Chapter 1009 Royal Scandal

Fan Wubing swore to Shen Ying, "Europe's royal families only look glamorous on the surface, but in fact their foundations have long been filthy. The reason why they can survive to this day is because of foreigners' tolerance for such things." It’s just relatively strong.”

"Have I never heard of it?" Shen Ying asked feeling a little strange.

"They are all countries with diplomatic relations. The Chinese are quite taboo about this, so naturally they will not take the initiative to promote it. Otherwise, when you receive these foreign royal families, the first thing you think of is their dirty things. Where is there any dignity left?"

Fan Wubing's words made Shen Ying nod repeatedly. She could also understand the mentality of domestic leaders. If the person shaking hands during a solemn state visit turned out to be a Western stallion with low moral character, then in her heart You will feel very bored in front of them, let alone any talks or announcements.

Moreover, what Fan Wubing said was not without purpose. Not long ago, the Belgian Princess Marie Christina living in the United States published her autobiography. The tragedy of her life shocked the world.

Marie Christina is almost fifty years old this year and has lived in the United States for many years. For her, the days and nights spent in the Belgian palace are like a nightmare.

The princess said that when she was eighteen years old, she was raped by her cousin in the palace.

The royal family tried its best to prevent the scandal from getting bigger, and only wanted to make it a big deal. But her mother also blindly protected the rapist and blamed all the sins on her daughter. She insisted that Princess Christina find an old foreign man to marry as soon as possible.

Princess Christina's father, Leobold III, was described by her as an annoying, rude and rude guy. She also recalled that Leobold III liked to tell dirty jokes during meals and asked others to imitate him. .

The princess herself left Belgium and settled in the United States after being raped. In the glamorous world of the United States, she once fell into a trap. She often held drug addict parties and danced in some messy bars in her underwear. When her father refused to sign the abortion law in Belgium, Princess Christina discovered that she was pregnant in the United States and had no money to have an abortion. In the end, she used money sent by her half-brother to have an abortion.

The Belgian royal family has been plagued by scandals for a long time.

Earlier this year, a publishing house in Paris, France, republished a book documenting a pedophile case at the request of readers. The book hinted at the ambiguous attitude of the Belgian king towards the case.

It is reported that the main criminal in this child sexual assault case was imprisoned for allegedly raping and killing four young girls in front of four children. However, due to some unknown reasons, the criminal is still waiting for judicial trial in Belgium.

The book surmises without doubt,

Why has this case been kept low-key by the parties concerned? Could it be that King Albert II of Belgium has anything to do with this sexual assault scandal?

The book also mentioned that members of the Belgian royal family and Albert II, who was still a prince at the time, participated in activities organized by some underground pornographic establishments in the 1970s and 1980s, and molested and sexually abused several children.

In fact, the British royal family is exactly the same. At that time, King George IV lived a dissolute and spendthrift life. He secretly married a Catholic, but the marriage was declared invalid by Congress. However, in order to get help from Congress to pay off the huge debt, George IV Shi agreed to marry his German cousin Caroline. After the marriage, the relationship between the two was in name only. Caroline fell in love with her servant after returning to the country.

King Edward VII of England even had thirteen mistresses, one of whom was a charming actress. There were frequent complaints that large numbers of common people followed her carriage just to see her beauty.

As for the current Duchess of York, after Sarah announced her divorce from Prince Andrew, the "Daily Mirror" published a photo of her sunbathing in the south of France. She was naked, and her financial adviser male friend in a bathrobe seemed to be Sipping her toes.

Crown Prince Charles is an example of this. His eldest son William was born to Diana, while his second son Harry is said to be the illegitimate son of Diana and her equestrian coach Hewitt. After Charles' divorce, he returned to Camilla, whom he had fallen in love with when he was 21 years old. When Diana was interviewed by a TV station, she said, "There are three of us in this marriage."

In fact, several other European royal families are very similar. To paraphrase Fan Wubing, white people basically have the same ideas in their heads, especially among these royal families, you marry me, and I marry you. , the bloodline has been in a mess for a long time, and maybe in the future, grandfathers will marry granddaughters, and aunts will marry nephews.

"It's disgusting." Shen Ying immediately objected after hearing this, "Since you know these messy things, why do you still bring me to these banquets? After listening to this, I have no appetite at all, and now I want to Vomit out everything in your stomach!"

Fan Wubing shrugged his shoulders and said, "Being a person and eating are two different things. You have to learn to treat them differently. No matter what, first, at the royal banquet. Those reserved dishes are still good. This is always true."

But when the two of them turned on the TV at night, they suddenly became depressed again.

