At the end of the fourth year of Tongzhi, the rolling cold current rushing and roaring from Mobei was wrapped in the sand and dust from Mobei and poured directly into Beijing. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info In previous years, the mutton that should be rewarded at this time will all be gone, and it is no wonder that now the imperial court is nervous, and it is a great merit to be able to keep hundreds of thousands of Beijing flags from starving to death, as for the reward and punishment in previous years, it is enough to eat more than 100 catties of mutton for a winter, and it is naturally gone.

The cold wind and sand and dust knocked on the doors and windows inside and outside the capital, followed by the goose feather snow that swirled around the sky day and night, and the heavy snow suppressed the choking sand and dust, but at the same time swallowed the entire Beijing Division, covering some of the world under a layer of snow. As far as the eye can see, the silver glow is everywhere, and the cold in the wax moon penetrates through the thousands of families in Jingshi - I don't know how many people, because they have no money to buy coal for heating, they have to use thick clothes to block the cold.

There are also some people who really can't stand the cold, so they will take advantage of the night to cut off the thick branches of the hundred-year-old willow trees and elm trees on the side of the road, and then quietly take them home, so that now in the capital, there are hardly a few trees to see, but everything that can be warmed has been cut down and sawed down.

The snow on the dilapidated streets of Jingshi was soon trampled into mud by cars and pedestrians, and the north wind was tight overnight, and all of them were frozen into slippery ice roads, where some leather children paddled without worry. As for the two-horse carriage in the palace to get water from Yuquan Mountain, it was also difficult, and it also missed the time of the palace's ** water.

In the Forbidden City, too, there was a thick layer of silver snow, and thousands of eunuchs were sweeping the snow from the courtyards and passages, stopping their brooms from time to time to warm themselves up.

"It's been so cold this year!"

Everyone says this about the old and the new, compared to the outside, the palace is naturally not worried about coal, and the huge underground pipes of the palace should be heated, and enough coal is added to drive away the deep chill that comes in from the paper window.

Not only is the weather extremely cold and unstoppable, but people's hearts are colder than the harsh winter at this time. From the Forbidden City to the streets and alleys, they were stunned by the great changes in the south.

As the emperor Yixun was frightened by the southern serial newspaper at a loss, but he was only twenty-five years old, he ascended the throne in the chaos, when the bandit soldiers besieged the Beijing division, as the emperor's younger brother, he stayed in the Beijing division, barely held the Beijing division, in the face of the reality that the emperor died of illness in the palace, he never had a day of peace when he inherited the throne.

In the past four years, in order to keep the country of the Qing Dynasty, Yixun has also worked hard, reorganized the Eight Banners, organized and trained the foreign gun team, and so on, it can be said that it is also painstaking management, and finally supported the situation. But the situation was worse than he expected.

The bandits eroded the south of the Yangtze River and the Central Plains, and the Han Dynasty stole according to Huguang Lingnan, and finally saw hope because of the bandits' civil strife, but who would have thought that after the bandits' civil strife, not only was it not pacified, but the escaping Shi Dakai instead advanced into the hinterland of the Central Plains, and a few months ago he ignored the fact that Jiangning was occupied by the Han Dynasty, and Hong rebelled to death, and waved the Northern Expedition.

Although in the end, Shi Da was defeated and led the troops to retreat into Shanxi, and Shanxi was eroded, but he did not breathe a sigh of relief at all, but his heart was hanging and he was restless - because at this time, the "Han rebellion" had almost pacified Jiangnan.

If you hear the sound of hurried footsteps, you think that Jiangnan is coming, he is waiting for it, but he doesn't want it to come, I hope that the governors of Jiangnan can become the mainstay of the Qing Dynasty, and keep the country for the Qing Dynasty, and he even made a wish that as long as the country can keep the country of the Qing Dynasty in the future, he must reward the meritorious officials.

However, the next bad news came one after another - first the governor of Sichuan surrendered to Han, then the governor of Guizhou surrendered to Han, and even Zeng Guofan, whom he regarded as the mainstay, also surrendered to Han.

As for Sang Chunrong in Yunnan, if it weren't for the fact that Hengchun, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, was a banner man, and now that Yunnan's rebellion is flourishing, I am afraid that this would have already fallen, and as for Yan Duanshu in Zhejiang, he may have surrendered to the enemy and surrendered to the thief.

