Although this article of the Restoration Society has attracted a lot of attention, at least on the surface, everything in the Great Qing Kingdom is still peaceful. The emperor continued to stay in Yingtai to be his emperor, the queen mother continued to control the government and acted as the queen mother, and the chief military minister, Prince Qing Yixuan, continued to accept bribes to make money. The governors everywhere also continued to play all kinds of tricks of the Restoration, and nothing seemed to have changed.

However, rumors suddenly appeared in the streets and alleys of Beijing, saying that the Empress Dowager Lafayette planned to build a prince again and find an heir for the Guangxu Emperor from the imperial family. No one knows where this rumor came about, but it quickly spread throughout the Nine Cities. Even the foreigners in Dongjiaomin Lane soon knew about it.

In the year of Yihai, the Empress Dowager Cixi planned to solve the big trouble of Guangxu once and for all. At that time, she asked Rong Lu to issue an edict in the name of Emperor Guangxu, saying that he could not give birth to an heir, and established King Zaiyi's son Pu Jun as the eldest brother. However, unexpectedly, the governors from all over the country actually expressed their opposition, and even foreigners jumped out to oppose it. Cixi understood that the reason why the governors opposed it was largely because they wanted the court to be in a situation where they were not justified, so that they would be more likely to take advantage of it when dealing with the court; As for the foreigners, they also hope to leave a hidden danger that can contain Cixi. At that time, in the face of local governors and foreigners, the Empress Dowager Cixi rarely hardened, relying on the Boxer Rebellion and declaring war on those foreigners who interfered in China's internal affairs.

The result? When the foreigners called, the local governors immediately played a "southeast mutual guarantee", announcing that Cixi's order was a "chaotic order" and was invalid, and refused to send troops to Qinwang, playing neutrality. Even Zhang Zhidong, who has always been regarded as a loyal minister, actually said to people: "This old widow (referring to the Empress Dowager Cixi) wants to hack her!" So the book said: "The minister sits in the southeast, and he will not obey the edict!" ”

Since the local governor did not come to King Qin, the queen mother could only rely on the Boxers and some troops who were still willing to be loyal to the imperial court, such as Nie Shicheng's Wuwei army and the foreigners. Then, in the war, the last loyal to the imperial court, and some fighting armies, were wiped out. The Empress Dowager Cixi had to compromise with the foreigners, so she signed the "Xinchou Treaty" that humiliated the country, and threw Duanwang Zaiyi's father and son to Xinjiang.

After this incident, it stands to reason that the Empress Dowager Cixi should not play any tricks of building a reserve. So this rumor is definitely an unfounded rumor. However, once the rumor appeared, it would naturally make people wonder if this rumor was released by the Empress Dowager Cixi to test everyone's reaction. So, the British minister went to the prime minister's yamen, and then it is said that a group of officials were scolded by the queen mother.

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Wu Xiangzi and Song Enzi lowered the brim of their hats, and slowly shook into the Yutai Teahouse, as soon as they entered the door, Wang Lifa, the shopkeeper of the teahouse, saw them at a glance, he hurriedly glanced at the helper Li San, and at the same time hurriedly came up to them and made a thousand calls: "What kind of wind blew your two masters here?" Hurry inside please inside...... Li San, hurry up and give the two masters a good pot of tea! ”

At this time, Li San had just walked between the two tea guests with the kettle, and while leaning down to refill the cups for the two people, he whispered: "Second master, you speak carefully, well, those two have come in." Then he straightened up and answered, "Eh, right away!" ”

Wu Xiangzi and Song Enzi sat down at a table by the window, Wang Li quickly put the cups on the table, and added the tea leaves, and Li San came over and poured water. Wang Lifa smiled and said: "Two of you try it, this is the authentic Longjing of this year's Ming Dynasty." Knowing that the two of you are good at this, I specially prepared for the two of you. ”

Song Enzi picked up the teacup, blew lightly into it, and said, "Shopkeeper Wang, your business is good." ”

"Thanks to you." Wang Lifa said with a grin as he set them refreshments.

"Shopkeeper Wang......" Wu Xiangzi said in a long voice, "Your business is so good, it's really enviable." ”

"Whereever, just to make ends meet." Wang Lifa hurriedly said.

"Make ends meet." Song Enzi suddenly laughed, turned his face to Wu Xiangzi and asked, "Wu Xiangzi, Boss Wang said that he can only make ends meet, do you believe it or not?" ”

"Subsistence? I don't believe it! Boss Wang is telling us a joke. Wu Xiangzi shook his head and said, "Boss Wang can still make ends meet, but the two of us are in arrears now, and it's hard to even make ends meet." ”

"Yes, now you can only get some reward if you sell more effort and catch a few more chaotic parties." When Song Enzi said this, he slowly turned his face to Wang Lifa and said, "Shopkeeper Wang? ”

"Huh! Do you have something to order? Wang Lifa hurriedly lowered his hand and said.

"Shopkeeper Wang, recently there have been rumors spreading everywhere in the chaos party, saying that the Queen Mother is going to abolish the emperor. Do you know? Song Enzi said slowly.

"Isn't this nonsense? I've never heard of such nonsense. Wang Lifa hurriedly said.

