"Tongzhou is lost!"

When this thunderous news sounded in the Ningshou Palace, unexpectedly, the Empress Dowager Cixi did not look panicked or surprised when she heard that Tongzhou had been lost, or rather, she had already been mentally prepared, and only asked calmly:

"How did you get lost?"

"It's a minion's mistake, and a minion is really a capital crime!"

Rong Lu said, while kowtowing to thank the sin, but he secretly cried bitterness in his heart, in the end, he still let his own family to the pit, originally pointed to his family to guard Tongzhou, but never thought that the flag soldiers over there in Tongzhou heard the news of the rebel army yesterday, so they abandoned the city and fled, saying a thousand ways and ten thousand, what is the use, it is right to apologize quickly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Don't mention any capital crimes that are not capital crimes,"

The Empress Dowager Cixi interrupted Rong Lu's words and said:

"You have only been in the capital for a few days, and you have led 3,000 banner soldiers and 8,000 Gan troops into the king of Beijing Qin, just this loyalty, I think others are far behind!"

But it's not, from the Tang rebellion, there are only a handful of people in the world who are truly diligent kings, and in the end it is the banner people who are the most reliable, Rong Lu led 3,000 banner soldiers and the newly recruited 8,000 Gan troops to the capital thousands of miles away. With this loyalty, as soon as Rong Lu entered Beijing, he was appointed as the "deputy minister of military affairs", and the establishment of the supervision and supervision of the military affairs office was not only to send Prince Gong to supervise military affairs, but also to unify the troops of all walks of life, but to train the new army of flag trainers in the future.

And this loyal Rong Lu is naturally the most suitable candidate, not only the right person, but also the candidate to lead the armies of all walks of life, and Cixi can be said to have a lot of trust in him. Naturally, this will be no exception.

Listen to what the Queen Mother said. Rong Lu knew that although the fire of the Queen Mother was grown. But his head was saved, so he hurriedly whispered:

"The queen mother, the slave only dies to serve the queen mother and the court......"

"Rong Lu, don't mention anything that will not die, if you can't keep the Jingshi, our banner people will die without a place to be buried!"

The Empress Dowager Cixi sighed helplessly, looked at Yixuan and said:

"I'm asking you, it's only been a few days. Why did Tongzhou fall away? Didn't we stop his Tang Haoran's chaotic army? ”

came around like this and asked, just in time to pick up what Rong Lu was going to say:

"Back to Lafayette, although the Korean rebel army is strong and strong, the capital also has a strong city to defend. Lafayette Wan'an, as long as all the people in Beijing are united, the capital must not matter! ”

Although what Rong Lu said was not a depressing word, but in the ears of the Empress Dowager Cixi, the melancholy on her face became even stronger, can this Jingying be reliable?

"Well, you say it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter! Anyway, the rebels will enter Beijing as soon as possible. You're the first one to stand on the tower to block the rebels' cannons! ”

Saying that, the Empress Dowager Cixi waved her hand and said:

"You go down and wait."

And the next one to summon is the king of Qingjun, these days, Cixi is still presiding over the government as in the past, when the curtain was lowered, as for the emperor, it has once again become an ornament, and even like now, the emperor is just standing on the side, not even having the time to speak.

Compared with seeing Ronglu, this time seeing Yixuan, the Empress Dowager Cixi was not as calm as before, and without waiting for Yixuan to kowtow, she patted the imperial case and asked sharply:

"Do you know what the crime of deception is?"

Yixuan was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly met and replied:

"The minions ate the leopard's gall, and they didn't dare to deceive Lafayette!"

"You don't dare! Don't you think you can do errands? After King Gong's comeback this time, the mourning family still let you preside over the Prime Minister's Yamen, let me ask you, this Prime Minister's Yamen is doing diplomacy, what is the attitude of various countries now? What do you do? ”

Hearing this, Yi Xuan was like a scorching thunder coming down, shaking Venus in front of him, his head buzzed, and he couldn't say anything!

"In the past few days, have you been thinking that if this capital is really unstable in the future, you will flee to Dongjiaomin Lane!"

"Slave, slave ......"

