Chapter 1 Looking Back on One Hundred Years

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"Boom"

A bright bolt of lightning fell from the sky, lighting up the night sky and raindropping. In a small bar on the outskirts of Yanjing, Li Ming, who was a little thin, was drinking alone.

When he realized that there was no more wine in front of him, he raised his head and looked at the bar with his already red eyes. Said the first thing he said here: "Alas, man, bring the wine." ”

"Sir, you've drunk too much, do you need me to call your friend to pick you up?"

"What? Afraid I won't be able to afford it? Li Ming took out his wallet and threw it on the table: "I just want wine." ”

"Sir, you've really drunk too much, I think you should go home."

"Home? Without. I'm the only one in the city. Li Ming hugged his head and lay on the table. In the afternoon of the same day, his girlfriend, who had been in love for eight years since college and was talking about marriage, resolutely left him and moved to the old man's house.

"It's been eight years, and eight years of love can't resist the temptation of money. I don't have any money, and I don't have any skills. But I gave you everything I had, believing in you, pampering you. I'm right to my conscience, and I'm right to you. Li Ming, who was talking to himself, staggered outside, drifting in the heavy rain outside the door.

"Sir, your wallet."

"Thank you."

The pouring rain fell on Li Ming, and the icy rain seemed to clear Li Ming's mind. Yes, it's been four years since I graduated, and I'm just a small mechanical engineer, and those thousands of dollars a month are enough. The words of the girlfriend before leaving are still echoing in my ears: "You can't make money, and you can't afford a house, do you want me to live in a rental house with you for the rest of your life?" He's an old man, but he can give me what I want, and he'll protect me like a hero when I'm angry, what about you? Who's the one you've beaten with that little body? ”

The words are still in my ears, "I also want to be a hero, I also want to be a rich man, the ideal is too full, and the reality is too bone." Li Ming's face was not clear whether it was rain or tears: "I swear, this is the first and last time I will cry for a woman." ”

"Boom" was another bolt of lightning, but Li Ming didn't notice that this lightning was rushing in his direction.

"Wow, my head hurts. Looks like I drank too much last night. "In front of me was a bright yellow mosquito net, although it was not the same as the one I used. The exterior is furnished with all kinds of exquisite utensils, and the wooden structure of the house is a kind of antique spontaneous appearance. It's obviously a big family, or someone else will build a house out of wood these days.

"It can't be that I was picked up by some kind whitening rich last night," Li Ming slowly sat up and thought about it.

The door was pushed open, and what appeared in front of Li Ming was an old man wearing a brimmed hat and a big coat, and when he saw him sit up, he turned back and said in a duck-like voice: "The emperor is awake." "The braid that peeked out behind the old man.

Li Ming slowly touched the back of his head, touched the same braid, and pulled it vigorously. "I'll plug it, this is really TMD dog blood" This was Li Ming's last consciousness before he fell into a coma again.

When Li Ming woke up again, he had no choice but to accept the reality, although he would encounter such a bloody thing by crossing it, then he had to admit it. The room was full of people, and only a graceful and luxurious woman sat in front of him. But he's in a bad mood right now. It is said that the emperor's ** beauty is gone, but now sitting in front of him, grabbing his hand and crying The woman is really sorry, and the most annoying thing is that people call him the queen.

Li Ming sorted out his thoughts and organized the language: "Don't cry, queen, isn't it good for me?" What's going on? Li Ming sat up and softly comforted the queen. Although he didn't know who this queen was.

"Your Majesty, the heavy rain has been pouring on you a few days ago, and you can't afford to get sick, it's not like you've been in a coma for three days. I've just woken up. Lie down and rest. The dragon body matters"

"It's okay, I want to go down and walk, I'm not so delicate."

In the courtyard, the winter cold has not passed, but the trees are already green. Li Ming paced slowly, looked at the courtyard with the most Chinese characteristics, and sighed: "It's still good in ancient times, the sky is blue, and the water is clear." The air is still earthy. ”

"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you, such words"

"It's okay, what's going on today? Be specific. ”

"Today is the fourth ...... of the second month of the 18th year of Guangxu"

"What, the eighteenth year of Guangxu, 1892!" It is not an ordinary surprise, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, every Chinese knew that two years later, the First Wu completely reduced China to a semi-colony, and the great powers sucked Chinese blood on China's body, especially Yueben, which raised itself with Chinese flesh and blood, and then wanted to swallow China with a greater appetite.

In 1884, the Qing political axe won a precious ten years of development time by defeating the false fire of a French political axe in the Sino-French War, and the Beiyang Navy Division and Hanyang Iron Works were also established during this period. The Westernization Movement also reached ** during this period. It is a pity that "middle school is the body, Western learning is for use", hoping to use some advantages of Western capitalism to maintain feudal [***] rule, monopolize the market and suppress private enterprises through administrative protection. The internal management methods of the government-run enterprises are superfluous and inefficient. The political axe was founded, the financial subsidies were numerous, and the waste was serious. At the same time, the Westernization movement was obstructed and sabotaged by the diehards at every turn. The First Sino-Japanese War turned the so-called "Tongzhi Zhongxing" into a joke.

