Bao Jun didn't say a word, and went out to tell Sula in the Military Aircraft Department: "Hand over the sign!" ”

handed over the sign, Wen Xiang and the others waited outside the door of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and the chief eunuch passed the message, with only two words: "No!" ”

Send a eunuch to herald: "It's too late today, let's talk about it tomorrow." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 At the same time, the edict of the suspension of work was issued, and there was no change in a word.

"Send it to the cabinet immediately!" Wen Xiang told the "Dalami" on duty, and at the same time informed Prince Xuan and others that they should go back to their homes first, and make another appointment in the evening to discuss something.

This was arranged, and the four of them went to Prince Gong together.

Because the providence is difficult to return, Wen Xiang and others are quite anxious, and the two kings of Xuan and alcohol are not only the same and related, but also the same uncle, the emperor can be like this to the "sixth uncle", and the fifth and seventh uncles, of course, can also be ruthless and rude, so they can't help but feel sad about the death of the rabbit and the fox.

But Prince Gong showed a very respectable temperament.

This time it was very different from the four years of Tongzhi, when the Empress Dowager Cixi peeled his face. That time he did have a heartbreaking shock, and this time it was sad that the emperor was not successful, and he didn't care about what happened to him, because he felt that he couldn't meet his nephew the emperor who had nothing to do.

"Finally, there is a result, the clear order to stop the park work has been issued, and we can be regarded as having an explanation." He said calmly, "I don't care about my honor or disgrace alone!" ”

Of course, he also knew that the emperor's edict was not insulting to him, and it would be irreparable.

And others think differently than he does. If you don't plan for Prince Gong yourself, you have to think about the overall situation, and the important ministers under one person are suddenly severely reprimanded by this, their prestige is ruined, and their orders are not good, how can they be the leaders of the cardinal court again?

At the same time, there is a great inconvenience in front of him, Okubo Ritsu will arrive in Beijing on the first day of the first month of August, and he will have to hold a discussion as soon as he arrives, and the opponent is a courtier who is not trusted by the Qing Emperor, even if others are embarrassed to mention it, they will feel embarrassed, and how can they be arrogant and fight on the basis of reason.

For this reason, it is a unanimous conclusion that the emperor must be asked to retract his order, but what way to take?

However, there are two different opinions, one group advocates inviting the empress dowager of the two palaces to intervene and force the emperor down; The attitude of one faction was more gentle, thinking that it was not appropriate to be aggressive, but it was more appropriate to meet the emperor and ask for it in person.

At the time of this controversy, news came out in the palace, saying that the emperor's original Zhu edict was extremely harsh, and there were "many lawlessness, separating mother and son; deceived the young, full of treachery" and so on.

Zhu Yu, who was later handed over to Wenxiang, has been re-written, and it has been much more relaxed.

Prince Gong was a little anxious at this time, and what he was anxious about was not the demotion from the prince to the county king, but the emperor's words, which were embarrassing. This original Zhu edict, if the words "Mingfa" and "full of cheats" are very difficult to wash away.

Therefore, he shook his hand and said, "Don't alarm the two houses again!" What the emperor is worried about is the sentence "separating mother and son", if you move a big hat to press the emperor, wouldn't it be true that there is such a "separation"?

Everyone felt that this was a very deep sight.

At the same time, there is also a very clear view that it is a state affair to intercede for Prince Gong, and if the queen mother of the two palaces is invited to come forward, there are four words "separating mother and son", and it will become a housework.

It is inconvenient for outsiders to intervene in housework, and in addition to Yiqin, the four military aircraft have become outsiders who cannot speak, which is an unwise move to lose their position.

Therefore, an inconclusive conclusion is: drag it out!

On the second day, Prince Gong was on duty as usual, and the whole class of military planes was the prime minister, and when he saw the emperor, he was as if nothing had happened, and he did not mention the Zhu edict at all, and detailed the preparations for negotiations with Japan as usual.

Bao Jun, Chen Zuo, and Li Hongzhang handled the coastal defense in Tianjin, and decided to ask the governor of Sichuan to raise 200,000 taels of silver for the arrears over the years. In addition, there were many incidents of requests, and they were played one by one, and they only retired after two hours of meeting.

In these two hours, the emperor felt quite embarrassed, and when he returned to the palace, he thought about it carefully, and felt that he had been greatly bullied.

In the past two hours, he has always had this feeling that everyone thinks he is an ignorant teenager and does not take him seriously at all. Otherwise, how can there be such a demeanor of treating things as if nothing happened?

At this point, I feel that my self-esteem has been humiliated, and it is absolutely unbearable!

At the same time, he also thought of Zhu Yu, who demoted Prince Gong to the king of the county, according to the rules, he should have "made a bright hair" yesterday. If you didn't send it yesterday, it can be said that it was too late to prepare the decree, and when we met on this day, why didn't we have a draft of the decree?

This is deliberately not to obey the edict, and it is an appointment, deliberately not to mention it, deliberately pretending to be confused, and planning to "dry" it in the matter. If this method works, whatever you say in the future will not work!

From this thought, infinite resentment was born, and the blood all over his body seemed to have turned into heat, burning his ears and face, and his eyes were red.

"All bastards! Get out! He slapped the table and scolded, striding up and down the dormitory, thinking in his heart, how could he breathe a big sigh?

At the Military Aircraft Department, the Ten Ministers made another meeting, believing that the emperor's edict should not be shelved, but it was impossible for the emperor to open his mouth to retract the order, and it was not necessarily useful to ask for it.

Bao Jun suddenly became enlightened, it is better to send it down, and when he saw the clear message, the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces could not know, nor could she not express it, which was a way to indirectly urge the Queen Mother to intervene.

This opinion was told to Wen Xiang in private, and he also thought so, King Gong had an attitude of ignoring it anyway, and he didn't add it or not.

So the draft was submitted and prepared to be issued.

This did not discourage the Emperor, who believed that they had received the news and found him so angry that he could not but reluctantly comply. It can be seen from this that the power in hand is indispensable, and if such a severe measure had been taken a long time ago, whether it is the Minister of Military Aircraft or the Minister of the Imperial Front, it would have been done a long time ago.

From this understanding, the emperor put his heart sideways, did not care about everything, and wrote a handwritten Zhu edict referring to the five military aircraft and the five imperial fronts, "friends are traitors, and plots are wrong", and all of them were dismissed.

Early the next morning, a eunuch was sent to summon the officials of the six departments, the imperial history of the left capital, and the cabinet scholars.

This is modeled after the method used by the Empress Dowager Cixi in the "Xinyou Coup", and naturally it cannot be concealed from the officials of the inner court.

It has always been a rule that the state has a big move to announce, so it is used in this way, and among the first and second rank officials, there is no military aircraft, and it is obvious that the emperor wants to cross this pass and personally carry out government affairs, and there are even more special exceptions, so they are suspicious and uneasy! (To be continued.) )