Outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, this imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties for hundreds of years was surrounded by a group of people. And they were surrounded by soldiers of the 3rd Regiment of the Guards Division, who came with rifles, and then with artillery, aimed at them. And the people in the palace are all chickens and dogs, and the palace maids and eunuchs are extremely flustered. Even the nobles in the palace know that a catastrophe is coming, and maybe it is about to change the dynasty. This siege of the Forbidden City was the first time in hundreds of years that the Forbidden City had been besieged. Hundreds of years ago, Li Zicheng did not besiege the Forbidden City, because before they entered the Forbidden City, Emperor Chongzhen had already hanged himself, so there was no need to besiege the city.

But now, those Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu were not as backbone as Emperor Chongzhen, and they still looked at the soldiers outside and were very angry.

"Rebellious, rebellious, really rebellious! Dare to besiege my imperial city of the Qing Dynasty, this is a rebellion! Emperor Guangxu said hysterically.

Because the inner city was occupied, Emperor Guangxu was also brought to the palace, because they had already prepared to "move the capital" in the Qing Dynasty. However, because the nine gates of the inner city were occupied by Taiwan's special forces, there was naturally no way to continue to "move the capital". Guangxu also returned to the palace that he had dreamed of since the Wuxu Reform, but he didn't expect that he had just come out of Yingtai not long ago, and he would face the result of changing the dynasty. This made him very angry, and he regarded Wang Guorui as a great rebel. In the past few years, Wang Guorui betrayed him, leaving him to suffer a prison life of several years as the supreme emperor. But now that he has just come out, Wang Guorui is about to seize his position, so he is obviously very angry.

But Cixi is much calmer, and his decades of political ups and downs have long been tempered with a hard heart. Therefore, although Wang Guorui besieged the Forbidden City, the Empress Dowager Cixi did not panic too much. Instead, it was a very calm response. Cixi experienced too many crises, and he staged three coups in his life, each of which was launched in a time of crisis.

"Go and let Wang Guorui in!" Cixi said.

And Li Lianying immediately asked: "Queen Mother, do you want to ambush the sword and axeman?" ”

"Fool, is it useful to ambush the axemen? Do you think that killing Wang Guorui will be useful? Cixi rebuked angrily.

Cixi knew it very well. Now Wang Guorui represents not an ordinary individual, Wang Guorui represents a class, the spokesperson of a new means of rule. Even if Wang Guorui is killed, the Taiwanese group can still support a person again. Killing Wang Guorui will not only be useless, but will make things more serious and out of control. Just like the Empress Dowager Cixi, don't look at the Empress Dowager Cixi as just a person, but she? It represents the decaying and backward Manchu aristocracy. Killing the Empress Dowager Cixi will not really solve the problem, because the class behind them will also support one person to replace her again, and if the class behind it and the political group he belongs to are not completely resolved, it will be useless to kill many people. If assassination works, the world is full of assassinations. It is precisely because assassination is useless and can make things worse that countries do not use assassination as a means casually.

However, it took a while. There was a person walking into the Forbidden City, but it was not Wang Guorui.

"Zhou Chen has seen the Queen Mother." Zhou Chen, director of Taiwan's Beijing Office, said.

Li Lianying immediately asked, "Why don't you kneel down quickly?" ”

"Queen Mother. I've endured enough of the last few years and don't want to kneel to anyone again! Zhou Chen said.

Zhou Chen is also bold now, so naturally he will not be afraid of any palace. And as long as Cixi is not a fool, she will not kill him to vent her anger, because killing him to vent her anger will not only not make the matter properly resolved. On the contrary, it will exacerbate the contradiction of the problem.

"What about your kingdom? The mourning family wants to see him, but in fact, the mourning family has been wanting to see him for several years. The mourning family has only seen his photos, but they have never seen him in real person, and now the mourning family wants to see who this person who usurped my Qing dynasty is. Empress Dowager Cixi said.

Zhou Chen replied: "Queen Mother." We, Lord Wang, don't have the heart to come in now, because he is setting up a headquarters and preparing to be responsible for commanding the battle with the Eight-Nation Alliance. So, you just wait, we don't know when we will come in. ”

"It's not easy for him to be able to take care of foreigners at this time!" The Empress Dowager Cixi finally sighed and said.

Cixi is really a little convinced of Wang Guorui, because if it is an ordinary person who enters the capital, he can force the Qing Dynasty emperor to abdicate, and then the attraction of becoming the emperor himself is definitely to pounce on him like a vicious dog. But Wang Guorui did not do this, he was not carried away by the throne in front of him, but was very calm in building a command to resist foreign enemies, planning to clean up the foreign enemies before preparing to force the Manchu Qing to abdicate. It can be said that this is actually to let the national fortunes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty continue for a while longer.

