The midsummer in Beijing is really a torture for the Manchus, whose ancestors live in the white mountains and black waters, and these nomads have no genes to resist the heat. Although they have been in the customs for more than 200 years, the summer is still difficult for them.

The sun above his head exuded endless heat, and the big willow trees on the side of the road had already wilted their leaves, and even those who hid in them were screaming weakly, and the old man who was dozing in the shade of the trees was open, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled straight down.

"Herbal tea...... Herbal tea, a large bowl of herbal tea...... The latest mint tea, ah......"

"Watermelon...... Watermelon, the sand watermelon produced in Daxing, the old man is not afraid of losing his teeth if he has no teeth to eat it......"

"Sell fans, concubine folding fans, big pu fans...... Shake the cool breeze naturally......"

In the alleys of Sijiu City, even the shouting was wilted by the scorching sun, and in the end, even the fiercest vicious dogs didn't bother to bark at these vendors, lying on the ground and snoring and sticking out their tongues.

Just when the entire capital was swept by a heat wave and everyone was struggling in the middle of summer, a sudden shocking rumor was like lighting a foreign fire in a boiling oil pot, and the raging flames instantly spread all over the capital.

Just in the hot weather of noon, all the teahouses and wine shops in the capital were suddenly full, people lowered their heads and discussed, and a bizarre gossip shocked the entire people of Beijing.

"Gentlemen, you're here, sit down...... Oh, have you heard, there was a riot in Tanggu Port, and it is said that thousands of people died......"

"Really...... Xiao Er's pot is high and broken...... Tanggu City is a place where Chinese and foreign people live together, and so many foreigners are not allowed to come to negotiate? Tell me about it......

"Hey, what are you two talking about here? Let me tell you, there are ten rooms and nine emptiness killed in Tanggu City, and tens of thousands of people have died, and the blood has stained the sea red......

"Yo, where did you get this news from......?

"Hi...... You still don't believe it, my tenant who grows vegetables in Changping Zhuangzi, his own uncle's family is a fisherman in Tanggu, and I heard that the people of Tianjin Wei don't eat sea fish anymore......"

As soon as people heard this, they rushed up, "Master Liu, tell me carefully, why don't you eat sea fish?" That Liu Ye wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and enjoyed the feeling of the stars holding the moon.

"Grandma's, it's not that there are too many dead people, more than 10,000 corpses, they didn't have time to bury them, so they were thrown into the sea. Those sea fish are full of human flesh, do you think they can still eat it......" Before he finished speaking, there was a sound of retching in the room, and it took a long time to calm down.

At this time, Xiao Er, who was carrying a copper kettle and adding water, was also stunned, and asked stupidly, "What is this for?

"Silly boy, you don't understand this, do you know the people's upheaval? It's just that the common people are crazy, rushing to the street to see who kills whom, robbing the money in the store at will, women going on at will, killing people and setting fires are all evil...... You ask why? Besides Xiao Letian, who else can be ...... because of the two devils?"

"Do you know what a batch of people were sent by the Yamen, the prime minister of Beijing, at the beginning of spring...... What kind of delegation went to inspect the group of people in the special industrial zone. There was a civil uprising in Tanggu, but it was a drizzle, and there were only a few hundred people......"

"Today is different, tens of thousands of people are rioting Tanggu City, all the foreigners in the city have fled to the sea, and the foreign cannons and guns on the big ships are erected, so they can open fire with the mob......

In the mouths of these rumor-walkers, Xiao Letian completely turned into a ruthless murderer, with hundreds of bandits gathered under his command, and in the face of the people's kind protests, he actually suppressed them bloodily. Even the ninth marshal Zeng Guoquan was involved, and the Jizi battalion of the Hunan army dispatched heavy cavalry, killing the people.

The speaker in the teahouse was foaming at the mouth, the listeners were dumbfounded, and the abacus beads of the shopkeeper in front of the counter were not good, and he didn't even know how many accounts were miscalculated.

Just when the big guy scolded Xiao Letian, the second devil, two young scholars suddenly walked in from outside the teahouse, and they became angry when they heard this group of Eight Banners bastards talking about it.

"A group of foolish people are just thinking about it, if Xiao Letian is so powerful, won't the Tianjin Chief Military Officer suppress it? Tens of thousands of people died, do you know how big a set is tens of thousands of people lined up together? Do you know how many people there are in Quantanggu?" After speaking, the two snorted, very disdainful.

"Oops, who's not wearing a belt to show you...... Hey, isn't this the second master of the Prime Minister's Yamen, look at my forgetfulness, your surname is here......" The rumor-monger turned his head and wanted to scold the street, but he didn't expect to see an acquaintance, the pen post style of the two Prime Ministers' Yamen.

"Xiao Er, come to the pot of green tea, I will clear the fire......" The pen post of the two prime ministers Yamen was not angry, and he bowed his hand to the flagmen and uncles of the teahouse.

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't listen to those rumors that have no shadow, everyone is a banner person, if you want to listen to it, you have to listen to the words of the queen mother, listen to the words of our eight banner princes, these rumors are obviously some people secretly bewitching us...... There are only more than 10,000 people in the whole Tanggu City, why are they all dead? They are still thrown into the sea? We don't even have mass graves in the Qing Dynasty?"

"Let me tell you the truth, the secret letter that the Prime Minister's Yamen received last night, guess what? Damn, it was actually a group of civil officials who made a ghost, a local gentry, surnamed Huang, who raised land rent to lure the people into the streets to make trouble, the purpose was to stir up the special industrial ......zone of the Qing Dynasty."

The people present suddenly realized, "I said the rumors before, so bizarre? It turned out to be a rumor made by these readers, these guys are really a bunch of wilted ......."

