The wedding of Emperor Tongzhi will eventually go down in history. It was the last large-scale celebration at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The history books of future generations will call this wedding the last return to glory of the Manchu Dynasty!
The people of the capital and the civil and military officials all burst into tears with excitement. In their dreams at this moment, they seemed to once again experience the arrival of a prosperous age and the coming of all nations!
Emperor Tongzhi received congratulatory gifts from all countries in the UK, and even the Queen of England wrote a personal letter bringing a boatload of exquisite paintings and artworks, including the latest industrial products from London!
Not to mention the Kaiser, he even gave Emperor Tongzhi twenty new Krupp field artillery pieces including the art treasures of the 15th and 16th centuries plundered from the Palace of Versailles in France!
The United States, Tsarist Russia, France, including the newly unified Italy and Austria, which they have very unfamiliar relations with, all have gifts sent to the capital!
Not to mention Fusang, North Korea, and those countries in Southeast Asia, at least under the influence of the Chinese forces, even giving some local specialties is considered a token of appreciation!
Not to mention the gifts of gold and silver donated by various provinces of the Qing Dynasty for plundering land, even Zuo Jigao, who was far away in the Western Regions, also sent a batch of jade and trophies worth one million taels!
From the Mongolian Plateau in the north, to the Western Regions and Qinghai-Tibet in the west, to the Pearl River Estuary in the south, and to the Yangtze River Delta in the east...the entire Qing Empire prepared more than 10 million taels of gold and silver for Zai Chun!
This is all cash, just as a wedding gift to the emperor! All this money will eventually go into the royal treasury!
In addition to cash, there are various rare and precious gifts. The total value of these gifts will not be less than 20 million, because the value of many of the cultural relics is simply impossible to estimate!
Zai Chun got married and made 30 million yuan directly from the Qing Dynasty! The gifts received from other countries amounted to almost 10 million. Of course, most of them were given by the master's Chinese family and those from Britain, France, Germany and the United States who had interests to appeal to!
The figure of 40 million is enough to make these military and civilian officials who are immersed in the dream of a prosperous age have a drink. With such great news, I wonder how many people will be completely intoxicated tonight!
What made the Eight Banners even more excited was that on the wedding day, General Hunchun actually brought his distant relatives from the far north, the wild Jurchens from the East China Sea in the bitter cold land of the far north!
This is a group that has almost disappeared from the memory of the Manchus themselves. Except for those old men and really knowledgeable old people in the Eight Banners, the younger generation almost doesn't know that there is such a group abandoned in an extremely cold place!
Now General Hunchun, with two thousand savages and horses, escorted Emperor Tongzhi into the capital. Along the way, it ignited the fire in the hearts of the people in the capital!
At that moment, they seemed to see the souls of their ancestors floating in the sky. The dead souls of the Eight Banners who marched on the enemy's bones into the capital two hundred years ago on ice and snow have returned again!
murderous look! So angry! The unbridled domineering spirit! Let this group of savages embody it vividly!
Although Xishan Camp, Yulin New Army and even Xiao Letian's Chinese elites...the beauty of order of the modern army displayed by these troops is also shocking!
However, humans still carry the barbaric genes inherited from beasts thousands of years ago in their bone marrow!
No matter how much humans who enter civilized society laugh at barbarism and backwardness, the moment when the true power of the barbarians is revealed in front of humans!
The barbaric bloodline genes that have been buried for a long time will be activated immediately!
At that moment, the blood of millions of Eight Banners people in the capital was boiling. They crowded on both sides and knelt down to the emperor and to the resurrected souls of these barbarian ancestors!
"Long live the emperor! Ten thousand years of the Qing Dynasty!"
"Woohoo ... Ama! You go early ... You can see it in the spirit of heaven. Look at the eight flag iron riders who swept the world that year, come again!"
"Oh my God! Hunchun, why didn't you train such a kidnapping horse ten years earlier... Wuwuwu... If we had such a strong army earlier, why would we, the Qing Dynasty, be so angry..."
"Tongzhi ZTE...ZTE...this world still belongs to our banner people!"
The people in the city are going crazy, which makes the kidnappers around Hunchun very puzzled. They can feel the extreme enthusiasm and excitement of the people around them, but they don't know why!
They asked each other in tribal languages, and finally got the answer from the officers from the south who knew some Chinese!
"These people are our distant relatives who entered the customs two hundred years ago... Their bones have been softened by the good times here, and they are so useless that they can't even protect their own wives and children!"
"Now that they see us, they are crying about their incompetence!"
"Then why are there still people laughing wildly?" The soldier pointed with his riding crop.
"Haha... of course they have to laugh. They can't defeat the Han people and the foreign devils, so they hope that we relatives will help them kill people!"
"Ah... So that's it! Haha, don't think of us as fools! If you want us to kill people, you have to give us benefits!"
"Sir Zuoling... How much reward will we give if we help these people kill people? I have agreed in advance that according to the rules of our hometown, less than one sheep is absolutely not allowed!"
"That's right, Guan Guan is so rich, these people must be very rich because they are fat and fat... Help them kill someone, not only will you give them a sheep, but you will also need to give them an iron pot or a dagger!"
"You can't work for them in vain..."
This group of kidnappers on horseback had already begun to think about how to bargain with these relatives in the pass. The angry leader took out his whip and whipped them hard several times!
"We are soldiers of Lord Wanzai, soldiers of General Hunchun... Do we need rewards for fighting with General Hunchun?"
"We Jurchens have always relied on the spoils of war to get rich! As long as Long Live the Lord fights for us, are you still afraid that we will have no cattle, sheep and iron pots? There will be no future!"
These people were really thick-skinned and their faces were bruised and bleeding after being whipped several times. They seemed to feel no pain and continued to chat with Master Zuoling while laughing.
"Haha... what Zuo Ling said is that the emperor and the general want us to kill people. Of course there is no need for rewards, as long as the spoils of war belong to us!"
"But these weak-minded bastards want us to kill people, so they need more benefits! Master Zuoling will definitely split up first..."
The savages on horseback were chatting, laughing, cursing and even flying whips. The people in the capital were amazed at this scene!
"Look! Look at our relatives! They are so stubborn... Even if they were slapped in the face with a whip, they look like normal people!"
"Hey... you are right. I heard my old man say that when we entered the customs, our ancestors were so wild in the war!"
"My old man led the charge and killed three Ming soldiers. His left arm was chopped off. He still hacked to death three of them with a knife in his right hand!"
"At that time, our ancestors were brave, but without such blood, could they destroy the Ming Dynasty? Can they destroy Li Zicheng?"
"Hey... Masters! What do you think these relatives are saying on horseback? We can't understand it either!"
"Hey... you don't understand, can't you guess? At this juncture, they must be talking about how to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, and thinking about how to fight hard for us!"
"That's right! What the uncle said makes sense..."
This dream of a prosperous age made all the bannermen go crazy with excitement!
