Chapter 54 Chapter 8 Saving the country depends on beautiful women

Vadsi led the ghosts of the Eight Kingdoms into the city of Beijing aggressively. Here again, history gives way to tradition. Sai Jinhua, who lived in Shitou Hutong, became famous again, and the people believed that it was this weak woman who saved the Qing Dynasty at the last moment, and even saved the lives of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu.It was she who stopped the massacre of the coalition forces in Beijing; it was she who ensured that the imperial palace was not burned down; it was she who finally persuaded the wife of the German minister Klind who was killed by the Boxers to give up the idea of ​​revenge...

Considering that Sai Jinhua was once the wife of the ministers of the four countries and accompanied Hong Jun on a mission to Germany, then we have to admit that this folk imagination is not without the slightest basis. Interestingly, the story about Sai Jinhua still comes from Su Manshu. Su Manshu's "Burning Sword Collection" records: Caiyun is the wife of Hong Zhuangyuan, who came to England to take a small photo with the queen, and when the champion died, Caiyun also fell to the world.During the Battle of Gengzi, we conducted diplomacy with Marshal Walder of the Allied Forces. The quintessence of Liulichang is preserved...

Su Manshu's testimony is somewhat convincing! Because of this, Sai Jinhua was awarded the title of "Nine Heavens Protecting the Country Empress" by drama writers. In the age of Chinese mythology, it was men who caused troubles, and Nuwa who repaired the sky. In traditional Chinese storytelling, there are as many heroines as Hua Mulan and Mu Guiying who go to war. Everything depends on women, so what are Chinese men doing? This topic is a bit boring to talk about. Let's take a look at the diary of a Beijing citizen at that time. The person who wrote this diary, named Wang Dadian, used to work in the Wucheng Office in Beijing. This job is similar to that of a policeman.When the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing, Wang Dadian had nothing to do, so he began to write in his diary:

... After sitting for a long time, I walked westward on a flat road and met two big-headed foreigners looking for a brothel at the entrance of Yao'er Hutong.I took the same prostitute to the west of the Sishen Temple Road, and the two of them prostituted one prostitute, and each gave him one foreign dollar. After coaxing him for a long time, he gave me peanuts.After going out of Niu Xue Hutong and returning to Wanfosi Bay, I met three German soldiers on patrol, intending to go to a prostitute.I took both of them with me to the brothel on the east side of Zhumao Hutong Road. There were two foreign soldiers who went to a prostitute each, and I gave them one yuan.

The quality of this Wang Dadian is really high. At that time, there were not many people in the country who could read and write, and he could even write a diary.It's just that this kind of diary really shows the ugliness of Chinese men. The appearance of red lights is nothing more than the fact that men are counting on women's "magic" to protect them.The legend of Sai Jinhua is that men hope that women will use their bodies to protect them. In the final analysis, it is all about pushing all the social responsibilities that men should bear on women. Tradition and history come together in this way.