This will make Yixuan even frightened speechless, the Queen Mother, how does the Queen Mother know what she thinks? He really thought about it, and even quietly sent someone to buy a house in Tianjin's concession, even if he Tang Haoran didn't necessarily dare to provoke foreigners!

"Huh?"

Looking at Yixuan, Cixi sneered and said:

"You don't want to think about it, even if you run to Dongjiaomin Lane, you are safe? You are a banner man, if he Tang Haoran takes over the world, how can he let you go? ”

"Slaves will never dare to deceive Lafayette!"

Yixuan hurriedly kowtowed and replied:

"Those foreigners keep saying that they are outside the neutral, and there is no way for the minions and minions!"

"Foreigners say that they are neutral, can't you go to them and continue to talk? Let you run the errand of the Prime Minister's Yamen, you don't go to deal with foreigners, just to find out the news here, you tell me, what news have you stolen? ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi couldn't help but be excited:

"When King Gong came out, you cried in front of the mourning family to keep the errand of the prime minister's yamen, you are not a person who does not know the importance of it, and the mourning family left you, but you see, you are like this now, you are responsible for the country's kindness, and it also teaches people to be chilled. How many days have you been on an errand? This place is unreliable, and foreigners are unreliable, if you don't think of a way, it's not that no one can be relied on, you people, there is one who can make the mourning family worry-free. ”

After scolding fiercely, Cixi looked at Yixuan, who couldn't stop kowtowing, and continued to ask.

"That's it, that's it, I see this errand of the Prime Minister's Yamen, don't do it, let you take this errand, I don't think it's useful, let's let the sixth one take care of it first, now, this Qing Kingdom, that is, the sixth master, can still do some things, okay, you go down."

Yi Liang has to kneel down. When he withdrew, he found that Li Lianying was in the corridor, and he knew that he was scolded so unlucky that he was scolded, and he fell into the eyes of this eunuch. I couldn't help but have a fever on my face, and said curtly.

"It's lightning fast."

"Lord Wang,"

Li Lianying didn't answer his words, and said to herself:

"Please hurry back home! The Queen Mother is not in a good mood today! Let's talk about it in a few days. ”

Then he suppressed his voice slightly and whispered to Yixuan.

"Prince Gong is in Dongjiaomin Lane......"

Li Lianying's words shocked Yixuan's heart! No wonder the Queen Mother was so angry and made it for a long time. It was King Gong who directly inserted his hand into himself! Think of it this way. I know what the Queen Mother is worried about. didn't even care to say much, and hurriedly left the palace to return home, and on the way back, Yixuan couldn't help but think, now at this time, King Gong went to find those foreigners, could it be possible to persuade foreigners to send troops?

Lobbying foreigners to send troops?

If he could, Yixun would definitely do so, but he had been the king of parliament for twenty-four years since the Xianfeng period, and he didn't know the foreigners. The reputation of the "Devil Six" is not in vain, and the reason why those foreigners choose "outside neutrality" is because for them, this is the most advantageous choice, so naturally they don't want to meddle in them, not to mention, these foreigners' impression of North Korea is even better than that of the Qing Dynasty.

"Lord Wang, now for the Qing Kingdom, the most advantageous choice is to negotiate peace!"

The words of the American minister Xibei made Yixun's brows furrow, and he had met with the British and German ministers in the past few days. In addition, Minister Xibei all expressed the hope that they would negotiate peace, in their opinion. The Great Qing Kingdom has no capital to fight at all.

Among the many ministers who visited, only the Russian minister expressed his support for the Qing Dynasty, and the Russian minister also faintly revealed his interest in building a railway in Jilin, Heilongjiang, but they also said that now Russia is unable to help the imperial court - the occupation of Japan is at a critical time, Russia naturally will not risk the overall situation of the invasion of Japan to send troops to attack the northeast, but even so, they promised to support the imperial court diplomatically, of course, the imperial court also has to pay a certain price - agree to Russia in Heilongjiang, Jilin built a branch line of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Naturally, Yixun, who had dealt with the Russians for decades, would not have been deceived by the Russians who had not done anything as he had done 32 years ago, and now the American minister, who had always been hostile to Tang Haoran, became his last choice.

