Chapter 356 Zhenjiang Treaty--

Mine is the oldest underwater weapon, and its hometown is in China. Mines were first invented by the Chinese. In the first edition of the "Wu Shi" compiled by Tang Shunzhi of the Ming Dynasty in 1558, a "underwater mine" structure and layout method are recorded in detail, which is used to fight against the Japanese invaders along the coast of China. This is the earliest manually controlled and mechanically hit anchor mine. It uses a wooden box as a thunder shell, sticks with putty and black gunpowder in it. Its strike device is not knotted with a long rope, which is detonated by people. There are three anchors with ropes under the wooden box to control the depth of the mine in the water. In 15910, China invented the earliest drifting mine, the "underwater dragon king cannon" with burning incense as the regular fuse. In 1599, China's Wang Minghe invented the "underwater thunder" with a rope as a touch line, and in 1621, it was improved to a touch line drift mine, which was the earliest trigger lightning in the world. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese ships often invaded the southeast coast of China. In order to deal with the invasion of pirates, people put gunpowder in wooden boxes and glued them with putty to make an anchor mine that fires with cables to attack enemy ships. At the end of the 16th century, the drifting mine "underwater dragon king cannon" and the sinking mine "underwater thundering thunder" made of oxen were successively invented. In 1621, the "water bottom dragon king cannon" and "water thundering thunder" were successively improved to trigger drift mines by touching line fuses, and destroyed enemy ships in naval battles many times.

Europe and the United States began to use mines in the 18th century. In the North American reading war. In order to attack the British [***] ship moored at the mouth of the Trawa River in Philadelphia, the North American people put gunpowder and mechanical fuses in small beer barrels into mines and drifted downstream on January 7, 177. Although it did not encounter a warship at that time, it suddenly exploded when it was picked up by British sailors, killing and injuring some people, known as the "small bucket war".

Liang Pengfei had been interested in mines for a long time, and he also knew that there was a method of making mines in a military book called "Wu Bei Zhi" in the Ming Dynasty. However, what he didn't expect was that when he wanted to spend a lot of money to buy it, he learned from other people's mouths.

The 240-volume "Wu Bei Zhi" has more than 2 million words, and the most common surnamed soldier book in ancient China with 378 pictures was actually destroyed by the court as [***].

Tomorrow, the first engraving of "Wu Bei Zhi" in the first year of Qi will be banned because of "multiple contradictory words". It was Wang Yunwen, a native of Qiantang, who deleted the preface of the book, and deleted the words "inconforment" such as "Donghu" in Mao Yuanyi's original work. This version of "Wu Beizhi", known as "Lianxi Caotang", was widely circulated in the Qing Dynasty, but in the year of Qianlong. At the same time, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who called himself the perfect old man, was worried that after those rebels who were dissatisfied with the court got this book, they would create weapons of mass destruction and so on, which made it more difficult for the court to suppress the rebellion. Therefore, it was banned again, and no matter what version you are, it will be banned and not be retained. Otherwise, That's the scourge of destroying families with bad intentions.

When he first learned the news, Liang Pengfei was angry and looked at what a high-sounding and ironic reason.

No wonder Qianlong wants to repair the Siku Quanshu, which is to make the text prison more thorough. Books across the country should be inspected, which is not only not conducive to the prohibition of the destruction of documents in the Qing Dynasty, but also tampered with the texts of predecessors involving Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolia and Liao Jinyuan.

The number of [***] has reached more than 3,000, more than 150,000, and a total of more than 700,000 books have been burned. There are as many forbidden books as the books collected by the four libraries. In addition to burning books, the Manqing return system destroyed the archives of the Ming Dynasty. At present, there are only more than 3,000 archives of the Ming Dynasty, mainly the archives of the Apocalypse and the Ministry of War of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and there are also a small number of official documents of the Hongwu, Yongle, Xuande, Chenghua, Zhengde, Jiajing, Longqing, Wanli and Taichang dynasties (many of which have been revised by the Qing Dynasty).

The rest of the estimated no less than 10 million (remember, it is 10 million copies) of the Ming Dynasty archives have all been destroyed. In addition to destroying books and archives, the remaining books and archives are tampered with by the Manqing return system.