Han people, Han people are unreliable after all!

The reality that Hanchen surrendered thieves one after another in such a knowing time made Yixun once again believe in the wisdom of his ancestors - the Han people cannot be trusted!

But no matter what, he also has to face the situation that he has lost half of the country, and as for the Han rebellion, he may advance into the Central Plains at any time and wave his army to the Northern Expedition.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, in the afternoon of this day, in the West Warm Pavilion of the Heart Cultivation Palace, in that warmth, he only felt a period of sleepiness, just when he just wanted to sleep. There was a eunuch from the internal affairs office to send a copy from Tianjin to 800 li plus express delivery, named as the political envoy of Zhejiang, and now in the south of the Yangtze River, only Zhejiang did not surrender thieves.

"What's going on? Could it be that Yan Duanshu has surrendered to a thief? ”

Yi Xun frowned, the situation in the world is so sinister, although he is afraid of the thieves in Zhejiang, but he has long been mentally prepared for Yan Duanshu's Hanchen surrender.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

With such a comfort in his heart, Yixun muttered in his heart again, what is the matter with the political envoy of Zhejiang. Unexpectedly, when he opened the fold and glanced at the "reason", he couldn't help but be surprised:

"Fei played the Han rebellion and Zhu thief in Jiangning to accept the persuasion of the people, and the governor Yan Duanshu and others were unstable, and they prayed for the holy deeds."

Looking at this recital, Yi Xun couldn't help but be shocked, it was expected that Zhu Thief accepted persuasion, but when all this really came, it gave him a great impact. His eyes were dark, as if the sun was setting in the west, and the twilight was coming north, enveloping the entire Heart Cultivation Hall in the darkness.

Could it be the fate of the Great Qing Kingdom?

The nervous tremor sat silently for a long time, his mind was empty, neither sorrow, nor resentment, the same worry-free, and no anger, as if he had entered another empty world without people and selflessness.

But this is obviously delusional!

As soon as I raised my eyes, the wind blew the snowflakes flying all over the courtyard, after all, I returned to the world where there were countless troubles. The sorrow in Yixun's heart, the resentment in his heart, the worry in his heart, and the anger in his heart have returned to his own body, who would have imagined that there would be so much sorrow and distress as an emperor!

At this time, he even hated the Americans—if it weren't for the fact that the Americans had repaired the telegram from Shanghai to Tianjin, he would not have known the bad news so quickly. If it weren't for the telegraph line built by the Americans, naturally they wouldn't have known the news so quickly, and if it weren't for the telegram, it would have been a year old when the news reached Jingshi.

If you don't know this news, at least you can have a good year!

Sometimes, when people are desperate, they always complain about various reasons. After complaining about the telegrams repaired by the Americans, he thought of the deceased Daoguang again.

"If you chose me at the beginning, why would the world of the Great Qing Kingdom be like this?"

Yixun couldn't help but complain again about his father, in his opinion, if it weren't for the fact that his father didn't choose him to inherit the throne back then, the world of the Great Qing Kingdom would not be so dangerous.

The Great Qing Kingdom will not be at this point now.

What a headache! Headache!

Now what?

Yixun doesn't believe that Zhu Yifeng is Hong Xiuquan, he doesn't believe that he will be addicted to Jiangning's "Nine Heavens", and the king will not be early from now on, in fact, he has been paying attention to Zhu Thief's every move after seizing Jiangning, and Hong Xiuquan is addicted to women, although he has retained more than a thousand female officials, but he has not accepted a new concubine and a daughter, and his ordinary life is still as poor as in Wuchang - his whole family only eats a few taels of silver per meal, in the capital, I am afraid it is an ordinary Baylor Mansion, and a meal may cost dozens of taels, Hundreds of taels of silver.

How can this not make Yixun's heart tremble, the more he is willing to live in poverty, the more it shows that he is ambitious, and he will never indulge in pleasure like Hong Xiuquan. You must know that his surname Zhu has been dormant for more than 400 years since he was a Jianshu, who can match this forbearance?

"The ancestor was really too benevolent and righteous, and he should have killed all the people surnamed Zhu in the world!"

While complaining about the ancestor's original "inexhaustible elimination of evil", Yixun scolded again.

