In a blink of an eye, the stargazing and mapping work outside Juyong Pass came to an end, followed by the British envoy's visit, the signing of a Sino-British treaty, and the endless exchange of merchant ships from the Xiangjiang River to the Huangpu River.

Suddenly, like a dream, the two talents who wore a square scarf and a buckled gown in Guangzhou Mansion back then also re-obtained a new fame and achieved the position of a classic history and a county leader. In the north and south of the river, I don't know how many new upstarts have risen, how many righteous doors have fallen and flowed, how many ancestral halls have become Jinglu, and how many Confucian temples have been changed into school palaces.

I don't know how many thousand-year-old temples have cut off the land rent and old rice, stripped the Buddha face and mud gold, and become a magic instrument scripture.

And over the years, the door of Zhu Mingshanfang has always been closed, except for the five-year meeting of the Senior Affairs Yuan, it is rare to see the dignity of the bamboo crown Taoist. Many people with a heart can't help but talk a few words behind their backs: "Isn't it the one who is tired of waking up to the power of the world, and really wants to learn from the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor back then, the heart of Kongtong, burning Dan Huangshan, and preparing to fly up by dragon?"

The Lord of the Daohai Sect Origin lived in a simple place, but the influence of the Dao Sea Sect Source had not weakened a bit.

Nine thousand kilometers away from the port of Guangzhou, Baron Staunton's House, 17 Devonshire Road, London.

Baron Georges Staunton was sitting in the reception room opposite his old friend, Count Macartney, in front of a complete set of delicate tea sets: a red clay stove with a glass lamp underneath, celadon teacups with ice cracks, and blue and white dragon bottles with thin, transparent bands.

Of course, on all the objects, there are cinnabar red imprints, and the seal character of "China" is particularly distinct.

In the cups of the Earl of Macartney and Baron Staunton, the black tea with an orange-red glow exudes a pure apple aroma, which can be distinguished from the aroma by any glutton, which is Qimen black tea from Fujian.

With the signing of the Sino-British Treaty of Commerce, the iron sulfate hawthorn tea, Prussian blue elderberry tea, and the patina "authentic Wuyi rock tea" flavored with sheep dung were gradually defeated by the new arrival of Qimen black tea and Yunnan red.

London's second-course tea sellers did not yet have enough chemical knowledge to concoct chemical waste with apple and honey aromas to use as new food additives. So much so that those well-known tea merchants, as well as their original chemical dye teas of various tastes, had to be moved to other places.

With the arrival of batches of ocean-going fleets, there are also various commodities that are lighter and smoother, such as colorful porcelain dolls, glass flower products with variable colors, and more durable and unfading calico......

The countries that once led the industrial revolution are now facing the dumping of large quantities of goods from the Far East. Even after ocean transportation, these goods from foreign countries are actually cheaper and better than local products!

7

On Downing Street, the prime minister, who had gradually turned from enlightened to stubborn, had begun to think about how Spain, which had plundered most of the wealth of South America, had fallen.

But at this moment, in France, the guardian of the Jacobins, that Corsican officer, Napoleon Bonaparte, had taken office for life.

The news of the landing of the French crown caused fear in every royal family, from St. Petersburg to London, and people talked about the misfortunes of the Bourbon royal family. The Count of Provence, now under the protection of Buckingham Palace, is the surviving first heir to the Bourbon dynasty and is much more interesting than the trade problems of the Far East.

At this time, few people cared about the Count of Macartney, who had traveled thousands of miles to the Far East.

At most, foreign traders represented by the East India Company will mention him with admiration: "Thanks to Count Macartney, he opened the doors of the Far East and found a new way for our trade!"

Probably.

Cotton from India, cocoa beans from South America, and iron ore from Australia flocked to that country, bringing back new black teas more to British tastes, delicate and unblemished calico, and new healing and religious ......

Anyone familiar with the history of Spain's decline will see how familiar this scene is!

After meeting the two founders of the new empire at the same time, Macartney's Sino-British Treaty of Commerce was such a document, which allowed the British to trade in nine ports, including Canton, and also recognized the British as British nationals and temporary residence. At the same time, it also agreed to the request for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and the exchange of ambassadors, and the Count of Macartney and Baron Staunton were the first ambassadors and consul generals to China. Even the right to preach the Jesuits, who had been unsuccessful for many years, was granted, of course, only if they took the kind of harsh examinations that the members of the mission had seen. And the appointment and dismissal of bishops and priests is still in the hands of the Vatican.

