Chapter 233: Excerpts

Rush Wind card. Guan Yu is on the door, and the next door meets the four Cao generals. Guan Yu trembled slightly, ran to the front of the stage to make a knife, facing the door, took off his boots and ran to the small side, pulled outside, pulled inside, and pulled the knife out of the sidebar. Two or four gongs retreated, and eight three gongs and three punches. Rush Wind card. Zhao Lei took over, and Guan Yu was defeated from the last goal. Zhao Lei and Xu Huang started fighting together, Zhao Lei was defeated, and Xu Huang and Si Cao chased down together.

On stage, Guan Yunchang defeated Mai Cheng's performance. Offstage, Cixi looked at the stage, but the focus of her eyes was unknown. The emperor still led the troops into the customs, and the emperor was determined to take away the right to mourn the family. A telegram pointing to the east and west was gently blocked by the emperor, and the court no longer had an excuse to stop the emperor. He is the emperor, he is the lord of the world, and he can do whatever he wants in the Qing Dynasty. Now, the emperor, who defeated Japan first and then Russia, has the strength to seize power.

Is it wrong to start the palace change last year? Would it be better if we didn't start today's situation? No, because the emperor's strength will get bigger and bigger, and the emperor can't be given this opportunity. But he still couldn't stop the emperor who was already under house arrest, and Russia helped the emperor. Cixi also thought in the middle of the night, when did the emperor become so scheming? Or is it really as the emperor said, the courtiers of the Qing Dynasty have long been old. Other courtiers may be, but what about Li Hongzhang? He's always a man who makes a difference. Why would such a loyal person be bribed because of the emperor's words? In addition to giving him the official position of prime minister, the emperor did not give him any benefits, what made Li Hongzhang so towards the emperor? Cixi couldn't figure it out.

He is the emperor, and no one can stop him from returning to his capital. Closing the gates may be a last resort. I can only hope that this must be the capital of the Qing Dynasty. And he is the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom. He can't attack his own capital.

Cixi understood that the ministers kneeling outside the door had come to her to ask for their lives. But why don't they want to think about it, if the emperor won't attack the city. Then their lives can be saved. But if the emperor came in from the siege of the city, it was still a question whether Cixi could even save her own life.

A group of wastes who only know how to take benefits, why don't they have real talents under their own hands? Houlu, a high-ranking official who once promised Tang Shaoyi, was abandoned as contemptible, but he was willing to be a small squire under the emperor. What made the emperor gather all the talents he needed under his command?

If you don't understand it, you don't understand it. Today's Cixi is like Guan Yu on the stage, defeated Maicheng. Will it be the same fate as Guan Yu?

There was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and there was a burst of ear-to-ear talking. Li Lianying stepped forward and whispered, "Lord Rong is here to report." The emperor lined up the siege frame, and Lord Rong came to ask, how to deal with it? ”

Cixi did not speak. But he closed his eyes. But he said in his heart: "Emperor, emperor, the mourning family is more than sixty years old, and he can live for a few more years." Can't you even wait for that little time? Is it true that more than ten years of nurturing grace are ignored? ”

Cixi didn't speak, and Li Lianying could only stand quietly aside. The soldiers outside the door were in a hurry. There was no reply to several communications. It can only be forwarded to Prince Li, the Minister of the First Auxiliary Military Aircraft. He didn't expect Sedor's panic to be even more panicked than he was. As soon as he heard this, he simply sat on the ground.

The ministers were in a mess, and they couldn't come up with the charter. Letting the emperor enter the city is that they are killing themselves, and if they don't let go, they can't beat the emperor. It was all messed up for a while. Until Li Lianying came out and said: "The Queen Mother has no will, let Lord Rong deal with it by herself." The ministers who thought the Queen Mother had confidence calmed down again.

Rong Lu panicked, and the ministers outside Cining Palace also panicked, and they waited for the emperor's movement tremblingly. Only Li Hongzhang of the Military Aircraft Department did not panic. State affairs cannot be slackened every day, and when there is no one to deal with state affairs, he supports this aging body. With a trance spirit, he led the six members to deal with heavy affairs.

The emperor marched from Mukden with his troops, and the number of government affairs reported by various places suddenly increased a lot. It all seems to be something inconsequential. But Li Hongzhang, who has been in the court for a long time, once did this, and figuring out the policies of the court from the speed of the court's reaction is actually a way to test the reaction of the court at the local level.

