On July 25, ****** and Lao Zhongtang finally signed the "Xinchou Treaty" with the foreign devils, which humiliated the country. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAfter the Empress Dowager Cixi got the news, she got the news that the Eight-Nation Alliance had withdrawn from Beijing, and she suddenly felt a lot more relieved.

On the one hand, Li Lianying ordered the ministers in Shaanxi to prepare a guard of honor and prepare for Qiluan, and on the other hand, he sent the second chief Cui Yugui to go back to Beijing to have a look, and if the situation in Beijing was good, he would return immediately, and then drive back to Beijing.

Cui Yugui led a few eunuchs, hurried back to Beijing. When I arrived in Beijing, I saw the ruins and broken walls everywhere, and there were bullet marks everywhere, and I didn't feel palpitations in my heart, but I always made up my mind that foreign soldiers, foreign guns, and foreign artillery had withdrawn from the Beijing Division, which was absolutely true.

Therefore, he took the eunuchs to fight like a horse on the empty streets of Beijing. After entering the front gate, passing Tiananmen Square, he saw the palace he was familiar with. The scenery of the palace is basically the same, the crimson palace wall is still crimson, and every grass and tree in the palace is still there.

It's just that there is no one to live in, and with the looting of foreign soldiers, the palace is empty and a little desolate.

Cui Yugui and the others walked further inside, and saw the three halls of Taihe, Zhonghe, and Baohe, which were still majestic, and they felt that they had returned to the palace and returned to the place they longed for day and night.

The eunuchs who were guarding the palace had already come out, and when the old people saw each other, the yin and yang shouts, cries, and laughter were loud.

"Fuck, don't shout!" Cui Yugui was anxious. The crowd was a little quieter, and Cui Yugui called the leader of the eunuchs who stayed in the palace over and asked, "Are all the foreign devil soldiers in the city gone?" ”

"Back to the second manager, it's almost gone!"

"Galeries Lafayette and Banzai are coming back soon, do you all know that?"

"I know, Li Zhongtang has already arranged for us to clean up."

Cui Yugui didn't ask anything else, brought two cronies, and went straight to Li Hongzhang and Qingwang Yixuan, and learned about the specific situation of Jingshi from the two of them. Li Hongzhang became ill due to hard work due to hard negotiations. Cui Yugui advised him to rest more.

After visiting Li Hongzhang and Yixuan, Cui Yugui went to the streets of Jingshi to squat, and saw that the market was in order, and there were not many foreigners, except for a few broken houses everywhere, the others felt similar to before, so he decided to return to Xi'an quickly.

Two days later, Cui Yugui and his two cronies embarked on their way home. When he returned to Xi'an, he told Lafayette in detail about the situation in Beijing.

Cixi listened attentively and couldn't stop talking. So, on August 24, he set off to return to Beijing, and this was decided.

However, the queen mother and the emperor want to drive, unlike ordinary people who go to the door and leave, so they have to prepare all kinds of items, escort the army, and so on. Therefore, this time the date of Luan must be fixed, and the entire city of Xi'an, and even the whole country, have moved.

On August 24, the 27th year of Guangxu, in the early morning, the sky was still very dark, and the autumn wind brought a bit of coolness to people, and people who were busy in the morning couldn't help but shrink their necks.

In the palace of the Empress Dowager Cixi in Xi'an, Shaanxi, Li Lianying waited for Cixi to get up early, finished washing, and was busy combing her old man's hair.

Today's hair must be combed, for today is the day of the return journey, and Lafayette feels that she should appear to her subjects in a new guise.

"Little Lizi, have you packed up your things?"

"Galeries Lafayette, rest assured, everything is ready! Just wait for the order to start! ”

Unconsciously, the sky was already bright, and Emperor Guangxu had almost cleaned up and came to Cixi's room to say goodbye. "Hello Daddy, please!"

"Good, good! Emperor, are you all packed? Empress Dowager Cixi asked.

"Ready to stop."

"Pass the meal!" The Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to eat, so she had to get off.

"Yes."

It didn't take much effort, but the imperial meal came up. This was the last meal of the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu in Xi'an.

The Empress Dowager Cixi looked at this table full of dishes, and her heart was happy. He chose a few of them and gave them to Queen Yulong and Concubine Jin, and gave others to his slave Li Lianying.

Emperor Guangxu is still like in the past, no one cares, and he looks for delicious food to eat.

Outside, "Lord Rongzhongtang has arrived!" Rong Lu entered the house, knelt on the ground, and said, "Say hello to Lafayette!" ”

"Well, how's the preparation?"

"Everything is all right, just waiting for Lafayette to give a decree."

"Good!" She turned her head to Guangxu, "Emperor, let's drive!" ”

"Dear Dad, let's go? Okay, let's go. With that, Emperor Guangxu stood up from his chair.

It's time to go. At the front are guards and honor guards, all riding tall horses, neatly dressed, and there are twenty-four yellow dragon flags to open the way, extremely grandiose and solemn.

The Empress Dowager Xi took a golden sedan chair ordered by Li Lianying the day before yesterday, carried by sixteen people. The sedan chair is all golden from the top to the end, embroidered with various auspicious patterns on both sides, and the richly dressed Cixi sits in it, looking pleasant.

Immediately behind is the palanquin of Emperor Guangxu, the palanquin of Empress Longyu and the palanquin of Concubine Jin and others, all of which are yellow eight-lift sedan chairs. All the palanquin bearers wear red silk clothes, black hats, and black and white-soled soft boots, all according to the standards of Luanyi in the capital, which is not magnificent.

In front of the sedan chair and behind the sedan chair, there were the former ministers and the eunuchs in the palace riding horses, and Li Lianying followed the Empress Dowager Cixi's sedan chair, not leaving an inch. Behind them were the dependents of some ministers, lined up in a long line, mighty, and at the end were the escort soldiers led by Jiang Weiti.

Escorting the property donated from all over the country in the past year and the local specialties donated by the Shaanxi locality, this is the private room of Lafayette and Mr. Li, and the archives of each yamen.

Look at the roads in the city of Xi'an, all of them have been re-paved with loess, and they have been repaired smoothly.

On both sides of the road, every five steps there is an escort soldier, from the governor's yamen to the Baqiao, this Xi'an city to the Baqiao, there are 30 miles, such a pomp, is indeed unprecedented.

These were carefully planned and managed by Rong Lu Rong Zhongtang and General Manager Li. Indeed, it is well-intentioned.

On the same day, he traveled eastward to Lintong County and was stationed in Lishan as an official. Lintong County is prepared by the whole county and cannot be hidden. The holy car took a short break, arrived in Weinan County the next day, and stationed in the Weinan Palace.

On the 29th, they arrived at the foot of Huashan, and the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu went to the Yuquan Courtyard to make incense. Unexpectedly, the wind and rain were blowing, the roads were muddy, and the eunuchs and officials who accompanied them were drenched and wandered in the mud, which was very disappointing. So, the holy car hurried away.

On the first day of September, he arrived in Huayin County. Out of Huayin, it will be Tongguan in a few days. Due to the rain, he stayed in Tongguan for two days. On the fifth day of the first month of September, from Tongguan Qiluan, out of Shaanxi Province, think about the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu, when they fled to Shaanxi from Beijing, how pitiful they were. (To be continued.) )