He wanted to go and say hello to Li Hongzhang first, and if there was anything unlucky, he must not say anything, even if he waited until the Wanshou Festival to say everything. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Wait!" Empress Dowager Cixi said that she had some suspicions in the past few days that Li Lianying was hiding something from her on the issue of the Sino-Japanese war, but this time she saw that Li Lianying was anxious to see Li Hongzhang, and she was even more convinced.

However, she can also understand Li Lianying's painstaking efforts to let her have a happy Hallomy, so she has no intention of blaming Li Lianying.

She said to the little eunuch who was waiting by the side: "Let Li Zhongtang come to see the mourning family." ”

Soon after the little eunuch left, he heard Li Hongzhang's footsteps gradually moving from far to near.

Li Hongzhang saw the Empress Dowager Cixi, and bowed his head and said: "Weichen Li Hongzhang asks Lafayette to say goodbye." Lafayette is not a big deal-" Li Hongzhang said this, and suddenly saw Li Lianying anxiously squeezing his eyebrows and making eyes to give him a look, so he suddenly stopped and didn't dare to stop talking.

The Empress Dowager Cixi listened expressionlessly, and when she heard Li Hongzhang pause, she looked at Li Hongzhang, and saw that Li Hongzhang's eyes were looking at Li Lianying, and knew that Li Lianying was making some small moves underneath.

He quietly turned his head to look at Li Lianying, Li Lianying was taken aback, and quickly pretended to look away as if nothing happened, but his eyebrows and eyebrows had been seen by the Empress Dowager Cixi.

"Li Lianying!" Empress Dowager Cixi shouted.

"The minions are here." Li Lianying hurriedly stepped forward and said.

"What are you doing?"

"The minions didn't do anything."

"You stand there and be honest." The Empress Dowager Cixi then said, "Li Hongzhang, why didn't you say anything?" ”

"Old ...... Buddha, Weichen-" A layer of fine cold sweat broke out on Li Hongzhang's head, and he didn't know what to do.

"Say!" The Empress Dowager Cixi urged again.

"Yes!"

Under the repeated urging of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Li Hongzhang told the Empress Dowager Cixi what he wanted to report.

Sure enough, it was the news of China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese War. After China and Japan declared war at the same time, compromise and retreat did not stop the Japanese aggressors' attack.

After attacking the Qing army in Asan, the Japanese army attacked the Qing army in Pyongyang in September with more than 7,800 troops, while the Qing army defending Pyongyang had only 2,900 men in total. Seeing that the enemy was at present and the situation was critical, the general soldier Zuo Guigui personally ascended to the Xuanwu Gate to command the battle.

In the fierce battle, Zuo Guigui was shot twice, but still commanded at the battery. Suddenly, a shell exploded in front of Zuo Gui, and a fragment of a shell shot into Zuo Guigui's chest, killing Zuo Gui in battle.

After Zuo's precious sacrifice, Emperor Guangxu once personally wrote the "Imperial Sacrifice Text": "Fang Dang turned to the battle, and the army gathered; What does it mean that the general is not successful, and the admiral sinks? The vigor of the roar did not disappear, and the male body died suddenly. "I am deeply saddened.

After Zuo's sacrifice, Ye Zhichao, the commander of the Qing army, was greedy for life and feared death, and actually made the decision to retreat to Pyongyang, but was ambushed by the Japanese army on the way to retreat, and more than 2,000 Qing troops were killed, wounded and captured.

After the Battle of Pyongyang, the Japanese fleet and the Beiyang Fleet fought a naval battle in the Yellow Sea, and the Beiyang Fleet lost four ships, Chaoyong, Yangwei, Zhiyuan, and Jingyuan, and suffered heavy losses.

In the fierce battle of the Yellow Sea, Deng Shichang, the pipe belt of the Zhiyuan ship, performed the most heroically.

After the flagship Dingyuan was injured, Deng Shichang resolutely commanded the Zhiyuan ship to rush up to chase and attack the Japanese ship in order to protect the flagship.