"This Zhu thief actually wants to ascend the throne on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year like that Zhu Yuanzhang, does he really think he is Zhu Yuanzhang? Do you really think I'm a catty? Is it appropriate to treat Timur (Emperor Yuan Shun)? ”

As for whether you are a child? Emperor Yuan Shun, who lost the world, didn't know about it, but he knew that no matter what, he had to keep the world of the Great Qing Kingdom.

At the beginning, the ancestor's "inexhaustible elimination of evil" made his salted fish surnamed Zhu turn over, causing the Qing Kingdom to lose the world, who knows if his surname Zhu will "eliminate evil", and when the time comes, he will kill all the world's Aixin Jueluo family.

Now for Yixun, it is not only to protect the world of the Great Qing Kingdom, but also to expose the world of the Great Qing Kingdom, but also to save his own net worth.

What if the Han thief really defeated the capital by then.

Is it like him Chongzhen hanging on that crooked-necked tree?

At this time, all kinds of thoughts appeared in Yixun's mind, and when he thought of hanging himself from the crooked neck tree like Chongzhen, he immediately felt a chill to his bones, and he didn't even notice that his hands were trembling, and as for the back, he couldn't stop breaking out in a cold sweat.

Not only was the cold sweat on his back, but the cold sweat was also on his palms, and he even thought of the scene when he walked under a tree with a crooked neck, even if he barely tied the cloth belt at that time, did he have the courage to hang his neck up?

When he imagined hanging his neck on that tree, Yixin only felt as if someone was tightening his neck, so that he couldn't breathe at all, and he even wanted to shout for help.

Suddenly, the ringing of the bell woke him up from the illusion, and when he woke up, he found that he was drenched in sweat, and he stood up violently and shouted excitedly.

"No, I must protect the Great Qing Kingdom, I can't just go to see the ancestors and ancestors like this."

What he said was high-sounding, but deep in Yixun's heart, he knew very well that it wasn't that he didn't want to go to the ancestors and ancestors so gloomily and tell them that he had lost the country of the Great Qing Dynasty. It's that he simply didn't have the courage to hang himself from that tree.

Fear, a fear that he had never felt before, was in the depths of his heart, and now for the first time he realized that he was so close to his country. If he is just an ordinary prince, perhaps, he still hopes to survive when the dynasty changes, but he is the emperor, the emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty.

In the past dynasties, there are a few good kings of the dead country written in the history books, and regardless of whether their wives and daughters will be humiliated at that time, this is what should be done, and more importantly, I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to save my life, even if I endure all the shame, I will eventually find a reason to "die" by the new dynasty.

This is still the most common situation, if the one surnamed Zhu in Jiangning makes up his mind to avenge their Zhu family, then I am afraid that he will not be able to solve his hatred if he does not crush his bones and ashes, after all, the Qing Dynasty owes the Zhu family too much blood debt!

"In case you can't keep it, the world of the Great Qing Kingdom."

Because there was no one else in this Xinuan Pavilion, even the eunuch was waiting outside the door. Therefore, Yixun can reveal the true thoughts in his heart, if there is at this time, the eunuch hears this sentence. Then what awaits him will be a dead end, as the emperor, he must not let outsiders see his weakness.

"If it doesn't work, then it's ......"

Muttering to himself, Yixun thought of his English teacher - in order to be able to keep the Qing Dynasty, he not only agreed with the Americans to set up a legation in Tianjin, but even hired an English teacher for himself to teach him English, and now Yixun can talk to foreigners in simple English.

He learned not only English from his English teacher, but also Western history. He knew that a few decades ago, there was a country called France in the West, where there was also a mob rebellion, the king was beheaded by the mob because he did not flee in a hurry, and then his younger brother fled to Britain, that is, England, not only survived in Britain, saved his life, and even finally ascended to the throne with the help of Britain.

"Maybe when the time comes, I can go to other countries......"

Maybe then we can lie down and taste the courage, and then, and then in a few decades, rebuild the Qing Dynasty. At this moment, Yixun didn't even know why such a thought popped into his head.

When this thought came to him, Yixun immediately felt a panic, and he was afraid that he would be tempted by this thought, so he quickly stood up and muttered through his mouth.

"I am the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, how can I be a barbarian of Fanbang, I am a dignified son of heaven, how can I be taken over the world by Zhu Yi......"

At this time, Yixun seemed to want to use these words to convince himself, to convince himself not to be afraid, not to be afraid, but to forget the troubles in front of him, but even he knew how self-deceptive these words were.

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