Chapter 39 Chapter 2: Foreigner Hong Renhui's Appeals!

In addition to the Ding Wenbin case, the foreigner Hong Renhui's petitioning case also reflected Qianlong's personal character and temperament, or the style of his administration. Hong Renhui was an Englishman, and he built a strange ship in England. The name of the ship was also strange, called "Jianjiashen".The British guy drove this strange ship to the coast of China, wanted to buy a batch of Chinese tea, and met a Chinese businessman.The Chinese businessman promised to provide him with tea leaves of 50,000 taels of silver.Hong Renhui, a foreign devil, was really stupid, so he paid 50,000 taels of silver at that time. The businessman saw that there were such fools, so he ran away with the silver.

After Hong Renhui knew about it, he thought to himself: Why are Chinese people like this? They agreed to do business, but ended up taking the money and running away.It doesn't matter if you run away, isn't there a government?I'm going to report to the judiciary.So Hong Renhui went to the county government to report the case. When the county magistrate saw the ghost, he said, "You ghost, what are you doing here?"make trouble!If you don't accept the case, get out! Hong Renhui felt that the government of the Chinese Empire was a bit strange. The county magistrate didn't care, so he went to the magistrate, and the magistrate didn't care, so he went to the governor, but the governor didn't care.At this time, Hong Renhui was confused and thought:

Something went wrong in the Chinese Empire, and its government failed to fulfill its basic responsibility of managing society, so what else would the government do?It considers itself a robber!It must be that the emperor in Beijing doesn't know about this. I have to go to Beijing. I'm going to meet the emperor of the Chinese Empire and explain this to him. So Hong Renhui entered the inland river in the strange boat "Jiagashen" and went straight to Dagu, Tianjin, to appeal. This is the first incident of foreigners petitioning in Chinese history. When Hong Renhui went to Dagu, Tianjin, he was intercepted by Qing soldiers. When he asked, it turned out that this was the case. It turned out that he was deceived by someone and came to appeal.The case was quickly reported to Qianlong, and Emperor Qianlong immediately ordered: Behind this Hong Renhui is a conspiracy against me, find it out for me!

The magistrate is suffering again. Why is there a conspiracy in front of the emperor?How do you pull this?It is clear that a foreigner was cheated by the Chinese, and he just wanted to get back the cheated money. But there is no way, since the imperial decree has been issued, you have to act accordingly.So the magistrate began to talk with Hong Renhui, telling him: You came to Beijing to find the Chinese emperor, who encouraged you to come?Who is the messenger behind you?Hong Renhui said: You are so weird. My money was cheated. I want to report the case. It's that simple!What is the messenger?The Chinese official said: That's right, then you are a foreigner, how can you speak Chinese?Someone must have taught you!Hong Renhui said: I picked up a book on a boat, and I learned it from that book.

The magistrate continued to say: If you want to petition or file a complaint, you should always write a complaint.Who wrote the certificate for you?Hong Renhui said that I wrote it myself. I can speak Chinese and write Chinese characters.The magistrate said: But your petition is very neatly written, there must be someone to guide you, right?Hong Renhui said: Yes, I have a friend, a businessman from Sichuan named Liu Yabian, who helped me reorganize the pleadings. At this point, the case is solved, even if the conspiracy group targeting Qianlong has been found out, the leader of the conspiracy group is Liu Yabian.The facts of the case were brought up immediately, and Qianlong replied: Liu Yabian's family was beheaded, and Hong Renhui was expelled overseas.Hong Renhui turned his head three times as he walked away, thinking what kind of strange place is this, why is it so terrifying?After being cheated, there is nowhere to complain, and I always engage in such neurotic things.

This can also be regarded as a contact between the Celestial Dynasty and the world, and this contact reflects Qianlong's typical self-centered character, and he must attribute everything to himself.