"That's it, my flag owner has said a long time ago, this group of Qingliu is afraid that this special industrial zone will be built, on the surface they are afraid that foreigners' things will be demagogic, but in fact, they are afraid that our flag people will have more hardcore crops......"

Now it's okay, the whole teahouse is talking, and everyone begins to scold these Qingliu readers. Immediately afterwards, the two pen posts began to transfer their hatred again, "Actually, this matter is also to blame Jiu Shuai, their Hunan army is too much, and they actually interfered in Zhili, and the Jizi battalion actually confronted our green battalion, even if he is justified in quelling the rebellion, he can't kill people casually......"

As soon as people heard that there was still a secret in this, they all fried the pot, the crowd was tighter, and they were not afraid of prickly heat on a hot day. It was in the teahouses, green houses, and wine shops that all kinds of rumors began to collide with each other and clashed fiercely in the most basic social places of the Qing Dynasty.

The scholars who take Qingliu as their own responsibility have poured dirty water on Xiao Letian and Jiu Shuai, in addition to clearing themselves, it is also a natural confrontation with the royal family and the Hunan army.

And the Hunan army, as the representative of the local governor, actually doesn't have the same heart as us, so you are not a good thing, splashing up like dirty water.

Of course, Prime Minister Yamen is a staunch defender of the interests of the Eight Banners, what are the benefits of the special industrial zone, they are like a mirror in their hearts, what kind of ghost idea Qingliu and the Hunan army are fighting, they can also guess it, in this public opinion war, protecting Xiao Letian to attack Qingliu, and disgusting the Hunan army by the way is their fundamental strategy.

Among the tripartite forces, now the southern governor's system represented by the Hunan army is still relatively calm and has not been involved in this civil scolding war. But their counterattack was more direct, three days later, Zeng Guofan folded, originally scheduled to return to Beijing in the autumn to report on his work, and then dragged it back, he actually said that a remnant of the Heavenly Kingdom of 20,000 people had been found in the Wuyi Mountains.

Threat, that's the naked threat. It was in this way that the Zeng family expressed their protests, and there were actually more than 20,000 people in Wuyi Mountain? God knows if he went to drink the big red robe.

In the summer of this year, because of a small civil uprising in Tanggu, the three forces have been in chaos to the point of stabbing each other in the back, and now they are about to tear each other's faces in the court.

The excerpts sent by Tanggu have been quietly stacked in the Forbidden City for seven days, and the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces just simply looked at the excerpts and summaries, and as for the testimony that is more than a foot high, people are not interested in dealing with it at all. For the political family, evidence is a fig leaf, sometimes you can ask for it, and sometimes you have to throw it away.

The queen mother of the two palaces was silent, the devil Liuyi was also silent, and the rest of the princes who were full of people didn't say anything when they saw that something was wrong. In the Forbidden City, the little emperor of Tongzhi jumped up and down to talk about this matter, asking the queen mother for a while, asking the prince for a while, and annoying the minister for a while, but the strange thing is that the left and right people can't say anything, and they all make the emperor angry.

"Queen Mother, what should I do about this? This is a popular uprising! Isn't such a big thing handled strictly?" Emperor Tongzhi sat beside Cixi angrily, and his little face turned red.

"Big deal, how big can this be!" Cixi looked at her son with a smile on her face. As soon as Tongzhi heard this, he was not calm: "What a big deal? The people have changed, and the death of thousands of soldiers and civilians is not a big deal?"

Cixi shook her head, "It's not big, it's not big at all." Your Majesty, you are the lord of the world, and you must make Mount Tai collapse before and remain unchanged. There was a little mess in Xiaoxiaotanggu, and in the eyes of Xiaomin, the sky was shattered, but in front of you, it didn't make a ...... of trouble."

"Don't talk about it far away, let's take the long-haired rebellion in the south, there are hundreds of billions of dead people, this is a big deal. There is also Xiyi from the sea, which is also a big deal. In addition, the Rakshasa country staring at us in the north is even more important. Only such a small civil uprising in Tanggu is not big at all, on the contrary, it is still very small, and the small fold can only be left in the middle and not ......"

Emperor Tongzhi seems to be a little enlightened, and in his mother's teachings, he gradually understood that an empire is not what the emperor wants to do, and the so-called supremacy of imperial power is purely a false proposition.

"This Qing Dynasty, our royal family and the Eight Banners will always be one, there are eight banners and our royal family, without the Eight Banners, our royal family will become orphans and widows, this is the iron law of life left by the ancestors, you can't lose it." ”

"As for the Han Confucian ministers, those Qingliu, you must remember to slap and then give a sweet date to eat, what they want is to rule the imperial examination forever, as long as you guarantee that this article will remain unchanged for ten thousand years, these minions will not rebel, when we were full of people, we killed so many Han people, and in the end, didn't they still obediently kneel on the ground and shout Long live us?"

Cixi stroked her son's head and instilled in her son in a rare kind tone the secret of governing the country, a secret that was passed down by word of mouth, not something that anyone could learn if they wanted to.

"Emperor, you have to always remember that the internal affairs of the Qing Dynasty are three forces, three groups of people are entangled, one is our royal family and the Eight Banners, the other is the Confucian Qingliu, and the last one is the Han people, especially Zeng Guofan's group of people, as long as you can balance these three forces, the country will not be chaotic......"

"What about the foreigners? What about the two devils, Xiao Letian? What kind of force are they, and how should we deal with them?" Tongzhi can be regarded as stopping Eniang at this time, and Cixi didn't say anything for a long time.

"The great changes that have not been seen in 3,000 years, maybe it can only be answered by a wizard who has not seen it in 3,000 years......"

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