Great Qing Dynasty talker

Chapter 334 From the peak to hell, it only took half a day!

A scene that even the officials of the Ministry of Rites would not dare to think of even if they were beaten to death happened:

The members of the Dutch mission used their hands and feet as support, crawled directly on the ground, and ran towards the lake at high speed.

The other barbarians present were stunned for a while, but they actually imitated him.

Some crawled on their knees, while others raised their hands and ran forward happily howling "Long Live the Qing Dynasty".

In short, the scene was very chaotic.

The one who rushed ahead had already stepped into the lake water.

Only 5 feet away from Yuzhou~
The imperial guards on the ship had never seen such a ridiculous scene, and they drew their swords to protect Qianlong.

Qianlong shouted in a low voice:

"Everyone, stand down! What bad intentions the Yi envoys have? It's just that they sincerely admire our Qing Dynasty."

"Saxon Mission."

The embarrassed members of the Saxon embassy were at a loss what to do.

……

The moment Qin Si supported Qianlong and set foot on land.

if,

The cheers one after another pushed the atmosphere of Jiuzhou Qingyan to its peak.

"Those are?"

He waved his hand and said:
"Let them all get up, no need to be formal. It's cold in the spring, so go back and change into clean clothes, and make some ginger soup."

Listening to the shouts of long live all around,
Qianlong almost flew up happily on the spot. Who said the Yi people don’t understand the world, that’s nonsense! In my opinion, they understand very well.

at this moment,
He suddenly caught a glimpse of a very discordant scene.

Officials from the Lifan Yuan and the Ministry of Etiquette on the mainland looked anxious and jumped to stop him.

The money in Qing Dynasty is really easy to make.

"Master be careful."

How can a small country tens of thousands of miles away put on such a stinky air? It's all my fault that I fed you too much. If you have the ability, don't come to me. I want to do business with Daqing with a shameful face.

……

Macartney looked at these ugly guys and whispered:
"These people are either pirates or prisoners. In short, they cannot be diplomatic envoys. It cannot be ruled out that they are actors hired by the Qing Empire to stimulate us to submit. In short, let's wait and see what happens. Our envoy mission this time, I’m afraid it won’t go well.”

He saw another scene that he would never forget. Those Yi people crawling out of the water like drowned chickens pushed away the officials of the Ministry of Rites and swarmed in, shouting "Long Live the Qing Dynasty" in a strange tone and kowtowing like pounding garlic.

Qin Si also looked confused.
I'm a gelding who doesn't know what to do.

Forty-nine cities have many idle people.

Cut off the Guangzhou Port for a year and a half, and your knees will be bent.

"A prosperous age, a prosperous age. Your Majesty, this is a scene that can only be seen in a truly prosperous age." A head of the Ministry of Etiquette shouted loudly.

"Your Excellency Viscount, how do you feel about this situation?"

in the corner,
There was a group of people who just stood upright, neither kneeling nor flattering.

Walking in the front, ah, no, swimming in the front was the Dutch delegation. They had already climbed to the edge of the royal boat. This made everyone nervous.

The power of the boat comes from human oars.

……

The swans swimming around were so frightened that they spread their wings and took off.

Back Lake, the originally calm and mirror-like surface of the lake was broken.

I just felt that everything happening in front of me was strange and outrageous. A group of Europeans were kowtowing obsequiously and shouting "Long live" in strange voices.

Qianlong was very calm and said with a smile:
"I didn't realize it. All of these barbarians are skilled in water and are born to be sailors. Let the boat dock first."

Qianlong's eyes were a little moist, and he was moved by this hot, simple and inexplicable emotion.

There is an assassin here, and the sky of our Qing Dynasty is about to fall.

"Hmph." Qianlong snorted contemptuously and decided not to pay attention to these guys who didn't understand etiquette.

"Whoo."

After hearing what the interpreter said, the envoys reacted even more strongly, and their minds were filled with gold.

"I will reward them well. The Qing Dynasty will never treat any old friend badly!"

The guards on the imperial boat all had beads of sweat on their foreheads, pressed their hands on the hilts of their swords, and looked anxiously at the backbone - Qin Si.

