Chapter 179: The Policies of the Sect

Jinjinafen, or quinine, has special effects on malaria and is native to South America. Since it was introduced to China during the Kangxi period of the early Qing Dynasty, it has special effects on treating malaria and other stubborn diseases that could not be cured at that time. Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries were introduced to them by British people in the early 19th century, and it was only in some larger cities. Even so, Jinjinafen is a rare thing, and civilians cannot have such an encounter as Ruan Sheng Palace. Therefore, before that, if people there had to do malaria, they could only depend on the destiny. In China, especially in the army, due to the frequent wars in the early Qing Dynasty and in the previous generations, the army had a large reserve of reserves to prevent symptoms such as heat and miasma, so this medicine is no longer a rare thing.

Although he could not see the effect immediately, he saw his four-year-old son fall asleep after taking the medicine, and his expression on his face was no longer as painful as before, but very peaceful. Of course, Ruan Shengse knew that these Chinese speakers were the only hope to save his son. Although he could still count on French doctors, he did not have the money or the qualification.

As the largest colonial sphere of influence in France in the Far East, Vietnam in the Indochina Federation is now divided into three parts from south to north, from South China, Annan and Tokyo. The French forces radiate to the north with Saigon in the south as the core. In the two northern regions, the Vietnamese royal family still maintains a certain degree of autonomy. Of course, in addition to the Sino-Vietnam border in the north, in order to give certain pressure to the Chinese, the French released two divisions on this line, as well as a considerable number of old Vietnamese troops to defend against the Chinese who have increasingly shown signs of revival in the north. In China, the local natives of Vietnam are also subject to strict ethnic divisions.

Therefore, it is impossible for a lower class person like Ruan Shengse to carry his son through half a Vietnam to Saigon to find a French doctor to treat such a disease that he thinks is basically no hope of curing. Now it has been cured by such a group of people of unknown origin. Although he knows that these people are not their own people and their purpose is not very grand, he still lets him drag his wife Huang Shiluan to kneel down on the ground and thank him for his gratitude.

Tieliang received his greeting silently, sat down with a wooden face and did not call him up, and said in a deep voice: "You just said you knew what I wanted to wait for, so you told me why I wanted to wait for it? How do you help me?"

Ruan Shengse kowtowed respectfully and said sincerely: "The adults must be Chinese. They come here to deal with the French. However, the adults have few French people here, and there are more Saigon to the south. There are also many Liangshan in the north. The villain is willing to cover up the adults. If the official asks, although the adults are not afraid, it is always a problem."

Although Ruan Shengse’s Chinese sounds a bit strange, he has received a good traditional education after all. He can even speak Chinese that is mostly circulated among the upper class and can be understood by everyone.

Tie Liang nodded and shook his head. What Ruan Shengse said was indeed a bit tempting. He was the highest person in charge of this team. Although the emperor said it vaguely when he met in the capital, he returned from Germany and immediately gave up such an important position. The meaning of support was very obvious. Due to the importance and sensitivity of the task, it can be said that he only allowed success and not failed. Although the location of Nantan County is not a thoroughfare, the convenience is a little bad, but small places also have the benefits of small places, and the safety is much higher than that of big cities. There is also a convenience here, that is, Nantan County is only one day away from Nanding Prefecture to the south, and Hanoi, the capital of Tokyo District to the north, to be three days away. Such a place that is not very far from both important cities is used as a support point for use. This is his consideration.

Tieliang shook his head and snorted softly, "You heard it wrong. We are Siamese. We are assigned by Emperor Chulalongkorn. You know what you want to do. Whether you are Vietnamese, you must be willing to be enslaved by the French or rise up to fight, you are Vietnamese, so you should think about it carefully."

