The Empress Dowager Cixi really read that article several times later, although every time she read it, it made her very tired and very frightened, but she still read the article again and again. At the same time, her understanding of the chaotic party called Zhang Jiang has changed again.

"I originally thought that this Zhang Jiang was a person who had read a lot of books, but was too angry with books, but now when I look at this article, he turns out to be a hero. No, this article should not have been written by Zhang Jiang, at least the meaning in it is not his own. A person who talks about revolution with Chinese culture all day long, where does he have such a deep mind? There must be someone else behind him, and there is a terrible heroic figure hidden. Cixi couldn't help but think so.

Cixi gave the person who wrote the article the word "hero" because in this article, that person showed a deep understanding of the current situation and what was behind the chaos. Some of them even surpassed Cixi's understanding, and even Cixi felt deeply inspired by reading many places.

There is no scolding of Cixi in this article, if she really does this, Cixi will laugh at most, anyway, there are more people who scold her. What is insidious and vicious, what is the chicken Si Chen, what is the filthy harem, what is the traitor to seek glory, what is the disaster of the country and the people. There is a lot of variety, and there is nothing new.

This article, however, is different, it is a cold recount of the political actions of Cixi and those around her: her allies, her opponents. And he made a cold analysis of the entanglement of interests in the aftermath of these political moves, and made a clear analysis of why Cixi did these moves, the purpose and results of these moves, and even what kind of effects might be obtained if she did not do so.

However, it was this analysis that frightened Cixi, because she found that everything she had done was completely invisible in this article, and the reason for her doing so was clear to the other party, and she knew nothing about the other party. This asymmetry is naturally frightening. But this is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that the opponent also seriously analyzed her efforts and carefully deduced them, and came to that conclusion. This conclusion is that the contradictions between Cixi and Guangxu are irreconcilable, and if Cixi wants to continue her life's work of preserving the Manchurian Qing as much as possible, then she must kill the Guangxu Emperor, the internal factor that threatens it the most, before she dies. Otherwise, I am afraid that before Cixi's body can be buried in the grave, the Qing Dynasty that she is dedicated to maintaining will be buried first.

However, if Cixi chooses to kill Emperor Guangxu and set up another small emperor, it is definitely not a good choice. Especially after having this article. Today's Manchu Qing can still be maintained, to a large extent, by relying on the skin of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness of the imperial court. Once Emperor Guangxu died before Cixi as predicted in this article, then all kinds of disloyalty and unfilial piety within the imperial family were directly exposed to the people of the world, and the skin of the so-called "loyalty and filial piety" could no longer be worn.

Of course, if the Manchu court still had enough power in its hands, this would not be a big problem. For example, Li Shimin killed his brother and imprisoned his father, and what he did was not much different from Emperor Yang of Sui, but he had power in his hands, so he eventually became the Ming Jun of the Kuang Dynasty. More recently, such as those emperors of the previous generations of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there are many such ones, such as Nurhachi's braids, his sons forced his eldest wife to death together, and then the old Eighth Emperor Taiji killed several brothers; Then when Huang Taiji died, his brother Dolgon went to bully Huang Taiji's widow again, and played the story of "the queen mother married". After that, it is the "fourth master" of our brothers, friends and brothers, who went to the south of the Yangtze River six times, traveled all over the world, and especially liked to put barrages on cultural relics. In short, none of them are fine. However, because of his strength, he became a Ming Jun.

However, today's Manchu court does not have such conditions, it has no decent power except for that skin. The husband and the people are thieves, and everyone has to overthrow them. This article also unabashedly presents such a result. And tell everyone that Cixi can only make these two choices, and no matter which choice she makes, it is equivalent to pronouncing the death penalty of the Manchu Dynasty. Even which one Cixi will choose, this article has made detailed analysis and prediction. The article concludes by pointing out that there is no doubt that Cixi would have chosen to kill Guangxu and set up a new monarch, even if the article has revealed her intentions. Because of the lesser of two evils, losing the skin of righteousness, the Manchus may be able to survive for a while, at least, even if the local governors do not take the imperial court seriously, even if the revolutionary party in the south makes trouble again, at least, in the north, near the capital, the Manchus still have a little strength, and they can barely maintain it, although most of them will not last long. But if Guangxu is allowed to mess around and fight internally, it is almost certain that the Manchu dynasty will be finished immediately.

There are no conspiracies, no traps, no deceptions in this article, so all the intentions are clearly laid out. The revolutionaries admitted that they were waiting for the Manchus to lose morality or civil strife, and then to take advantage of the opportunity to rebel and achieve their goal of expelling the Tatar slaves and restoring China.

