Imperial Mausoleum Treasure

Chapter 222 Recalling the Burning of the Old Summer Palace

It is said that the people in the capital know it!Regardless of the life and death of the people, Cixi fled all the way to Xi'an with Emperor Guangxu and others.

at the same time!Li Hongzhang, an important minister in the DPRK, made slow progress in the peace talks, and the coalition forces continued to burn, kill and loot, so Brother Qi's eyes burst into flames, and he held a revolver, wanting to fight to the end with the coalition forces, even if the fish died, he would not hesitate.

Just as he was about to go out with the six monsters, the old Zhengtou who had been watching secretly at the door hurriedly pulled him into his yard, and let him into the house desperately. thing, because that is death for nothing.

The seven monsters were so angry that they didn't know what Old Zheng was going to do.

At that time, the 79-year-old Zhengtou was like a dromedary, a ship in the desert, with a hunched back, trying to push Brother Qi into a chair and sit down.

After he had recovered his breath, he blushed and lit a big pipe for him with a thick neck. He also dug a bag of tobacco leaves from his purse, lit it with a lighter, took a puff, and sucked it into his stomach. .

After a long time, three puffs of green smoke were slowly expelled from the mouth and nasal cavity, making him coughing.Then he paused, and said in an old and hoarse voice: "My child, you can't help it, just listen to the little old man speak slowly."

This old Zhengtou is actually not simple. He was very smart when he was young. He was famous as a child prodigy in Duofoli Hutong. He was able to recite poems against adults at the age of eight!When he was young, he was selected as a scholar, but later, due to a sudden change in his family, he had no intention of continuing his studies and taking the entrance examination, so he had to be a private school teacher for a lifetime, and exchanged two taels of silver to support his family.

Therefore, the old Zhengtou is proficient in literature and history, and has a good cultural foundation. In addition to the native dialect of the older generation, he can also quote scriptures and classics.

Immediately afterwards, the seven monsters saw that Old Zheng was plunged into extremely painful memories, his cloudy eyes were half-opened, his face was full of misery and helplessness, his face was raised with tears, and he said faintly like a ghost : "It was the tenth year of Xianfeng (that is, 1960, [-]), when the British and French allied forces invaded our old Beijing.

On October [-]th of that year, a day I will never forget, foreign devils occupied the Old Summer Palace.From the second day onwards, the officers and soldiers started smashing and looting like livestock.

The senior minds of Britain and France, in order to make the Qing government quickly accept the agreement and their domineering conditions, the leader of the British army, Ergin, and the commander-in-chief of the British army, Grant, claimed that the Qing government had put Britain and France under control. Under the pretext of imprisoning the prisoners in the Old Summer Palace, Lieutenant General Michel was ordered to lead an invading army of more than 1960 big foreign devils to the Old Summer Palace on October 500, [-].

In the British and French invading forces, those foreign devils who were like tigers and wolves arrived at the Old Summer Palace and looted the Old Summer Palace until it was completely empty.

Later, in order to destroy the stolen goods and cover up their crimes like livestock, Elkin, the leader of the British Army, with the support of British Prime Minister Palmerston, blatantly ordered the Old Summer Palace to be burned.

At the same time, Gordon was also sent to carry out the terrible order of burning the Old Summer Palace. The fire burned for three days and three nights, turning this world famous garden into ruins and ruins.

The Chinese defenders were outnumbered and unable to defeat them. Wen Feng, the chief minister of the Old Summer Palace, was helpless and unwilling to be a prisoner.

After two days of looting, the British and French troops continued to march into the city.

On October 1000 of that year, the British army sent more than [-] cavalry and an infantry regiment to loot the Old Summer Palace again.

The British plenipotentiary, James Bruce, used the pretext that the Qing government imprisoned Bacharley and others in the Old Summer Palace to include the burning of the Old Summer Palace as a prerequisite.

At this point, Old Zheng wiped away his tears and snot, fell to the ground, sucked his nose and began to cry, then took out a handkerchief whose color could not be seen and wiped it, continued to choke and said, "I remember it was October 500th." On the [-]th, more than [-] British devils rushed into the Old Summer Palace and started setting it on fire.

Yuanmingyuan and the nearby Qingyi Garden, Jingming Garden, Jingyi Garden, Changchun Garden and Haidian Town were all burnt into ruins by the fire. In Anyou Palace, nearly [-] eunuchs, maids and craftsmen were burned. Burn alive.

Speaking of this, the Seven Tomb Raiders are already stunned, because the oldest of them is only 28 years old, and they really don't know the details of the fire that burned the Old Summer Palace 40 years ago!

At this time, the careful angel Yao Meier noticed that Seventh Brother's eyes were breathing fire, burning with extremely angry flames, and his eyes were almost cracked. Temper, once it breaks out, is not afraid of ruining the world. . . . . .

Seventh Brother stared wide-eyed, clenched his fists tightly, his chest heaved violently, his eyes became blood red, and a vein like an earthworm burst out on his neck. He continued to listen to Old Zheng's talk about the fire.

Old Zheng was unable to move flexibly because of his excitement. He bent down and knocked the remaining sparks on the soles of his shoes tremblingly. , lit it with a scythe, took a deep breath, stabilized his emotions, and then continued to preach:

The Old Summer Palace, which is closely connected to the Haidian District and the Summer Palace.Built in the 46th year of Kangxi (that is, [-]), Emperor Kangxi later gave this garden to his fourth son Yinzhen, who was later Emperor Yongzheng, and also named it Yuanmingyuan.

After more than 150 years of management by the five emperors Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, and Xianfeng, they concentrated a large amount of material resources and used countless skilled craftsmen to carefully build it into a grand and beautiful palace.

Speaking of this, Old Zheng's cloudy eyes suddenly lit up, and he became much more energetic!I saw him take a few puffs of flue-cured tobacco leaves and said: "This Yuanmingyuan not only collected many famous gardens and scenic spots in the south of the Yangtze River, but also creatively transplanted western garden architecture, which gathered the culmination of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign garden art at that time.

It's a pity that they were all ruined by these foreign devils who killed thousands of knives, ruined!

Having said this, Old Zheng began to curse, his old face was flushed red, and blue-colored tight blood vessels appeared on his forehead, and he also coughed violently!Almost out of breath!In the end, he vomited a mouthful of blood on his feet in a frightening way, and got really angry!

This pool of dark red blood suddenly vomited out, with a stench, shocked the seven tomb robbers who had experienced the test of life and death!All of them stared like wooden chickens, looking at the old Zheng with a clear mind and amazing memory, but he was vomiting blood angrily, feeling at a loss for what to do.

Suddenly there was a bang, and the resentful Seventh Brother punched a big hole in the Eight Immortals Table.

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