The emperor sat on the sedan chair with a bitter face and followed the queen mother, An Dehai is now busy with the factory outside, so it is rare to serve in front of the queen mother, and today is free, so he followed the queen mother's sedan chair and walked in small steps, only to hear the queen mother muttering in a low voice, "This day, there is no good news, I originally wanted to play for a while, and when I was happy, I came to this kind of!" Bear with it, endure it, don't rush, in a few months, you will almost have to worry about it, and you can have a good rest. ”

An Dehai almost laughed when he heard it, the queen mother continued to mumble something, and after a while, when she arrived at the Yangxin Palace, the queen mother recovered her graceful and luxurious appearance, and let An Dehai hold his hand from behind the curtain into the Dongnuan Pavilion, and the emperor also sat down in front, Liang Ruyi called up, and passed it down one by one, Prince Gong took a minister from the Military Aircraft Department to the Dongnuan Pavilion, and the Queen Mother said lazily, "What's the matter, let you be so excited, this is still a festival day for the national wedding." The meaning of the words is that it is not a big matter, just go back to their own homes and have fun quietly, and keep the small things for later.

Prince Gong was quite serious, and he also knew that it was very rude to harass the emperor with a whole class of military planes, but this matter is indeed a big deal, "There are people in Tianjin who have stormed foreign churches, and now many priests have died. ”

The Queen Mother instantly sobered up, "What's the matter?" How to storm the church of foreigners! ”

Since the ninth year of Tongzhi, there have been a number of cases of children lost and disappeared and kidnapped in Tianjin, the world is very frightened, at the beginning of May, the weather is hot, the abandoned babies and parents adopted by foreign churches died because of the epidemic, so those with ulterior motives turned over in the cemetery is a foreign priest and nun with children's hearts and livers to refine medicine, so so so many children were killed, for a time Tianjin natives were very excited. Later, another trafficker who was twisted by the locals to the government involved a parishioner of the Wanghailou Catholic Church, at this time, the situation was out of control, the people were angry, the gentry gathered, the school was suspended, and the people surrounded the Wanghailou Catholic Church. and several churches opened by various countries on the side, and the crowd is surging. They asked them to hand over the Western monks who dissected the children's alchemy, the Wanghailou Catholic Church was opened by the French, and the French consul in Tianjin, Feng Daye, brought the priest and others to find the three ministers of trade, and the governor of Tianjin, Chonghou, negotiated the matter, and Chonghou had no choice, so he had to send troops to protect several churches, although he wanted to move the foreigners out of the church, but the scholars were very strict and could not transport them out. Fortunately, the local police station is still in place, and there is no big mess now.

"It's not a big mess! Ah, when is it called a big mess when the foreigners are dead! The Queen Mother listened to the anger and slapped the bright yellow swastikh on the side of her hand with a bright yellow swastika pillow that was not up to the head of the square and eight heads of Shu embroidery, "Chonghou this person is really useless, and he was entrusted to Tianjin." Either I'm afraid of foreigners, or I'm snubbing foreigners! This kind of thing is not a day or two, how can I only find out today and report it! Are the people in the Tianjin Governor's Yamen all eating dry food and not doing anything!"

The ministers knelt on the ground and asked the Queen Mother for forgiveness, and Prince Gong smiled bitterly in his heart. "The land of Tianjin is the window of foreign affairs, and it is also the façade that shows the good trade relations between the Qing Dynasty and foreign countries, which is the same as Shanghai, and even Tianjin is the land of Gyeonggi, and the only way to enter Beijing." If it is in terms of status, it is even worse than Shanghai, so the land of Tianjin is also handed over to the banner man of Chonghou, if this window is not good, foreign countries look down on China, not to mention, foreign affairs, and not to do it! I was a little weaker to foreigners before, but the emperor said that he was good, but now he is good, and he doesn't care about foreigners? If they didn't break the law, how could they be surrounded by human traffickers, how could they have anything to do with the Nursery again? ”

This is Wen Xiang is speaking, "It is a good thing for foreigners to open a nursery church, but there are not many abandoned babies sent by Chinese people, so if someone sends abandoned babies to the church, foreigners will inevitably take money to pay them, so that the traffickers have seen this gap and abducted children to go to church, if the family finds it in the church, it must be that the church has abducted and sold children from various families, so there is a dispute, the reputation of the foreigner's church is originally poor, and there is such a thing of digging people's hearts and refining medicine, I am afraid that it will add fuel to the fire and cannot be cleaned up." ”

