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Chapter 15: The Aftermath (5)

Under the tense situation, the Empress Dowager Cixi convened a series of imperial councils and finally made the decision to prevent the coalition forces from entering Beijing by force, one of the most important decisions was to declare war on foreign countries. The reasons for the Qing government's declaration of war vary, but most believe that Empress Dowager Cixi's opinion played a decisive role. The Qing court's decision to go to war was fiercely opposed by the ministers of the Lord's peace faction, but the Lord's peace faction lost ground in the struggle, and the five ministers of the Lord's peace faction, Xu Jingcheng, Yuan Chang, Xu Yongyi, Lishan, and Lianyuan, were killed when the coalition forces approached Beijing. The Qing government "declared war" on foreign countries in the form of issuing an edict. At this time, it has been four days since the fall of Dagukou.

The Qing court's declaration of war did not nominate any country to declare war on, nor did it send the declaration to foreign envoys, and the Qing dynasty maintained diplomatic relations with the foreign powers during the war. Therefore, some people think that the Qing court's declaration of war is just a ******.

The Qing court's siege of the embassy was also a hotly debated case. At that time, the Qing army and the Boxers in Beijing had an overwhelming advantage over the foreign ** team guarding the embassy area and the Xishiku Church, but they were never able to take it. This has to do with the Empress Dowager Cixi, the de facto decision-maker of the Qing government, who left room for herself and refused to attack the embassy with all her might.

Cixi later talked about this and said: "As far as I can remember, I still have an idea, I was originally determined not to break my face with foreigners, but for a period of time, because foreigners bullied me too hard, I couldn't help but be a little angry." Although he didn't stop them, he never told them to mess around very carefully. As soon as the anger has passed, I will turn my head around, and there is room everywhere, if I really make trouble with their heart, is there a reason why an embassy cannot be defeated?" ("Gengzi West Hunting Cong Talk")

The Qing army stopped attacking the embassy many times, and also sent rice, noodles, vegetables, watermelons and other materials to the embassy. The siege of the embassy continued until Beijing was captured by the Allied forces, and after the siege was lifted, the French minister visited Bishop Fan Guoliang at the Xishiku Church, where they "celebrated the rest of their lives and embraced each other."

At this time, the upper echelons of the Qing Dynasty had already begun to roll over each other. They took up butcher's knives among themselves, killed people first, and several ministers of the lord and faction were executed by Zaiyi and his gang, who were in charge of the government, on various charges. As far as His Excellency Lin Mengchu's opinion is concerned, "Kill well." Now Zi Zaiyi and they can't turn back. ”

But isn't it, Zai Yi and them, even if they know that they can't beat them, they can only grit their teeth and persevere. If you keep going, maybe there will be a turnaround, and if you let the Lord and the faction come to power again, what will happen to them? It's not bad if you don't die.

Others may be able to surrender to the Lord and the faction, but he has no way to retreat. His son is now the eldest brother, if he can't get along, his son's dream of being an emperor naturally doesn't need to be mentioned. And looking through the history books, which abolished prince has a good end?

So, there are two sides to everything. "Using history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall", this is naturally good. But the history of China is too long, and when you want to use all kinds of means, you will be very embarrassed to find that the ancestors of the original hall and the little ninety-nine have already played it once, no, they have played it many times. So everyone ends up with shrunken turtles.

Well, this is talking about the last years of the Qing Dynasty. The Second Republic's co-condemnation of Zhulu is probably unwarranted.

Anyway, now Zai Yi is very scared, on the one hand, after repelling the foreigners (he has no hope of defeating him), his son will be the emperor, and he will be the regent himself. On one side, the foreigners were marching towards the capital, and the defenders along the way were either scattered, or they didn't see it, and what was even more odious was that some guys ran to be guides for the foreigners and started a leading party.

"Damn!" Zai Yi shouted indignantly: "These traitors are the most hateful! ”

Well, the housekeeper wisely didn't remind his master of the fact that there were also many flag men in the leading party, anyway, the master was just panicked and just found some people to scold.

How could the situation suddenly turn out like this? Obviously, it was still a good thing before, and even the generals of foreign devils were arrested. As a result, all of a sudden, the Boxers and Nie Shicheng fought, and now it's okay, they were all killed by foreigners. Made, Nie Shicheng If you want to strangle the boxers, it's not good to do it, but you have to do it when you are fighting with foreigners. If you can still win like this, then it will be a hell of a thing.

The more Zai Yi thought about it, the more angry he became, there was nothing he could do about the Black Dragon Society, which was now under some control, but it was still possible to take a dead Nie Shicheng. As a result, the imperial court controlled by Zai Yi issued an edict saying that Nie Shicheng "lost his life by misleading the country, which is really hateful, and he will be honored with his previous achievements."

After seeing this edict, Lin Mengchu said that Zaiyi was happy to be revenge, which was quite interesting. Chen Cheng patted his forehead and said, "Zai Yi is really not suitable for doing dirty work like politics." This edict can be regarded as a complete loss of military morale. ”

"You can't say that," Lin Mengchu objected: "Where does the Qing army still have any combat effectiveness now?" Whether it's the morale of the army or the morale, the problem is that he basically can't move those troops, so it might as well be used to curry favor with the Boxers. ”

"However, now the Boxers don't have much combat effectiveness." Chen Cheng said: "Anyway, no matter how I look at it, I feel that this Great Qing Kingdom will end sooner or later." It depends on how it ends. ”

"Isn't there still us," the girl said disagreeingly: "There are also the new army in the south and the Beiyang army in Shandong, before these people are all dead, the Great Qing Kingdom, why does it sound so like fruit?" Forget it, leave it alone. As long as these people don't want the Qing Dynasty to fall, the Qing Dynasty will not be able to forget it. ”

"Is it better to survive than to die?" Chen Cheng felt that there was some truth in what the girl said, but he still said: "I think it's better to finish it early, otherwise"

"What if not? Don't worry, I think they are very smart, and there will be a comeback one day. ”

"If you mean that the capital of the Second Republic is full of blood, then I didn't say it."

"I said, while we were talking, the coalition forces of the great powers were already approaching the capital, and now that their vanguard was approaching Langfang again, shouldn't we make a move? Even if you swim without attacking, it's better than not moving like a mountain, right? ”

"This." Chen Cheng scratched his scalp, "Why don't you wait for them to enter the capital?" ”

"I think it's better to have a fight first, so that the enemy doesn't just attack us. As the saying goes: one punch opens, a hundred punches don't come! ”

"In the end, don't you want to let foreigners enter the capital? Our strength will only be able to stop for a few days at most. ”

"Do you have to do it? You must know that if you really let foreigners enter the capital, you will have to kill a lot of people. The girl smiled and said, "Aren't you the most unsightly of the tragic deeds in the world?" ”

"What you say seems to have been deliberately killed by foreigners. If they have the ability, those guys will bring their own dry food to kill foreign devils, and no one will stop them. As for the latter question," Chen Cheng closed his eyes, "as long as you can't see it, those things don't exist." ”

"Self-deception!"

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