The Travelers of the Heavens

Jiangning, Andong Protectorate, De'an Hall.

After Chu Bufan came back, he talked to Wang Qi and his wife about their visit to Britain.

"So what does the Queen of Britain look like?"Li Xiaoman asked with interest.

"I think the Queen of Britain looks pretty good, with big eyes and an oval face, but she’s not too tall," Chu Bufan said.

"Oh." Li Xiaoman nodded.

"It seems that this time the teacher was treated with great courtesy," Wang Qi said

"That's right, we didn't wait too long when we met with the queen. It shows that Britain attaches great importance to us, maybe because we defeated Gaul easily," Chu Bufan said

"After Napoleon, Gaul was no longer what it used to be, and its decline was inevitable," Chu Bufan added.

Just this year, in the fifteenth year of Chengkang (AD 1840), Napoleon's body was returned to Gaul. It had been a full nineteen years since Napoleon's death.

"The forces of Gaul were driven out by us, and more British merchants swarmed in like wild dogs smelling meat. During your visit to Britain, the Commercial Director reported that the number of British merchants entering Britain was more than double that of before. Wang Qi said, holding up a folder.

"The Gauls were out, so naturally there were people to fill in, but Britain was a step ahead," Chu Bufan said. In the

25th year of Chengkang of the Great Zhou Empire (the 30th year of Daoguang's reign, 1850 AD), the sixty-eight-year-old Minning He died in the Forbidden City, and his fourth son, Yi Chi, who was twenty years old, succeeded to the throne. This was Emperor Xianfeng.

During the reign of Emperor Daoguang here, the Qing court did not sign treaties with other countries, and there was no improvement. This huge empire continued to slide towards the boundless darkness. On the contrary, the fact that Emperor Daoguang built two mausoleums for himself once became a major event that shocked the world.

What is going on? It turns out that Minning did not He planned to build a mausoleum on the boundary of Dongling in accordance with the"Zhaomu System" established by his grandfather, Emperor Qianlong.

In fact, Emperor Daoguang did not blame him for this matter. Initially, the Qing imperial mausoleums only had one Dongling mausoleum area. After the death of Emperors Shunzhi and Kangxi, They were all buried in Dongling, but after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, he opened up Xiling in Yi County. If the principle of"son follows father" was followed, Emperor Qianlong would have to be buried in Xiling after his death.

But Emperor Qianlong was not willing to sleep in a cold heart. Next to his cold-faced father, he preferred to follow his grandfather Emperor Kangxi, so when building Yuling Tomb, he established the"Zhaomu System" in which father and son were buried separately. That is, if the father was buried in Dongling, the son had to be buried in Dongling. Xiling, the grandson returned to Dongling, and the great-grandson returned to Xiling again.

In Minning's generation, his father, Emperor Jiaqing, was buried in Changling in the Xiling mausoleum area in accordance with the"Zhaomu System". It was supposed to be time to go back to Dongling.

However, Minning was unwilling to come back to the Dongling Mausoleum area to build a mausoleum. The ministers repeatedly persuaded and even used ancestral methods to exert pressure, so Minning built the mausoleum in Baohuayu, Dongling. , this was the later Baohuayu Mausoleum.

Coincidentally, serious water seepage occurred after the Baohuayu Mausoleum was completed. Minning was furious when he heard about it, so he ordered the officials who strictly inspected the construction to demolish the Baohuayu Mausoleum. Soon after, he He ordered the construction of the well-known Muling Mausoleum in Xilingling District.

The Muling Mausoleum here is completely different from the real one. In addition to the exquisite use of materials, the real Muling Mausoleum has cut down the Shinto, stone statues, square city and bright towers and other buildings. Everything is available, and the underground tomb of Muling here has four doors and nine coupons instead of the two doors and four coupons in reality. Let’s talk about another interesting thing here. Because Minning’s father, Emperor Jiaqing, signed the"Miyun" with the Great Zhou Empire, which was humiliating and humiliating the country. Treaty", so there is no stone tablet in the stele building of his divine merits and virtues that has been built in Changling Cemetery. He is no longer worthy of laying a stone to record his merits. Therefore, in this story, the big stele building in Changling is empty and there is no stele of sacred merits and virtues..

When the new emperor of the Qing Dynasty succeeded to the throne, everything was naturally renewed. The twenty-year-old Emperor Xianfeng also wanted to do something in his career, but the good times did not last long. In the second year after he ascended the throne, that is, the first year of Xianfeng in Gongjilulu (AD 1851) ), in Jintian Village, Guangdong and Guangdong. The failed scholar Hong Xiuquan took"God Worship Religion" as his belief and"Praise Heavenly Father God and Destroy the Demons" as his action plan to launch an uprising aimed at overthrowing the Qing Empire. This is The famous Jintian Uprising.

