C2033 The Kaiser (1/2)
A tragedy, what a tragedy!
Not only was the story of Liu Dadao's ancestors a tragedy, but now that Emperor Tongzhi had met this servant, it was an even more tragic tragedy for Zai Chun.
The thing that made people lament the most was that the new idea that Zai Chun had just accepted was completely destroyed by the servant's old idea. The little emperor had already chosen the right path, but unfortunately, he was brought into the ditch by this group of people before he even got on the road.
The core point of the future Historian's analysis was that the old power that the little Emperor was facing was too powerful. It was like a little donkey pulling a mountain-like cart, while carrying countless elephants on it.
He was not afraid of bad things, but he was afraid of bad people! Humans could only walk a few steps in their entire lives. Such a few crucial points could be counted as the correct path to take in their entire lives. If they went wrong in their lives, it would naturally become a tragedy.
Liu Dadao completed his own mission, packed up his tableware and carried the little emperor's faint promise of reward back to the Kitchen with a heart full of joy.
The little emperor, on the other hand, was insomniac, sailing across the Mediterranean, and outside the portholes came the sweet sound of the strumming instruments of the English ship's sailors playing their guitars.
No matter how wonderful the music was, to Zai Chun, it was a demonic sound that caused him to lose sleep. He flipped it over and over on his bed like a sesame seed cake.
After two hundred years of development, the inside of the Qing Dynasty was now riddled with holes. Putting everything aside, just the system of eight flags has given rise to headaches for the successive kings of the Great Qing.
It could be said that from the moment Kang Xi entered the Proclamation of Liberation, Eight Flag's entire group had been scolded by the Emperor every year. A group of hedonistic sons who only ate without working, and even caused trouble everyday had become a tumor in the Great Qing Dynasty.
The world was at peace. The children of the families that came from wars had quickly turned into playboys. They could not read or study, and knew no martial arts. Business and craftsmanship were prohibited by the ancestors' laws.
What else could these people do other than cause trouble?
If you want to cause trouble, it's not a big deal. If you ruin your own life as a popinjay, the imperial government would be too lazy to care about you.
But that won't do, this group of people were already married to each other, from before they entered the city, they already had relatives, and in the end they were able to marry into the Xiluo's family.
Relying on their strong network of connections, their bloodline, and their in-laws, not only did these people have to be happy, they always wanted to be officials. But do you have the ability to be an official? If there were too many things to accomplish, wouldn't the Chinese Officer be the one to handle the big matters in the military and political field?
This bunch of bastards, even if it wasn't bad, they would still burn incense.
This group of people had become a huge burden for the imperial government, and it was impossible to lose them. Every year, the cost of food and money was no less than ten million, but at critical moments, he couldn't count on it at all.
When the British and French combined forces attacked the Beijing, not a single one of these Hedonist Eight Flags could resist, as if two hundred years of money and food were going to end up in their stomachs.
The three generations of Sacred Monarchs of Kang Yong Gan were unable to solve this problem, and the next generation of Monarchs were even less capable. Jia Qing, Dao Guang, Xian Feng … With the fall of the empire, the empire was on the verge of collapse.
Under this kind of background, Zai Chun actually dreamed of solving the stubborn terminal disease called Eight Flag. If he told Mother about this, he would probably laugh himself to death.
This idea was indeed a little unrealistic, but Zai Chun didn't think so, because he found a good medicine within the Chinese people, and that was the nationalist spirit that his master had always advocated.