Going back empty-handed will damage the prestige of the Boxers! Just when he was struggling with time, he saw a "Lao De Ji" pharmacy, he guessed that it might be a foreigner's pharmacy, so he led people over. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This pharmacy was indeed opened by foreigners, but its owner had already fled to the embassy district, leaving some men to run it. When they saw the Boxers coming, they trembled, and they began to regret that they should not have been greedy for this little profit.

"We are the Boxers who 'helped Qing and destroy foreigners', this is a foreigner's pharmacy, and we are going to destroy it."

"You Ermaozi, Chinese medicine is good, why do you have to sell medicine for foreigners, is it because Chinese medicine is not good? I see that you are sincerely working for foreigners, and you are harming the Chinese with medicine for foreigners. "Senior brother has a lot of words, and everything is the way.

"Kill them and burn down the pharmacy." Immediately, several Boxers rushed up, searched all the silver tickets on the men's bodies, and pulled them to the back room, and after asking them to find the silver tickets, they killed the men in the back room.

After killing the guys, another Boxer came up and sprinkled kerosene on the ground, and everything was done, and the Boxers withdrew from the "Lao De Shuo" pharmacy.

The fire grew bigger and bigger, spreading throughout Qianmen Street. The Empress Dowager Cixi could see the fire in Xiyuan, and now she was so upset, this Boxer Rebellion was too disagreeable, she actually wanted to burn whatever she wanted, and if it went on like this, I was afraid that even the palace would dare to burn it.

The Empress Dowager Cixi was angry and her liver was very hot, Li Lianying took the opportunity to persuade her to "listen to the big rise" and listen to the opinions of the ministers, and the Empress Dowager Cixi nodded annoyedly. So Li Lianying sent the little eunuch to pass on Lafayette's decree.

Soon, officials from the DPRK and China came to Xiyuan one after another. Listening to the big rise, also known as "court discussion", is to summon the ministers to express their opinions when encountering major events. Often at this time, important ministers speak more cautiously, while ordinary officials tend to speak freely.

For such a meeting, the emperor is indispensable, so Li Lianying sent someone to take the emperor over.

Since the failure of Emperor Guangxu's reform, he has been concentrating on ideology and politics. However, the Boxers were in trouble in Beijing, which also caused him a lot of dissatisfaction, and although he could not personally exterminate the Boxers, this dissatisfaction haunted his heart.

When he came to Xiyuan with the eunuchs, before the ministers arrived, he also saw the light of the fire outside the front door, and he also saw the Empress Dowager Cixi sitting there with a pale face and a word.

"Emperor, it's time for you to speak today, this Boxer Rebellion is also a little too crazy." The Empress Dowager Cixi said with some weakness.

Emperor Guangxu figured out the meaning of the Empress Dowager Cixi, at this time the group of officials and ministers had arrived, because there were many people in the house, the later ones could only kneel outside the door. Look at everyone has arrived, and Emperor Guangxu has also figured out what to say.

"The fire outside the front door is magnified, you all have seen it," Emperor Guangxu said, his face sank,

"The imperial court has repeatedly asked to take good care of the Boxers, but the more troublesome it is, the more it becomes speechless, you say that you, as important ministers of the imperial court, connived at the Boxers' misdeeds, are you worthy of the court and Lafayette?"

The room was quiet, and none of the ministers kneeling on the ground said a word. After a while, I heard a thick Shaanxi and Gansu accent coming from behind, breaking the silence.

"The minister came from Dong Fuxiang just now, and he said that he wanted to ask for an order to expel the rebellious people."

As soon as Duan Wang heard this, he was angry, how could Dong Fuxiang do this, it must be Liu Yongxiang lying. The person who spoke just now was Liu Yongxiang, a native of Qinzhou, Gansu, and a fellow villager with Dong Fuxiang.

When he said this at this time, it sounded like a slap in the face to King Duan, so he turned around and pointed in the direction of Liu Yongxiang and said, "Okay! This is definitely unpopular. ”

This is a taboo, but the Empress Dowager Cixi has no heart to accuse King Duan at this time, the Empress Dowager does not speak, and no one can do anything about King Duan's behavior. At this time, another voice came from outside the house:

"Minister Yuan Chang has something to say."

"Come in and talk about it!" The Emperor said to the door.

Yuan Chang walked into the hall, found a gap in front of the imperial case, knelt down, kowtowed, and then said loudly: "Your Majesty, Queen Mother, today's affairs are very critical, if we don't control the chaos ourselves, I'm afraid that foreigners will enter Beijing." The only way to deal with the chaos is to convince the foreigners first, and then negotiate with the foreigners. ”

"Now that the people's hearts have risen, the Boxers are afraid that they will lose the hearts of the people." The Empress Dowager Cixi spoke.

"Empress Dowager Qi, the minister thinks that the Boxers are just a thing to bluff people, and they must not be compromised, and if they have crooked tricks, they cannot be used. Investigating the history of ancient and modern times, there is no one who can achieve great things by relying on evil magic. ”

"If you don't fight evil arts, can't you use the people's will? If the people's hearts can't be fought, what else can they rely on? The establishment of a country in ancient and modern times is based on the hearts of the people. Now that the Boxers have organized the hearts of the people, if we don't use it to achieve our cause and resist the internal invasion of foreign soldiers, what are we waiting for? ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi retorted, "Now that foreign soldiers are constantly coming to the capital, I will summon everyone today to see what opinions you have." What do you have to say, just say. ”

So the courtiers started a heated argument in the Jinluan Palace.

The main war faction Lizhang should declare war with the foreigners, and the main peace faction believed that the Boxers should be suppressed, and then they should negotiate, and the middle idea should first negotiate with the foreigners, and then send troops to resist.

For a while, the palace was full of voices, and finally reached an agreement: salute first and then soldiers, first send people to negotiate with the foreigners, and then let Nie Shicheng resist if it doesn't work, and finally selected Xu Jingcheng and the new prime minister Na Tong to go to Tianjin to negotiate with the foreigners.

The Empress Dowager Cixi did not come up with anything in the first "court discussion", and after everyone left, she summoned King Duan alone and asked him to appease the Boxers first so that they could be of great use.

At this time, Rong Lu received a telegram. When Rong Lu saw it, he couldn't help but be surprised, so he hurriedly convened his staff to discuss, but after looking for a long time, he only found three shoguns.

Due to the chaotic situation in the capital during this period of time, a large number of people have fled from the capital, and a large number of Rong Lu's staff have fled.

Rong Lu showed the telegram to one of his aides, only to see that the telegram roughly read: All countries have made a joint effort to seek China, and they have decided to put forward four conditions to the Chinese Government:

First, the power was returned to the emperor, and the Empress Dowager's training ended immediately;

Second, second, issue an edict to suppress boxing bandits, and all countries are willing to send troops to help;

Third, the Chinese government must obtain the consent of all countries to train troops, and hire foreigners as instructors.

Fourth, fourth, all tax revenues of the Chinese government must be supervised by foreigners and their use must be controlled.

"It's harsh."

"Yes! This is what I fear, and we must now eliminate the hidden danger and plug all the excuses that the foreigners may find before they can raise it. (To be continued.) )