The emperor's motorcade drove out of the Fuxing Gate and slowly headed towards the Summer Palace, which had been notified that the Summer Palace was ready to take over.

In a dense bush not far from the gate, a pair of eyes were staring at the slowing down convoy. He slowly lowered his head and lowered the back door of the middle car into the sight.

The convoy came to a halt, the guards lined up to stand on guard, and the ministers came out of the car. The owner of the eyes in the grass only had some contemptuous smile on his face, this place he had been looking for a long time, although the vision was not very wide, but it was hidden. He watched Li Ming, who was wearing a Han dragon robe, get out of the car and walked towards the Summer Palace under the escort of a team of guards, until Li Ming walked into the Summer Palace and closed the gate, he did not shoot. It's not that there is no chance, it's just that he didn't shoot.

The convoy started slowly again, and began to turn around and stop on both sides. His eyes jumped suddenly, and he said that he was really the real emperor? The eye understands that this may be the last chance.

The Emperor's car was always the last to move, but this time it didn't pull over, but only took a few steps forward to the gate and stopped again. With a sigh of relief, he knew that the thief was not so bold. In the sight, he watched as Zhen Li Ming stepped out of the car door and came out as soon as he bent over. So he gently pulled the trigger. "Bang", the gun went off.

Those who are really not afraid of death are those who have nothing, and the richer people are, the more afraid they are of death, this is true. Especially for the emperor of a country, it is really impossible if there are not a few stand-ins. The people of the whole country know that Li Ming has a stand-in, and there are more than two or three. The Manchus must have ruled China for 200 years, and no matter how unpopular they are, there will always be a few loyal ones. Especially the current dynastic change. During the most intense period of the Manchu-Han conflict, even in the era of cold weapons, there were hidden arrows. Not to mention China, which has been fully weaponized. If there was an assassin among the ministers, Li Ming would be dead.

China during this period. The original Manchu forces had fallen into decay under the influence of Li Ming, and the Manchus, who had lost the righteousness of the central government, were no longer able to support the whole of China. As soon as the Hanchen lost Li Ming, the leader, all ministries and localities would inevitably see the bayonet in their struggle for the power of the central government. And Li Hongzhang and other old ministers, who lost their original strength, could not control the upstarts led by Yan Fu, and the upstarts Yan, Tang, Lin and others had certain contradictions among themselves. There are also conflicts between civil servants and military generals, and the military generals have their own interests and needs in the navy, land, and air force and the general staff...... It's just that these contradictions are not prominent because Li Ming is there, and Li Ming's own huge reputation in the army is just a small contradiction at the moment. The army is stable, and the political dispute between the DPRK and China is just a trivial matter. But as long as Li Ming is dead. These contradictions will then turn into conflicts. Then China is really going to fall apart. Where would Li Ming, who dared to fight on the Grange platform, be afraid of death, but he couldn't die now.

Therefore, Li Ming's stand-in appears on various occasions from time to time, including the one who persuaded the good elderly in front of the Fuxing Gate is also a stand-in. The real Li Ming also got out of the train, and he was a stand-in in front all the way, and the stand-in would get out of the car from time to time, posing as an emperor and chatting with the people from time to time. Although the Hanchen combed the capital several times, who dares to guarantee that it will really be completely clean? I did this to try to see how many Assassins there were in the capital that I hadn't discovered.

At the moment, it seems that there is no problem. Li Ming was relieved, but when he stepped out of the car door, he was hit hard in the chest before he even heard the gunshot. It's like a punch. Suddenly knocked Li Ming, who had only leaned out half of his body, back into the car.

The emperor was assassinated.

The ministers were panicked, and the guards were flustered, but their long-term military literacy told them what to do. Some of them quickly turned their backs to the car and lined up in two groups of people side by side, while others began to search around. Huang Minghua only lost his mind for a short time. Soon, with the sound of a single gunshot, he immediately pointed out the direction of the Assassins.

The eyes clearly saw that Li Ming was hit, but he couldn't see whether he was dead or not. But it was impossible to see that the guards were surrounding the car to death. He couldn't stand another chance, and a large number of guards were already rushing in his direction. The location is very secluded. But there is no way back. Eyes dropped the gun in his hand and stood up, carrying the gun to his back. It's just like the usual training, it's natural and easy.

