Imperial Mausoleum Treasure

then!A surviving eyewitness also recorded: "Foreign soldiers from all over the world, in the name of arresting the Boxers and searching for guns, kicked in every house in the streets and alleys. All silver, clocks, watches, soft and valuable things are plundered, and the slightest obstacle will be destroyed."

An ordinary Englishman also said: "Whatever the soldiers want, they will send out teams of soldiers to rob the Chinese property. If the soldiers want something and the Chinese hesitate for a moment, they will inevitably die."

At that time, the Eight-Power Allied Forces robbed about 6000 million taels of silver from government offices in Beijing, of which the Japanese army looted 290 million to 850 taels of silver in the household department, and immediately set fire to the houses to cover up the evidence.

As for the Genggu of the Drum Tower in the capital, it was stabbed with bayonets by the cruel and perverted Japanese army, leaving it riddled with holes.

There are also astronomical instruments of the Old Beijing Ancient Observatory, which occupy an important position in the history of world astronomy.So the French invading army and the German invading army competed for these instruments.

Commander-in-Chief of the Coalition Army Vadsi said: "These astronomical instruments have extremely high artistic value, and their shape and the dragon-shaped decoration of each instrument are also extremely perfect."

On December [-], the German army snatched the celestial body, the chronograph, the horizon, the chronograph, and the armillary sphere, and brazenly transported them to Berlin, Germany.It was not returned to China until [-].

There is also the famous "Yongle Dadian"!It was compiled by 2 scholars for five years during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, with a total of 870 volumes.However, it was destroyed and discarded by the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and even used for construction of fortifications. So far, there are only more than [-] volumes left.

There is also the more famous "Siku Quanshu", which was compiled by 360 famous scholars for ten years during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It collected 460 kinds of ancient books, a total of 1960 volumes, and was divided into seven sets. In addition to destroying one set when the British and French allied forces invaded in [-], tens of thousands of copies were destroyed by the eight-nation allied forces that year.

Until now, the series of books from the "Yongle Dadian" that were robbed in those years are still stored in museums in London, England, and Paris, France.

The brutal Eight-Power Allied Forces aggressively occupied Beijing, and later continued to attack Baoding, Yixian, Yongqing, Zhangjiakou, Shanhaiguan, and Niangziguan in Shanxi.

At that time, Tsarist Russia even dispatched 17 troops to invade and occupy the Northeast. The Eight-Power Allied Forces burned, killed and looted all over the country, turning cities and villages into ruins.

This brutal and bloody massacre lasted for a long time. The crazy coalition forces were simply insane, almost abnormal, and entered a carnival state of robbery and massacre!

The Eight-Power Allied Forces, like wolves and tigers, treated Chinese officials even more viciously. For example, Ting Yong, the governor who guarded Zhili (now Hebei Province), was killed by the Allied Forces.

As for ordinary grassroots people, the fate of impermanence is even more tragic. Many people died under guns and swords, died of violent deaths, and those who died violently on the streets cannot be counted.

At that time, someone recorded in detail that "on the day the city was broken, the foreign soldiers killed people for no reason... But they heard the sound of guns and shells, and the voices of women crying for help. The corpses were scattered on the street, and the foreign soldiers drove the Chinese to bury them. All the people with corpses were shot to death and buried in pits....In about one hundred families within the Forbidden City, there are no more than ten rooms in them. In today's high gate mansion, there is still a person with no body left and maggots left outside. Although it is green and flimsy, ten diaries in Yangzhou, how can we pass it!"

The British journalist Simpson, who still has a sense of justice and conscience, also recorded what he witnessed: "The front team of the French infantry met a Chinese group on the way, and the boxers and allied forces beheaded the captured Boxers, and the civilians mixed with each other. , escaped in a hurry. The French soldiers fired at them with machine guns and forced them into an impassable alley, and the machine guns bombarded them in the trap for about 10 or 15 minutes until no one was left behind."

This is how these wildly armed coalition forces beheaded and treated the old Beijing people!

At that time, the old Beijing city was engulfed in a sea of ​​flames. There were miserable corpses after massacres everywhere, and burned down houses. Even the dogs raised by the citizens had their tails between their legs, their heads drooped, and they dared not go to the streets. Hiding in an imperceptible place, whining day and night, it is speechless and heartbreaking.

Not only that, but as early as 40 years ago—that is, during the Second Opium War in 1960—the two superpowers, Britain and France, formed the so-called coalition forces of the two countries and openly launched a barbaric war of aggression against China!

And in that year, the world-famous Old Summer Palace in Beijing was set on fire.

Everyone knows a thing or two about the burning of the Old Summer Palace, and ordinary children's shoes can tell one, two, three!But the specific situation is not that simple, and it is indeed heartbreaking.

Burning the Old Summer Palace is just a saying that people are used to!The real inside story and process of burning the Old Summer Palace was not only the burning of the Old Summer Palace, but also a huge fire that burned down the magnificent three mountains and five gardens of the royal family in the west of Beijing!

The three mountains and five gardens are Wanshou Mountain, Yuquan Mountain and Xiangshan Mountain, and five gardens including Qingyi Garden, Yuanming Garden, Changchun Garden, Jingming Garden and Jingyi Garden, all of which were reduced to ashes by the British and French allied forces. , leaving only the ruins of the Old Summer Palace that we see today - Dashuifa.

However, the Yuanmingyuan back then was huge in scale and magnificent, with shaded trees, rockery and waterside pavilions, rippling lakes, and willows drooping to support the wind, full of vitality!Colorful birds build nests in groups in the garden, multiply and inhabit, a bustling scene of warblers flying in the grass, birds singing and insects chirping.

The garden wall stretches for more than ten kilometers, which is breathtaking!It is composed of Yuanmingyuan, Wanchun Garden and Changchun Garden, and Yuanmingyuan is the largest, so it is collectively called Yuanmingyuan.

In addition, there are many gardens, which are distributed on the east, west and south sides of the Old Summer Palace, including Jingyi Garden in Xiangshan, Jingming Garden in Yuquan Mountain, and Qingyi Garden (the Summer Palace with its beautiful white pagoda today is based on this built on).

The total area of ​​the park is more than 5000 mu, and it has been built for many years!Turning into a sea of ​​flames once, is heartbreaking enough!The scope and extent of its burning were far greater than that of the Old Summer Palace itself.

But the catastrophe of the Eight-Power Allied Forces in [-], just setting fire to the urban area, was much bigger than the three mountains and five gardens as a whole.

Because no matter how big a few gardens are, can they be bigger than the vast urban area of ​​old Beijing?So this catastrophe in the old capital city also ignited the fire in Seventh Brother's heart!

Seventh Brother, who was already violent, became more and more angry in his heart!Finally he couldn't sit still anymore, his eyes shot out flames of hatred!

The right hand of the cattail fan, which can only strangle a leopard, quietly touched the revolver in his waist.