Li Hongzhang sighed and said: "There is room for turnaround, the first article, the second article, can not be changed, and the requirements for modifying the third article are very simple!" If you want to make Huaguo and Qing have the same status, divide the city of Beijing equally, starting from Yongding Gate, Yongding Gate, Zhengde Gate, You'anmen, Zhiwu Gate, Tiananmen, Di'anmen, Desheng Gate, these covered areas all belong to Huaguo! The Forbidden City was still inhabited by the emperor and the empress dowager, leaving Andingmen and Zuo'anmen, and Dong'anmen for the Qing to enter and exit. Xuan Yuemeng, www.biquge.info Pen Fun Pavilion, said that this was his minimum requirement, and that he had to give an answer within ten days, and now two days have passed. ”

Empress Dowager Cixi shook, "I almost fainted again, the biggest difference between the Chinese army and the foreigners is that the Chinese army is Chinese, and they are permanent and can't leave, and no matter how ruthless the foreigners are, there is no way to rely on them for a long time!" ”

At this time, the Empress Dowager Cixi also fully understood, even better than Li Hongzhang, Xuan Yuemeng wanted to unify the whole country, and Xuan Yuemeng wanted to maintain the rule of the Qing court, so that the Qing court could help manage most of the backward areas, so as to avoid a situation of warlord chaos.

This is tying up a man to do things for him, what is the difference with a slave? What is the difference between the city of Beijing and the vassal state of Danghua? It's just a little better looking, but it's ridiculous to be in the same city as the thieves, and there has never been such a thing in history.

The Empress Dowager Cixi shook her head, her thoughts were very confused, "You guys discuss it!" Today, be sure to negotiate the result! Immediately 800 miles of expedited Governor Huguang, Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Governor of Sichuan, Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, let them immediately show their attitude after receiving the expedited! ”

"Huh." Li Lianying promised and immediately went to pass on the message of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

The Governor of Liangjiang and the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang have existed in name only, because they are all in the hands of Xuan Yuemeng, the governors of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Fengtian Provinces are also equivalent to nothing, Jilin and Heilongjiang have not been contacted at all, and they are also equivalent to Xuan Yuemeng's hands!

Although President Meng only occupies less than one-third of China's land, he has more than two-thirds of the resources of the whole of China in this era, and the Qing court guards a large area of land, which is of no soft use, and if he is burdened with a huge arrears of 10 million taels of silver every year, he really don't play.

The Empress Dowager Cixi left, Li Hongzhang looked at the back of the Empress Dowager Cixi gloomily, his heart was full of clouds, in fact, he could already feel that the Empress Dowager had a tendency to accept! Otherwise, such harsh conditions will be rejected directly in any case, instead of letting everyone discuss it.

"What's on the table? Just hit it! "Zuo Zongtang's voice is not loud, but he is very neutral, and he is still a scholar." If you can say yes to this, and ...... What's the difference? ”

Everyone understands what the words Zuo Zongtang didn't say are, the country!

If such harsh conditions are agreed, the Great Qing Kingdom is equivalent to being dead.

"You can't say that, stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood." Li Hongzao spoke.

A group of Qingliu ministers followed, as long as they could keep the country, and at this point, disagreements began to appear within the Qing court.

Prince Gong and others are now completely out of power, so they simply pretend to be deaf and dumb, Yixun thinks that his huge foundation in Beijing has been in vain, and now he is still sad and slow.

The conditions proposed by President Meng were too harsh, and Zuo Zongtang and a group of ministers of the main battle faction finally said that they moved the Empress Dowager Cixi and gathered a horse team of more than 10,000 people to make one last effort.

At the end of 1874, the Qing army's horse team, mainly the elite brought back from the northwest by Zuo Zongtang, plus a small part of the remnants of the Huai army, more than 15,000 iron horsemen, launched a fierce battle with the Chinese army in the outer city of Beijing.

"Kill!" Nie Shicheng shouted, pulled out his waist knife, shook it, and charged forward.

More than 15,000 iron horsemen of the Qing army poured towards the Chinese army like a tide.

Lu Kangtian, who was standing on the strong city defense, saw this situation and shook his head with a wry smile, "As soon as the president lets you go again and again, why don't you understand?" ”

The artillery battalions of the Chinese army have all entered the city defense of Beijing, and the city defense of Beijing is so tall and strong that it is put in the future generations, in 1948, and it has a strategic role!

It is easy for the Qing army to lose the city defense of Beijing, and it is really funny if they want to take it back.

The Chinese army in a group of two, alternately put guns, the Chinese artillery battalion accurately protected the Qing army's shock front, the Qing army's war horses, one by one fell, the Eight Banners athletes, the Chu army athletes, the Huai army athletes, even rolling and crawling fell off the horse, from the perspective of tragedy and special effects, this battle is very awesome.

Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!

Boom Boom! Boom Boom! Boom Boom!

The Chinese army's gun and artillery firepower network is already the most powerful army equipment in the world in this era, not to mention a group of cold weapons and iron cavalry, iron cavalry to attack the city, it is just a joke, with this regiment led by Lu Kangtian, more than 2,000 people, is to let the British infantry division, tens of thousands of people to attack, there is no burden at all, because Beijing's city defense is too strong!

If the Empress Dowager Cixi didn't take people to run away, everyone would defend the Beijing division together, and the troops from all over the country would rush to King Qin, and President Meng would really be difficult to do, but now it's the other way around, and the Chinese army that has become President Meng is guarding the city, and the Qing army wants to take Beijing City.

Zuo Zongtang personally pressed the formation, and the Qing army carried out four attacks.

After two hours of fierce fighting, the Qing army was completely annihilated, and Zuo Zongtang fled back with more than ten senior officers including Nie Shicheng.

The Empress Dowager Cixi got the news while lying on the bed, sighed silently, turned her head inside, and continued to sleep.

The house she lives in now is from the county order of Wei County.

Li Lianying said cautiously: "Master, are the ministers of military aircraft waiting?" Do you want to call it up? ”

Empress Dowager Cixi choked up and said: "This Xuan Yuemeng really has to make inches, and now he has offered a compensation of 200 million taels of silver, so that we can pay 10 million taels a year for a period of 20 years, this is to kill them all." I really want to go to the southwest, go to Huguang, and call on the people of the world to fight to the end with the cute bandits. ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi said angry words, in fact, in the southwest, she didn't dare to go, the rule of the Qing Dynasty in the southwest has never been stable, Wu Sangui rebelled in Yunnan at the beginning, in the original history, the first shot against the Qing Dynasty was also in the southwest, and the main crusade against Yuan Shikai was still in the southwest. Not to mention going to the southwest to call on the people, whether they will be chopped up by the people in the mountains is a question.

So in the original history, when the Eight-Nation Alliance was later, Cixi and her gang also fled to Shaanxi and ran to the northwest, which is a bit similar.

Li Lianying didn't dare to say anything, and she didn't know how to persuade her, so she could only keep her eyes red and listen to the letter. (To be continued.) )