He looked at the guards who were pointing their guns at him, there were comrades who trained together, there were partners who ate and took classes together, and even one of them was his brother who used to be on the bunk, and now he could only point at it coldly. He was an orphan, and if it weren't for Prince Li's pity and giving him a bowl of food, perhaps he would have frozen to death on the streets. His parents gave birth to him, but Prince Li was the grace of his recreation, and he vowed to repay Prince Li's great kindness. He is Han, but his heart is towards Prince Li. In his opinion, anyway, this life was given by Prince Li, so he should return it to Prince Li.

He looked at his former comrades-in-arms, partners and brothers, and just smiled faintly, as if he had just returned from a mission to see them, smiling naturally, but with less hugs and more indifference. He didn't speak, and neither did the brother opposite, but just looked at him with doubts and hatred, as if to ask him why was this? There is no why, it's just a promise, and he has always been a man of his word. He pulled out his pistol from his waist, pointed it at his head, and said softly: Farewell, my brothers. Then he pulled the trigger of the pistol as if he were pulling a rifle, just with a slight touch.

Cixi has been sick for four months, and she knows that her body is about to die, so she has survived until now. She heard the gunshots outside the palace, the noise of the crowd outside the palace, and the plan she had been planning for a long time was finally carried out. Ring in ring, set in set. No matter how young and young you are, you won't be the hand of the palace that has been changing the political situation for a long time. Li Ming, if you are not the Son of Heaven, you are destined to not be able to ascend to the position of the Ninety-Five Supreme.

Cixi wanted to laugh, but she didn't have the strength to laugh. After chuckling twice, she called the maid, she wanted medicine, she wanted to eat, she wanted to take care of her body, and she wanted to clean up the broken Manchu Qing Dynasty again. The maid answered the call and quickly went out to find the imperial doctor, and she also needed to notify the imperial dining room to give the imperial food to the imperial concubine. The emperor said that he still wanted to serve her like the queen mother.

The maid went out, and Cixi remembered that she was still lying in bed. How to deal with state affairs while lying in bed. How can there be the majesty of the queen mother lying in bed, how can the chaos in the world be dealt with by a queen mother who is still lying in bed. At the very least, it should be sitting. Cixi plucked up her courage and slowly got up and leaned back. And just this small action made Cixi pant like a cow. But what does it matter. For the continuation of the Qing Dynasty, no matter how hard and tired it is, it is worth a thousand dollars.

Cixi gasped for a long time and finally took a steady breath, and the medicine that she had been waiting for a long time was also delivered. The door was pushed open, but Cixi looked surprised, because it was none other than Li Ming who served the medicine.

"You're not dead?"

"Sorry to disappoint you." Li Ming put aside the plate holding the medicine bowl, and then stepped forward to pull the quilt for Cixi: "It's cold, you have to take care of yourself." "Finished. I moved a chair and sat on the edge of the bed.

"Why aren't you dead?" Cixi stared at Li Ming and asked unrelentingly.

"Compared with cold weapons, guns are much more accurate and powerful, which is a manifestation of the progress of the times. Times are advancing, and so is science. When a spear appears, naturally a shield appears. But you're still immersed in mounted archery, but you don't know that there is a kind of clothing called body armor. The New Age has abandoned you. ”

Hahaha...... Cixi smiled and suddenly cried: "The first emperor handed over the Jiangshan Sheji of Dajiang to the mourning family, and he wanted to pass it on well. But I don't want to be deceived by your mourning family, and the mourning family is very loyal to the ancestors and ancestors of the Xinjueluo family——"

"What you say sounds like it makes sense. But this is not the case. You want to inherit the Qing Dynasty for thousands of years, but everything you can do is to destroy the Qing Dynasty's society. I have seen the living notes of Emperor Tongzhi, and when I came, I flipped through Guangxu's living notes, in fact, these two emperors are young people with ideals and ambitions. They also have in their hearts the idea of learning from the great powers, strengthening the army, and enriching the country. If they can really take power, they will inevitably fight for their ideals. Coupled with the loyal ministers such as Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong, I believe that the Qing Dynasty will inevitably undergo earth-shaking changes. But what are you doing? A coup d'état swept away Xianfeng's ministers who were left behind. The puppet general of the Tongzhi system was in power, and it was the same in the Guangxu period. Even the first few years of my replacement for Guangxu. Even when I was fighting for life and death in Grange, you were still trying to find a way to balance me. Tongzhi, Guangxu. One is your own son, and the other is your own nephew. As a result, a place where you would rather linger in fireworks ended up dying of illness, and a person who fell into the water and died of anger from you. The only two chances of recovery in the Qing Dynasty were ruined by you. For the Qing Dynasty, this is your original sin. Of course, you still have credit to me. Ping Yanghong, Ding Hui twisted, stabilized the country's internal affairs, ensured the integrity and unity of the country, developed the navy and industry, and finally handed over to me smoothly, for this, I still thank you. ”