Ruan Shengse turned his head to look at his wife and children, then looked at Tieliang, shook his head and said, "Old people still believe in villains. Siamese people did not have such a tall person. Only Chinese people can have such a majestic figure as adults. What the adults just said, villains often thought that it was just that the French have been operating here for decades. Our country is weak, so how can we resist? Instead of suffering greater harm because of resistance, it is better to be respectful and obedient and be content with oneself, so that everyone can be at peace."

"Useless thing." Tieliang looked at each other left and right, and his face showed a look of contempt.

Ruan Shengse seemed to have not seen him, and still knelt on the ground, and said calmly: "The adults have the capital to resist, so they said that if you were us, they would think so. Even if you are China, can't you cross Zhennan Pass one step?"

"Rareless! The heavenly soldiers came to save you from water and fire, but you are still so stupid!" Tie Liang was furious. As a young hawkish officer who returned from studying in Germany, his past achievements had nothing to do with himself in concept.

"The heavenly soldiers came to save me, but the French were still in the water and fire of the Chinese? When did you come, aren't they all coming to enslave us Vietnamese?" Ruan Shengse was so angry that he ignored his wife's pulling on the side, and became more and more excited as he spoke.

"Bang--" A iron pot suddenly flew over Ruan Shengse's shoulder and turned to look. Jingguan'er rushed over angrily, kicked Ruan Shengse to the ground with one kick, and then smashed it. He was holding it up by everyone. He was just alert outside the door, and was almost snatched by Ruan Shengse for a moment. If that was the case, he would not redeem it for a long time, so he was already angry. Now he heard Ruan Shengse's nonsense that was ungrateful, and he couldn't bear it anymore. Although he was blocked, he still cursed and said, "Let your hot cube mother's fart, don't do it, you have to lick the French ass, you are fucking cheap, the adults kindly saved your son, you don't want to be grateful, and you are fucking fart here! Damn it--" As he cursed, he struggled to continue beating.

"Okay!" Tie Liang shouted, "Vietnamese people like to be obedient people, so they can do it. I think you Vietnamese are not good anymore. Maybe it depends on the younger generation." As he said that, he looked at Ruan Sheng Palace who was asleep on the bed, and smiled slightly, "I think maybe this child is still thinking about our life-saving grace. After all, people are not beasts--" He turned to Jingguan and pressed his hands and said, "Don't be excited, we should not force them. Jingguan'er, you go and have a drink. We have a bowl of food and leave tomorrow morning." He looked at Ruan Shengse with contempt and snorted in his nose: "As for the one you said, I can't trust you now. Haha, the ungrateful dog must be able to do something to inform you."

Jingguan'er broke away, stepped forward and pointed at Ruan Shengse's nose and cursed: "Don't be afraid, I won't hit you, you only know Vietnam. Do you know that the Vietnamese in ancient times were originally the ones that broke out from China? The Qin and Han dynasties were all the territory of China, and you fainted! Now you can say such ruthless words! Forget your ancestors!"

After all, he had studied a lot of books and was very literary. Ruan Shengse didn't know whether he was frightened or something, and he couldn't even get back a short sentence.

"Let's go." Tieliang came up and patted Jingguan'er, and said to Yan: "You have no bad knowledge, no wonder Prince Chun wants you to come." He turned around and called everyone out.

After entering the yard, Tieliang lowered his face, turned to Ye Bei and nodded viciously, "I'm on my sight." Ye Bei understood, greeted his subordinates and left.

Sure enough, Ruan Sheng was not honest. Just as Tieliang and the others were enjoying the meals made by the commander of Jingguan, Ruan Ada Er and several civil servants, Shunmin called his wife to pick up his son who was still sleeping and stood up and returned to his hometown in the countryside, but he sneaked out of the door.

"Jingguan'er!" Wu Haitao took an elbow and shouted vaguely: "It's good to make a elbow hard. I feel sorry for the little white face, so I leave two for Ye Erniang. Don't move the rest of you-" Everyone was stunned at first, and then they realized that they were talking about Ye Bei. Thinking of Ye Bei's usual feminine behavior, the name Ye Erniang is really appropriate.

