In the early morning of the Forbidden City, the Empress Dowager Ci'an of the East Palace and the Empress Dowager Cixi of the West Palace hung the curtain to listen to the government, the two sat side by side, like good sisters, the seats were close together, and there was a bamboo curtain in front of them, so that they could see people from the gap in the bamboo curtain to the ministers in the main hall, and the ministers in the upper study could only see a curtain, and the figure was faintly missing the head of the Queen Mother of the two palaces.

Emperor Zaichun of Tongzhi sat on the dragon throne, wearing a crown of regular clothes, black velvet full of red tassels, red velvet knotted top, wearing a bright yellow color dragon robe, and a bright yellow silk weaving belt around his waist, there were four pieces of dragon gold round plate on the belt, with gems and east pearls embedded in the middle.

Prince Gong Yixun is still sitting on the porcelain stool, wearing a satin crown, wearing a yellow color five-clawed dragon satin standing dragon satin group supplement, the pattern is a group of five-clawed dragons in front of and behind the body, and a group of county kings on each of the two shoulders and five-clawed dragons, and the hem of the court clothes is also embroidered with "seawater Jiangya", and the pearls are made of golden silk silk, decorated with 18 East Pearl hanging necks.

Yixun's eyes scanned the ministers on the left and right of the main hall with fine light, and he had cultivated a restrained and steady personality by holding the regent throne for a long time, without being angry and arrogant.

Prince Alcohol Yixun, Prince Qing Yixuan, Tirenge University Shi Wenxiang stood on the left side, they are the royal family, and their status is noble on the left side, Prince Alcohol Yixun, Prince Qing Yixuan and the two of them were able to enter the upper study, which was the means for the Queen Mother of the two palaces to restrain Prince Gong's power and divide part of the authority of the Prime Minister's Office.

Yi Xun is more than 30 years old, about 1.65 meters tall, thin in shape, with a mustache, blister eyes, the word "Pu'an", the number "Jiusitang Master", and the number "Retired Master", the seventh son of Emperor Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty, the half-brother of Emperor Xianfeng, the mother of Emperor Daoguang Zhuang Shunhuang Guifei Wu Yashi, Yi Xun is low-key, only the instructions of the Queen Mother of the two palaces are from, but because of Yi Xun's cowardly personality, he is very aware of current affairs, he is humble and polite, and he is cautious in dealing with people, and he has been favored by the Empress Dowager Cixi.

At this time, although he was able to enter the upper study, enter the high-level power of the Qing Dynasty, when the Tongzhi Emperor Zaichun got married, he was named Prince Qing, he was a late bloomer, and he was very jealous of Prince Gong's power, and he was a conservative leader in the court, and it was also an important weight for the Empress Dowager of the two palaces to restrain Prince Gong.

Tirenge University Shi Wenxiang, more than 50 years old, white-haired Haoshou, Guarjia, the word Bochuan, Wenshan, Minister of Military Aircraft, is the second person in the Military Aircraft Department and the Prime Minister Yamen, in 1865, the Department of Household Shangshu, led the Shenji battalion to the Northeast to suppress Wang Da, Ma Fool uprising, Manchu ministers belong to the Ministry of Martial Arts and Ministers, is the queen mother of the two palaces to rely on the humerus minister, but also Prince Gong Yixun's right-hand man, Yixun formulated policies to be passed by the court, Wenxiang made great contributions.

Li Hongzhang, Minister of Beiyang International Trade Affairs, Li Hongzao, a scholar of the Cabinet University, and Weng Tongyong, a scholar of the co-organizer of the university, are arranged on the right side of the main hall in turn.

Weng Tong Zi Shuping, Bottle Sheng, Horn Shengfu, Late Songchan, Bottle Nunnery, Jiangsu Chang Acquaintance, the son of Weng Xincun, a university scholar, is already fifty years old, three long beards, gray hair, and a great figure, he is also a teacher of the Tongzhi Emperor, and Li Hongzao has the same order, the Qing Dynasty has a total of six university scholar titles, which are the titles of scholars and scholars, and need to be promoted step by step, Weng Tonggong is one level lower than Li Hongzao's honorary title.

The pattern of the three-day small court meeting in the Qing Dynasty is now composed of several of them, and sometimes they will join other important ministers of the court, but these are important members of the thunderous and immovable government.

After the ceremony, these people were given to sit by the Tongzhi Emperor, and several eunuchs moved to Porcelain Deng to respectfully invite the two princes and four first-class officials to take their seats.

Now the Tongzhi Emperor Zaichun is about to be pro-government, he promoted two teachers, to assist him in pro-government, it is also reasonable, the pattern of the court has also changed, the Qing school suddenly occupies a dominant position in the court, an undercurrent is surging in the court, the patriots of the Qing Dynasty are looking forward to the day when they compete with the Eight-Nation Alliance, come early, regain the concessions in various places, and want to do things, that is, to fight with the Russians, and regain Vladivostok and other lost lands.

