The first requirement of the foreigners to negotiate peace was for the Qing government to deal with Zai Yi, Zhao Shuqiao and others of the main battle faction. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIf we do not agree to this article, it will be impossible to negotiate peace.

However, the main peace faction was killed by Cixi, and the declaration of war on the Eight-Nation Alliance was also the war declared by the Empress Dowager Cixi. It's really embarrassing!

When she was in a dilemma, the Empress Dowager Cixi was silent, this terrible silence! If you don't explode in silence, you perish in silence. Will the Empress Dowager Cixi "break out" or "perish"?

The foreigners forced the Empress Dowager Cixi into a dead end, and if you want to get out of the dead end, you have to agree to their conditions.

On December 26, the 26th year of Guangxu, Lafayette, in the name of Emperor Guangxu, lowered the "edict of self-blame", saying that "there is an opportunity to repent of the disaster, and it is appropriate to receive the edict of self-blame".

The sentences in it are all ruthless and sincere, open and honest, and the dignified queen of the Qing Dynasty is so gentle in front of foreigners.

In this edict, at the same time, Yixuan and Li Hongzhang should strive to reach a peace agreement at an early date at all costs, and reaffirmed Lafayette's idea of "measuring China's material resources and forming a friendship with the country".

As early as the beginning of November of the 26th year of Guangxu, the envoys of Russia, the United States, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands put forward the "Outline of the Peace Conference" to ****** Yixuan and Li Hongzhang, who was directly under the government:

He demanded that the Chinese government build a monument to the German envoy Klinder and the secretary of the Japanese embassy, Sugiyama Bin, who were killed in China, and that the Chinese government send people to Germany and Japan to apologize;

demanded that China deal with them harshly according to the list of Boxer leaders they had drawn up; China is required to repair the tombs of foreigners destroyed in the war; prohibiting China from purchasing weapons and ammunition, demanding the dismantling of the Dagukou Fort;

Request for garrisoning of the embassy...... The conditions are unprecedentedly harsh. As a result, Li Hongzhang and Li Zhongtang, who were very generous at the negotiation table in the past, were silent and hesitant, so they had to use these conditions to discuss with Lafayette.

Galeries Lafayette was so eager for "peace". She wants to get what she wants, no matter how difficult it is or how much it costs her.

As a result, on 26 November, she sent a reply to the envoys of the 11 countries and fully accepted the "Outline of the Peace Conference." Then, on December 26, the edict of self-sin was promulgated, and preparations were made for her murderous spree.

"Galeries Lafayette. It's almost the New Year, you old people should be happy, so that everyone can have a good New Year! Li Lianying persuaded.

"Even if you don't have a home, what year will it be?" The Empress Dowager Cixi was a little miserable.

"Lafayette don't be angry, your old man is the mother of a country, where is this not your home? Do you want to be a teacher? Jingshi has ruined the foreigners, but it's better to be here now! What is your hometown thinking about peace again? Isn't that already done?

Lafayette has already issued an edict, haven't ****** and Lord Li Zhongtang already accepted their conditions? ”

"But the leader of the boxing party has not dealt with it, and the foreigners will not agree to sign the contract!"

"When he was in Taiyuan, didn't Lafayette have already dismissed the Duanjun King, Lan Gong and Shanxi Governor Yuxian?" Li Lianying asked without confusion.

"Duanwang and Zailan, the mourning family really doesn't want to deal with them. However, the foreigners pressed forward step by step, thinking that the treatment of the two of them was too light, and asked for more serious treatment. In addition, for other fist heads, foreigners have been listed and asked to be beheaded! ”

"Then we can punish him more ——,, but we don't have to kill them."

The Empress Dowager Cixi walked back, thinking at the same time, but the people to be dealt with now are all senior officials of the DPRK or feudal officials, and the matter is very important, so you have to find a minister to discuss. Who to look for, the first thing she thought of was Rong Lu, because Rong Lu's biggest characteristic is decisiveness.

Rong Lu has always been used by Cixi in the court, and this time he came in a hurry, and he is also a lot older, and he looks much older.

After arriving in Xi'an, although the living conditions are much better, after all, the age is not forgiving and the spirit is not very good. After arriving in Xi'an, he and his family were arranged in a courtyard in the governor's yamen, becoming a family and not communicating with other families.

Although officials visited from time to time, Rong Lu lived in a simple place. In the tenth winter of the lunar month, he sat at home to roast the fire and drink tea, but every morning he had to go to the palace to meet the queen mother and the emperor. On this day, he was sitting in the room, and suddenly reported that Li Lianying asked to see him, so he came out. Li Lianying had already arrived at the door of the room.

"Rongzhongtang is so Yaxing!" When they met, Li Lianying hugged his fists at him and said with a smile.

The manager smiled...... Come, come, sit inside,......" Rong Lu said and beckoned Li Lianying to the house.

"Nakado-sama, no need! Hurry up and pick up the palace, Lafayette is invited! ”

"What's the matter?" Rong Lu felt that the atmosphere was wrong.

"Big deal!" Rong Lu put on the dress, put on the top wear, and went out to get into the sedan chair that Li Lianying took when she came.

"Rong Zhongtang has arrived!" When she got to the room, Li Lianying habitually shouted, and then habitually lifted the curtain and waved her hand, letting Rong Lu walk in, and then followed in.

Rong Lu knelt down. "Get up! Lianying, sit down! "Before he knelt down, the Empress Dowager Cixi let him get up, which is really different from the past! Rong Lu always muttered in his heart.

The Empress Dowager Cixi didn't say anything, but handed over a slip of paper. Rong Lu looked at it and understood, it turned out that he came to discuss this matter.

That's a big deal, and it's related to the lives of so many ministers in the DPRK and China, can it not be a big deal? Rong Lu looked through the list, looked up at the Queen Mother, and asked, "......What does Lafayette mean?"

"I came to you today to let you have an idea." Cixi said, looking at the floor.

"This ......" Rong Lu was silent.

"Don't you agree to this condition for foreigners, will it be done?"

Rong Lu didn't squeak, he thought, when this Yihe Fist was prosperous, activities were rampant in the Beijing and Tianjin areas, and it was particularly cruel to foreigners. It certainly didn't work, but he didn't say it.

"Why don't you speak?" Cixi asked.

"According to the opinion of Wei Chen, if one or two fists are not punished, the foreigners will never give up, but these ministers are all senior members of the DPRK and the central government, and the ministers of the feudal territory......"

"Yes, they are all important ministers of the court, but if they don't do what the foreigners want, and the foreigners tour the west again, what can they do?"

"Then Lafayette means to kill them all?"

"That's not it, King Ruijun, Zai Lan and Zhao Junji, if you can stay, try your best to stay!" Cixi took a breath, and then said: "You go back and think about this matter, as soon as the cursive script is issued, Ming'er will bring it to see." Go ahead! ”

Rong Lu barely slept all night, he was busy drafting the edict, in fact, he couldn't sleep either. The next day, Rong Lu presented the draft of the edict to Lafayette, and she was very satisfied, so she sent it accordingly. (To be continued.) )