Chapter 431: The Forbidden City's Shocking Changes (9)
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"Cixi is a very calculating person, whether it is a calculating person or calculating, he is eight buckets higher than the one who thinks he is talented, and even thinks that if Xianfeng hadn't occupied the throne that should have belonged to him, the Qing Dynasty would not have made such a fuss as it is now, it is much more clever."
Rehe Metropolitan Tong Bai Ye's evaluation of Cixi, who single-handedly provoked the shocking change in the Forbidden City, is really not too much at all. Cixi's is indeed calculating all the things that can be calculated.
While easily "winning" Yixun, Cixi was not complacent, she sent Ronglu to Rehe, and once again exerted her "fists and feet", "smoothing" Bai Ye, who had a good personal relationship with Yi Xin, but was extremely discordant with Zaiyuan, Duanhua and others. According to Cixi's decree, Bai Ye led his troops into the Old Summer Palace, and together with the Russian army guarding the Changchun Garden, he first surrendered the weapons of the men and horses loyal to Yi Xin in the Old Summer Palace, and then, taking over the Russian ** team that was about to enter the capital, became the Imperial Forest Army driven by Cixi Luan.
To say that Cixi knows not much about Ke Baiye. Four years ago, Bai Ye, who was already the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, didn't know why he offended Su Shun, who was in power at the time, so that in the past, he still chose the old account of the wrong inheritance of this flag during the tenure of the Mongolian capital with the white flag, and was churned out by Su Shun's left and right hands Zaiyuan and Duanhua, so he lost his position as the minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was demoted to the left deputy capital of the imperial history. When Bai Ye entered the palace to thank him, Cixi was the first and only time she had seen this unlucky Bai Ye.
Perhaps because Bai Ye was unlucky in the hands of the Su Shun party, when he listened to Bai Ye roughly describe his officialdom experience in the past few decades, Cixi expressed sympathy for this senior scholar who had been a high school scholar as early as the sixth year of Daoguang, who was edited by Shu Jishi and edited by the cabinet and the deputy commander of the Red Banner Han Army, and later served as the squire of the Shengjing Ministry of Industry, the squire of the Criminal Department and the head of Fengtianfu Yin, and also served as the envoy of the Korean Dynasty, and the Mongolian minister of the two dynasties who was in charge of the Minister of Internal Affairs. In front of Bai Ye, she sighed and persuaded her emperor that she should not be too harsh on such old ministers, especially in today's circumstances, she should not leave them in the capital more. In fact, Cixi's words, her emperor was confused, but Bai Ye, who was kneeling there, knew the meaning of this concubine Yi, if he continued to mix in the capital, sooner or later he would become a sacrifice for Su Shun and others.
In order to leave the capital as soon as possible, Bai Ye did not miss the door of Yi Xin, and sure enough, he was first released as the chief soldier of Malan Town. On the day he left the capital, Bai Ye came to the door again and thanked Yi Xin heavily, but in his heart, he was even more grateful to that concubine Yi. Within a year, he was promoted to the capital of Rehe.
That year, Xianfeng Mulan Qiuzhen arrived in Rehe, and Bai Ye felt that he finally had a chance to serve the original Concubine Yi and now Cixi, who was now Concubine Yi, but maybe Concubine Yi had long forgotten him, and he didn't even find a gap to greet Concubine Yi in person. Bai Ye is a person who is good at drinking water and thinking about the source, the more this is the case, the more Bai Ye is grateful to this Yi Guifei.
Cixi is a forgetful person, but at that time, she was so focused on how to ask her emperor to travel west as soon as possible, and she didn't have the heart to take care of others at all. No, when it came to the real critical moment, she not only remembered this Rehe commander hundreds of miles away, but also guaranteed that it would work as soon as she made it.
As soon as Kosini's regiment of Russian troops left Changchun Garden, Cixi was busy driving the Forbidden City, and she didn't even sit on the sedan chair that had been prepared, but sent Rong Lu to bring someone to bring a cart used by the eunuchs to transport the sundries in the garden in the past.
At that time, everyone, including Bai Ye, did not understand Cixi's approach, and mistakenly thought that Cixi was just too eager to return to the Forbidden City after a long absence. Especially Bai Ye, for fear that the situation in the capital would be difficult for a while, and hurt his great benefactor, he even raised his heart to his throat. It wasn't until she was already halfway through, when she was sitting in the bumpy cart, that Cixi pouted, pointed to the direction of the Old Summer Palace, which had long been submerged in darkness, and smiled proudly, ridiculing the people and horses sent by Yi Xin to Changchun Garden for a trip of empty joy, Bai Ye didn't believe that it would be true. Bai Ye knew that Prince Gong Yi Xin too well, and even at the moment of life and death, he didn't believe that he would make such a decisive choice.
But later facts proved that the qiē that Cixi had predicted was true. Bai Ye guarded the Empress Dowager Luan as soon as she entered the Desheng Gate, and he privately sent out to verify the accuracy of the Empress Dowager's language, so he hurriedly brought back a news that nearly a thousand elite horse teams of loyalty and righteousness really broke into Changchun Garden. Looking at the Queen Mother who was sitting leisurely in the cart at this time, Bai Ye suddenly felt that the young Queen Mother's delicate and weak body had become so tall under the reflection of the moonlight. The Queen Mother is really clever, if she doesn't leave Changchun Garden in time, I'm afraid that now everyone will really become a turtle in Yi Xin's urn.
