"I heard that the current emperor turned out to be a fake emperor, and the real one died twelve years ago."

"Do you need to hear about this? The imperial court announced to the world. I heard that even the new emperor has been chosen. ”

"Doesn't that mean that the era name is going to be changed again? Although the fake emperor is fake, it has been hard to live a good life in the past few years. I don't know what kind of person this new emperor will be. ”

……

In fact, the people rarely listen to the rumors of such a national event, because the court is too far away from them, and they only pay attention to their own experience. With money and food in his hands, his wife is not bullied when he is a soldier outside, and his children have free books to read. As long as you can make the people's lives as good as possible, no matter how bad the court says, what does it have to do with you. Of course, my life is almost unbearable, even if the court says that it is good and harmonious, it is useless.

When the matter of the true and false emperor spread all over the world with the announcement of the imperial court, all kinds of gossip about the true and false emperor suddenly flew all over the sky. There are those who pity, those who are resentful, those who are worried, and those who are happy......

"I heard that the imperial court has gone to the sea to catch documents, and wants to arrest the fake emperor to avenge the real emperor."

"It's not what's wrong, if you don't get rid of the fake emperor, how can this new emperor sit firmly."

"To be honest, if it weren't for the fake emperor all these years, would we be able to have a good life as soldiers? I didn't worry about money, food and clothing, and I had meat to eat every day, and this day was like a New Year's Day every day. And there is still money left to send home, and the third child of our family has already gone to school. If this is a different emperor...... Hey. Not necessarily—"

"We're just little soldiers, and it's not a no. This kind of major affairs of the country and the dynasty should still be handled by the adults in the court, and we will just listen to the order. ”

When rumors spread to the barracks. The once bleak barracks became chaotic. The training was listless, the drill was crooked, and the sharpshooter who had been hit with a hundred shots didn't even know where the bullets went. The countrymen, who were accustomed to having an emperor, suddenly found that the emperor was gone, and they were still a little uncomfortable.

"Hey, I've heard. said that this fake emperor and Ben were not Manchurians, but our Han people. ”

"What? This fake emperor is Han? This is not a nonsense. Whoever wants to be killed. ”

"How can this kind of thing be nonsense, this is from the palace."

"No, it won't. A Han man has been a fake emperor for twelve years, and no one can recognize him? That's, isn't it? ”

"It's only been 12 years, hey--we haven't had a Han emperor in China for more than 200 years. Maybe there won't be one in the future. ”

Rumors are flying all over the sky, but they are still spreading. Why did the false emperor reject the Manchus and get close to the Han people? Because he is a Han Chinese. This is blood closeness. If this explanation is not enough to explain the problem, then analyze it from the fake emperor's every move and from the fake emperor's behavior and habits. Manchurian people do not take a bath for many years, and cover their body odor with sachets all day long. But the false emperor is not, even in winter, he must take a bath every two days, and in summer, he must take a bath every day, sometimes several times a day. Rich and noble people are bathing with soap, so do you know that this soap was invented by the fake emperor in order to make his bath cleaner. Could this be the custom of the Manchurians? Speaking of eating, the northern vegetables are boiled and the southern vegetables are boiled and the soup is made. Regardless of winter or summer. This fake emperor has to be accompanied by a soup for every meal. Can this be eaten by a full man? The fake emperor has delicious fish, and all kinds of fish can be said to be never tired of eating. This fish is a standard southerner ingredient, and the emperor is good at swimming. Doesn't all of this mean that this fake emperor is a Han Chinese? And some people infer that the fake emperor should be born on the seaside in Jiangsu and Zhejiang according to the fact that the fake emperor likes to eat seafood. Guangxu was furious when he heard the information Huang Minghua had gathered. Lao Tzu's elders grew up by the river.

"Who got the news out there? Who is talking nonsense. Cixi was roaring. If it weren't for Li Hongzhang persuading him on the side, these news were actually Li Ming, the fake emperor, and through the news deliberately released by the guards around him, Cixi was so angry that she almost killed Kou Liancai: "Did the officials of Shanghai Mansion catch this traitor who pretended to be the emperor?" ”

Of course not, the officers and soldiers of the Shanghai government who were full of officers and soldiers at the railway station did not catch the fake emperor and ended up surrounding the whole train. In the horror of the full train passengers, he learned that the fake emperor got off the train and ran away in Suzhou. So the officials of the Shanghai government trembled and reported the news to the imperial court.