"Lord Wang, now Lord Li's elite troops are trapped in Yuguan and Tianjin, although the Beiyang Fleet has sailed to Liugong Island and begun to implement the blockade at sea, but Lord Wang, this does not change the reality that the Korean army is about to attack the capital! Lord, if the Korean army conquers the capital, where will the queen mother and the emperor of your country take refuge? ”

Xibei's rhetorical question made Yixun's heart gasp, isn't this exactly what he is worried about? Once they escape from the capital, without the Beijing camp as a guarantee, no matter where the queen mother and the emperor flee to, they are just pledges in the hands of Hanchen to "coerce the princes of the Son of Heaven". If you don't understand this truth, I'm afraid that the queen mother and the emperor would have hunted in the west or south long ago......

From the very beginning, the Korean Unified Prison Office has won the support of Britain and even Germany, compared to the Qing court in the eyes of Britain and Germany and even the United States, Tang Haoran is undoubtedly easier to deal with, not only that, in Europe and the United States such as the "New York Times", "Times" and other big newspapers, you can see the news provided by the North Korean Unified Prison Office to foreign newspapers everywhere, and they use public opinion and public relations to make many European and American media, including those media who were originally sympathetic to China, turn to the United Prison Office, This is even the reason why the United States remains neutral - in the eyes of many Americans, the Unification Administration is "rebelling against tyranny", their uprising is to protect the people's "freedom of speech", and even more widely supported in the United States than in Europe.

"Moreover, this is the attitude of the legation, if the imperial court represented by the prince agrees to negotiate peace, it can be handed over to Lord Li, the minister of Beiyang, to be responsible for this matter!"

In Yixin's hesitation, Xibei once again threw out a consensus that the legation had just reached.

"Mr. Minister!"

Yixun, who knew that he was powerless to change the decision of the legation, gritted his teeth, looked at Xibei and asked rhetorically:

"If the imperial court agrees to negotiate peace, will the countries guarantee that Tang Haoran will withdraw his troops back to Korea?"

The dazzling lightning reflected the heavens and the earth, the thunder rolled in the dark clouds, the lightning and thunder seemed to be like the death knell of the Qing Dynasty, echoing in the sky above the forty-nine cities, and when the lightning reflected the Forbidden City, in the hall of Ningshou Palace, the atmosphere was extremely depressed, and the air even collapsed to the point that it could burn at any time.

Yi Xun knelt on the ground, his face was full of tears, and it was not the Queen Mother who knelt at this time. It's not the little emperor. It's the Qing Dynasty. It is the ancestors of the Great Qing Kingdom, and compared to Yixun's old tears, the pale Cixi is on the throne, staring at the outside of the hall with her eyes dead and staring at the rain outside the hall.

"This ...... It's our loyal minister of the Qing Kingdom! ”

With a long sigh, Cixi's eyes burst out with anger that seemed to kill someone, no wonder he was so angry, and he had high hopes from the imperial court. Zhang Zhidong, who was used to contain Li Hongzhang, has now completely turned his face, and he sent a telegram together with the governor of Sichuan and the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, asking the imperial court to eliminate traitors in order to calm the world, not to mention that today is in turmoil, so that the Russians peep into the three northeastern provinces, for the sake of the country, the northeast should establish a province, and then straightforwardly promote Tang Haoran as the governor of the three northeastern provinces.

What a group of loyal ministers!

This is their loyalty to the Great Qing Kingdom! He Li Hongzhang guarded the elite soldiers, and he Zhang Zhidong and others waited. It is also for the sake of selfish interests, and is willing to authorize the rebellion. This Great Qing Kingdom is actually controlled by this group of chaotic ministers and thieves, how can she not make Cixi angry, but even if she is very angry, she can only sigh in this palace.

"Li Hongzhang has given a word over there!"

Suppressing the anger in her heart, Cixi looked at Yixun who was kneeling on the ground, and said in the calmest tone possible.

"Zhang Zhidong These people are also for state affairs, since we are inferior to others now, let's negotiate peace, we can negotiate peace with foreigners back then, and now we can negotiate peace with him Tang Haoran!"

When she said this, although the voice was calm, the words burst out almost word by word, and in the end, Cixi stared at Yi Xun and said directly.

