40 Separation of powers

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Xianfeng lay down for two days before he had some complexion, and saw that a lot of folds had accumulated on the desk. However, he is really powerless now, and in the end he can only pass the decree, Xuanyi Guifei will read it, and he will give an edict on the side.

Concubine Yi was extremely happy when she heard the emperor announce her. But after I came, I knew that I was just asking her to help with the excerpts, and I was inevitably a little disappointed, but no matter what, I was able to see the emperor.

Xianfeng asked someone to set up a small desk for her. From the imperial book case, the emperor has moved all the twists and turns he has seen, and he will sort them out first. Pick out those yellow folds of "Please Saint Ann" and put them aside, and count the white folds of the performance, a total of about 30 pieces.

Then I cleaned it up again, and picked out the ones that had not been marked and had to be sent to the Minister of War and Aircraft, and then there were only seventeen left. Batch of seventeen folds, in Yi Guifei will not take half an hour, because that is really not a thing!

As a result of the experience accumulated over many years, the emperor usually only chooses one sentence from a few idiomatic expressions, such as "read", "knows", "the ministry knows", "the ministry discusses", "according to the proposal", and so on.

And with these few simple sentences, Xianfeng doesn't have the heart to write it himself, just make a mark on the fold.

Concubine Yi, who likes to seize power, is able to get this confidential job in her hands because she often waits for the emperor to deal with government affairs. Therefore, she replied on her behalf, and what she paid more attention to was that the emperor had read it and did not express it, but had to hand it over to the Minister of Military Aircraft for handling first.

She wants to understand the internal and external situation, be familiar with the system of court rules, tacitly understand the words and deeds of ministers, study the way to control the subordinates, and know the style of admonitions.

The emperor's close confidants, co-organizers, ministers of the interior, and ministers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Su Shun, repeatedly made secret statements, saying that Concubine Yi seized power and liked to interfere in political affairs.

In fact, she was taking the opportunity to study government affairs. For the throne of the Qing Dynasty, no one can see it more clearly than she now, maybe a year and a half, at most two years, her five-year-old son - the emperor's eldest son, that is, the only son in front of the emperor Zaichun, will inherit the unification.

She must think about how to help her son govern the world well, and she must not give up power to Su Shun them, never!

At this time, he saw an excerpt from Prince Gong, which was about the affairs of the Yi people:

Before the Opium War, China had long practiced a policy of seclusion and closed off from the rest of the country, and there was no regular diplomatic exchange with foreign countries, so there was no special diplomatic agency in the central government system of the Qing Dynasty. Only the Ministry of Rites, the Imperial Palace, and the Honglu Temple are in charge of the so-called "tributary" affairs.

After the Opium War, the country was opened, and the Qing government set up five ministers of trade. This was a part-time officer who was nominally responsible for trade affairs, but in fact undertook the important task of handling diplomatic relations after the war.

However, after the Second Opium War, China's foreign affairs were involved in the political, economic, military, and cultural fields, and the practice of handling foreign affairs that was summarized in the Military Aircraft Department was obviously out of date.

Therefore, Yi Xun pointed out in the recital: "Recently, various military newspapers have been in contact, and there are many things to do about foreign affairs, and after being stationed in Beijing, if you do not manage carefully and concentrate on your work, you will inevitably be slow to handle the matter and fail to handle it with assistance." ”

The Western powers, in order to protect their vested interests and seek future expansion, were also very dissatisfied with the diplomatic handling of the Qing Dynasty.

Looking at the overall situation, they first reviewed the process of the Qing Dynasty's razing disaster, and then they believed that the Yiren were not aiming to attack cities and plunder land, which was not the same as the wars of the previous generation, and could be tamed if they were enveloped by faith.

Furthermore, after analyzing the relationship between the peasant revolution, the Western powers, and the Qing government, Yixun and others put forward the overall situation of the world, which is the strategic idea of today's imperial humiliation, such as Shu's treatment of Wu.

He compares the peasant revolution of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with the danger caused to the Qing government by the invaders of the Western powers: "The twist and turn, the trouble of the heart; Russia is bordered by soil, and has the ambition to encroach on the country, and the worry of elbows and armpits; Britain is committed to trade, tyrannical and uncared, and if it is not restricted, it will not be able to stand on its own feet, and it will also be troubled by the limbs. ”

As a result, the strategic goal of "extinguishing hair and twisting is the first, governing Russia is secondary, and governing Britain is secondary."

Finally, Yixun and others put forward six regulations for implementing their foreign policy, proposing to set up a national affairs yamen of the prime minister in Beijing to handle foreign affairs; Ministers of the South and North Treaty Ports; The provinces handle diplomatic matters and take care of each other.

so as not to be misguided; In addition, Guangdong and Shanghai were ordered to send four people who understand foreign languages and Chinese to the Beijing Commission, and to consult the prime minister's national affairs and government affairs on a monthly basis in various treaty ports, as well as various national newspapers, so as to understand the situation in Beijing.

When Concubine Yi saw this, she thought to herself: Prince Gong is so bold, isn't this clearly trying to seize the power of the Military Aircraft Department? Thinking of this, she immediately knew the result of this twist and turn in the hands of Su Shun of the Military Aircraft Department.

Although Su Shun is not the Minister of Military Aircraft, among the Minister of Military Aircraft in Rehe, Prince Yi Zaiyuan, and Su Shun's brother Prince Zheng Duanhua, rely on Su Shun as the soul. Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, and Du Han all looked up to his snort.

Jiao Youying, the "curtain military aircraft" with the most shallow qualifications, was appointed by Zhang Jing of the military aircraft as the minister of military aircraft, and he was promoted by Su Shun, so that they did not all follow Su Shun's meaning, and they would definitely refute Prince Gong's excerpt.