Liu Shutang, the prefect of Ningbo, also received a notice from the imperial court. demanded the arrest of the puppet empress Yang Zao'er and her father Yang Qishan's family, and sent them back to Beijing. If only it was just a telegram would be fine. It was done, but at the same time two telegrams arrived. One was a private message from Li Hongzhang, the prime minister of the dynasty, asking Liu Shutang to protect Yang Zaoer's family, otherwise the consequences would be cured. The other is a private message from Vice Minister Yan Fu, which is even more intense. Whenever something happens to the queen's family, the whole family of the Ningbo prefect will be buried with her.

The sudden fake emperor case and these three diametrically opposed telegrams made Liu Shutang, who was holding the three telegrams, almost hang himself. They are all first-class members of the court, where can he, the five-grade prefect, be offended. Yang Qishan is now the principal of Ningbo Mansion School, Liu Shutang and Yang Qishan have an old relationship, and Liu Shutang, who is in a dilemma, changed into civilian clothes and went to Yang Qishan's courtyard in Ningbo alone. Unexpectedly, Yang Qishan had already received a call from Guangxu and returned to his ancestral house in the countryside.

"Grandma—" Just as she pushed open the gate of the courtyard, the two children ran in screaming. The children's idea is very simple, in their eyes, this trip south is just a summer vacation to see their grandmother. Yang Huang, who heard the children's call, immediately threw down his hands and came out, and talked to the two children with a smile. Pu Tian also proudly took out the money and told her grandmother how much money she made in kindergarten.

Adults know why. Guangxu just entered the door, and he hugged his fists and saluted Yang Qishan who was leaning on the recliner: "Father-in-law, now that my son-in-law has come to take refuge in a desperate way, I hope that my father-in-law will take him in." ”

Yang Qishan put down the newspaper in his hand, looked up at Guangxu and sat up straight: "Although the national dynasty has been fighting in the east and west over the years, the growing strength of the country is always your credit." Stay in peace. ”

Guangxu lived with peace of mind. But Cixi couldn't settle down. She knows very well that the current court is already stormy. Don't look at the Hanchens who are still in the court, but they already have their own thoughts in their hearts. This fake emperor only needs to live for one day. His influence is there. If you want to arrest him with great fanfare, not to mention that there are more than 200 war veterans around him, he may not be able to take it down for a while and a half, and if he does this, maybe these Hanchen cultivated by the fake emperor will turn their faces in the blink of an eye. Since he escaped a catastrophe in Shanghai, let it go for the time being, first welcome the new emperor into the capital to ascend the throne, determine the name of righteousness and divide the vassals, and then it is safer to do it again. So Cixi seems to have forgotten Li Ming's existence. Put all your energy into the new emperor's enthronement ceremony.

During Li Ming's reign, he sent out many times to carry out suburban sacrifices. Therefore, all the ceremonial guards are complete, and all that needs to be done is to repaint and renovate. Just as the capital was preparing for the new emperor's enthronement ceremony, there was a shocking news from Fengtian City. Shoushan, the commander of the Northeast Theater of the Qing Imperial Army, shot and killed the new emperor Zaifeng at the south gate of Fengtian City. Then he led his troops into the inner city, and two hours later, the city of Fengtian was nearly slaughtered.

"Are you taking everyone to raise the prestige of the country outside the territory all these years? Who has made everyone worry about food and clothing all these years? Who has given everyone free books to read all these years? Who gave our children hope? We are all soldiers, and it is our duty to die on the battlefield. But who has made everyone worry about freezing and starving at home when they are fighting on the battlefield? Who is it? It's the fake emperor they keep talking about. What happened to the fake emperor? It was the fake emperor who made everyone live a good life, and it was the fake emperor who made the Qing Dynasty no longer bullied by foreigners. He is better than the real emperor, so why don't we let such an emperor who can make everyone live a good life continue to be the emperor? Shoushan, who was covered in blood and still flowing, stood on the tower of Fengtian City and shouted to the third division under the city: "People in troubled times are not as good as dogs in prosperous times." What are we fighting for all these years? Isn't it just to let the family live a peaceful life, how many brothers have we sacrificed over the years to change today's peaceful life, we are thanks to the country and the community. But a new emperor who has not yet ascended the throne is planning to kill us all, why? Just because he thinks we put them under house arrest. We are the heroes of the country. In exchange for such a result. I am not convinced, I want to ask the court, why did the new emperor kill my whole family and destroy my nine clans. I'm not convinced. I'm going to admonish—"

"When 10,000 spears are erected, civil war is inevitable.

