In the back garden of the Ryukyu Prime Minister's Mansion, Xiao Letian and Wang Huaiyuan sat together holding wine glasses to enjoy the waning moon. The huge glass window blocked the coldness of the late night, and the two of them were drinking a few plates of side dishes and a jar of flower deeds.

"Mr. Wu came to see me yesterday and said a lot around the bush, but I understood the meaning. I hope the CIA will share the information with him..."

"Oh, the old man also saw something was wrong... Yes, if he couldn't even see this, he would be labeled as a famous official in vain."

Xiao Letian looked at the direction of the Ryukyu Rites Association. He knew that the old man was going to show up with the little emperor tonight. The truth about the cruel and ruthless court was to be displayed in front of Zai Chun. Now it depends on whether his heart is strong enough.

"Zaichun, do you know that the emperor is the most dangerous group in the world. The abnormal mortality rate is so high that it is scary. There are unknown monarchs who have died in all dynasties."

"In the face of power, human life is simply insignificant. Maybe it is a sudden illness, maybe it is a red pill, or maybe it is a group of beauties who have dried your essence and blood... There are many ways to kill people, and many of them cannot be avoided."

"The power is never something that others can give, it is all snatched by oneself. Even if you inherit your father's throne, you have to snatch it... snatch it with civil servants and generals, and foreign enemies from foreign races. Zai Chun, are you mentally prepared?"

Wang Huaiyuan sighed, "I didn't do intelligence work before, but I thought being an emperor was the biggest beauty in the world. Now, it's really not something that people do."

"Haha, isn't it done by humans or animals? People all think that being an emperor is the best in the world, eating well and drinking well, and there are so many beauties. They use yellow silk to wipe their butts..."

"Yes, yes, I used to think that the emperor would eat ginseng raw, and he could eat fried dough sticks every day, which was so fragrant." Wan Huaiyuan picked up a piece of pig's ear and threw it in his mouth. "Later, I reported to me the secret line in the palace, and I realized that the emperor could not even have a smooth meal..."

"Do you know, the food in the Forbidden City is a good-looking one. In fact, it is all warm-fired meals. The food made in the imperial kitchen is afraid that it will get cold, so they will constantly use a warm soup pot to heat it. In the end, no delicacy will be gone... And the emperor also has to eat the eunuch's saliva. Every dish must be poisoned by the eunuch. I feel disgusted when I think about it."

"Sir, you have always said that you will never be an emperor. Are you afraid of taking the eunuch's saliva?"

Xiao Letian retching for a while, ate a piece of pineapple and suppressed his throat. "If I become an emperor, I will abolish the eunuch system first. It will be too inhumane..."

"It's a good thing to be an emperor. Standing at the forefront of the storm, taking the blame for others, and having natural disasters and man-made disasters can offend oneself. Many people hide under the emperor's banner to enjoy their happiness, and then all the responsibilities are pushed to the emperor."

"It means that the last generation of emperors. Is it the emperor's responsibility to perish the Ming Dynasty? All the ministers are innocent. It is obviously nonsense. But they can hide behind the emperor and shift most of the responsibility. In the end, they hanged themselves on the coal mountain of Chongzhen, which took away all the blame..."

"Zaichun is pitiful. Being an emperor is his destiny, a destiny that cannot be escaped..."

Xiao Letian suddenly fell silent. When he recalled the unofficial history of Emperor Tongzhi's death in his previous life, a terrifying feeling suddenly flashed in his heart. After Tongzhi took power, he had conflicts with Yi and many Eight Banners nobles. Could it be that he was murdered?

It is very likely that those people could bribe eunuchs, and then take advantage of the young Emperor Tongzhi's greed for flowers and lust, and deliberately lured him out of the Forbidden City to sleep with flowers and sleep with willows.

It is not difficult to find a few sick women in secret. In the 19th century, there was no AIDS, and the mortality rate of ordinary woven willow disease was not high, it was just torture.

The death of Emperor Tongzhi is strange, absolutely strange.

"Now I understand Weng Tonghe's plan..." Xiao Letian took a sip of Huadiao wine. "I feel that Weng Tonghe and other masters have monitored all the educational subjects of Zaichun. Simply put, there are a group of people or forces who hope that they will educate a pedantic emperor."

"Yes, that group of people didn't want Weng Tonghe to teach a wise and holy king, or a strong monarch, because it was in conflict with their interests, so Weng Tonghe kept pretending to be confused. He was not a corrupt scholar in the true sense. He was completely different from Wang Shizheng and others..."

"That group of people is really stupid, and Weng Tonghe has been pretending to be stupid and protecting Zaichun." Xiao Letian stood up and went back and forth in the house. "Is the situation so serious? The power struggle within the Qing Dynasty has become so cruel."

Wang Huaiyuan nodded, "I'm afraid yes, the Qing Dynasty has had the habit of internal struggle since ancient times. When Kangxi was old, several sons were snatched away. In order to protect Qianlong, Yongzheng did not hesitate to execute one of his sons. Qianlong passed the throne to Jiaqing even more abdicated..."

"After the Xinyou Palace changes, the centralization of Manchus has actually been broken. The local governor and the powerful Manchus have divided all the rights of the entire empire. From the moment Emperor Tongzhi ascended the throne, those people have never thought of returning the rights to His Majesty."

"Until the Prime Minister took the little emperor away to study abroad, and His Majesty also began to form his own personal army of the emperor, this touched the bottom line of those people. Some of them were already crazy, and they were driven crazy by you, Prime Minister..."

Wang Huaiyuan sneered and said, "So they want to train troops and secretly print bonds. They just hope that they have an army and a fortune in their hands, and finally use it to fight us. Look, there will definitely be a big mess within ten years of bond printing. As long as those people feel that their wings are hard, they will definitely cause trouble."

Xiao Letian scratched his head, "It's enough within ten years, it's enough, it's enough time, and ten years are enough for us to initially industrialize and form a modern navy. As for the domestic struggle for power and profit, I have other arrangements."

Wang Huaiyuan had a deep understanding of Xiao Letian's strategy, so he did not continue to ask in depth, "What about Emperor Tongzhi, what are the Prime Minister's arrangements?"

Xiao Letian sighed, "I don't want to force him. The way of life in the future depends on him to choose... If he chooses stability, then I'll send him to Beijing and let him be a puppet emperor. If we help him in the side, I think life is safe."

"If he wants to make a breakthrough and become a real emperor... then I will take him to Europe, North America, and see the world. The choice will always be in his hands."

Before we knew it, Xiao Letian and Zai Chun were no longer a simple alliance of politicians. After more than a year of contact, the two gradually developed a complex emotion similar to father and son.

Zaichun's missing fatherly love was found here in Xiao Letian, and Xiao Letian was happy to watch Zaichun grow up little by little. Maybe this is a good fate.
Chapter completed!