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

……

Carefully avoiding the crowd of swimmers in front of me, I made a small circle and docked at the small pier in Qingyan, Jiuzhou.

I saw groups of swarming barbarians rushing into the lake with excited steps and continuing to walk deeper into the lake.

A banner man carrying a bird in a cage and a snuff bottle in his hand had just arrived at Xisan Hutong when he saw a group of people surrounding the corner.

"What do you mean? Everyone."

"Master Jie, what do you think it says here?"

I saw a large piece of paper stuck firmly on the wall with glue, and the dozen or so people watching were very curious. But in this era, no one dares to tear up a piece of paper with a lot of words.

Even in the capital, the literacy rate of ordinary Han people is very low.

So it’s right to ask Uncle Qi for help. The literacy rate of the bannermen in the capital is astonishingly high. It can be said that the existence of illiteracy has almost been eliminated.

The banner man was very proud. He separated from the crowd and began to read loudly:

"Dear young and old men, as a loyal citizen of the Qing Dynasty, I can no longer bear the condemnation of my conscience and decided to expose a fact in such an anonymous way. The foreign envoys coming to Beijing are all liars. They are fake pirates from Southeast Asia. Yes, the purpose is to defraud the emperor of the reward. The Seris Mission was the first liar to do this a few years ago, defrauding 140 million taels of silver. They also spread my idea of ​​the Qing Emperor overseas~"

The bannerman turned pale and rushed out of the crowd.

He couldn't read anymore and couldn't bear it.

……

The atmosphere in the infantry commander's office was tense, with soldiers coming and going in a hurry.

Dozens of "books exposing the barbarian scam" have been confiscated, but there are still many circulating on the market.

The nine-door admiral was completely stunned, and he slashed a big locust tree in the courtyard with his knife.

While cutting and cursing:

"Behead Seris, behead the Saxons, behead the Netherlands, behead Iberia, behead Prussia~"

The subordinates all hid far away, for fear of being stabbed innocently.

The atmosphere in Shuntian Mansion Yamen was even more like mourning for an heir.

Fu Yin fainted and woke up, woke up and fainted again. He was particularly envious of the prefect of Jinmen who had resigned from office due to illness a few days ago in the same year.

……

At the military plane, everyone entering and exiting had livid faces.

He Shen lost his usual coolness. As soon as he entered the door, he tripped on the threshold and stumbled to steady himself.

"With my lord~"

"I'm fine, where is Master Yu?"

A group of military aircraft Zhang Jing whispered:
"When Mr. Yu was off duty yesterday, for some unknown reason, he missed the mark and fell into the lotus pond south of Long Zongmen. Fortunately, there were guards patrolling nearby and fished him out. Mr. Yu was greatly frightened. I had a fever when I got home.”

He Shen smiled nervously, Lao Yu fell into the water at the right time.

I also wish I could fall into the Yongding River and fall unconscious.

Everyone looked at the backbone carefully. There was only one meaning in his eyes: What should I do? Do you want to report it?

In He Shen's mind, two villains were fighting.

He held his forehead in pain and said to himself:

"This matter is really unspeakable. How should I tell the emperor?"

Everyone was silent, knowing that the emperor had just summoned the envoys, and Long Yan was delighted. I'll pour cold water on it~
……

suddenly,

He Shen seemed to have remembered something and rushed out of the military aircraft.

Running all the way out of the Forbidden City, the patrolling guards on the road tried to intercept him several times, but they gave up angrily when they saw that he was the most popular person in the imperial court.

Lifanyuan Posthouse.

In the courtyard where the Saxon mission lived, an embarrassed figure suddenly appeared.

Macartney looked at him in surprise as the top nobleman of the Qing Empire, the emperor's favorite, was sweating profusely, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was holding on to the courtyard wall in an imageless manner.

His heart skipped a beat,

My intuition told me that something was wrong!

inside the house,

Macartney and Shen sat facing each other, and translator Hong Renhui sat to the side. The door is closed and the windows are closed.

He Shen said as soon as he opened his mouth:
"Do you know what's going on with the 36-country liar next door?"