"It's rebellion, it's rebellion." Cixi cried loudly, Zaifeng died, and Shoushan's move made the Manchu rivers and mountains precarious. The only way to do this now is to put down the rebellion in Shoushan immediately with a heavy fist. Otherwise, once it triggers a chain reaction, the Qing Dynasty will die.

Heaven is especially forgivable. You cannot live if you have done your own iniquity. This sentence is the most appropriate way to describe Zaifeng. Thought that he put on a dragon robe, and thought that he was really at the point where he could do whatever he wanted when he became an emperor? Wearing a dragon robe, he rode a high-headed horse, and slowly walked out of the inner city surrounded by many people. If you want to show off, you can show off, can you close your stinky mouth? Shoushan, who was already worried, came to send you back to Beijing, can't you compliment you twice? You have to reprimand a few words viciously to show your presence. Shoushan is not good at etiquette, you have to put a charge of contempt for the emperor, do you know that this is a crime to be killed. Shoushan asks you for favor, and when everyone kneels, can't you show your broad-mindedness as an emperor? When you sit firmly on the throne and remove him from power, then you will kill or chop him or let you please. The Manchurians who followed Zaifeng were also a group of fools, and when they saw Shoushan with low eyebrows, they thought they were amazing. Think there is a scene where Liu Kun can live in the town? Liu Kun, the governor of the Northeast, has only the right to govern, and what the governing power is, it is only the right to manage. What is the power of war, that is, it is set up to kill. didn't know who controlled the entire Fengtian City, so he vainly said that he would punish the nine clans of Shoushan Mountain.

Whoever dies will not fight, not to mention that they are generals with heavy troops, you say in other people's territory that you want to punish him nine clans, and it is strange if people don't kill you, by the way, clean up Fengtian City together. What if Liu Kun is the governor, isn't he under house arrest? Liu Kun is also pitiful when he says it, although the entire Northeast has become richer and richer by his governance, but this is the second time he has been placed under house arrest.

Cixi's heart was also in turmoil, ignoring the agreement reached with the Han ministers a few days ago, and at the court meeting, Cixi ordered the Mongol garrison to immediately go to the northeast to quell the rebellion: "Capture Shoushan, punish its nine clans, and quell the rebellion." ”

No one dares not to issue the will of the Queen Mother, but Wang Shizhen, who is the chief of staff, also has the right to report. A telegram from the General Staff Headquarters was sent. Order the Mongol Liang Huadian Department not to transfer any troops. Another telegram scolded Shoushan, and now the entire Hanchen system has become dangerous because of him, and the northward expansion plan may also be aborted. Can't you say hello before you work in Shoushan?

Ouyang Zhenhua, the secretary of the military department, also telegraphed in the name of the military department to order the northeastern divisions, including the third division in Shoushan. There is no additional explanation, except that any troops must be stationed in the camp and must not leave the camp.

As the premier, Li Hongzhang was not idle, and he issued an order to close Shanhaiguan, so that no one was allowed to enter or leave the customs, and all ministries in Beijing were not allowed to move without permission. Just that night. Yan Fu, who went to see Li Xiang, walked out of the Li Mansion with a smile.

"Only by killing Li Ming can we shock these arrogant soldiers." Although Cixi did not know the content of the telegram sent by the General Staff Headquarters and the Military Department. But after a full day, no one reported that there was a troop movement and a battle plan. She keenly felt that the situation might not be under her control, so she sent her henchmen to quietly send reports to Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo and other prefectures that night, demanding that officials and officials be dispatched to immediately behead Li Ming and others on the spot.

