Close the doors and windows, only Song Xiaofei and Emperor Tongzhi were left in the house, Song Xiaofei saw that Emperor Tongzhi had a gloomy face, so he knelt down and saluted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Emperor Tongzhi was startled, and helped Song Xiaofei on the ground, "Hurry up and speak!" How do you know who I am? ”

Song Xiaofei is not stupid, of course he will not say that he has seen the sapphire diamond ring of the Tongzhi Emperor in the museum in his previous life, he lowered his voice, pointed to the waist card of the Tongzhi Emperor, and said: "The emperor's waist card has a dragon pattern, and the emperor just talked to the old mother, and inadvertently called himself 'I'." ”

Emperor Tongzhi nodded and asked, "Where are you from, and how many people are in your family?" ”

Song Xiaofei casually made up a story: "My name is Song Xiaofei, my ancestral home is Suzhou, my clan and parents were killed by Changmao, and now I am an orphan, and I call home all over the world."

Emperor Tongzhi said, "This is very good!"

Song Xiaofei didn't speak, thinking to himself: "Okay, your sister, I said that my whole family is dead, you actually said very good, the emperor is amazing!" ”

Emperor Tongzhi said: "I want you to do one thing, the risk is extremely high, and you will enjoy endless glory and wealth, and if you lose, you will be executed by Ling Chi."

Ling Chi, that is, the "thousand knives and thousands of cuts" that went viral among the people, is the most terrifying kind of death penalty, when the execution of a person, the flesh on the human body is cut off with a knife, making life worse than death. In the late Qing Dynasty, Ling Chi was quite neat, and basically the eight knives were solved: the first knife was to cut the chest; the second knife, cut the biceps; the third knife, the thigh; The fourth and fifth knives, cut the arm to the elbow; 6th and 7th knives, cut the calf to the knee; The eighth knife, the severed corpse, was put into a basket, and the head was displayed in public for an indefinite period of time. Only a rebellious criminal would use this kind of torture to exterminate people's surnames, Song Xiaofei realized the seriousness of the problem, so he asked Emperor Tongzhi: "Your Majesty, do you want to learn from Emperor Kangxi, the Holy Ancestor, to capture Aobai and imprison Lu, and revive the dynasty?" Now the common people in the world only know that there is the Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong, but they don't know that there is an emperor. ”

Emperor Tongzhi's face was heavy, and he said, "I didn't expect even you, a market boy, to say that." Anyway, I'll tell you about the grievances in my stomach today. After I became a pro-government, I wanted to rebuild the Old Summer Palace for the queen mother of the two palaces to live in retirement. Prince Gong relied on himself to be the emperor's uncle, and nagged all day long, saying that the treasury was clumsy, couldn't I take out so much money from the Qing treasury? Since I came to power, he has been opposed to anything. I am the king of a country, but I can't even rebuild a garden. What do you mean by saying that this emperor deserves it? As long as you promise to help me, I can do one more thing for you. ”

Song Xiaofei was puzzled and asked, "Do one thing for me?" What's up? ”

"I just looked at the eyes of the phoenix girl, I was fascinated, and I liked her eighty percent. I have redeemed her, and when it is done, I will give you marriage. ”

Song Xiaofei asked, "Doesn't the emperor like her?" I think she seems to like you. ”

"Fengxian girl's real name is Sun, I heard the old mother say that she is still the yellow flower girl of the Su embroidery family, she was born handsome, and her surname is smart, she knows everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the flying needle is unexpected, she is indeed a good girl. But every time I look for her, I'm just bored and looking for someone to talk to. Emperor Tongzhi said, "You think about it, I don't force you." ”

Song Xiaofei thought to himself, now that he knew the secret of Emperor Tongzhi's coup d'état, he said that he was not reluctant, maybe he had just left with his front foot, and he would be killed by someone he sent with his back foot. Moreover, if the Tongzhi Emperor can succeed in the coup d'état, it would be good to be "Wei Xiaobao" himself, and when the time comes, he will vigorously assist the Tongzhi Emperor, and China's constitutionalism may come sooner, like the Meiji Restoration. And Song Xiaofei did have a good impression of Miss Fengxian, so he was bold and nodded in agreement.

