349 Chapter 8: The Adventures of the Little Prince (4)
"Why, the ancestor of the Jin family is obviously the Aixinjueluo family, why should the surname be 'Jin' now?"
"Also, before the He family, they were clearly members of the Hesheli family. Why are they not called 'Hesheli' now?"
"Brother said that the fall of the Qing Dynasty was very humiliating. Is this true?"
When He Qingyan heard her nephew's anxious questions, she couldn't help but squeeze the history book in her hand tightly.
Frankly speaking, modern history is so humiliating that even those who know this period of history cannot bear to read it a second time.
She really didn't want to tell this history to her little nephew.
But seeing the little guy scratching his head and looking anxious, He Qingyan pursed her lips, stretched out her arms and carried her little nephew to the sofa, and said to him:
"Okay, Baobao, my aunt will briefly tell you the reasons for the demise of the Qing Dynasty. However, I am only a high school student now. I can only tell you with my own understanding. My explanation may not be correct. Do you understand?"
"Baocheng, I understand! Auntie, tell me quickly."
Xiao Baocheng nodded his round head and urged.
No matter how little his aunt knows, she still knows more than he does, right? Who makes him now a "little illiterate" who doesn't know a few big characters?
Xiao Baocheng crossed his short legs and sighed.
He Qingyan also flipped forward a few pages of the history book in her hand, pointed to the illustration of the Humen Consumption of Opium in the history textbook, and said warmly to her little nephew:
"Baobao, the person in this painting is Lin Zexu, a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, England established colonies in the countries south of the Qing Dynasty, planted a large number of opium poppy flowers, and made opium. Opium was also called hibiscus. It was very early
It had appeared in China before, but opium was the most widespread during the Qing Dynasty. At that time, foreigners sold this poison to the Qing Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, everyone from the princes and nobles to the common people were holding smoking poles..."
The more Xiao Baocheng listened, the tighter his frown became. He clenched the two small fists on his thighs tightly and kept repeating in his heart: When he returns to Daqing, he will definitely
We must imitate Master Lin Zexu and destroy opium!
After He Qingyan finished talking about the Opium War, he immediately went on to talk about the Eight-Power Allied Forces' invasion of China and the numerous evil deeds committed by the Japanese devils in China. The little guy's face was so dark that he almost shed tears.
Only then did she suppress the anger in her heart towards the enemy. She stretched out her arms to pick up the chrysanthemum herbal tea on the coffee table. After drinking more than half a cup, she felt that her anger had calmed down a little.
The idiom said sincerely:
"I think the fall of the Qing Dynasty was due, on the one hand, to the poor quality of the later monarchs, who were not as capable as the previous British rulers. On the other hand, the people in power in the Qing Dynasty failed to keep up with the development trends of society and made decisions that were inconsistent with the development trends.
Something contrary to that.”
Xiao Baocheng scratched his round head with his hand. He Qingyan's words were so concise that he couldn't understand.
"Auntie, what is the development trend of society?"
Xiao Baocheng touched the smooth paper of the history book with his chubby hands and asked in confusion.
"Well...how should I explain this to you?"
He Qingyan pursed her lips, raised her right hand and rubbed her forehead, and then said metaphorically:
"Baobao, let me explain it to you like this. Before Qin Shihuang unified the world, the Zhou Dynasty still implemented the enfeoffment system. Qin Shihuang had great talents and great plans. After taking office, he destroyed the six countries and unified the world. At that time, 'unification' meant social development.
The trend, what Qin Shihuang did was consistent with the wheel of history, so he succeeded."
"But later, after the world was unified, some monarchs still wanted to reverse history and restore the feudal system. This was something that went against the trend of social development, so they were destined to fail and end up with a bad ending."
Obsidian nodded and shook his head in confusion, apparently half understanding.
Qingyan sighed, bit her lip with her teeth and thought for a while, then suddenly she had a flash of inspiration and said:
"By the way, since you are so interested in the Qing Dynasty now, my aunt will give you an example of Kangxi."
After hearing the word "Kangxi" from He Qingyan's mouth, Xiao Baocheng's auspicious eyes lit up instantly.
He already knew from his brother that the monarchs of the Ming and Qing dynasties were more famous by their reign names than by their names, so the common people usually called them by their reign titles.
The person that the two-year-old Xiao Baocheng admires the most right now is his Ama Khan. He couldn't help but raise his little chest and proudly said:
"Aunt Baocheng knows about Kangxi. Kangxi is Baocheng's Khan Ama!"
When He Qingyan heard her nephew's words, she couldn't help but twitching her mouth again. She really wanted to tell her nephew that Kangxi was not his mother, but his ancestor, and his father's name was Jin Yexi!
But seeing the little guy's face seeming to be even happier when he mentioned Kangxi than when he mentioned his biological father, He Qingyan coughed twice and continued:
"One of the major achievements of Kangxi's life was to pacify the vassal state. The existence of the vassal state was not conducive to the unification of China. What Kangxi did followed the development trend. Therefore, although the process of pacifying the vassal state was very difficult and took many years, Kangxi finally won, and the people
We also recognize his great achievements."
"Ping Fan! Baocheng, I know!"
As he spoke, the little guy stood up from the sofa, waved his short arms and spoke and gestured eagerly:
"Khan Ama wanted to destroy the vassal, and the White Lotus Sect's bad guys kidnapped Gu and Dawa's brothers. They wanted to kill Gu and Dawa. Then my aunt climbed up to the pear tree and took Baocheng and Dawa.