At this time, the Japanese ship Yoshino was in front of Zhiyuan, and Deng Shichang saw that Yoshino was rampant, and he was already full of righteous indignation, so he ordered the Zhiyuan ship to hit Yoshino at full speed, hoping to break the enemy's ship.

The fearless heroic act of the officers and men of the Zhiyuan ship frightened Yoshino into panic, and the crew jumped into the water to escape. But just when he was about to catch up, he was attacked by enemy torpedoes, and Deng Shichang and all the officers and men of the ship sank with the ship.

After Deng Shichang fell into the sea, his dog came to his side and held his arm to prevent him from sinking, Deng Shichang drank it away, but the dog grabbed his hair again.

Deng Shichang vowed to live and die with the Zhiyuan ship, resolutely pressed the dog into the water, and he also disappeared into the waves, composing a heroic hymn for the Chinese nation!

After the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Japan attacked the northeast of the Qing Dynasty's hometown. Dandong was lost, Dalian was occupied, and now Lushunkou is about to fall again.

After the Empress Dowager Cixi listened to Li Hongzhang's account, she was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat.

I don't have the heart to appreciate those arrangements anymore. She sighed and said, "Alas!

The life of the mourning family is really bitter, sixty years of life is not as good as fifty years of life, and now that the hometown is about to be occupied, it is really getting worse! ”

In the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, the news of China's successive defeats soon spread throughout the country like a cold wind.

The people of the whole country are full of blood and indignation, how can they have the heart to celebrate this longevity ceremony. The Empress Dowager Cixi could only lament this bad fate, and under the anger of the masses, she was forced to issue an edict that "all longevity celebrations should be moved to the palace to be held." ”

The altars, dragon sheds, stage, archway, and lantern grilles built along the way from Xihua Gate to the Summer Palace were immediately demolished. Li Lianying painstakingly arranged these things with people's fat and people's ointment, but they ended hastily before they could be played.

Emperor Guangxu was always a little upset during this period of time, and every time he walked around the house after the dispersal, sometimes mixed with a few helpless sighs.

It happened that the old eunuch Kou Liancai came to the room of Emperor Guangxu, he was originally here to wait for the emperor, and when he saw the worry on the emperor's already very pale face, he couldn't help but feel a little sentimental, and remembered what the emperor had suffered in the palace for many years, and two tears couldn't help but fall.

The emperor entered the palace since he was a child, left his biological mother, but he could not get the favor and love of the Empress Dowager Cixi in the palace.

Since the death of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, the emperor's food and clothing, hunger, cold and warmth, the Empress Dowager Cixi has never asked, so the emperor's body has been very weak since childhood.

Kou Liancai remembered the scene when he was reprimanded for being considerate of the emperor when the queen mother was happy:

"The Empress Dowager, the slave Kou Liancai has something to say back to the Empress Dowager."

"Say it!" The Empress Dowager Cixi said to Kou Liancai with an unhappy face, as if Kou Liancai's words had swept her interest at this time.

Although Kou Liancai sensed the Queen Mother's displeasure from the Queen Mother's words, as soon as he thought that the emperor was suffering from cold and starvation, and had no food and clothing, he plucked up his courage again, so he said to the Queen Mother:

"Yes, Empress Dowager Qi, the servants think that the emperor is too young and not sensible, so don't let the emperor be the master alone.

And the people around the emperor often bully the emperor when he is young and does not know rewards and punishments, and he does not do his best to take care of the emperor, all year round, day to night, and there is no rule in doing things. No one washes the emperor's clothes when they are dirty, no one combs his hair when it is messy, and the rotten and expired things are still eaten by the emperor.

The slave thought that this would hurt the Qing Dynasty and was not good for the emperor's health, and the slave hoped that the queen mother would investigate the matter in detail in the mother-son relationship, and investigate and punish those who did not serve well, so as to protect the emperor's health. (To be continued.) )