031 Ancient Inca Kingdom
The Forbidden City, the Hall of Peace of Heart, is the heart of the Qing Empire, and this is the study of Emperor Tongzhi. Although Emperor Tongzhi is only nine years old this year, the nobles of heaven and earth are all very mature in nature. Now the little emperor Tongzhi on the imperial throne has a bit of majesty.
"Shameless, the Western Bible is simply crazy! No wonder my father wants to avoid disaster and escape the Summer Palace. It turns out that these Western Bibles are so unethical! They are simply worse than beasts..." The nine-year-old Tongzhi slapped his hand on the imperial throne, and he didn't know it was too hot.
"Don't calm down!" The two rows of eunuchs and palace maids in the Yangxin Palace knelt down, and trembled one by one under the oppression of the great power.
Tongzhi was holding a strange text, which was the latest chapter of "The Journey to the West". It turned out that the little emperor was also a die-hard fan of Xiao Letian. However, today's chapter made the little emperor so angry, because the story happened to talk about the demise of the Inca Empire.
The ancient Inca Kingdom emerged in the 11th century, died in 16 families, and was passed down for more than 500 years. In Xiao Letian's writing, the mysterious ancient Inca Kingdom is located on the plateau of South America. It is a nation that is very good at architecture and agriculture. Now, where is the origin of corn commonly planted in the Qing Dynasty.
In the latest chapter, Xiao Letian praised the splendid civilization of the ancient Inca country with all his writings. Whether it was a city built purely with huge stones, a towering pyramid into the sky, or even the extremely huge national vault of the Inca Empire, he proved the greatness of this civilization to the world.
However, such a brilliant civilization was destroyed by Europeans in 1532 of the Western calendar and the 11th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty. The most annoying thing is that the Europeans actually kidnapped the Inca king Atavarpa by deceit.
Pizarro, the despicable Spanish conqueror, went deep into the core area of the Inca Empire with only 170 soldiers and some explorers, and even wanted to negotiate friendly with the king under the siege of 50,000 Inca troops.
The Inca king Atavalpa didn't know that it was a plan, but he actually brought thousands of followers to negotiate with these outsiders, but he never expected that Pizarro would suddenly kill people and rushed forward to kidnap the king. When the king fell into the hands of the enemy, 50,000 loyal soldiers did not dare to attack, but were killed by the Spaniards on the spot.
Then Pizarro took the Inca king as a hostage and forced the Inca Empire to provide gold as a ransom. The king served as a hostage for a whole year, and in order to redeem his king, the Inca Empire provided six tons of gold and twelve tons of silver.
Of course, Xiao Letian converted it in the book. At that time, one or two pounds of weights and measures of the Qing Dynasty were about 35 grams. Just calculate it simply. The Inca Empire provided 170,000 taels of gold and 350,000 taels of silver. Please come for more and faster chapters.
If you think the Spanish would keep their promises? Then you are wrong. When they got this wealth, they lied that the king's army wanted to rescue him and used this as an excuse to burn King Atavalpa to death with stolen.
From that day on, the Inca Empire, which had been glorious for more than 500 years, completely declined until it disappeared into the long river of history.
Xiao Letian had his own plan to write this chapter, because he knew that if the Qing rulers wanted to recognize their identity as a famous scholar and a master of Western learning, they had to touch their hearts. Here, Xiao Letian chose a very sinister move, which was intimidation.
Is your Qing Dynasty a great empire? No matter how big it is, you have not passed on it for five hundred years. The Inca Empire has been passed on from the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty. Do you think this country is worth enough?
But such a great empire was conquered by a super small army of the Spanish. Haven't you felt the crisis in the Qing Dynasty? You must know that you were abused twice by Britain and France. Updated as soon as possible
Xiao Letian used his simplest words to paint a picture of the empire destruction with the sky falling and the earth sinking to the rulers of the Qing Dynasty. The last emperor locked in an iron cage, his miserable situation was written in his mind. Here, Xiao Letian also made a small ambush, which was to praise Emperor Xianfeng and beautify his escape to Chengde Summer Resort.
Look at how cruel the foreigners are. They can take the king as a lie. They will even rob the ransom after paying the ransom. This is simply not a human being. It is still the clever emperors of the Qing Dynasty. They can see at a glance that their plot is absolutely not fooled by them.
Xiao Letian was too confident. If this article could not impress the Qing rulers, he might as well do nothing, packed hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and hid his own life in the United States.
A stone caused a thousand waves. When the latest chapter of the strange text spread throughout the capital, the entire Qing Dynasty ruling class was completely blown up. The princes and nobles were all sighing at the tragic scene when the dynasty collapsed, and the senior officials of the Han officials were so furious when they saw that the Western barbarians were so unfaithful. Even the so-called men in the world who were in the four or nine cities patted their chests and cursed the streets.
"Damn, this Spanish is so shameless. He even tore up the ransom and even tore up the ticket. If I meet him, I will definitely chop him alive!" That's amazing. Xiao Letian's articles are even loved to read by the men in the Green Forest. I can't even think it's popular.
As for our nine-year-old young Emperor Tongzhi, he even slapped the table and said swearing. He didn't know who he learned it from. The eunuchs were so scared that they all slapped each other. If the two queens heard it, none of these servants who served could survive.
