Yongshou Palace has long been cleaned up by the eunuchs, all kinds of utensils are neatly placed, and there are some family meanings, and the Empress Dowager Cixi is a little more stable in her heart. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAfter a group of palace eunuchs kowtowed, they served refreshments. Empress Dowager Cixi and Empress Longyu each used a little.

Li Lianying led the palace supervisor to transport the queen mother's cage to Yongshou Palace. Then he came to return to Cixi. When he saw the Queen Mother, he knelt on the ground and said, "Lafayette, the slave has brought back all your old man's cages, this is the list, please take a look at your old man." He handed over the list.

After the queen mother and the emperor returned to Beijing, the first major event was to reward the ministers. The people who traveled with them, whether they were military ministers or eunuchs in the palace, were duly rewarded. Li Lianying's godson Jiang Weiti made meritorious contributions to the escort and gave special awards.

In order to heal the rift in Emperor Guangxu's heart, the Empress Dowager Cixi posthumously named Concubine Zhen as the concubine, and announced it to the outside world in the name of being martyred in the palace. And in order to kill people, I want to kill Cui Yugui.

This Cui Yugui entered the palace earlier than Li Lianying, Li Lianying entered the palace, and thanks to his maneuvering, Li Lianying owed him a favor, and Cui Yugui was loyal to Cixi, and it was also the order of the Empress Dowager Cixi to push Concubine Zhen into the well.

Therefore, Li Lianying knelt down and pleaded with the Empress Dowager Cixi, saying: "Lafayette, Cui Yugui is loyal to your old man, he can't kill him!" ”

"If you kill him, who will dare to be loyal to your old man in the future?"

This sentence reminded the Empress Dowager Cixi, yes, the most obedient eunuchs who are loyal to me are Li Lianying and Cui Yugui, and one of them is the chief manager, and the other is the second chief manager, and now they want to kill Cui Yugui, isn't this killing chickens and monkeys, show Li Lianying?

The rabbit dies and the fox is sad, and the thing hurts it, which is also what it should be. However, Li Lianying's almost threatening advice is also a big truth. The Empress Dowager Cixi had nothing to do but ask:

"What if you don't kill him, if he reveals the news of Concubine Zhen, then ......"

"This Lafayette rest assured, the slave has his own way. This Cui Yugui is the murderer of Concubine Zhen, but killing him like this is also a little too aggrieved, so it is better to secretly send him out of the palace.

The slave explained the reason to him again, saying that Lafayette was reluctant to kill him, but he couldn't leave him in the big house, so he could only send him out, and I think Cui Erguan would definitely be grateful to Lafayette. ”

"Then do it! You go and ask him to pack up and get out of the palace early! By the way, bring him some silver! ”

"Yes!" Li Lianying answered and went out.

Cui Yugui, as the second chief manager, has just returned to the palace and has a lot to do. After a busy day yesterday, when I got up this morning, I heard that the wind was wrong, and it was rumored that the Empress Dowager Cixi was going to kill him, so he no longer had the heart to do anything, so he had to come to Li Lianying.

"Hey! Lafayette insists on killing you, and there is nothing I can do! Li Lianying picked up the shelf.

"Really?!" Cui Yugui suddenly slumped into the chair.

Li Lianying looked at him like that, and hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet!"

Look at what scares you! Li Lianying continued: "After my repeated kneeling and pleading, Lafayette will save you from death!"

"Thank you, Archmaster! The grace of saving lives is not forgotten! Cui Yugui was about to kowtow to Li Lianying, but Li Lianying grabbed him and said:

"Don't, don't be like this, such a big gift, Li can't accept it, you and I are grasshoppers tied to the same line, and it is natural to intercede for you. Death is not dead, but the death penalty has been spared, and the living crime is difficult to escape, Lafayette has decided to send you out of the palace, you better pack up and leave as soon as possible! ”

"This ......"

"It's better to go here, think about it, you stay here, it's always a threat to Galeries Lafayette, maybe you will make a small mistake sometime. was killed by Lafayette as an excuse, it is better to leave as soon as possible and find a way to live! Li Lianying enlightened Cui Yugui sentence by sentence.

"So when are you leaving?"

"Of course, the sooner the better! You don't know Lafayette's temper yet, you can change when you say it! ”

Cui Yugui thanked Li Lianying again and began to pack his things. Li Lianying took out a bag of silver, put it on the table, and said:

"You and I have worked together for many years, when I entered the palace, it was thanks to your introduction, and now that we are going to separate, there is nothing else to give you, these hundreds of taels of silver, you can accept it! After I go back, I will do some business, and I won't have a bad time! ”

In fact, he took the silver from Cixi. Of course, Cui Yugui didn't know the inside story, seeing that Li Lianying was so good to him, he couldn't control his feelings anymore, and fell to the ground with a "plop", and then cried loudly.

"Don't cry, such a big person, pack up and leave!" Li Lianying was urging on the side.

Cui Yugui packed up his things, took the silver given to him by Li Lianying, got into the carriage prepared for him by Li Lianying, went out of the north gate of the palace, and went home.

A eunuch who was loyal to the Empress Dowager Cixi and obedient to her words was driven out of the palace in this way. As a result, Li Lianying sent Cui Yugui away and stood by the palace gate to start.

He thought that Cui Yugui was also a powerful figure in Da Nei at the beginning, and he was once unbeatable, but in the end, he ended up like this.

As for himself, he is the chief manager of Ouchi, but the chief manager is also a eunuch, and he is also the Empress Dowager Cixi who kills when she wants to kill and stays if she wants. Therefore, we must always be careful and pay attention to everything in the future.

The fighting has stopped, the two palaces have returned to Luan, the situation in Beijing has stabilized, and the situation in the whole country is quite tranquil, except for the revolutionary parties in the southern provinces. The war dealt a great blow to the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor, and they learned from the pain and learned the fact that they would be bullied if they were backward.

Yuan Shikai was ordered to take a leave of absence for two months and return to his ancestral hometown of Xiangcheng, Henan Province to bury his mother. After the funeral, he went to Shanghai and Hubei successively to observe the situation in the officialdom, and received an order to return to Beijing.

When I arrived in Beijing, I rested overnight, and the next morning, I went to see the Empress Dowager Cixi.

"When did you arrive in Beijing?" Empress Dowager Cixi asked him.

"Back to the Queen Mother, I arrived yesterday afternoon!"

"How's it going on the ground?"

"Thanks to the Queen Mother and the Emperor! Wind and rain! ”

"In the chaos of the year of Gengzi, the people suffered. Now that the war has ceased, you, as a magistrate, must work hard to eliminate malpractices and benefit the people! ”

"Wechen respects the decree of the Queen Mother! We must do our best to benefit the people! ”

Cixi then asked him: "You have always been able to train soldiers, in your opinion, when will this new army be trained?" ”

Yuan Shikai felt that this question was not easy to answer, thought about it, and said:

"The training of troops now is not as good as in the past, and all kinds of conditions must be met, first of all, grain, grass, and military salaries, and secondly, telegraphs, ships, railways, and so on. If you practice like this, you can practice it in as little as three years or as long as five years, and you can practice it well. ”

"Excellent! Do you have anything else to do? If there's nothing to do, go back first! "The Empress Dowager Cixi issued an eviction order.

Yuan Shikai said goodbye to Cixi, saluted Emperor Guangxu, and went back to the Beiyang Mansion. (To be continued.) )