Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Ba Zan's face first turned white, then immediately turned unhealthy red. His hands trembled like a pendulum, and he suddenly stood up.

"This is humiliation! This was a despicable conspiracy! You are challenging the dignity of our entire French people! "

"Take your conspiracy back to Asia, I won't accept your humiliation!"

"It's impossible for the almighty French Emperor to issue such an order, it's definitely impossible …"

The Marshal and his three following generals all stood up and left in a fit of rage, but Xiao Letian did not seem to be angry at all as he sneered, "The aristocrats that Napoleon has kept for so many years, were only a bunch of traitors in the end!"

"Ba Zan, you are the son of an engineer, you walked the path of a mercenary … Who do you think you are without His Majesty the Emperor? "You still want a place in the baron's office?"

"Hehehe …" What is loyalty? It's all bullshit … With the fall of the Empire, your loyalty will become fart. I'm afraid you all would really like for the Emperor to die early! "

"You shut up!" Ba Zan and the rest were enraged, they turned to scold Xiao Letian, "What does this schemer of yours know? You will never understand what His Majesty means to us! "

"Bonaparte Family is our faith, our life! Without the Emperor, we are just dust on the ground right now! We do not need you to prove our loyalty! "

"Alright then!" Xiao Letian stood up, "Now that the order from the French Emperor has been issued, you all are refusing to carry it out … You say this is a scam? Then open your eyes and take a good look. Whether this photo is fake or not, whether this handwritten letter is fake! "

Xiang Ying opened the folder and threw a stack of photos onto the table. The black and white images recorded the scene of Xiao Letian and French Emperor resting in the William palace!

A lavish dinner, a walk in the garden, a group photo under the Hercules... There were even meetings for negotiations in the study!

This was not a lone witness for a single photo. There were 15 clear photos here. Photographing techniques had yet to be developed in this era!

"You have already seen the secret letter written personally. I don't need to judge if it is real or not by myself. If you, Ba Zan, can't even recognize the emperor's handwriting, you probably won't even be a marshal!"

"You clearly know that what I said was true, but you intentionally thought that it was false …" In the end, your only plan is to betray us! "

"The empire has fallen! You all need to find the next owner. Now, you all need to shake your tails and wait for the Republic to throw you a few pieces of meat and bones? "Let's go eat them!"

Humiliation, naked humiliation, the furious Ba Zan roared loudly: "Shameless! "Bastard!"

This sound was too loud, the guards outside subconsciously wanted to rush in, so how could the Chinese soldier allow them to barge in? With a clatter, the sounds of rifles pulling the bolts could be heard, and the two sides were at loggerheads with bayonets.

Just as the two parties were in a deadlock and were unable to come to the stage, Wang Huaiyuan started coughing "Cough cough cough". Cough cough cough … What a strong smell of gunpowder! "

"I've already said this before. Our Chinese should not have interfered with such unrelated matters … "Look, they are treating us as bastards!"

"Why the bother!?" Let them continue to hold the isolated city. Let them watch as their 170,000 brothers starve to death … It's not like we lost our lives, why would we be scolded? "

"They don't care about titles either. They are the champions of the Revolution, the guardians of the Republic! Just throw away the titles of Countess, Barons, and Viscount on you and assimilate them into the people of China! "

"Aristocratic privileges? How immoral... You still need to pay the title of nobility every year? "This grandpa doesn't care about that small amount of money …"

"What?" The people want to pay their respects to their lord? Don't … We are all equal, I bow to you first... Hahaha … "Cough, cough, cough …"

Wang Huaiyuan sarcastically said a few words, making Ba Zan and the other three generals' faces darken immediately!

Xiang Ying was even more clever, not only did he manage to translate it in time, he even added fuel to the fire. That's called nationalism... Equality for All... "Becoming a noble with the emperor is already something that I'm unwilling to do …"

"It's better now. It's China again. How happy is it!"

Xiao Letian coldly snorted. So happy! "I don't know. Have you guys washed off the blood you suppressed all those years ago?"

"Do you really think that the Republic does not know how to liquidate? A blood debt must be repaid with blood! Montauban has fled to the Belgium to live in seclusion, and the Queen did not dare to stay in Paris for even a day, but fled to England under cover of the heavens and the seas … "

"You want to have a patriotic dream! "You're a patriot, who loves you …"

His words were like a bolt of lightning, the faces of Ba Zan and the others paled. The four of them took a few deep breaths, and under Ba Zan's instructions, they walked out of the barn with a dark expression, "What are you guys planning to do? Step back, put the gun down... As long as there are no more shots, you don't have to worry about our lives! "

The tense atmosphere outside the barn eased quite a bit, but the atmosphere inside the barn turned strange.

The mockery of Director Wang and Xiang Ying, in the end, combined with Xiao Letian's blade technique, directly stabbed into the hearts of these people's weak points, which was also the point they were the most worried about.

What kind of joke was this? The noble held it in front of everyone's eyes and was stripped naked? What was this feeling?

What is a noble? That was the dream of many people!

What exactly are the privileges in the European aristocracy? Each country was different, but in the end, there were countless benefits from being a noble!

Firstly, according to their rank, the nobles could receive a different amount of salary. This was a huge benefit, and the benefit was mainly from the Emperor's personal treasury. In other words, it had nothing to do with the France's national treasury.

Other than the allocations from the national finances, the emperor's main income was the income from the colony as well as from business. The total salary of a baron like Ba Zan, in total, was around 500,000 francs per year.

Afterwards, the nobles still had their own fiefdom. When the king and emperor conferred the title of a noble, they would give them their own fiefdom. This kind of land would, of course, be permanently owned by the nobles.

In fact, in the 21st century, many of Europe's beautiful castles and surrounding lands were still of aristocratic descendants, private property recognized by the state.

Every year, the light castle had a scary amount of tourism income. Although the output of the surrounding farmland wasn't big, the value of the land was also terrifying.

Wealth and feudal fiefdom, in the end, political privilege!

Many schools required Nobility s to attend, or in other words, those institutions of higher learning would only give very few spots to the children of ordinary families.

This was especially true for some of the higher level military academies. Nobility students were given priority, and this ensured that the aristocratic families' influence in the army wouldn't be diluted.

As nobles, their children and grandchildren didn't have to worry about food and clothing. Since birth, their children didn't have to worry about survival. They could diligently study art, music, science, military, philosophy, politics … Such professional talent would monopolize the country's superstructure even more.