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The ministers of military aircraft, Qi Liaozao, Peng Yunzhang, Mu Yin, Shao Can, as well as the former minister of the imperial court, Seng Lingqin, and the cabinet scholar Su Shun, knelt down in front of the imperial case.

Everyone thought that the emperor would be furious, but he just sighed, threw the piece in his hand in front of everyone, and said in a hoarse and low voice: "Yi Su is sorry for the ancestors and ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, I am full of people, this is about to end!" ”

Qi Liaozao, Peng Yunzhang, and Shao Can were silent and knelt on the ground.

And Mu Yin, Seng Lingqin and Su Shun grabbed the ground with their heads, and cried in unison to persuade: "Your Majesty, you deserve death for being a slave and other crimes!" can't share the emperor's worries. ”

Seeing the ministers crying, Xianfeng gritted his teeth, cleaned up his mood, cheered himself up, and showed a reluctant smile that was more ugly than crying: "Okay! My country hasn't collapsed yet, don't cry like a girl, Su Shun, you come to read this report for me. ”

Su Shun hurriedly picked up the report on the ground, and read tremblingly: "The bandit Qin Rigang led 30,000 rebels, and his momentum was very sharp, bombarding Chuzhou City and killing Zhizhou Pan Li; broke Fengyang Mansion again, and the prefect Yang Li Town was injured and martyred; The bandits attacked Huaiyuan and Mengcheng one after another, and Li Yunchang and others died in Zhixian County; Three days later, the thieves captured Xuyang and Haozhou, and when they conquered Haozhou, Zhizhou Chengjie died. The bandits entered Hanan from Anman, and then captured the city of Guide and Ningling, and the prefect and the county were killed in battle; Now attacking Kaifeng Mansion ......"

"Enough! Don't read it. Xianfeng shouted irritably, "Where is Shengbao leading the troops?" ”

Xianfeng thought that he was strong enough and numb after the fall of Guilin, Guangzhou, Wuchang, Anqing and Jiangning, but he didn't expect that after the loss of one county and one state that Su Shun read out continuously, he still couldn't bear it and became upset.

Su Shun replied: "Shengbao led 7,000 cavalry to Linqing a few days ago, and is now rushing south; Zhang Liangji, the governor of Shandong, also led his troops to Caozhou Mansion to intercept it, and Zhang Liangji engaged the bandits the night before, won a battle, and captured a marshal of the bandits. However, Zhang Liangji impeached Shengbao, saying that when he crossed the border from Shandong, he connived at his subordinates to loot, delayed and delayed, and failed to intercept effectively. ”

Xianfeng said: "This Zhang Liangji, if he hadn't been able to intercept him in Munan, why would he have made trouble to this point?" I don't rely on Shengbao, can these banner people still rely on him, Zhang Liangji can't do it? If you don't have any other ability, you will impeach others all the time! I want to punish him, and I will dismiss Zhang Liangji from his post and send him to Xinjiang on the charge of reporting untruths. ”

Xianfeng's words were very explicit, and he almost said unreliable words about the Han people. Qi Liaozao, Peng Yunzhang, and Shao Can, who were kneeling on the ground, were even more ashamed and panicked.

But Mu Yin and Monk Gelinqin smiled, the emperor didn't believe in the Han people, so he could only pay more attention to people like them who were full of flags and banners.

However, Su Shun knelt down and suggested: "Your Majesty, now that the state is in danger, it is necessary to order the Han gentry from all over the country to serve my Qing Dynasty." Zeng Guofan, who was in the south of the country, reported last month that he had created a naval division for the Qing Dynasty and began to take shape. The emperor might as well appease more, set an example, and inspire all Hanchen to serve my life for the Qing Dynasty! ”

Xianfeng pondered for a while, nodded, and said, "Yuting is reasonable!" The edict promoted Zeng Guofan to the governor of Munan, wore a yellow coat, was in charge of military affairs in the area of Munan, and led Xiangyong and the sailors to meet the bandits of the Western Expedition! ”

