In the Forbidden Palace, Jiaqing, who has been on the throne for nearly 20 years, has gradually entered middle age from a teenager. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 When he was a child, he longed for his father on the throne, and when he actually sat on this throne, he was also very happy. It's just that the longer he sits on this throne, the more he feels that it is not a taste. He couldn't see himself as high-spirited as his father, commanding the world. Although he is still the Ninth Five-Year Emperor and decides the major affairs of the imperial court, he has to compromise whenever there is a place involving the Tang Dynasty. The Tang people said that if there is trade, then there must be trade. The Tang said that if they want to garrison troops somewhere, then they must be allowed to garrison them. Sometimes Jiaqing also paralyzes himself, as long as he doesn't want to be Tang, he is still the emperor at the peak of power. However, it is impossible to really bypass the Tang people. A few years ago, because of the chaos caused by immigration, the people ridiculed Jiaqing very much, and the nickname of "Puppet Emperor" spread far and wide, and even spread to the palace.

Jiaqing was naturally furious, but he couldn't. This Tang man is so powerful that he can't get rid of it with his armor, even if he tries his best, it will have little effect. The Praetorian Guard, which was carefully built before, was even more of a joke and did not play the slightest role. There is a letterhead on Jiaqing's desk with four words on it - betraying the ancestor and rebelling against the son.

This was written four years ago when Qianlong died, from the first year of Jiaqing to the present, the Tang people did not allow the father and son to have any correspondence, only when Qianlong died, this letter of only four words was brought to the capital. Jiaqing's reaction when he saw this letter was naturally extremely ashamed, and he understood what Qianlong meant, referring to how Jiaqing was so reluctant and under the obscenity of the Tang people, how to be worthy of the ancestors and ancestors.

On the other hand, he Qianlong was also captured by Tang Sheng and captured on Nanguwei Island in an extremely humiliating way. Qianlong Wannian was extremely miserable, and many of his young concubines filed for divorce from him and married others to get a better life. And after losing the aura of the emperor, the original Manchu gradually lost their awe of him, and even humiliated him.

Jiaqing can choose not to cooperate with the Tang people, then his fate will be similar to Qianlong. If you take 10,000 steps back, even if the ancestor of the Tartars is resurrected from the wild boar skin, or replaced with Huang Taiji, the Holy Grandfather and the like, it is generally useless. In the face of the general trend, this group of Tartars who are destined to be crushed into slag cannot be resisted.

Jiaqing put Qianlong's handwriting on his desk, observing it from time to time, like lying on his salary and tasting courage, alerting himself.

In the upper study, Jiaqing looked at the courtiers Lu Yinpu and Cao Zhencheng kneeling in front of him, and his heart was extremely happy. The two officials are very young, now in their thirties, and they look different in the court of elderly politicians. To Jiaqing's great satisfaction, although these two young officials were selected by the new law imposed on the imperial court by the Tang people, they insisted on holding the ancient law to bow when no one was around, and to put it bluntly, they knelt down for Jiaqing.

At the beginning, in order to reverse the bad habit of kneeling, the Tang people planted a lot of eyeliner in the palace, and even the Tang officials stood directly on the stake and stared, and whoever dared to kneel was invited out, and even sent directly to Nanguwei Island to "enjoy happiness". Such a group of ministers were gradually corrected. At this time, it was almost twenty years later, and the supervision of etiquette and law within the Qing court had long been not so strict, so two thoughtful young officials could take advantage of the loopholes like this.

It is not enough to meet Jiaqing to gain a foothold in the imperial court, Lu Yinpu and Cao Zhenyi know how to "Tang Studies", although they did not go to North America to study, but the two of them claim to understand all kinds of knowledge of the Tang Dynasty, and their strategies in the imperial court are even better, and they have become an emerging force used by Jiaqing to control the Tang Dynasty.

At this time, Lu Yinpu talked eloquently: "The emperor should not look at the people in the Boxer Rebellion are all small people in the market and reckless people in the township, but the people are especially dissatisfied with the anti-Tang Dynasty. The minister once read through the program of the National Revolution of the Tang Dynasty's ruling party, and said that he would call the people and do things that would benefit the people, which was like a madman. Today, the Tang Dynasty has the intention to seek the land of my Shenzhou, but I don't know that my people have long been impatient with its tyranny, such as mobilizing thousands of righteous people, and their forces are united, even if the Tang people have strong ships and cannons, they can't win lightly. ”

Jiaqing asked: "Even if there are 100,000 and hundreds of thousands of boxers to deal with the anti-Tang Dynasty, but the Tang people take advantage of the sea and come and go freely, and they can't cut off their supply, how can it be done?" ”

Cao Zhenyong said: "Your Majesty, the Tang people are plotting against me in the Qing Dynasty, one is plundering the people, and the other is business. If the Qing Dynasty has the same hatred for the enemy, can strengthen the wall and clear the wilderness, thousands of people and the Tang people draw a clear line, do not trade with the Tang people, do not obey the orders of the Tang people, our government would rather retreat and ignore it, and do not cooperate with the Tang people, and the boxers are even more disturbing the enemy, so that they will not get tired of it, and it will be difficult to take care of the beginning and the end, and the Tang people will not get the slightest benefit from our Qing Dynasty, and they will lose more than blood, and since then, the Tang people have to give in and negotiate with our court. ”

Cao Zhenyong is in another position, and he has also served as the Minister of Military Aircraft. During that period, there were countless courtiers such as Wang Jie, Lu Yinpu, and Cao Zhenyong, who seemed to be quite commendable in the art of calligraphy and painting, and were also exemplary Confucian ministers in terms of personal ethics, and had the merit of advising the king or benefiting the people. But in fact, these people are also one of the culprits who dragged the Qing Dynasty gradually towards the abyss.

Someone once wrote a satirical poem to satirize a bureaucrat like Cao Zhenyong: "The career drill must be Seiko, Jingxin is often through, and charcoal is always abundant." Don't talk about current affairs and be heroes, blindly mellow and humble. The minister's economy is calm, don't show miraculous achievements, don't say loyalty, all kinds of personnel should be hazy, there is no mediocrity in refutation, and there is no mediocrity in discussion. There is nothing to do in all directions, the national fortune is long, the official fortune is passing, everyone praises the harmony, the good is also filled, and the bad is also filled. There is no disaster and no difficulty to the third duke, the wife is honored, the son is in the shade, and the future generations are even more endless. ”

When the times were violently shaken and new changes were sprouting in other parts of the world, no one in the imperial court could grasp the context of the times, what kind of interpersonal relationships and greetings were made, and his life was to play Tai Chi, and in the end, he was a winner in life. It is no wonder that in the end, a huge country has been shattered and the people have been displaced.

Jiaqing was still a little hesitant and said, "These boxers, I always feel that there will be more than enough success and more failure." If it weren't for the fact that the Fu University had been training for many years and had not been able to train elite soldiers who could fight with the Tang Army, I would not have even asked the fool who made the tricks of the rivers and lakes to be a corporal. ”

Lu Yinpu said: "Holy Lord, this senior brother of the Yihe Fist General Altar has some real skills. Carrying the bullet in the flesh that day was also seen by everyone, and the methods passed down by the ancestors to resist the enemy were always true, and they were not all deceiving the people. ”

Jiaqing thought about it and felt that he still couldn't let go, but as these two courtiers said, there were very few paths he could choose. (To be continued.) )