Wu Ruxiao of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, three sentences do not leave the West, and he always likes to put things on the Western side to guess, but this time, when he said this, the court officials present nodded in agreement.

Wu Tang, Minister of Agriculture, said directly and angrily: "What Lord Wu said is good! In my opinion, even the despicable acts of those Western countries, Britain, Tsarist Russia, or even France or Prussia, are all possible, and the foreigners are not credible at all, and cannot be trusted for a long time, and can only be used occasionally. ”

Yan Jing, Minister of Finance and Taxation, also sighed: "I agree with the two Lord Wu's statements! Now that our Chinese Empire is at its most powerful, but this strength is maintained by His Majesty's golden body, so I suspect that those Western enemy countries have begun to use their crooked brains when they see that they cannot defeat us with upright force. I hope that Your Majesty should not be seriously injured, otherwise I will be a courtier's ......."

Yan Jing didn't say any more, and it would be a bit rebellious to continue. But everyone understands his concerns. Speaking of which, in the final analysis, the emperor did not publicly appoint the crown prince and clarify the heir to the throne, and the so-called country will not be established if the country is not established, and the country will be uneasy.

But how to open this word, this advice is not good, even if it is as enlightened and benevolent as His Majesty today, as a courtier, it is not easy to clearly meddle in such a major affairs of the country.

Today, His Majesty is in the prime of life, upright and prime, and his martial arts are also brilliant, rashly admonishing that he wants to establish a prince, the emperor will inevitably wonder whether the person who advises him is cursing himself for the dragon's unhealthy body, or as a courtier, he wants to collude with the prince to fight for the great merit of establishing the dragon, and it is easy to be suspected of harboring evil intentions. Even if these are not said, after the persuasion, which prince is appointed as the prince, this is a troublesome thing, one is not good, you will have to fall into the internal strife of the royal family, now there are more than one or two princes, although there is no rumor of fighting, but this is related to the entire Chinese Empire such a huge and unprecedented country, who does not want to have, not to mention the battle for the throne since ancient times, are all swords and swords, how can there be no disputes?

Therefore, Yan Jing and the courtiers were at a loss, not to mention that he and Wu Tang and others were still Manchu ministers, so they didn't dare to say more.

Sure enough, as soon as Yan Jing finished speaking, some ministers expressed their dissatisfaction: "Lord Yan's words are not right!" Who knows if you really want Your Majesty to be seriously injured or lightly injured? Could it be that Lord Yan has to be injured by His Majesty, so he can't pray for His Majesty's true dragon son like the next official, and the blessings of the heavens, even if he encounters a small man, he will not be injured? What's more, how did Lord Yan insist that it was a Western conspiracy? It can't be the remnants of the Manchu Dynasty, Lord Yan and Lord Wu both excused the remnants of the Manchu Dynasty and pushed them onto the foreigners who were thousands of miles apart, could it be because the two adults were Manchu vassals, and they wanted to cover up for those Manchu remnants? ”

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, but when they saw it, it was Pan Wentao, vice minister of commerce.

Pan Wentao is the person in charge of the Pan family, one of the thirteen lines in Guangzhou, and the Pan family is the largest force in the thirteen lines except the Wu family, following Wu Chongyao together at the beginning of the Taiping Holy Kingdom to take refuge in the current emperor, and it can be regarded as a minister from the dragon, after Wu Chongyao was transferred to the governor of Guangdong, he took over his position as the minister of commerce, but this vice minister has been a few years but has not been able to turn positive, and this Yan Jing and Wu Tang are both Manchu ministers, the original position is not high, or was promoted to the position of vice minister by the emperor, The qualifications and the time he took office as the vice minister are far inferior to Pan Wentao, but now that Yan Jing and Wu Tang have both been transferred from vice ministers to ministers, it is inevitable that Pan Wentao will be dissatisfied.

Yan Jing's face was already flushed, and he looked at Pan Wentao angrily and said, "The surname is Pan, I, Yan Jing, am an upright Han Chinese, who are you slandering the remnants of the Manchu Dynasty?" ”

Wu Tang, Minister of Agriculture, was also a little angry, shook his fists at his colleagues around him, and said hatefully to Pan Wentao: "Master Pan, what you said is appropriate." Who doesn't know, Lord Yan and I are both Han Chinese, although we used to be officials under the Manchus, but they were all petty officials who were excluded, and even Your Majesty did not pursue these, and now you raise suspicions like this, and conclude that Your Majesty's assassination was done by the remnants of the Manchu Dynasty, and you want to slander us for being related to this matter, although my Wu Tang is weak, I dare not swallow my anger.

