No matter how Cixi resisted in her heart, she couldn't refute Yi's words, because that was the reality of the political situation in the late Qing Dynasty. People's greed is unimaginable, maybe the mythical imperial power can make some people and low-level officials feel fearful, but for the high-ranking nobles within the Eight Banners, as well as the Hanchen officials, the imperial power is not much of a threat at all.

In the final analysis, the current Qing Dynasty emperor has no soldiers in his hands, and there is naturally no threat without military power, and the decentralization of power under such a political situation has become inevitable.

However, once this power is dispersed, it will be difficult to take it back, and how can the high-ranking officials and dignitaries who hold power and seek rent watch their power being taken away for nothing? When the black eyes see the silver taels of white flowers, crazy thoughts will grow like weeds.

They are bound to fight, especially since the opponent is only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child, and this has increased the courage of those people, and they are really forced to the point of being critical, even if they kill the monarch, what can they do? In the thousands of years of Chinese history, there are still fewer monarchs who have been killed?

Cixi can understand this truth, and Yi and Yiyun can also understand it, so no one can refute Prince Gong's proposal. And Cixi knew very well that Yi's decision was definitely a protection for Jae-chun.

"Yes, not everyone can become the second Kangxi Ye, and it is really too dangerous for Zaichun to want to be in power at the age of sixteen! Let Zaichun keep a low profile for five or six years, and slowly support a group of loyal courtiers in the court, and then carry out reforms......

"But I'm afraid of Jaechun's stubborn temper! Do you remember the look in his eyes when he was determined to go with Xiao Letian......? Do you think this kind of child will listen to persuasion? The wings are stiff, I'm afraid we won't be able to manage it anymore......"

At the same time, we must also protect the group of Eight Banners, and we must also protect the survival of the entire Manchurian people...... If it really doesn't work, the younger brother can only admonish the soldiers!"

The murderous words made Cixi and Yiyun shudder, and the Empress Dowager of the West Palace suddenly flashed a picture in her mind, which was actually a picture that he had never seen before, because she had not yet entered the palace at that time.

In the first month of the thirtieth year of Daoguang, when Emperor Daoguang was seriously ill and dying, he ordered the important ministers to open the secret box of the edict and officially announce the successor.

What is unexpected is that this edict not only wrote the sentence 'establish the fourth son of the emperor as the crown prince', but also wrote that 'the sixth son of the emperor is Prince Gong', which is a special case that has never been seen in the edict.

In the end, it was given to the reward by the father, and at the same time it was written on the edict, which has already shown the attitude to the whole world, among my children, the fourth son is the eldest to inherit the throne, and the sixth son is the second son, the second nobleman in the world.

In fact, this is not only a kind of protection for Yi, but also for Yi to win the political status of the future court, that is, the emperor is the first and he is the second.

This is a very precious political heritage, look at the old prince Yiyun, the old five Yixuan, the old eight Yixuan, the old nine Yixuan, the thrones of these brothers are all rewarded by the elder brother Xianfeng, and this status immediately shows the difference between high and low.

To put it mildly, as long as he doesn't rebel in this Qing Dynasty, no one can move him.

Cixi quickly shook her head when she thought of this, rubbed her temples with her hands, and she kept giving herself psychological hints, "Don't be cranky, don't be cranky, you can't do without Yi now, you can't play anything without him......"

I hinted three times in my heart, and there was a little blood on my face, "Since his sixth uncle said so, we orphans and widows will have something to rely on, so we will do what my uncle said, and we will have to help him after the pro-government, we can't let him come up and mess around, and we can't ......let go if I don't get it for five or six years."

Yi finally fell to the ground with a big stone in his heart, and he knelt on the ground to thank him, "Sister-in-law is above, my brother swears that he will live up to His Majesty and the Qing Dynasty, if you violate the oath, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed!"

Cixi hurriedly rushed up and covered his mouth: "What is this for? What swear is it? We love Xinjueluo's family, who can't trust anyone? Meat will always rot in the pot......

Yi Xun on the side didn't care about the physical contact between the sixth brother and the fourth sister-in-law at all, his eyes were a little scattered now, and he muttered: "If you are not afraid of no good things, you are afraid that there will be no good people!" The biggest variable is Xiao Letian, what if he continues to bewitch Your Majesty? What if his new army personally escorts His Majesty back to Beijing to seize power?"

"You can't be unguarded, you can't be unguarded......"

Yi sneered and said, "If you really want to get to that point, then let's go to war!" He Xiao Lotian wants to trick His Majesty into completely dismantling my Eight Banners, so he will do it with them as the Queen Mother said......

"There is no distinction between north and south, and people are not divided between old and young, even if we cut the land and borrow money to invite foreign soldiers, we can't soften down!

Cixi also squinted her eyes, revealing a ruthless light, "That's right, although the foreigners have a big appetite, what they want is silver money, except for the Rakshasa country for land, the rest of the Xiyi want a few small ports...... We don't care, give them the port, let them make money!"

"But we must not let people like Xiao Lotian succeed, what they want is our Qing Dynasty's thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, if Xiao Lotian is allowed to do it, we will have to slaughter all the people in the world......"

Yi subconsciously patted the back of Cixi's hand and comforted, "This is the worst plan! Not yet, at least judging from Xiao Letian's actions at the moment, he hasn't shown much ambition yet......

"What we have to do now is to keep an eye on Xiao Letian, one is to see when he will expand his army, the other is to see if he will form a cavalry regiment, and the third point is to see if there is any change between him and the Hunan army......"

"One last point...... It's really like Yang Zhi said, you have to keep an eye on Xiao Letian's woman's belly! Xiao Lotian who has a son and Xiao Lotian who doesn't have a son, the threat level is not at the same level at all!"

Yiyun looked at the sixth brother holding the fourth sister-in-law's hand out of the corner ......of his eye, and scolded in his heart, "Can you not let me see it?

"The younger brother will retire first, I have always been responsible for Tanggu's stare at Fuhui's line, I have to go down and arrange more manpower, once there is any situation, the younger brother will come to tell the queen mother and the sixth brother as soon as possible!"

At this point, at the end of the summer of 1868, not only did Xiao Lotian of the Ryukyus formulate a strategic plan for the future, but at the same time, in the Forbidden City, the powerful conservative forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty also made a strategic plan for the next five years.

Everything waited for three years, in 1871 in the Western calendar, when Zaichun was in power, the cards of all parties would be turned over, and the future direction of China was really foggy.