Macartney also trembled and turned pale.

After calming down for a while, he replied carefully:

"The Saxon Kingdom has nothing to do with these people, and I have just noticed that something is wrong with them. You should believe that there are no such humble envoys in the world."

……

He Shen smiled bitterly:

"I believe it! But tell me, how will this end?" "The gifts I gave to His Majesty the King are worth 2 pounds, as well as the warships anchored at Dagukou. I think anyone with a discerning eye can see that. These are not powers that a liar can possess!”

Hong Renhui's translation was stammering, and everyone was trembling.

He realized the terrifying fact that he might be regarded as a liar by the barbaric Tatars and cut 3000 times. I once stayed in a Tatar prison in Guangdong, and I know that the torture here is full of imagination.

Macartney was worthy of being a graduate of Trinity College and an elite with rich experience in colonial work.

In just a moment, he made the most rational and clear decision:
"Master He, please lead the way. We will meet with the Qing Emperor now to explain the whole matter. We will send troops to arrest the hundreds of crooks next door. Kill those who deserve to be killed and imprison those who deserve to be imprisoned. Everything will be in accordance with the laws of your country. Come."

……

It should be said that Macartney's suggestion was very wise.

However, He Shen waved his hands repeatedly.

"He-sama, you don't understand Shoji!"

"No, Viscount Ma, you don't understand my Qing Dynasty!"

"The friendship between Qing and Sa is good for both our countries. I hope to open up your country's huge market, and your country also needs our military assistance to defeat the Han rebels in the south."

"Old Ma, I told you, you don't understand my Qing Dynasty. This is a slap in the face, a slap in the emperor's face, do you understand?"

He Shen was hysterical and slapped his face wildly.

The two of them were arguing loudly and at extremely high decibels, attracting other members of the mission to watch. Everyone's eyes showed worry and fear.

Hong Renhui felt that his translation had no meaning and simply left the room.

The anxious Standong grabbed him and shouted:

"Tell me, what happened inside?"

……

After learning the truth, Standong's face turned pale.

Because he was very interested in this Eastern Empire, he read many related history books before going on his mission.

He has an understanding of the Qing Empire: the emperor's face is greater than the sky.

Once the emperor gets angry, countless people will lose their heads. There is no "Charter Movement", no "Law is above the King", and no "noisy and bargaining Parliament".

Just for a moment,

As the actual deputy of the mission, he made the decision and briefly explained the situation to the two military attaches.

Then tell them in the most serious tone:
"You two immediately sneaked out of the capital and returned to our warship at Dagukou. Tell them to stay alert, raise anchor and sail and leave the shooting range of the Dagukou fort, but they must not fire the first shot!"

"His Excellency the Viscount is busy quarreling. If we delay it any longer, if the barbaric Tatars attack first, the fleet will be doomed."

"Listen to me. If anything happens, I'll take care of it."

……

"No, Your Excellency. I refuse." The military attaché, who had served as deputy captain of a Class 2 sailing battleship of the Royal Navy, refused to accept this appalling order.

Emerson, who once served as the commander of the 45th Infantry Regiment, took two steps back and gave a military salute:
"Mr. Staunton, I accept."

"Go ahead and I'll handwrite an order for you."

Emerson quietly changed into civilian clothes, climbed out of the wall carrying gold, silver, and a gun. There is still an hour before sunset, which is a good time to sneak.

……

He Shen weakly left the post house and got into the carriage:

"Quick, go see the emperor."

It's not like he hasn't considered pretending not to know, holding his nose and sending these liars away. The Qing Dynasty only lost some money.

But there was Seris in the front, and there were 36 countries in the back.

The greedy barbarians will definitely repeat their old tricks and make a comeback. This time next year, from Dagonkou to the Forbidden City, there will be people lining up to kowtow and shout long live the Yi people and liars~
The history pen is like a knife, and it will really be infamous for thousands of years!
Paper cannot cover fire. It is better to confess to the emperor quickly and pray for forgiveness.

Half an hour later,
With a look of death on his face, he knelt in the East Nuan Pavilion of the Yangxin Hall, raised his head with tears on his face, and said to Qianlong:
"Your Majesty, this slave is guilty of death. This slave has made a huge mistake."