“tooyoung！” The Queen Mother shook her head helplessly, "These people, why don't they have any knowledge at all, Catholicism is originally a conservative pope in the West, and it is a great disrespect to God to ask them to dissect people's bodies, how can something so absurd and nonsense come out of digging people's hearts and refining medicine?" If you want to say that foreigners have bad intentions and want to practice Western religion in the Central Plains, this is true, and they want to sell more opium to us, this is also true, if they say that they will practice evil arts, I don't believe it! ”

"But the situation in Tientsin is very bad now," said Prince Gong, "and the French ambassador has sent a note to Prime Minister Yamen, asking us to protect the French citizens in Tientsin, and if China fails to protect them, the French Far East Fleet in the Gulf of Siam can come north at any time to protect its own people." ”

"The foreigners are thinking of borrowing the east wind," the Queen Mother sneered, and she was still thinking about coming to pollute the sea, or to come to a Tianjin garrison? Don't even think about these things, "Send them back, China's affairs, China will naturally deal with them, one word, enforce the law impartially, if there is a problem with the church, it will not be tolerated, if the local people are at fault, they will naturally be punished." Don't bother with their warships, I heard that they have recently increased friction with Prussia, I'm afraid they are going to war, right? It's better to rush back to cheer, "Anyway, if you rush back, you will lose."

Prussia? Coming soon? The Queen Mother suddenly thought of this, and she didn't have time to think about it, "There is the Beiyang Fleet, so they don't need to worry about it." ”

"Prime Minister Yamen has sent people to Tianjin, there is a railway, it is very fast, and it is already necessary to respect the church of the foreigners. The ministers asked for an order, since the French said about the fleet, I am afraid that it is not without a shadow, please be vigilant and beware of the Beiyang Naval Division. ”

"However, the Beiyang Navy Division was ordered to patrol the Bohai Bay and intercept warships, with the exception of merchant ships. In addition, the edict ordered the thirteenth commander of the Shenji Battalion to go to Tianjin overnight, I am afraid that it is useless to rely on those lofty Fu Biao," the Empress Dowager Cixi issued an edict, "Tianjin is not allowed to be chaotic, and foreigners are not allowed to suffer innocently, if there is lawlessness, there are naturally three law divisions waiting, and it is not allowed to mess up the major affairs of foreign affairs, tell Chonghou, as long as the foreigners die, the Chinese and foreign countries will lose harmony, and the overall situation will be messed up, it will not be as simple as dismissal!" Empress Dowager Cixi said murderously.

"Huh."

"I'll ask Gao Xinkui to explain something about the Western church in the newspaper, so that everyone doesn't know any common sense." The Queen Mother continued, "Lest the big guys do stupid things." ”

"Yes, the ministers and others have discussed, although Chonghou is the Minister of Beiyang Commerce, he does not have the identity of the Minister of Qincha, I am afraid that he will not be able to command the army of the Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother sneered, "Chonghou has done a good errand, could it be that I have not been punished this time, and I have to reward him for the dignity of the minister first?" ”

Prince Gong hurriedly said: "Naturally not, it's just that the important ministers need to lead the ministers to represent the center, so there is a sense of attaching importance to legal persons." ”

"Then tell me who you want to call out."

"Li Hongzao has been in the military for a long time, he is familiar with political affairs, he is a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and he is the emperor's master, he is very noble, if he goes to Tianjin, he will naturally be not bad, and the slave recommends Li Hongzao." Bao Jun hurriedly said.

Li Hongzao was slightly displeased, but he seemed to understand something, and he didn't refuse this matter, "En? The Queen Mother was slightly puzzled, what Bao Jun meant was Prince Gong's meaning.

What the hell are these people messing with? Want to drive this clear stream signature out of Beijing? Let him do these foreign affairs? Negotiating with foreigners? Don't be kidding, if he doesn't mess up this matter, he will live up to his noble status as a clear stream!

Messed up this thing? Is it possible? The Queen Mother's heart suddenly brightened, and sure enough, she had been in power for many years, and all kinds of careful thoughts of these people, if you think about it, you can always figure out one or two, but fortunately, through the curtain, you can frown unscrupulously and think or secretly look at everyone's faces. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for the recommendation ticket, your support is my biggest motivation. )