Chapter 610 Moore: I feel relieved when I see the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom so corrupt (please book, please vote)
Tianjin Xiaguan Wharf, the seventh year of the Tianli period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, on the eighth day of November.
When a "Jianghai"-class passenger ship with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons approached the Shangxiaguan Pier and lowered the anchor chain. Friedrich held his glasses and looked at the crowd of people kneeling on the stone steps of the dock in disbelief.
They were the Minister of the Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Western King Xiao Chaogui and his wife, Victoria's "soul sister", and the reincarnation of Salome, the sister of Jesus, Hong Xuanjiao kneeled down.
This scene...Moore and Friedrich have only seen it in the North Korean Heavenly Kingdom under Yang Xiuqing's rule, but they did not expect to see it in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which is known as "progressive"!
Only saw Xiao Chaogui's python robe and jade belt sitting on a horse. Sixteen red-robed strong men were carrying a large sedan carved with dragons and phoenixes. The phoenix crown covered with pearls was vaguely revealed between the gaps in the curtains of the sedan curtains.
The guard of honor carried a bayonet and was lined up in two rows, with more than 300 people. The four words "Xiwangfuwei" on the red battle jacket looked particularly eye-catching in the sun.
"This is the majesty of the gods in the kingdom of heaven," Bai Siwen sucked a cigar and squeezed at Moore, "I think that Master Xianfeng was not as extravagant and glorious as them!"
Moore tightened his notebook, and the pen in his hand was hanging on the paper. He warned that Hong Xuan was following more than twenty green sedan chairs after he saw Hong Xuan's sedan chair. When each sedan curtain was lifted, golden hairpins and cloudy hairs flashed. Who are these women?
Lord Erkin, the ambassador of the British Empire to Tianjing, introduced in Oxford English: "The ones sitting in those blue sedans are Xiao Xi's little wife...
"What?" Friedrich said in surprise, "So many? I thought King Luo Wu, who had three wives, was already very corrupt.:::
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Erjin took a sip of cigarettes, glanced at Luo Yaoguo, who had already disembarked with Maria, and whispered: "The King of Wu is considered a clear stream among the kings of heaven. He has a total of four princes...:::. One of them is still a fiancée.
The one with the most wives among the kings of heaven is the King of the East, and it is said that there are eighty-eight wives."
"Eighty-eight..." Friedrich was surprised, "It's too much!"
"This is a freak that mixes capitalism and feudal emperors." Moore sneered.
Bai Siwen interrupted, "Moore, don't slander us feudal aristocrats... I always had only one wife! And when I was alive, I had only single digits of concubines. ::::. And they all looked ordinary."
At this time, the wind suddenly turned and brought the sound of silk and bamboo orchestra. Wei Changhui's sixteen-carrying sedan chair also arrived!
When Wei Beiwang went to Kaiping Mining Bureau to welcome the "Carl Heavenly Master" before, he was still very "hard and simple". At that time, he was guilty and did not dare to be too arrogant in front of the "Carl Heavenly Master". But now he has let it go!
Next to the sedan chair of Wei Beiwang, ten Japanese female warriors in kimonos followed closely, with a knife inserted between their waists and a ribcage. The four words "Blessings of Heavenly Father" were tattooed on their exposed wrists.
When Wei Changhui's sedan chair fell, ten Japanese female warriors knelt down in one of them, and one of them knelt beside the sedan chair and took the human stairs, allowing Wei Changhui to step on her body to walk to the ground.
"Look at that red dress!" Bai Siwen suddenly stabbed Moore's elbow. Su Sanniang was walking down the steps of a red painted boat in the King of Wu's Mansion. The pomegranate red wide-sleeved embroidered skirt was swayed like a sail by the Jiang Feng. She was inserted into her hair bun. This female general from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had to carry a bit of evil spirit wherever she went.
Zhou Xiuying followed closely, with a red jacket and skirt wrapped around her delicate figure, and a Colt revolver was inserted on her belt. Maria Clementina, who had already disembarked with Luo Yaoguo, saw the two sisters coming, and immediately smiled and went up to pay a blessing.
Bai Siwen looked at her tongue and smacked: "The taste of King Luo Wu has gone from golden-haired foreign girls to the wild animals in the world, but it is not a must-have for meat and vegetables... These are all the best!"
Before he finished speaking, Wanzhen was the last one to come down from the pleasure boat of the King of Wu's Mansion. The "Fourth Princess" of King of Wu Luo Yaoguo finally grew up and reached the age of being able to officially enter the King of Wu's house. She looked strange and seemed to be worried, and she was pinching an embroidered handkerchief with her fingertips, and her teeth were sucking red lips from time to time. Seeing Luo Yaoguo walking towards her, she quickly knelt down and kowtowed respectfully to her fiancé.
"That girl is..." Moore frowned when he saw it.
"It should be Wanzhen, the fourth prince's wife who has not passed by the King of Wu... "Erjin said, "She is the sister of the Empress Dowager of the Later Jin Dynasty and should also be a hostage to Luo Yaoguo. Now the Later Jin Dynasty has taken the banner of the Qing Dynasty and has rebelled on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!"