But in the same way, Britain had to open its doors to Chinese businessmen to travel freely to the British Isles with the same right of abode. After a large number of monks fell off the list and couldn't get along in their hometowns, they began to want to have a future overseas. Qinggeng Academy, together with the Taoist officials who teach, also came here to give lectures-

However, these officials are only responsible for teaching humanities such as philosophy and history, and as for the important Gewu courses at Qinggang Academy, I'm sorry, so please complete the preparatory course at this college first, and I'm thinking about studying abroad. By the way, in order to ensure the quality of international students, remember to pass the fourth level before passing the Chinese test.

Clippers from the East have linked the two countries, but such a close connection may not be what the British wanted!

With the resurgence of the Oriental fever, even the Earl of Macartney and Baron Staunton, who had resigned from their public posts, had already felt it fully.

The diplomat, who had gray sideburns, picked up a copy of today's newspaper and saw a new satirical poem on it:

Sir Geralby Jingle and General Sneezing,

Each of them had a son,

One in Ceylon and the other in Assam.

They graduated from Oxford, but now grow tea, coffee and sugar cane.

Lombard Avenue and damn Minsing's Street,

The stench of securities dealers is unbearable.

But those plants that smell fragrant,

But it won't affect your self-esteem.

If you wish, I will offer you five thousand pounds,

You can find the color of gold in Ceylon and Assam.

Tell me, are you going or not going?

The rhyme of this poem is a little awkward, but the meaning expressed in it is very obvious. The old earl put down the newspaper and muttered, "But Assam is not a British colony!"

"Yes, Count, that is the territory of the Gurkha and Sikkimese. But the Gurkha kingdom had fallen, and the Sikkim had decided to turn from a vassal state into a new territory for the Chinese, and Assam was a tea plantation belonging to the Chinese, and the British were only partners there. ”

"Yes, the nouveau riche of that country are both well-mannered merchants and inspiring generals, but even so, from Batavia to Assam, it is already too vast a territory. With some of the old man's peculiar untimely complaints, Macartney muttered, "It looks like the bear has eaten enough." But the awake bear will soon feel hungry again. ”

With that, Staunton picked up the rattle, and with a gentle shake, a big-nosed goblin in a green pointed hat and a hunting suit jumped to the table with a puff of violet smoke.

"Is there anything I need to do? ”

"Count Macartney doesn't like Keemun black tea very much, so he brought the frozen oolong. ”

With these few words, the big-nosed dwarf fairy immediately bowed and disappeared into the violet smoke again.

The Earl of Macartney looked with some disgust at the direction in which the dwarf goblin had disappeared: "George, I said that these goblins that are gradually spreading are not a good thing. Although they seem to be more effective than the most tame black slaves, they know magic. That alone makes them seem dangerous enough. ”

"I agree with you, Count. So the elves who serve in my mansion have strict employment agreements. And the expatriate officer of the Chinese embassy supervised and drafted the contract document with the incantation. ”

"George, you see, there's not the problem. We all know that China's new court is not a purely human court, and its members include self-proclaimed immortal Taoist sages, magicians, and druids, as well as dwarves and pointy-eared elves with Norse blood! God, do you know how long I endured when we met the two emperors, and I didn't propose to those elven generals to touch their ears? To be practical, to devout Christians, they are more like a bunch of demons in disguise......"

Speaking of this, the Earl of Macartney stared at Baron Staunton with some dissatisfaction: "I do not approve of letting my former knight squire, your only son, little Staunton, take over your position as consul general." He has spent so much time learning everything about that country, maybe one day he will marry a female Taoist official as his wife, and the descendants of the Staunton family will start speaking Chinese and writing Chinese characters from now on!"

While the aging diplomats gossip, Macartney described them as "demons in disguise" are having another remote meeting through the Adventurer Channel.

"Coordinate positioning, Liao State, Liao Daozong Shouchang in the early years...... Well, Tiangui Mountain, it should be right, right?"