However, these dignitaries in the court were frightened by the emperor's actions, and they only knew that they blindly ran to Cining Palace to kowtow to say hello in order to save their lives. Especially when the emperor led the troops into the customs, the last two Shangshu kowtowed.

Fortunately, these young people have been able to handle some affairs, and Wu Tingfang is the best among them. In the face of waves of visiting ministers in China, Wu Tingfang's steady figure and fluent answers made foreigners see the confidence of the imperial court.

Foreigners are certainly not a good thing, and politicians always want to use every opportunity to fight for the best interests of their country. Seeing that the Great Qing Kingdom might undergo major changes, all the ministers began to make various temptations to the Qing court, in order to better profit the country in the future. They can also see that the politics of the Qing Dynasty are about to change. When he was not able to meet the Qing Emperor in person, the best bond between him was Li Hongzhang, a minister who had a certain position of power between the emperor and the queen, and he must have balanced the bond between the old and new forces. Moreover, with Guangxu's attitude towards Li Hongzhang, it is certain that once Guangxu returns to the dynasty and seizes power, Li Hongzhang will be a hot minister. Even if Guangxu can't completely regain power for a while, Li Hongzhang will definitely be a minister of reuse.

Looking at the busy young people, Li Hongzhang couldn't help but be comforted by the old. When has the army of the Great Qing Dynasty ever won against the foreigners, it has not won since 1840, and even if Zuo Zongtang recovered Xinjiang, he only repelled it by taking advantage of the Russian-Turkish war. How can there be a head-on duel between the emperor and Russia today, not only to completely annihilate the enemy of Russia, but also to recover the country. Li Hongzhang sighed, but it's a pity, the national strength is declining and unable to fight again.

"Your Excellency, the British Minister asks for a meeting." Goshha, who was outside the door, came forward to report, but what he saw was Li Hongzhang's brows and hurriedly explained: "Lord Wu is meeting with the US minister, and he really can't pull away. ”

Li Hongzhang smiled: "Then the official will see it." "There is no longer the courtesy of the early years.

The sun rises to its highest level and begins to slowly set again. The confrontation between the top and bottom of the city wall did not change until the sun leaned on the mountain peak.

"Boom-" A huge explosion spread throughout the capital. Li Hongzhang, who was drinking tea, broke the tea bowl in his hand in a panic. Did the emperor really attack? This is also his capital. Li Hongzhang couldn't help but think about it, and the shouts of killing from the Jianguomen side had already sounded. Li Hongzhang hurriedly ordered: "Stop all the work in your hands and follow the official to take over in front of the **." ”

The explosion also frightened the ministers outside Cining Palace. The voices asking to see Galeries Lafayette were getting louder and louder. Even Li Lianying's will of the Empress Dowager Lafayette to make them quiet is useless. Only Shidor silently stood up and walked out.

"Prince Li, where is this going?" When questioned, Sedors did not answer. When I walked away, I heard someone saying: He is the prince, and the emperor will not do anything to him. Let's continue to ask Lafayette. Sedors shook his head and walked back to the empty military plane alone.

The soldiers on the city walls did not resist, and as the 1st Division entered the city, they were collected their weapons and taken to the designated place to squat on standby. The soldiers of the 1st Division began to pour into the capital from all over the city gates, and took over the defense of the entire capital in an orderly manner. The high walls of the princes and nobles were also full of soldiers. He didn't rush into the house to get people, but he guarded it tightly. The good military discipline of the soldiers was manifested at this moment, even when passing through the bazaar. Not only did they not shout and curse, but they did not even interrupt the normal business, they just passed by here. For the first time, the people, who thought it was a military disaster, carefully looked at the neatly lined army in front of them.

**Before, Li Hongzhang watched the energetic soldiers enter the city to take over the defense. Every soldier ran past him and saluted. Li Hongzhang happily stroked his gray beard. Until the emperor arrived on a white horse. Only then did he shout three times with officials: "Long live the emperor." "Just kneel down on both sides of the door to pick up the driver.

"Zhongqing is flat. I am not in Beijing, and you have worked hard for state affairs. ”

"The ministers are duty-bound, and they don't dare to ask the emperor. Emperor Xie. Li Hongzhang finished answering decently, and then got up.