At this time, the attitude of the Qing Empire towards foreigners, groveling, extremely flattering, and most Western countries had a harmonious relationship, and the foreigners not only bought guns, cannons, and warships for the Qing Dynasty, but even organized foreign gun teams to eliminate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Eastern Twist for the Qing Empire, and the rebels on both sides have been wiped out.

However, the Qing Empire was worried that the country would be Russia, the "polar bear" of its northern neighbor, because Russia had the ambition to annex the Qing Empire, and took advantage of the turmoil in Xinjiang to occupy the Ili region.

The second is France, the two countries have already fought a battle, Liu Yongfu led a "neutralization regiment black flag army" in the suburbs of Hanoi to kill the French commander An Ye, forced the French army to withdraw from the Beiqi area, so Liu Yongfu was named the deputy governor of Sanxuan by the king of Annan, and the black flag army was also legalized in Beiqi, and became a border guard army that did not return to Annan, and is now stationed in the Nanbei area of Annan, Liu Yongfu Black Flag Army has a scale of 3,000 people.

And Britain suddenly became a friendly state of the Qing Dynasty, national affairs, will be towards the Qing Dynasty, in the face of political interests, there is no eternal enemy, Li Hongzhang and the previous British Minister Wei Tuma have just signed a warship deal, and the contract for two iron warships has just been completed.

But Li Hongzao and Weng Tongyi entered the main study, and the patriotic impulse of the Qing school has a market again, and Prince Gong Yixun threw out Li Guolou's Chen Tiao at this time, which is to throw bricks and lead jade, and severely suppress the arrogance of the Qing School, because Li Guolou's Chen Tiao, there is a clause that says that the Qing Dynasty cannot talk about war lightly, and whoever dares to state that it will start a war with the "Eight-Nation Alliance", let them go to the front line, if they dare not go to the front line, they will go back to their hometown to retire, don't just talk empty words.

Several imperial relatives and ministers of Yipin all held copies of Li Guolou's Chen Tiao in their hands, and were fighting in the palace of Yangxin, Weng Tonggong impassionedly asked the emperor to let him go to military training, while Wenxiang on the other side ridiculed Weng Tonggong for being a fifty-year-old man, who could only wave the flag in the martial arts arena and practice soldiers.

Li Hongzao didn't listen to Weng Tonggong and Wen Xiang's verbal fight, but looked at the Chen Tiao in his hand, and felt strange in his heart, a science and technology scholar, has not officially entered the court, why do you want to talk about Li Guolou Chen Tiao at the court, Li Guolou Chen Tiao has been discussed by the Yamen of the Prime Minister's Office, eleven contents, the important ministers in the court have long known, at that time, Prince Gong did not support Li Guolou's proposition, but fiercely criticized several of them, even the annotation next to the Chen Tiao, there were not a few good words, why suddenly changed his course, and it was irrelevant to itch, At that time, only the title of Jiupin official Li Guolou advocated, let the queen mother of the two palaces and the emperor listen, Li Guolou Chen Tiao, although he did not agree to start a war with foreigners, thought that the Qing Kingdom still needed to lie down and taste courage, follow the strategy of Taoguang cultivation, but several and the Westernists were not in harmony, and there were great differences, why Prince Gong, Li Hongzhang, Wenxiang, the three of them jointly supported such a young man.

Prince Yi Xun followed a thousand words is not as good as a silence, sat quietly and studied the Chen Tiao in his hand, no one could see what he was thinking, in fact, there was no need to guess, everyone in the Palace of Yang Xin knew that Yi Xun and other Empress Dowager Cixi spoke, what did the Empress Dowager say, where did he float the weather vane, Yi Xun is very talented, good at writing poetry, Aijue Luo family, prodigy, each generation has a literary crown, there are three talented "imperial uncles" in the royal family to sit in the palace of raising the heart, he is by no means a thoughtless person, but to stand tall above the court, The smart man chose Mingzhe to protect himself, and Yi Xun studied the annotations of Prince Gong next to Chen Tiao word by word, and held back for a long time without speaking, which is also necessary to have real kung fu.

Prince Qing Yixuan couldn't hold back for a long time, what did he not know, Li Guolou wanted to give Li Hongzhang 10 million taels of silver, he already knew, there were only two words in his heart "hate" and "jealousy", hatred only hated that he didn't get benefits, so before he got the benefits, he wouldn't say good things about Li Guolou, Yiliang is a greedy person, from his subordinates, they have to bribe him with a huge amount of money, Yiliang belongs to a rich and good talker, and it is difficult to fill greed, which makes him angry that Li Guolou worships Prince Gong's subordinates.

Prince Qing Yixuan knew in his heart that Li Guolou was a protégé of the Son of Heaven, and he would be the descendant of Emperor Tongzhi in the future, and he was taken by the two palace mothers to explore the flowers, and the future was unlimited.