After receiving the telegram, the government and Taiwan in Hangzhou and Ningbo trembled, and the imperial court let the officials who only had water and fire sticks in their hands. Going to war with an army equipped with machine guns and artillery is not such a way to die. Shanghai is a little different, because Shanghai is a big city of trade, and in order to ensure the safety of the city, a regiment of paramilitary armed police forces is stationed in the vicinity of Kunshan, and the Shanghai government has the right to directly transfer a battalion of soldiers into the city according to its own situation to maintain order. As long as the queen mother's will is delivered to the regiment commander, then the third regiment of the armed police can send troops. The regiment commander checked the will of the Empress Dowager, and although he did not know who this Li Ming was, he still ordered the troops to assemble and set off early the next morning.

"You still sweep the floor?" Yang Zao'er was surprised to see that Li Ming, who was cleaning the courtyard, was still doing a good job, so she asked in surprise.

Li Ming was unhappy. Eyes glared: "What do you mean?" Could it be that your husband is a waste who can only eat, drink and spill in your eyes? ”

"The concubine is just curious, I didn't expect you to really know how to do these housework."

Li Ming patted his chest and said: "Cleaning, laundry and folding quilts, except for not being able to cook." There's really nothing I don't know how to do in this house. After speaking, after looking around and seeing no one else, he whispered: "No way, what's so embarrassing if you don't do some work in your house." ”

Yang Zao'er smiled and picked up a broom, and the husband and wife prepared to clean the courtyard together. At this time, the two little children were about to go out to play, but Li Ming grabbed them and asked them to participate in family labor. Where can a little kid who hasn't yet swept the floor with a broom high, pouting and making a mess of what has just been swept in two clicks. The angry Li Ming gave them a few blows, and then taught them to sweep the floor hand in hand. If a person can't even clean his own home. Can they be expected to clean up the world in the future?

In front of the window, Yang Qishan looked at the family of four who were busy in the yard, and his wife nodded and said, "This son raised his head and bent down." Able to bend and stretch for the big husband also. If you can show your talents, you will become a great tool. ”

There is no absolute relationship between talent and talent, and sometimes a little luck is needed. Before the yard was finished, Huang Huaming came in, and after whispering a few words in Li Ming's ear, the two entered the room. After a while, Huang Huaming left in a hurry, but Li Ming continued to sweep the floor as if he was nothing, in fact, the killing intent was already rising in his heart. Since Cixi is going to kill herself, don't blame herself for fighting back.

The beauty of uniforms is called gorgeous; The etiquette and righteousness are great, so it is called Yixia. Hanquan Zhuolu, the beginning of China. Zhou Gong set a ceremony, prolonging the life of 3,000. The power of Han Wu has become my Han name. The Tang Dynasty is prosperous, and all countries are in the Jin Dynasty. I once dreamed of going back to the Han and Tang Dynasties and watching the neon clothes and feathers dance. The long wind blows the development belt, and the robe is flowing like an immortal. But he didn't want to restore the clothes of the Han family for a hundred years, and he was finally trampled by the Eight Banners Iron Horseman. And now, the wide sleeves are fluttering, where is it now. The dress is small, and it will eventually become a sound. I would like to return to the Han and Tang Dynasties and play the role of Jiaohui Palace Shang. Wearing the clothes of my Han family, I am a state of etiquette. Look at my Huaxia son, and then compose a prosperous chapter.

This is Li Ming's own handwritten text, and Sun Jianai, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials who received the secret telegram, immediately found Li Hongzhang, Hanchen's seven Shangshu and the director of the two bureaus, and read this text in his study at home. Yan Fu was so excited that he trembled, and Wang Shizhen and others almost ordered the army to attack Beijing. Only Li Hongzhang cried: "Two hundred years, two hundred years." The old man can see my Han family's clothes revived again before he dies, and his life will not be in vain——"

"Although the rumors in the market seem to be conclusive, how can I confirm that it is my Han people." This may be Yan Fu's only worry.

"Confused, since this article has been written today, does he have to be?" Li Hongzhang touched his tears: "The Manchu Qing Dynasty has occupied our China for more than 200 years, and its rule has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Although it has been 12 years since the last dynasty, most of the countries in China are Hanchen. However, at the time of the northward expansion, if there is a change in the country at this time, it will inevitably implicate the northward expansion plan. If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens. In order to ensure a smooth transition, the two bureaus mobilized all reliable manpower in China to print and distribute the document in various places tonight, and dispersed it overnight. At the same time, pay attention to the trends of various places and report them in time. (To be continued)

ps: ps: urgently solicit country names (single words) and year numbers (double words). I really can't think of a suitable one.