When Guangxu heard this, he asked in a low voice: "You said that I asked Qi Yide to leave the palace, do you know about it?" ”

Li Hongzhang was shocked when he heard this: "Your Majesty, what can you hide from the Queen Mother in this palace." This matter must be known to the Queen Mother. ”

Guangxu suddenly scolded loudly: "Li Hongzhang, that's how you do it." What are you doing as Beiyang, are you your own soldier? Isn't Beiyang still the Beiyang of the Qing Dynasty? ”

Li Hongzhang immediately knelt down when he heard Guangxu say this: "The minions really don't know, it must be the minions below who collude with each other." Deceive the upper and lower levels. The slave is not strictly disciplined, please ask the emperor to punish him. ”

Yesterday, it was said that the incident in the imperial dining room also made Li Lianying's heart palpitate. Although the emperor helped himself speak, he also asked himself to take the lead in investigating. But before the trial began, Kou Liancai copied everyone else. A large number of people were given favors of silver, and each officer and soldier who went to raid the house received at least ten taels of silver. Kou Liancai also personally sent him 250,000 silver tickets. But what to do with these individuals was not said. He wasn't worried about this, but the emperor's attitude was a little unclear. It just so happened that Lafayette asked him to come and talk to the emperor today, so he could take the opportunity to ask.

Li Lianying was still far away from the imperial study, when she heard the emperor shouting loudly. He hurriedly quickened his pace, only to hear: "Li Hongzhang, you are also the first important minister of the Qing Dynasty under the governor's direct subordination, and such a thing happened under your rule." Tell yourselves what sin thou shalt be guilty of. ”

"The slave pleaded guilty, but the emperor punished him."

It was Li Hongzhang, and Li Lianying hurriedly let people spread the word.

Before Li Lianying entered the door, she didn't have time to say goodbye, but Guangxu pointed to the sand and a cannonball on the ground and said angrily: "Li Chenda, take a look." This is the shell of the First Fleet in Asia, which is filled with sand instead of gunpowder. Such a sailor can make the imperial court lean on the Great Wall? Can make Galeries Lafayette feel at ease. Li Hongzhang, have you forgotten that without the full support of Galeries Lafayette, Beiyang would be where it is today. And that's how you repay the grace of Galeries Lafayette? ”

In Li Lianying's view, Guangxu was the time of rage. He didn't know how to persuade him. I saw Li Hongzhang bowing his head deeply: "The slave knows the crime, and the slave knows the crime." Slaves are subject to any punishment. ”

"Is it okay to admit guilt and accept punishment? I see that you are an important minister of the Three Dynasties, I will give you a chance, and if there is such a thing next time, I will not spare it. Guangxu took a deep breath, and secretly thought that he would be speechless if he continued to speak: "Wait for me to invite you to dinner?" Get lost. ”

Li Lianying looked at Li Hongzhang with his head down and slowly walked out of the imperial study. Turning his head and cautiously said to Guangxu: "The emperor is angry, I'm afraid that the minions below are hiding such things from him." ”

Guangxu turned around and walked to the dragon chair and sat down, and said in a helpless voice: "Li Yanda, if I hadn't heard about it and asked Qi Yide to investigate, how could I know that there was really such a thing." If you find out on the battlefield, the consequences will be unimaginable. By the way, how did Li Yanda have time to come to me today? ”

Li Lianying knelt down to greet Guangxu at this time: "Back to the emperor, Lafayette asked the servant to bring a message to the emperor, saying: I don't have to go to ask for peace every day." Please also ask the emperor to take care of the dragon's body. ”

"I know, thank Lafayette on my behalf. Li Chenda, how is the matter of the imperial dining room investigated? ”

"Back to the emperor, the minions are already investigating. So far, it can be determined that the people of the imperial dining room are colluding with each other. ”

Guangxu walked up to Li Lianying and squatted down and whispered, "I want Cui Yugui to die." ”

Li Lianying hurriedly replied: "The servants have already verified that the fake dishes in the imperial dining room were all instructed by Cui Yugui, and the others were all accomplices." ”

"Then what does Li Chenda think should be done with these people?"

"The slave thinks that Cui Yugui should be sentenced to death, and everyone else will be sent to Ili as a slave."

"Li Chenda did a good job, and sentenced Cui Yugui to capital punishment immediately, and the others should be imprisoned and dealt with later."

"Oh, the slave has to thank the emperor for his grace."