This is not a conspiracy, this is a conspiracy. But it's the most unstoppable. Because the force that drives Yangmou is not the power of a mere Restoration Society, or even the power of the Alliance, or even the power of those forces that are always behind them, but the general trend of the whole world. In the face of such power, Cixi felt so weak and powerless for the first time.

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Cixi is definitely not the only one who is seriously studying this article, and most of the ministers of military aircraft have also seen this article. For example, the chief minister of military aircraft, Prince Qing Aixin Jueluo Yixuan took his son to study this article seriously.

In the subsequent invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, on behalf of the Qing government, he signed the traitorous "Xinchou Treaty", suggesting that the Qing government and foreigners join forces to suppress the Boxer Rebellion, and from 1903 onwards, he began to serve as the Minister of Military Aircraft, and from 1904 to serve as the Chief Minister of Military Aircraft, he did nothing, except for kneeling to receive Cixi's decree, It will only be sold openly. The official beard, so he has been criticized. For example, Yuan Shikai's step by step ascension, including the help of Yixuan, and the reason why Yixuan helped Yuan Shikai speak everywhere, most later generations believed that it was because Yuan Shikai's silver was working. Therefore, Cai Dongfan, who wrote "The Romance of Qing History", commented on Yixuan in this way, saying, "Prince Qing Yixuan is a criminal minister of the Qing Dynasty, that is, a meritorious person of the Yuan family." And the last emperor Pu Yi also said many times that Yi Liang "received Yuan Shikai's money and persuaded the Queen Mother to give up the country, and the world of the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years was lost in the hands of Yi Xuan." Even after Yixiao's death, when he was about to give him a nickname, Pu Yi personally prepared for him to give him the words "false, ugly, quiet, and powerful" for the internal affairs government to choose.

"Zai Zhen, what do you think of this article?" Yixuan asked.

"Amma, the person who wrote this article is really vicious!" Aisin Jueluo Zaizhen replied.

"Not about that." Yixuan shook his head and said with a little dissatisfaction, "There are only you and my father and son here, you can honestly say it, is this right?" ”

"Amma...... I think...... I'm afraid the Queen Mother has no other way to go. Zai Zhen's voice trembled a little, "If it's really the Queen Mother...... The emperor is still ...... I'm just afraid ......"

"I'm afraid that the first person the emperor wants to kill is me, and the second one will get Yuan Shikai and Rong Lu!" Yi Xuan said sharply, his eyes were shining, where was the slightest bit of a submissive ordinary appearance.

"Ama ......"

"The Queen Mother will not let the emperor have any chance. She knows very well that if the emperor comes out in the morning, she is afraid that it will not be until the afternoon, and there will be a large number of governors in the Qing Dynasty who are going to rebel, and if others don't say it, Yuan Shikai and his Beiyang Army will definitely not watch the emperor's knife kill on their heads! Those foreigners will not allow it either. I really want the emperor to come out, he comes out today, and tomorrow the Great Qing Kingdom will die! ”

"Ama ......" Jae-jin was so frightened by his father's words that he couldn't speak.

"The Queen Mother also knows this, so don't worry, there is really a day, the emperor will definitely ......," Yixuan said gloomily.

"But...... Ama ...... With this article, if something like this comes out again, then ......" Zai Zhen said stumblingly.

"Then the Great Qing Kingdom will be over sooner or later, right?" Yixuan squinted at his son, "It's good that you can see this." This Qing Dynasty is going to end sooner or later, I've been a bad guy for so many years, how can I not know? It's nothing more than how it's done. Whether it is to die in the rebellion, or to the princes, or to the great powers. The Empress Dowager said after the year of Gengzi that 'measure China's material resources and form a friendship with the country', which proved to the great powers that the Qing Dynasty was still useful to them. That's why the Qing Dynasty didn't die to the great powers. Now it is the death of the chaotic party or the death of the princes. If we die in the chaos, how many of us will survive? Died by the princes, for the sake of fame, we may have a good outcome. In addition, Zai Zhen, you have been off from your errands lately anyway, so you might as well go to Tianjin, find a place in the concession over there, and then secretly transfer our things over there. Hehe, some people say that I have been collecting Yuan Shikai's money and raising a Cao Cao for the imperial court. Hehe, if I don't raise Yuan Shikai, this Cao Cao, naturally other Cao Cao will come out. Anyway, this Cao Cao was raised by me, and when that day comes, we have to be given a way out. Do you understand? ”