Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2112 Flower dispute (twenty)

   The merchants from the previous thirteen lines had hosted Nick, although he did so as a thank you in lieu of the Admiral, and Nick "did" him a favor.

It is necessary to mention the legal system of the Qing Dynasty here. As long as someone violates the law and commits a crime, someone must suffer. If the criminal escapes, his family will be punished. From the humble prisoner to the local officials, then to the governor, the penal department, and the minister of state affairs, some big cases even require the emperor to personally intervene, so we can see that just because someone commits the crime of treason, the whole village will be burned down, and the whole county will be burned down. To pay the fine, the whole province must wear mourning and filial piety, the dignitaries will be dismissed from their posts, and the emperor himself will atone for the public.

With the above-mentioned foreshadowing, you will understand why a public bank was established. In Guangzhou, foreign businessmen sometimes caused serious riots, but the riots did not get the punishment they deserved. One is that no one knows who the perpetrators are, and the other is that some The forces are secretly protecting these people, and the normal order of the criminal law system is undermined. Therefore, the imperial court set up a public bank to act as an intermediary and guarantor for European merchants. This is the earliest origin of Guangzhou Thirteen Banks.

  In the beginning, each of these merchants had smuggled or had been punished with disgrace, so they took on this dangerous responsibility. After reaching a cooperation with foreign businessmen, they are responsible for conveying the demands of European businessmen, the governor and two custodians, or the approval of the imperial commissioner.

  The huge profits created a solitary community effect. They bowed their heads in front of the government and paid all kinds of extortionate taxes, just like a coolie, but they used a lot of tricks in the face of foreign businessmen. For example, an Armenian who brought a large and round pearl to Guangzhou, hoping to sell it for a good price, soon became known and attracted officials and businessmen, but the price they offered was not as high as its true value. Finally, after careful review, a price was reached, the deposit was paid, and the Armenians kept the pearls until the balance was paid. In order to prevent fraud, the box containing the pearls was sealed, and there was no news of the buyer for a few days, so the foreign businessman was expelled from the camera.

  Although the Armenian did not achieve the main purpose of the trip, he still took the deposit and his wealth, and when he got home he did not hesitate to open the seal, his real pearls were mixed with fake pearls. There was also a famous man named Baboon, who was as well known in Mumbai and Madras as he was in Canton, and when he was short of about half a million pounds, he mortgaged a box of pearls with a large sum of money to a trader, when When he redeemed the pearls, he found that the box of pearls had become a box of peas.

  East India Company had a British clerk named Hong Renhui. He thought that it was not easy to do business in Guangzhou, so he wanted to go to Ningbo to carry out trade. At that time, Qianlong was in the south of the Yangtze River, and he passed bribes to Qianlong.

   He stated in the affidavit that Guangdong Customs extorted a lot of foreign businessmen, not only taking cards, deliberately making things difficult, but also owed huge sums of money to foreign businessmen. Of course, he did so with the hope of opening Ningbo as a trading port.

   Qianlong attached great importance to this matter, and also sent a commissioner to investigate it thoroughly. To be honest, Hong Renhui’s response was the truth. At that time, the Governor of Guangdong Customs was a close confidant of Li Shiyao, a corrupt official who was later dealt with by Heshen. Through a series of operations by Li Shiyao, the Governor of Guangdong Customs was finally dismissed, and the request of the East India Company was not only not satisfied, Hong Renhui was also expelled from the country.

   The one who received the most severe punishment in this case was Liu Yabian, a Sichuan businessman who helped Hong Renhui write the petition. He was convicted of "seeking money for foreign businessmen" and was finally sentenced to death and lost his life.

  If the opium trade is eliminated, in terms of normal trade, Harrock's request to open more high-quality ports is reasonable, but what Harrock really thinks is well known.

The last time a businessman treated guests was "Jiahexing". His business name was Shuangguan. After the Chinese name was translated into a foreign language, the real foreigner could not pronounce it, so these businessmen had a business name and Nick knew it. Another "Tongshunxing" businessman, his business name is Haoguan.

The hospitality of the Chinese made Nick, who came to thank Shuangguan for his hospitality, was almost arrested for another banquet. The meal was second, mainly because they had to play a boxing game similar to the Italians. The loser had a drink and a meal. Meals can be eaten for hours, which is really exhausting.

