The twentieth year of Guangxu is such a difficult year for the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace.

The battle of the First Sino-Japanese War cleaned up the last bit of face of the so-called Xiantong Zhongxing. If it is said that there is a real battle on the battlefield, there is also Xu Yifan who left the last bit of dignity for this glorious Qing Dynasty. So outside the battlefield, all the changes and actions of this court have smashed their signboards cleanly.

Summoned Li Hongzhang to the Beijing Palace, issued an edict to sue for peace, and let the Beiyang Navy Division leave the port and surrender. Then he hurriedly drove the victorious hero Xu Yifan to the south of Liangjiang, all kinds of piles, as long as a person who understands, he knows that this court is unreliable.

The number of qi is what the people believe the most - in fact, not only the folk, which reader often sighs when he reads history! The Qing Dynasty has seen the helpless flowers fall, and the Beiyang Group, which has supported the court for 20 years, has fallen apart. And the finances, the military system, and the administration are all in tatters. The important ministers withered, and the ability of the new to speak far exceeded the ability to do practical things. Talents, money, and big-headed soldiers, all of them are lacking, and the gods have to tie up this kind of mess!

During the Xianfeng period, there was also the rise of Zeng Hu Zuo Li, relying on these unborn figures, the Qing Dynasty survived the most dangerous juncture. If the Qing Dynasty wants to be saved, it can only hope that God will give birth to a few more virtuous people.

This virtuous man who saved the peril of the last days came down as he wished, and a Xu Yifan rose like lightning and was as dazzling as a comet. But he is not Zeng Guofan!

As soon as the two rivers were folded, the entire capital was dumbfounded. Xu Yifan's ambition can be seen even if he is blind. The governor was appointed to threaten and kill the governor, and without the permission of the holy decree, he took off the top of most of the people in Jiangsu officialdom. and incorporated Wu Yi Mingjun without authorization. These things have never been seen since the founding of the Qing Dynasty!

Xu Yifan has already made it clear that the carriage and horses will start a new stove in Liangjiang. It is also impossible to say when he will go north to knock on the weight of the championship. He has soldiers, territory, and prestige, but the court has no means of restraint. What makes the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace even more panicked is that Xu Yifan has already vaguely revealed the expectations of the people who will bear the luck of the revolution!

When the ministers reached the point where Xu Yifan came, the whole world was watching, and with his status, there was no room for retreat. Now is no longer the time to keep your eyes on it, but to make it clear that you want to express your ambitions. There are all the people in the world who have the heart of the dragon, and the hearts of those who think about change are also the norm in this last days. What I'm afraid of is that Xu Yifan is twisting and pinching, and he wants to be a bitch and set up an archway. He made it clear that those who decided to follow him would not feel afraid of being left behind! Speaking of this usurpation of the previous dynasty, Ding Ge is really a technical job, and he can't be too ostentatious when he should pretend to be a grandson, so as not to be shot to death early. When it is time to show the ambition of the world, it is necessary to be decisive and bright, and show enough of the spirit of the king, so that the world can follow the dragon. Winning it is really a high-risk and high-reward job............ Xu Yifan has already shown his attitude at the right time and in the right way. In this country, although it is still known as the Qing Dynasty, the situation of the two rivers and Yanjing standing side by side has been faintly formed. The following is to accumulate strength and wait for the final decision.

Now in Yanjing City, the most popular thing is the saying of the Wei Ding Revolution, the old man of the imperial history of the wind and the newspaper, these contents must be reported, but these reports are the things that the people in the court are most afraid of seeing and the most annoying to see!

The flag-bearers in the capital, when they entered the teahouse, they all stood up and swayed. For more than 200 years, the banner has been the world, no matter whether there is money in the waist or not, this shelf cannot fall. When I entered the door, I shouted and shouted to hang the bird cage, put on the high foam, and bring a bowl of rotten meat noodles. During the banquet, everyone talked and laughed, as if the military aircraft department was opened by their family. Someone who doesn't speak the right thing in their minds is to sneer: "The brain shell of the country!" ”

During this period of time, the flag-man masters went to the teahouse but changed the scale and style, and their waists were a little lower, and their heads were not facing the sky. When the seats spoke, they all sighed and whispered, and everyone was relatively speechless.

