Chapter 166 When Beijing meets Berlin 19
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Prince Heinrich lived happily in Beijing, not only himself, but also the officers and soldiers of the German Navy Fleet who went to Beijing together as his entourage.
Not to mention the generous supply of supplies that opened the eyes and made the Germans a lot of things along the way from Hong Kong to Beijing, just talking about the courtesy and adventures received in Beijing made the Germans dazzled.
From the Shunzhi Dynasty, which established its capital to the Guangxu Dynasty, anyone who entered and left Beijing needed documents. Although the court required this, the following always had policies and countermeasures. As long as the Han people were mainly in the south, as long as there were silver, power, and relationships, it would not be troublesome to enter and leave the city.
But from Nancheng to Beicheng, I have never relaxed the investigation since the Qing Dynasty entered the pass. The northern city was not allowed to live without Manchu people. Even if you are a Han minister, you are sorry, you can only live in Nancheng. For example, Ji Xiaolan, an important official of the Qianlong Dynasty, could only choose the house in Nancheng.
The southern city and northern city of Beijing, or the inner city and outer city, are an insurmountable gap between Manchus and Han people, sanitation and mess, wealth and poverty. Not only are the Han people never allowed to step into the northern city or inner city at will.
According to the Qing system, in principle, foreigners were like Han people and could only live in outer cities or southern cities.
How to check the people coming and going in Beijing, the military officials guarding the gates of Beijing, is a great subject. The highest level of this science is to know how to do things, or in Beijing dialect, it must have "eye-seeking prices".
A guard who lives for a long time and is nourishing, must learn to see the shape of a carriage or sedan chair. Those carriages and sedan chairs belong to the royal family and those who are high-ranking officials and noble families must be memorized in their hearts. This is a compulsory homework for every guard.
If you remember wrongly, slow down, waiting for a stupid guard will inevitably be a slap. It is still light to be beaten. If you stop wrongly, you will be dismissed from office and lost your job. If you are seriously injured, you may even have to explain your life on the spot.
Since the fifth year of the Guangxu period, that is, in the summer of 1879, the guards guarding the nine gates of the inner city have remembered the latest rule: Anyone who wears a flag with a black eagle painted on a white background, even on a curfew night, you should be unseen and let go.
It would be better if you could shout loudly while you were released. It would often make the old and young men standing guard give a thumbs up and shout to themselves, "I'm so manly!"
As for the immediate bosses on duty, they can only laugh and scold them, but they will never be punished.
Because now all the men in Beijing Sijiu City know that the person who can fight this Black Hawk flag is now a hardcore friend of the Qing Dynasty and a German.
The Qing Dynasty made foreigners for the first time, to be precise, the mission from Germany moved into the inner city of Beijing. There was no bannerman, and he felt that this matter should not be in line with the ancestral system.
Before Heinrich entered Beijing, the old and young men in Beijing felt their faces were greatly aroused by the German apology. When Heinrich entered Beijing, the Germans' combat plan was put in front of Prince Gong, now the whole city of Beijing knew that Germany was willing to help the Qing Dynasty teach the unsightly thing, Japan.
It has been almost forty years, and nearly two generations of people in Beijing are frustrated. In the teahouses in the capital, whenever foreigners are mentioned, they either come in today or they will be compensated for compensation tomorrow. They have red hair, green eyes, white skin, and look like ghosts. Our Qing Dynasty cannot afford to offend these foreigners, so they can only admit their bad luck.
But since the 13th year of Tongzhi, the day has changed again and become more depressing. Japan, a small country, has become the latest country that dares to make ground on the Qing Dynasty.
Westerners are far away. Few scholars in Beijing know how big and where the West is. However, Japan, Fusang, and Japan, these names are known to scholars and even ordinary people.
It would be fine if the Western devils bully the Qing Dynasty. You Japanese pirates, the little short man dared to ride on the Qing Dynasty and shit. It was unbearable. A small vassal state of the Celestial Empire dared to swear with his master! Is there any king's law in the world?
The Qing Dynasty, especially Qingliu and the people, had been fighting and killing Japan for nearly five years. Today, the combat plan brought by the Germans completely made Qingliu and the people in the capital excited.