Qianlong was appreciating a copybook by monk Huaisu, holding the Tianhuang stone seal in his right hand, waiting for the opportunity to strike.

He asked with a smile:

"The Ministry of Finance is out of money again? I'll give you a favor. You can go to the Thirteenth Merchant and the Changlu Salt Merchant. The dignified Minister of Military and Aircraft, asking them to beg for help is to give them face."

He Shen's heart skipped a beat and his eyes closed:
"A slave is punished by death. The dozens of foreign missions received by the Lifan Yuan are all liars."

……

Dong Nuan Pavilion fell into deathly silence.

Qianlong asked after a long time:
"What did you say? Say it again?"

"I have verified that all those envoys are liars. I deserve to die."

After saying that, He Shen started kowtowing loudly.

……

Qin Si, the eunuch in charge, felt like a thunder exploded in his head.
I made the first major mistake in my career. The jade Ruyi I was holding fell to the ground and broke~
Bang!

Qianlong was frightened, but rarely got angry.

Instead, he was silent for a moment and suddenly laughed:

"It's impossible. I don't believe it."

"He Shen, you've been under too much pressure lately. How could something so outrageous happen in the world? I don't believe it, hahahaha."

Qianlong laughed heartily, which made He Shen unable to do anything.

For a time,

He didn't even know what to say.

Otherwise, just get over it like this? Anyway, there is a master who has a golden tongue.

……

Qianlong's arm stayed in the air for a moment, then he put the seal aside and asked curiously in a low voice:
"Heshen, where did you hear this? Who is spreading rumors?"

"There are some rumors in the market. I, too, can't be sure~"

suddenly,

Qianlong frowned and left the desk:

"Come on, follow me to the inner warehouse and take a look."

After that, he hurriedly walked ahead. Qin Si and He Shen followed behind with pale faces, and the guards immediately followed quickly.

Qin Si asked silently with his eyes: Is it true?

He Shen nodded silently: Really!

The eunuch guarding the door quickly opened the copper lock, pushed open the warehouse door, and knelt aside~
Qianlong's pace was unusually fast. After all, the old man just wanted to save face and was cold-blooded, but not stupid.

He went straight through the five rooms displaying the tributes of the Saxon mission and got into the display rooms of tributes from other countries.

……

This was the first time he paid attention to the tributes sent by these small countries. As the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he never expected anything good from the barbarians.

I don’t know, I’m scared.

The tribute from the Netherlands: 10 copper ingots, 20 shells, 2 rough works of art, and 1 bell.

Iberian tribute: 2 iron knives and 1 basket of dried sea cucumbers.

Fo Langji tribute: 20 coconuts.

Persian tribute: 2 carpets.

Prussian tribute: 1 Western sword and 1 pointed helmet.

Sicilian tribute: 1 shell necklace.

Tribute from Andorra: None~
……

Suddenly, Qianlong pointed to two complete animal skeletons in surprise and asked:

"what is this?"

The person in charge of the warehouse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs knelt down quickly and explained:
"This is a hunting dog paid tribute by the Viking Kingdom."

"Where's the dog?"

"Dog, Dog is dead. They said he died while wandering at sea, so they sent this skeleton."

Qianlong almost laughed angrily, pointing to another skeleton that looked like a big bird:

"What about this?"

"Yes, it's an eagle."

"The eagle is also dead, so you sent me the skeleton?"

"Back to the Emperor, yes, yes."

……

The chief eunuch Qin Si looked at He Shen painfully, his eyes seeming to speak:

"Master He, I believe you."

Qianlong was out of anger and let out an enchanting laugh.

He drew out the Western sword that was a tribute from the "Kingdom of Prussia" and swung it across the tributes on the shelf. No, they should be called foreign garbage.

Wow~
As the garbage rolled to the ground, something even more outrageous happened.

The Western sword in Qianlong's hand was broken!
It wasn't broken in the middle, but it fell off from the sword grid. Rat tail?
Everyone stared at this scene in stunned silence, to the point where their heads were in a daze.

(End of this chapter)