Prince Qing Yixuan figured out the deep meaning of this, anyway, it was still early in the future, and he was going to knock Li Guolou for money, Li Guolou actually gave Li Hongzao a three-foot-high jade Guanyin, no wonder Li Hongzao did not have the same dragon with Weng, with the same voice, relying on each other, he also wanted a jade Guanyin, not to extort Li Guolou 100,000 taels of silver, vowing not to give up.

Prince Qing endured the hatred in his heart, and said with a steady and sophisticated smile: "Congratulations to the Queen Mother, congratulations to the emperor, we have a successor in the Qing Dynasty, Tanhualang Li Guolou is the minister of the society, in the criminal department can still share the worries of the court, put forward ideas, to the point of the times, although it is not mature, but there is already a far-sighted talent, Li Guolou has the ability to establish a school, good at planning and layout, good at raising funds, has established a 'people-friendly fashion school' for Prince Gong, and is preparing for the country's public assignment to stay abroad, just to set up' Qingzhong University' was also handed over to Li Guolou, and Chen Bao promoted Li Guolou to be the chief academic administrator of Qingzhong University, and developed the former site of Shenji Camp on Shiwangfu Street, which had been idle for a long time, and was just used to establish 'Qingzhong University', and Chen also happened to be the first president of Qingzhong University! ”

Prince Qing Yixuan is so smart, if he wants to get benefits from Li Guolou's hands, he has to be tied together on errands, and most of the political and military authority is in the hands of Prince Gong, so he can't intervene, so he can only find another way, and suddenly put a matter that was originally vetoed by him and founded a Western-style university "Qingzhong University", which was suddenly put on the agenda, so that Prince Gong is too late to rejoice, and no one in the court will oppose his proposition.

As soon as the words fell, Prince Gong hurriedly stood up, bowed down and said, "This king seconded Prince Qing's proposal!" ”

Prince Qing Yixuan, the head of the conservative faction, suddenly made a mistake in his brain, and wanted to establish a Western-style university, the iron tree blossomed, and waited for a hundred years, Prince Gong Yixun did not expect that there would be a sudden change at the court meeting, and someone would promote Li Guolou to do something that had nothing to do, but it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it was proposed by Prince Qing today, and Prince Gong Yixun didn't want to quickly echo it.

Li Hongzao also stood up, bowed down and said, "The minister also seconded the proposal!" ”

"The minister also seconded the proposal." Several other important ministers all stood up and saluted Emperor Tongzhi.

Emperor Zaichun of Tongzhi did not hesitate to say: "Well, I am ready to play, Prince Qing is a virtuous person for the country, he has worked tirelessly, I am very relieved, the establishment of Qingzhong University is bound to work, this matter of benefiting the country and the people, only Prince Qing can afford to take on the heavy responsibility!" ”

Behind the curtain of the Empress Dowager Cixi, she asked loudly: "Prince Qing, it is too close to the French Legation, will it be complained by foreigners!" ”

Shiwangfu Street is the Wangfujing of later generations, because there is 1 palace on this street in the Ming Dynasty, 3 princesses' mansions, the Qing Dynasty according to the Ming system, also the establishment of the palace here, with the large scale of Yuwang Doze Mansion, the ten Wangfu streets are prosperous, thanks to the old Dong'an market, there was originally a palace in the Ming Dynasty, the early Qing Dynasty was given to Wu Sangui, renamed Pingxi Wangfu, after the rebellion of the three feudatories, the palace was changed to the Shenji camp playground, stationed for the children of the Eight Banners, but in the later period, Dongjiaomin Lane became the embassy area, has become a country within the country, and the Shenji camp playground has been vacant for many years, The imperial court didn't know what to do with this place, for fear of causing dissatisfaction among foreigners, and Cixi raised this question at this time, because she was worried.

Prince Qing Yixuan seemed to be scheming, stroked his beard twice, and said with a smile: "Empress Dowager, foreigners pay attention to education, see us follow their school, and learn that we have established a Western-style university in the playground of the Shenji Camp, I don't dare to let it go, it's too late to welcome, I won't note our Minister of Foreign Affairs Li Zhongtang, Li Zhongtang, are you right!" ”

"Well, Prince Qing is old and thoughtful." Li Hongzhang also hurriedly agreed, the big happy events happened one after another, what happened to the old stubborn today, Li Hongzhang was confused.

"Hmm······ Quasi-play. Cixi's voice is pleasant, so that the people in the hall are overjoyed, the people in the heart of the palace, the heart to one thought, can keep up with the historical trend, the country will be prosperous, the two empress dowagers are happy to hold hands together, it is rare to have a foreign faction, the Qing school, the conservatives, the three factions represent a harmonious atmosphere, there are so many old and important ministers to escort, the emperor of Tongzhi will be the country and the people, so that the Qing Dynasty will be prosperous,