Xiao Letian is a person who refuses to suffer losses, especially when facing all forces in the court, he refuses to give in. Because Xiao Letian knows that looking at the political situation in the late Qing Dynasty is enough to summarize it in four words, that is, "bullying the weak and fearing the strong."

Yes, this is a declining dynasty with strong external forces and fighting in the middle. The dynasty itself has already seen the setting sun. The land annexation in China has been so serious that it has forced out peasant uprisings. Coupled with the tough infiltration of Western forces, the crisis of the entire Qing Dynasty has even worsened.

This was a major change that had not been seen in three thousand years, which was more complicated than the late Ming Dynasty, late Yuan Dynasty, late Song Dynasty and even late Tang Dynasty. At that time, the world was in chaos, and at least some scholars could understand the general trend of the revolution. The Chinese could at least launch a new dynasty and end the war.

But now it is not possible. The maritime routes have closely linked human beings. China's national destiny is always disturbed by the outside world. Not to mention that the Manchu Qing Dynasty cannot understand this chaos, even the Han scholars were dizzy.

At this time, the imperial court was a bit like a mad dog forced to a dead end. It looked at the countless people holding shovels and bricks on the opposite side, and was both scared and violent.

It had to grin and bark at everyone, but its fear was so great that no one could imagine it. The most direct example was Cixi's "Declaration of War on All Nations".

A country declares war on the whole world and on all countries on the earth. You can imagine how desperate this mad dog is, and this declaration of war on all nations is the cause of the Eight-Nation Alliance entering Beijing in the year of Gengzi.

Why are you crazy? Just because of fear.

Xiao Letian just took the Qing Dynasty's meridians. He knew what these noble nobles were thinking, and they were just a waste of time. They tried not to catch up with the collapse of heaven and earth in their lifetime, and let themselves die and sleep in the chosen blessed land. As for their children and grandchildren, they had no time to care about them.

Do you want to eat a bowl of Ansheng rice? Grandma! I, Xiao Letian, even wanted to overturn the table, so I was about to jump and become tough. Today I won’t give you face.

You said I have raised the new army? Yes, I admit that the two hundred new army is in Tanggu, come and suppress it!

You said I was illegal? That's right, I admit that Sun Sanhu in the dungeon was almost hanged into bacon, and the Qing Dynasty spies on the ground of Tanggu were stuffed with cells.

Now I will recognize whatever you say in the court. At worst, I, Xiao Letian, yelled in front of the whole world that I was going to rebel and rebel. If I have the will, you can send troops to suppress me.

If there are fewer soldiers, it is not enough. If there are too many soldiers, you can wait for the world to shake. Zeng Guofan and his brothers are still waiting for this opportunity.

The six hundred miles of fast horse sent the secret letters from Master Qing San and Fuhui, as well as the evidence link of Xiao Letian, to the Forbidden City in just one day. When the empress dowagers saw such thick stacks of secret documents, they were all stunned.

"Pigs, dogs, are they all pigs and dogs? How did the royal family raise such waste? It's okay to send troops to suppress them privately, but why can't you even escape in the end? Let Xiao Letian seize the secret order and the badge, and even the confession was reviewed..."

At this time, Cixi did not have the style of being a mother in the world, and her face turned pale. Ci'an, who was sitting beside her, was also confused. She didn't expect Xiao Letian to deal with the court like this, and was so tough. Was he really not afraid of the Qing army?

Prince Gong Yi rubbed his temple and said to the little emperor, "Forget it, there is no other way, only suppress it. His soldiers are not many, only more than 200. If Meile from Tianjin dispatches the Eight Banners soldiers, I don't believe that three thousand cavalry will take them out, and even two hundred can't be eaten..."

Ci'an trembled and put down the tea bowl, "Three thousand! Isn't it a bit too much? Our court still needs shame. Everyone is watching, and foreigners are staring at each other. If there are too many troops, it will be bad to make a big deal!"

Ci'an said that he was face, but everyone was thinking about the country's foundation of the Qing Dynasty and the foundation of rule. Last year, Changmao was pacified, and this year the Nian Army was about to be pacified, which was the time for the people to celebrate. If we force a great master of Western learning to rebel at this time...

Forget it, everyone really dare not think about it. Even if there is a riot in Xinjiang, the court is suppressing the cold treatment, for fear of giving Zeng Guofan a little excuse. The 500,000 Hunan Army is too terrible, it is a knife that is under the heart of the court.

"If you want to suppress it, you have to make a little more noise. Don't make too much of the army, and don't make trouble. Everyone knows it. Do it secretly... In fact, it's best to let the ancestor of the Dharma protector take action and destroy Xiao Letian..." Cixi finally calmed down now.

But at this time, the little emperor spoke, "No, I think you missed a very important point... Then Xiao Letian's real reliance should be the sea!"

