569 Empress Dowager
Just when Ci'an completely turned to the reformist, in the East Warm Pavilion of the Forbidden City, Cixi and two conservative officials, Prince Gong Yi, and Prince Chun Yi, were sitting together and furious.
"Okay, okay, they are all good. After half a month, there was no attack on Jingshan. What's the use of me? Prince Chun, you are the gate god of the Sijiu City, the admiral of the Nine Gate, how did you lead the troops?"
"And you, the dignified Prince Gong, the dignified Prime Minister Wang, how did you inspire morale and how did you negotiate with foreigners? Except for the French secretly supporting us, there was no one left. The Americans also jumped out to be seriously concerned."
"You are all waste..." Cixi's roaring voice echoed in the East Warehouse.
The two men in front of them were both the main descendants of the Aisin Gioro family. They were all very noble in their status, but one was her brother-in-law and the other had an affair with her. She roared a few times and said that these two men were really helpless.
Cixi shouted for a long time and her mouth was a little dry. Prince Chun next to her quickly got up and picked up a pot of ginseng soup from the soup maker and filled a cup of the queen mother.
"The weather turns colder on autumn nights, let's drink a bowl of ginseng soup to warm up..."
Cixi was so upset by Prince Chun, "Haha, do I still use Warm? I am full of anger now. You also asked me to drink ginseng soup...An Dehai, I will give Ai's house a bowl of ice, I want to relieve the anger."
"Oh, no, I still use ice when I enter autumn. Be careful that I will hold up the cold air in my body. I will suffer in winter. The Queen Mother must take good care of her body..."
"I..." Cixi looked at Prince Chun Yihuan's honest face, so angry that she wanted to twist it. She was so full of words.
Prince Gong, who was standing beside him, chuckled, "Forget it, the Empress Dowager should spare me, the seventh brother. The cleverness in his heart is not something you can shout out by just a few words..."
"I think this palace transformation is almost the same as it is now. Just talk about it. I have never heard of the palace transformation that lasts for half a month after searching through history books. If you continue to fight, you will not be afraid of the Han officials being suspicious."
"I know, you have contacted Li Hongzhang, but the water cannot be hidden from the Bodhisattva. As long as Zeng Guofan is here, Li Hongzhang cannot jump very high..."
Prince Gong Yi? Taste the fragrant tea in his hand, looking cynical. "Now, you are not at a loss when you negotiate. The secret order of the late emperor has also burned it, and you have no last concerns. Talk to the Queen Mother. The two of you will share the power with one point, so why bother to this point?"
"Bah... Damn it, which servant is serving this? Why is the tea stalk still inside? An Dehai... pulled the tea brewer out of his breath and whipped ten whips. How do he serve him..."
Prince Gong Yi? He is far more outgoing than Prince Chun. He has a more outgoing personality. Once he takes out this style, Cixi's nose is so lingering.
"Peace talk, what to talk about... I have broken up my face and what else to talk about. Now I have to attack hard, I have to attack fiercely, and I have to watch her die..."
Cixi's face was ferocious, and the temperature in the hall suddenly dropped sharply. However, Cixi couldn't scare him today. She saw Yi laughing, "Okay, my good queen mother, I have to eat at a glance, and the road has to be taken step by step. Do those who are in the court still care about their faces?"
"There are so many rights in the court. You take this opportunity to grab a little more, and then just catch more than a dozen eunuchs and guards, and then you will lie about military affairs. The friendship between the queen mother's opinion will naturally get torn apart. What are you afraid of?"
Speaking of here, Yi? Suddenly put away his sloppy look just now, sat upright and said, "Empress Dowager, last night, the Jiushang Zeng Guoquan sent me a secret message, and the wording inside there was extremely strong..."
"The Zeng family has issued an ultimatum. The meaning is obvious. You people are making trouble for housework within the country. We Han officials can not interfere, but the housework cannot disrupt the national system... To put it bluntly, we cannot let foreign enemies get involved in Confucius. Our Qing Dynasty has not yet truly revived the Tongzhi Zhongxing."
"A month, the Zeng brothers have already made it clear that one month is the limit for us Manren to solve the problem by closing the door and shutting the door... After a month, I'm afraid the Hunan Army will interfere."
Yi? The words in his mouth were extremely cold, and Cixi kept chilling when she heard it, "Okay... This is the good minister of the Qing Dynasty, she is so loyal."
Yi? Take another sip of fragrant tea, "Don't talk badly. You're not doing this. Xinjiang Agubai is almost king. We can't send a soldier or a soldier. The Central Plains Nian Army has not been completely pacified yet. The Hunan Army is too big to lose its tail and a Huai Army emerges again..."
"There are also the Hui tribes in Gansu and Shaanxi, and are now ready to fight against the government. God knows when the anti-bank will be raised, there are foreigners, and Xiao Letian... The Qing Dynasty is now full of wind, and you still have these, do you think it's appropriate?"
