When night fell, the entire Forbidden City was illuminated by electric lights.

"I'll put on the phoenix crown and cover your eyebrows. The emperor staged a good performance, this performance has been more than ten years, and the old woman didn't even see it, it was the old woman who was blind. This day, the mourning family took off the phoenix crown and xia clothes, and the emperor also wiped off the oil paint, and this drama should be over. The more Cixi spoke, the more excited she became, and when she said that she stood up directly and pointed at Guangxu: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, the mourning family has worked hard for you for decades to love the Xinjue Luo family, supported three generations of emperors, and raised you as an adult." It's the end of a play! ”

"Time is short, time is rushed. In just a few decades of life, for the eternal universe, no one is a play. But for Yang Huaxia, the role of the Queen Mother has ended, and now it is the turn of the sons and daughters to sing. Why don't the Queen Mother sit in the Summer Palace and watch the world change? ”

Cixi silently glanced at Cining Palace, I am afraid that there will be no chance to come back here. Cixi slowly raised her right hand, which was a signal for people to help them leave. Li Lianying was about to step forward, but was preempted by a little eunuch behind her.

"The Queen Mother should let the servants serve you back to the garden." The young eunuch held Cixi's arm and said softly. Xiao Zhuozi was trained by Kou Liancai to replace Li Lianying, and Guangxu wanted to replace all the people around Cixi.

Cixi's face changed, and she raised her hand and gave Xiao Zhuozi a slap: "The old woman is waiting for the emperor's will in the garden." Cixi sneered and walked slowly outside the hall alone. Behind her kneels were the palace people who had served her for decades. What else don't you understand, I'm afraid there is no one familiar with me after this incident.

Outside the palace gates. Tang Shaoyi held a booklet full of names, and looked at the princes and ministers kneeling on the side of the road with cold eyes. Once upon a time, these princely ministers were his aspiring targets. Once upon a time, they were the ideals of their own struggle. Now that he is standing in front of these princes and ministers, he no longer has to grovel. Tang Shaoyi understands that only by following the emperor can he be knighted and worship the prime minister no longer a dream.

"Zaiyi, take it away."

"Xu Tong, take it away."

……

Tang Shao thought of a person every time. There will be soldiers who will pull people down. No matter what your identity is, no matter what you cry and shout, let you cry or shout. It was useless for these soldiers on duty. Xiucai can't explain why he met Bing, this is not an empty word. Zai Yi shouted that he was the prince, and wanted to fight the soldiers who came to pull him. As a result, the soldier smashed the butt of a gun on his head, and he was directly knocked unconscious with blood gushing out.

Guangxu who came out after Cixi. See this scene in front of you. Didn't say a word. Soldiers are not policemen, soldiers are organized and disciplined bandits, and as the highest level of the state's violent organs, they consider the quickest and most efficient way to deal with those who dare to resist. They don't need to worry about the law.

Xu Tong's performance can be described as excellent. He didn't shout injustice, let alone beg for mercy, but stood straight and Zhenzhen, and still stood straight in the face of the emperor. The people of the world hate foreigners to the bone, and the scholars of the world regard Xinxue as a beast of prey. Hundreds of officials in the world changed color when they heard about the new policy. Even though he had been dragged down, he still looked up to the sky and shouted. The world is no longer the world of the people of the world. The world has become the emperor's world. Is the world still the world?

Guangxu smiled and said nothing, only Cixi turned around and glared at Guangxu angrily: "The emperor's army has entered the city, and the officials who oppose you in the Manchu Dynasty will be killed in one go, and no one will be able to hinder the emperor from now on." ”

"Yes." Guangxu replied lightly.

Guangxu's indifferent expression completely angered Cixi: "Okay, now the Forbidden City is already a river of blood, and it is not worse than the blood of my queen mother." Let's see if the emperor can kill all the people in the world who oppose you. ”

"There's no hurry, it'll be."

Looking at Guangxu's calm expression, Cixi completely dispelled her idea of trying to keep some officials in order to protect the future. The emperor will not give her the slightest chance. His eyes drifted with incomparable grief and despair. Leave the palace under the 'protection' of the Royal Janissary Battalion.

At the end of the summer of the 22nd year of Guangxu, after a cannon sounded, the emperor entered the Forbidden City. There is no roar of guns, no cry of fighting. With the Empress Dowager Cixi's return to the Summer Palace, a great purge in the imperial court followed. After just one night, the entire Qing Dynasty was completely changed.

Zai Yi plotted for the throne for his son Pu Jun, and united Xu Tong, Rong Lu and others to hold the Queen Mother hostage to plan a mutiny. This was the imperial court's explanation to the outside world. Its main officials, together with Zaixun and other princes, were all killed, and six of them, including Zai Yi and Rong Lu, were beheaded. There are no less than 200 officials of the post-party group who have been implicated in the crime, or who have been dismissed from their posts or questioned by them, and this is just the officials in Beijing. Not only that, although the Minister of Military Aircraft was not involved, he was also dismissed from all official positions because he was also in charge of infantry and was ineffective in commanding the yamen. The rest of the post-party officials, all who were in important positions in the Yamen of the Six Ministries, were transferred and released. The Hou Party lineage, which once controlled the court, disappeared in an instant under this series of blows. For the sake of national stability, under the persuasion of Li Hongzhang, Guangxu withdrew his will to let local governors, governors and other officials of three grades or above enter Beijing.