"Where is the Queen Mother of the West now, and whether my mother is okay." Guangxu did not dismount.

"Back to the emperor, the Empress Dowager Xi is now watching a play in Cining Palace. The Empress Dowager is now in the Summer Palace, and Weichen has sent someone to take the Empress Dowager back to the palace. ”

"I didn't expect the Queen Mother of the West to be in the mood to listen to the play, and the Qing family accompanied me to ask the Queen Mother for an encore?"

It's not good or not. The soldiers rudely pushed the ministers outside the Cining Palace to both sides. The emperor came slowly with official steps. It's just not like learning.

"I still can't learn your official steps, it seems that I can't learn this comfortable step without decades of officialdom." Guangxu still changed back and walked away: "I am a hard life." ”

Li Hongzhang, who was one position behind the emperor, looked as usual. Like a prince chatting, he is oblivious to the tense situation in front of him. Li Hongzhang replied with a smile: "I am used to seeing the ups and downs and the warmth and coldness of the world, and my heart has long been as calm as water. The old minister has been an official for decades, and he has long since lost the ambition of his earlier years. ”

Guangxu suddenly stopped, turned around and said, "Lao Li, what do you mean?" Is this a vague farewell to me? I just want to pick a child, I tell you not to even think about it. I am young and ambitious. But young people are also impulsive, and the ones who follow me are not young people. Aren't you afraid of making a big mistake inadvertently? Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and the Queen Mother of the West is not wrong in this sentence. This group of young people is precisely when you all want your elders to steer the rudder for us, and you will pick and choose, which is not the work of good ministers. ”

Li Hongzhang smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, can you use it so directly?" ”

"I don't need to. I'm not an old official, and I can't get an official tone. Don't talk to me in the future, a lot of troubles on the foreign devil's side have not been straightened out, and I don't have that time to think about the meaning behind your words. It's better to tell the truth. You also died of this heart, the prime minister of a country, the prime minister of the empire. If you say you run, you won't lose face. You say, is it good for us to change the title of prime minister back to the Qing Dynasty? ”

Li Hongzhang smiled but did not speak.

The two monarchs and ministers walked leisurely to the gate of Cining Palace, completely ignoring the ministers who knelt on the ground on both sides to ask for peace. Duan Qirui, who led the troops first, hurriedly stepped forward, and without waiting for him to speak, Guangxu just nodded. Duan Qirui rushed into the palace with a wolf-like soldier, and the palace was suddenly filled with wails, but quickly calmed down. There were no gunshots, which is good, everything is good.

"Your Majesty, Weichen won't go in." Seeing that the emperor was about to step forward, Li Hongzhang stepped forward and said.

"You are also an old man next to the Queen Mother, let's go in together. If I do something inappropriate, I hope the prime minister will correct it. ”

The soldiers did not rush into the dormitory, but simply stood around the courtyard. Duan Qirui stepped forward to report. Everything is under control.

Guangxu nodded, walked in front of Cixi without saying a word, and saw Cixi sitting with her eyes closed. Guangxu didn't ask for peace either. just turned around and sat next to Cixi, sat down for a while, and said, "The Queen Mother didn't train the minions well, and no one brought a cup of tea when I sat down." These people would have been dragged out and cut down long ago under my hands. The emperor's words frightened Li Lianying into serving a cup of tea in person, and kept calling it a capital crime.

Guangxu ignored him, pointed to the stage and said, "I have never listened to a complete red song with my heart, and I have the leisure time to listen to it today." Let the people above continue to act. ”

The drama on the stage has long since stopped. It stopped the moment the soldiers rushed into the palace. The panicked actors hurriedly tidied up the stage and re-applied their makeup, taking a few deep breaths to calm their minds. The gongs and drums sounded, and the vivid characters were once again active on the stage.