Correcting the space-time coordinates, Murong Parrot also cautiously sent a message first: "Hey, hey, hey, surnamed Wei, are you still panting?"

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Longxing view of Yizhou, Liaoguo.

Longxingguan was originally not called Longxingguan, in the former Tang Dynasty, it was built by Xuanzong Li Longji to pray for the blessing of the Taoist ancestors, so it was called Kaiyuanguan.

Five generations later, the Tang Dynasty destroyed Song Xing, and the land of Yanyun belonged to the Khitan for a long time.

At this moment, under the old tree in the courtyard, the preacher Xu Xuanling is working hard to write a book, not for anything else, just because he has been removed from the Longxing Temple for a long time, the former Tang Xuanzong Imperial Note "Tao Te Ching" white marble building, after his efforts, finally said that several big donors can be mobilized to raise labor and move back to Longxing Temple.

At this moment, he was carrying a rabbit pen, the pen was flying, and there was a local celebrity Wu Qingru who helped this matter from beginning to end, chanting and scrutinizing at the same time:

"Mrs. is like Xisheng, not sincere to go to the traces, but the charm can be resigned, and not vulgar and constant, fake foreign things Chen Yi, can pay tribute...... This elephant is used well, if there is only a human image, it is the old cliché of Buddhism's 'no one, no self', but Master Xu added the word 'Xisheng', and deducted the theory of 'the big voice Xisheng' in the Middle Tao Sutra, and you can see the atmosphere of Xuanmen!"

He praised here, Xu Xuanling was praised, and he was even more like a pen:

"And sacrifice the bottle like a coffin, so it is prepared to be laid in King Xuan, so the stone furnace star altar can be fasted in the Taoist ancestors. Today, I look at the courtyard, although the palace is set up, there is a solemnity. And the sacrificial offerings lack prestige. Therefore, the Tao Te Ching is the original self-view of the old things, and the green Yan is carved to welcome it. Every Christmas Festival, New Year's Day. Or Wang Youzhai confessed. On the eve of the night, use the smoke of Shen Shui to stylize the true couple. Therefore, the nine clears are blessed, and the hundred saints are flooded. Extending the emperor's life is borderless, and it depends on protecting Qianli. When the wind and rain are in tune, the grain is old. The labor of the war. The air of cleansing is cleared. Shi Shouchang was six years old, Gengchen was in August, and on the 23rd of Ding Sikun, he was built. ”

After writing this article, Xu Xuanling's heart moved slightly, and somehow, he suddenly stopped writing and asked Wu Qingru, "Did Professor Wu hear any noise?"

Wu Qingru shook his head and said, "At this moment, everything is silent, how can there be any sound?

Xu Xuanling shook his head and said: "No, no, Xiaodao did hear the sound, it seemed to be a jade chime......"

When he said this, his eyes suddenly froze, and he muttered in his mouth, Wu Qingru was very close to him, but he could hear him muttering a short article:

"In the first month of the spring of the seventh year of Shouchang, the Qingfeng Palace was congratulated by hundreds of officials and envoys of various countries. It's night, and the white air is like practice, and it blows from the sky. The black clouds rose in the northwest and flew with sound. There is blue and red black and white gas in the north, mixed and falling. 癸海, such as mixed with the river. Jiaxu, collapsed in the palace, seventy years old. The heir of King Yanxi was posthumously edicted. June Gengzi, the Emperor of the Great Filial Piety, the temple number Taoism. ”

This is not the end, Xu Xuanling continued to read with straight eyes:

"Emperor Tianzuo, Yan Xi, the word Yanning, the small word Ago. The grandson of Daozong, his father Shunzong is filial piety to the Holy Emperor, and his mother is the Empress Xiao. Dakang was born in the first year. At the age of six, he was crowned King of Liang, added Taiwei, and concurrently wrote the order. Three years later, he entered the king of Yan. In the seventh year of Da'an, he was the privy envoy of the North and South Courts, and he was the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses.

In the first month of the seventh year of Shouchang, the Taoist collapsed, and the emperor was located in front of the coffin. The ministers are called Emperor Tianzuo. ”

When these two words came out, Wu Qingru was so frightened that he hurriedly covered his mouth: "Master Xu, don't be silent, such a head-killing speech is also something you can say? Out of your mouth, but not into my ears! Stop!"