“………… Pushing back the picture and chiseling, there are guests coming from the west, and ending in the east. Isn't this the one surnamed Xu who returned from the West? That image is even more of a giant with a negative bow and said, it couldn't be clearer, isn't it Xu Yifan who hit the book? …… What does it stop at the east? It's not the end of the Qing Dynasty! There is also an elephant, the monkey who gave birth to me and the eagle who died is also like it when I look at it. When the surname Xu was proud in the northeast of North Korea, the people in the garden knew what they were doing? In the stage of Antiy Nightmare Town, this surname Xu! It's not just that he can see that he is a monkey in Haidong! Dead Carved ............ Do you know what that means? Let's talk about finding the ancestors in the roots, that's called Jurchen, what is the incarnation of Jurchen, sea holly wow, it's carving wow! The monkey was born, the eagle died, and the big guy still doesn't understand what it means? ”

"The number of gas has to change, the number of gas has to change, wow!

"The surname Xu has won the country, where should we get our hardcore crops?"

"It's still hardcore crops, and my head is gone, and I still think about these soulless things, let's just wait for the big disaster!"

"It's not over, the fortune of the Qing Dynasty is long! Was the long hair fierce back then? But fourteen years...... Was Zeng Guofan's power big back then? There are 140,000 Hunan troops, and seven or eight provincial governors are all figures of their Hunan army, and they are not behaving in front of the Queen Mother Lafayette? ”

"Zeng Guofan is a python student, what he is afraid of is the eagle, can he be honest? Xu Yifan is a monkey who doesn't care about the earth, where is the Buddha to subdue him? Let's just wait to see the building get up, just wait to see the building collapse! ”

The flagmen discussed one by one with a gloomy face, and the more they came later, the more they were relatively speechless, only sighing. The young man who ran the hall quietly went to the counter, and shouted at the shopkeeper who was picking out his plan: "Shopkeeper, look at those masters!" I don't bring the bird cage anymore, and I don't pick our tea if it's bad, and I don't blow about our ancestors............ Look at that dejected look! Shopkeeper, what kind of character is Xu Dashuai? ”

The shopkeeper glanced at him, threw a few of the top ten coins on the table into the money tube, and looked at the dark sky outside: "What kind of world, there is still wind and sand in winter!" Naivety is going to change............ What are you talking about? Are these things you can discuss? Let's seek profit, what we pay attention to is to eat a stable meal, this matter is not something we should worry about! ”

After finishing the young man, the shopkeeper slowly collected the abacus into the cabinet, and finally just sighed, and his expression became sad: "Mr. Adult's affairs, let's just ignore it............ The world is changing, so I hope that we little people will suffer less............"

“………… Don't look at these flag people's worries, the master in the Forbidden City, I don't know what it looks like! ”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Summer Palace, Yulan Hall.

Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty was just walking around irritably in his imperial study. He wore only a bright yellow, half-worn arrow suit. Since the palace change returned to the throne, Guangxu has worn this dress a lot in private. He said that the world was difficult, and he should wear the clothes of his ancestors who hunted and fought in order to cheer up. However, his body is really thin to the extreme, and when he wears a narrow arrow suit, it seems that he can float up when the wind blows.

By this time, his waist had fallen into the fold, and the middle of the braids hanging behind him were also mixed with the color of gray. But there are more than thirty people, and it is when they are young and strong, but when the Qing Emperor looks at it, it is boundless twilight!

Wen Ting's ass was next to a chair at the bottom of the head, just looking at Emperor Guangxu. Tan Sitong's official son has been promoted to everyone's sideways. But since Weng Tonggong went to Guangxu's side, the first trusted minister of the imperial party is still Wen Ting. Although he did not enter the military machine to learn to walk, he entered another high-ranking and powerful yamen in the Qing Dynasty - the prime minister's national affairs yamen. The imperial party discussed and fought for power in the military plane, but I am afraid that it will not be able to compete with the latter party, and it is enough to have a Tan Si and this nerd scholar to make trouble inside. If you want to take another shortcut and make a career, it is better to be in the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen! The prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, Yamen, was not just a diplomatic department, but also related to foreign affairs, such as mines, railways, telegraphs, factories, and warships...... The affairs that the imperial court can manage are handled by the prime minister's national affairs yamen. Weng Tonggong once exchanged letters with Wen Ting-style and repeatedly discussed them, Tan Sitong fought for power in the military aircraft in the Ming Dynasty, the backbone of the imperial party cultivated forces in the prime minister's national affairs yamen in the dark, worked hard, and made friends with the powers, one day, he could hold the Chaogang in his hands!

