The Forbidden City and the Hall of Yangxin are the heart of the Qing Empire. This is the study room of Emperor Tongzhi. Although Emperor Tongzhi is only nine years old this year, the nobles of Tianhuang are very precocious in character. Now the little emperor Tongzhi on the throne has several children. The majesty of the Ninth Five-Year Master is revealed.
"Shameless, Xiyi is simply crazy! No wonder my father wants to escape to the summer resort. It turns out that these Xiyi are so unethical! They are worse than animals..." The nine-year-old Tongzhi clapped his little hand on the throne, and it turned red. I don’t know it yet.
"Your Majesty, calm down!" The two rows of eunuchs and maids in the Yangxin Hall all knelt down, trembling under the pressure of the mighty God.
What Tongzhi held in his hand was a strange article, which was the latest chapter of "The Journey to the West". It turned out that the little emperor was also a die-hard fan of Xiao Letian. But today's chapter made the little emperor very angry, because the story happened to talk about the fall of the Inca Empire.
The ancient Inca country arose in the 11th century and fell in the 16th century. It has been passed down for more than 500 years. In Xiao Letian's writing, the mysterious ancient Inca country is located on the plateau of South America. It is a nation that is very good at construction and agriculture. The corn that is now commonly grown in the Qing Dynasty originated there.
In the latest chapter, Xiao Letian eulogizes the splendid civilization of the ancient Inca country with all his pen and ink. Whether it is a city built purely with huge stones, or a pyramid towering into the sky, or even the extremely huge national treasury of the Inca Empire, they have proven to the world that The greatness of this civilization.
However, such a glorious civilization was destroyed by Europeans in 1532 AD, the eleventh year of Jiajing reign in the Ming Dynasty. The most annoying thing is that the Europeans actually used deception to kidnap the Inca King Atahualpa.
The despicable Spanish conquistador Pizarro went deep into the core area of the Inca Empire with only 170 soldiers and some explorers, and even wanted to have friendly negotiations with the king when surrounded by 50,000 Inca troops.
The Inca King Atahualpa didn't know what the plan was, and he brought thousands of followers to negotiate with these outsiders. However, he never expected that Pizarro would go on a killing spree and rush forward to kidnap the king. When the king fell into the hands of the enemy, the 50,000 loyal warriors did not dare to attack, but thousands of them were killed by the Spaniards on the spot.
Pizarro then took the Inca king as a hostage and forced the Inca Empire to provide gold as ransom. The king was a hostage for a whole year, and the Inca Empire provided six tons of gold and twelve tons of silver in order to redeem their king.
Of course, Xiao Letian made the conversion in the book. At that time, one tael of weight and measurement in the Qing Dynasty was about 35 grams. A simple calculation shows that the Inca Empire provided a total of 170,000 taels of gold and 350,000 taels of silver. Please come to more and faster chapters.
If you thought Spanish people would keep their word? Then you are wrong. After they obtained this wealth, they actually lied that the king's army wanted to rescue him, and used this as an excuse to burn King Atahualpa to death.
From that day on, the Inca Empire, which had been glorious for more than five hundred years, completely declined until it disappeared in the long river of history.
Xiao Letian had his own plan when writing this chapter, because he knew that if he wanted to make the Manchu rulers recognize his identity as a famous scholar and a master of Western learning, he had to impress their hearts. Here, Xiao Letian chose a very insidious move, which was intimidation.
Is your Qing Dynasty a great empire? No matter how big it is, you haven't inherited it for five hundred years, right? The Inca Empire was established from the Northern Song Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty. Do you think this country is important enough?
But such an awesome empire was actually conquered by a small Spanish army. Don't you, the Qing Dynasty, still feel the crisis? You must know that you were tortured twice in a row by Britain and France. Update as soon as possible
Xiao Letian used his simplest words to paint a picture of the collapse of the empire to the rulers of the Qing Dynasty. The tragic situation of the last emperor who was locked in an iron cage was vividly written by him. Xiao Letian also made a small ambush here, which was to praise Emperor Xianfeng and beautify his behavior of escaping to Chengde Summer Resort.
Look at how cruel the foreigners are. They treat the king as a piece of meat when they catch him, and tear him up even after paying the ransom. These are simply not human beings. Our emperors of the Qing Dynasty were still smart. They could see their tricks at a glance and would never be fooled by them.
Xiao Letian was too confident. If this article could not impress the Manchu rulers, then he might as well stop doing anything, pack up and take away hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and hide out in the United States to live his own life.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves. When the latest chapter of this strange article spread throughout the capital, the entire Manchu ruling class was completely devastated. The princes and nobles imagined the tragic scene when the dynasty collapsed, and they all lamented, while the senior officials of the Han Dynasty were furious when they saw that Xiyi was so unfaithful. Even the so-called gangsters who hang out in Forty-nine Cities are beating their chests and swearing off the streets.
"Damn, this Spaniard is so shameless. He took a ransom and then killed him. If I meet him, I will have to chop him alive!" It's really incredible. Even the green forest men like to read Xiao Letian's articles. I think this It doesn’t matter if it’s not popular.
As for our nine-year-old little emperor Tongzhi, he slapped the table and started talking dirty words. I don’t know who he learned it from. He was so frightened that all the eunuchs slapped them. If the queens of the two palaces heard it, these slaves who were serving him would Neither can survive.
