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Just when the young Guangxu Emperor was isolated, the emperor Weng Tongyi and the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department, Prince Qing Yixuan, led the imperial party ministers to the Yangxin Palace.

Only then did the Empress Dowager Cixi restrain her temper and motioned to Emperor Guangxu and her ministers to take line. After sitting down, the Empress Dowager Cixi glanced at the ministers, and finally her eyes fell on Weng Tongyi, and said, "The mourning family is dealing with the affairs of the harem, do the scholars also want to interfere?" ”

Weng Tongyi received the support of Prince Qing at this time, and said righteously: "Don't dare." Recommending Kang Youwei to change the law is the old man's opinion, and it has nothing to do with Concubine Zhen. According to the ancestral teachings of the Qing Dynasty, 'those who lose an inch of land are not allowed to enter the ancestral throne', the emperor is working hard, and the queen mother should fully support him to clearly determine the country's status and change the law to improve himself. ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi saw that it was the general trend to change the law and strengthen the country, and there was a "foundation" among the ministers, so she took a sip of the three tea sent by Li Lianying and said: "Did the mourning family say that they do not support the change of law to strengthen the country?" What the mourning family is now questioning Concubine Zhen is whether she has discussed political affairs with the emperor in vain, the emperor, yes or no? ”

Emperor Guangxu knew that there were some eunuchs around him who were the empress dowager's henchmen, monitoring his every move, he didn't dare to lie, cold sweat broke out on his head, and he only promised: "I have said a word or two, but I took the initiative to ask ......."

Before Emperor Guangxu finished explaining, the Empress Dowager Cixi was a little impatient, since the emperor had admitted that Concubine Zhen had said a word or two about political affairs, it would be okay, Cixi ordered: "Concubine Zhen discussed the government in vain, and slapped her mouth for thirty to set an example." ”

Li Lianying immediately ordered the eunuch to step forward and do so, but the poor flower-like Concubine Zhen's buttocks had just been beaten by a cane for twenty. Now he was "snapped" again and slapped his mouth for thirty, bleeding from the corner of his mouth, and fainted. Only then did Cixi let her be carried down to the imperial doctor for treatment.

Cixi taught Concubine Zhen a lesson in front of Emperor Guangxu and Weng Tongyi, just to let the ministers know who has the final say in this Forbidden City. Emperor Guangxu saw that his beloved woman was beaten to a blur of flesh and blood in the blink of an eye, shed tears of resentment, his face was like ashes, and he took off the yellow dragon hat on his head, and he was really ready to quit, and the Empress Dowager Cixi compromised. Agree to let him change the law.

Soon, Emperor Guangxu ordered Kang Youwei to be appointed as the head of the Ministry of Industry, and accelerated the pace of law change. For a time, Kang Youwei became famous in the capital. Many centrists threw themselves under Weng Tong's sect and participated in the reform of the law. The power of the Imperialism swelled rapidly. Only Li Hongzhang, Song Xiaofei, Zhang Zhidong and other pragmatic Westernists are soberly aware of the problem. deliberately kept a distance from them, and Song Xiaofei even predicted to Li Hongzhang: "This time the law is too hasty and empty, I am afraid it will be difficult to exceed 100 days." ”

In 1892, that is, the eighteenth year of Guangxu, April 23. Emperor Guangxu promulgated the "Edict of the Country" and officially began to change the law, because this year is the year of Renchen, also known as the "Renchen Change". It was a full six years ahead of the historical "Wuxu Reform", and the protagonists of this change were the co-organizer of the university, the minister of military aircraft, the prime minister, the secretary of the household department, Weng Tongyi, the director of the Ministry of Industry, Kang Youwei, the director of the Criminal Department, Yang Shenxiu, the secretary of the cabinet, and Liu Guangdi, the director of the Criminal Department, and Kang Youwei's 25-year-old brother Kang Guangren also rushed to Beijing from Nanhai, Guangdong Province to help.

In the first two months, Emperor Guangxu issued a new decree with snowflakes, allowing the provinces to build railways and run foreign affairs, and test the attitude of the Empress Dowager Cixi, but only to make a small fuss, and these measures were within the acceptable range of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

On July 14, the Guangxu Emperor tried to throw a grenade: he began to reform the official system, and abolished the Zhan Shifu, the Tongzheng Division, the Guanglu Temple, the Taifu Temple, the Honglu Temple, the Dali Temple and other six idle yamen, which was equivalent to the removal of six organs directly under the central government at once, and the reform intensity was unprecedented.