Wu Han said, "The Qing people compiled the Siku Quanshu and the ancient book died!" Even Song Yingxing's scientific and technological work "Tiangong Kaiwu" was banned because it hindered the stupid people. The text prison is so thorough that Wu Sangui's "anti-manchu article", a book "Yangzhou Ten Days" and a "Jiading City Slaughter" have been annihilated in China for more than 200 years, and it was found from the Japanese book more than 200 years later!

Many historical materials depicting the Jinyuan massacre have been deleted and tampered with in the Siku Quanshu of the Qing Dynasty. The most outrageous thing is that the Qing Dynasty also achieved the purpose of slandering the Han people by tampering with documents.

As the Qing Dynasty claimed, Zhang Xianzhong had an inscription, saying: "All things are born, to support everyone with no good to repay the sky, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill." However, according to the inscription of Zhang Xianzhong found by Sichuan archaeologists in the years before Liang Pengfei was about to travel through time and space, it was actually: "All things are born with everyone, and there are no ghosts and gods, and there are no seven killing words at all. These killing words were obviously made up by Wen Hu, a running dog in the Qing Dynasty.

"When the first edict was edicted, I cut my teeth in the history of the Ming Dynasty. After that, the Siku Hall discussed that the people of the Wei Song Dynasty talked about Liao Jinyuan, and the Ming people said Yuan. The discussion was particularly wrong, and everything was destroyed. ... After Longqing, as for the late Ming Dynasty, the minister's work of the minister was left behind. Qianlong boasted about his achievements so proudly.

The old and young people of the Qing Dynasty in later generations unanimously believed, recognized and praised that the compilation of Siku Quanshu was undoubtedly a great contribution to Chinese cultural undertakings, vigorously advocating book collection culture and reflecting the dignity and value of traditional culture. Tut-t-t-tight, what a beautiful word, so that the dead bones buried in the grave can't help but be moved by the praise and praise of these descendants.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the works of Huang Daozhou, Zhang Huangyan, Yuan Jixian, Qian Sule, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi and Sun Qifeng were all banned. Later, it was slightly relaxed. Some people's works, as long as "it is easy to violate the words, there is no need to destroy". However, the ban on the works of Qian Qianyi, Lv Liuliang, Qu Dajun, Jinbao, Dai Mingshi, Wang Xihou and Yin Jiaquan is particularly strict.

Even those who have read these [***], those who sell books, buy books, and engrave and print are all guilty. The lightest one is exile for 3,000 miles. If it is heavy, it is to copy and destroy the family and kill the nine ethnic groups. This is the attitude of the Qing Dynasty to the [***] that records the inheritance of Chinese civilization, as long as it is not suitable for them. Cut books, whether you talk about art or poetry, if you want to ban it, and if you want to destroy it, you can destroy it.

The cruel and heinous text prison made many scholars "avoid hearing about the text prison, writing books only for the help of rice beams". When they heard the text prison, they were so scared that they immediately hid away. The literati wrote books for a living and did not dare to express their opinions. One after another, they have set up the motto of "not being a martyr", and the literati have to destroy their thoughts, lose their integrity, or hold the eight-strands of program, recite the teachings of Kong Mengcheng and Zhu to enter the imperial examination; or stay away from the academic field of **, stay away from reality, and spend all their energy in the old paper pile of exegesis and examination.

Most of the officials of the Qing Dynasty were in the imperial examination. As literati, they may become victims of the literary prison; as bureaucrats, they are also the makers or accomplices of the literary prison. On the one hand, they do not want to touch the text network and die; on the other hand, they do not want to be convicted for their ineffective implementation of the emperor's edict and can't strictly investigate the responsibility of words. So they can only develop in the direction of being cautious and without saving. Since then, the integrity of Chinese cultural people has deteriorated.

This is the Qing Dynasty. In later generations, in the time and space where Liang Pengfei lived, the Kangqian prosperous era claimed by the lackeys who stretched out their tongues and licked them, and the Kangxi Emperor, Emperor Qianlong, was touted by those braided fans. ( I scratched a little too much, but I didn't spit it out. These are all deleted versions that have not been finished... Learned from Qianlong and Emperor Kangxi.) To Liang Pengfei's surprise, he actually found this book in Nanyang, and it was the original book of the first year of tomorrow. Now the old Liang family has been able to create mines. This book is a great contribution.

