In the eighteenth year of Guangxu, it has been four years since the establishment of the Beiyang Naval Division. In the past four years, not a single ship or bomb has been added to the Beiyang Naval Division, and Li Hongzhang has repeatedly written to request the addition of new ships to Beiyang, but has been refused. However, Japan, which is close at hand, formally proposed to Britain last year to order the cruiser "Yoshino" in the context of Japan's naval expansion. Due to the possible threat of the Japanese, Li Hongzhang, who was the minister of Beiyang at the time, was anxious, and at this time he had already contacted Chile and wanted to buy the Blanco purchased by the Chilean Navy with a lot of money? The Enkarada, because of Chile's price increase, could not be purchased with the wealth of the North Seas alone.

On the fourth day of the second lunar month, Li Hongzhang once again appealed to the imperial court and asked the imperial court to allocate funds for the purchase of ships. However, the conservative ministers refused, and even Weng Tongyi, a member of the imperial party, said: "Beiyang spent more than a billion taels of silver, but it did not build a size." Today, the Daishimizu division is the first water division in Asia, and its momentum is sufficient. ”

With Weng Tongxiao's words, no matter how Li Hongzhang explained, it was useless. But Guangxu didn't think so, he thought what Li Hongzhang said was right. So Guangxu agreed, and ordered the household department to allocate expenses on the spot. No matter how unhappy Weng Tongyi and the courtiers are, the emperor's will still has to be heard.

However, Guangxu forgot that it was not him, the emperor, who could make the decision for this court, but Cixi in the curtain behind him. Cixi spoke: "Since the ministers are all against it, the emperor should follow the wishes of the ministers." ”

At that moment, Guangxu's brows were just frowning and he quickly evacuated, but his heart was full of anger. He is the emperor, the emperor who determined the rise and fall of the country, and now he has been reduced to the point of taking back the decree he just made. Is this still the emperor? This is the naked puppet.

Guangxu didn't dare to get angry. I also respectfully said yes to Cixi. Cixi opposed him, which is understandable, but his most trusted master, Weng Tongyi, could not stand on the same front with him, but Guangxu was sad in his heart. The world has changed. Guangxu has the ambition to learn from Japan's Restoration to strengthen China, but his heart is really higher than heaven and his life is thinner than paper. Who can understand the ideals and aspirations in his heart, but it is difficult to achieve ambitions. Guangxu held a grudge against all the ministers in his heart, including Cixi, and for the first time he felt his hatred, he actually soared into the sky.

Guangxu is not a qualified politician, because politicians do not show emotions on their faces. As Guangxu's personal eunuch, Kou Liancai naturally saw it clearly. The emperor of the next dynasty couldn't settle down to review the folds. Instead, all the neat folds that were originally placed were pushed to the ground. The emperor, who couldn't calm down, planned to go to the imperial garden to take a walk. Kou Liancai, who was supposed to be a close follower, and a group of guards were stopped by the emperor, because the emperor wanted to be alone. also drove out the palace maids in the imperial garden.

The Imperial Garden is not very big, and it can be completed in a few steps, and you can hear it at the other end of the shouting at this end. Besides, this is surrounded by guards in the palace, and the emperor thinks that there will be no danger if he wants to be quiet. Yi Kou Liancai and a group of guards were waiting outside, but when the sun went down, the emperor did not come out.

The emperor has been angry since he got down, maybe the emperor is still sulking. Kou Liancai thought so, so he didn't go in and bother. The emperor didn't dare to do anything to the ministers, but he could condemn a eunuch to life and death, so it was better not to touch the head at this time.

The sun had just set, and the sky was suddenly overcast, and the sky suddenly darkened, which was about to rain heavily. Kou Liancai stood up anxiously. The heavy rain is coming, but the sky suddenly darkens, and the emperor should be able to feel it. Maybe the emperor will come out soon. I have to be ready to take over at any time, in order to prevent the emperor from coming out after the rain, Kou Liancai also asked people to bring an umbrella just in case.

It was already very dark, and it was as dark as late at night, but the emperor still didn't come out. Kou Liancai thought that he couldn't wait any longer, so he decided to go in to find the emperor. Before he could walk in. The heavy rain in the sky poured down like a leaking river, and Kou Liancai beckoned the guards to brave the heavy rain and enter the imperial garden. It's a ghost. They have already turned over the imperial garden three times, not to mention the emperor, and they haven't even seen the shadow of a ghost.

