Chapter 158 Various forces within the Manchu Qing came into being
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It is said that it is a good year for Ruixue, and in the first month of Beijing, there is no shortage of snow this year, but for Cixi in the Forbidden City, these Ruixue did not bring her any good luck, and it is destined not to bring any good year to the people.
Powerful "Red Bandits" (Cixi used to call the Taiping Army 'bandits', and sometimes she would call them 'long hair' or something, just like the ministers.) But then she realized that the Taiping soldiers who really rectified her to death were not the long-haired shawls of imagination and legends, but the same as her lover, the hair was very short, what was called the Red Army, so she invented this title) In less than half a year, she actually eliminated half of the loyal salvation she relied on to revitalize the Qing Dynasty.
After all, the loyalty and righteousness of the ten associations are all their own blood, for them, they sold the inheritance of their ancestors, although they attracted reliable and loyal Russian friends, and even their beauty and gentleness were sacrificed together, although it was sneaky, although not many people knew, although she seemed to be just for her own momentary curiosity, a whim, although ......
After all, I was also saddled with infamy for this, what kind of infamy is that, it is an infamy that ordinary people can't bear.
Hate is hateful to those evil "red bandits", they are so mad, so indifferent and ruthless, they have to completely tear off the translucent fig leaf that covers their faces.
The heavy defeat on the battlefield of Suzhou, Anhui and Hubei gave her a head-on blow to the Qing Dynasty, which seemed to have seen some hope. What she is sad about is not the loyal and righteous rescue soldiers who died for this, in her mind, the Qing Dynasty lacks everything, but there is no shortage of people. She regretted the things that she had bought for blood, and deplored the "wise warriors" from friendly Russia who were publicly executed by the "murderous red bandits" on the streets of Tianjing. Those are all good monks from afar, and the war scriptures are even better than those wretches up and down the Qing Dynasty. Every time they died, they would make her heart feel like she had been pricked by a needle, and it hurt to the bone! For, from her Russian lover, who had been a little absent-minded lately, she had vaguely grasped that there seemed to be a nameless fear in his heart.
Unlike the upper echelons of the Red Celestial Empire regime, which has gradually condensed into a fist, and even more different from the booming Red Celestial Empire economy, the current Qing Dynasty does not have the joy of more than a year ago.
The Russians came, and the loyalty and righteousness were saved, but the shape on the battlefield was deteriorating. Not to mention economically, the overwhelming persuasion of donations and the poll tax for loyalty and righteousness to save the country have finally completed the large-scale circulation of "banknotes", and not only the poor people who are already difficult to survive have begun to leave their hometowns, but also the wealthy families have also been ravaged. The wretched people who were despised by Cixi are more powerful than one when they read crooked scriptures, and persuasion is the way to make money, and I am afraid that no official will be willing to slip this kind of good opportunity out of his hands. The so-called persuasion is also equivalent to confiscation, or kidnapping. As a result, not to mention outside the capital, even the capital has also formed the well-known three more, there are many empty houses, there are many beggars everywhere in the city, there are many prisoners in prisons, many people are overcrowded, and many temporary prisons have risen one after another. It is easy to understand how empty houses and beggars are, and the many prisoners are not all because of murder and evil, but more than ninety percent because of persuasion.
The Manchu economy had already begun to collapse completely.
As a result, within the court of the so-called Qing Dynasty, various different forces came into being.
One of the forces was the arrival of the Russian allies, who gradually saw that they did not bring the strength and wealth of the country, but that they saw the Beijing-Tianjin railway, which will soon be completed, and the so-called factories under construction, and also saw many new things that they had not seen before, or had not heard of. However, they felt more that with the arrival of more and more Russian allies, what was visible was the moral and ethical degradation of human beings. Although they may also be hypocrites, after all, this blatant depravity is still unbearable for them. The dignified mother of the country is actually a complete "stealer", and the stealing is still foreign hair, for many people, although it is still just a rumor, but this is enough, disgusting, they feel a great shame!
For this reason, they would rather watch the Taiping army fight the Russians, and even hope that the Taiping army will take advantage of it, which is like their own family being bullied by others, and they can't get angry with themselves, and secretly gloating when they see that the enemy can be beaten by a third party.
It may seem strange to say that the representatives of this kind of power, in addition to a small number of so-called Confucian and Mencian believers, are more Mongolian nobles headed by Seng Lingqin.
The second type of force is the hardliners who have always rebelled against the imperial court. They also claimed to be the most faithful followers of Confucius and Mencius, and for the sake of their Qing Dynasty, they did not ask anything else, but were only loyal to the supreme imperial power in their minds, and kept in mind the instructions of the Empress Dowager that "it is better to give Yangyi than to be a domestic slave".
Among this part of the people, the most are Han officials. Of course, they will not fail to find a beautiful coat for themselves to put on their bodies, that is, the so-called "Manchu and Han family". This force is concentrated on the Loyalty and Salvation of the People's Republic of China, and the happiest one is the rising star of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's political arena, Li Hongzhang, who has just taken over the post of Vice President of the Loyal and Righteous Salvation ** that Shengbao lost.
