The Queen Mother of the Two Palaces planned to repair Yixin, but it was not a day or two, but a big game of chess that had been planned for a long time. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Twist Army settled the accounts, the focus of the imperial court shifted from quelling civil strife to internal strife, and the peak of infighting was Su Shun's death. Su Shun's death is a peak, but it is not the end, after the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces killed Su Shun, she immediately targeted Yi Xin. Yi Xin has worked hard, but he is the most dangerous person.

Yi Xin and Xianfeng competed for the throne, etc., all of which were old Huang Li more than 20 years ago, and now they have to deal with him, mainly because Yi Xin's strength is too strong. The rule of the feudal dynasty will always be like this, we must pay attention to moderation and peace, there is no right or wrong to talk about this kind of thing, as long as it is strong and powerful, it will be cut off, whether you are beneficial to the country or not. When Xianfeng targeted Guo Xing'a, Guo Xing'a had no obvious abnormal behavior, and he had great credit to the Qing Dynasty, but because Guo Xing'a's ability and military strength were too strong, the imperial court must kill Guo Xing'a.

After Zeng Guofan took Nanjing, the imperial court rewarded meritorious deeds, and the people also celebrated together. Yi Xin was highly affirmed by the government and the opposition, praising him as a "virtuous king" who was "open-minded and generous" and "fixed the chaos of Suibang", and even once formed a situation of "only knowing Prince Gong, but not knowing that there was a Qing Dynasty". People focused more on the radiant Yi Xin, and the two palaces clearly felt that the authentic brilliance of the royal family had gradually been overshadowed by Yi Xin. This made Cixi and Ci'an like a thorn in their backs and a fish in their throats, they couldn't sit idly by and watch Yixin's sudden rise, let alone tolerate the royal family being in a dispensable position. So they united with Su Shun and launched the first round of suppression of Yi Xin, that is, the revocation of Yi Xin's title of king.

After being repaired, Yixin was honest for a long time, and everyone's guns were aimed at the arrogant and domineering Su Shun. But when Su Shun fell, Yi Xin, who vigorously promoted foreign affairs, immediately revealed again. Moreover, after Prince Gong took charge of the power of the inner court and the outer court, he did a very wise thing, but it challenged the bottom line of the Qing royal family - the governor of other provinces made full use of Han people and vigorously reduced the proportion of banner people. Of the ten governors in the country, except for one governor of Huguang, Guan Wen, the remaining nine are all Han Chinese, and as for the governors of the fifteen provinces, they are all Han Chinese. Moreover, among the nine governors, Hunan people accounted for five, and among the governors of various provinces, the generals of the Hunan and Huai armies also accounted for most of them. These Han people who have been promoted and reused are all grateful to Yixin and have a very secret relationship in private. When the seventh master Yiyun entered the palace to dispense medicine for his brother, he once said a classic saying, "This is another Su Shun!" ”。

Yixin used a large number of Han people to suppress the banner officials, and it was really a reason for Su Shun to be honest, because the Han officials were reliable. Compared with the banner officials who are discouraged by playthings and seek promotion by virtue of special relationships, the Han officials have climbed up step by step, so their political level and work ability are far stronger than those of the banner people. Moreover, there are nearly 400 million Han people, and the banner people are not even a fraction of others, and the same is one talent out of 10,000 people, and the proportion of Han people is also more. This is a law of nature, not deliberately created by anyone. On the contrary, in the early Qing Dynasty, there were mostly banner officials, which was an unreasonable phenomenon deliberately created by the imperial court.

Prince Gong's henchmen have many trees and deep roots, which has made the two palaces extremely uneasy, and his attitude of being close to Northern Manchu and foreigners has made the two palaces feel extremely uncomfortable. Guo Xing'a is a traitor, foreigners are robbers, they are not good things, just make a deal with the snake, Yixin is so concerned, it is clear that he is holding on to foreign countries and self-respect, so as to seize power. Therefore, Cixi and Ci'an must find an opportunity to attack Prince Gong, so that everyone in the court knows that the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces and the Emperor Tongzhi are the supreme masters of the Qing Dynasty. The others, including Prince Gong, who had worked so hard, were nothing more than servants they had driven, and they had to owe allegiance to them.

Yi Xin is in charge of the prime minister's national affairs yamen, so naturally there are more opportunities to contact foreigners and North Manchuria, which is where his duty lies, and his stiff relations with other countries are called dereliction of duty. In good conscience, Yixin does not have the intention of self-preservation, but the main thing is to do his own job. As for the interaction beyond his duties, Yi Xin has also done a lot, but he is also for the country. Doing foreign affairs, developing industry, and not interacting with foreigners and North Manchuria, he Yixin himself could not change the machine.

Yixin's vigorous appointment of Han people is actually related to foreign affairs and industry. Confucianism and the Tao of Confucius and Mencius were all invented by the Han people, and they themselves naturally learned them more thoroughly. Therefore, the Han officials, in the face of the surging foreign gadgets, although they are not welcome, they are not particularly repulsive. A generation of great Confucian Zeng Guofan, even more everywhere preached that middle school as the body, Western learning for use, to learn from the long skills to control the country. Yixin needs local support to run foreign affairs, and these Han officials naturally become the first choice.

