It's difficult, I want to maintain the imperial power, but also for the sake of the interests of the empire, Cixi thinks that it is the first time for her to do this, whether she wants to think about the royal face, or for the sake of a court. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Knock knock knock...... The footsteps outside interrupted the thinking Cixi, and when she looked up, Li Lianying was trotting in front of her.

Strange, he didn't call him, what did he come to do?

"Lafayette, Zhang Zhidong Zhang Zhongtang is waiting outside the hall."

Zhang Zhidong, Cixi, who heard this, stood up suddenly, what she needs most now is someone to talk to about things with her.

"Called." Without the slightest hesitation, Cixi said.

"Wow." Li Lianying replied, turned around and walked out.

A few minutes later, a gray-haired, emaciated old man walked outside, and this person was Zhang Zhidong.

Zhang Zhidong left Baoji that night and arrived in Hanzhong by train.

Originally, Zhang Zhidong was going to take a carriage, but after Liu Jun got this situation, he immediately gave Wang Shizhen an order to mobilize the airship to assist Zhang Zhidong in Chengdu.

After receiving the order, the Hanzhong base in the northwest of Hanzhong immediately sent three airships to wait in Hanzhong, and after Zhang Zhidong arrived, he took the airship to the outskirts of Chengdu on the same day. After all, airships can't go into the city, so it's easy to panic the people.

"You're back." When Zhang Zhidong walked in, Cixi interrupted Zhang Zhidong's visit and asked Zhang Zhidong to sit down, then he asked.

If I don't come back, the court doesn't know what the chaos will become, although I think so in my heart, Zhang Zhidong still nodded, and then asked Cixi in front of me and said: "Lafayette, Wechen heard that Lafayette is going to war against France, but there is such a thing?" ”

Knowingly asking, Zhang Zhidong does this to belong to a situation of knowingly asking.

Although Cixi has a thick skin, at this point, even if she has a thick skin, she will blush.

Only to see Cixi lower her head, her face flushed for a while, then she nodded, she knew that this was an impulsive move she made in anger. But now, I have given the order, what should I do?

"Lafayette can't help it?" Seeing Cixi nodding, Zhang Zhidong stood up suddenly.

Facing Zhang Zhidong's action, Cixi's heart tightened, she knew that Zhang Zhidong was a person, and he had always been a person who knew how to count etiquette, but now that he just nodded, Zhang Zhidong was like this, Cixi was a little flustered in his heart, he estimated that he had done something wrong.

How to say this. Seeing Zhang Zhidong's nervous expression, Cixi quickly turned her head and asked.

"Lafayette, the imperial court can't start a war with France now, once the war in the southwest begins, no one can guarantee that Liaodong will not attack from the north, and once they attack from the front and back, our imperial court will die and have no place to be buried."

Zhang Zhidong knew that when he spoke to Cixi, he had to poke at her sore spot to be effective. And Cixi's biggest pain now is not France, but Liaodong, Liaodong, which is the most terrifying pain in Cixi's heart.

Cixi was startled, and after a panic in her heart, Cixi looked at Zhang Zhidong in front of her again, hoping that he could continue to speak.

Zhang Zhidong was also not polite, and then said again: "The French wolf is ambitious, they terminate the cooperation with us, this may not be a good thing, at least the Yunnan-Guizhou region is stable, and we can't afford to be angry with these barbarians." Zhang Zhidong, who said this, lowered his head and thought for a while, and said again: "I am a Qing Dynasty, a country of etiquette and civilization, and I am angry with France, which shows that we are not generous, let alone what a world center country should do, therefore, Lafayette, we can't go to war with France, we should immediately let Ding Zhenfeng withdraw from the army and return to normal." ”

This one? Cixi was a little moved when she heard this, but now, when she gave such an order, I am afraid that her face will be disgraceful.

Zhang Zhidong already knew what Cixi was thinking, he lowered his head and thought about it for a while, Zhang Zhidong decided to launch a scapegoat, that is, the military department Shangshu, only by letting him come out to replace him, Cixi's heart can be stable,

"The military department is also old, it's time to go home to retire." In a word, Zhang Zhidong's sentence made Cixi understand the meaning of this.

"That's right." Cixi, who answered, looked outside, and immediately shouted, "Someone." ”

Fart, Li Lianying ran in from outside with a smile, and then looked at Cixi in front of her.

"Passing on the will of the mourning family......."

Jiangcheng, Yunnan. It is less than 200 kilometers away from Vietnam, and it used to be very quiet, but now, there are 5,000 soldiers and horses in Rucheng, and fifteen kilometers outside Jiangcheng, there is also an association of 5,000 soldiers and horses stationed. The small Jiangcheng already has more than 10,000 troops, and if you add Tusi's soldiers and horses, there are currently 13,000 people.

Jiangcheng County Ya, which has now become the headquarters of the army, as the commander of the army, Ding Zhenfeng, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, was wearing a fiery red military uniform, standing there with a nervous face, looking at the map in front of him in a daze.

Ding Zhenfeng was very dissatisfied with the heavy concentration of troops on the Vietnamese border this time. He knows better than anyone what the situation of the imperial court troops is now, this is simply hitting an egg against a stone, however, he can only obey the order of the imperial court, therefore, after receiving the order, Ding Zhenfeng can only mobilize the troops in Kunming and Guiyang, causing a situation where the army is pressing.

Ding Zhenfeng originally planned to use this method to give Vietnam a disadvantage, but what he didn't expect was that Vietnam didn't take itself seriously at all, and according to the situation reports in various places, the French army in Vietnam did not make any adjustments at all.

The more this is the case, the more unsteady Ding Zhenfeng's heart is.

In addition, seeing that the war was imminent, but the grain, grass and military salaries promised by the imperial court had not been delivered until now, and the troops below had begun to complain, and using such troops to fight France was looking for death. He who dies cannot die again.

Hey, did the court lose its heart and go crazy this time? How could such a decision be made, Ding Zhenfeng, who looked at the map, sat helplessly on the chair, looking at the sky outside in a daze, he didn't know how he should handle it, whether he was going to mobilize troops to go here, but he had no army to mobilize now, and if he was moving, he could only be transferred to the fifth town of the new edition in Shrimp Fire Prefecture.

What should I do, Ding Zhenfeng, who slapped his head, closed his eyes and thought heavily. He had never encountered anything like this since he became governor, and it was like asking for his own life. (To be continued.) )