Sky Curtain: My Great Qin must have an aircraft carrier!

"A bunch of barbarians, how dare they utter such disrespectful and ungrateful words!"

Unable to bear it any longer, Ying Zheng overturned the table in front of him!

Bamboo slips, wine vessels, and lacquerware tumbled and rolled all over the floor.

Ying Zheng pointed at the sky and cursed, "This kind of traitorous act is worse than that of a prostitute on the street!"

"The Qin Dynasty swept away the six states, expanding its territory; not an inch of land can be lost, not an inch can be surrendered!"

"The Qing Dynasty was something else; they ceded territory and paid indemnities without batting an eye."

"If this wicked woman had been born in the Qin Dynasty, I would have torn her apart by chariots in the marketplace and exterminated her entire clan!"

The Han Palace, where happiness lasts forever.

Liu Bang's nonchalant expression vanished, his eyelids drooping as he stared at Empress Dowager Cixi on the sky.

He held his wine glass for a long time before speaking: "Empress Dowager Cixi certainly had a thick skin."

"When my father was besieged by the Xiongnu at Baideng, he sent some gold and silver treasures to save his life. He felt ashamed when he returned."

"This old woman is quite something, talking about treason with such righteous indignation. I, for one, am ashamed of myself."

Empress Lü Zhi looked disgusted and snorted coldly, "When a woman is in power, it's easy for her to attract criticism."

"These fools who only care about their own pleasure are a huge scourge to the country."

"Isn't she afraid that a hundred years from now, her corpse will be dug up and whipped?"

The Hall of Imperial Sacrifices of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang stared at him for a long time, and just when Zhu Biao thought he was about to burst into a tirade, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly chuckled.

"Why is Father laughing? Such a humiliating and disgraceful act is heartbreaking for me."

Zhu Yuanzhang leaned back in his chair, his tone full of mockery: "Now I understand why Empress Dowager Cixi was so decisive in selling out the country."

"The Qing Dynasty was a group of robbers who seized the country; this land and these people were merely spoils of war."

"I don't care if we lose the land, since we got it for free anyway. It doesn't matter how much compensation we receive, as long as we increase taxes for the people."

"As long as the throne is secure, let alone one Treaty of 1901, we wouldn't even blink an eye if we signed ten more."

These words struck Zhu Biao like a thunderbolt.

He had previously only thought that Emperor Qianlong was extravagant and Empress Dowager Cixi was foolish, but he had never thought about it from this perspective.

"But Father."

Zhu Biao still hesitated, "Empress Dowager Cixi was incompetent and foolish, but that can't be attributed to all emperors, can it?"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly.

"Wasn't Empress Dowager Cixi the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty? Didn't she affix the seal of the Qing Dynasty? Weren't the disgraceful things she did decisions made by the Qing government?"

"You can't just acknowledge this as the Qing Dynasty when the country is powerful, and then rush to sever ties with her when something like this happens."

Old Zhu's gaze became distant, penetrating the palace walls.

"Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Ji, and Emperor Qinzong of Song, Zhao Huan, completely disgraced the Song Dynasty and became a laughing stock for all time."

"Has anyone ever said that this is only the fault of a few individuals and has nothing to do with the Song Dynasty?"

"When later generations mention the Song Dynasty, they cannot avoid the Jingkang Incident and this humiliation."

"Since the Qing Dynasty enjoyed its early glory but later incurred a mess, it has to bear the consequences, one by one!"

Zhu Biao pondered for a moment, then put down his brush.

"Your Majesty is absolutely right. Your son has learned a great deal."

So the question arises: Did Empress Dowager Cixi, who left behind an infamous legacy, truly have no redeeming qualities whatsoever?

This question stunned everyone.

advantage?

What good qualities could such a person have?

Did they save the great powers bullets and then offer them money on their own initiative?

Of course there are.

Empress Dowager Cixi's greatest merit was that she took Emperor Guangxu with her when she was dying, which can be considered a great achievement.

After all, none of the Qing emperors after Xianfeng were human, so killing Guangxu was a way of giving them some dignity.

A few years later, the Qing Dynasty was overthrown by the Xinhai Revolution, ushering in a new era.

Upon hearing this, all was silent.

No one expected that the so-called advantage would be this.

Killing one's own emperor is actually considered a meritorious act?