In the final analysis, Wen Tingshi, a thirty-seven-year-old scholar at the Han Academy of the Qing Dynasty and a special prime minister studying for national affairs, is the real standard-bearer of the imperial party after Weng Tonggong retreated! It is also the closest to Guangxu and the closest minister who can influence Guangxu the most!

At this time, I looked at Emperor Guangxu, the holy monarch in the mouth of their imperial party. The worry was so deep, and the haggard was so haggard, Wen Tingshi only felt that his eyes were full of tears.

Guangxu summoned him, but he didn't say a few words when they met, and the two monarchs and ministers looked at each other almost sadly. In the next half an hour, Guangxu was dragging his feet in this imperial study, pacing in circles, and the atmosphere was in silence, making people feel more and more suffocated and out of breath!

In the end, Wen Tingshi finally stretched out, and knelt on his knees: "Your Majesty!" Good emperor! You're going to hold on! Xu Yifan's rebellion has not been a day or two, and now it is just exposing all his wolf ambitions! What we are afraid of is not that he jumps out, but that he has been hiding and not revealing it, playing behind his back! Now that he is so rebellious, the emperor and the holy monarch are in power, and the world is in the heart, as long as the thunder is angry and the big Zhang crusades, the two rivers will return to the hands of the Qing Dynasty, it is just a matter of Gu Jian! ”

Wen Ting's words were full of crying sounds, and these insincere words were already hoarse when they came to the end!

Guangxu slowly turned his head, in his eyes, he couldn't see a little brilliance, he seemed to be looking at Wen Tingshi, and it seemed to have crossed him, looking at something in the distance: "............ Crusade, how to crusade? What about soldiers? What about salary? More than 20 million flag salaries a year, more than 30 million soldiers' salaries, and 20 million to support the good ministers of the Qing Dynasty,............ Where are these good courtiers now? Yukun, an old Manchurian kid who has no hard background, joined forces with Xu Yifan for this rebellious twist! But I still have to pinch my nose to know. Pu Yang, my half-brother, is now a Goshha leader under Xu Yifan! ………… In the past few days, I have been dreaming of Rong Lu, covered in blood, and told me that Rong Lu is gone, and he wants me to cheer up, but where did I cheer up? ”

Guangxu suddenly erupted, his thin body seemed to shake violently in the wind, his emaciated cheeks were full of sickly flushes, he ran to the bookcase, and at once he overturned all the manuscripts on the top of the fold clip to the ground! Then he picked up a book and threw it at Wen Tingshi: "Push the back picture!" The monkey who gave birth to me and the eagle who died the eagle! That's what everyone thinks about right now! I let you go, go to Liangjiang to go to Xu Yifan! If you want to crusade and come up with the charter, how can you overpower this Xu Yifan? Say, say! I named him Baylor, he was the king of the county, and he was the king of the iron hat! Take out the charter and come out wow! Whoever can train a new army without my money like Xu Yifan will reuse him, and Lafayette will also reuse him! ”

Everyone knows that Guangxu was originally impatient and impatient, but in front of the minister's cronies, he has always been restless. But now, all his cultivation has disappeared, and it has exploded like a storm!

Wen Tingshi complained bitterly in his heart, but he still had to appease Guangxu, and he kept meeting: "The ministers are incompetent and guilty of capital crimes!" Your Majesty, now we have to cheer up if we don't cheer up, and there is one ready-made topic, hurry up and finish the peace talks! Do a reparation for my retirement, and do a beautiful scene! Tan Sitong has already sent a letter to the minister, saying that he will not give an inch to the Oriental people in this matter, and the minister supports him! Doing this is also a grand event that has not been seen in the dynasty in recent decades, and we have to change if we can breathe a sigh of relief, and then refresh and improve! Your Majesty, the most important thing now is nothing more than this! ”

At this time, although he knew that Xu Yifan had won the peace talks, he didn't care about his face, and he brushed Guangxu's face first.

Unexpectedly, Guangxu would never appreciate it today: "You don't have a face, I still have a face!" The negotiation is done, who in the whole world doesn't say that it is because of Xu Yifan that there is such a result? Besides, can they talk? Shi Duo has already called several times, saying that the attitude of the people is resolute and will not back down an inch, and the attitude of the British and French is ambiguous............ The soldiers available to us, the most intimate and useful now, is the Jilin training army of Yiketanga, but because of the delay in the end of this war, we are still preparing for the border in Manchuria, preparing for the Korean Xu Yifan all the way to the division, and cannot enter Beijing to enter the guard! Lafayette has already talked about this matter several times, saying that if Iktang Ah does not enter Beijing, she will not be able to sleep well! According to Tan Sitong, when will the peace talks be completed? At that time, Xu Yifan had already entered the Beijing Division! ”

Wen Tingshi was cold and looked at Guangxu: "Your Majesty ............"