"This ancestor's confession now seems to be wrong, Sixth Master, our mistake back then was not that we used them, but that we used them, and we didn't lose them, and the Holy Ancestor would ...... Okay, it's useless to say it's useless, but it's a joke, but it's okay, so that the world can take a look at it, and see what the loyal ministers of our Great Qing Kingdom look like! ”

These words seem to be cheering for themselves, but no matter how you listen to them, they all seem to be angry, but Cixi's words still entered Yixun's heart, but isn't it, there was nothing wrong with using Hanchen to calm the chaos back then, just like when Emperor Shizu used Wu Sangui to get the Central Plains, and the Holy Ancestor used the green camp to level Wu Sangui. Now the court has misused Hanchen, but it has not uprooted them, but blindly carooned, if it is like the Holy Ancestor to build new soldiers, and use the hands of recruits to suppress Zeng Li and others, how can there be today?

"Sixth master, in the future, I'm afraid that the days will be more and more difficult day by day!"

got up, Cixi no longer cared about the curtain, but walked out of the curtain, and didn't look at Yixun who was kneeling on the ground, and walked straight to the palace door, the rain was blown by the wind and sometimes fell on her body, Li Lianying, who was standing next to her, just hung her head, and didn't even dare to come out, at this time the queen mother was drenched in the rain, so she had to be drenched, if the queen mother was not happy, the big guy didn't want to be happy!

Now Cixi has seen the way of the world clearly, and after recognizing the faces of the Xinjiang officials, she naturally thinks of the future.

"But no matter what, our Great Qing Kingdom has finally been saved for the time being!"

The Queen Mother's words only made Yi Xun tremble, did the Queen Mother really want to accept Zhang Zhidong's coercion and hand over the land of the ancestors to Tang Haoran, the traitor?

"Queen Mother, the land of the ancestors, how can it be handed over to outsiders, it's really not good, let's go back, go back to ......"

Without waiting for Yixun to finish speaking, Cixi glared at Yixun and stared at Yixun in annoyance.

"Sixth Master, you are shrewd, why are you confused at this time, even if we are willing to get out of the customs now, how can he Tang Haoran let us out of the customs? How could the others allow us to return to Manchuria? ”

After the questioning, Cixi, whose face was tense, continued.

"In this world, if you really let these Han people take it away, there will really be no place for us to live, Sixth Master, so, in the future, it is not the lives of our mothers and daughters that are tied to you, but the lives of more than a million banner people are also tied to you!"

At this point, Cixi walked over and pulled Yixun up herself, and then looked at him and said.

"Today's situation, no wonder those people are disloyal, to blame, only blame our flag people for not fighting for it, but in the future, if we don't fight for it, the sixth master, if our flag people don't fight anymore, I'm afraid that the world is so big, not only will there be a place for us, I'm afraid that in the end, our flag people will only die without a place to be buried!"

"Queen Mother!"

The red-eyed Yi Xun didn't know this truth, his waist was bowed, but his face was full of bitterness, was he still in a hurry?

"As I said before, since those people in the local area are ambitious, it is not necessarily a bad thing to have one more Tang Haoran, with him staring at Manchuria, he Li Hongzhang will not dare to act rashly, and Zhang Zhidong They are also staring at each other, Sixth Master, you have read more books, you know more than me, a woman, how to use this situation, you have to be good at that time, this soldier must be trained, if you can't practice a soldier, we flag people......"

"Queen Mother, if you train the army, you need silver, but now, this silver is stuck in the locality, if the local government is no longer paid, how can this new army be trained?"

In the past few days, Rong Lu has asked him for silver, and he knows that the future will be more difficult, and when he thinks of silver, he is a big head, but if there is no silver, how can the Eight Banners New Army practice? If you can't train a new army, how can you protect the world of the Qing Dynasty?

"Hmph, Sixth Master, don't worry about the silver, whether it's Li Hongzhang or Zhang Zhidong, they all have to maintain the dignity of the court, this silver, you try to ask them for it, I don't believe it, they dare to cut off this salary,"

With a cold snort, Cixi glanced out of the hall, and the anger on her pale face disappeared.

"Sixth Master, the world of the Great Qing Kingdom can't be broken in the hands of you and me, we have to keep the world!"

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