At this time, China ostensibly had an elite Huai army, the sixth naval fleet in the world and the first in Asia. But he, Li Ming, knew that this was just a superficial thing. Two years later, the First Sino-Japanese War and the Qing War could be regarded as pulling out the last underwear of the Qing Dynasty, and the country would no longer be a country. After 50 years, he was no longer dignified, and he paid hundreds of millions of lives, but he was still besieged in the first island chain.

"Your Majesty?"

"It's okay, it's just a little messy in my heart, just be quiet." Li Ming's eyes looked at Longyu and smiled slightly, thanking her for her concern. Although it was just a movement of the corners of his mouth, Longyu had already felt it, which was rare in the past 5 years. Her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she felt extremely comfortable with the emperor's softening of her attitude towards herβ€”at this moment, she had forgotten that the emperor had been so cold to her for five years.

As the queen, she is not favored, and she is not very favored by Cixi's aunt in the palace, and she is not very prestigious when she meets the princesses of the princesses. The reason why I was able to stay by the emperor's side this time was because I begged for it from the Queen Mother.

"The slave knocks on the emperor Jin An." At the door, an old eunuch with an ochre yellow face, high cheekbones, swollen eye bubbles, and a big nose knelt down.

"Excuse me, ...... you?" I couldn't see my face clearly, and besides, I saw him clearly Who Li Ming knew, everyone could carry the memory of the ontology after the crossing, but he didn't remember anything.

"Slave Li Lianying." The old eunuch replied with a sentence, which surprised Guangxu.

"Yo, Li Lianying, Li Chenda! Father-in-law Li, please get up quickly. Guangxu hurriedly took a few steps forward, and at the same time held his hands in the air.

Who is Li Lianying? During the late Qing Dynasty, the purple chief eunuch was called "nine thousand years old" by people, and he was the most powerful eunuch, and no one could offend him. Li Lianying's original name was Li Jinxi, and Lianying was given by Cixi. Over the past few decades, the slaves and maids around Cixi have changed one after another, and the only one who is empathetic is Li Lianying except for An Dehai. Li Lianying is a very smart and well-behaved person, and he understands how to correct the relationship between the master and the slave. Li Lianying not only learned to figure out the temper and hobbies of the master, and did everything possible to please the master, but also was cautious and cautious everywhere. With Cixi taking over the power alone, Li Lianying's prestige and status have also become prominent. When Li Lianying was 31 years old, he could already sit on an equal footing with the chief of the Jingshifang (the head of the Qing palace eunuchs). In the epitaph, it is said that he "respects things and forgives them, and if he has a year, he has not slackened a little." That is, to be respectful to the master, generous to the subordinates, and dare not relax for many years. This can be regarded as the secret of Li Lianying's success. However, although Li Lianying was favored by Cixi, she never left Cixi and became the head of the worship room. It is unknown whether Cixi is unwilling, Li Lianying herself is unwilling, or someone is obstructing it.

"Lafayette heard that the emperor had woken up, so he asked the servants to come over and greet the emperor."

"There is Lao Li's father-in-law, and I will go back to my father first." Li Ming paused: "This, I just woke up, my body is still weak, I can't ask my father for peace, if this person is sick, it's really ......" Calling a woman to be his father, Li Ming doesn't understand any reason.

"The minions will take care of it."

"I'm a little tired and want to be alone. The others should not follow up, by the way, prepare a pen and paper for me, preferably a hard pen of Western style and a blank book bound into a book. After that, he ignored the others and walked into the room alone.

China had been the world's largest economy for nearly two thousand years, but by the nineteen-nineties, it had been taken by the United States. "The exact time when China's GDP was surpassed by the United States was in 1895, when China signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki. Beginning in 1840, China, the world's largest economy, suffered successive defeats in foreign wars, shrinking its territory and declining its international influence. China has lost about 12 percent of its country. In any sense, China in the late Qing Dynasty was not a strong country, but a weak country that had been repeatedly invaded and repeatedly ceded land and paid reparations, or a semi-colonial country with incomplete sovereignty.

When Li Ming closed the door, he looked at the building from a hundred years ago. "Well, since God has asked me to do it all over again, let me be in this position. Then we can't let the Huaxia people go through that kind of pain again. Maybe I don't have that much ability, but I will try my best to fight for a broad living space for the Huaxia family. Li Ming thought silently and said to himself: "Li Ming is dead, and now he is alive because Guangxu is Aixinjue Luo Zaiyan." ”

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