1858, 10, 10. On October 6th, the British and French forces invaded the Yuanmingyuan, and then they carried out a crazy robbery.
The French invaders were the first to break into Yuanmingyuan. They took everything they saw. The treasure in each French soldier's pocket is worth 30 thousand to 40 thousand francs. They came empty-handed and returned loaded. In the French military camp, there are valuable clocks and watches, colorful silks and satins and precious works of art worth 30 million francs.
Although the British invaders came a little late, their pockets were full of gold and silver. To make matters worse, they smashed those big porcelain and enamel bottles that could not be moved.
After the British and French invaders looted the Yuanmingyuan, in order to eliminate the spoils and cover up the crimes, the British Minister Plenipotentiary Erkin, with the support of British Prime Minister Pa Max Don, ordered the Yuanmingyuan to be burned. Large-scale burning * * * twice, the first time was 10/kloc-0, and it mainly burned Yuanmingyuan from October 7 to 9. The fire burned for three days and nights, making this world-famous garden a scorched earth. This catastrophe, as described and criticized by Hugo, a famous French writer, was that one day, two robbers broke into the Summer Palace, one robbed and the other set fire to it. Victory can be a robber.