Since the entry of the Eight Banners, the flag people have devoted themselves to sinicization, and the subset of history, red tape, what should be learned and what should not be learned, have all been learned. But the background of this temporary evil supplement and the thousand-year-old inheritance is different after all, the children of the Eight Banners have learned the skeleton, but they have lost their souls and become a group of poor and exquisite nerds. The old stubborn people in the court who rejected all advanced things, the banner people were several times larger than the Han people, and all the leaders were banner people. At every turn, the ancestors have become the law, the saints have been indoctrinated, and the words have been changed to summer. These guys with short-circuited brains have long forgotten that the ancestors of the Eight Banners should be mushroom picking and hunting, how can there be any saint education. The so-called people who read dead books and dead books are these big fools. Yixin, who looks at the world and understands the international situation, naturally has a headache when she sees them. Especially the excellent representative of the Eight Banners scholars, Yi Xin doesn't bother others when he sees him.

What Yixin did was not wrong, and it was indeed for the good of the country, but in the struggle for power, he never asked whether it was right or wrong. The Qing Dynasty did not engage in foreign affairs, and it would not be able to die for a while, so Cixi and Ci'an did not care about Yixin's efforts, but cared about Yixin's power very much. According to the deployment of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, the first major event after Tongzhi's pro-government was to suppress Yixin. Due to Yi Xin's monstrous power, he can't go too far at the moment, but he must do his best to beat him.

According to the original plan, Yi Xin will have a few more comfortable days before suffering a series of blows starting with the impeachment of the imperial history. Unexpectedly, today Tongzhi had a convulsion on Guoxing, and all plans were disrupted. Tongzhi, who played very well on the spot, suddenly caught Yixin off guard and completed a perfect blow to Yixin. Cixi and Ci'an hid in the Qianqing Palace, which was to support Tongzhi, so as not to let this bad boy get away. Unexpectedly, Tongzhi's size and heat were mastered very well, which not only suppressed Yixin, but also consolidated his position perfectly. The new official took office with three fires, and the first fire of the little emperor burned very beautifully, and there was no need for the two palaces to come out again.

If the matter comes to an end here, it will be just another power struggle in the Qing Dynasty, but unfortunately Cixi and Ci'an are not fighting Yixin alone, but the entire Gongwang faction. The domineering Hunan army system, Cixi and Ci'an didn't dare to engage in it too drastic, so they could only find a little trouble for them. The Huaijun system, which has a relatively correct attitude, is the target of Cixi and Ci'an's vigorous wooing. The rest of the Gongwang Party, which has no military strength support, are all the targets of Cixi and Ci'an, and none of them can be let go, only by completely getting rid of them, can King Gong truly surrender.

But these guys who are not in charge of the army are not easy to mess with, they are mostly local real power factions, he does not govern the army, but they are in charge of the people. It's not easy to deal with these people, move slowly! It doesn't work at all, if the action is fast, the world of the Qing Dynasty will be chaotic together. Moreover, these people are not suitable for replacement at all, they are in charge of most of China, and most of them are concentrated in the prosperous coastal and riverside areas. If they are all replaced, not only will there be chaos in the local area, which will then cause a shock in the court situation, but also the financial resources of the Qing Dynasty will also suffer great losses, and the overstretched court will not be able to withstand such shocks. Therefore, Cixi and Ci'an can only use some small means to hit them, making them feel that following Prince Gong is to ruin their future and break their will, so that they can pull these to their side.

These local real power factions have a lot of problems, corruption, and malpractice, and they are not missing, but these excuses are not easy to use. Nine out of nine officials in the Qing Dynasty have these problems, and it doesn't matter if one or two people are punished or punished, but if many people are caused at once, it will be troublesome, and it will inevitably lead to everyone in the officialdom putting themselves in danger and causing a comprehensive backlash. The problems that everyone has cannot be used, and we must find some faults unique to this part of the Gongwang Party. This problem is easy to find, because the Gongwang party is doing something that no one else does at the same time, that is, the Westernization movement.

Because the changes in the social structure brought about by technological changes will inevitably cause some pains, except for a small number of vested interests and enlightened people, most of them are opposed to foreign affairs and industry, especially the small people at the bottom of society. The day after Yi Xin was demoted, the hawkish bigwigs wrote to beat the water dogs, and they didn't mention Prince Gong Yi Xin, and they all pointed the finger at Yi Xin's subordinates who did practical things. There were not a few people in the government and the opposition who supported them, and the hawks' attack on Yixin soon rose to the height of asking for the people's lives.

With the guidance of the two mothers, Emperor Tongzhi was already ready to go, and with this stove of hot coal, even if he was as good as a stream. The Western-style pacesetters everywhere, except for the noble who still apologized in Europe and escaped the catastrophe, none of the others were spared, and all of them were reprimanded by the imperial court because of their past exploits. Several small experts in foreign affairs in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Wuhan, Qingdao and other places have all been dismissed from office. Ma Zai, who used to be under the command of Su Shun, is now Yixin's cadre, Ke Yiping, the prefect of Dengzhou, because of his close relationship with North Manchuria, the most prominent industrial development, and he was directly assigned to Urumqi. The power of King Gong's party collapsed in an instant, and the powerful figures in various places changed their ways and submitted to the Tongzhi Emperor.

A series of blows made Yixin "no matter how big or small, more and more fearful, and deeply self-contained", which can be described as a further step back and difficult. Moreover, with the decadence of Yixin, the Westernization industrial movement of the Qing Empire, which had just been a little new, fell silent again, and even fell behind the Meiji government of Japan, which was heavily suppressed by Goxinga.