This morning, Guan Xuqing went to Cixi's dormitory as usual to say goodbye. Guan Xuqing walked into the hall and was about to kneel, when he suddenly heard the laughter and talking of men in Cixi's room, and Guan Xuqing was taken aback. I thought, this Empress Dowager is still there, Cixi is so bold and reckless, how dare she ** the court? Doesn't this Ci'an have the secret of Emperor Xianfeng! How could Cixi dare to be so unscrupulous?

Guan Xuqing was stunned, Li Lianying came out of it and said expressionlessly: "Your Majesty, morning"

"I'm here to say hello to the Empress Dowager West." Guan Xuqing said.

"The Queen Mother said, I'm a little uncomfortable today, let the emperor kneel down!" Li Lianying asked Guan Xu to leave here quickly.

Guan Xuqing walked down the steps and walked straight out. The little eunuch really treats Lao Tzu as a four-year-old child. What the old witch is doing in there, who doesn't know? Do you want to take this opportunity to rely on the secret Zhao in the hands of the Eastern Empress Dowager Ci'an to kill Cixi?

Fuck it, go tell Ci'an! See what she does. It would be good if you could get rid of Cixi, but if you can't. It also allows Cixi to devote some energy to dealing with Ci'an, which can help him secretly accumulate strength. Thinking of this, he said to his personal eunuch Wang Shang: "Prepare a sedan chair and go to Cining Palace." ”

"Your Majesty? Didn't you already greet the Empress Dowager early in the morning? Wang Shang asked puzzled.

"Where is so much nonsense, hurry. I've delayed my big event, and I've asked for your head! Guan Xuqing is used to reprimanding these eunuchs with ancient ideas.

"Chirp"

After a while, he had arrived at the gate of Cining Palace.

"Erchen to the Queen Mother, please say goodbye" Guan Xuqing knelt on the ground.

"Why is the emperor here again? How long has it been? Don't you have to go to class today? Ci'an asked puzzled.

"Erchen just went to greet the Queen Mother of the West, and Li Lianying said that the Queen Mother is not feeling well today. Let me go back first. Before leaving, I heard a man's voice talking to the Queen Mother. Erchen thought that it must be the imperial doctor who was in it to see the Empress Dowager Xi. Erchen didn't have the heart to study, and he was always worried about the illness of the Queen Mother of the West, so he came to talk to the Queen Mother. Guan Xuqing not only explained the matter to Ci'an, but also pretended that he didn't know anything, and looked at how the Empress Dowager dealt with it.

Ci'an suddenly put away his perennially gentle and smiling face, and tried to calm the anger in his heart: "It's rare that the emperor has a filial piety, Eniang knows, the emperor should go to study." Don't make Master Weng wait long. ”

"Yes, the minister has retired." This is what Guan Xuqing wants. I was secretly happy in my heart, Cixi is not dead now?

After Guan Xuqing left, Ci'an thought about it and went a little wrong, if the imperial doctor treated Cixi and saw the emperor to ask for peace, how could there be no reason not to come out to take over?

After thinking about it, I decided to go and see for myself.

Ci'an took the palace maids and eunuchs, and a group of people walked towards the Changchun Palace, Cixi's dormitory.

Cixi and a man were lingering on the bed, and after a while, Li Lianying ran in, "Queen Mother, Queen Mother, it's not good." The Empress Dowager arrived. ”

Cixi had already sat up from the bed. When the man heard this, he hurriedly jumped out of bed and burrowed under the bed. Xiao Anzi, what are you doing? Cixi calmly replanted the flowers on her head.

The man's name is Yin An, and he is a famous romantic actor in the capital. Cixi often asked him to come into the palace to sing, this Yin'an not only sang well, but also had a good hand. Deeply loved by Cixi. It comes and goes and develops into this relationship.

"Minister...... The minister wants to hide. Yin Anyi was nervous and stammered when he spoke.

"It's really useless, what are you afraid of? You said you came to teach me how to draw. Just do this, little plum, prepare the four treasures of the study. Cixi panicked.

"Chirp"

Yin An hurriedly sorted out his clothes, came to the imperial case, and pretended to pick up the pen. However, no matter how you pretend, the face is still very unnatural.

After a while, Ci'an came in. She saw Yin An at a glance, and was surprised to see a strange man here. His brows furrowed. The face is not good.