Nick returned to the hospital before the soldiers began to enforce the "curfew", which was not strictly a curfew, but the number of soldiers patrolling the streets had increased significantly, and they would suddenly interrogate those they found suspicious, especially those in hotels. class place.

   After returning to his room, Nick began to look through the study materials that the Guru had left for him.

Confucianism does not recognize the doctrine of immortality of the soul, nor does it recognize the creed of karma. They believe that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded with evil, but they are all rewards in this world, and they will not be like Buddhism or Christianity. A generation.

The great development of Buddhist thought in China is because Buddhist thought does not have any direct conflict with local superstitions. It does not impose strict rules on secular believers, nor does it require believers to practice asceticism. Instead, it only encourages them to do good deeds, and Buddhists can achieve happiness in the afterlife. promise, leave this life with full confidence, believing that he will be blessed after reincarnation.

   Here we have to mention the Ten Temples Yama, it is said that they have a book of life and death to record the lifespan of each person. In a story, there was an old man who lived 800 years. He married 72 wives. After his 72nd wife died, she was curious about why her husband could live so long. Driven by curiosity, she was accepting Yama asked about this during the interrogation, and then the underworld began a thorough investigation, and found that the last time Yama had repackaged the book of life and death, he had lost that page. So the old man's life was immediately cut off and he died soon after.

   There are six reincarnations in Buddhism, namely the realm of heaven, the realm of Asura, the realm of human beings, the realm of beasts, the realm of hungry ghosts, and the realm of hell.

  Taoism has five reincarnations, namely, the realm of heaven, the realm of human beings, the realm of beasts, the realm of hungry ghosts, and the realm of hell. Compared with Buddhism, there is no Asura realm.

  According to Zhuangzi, both Taoism and Buddhism seem to endorse the theory of immortality. But the samsara of Buddhism is driven by karma, Taoism is based on the balance of yin and yang, if you made a mistake in your life, then your soul will belong to the yin, and you will go to the realm of hungry ghosts, hell, or the realm of beasts. If you are not an immortal, you can also be reborn as a human being.

  This process of reincarnation requires that after the end of the underworld trial, it is the Ten Temple Yama who executes the trial. They are judges when they are alive, and people also believe in their verdicts. Buddhism, on the other hand, does not have the idea of ​​being judged after death. Even though these two religions have similarities with Catholicism on the surface, they are fundamentally different.

   Just when Nick was about to continue his research, there was a noise outside, and he left his room and came to the yard.

   The servant was holding a baby in his hand and was asking the priest what to do with it.

This is an abandoned baby, but it is not abandoned at the door of the hospital. Parents who have abandoned their children usually leave their children outside the homes of wealthy people. Sometimes these wealthy people receive 4 abandoned babies a month, and a year. There will be twenty or thirty.

  It is acceptable to adopt one or two, but if there are too many, they are not from shantangs, so these wealthy families will send those abandoned babies placed at their doorsteps to any place that is willing to accept these children.

This incident made Nick unforgettable for the rest of his life. Maybe the parents who abandoned the baby had to have a last resort to abandon the child. They still hope that the child will be happy. The baby boy still has a long-life lock around his neck, which means that it can lock life, Eliminate diseases and disasters, even if the lock is made of copper.

   They put the child in the place where they feel most likely to bring happiness to the child, but this is the place where he ends up.

   The priest decided to accept the baby boy, but he would not stay in the hospital, the priest would write to the nuns in the nursery to take him away.

   As soon as the servant took the baby boy away, a lot of torches appeared at the entrance of the hospital, and some officers and soldiers rushed in.

It didn't take long for Nick to see a sedan chair. After the sedan chairman put down the sedan chair, a tall Chinese man stepped out of the sedan chair. He wore a top with flower feathers, an official robe, and long black satin boots. Two inches thick and painted white on the outside.

The children of   纨绔 always put great effort into dressing up carefully. In order to make their braids dark and shiny, they would fill in some wigs. This one’s braids are thick and long, reaching down to the knees, and the tips of the braids are also tied with tassels.

He is the admiral's leader, Cao Xi. He looked at Nick with a smile on his face. He seemed to be polite and friendly, and at the same time, he seemed to have grabbed Nick's handle, especially under the guard of so many officers and soldiers fighting with open fire. To the weasel who greets the rooster.

   (end of this chapter)