Time Travel to 1859: The Iron-Blooded Soldier King

The British and French soldiers who rushed in one by one, just took a glance at the situation, and quickly turned their heads away. It was really unbearable to watch! The timid ones couldn't help but vomit. It was too miserable, too horrible to watch! Not to mention being offended like this, even if they just took a look, they found it unbearable!

Inside the dungeon, rats and insects were rampant, maggots were everywhere, and the stench was so strong that it pierced one's heart and spleen, making it impossible not to nauseate! As for the members of the diplomatic corps in the dungeon, only about ten of them were still able to move. Their wounds were bloody and their wounds were not even inflamed, and that was the least of it. Most of them were already crawling with maggots, which were slowly devouring their rotting flesh. However, the dungeon was very quiet!

It wasn't that these people had strong endurance, but rather that they were so weak that they couldn't even make a sound! Some of them were even demented. When they saw the soldiers rushing in, they didn't even react at all, their eyes were dull and didn't even change!

A captain, suppressing his nausea, roared, "Come here, carry everyone outside immediately! Quick, find a military doctor, get him treated immediately! Damn it, damn the Qing Emperor! Damn the Qing Emperor, I'm going to kill you!"

When all the high-ranking generals of the Anglo-French Allied Forces arrived, the Western generals who claimed to be civilized people were extremely angry!

"International law stipulates that if an envoy is killed, the city will be destroyed and no one will be spared. We must retaliate, retaliate! I will set that emperor's palace on fire, and the entire city of Beijing will bear our wrath!"

French commander-in-chief Yaman roared angrily!

Grant was shocked and said quickly, "Yaman, are you crazy? Burning the palace and burning down Beijing! This will cause international outrage, and we will incur crazy attacks from tens of millions of civilians in this country! We may never be able to return to Europe again!"

Yaman roared, "What are you afraid of? With our iron ships and cannons, with our foreign guns and artillery, how can we be afraid of these yellow monkeys? We have already defeated all their armies. Without armed forces, relying only on peasants, they are no match for us!"

Grant said angrily, "Nonsense! Who said the Qing Empire only has this many troops? We only defeated the main force of the Qing army in the northern capital area. In the northwest and northeast, there are still more than 100,000 troops. In the Yangtze River basin and the areas south of it, there are still hundreds of thousands of Qing troops fighting the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rebels. Those are the most powerful armies in the entire Qing Empire. The governor Zeng Guofan is an amazing general. They are not heading north now because that useless emperor has already issued a request for another meeting. Once we destroy Beijing, it will be completely different. In the eyes of the Qing people, Beijing is like Jerusalem in the hearts of Christians. It is a holy city. They will put aside all their affairs and launch an all-out attack on us! This will be a huge quagmire! A quagmire!"

Yaman said angrily, "Then what do you say we should do? Are we just going to swallow this anger like this? I won't agree! Blood debt must be paid with blood!"

Grant said in a deep voice, "Of course blood debts must be repaid with blood, but we can't lose the Forbidden City. We need to shift our target and vent our anger in other ways!"

Yaman asked, "What method?"

Grant pointed to the Old Summer Palace and said, "Haven't you heard of this Summer Palace? I heard it's worth far more than all the treasures in our British Museum and your Louvre combined! There are countless rare treasures inside. In one word, rob! Loot them all. Not only the Old Summer Palace, but the entire city of Beijing, and even their treasury. Since our compatriots have suffered here, then in the end, we will just set the whole Summer Palace on fire!"

Yaman's eyes were sharp as he pondered Grant's words. Indeed, if the Forbidden City was burned, it would be a fight to the death. The entire Anglo-French coalition suffered heavy casualties after being continuously attacked by Guo Ye. Of the nearly 30,000 troops, only about half were left. These more than 10,000 people would find it difficult to escape safely from the siege of hundreds of thousands of Qing troops, no matter how powerful they were!

Yaman said in a hateful voice, "Alright, that's a bargain for them! We'll give the order right now and start looting. I'm going to rob the Qing people so badly they won't even have pants to wear!"

Having said this, Yaman was about to give an order.

Grant chuckled and said, "Yaman, are you going to just rob us like that? The wealth here is already staggeringly huge. If a dispute arises, how will we resolve it internally? Are we going to fight to the death?"

Yaman was shocked and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Establish a spoils distribution and arbitration body. Once conflicts arise, both parties can resolve them through negotiation to eliminate worries!"

So an institution called the Anglo-French Allied Forces Arbitration Office was instantly established. The British and French armies each sent three generals to be responsible for mediating conflicts and distributing interests. The Anglo-French Allied Forces could not wait to start a large-scale looting of the Old Summer Palace!

When the British and French forces stormed into the Old Summer Palace, they were stunned. This, this was the legendary, magnificent Old Summer Palace! China's summer palace? Treasures everywhere! Truly treasures everywhere!

Pick up any one of them and they are all priceless!

Gold and silver are perhaps the least valuable of all! Pearls and agates can only be considered ordinary goods. Those true works of art! Bronze, jade, porcelain, gold, and lacquerware can no longer be measured by wealth!

The self-proclaimed civilized people revealed their greedy nature at this moment! Everyone's eyes were lost in confusion. This is the Summer Palace, the only one in the world. Forget the British Museum, forget the Louvre. Even Italy, famous for its art and cultural relics, definitely doesn't have so many treasures! No, the whole of Europe combined doesn't have so many treasures! Look at this exquisite porcelain! Damn, the porcelain displayed in European museums is just a pile of garbage!

Grab it!

Someone let out a shrill roar, and the British and French forces with green eyes began to pounce. Thousands of British and French forces began to loot the Old Summer Palace. Not to mention the precious cultural relics, they would not even let go of a gold-inlaid chamber pot!

Damn, it was just this chamber pot that could be passed down to my descendants, and perhaps even become a family heirloom in the future! The sounds of exclamations, shouting, snatching, and beatings completely stirred up a commotion in the Old Summer Palace!