It seems that all European TV stations these days are looking for topics that can vilify the image of the Chinese people.

Tonight, a program in Belgium found paintings about the Manchu Qing Dynasty from somewhere and used them to ridicule the Chinese on TV.

"Even during the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, there was no such disgusting style, right?" Shen Ying said indignantly after seeing it.

Fan Wubing glanced over and saw the Qing Dynasty man on the screen. He had almost shaved his head, and there was a thin pig tail-like thing hanging on the back of his head. It made people feel sick after looking at it. No wonder Shen Ying felt angry.

He pondered for a moment, and then said to Shen Ying, "Foreign devils are quite realistic on this issue. You were affected by the Qing palace drama, but you don't know what it was like before."

In the Qing palace dramas we see now, men in the Qing Dynasty all wear yin and yang hair, that is, the front half of the head is shaved and the back half is braided. However, in actual history, the real Qing Dynasty style was the money rat tail, which was a braid that was thinner than the little finger and had to pass through the square hole in the copper coin to be considered qualified. This is almost a bald head, while yin and yang heads only slowly appeared in the late Qing Dynasty.

After the Qing soldiers entered the country, every descendant of the Yan and Huang Dynasties was forced to humiliatingly shave off their heads that their parents had not dared to damage before, leaving only a copper coin size that was combed into a small braid, called the money rat tail style. That is to say, all the sides of the head are shaved off, leaving only the head in the center of the head, which is shaped like money, while the central part of the head is braided and drooped, shaped like a rat's tail, which is really unsightly.

However, the Qing invaders shamelessly said in the order of shaving and changing clothes in Guangzhou that money and rat tails were the elegant policies of the new dynasty, while Eguan and Bodai were the bad rules of the country's downfall.

The Siwen Daji written by the Fuzhou survivors at that time wrote angrily that under the order of shaving heads at that time, no one on the left or right was immune. The tail of the money rat is almost everywhere, and the smell is everywhere. Gu Yanwu also wrote in his poem that the Chinese are barbarians, and life is worse than death.

It is worth mentioning that the standard of shaving required by the Manchu rulers when they issued the shaving order was not the shaving of half of the head that people often see in movies and television works today, but the shaving of all the sides of the head, leaving only a part of the head. The top is as big as money, with braids hanging down.

A coin as big as one coin is left on the head, and if the quantity exceeds one coin, the person will be put to death.

The yin and yang hair style that existed only in the late Qing Dynasty and now has an untrue monopoly on all Qing palace braiding dramas would have been dead at that time, because the Manchu regime stipulated that those who were not as good as the hair style would also be beheaded.

Four of Shunzhi's men, Ding Quan, a citizen of Hushu Pass, shaved off only a small amount around the circumference and left a large top. They were captured by the local officials. They complained on the grounds that the criminal had no intention of committing adultery and was willing to violate the law. According to Zhu's approval, he was executed at that place. The county magistrate also considered the punishment seriously because of the oversight, and the parents and neighbors were immediately charged.

"I guess not many people would like to watch a Qing palace drama with this look, right?" Fan Wubing said.

Shen Ying shook her head and said, "It seems that the film makers also knew that it was ugly, so they compromised. I really don't understand why shoddy Qing palace dramas have become the mainstream recently? Doesn't the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television care about it?"

Fan Wubing replied, "The main reason is because the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been the shortest since the present, and there are the most historical materials that can be verified. Moreover, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's policy of obscuring the people was also implemented most thoroughly, which can be used as a reference. Another point is probably because of the few officials from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. The people in charge are all from the royal family of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, so they are nostalgic for the previous period of history. The most important thing is that the influence of The Deer and the Cauldron is so great. The last few novels written by Mr. Jin Yong are all based on the history of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. Even if the photographer doesn’t want to, it’s impossible for him to create a Chinese costume for you. That would be too disrespectful of historical facts.”

In fact, before The Deer and the Cauldron, Fan Wubing himself had never watched braided dramas. Even when he read the novel, he tried not to think about it. However, there is a saying that is very good, and lies are repeated a thousand times. That's the truth. When you see those disgusting long braids on the TV screen over and over again, you slowly get used to it.

"All in all, the Propaganda Department and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television bear unshirkable responsibility for this matter. Every time I see the TV screen, I think I have traveled back to the Qing Dynasty." Fan Wubing was obviously quite concerned about this. criticism.

The two of them finally did not finish their ten-country European tour, because during this period of time, Ouyuan's TV station and media had too many things that disgusted the Chinese, and the two of them had no mood to continue here. play.

After the National Day, Fan Wubing and Shen Ying returned to China in late October. "