"The minister asks the Empress Dowager to say goodbye," Yin An knelt on the ground in fright.

"How did you get into the palace...... Daring! Ci'an was speechless.

"Sister, don't make a fuss, Master Yin is here to teach me how to draw." Cixi tried her best to hide her inner turmoil.

"Yes, the Empress Dowager of the West has a decree to announce that the ministers will enter the palace." Yin An replied in a panic, sweat streaming down his forehead.

"You...... Let's get out. Tzu An stared at him.

"Yes."

Yin An crawled out with a roll. In order to save some face for Cixi, Ci'an waved his hand to the eunuchs and palace maids, "You all go down"

The eunuchs and the palace ladies went down.

Ci'an paused for a while, glared at Cixi angrily and said, "Sister, you are so bold. Summoned all the men into the dormitory. ”

"What's this? Why don't you just draw a picture?" said Cixi disapprovingly.

"Since ancient times, where has a harem called men into the dormitory? What kind of system? Tzu An looked at her solemnly.

Cixi was a little unhappy in her heart, but she endured the anger and did not attack. It is mainly due to the fact that Emperor Xianfeng left a secret for the Empress Dowager. Although I haven't seen Mi Zhao, I always feel an invisible pressure. She knows that there are no two heavens and no two kingdoms. It is not a long-term solution for her to listen to politics with the Empress Dowager. The only way to get rid of Ci'an's control is to lure her into taking out the edict and destroying it. After making up her mind, she didn't contradict Ci'an, and let her count it.

"If you do this, you have broken the rules of the palace, if other concubines follow suit, the harem will not be filthy? How to face the first emperor in this way? Ci'an said sternly.

Cixi listened to it, she couldn't bear it anymore, and finally tore off her disguise. She jumped to her feet. pointed at Ci'an with his finger and scolded loudly: "Sister, don't you say it, okay?" Every time I come, I teach me the appearance of the main palace lady, do you think I'm afraid of you? Who in the palace doesn't know that I gave birth to the only son for the first emperor. What about you? Although it is the main palace mother, not a single egg has been laid. ”

Ci'an didn't expect Cixi, who is usually the eldest sister and the shortest sister, to scold herself like this, and she was speechless for a while: "You, you ......"

"What's wrong with me? Am I telling a lie? Cixi continued to provoke.

"Cixi, shut up! You're going too far. You are so bold, she is really a restless woman, and the first emperor has already predicted. Ci'an finally managed to settle herself, and she glared at Cixi.

"What prophecy did the emperor propose?" Cixi pretended not to know.

"Before Emperor Xianfeng died that year, he had long expected that you would be expensive with your mother and son, and indulge in lawlessness, so he left a handwritten message!" Ci'an was anxious and blurted out.

"Sister, don't laugh, the first emperor didn't leave any instructions at all, this is all speculation by those ministers." Cixi continued to stimulate Ci'an with the method of agitation.

"They are not wrong, you don't believe it, I can tell you about it." Ci'an, who is Cixi's opponent, his brain is hot, and he takes out a yellow silk silk with words written on it from his cuff. Cixi looked at it, ah! Sure enough, there is a secret edict. rushed forward, grabbed it, and quickly read it. I saw that the silk silk was written:

Tell the queen, a hundred years later, Yi Guifei assisted her mother to the righteousness of the son, and had to be respected as the queen mother, but her person is by no means a peaceful person, if the son is the emperor in the future, pampered and lawless, the Qing can convene the courtiers, declare my decree, and immediately give death to prevent future troubles. Xianfeng 11th year of July 15 royal pen.

"This edict was written by the first emperor himself, and he asked me to collect it, it will not be fake." Ci'an said sharply, "I showed it to you today just to let you understand......"

Before Ci'an could finish speaking, Cixi had already put the secret edict into the copper furnace next to him, and it was instantly turned into ashes. Cixi smiled sinisterly: "Sister, don't lie to me, I think this is forged by someone else, what crime should you be guilty of falsifying the edict?" ”

Seeing that the edict was burned, Ci'an was shocked into a cold sweat, but she was in a hurry, and laughed angrily, "Haha, you are too presumptuous, let me tell you the truth, the edict is not fake, but what you burned is indeed fake, it is just a manuscript, and the original is still stored in my Cining Palace." If you want to see it, you can always come over. ”

When Cixi heard this, she immediately fell to her knees and begged: "Sister, don't be angry, what I said just now is all angry words, you know, I am a straightforward person." ”

Ci'an looked at Cixi with a pitiful look, and sighed with a soft heart: "Okay, I forgive you." But in the future, you are not allowed to be arrogant and do things that are immoral. ”

"Yes, my sister doesn't dare." Cixi promised in her mouth, and she wanted to kill her immediately.