Kou Liancai and the guards knew that they were in big trouble, if they lost the emperor, they would not be done with their beheading, and their own family would probably have to be finished. After confirming that no one came out except the palace maid after the emperor went in, for the sake of their own net worth, they announced to the public that the emperor wanted to see the rain in the pavilion to block other people who asked where the emperor was. On the one hand, the entire Imperial Garden was tightly sealed, and on the other hand, some guards were secretly searched in other parts of the palace, and the largest number of people still conducted a thorough search in the Imperial Garden. The emperor is such a big living person, how can he say that he will lose it, he will lose it, he will see people in life and see corpses in death.

How many times have you searched the Imperial Garden? It is estimated that there are thirty times, but not even the hair has been found, and Kou Liancai and the guards are going to rummage through the ground. It's not that no one thought of the pond, how could the emperor not scream a few times if he really fell into the water in such a big winter, but none of them outside from beginning to end heard the slightest unusual movement in the imperial garden. And it has been nearly two hours since the emperor entered the imperial garden, and the emperor is really about to fall into the pond......

So they would rather believe that the emperor just fainted in some unknown corner, and they didn't find it because it was a little weird in the dark, and they didn't find it, rather than think about the pond. But after rummaging back and forth countless times on the ground, I can't find the emperor, so the only possibility is this pond. Kou Liancai and the guards stood on the edge of the pond and looked at each other, they had long since lost their sense of the winter rain. In the end, Kou Liancai still sighed, and found the guards who knew how to fish and prepare to go down to fish, but he couldn't run away from life and death.

Without waiting for the guards who knew how to go into the water, a lightning bolt suddenly struck the pond in the sky, splashing a monstrous splash, and then the earth-shattering thunder remembered that some guards were deaf at that time. Just when the crowd was frightened and overwhelmed, by the light of the lightning in the sky, Kou Liancai found that two feet were erected on the water, and after a while, a naked person floated up.

The guards got people ashore with all their hands and corners, and turned over to see that this was not the emperor? The guards immediately checked the emperor and found that the emperor still had a heartbeat. So he carried the emperor and asked the emperor to spit out the water. pressed the emperor's chest to return his breath. In short, the method was used very much, and the emperor's breath was finally relieved. They gave a good confession, and if anyone asked, they said it was dark and rainy. When the emperor returned to the palace, he accidentally fell into the water, and his clothes fell into the water and were cut by the branches, so he abandoned it, and he didn't know where to fall when there were many people in a panic. So everyone found a few dry clothes and sent the emperor to the palace with a bag.

The emperor's fall into the water was a major event, and the imperial doctor hurriedly came over to diagnose the emperor's pulse. The result was too good, several imperial doctors had already come to a conclusion, and the emperor fell into a deep coma. If you don't wake up within three days, the consequences are unimaginable. Hear about this. The Empress Dowager Cixi came to see it in person, and when she saw that the matter was serious, she pressed it down. It was said to the outside world that the emperor was drenched in a sudden heavy rain, and he was seriously ill and recuperating, and he stopped going up for a few days. Fortunately, the rain started suddenly. The emperor's health has always been poor, and the ministers of the court and the central government have no doubts. Because many ministers who were drenched in rain on that day also called in sick.

Kou Liancai and the guards were repeatedly tortured and interrogated to no avail, so they were sent to prison. As long as the emperor dies, they must be buried together. These are the things that Kou Liancai has experienced, and what happened after that they heard about it in the prison.

The emperor was in a coma for three whole days and did not wake up, and the imperial doctor did not show any signs of improvement. For the emperor, the imperial doctors all shook their heads and said nothing, and the result was already obvious. For this reason, the queen mother summoned the ministers to the palace for three consecutive days, and I don't know what the specific thing is.

On the afternoon of the third day of Kou Liancai's imprisonment. The head of the prison brought wine and meat. This is a severed head meal, so that the deceased can eat a good meal before dying, so that he will not become a starving ghost when he gets down. As the emperor's personal eunuch and bodyguard. It has something to do with the head of the prison. For the sake of the past, the cell boss quietly told Kou Liancai that the emperor was dying, and the palace was already preparing for the emperor's funeral.

Unexpectedly, the emperor suddenly woke up late that night. It saved their lives. In the end, after the emperor woke up, they were beaten with a palace staff, and it was over. After they recovered from their injuries, they returned to their seats and continued to serve the emperor.

Kou Liancai knelt on the ground and finished talking about these things, and when he spoke, there were only three concubines besides the emperor. Everyone else was driven away. Guangxu was still immersed in the shock of Kou Liancai's words and did not come back to his senses.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty?!" Yang Zao'er called the emperor gently, and only after seeing the clarity in the emperor's eyes did she say, "It doesn't matter who you are. The important thing is that you are the husband of the concubine and the heaven of the concubine. The three concubines and sisters are still counting on their husbands in the future. ”

Guangxu smiled dumbly, yes, he not only has three wives and concubines, but also four children. "Don't worry, the sky won't fall." Guangxu's words carried the usual calmness, which made the three wives and concubines feel at ease.

