In the city of Beijing, in the duty room of the military aircraft department of the imperial palace, Prince Gong has been sitting, waiting for the summons of the Queen Mother. Although it was already noon time to eat, he knew that it was crucial, and the matter had to be decided by the Queen Mother.

"Please have Prince Gong to meet you." The chief eunuch summoned him, and several little eunuchs led Prince Gong to the Yangxin Palace to meet the Queen Mother.

Emperor Xianfeng always liked to work in the Yangxin Palace in his later period, and most of the time the Empress Dowager Cixi also assisted here. Therefore, the Heart Cultivation Hall was regarded by Cixi as her blessed land, and after gaining power, the Heart Cultivation Palace also became a place for her to deal with political affairs.

Prince Gong walked more calmly, since the success of the coup, the queen mother of the two palaces still trusts herself, and he takes care of all matters, but Prince Gong is also very conscious, and he takes the initiative to meet the queen mother when he encounters more important things, and then does what they want.

Of course, they are nominally the queen mothers of the two palaces, but in fact, it is Cixi of the West Palace who takes the idea, although Ci'an of the East Palace has a higher status than Cixi, but she is content to be an ordinary woman and does not care about political affairs. Usually what Cixi decides, she will follow the seal and fully enjoy her leisurely career as the queen mother.

Although the little emperor Tongzhi didn't understand anything, he had to sit in the Dongnuan Pavilion of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and this procedure was still necessary, although Cixi in the bright yellow gauze curtain behind him was the one in charge.

"Meet the emperor and the queen mother." Prince Gong knelt on the red mat and bowed his head.

"Get up and get a chair for Prince Gong." Cixi still treats Prince Gong preferentially, but other military ministers don't have this honor, let alone sitting, standing can't do it, usually kneeling and playing.

Tongzhi looked very impatient, for him, it was all about adults, he didn't understand it at all, and he didn't want to hear it. But he was afraid of Cixi's punishment, so he could only sit on the emperor's throne in a daze, and when he was really bored, he looked at Prince Gong and silently counted how many beards he had.

For Cixi, this was a time for her to show her power, and she enjoyed the feeling of being respected by others. In the past, although she was Xianfeng's favorite concubine, those ministers did not take themselves seriously, and even regarded themselves as a stumbling block to the emperor. That Su Shun even suggested that Xianfeng kill himself, but now it is different, Prince Gui Weigong has to kneel and salute himself.

"Didn't Prince Gong just come to see the emperor the day before yesterday, why did he come here again? What is important? Cixi straightened her slender nails and asked casually.

"Back to the Queen Mother, the minions have received a lot of excerpts in the past two days, they are all impeached by the same person, and the minions have to come to meet the emperor, the Queen Mother, listen to what you mean." Prince Gong hurriedly played.

"Oh, impeachment whom? The mourners should hear it. Cixi frowned and said unhappily. I have just taken power, and I don't know anyone so much.

"The impeachment of the governor of Henan, the governor of Hubei, the governor of Shandong, etc., all of them impeached the governor of Henan, who was arrogant and indulged in greed, took bribes, supported the army and indulged in arrogance, and deceived and made mistakes. There are also Changjun Wang, together with several generals such as Governor Zeng, to impeach Shengbao for not cooperating with friendly forces in battle, and also bringing a concubine into the military camp and other crimes. Prince Gong took out the fold, knelt in front of the little emperor, and presented it to the Queen Mother.

Cixi frowned, her impression of Shengbao was okay, after all, this person also led troops to help her get rid of eight ministers. "Xiao Anzi, show me the prince's fold."

An Dehai brought Prince Gong for Cixi, played a great role in the coup, and now he has become Cixi's imperial eunuch and is deeply favored by Cixi.

"Yes." An Dehai hurriedly trotted over, grabbed the stack of folds with both hands, and then handed it to Cixi behind the curtain.

Cixi turned over and said: "This Shengbao is also an important minister of the first emperor, and now he is angry, and the mourning family will transfer him away。。。。。。 At this moment, Cixi still remembered Shengbao's merits and wanted to let him go.

But when he saw Yang Xiaoshan's words, she stopped, and a very frightening look appeared on her face.

It turned out that Yang Xiaoshan repeatedly said that Sheng Bao repeatedly mentioned in front of him that he had gone to the capital to help the Queen Mother deal with the eight ministers of Gu Ming, and used this as a merit from the dragon to publicize it to others.

This is a taboo against Cixi, and it is not a matter of course to remove the minister of Gu Ming, after all, it violates the intention of the first emperor Xianfeng, and it is said that her acquisition of power is the result of a coup d'état. If you, the dragon master, set things right, it doesn't hurt to talk about it, but Cixi is not setting things right, she came to power in a coup d'état, and she can't justify herself in terms of etiquette.

Smart people such as Yang Xiaoshan, Zeng Guofan, etc. never mentioned this matter, knowing that this was Cixi's scar and could not be revealed, only this stupid Shengbao actually took it out to show off his exploits, isn't this a repeated explanation in front of everyone that Cixi's position is not right?

Cixi finished flipping through Yang Xiaoshan's folds, and then roughly flipped through other people's folds, almost everyone had a letter on it, relying on their own dragon skills, not looking at colleagues in their eyes.

Now Cixi is really angry, this Shengbao is too hateful, promoting herself everywhere, for fear that others will not know that the Queen Mother is a coup d'état? What's the use of keeping such a fool?

"The victory of the capital is guaranteed to turn defeat into victory, fabricating war exploits, holding the imperial court hostage, escorting him back to Beijing, waiting for his fate." Cixi gritted her teeth and said, of course she couldn't say the reason for Shengbao, but she was no longer ready to keep Shengbao's big mouth and say it everywhere.

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In Shangqiu City, Henan, the emperor's edict to Shengbao to execute Chen Yucheng locally arrived.

Chen Yucheng and other cadres have been tortured to the point that they are not human, and it is not so easy to sit in prison for so many days. Chen Yucheng couldn't stand up, and was dragged out of prison by the Qing soldiers, preparing to impose the criminal law of "Ling Chi" on him.

On the prison platform, Shengbao was proud, looked at Chen Yucheng who was thrown to the ground, and said loudly: "Chen Yucheng, Bendutong still wants to spare your life, as long as you contribute to the imperial court and exterminate the bandits, Bendutong can not kill you today." ”

Chen Yucheng, who was covered with scars, supported the ground with his hands, raised his head with difficulty, and shouted: "If the husband dies, his ears will die, how can he rap!" ”

"It's really a thing that doesn't know whether it's alive or dead, it's all kind to treat it as a donkey's liver and lungs, I want to see how many knives you can take." As soon as Shengbao took a few shots, he was ready to order the executioner.

This Ling Chi is "a thousand cuts", the most cruel kind of death penalty, the average executioner has to use more than 3,000 knives, and the prisoner will die in extreme pain.

"Do it!" Sheng Bao threw the arrow on the table to the execution ground.

The two executioners pulled Chen Yucheng to the wooden pole on the execution ground, tied his two arms with ropes, in the shape of a "ten", and the tattered clothes were pulled by the executioner on the left, revealing his chest full of scars, which were all witnesses of Chen Yucheng after countless battles on the battlefield.

"Keep people under the knife!" In the distance, Yang Xiaoshan let out a loud shout and galloped on his horse.