The resentment and anger towards foreigners over the years suddenly turned into praise for the Germans. Qingliu, who had previously loudly opposed foreigners, became the most determined supporter of the Democratic clan overnight. The people and Qingliu of Beijing were waiting for Prince Gong's mansion and shouted, "Search, do it!"
After waiting for a week, Prince Gong's mansion was like an iron lion in the Iron Lion Alley, without moving at all.
In the four eight alleys east of the inner city, the German mission was stationed in the tiny area. The envoy of Barland could only helplessly tell Heinrich that the reason why the Qing court is not so hot now is that the efficient and enthusiastic Germans scared the Qing Dynasty. According to their own experience, the frightened Qing decision-makers are often like an ostrich, sticking their tiny head into the sand, exposing their huge butt to be quiet.
This is the norm for the Qing Dynasty. As the Chinese public, I have long been accustomed to all this. On the contrary, the Qing Dynasty's performance over a month ago was subversive, and the current practice of Prince Gong's mansion is normal in the eyes of Minister Balander.
Heinrich shook his robe in a daze and smiled, "Uncle Maximilian, the Qing Dynasty is really a magical place. For example, the material of this robe is completely different from the German silk I have seen. In this hot season, it will not stick to the skin like other silks that are unbearable."
Heinrich turned his body towards the waiting mirror, looked carefully at the robe on his body, and then sighed, "The most amazing thing is that it is so thin and has no wrinkles. If you have to find a disadvantage, it is that there is only one black option, otherwise it will definitely be a hot sale in Europe. By the way, Uncle Maximilian, you said last time that this fabric is called?"
"Okay okay!" Looking at the unpleasant minister Balander, Heinrich raised his hands and smiled, "I admit that Commander Dietrich drafted this combat plan, which was instigated by me."
"Uncle Maximilian, God told me that human nature is evil, and I can't believe in human nature without a sharp sword."
"I just think that the rose and the sword are the truth of the Teutonic Knights' negotiations with people. Also, Uncle Maximilian, I really don't think that just reasoning can make people surrender, especially a country."
"Before, I asked you to delay the two weeks of delay to Berlin, to the Prime Minister, and to my father, in the hope that the Qing Dynasty could agree to this matter, at least to make the large fleet have international axioms, no matter how it does it. After all, we are the army invited by the Qing Dynasty and intervene in the Qing Dynasty and Japan dispute, which is also diplomatic.
Heinrich scratched his hair hard, looking embarrassed, "At least, don't let my father and the Prime Minister think that the trouble I have caused is too great, and blame General Dietrich, the commander of the fleet, whom I always respect."
"Oh, I really didn't expect that this is a group of guys who are afraid of hearing the national war. It's been more than three weeks, but there is still no reply." Heinrich, wearing a robe, shrugged helplessly, "It seems that I have to go out and try Xiao Qiaoqiao's method."
"Henry, accepting the invitation of Lord Zhang Peilun to go to the Hanlin Academy in the Qing Dynasty to give a speech, is a very good idea!" Baland agreed with Heinrich's plan to go out today.
At least it would be much more meaningful than you, the younger and more energetic guys, to find prostitutes in the south city of Beijing, and to visit the Great Wall and the Royal Cemetery of the Qing Dynasty in the north.
With the abstinence of long-term sea navigation, the brains of these sailors were no longer phosphate, but were full of protein. Young men with brains on protein were definitely very talented when looking for female hormones. In less than a day in Beijing, the German navy sailors found the eight major alleys in the south city.
For the Eight Hutongs, Minister Balander is still... in Beijing dialect, it is still a clear person.
The characteristic of the Eight Hutongs is that prostitutes and husbands are in full bloom. Cough! In the elegant words of the Qing Dynasty, it is called sexual intercourse between women and sexual intercourse between men.
When a woman is prostitute, a man is good, collectively speaking, advocates good. Good and actress originally mean male and female actors engaged in the acting career, so the best among them is good. Another meaning refers to male actors, especially male actors in Peking Opera.
In the 19th century, without surgery and estrogen, a male dan was much harder than the current Thais. It was so hard and complicated that even the Minister Balander did not want to understand.
In short, there are men's courtrooms and men's Qingyin class in the Eight Great Hutongs.
