Status Updates From 天国之秋

Guy failed the civil exam and in frustration started a revolution, lmao

‘‘May God forgive England,’ he wrote, ‘for the part she is taking in this war,’—gentlemanly cooperation (or so its advocates claimed) to protect their common trade interests—another name for it—the Vampire Fleet. The first cases of cholera appeared in May 1862—The streets of Shanghai—unburied—left to rot in the midsummer heat. The south, for some reason, was spared but—the disease crept up the coast toward the north’