So far, more than 1,8 hundred mines have been produced on Crab King Island. Liang Pengfei is useless in the battle with the Dutch in the Nanyang or the defense battle of the Humen Fort, and all of them are kept in order to wait for the arrival of those British.

The Yangtze River, more than 20 miles east of Zhenjiang City, on the middle island of the Yangtze River at the confluence of the South Canal and the Yangtze River, a group of high-ranking officials with gloomy faces and ugly expressions watched the cheerful British jump on the boats that had been prepared for a long time and headed for the British warships in the distance.

"These guys finally get out of here." He Shen took a deep breath, and there was a trace of happiness and relaxation on his tired face. His words expressed the hearts of everyone present. Yes, these damn externalized barbarians were finally driven away.

"It's a shame that I haven't had since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Unexpectedly, it would be through our hands..." A Gui stroked the snowy beard and sighed infinitely. In less than a month, A Gui lost a lot of weight. Originally, it was just a white beard, but now it has become white frost.

"Marshal, take care." Fu Kang'an frowned, took a step forward, and supported the old A Gui, who looked like the end of the wind and candle. In the past, Fu Kang'an had been under A Gui's command of the army, and A Gui took great care of him. Therefore, Fu Kang'an still called the head assistant of the dynasty with the name of the past to show his closeness.

"Yes, Mr. Xiang, in fact, we can't make peace. It's just renting that unknown island to those heroes, which is not much different from Macao." Hailancha couldn't bear to persuade.

A Gui shook his head slightly and said in a low voice to Fu Kang'an, "Yao Lin, let the sailors and soldiers on both sides of the strait follow up immediately to see if those Yingyi kept their promises and retreated outside the mouth of the Yangtze River."

"Don't worry, Marshal, I've asked them to do it. The river is windy. Let's go back to Jiangning Mansion earlier. These days, Marshal, you are tired enough." Fu Kang'an nodded, but did not let go of the hand holding A Gui.

Looking at the backs of A Gui and others, He Shen shook his head almost inexplicably. A Gui seemed to be really frustrated. However, for He Shen, it was A Gui, the chief assistant of the dynasty, not himself, who signed the treaty that was solemnly held in the box in his hand by the bodyguard next to him. This is what made him The only thing that makes me feel a little relieved.

What worries He Shen most is that if this Zhenjiang Treaty is announced in the world, I don't know how much turbulence and unrest it will cause.

"Welcome, my friends. I have seen from your expressions that you must have succeeded." Liang Sanhuai, standing on the flagship Lion, saw Macartney waiting to climb the deck along the rope ladder with a happy smile from the bottom of his heart. He led the little Si Dangdong down from the tail of the ship and greeted the negotiators.

"Aha, my dear friend, dear Liang, you are really our lucky star. Look what this is, Zhenjiang Treaty. Today, the Prime Minister of this empire finally signed his name on this treaty." Macartney seemed to be a little indifferent. Yes, they were so happy that they really did it. Although they had always believed that they could do it, now, when success is in front of them, there is a feeling of dream.

"Congratulations, Mr. Ambassador, all of Britain and even Europe will remember your name, because you have knocked on the door of this empire that has been closed for hundreds of years." Liang Sanhuai bent the corners of his mouth and flattered the British ambassador, who was very excited like a young man who got 100 points in Chinese in primary school.

"No, no, no, my dear friend, without your guidance, we can't let those damn, stubborn Prime Ministers and those ministers agree to our treaty. Although the content of the treaty has been changed a lot, at least we have won. I believe that as long as this empire The door was sled open by us, so they will never close it, I can promise. Macartney sincerely saluted Liang Sanhuai. Thank you, friends of the British Empire.

"It's nothing, it's just that you don't know this country and the officials of this country. Otherwise, with your wisdom, you will understand these things sooner or later." Liang Sanhuai smiled and explained that his face was regarded as honor or disgrace by the members of these envoys, and he couldn't help looking up at the Oriental again.

(to be continued)