Guangxu gritted his teeth and lowered his voice: "............ The meaning of Lafayette is the same as that of me. Secretly promised to say his own conditions, North Korea gave them to them! Akari asked them to pay some money to cover up their dignity, and the two sides could get off the stage. There are several advantages to this matter, one is to eliminate Xu Yifan's partial division in North Korea - China Merchants Bureau is in his hands, and after the Bohai Sea, it is the gateway to Beijing! The second is that it can be claimed to the outside world that Xu Yifan was in a hurry to go to Liangjiang to grab the territory, and he had the heart of not being subordinate, so he withdrew the defense of the Northeast so quickly, so that the imperial court had to be aggrieved and seek perfection, and he was wiped out for winning this battle! The third is ............"

Guangxu also showed a look of embarrassment on his face at this time, looked around, and made sure that there was no one around, so he squeezed out a word from between his teeth: "............ Daoxi, Qingliu, you are the leader, how sure can you release the rumor, saying that it is because of the meaning of Lafayette that I have to be wronged and agreed? ”

Wen Tingshi listened to Guangxu's previous words, and his heart had already fallen into the ice cellar. How to do this! During the Sino-French war, Li Hongzhang let Vietnam out, and his history is like iron, and he has been unable to turn over for the rest of his life. Now let the DPRK out, isn't this a matter of digging one's own grave! He held back his spirit and was ready to admonish him, but after hearing it, a resolute mind gradually became active.

What the emperor said is not unreasonable............ Xu Yifan's North Korea, in his hands, might as well give it to Yueben. There is no need to talk about a good condition, but it gives Xu Yifan prestige. The most important thing is that behind the emperor's deference to the Queen Mother Lafayette, he finally dared to dig into their corners like this!

They called the Holy Monarch for a long time, and they called themselves true. Now I finally see that they are not a fool! Up and down the imperial party, the first opponent is not only the rear party, but also the back party. Wen Tingshi himself has not suffered less from the post-party. I almost went to the army twice! As for Xu Yifan, hasn't he entered Yanjing City yet?

Besides, only when they go to the Houdang can they show their strength, and when they deal with Xu Yifan, Wen Tingshi only feels that his heart is cold and hot, and he kneels there sweating profusely, and the emperor has said all these things to him. His position as the emperor's first close minister is no longer shakable. The grace of heaven is so vast, how can people repay it!

In the end, Wen Tingshi finally bowed deeply: "The minister understands the emperor's meaning, and he will do things according to the emperor's will!" Broken bones, don't hesitate! The minister sent a letter to Tan Sitong, telling him that Lafayette planned to make peace according to his own intentions, and we would work hard in the capital, and also ask him to work hard in Tianjin. Finally, let Shi Duo carry this black cauldron! Tan Sitong is the first stroke of the Qing Dynasty, and this rumor is released from him, which is stronger than anything else! After the peace, the ministers will definitely plot and concentrate on dealing with Xu Yifan! ”

This secret summoning lasted more than an hour before it ended. In the end, Guangxu also personally sent Wen Tingshi out of Yulan Hall. Waiting for Guangxu to turn around and go in, Wen Tingshi felt that his vest was wet and cold, and for more than an hour just now, he didn't know how many sweats he had!

As for the matter of peace talks, I can't understand it clearly. This is the best choice for the imperial party. The post-party will inevitably be unlucky in this incident. Thinking of this, Wen Tingshi couldn't help but feel faintly happy.

However, the Hou Party is unlucky, what about Xu Yifan? And how to deal with it?

To deal with him, you can't do it without strength. Even if Iktanga enters Beijing and joins the guard, it is just a psychological comfort. But what about the Forces nouvelles? Where is it, and how should I practice it?

Each problem is almost unsolvable. Cixi is so powerful, and the Hou Party is so status. These people in the imperial party can still survive, and they can still fight openly and secretly, but in the face of Xu Yifan, why do they only feel helpless!

The monkey who gave birth to me and the eagle who died ............ This proverb unconsciously floated into Wen Ting's heart.