Three-way drum is connected to the rapid wind card. Guan Yushang. Trembling and blowing, the big circle field went to the door, and the left turned into a double shaking knife to the front of the stage, and he was frustrated. Go straight to the entrance of the stage. Hurriedly strangled the appearance; Dig radish in the knife in the right hand, turn right and step up, face the Riller horse appearance, four buckles left hand back copy the knife back, face outward pull the horse appearance, the head of the knife is facing up, the right hand copy the knife, face inward tearing. The right hand knife is on the shoulder, and the left hand turns the knife horizontally. Bow your left leg in front of your right leg and kneel behind your right leg, kneel and walk to the front of the stage, and stand up with a silk whip. Take a sliding step. Holding the knife horizontally in his left hand, he digs up and down with his right hand, and his feet slip wildly. The silk whip knife crossed his right hand and ran diagonally to the door. Rush Wind card. Lead the pass flat, the circle field for two weeks, to the small front out of the knife, down the door of the knife flower, in the middle of the poke knife, face inward to hold the knife to cut the appearance, as a non-branch, Guan Ping station small side. Guan Yu held the knife in his left hand, facing outward, kicked his right leg, straddled his left leg, pushed his hair with his right hand, looked at Guan Ping obliquely, appeared, and asked Guan Ping.

Guan Ping (white) - Qiyu's father: Zhao Lei is dead!

Guan Yu (white) - Zhao, Zhao, Zhao, Zhao tired him, he, he, he, he, is he dead?

Guan Ping (white) - he died in battle! (Silk whip.) Guan Yu held his hair in his right hand, trembled, and asked Guan Ping slowly. )

Guan Yu (white) - son! You, you, you, don't be afraid!

Sekihei (white) - I'm not afraid.

Guan Yu (white) - Er is about to enlarge his courage - (Guan Yu shakes his right hand and pats his chest.) )

Guan Yu (white) - with the father - (Guan Yu holds his hair on his right hand.) Kill, kill, kill, kill, deer your way out!

Xu Huang, Lu Meng, Si Cao Jiang, and Sihuo cards were divided from both sides, and they started to fight together, and Guan Yu and Guan Ping fell into the horse pit and were captured. Wang Fu killed himself, and Zhou Cang fell into the city.

"Stop." When this Guangxu spoke, he interrupted the final epilogue: "What a broken drama, it's really ugly." "Guangxu can't figure it out when he dies, in terms of historical years and audiences, Peking Opera is not as good as Huangmei Opera, these old operas, just because Cixi loves to listen to him, he has become the quintessence of the country? In order to protect this so-called quintessence of the country, you have to join the college entrance examination inexplicably? Hanfu and Hanli are the quintessence of the country, and they have to rely on the spontaneous protection of the people.

Cixi opened her eyes and glanced at Guangxu dissatisfied. When Guangxu saw this scene, he took it and said, "Dear father, what you listen to every day is this Peking opera, why don't you change your taste and let your son go up and give you a play?" ”

Cixi looked at the emperor as if she didn't have anything: "The emperor has the ability to act, and the mourning family naturally knows it, but the emperor, don't act and make the old woman laugh." Cixi understood that from the moment the emperor bombarded the city gate, there was no solution to this situation, and only after it fell could it be stopped.

Guangxu laughed: "Where is the world not a stage, my drama road is wide." The Queen Mother sat down and waited for her sons to act. ”

"Your Majesty, the palace is in order." Kou Liancai, who took over the palace, also came, followed by Tang Shaoyi and Euro Zhenhua.

"Don't worry, you're here just in time, and I'll see you play it again."

Without makeup and without changing clothes, Guangxu walked on stage like this. A song sounded in his mouth.

You put on the phoenix crown xia robe, I covered my eyebrows, and the red curtain tore open an excerpt play. You are not playing yourself, but I am emotionally invested, and the string huqin is inevitably a death and a parting. The excerpt is only a fraction of the whole play, and it usually does not stage the beginning and the end, and it is precisely because of the added charm of incompleteness that there is not so much hatred and unsatisfactory. If everyone is an excerpt and leaves the most brilliant part in other people's lives, if the world loses the glamour of fat powder, will there be an emotional interpretation. If everyone is an excerpt and releases their joys and sorrows in the play, if the world loses its colorful masks, will there be people who will be nostalgic and regretful. You take off your phoenix crown and xia clothes, I wipe off the oil paint, and the red curtain closes this excerpt play......

Before the sound fell, I saw Guangxu's hands shake and kneel on one knee: "Empress Dowager Qi, your garden has been repaired, please move the Empress Dowager to the Summer Palace and take care of her life." (To be continued......) u