Who burned Yuanmingyuan?

We should remember what Hugo, a great French writer, once said: One day, two robbers broke into the Yuanmingyuan. One robber robbed and the other set fire to it. Judging from their behavior, the winners may also be robbers. An unprecedented looting of Yuanmingyuan began, and the two conquerors shared the stolen goods equally. What a great achievement, a godsend windfall! One of the two winners filled his pocket, and the other saw it and filled his box. Then, arm in arm, they returned to Europe with a smile. One of the robbers is French and the other is English. ?

However, when I read history recently, I was shocked when I read the poems of Yuanmingyuan written by Wang Kaiyun, a scholar and writer in the late Qing Dynasty. He wrote such a sentence in his notes: barbarians entered Beijing, entered the palace, saw the splendid furnishings, and were forbidden to enter, fearing that the cloud would claim compensation and lose money. The barbarians came out, and the poor nobles advocated raping the people and pretending to be barbarians, so they set fire first, and the barbarians came back, but they were looted. ?

This means that when the British and French allied forces went to Yuanmingyuan, they did not enter the house, and they also warned each other not to go in. If the contents are dropped, people will loudly demand compensation. But after they left, some poor flag-bearers ganged up and robbed. Afraid of being discovered, simply set fire to the garden. When the British and French allied forces knew about it, they turned around and grabbed it.

What's going on here? Did China people really do the burning of Yuanmingyuan? This really ruined the three views!

I was afraid there was something wrong with it, so I carefully checked the historical materials and found a comment by Huang Zhuo, a famous politician in the Republic of China. He said: at the beginning of the battle of Yuanmingyuan, the allies only burned official houses outside the park, or for military needs. Moreover, many flag-bearer bandits seized the opportunity to plunder, so the allied forces also entered the park. ?

Two people were identified as China people, which should have been very certain, but later I found out that this Huang Zhuo was a traitor and was publicly executed at 1937. This makes me hesitate again. Is the traitor's words credible?

So I checked the historical materials again and found that Wang, a publisher and political commentator at the end of the Qing Dynasty, also mentioned in the article "The British and French allied forces burned the Yuanmingyuan" that a considerable number of French people directly participated in the looting and burning of Yuanmingyuan. They climbed over the wall with ladders and robbed with the British and French allied forces.

In this way, the Yuanmingyuan was jointly participated by the British and French allied forces, even if it was not robbed first and then burned by the people.

Not only that, but what is even more exasperating is that it is said that the British and French allied forces did not find the Yuanmingyuan at first, and China took them there. Yang Yunshi, the physician of Emperor Guangxu, wrote in the book Talking about Yin Qing:? Li, the traitor, led the allied forces to rob Yuanmingyuan, and all the pearls and jade treasures came out? .

However, in the book Historical Materials of Tongzhi Rebuilding Yuanmingyuan, it is said:? At first, the traitor Gong swam into the sea and approached foreigners cunningly. He heard that there were three generations of rockers in Yuanmingyuan, so Gong was addicted to diamond carving. When the capital of Gengshen was changed, he took advantage of the foreigners' chaos and led them to set fire to the park.

Who is Gong? He is Gong Zizhen's son. Written by Gong Zizhen, a thinker, poet, writer and reformist pioneer in the Qing Dynasty? Falling red is not heartless, but turning into spring mud can protect flowers better? ,? I advise god to stand up again, put down his talent and not stick to the rules? We are all familiar with such a poem. But what if he is still alive and finds what he wants? Don't stick to the rules and lose talent? God sent a traitor fool like his son down. I wonder how he will feel!

Some people will say that even if Gong and others don't lead the British and French allied forces to Yuanmingyuan, the British and French allied forces will find out and rob them. But what I want to say is, even if the British and French Coalition forces find out that they will rob, can this be an excuse for us to excuse those traitors?

This reminds me of Taoist Wang in Yu's The Tower of the Road. It is because of him that the priceless treasures in the splendid Dunhuang Grottoes will be smuggled out by foreign robbers, and the Taoist King's purpose is only to get two pennies.

Others will say that those who rob and burn Yuanmingyuan are not just for money. The Yuanmingyuan was built by the emperor with people's fat and paste, and it was burned to let the people breathe a sigh of relief!

This is the most confusing one? Why? Even Xiang Yu, who set fire to Abang Palace more than two thousand years ago, has the same theory! But what I want to tell these people is that Epang Palace, Yuanmingyuan and the Great Wall of Wan Li, no matter how many people's essence have been searched, once restored, are the soul of the nation and the precious legacy left by our ancestors. If we are justified for self-interest, I just want to tell you that people like you don't deserve to stay in the splendid civilization of China!