Chapter 2086 Trembling Movement (4)

  In the cartoons that Georgiana saw in the carriage before, Macartney knelt down on one knee to the "Emperor Tartar", and the other envoys seemed to be threatened by **** knives.

   However, according to the records of the Qing government, Macartney performed the great ceremony of three bows and nine kowtows, that is to say, he knelt down on his knees nine times.

   In fact, Qianlong was generous enough in this regard. During the period of his son Jiaqing, with the decline of imperial authority, kneeling became a much-needed etiquette.

According to the rules of the celestial dynasty, foreigners from various countries who come to serve in the celestial dynasty must be officials. possible.

  Before Wang Zhicheng, there was an Italian painter. He was really from Milan, Italy. His original name was Giuseppe Castiglione, and he was later renamed Lang Shining. He served in the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. Originally, Wang Zhicheng was going to take Lang Shining's class, but he was exhausted and died in BJ in December 1768, and his bones were buried there.

The court painter not only painted portraits for the emperor and his concubines, but also painted portraits for the princes and ministers. During the period when they traveled to Rehe, in addition to the emperor's brothers, concubines, several royal princes and princesses, and several princes And the favorite also asked him to paint.

The    painting is enough, the key is to change it, to remove the content that the guests don’t like, and add the content they like. Today I think the posture of the horse and the gun is powerful, and tomorrow I think it is necessary to modify the posture of the knight. At that time, Wang Zhicheng was suffering from a fever and a cold. He went to the palace every day and listened to the requests of customers. He worked from morning till night. Later, he had a diarrhea and lost half his life. Qianlong saw that he was working so hard, so he rewarded him with a blue top, but Wang Zhicheng declined.

As a court painter, he can use this special status to get close to the emperor and protect the mission of the church in China. Wang Zhicheng's dedication to painting for the princes can also bring a lot of convenience. For example, Wang Zhicheng once drove the Portuguese out of Macau and France. People ask a prince for help.

  However, life is at stake. He can paint even if he is not a court painter, but he can control the workload by himself. Even so, he died of overwork at the age of 66.

   The French have also heard about the "soul-calling case" just mentioned by John Brown, but they have heard of another version.

There is a cult prevailing in the wasteland from Zhili to Mongolia. It claims that the old mother Puguang can tell the good and bad of the world, and believes that the end of the world is coming and the "millennium". mead" as medicine.

   They have nothing to do with the White Lotus Sect, but they want to sing "Nine Lotus Praises". Later, when they heard about the Braid-cutting Demon Party, they asked believers to spend money to eliminate disasters.

   Every time there is a change of dynasty or a natural disaster, it is a good time for these cults to accept believers. When the believers were distributing leaflets in Baoan City, they were arrested by the officials of the government, and then the government followed the clues and caught these people who were lying.

  The members of the security cult regarded the braid cutting as a sign of the end of the world. Hongli did not sentence the first few people to be executed, but to execute them at a long time.

  Is not afraid of death, is Lingchi afraid? In order to have a happy death, the leader of the security cult confessed a person. This person's legal name is Haiyin, and his common surname is Ren. He lives near Zhengzhou. The You Fang monk.

   This confession is different from "Zhu Stone Carpenter of Suzhou" and "Fortune Teller Zhang Siru". Asiha, who was in charge of the trial at that time, followed this clue to investigate and found that it could be confirmed one by one. Continuing the investigation, it was found that this monk was related to the "Tian Brothers Association" in Guangdong.

Zhengzhou is not far from Northern Shaolin. Legend has it that Emperor Kangxi once recruited Southern Shaolin masters from Quanzhou, Fujian as officers to participate in the XZ expedition. After his victory, someone falsely accused these masters of plotting rebellion, so the imperial court sent Eight Banners soldiers to set fire to Southern Shaolin. There were only 5 Shaolin lay disciples. survived.

   Since then, they have been inseparable from the Qing court, respecting Zheng Chenggong as the originator of the mountain.

These are all legends, but it is true that Tiandihui participated in the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that the Northern Shaolin may also be involved. This kind of big sect who opened the mountain gate is not a wandering monk, it is easy to find, the problem is officials. Arresting people just by hearsay?

The missionaries could smell blood from far away. Tang Ruowang actually almost died, because he once helped the Ming army. Fortunately, an earthquake occurred in BJ, which changed Tang Ruowang's fate, from beheading to exile, and the rest. The oriental people who had the same crime as him were slaughtered and beheaded, and his original exile was changed to house arrest. The rest of the foreigners were sent to Guangzhou for repatriation, but these people will soon be able to move freely in Guangzhou. .

Have friends come from afar.

Even before the envoy came to China, the Manchu Qing had fought with the Nepalese, and the British sided with the Nepalese. Many ministers regarded the British as their enemy, and Qianlong was not unhappy. After all, the British envoy was not far away. Came from thousands of miles.

   As for the conditions and negotiations proposed by the British, they were rejected. Since the implementation of the sea ban in the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang has been closed to the outside world.

  Because of the problem of Japanese pirates, Japan is not in the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty. If Japan wants to trade with the Ming Dynasty, there is only one way to smuggle.

   At that time, Japan was in the so-called "Warring States Period", and there was no unified central authority, and various local daimyo were related to smuggling gangs.

   After the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government re-established diplomatic relations with Japan. At this time, Japan already had the Tokugawa shogunate. The rich and powerful had a great demand for silk, and the country was not enough. Where can there be silk exports? So there is a limit on the export of silk, and only Japan has the export of silk and satin.

Mr. Brown's pocket watch should be given to Prince Heshuoyi and Eleventh Brother Aixinjueluo Yongbao. He is the brother of Emperor Jiaqing with the same father and mother. Although it can hold court meetings and handle political affairs, it can also be regarded as the emperor's harem.

Even if the court painter wanted to paint the concubine, there were still many restrictions and rules. Macartney took a walk almost every day when he lived in the Yuanmingyuan. Once he got lost and broke into the harem and took the female relatives who lived there. Screaming in fright.

   The **** who was in charge of monitoring him found that he had been lost and searched for a long time, and ran over after hearing the screams. First, the British did not send small items such as snuff bottles, and secondly, they caused trouble for people. Even if the eunuchs of the Qing Dynasty were not as powerful as the governor of Dongchang in the late Ming Dynasty, they slandered that they could still do it.

   The same thing is expressed in a different way, but it is a completely different mood.

  Ximenqing was originally a grass-roots citizen. How did he get the attention of Taishi Cai Jing, and Pingdi selected him to be a prisoner of thousands of households in Shandong?

  If it is money, how did he go from a small **** from a poor household to a wealthy one?

  The change of dynasty is not necessarily the battle of the late Ming Dynasty. Mr. Brown chose a good time, otherwise no one would have the courage to give him tribute.

   Heshen and Zhongtang were also very honest at the beginning, but in the end, didn’t they also become greedy? If there is an account that does not match, he will send it to him, and it will be leveled when the other person's head falls. In the past, he was often accompanied by Qianlong during his southern tour.

   This is a matter of 20,000 ounces of silver, not 20,000 ounces of silver.

  Georgianna looked at the silver fan that was placed on the table and glowed with a metallic sheen in the sun. Now it was put away, and Chang'e on it was nowhere to be seen.

   Actually, Chang'e had good luck. She stole the elixir and was locked in the Guanghan Palace. What will happen to her own end?

   Anyway, if one day she has to go to the guillotine like Madame Dubarry, she will never say "wait a minute".

   (end of this chapter)