C3199 Wei Keduoyuguo (1/2)
The Wei Keduoyuguo in front of Xiang Ying was already an old man who was close to seventy years old. This person had personally witnessed the rise and fall of the entire Napoleon III Empire, and had even watched the chaos in the political arena in Paris from the sidelines.
This is a moral and pure European literary hero. His writing is full of pity for the weak and merciless ridicule for the exploiters. He is even full of compassion for the alien race.
To Xiao Letian, < < The Tragic World > > and < Notre Dame Courtyard > were all symbols symbol of an old man, but what he remembered even more were Yu Guo's condemnation of the British and French combined forces burning their Yuan Ming Yuan to death.
”Letter to Captain Butler on the British and French combined forces Expedition to China”, which was very familiar to Chinese in the 21st century, had been chosen as a textbook for junior high school textbooks and was filled with condemnation of the British and French combined forces.
One day, two bandits from Europe broke into the Yuan Ming Yuan. One robber looted the property, and another set fire to it. It seemed that once he won, he could start stealing. They looted the Yuan Ming Yuan on a large scale, and the stolen goods were divided between the two victors.
What they had done to the Parthenon in the past, and what they now did to the Yuan Ming Yuan, the only difference was that they did it more thoroughly and beautifully, until it was gone.
If we add up the treasures of all the cathedrals in Europe, they may not be worth the magnificent and magnificent museum of the East. There were not only art treasures, but also piles of gold and silver.
A great achievement! The harvest was huge! Two winners, one full of pockets, visible, the other full of crates. They walked back to Europe, arm in arm, grinning. This was the story of the two robbers.
We Europeans are civilized, and the Chinese are barbarians in our eyes. This is what civilization does to savagery.
One of the bandits was called France, the other was called Yingjie. However, I want to protest, and thank you for giving me this opportunity to protest. The crime of the oppressor is not the fault of the oppressor; the government is sometimes a robber, and the people will never be a robber.
The France swallowed half of the loot from this victory. Today, the Empire actually thought that they were the real owner of the loot, showing off the magnificent trash of the Yuan Ming Yuan. I hope that one day, the released and clean France will return this spoils of war to the plundered China, and that is the true owner of the loot.
Those who were familiar with the history of the Yuan Ming Yuan, were probably not unfamiliar with these famous lines, they were the ones who came from this letter from the Wei Keduoyuguo Elder.
However, this letter was not made public at the end of the 19th century, because the two countries of English and French also wanted to gain face. This letter was only recorded in Mr. Yu Guo's collection, and only a small number of people knew about it.
When Xiang Ying suddenly said that, the old man was at a loss, ”I'm sorry, Sir! What did you say? Have you ever read my personal letters? ”
”Or did Captain Butler make the letter public?”
Xiang Ying's face turned red, he could not say that the CIA's Europe department had secretly sent people to steal your original copy, so he could only put on an act.
”I also overheard a professor in Berlin mention that he had recorded some of your famous sentences, including this letter... Thank you very much for your condemnation of the Yuan Ming Yuan's atrocities, you are our eternal friend! ”
Xiang Ying quickly avoided the topic and started to talk about his health. ”Have you just returned home? It must be very hard not to come home from exile in Europe for twenty years... ”
”Haha …” ”It's not as serious as you say. I've been living in all the big cities in Europe and my budget is quite generous. Besides being homesick, I don't have any hard work to do …”