Dongnuan Pavilion, Empress Dowager Ci'an's face is pale, the four countries are jointly persecuted, what do these foreigners want to do?

Are they crazy? Thirty-three million taels of silver? They really have a big appetite! What a big appetite!

"Sixth Master, what do you want to do with this matter?"

Ci'an asked abruptly. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Yixin smiled bitterly and said: "The queen mother, the minister is incompetent, and there is no good way, but, no matter what, such a thing cannot be promised to foreigners, 33 million taels of silver, which is equivalent to a year's treasury income of our Qing court!" Even if it is a balance of two million taels a year, it will take more than ten years to pay it off! ”

The balance is more than two million taels of silver? This is a dream, now the Qing Dynasty is in a deficit every year, where does this silver come from?

"However, if we don't agree, the foreigners will go to war again, can we withstand it?"

Ci'an frowned and asked.

"Queen Mother, if you can't stand it, you have to top it, otherwise what can you do? Fortunately, there is no war in the country now, and now the Hunan army, the Huai army, the Lu army, and the Chu army are no longer controlled by the traitors......

Yi Xin said in a deep voice.

"Queen Mother, Lord, don't go to war!"

Wang Yuanfang, the imperial historian of Zuodu, said urgently, "The queen mother, the prince, the foreigners are strong and the guns are strong, and they can definitely be matched by the Hunan army and the Huai army, and besides, the imperial court has just quelled the civil strife, and it is the time when it needs to recuperate, how can it still have the ability to start a war again?" The minister thought that he should send capable people to negotiate with the ministers of the four countries, and to force them to make concessions and reduce the compensation, if it was only a few hundred thousand taels or two or three million taels of silver, we could reluctantly accept it, at least we would be spared the suffering of war, and once the war started, our losses would be more than millions of taels of silver......"

"Wang Yuanfang, how timid and fearful you are, how can you be worthy of the trust of the first emperor? I, Li Hongzao, swear not to give in, and I will never give a foreigner a silver or two! If it's a big deal, go to war and ask for peace in humiliation, is it the work of loyal ministers and good generals? ”

Li Hongzao shouted!

Wang Yuanfang's face changed, and he said unhappily: "Li Zhongtang, what you said is good, are you going to lead the troops to fight?" Have you beaten a foreigner? When the time comes, once we lose, our losses will be even more serious! ”

Li Hongzao's expression was stunned, leading the troops to fight? I? Isn't that a dream talk?

"Wang Yuanfang, this official is a civilian official, and it is not my job to lead troops to fight, so naturally there are military ministers in ......"

Li Hongzao was a little lacking in confidence and replied.

Wang Yuanfang sneered: "Wu Chen? Which military minister can handle a hundred thousand Western troops? Guo Ye? Guo Ye is almost in Shaanxi now, where can he still be? Even if Guo Ye comes back, he will definitely not be able to resist it! ”

"Dignified China, there is more than one Guo Ye!"

Li Hongzao replied word by word, "Guo Ye can't do it, then there are Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guofan can't do it, and Li Hongzhang Zuo Zongtang!" In the Qing Dynasty, there were loyal ministers and fierce generals, and the monarchs and ministers of the court swore to the death! ”

As the leader of Qingliu, Li Hongzao has no other skills, but the arrogance of this body is not fake!

"Okay, you two don't fight, say something useful!"

Yixin rubbed his temples, said impatiently, and talked for a long time, and the two of them only said whether to fight to the death or to make peace, but if they fought to the death, how to fight? If it's summing? Who will preside over the peace talks?

Yixin's words made the two people speechless, useful, how useful came out!

Wen Xiang on the side said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, for today's plan, we can only delay it for a while, the plan to delay the army, first delay it for a while, and then talk about it, and immediately issue an order to summon Guo Ye to return to Beijing, the Shaanxi and Gansu rebels will not be able to turn the sky for a while and a half, after all, there are a number of ****, just so many people, it doesn't matter; However, the persecution of Shikoku is imminent......"

Yi Xun choked and said: "Lord Wenxiang, is it possible that the Qing Dynasty has no Guo Ye, and it will not be turned?" Do you have to wait for him to come back? ”

Wen Xiang's face changed, and he said angrily: "Prince Alcohol, what do you mean, you can withstand the persecution of the Four Kingdoms?" If you can, then who wants to recall Guo Ye? ”

Yiyun's face turned red, doing other things, calling for battle with foreigners, his own catties and two are not enough to see at all!

"Bochuan, it's too late, the envoys of the four countries only gave us five days, even if Guo Ye travels day and night, it is impossible to rush back to the capital within five days......"

Yi Xin said abruptly.

Wen Xiang was also dumbfounded when he heard this, five days, five days, how can you do anything?

"Sixth brother, the younger brother thought that Zeng Guofan should be summoned to Beijing quickly, when he pacified the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the south, he had dealt with foreigners for a long time, and he was quite proficient in foreign affairs......"

Yi Xun gritted his teeth unwillingly and said.

Yixin nodded, sighed and replied: "I have already sent a telegram to the Baoding Zhili Governor's Mansion, and Zeng Guofan should be able to enter Beijing tomorrow, but, the Queen Mother, this matter is war or peace, and it is true that the Queen Mother wants to make a decision ...... the Governor of Baoding."

At this time, Ci'an was almost stupid, on state affairs, it has always been Prince Gong and Cixi who came to make ideas, and rarely came forward by themselves, now Cixi is far away in the United States, Guo Ye is far away in Jinshan, but he left himself in the capital, how is this good?

"The Queen Mother's ......"

Yixin said urgently.

"Sixth master, this matter should be discussed in the court tomorrow, the mourning family is a little tired......"

Ci'an rubbed his temples, so sad, sad!

"Queen Mother, Uncle Huang, I think that foreigners are too deceitful to deceive people, and they can't afford to fight the country, and a bloody battle will be difficult to raise the prestige of the Qing Dynasty and deter the covetousness of foreigners, this battle is inevitable!"

Ci'an's words just fell, the door opened, the little emperor Tongzhi walked in, now Tongzhi is fourteen years old, although he has not yet been in power, but it is not the ignorant child before, the teaching of the past few years, so that he has grown a lot, it is the time of youth and vigor.

He originally came to greet the queen mother and the queen mother, but he didn't expect to be outside the door and happened to hear the queen mother and the ministers discussing things. The Westerners of Shikoku persecuted the Qing Dynasty? What's the fuss? Could it be that our Qing Empire is now weak like this? 100,000 foreigners? Let's talk less about the Qing Dynasty and now have a force of 100,000 troops! There are even more tiger generals in a hundred battles, why should they make peace? If it's a big deal, fight it!

Ci'an's face sank, and he scolded: "Your Majesty, you are still young, what do you know about national affairs?" This matter is decided by several of your imperial uncles and important ministers, and you have to talk nonsense! ”

Li Hongzao on the side hurriedly knelt on the ground, he is the crown prince Taibao, a dignified emperor, and now the queen mother scolds the emperor, so naturally he has not taught well.

"The queen mother, although the son is not sensible, but he also knows that gold and silver are the people's fat, how can he give it to others? It is the opening of commercial ports and the payment of indemnities, how can you see your ancestors and ancestors? ”

"The Queen Mother, the King of Parliament, what the emperor said is yes, the ministers are willing to fight to the death to defend the dignity of the Qing Empire!"

Li Hongzao knocked his head on the ground and cried out!

(To be continued.) )