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The July fire, for the city of Beijing, the weather in July is indeed like a fire. The dazzling sun seemed to throw its own light and heat together on the earth without reservation, into every corner of the earth.

Similar to the sun-soaked flowers and trees, the current city of Beijing is listless. In addition to hiding in the caves of the city gates of the Inner Nine Cities and the Outer Seven Cities, the soldiers who have been sticking to their posts will let out a few unconfident and anxious roars from time to time, and the occasional hot exhalation of the cattle walking through the streets, even in broad daylight, the whole city is unusually dull.

The streets and alleys are no longer bustling with each other, and there is no singing of merchants competing with each other and attracting merchants. Because the ground was scorched by the sun, people almost didn't dare to walk on it, so that the sound of walking that should have been incessant seemed to have disappeared in the city.

At night, the darkness obscured the sun, but the heat wave did not abate at all, and the earth, which had absorbed the essence of the sun, began to vomit unscrupulously, making the capital like a big cage sitting on the stove.

At this time, there are still no people who can be seen everywhere, except for the groups of soldiers who have to come out to clean the streets, and a few official sedan chairs in a hurry, and then there are wild dogs with long tongues and helpless but must come out to find something to eat.

Obviously, the city of Beijing is under martial law.

Not only ordinary people, but also many officials couldn't understand why the city of Beijing at the feet of the Son of Heaven had become like a great enemy overnight, what happened? Could it be that the Taiping Army is calling? No, don't talk about the court, isn't it still rumored a few days ago that with the selfless assistance of Russian allies and the heroic intervention of the Russian ** team, the Taiping rebels in the south have been successfully stopped on the south bank of the Yellow River? Isn't it still rumored that peace talks between the North and the South have begun, and the war is about to end?

For some well-known officials in various ministries in the capital, they are even more confused. Yesterday was fine, but today, the early morning court was exempted, and there was a word in the Forbidden City that the emperor was in poor health, and as for when there would be another court meeting, listen to the news.

If you want to say this, it is not bad, there should be nothing to make a fuss about, people eat cereals, even if they are the son of heaven, it is difficult to guarantee a disaster and illness. The problem is that, first of all, the person who sent the message was wrong, and the officials guarding the Forbidden City were preaching the words of Wang Yixin, who had long since taken a back seat, rather than the holy decree or the most common Empress Dowager decree. Besides, that little kid emperor was originally an ornament, whether he was sick or not is not the same, as long as the queen mother is there, what can be delayed? In addition, the inner and outer gates of the city that followed were closed together, and without special permission, they didn't even want to enter and leave freely, such a big thing, as they could count it on their fingers, they didn't even know the slightest news in advance.

Something happened to the emperor? It won't be such a coincidence, the emperor is only a little more than a year old, where will he be so early in the funeral.

Either the Queen Mother had an accident. In these years, whether it is the emperor or the queen mother, it seems normal for them to die suddenly. Didn't Emperor Xianfeng return to heaven early, and his queen of the main palace was also strangely gone?

Not to mention the various speculations of these people, there are still many people who are kept in the dark. Although this is the capital of the Qing Dynasty, at the beginning, the black hand that really understood and manipulated this qiē was neither the Han Chinese who were seen by the Qing Dynasty as a chicken rib in their hands, nor their Manchus, but the reliable allies invited by the Qing Dynasty, the Russians.

Ignatiev, the Russian minister to China, Muravyov, the commander-in-chief of the dispatch forces in China, and the general adviser of the Qing Dynasty, Putyatin, felt more and more uncomfortable.

It took a lot of effort and exhausted all the tricks, and the Weihaiwei Special Zone, which was finally drummed up, was gone. And with it, there was even more painful for them, the powerful Weihai garrison. There were more than 20,000 loyal and brave soldiers, and once upon a time it was a huge Third Fleet, and every one of them was in vain.

For the three giants of Tsarist Russia in the Qing Dynasty, as an army, it is better to say how much the actual loss in strength is. If there is no person, you can recruit and replenish it, and the two-legged toad may not be found, but the Russian hometown is so poor that it likes to be a soldier and eat food, especially those who come to the Qing Dynasty to find a chance to make a fortune. The most important thing is that they can't afford to lose that person!

The three giants tried their best to cover up the war situation in Weihai, but they could hide it for a while, but they couldn't hide it for a lifetime, and they could hide it from others, so how could they hide it from themselves?

If it was only the so-called advisers sent out by the Big Three at the beginning, who accompanied them to train them to be loyal and righteous to save the **, and the encounters they had in Anhui and Hubei did not cause them to wake up, the cruel blow given to them by the Red Army of the Celestial Empire in Weihai this time was fatal and alarming. They finally understood a truth, Chinese are not all the same. With braids, they may not be as good as bullshit, and they may only wag their tails and beg for mercy in front of foreigners. And once they don't have braids, they are the men who make anyone helpless, heroes who stand up to the sky.

Neither the big three in Russia, nor the current actual situation, allow them to continue the war with a strong line. They need to be quiet, they need to be brave, and of course, all of them are to accumulate strength. They wanted to get the whole land, but they began to understand that not now, they couldn't rush it, and they needed to be patient.

For them, the best opportunity to promote China's temporary North-South peace talks is the best opportunity to do so.

In their view, no matter how beautiful and moving their slogans were, no matter how sincere their initial oaths seemed to be, as any of their leaders, of course, including their warriors who were once fearless of life and death, and who could walk in style in the rain of bullets, what they really dreamed of in the end was nothing more than personal fame and personal glory and wealth.

Now that they have understood the hearts of the rebels, the Big Three will naturally think that as long as these ** of the rebels are satisfied, then the final success of the peace talks will be a simple matter. So, at first they thought of peace talks, but now, the need to ensure the success of peace talks has become a matter of paramount importance to the actual interests of Tsarist Russia in China.

If they continue to fight hard, they will not get the material support they should have in the country, and they will carry such a heavy burden from the Qing Dynasty, and the end can only be where they come from and where they will go back. Isn't the sweet dream of the tsar, the blood of tens of thousands of soldiers, shed in vain?

The Big Three wanted to think about it, and tried to mobilize their allies in the Great Qing Dynasty to do the same, but unfortunately the result was not quite the same. What puzzled them the most was that among the few prestigious ministers who had tried to persuade them, those who resolutely opposed the southern rebels, that is, the "long hairs" (later renamed "red bandits") as they liked to call them, recognized their legal status, but more of them were Han Chinese, but those Manchu officials seemed to have room for discussion. Of course, there is an even more die-hard person, that is, the woman who hides behind the strange curtain of the Forbidden City, but actually manages a huge country, the Empress Dowager Cixi.

Bodhyatin and Ignatiev both tried to persuade the young empress dowager, not ruling out that she knew reason, moved with affection, and even persuaded her bitterly, this is just a short drama, and what will always happen in the future, but this young empress dowager, worthy of the title of Manchu hero, would rather die than give in.

Muravyov was annoyed.

I've never seen such a woman, I've never seen such a faceless woman, I've never seen such a woman......

Destroy her, completely eliminate her from the **!

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