Chapter 409: The Prince

History has changed because of his own relationship, so will the fate of Tongzhi, the waste wood emperor, be different from history?

Lin Yizhe was thinking about what kind of changes might happen to the fate of Emperor Tongzhi, when he saw the housekeeper of Prince Gong's Mansion hurriedly walk in. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing the housekeeper come in, Wen Xiang and Guo Songtao were a little surprised. Now is the important time for Prince Gong to receive guests, and it is said that if there is no major event, the butler will not come to disturb him.

Prince Gong also felt very strange, and he seemed to sense something, and immediately turned around and looked at the butler.

The butler stepped forward quickly, bowed to him, and said to Prince Gong in a small voice: "Lord Wang, the chief manager of the palace is here, and I want you to enter the garden immediately to meet you." said that the queen mother summoned and had important matters to discuss. ”

After listening to the butler's report, Prince Gong's face changed slightly.

He seemed to feel that something big had happened in the palace!

"You go over first, ask Manager Liu to wait, I changed my clothes, and I will go with him." Prince Gong said.

The butler answered and withdrew. Prince Gong turned his head to look at Wen Xiang, Guo Songtao and Lin Yizhe, his eyes full of apology.

"It's really unfortunate that the Queen Mother summoned you at this time, I'm really sorry for you......"

"Where did the prince say something, the queen mother suddenly summoned me, I'm afraid that there is something important, the prince must not delay." Lin Yizhe said first.

"Yes! Don't think of us, so let's enter the garden by order! There is still a long way to go from the prince's mansion to the railway station. Guo Songtao also said, "Don't miss the audience." ”

"I just don't know why the Queen Mother summoned her? ......" Wen Xiang was uneasy in his heart, and he groaned with his beard.

"The Queen Mother was suddenly summoned at this time, I am afraid that there was a big change in the palace." Lin Yizhe remembered the news of "Holy Bow Violation of Peace" that came out a few days ago, and his heart sank, and said, "I'm afraid that it is not only the prince himself who is going here, but also the ministers who are afraid that they will also be summon......ed" He said, his eyes turned to Wen Xiang.

"Then I will go back first, lest the envoy come and find me." Wen Xiang understood what Lin Yizhe meant, got up and said.

Lin Yizhe and Guo Songtao immediately bid farewell to Prince Gong and Wen Xiang, Prince Gong thought for a moment, and asked Lin Yizhe and Guo Songtao to continue to stay at the table, and wait for him to change his clothes and leave with the envoy before leaving. Lin Yizhe and Guo Songtao understood what Prince Gong meant, so they did not leave immediately, but still sat down. And Wen Xiang called his servant, walked out of the back door of Prince Gong's mansion, and went straight to his mansion.

"How did Kunyu guess that there was a major change in the palace?" After Prince Gong and Wen Xiang left, only Lin Guo and the two of them were left in the hall to feast on a table, Guo Songtao smiled bitterly and asked.

"If it weren't for a major change, I wouldn't be so anxious to ask the prince to enter the park. And it doesn't have to be announced by Mr. Liu. Lin Yizhe smiled slightly, took a piece of abalone from his chopsticks, and chewed it.

Hearing Lin Yizhe's answer, Guo Songtao suddenly realized.

Indeed, if it weren't for something wrong, Liu Chengyin, the head of the inner court, would never have come in person!

"Could it be the emperor's ......" Guo Songtao's heart suddenly had an ominous premonition.

Guo Gong said cautiously. Lin Yizhe looked left and right, smiled, and pointed to the delicacies on the table, "Use the wine and food first, no matter what the news is, you will always know, don't rush at this time." ”

Guo Songtao understood what Lin Yizhe meant, and couldn't help but secretly admire his calmness, he sighed, and picked up chopsticks to eat.

Just as Lin Guo and the others continued to enjoy the "swallow wing banquet", Prince Gong had already come to the living room and saw Liu Chengyin, who was waiting for him.

Seeing Prince Gong arrive, Liu Chengyin hurriedly stepped forward to greet Prince Gong.

"There is Mr. Lao Liu." Prince Gong quickly stepped forward and grabbed Liu Chengyin's arm, preventing him from bowing down, "Dare to ask Chief Manager Liu, the Queen Mother was suddenly summoned, what happened?" Prince Gong asked as he affectionately grabbed Liu Chengyin's hand.