"Old Wu, please keep some scent." Cao Yu laughed, and almost squirted out a sip of wine. This Vietnamese local wine was not very good, and it was not much different from water for him, a Hunanese. He patted Wu Haitao on the shoulder and said, "Don't say it, you Sichuan people are always funny! Ye Bei is really a little..." He suddenly stopped halfway and looked at the door.

Wu Haitao turned his head and looked at him, and then reacted, picked up the wine bowl roughly and said, "I'm afraid of a bird, come and drink!" He sent it to his mouth, glanced at Ye Bei who had just entered the door, and raised his head to drink.

Ye Bei glared at Wu Cao and the others, hurried to Tieliang, and beat Qian'er to report: "That's right, I went to the county government. Many people saw that they entered the room and seemed to know each other. The brothers kept guarding him and killed the dog county magistrate while he was out. The county magistrate was planning to go out and ask for people. Now I am afraid that people from the county will order people to get this soft egg." As he said that, he stared at Wu Haitao and looked directly at him, "That's right, what a soft egg!" After saying that, the corners of his eyes curled up and looked at Wu Haitao provocatively.

"Why, who do you mean?" Wu Haitao put the wine bowl down heavily, jumped up and said fiercely.

"What's wrong with you?" Ye Bei raised his head and looked at him without fear.

Wu Haitao laughed, sat down and picked up the wine bowl and smiled, "No, I'll say I'll say it's okay if you want to say it, it's okay." He took a sip of wine and said, "Thank you for your hard work, there are two elbows in the lee. Jingguan'er's craftsmanship is good, come and try it..." As he said that, he deliberately dragged the last egg word for a very long sound.

The people from the Tiger Group and the Bear Group burst into laughter again. When Wu Haitao used to curse Jingguan'er, he had been fooled by Jingguan'er, but now he has learned to use it on Ye Bei. The comedy effect is even stronger. After laughing for a while, he noticed that the other party had no intention of counterattack, and felt a little boring. When he looked up, Ye Bei was gone.

Tie Liang shouted in a deep voice: "Everyone is in a foreign land, so it's okay to have some jokes, don't make a grudge. Wu Haitao, go out and find Ye Bei back! Pack up what you haven't finished eating, and get one more for the brothers in the wolf group. Clean up and prepare to make the big ones!"

Wu Haitao stood up and went out. As soon as he entered the yard, he was stunned. But he saw Ye Bei squatting on the ground and sobbing. He wrinkled Mei and touched the back of his head and smacked his lips. He gritted the bullet and went forward to persuade him. Ye Bei turned his head alertly and saw that it was him. He pulled out the dagger from his waist and said sternly: "Get out!"

"Okay... OK..." Wu Haitao raised his hands and said in a mess: "Don't cry, don't cry, I'll get out... I'll get out?" After that, he hugged his head and rushed forward, rolling forward on the ground. Ye Bei didn't expect this guy to roll away like this. He burst into laughter and subconsciously covered his mouth. At this time, Wu Haitao was already approaching, and a grasping hand was pinched between Ye Bei's wrist, and the dagger fell to the ground.

"Ah--" Ye Bei screamed. Wu Haitao was immediately panicked, looked down and asked in surprise: "Has he stabbed his feet?"

Ye Bei struggled his arm and said, "Hand! Stupid donkey!"

Wu Haitao calmed down and smiled embarrassedly and let go of his hand and said, "It hurts to slap it--" Before he finished speaking, Ye Bei had already slapped his back firmly. When he realized that Ye Bei had already walked away. Wu Haitao stroked his hot face and looked at his back in a daze, unable to speak.

Tieliang looked at the two dead enemies with a smile, shook his head and shouted, "Wu Haitao, you stupid donkey! Come back to work!"

The county magistrate was stabbed to death in the official office by someone as a yamen. The Nantan County yamen was in trouble. Because it was a criminal case, he dared not ignore it. The county quickly ordered a hundred soldiers in towns. Together with dozens of yamen runners, he sent people to Nanding Mansion overnight, and surrounded the school to get people.

