He guessed that the emperor's move was not unintentional, but deliberately degrading the descendants, and deliberately expressing his dissatisfaction and protest against the empress empress appointed by the Empress Dowager Cixi for him. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The queen is also the niece of King Alcohol, who has been used to seeing it since she was a child, and in King Alcohol's mind, she is really not a good match for the emperor.

However, as a prince, he can't exercise the "order of his parents" to inquire about his son's marriage, which is already a great grievance, and this grievance is still unspeakably bitter, so it is also a depression that is difficult to declare.

As a last resort, I can only try to be lenient and self-explanatory, hoping that after the wedding, the emperor's perception of his "cousin" will change, and the harmony of the piano will be like a blessing from heaven.

Who knew that his only hope was also disappointed, the wedding was only a few days away, and there were rumors in the palace that the emperor was really "respectful to the queen", not like a couple, let alone a newlywed. These rumors now seem to be confirmed.

If the emperor had respected Empress Jiashun as much as Mu Zong, he would never have had the will to disappoint the empress and lose face.

As soon as the pro-government had such a willful behavior, King Alcohol was worried and restless.

Although "knowing the son is more than the father", and his understanding of the Empress Dowager Cixi is even deeper than that of the "son" who is not under the knees of Chenghuan day and night, can the Empress Dowager Cixi tolerate the emperor acting alone?

Can the emperor tolerate the emperor's snubbing of the empress she has set up? Mu Zong is her own son, and he can't tolerate it, let alone the heir she has set up?

It's going to be a lot of trouble in the palace from now on! The Alcohol King sighed in front of his closest subordinates.

"Don't hide it from the emperor!" King Alcohol kept telling him during his illness, "Don't let him worry, don't make him embarrassed." ”

has been hiding it for more than a year, and the emperor has never known about King Alcohol's illness.

The illness of the alcohol king is the same, and it is getting worse every day. The emperor also heard about it, but he did not get it from the statements of the masters in the study, but from the mouths of the concubines.

"Where did you get this news?"

"The concubine is told by others." Concubine Zhen smiled, "They are all concubines and don't know how to hide their words. ”

"I see!" The Emperor was shocked, "You have to be careful, what you hear, don't tell the second person except me." ”

"In addition to secretly playing with the emperor, the concubines can't be so ignorant, talk nonsense everywhere, and invite trouble themselves."

"That's right! You know. The Emperor was pleased, "Who are 'they' you talking about?" Is it a eunuch? ”

"Yes!"

"Are those eunuchs?"

"This," Concubine Zhen smiled coquettishly, "The concubine can't tell the emperor." She said with a straight face, "If the emperor wants to listen to these news, don't ask the source, otherwise he won't be able to hear it." ”

The emperor knew that Concubine Zhen would never tell the source of the information, so he didn't ask any more.

October 10, 1894 was the 60th birthday of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

On her fiftieth birthday, it was during the Sino-French War, and the situation was grim, so she could not celebrate it properly. Therefore, she has long been preparing to hold a "big celebration" on her 60th birthday.

She appointed Prince Shiduo as the general manager of the "Longevity Celebration" a year in advance, and searched everywhere for the people's fat and ointment, and actively prepared for it.

Although Prince Li was the nominal general office, all the ideas still came from Li Lianying, the favorite of the Empress Dowager Cixi, because the Empress Dowager Cixi had sent a message to all ministries that during the Wanshou Festival, the internal affairs office was under the command of Li Lianying.

The arrangement and deployment of the entire Wanshou Festival were also designed and supervised by Li Lianying. Li Lianying also wanted to take the opportunity of the Halloween Festival to show his talent, and take the opportunity to extort money and enrich his pockets.

However, just as Li Lianying was preparing for the 60th birthday of the Empress Dowager Cixi with great interest, one day she suddenly found that the Empress Dowager Cixi was stunned by a telegram.

Sensitive intuition told Li Lianying: Something must have happened again!

Yes, something big has happened.

The telegram was sent by Li Hongzhang from Tianjin, which briefly said that the Japanese army had attacked the Qing army in Asan and that Emperor Guangxu had officially declared war on Japan on behalf of the Qing government!

The war between China and Japan was first triggered by the Korean Incident. In the spring of that year, there was an uprising of the Cha Hakkak people in Korea, and Hong Qixun, the envoy who suppressed them, was defeated. The Joseon ruler panicked and asked Yuan Shikai, the Qing government's general office of commerce in Korea, to convey to Li Hongzhang, the minister of Beiyang, asking China to come out of nowhere to help suppress the uprising.

The Qing government then ordered Li Hongzhang to have full authority to deal with the Korean incident.

Li Hongzhang then ordered Ye Zhichao, the governor of Zhili and the general of the Huai Army, and Nie Shicheng, the general of Taiyuan, to lead the four battalions of the Huai Army to Korea, and all of them arrived in Korea on the ninth day of the fifth month, and the Tun army was more than 150 miles southwest of Seoul in Asan.

After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan had grown rapidly in power, and by this time it had directed its aggression at China and Korea. At the same time that China sent troops to Korea, the Japanese cabinet also decided to send troops to Korea, and the Japanese consul in Tianjin informed Li Hongzhang.

"The Japanese government has decided to send troops to Korea in order to protect the Japanese nationals in the Korean treaty ports." The Japanese consul said to Li Hongzhang.

"China's troops are specially sent to Korea to suppress bandits, and there is no need for the Japanese government to send troops to Korea without entering Seoul or to treaty ports." Li Hongzhang said.

"The soldiers have been dispatched." The Japanese consul said.

"If it's just to protect businessmen, the Japanese government must not do much. Moreover, the Korean government has not invited you, and your soldiers cannot enter the interior of Korea, otherwise, there may be a conflict between China and the Japanese army. Li Hongzhang warned.

Two days before the Chinese troops arrived in Asan, Keisuke Oshima, the Japanese minister to Korea, led 400 naval and army soldiers into Seoul, and his brigade marched one after another.

By 12 May, the total number of troops in Korea had reached more than 8,000. During this period, the Qing government and the Korean government repeatedly negotiated with the Japanese side, but to no avail. Li Hongzhang had no choice but to send Ding Ruchang to lead several warships to Inchon to help the army.

Deliberately determined to provoke a war between China and Japan, Japan brazenly attacked the British merchant liner Gaosheng, a troop transport ship sent to Korea by China near the island, on 23 June, killing 871 Chinese officers and men.

On June 27, the Japanese army attacked the Qing army in Asan again, Nie Shi was defeated and fled, and Ye Zhichao fled to Pyongyang without help.

When the news of the Japanese attack on the Gosheng troop carrier and the Qing army in Asan reached China, the crowd was furious and demanded that the Japanese army be dealt a severe blow. The ministers of the DPRK and China also wrote to the Guangxu Emperor one after another, demanding a declaration of war against Japan.

Ignoring the opposition of the Empress Dowager Cixi, the Guangxu Emperor resolutely and resolutely declared war on Japan on July 1. Japan also declared war on China on the same day.

The Empress Dowager Cixi took Li Hongzhang's telegram and couldn't help but sigh and said: "Could it be that the life of the mourning family is so bitter, the fifty whole life has not been well lived because of the Sino-French war, and the sixty whole life has to be not good because of the war?" (To be continued.) )