How absurd, how ironic!

When Emperor Guangxu, who was far away in the Forbidden City, heard this, he was completely shocked.

His empty eyes stared at the sky, his lips moving slightly.

Taking me away is a great achievement?

An unprecedented sense of absurdity and anger exploded from his chest.

What's wrong with me?!

Why is it that when that old hag dragged me down with her before she died, it was actually considered a good thing in the eyes of later generations?!

Tianmu ignored Guangxu, and the comments section started to fill in.

(Pay reparations to England! Pay reparations to France! Pay reparations to the United States!)

(Empress Dowager Cixi's 10 Billion Yuan Subsidy is now available! Hit it once and you'll get tons of gold coins. Come and try it out!)

(Empress Dowager Cixi was too emotional. Even Emperor Guangxu could see that war was not a good idea, but she insisted on starting it.)

(Empress Dowager Cixi was mostly just talking big, and when others saw how weak she was but dared to be so defiant, they would attack her directly.)

(At that time, the Qing dynasty had no popular support at all. Even the locals were leading the foreign powers around, and they couldn't figure out what to do with them.)

(Those who offend our Great Qing, though far away, shall pay reparations; foreigners, though near, shall flee by carriage)

Kangxi stared at the comments section, his lips twitching.

As expected of a descendant, his words are like poison, each one piercing the heart.

From the moment that old witch Cixi declared war, Kangxi never expected to win.

He never expected to lose so completely and so miserably.

Nine hundred and eighty million taels of silver!

As Kangxi silently recited the number, a tightness gripped his chest, and his heart ached faintly.

He suddenly realized that Hongli was actually not bad.

At least all the money was spent on expanding territory, so at least they managed to acquire some land.

It's much better than that old hag handing over her ancestral legacy to foreigners and enduring a miserable existence in return.

Xu Yuanmeng, sitting below, tentatively bowed and suggested, "Your Majesty, the Yehenara clan is a scourge to the country and its people. Should we issue a secret edict strictly prohibiting women of this clan from entering the palace and interfering in politics?"

Kangxi sighed, "What's the use? Tianmu already said that the Qing Dynasty should have perished during the Taiping Rebellion, and after that it was just prolonging its existence."

Ultimately, it comes down to skill level.

Kangxi closed his eyes, recalling in his mind how Daiying rose to power and how it developed its industry.

He gave a wry smile and said nothing more.

The Qing Dynasty couldn't even build a steam engine, so what was the point of talking about industrialization?

-

Lu Li scrolled through his phone and searched for the treaties signed by the Qing Dynasty.

Good guy.

It was a huge, densely packed area; I scrolled through several screens but still couldn't reach the bottom.

From the Treaty of Nanjing to the Boxer Protocol, there were also the Treaty of Tianjin, the Treaty of Beijing, the Treaty of Shimonoseki, and the Sino-French Treaty in between...

Some people even compiled a book specifically to organize the treaty clause by clause, with the table of contents alone taking up several pages.

Lu Li became increasingly speechless as he looked at it, and casually made a sarcastic remark.

"At that time, the Boxers numbered over 100,000, and the Qing army could also muster tens of thousands of capable soldiers. In the end, the Eight-Nation Alliance had a total of 20,000 men, yet they managed to fight their way through the enemy lines."

"The Zulu people of Africa, using bows, arrows, and spears, were able to wipe out more than 1300 British soldiers."

"The Qing army had quite a few firearms, yet they were even inferior to the natives."

"what?"

Li Shimin was stunned when he heard Lu Li's words.

He always believed that the Eight-Nation Alliance had already used machine guns and tanks, which was why the Qing army suffered a crushing defeat.

Judging from Lu Li's words, there is a gap between the two sides, but it is far from being an insurmountable obstacle.

The Qing army had guns and cannons, and outnumbered the enemy, yet hundreds of thousands of them were routed by only 20,000.

"So, all those hundreds of thousands of Qing troops were just cowardly cowards?"

Li Shimin was speechless, feeling that he could have done it himself.

At the very least, he led the Xuanjia Army, even at the risk of total annihilation, to let these foreigners know that the Central Plains were not a place they could trample on at will.

Just then, Du Ruhui rubbed his wrists and spread out the Xuan paper in front of him.

"Your Majesty, I have discovered something."