This horse team was actually not sent out by Yi Xin, but the small abacus of Monk Lingqin and Mianxun. Capture the thief and capture the king first, since the Russians are tossing for Cixi's curtain again, then, let's just take down Cixi in Changchun Garden first, and see what the Russians are still making trouble?
It's a pity that not to mention that the 1,000 Mongolian horse team led by Mianxun was in the air in Changchun Garden, even the monk Lingqin, who led the brigade and wanted to enter the inner city, was also blocked under the city.
The guns and cannons rang out in Di'anmen, the flames soared into the sky, and Cixi Luan, who entered the Desheng Gate, did not delay for a moment, and the cart rumbled south. It was really a coincidence that the book was not written, just when they had just arrived outside the gate of Xi'an and planned to continue their southward journey, they collided head-on with the group of chaotic soldiers and horses led by Gui Liang.
After Gui Liang broke up with Monk Lingqin and Mianxun in Xuanwumen, he hurriedly began to gather the garrisons scattered in Xicheng. As soon as the soldiers and horses were concentrated, Gui Liang originally wanted to support the defenders holding in the direction of Daqing Gate from the side, but before he could get forward, the dense men and horses were thrown into a mess by the artillery fire falling overhead, as well as the guns and bullets that rained down on the arrow tower of Zhengyangmen. From the terrified faces of the rebels, Gui Liang understood that it was impossible to count on them to break through the Russian formation. Moreover, as soon as the Russians have their hands free to recoil, they will immediately turn his horses into headless flies. In desperation, he chose to take these men and horses to enter the imperial city through Xi'an Gate, at least this can increase the defense force in the imperial city.
As soon as he met the oncoming group of people, Gui Liang didn't care at first, although the gunfire on the side of Di'anmen became more and more intense, but there were more reliable people in this capital who had been carefully selected by him, Yi Xin, and Duanhua. He even shouted at the other party, quickly got out of the way, and followed behind his own men and horses a little later, waiting to enter the palace.
It wasn't until he saw Bai Ye on the other side clearly that he was suddenly startled, "Bai Ye...... How did you get here? ”
"By the order of the Empress Dowager, enter Beijing to quell the rebellion." Bai Ye coldly turned his horse away. With this concession on both sides of him and the soldiers behind him, a big car slowly drove out, and on the big car, it was actually Cixi's calm and noble posture that stood up.
Gui Liang was even more blindsided.
"Gui Liang, when you see the Queen Mother, don't you hurry up and get off the horse to pay homage, do you want to rebel?"
With Bai Ye's shouting at this time, Gui Liang trembled, he didn't expect to meet the queen mother who had already been imprisoned here, and he didn't know what to do for a while.
"Gui Liang, Yi Xin and others held the emperor hostage, betrayed the Qing Dynasty, and now attacked our Russian friends to openly rebel." Cixi on the cart had a cold face, "I don't know the inside story, as long as you obey Lord Bai's orders from now on and rescue the emperor, you will not be blamed for the past." If you continue to be obsessed, then you can't blame me for being unkind! ”
That's often the case, for those who are used to kneeling, it doesn't happen overnight to make their legs hard. What's more, these people who followed behind Gui Liang had not received this education at all. Gui Liang could stare at a pair of confused eyes and insist on sitting on the horse without kneeling, but those soldiers who had no chance to see the noble Empress Dowager in the past could not bear Cixi's proud standing, and hula lala knelt down.
"Gui Liang is guilty of rebellion, take it down for me!"
The big knife in Bai Ye's hand swung and roared. Suddenly, in the shadow of swords and guns, Gui Liang and his few henchmen flew flesh and blood.
Seeing Gui Liang get rid of it with her own eyes, Cixi's heart seemed to feel a little more steady, "Lord Bai, everything here will be handed over to you, you must control the various city gates, and you must not be soft on those minions who are still daring to kill one by one." Remember, it is necessary to relieve the worries of the Russian friends who entered the palace to rescue the emperor. ”
Seeing Bai Ye nodding her head firmly and repeatedly, she waved her slender little hand towards Rong Lu, "Okay, let's go to the Russian Legation." ”
Listening to the chaos in the inner city into a pot of porridge, but he couldn't enter the city, the monk Lingqin outside the Xuanwu Gate was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. Especially when Gui Liang's flesh-and-blood blurred head was thrown down on the head of the city that was called anxious, Monk Greenqin stared at Bai Ye above, and his eyes were even red. He really didn't expect that Bai Ye, a bastard of the same clan as himself, would actually become Cixi's accomplice.
"Attack, attack me!" Monk Grinqin jumped to his feet and roared.
There were no cannons, no ladders, and the chaotic generals had to cut off a huge tree, and under the cover of the rain of bullets, dozens of soldiers picked up the giant tree and slammed into the heavy city gate. If you don't succeed once, you ...... the second time
If it weren't for the timely arrival of Zhang Zuguang, the big checker of the Tongrentang, the embarrassed and angry monk Greenqin wouldn't know how long he would have to spend here.
"Monk King...... Monk King ...... The Great Qing Gate has been lost, you ...... Why are you still here......"
Looking at Zhang Zuguang, who had known him in King Gong's mansion for a long time, the monk Greenqin, who was also sweating profusely, pointed viciously at the city gate that was attacking in front of him, "***, I ......"
"Oops......" Zhang Zuguang shook off the sweat on his face and stomped his feet again and again, "Go to Chongwenmen, it's still in our hands, if it's too late, maybe there will be some accidents." ”
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