Everyone in the hall couldn't believe their ears. The nine-year-old Emperor Tongzhi actually started to discuss politics? He also accused his mother and Uncle Wang at the beginning of his mouth. But no one dared to refute him, because the truth he said was the key point that you ignored.

"Xiao Letian is a foreign devil, and now he is doing business at sea. There must be many sea boats like this. If we send troops to clear the situation, he will know the news. What should he do if he takes a boat to sea? He has two hundred new troops. If he kills along the coastline of the Qing Dynasty... hurry up, lift the globe up!"

Tongzhi walked around the dragon chaise's small face and turned around the hall, and soon the globe was carried over.

"Mom, Uncle Wang...you see, Xiao Letian's new army is all pure Western troops that are one against ten. If he goes around the coastline like this..."

The small fingers formed an arc along the edge of the land on the map, "Yingkou, Huludao, Shanhaiguan, Tanggu, Dengzhou, Yantai, Qingdao..." Emperor Tongzhi's face was covered with small beads of sweat, and the names of coastal cities on the map were said.

"Let's go south, Ningbo, Shanghai, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Qiongzhou... If Xiao Letian is determined to fight against the court, he just needs to lead his army to make such a big circle along the coastline, killing people and setting fires everywhere, just like the Japanese pirates in the past and the Western barbarians now... that would be a major event that shocked the world!"

Hiss... The leaders of the Qing Dynasty took a breath of air. The prophecy of the little emperor might really come true. This foreign devil's familiarity with the sea is something that no one in the court can compare with.

Yi? He stuttered, "If this is the case, let alone disarmament, Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army must rush to the front line of the coast. He... He will definitely expand his army, he will expand his army to one million. He said that he would defend the Qing Dynasty's country gate, but he just wanted to ban us..."

"What a poisonous trick! Who told you about the emperor? Is it Ermao..." Cixi asked nervously.

Tongzhi shook his head, "No, Ermao has never said anything. I have learned these things from Western learning. You have never heard Ermao say that Xiao Letian has a deep understanding of the ocean. No one in our court can compare to him, so I just learned a little..."

The little emperor said that, and Cixi and the others could not think of this because they received mainland education since childhood, and there was a blind spot in their thinking, that is, the blind spot of the ocean. So they could not figure out Xiao Letian's methods. Tongzhi was a nine-year-old child, and he was interested in Western learning, and he could really guess Xiao Letian's plan with a flash of inspiration.

Cixi looked at her son with relief, and she loved her more and more. Finally, she even gently stroked her shoulders. This was the first time she found that her son was already a little manly. It seemed that she should be a little relaxed to her son in the future. My mother used to be a bit too strict.

Thinking of this, Cixi nodded and said, "The emperor's analysis is good. So we should assassinate?"

Emperor Tongzhi felt his mother's encouragement, and his little face turned red and continued, "Assassination is not really good. First of all, whether the assassination can be successful will be put aside. Even if it is really successful, how could Xiao Letian not be prepared to make a comeback? I am afraid that he will die, his brother will be even more crazy, and things will be even bigger at that time..."

"Yes, right, the emperor is so big!" Ci'an also smiled with relief. "After all, none of us here really understands Xiao Letian. If you want to deal with such a person, you should be careful..."

At this time, Yi frowned and said, "Can... Could this second ghost is Zeng Guofan's member? Everything he did was paving the way for the Zeng family? This can explain why in the summer, the Nine-Supervisor Zeng Guoquan would use his personal guards to help Xiao Letian support him..."

A sentence blew across the palace like a cold wind, and everyone shivered. If this guess was true, it would prove that Zeng Guofan would never disarmament, and his 500,000 troops would gradually evolve into its private army.

"Zhao Kuangyin's Chenqiao mutiny is really not far away..."

"It shouldn't be? The cause of this incident was due to Sun Sanhu's unauthorized actions. Otherwise, Xiao Letian's private soldiers were scared to death and he would not dare to take the initiative. Besides, the court did not treat him badly before. Fuhui might have given him the Industrial Special Zone, and he also asked him to President Zhang and Jiaofangsi's women. What else do you want?"

"I just hate it. These idiots who messed up the matter have forced him to rebel..." Ci'an was not so pessimistic. Although she couldn't say anything, she always felt that Xiao Letian and Zeng Guofan were not the same kind of people.

It took more than two hours for the high-level Qing Dynasty officials to unify their opinions, but the result was so funny that they were actually cold-handed. When Ermao secretly sent the information to Xiao Letian, he was so happy that he was so happy.

"What's this? Cold treatment means that my head is drilled into the pile of sand and pretending that it hasn't happened? The soldiers in the green camp were vain? Sun Sanhu also threw it to me and let me play casually? I will not suppress these two hundred soldiers?"
Chapter completed!