Big baby, saved."
"It rained heavily in the sky. Khan Ama called the bad guy 'little aunt'. Baocheng got caught in the rain and got a fever. Then when Gu woke up, he found that Gu had arrived in Changsheng Heaven!"
When He Qingyan heard her little nephew's outrageous words, she was so shocked that her eyes almost fell out. Does her little nephew have such a rich imagination?
She couldn't help but asked curiously:
"Baobao, who is brother Da Wa?"
"Da Wa, that is, Da Wa! He is so powerful that he was the first to transform from a gourd seed into a human being!"
"Brother Da Wa, Gu became a human earlier than Gu. Two years ago, he went out of the palace to practice. Gu is very envious of him."
He Qingyan: "...I really can't talk anymore today."
She took a long breath and decided not to rack her brains to give analogies to her little nephew. She directly stretched out her arms to hug the little guy's milk-scented body, and smiled helplessly:
"Baobao, you just need to remember that when the monarchs of the Qing Dynasty should have developed Western learning, they chose to close the country, refused to spread Western learning among the people, refused to take the initiative to explore overseas, and refused to open their eyes to see the world. Therefore, when Western countries are relying on industry
When the revolution became stronger, the Qing Dynasty fell behind, so when the national power declined at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Western powers bombarded the country with cannons in humiliation!"
"Because the Qing government was too cowardly in the later period, the reputation of the Manchus is not very good now. Coupled with the later Chineseization, many Manchus changed their surnames to Chinese surnames."
"That's all you need to know. When you grow up, you may know more."
Xiao Baocheng saw the sadness in He Qingyan's eyes and knew that He Qingyan didn't want to talk any more, so he was sensible enough not to ask any more questions.
He turned his head and looked at the bright sunshine outside the glass window. Somehow he missed his Khan Amma and his aunt in Qing Dynasty...
At the same time, Jin Yexi, who was in the hospital bed on the other side of the ocean, suddenly opened his eyes.
Cao Yin, who was sitting on the sofa nearby, saw that his boss was awake, and his eyes were filled with joy. As soon as he got up from the sofa and planned to go outside to call the doctor, he heard his boss say in a hoarse voice:
"Ziqing, no, Cao Yin, go and buy the nearest air ticket. I want to go back to China to give Baocheng, no, Baobao a birthday celebration."
Cao Yin heard that there were two slips of the tongue in Jin Yexi's short sentence, and couldn't help but look at his boss in confusion.
But seeing Jin Yexi's anxious face and eyes full of joy, he pursed his lips and got up and quickly went to work outside the ward.
Three days later, on May 3, the weather was very hot.
Today is He Baobao’s second birthday.
Early in the morning, He Fangyi dressed her two sons in identical brother outfits - a cotton white T-shirt on the upper body and light blue denim suspender shorts on the lower body.
The two brothers already look a bit alike, but now that they put on the same clothes, it's clear at a glance that they are biological brothers.
He Fangyi knew that her youngest son really wanted to go to the Forbidden City to see it. She planned to take her two sons to the Forbidden City with her cousin in the morning when the sun was not too high, and they would go home to have birthday cake at noon.
At 8:30, Xiao Baocheng followed his mother, aunt, and brother to the Forbidden City in a car.
He Fangyi did not take Xiao Baocheng to Yuqing Palace, nor did he tell Xiao Baocheng that in history, he was destroyed by his own Khan and his mother, and that the new emperor Yongzheng was not his problem.
When Xiao Baocheng saw that the large gold-plated vat near the Qianqing Palace was covered with scratches, it looked shabby and not at all as gorgeous as he had seen it in the Forbidden City.
I heard from my aunt that the evil Eight-Nation Allied Forces invaded the Forbidden City. After burning, killing and looting, they not only took away countless treasures in the Forbidden City, but also used a knife to scrape off the gold plating on the outside of the large vat.
Xiao Baocheng was so angry that his body was shaking, and he yelled angrily:
"Those Western devils are so poor that they won't be able to get this job! They'll even scratch the gold vat!"
He Fangyi's lips curved into a sarcastic smile, and she angrily said to her little son in her arms:
"The invaders are heartless. Not only were these gold jars scraped by the Western devils with knives, but the old crooked-neck tree on Jingshan Mountain to the north of the Forbidden City where Emperor Chongzhen was hanged was originally tied with an iron chain.
Yes, when the Western devils left, they also stole the chain."
When Xiao Baocheng heard his mother's words, he pursed his lips and looked at the already mottled red walls and gold tiles in the Forbidden City. They no longer had the majesty of the Forbidden City. He looked like an old man with many scars in his dying years. He didn't look back for a long time.
He opened his mouth to speak, wrapped his two short arms around his mother's neck, and leaned his round, furry head on He Fangyi's shoulder.
After the two adults and two children took a quick look at some of the attractions in the Forbidden City, He Fangyi raised her right arm and saw that the watch on her wrist was almost 11 o'clock, so she left the Forbidden City with her two sons and cousin and returned to the He family villa.
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At lunch, Xiao Baocheng, accompanied by his mother, brother, aunt, grandpa, grandma, grandma and grandpa, ate birthday cake and celebrated his second birthday.
After Hebra, Shumulu and others celebrated Xiao Baocheng's birthday, they left the garden villa in the afternoon.
As night fell, at 8 o'clock in the evening, Jin Yexi finally hurried back to Bei City. He didn't dare to stop for a moment and immediately asked the driver to take him to the He family's garden villa.