There is also a third force, which is gradually differentiated from the second force, that is, the Moderate faction. The so-called moderation here is not a matter of sitting on the sidelines. They resented Cixi's shamelessness and loss of face, and they also resented the ugliness of the Russians, and at the same time hated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. But there's something else they're worried about.
Among them, they are also close to the Russians, and they are all Manchurians, but because of this, they gradually see that maybe the final victor of the war is not them. Empress Dowager Cixi hung the curtain, they were all keen to support it at the beginning, maybe at that time they all forgot the remarks they had spread before, Lan'er was not a mascot. Now they're finally getting it again.
If it was with the gradual rise of this fox girl Lan'er in the harem, it was accompanied by the prosperity of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Jiangnan again and again. Now, every time the queen mother, who has lowered the curtain and has no scruples, tosses for her birthday, it will always bring greater misfortune.
There were Russians to cheer up, and the Queen Mother made a fuss about her 20th birthday the year before last, but as a result, Guangzhou was lost, not only Guangzhou, but also the British who serialized Hong Kong were also swept away. The twentieth birthday of the poor Queen Mother actually announced the complete end of the Qing Dynasty's rule in Jiangnan.
Last year, the Queen Mother did not give up, regardless of the situation of the poor court that only had a skeleton left, and there was a 21st birthday celebration, and the Ministry of Rites issued a notice to the world that the Queen Mother would still be offered a birthday gift. As a result, the Taiping Army gave the tragic Queen Mother a heavy gift, and eliminated more than 300,000 horses in the Qing Dynasty, including the Ten Xiezhong Rescue, the top of the Queen Mother's heart, and the Russian advisers who participated in the war with the Loyal and Righteous Rescue, from Mi Liuxin down, turned out to be the exhibits exhibited by the Taiping Army in Tianjing, and no life was returned.
If you want to say that this year's Spring Festival should be able to have a smooth time, the fierce Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Red Army may be tired, or maybe it also wants to have a good year by itself, and finally stopped. This also gave Qing officials in the north and south of the Yellow River a rare opportunity to breathe a long sigh of relief. Similarly, just now, she was uncomfortable, her mouth seemed to be holding an apricot, and half of her cheeks were swollen and the old Empress Dowager Cixi seemed to be excited again, she was going to hold a feast in the Forbidden City, to feast her Russian partner, and her loyalty to save **, she claimed to thank everyone ceremoniously, and was ready to go to the Fengtai camp on the first day of the first lunar month to personally work the army, and to stimulate everyone's fighting spirit.
Alas, God is really willing to be unhappy with this queen mother, she doesn't make trouble, if she makes trouble, she will have an accident. It was so coincidental that Henan and Shandong were temporarily quiet, but on Chinese New Year's Eve, Sichuan came to the defeat report, this defeat was terrible, Chengdu was besieged for nearly twenty days and lost, during this siege time, the reinforcements that Sichuan could send were also wiped out, and the loss of the entire territory of Sichuan was about to become a reality.
It happened to be snowing that day, and the Forbidden City was covered with a layer of snow, and it is said that Cixi was really crying at that time, and the palace maids and eunuchs around her were all seeing it for the first time, this woman would cry, and this legend would not be false. It is said that she cried darkly, crying to death, and they all said that it was because she was crying and fainting, and she was clamoring to go outside to breathe. It's that inch, as soon as the queen mother came out of the hall, she slipped and fell, and fell quite hard, so that she didn't go to the palace to hang the curtain in the whole New Year, and she could only lie in the harem after half a month.
However, the doctor of the Tai Hospital didn't know why he died several inexplicably, and the hospital panicked, as long as someone was arranged to see the Queen Mother, it seemed to be going to the ghost gate. Within a few days, the doctors in the hospital fell ill in large numbers, and they all had similar diseases, all of which were cholera or other infectious diseases. In the end, Wang Yixin had to personally order that all those who had cholera should be buried alive in the eastern suburbs, which did not make the hospital an empty hospital.
Later, according to the palace maid with an unknown surname, perhaps a bold eunuch, the queen mother did not actually hurt her bones when she fell, but had a miscarriage.
My God, the first emperor has been dead for more than a year, and the former concubine Niangniang, and now the Queen Mother are still pregnant!
With such masters, do you think they can not worry? They were really worried that one day would come soon, when the wolf-like Red Army of the Celestial Empire would cross the Yellow River and enter Beijing, and with their bitter hatred for the Manchus, and according to the ferocity of the Manchus, they would return a karma to their mortal enemies. The Manchus couldn't destroy the Han people, because there were too many Han people, and many of them made the Manchus afraid. However, the Han people were able to easily exterminate their clan!
It's still strange that in this third type of people, there was Yixin later.
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