For a time, villages and towns in Guangdong and Guangdong responded to Hong Xiuquan, and the Taiping Rebellion began to sweep across the south. In the

28th year of Chengkang of the Great Zhou Empire (the third year of Xianfeng in Gongjilu, 1853 AD) Jiangning.

Five hundred thousand Taiping troops marched by land and water and surrounded Jiangning. They were fighting fiercely with the Qing troops defending the city.

In the Anton Governor's Mansion, Wang Qi was sitting at his desk. He was supporting his head with one hand and tapping his fingers on the table with the other.

"Prince, our corps now has five divisions in Jiangning with nearly 100,000 men, hundreds of heavy artillery, and more than 2,000 machine guns. Why don't we just fight the Taiping Army here? I don't believe they can fight back with the firepower of my five divisions. We cannot destroy these guys." Yuan Shu, the commander of the foreign corps, advocated resolute resistance.

"Yes, we will defend the Duhu Mansion and swear to protect the safety of the prince and his wife." A lieutenant general and five major generals and division commanders who attended the meeting echoed Yuan Shu's words.

"I’m afraid not," said Foreign Affairs Director Huangfu Weiyan.

"Why not?" Yuan Shu asked

"This is the internal affairs of the Qing court, and the target of the Taiping Army’s attack is not us, so we’d better find a way to stay out of it," Huangfu Weiyan said

"You are trying to escape," Yuan Shu scolded Huangfu Weiyan

"I just don’t want our soldiers to die in vain," Huangfu Weiyan replied.

"Okay, okay, don't argue anymore, let's listen to the prince's plan first," said Li Xiaoman, who also came to the meeting. Suddenly he heard that

500,000 Taiping troops were besieging the city and were already fighting with the Qing army. Li Xiaoman I was also a little panicked. You must know that this was not 50,000 people, nor 150,000 people, but 500,000 people. It was said that Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and other core figures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were all here. It seemed that they would not give up until they captured Jiangning.

"This matter is too big, I must ask my father to decide," Wang Qi said.

Then Wang Qi announced the adjournment of the meeting, and officials from various ministries returned to their posts to wait for orders.

Temporary positions were set up with sandbags in the front and rear of the Anton Protectorate, and machine guns were set up. , soldiers enter the position and stand by

"Looking at this situation, the Eight Banners Green Camp of the Qing Dynasty will not be able to hold on for a few days," said Wang Qi and Li Xiaoman.

"So what do we do?"Li Xiaoman asked

"Maybe we have to leave Jiangning," Wang Qi said

"We have lived in Jiangning for decades, and I am not willing to leave like this," Li Xiaoman said.

She has lived here very well for decades, but once she gives up, she is really reluctant to leave.

"I'll ask my father first to see what he means," Wang Qi said.

Then he activated the sound transmission spell to send a message to his father thousands of miles away.

What was Wang Yu doing at this time? He was teasing his youngest daughter, Wang Qian is only two years old. Since Da Siming gave birth to her eleventh son Wang Hong last time, Da Siming has given birth to three more daughters to Wang Yu in the past 20 years.

Now Wang Yu has He is the father of eleven sons and sixteen daughters.

Wang Yu was so happy that he hugged Wang Qian from ear to ear. He did not expect that Da Siming had accumulated a lot of experience. He gave birth to Wang Qi's son more than a thousand years ago, but recently In the past fifty years, she has given birth to children like a spurt. If Wang Qi is not counted, she has given birth to two sons and seven daughters for Wang Yu in these fifty years, a total of nine children.

Now the Taishi Mansion in Luoyi is very lively. , including Wang Song, the son born to the Moon God, there are already ten biological children of Wang Yu in the family.

""Father, I am Zhong Heng, something happened here" sounded in Wang Yu's ears.

"Um? What's the matter?" Wang Yu calmly responded to the other party with his own consciousness.

"There's a civil war here, and half a million thugs called Changmao are attacking Jiangning." Wang Qi's voice came again.

"Hairy.. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?" Wang Yu asked

"Yes, father, what should I do now, should I defend Jiangning or evacuate immediately?" Wang Qi asked

"First help the Qing court's defenders to defend the city. After ten days at most, you can tell the Qing court officials that the ammunition is exhausted, and then lead troops north to the capital." Wang Yu gave instructions.

"Yes, father." After Wang Qi said that, he temporarily cut off contact.

After receiving Wang Yu's exact instructions, Wang Qi ordered two of the five divisions in Jiangning to leave two to guard the Protectorate and be ready to evacuate, and the remaining three The division helped the Qing defenders fight against the Taiping Army.