Chapter 195: Confrontation
(1st Update)
"Liangbi hasn't replied yet?"
Zaifeng paced in the room, a layer of sweat floated on his head, and the eunuchs trembled around him, and no one dared to pant loudly.
"Not yet"
The chief eunuch hummed and chirped.
"Hair, follow!" Zaifeng commanded loudly.
"Lord Wang, this fifteenth telegram is here, and it should have been replied to a long time ago."
Zaifeng glared, and the eunuch's last words were immediately swallowed back into his stomach.
"Bold minion! Are you instigating the relationship between the king and the ministers? ”
"The minions don't dare." The eunuchs trembled with fright and hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy.
"Don't get out of here!"
Zaifeng glared, and the eunuchs ran one after another, and after a while, he disappeared, and he was left alone in the room.
Zaifeng continued to pace, but the more he walked, the more chaotic he became.
"On weekdays, you are the most alert, why are you so slow this time?" Zaifeng muttered to himself, but his brows were always furrowed, "Is it really strange that this king didn't listen to your advice at that time and caused such a monstrous disaster?" ”
Zaifeng took a deep breath, looked at the beam, and shook his head again.
"No, the minister is not such a person who can't distinguish between proportions, there must be a reason why he didn't come."
Zaifeng still firmly believes that Ye Kaihui will come and bring tens of thousands of Praetorian Guard soldiers to clean up the mess for him, but the current situation has to make him suspicious, in short, the blockage of the news puts him in a dilemma.
Outside the palace, Yi Xuan's incendiary speeches continued, and the defections within the system were far more convincing than those outside the system, especially Yi Liang was still a decent patriarch of the royal family, the masses held up slogans, and their emotions continued to rise, they shouted the slogan of letting Zaifeng step down, endlessly, and even fierce conflicts broke out in some areas, and the situation was tense for a while.
Every minute and every second was a kind of torment for Zaifeng, he was isolated, and there was nothing he could do, except to wait for Ye Kai's reinforcements.
"Lord Wang, the crowd is in a commotion, and the guards can't stop it!"
The subordinate hurriedly came to report, and saw Zaifeng's face full of anger, and retracted his head again, he didn't want to be the unlucky guy who was angry.
"Did Liangbi send a letter?" Anxiously stomped his feet, and after a long time, Zaifeng held back a sentence.
"No one in Liangfu responded, no one responded to the command post in the capital, and no one responded to the Nanyuan Praetorian Guard camp."
The words of the subordinate undoubtedly pronounced the death sentence of Jaefeng, and at this moment he closed his eyes, and the sudden darkness almost made him faint.
"You said that there was an Emperor Louis in France, and it was also this kind of **** situation, he was caught by the mob and beheaded, did you say this?"
The subordinate was stunned, he didn't know what the prince said, and he didn't know why the prince suddenly popped up with such a sentence, which sounded strange and scary.
"Lord Wang, don't say that, you are the regent of our imperial father of the Great Qing Kingdom, and the regent of the prison country canonized by the Empress Dowager of Daxing, who dares to make such a mistake."
"Regent?" Zaifeng "hummed" and laughed twice, "Since the ascension of this king, the royal family has not been convinced, the ministers have not been convinced, the officials of the feudal territory have not been convinced, and the revolutionary party has not been convinced. ”
Zaifeng smiled a little miserably, he waved his hand, and ordered: "You go, open the door of the mansion, let them in, this king should ask face to face, is their "country" and this king's "country" the same thing?" ”
"Za"
The subordinate slowly stepped back
Yi Xuan was still shouting loudly, he had absorbed enough public opinion and prestige for him to become the prime minister, and at this moment, the door opened, and he looked at the open door of the mansion, as if he saw a new era, his era.
"Ministers, princes, parliamentarians, and patriotic people, please pause for a moment, and wait patiently here, for in less than two hours, the future of constitutional government will be out of this door!"
Yi-Liang pointed to the door of the mansion and said, everyone cheered, and then he took more than a hundred officials and walked into the regent palace.
Regent's Palace, Yin'an Palace.
More than 80 ministers knelt outside the hall, the black pressure crowded the entire courtyard, as long as Zaifeng was still on the regent throne for a day, their etiquette could not be lost, Yi-Liang entered the hall with more than a dozen important ministers, standing without kneeling, and Xiaogong Wang Puwei was even more presumptuous, not even doing anything, standing straight with his hands behind his back.
"King Qing is really capable!" Zaifeng glanced at the people outside and sneered.
"It's not that the old minister has the ability, it's the people's will, and the regent has to obey it." In the face of Zaifeng, he was more confident than in ten days, in addition to the dozen ministers behind him, there were also thousands of people outside the palace.
"The total number of petitioners in the country is more than four million, and the regent has also seen it, the situation is difficult, the chaos in the southeastern provinces is beginning to appear, and now the Du branch can't even collect taxes, Zegong, you say yes?"
Yi-Liang pursed his eyes, and Zai Ze behind him lowered his head silently, it was this one action, but it was pierced in Zaifeng's heart like a thorn, and as far as the eye could see, there were many of his "people" in the hall, but at this moment they were all caught by Yi-Liang.
"The governors of various localities have reported that the military and political situation in the province is tight, and the revolutionary party is planning to start things again, and if this continues, the ancestral foundation will be defeated in your hands." Yi-Xuan continued to exert pressure, and said viciously: "It is said that my Qing Dynasty was defeated by Dolgon, and I am really the regent of Chengye, and the regent of defeat." ”
Prince Zhuang, Prince Dun, King Xiaogong, King Liqing, King Keqin, King Suiyuan County of Inner Mongolia, and several royal relatives echoed one after another, bluntly saying that his various incompetent performances, Zaifeng couldn't say a word.
Among all of them, Zaifeng is the youngest and the most helpless.
"The regent is unwilling to bear the sin of losing the country, as long as you agree to the demands of the people, this burden can be unloaded, and you can travel the years with peace of mind, and you don't have to worry about political affairs from now on." Yi-Liang then said oppressively.
Zaifeng hesitated, his eyes bloodshot.
"King Qing is really deliberate, a good time to travel, and he has no worries from now on."
Although Yi-Xuan's words are subtle, they express the most direct meaning, clearly asking for power.
"Why, the regent is still unwilling to come down from the throne? It's a place where the fire is roasted, and you're still the hereditary Prince of Alcohol when you retire, how about it? ”
Yi Lian continued, and Zaifeng remained silent this time.
Gritting his teeth, Yi-Xuan had no choice but to come up with the last conditions, "Of course, even if you retire, you are also the regent of the Qing Dynasty, this title will not be abolished, and the cabinet will symbolically leave you a decent one. ”
As soon as these words came out, there was a buzzing sound in the hall, and King Xiao Gong gritted his teeth, but was stopped by Yi-Xuan with his eyes.
"Zaifeng, this throne is not something that a doll like you can afford, hand it over, so as to save the face of the Xinjue Luo family." The time to wait is not short, Yi-Xuan finally said solemnly, and his voice was much more majestic.
"No way!"
Zaifeng flicked his sleeves and sat back in his chair.
The situation has changed dramatically. (To be continued.) )