also nuclear countries.

We've cleared a lot of people, but we really can't do anything.

Speaking of masters, Jin Qingzhi, or Aixin Jueluo Qingzhi is also in the celebration at this time.

However, with his status, the location is quite remote.

But at this time, both him and his Amma were all red-faced.

On the one hand, this was because the two of them had just smoked Hebrew tobacco before they came, and it was the time when they were feeling comfortable.

On the other hand, it is because at this time, it is the link of the gift list that the people and the palace nobles are very fond of.

The relatives, high-ranking officials, nobles, Mongolian princes, and Tibetan living Buddhas who participated in the birthday banquet of the Queen Mother of the Virgin Mary, and the envoys of each vassal did not know how many.

Naturally, it is impossible to offer treasures one by one.

Only a few princes and important officials of Washuo, as well as important vassal states such as Korea, Vietnam, and Japan, were presented on the spot.