Besides, when you were in the Thirteen Lines, didn't you also help the Manchurians on errands to work for them?

Your Excellency will help you testify, and when Your Majesty's dragon body improves, I will go to Your Majesty and let Your Majesty judge it! ”

Wu Tang's words were very level, and one sentence pushed Pan Wentao to the opposite side of many ministers, after all, among the courtiers present, except for the Taiping old man who followed Feng Yunshan, the rest had more or less worked in the Manchu court, and Li Hongzao, the minister of supervision, and Cheng Wucai, an adviser at the level of the deputy minister of supervision, were still important ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Therefore, these courtiers, who had something to do with the Manchu Qing Dynasty but had always been reluctant to be mentioned or wanted to do everything possible to get rid of it, all glared at Pan Wentao.

Li Hongzao of the Ministry of Supervision glanced at Pan Wentao with deep meaning, and his cold eyes made Pan Wentao feel excited.

Therefore, Pan Wentao smiled and explained: "Lord Wu forgives the sin, Pan is just worried about His Majesty's casual words, casual words, Lord Wu, and Lord Yan, don't take it to heart." ”

Both of them were sincerely silent, and the atmosphere was awkward for a while.

At this moment, the east side door of the Taiping Pavilion opened, and Fan Ruzeng walked over with a gloomy face and flushed eyes, and seven or eight guards armed with revolvers guarding the side door.

"Lord Fan, is Your Majesty's dragon body fine?"

When everyone saw Fan Ruzeng coming out of the side door, they all stepped forward and asked.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, the dragon is healthy, only a few minor injuries, but it has suffered some injuries and has suffered some injuries, and it will take some time to recuperate." Fan Ruzeng said: "All the adults go back, Your Majesty is now distracted and doesn't want to summon you." Your Majesty said, your Excellency is doing your best these days, and you must not waste important things in the court. ”

"We're respectful of the Holy Decree!" Hearing Fan Ruzeng's oracle of the emperor, everyone knelt down one after another to answer.

Seeing that Fan Ruzeng was about to turn around and go back to the Taiping Pavilion, the Minister of Justice Huang Yukun was anxious and called Fan Ruzeng: "Little Fan, is Your Majesty really okay?" I, Huang Yukun, am a Taiping minister, I am going to meet Your Majesty, I haven't seen Your Majesty, I feel uneasy! ”

Fan Ruzeng said embarrassedly: "Huang Guizhang, Your Majesty said that I don't want to summon you for the time being. You're like this, it's very difficult for the kid! ”

Fan Ruzeng has a lot of respect for Huang Yukun, and directly calls him the title of the noble uncle of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Huang Yukun is the father-in-law of the righteous king Shi Dakai, Huang Yukun really feels a lot better, and he no longer insists at the moment, but just advises: "If there is any news of Your Majesty, please also ask Lord Xiao Fan to inform Huang as soon as possible!" ”

Fan Ruzeng hurriedly agreed. The other ministers also told Fan Ruzeng to bring his words to His Majesty, asking His Majesty to summon him as soon as possible and learn the news of His Majesty as soon as possible.

However, when Fan Ruzeng turned around and returned to the Taiping Pavilion, the courtiers present did not talk too much, they all looked cautious and left without saying a word. And some of these good ministers even made a vague look at each other, and made an appointment to meet in detail in the evening.

Pan Wentao walked a few steps quickly, caught up with Huang Yukun, who was about to leave, and said, "Lord Huang, Lord Huang, wait for the next official!" ”

Huang Yukun glanced at Pan Wentao suspiciously, for this shrewd person who is just doing business, Huang Yukun usually doesn't deal with much, he has no good feelings and no malice, but today's matter, Huang Yukun doesn't like this person very much.

"Lord Huang, don't you think today's events are a little weird?" Pan Wentao and Huang Yukun walked side by side, and said in a voice that happened to be heard by the two of them: "Your Majesty must have had an accident." If it weren't for that, why wouldn't you let me wait to see you? Also, Lord Huang, I don't know if you noticed, Xiao Fan's eyes were flushed, obviously he had just cried. What is it that makes Xiao Fan, who has always been old and strong, cry too? ”

Huang Yukun was suddenly taken aback: "What do you mean by this?" ”

Pan Wentao was also shocked when he felt Huang Yukun's momentum, but his face remained unchanged at all: "Lord Huang, I mean, Your Majesty is likely to have really had an accident!" Even if there is no fear of life, we have been seriously injured, otherwise, how could we not be summoned. Even if you don't summon Xia Guan like this, you should summon an old man from Heaven like Lord Huang! What Xia Guan is most worried about is, will His Majesty be controlled? ”