Kou Liancai's words finally made up for what happened before he fell into a coma, and he knew what happened after he woke up. The feeling at the moment when I just woke up is still vivid, and the appearance of this skeleton today has caused countless questions. At least the moment you wake up, what's going on with the hair on your head?

"When the emperor was fished out of the water, the emperor was dismantled?" Kou Liancai didn't understand what the emperor meant by asking hair.

Guangxu patted the part of his head that should have been shaved off and asked, "I am asking about this place." Did you just catch me, do you have hair here? Guangxu remembers very well that the first moment he woke up, he touched the back of his head because he was uncomfortable sleeping, but he touched the back of his head to touch the braids.

Kou Liancai thought for a while and said: "I didn't pay much attention to rescuing the emperor at that time, but what is certain is that the top of the emperor's head is full of blood, and there are several places where even a piece of the scalp has been rubbed off." ”

Guangxu was still confused. I haven't had long hair in my life, if it's the real Guangxu lying in the pool, then what's going on with my own cloak. Guangxu asked cautiously again: "Then have you noticed that I just came up from the water, what is the condition of the nails on my hands?" ”

"Yes. The emperor's nails are very long, which is very weird. Before sending the emperor back to the palace, the servants pruned it himself. It may have something to do with lightning hitting the pond. ”

"Then no one has doubted that I am not like Guangxu for so many years, or is there any difference?" Guangxu grabbed Kou Liancai's collar and asked.

"You are the emperor, who dares to doubt it. And when you are fished out of the water, it will be dark like that, who will tell carefully. You haven't been very good since you were a child, don't you all look the same when everyone is seriously ill? Besides, your height and portrait are ninety percent similar to the emperor in the painting, isn't it normal for the painting to be a little different from the real person? When you're well, start running and exercising. People still think that your body is exercised. Exercise can change a person's body shape and physique, this is something that everyone knows-" After speaking, Kou Liancai knelt down again.

So to speak. Guangxu understood. No wonder there was not a single attendant in the room when he woke up, and everyone thought that the emperor would die. No wonder I don't know all the people in the palace with Ben, and I pretended to be frustrated for a long time. No wonder I don't have any memory of Guangxu's body, it turns out that I am not a soul crossing, and I am crossing with the original entity. So I don't have the memory of Guangxu's ontology, so I don't know all the people at that time. It's just for himself and the people who don't exist in this world.

No wonder Hou Cheng's words that night were Shinto, saying that I should not deceive myself. No wonder those twelve young men kept saying that they were only loyal to the Han Emperor. I thought these people were talking nonsense. It turns out that he and Ben are not Guangxu or Manchus, but they are an authentic Han people. No wonder they were able to investigate the results. In ancient times, there was a method of bloodline verification. I am Han Chinese, can this not be tested?

The scorching sun in Beijing in July is like fire, and the light shining on Guangxu at this moment still can't dispel the coldness in his heart. When the courtiers found out that the emperor who was on the stage was impersonating, when they found out that the real emperor was actually dead long ago. What will they do. He no longer has the name to rule the world, and the northward expansion plan is facing cancellation. Now that the Manchu ministers who occupy the court are only more than 10%, they must re-establish the Manchu emperor. Can Hanchen, who is more than seventy percent of those who are actually in power, agree? There are also generals from all over the country who will point the finger at the capital and ask how important it is. The key is that they have this strength now, because for the northward expansion plan, all the supplies are already in place, as long as they move fast enough, they can grab the materials hoarded in the rear. And with these supplies, the generals have the strength to enter the capital. In this way, civil war will arise when the foreign enemy is not eliminated. Chaos is just around the corner. I have worked hard to enrich the country and strengthen the army, but in the end it is still empty......

"The concubine knows what the emperor is worried about." Yang Zao'er is long in how the government can't see the situation in front of him clearly: "Why should the emperor worry, since the first wu." Is there a second one who can lead an army to victory? ”

Yang Zao'er woke up Guangxu with a word. Indeed, the result of changing the emperor is not certain.

"Kou Liancai, you immediately go back to Yingtai and take all the cash to the Xuanwu Gate." When Kou Liancai walked away, Guangxu pulled the three wives and concubines and said, "Facts have proved that I am not the Guangxu Emperor anyway." As soon as this matter came out. The world is bound to be shocked. If they are truly loyal to me, then we will be the same everywhere. But in case they have bad intentions. If we stay in the capital, we are afraid that we will die without a place to be buried. So I'm going to take a gamble, and while no one knows about it, we'll leave the capital at once, so that the capital will be left to the ministers to decide. Even if something bad happens, at least we have enough time to run away from Jingshi. ”

"Then after leaving Beijing, can you still get accurate news from the capital?" Qimug was the first to react.

