Chapter 741 (1/2)
Originally, Shi Xiong had great confidence in this meeting, but his ideal was full and his reality was hard to understand.
Shi Xiong hit a big nail in Peiping!
No wonder the most appropriate evaluation of Jiaqing in history is mediocrity. After meeting the emperor Jiaqing, Shi Xiong finally understood why later historians would make such comments on the emperor.
In fact, strictly speaking, Shi Xiong thinks the character of emperor jiaqingdi is good, at least he is a forthright person. When they met, they had a good conversation. However, once it comes to some matters at the national level, Emperor Jiaqing's conservatism will be displayed immediately.
In fact, Shi Xiong was a little puzzled at the beginning. It is said that the emperor Jiaqing had made some achievements after he ascended the throne. At the very least, he got rid of He Lin, and even put forward the banner of ”salt and reform” to straighten out the internal affairs and discipline. Judging from these measures, Emperor Jiaqing was also an ambitious emperor. At least he was good at the beginning of his reign.
But the problem is that the Qing Dynasty began to decline from the Jiaqing Dynasty, and finally broke out the Opium War when his son Daoguang emperor was in power, which completely pulled a great country into hell.
However, when the stone bear returned to Danfo and thought about it for half a night, he realized that he took it for granted.
As a museum employee and a senior associate researcher, Shi Xiong was familiar with emperor Jiaqing.
In fact, Emperor jiaqingdi didn't like foreigners, especially Britain. In the later period of Emperor Qianlong's reign, the British East India Company began to grow opium in India and Myanmar. Most of the Opium flowed into China and made a lot of profits for the British East India Company.
But the harmfulness of opium is well known to all, so when Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, he not only advocated the prohibition of opium, but also maintained a high degree of vigilance against the harassment activities of the British Invaders in the coastal areas. In particular, Emperor Jiaqing wisely refused the insidious demands of Britain to help the Qing Dynasty suppress the uprising army and help the Portuguese in Macao resist France.
Emperor Jiaqing was conservative in nature. He was always wary of foreigners, otherwise he would not adhere to the policy of ”shutting down the country”.
And now the stone bear came out, and the Great China Empire came from the other side of the Pacific. Although all the people in the Great China empire are yellow skin, black hair and black eyes, which are almost the same as those in China, there is a saying that people in power have always regarded it as the most reasonable thing in China - they are not of our own race, and their hearts must be different!
Even if they look very similar, they are still outsiders. Even if Shi Xiong told emperor Jiaqing about the ”Eastward migration of Yin people” when they met, Emperor Jiaqing was still very wary of Shi Xiong
So when we met, Emperor Jiaqing politely refused to help the Qing Dynasty resist foreign enemies.
On the whole, the meeting was a failure. If there's anything to gain, it's that Shi Xiong and his second son balutu ate a rich Manchu and Han banquet in the Forbidden City, which is a small dream of Shi Xiong's two lives
Since there is no discussion, Shi Xiong will no longer consider the Qing Dynasty.
Stone bear is very clear in this time and space to change the history of the United States, that is because they travel through a good era. But now, if we want to change the history of the Qing Dynasty, it is not enough.
Although the Qing Dynasty began to decline rapidly, it was still a big country. And the stone bear doesn't want to change the country in the way of war.
As long as there is a war, there are bound to be dead people.