After Emperor Tongzhi asked Song Xiaofei to swear allegiance, he introduced the situation of the ministers in the court to Song Xiaofei, which is similar to what Yuan Baoheng said, and now there are four factions in the imperial court, the emperor, Wang Zuo, the ghost envoy, and the gods, Prince Gong is in charge of the ghost envoy and Wang Zuo, that is, the Military Aircraft Department and the Prime Minister Yamen, and Prince Alcohol and Rong Lu are in charge of the Shenji Battalion, all of whom are Cixi's people.

Song Xiaofei thought to himself, although the "Qingliu" ministers headed by the "emperor" Li Hongzao supported the Tongzhi Emperor, they were okay to play lip service, and a coup d'état was tantamount to death. The Empress Dowager Ci'an is now the orthodox Empress Dowager, and her power cannot be underestimated, so she asked Emperor Tongzhi, what is the relationship with the Empress Dowager Ci'an now?

Emperor Tongzhi said that now that he is in power, the Empress Dowager Ci'an supports him very much, but in the eyes of the Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong, he will always be a child who does not grow up, without his own decisions, without his own joys, sorrows, and sorrows, just a puppet at their disposal.

Emperor Tongzhi said, "I'm fed up with this puppet-like life!" I now want to rebuild the Old Summer Palace, just to let the Queen Mother return power as soon as possible and go there to live for the rest of her life. Since I was six years old, I have been held in the arms of the Queen Mother, sitting on the dragon chair and watching a bunch of old men kneeling or lying on their stomachs, shouting and shouting, saying that I don't understand the law of the society at all, and I am almost depressed to death. My teacher Li Hongzao often told me that as long as I grow up and become pro-government, I can do whatever I want, and I wait for 12 years, do you know how I survived these 12 years? The first thing I do when I wake up every morning is to say to myself, "Today is another day!" Growing up and being in government is my hope to live! ”

When Song Xiaofei heard this, he completely understood that Emperor Tongzhi wanted to seize power from Cixi and Prince Gong, and thought of "power coming out of the barrel of a gun", so he asked Emperor Tongzhi if there was any available armament in his hands.

Emperor Tongzhi said no, but he could let Jingshou, the concubine who supported him, take over the Shenji Camp first; Then, in the name of Mulan Qiuqiu, let the sergeants of the Shenji Battalion participate in the meeting, and when Mulan Qiuqiu launched a mutiny, the Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong were imprisoned.

Song Xiaofei asked, "What is Mulan Qiuqiu?" ”

Emperor Tongzhi said that "Mulan" is a Manchu language, which means "whistle deer" in Chinese. Mulan autumn is autumn hunting, every autumn the Qing Emperor Yanjing together with the princes of Xinjiang Province, Tibetan Province and Mongolia go to the summer resort to hunt, this year the Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong will also go to observe.

Song Xiaofei said that if this is the case, the emperor can first spread rumors that Rong Lu and the Empress Dowager Cixi have a love affair, so that they will have scruples during this time and will not get too close.

Emperor Tongzhi said, this is fine, and besides, you follow me into the palace to get Ronglu, and train Kubu, and when the time comes, listen to my orders, capture Prince Gong, his martial arts are very powerful.

History records that Emperor Tongzhi is very weak, Song Xiaofei didn't expect that the Emperor Tongzhi in front of him was bold and thoughtful, and he couldn't help but look at him with admiration. He had a question in his heart and said, "Has the emperor ever thought about what the consequences would be if the coup failed?"

Emperor Tongzhi said: "'Tiger poison does not eat children', it's a big deal that I will ignore the government from now on, and it is no different from now." Truth be told, I'm prepared for the worst! When I was six years old, I saw Huang Ama die of illness, and he was only thirty years old. In the future, as long as I thought that I would die like him in the future, I would break out in a cold sweat as if I had fallen into the abyss of no return. However, now that I have figured out that there is a life that is more terrible than death, that is, when people grow up, they are like puppets, without freedom and their own joys and sorrows. ”

Seeing that Emperor Tongzhi had made up his mind, Song Xiaofei decided to gamble with fate, so he disguised himself as a little eunuch and entered the Forbidden City with Emperor Tongzhi and Guibao, which is now the Forbidden City where there are so many tourists that the tickets are so expensive that they are crowded.