This proverb should not be interpreted like this............ Wen Tingshi, who was born in the champion, shook his head.

Looking up, the sky overhead was dark, and the low-hanging dark clouds almost pressed down on Kunming Lake.

If you don't solve it this way, how can you solve it?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ night, in the place of Daxing Palace in Jiangning City, in a small courtyard, it is still a light alone.

Xiuning sat alone in front of the lamp, sewing Pu Yang's Praetorian Guard uniform with a needle. Xu Yifan is willing to pay for his subordinates to be soldiers, and the material under the military uniform of this material is strong enough, and it is doubly laborious to sew it. Even if Xiuning was wearing a thimble, he would stop and shake his hand after sewing more than a dozen stitches.

The twins, Lori, stayed with Miss and wanted to sew and mend her clothes, but Xiuning didn't let her. The young lady's eyes have been gloomy these days, and she doesn't know what she is thinking. You have to be careful when you play tricks with Xiuning. The little twins don't know how long they've been waiting, and they can't survive anymore. The two of them sat on a long bench, their heads resting on their heads, like a pair of lotus flowers, and they slept with little red faces.

Xiu Ning occasionally turned around, and saw the little sister's long hanging eyelashes and slightly pursed ruddy lips. Rao is full of her heart, and she can't help but smile in her heart.

Myself...... There are also the flag people in the world, but I'm afraid it won't end, this pair of innocent and beautiful little sisters, but they want to find a good home for them............ Who can not pity them, and who will be willing to hurt them?

Living in Jiangning City, the closer you get, the clearer you see. That time in Jiangning City, in Xiuning's view, it was already well organized and set off waves. No matter how to think for Xu Yifan, it is difficult to cope. But in just one day, Xu Yifan gently quelled the tide with a backhand, and by the way, he also showed how much power he had! In the Chaotian Palace Confucian Temple, a group of adults are still looking at the four heavens in the wooden city!

This power is strange and fresh, and people can only look at it and feel terrified.

Then Xu Yifan went to Suzhou again, although he only brought 500 soldiers, but none of the people in Jiangning City were optimistic about Rong Lu's head.

After cleaning up Ronglu, what should he do next?

It's just that his old brother is under Xu Yifan's command.

Suddenly, there was a bang on the door panel of the courtyard outside. Xiuning was shocked, and the needle poked his finger. jumped up all of a sudden, and the two little girls were also awakened, jumped up and hit their heads on their heads. While still sleeping in a daze, I suddenly burst into tears. The servant woman guarding the door outside had already copied the Jiangning dialect and got up: "Come on!" Come on! Which two doesn't hang five, what is the upside-down door smashed so late! It's all women here, rushing to the door to send you to see the official, two hundred small boards, alas, you want to be beaten to sleep? ”

Pu Yang's voice sounded outside, low and deep: "Old sister, it's me!" I came back from a business trip, and the handsome man went home to rest on vacation! ”

Xiuning rushed out in a hurry, and the servant woman also heard Pu Yang's voice, slapped herself in the mouth, and hurriedly opened the door. Under the dim light from the window, I saw Pu Yang standing there, full of wine, the collar of the Praetorian Guard's uniform was also open, his face was as black as iron, and he leaned crookedly against the door.

Xiuning hurriedly greeted him, and walked into the door with him in his arms, with a strange mouth in his mouth: "It's hard to go on a business trip, why did you go to drink again?" Isn't it better to go home early and rest than anything else? How much did you drink when you smell this wine? ”

Pu Yang smiled: "Rong Lu is dead." ”

"What?" Xiuning stayed there for a moment.

Pu Yang shook off his old sister's arm: "I'll go into the house and sleep a fucking corpse!" Old sister, don't ask anything, I don't know anything! If you want to see the handsome, I won't recommend it. Pu Laosi is a man, if there is anything, he has his own! ”

As he spoke, he stumbled and went straight to the side room next to him, and when he entered the room, he let out a sigh that he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Xiuning stood there dumbfounded, motionless, until the two little girls came out and greeted timidly: "Miss, what's wrong with the fourth master?" Do you want us to deliver water and towels? ”

Xiuning's face was pale, and she quietly brushed her sideburns from her ears, and whispered to them: "............ Turn out the clothes I wore into the garden, Ming'er, you two will follow me and go to visit this Xu Dashuai together............ I beg him to let my old brother live! ”

(To be continued)