At this time, the old officials of the six ministries and nine secretaries couldn't sit still, because there were rumors that the next step was that Emperor Guangxu and Weng Tongyi and Kang Youwei would abolish the six ministries and nine secretaries and set up a devil yamen. The whole Beijing was terrified, and the old-fashioned ministers lined up to the Summer Palace to complain to the Empress Dowager Cixi, saying that there was only one courtier in the court who could accept the emperor's wishes, and that was Weng Tongyi.

The Empress Dowager Cixi comforted the ministers and said: "You go back for the time being, and the mourning family will immediately issue an edict to revoke the appointment and dismissal power of ministers above the second rank, so that you, the senior members of the court, can go home and sleep with peace of mind." ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi didn't expect that as soon as her decree was issued, five days later, Emperor Guangxu and Weng Tonggong threw a bomb at her! On 19 July, Emperor Guangxu issued a decree without consulting the Empress Dowager Cixi to dismiss six high-ranking officials, including Huaitabu and Xu Yingqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, on the grounds that they did not carry out the emperor's will for reform.

These six high-ranking officials are all first- and second-class officials, and Emperor Guangxu did this, it was the idea of Weng Tongyi and Kang Youwei, to kill a hundred and remove six high-ranking officials at once, how majestic, the majesty of the emperor will be established immediately! And in this way, the Empress Dowager Cixi's edict requiring officials above the second grade to be handled by her has become a dead letter, which is equivalent to giving the Empress Dowager Cixi a slap in the face.

The Empress Dowager Cixi is worthy of being born in a coup d'état, she didn't even fight back at this time, if she had nothing to do in the Summer Palace, she fasted and recited Buddha, and in the face of those ministers who came to her to cry, she also made her "bear with it for the time being"!

Weng Tongyi and Kang Youwei saw that the old queen mother did not dare to speak up, she must have been intimidated by the momentum of our law change, and now the whole country is applauding our law change and restoration, and the news of Emperor Guangxu learning English has also made the front page headlines of the New York Times, and the ministers of Taixi countries also actively support Emperor Guangxu's change of law. They threw an "atomic bomb" at the old-fashioned "rear party" headed by the Empress Dowager Cixi: they began to attack Li Hongzhang! Bring down Li Hongzhang, Weng Tonggong has been waiting for this day for nearly 30 years, and he is about to go crazy thinking about it!

On 22 July, Emperor Guangxu, at the instigation of Weng Tonggong, issued an edict to dismiss Premier Li Hongzhang from his post as minister of the Yamen General Administration.

After Song Xiaofei heard about it, he sent a telegram to Li Hongzhang: "The teacher has been waiting for half a month, Weng Tongyi is already digging his own grave!" ”

If the Empress Dowager Cixi did not say anything, he would then instigate Emperor Guangxu to remove Li Hongzhang from the post of Minister of Beiyang Commerce, and if the Empress Dowager Cixi still did not speak, he suggested that Emperor Guangxu remove Li Hongzhang from the post of governor and scholar of Zhili, and let Li Hongzhang return to his hometown!

However, all this is just the big dream of Weng Tonggong in the Spring and Autumn Period, just like the utopian dream of him and Kang Youwei to "change the law for three years to make China self-reliant and prosperous"!

The reform of the law moved to Li Hongzhang's head, which had touched the bottom line that the Empress Dowager Cixi could not bear, and the old lady began to go crazy, and sent three edicts in a day to counterattack, the first one: Weng Tongyi returned to his hometown after opening a vacancy, and he would never use it! The second way: transfer Rong Lu from Xi'an back to Beijing, serve as the commander of the Nine Gates and the commander of the infantry army, and also take charge of the forbidden army! The third way: transfer Song Xiaofei's Beiyang New Army back to Tianjin, and go to read the drill in person in September!

When Li Hongzhang saw these three edicts, he understood in his heart that Song Xiaofei had become a prophecy, this was the prelude to the Empress Dowager Cixi to abolish Emperor Guangxu! He hurriedly sent a telegram asking Song Xiaofei to transfer the 7,000 Beiyang New Army from Jinan back to Tianjin, and a big battle with no visible gunpowder smoke was about to begin! (To be continued......)