The rule of the country was degraded for no reason, and Emperor Guangxu dragged back to the imperial study with heavy steps, and since then he has lost a capable and transformative talent by his side. Sitting at the desk, your eyes glazed over, not knowing what to do? On the contrary, I am a little confused. Later, there were some rumors in the palace that Yang Chongyi, the imperial historian, went to Tianjin to conspire with Ronglu, and there were rumors inside and outside the palace that the Guangxu Emperor was abolished and a new emperor was established. It seems that his throne is in jeopardy, so he secretly edicted Yang Rui and said: "I can't protect the throne, let alone others?" Qing and others have made good plans to promote the reform of the law. ”

The next morning, Guozhi wore court clothes and all the civil and military officials went to the court in shifts, standing on the main hall. Emperor Guangxu was very heavy and climbed the Jinluan Treasure Palace, and the ministers knelt down and said, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

After Emperor Guangxu sat down, he said, "All the Qings are flat." ”

The deacon and eunuch stood up and said: "There is a book to start and no book to retreat." ”

Guozhi stood up, held the chapter in his hand, looked up at Emperor Guangxu above the main hall, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a book." ”

"Bring it in." Guozhi knelt down and raised the cantata with both hands, and the deacon and eunuch stepped down to take the cantata and handed it to the emperor, and Guozhi stood up. Emperor Guangxu opened the chapter and looked at it, deliberately angry, stood up and threw the chapter out, and said: "Guozhi, you are bold." ”

Guozhi raised his head in surprise and said, "Your Majesty." ”

"How dare you dare to find out about Uncle Huang's head, you go down."

"Your Majesty, the officials are corrupt, the national law is difficult to prosper, Prince Qing opened the Qinglou privately, and gathered the first and second officials of the imperial court to accumulate money, all the list of officials involved in the case and their criminal evidence are among them, please read it."

"Bold national rule," Emperor Guangxu pointed angrily.

"Your Majesty, this trend of corruption does not make it difficult for the country to prosper, and I also ask Your Majesty to punish these officials involved in the case according to law, seal up all the Qinglou tobacco houses in the capital, ban smoking and clean up the officials, and confiscate the family assets of Prince Qing for investigation."

"Stand down, I told you to stand down," Emperor Guangxu was furious and scolded the country.

"Your Majesty."

"Stand down."

Some imperial historians have played a chapter of impeachment, saying: "Your Majesty, He Guozhi, the secretary of Dali Temple, offended the emperor in the name of investigating the case, and committed the crime of disobedience, and his intentions were ill-intentioned, and He Guozhi was dismissed from the post of secretary of Dali Temple and sentenced to death. ”

Kang Youwei stood up and accused, and said: "You bullshit imperial history, you don't do anything just to eat, you specialize in your shortcomings, what does the court want you to do?" ”

"Kang Youwei, you are bold."

"You are bold, do you still want to blackmail the emperor with this."

These imperial historians knelt down and looked up at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, Kang Youwei is arrogant and domineering, please ask the emperor to be the master of the ministers." ”

"Alright, you all shut up." At this time, Emperor Guangxu eased his eagerness a little, sat down and pondered for a while, and said: "Dismiss He Aiqing from the official position of Dali Siqing and go back to Sichuan to be a regimental training envoy." ”

"Your Majesty," and then Guozhi took off the crown on his head, put it on the ground, turned around and threw his sleeves away. Return to Dali Temple for the handover ceremony and prepare to leave the capital.

After the next dynasty, Emperor Guangxu returned to the Qinzheng Hall and sat down with a sigh of relief. At this time, the deacon eunuch stepped forward, stood beside Emperor Guangxu, and said, "Your Majesty, Kang Youwei is waiting outside the palace to be summoned. ”

"Okay, pass on Kang Qing to see me quickly."

Kang Youwei entered the Qinzheng Palace to meet Emperor Guangxu and said: "Your Majesty, the rule of the country is not guilty but meritorious, he is upright and not afraid of the powerful and impartial law enforcement, which is beneficial and harmless to our reform." Why did the emperor remove him from his official position? ”

"Forced by the situation, I can't help it, He Qing has the ambition of Qingyun, and he is all-round in civil and military affairs. This person has the ability to be a prime minister, and he is a minister of Zhongxing in the Qing Dynasty, which is really rare, and he quickly passed on my secret decree, and crowned He Qing as a recruiter, secretly recruited soldiers for training, and waited for my summons at any time. Kang Qing, go back and make a plan for me. ”

"Yes, the minister will go back to draft the decree."

Kang Youwei found Guozhi's mansion and knocked on the door of the mansion, and it was the subordinates of He Mansion who opened the door. Kang Youwei asked the subordinates of He Mansion and said, "May I ask if your lord is still in the mansion?" ”

"My master is still in the study, and the little one will report it immediately."