"Do you think that I have been the emperor for nothing all these years, how can there be fewer dead soldiers around me." Guangxu immediately assigned the task: "Zao'er, you go to the kindergarten to pick up all the children." Qimuge, gather the soldiers of the Royal Praetorian Guard who can absolutely obey our orders, and the soldiers who must be loyal to us and not to the country, the more the better, and assemble at the Xuanwu Gate at once. Miko, immediately prepare a few sets of casual clothes. ”

Everyone went their separate ways, and Guangxu also went to the city gate tower to call the Beijing Railway Station, and after asking them about the departure time of the train, he asked them to prepare three passenger cars for use.

Kou Liancai came with cash, the children also came, and the entire royal guard camp was also assembled, and after the four emperors and queens changed into civilian clothes, Guangxu summoned Huang Minghua and other three company commanders of the guard camp: "Some things will not be clear for a while, and I will explain to you on the way." Now the second company followed Qimuge back to the northeast, the third company escorted Miko to Japan, the first company went to Jiangnan with me and Zao'er, and the battalion platoon and battalion headquarters stayed in the capital. Kou Liancai, you look at Yingtai and the Forbidden City, and you are not allowed to enter unless you are the emperor. Now go to the train station immediately. ”

At the train station, Guangxu divided the cash into three parts: "Qimuge doesn't matter if you are an imperial concubine or not, you are a soldier of this country and an officer at the rank of colonel." After arriving at the locality, it is still necessary to actively assist the troops in advancing the northward expansion plan, which is a national and national war, and cannot be taken lightly. Miko, it's been almost six years since you married in China, and this is the first time you've returned to your parents' home. I have no other requirements, only one thing, not to enter the royal palace of Japan. This is my only ban on you. You all remember that no matter what happens, don't come back unless I call you personally. Now that the train is ready, let's all get on board. ”

The staff on duty at the railway station didn't expect the emperor to ask for a carriage to go out for a patrol, so he only prepared a hard-seat carriage. But now there is no time to adjust, the train that sent Qimuge to the northeast was the first to leave the railway station, because there were no passenger cars now, so the hard-seat car was hung on the wagon, and Qimuge and her children and the second company of the Praetorian Guards headed northeast. There are many trains to Tianjin, so you can hang up the carriage and go out after the departure time is delayed. The baby princess on the mouth of Dagu is waiting for the imperial princess to board the ship and then sail to Japan.

Today's bus to Shanghai has been delayed for more than an hour, and the people on the bus are already noisy. But it's really common for the train to be late these years, but I heard that it's just to wait for a person and be late and quarrel with the people at the train station. When a group of Qiu Ba spears and short cannons came in, they were honest. Finally, after the train hung on the last carriage, the train finally left the station.

When the emperor's train had just left the station, the stationmaster of Beijing Railway Station felt that something was wrong. The emperor personally called the carriage and thought it was for something else, but he didn't expect the royal family to go out together. If the emperor paid a private visit, it would be impossible to mobilize troops to protect it so obviously. If he goes on patrol, even if it is a temporary decision, he should be notified by the competent authority, because as long as he takes the railway, he must be notified to adjust the frequency appropriately. But this time there was no warning, so the Beijing stationmaster dialed the Ministry of Communications, a direct superior department. Tell Minister Zhan Tianyou: The emperor and the concubine led the troops out of Beijing in civilian clothes, and they had not been instructed before.

Zhan Tianyou didn't know why, so he called the prime minister's office again to confirm the news, but the prime minister's office didn't know that the emperor had a plan to go on patrol, but when he wanted to report to the prime minister, he couldn't find the prime minister.

The State Council and Yingtai are basically in the nature of opposing doors, and the sudden and urgent transfer of the Praetorian Guard Battalion will naturally arouse the curiosity of the Central Guard Regiment guarding the State Council. When the head of the regiment learns the news but cannot find the reason, he will report it to the Prime Minister's Office out of duty. However, just as the head of the regiment was about to call to report, he happened to run into Li Hongzhang, who was going out, so he naturally stepped forward to tell him in person. Li Hongzhang felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't ask why he invited Yang Du. When he learned that the emperor had gone to the imperial garden, he hurried to the palace gate to ask for a meeting, but he didn't expect Kou Liancai to tell him that the emperor and the three concubines had gone to the train station. Li Hongzhang made a phone call to the train station in a hurry, only to learn that the emperor had been away from Beijing for almost half an hour.

In front of the pool in the imperial garden, Li Hongzhang sat on the ground after listening to Kou Liancai's story: "It's over, the Qing Dynasty is over." The sky in China has also fallen. (To be continued)

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