The army that protected the emperor was collectively referred to as the Imperial Forest Army by ordinary people, but in fact, the composition of the Manchu imperial family's guard force was still very complicated.

The closest armed force to the emperor is, of course, the guards with swords, the warriors who can stand outside the emperor's bedroom and carry weapons, loyalty and martial arts naturally do not need to be asked, many of them are the children of nobles, they are led by the ministers of the guards, and the official name is called the pro-military camp.

If the emperor wants to travel, go hunting or something, the escort force at this time must mobilize the strength of the forward battalion in addition to the pro-military battalion, and the soldiers who form the forward battalion are selected from the Eight Banners soldiers, and all of them are skilled in the field of archery and horses.

In addition to the pro-military camp and the pioneer camp, there is also a guard camp, which is the army guarding the head of the battle wall of the royal palace, and they are the ones who patrol the walls of the Forbidden City. However, during the Xianfeng period, the work of the guard camp was replaced by the newly established Shenji battalion, and the guard camp gradually lost its past glory.

In addition to the above, there are also Jianrui battalions and firearms battalions that defend the royal family...... And so on, but their strength is much weaker than the above.

These battalion heads, with a variety of names, unified into what the people called the Imperial Forest Army, and in addition to the Imperial Forest Army, the Beijing Division also had the infantry army led by the Admiral of Jiumen to lead the Yamen, and what they guarded was the so-called Sijiu City. They were responsible for the tall outer wall system of the city of Beijing.

The emperor came out with such a cumbersome escort force, because he was afraid that one day a powerful minister or an unworthy descendant would come out, and he would mutiny with the bribed soldiers, and the more yamen he made, the more all levels would fight with each other, which was the guarantee of the emperor's safety.

To put it thoroughly, the emperor's safety is obtained by his subordinates fighting openly and secretly, and it is definitely not that his subordinates are strong in martial arts and have advanced weapons.

Facts have proved that this arrangement of the Qing Dynasty royal family is very correct, since the Qing Dynasty, the bloody storm in the city of Sijiu has not stopped at all, during the Shunzhi period, the ministers in order to compete with Dolgon for power in the city of Sijiu there is no less open and secret fighting, and in the early years of Kangxi, in order to kill a Aobai, the world was turned upside down.

The most impressive thing is that the Kowloon in the last years of Kangxi seized the heir, these promising sons in order to find a way to control the armed forces of the Gongwei Jingshi, but they didn't bother to scheming, if it weren't for the large number of camp heads and scattered powers, the princes would not be able to stew these camp heads with a spoonful, and it is estimated that Kangxi would have already braided his hair.

Even Yongzheng's final ascension to the throne was inseparable from the great assistance of his uncle Long Keduo, the commander of the Nine Gates at that time. Do you think, the commander of the capital garrison has supported you, are those political enemies of yours still running?

Putting aside the palace coup more than 100 years ago, let's just say that the Xinyou coup d'état six years ago, Gu Ming's eight ministers were taken down, and the bloody wind and rain in it are also a thick book.

The chaos in the Forbidden City now is exactly the same as in history, Cixi has a descendant Ci'an is not given for nothing, and Ci'an is still a proper empress dowager of the East Palace, and her reputation is already higher than Cixi.

If it weren't for Xianfeng's secret intent being exposed prematurely, if it weren't for the foggy ghost fanning the flames behind her back, Cixi really wouldn't dare to compete with this sister.

But now it is different, with Xiao Letian's stirring stick, the gap between the various factions in Manchuria has become even greater, not to mention anything else, the old school and the reformist faction in the Manchu Qing Dynasty have now become incompatible.

Cixi is too good at taking advantage of chaos, and seeing that Ci'an is a bit tolerant of reformers, then Cixi naturally wants to throw an olive branch to the powerful conservative faction, and the power of a generation of demon queens has secretly expanded since then, and the speed is far faster than the real history.

Gongwei Jingshi's Shenji Camp was originally a newly established organization during the Xianfeng period, and Cixi already had a small part of the rights at that time, so she naturally would not let go of the opportunity to mix sand, so this palace transformation Shenji Camp was Cixi's biggest reliance.

And the director of the Internal Affairs Office is a wall-header, and when he saw that the momentum was not good, he went home and pretended to be sick, and the deputy director also became Cixi's descendant. As a result, half of the people in the Forbidden City had already declared their allegiance to Cixi.

And Ci'an's subordinates also have loyal ministers and righteous soldiers, the pro-military camp is the head of the camp set up when the Qing Dynasty opened the country, their allegiance to the tradition is reliable, at the most critical moment the pro-military camp will naturally stand on Ci'an's side, and the ancestor is also a conservative person, he understands the truth that the East Palace is greater than the West Palace, so the Forbidden City's secret eagle claw grandchildren naturally have to follow in the footsteps of the ancestors.

Now this melee has reached a stalemate, Cixi is better than the number of people, and Ci'an is better than the soldiers, and an old ancestor can drag down a group of rebels who are black. And the guards with knives in the pro-military camp don't care whether their martial arts are strong or not, but their high status is terrifying, and they are all from the Eight Banners nobles.