"Wow!" Su Shun hurriedly responded, and continued what he had just said, saying, "Your Majesty, how to deal with the post of governor of Shandong?" ”

"Let's let the feudal priest Chong'en act as the governor of Shandong first!" Xianfeng rubbed his temples and said: "Order Shengbao, be sure to intercept the bandits going north in the area of Kaifeng Mansion, and besiege and defeat them on the spot." Don't let the thieves run north anymore! ”

"In addition, I ordered Zhang Fu, the governor of the west of the city, and Jiang Zhongyuan, the envoy of the north of the paste, to strictly guard against Nanchang and Jiujiang, if they lose these two cities again, I want them to come and see them!"

"Wow!" Solemnly and respectfully, he looked back proudly at the ministers of military aircraft kneeling on the ground, showing that his holy family was with him.

I thought that the emperor would let them retreat, but unexpectedly, a little eunuch hurriedly came from outside the door, holding a newspaper and presenting it to the emperor.

After Xianfeng spread it out, he glanced inside and out, and his face, which had eased a lot and had a slight smile, slowly, his brows became more and more wrinkled, and finally his face became full of iron, and he said in a deep voice with anger: "Compared with the "Nanfang Daily" founded by this Cantonese thief, the loss of those ten states and counties is a trivial matter! What kind of newspaper is this big trouble for the Qing Dynasty! Let's all take a look! ”

After speaking, he threw the appearance of the newspaper in his hand.

Everyone speculated that what was written on that piece of paper would make the emperor change so much?

I saw that Qi Liaozao, the oldest minister with the most qualifications, picked up the newspaper in front of him, and looked at it, but it was not the newspaper of the imperial court, but a newspaper of the Cantonese thief, called "Nanfang Daily".

"The System of Fields and Mu in the Holy Country", the general principle: 'Where the world is in the field, the people in the world will cultivate together'."

"As long as you don't do evil, don't do it for the Manchus...... Working...... Bastard, how can this kind of rebellious words be published! Qi Liaozao read half of it in horror, so he didn't dare to read it anymore, and was about to tear up the newspaper of the Cantonese thief, but was stopped by Xianfeng's eyes, and in a panic passed the newspaper to Peng Yunzhang beside him.

Peng Yunzhang's face was pale when he saw the results, especially when he saw the second edition of the recent news in various places, he saw the victory of Hengxiang, and the Xiangyong of Zeng Guofan was defeated by the Cantonese thieves, and the Cantonese thieves had already arrived in Changsha, but the southern side did not reveal any news, obviously concealing it and not reporting it, and deceived the emperor.

Seeing that Xiangyong suffered more than 2,000 casualties, while the Cantonese thieves only suffered 67 casualties, although the Cantonese thieves will lose a lot, the difference is certain. I can't help but feel worried about Zeng Guofan, who has just been promoted.

Especially when I saw that "in mid-April, it was found that the demon household department only had 423,000 taels of silver, which was less than four months' salary. The Qing Demon Imperial Court was prepared to adopt measures such as opening donations, selling official titles, minting large amounts of money, issuing official tickets and money tickets, and increasing taxes, etc., to squeeze the money of the people under its rule for the Manchu banner people to squander. In this way, Peng Yunzhang couldn't bear it anymore, he concurrently served as the squire of the Ministry of Industry and the Minister of Military Aircraft, but he didn't expect that the household deposit of the imperial court was only 420,000 taels.

How can the Cantonese thieves know such news, and once such news spreads widely, causing turmoil in the hearts of the army, it will seriously shake the foundation of the imperial court. This newspaper of Cantonese thieves is not evil!

Then several ministers of military aircraft read the newspaper with pale faces, all of them thinking heavily.