"The Qing Dynasty is dead, why bother saying that these are useless." Cixi, who had been whimpering, spoke: "What do you do with the Mourning family and the Qing Dynasty." ”

"The Qing Dynasty will officially end on the day of the Spring Festival, and a new dynasty will be established on the basis of the Great Qing Dynasty. And you will die of illness after this bowl of medicine, your nickname is still filial piety, I will continue to bury you in Dongling according to the Empress Dowager's ceremony, and I promise not to destroy any of the Qing emperor's tombs, this is the only thing I can do for you Manchus! As for the rest, put your mind away! ”

Cixi leaned on Guangxu, worthy of being an old man who had been tested by the political situation for a long time, and said very shamefully after knowing the result: "Take it." ”

"This is a new drug that has just been developed by the Department of Medicine of the University Hall. Rest assured, there won't be any pain, and you'll fall asleep soon after drinking it, but you'll never wake up again. After Li Ming finished speaking, he picked up his medicine wrist and sat on the bed. Holding Cixi in one hand and holding the medicine bowl in the other: "Anyway, you have been pretty good to my children over the years." I will finally do my filial piety and send you on your way in person. ”

The medicine bowl was brought to Cixi's mouth, and Cixi opened her mouth. Li Ming didn't have time to pour the medicine into Cixi's mouth, but he didn't want Cixi to suddenly raise his hand and put the medicine bowl on Li Ming's face. Li Ming was startled and immediately withdrew his hand and retreated. The medicine bowl overturned on Cixi's bed, and Cixi slammed the back of her head on the edge of the bed with a bang.

Li Ming snorted a few times, wiped off the potion on his face, and said lightly: "People, you should still have some good thoughts." Luckily, I didn't add arsenic or anything like that, otherwise your face would have been ruined with such a hand, and you might have been blind. It's just that the medicine added in it needs to be taken to be effective, otherwise it's okay to take a bath. You see, you don't know. You don't know anything else. Some time ago, the ministers were arguing about how to write a clear history. I asked people to deliberately investigate the origin of the Manchus, and found that after the Zhou destroyed the Shang. Some of the remnants of the Shang Dynasty in this part of Beijing were unwilling to obey the Zhou, and some of them retreated to the Korean Peninsula to establish the Jizi Joseon. Another part of them retreated to the northeast to intermarry with the local aborigines, and after thousands of evolutions, they finally formed the Manchus. In this way, the Manchus are also a member of our China. The thousands of years of Chinese history is about goodness, and of course, which family has not had a few losers. You Manchus are the losers of the big family of the Chinese nation. As the old saying goes, it is especially forgivable to do sins in heaven, but you can't live if you do your own sins. Since the heart of the full man is immortal, there is no need to exist. ”

Li Ming paused, and his originally calm face suddenly became cold: "Come on, go and boil another bowl of medicine." Then send the Queen Mother on the road. After speaking, Li Ming turned around and left without any nostalgia. Only Cixi was left crying out to know her mistake and begging Li Ming to let go of the people's way to live.

Zhou Mingchang, orphan. Former Second Lieutenant of the Internal Guard Company of the Royal Praetorian Guard. Half a year ago, he was transferred to the commander of the first platoon of the second company of the Central Reconnaissance Regiment, and disappeared a month ago while reconnoitring Omsk. This was the basic information of the Assassins.

"Special forces will wear body armor when they carry out their tasks, and it is impossible for a former internal guard soldier not to know that I will wear body armor when I go out. It stands to reason that with his marksmanship, he should have waited for me to get out of the car and hit me in the head with a shot, so why did he choose to hit me in the chest? Then he came out of Cixi's room, and Huang Minghua, the acting commander of the Praetorian Guard Battalion, immediately stepped forward to ask for guilt. and submit the information of the Assassins investigated. But what Li Ming cared about was, as a soldier of the Internal Guard Company who knew the inside story, why he chose such an assassination method that had almost no possibility of killing.