Just as Emperor Tongzhi was angrily wandering around the Yangxin Palace, a group of people walked into the main entrance to the head of Empress Dowager Ci'an of the Eastern Palace. "Who made the emperor so angry? Isn't it still happy when I pay my respects in the morning!"
"Please greet the emperor!" The little emperor randomly called a thousand and then jumped up and said, "Isn't it just angering for foreigners? Didn't you watch today's latest "The Journey to the West"? Those Spanish people are too shameless, they are really worse than beasts..."
Ci'an looked at Tongzhi kindly. Although this child was not his biological child, he had been very close to him since childhood. Moreover, Tongzhi was the only emperor in the Qing Dynasty who ascended the throne without any suspense. After all, Xianfeng only left such a son in the end.
This is the hope of the Qing Dynasty's revival. Tongzhi's succession was very smooth. No one in and outside the court had any objections. His inheritance rights were purely and clean, so that all the great scholars in the world could not find any faults. This is the biggest reliance of this child. He naturally had a solidarity in the country and was united inside and outside. As long as he was slightly cheered up, he would have hope.
Ci'an sat on the bed, carrying his long nails and looked at the copybook, raised his hand and let the emperor sit beside him. "Emperor, I have read this article, but I am not as angry as you. I immediately ordered the Office of the Internal Affairs to find foreigners and ask privately if this matter is true..."
Tongzhi was a clever person. He knew that the Queen Mother was teaching him the key points of governance, so he quickly sat down. Please come to more and faster chapters.
"Anger is useless. When encountering such a thing, you should investigate it first. What if this person named Xiao is a liar who deceives the world and steals his name? Then your anger will turn gray, your emperor?"
"The Queen Mother asked, what was the result?" Tongzhi was still very curious.
The expression on Ci'an's face did not fluctuate at all. "The Office of the Internal Affairs sent someone to privately ask the missionaries of Britain, France and the United States, and the result... everyone's answers were the same. Although they were a little embarrassed to speak, there was only one result... The real thing is really impossible to be true anymore!"
With a crisp sound, Tongzhi smashed the teacup in one hand, and the broken porcelain pieces cut the faces of the three eunuchs, and blood dripped down. Please come more and faster chapters.
"This is the nature of foreigners, greedy and despicable. But why do these barbarians get the power that I did not have in the Qing Dynasty? What is this power..." Just when the little emperor was in pain, another group of people came outside the door, which was Tongzhi's biological mother, Empress Dowager Cixi.
"What's wrong with the emperor? His little face turned yellow..." As soon as Cixi entered the door, she held Tongzhi's face with both hands and rubbed her heartache. She was demonstrating to Ci'an, and the subtext was 'I am the real mother, don't rob me of my son'.
Ci'an had long been accustomed to Cixi's eyes. The mother is the only way out for women in the deep palace because of her son. Who made the emperor get close to her? It is normal for Cixi to be jealous.
"Sister, look at this strange article. The emperor is angry because of this story!" After that, he handed over the article. Cixi had read it a long time ago, but her performance was different from Ci'an. "The emperor doesn't have to worry about these things. There is a mother. Don't worry, foreigners can't bully the emperor. We can't go back and forth again and again. Now that the hair has been pacified, the Qing Dynasty's national fortune is booming, and one day it will surpass those of those foreigners..."
Tongzhi was a little impatient with his mother's rubbing. He thought to himself that how much mother taught me what to do when she encountered anything, but she took care of everything she encountered, but she just didn't let me solve it. The Holy Ancestor could capture Oboi wisely at the age of eight, but I couldn't take charge of the ruler even when I was nine years old, and I blamed this mother.
"Two ladies, the emperor has an idea... I want to announce this Xiao Letian to be an official in the court, how do you think?" Before he finished speaking, Cixi frowned. "How can this be done? I have checked it. This person is a second ghost. Now Americans are protecting him..."
"It depends on his attitude to go to Baihua Building that day. I guess he doesn't even have the intention to raise his hair, not to mention becoming an official. He walks around in foreign clothes every day. If he becomes an official, he will not be quarrels in the court!"
"Then isn't it okay for me to let Xiao Letian go to the palace to study with me? Let him teach me Western learning..." Tongzhi still refused to give up.
"It's even more impossible. If he was a pilgrimage to learn from the West, then the great scholars in the court would not go crazy! It's finally easy for the court to start to be stable. If you make such a fuss, you won't know what changes will happen..."
"This is not OK, that is not OK. Do you want to suffocate me to death?" Tong Zhi shook his hands and walked out in anger. "I'll go to the Imperial Garden to relax. Don't follow me..."
Cixi was so angry that tears rolled in her eyes, and Ci'an persuaded her, "It's not uncommon for the emperor to have some thoughts when he is old, but I still support you in this matter. Xiao Letian's origin is too strange. If you don't observe it for a while, you can't let the emperor contact him!"
"Look, that's what I mean, but the emperor just doesn't understand my painstaking efforts..." Cixi kept wiping her tears in aggrievedly, but the corners of her eyes were full of viciousness.
Pretend, start pretending again. We are not harmonious with our mother and son, which is what you instigated. If you hadn't had the will in your hand, I would have sent you to see the late emperor long ago.
Chapter completed!