When I arrived at the school, I saw Ruan Shengse tied up and hung high at the door. I quickly put it down and saw that he had been beaten all over the body. I searched for it. There was a French letter that no one could recognize, so I had to take the sill car and take it back to the yamen office. However, on the way back to the yamen, I was ambushed by a group of people. Twenty or thirty people used short guns and fired from a distance. More than a hundred people were knocked out and had no way to fight back. How could the long guns and short swords be fired with other muskets? I had to hike the streets and alleys to hide. Those ambushers still didn't let go, bit them tightly and beat them for a while. In the end, there were only more than thirty people left. When I looked at it, Ruan Shengse had been beaten to death. Fortunately, the letter on his body was still there, and he hurriedly collected the people and rushed back to the yamen office and sent additional personnel to Nanding Prefecture to report.

That night, the county town of Nantan County was in chaos, and it was said that bandits attacked the county town and killed the county magistrate. First, it was said that the public school teacher Ruan Shengse was beaten to death by the bandits. Later, there was new news that Ruan Shengse was ordered by foreigners and beat the county magistrate to death and then vented the foreigners. More than 100 soldiers in the army were beaten to death. There was also a saying that Ruan Shengse was beaten to death by the French. The French also sent people to attack the soldiers in the army. In short, people became anxious in anger.

Huang Shiluan's son was snatched away by an inexplicable person. In panic on the street, he heard that his husband was beaten to death and was snatched into the county in a mess. Sure enough, he saw his husband's body and scolded the government for beating his husband to death with grief and anger, and then hanged himself to death under the crowd.

Tieliang looked at the noisy Nantan County on the rural road west of the county town, sighed, turned around and ordered: "Go to Dien Bien Prefecture west."

The atmosphere was extremely depressing throughout the journey. No matter what, the Ruan couple had such a tragic ending because of their arrival. Fortunately, Wu Haitao and Ye Bei had a few words occasionally, and the child named Ruan Sheng Palace who was holding the big and a second crying occasionally, which made the night journey less depressing and boring.

On the 15th day of the first lunar month, the New Year ended after this day. The banquet in the Ganqing Palace was given to thank the ministers and officials for their contributions to the country over the past year, and the second was to see off the vassal kings of various vassal states from afar.

This year is the most common year for the vassals. Due to two consecutive victories in the past three years, the power of the sect leader has vaguely shown to be restored to its former strength in recent times. Therefore, representatives from Siam King Chulalongkorn, Tianhai Songphi Shinan, Ryukyu Shangtai, Korean Li Mian, Nanzhang, Nepal's kings, and even Cambodia also pay tribute in private capacity, but due to identity issues, they are not qualified to participate in this New Year banquet.

The beginning of this year was the best in history. At the banquet, I announced that the focus of this year's national policy is to restore confidence in the vassal state. Since the west wind has spread to the east, the vassal state has fallen a lot. Vietnam, Kokand (Uzbek), Ladakh, Tsimengxiong, Bhutan (near Nepal, now in Pakistan and India) and other countries have successively broken away from the vassal state relations.

"This is not because the vassals are disagreeable, but because the priest of the Qing Dynasty, the sect leader, lost virtue, and more importantly, lost power!" I summarized the vassal relationships in the past few decades and said: "Since I ascended the great treasure, I have been committed to regaining the glory of China in the past. In recent years, Ryukyu has been lost and regained, and Tianhai has entered the vassal new, which is a little comforting to me." He raised his glass and invited him to drink: "From now on, the King of Tianhai of Jin, the Ministry of Rites, will you give me a seal and ribbon. Everyone, toast to the harmony of the vassals of our vassals of the Qing Dynasty!"

