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Chapter 50: The Iron Beast! The Angry Zulong!

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"What...what is this? It's so huge and so powerful!"

Tang Dynasty.

During the Zhenguan period.

The ministers opened their eyes wide, as if they couldn't believe what they saw.

As the video played, everyone saw the spectacular sight of warships galloping on the sea, with deafening gunfire.

"Such a sharp weapon can sail on the sea so easily."

"And that launcher can actually cause an area of ​​land to explode, killing people as easily as crushing an ant. It's truly astonishing!"

Li Jing, Cheng Yaojin and others were shocked.

Fang Xuanling murmured to himself: "If such weapons were used in war, wouldn't it cause great suffering to the people?"

He really couldn't imagine how cruel the war would become if such a weapon was used on the battlefield!
Qin Qiong and others also thought of this and swallowed their saliva.

Li Shimin looked at the slightly frightened expressions of his ministers and said with a smile:
"No matter what happens in the future, just the fact that this thing can easily sail on the sea and travel so fast means that Lord Fang's idea may become a reality one day!"

In fact, when he first saw the power of the warship, he still felt a little fear in his heart.

However, when he thought of what Fang Xuanling had said before, Li Shimin felt an indescribable excitement in his heart.

It was as if I saw the other person’s idea become reality!

It seems like the infinite possibilities for the future of the Tang Empire!
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During the Qianlong period.

Qianlong said disdainfully: "What kind of steel beast is this? It's fake! It must be fake!"

"It must be a trick created by the rebels to discredit our Qing Dynasty!"

"I don't believe there is such a strange thing in the world!"

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In the sky, the scene changed again.

[The Qing Dynasty began to close its doors to the outside world since Emperor Yongzheng.

[The Qianlong Emperor later inherited and developed this policy, regarding himself as the "Heavenly Kingdom", believing that "the Celestial Kingdom is rich in products and has everything, and does not need to rely on foreign goods to meet demand."]

[Opium, called "poppy" in the Northern Song Dynasty, was listed as a tribute to the court in the Ming Dynasty and was called "black incense". It is a drug that is very addictive once taken and is extremely difficult to quit, destroying the physical and mental health of the user.]

[In order to open the door to China, Western powers smuggled opium into China. ]

[This behavior exacerbated the political corruption of the Qing Dynasty, causing a large amount of silver to flow out, leaving the national finances empty, and causing the spread of opium and drugs in China, bringing serious disasters to society.]

[In order to solve this situation, in 1839, Lin Zexu carried out the opium destruction at Humen, which lasted for 23 days and destroyed 19187 boxes and 2119 bags of opium, with a total weight of 2376254 kilograms.]

——If it is beneficial to the country, life and death are of no concern. Why should we avoid it because of good or bad fortune? Mr. Lin will live forever!
——This is the backbone of the nation!

——I have to criticize a novel here. (Crying with her hands covering her face)
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In the sky.

There appeared a group of smokers with gray skin and skinny bodies.

They lay on the bed, their whole bodies shrouded in smoke and mist, their eye sockets sunken and their eyes empty, as if their souls were swallowed by the mist of smoke.

Every time he exhaled smoke, he would cough violently.

These people's teeth have been stained black by cigarette stains, their lips are cracked, and the whole picture is filled with decadence and despair.

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"Is opium so harmful?"

Looking at the skinny smokers in the sky.

Throughout the dynasties, everyone from officials to common people were shocked.

"Pass on my decree, opium and poppies are prohibited substances, and anyone who dares to grow them will be severely punished!"

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then.

The scene changes.

An official with white hair and beard stood proudly.

"I, Lin Zexu! I am the imperial envoy to investigate the opium issue in Haikou!"

"As long as opium is not eradicated, this minister will not return!"

"As long as opium is banned, what does it matter if I take off my hat?"

The voice was sonorous and powerful, with the determination to succeed.

... [In 1840, England launched an invasion of China on the pretext that Lin Zexu destroyed opium in Humen, which is known as the First Opium War.]

[England used its powerful ships and cannons to open the country's door, and after the defeat, the Qing Empire signed the first unequal treaty (the Treaty of Nanjing) with Britain.]

[The Qing government opened Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo and Shanghai as trading ports, allowed the British to station consuls, and allowed British merchants and their families to live freely. At the same time, it paid 2100 million silver dollars in compensation to Britain and ceded Hong Kong Island to Britain.]

【The signing of the Treaty of Nanjing destroyed the independence of China as a sovereign state, and it began to become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.】

[The Qing Empire, which had experienced the prosperity of the Kangxi and Qianlong eras, seemed to have suddenly slipped into internal and external troubles.]

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At this moment in the sky.

Under British fire.

The Qing army was defeated.

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【What happened to your cannon! 】

An officer shouted at the top of his lungs: [Marshal, our artillery can’t reach them…]

The voice was full of weakness and sadness.

In the court hall.

Upon learning that the English, whom he regarded as barbarians, were able to capture Dinghai, Zhejiang with their warships like a hot knife through butter and were heading straight for Tianjin, Emperor Daoguang was terrified.

this moment.

Many people have woken up from their dream of the Celestial Empire.

Emperor Daoguang immediately sent Qishan, the Governor-General of Zhili, to Tianjin to negotiate with the British army.

However, what is ridiculous is that many people put all the blame on Lin Zexu.

A minister suggested: [The foreigners went north because of Lin Zexu's rashness! Why not order Lin Zexu to be dismissed! ]

An old minister argued in the court: "No, foreigners used opium to poison China, and Lin Zexu destroyed opium in Humen, and his contribution is indispensable."

However, the frightened Emperor Daoguang didn't care about these things and immediately announced:

【Lin Zexu, you have misled the country! You have misled me! You have misled the world! 】

[Dismiss all his official positions immediately! ]

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After learning that Emperor Guang decided to cede land, he surrendered and asked for peace.

The old minister shouted at the top of his lungs again in the court:

[Your Majesty! For the past 200 years, the Qing Dynasty has only expanded its territory and herded horses in the Tianshan Mountains. It has never ceded land or paid compensation! This is a loss of sovereignty and humiliation to the country!]

[Once the example of Hong Kong is set, disaster will surely spread. At that time, we will be traitors and the emperor will become the ruler of troubled times! ]

【emperor!!!】

[If you want to cede Hong Kong to the foreigners, I will die in this hall! ]

[How could the great Qing Dynasty endure such a great humiliation! ]

But in the end...

With the Qing army defeated again!
Lin Zexu was still dismissed and investigated!

Finally, in August 1842, British warships sailed into the Nanjing River, and the Qing government signed the Treaty of Nanjing with Britain.

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"Bastard!"

The period of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.

Ying Zheng watched this scene.

Heartbroken.

It is totally unimaginable that the great China was completely helpless in the face of the barbarians who once fought against it.

What I didn’t expect was that the emperors of the Qing Dynasty would be so weak!
"Damn the barbarians, they are harming China! I swear to destroy them!"

Ying Zheng drew out his sword angrily!

My breathing became a little rapid.

This barbarian.

It not only refers to the British who bullied China, but also the Manchus who lost their sovereignty and humiliated the country!

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(End of this chapter)