Cixi slapped her on the table with a slap, "What can I do? What can we orphans and widows do? Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo w
This cry was not fake. Yi and Yihuan could hear it. This was the cry that Cixi made when she was extremely afraid. Since ancient times, when she entered the palace gate as deep as the sea, the pressure that women in the deep palace was unimaginable to ordinary people. Not to mention that they were all perverts, the environment was already like this.
After crying for a while, Prince Chun Yihuan handed over a handkerchief, "Okay, I know the crying in the empress dowager's heart... But this is the situation now, we have to look forward."
"My brother is incompetent and cannot control the Eight Banners who besieged Jingshan. But Empress Dowager, you should also think about it. If the attackers really attack in Jingshan this time, will the Eight Banners still be the Eight Banners?"
"In this world, how many Manchus are there, how many Han people are there? If we, Manchus, are killed by all relatives, can we live to the death, how long can we live in this country?"
Yihuan's words were like a lightning bolt in the dark night, illuminating everyone's hearts. Cixi was stunned and she didn't expect Yihuan to tell such a truth.
What exactly is the Eight Banners? To put it bluntly, it is just a family of relatives who come together to rule the Han people. If these Eight Banners children really start to kill their own people, it can only mean that the Eight Banners system is about to be over.
Cixi stopped crying, and Prince Gong began to persuade him again, "Stop making trouble, our brothers take the lead, and ensure that you can get the most rights after the negotiations. Isn't that okay? Life is still growing, and there will be opportunities for you to display your talents in the future..."
Just when Cixi was shaken, a gust of wind suddenly came from outside the East Warehouse, mixed with the screams of palace maids being whipped and the sound of slapping the window frame. It seemed that the weather was about to change.
"Lao Buddha...Lao Buddha." A miserable scream rang outside the hall. After a while, a ball of meat rolled in from outside the hall gate. People looked closely and found that it was Li Lianying.
"Old Master..." Li Lianying knelt on the ground, holding a long silk strap in both hands, and it was obvious that it was the thin white silk used for carrier pigeons.
"Wuwuwu... Lord Lao Fu, then Xiao Letian... That Xiao Letian is still alive. He led his troops to counterattack Tanggu, and the Meer army collapsed instantly... Even the French whom Meer colluded with were defeated." After Li Lianying said that, his forehead hit the ground with a bang.
"Ah." The three nobles jumped up suddenly. "What did you say? Xiao Letian is still alive."
This is really the biggest bad news. Cixi dared to send troops to attack Tanggu. The biggest reliance was the news of Xiao Letian's death. If there was no information given to her by the little ghost Wuyin, Cixi would never have attacked Xiao Letian so early.
Looking back on the set of tricks that Xiao Letian used to deal with the imperial court, there was no countermeasure in both soft and hard methods. The new army was so powerful that it could fight against a hundred people. The overwhelming big-character posters and leaflets could make all the scandals of the imperial court public.
The most terrifying thing is that Xiao Letian has a close relationship with foreigners, and the Qing Dynasty's fear of foreigners was beyond words. The habit of fearing foreigners in the late Qing Dynasty became a terminal illness after the Second Opium War.
"Catch the little ghost in Wuyin back and bring that bitch back to me... It's a disaster for the country, this monster who harms the country." Cixi jumped up and cursed.
"Damn Xiao Letian, why didn't Tian thunder and accept you?"
After all, Prince Gong was born in a Westernization business. His understanding of Xiao Letian was far better than that of other high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty. He slapped the table suddenly and said, "You can't hesitate anymore. You must reach a reconciliation with Ci'an before Xiao Letian takes action... The storm is coming, and we, the people, must unite."
At this time, Prince Chun Yihuan was also anxious, "But... but Li Hongzhang's soldiers are almost at the Sijiu City. Do you want to let him go for nothing? Isn't this a fight? They came over with their heads and cut off the Huai Army's dream of wealth. How can we use it in the future?"
The whole Donghunting Pavilion was in chaos, and the feelings of regret and self-blame filled everyone's hearts. At that time, everyone just thought of the wealth in Lotte's foreign company, and they forgot that the group of lions and tigers guarding these wealth were a group of lions and tigers.
"Where is the witch who is in trouble with the country, this Japanese girl cannot believe it. Now it's easy to throw us all into the pit... The Han governors and governors still estimate that the court's face will not spread the civil strife in the capital, but will Xiao Letian consider our face?"
"If he made a big noise about this, even the peddlers and pawns knew about it, and everyone knew about it. What kind of face does our court have? How can we manage such a big empire?"
"It's a disaster, that woman is a disaster..."
Just as Prince Gong was scolding, An Dehai rushed in with another silk roll. The domineering eunuch now had tears on his face, "Empress Dowager, two princes, something is wrong. This morning, Xiao Letian's warship went straight to Tianjin Wei along the Haihe River... This rebel has already launched a bombing and bombing the city walls of Tianjin Wei."
"Wuwuwu... The wall of Tianjin Weidong has been blown out by artillery, and all the defenders of Tianjin Wei have fled and fled..."
Chapter completed!