Chapter 16 Although China is Big

After the news that the foreigners were approaching the capital again, the whole city of Beijing was full of ghosts and howls. People with a little bit of ability and means began to pack up their soft and prepare to run away. People on the outskirts of Beijing flocked to the city, and people in the city fled. Chickens crow, dogs jump, cows and horses roar, a mess.

Cixi sat blankly in the Summer Palace, and did not move when she heard the noise outside. After a long while, she whispered, "What's the situation outside now?" ”

Li Lianying, who stood on the side for a long time and didn't dare to come out of the atmosphere, mentioned the question, and hurriedly replied: "Back to Lafayette, everything is fine outside." ”

Is everything alright? Although Cixi is old, she is not stupid, how to say that she is also a person who has experienced two opium wars and witnessed the rise and fall of Tianping Heaven. When dealing with Su Shun and his gang, and later when he played power tricks against those Han warlords, he was very clever. But now she nodded and said, "It's okay, don't mess around." ”

"Yes, Galeries Lafayette." Li Lianying lowered her eyebrows and said smoothly.

"So, what is King Duanjun doing now?"

"This", Li Lianying is not easy to say this time, if he gets involved in the political struggle, he will not be able to cut off a few heads. Eunuchs are vines attached to imperial power. No matter how powerful they are outside, as long as they lose the favor of the imperial power, they will immediately be a situation where everyone shouts and beats. Even in the late Tang Dynasty, the eunuchs controlled the abolition of the Shence army, and they could not escape this barrier.

"Say!" Cixi patted the chair angrily and scolded: "Why, do you think that my wife is not good now, and rush to Zaiyi's house?" ”

"Galeries Lafayette, what do you mean there?" Li Lianying immediately knelt down and swore to the heavens: "The slave is loyal to you, and there is no second heart!" ”

"Hmph, I can still trust Grandpa Li. But some people, when they see that the situation is not right, they don't know which way to fall. ”

"Lafayette, everyone is now saying that they will wait for your old man to come out and clean up the mess."

"Really, everybody says that?" Cixi's face showed joy.

Li Lianying peeked at Cixi, why didn't she understand that the sky in the court was about to turn over again? Immediately said: "Really, everyone is saying that King Duanjun provoked the foreigners without permission, so he found this catastrophe." This Qing Kingdom can't do it without you, the Dinghai God Needle. ”

"Hmph, Zai Yi is so bold that he killed the ministers of the court indiscriminately, and now he has caused such a big mess, and it is not only my old woman who has come out to clean up the situation."

"That is, the foreigners and the ministers only recognize Lafayette as one person."

Cixi nodded with satisfaction and said, "Then you talk to those families first, so that they don't follow the Zaiyi family to the dark." No matter what, this great Qing kingdom handed down by ancestors will not die. ”

"I think this Great Qing Kingdom is coming to an end!" Fugui held a birdcage in his hand and shouted loudly in the teahouse, "No, the foreign devils are going to hit the imperial city." ”

"Ouch, your third master, what do you see written on this?" The shopkeeper Liang Changfa pointed to the note "Don't talk about state affairs" posted on the pillar and said: "This national event is not something that we ordinary people can figure out." Those major matters naturally have to be discussed by the ministers, do you think this is the reason? ”

"Hmph," Fugui hung up the bird cage, rolled his eyes at the shopkeeper Liang, lifted the coat outside, revealing the yellow horse coat inside, and said proudly: "What are you afraid of, I am from the two yellow flags, and those black-skinned dogs (policemen) don't dare to do anything to me!" ”

After speaking, Fugui said to Bai Wen, who was sitting on the side eating rotten meat noodles: "Fourth Master Wen, you are also our bannerman, you don't have any idea about the current situation?" ”

Bai Wen ate the noodles unhurriedly, and said without raising his head: "What if you have an idea?" What if you don't have an idea? ”

Fugui shook his spirits and shouted: "Your fourth master Wen is a good man among our banner people, this foreign devil is going to fight in the imperial city, why don't you go and talk to the people above, send us some knives and guns, and let us help fight the foreigners?" ”

"Just your body," Shopkeeper Liang couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "I think it's better to walk the birds and visit the teahouse." ”

"Go, go," Fugui waved his hand to Shopkeeper Liang, "Give you a bowl of rotten meat noodles for your third master, remember to put more meat." ”

"Okay, a bowl of rotten meat noodles, put more meat!"

"Fourth Master Wen," Fugui said unrelentingly: "This foreigner has called, and the war is in chaos, so you really don't worry?" ”

"Why don't you worry," Bai Wen finished eating a bowl of noodles, pursed his lips, and sneered: "Then what can I do?" ”

"Find those adults," Fugui patted the table and said, "This spends so much money every year to train the new army, and even our hardcore crops are gone, so we have to pull them out and fight with foreign devils." ”

Shopkeeper Liang heard the sound of slapping the table outside, poked his head out from behind to take a look, and shrank back when he saw that there was nothing.

"Do you sit in a teahouse and listen to the commentary?" Bai Wen scoffed at Fugui's words, "That's to use real swords and real guns, as long as those of us haven't practiced a few times of virtue, can we really beat foreign devils?" ”

"We can't do it," Fugui said again: "But your fourth master is different, you are a master who has passed the martial arts championship." If you bring it, we're afraid we won't be able to beat the foreigners? ”

"Wu Zhuangyuan?" Bai Wen suddenly laughed, "That's another fart, Lao Tzu still doesn't have to make a living by pulling carts!" ”

"That's because you have a younger brother and a younger sister at home, otherwise you would have been able to do such a thing?" Fugui said: "A good man like you, do you have to do the work of pulling a cart for the rest of your life?" From ancient times to the present, this is the use of troops in troubled times, and the cultivation of literature in prosperous times. Isn't this the time for trouble? With a good martial arts like you, Fourth Master Wen, are you still afraid that you won't be able to get a future when you join the army and fight? ”

Bai Wen's heart moved, and said: "The imperial court is now at war and uncertain, even if we want to join the army, we can't find a way." Besides, you don't know what our flag people are, as far as their big cigarettes and standing unsteadily, you dare to go with them to fight foreigners? ”

"Those battalions of our banner people can't do it, but some people can!"

"Even Nie Shicheng's military gate was killed in battle, where is there a team that can fight? You don't mean that Yuan Shikai in Shandong, let me tell you, although I, Bai Wen, am not a saint who does not eat food, but I will never take refuge in that living Cao Cao! ”