"No need, you go down first." Kang Youwei ran to the study of the former national rule and shouted: "Lord He." Guozhi heard the call outside the study, walked out of the study quickly, and greeted him: "Mr. Kang." ”

Kang Youwei stood outside the study and looked at Guozhi who walked out, and said, "Lord He, Kang took the liberty to visit, and asked Lord He not to blame." ”

"Mr. Kang, where are you talking, come into the house and sit." Guozhi invited Kang Youwei into his study, and there was nothing in Guozhi's study except for some calligraphy and paintings and desks, and the furnishings inside were very simple. The bookshelf on the side of the desk is full of books, and it seems that Guoji is also a book lover. Kang Youwei walked in and saw all this after he was very surprised, in his heart Guozhi is a person who practices martial arts, his room should be full of knives, guns, swords, halberds and other weapons, but what he didn't expect was that when he walked into Guozhi's study, it was diametrically opposed to his thoughts. Kang Youwei walked in front of the desk, and at a glance, he knew that Guozhi was hiding in the study to practice calligraphy. The big words "hard work" are strong and powerful. After Kang Youwei saw it, he said: "It turns out that adults still have such leisure and elegance. ”

"There are always some unsatisfactory things for people, so they won't mess up their minds because of such trivial things. Mr. Kang, please take a seat. Kang Youwei sat down at this time, opposite to the rule of the country. Kang Youwei said: "I have wronged Lord He." ”

"Being loyal to the country can kill you, and a little grievance is nothing. Mr. Kang, after you leave, the task of changing the law will fall on you, there is a long way to go, how precious Mr. is. ”

"Okay, Wen Shanye, who understands me." Kang Youwei stood up and said: "Pass on the emperor's dictation, He Aiqing, a native of Sichuan, is the Sichuan regimental training envoy and the recruiting envoy, and recruits soldiers to listen to the summons of Hou Zhen." ”

Guozhi stood up and knelt down, and said, "The minister is here to thank His Majesty the Emperor." ”

The next day, Guozhi packed up his salutes, left the capital, stood alone outside the pavilion, put his hands behind, looked into the distance, did not expect that no one came to see him off when Guozhi left, it was inevitable that he was a little sad, and said: "I He Guozhi is alone, I do my own thing, and now I am alone." "There is such a big gap between the national magistrates and the Sichuan regimental training envoys, and it is not what it used to be.

"Brother Wenshan," just when Guozhi was lamenting his life, he heard someone behind him rushing to call him.

When He Guozhi turned around, he saw Tan Yutong, one of the four sons of the Restoration, and said, "Brother Fusheng." ”

Tan Feitong stepped forward, stood in front of Guozhi and looked at Guozhi, and said: "Brother Wenshan, there is nothing to give to you in the future, only the hometown Hunan tea is given to you, and Brother Wenshan is invited to accept it." ”

"Hunan Hunan tea is famous all over the world, and it has been accepted." Guozhi took the tea in Tan Yutong's hand and said: "When the governance is degraded, there is also a friend called Brother Fusheng to send him off, and it is enough to treat this life." Guozhi turned around and was about to leave, Tan Yutong took a step forward to look at the departing Guozhi and said, "Brother Wenshan, how precious it is all the way." ”

Guozhi turned around and said, "Brother Fusheng, how sinister the officialdom is, you have to take care of it." ”

After that, Guozhi rode on a white horse and ran forward, over thousands of mountains and rivers. Three days into the territory of Sichuan, along the way the country is to eat and sleep, and finally return to Chengdu. After Guozhi returned to Chengdu, he took his wife and her family to worship at the graves of the prince and the wife. There is a lot of wind on the mountain, and everything is so sad. Guozhi stayed in front of the tombs of the prince and the lady to clean up first, and the wind blew the yellow leaves and danced wildly, and the deep grass around them swayed with the wind. Guozhi stood in front of the graves of the prince and the lady, and said: "Grandpa, grandma, grandma knows that you love your grandson the most, and it is your grandson who is not angry and filial, so you and the old two are worried." Then he lit three sticks of incense, smoked, and said, "Grandpa, grandma, grandchildren have come back to see you." Speaking of this, Guozhi's eyes began to turn red, and tears slowly flowed. Mrs. Tai died of loss and illness, and when she was leaving, she had not seen Guozhi for the last time, and exhaled with her last breath, "Grandson," and then swallowed it and passed away, which will be an eternal pain in Guozhi's heart.

In the evening, they returned to Chengdu from their hometown and entered He Yuan. Guozhi and his father Jie Hao's few remarks, perhaps because the two have different thoughts, and the relationship between the two is becoming more and more delicate in the face of his father's severe questioning. As soon as I got home, I locked myself in the study, but I didn't go out of the door, and I was less active and angry, and my heart was more calm. His elder brother Guoan entered Guozhi's study and said, "Brother." ”

"Brother, come in and sit."

"No, my father told you to go to the church for questioning."

"Okay, I'll go."

Guozhi entered the hall, met his father and mother, and saluted, "Father and mother, you are all right now." ”

Mrs. Chen sat on the side and looked at the country, her face full of glory, and said, "Okay, we are all very good, you are also in your thirties, and it is time to have a future." ”

"Mother, at this time the child will understand that the mother does not have to worry." The father sat aside, his face was not so good, and he said very sternly: "I heard that you followed Kang Youwei in the capital to change the law, what do you think of this problem?" Let's talk about it. ”

"The country is corrupt, and when it comes to the danger of destroying the country, the child thinks that the only way to strengthen the country is to change the law, and it is imperative to strengthen the army."

"My father thinks that you are disturbing the dynasty and shaking the foundation of the country. What kind of person Kang Youwei is, his father investigated very clearly. This person's words and deeds are inconsistent, saying that men and women are equal, monogamous, but what about himself, there are groups of wives and concubines, and life is so absurd, how can he talk about changing the law for this kind of deception and fame thief? If you look at his "Xinxue Apocryphal Scripture Examination" and "Confucius Reform Examination", such remarks as these, which contradict the laws of the ancestors, are not advisable and feasible. ”

"The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband, and the son is not loyal and filial piety, but this country with many disasters and difficulties. Mr. Kang proposed to learn from Western countries about the political system and ideological proposition, from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy, and to integrate Confucian classics with advanced Western thought. ”