"Uncle Wang, ask the emperor here. Does the emperor really want to kill this Manchu royal family before stopping? The emperor is now heroic, and Uncle Wang believes that the Qing Dynasty will really rise in the hands of the emperor. Now that the emperor is in charge, the Han people will be honest and obedient. But what about after the emperor? Without these royal families, would the Qing Dynasty still be the Qing Dynasty? Is it true that the emperor is not worried about the Han people? On the night of Guangxu's entry into Beijing, Prince Gong Yixin entered the palace to meet the emperor and asked this question after expelling everyone.

"Even the prince is no longer able to deal with the current situation, is there still someone who has this ability among the Manchurians?" Guangxu's rhetorical words left Yi Xin speechless.

A few days later, Prince Gong Yixin was dismissed from all positions, and when the city of Mukden was renovated, he would lead most of the Manchu nobles led by the Empress Dowager back to Mukden, where they would die their old age.

The Queen Mother is still the Queen Mother, but this world has become the emperor's world. Once a courtier of the Son of Heaven, this is all expected. The emperor wants to clean up the courtiers and appoint confidant officials, which is the proper intention. At this moment, both the government and the opposition can see it very clearly. It's just that no one should have dared to talk about it under such a storm, but there are still different voices. The next day, the court went to court, and there were voices of dissatisfaction in the court.

"I thought. The Lords of Wisdom are all generous and merciful Princes. Now the queen mother has handed over power to the emperor, and the emperor is even more tolerant. Even though Zaiyi, Rong Lu and others committed unforgivable crimes, what do they have to do with their families. The emperor destroyed the gate of the six families on this trip, how could Ming Jun do this? ”

Chen Baochen, Tongzhi Wuchen Kejinshi. He entered Hanlin in his early years, and was favored because of his outspokenness and daring to admonish. It's just that after the Sino-French War, because of his participation in the praise of Tang Jiong and Xu Yantou's failure to manage military affairs, he was demoted by the ministry by nine levels. From now on, he will be a player. After the First Sino-Japanese War in the twentieth year of Guangxu, Weng Tongyi considered that the emperor's work background was insufficient, and in order to compete with the queen mother, he specially wrote a letter to invite back the outspoken Chen Baochen. What I didn't expect was. This imperial historian not only dared to admonish the queen mother, but also dared to admonish the emperor.

Weng Tong glared at Chen Baochen angrily: "Since ancient times, rebellion has been based on the theory of punishing the nine clans, and now the emperor is only full of beheading, which is already magnanimous. Why didn't Mingjun do it, and didn't retreat? It seems that reprimanding Chen Baochen is actually to protect him.

I don't want Chen Baochen to disagree. Instead, he talked about the identity of Pu Jun's eldest brother. What else did Pu Jun's eldest brother say was determined by the Queen Mother. Beheading without a decree today is a violation of national law. Not only that, but a large number of Qingliu civil officials seconded the proposal. They think that the emperor is in power, and it is time for them, who have been suppressed by the queen mother's party, to play their role.

The angry Guangxu took his sleeves, and the first court meeting when Guangxu was really in power broke up unhappily.

The old pedants who are not diligent in the five grains and are not diligent and can only talk rhetoric, have you ever known that the Ming Dynasty was ruined by the hands of you literati who claim to be righteous. However, Guangxu could not kill these literati. I am used to seeing the book of flattery of the whole country in later generations, and I am used to listening to the sycophancy of later generations. Guangxu can realize the positive role that these clear streams can play in correcting the rule of state officials, guiding the national atmosphere, and reflecting the real people's livelihood. But it is also these literati who flaunt justice, but they will also ruin the country because of justice that is not grounded.

Li Hongzhang is here. Tang Shaoyi came, and even Zhang Zhidong, who was ordered to enter Beijing, also came. These old oilmen in the officialdom wanted to ask for a favor for Chen Baochen, but they didn't know that Guangxu and Ben had no intention of dealing with him. Guangxu thought about how to make them play a role in the future of the Qingming Dynasty.

The content of a meeting is directly proportional to the number of participants, but the importance and efficiency are always inversely proportional to the number of participants, which is a tangled problem. Guangxu put forward an idea, so Lin Qizhao was summoned into the palace, Weng Tongyi was summoned into the palace, and Cen Chunxuan was also summoned. As a result, the discussion lasted until midnight.

Zaiyi, Rong Lu and other six families will not live because of Chen Baochen's words, and the butcher knives at the entrance of the vegetable market have not stopped, and the blood flow has also stimulated Chen Baochen. In the morning of the next day, Chen Baochen was extremely excited: "In North Korea, the two ** teams of China and North Korea brutally killed the Japanese, and some even used Japanese prisoners as the training objects of recruits, so as to train the recruits to kill people. In the northeast, the construction corps regarded the Nanyang natives as slaves and let them be whipped. The emperor was already angry before he was in power, and now he is even more crowded at the beginning of his government. Since ancient times, the prosperity of the dynasty has been to influence the world with benevolence......" While speaking, Li, Zhang, Weng and others turned pale, and even Tang and Lin turned their heads to the side and couldn't bear to look at each other.