"Haven't heard of it?" Wu Xiangzi turned his head to Song Enzi and said, "Song Enzi, you see that Boss Wang's teahouse is so lively, and there are so many people from the three sects and nine streams, I'm afraid it's easy to get in with the rumor-mongering and rumor-mongering party." You say, don't you? ”

"Not bad. If you want me to say, we just come here every day, maybe we can catch one or two every day. In this way, our bounty will be settled. That's it! Song Enzi clenched his right hand into a fist and punched the palm of his left hand, and then made a posture of intending to stand up and immediately grab the two of them.

"Good way!" Wu Xiangzi also said, "Just rely on what was caught by mistake and put it by mistake." If you catch someone, you get rich. Let's go, let's go grab two at random. With a shake of his hand, a long chain appeared.

"Huh...... Eh...... Two masters! Wang Lifa hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop the two of them. If they really let them catch two people every day like this, they will not do this business at all.

"Shopkeeper Wang doesn't want us to arrest people?" Wu Xiangzi, who had already stood up, turned his face to Song Enzi and said, "Song Enzi, what do you think?" ”

"If we don't arrest people, if we don't arrest people, what will we eat? No, you have to catch it! Song Eunzi also stood up.

"But, Song Eunzi. Shopkeeper Wang is our old neighbor, we have to sell him a face, we can't embarrass Shopkeeper Wang, don't you say? Wu Xiangzi slowly sat down and said.

"But if we don't arrest people, who will give us money?" Song Enzi shook his head and said.

"Since the shopkeeper doesn't want us to take people from him every day, then he will definitely find a way for us and won't let us suffer...... Shopkeeper Wang, don't you say? Wu Xiangzi suddenly turned his head and said to Wang Lifa.

"That'...... This one...... You two are planning to ......"

"I don't think it's as good as this, on the first day of the new month, you send that meaning, and we will naturally ......," Song Enzi said with a smile.

"That'...... How much does that mean? Wang Lifa asked.

"Shopkeeper Wang, you just need to look at it yourself, Shopkeeper Wang, you are so smart, you won't make it embarrassing at all, isn't it......"

At this time, such a sentence suddenly came from there: "If you want me to say, the Queen Mother wants to abolish the emperor, it is not necessarily a rumor, she has long wanted to abolish the emperor, but foreigners are not allowed, yesterday I heard that for this matter, the British minister also went to the Prime Minister's Yamen." ”

"Who! Who is talking nonsense here! Song Enzi, who had already sat down, jumped up at once and pulled out the iron chain from his sleeve.

"What did I say?" The person who spoke over there also stood up without showing weakness, and turned his face to look at Wu Xiangzi and Song Enzi.

"Ah...... Isn't this Mr. Ye? Mr. Ye is also free to come here today. Wu Xiangzi suddenly greeted the man with a smile.

"Who is this?" Someone in the tea guest asked the person next to him in a low voice.

Although Wu Xiangzi put on a smiling face, Mr. Ye didn't show him a good face at all: "Mr. Wu is so majestic, do you want to ask me to your yamen to see if it is a mess?" ”

"Mr. Ye, you really know how to joke......" Wu Xiangzi said curtly, obviously planning to admit it.

At this time, the church bell suddenly came from outside, and Mr. Ye immediately drew a cross on his chest, and then ignored Wu Xiangzi and Song Enzi, and said to Wang Lifa: "Shopkeeper Wang, I have put the tea money on the table, and I am going to worship." Then he strode out of the teahouse.

"Brother Zhang, this is really majestic, who is this?"

"Ye Tongyi, you don't know? Let me tell you, this Ye Tongyi, who works as a translator at the British minister's side, still believes in foreign religion, and has the support of foreigners behind him, where can ordinary people afford to offend? Just like this, they really offended Mr. Ye, in Beijing, Mr. Ye has at least a hundred ways to make their life worse than death, but they have no way to take Mr. Ye at all. Don't talk about them, even their boss, they don't have the strength to play with Mr. Ye, if they really want to play, they must be played to death by Mr. Ye. The other explained in a whisper.

"It turned out to be a foreign slave." A man who looked like a child of the Eight Flags dressed in silk at the other table on one side said.

"Fourth brother, don't talk nonsense, be careful of causing trouble." A man sitting next to him with a birdcage hurriedly said, "Let's not talk about these things, let's talk about our birds." ”

"Alas, I can't even say a word, it's really suffocating...... Second master, look at the way of the world, who are they...... I see, this Great Qing Kingdom is coming to an end! ”

As soon as these words came out, Song Enzi immediately jumped over.

"You said that the Great Qing Kingdom is going to end?"

"No, I'm a banner person, how can I say that the Great Qing Kingdom is going to end? The Great Qing Kingdom has been around for thousands of years! The man hastened to deny it.

"Flagman? The flag man said that the Great Qing Kingdom is going to end, and your crime will be added to it! ”

"You can't deny it, everyone here hears it! Come with us! Wu Xiangzi also walked over, "And you, you, you, let's go to the yamen to testify!" ”

Wu Xiangzi and Song Enzi went out with a few people, and when they walked to the door, Song Enzi suddenly turned back to Wang Lifa and shouted: "Shopkeeper Wang, on the first day of the new month, don't forget to ......"