"Will she...\n...\n." Moore asked with a little concern, "I'm executed?"
The Palace of King Wu.
Eight glass lamps burning whale oil illuminated the White Tiger Hall as if it were daytime.
Maria Clementina's blonde hair shrank in a Chinese bun, sitting on the right side of Luo Yaoguo, smiling and picking fish bones for King Wu Luo. Su Sanniang sat on the right side of Luo Yaoguo, talking to Zhou Xiuying who was standing behind her. Wanzhen didn't look like she was going to be executed, but was holding a wine pot and serving Luo Yaoguo behind her.
Moore wrote in his "The Eastward Journey": "Although the King of Wu Luo Yaoguo of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom always talks about 'equality', he himself has four wives, and the status between these four wives is unequal. Su Sanniang and Maria are significantly higher than the other two..."
At this time, twenty-four dancers walked into the hall along the drum beats of the General Order. The woman leading the dance lit cinnabar between her eyebrows. While performing a dance, she also glared at Luo Yaoguo, which caused Su Sanniang to frown.
"The woman who led the dance was named Fu Shanxiang," Erkin whispered to Wen Xian, Moore, Friedrich and others, "She is the first woman in the first entrance examination of Taiping University. ::::. She has not graduated yet, but she has become the secretary of the King of Wu's Mansion."
"I wonder if you can let us watch the National People's Conference in your country?" Moore seemed to have seen enough of the decay of the "gods" in the Kingdom of Heaven. Without waiting for the banquet to end, he proposed to visit the National People's Conference. This is one of his main purpose for coming to Tianjing.
If there is any progress in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom besides industrialization, it is probably the meeting of this people. "Lingnan!" Luo Yaoguo shouted again, and then he heard the pearl curtain suddenly ringing, a beautiful girl wearing Taiping University's Navy uniform walked in quickly, holding a notebook in his hand, "Your Highness, please give me instructions."
Luo Yaoguo pointed to Moore and Friedrich: "These two gentlemen want to visit the Chinese people's meeting...::.. Please check it out, which day is more suitable?"
"She is the second female student in the first enrollment exam at Taiping University, named Cheng Lingnan, her brother is the confidant of King Luo Wu. Now the prefect of Shanghai, like Fu Shanxiang, she is intern in the Wu Palace...:.:
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Erkin has a lot of gossip, and he also contributed a "goss news" to Moore's "The Eastward Journey".
"The day after tomorrow," Secretary Cheng flipped through the notebook, "The day after tomorrow people will vote to send troops to attack the Western thieves."
The so-called Western thief is of course the "Mrs. Queen Mother" Nara.
Luo Yaoguo clicked: "Then let's arrange it the day after tomorrow!" He then said to Moore: "I will send troops to Xi'an in the beginning of next spring. If gentlemen want to meet the living Qing Dynasty...
He suddenly pulled Wanzhen behind him, the girl's face was pale, and tears seemed to be in her almond eyes: "What if I let my fourth prince's wife lead the way? Her sister is the queen mother in Xi'an City! Wanzhen, are you willing?"
The girl nodded gently: "I am willing...:::. Although my sister deserves to die, I still want to go to Xi'an to persuade her to come back and to go to Tianjing to apologize to Your Highness!"
The Palace of King Wu, late at night.
The sound of throwing a child at midnight reached the guest rooms where Moore and Friedrich lived.
Friedrich was writing in his notebook with the light of the oil lamp: "Four wives, at least three hundred guards, and more than a dozen beautiful dancers, hundreds of servants, and two beautiful female secretary...\n...\n. There is also a luxurious palace. The annual expenses of this King of Luowu alone are probably less than 100,000 silver dollars. Such a king,
There are several more people in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they are even more corrupt!"
"It is obvious that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is just a freak of the mixed industrialization and the Eastern autocratic empires from the West." Moore wrote in his "The Eastward Journey", "Although this country seems to be developing well, the decaying superstructure is doomed to be unable to control the productivity of the industrial era!"
Friedrich put down his pen: "The economic foundation determines the superstructure.::::. If the superstructure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and France, Prussia seemed, then it might really survive the future world war until the end! But at present, the superstructure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the booming productivity of industrialization are inconsistent. The reason why it can remain stable now is that the industrialization of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has just begun and industrial workers have not yet become
I was familiar with it, and I didn't realize how corrupt the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's court was. The bourgeoisie of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was too weak and had to rely on these corrupt gods! But in the future...\n. When the devastating war between imperialism thirty or forty years later, there would definitely be ten or twelve million workers, and the peasants were willing to fight for these corrupt gods. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom might become a working country like Russia after the war ended!"
Moore wrote quickly and recorded Friedrich's words intact on the manuscript of "The Eastward Journey", then put down the pen and said with a smile: "When we finish watching the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's national people's meeting, we will go to Xi'an.::::. Let's meet the last side of the Qing Dynasty, which is more corrupt than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!" He closed the manuscript, "I am now full of confidence in China's future!"
Chapter completed!