The crying girls kept talking for a long time, and the translator also racked his brains to explain to Simpson everything that happened here. It took a while for the British reporter to figure out what was going on!
It turns out that the root cause of all conflicts was Emperor Tongzhi, and it was Zaichun's wedding that caused the commotion!
The current Zai Chun is no longer an ordinary Qing emperor. He is a man who used the power of a coup before the pro-government ceremony, and used killing to clear the way for himself to pro-government and gain the right to govern!
The emperor got the right to use the two seals of Yushang and Tongdaotang without getting married. This shows that the queen mothers of the two palaces have made a decision and agreed that the young emperor will take charge in advance!
Prince Gong was collectively beaten by the global capital forces, and Xiao Letian even used military means to support the little emperor, which made Guiziliu retreat behind the scenes and give up all rights!
Even the Hunan Army Group has continued to support the little emperor. As long as Zeng Guofan takes a breath, the Hunan Army and the forces that the Hunan Army spreads out will not make a mistake!
It was the joint recommendation of many forces that allowed Zai Chun to govern in advance. At this moment, Emperor Tongzhi in the capital can really keep his word, and a strong centralized monarch is about to emerge!
Can such an emperor be the same as a son-emperor who listens to his mother? For such a big wedding, all the officials in the Qing Empire went crazy to prepare for the wedding!
Those waiting to flatter the emperor could queue up from Yangzhou to Tongzhou along the Grand Canal!
The prices of luxury goods in the entire empire more than doubled, and the entire antique market of the Qing Dynasty was suddenly revitalized by this wedding!
There are too many officials in the world. As long as they are of high rank, who is not allowed to prepare gifts? Didn’t you see that all provinces across the country, as long as they are not war-torn areas, have secretly levied wedding taxes in order to collect money for the gimmick of celebrating the wedding!
This rolling amount of money collected from the people can be said to have enriched a group of corrupt officials and businessmen, and made people all over the world suffer!
In order to prepare for the emperor's wedding, Jiangning Weaving wants to restore the traditional dragon robe craftsmanship of the Yongle period!
For Emperor Tongzhi’s wedding, Jingdezhen was able to break royal porcelain worth hundreds of thousands and re-fire it!
For this wedding, the Songjiang Mansion did not hesitate to engage in unjust imprisonment to rob the people of their tea!
In order to prepare for the wedding, Zuo Zongtang temporarily adjusted his strategy and tried every means possible to even make life-saving promises to some rebels in exchange for the top-quality Hotan jade!
For this wedding, all the jade workers in Suzhou City were recruited, all private orders were stopped, and everyone was carving for the emperor!
The white mountains and black waters in the north, the Pearl River and Minyue in the south, all the good things in this empire you can name, all have been planned!
Not only that, even the living Buddhas in Tibet are praying urgently! This wedding is so big!
Fei Shuo, the general of Mancheng in Suzhou, has been having a headache for a long time about his wedding. He is a Manchu and comes from a well-known family among the Manchus. He was able to be appointed by the imperial court to come to Suzhou as the general of Mancheng. He couldn't do it without some backing!
He followed the path of Prince Chun, but fortunately he did not follow the path of Guiziliu. If he had followed the path of Guiziliu, I'm afraid he would have to claim illness and go home now!
why? Because the city of Suzhou was so important, during the Taiping Rebellion, Suzhou changed hands several times. In the end, even Gordon took the foreign gun team to the battle in person!
From the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Mancheng was established in important cities across the country. To put it bluntly, it was a military fortress where the Eight Banners lived. It had city walls and an independent defense system. Eight Banners soldiers and their families all lived here!
There is a turmoil in the south, and these Eight Banners who are all over the city are the most affected. How can the Taiping Army let these people go? They basically massacre every city they conquer!
When they attacked Jiangning, which is also the city of Nanjing, all the female relatives of the Eight Banners came out to fight in Nanjing, because they knew that if they didn't fight, they would die!
After several military disasters, Suzhou City was completely recovered by Li Hongzhang. The first thing the court had to do was to rebuild the city and increase its defense!
Fei Shuo is a descendant of Fei Yanggu, a famous general in the Kangxi Dynasty. After joining the path of Prince Chun, he was able to become a general in this rich and prosperous place!
Knowing that he has a strong backing and that he has heavy accusations, he cherishes the rights in his hands even more. He will never let this official position made of real money be thrown away!
Giving gifts to the little emperor on his wedding has become his top priority during this time! His wife and children from the capital previously sent him an urgent telegram, vividly describing the cruelty of the bloody battle to him, letting him know how powerful the little emperor was!
The old man at home gave him strict orders, even if he went bankrupt, he had to prepare the emperor's congratulatory gift!
But what kind of gift are you preparing for this? What a headache! Fei Shuo knew very well that when it came to money, he was no match for those rich men, let alone the feudal officials!
Even if his family goes bankrupt and he searches for land among the people, the money he gets will not be as good as Hu Xueyan pulling out a hair on his head!
It is absolutely not possible to fight for financial resources, you must do what you want!
Fortunately, his family was a wealthy family in the capital and had a very tight network of connections. These people actually managed to get through to the palace. They actually bribed the serving eunuchs around Xiao Sixi, the eunuch in charge!
I spent 5,000 yuan to buy the four-letter word "Emperor is lustful"!
Ouch, this is easy to handle! It turns out that the emperor already knew the beauty of women even at a young age! Once you know your hobbies, it will be easier, just go with it!
There is not much else in Jiangnan, but there are many beauties, and it is rich in one kind of top beauty, Yangzhou Shou Ma!
There is a family that specializes in raising girls. They spend money to buy little girls from the countryside, or even give them to stolen girls to be raised at home to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting!
The playing, playing and singing include some classic private dishes, and more importantly, the skills of serving men on bed curtains!
You must not give them enough to eat, otherwise they will lose their value if they gain weight!
You have to have small breasts, small feet, slim shoulders, and a narrow waist... This kind of thing is most in line with the elegance of the literati. Just like the bonsai plum blossoms, you have to deliberately strangle them to make them sick. Only those who are thin and weak can be called literati beauty!
A skinny horse bred in this way can be sold at the age of fifteen or sixteen. You can't buy a skinny horse with good looks without four to five thousand silver dollars!
A top-notch thin horse can even be promoted to a fortune of 100,000 yuan!
Fei Shuo knew the beauty of thin horses. Since the emperor likes this, let's search the whole city!
Where is the most famous place for thin horses in the city? Of course it’s Hanxiang Tower!
But I didn't expect that the backstage of Hanxiang Tower was quite tough. Fei Shuo's several bids were rejected, and Fei Shuo was so angry that he started to use force!
However, he did not expect that before his men could reach the entrance of Hanxiang Tower, civil servants and local gentry from Suzhou showed up, setting out drinks and delivering posters. There were even some scholars who blocked the door to prevent him from entering. Soldiers enter!
Only then did Fei Shuo realize that there were so many interests behind Hanxiang House. This brothel might have been invested and opened by local gangsters from Jiangnan!
Bullying! It really seems that Fei Shuo is not from Jiangnan and is deliberately xenophobic and bullying. Are you treating me, the Eight Banners Master of the Capital, as a fool?
Since you are not willing to give in kind, then rob in secret!
This is the farce of tonight's lake tour!