"Shut up. It was the North Koreans who trained recruits with captives, so why did they add the guilt to me. Plotting against me is just a raid. The construction corps has no slaves, and when you say it, why do you talk nonsense. How can you become a tyrant in your mouth? "Anything else is good to say, although everyone understands what is going on in their hearts about the slaves in Nanyang, and there is even a blatant human trafficking on the Nanyang side, but it is impossible to say that they know what they know.

"The minister is a speech official, and it should be his duty to hear about it. The ministers of the slave matter have only heard about it, and the emperor should check whether there is such a thing. However, the Korean army is now under the command of our Qing Dynasty, and the emperor does not deny it, why did our Qing Dynasty not stop it. More than 40,000 Russian prisoners were thrown into slavery in the construction corps. This was not done by Ming Jun, and the minister's impeachment of Shoushan, Liu Shengxiu, Tang Shaoyi and others of the DPRK Department for not knowing the national system was a move that undermined the national prestige. Although Japan and Russia are disrespectful to our Qing Dynasty, the emperor must have the heart to convince people with virtue in order to influence the Quartet......"

"Slow." Guangxu interrupted Chen Baochen's remarks and asked seemingly nothing: "Are you sure you want to convince people with virtue?" ”

Chen Baochen looked up blankly and replied, "That's nature." ”

When Guangxu once again received Chen Baochen's affirmative answer, he waved his hand and beckoned Yang Dongzi to whisper a few words, and then Yang Dongzi saluted and left. This made Chen Baochen so angry that he accused the emperor of ignoring the courtesy of the monarch and his ministers. Guangxu was not angry, but slowly walked off the stage, walked to Chen Baochen's side and asked loudly: "You said that you want to convince people with virtue, which means that you yourself think you can convince people with virtue." Then I ask you again, are you sure you want to be virtuous? Think about it before answering. ”

Do you still need to think about it? Chen Baochen opened his mouth and replied: "The minister will convince people with virtue, and the minister also hopes that the emperor can also serve ...... with virtue."

"Smack", without waiting for Chen Baochen to finish speaking, Guangxu slapped Chen Baochen in the face, knocking the ignorant Chen Baochen to the ground.

"The ministers just spoke bluntly about what a crime, but they were beaten by the emperor for no reason. Minister...... Minister...... ......Chen Baochen's angry eyes turned red as he spoke, and he got up and pointed at the emperor's nose and was about to scold.

But he got up and was kicked to the ground by Guangxu: "Didn't you say that you should convince people with virtue?" Is this your way of convincing people with virtue? ”

Chen Baochen was blindfolded, and his eyes, which were still red, suddenly became clear and confused. Since ancient times, the saints have said that they must convince people with virtue, but how to convince people with virtue The saints did not say. Now I can only grit my teeth and admit: "Ministers should serve people with virtue." ”

Hahahaha...... Guangxu laughed silently until Yang Dongzi came back to report that Chen Baochen's family had all been brought to the front of the palace. Guangxu said leisurely: "The man pulls it down and fights, and the woman pulls it down to make the brothers happy." As long as you don't kill people, there are no taboos. ”

Yang Dongzi stared at him and didn't dare to answer, and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces also looked at the emperor incredulously. Could it be that the emperor really became a violent king after he came to power? Li Hongzhang took the lead and knelt down: "Please think twice." The ministers also knelt down: "Please think twice, the emperor." ”

"It's okay, Master Chen will convince people with virtue." Guangxu, who had a smiling face, suddenly turned into an angry face: "Look at what to see, do it." ”

Yang Dongzi smacked his mouth a few times but still didn't speak, turned around and asked his subordinates to beat people, but those female dependents didn't dare to really do it, and just pulled it aside. Listening to his wife and children wailing outside the hall, Chen Baochen knelt down and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, the minister is wrong. The minister asked for his resignation and returned to his hometown. ”

"Not really." Guangxu waved his hand to signal a stop outside the hall: "You always want to convince people with virtue, then have you ever thought about the 20,000 Lushun people who were slaughtered by the Japanese, and have you heard the wails of the Northeast people when they were killed by the Russians?" If you ask me to talk to a group of robbers about convincing people with virtue, then you must convince me first. You, you--think about telling me all this, I'm going to let you try it for yourself. It's not too late to come back when you can do it. I don't want to hear these frivolous exhortations anymore. From today onwards, I want to be arbitrary! (To be continued......)

ps: Guangxu finally regained the imperial power in a bloody way, but the situation at home and abroad could not allow the Qing Dynasty to lay out calmly. Let's see how Guangxu quells the domestic chaos, and how Guangxu stirs up the general trend of the Far East through wars again and again. Everything is in the fourth volume of the Chinese firmament - the distant east wind clouds.