And this kind of attraction that can resist being an emperor is definitely not an ordinary person! You must know how many rebels there have been since ancient times, and if they have a small county, they will immediately call themselves kings and emperors. And Wang Guorui conquered the capital, and the 200,000 troops did not come to force them to abdicate, or to resist foreign enemies, this is obviously not simple.

"What is Wang Guorui going to do with us? Will we be deprived of food and water? Empress Dowager Cixi asked.

"Queen Mother, our Lord Wang is not so tasteless, not so petty. It is not a problem for the people in your palace to eat and wear, but the Queen Mother, you still want to eat thousands of taels of silver for one meal, this is impossible. The people in your palace, whether it is the queen mother and emperor or ordinary palace maids and eunuchs, are the same. Ten people per table, eight dishes and one soup. ”

"Alright, that's all I'm saying, think about it for yourselves!"

Zhou Chen left, and then met Wang Guorui.

"Zhou Chen, you have worked hard! It's not easy to stay in the heart of this enemy for years! Wang Guorui said.

And Zhou Chen immediately said: "It's not hard, it's my honor to be able to serve Lord Wang." ”

"Zhou Chen, this time we were able to enter the capital, you are indispensable, the underground work is well done! However, your current identity is also public, and your current identity is already the director of the Taiwan Office in Beijing at the deputy military level, and you were originally under the responsible leadership of the General Intelligence Administration and the Liaison Office for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and the establishment belongs to the military, and you also have the rank of colonel. However, now your identity is known to the whole world, and it is the lice of the monk's brain—obviously. So you're not fit to continue in the intelligence system. ”

Hearing that he could not continue to serve in the intelligence system, this made Zhou Chen a little surprised, but it was also reasonable. Because his identity is already known to the whole world, and an open intelligence agent can no longer continue to be an intelligence agent, it is normal to adjust his position.

"Next, you retire first! After you retire, I intend to set up a United Front Committee under our former Governor's Palace, which in the future should probably be called the Privy Council, and you will be the head of the United Front Committee in the future. Wang Guorui said.

According to Wang Guorui's plan, after he becomes the emperor in the future, he will definitely not be able to continue to directly intervene in administrative affairs according to the convention. But it can be managed indirectly by another method, and that is, through the Privy Council. In the past, Taiwan's administrative department was divided into two groups, one was under the direct management of the Governor's Office, and the officials were directly responsible to Wang Guorui, the governor, and were generally responsible for important affairs, such as military, personnel, justice, propaganda, and so on. However, in the future, the judicial power will be independent, and the court will independently form the Supreme Court, so Wang Guorui will not have much management after the establishment of the empire.

As for the rest, the military department will also be independent, and then let the army accept the dual leadership of the king and the parliament, and the king will nominally hang the identity of a commander of the three armies, as a nominal commander, so the military power will also be independent. As for other personnel departments and propaganda departments, etc., they will be retained and directly responsible to the emperor. However, the emperor is not suitable for the name of the executive body, and Wang Guorui will learn from the methods of the monarchies of later countries and set up a Privy Council. This Privy Council existed as a staff body to the monarch, but it also had considerable real power. In the future, the Privy Council will set up a Personnel Committee, which will be responsible for selecting a number of officials for the king to serve as advisers. However, his power will be reduced, and the power of selection will be limited to the personal control of the king, and will no longer include the cabinet.

The propaganda department will also continue to preserve, which is an important means to maintain the image of the monarch and control the power of public opinion to ensure the status of the king. As for other departments, they will also be set up under the Privy Council, and this United Front Committee will be an important bridge of communication between the monarch and government agencies and various political parties in the country in the future, and will be responsible for the affairs of overseas Chinese and some ethnic and religious affairs. And Zhou Chen has been working in the mainland for several years, is familiar with the situation in the mainland, and knows all kinds of Manchu relics, and let him be responsible for dealing with these Manchu relics, which is also good. Therefore, it is not bad that he should be the first director of the United Front Work Committee.

"Lord Wang, oh no, the emperor, I will definitely live up to my mission in the future!" Zhou Chen said.

And Wang Guorui immediately smiled and said: "Don't be too anxious, it's not too late to change your mind when the time comes." ”

"Yes, the minister commands, the emperor!"

"......" Wang Guorui was a little speechless. (To be continued......)