"Don't hide it from the prince, there has been a big change in the palace, this morning, the emperor ...... The dragon is in the sky. Liu Chengyin sighed and replied, "The Queen Mother summoned the prince to go, thinking that it was for this matter. ”

Hearing Liu Chengyin's answer, Prince Gong was like five thunderbolts, standing on the spot, speechless for a long time.

"Lord Wang? …… Rajah? ……”

After a long while, Prince Gong came back to his senses at Liu Chengyin's call.

Prince Gong was about to ask carefully, when he suddenly saw a hint of eagerness flash in Liu Chengyin's eyes.

Immediately afterwards, Prince Gong felt that Liu Chengyin's fingers were writing something quickly in his palm.

Prince Gong settled down, and soon, he noticed that what Liu Cheng had written in the palm of his hand was the word "Cheng"!

Clear?

Zaecheng?

Could it be that the emperor's death will be related to his son Zaicheng?

Thinking of this, Prince Gong's heart suddenly struck a spirit, and a cold sweat broke out instantly.

"Chief Manager Liu, please sit down for a while, I went to change into court clothes, and then went over with the Chief Manager." Prince Gong tried his best to calm himself down and said to Liu Chengyin.

"Lord Wang, please." Liu Chengyin nodded and let go of Prince Gong's hand.

Prince Gong glanced at the butler quickly, then turned around and walked towards the back hall, and the butler hurriedly followed after refilling Liu Chengyin's tea.

"You immediately arrange for someone to go down, search all over the Nine Cities, and you have to arrest Zaicheng, a rebel, for me!" When Prince Gong saw the butler, he ordered sharply, "I can't catch it back, I want your head!" ”

"Little obedience!" The butler's heart shrank, and he quickly replied.

Prince Gong changed into court clothes, hurriedly returned to the living room, and walked out of the palace with Liu Chengyin, and went straight to Huangchenggen Station.

Just when Prince Gong got on the train, Lin Yizhe and Guo Songtao learned that Liu Chengyin and Prince Gong had left, so they quietly took their leave and returned to Xianliang Temple.

returned to his residence, Lin Yizhe immediately arranged for someone to go to the palace's "insiders" (Li Lianying's cronies) to inquire, and soon got a definite return.

"I didn't expect it to be more than ten ......days in advance," Lin Yizhe couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart after learning the news that Emperor Tongzhi had indeed hung up.

What he didn't expect was that the ending of Emperor Tongzhi was not very different from history.

Today is January 1, 1875, New Year's Day, the day of the death of the Tongzhi Emperor in history, is January 12, 1875, although he has changed history, but the life of this emperor is less than ten days!

Although the "inside line" is vague about the death of Emperor Tongzhi, Lin Yizhe can still judge that the death of Emperor Tongzhi turned out to be the legendary "death of the best people"!

Thinking that Emperor Tongzhi was under the effect of aphrodisiac drugs, and when his illness was not cured, he played with a bunch of palace maids all night***, and finally died of losing his yang, Lin Yizhe couldn't help but secretly speak.

This time, he can be regarded as having a long insight, what is called "taking off the sun and dying".

In fact, "death due to de-yang", described in the language of later generations, that is, sudden sexual death, known as "immediate stroke" in ancient times, refers to the accidental sudden death caused by sexual acts, also known as "sudden death during intercourse", called "detachment" in traditional Chinese medicine, and "great catharsis" in folk. It includes not only sudden death during orgasm, but also death after sexual intercourse, which occurs without forewarning and mental preparation for the occurrence of the disease, so there is often a lack of preventive measures to save the person.

The causes of de-impotence are very complex, and modern medicine generally believes that the deceased is mostly the result of sudden inhibition of heartbeat and breathing due to sexual excitement exceeding the limit, or leading to cerebral hypoxia and cerebral anemia, so that the autonomic nerve is out of control, and finally loses consciousness and dies. Because during sex, the human neuroendocrine system is highly excited, which is often accompanied by breath-holding at this time, which adds to the dreamlike sexual pleasure, but in fact it is a kind of cerebral hypoxia. It turns out that people with heart and brain diseases, if the sexual excitement exceeds the physiological limit, the time is too long, the cerebral hypoxia is aggravated, and the autonomic nerve is out of control, which can cause respiratory depression, cardiac arrest, loss of consciousness, and usually begins to feel suddenly dizzy, chest tightness, paleness, and then unconscious, and finally death.

