There are many men who respect Cixi, but if she takes away the identity of "Jun" and only leaves the identity of a woman, then the men kneeling in front of her will turn into looking down or even despising her when they fall on her.

Before Guan Zhuofan, her relationship with any man was a relationship of mutual admiration, and she never looked at each other at the same level with any man.

She never knew that a man in a horizontal line of sight could be so exciting.

I never knew that the feeling of being in the horizontal sight of another man was generally heart-wrenching.

The trip to Tianjin, getting along day and night, indulging in joy and having no scruples, not only quickly amplified this intoxicating feeling, but even gave Cixi a vague illusion of "living at home". My heart was sweet, and unconsciously, I said something like "Well, I'm home".

In her subconscious, the place where she and Guan Zhuofan grind their sideburns is more like her "home".

As if drunk, she began to get deeply attached to this feeling.

So, in the midst of the steam, Cixi was surprised to find that she had such an idea: marry him!

She was taken aback by herself, how could this be? It's ridiculous! But......

She remembered the last time she was at Baylor House—no, he was still a bezel at the time—and he said, "I want to marry you."

At that time, although the Queen Mother was in turmoil, she also understood that this was just a "love talk" when Yan was in good love, and she didn't dare to take it seriously. But now that she thinks about it, she can't help but think of this sentence as his sincere confession - how can it be false? Every time the two were alone, he looked at himself like a beast of prey. If you miss the eye, you will pounce. Tear off your clothes. And then—

Well, the Queen Mother blushed, her heart was beating, and her breathing was quick.

Lang is affectionate, and the concubine is intentional, so-

Of course, there is a whole bunch of things called "ancestry" pressing on the head. However, Cixi, as one of the supreme rulers of the empire. The heart is clear: the "ancestral system" thing, in the final analysis, is just a cover for people who eat the benefits of the "ancestral system" to protect their own interests. There is no "ancestral system" in the world that cannot be moved - the curtain of the two palaces is not an "ancestral system"!

The "ancestral system" can be moved at every turn, and it all depends on which side has greater forces to move it and which side wants to maintain it.

Cixi has never been a person who is afraid of difficulties! In the midst of my thoughts, a thought came to me again: this thing used to be incredible, because the strength of himself and "him" was not enough!

What if, the power of himself and "him" is great enough?

The whole body is soaked in water. But the mouth was slightly dry, this thought. Let her be uncontrollably excited.

Cixi herself didn't realize that at this time yesterday, she didn't have enough confidence to have such a thought—just overnight, her waist hardened!

Why?

The dragon travels thousands of miles, and the knot is here -- this confidence stems from this morning's magnificent military parade.

First of all, she believes that Guan Zhuofan's loyalty to her can be completely confirmed.

After the Holy Ancestor, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty did not directly intervene in the army. This is because, through the hands of the Holy Ancestor, the imperial power of the Qing Dynasty began to be highly centralized, and the emperor no longer had the need to directly control the army.

For more than 100 years, the Qing Dynasty did not have a private army.

But Hong Yang was in turmoil, and the situation changed greatly. The rotten wood of the flag camp and the green camp was unbearable to carve, and the imperial court could only start from scratch and rely on the local government to organize its own group training. The Hunan and Huai armies, which started from this, not only were the soldiers recruited by the generals themselves, but the food and salaries were also raised by the generals themselves. Personnel and finances were not in the hands of the imperial court, and China's army began to become a private army.

The situation of Xuan Jun is different. The backbone of the Xuan army came from the guards of the Son of Heaven, and the military salary was supported by the Jianghai tariff, and the people were their own families, and the financial power was also in the hands of the imperial court, so they could be completely assured.

However, there are two very special things about Xuanjun.

First, the rebirth of Xuanjun was realized in the United States; Including the large-scale expansion of the army after the Battle of Atlanta, from beginning to end, it was spent on American money, not doing the affairs of the imperial court.

Second, the system and training of the Xuan Army are too special, and the rules and regulations of the imperial court cannot be poured into the water, and the needle cannot be inserted. Seriously speaking, compared with the Hunan Army and the Huai Army, the Xuan Army is more like an "independent kingdom".