This group of battles is a bit post-modern in the end, the enemy and I actually know each other, and know each other well, and we are familiar with the family background, and we make teahouses and visit kilns together on weekdays, and they are all good players who play together.

"Scar Three, you dare to touch me to try...... This knife was rewarded by the ancestor, and what I cultivated was the thirteen swords of the Ghost Gate......"

**Liu ...... Do you dare to look at me? You can try to look at me again...... The immoral thing that the prostitute doesn't give money..."

"Look at you, what's wrong...... You have a flyover handle, you move me to try it......"

"Try it, try it, look at the knife, you ......"

There was a big chaos in the Zhongcui Palace, this palace change that went down in history, generally speaking, adhered to the principle of not doing anything if you could make more noise, and the principle of brushing more flowers and seeing less blood was completely deadlocked.

Maybe some people in later generations will question, this is a palace change, a power struggle at the core of an empire, how did it become a farce?

This question really knocked down a large number of scholars and experts, and in the end the correct answer was an old Eight Banners gentleman, a Hutong stringer since childhood.

"This is the survival philosophy of the bannermen of Sijiu City, the bannermen have lived for hundreds of years, what do they rely on? It's not that they are skilled in arches and horses, nor are they hardcore crops, they rely on a pair of snowy tricks......

"Phew, who is really going to do it, who should be the first bird? The rafters at the beginning are rotten first, and the flag men pay attention to beating the water dogs, only one side is really going to be defeated, they are really going to kill the killers, of course they have to see more blood...... As for the strategic stalemate, it is better to talk more and do less.

The melee in the Zhongcui Palace fell into a stalemate, and the other stalemate in the Yangxin Palace was also shocking, Cixi was standing in front of the little emperor of Tongzhi, and was opening the bow left and right to fan her son's mouth.

"Rebel, you're a rebel... Who asked you to give an order to the recruit camp? Are you in charge of the government, what right do you have to make an order? Don't you know that Zhou Daoying is a person of Ci'an?"

Cixi slapped her son, and a string of tears fell from her eyes, she was so sad that she didn't expect that in the end, even her son would not have the same heart as herself.

"Who is it for? Isn't it for you? You don't even appreciate this qiē for your mother? You rebel ......"

Otherwise, the royal family has been precocious since ancient times, the little emperor of Tongzhi is only ten years old this year, and he has already entered the rebellious period in advance, he does not love his own mother, he is in this rebellious period, he just feels that his mother is too strict, and he is not free at all to stay with her.

Hey, this unlucky child has no father to cheat, so he has to cheat his mother.

"The queen mother did not do it right, the child is not wrong, the Qing Dynasty is now surging up with internal and external troubles, where can I stand up to the internal friction?

With a snap, Cixi trembled and said, "You, you, you...... What nonsense are you talking about?"

Tongzhi's eyes widened, and he was not afraid of his own mother at all, and said with a stalk around his neck: "Do you still need others to tell me? Don't look at the imperial court's pacification of the long-haired and twisted army, it seems that Zhongxing is hopeful, but it is not calmed down by the ability of the Han people?

"Look at the northwest again, there is chaos in Ningxia, the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang are already on fire everywhere, and the Agu Bodu supported by the Rakshasa Kingdom is about to be founded, and Eniang is still dreaming of it?"

"Look at Xiyi again, it is developing ahead of time and thousands of miles in a day, but we don't even have a ...... railway in the Qing Dynasty."

"Shut up......" Cixi's face was already distorted, but this time he didn't slap his son, but instead shouted to all the henchmen in the Heart Cultivation Palace, "Get out, don't come in without my order......"

Cixi had no strength to fight, she was wrapped in an inexplicable sense of fear, and trembling all over: "Son... Is it this Xiao Lotian again? Son, how did you let this evil obstacle brainwash like this?"

"Woooooooooo......oo My son, I almost didn't die when I was pregnant with you in October, why didn't you get close to me? Why do you listen to the nonsense of those irrelevant outsiders...... You've broken your mother's heart......"

After all, Emperor Tongzhi is a child, and a moment of rebellion does not mean that he does not love his own mother, and Cixi is completely hairy when he cries like this.

"E-niang... I...... I'm not angry with you...... I just think that we can't help but innovate, and if we go on with the old way, won't we die sooner or later?"

"I don't care... I don't care if the Qing Dynasty dies or not, the Eight Banners will not disperse, I just want our mother and mother to be rich, as long as we live and enjoy the wealth and glory of the world, who cares about what happens after death... I don't care..."

"Silly boy, is there an immortal kingdom in the world? don't look at the emperors of Europa, they will end up ......like us sooner or later."

"Hehehehe......" There was a night owl-like laughter in the Heart Cultivation Palace, and Emperor Tongzhi looked frightened in the laughter, as if it was the first time he had seen Eniang have such a hideous face.

Just in the midst of the wild laughter, suddenly a little eunuch rushed in from outside, and puffed on his knees and gasped for breath...... Dowager...... Ci'an, under the protection of the pro-military camp and the ancestors, has broken through to the north, and the guards of the Shenwu Gate dare not stop it, and now Ci'an and they go straight to Jingshan......"

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