Lin Yizhe remembered that before he crossed, he once drank with friends, both men and women, and everyone talked about sexual issues somehow when they were drunk and hot, and one of them said that men are not good at doing, and if they do not talk about women's efforts, they will die and suffer a lot. A boy retorted to him, saying that men don't die of exhaustion, and **** is infinite. Later, for some reason, a girl heard her, and she said that men would die of exhaustion, so the boy argued with her, and later quarreled. The girl was very angry at the debate, so she asked the other party to "experiment" with her the next day. The girl also put forward specific requirements for the experiment: she said that she would always hold the other party and do it with him if she was straight. Straighten him up when he goes soft, and then continue, and if he doesn't die for a day in a row, she'll be his slave (she estimated that at least 30 times)! The boy agreed on the spot, but after the dismissal, he was scared, and asked everyone if they would die if they did this? made the mood extremely tense, so that everyone really ridiculed, of course, he didn't dare to go to the appointment the next day, although the girl who challenged him was very beautiful.

This joke that happened among his friends made Lin Yizhe laugh many times, he had discussed this question of "will he die" with a friend who studied medicine, and his friend thought that it was "possible" that he would, but what he didn't expect was that one day, after he crossed over, he would get the answer to the emperor of the Qing Dynasty in this era!

Although he knew that the court of the Qing Empire was about to face a big change, Lin Yizhe seemed very calm at this time (he was in the mood to think about this).

Because for this day, he has been prepared for a long time!

Yuanmingyuan, "Heaven and Earth One Spring", Daya Zhai.

The moment Prince Gong, who was wearing a court robe, was introduced to Daya Zhai, he felt a strange atmosphere.

After he gave the two empress dowagers of Ci'an and Cixi, the Empress Dowager Cixi didn't even look at him, and she didn't say a word, only the Empress Dowager Ci'an said "flat body", and she didn't give a seat as before.

The two queen mothers invariably showed him an unusually cold heart!

And since seeing him, the two queen mothers don't seem to have any intention of discussing important matters with him.

Prince Gong stood there with his head down, his face full of embarrassment. He had the courage to peek at the two queen mothers, only to see Ci Anmo sitting silently looking at the snow outside the window, while Cixi looked down at her fingernails wearing long gold finger covers, and the eyes of the two queen queens were a little red, obviously crying just now.

Prince Gong suddenly understood why Liu Chengyin wrote the word "Cheng" on his hand, and couldn't help clenching his fists for a while.

The death of Emperor Tongzhi is inseparable from Zaicheng!

Prince Gong gritted his teeth and hated his son Zaicheng, but when he thought of the possible thunderous anger of the Queen Mother, cold sweat rolled down his forehead.

Liu Chengyin, who was standing on the side, was of course aware of all this, and he knew that the two queen mothers should have flipped over the boxes presented by Wang Dehuan after they left, and saw the words "Slave Zai Cheng Gong Cheng Gong Cheng Cheng Gong Cheng

At this time, Liu Chengyin was secretly worried about Prince Gong in his heart, because he didn't know what Prince Gong was going to do with Zaicheng.

At this moment, a eunuch led Prince Yi into the "Daya Zhai".

"Slave Yi, respectfully invite the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother!" As soon as Prince Alcohol entered the door, he noticed the strangeness of the atmosphere, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to say goodbye.

"The Seventh Master is here, sit." Empress Dowager Cixi nodded slightly and said.

Liu Chengyin stepped forward to move an embroidery pier for Prince Alcohol, and Prince Alcohol sat down after thanking him, only to find that Prince Gong was standing there, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

Prince Alcohol instinctively wanted to stand up, but he still held back and didn't move.

Just when Prince Alcohol felt embarrassed like sitting on pins and needles, Wen Xiang, Shen Guifen and other ministers also arrived, and they all bowed to the two queen mothers and knelt down, and the Empress Dowager Cixi sat down one by one, and the eunuchs moved over one embroidery pier after another, and for a time the small "Daya Zhai" seemed a little crowded.

And Prince Gong never had a seat and kept standing there.

After seeing that everyone had arrived, the Empress Dowager Ci'an first announced the death of Emperor Tongzhi, and the ministers all hid their faces and wept bitterly after hearing this, which caused the Empress Dowager Cixi to shed tears again.