Just as Emperor Tongzhi was angrily walking around the Yangxin Hall, a group of people walked in at the main entrance. The head of the group was the Empress Dowager Ci'an of the East Palace. "Who made the emperor so angry? When he was saying hello in the morning. Aren’t you still happy?”
"Greetings to the emperor!" The little emperor casually called a thousand and then jumped up and said, "Why don't you make the foreigners angry? Didn't you read today's latest "Journey to the West"? Those Spaniards are so shameless. , It’s really worse than a beast…”
Ci'an looked at Tongzhi kindly. Although this child was not his biological child, he had been very close to him since he was a child. Moreover, Tongzhi was the only emperor in the Qing Dynasty who ascended the throne without any suspense. After all, Xianfeng only left such a son in the end.
This was the hope for the resurgence of the Qing Dynasty. Tongzhi succeeded to the throne very smoothly. No one in or outside the government had any objections. His inheritance was so pure that all the great scholars in the world could not find fault. This is the child's biggest support. If the country is upright, both internal and external parties will naturally work together. As long as they cheer up a little, the Qing Dynasty will be rejuvenated.
Ci'an sat on the bed, picked up his long nails and looked at the manuscript. He raised his hand and asked the emperor to sit next to him. "Emperor, I also read this article, but I was not as angry as you. I immediately ordered The Ministry of Internal Affairs should go to the foreigners and ask privately whether this matter is true..."
Tongzhi was a smart man. He knew that the Queen Mother was teaching him the key to governance, so he quickly sat upright. Please come to more and faster chapters.
"It's useless to be angry. When you encounter something like this, you should investigate first. What if this person named Xiao is a liar who deceives the world and steals his name? Then won't your anger be in vain, Your Majesty?"
"Then the Queen Mother asked, what was the result?" Tongzhi was still curious.
The expression on Ci'an's face did not waver at all. "The Ministry of Internal Affairs sent people to privately question the missionaries from Britain, France and the United States. The result... everyone had the same answer. Although they were a little embarrassed to hesitate, the final result was only A... true story, it really can’t be true anymore!”
There was a crisp sound, and Tongzhi smashed the tea cup. The broken porcelain fragments scratched the faces of the three eunuchs, and blood dripped down. Please come to more and faster chapters.
"This is the nature of foreigners, greedy and despicable. But why do these barbarians get power that our Qing Dynasty does not have? What exactly is this power..." Just when the little emperor was in pain, another person came outside the door. This group of people was none other than Tongzhi's biological mother, the Empress Dowager Cixi.
"What's wrong with the emperor? His little face is turning yellow with anger..." As soon as Cixi entered the door, she held Tongzhi's face in her hands and rubbed it distressedly. She was demonstrating to Ci'an, and the subtext was, 'I am the biological mother, please don't steal your son from me.'
Ci'an has long been accustomed to Cixi's eyes. Mother and son are the only way out for a woman in the palace. Who wants the emperor to get close to her? It is normal for Cixi to be jealous.
"Sister, please read this wonderful article. The emperor is angry because of this story!" After saying that, he handed over the article. Ci Xi had seen it a long time ago, but her behavior was different from Ci'an's. "The emperor doesn't have to worry about it. Everything is taken care of. Don't worry, foreigners can't bully the emperor. You can't do it again and again. Now the hair has grown." After being pacified, the Qing Dynasty will prosper and one day it will surpass those foreigners..."
Tongzhi was a little impatient with his mother's rubbing, and he thought to himself: Why does my mother-in-law tell me what to do when she encounters any problem, but my mother-in-law takes care of everything and doesn't let me solve it. The Holy Ancestor was able to capture Obei at the age of eight, but at the age of nine I was still unable to take charge of the government. I blamed this mother-in-law.
"Two Aniangs, the emperor has an idea... I would like to declare Xiao Letian to be an official in the court. What do you think?" Before she could finish speaking, Cixi frowned, "How can this be done? I've already checked. This man is a Japanese devil, and now the Americans are protecting him..."
"Judging from the way he went to Baihualou that day, let alone becoming an official, he doesn't even have the intention to grow his hair. He walks around in foreign clothes every day. If he becomes an official, he will cause a lot of quarrels in the court. !”
"Then why don't I let this Xiao Letian come to the palace to study with me? Let him teach me Western learning..." Tongzhi still didn't give up.
"What's worse, if he teaches the emperor Western learning, then the great scholars in the court will go crazy! Finally, the court has become stable. If you make such a fuss, you don't know what will happen..."
"This won't work, that won't work either, are you going to suffocate me to death?" Tongzhi angrily threw his hands away and walked out, "I'm going to the Imperial Garden to relax, and none of you should follow me..."
Cixi was so angry that tears welled up in her eyes, but Ci'an tried to persuade her, "It's not uncommon for the emperor to have his own ideas when he's older, but I still support you on this matter. The origin of Xiao Letian is too weird, and we can't let him go without more observation for a while." The Emperor is in contact with him!"
"Look, that's what I mean, but the emperor just doesn't understand my painstaking efforts..." Cixi wiped her tears in grievance, but the corners of her eyes were sinister.
Pretending, pretending again, it was you who instigated the disharmony between our mother and son. If you hadn't had the edict in your hand, I would have sent you to see the late emperor.
If Xiao Letian knew about today's incident, he would probably be dumbfounded. He never thought that one of his articles could have the effect of driving a wedge between mother and son. But now he has no time to analyze the turmoil between the two empress dowagers. His plan against Wang Laohanlin is about to begin.