The Qing Dynasty was uncontrollable about Long Yang's favor. Fortunately, the German Empire stipulated that men and men were serious crimes, so Minister Barland was not worried that these guys who were crazy about the brains of the sperm had found the wrong partner in Nancheng.
It is true that the Bada Hutong is a place of romantic love, but it is not the Berlin red light district, which is comparable to those ordinary street-side whispers. The girls in the Bada Hutong are the first-class and second-class girls in Beijing by grade, which are equivalent to the camellia girl written by Dumas in the night of the 19th century. This kind of high-end socialite is by no means something ordinary people can afford.
If you have to compare with the wanderings on the streets of Berlin, it is about the same girl in the white houses that serve the coolies in Xizhimen.
In short, the Bada Hutongs are the location of high-end and romantic places in Beijing. How advanced are they?
For example, it is said that there is a well-known tailoring shop in Beijing in the Eight Great Hutongs. It is very good at tailoring the girls in the team. Whether it is cutting or style, it is top-notch.
The girls in the team wore the latest styles of tailor shops. After going to this sea and that garden (actually, they were going to the streets to compete in beauty), the young ladies and ladies from wealthy families often squeezed into the store, pointing at the girls' backs as they left, and asking for the same style.
Therefore, there is an old saying in Beijing, "Learn from poor and learn prostitutes," which means that the Eight Hutongs are the source of fashion and the top trends of the capital.
Therefore, the only thing that Minister Barlander was worried about was that among the eight great hutongs, these top socialites in the Qing Dynasty did not entertain this group of German stallions, for fear of a conflict in the end.
After all, the Germans came to sign contracts from all over the world, not to prostitution. If they failed to get into prostitution, it would be even more embarrassing to fight again.
Fortunately, the naval officers and soldiers who were ordered to wear Qing robes uniformly for private travel showed the same German chivalrous spirit as before, rather than the sailors who were caught by British and French naval fellows, who were caught by catching tyrants.
Although the Germans were looking for girls and the Qing officials were looking for husbands, they couldn't resist it. Everyone was looking for good friends in the Eight Great Hutongs.
Since there are fellow friends, the good people can't stay. In a few days, it is said that under the instigation of a few scholars, some opera troupes actually made a Qing version of Zhaojun going out of the frontier like a decent one. Well, it's the story of the prince and Sai Jinhua...
The story tells the beautiful and moving love story that happened in a German prince and a girl named Sai Jinhua... Note that it is not a love action story.
No matter what era, princes and beauties, heroes and beauties are the best drama themes. The drama "Sai Jinhua" became popular in Beijing, or it was still very popular.
When Baland heard about this, he couldn't help but ask Heinrich in a private manner if he had any of this. Heinrich thought about it for a long time and vaguely remembered that he had indeed passed through one of the eight great alleys to rush to a private banquet of a major Qing Dynasty figure.
Along the way, there were cherry blossoms and green willows everywhere. It seemed that a beautiful girl, who covered her face and smiled at me in the summer dusk, and she did greet her coolly.
"Then what?"
"Then it's gone! I'm still a virgin now..."
On the days when the grass grows and the warblers fly, when will the wind be remembered? I have seen the blooming flowers in the tree!
Heinrich was very happy to be the protagonist of the Beijing city in summer. Heinrich even mentioned this matter specifically while drinking with a group of Qing Dynasty Qingliu, hoping to have the opportunity to appreciate himself in the Qing Dynasty opera.
Everyone is happy!
"By the way, Henry." Minister Barland said to Heinrich, who was about to go out, "The fabric of the robe you are wearing is called Kuashi by the Qing people, but I like its Guangdong name, Yunxiangsha."
"Uncle Maximilian, you said I'll bring some of this back to Berlin. Can my father and the Prime Minister be happier?" Heinrich blinked at the Minister Barlander, "I haven't sent a letter to criticize me in the past two weeks. It seems that the trouble I've caused is not that big..."
"Henry, you know I've reported to Berlin?"
"Hehe, Uncle Maximilian, if you put family affection above work, you will not be the minister."
"Henry, I'm going to Tokyo soon, I wish you good luck with your speech today!"
Chapter completed!