After everyone cried, the Empress Dowager Ci'an directly raised the issue of establishing another prince.

"The country cannot be without a king for a day, although the queen is pregnant now, but the birth will take several months later, and it is not known whether it is a man or a woman, the throne has been hanging for a long time, and it is not a long-term plan for the country." The Empress Dowager Ci'an got up, looked around at the monarch and ministers, and said loudly, "The ranks are all the humerus shares of the imperial court, if you have any suggestions, you might as well speak up." ”

Listening to the words of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, all the people were chuckling in their hearts, and no one spoke.

"Wenxiang, you can talk about it." Seeing that no one spoke, Empress Dowager Cixi's gaze turned to Wen Xiang.

Seeing that the first person the Empress Dowager Cixi asked turned out to be Wen Xiang instead of Prince Gong, several ministers felt an unusual meaning and sat down less steadily.

Although the Empress Dowager Cixi didn't ask herself, Prince Gong's mind was already spinning rapidly at this time.

After all, this "uncle and sister-in-law" situation started with him!

At that time, the young uncle and sister-in-law joined forces to seize power, but they made difficulties in the design of the system.

The one who legitimately held the supreme power was the Tongzhi Emperor, who was only 6 years old at the time, and he was just a child, and he himself needed an auxiliary or even a regent. And the legitimately holding the auxiliary power and even the regency power are Su Shun and other "Eight Ministers of Gu Ming", but they have been overthrown. Faced with this situation, the uncles and sisters-in-law creatively carried out a fundamental political system reform: "one country, two systems", that is, the Empress Dowager's system of "listening to the government", coexisted with Prince Gong's "Prince Auxiliary Government" system.

Although there are precedents in history, these two systems are both expedient measures, which do not conform to the "ancestral system" of the Qing Dynasty, let alone the traditional Chinese basic norms of preventing the fall of monarchical power. Since ancient times, the harem and relatives interfering in politics are not allowed by the orthodox court, and "listening to politics through the curtain" can easily inspire people's infinite reverie of Wu Zetian as emperor. As for the "princely auxiliary government" in history, most of them have evolved into the tragedy of usurpation, and on the steps to the highest power, these princes who are so noble in blood that they are only a butt away from the emperor's throne are actually the most dangerous political enemies sleeping beside them.

This kind of power pattern of "uncle and sister-in-law" has been piloted and accumulated practical experience in the partnership of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang and Dolgon in the early Qing Dynasty. But in that era, the authority of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang was far inferior to that of Dolgon, and in fact she was still the "prince and auxiliary government", and it was only because Dolgon was either out of political consciousness or out of "great love" that she kept the inheritance of the throne of the little emperor of Shunzhi. But Dolgon, who was infinitely close to the supreme power, finally failed to escape the usual fate of the "second child": he was ruined.

In the early days of the "uncle and sister-in-law republic", the young empress dowagers and princes (Prince Gong was not the only one involved in the management of the regime), basically followed the traditional division of labor of "male dominance outside, female dominance inside", the empress dowager was responsible for educating the emperor in the harem, and the princes were responsible for managing the country in the imperial court. All decrees were issued through "edicts" in the formal sense, and the empress dowagers performed more of a symbolic role as head of state in place of the emperor.

In such a pattern, Prince Gong naturally became the center of state power. Under the melon field and plum, the suspicion is self-generated, and Prince Gong is in charge of every opportunity at the same time, which makes the queen mothers feel neglected, and even suspects that they will encounter another Dolgon, which is really reasonable. When the "Uncle and Sister-in-law Republic" entered its fourth year (1865), the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces suddenly made a mistake and stripped Prince Gong of the title of "King of Parliament" in one fell swoop.

At that time, the government and the opposition generally believed that this was the power seizure action presided over by the Empress Dowager Cixi, but this was really the joint sword of the two young widows. Although they are all respected as the queen mother, the Empress Dowager Ci'an was the queen before, and she was not only a wife and a concubine, but also a monarch and a minister. As the former mother of the main palace, the education and even daily life of the Tongzhi Emperor were all in charge of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, not the emperor's biological mother, Empress Dowager Cixi. In the eyes of the world, the image of the Empress Dowager Ci'an is very kind, even cowardly, but in the most critical Xinyou coup, she showed no less decisiveness and fortitude than Cixi!