"I have checked the emperor's body armor, and the bullet point is slightly off the heart. Ballistic analysis is carried out from the point of firing to the point of impact of the body armor. The lowly people unanimously agreed that even if the emperor did not wear body armor. This shot can only kill, not kill. Zhou Mingchang is a famous sharpshooter, so the lowly people think that Zhou Mingchang should not make such a mistake. As soon as he finished speaking, Huang Minghua knelt down: "The inferior rank is not good for escort. Please ask the emperor to condemn the crime. ”

"From this point of view, this Zhou Mingchang has no intention of sniping me. Never mind. Anyway, I'm fine, and this matter is over. Zhou Mingchang died in battle. Let's take care of their families normally. ”

The other hall of the palace has been in a state of panic since she learned that the emperor had been assassinated, she doesn't know what her sister has done, but the failure to assassinate the emperor will inevitably lead to bloody revenge for thousands of years. Cihui waited in fear for the sergeant who raided the house and exterminated the clan, but she didn't want to wait for the queen with a big belly and two children who happily called her grandma.

Cihui didn't see Yang Zao'er who gave her a salute, she just hugged the two children in tears, kissing here and there, she couldn't bear any of them. But she knew in her heart that this might be the last time she would see her two children, and that when they parted, it would be goodbye.

"The son has seen the queen mother." Li Ming walked in with a smile on his face: "When my son has been away from Beijing for a long time, it is already unfilial piety to not be able to save his life in the morning and dusk, and I ask my mother to forgive me." ”

Cihui looked at Li Ming with a surprised expression, she never imagined that Li Ming would say such a thing anyway.

Li Ming ignored the surprised kindness, and said to Li Tian: "Daddy is not good at Tian Tian, did you make grandma angry?" ”

"Hmph." Li Tian said with a disdainful face: "I'm not as disobedient as my father, and my grandmother is angry." Tian Tian is obedient, isn't grandma? ”

When Cihui heard this, she quickly nodded yes, but the tears couldn't be wiped away no matter how the two children wiped them.

"Hey, dead girl. How to speak. Li Ming pretended to be angry and said: "Both of you are down, I don't know how old you are, a person weighing dozens of pounds sits on grandma's lap, and grandma's legs are numb, what should I do if grandma walks and falls after a while." Come down, come down—"

The boy was obedient, and Li Chun jumped down immediately when he heard it. Li Tian hugged Cihui's neck with his backhand and said, "Tian Tian is not heavy, grandma likes to hold Tian Tian the most." Tian Tian also likes to hold her grandmother. ”

"You're all elementary school students, you're a big girl, and you're still coquettish." Li Ming hugged Li Tian down regardless of it, and said to Li Tian to stand up.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's not heavy, let's hug the mourning family again." Cihui spoke, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he hugged Li Tian, who was being coquettish, back. It's just that the tears in his eyes flowed down again, and Li Tian couldn't wipe them clean no matter how he wiped them. Maybe it was Cihui's low whimper that made Li Tian's heart respond, and Li Tian also cried.

"Grandma just misses you, Tian Tian doesn't cry anymore. Grandma doesn't cry anymore, okay? Cixi comforted Li Tian in a low voice.

"It's all because Daddy is not good, and Daddy makes Grandma angry again. Daddy is not good. Li Tian was silent. The whole face is like a cat.

"It's not. Mother, your son just took the person down and you hugged it back. I'm a shameless father. The children are all in school, and they can't be spoiled like this anymore. Li Ming complained to Cihui with a reluctant face, but he didn't stretch out his hand to hug the person down: "I'll tell you, this is the last time, and I can't hold it anymore in the future." ”

"Later? What is the emperor talking about? "Cihui seems to understand something.

"yes, from tomorrow. Whether you are holding it or not, you can't hold it anymore. It's such a big person, and you don't feel tired. ”

"Alright. If the queen mother likes to hug her, let her old man hug her for a while. I don't want you to hug you, but I can't tire you. "Yang Zao'er on the side can't stand it anymore, isn't it good that the child can have a grandmother. is that his father has to stay in Ningbo as a gentleman, although his mother wants to come to see his grandson, but he can only stay to take care of his father.

"You want me to hug it, but there is no door." Li Ming sat aside with an unhappy face: "Spoil it, dare to disagree with Lao Tzu now, and you will have it when you are older." I can't take care of it when I'm older, and it's not me who is unlucky. ”

Just when Li Ming and Yang Zaoer and Cihui discussed children's education in simple terms. The guards came to report: The Empress Dowager Cixi of the West has died. As soon as he was merciful, he immediately ran over. What she saw was Cixi's peaceful face, as if she were asleep. Cihui wailed and crawled on Cixi's bed and began to cry. Li Ming didn't care, just pretended to show a sad expression. The funeral of the Queen Mother was ordered. In fact, Cixi's medicine only added a Western medicine called sleeping pills, but the dose was very large.