Mu Yin and Seng Lingqin were both martial artists, and they were not very sensitive to the matter of this newspaper, but Su Shun, who was delicate and long-term, was different, and when he saw the newspaper of this Cantonese thief, it was quite organized and fully discussed, and he knew that something was wrong.

Even I feel that what I say in this newspaper should be the truth, not to mention those villagers, so naturally everyone thinks it is the truth.

Moreover, Su Shun, who has a unique sunshine, can see that the ambitions of this Cantonese thief are far from being comparable to those of Jiangning's bandits.

From this newspaper alone, it can be seen that the intentions of the Cantonese thieves are only sinister!

The first version of the policy of acreage was to first throw out bait to attract the support of poor people such as tenants who lacked land and food.

The second edition is the news from all over the country, but it is full of news about the defeat of the imperial court, so that those people watch the Qing court lose and retreat, and mistakenly think that the Qing dynasty is in danger.

The third edition also uses the absurd remark that the world of life is a round ball to popularize the truth of Gewu. This is even more insidious, if it is really proved that the emperor's monarchical power is divinely granted, and the Qing Dynasty's "Fengtian carries the emperor's system" will be called a joke.

The key to this was to enlighten the ignorant people and preach remarks that were not conducive to the rule of the Manchu court.

Thinking of this, Su Shun hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the slave reads the newspaper of this Cantonese thief, with sinister intentions, and must be banned!" At present, the most important thing is to strictly prevent this poison from flowing into the people in various places. ”

Xianfeng nodded and said, "Then I will order the Ministry of Rites and the Criminal Department to be responsible, and send inspectors to Fujian, Xixi, Munan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places bordering the Cantonese thieves, so as to strictly prevent the newspapers of the Cantonese thieves from flowing into the five provinces." In other localities, hundreds of officials in various localities were warned to strictly admonish those who were found to have secretly possessed narcotic reports, copied them privately, or circulated them, and those who were found to be guilty of confiscation and exiled from their homes, and those who were serious were to be arrested and exterminated on the spot. ”

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Just when the Manchu court was having a headache and panicking the newspapers run by Feng Yunshan, on the other side of the world, in London, the capital of England, on the top of a small attic, a man of thirty-five or sixteen years old with curly hair and a messy beard was holding the "Times" he had just bought and was looking at it.

Suddenly, the man with a beard on his face and his wise eyes stared at a small square and read intently: Far east, the riots in the Qing Kingdom are intensifying! After the Liangguang region in the south of the Qing Dynasty was occupied by a rebel leader named Feng Yunshan, three or four months ago, the Yangtze River valley in the central part of the Qing Dynasty, the most prosperous ancient capital of Nanjing, was also occupied by the rebels of the same origin, Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, who led troops to attack the Qing government army, and the ancient Qing country was crumbling. In this regard, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland adopted the advice of Sir Wen Han, Minister to Qing and Governor of Hong Kong Island, paid close attention to it, and maintained a neutral position for the time being.

"Haha, the oldest empire in the world, under the influence of the British bourgeoisie calico, has been on the eve of social change for eight years, and this change will surely bring extremely important results to the country. If our reactionaries in Europe flee to Asia in the near future, and finally reach the Great Wall, at the gates of this most reactionary and conservative fortress, then they may see the words "Republic of China—Freedom, Equality, Fraternity." The bearded man muttered to himself.

Then, he wrote a lot of miscellaneous essays.

"All these destructive factors, which at once affected the financial, social, industrial, and political structure of China, were fully developed by 1840 under the bombardment of British artillery; British artillery undermined the authority of the emperor and forced the Celestial Empire to come into contact with the earthly world. ”

But now, when Britain caused the Chinese Revolution, the question arose, what effect would this revolution have on Britain and, through Britain, on Europe. This question is not difficult to answer. ”

Ten days later, the bearded man completed the editorial "The Chinese Revolution and the European Revolution" and submitted it to The Times in Britain and the Daily Tribune in New York in the United States.

And, solemnly signed his name: Karl? Marx! (To be continued.) )