After the ministers raised their glasses together, the Matsuhira family thanked them. I sat down and said, "Recalling the situation of the vassal states in the past, some vassal states in the past were bewitched by the barbarians, and the Qing Dynasty was also ill-fated. I do not hide this. In the past, there were cases of oppressing vassals and causing disintegration. I am in power, so this situation will not happen again. Another thing is that the barbarians often use high-sounding slogans such as national self-determination to voluntarily escape from the vassal states. Then the vassal states lost the protection of the Qing Dynasty and became a country of slavery. I have a deep understanding of this scam of sweetness first and then bitterness. For example, Li Mian, North Korea, you almost wanted to vassal states? Self-determination? Humph, to put it nicely, with your North Korean terrain, will you have good fruits to eat? It is simply coveted by the Japanese."

Li Mian heard my name and quickly left his seat and kowtowed to apologize. I smiled and nodded, and asked someone to help him up and said, "I don't mean to blame you. Your throne was enthroned by me. I hate your previous king's ignorance. If it weren't for the ill-hearted intentions, how could the Japanese people take advantage of the ancestral temples in the future? Okay, let's go back to your seat. In fact, Japan was also a Chinese vassal in the past..." Speaking of this, he turned around and glanced at Shino Matsuhira and said, "What a pity that the Chinese sacred virtues are not enough. The Meiji government does not admire sanctification. In fact, the King of Japan is still the one who is following the rituals. They are the ones who are doing things below..." He turned to Kou Lian and said, "Get the photos for King Tianhai to see."

"Zhe——" Kou Lian responded, and retreated and took Meiji to come to Beijing to worship Shino. The photos taken were presented to Shino Matsuhira. Seeing a group of photos of Meiji kneeling in this palace, Shino Matsuhira opened his mouth wide in surprise and turned to look at me.

I smiled and nodded, looking at him and sighed: "There are thieves on the side of the Japanese king. Now he is not a vassal of the Qing Dynasty, and I don't have the name to help him. I have to let it go. Whether Japan will bathe in the future, or whether it will be a mantis arm to block the car and crush it into powder, it depends on the Japanese themselves."

As he said that, he suppressed his hands to stop Matsuhide's arrogance and stood up and said loudly: "Everyone! I have a great wish. Westerners often say that ethnic groups are different. That is the ignorance of Westerners. How can they rebel against the sages? The sage's master said that barbarians enter China and then China will be China. Therefore, I think that anyone who respects Chinese education can be a big family, to defeat the Westerners and separate the ethnic groups and disrupt our vassals. This clan name is, more than two thousand years ago, and it is called the Chinese nation! Anyone who respects Chinese culture is a compatriot of the Chinese nation. Whether it is Manchu, Han, Korea, or the various ethnic groups in the southwest countries are all below the Chinese nation." Seeing that everyone under the seat was incomprehensible, he smiled and said, "Liang Qichao, let's talk about it."

"I received the order." Liang Qichao stood up and bowed, saying loudly: "The Chinese nation is like a mother. The Manchus, Han and Tibetans, Korea and so on are all their sons. They do not disturb the original national customs, but only respect the sanctification of the kingly way. In this way, it can resist the theory of the Western barbarians, and the vassal unity and harmony among all ethnic groups. The vassal mother and compatriots should be like a blind date. My Qing Dynasty is my brother and take care of my younger brother and sister. Each vassal is like a younger brother and sister, and respects his elder brother and elder brother as respects."

This Chinese nation was reminded by me and Liang Qichao in their daily discussions. This was also my idea of ​​not taking away the beauty of others. It was originally proposed by others, and I just asked him to "think" it in advance. After I personally obtained the Eight Banners of Manchu and Han Dynasty, and the One million people of the Eight Banners of Manchus no longer distinguished the Eight Banners of the Manchus and became Manchus, the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of Han Army were also learning the same thing, which gave birth to a large group concept to replace the original concept of the segmented banner group.

The concept of a large ethnic group in the cultural sense is right at the right time.
Chapter completed!