The historian wrote in the book: Xiaoqin Xian Empress Dowager Cixi has been sick for four months. In the thirtieth year of Guangxu, the sixteenth day of the lunar month was not in the Summer Palace, and the face was peaceful.

When the Summer Palace was busy with the funeral of the Queen Mother. The entire capital and inside were also in chaos.

Outside the small courtyard inside the Fuxing Gate, soldiers transferred from the Fengtai battalion took over the Central Garrison Brigade. Light artillery is again in place. There will be no more shouts of surrender this time, because there is no need for it. After personally inspecting the arrangements of the regular army outside the hospital, Shanqi locked himself in the room without saying a word, and then ended his life with a pistol. In the prison, all the arrested Manchu ministers were dragged to the wilderness, and all of them, including Shidor, were executed without a sound. In the capital, the old and young remnants of the Manchu Qing who were trembling and alive and thought that the new court would let him go, suffered the final destruction. The clothed minions who used to run rampant on the streets under their protection were pulled out one by one and pulled to the entrance of the vegetable market. The common people, who had endured the Manchu rampant for more than 200 years, finally stood up with the support of the army, and pulled out those wicked people who had done evil and dragged them to the vegetable market.

The wealth accumulated by the Manchu nobles for more than 200 years fell into the hands of the new dynasty in one afternoon. Although a small number of the aristocracy of this era began to transfer property abroad, it was only a very small number of people. The confiscated wealth not only flushed the treasury of the new dynasty and gave the new dynasty enough funds to start, but also those real estate such as houses and fields would become a reward for the nobles of the new dynasty, and became a free gift for the new dynasty and the new monarch to win over the nouveau riche. Sometimes Li Ming wonders, after the extreme outflow of wealth from the new China, once the new dynasty is rebuilt, will the new dynasty still have enough wealth to start the country? Li Ming laughed at himself, he was just a fart in New China, not to mention whether this was a problem he should consider. Even if it is, isn't Mao Taizu also self-made? Li Ming believes that there is nothing that the Chinese cannot do at any time, because this is a nation that can create miracles.

The cleanup of the capital was carried out very quickly and smoothly, and after several months of planning by Li Hongzhang and others, all relevant locations had already been monitored. Seven days later, on the 26th, the seventh day of the first seven days of the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the funeral of the Empress Dowager was held as scheduled, and she was buried in the Dongling Mausoleum that had just been completed and she had built for herself. The emperor and the prime minister were all present, and on this day everyone changed into Manchu court clothes. Because the major officials returned to Beijing to participate in the founding ceremony of the new dynasty, the funeral of the Empress Dowager Cixi can be said to be the grandest since the Qing Dynasty, and the ceremony held according to the Qing ceremony is the grandest, but it is also the last. Just like the name of Cixi: Empress Dowager Cixi of filial piety, buried in Dongling on the 22nd day of the 30th month of Guangxu, and appeared in the history books for the last time. With the fall of the Broken Dragon Stone, the last glory of Cixi's life is over. Regardless of the judgment of later generations, the dust of history has covered her life.

On the next day's Chinese New Year's Eve, the merchandise display held in conjunction with the New Year's dinner in previous years will be brought forward today. On this day, everyone changed into Hanfu representing the new dynasty of the Han people, except for the foreigners. Everyone who saw each other folded their hands into palms and bowed in greetings, even if Li Ming, who was dressed in a dragon robe, appeared, everyone no longer knelt down, which made many foreigners present puzzled.

"This is the orthodox etiquette of my Han Dynasty." Li Ming explained to the ministers of various countries in a brilliant voice.

It was on this day that the last Empress Dowager of the Manchu Qing Dynasty took off the clothes of the Empress Dowager of the Manchu Dynasty and changed into the clothes of the Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty of the new dynasty. On this day, the night sky was filled with brilliant fireworks, signaling to the world that a new Han dynasty was rising. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: The Manchu Qing Dynasty has come to an end, and the new Han dynasty has not yet been formally established, and his army has been fighting abroad. He was founded on the foundation laid by countless Han Chennu in the Manchu era, and he grew up quietly through the Manchu shell. This is the least casualty dynastic change in Chinese history, and it is the most stable dynastic change in Chinese history. Such a way of dynastic change is also unique in Chinese history. The new dynasty, from the king to the subjects, began to re-examine the world, and they no longer regarded themselves as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, but fought for the honorific title of the Celestial Empire again.

See the next volume: Wyvern in the Sky