"Li Chenda, look at it, now this court is erosive inside and outside. Outside, the sailors have fake shells. Inside, there is also a fake meal to eat. Do you tell me that the world is still true? There is also a Li Hongzhang outside, who can do something somewhat. I thought he didn't know about this fake cannonball. He'll find out what happened when he gets back. But inside, this internal affairs office is really not like words...... I'm depressed at the moment, do you understand my feelings? ”

Li Lianying secretly glanced at Guangxu's expression, bowed down and said, "Please also ask the emperor to take care of the dragon body, the slave sees that the emperor has lost some weight." "What is politics, if you are not afraid of doing the wrong thing, you are afraid of saying the wrong thing. Now that the emperor asks about this "world", this is something that he, a chief eunuch in charge of internal affairs, can control?

Guangxu saw that Li Lianying was talking about other things, so he said: "I have nothing to do, and I am determined to rectify this internal affairs office." But after killing and arresting everyone, who else will do the work, even Lafayette's garden must be repaired. How many storms will there be inside and outside this court......"

Guangxu sighed: "You Li Yanda still have to worry about this matter of the Internal Affairs Office." ”

Li Lianying said slightly: "The minions always want to be able to share the emperor's worries, but the emperor also knows the relationship between the internal affairs office and the minions." It's really inconvenient for the slave to come forward, and I ask the emperor to forgive me. ”

It is no accident that he can get to today's status, no matter in the palace, the court or the place, whether it is bright or dark, this rule cannot be broken. Li Lianying is naturally well versed in this knowledge, and he is also very accurate. Those things that can't be put on the table in the Internal Affairs Office, as the chief eunuch, Li Lianying clearly understands it in her heart, and she doesn't take any benefits. It's just that he has always been cautious and cautious in doing things, only taking the portion he should take, never eating more and occupying more, after all, the internal affairs office is implicated behind some royal relatives and nobles, and there are too many joints that need to be entertained inside and out.

"I mean to let Kou Liancai come forward to do it, but I see that Kou Liancai is still a little hot. Which things should be investigated, and which individuals should be arrested. I want you to check the priorities of these things. Think of it as an errand I gave you. ”

When Li Lianying heard this, this can be said to be a great grace. Which people should be arrested and which people can be released will not be a matter of their own words at that time, and the benefits and interests behind this will be even more. But why did the emperor give himself such a great favor in vain, Li Lianying had no idea for a while.

hesitated for a while, looking at Guangxu still waiting for him to reply, he had to reply carefully: "The emperor's errand slave dares not to do his best, but the slave can't grasp the scale for a while, and I don't know how far to do it, for fear of betraying the emperor's trust......."

"The Queen Mother once taught me that 'the court situation is stable', just like cleaning a house that is already full of dust, you can't throw away all the furniture at once. When the water is clear, there are no fish, step by step, who knows the affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs better than you, right? Li Chenda still believed in it. ”

Li Lianying is an old man in the palace, and she understands as soon as she hears this. To clean the house, first seek the surface light, and as for the invisible underneath, then 'step by step', that is, put it first. But today's incident made Li Lianying both dazed and frightened, and she lowered her head and couldn't speak.

That seems to make sense. What Guangxu thought was that through this inventory of the Internal Affairs Office, Kou Liancai and Qi Yide arranged their own people in, not asking for their own people everywhere, at least the people around them should be reliable. Second, a large number of seats will be vacated in the palace, so that people inside and outside the court will keep an eye on this palace, so as to reduce the fetters for the early construction of the military academy. Of course, 'money' is indispensable at all times. Anyway, he didn't plan to make a lot of trouble, so it was better to sell his favor to Li Lianying. As soon as Cui Yugui died, Li Lianying benefited, so that if she wanted to do something, Cixi would not worry about someone beating her little report. Stabilizing Li Lianying will be of great use in the future.

Guangxu smiled slightly: "Kneel down." ”

Li Lianying returned to Cining Palace and immediately reported to Cixi everything he had seen in the Yangxin Palace.

"So the emperor is really angry. It's also too unusual. If you really start a war, you can still do it. It's time to bang and bang. Cixi took a sip of the fragrant tea in her hand, and her heart was full of thoughts. Looking back on a series of things Guangxu has done recently, it is really leaky. Everything is reasonable, so people can't find an excuse, it seems that they need to be careful: "Little Lizi, spread the will of the mourning family, let Prince Li Shiduo enter the palace." ”

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