Ci'an returned to Cining Palace and sat down. hateful and angry, I couldn't help muttering: I'm so stupid, why should I give her an edict, if you want to punish her, just announce it directly in the court. Well, now there are no secrets, and no secret edicts are gone. It's too late to regret it.

The more Ci'an thought about it, the more angry he became, and he remembered that Cixi's lover Yin An had come. I thought to myself, if I didn't kill him, maybe I would make some filthy things in the future. She thought about it for a while, and hurriedly shouted outside, "Is Zhao Rongxing here?" ”

"Queen Mother, the slave is here." The eunuch Zhao Rongxing hurriedly walked in.

"You take a few people, go to the Ruyi Pavilion quickly, and arrest that Yin An and kill him." Ci'an said "chirp"

After Ci'an left, Cixi hurriedly called Li Lianying in, and said worriedly: "Little Lizi, you saw everything just now, if she really took it out in the court." Then I'...... Alas! I should have gotten rid of her sooner. ”

"Queen Mother, the one in the east, it's not easy?" Li Lianying said ill-intentionedly.

"How easy? Say it. Cixi said hurriedly.

"The people in the east don't usually like to eat, they like to eat some small snacks, as long as they move a little bit of their hands and ......feet on the snacks," Li Lianying said.

Cixi nodded, a cold light flashed in her eyes, and she saw the dust and smoke fall in that cold light......

"Oh no, no. The Queen Mother, Yin An asked the Empress Dowager Dong to arrest her and beat her to death. A little eunuch ran in and reported.

Cixi waved her hand and motioned for the little eunuch to go down.

"Queen Mother, do you want to go over and have a look?" Li Lianying asked.

"Don't go, little Lizi, this thing should not have happened, don't alarm the east. Yin An died when he died, only blamed him for his short life, and now the most important thing is ......"

"It's to make a snack and send it to the east." Li Lianying answered smartly.

"Yes, you ask someone to send three thousand taels of silver to the Yin'an Mansion." Cixi smiled.

"Chirp"

At this moment, Guan Xuqing just finished those damn Manchu texts, classics and other heavenly book classes. saw Dong Liang walking towards him.

"Dong Liang see the emperor." Dong Liang knelt on the ground and said.

"Get up" Guan Xuqing raised his hand and continued to ask, "General Dong, how is the errand?" ”

"Back to the emperor, the minister looked at it today, and the refugees outside the city were full of old and weak women or underage children, and there were no strong men! None of them meet the material selection standards of the minister. Dong Liang replied embarrassedly.

Yes, how can a person who has the strength to work as a coolie to make money come to ask for food and become a refugee? Guan Xuqing frowned, it seems that it is not easy to form a force in a short time.

"How old are the children among the refugees?" Guan Xuqing asked.

"The big ones are twelve or thirteen years old, and the younger ones are only six or seven years old."

"You go and pick from these kids, kids who are about ten years old. Take them into the city and put them separately. I will be in charge of training, and I will send someone to teach them how to read and write. Guan Xuqing commanded.

"Your Majesty, why are you doing this? What can a teenager do? And teach them to read? Are you building an army or an orphanage? Dong Liang asked puzzled.

"Do as I say, and tell those children that those who are well trained will be paid every year. Those who don't train seriously, knock them out! I want them to be a terrifying army of tigers and wolves in ten years' time. Guan Xuqing looked at the sky, "But the emperor, so many children, the placement costs, food, clothes, training, and equipment all cost money." Dong Liang said embarrassedly.

"You go and take care of the selection first, and I will give you the silver tomorrow." Guan Xuqing said.

"Chirp" Dong Liang turned around and left.

When Guan Xuqing was wondering where to get the silver, Cui Xi hurriedly ran over. "Your Majesty, it's not good, the Empress Dowager has ascended to heaven......"

"What??" Guan Xuqing didn't expect Cixi to start so quickly.