It's just that Guan Zhuofan's identity as the flag man and the seemingly irreplaceable curtain of the queen mother of the two palaces cover up this point.

But it's not for no one to be suspicious.

Guan Zhuofan himself was weak first. Otherwise, it would not have been so frightened that after hearing Li Lianying's secret report in the An Dehai case, he was so shocked that he came up with the idea of calling for a rebellion.

Cixi also vaguely wondered: Is he" 100% loyal to herself?

In particular, since the imperial court has set a charter to suppress Hunan and Huai, after the Hunan army and the Huai army are dismantled, the country will have something to do, and it will be even more important to rely on the Xuan army. Therefore, whether Cixi is for her personal interests, or for the interests of the court and the clan, she must ensure 100% the loyalty of Xuanjun - Guan Zhuofan's loyalty.

So, what does it mean to be "100% loyal"?

There is a widely circulated joke that it is said that not long after Sejong succeeded to the throne, Nian Qianyao quelled the rebellion of Lobuzang Tenzin, returned to Beijing from Qinghai in triumph, and led his troops to conduct a military exercise for Sejong in Fengtai. When the sun was blazing, the sergeants were sweating and wetting their armor, Sejong Wen instructed to "remove the armor", and the sergeants should not, until Nian Qianyao gave the order, and the military did not "obey the order". Sejong was shocked to realize that the year was already very strong, and the tail was too big to fall, so he made up his mind last year.

That's. On the exercise ground, how could Sejong, with the respect of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, be such a shrewd and skilled person, how could he pass Nian Qianyao and directly point fingers at the sergeants? Can we imagine that during the military parade, Cixi did not know Guò Guan Zhuofan, and ordered the troops to be paraded?

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if Sejong was really confused for a while, and issued such a "warm edict", it was natural for the sergeant to "disobey the order". The soldiers regard obedience as their duty, and the object of obedience is their own commander - Sejong is not their commander, and directly orders them how to be, and how to make them obey?

Therefore, if the sergeants "do not obey the order," it can only mean that this is a well-disciplined army, and it must not be said that the commander of the army is domineering and unsubordinate. Otherwise, an army, if it hears the wind is rain, will still have a fart fight.

Although this paragraph is unreliable, with its wide circulation, it illustrates the mentality of the people of the time towards the delicate relationship between the emperor, the generals and the army: precisely because the emperor does not directly control the army, so judging the loyalty of the generals is implicitly based on whether the person is willing to have direct contact with the army or the emperor, whether he regards the army as his own forbidden body, and does not allow the court or even the emperor himself to "touch the top"?

Guan Zhuofan took the initiative to invite Cixi to Tianjin for a military parade, and for this reason, he overcame all difficulties and made a series of arrangements without precedent and even a ban on doing so, in Cixi's eyes, it was a kind of expression of his "sincerity" to himself - Guan Zhuofan was not only willing, but also took the initiative to ask himself to have direct contact with Xuanjun, which does not just show that he is loyal and can be loyal to the sun and the moon?

Also, after all, she is only the queen mother, neither an emperor nor a woman - Cixi knows how many people do not want her to "Si Chen" all the way to the head of the army? How difficult it is for the "Queen Mother's Military Parade" to be successful, and how much Guan Zhuofan has to do with it!

Well, that's not even "100% loyalty", what is it?!

Thinking of this, the Queen Mother couldn't help but feel hot in her heart, and the idea of "wind and rain all the way, support each other, and share weal and woe" arose.

You are good to me, and I will be better to you!

At the time of the An Dehai case, if someone took "someone's political power and military power" and showed concern in front of the Queen Mother, Cixi might indeed be suspicious. But now if someone says this, when the royal sister hears it, she will only think that "those who are wrong are not human", either worrying too much, or coming to sow discord. Because, she will never believe that Guan Zhuofan may have two hearts for herself.

Since Guan Zhuofan is loyal to himself, then Guan Zhuofan's strength, the strength of Xuan Jun, is equivalent to his own strength.

As a result, the royal sister felt that her strength had never been so strong at this moment!

Why did her waist stiffen up overnight? That's where it is!

This morning's "military parade", which should not have appeared on this plane at this time, shocked Cixi almost to the point where it is indescribable.

*(To be continued......)