Chapter 179: The Dust Has Settled

Yang Wangye has been living in Beijing for half a month, and he has looted the city more than the original history of the Eight-Nation Alliance, especially in the palace, not to mention valuable things, even the palace maids are not left, looking at the entire world of a eunuch, I don't know how angry Guangxu will be when he comes back to see this scene.

In fact, in the past few days, Guangxu has been explicitly or implicitly hoping that he will quickly let Lafayette die of illness or burn to death in an accident, fall to death while walking, and hide and seek, in short, the queen mother must be buried before the emperor returns to the palace, and Li Hongzhang in the south, Zhang Zhidong's gang of old guys send telegrams to advise him every day, the queen mother is old, even if there are some mistakes, but after all, she is still a mother and son in name with the emperor, so don't kill her, otherwise it will make the world laugh.

I have to say that these old guys seem to have real feelings for Cixi, and Yang Feng is naturally very face-saving for their advice, during the time he occupied Beijing, not only did he not let Lafayette die of illness or accidental death, but even the treatment of the Queen Mother did not change much, so that the outside world couldn't help but exclaim that King Zhennan's style has changed recently. It was Guangxu and his subordinates in the Funing Palace who hated it so much that their teeth itched, especially after seeing the landing ships in Qinhuangdao Port transporting things to Fujian one after another, they were even more anxious to scratch their ears and cheeks, but unfortunately they couldn't go back to Beijing now, and the outside was full of loyal soldiers watching!

But fortunately, after the dust of this war settled, the governors of various places have expressed their allegiance to Guangxu, even the Iktang A of Fengtian is like this, which can be regarded as a little comfort to Guangxu, half a month later, he finally got the permission to return to Beijing, and hurriedly set off with a group of escort heroes, and at this time the king of Zhennan set off from Tianjin and returned directly to Fujian, and even the city defense of Beijing was handed over to the Qing army led by Zai Zhen, and then all the loyal and brave troops withdrew from Beijing and withdrew to Fujian in batches.

Of course, not all of them were withdrawn, and there was still a brigade left in Qinhuangdao, which was called the Jidong Training Center. In the future, the loyal and brave army will send a large number of troops to conduct winter combat training in the area north of the Luan River and south of Shanhaiguan every winter, which is also a condition that has long been negotiated with Guangxu. From now on, the Prime Minister will be solely responsible.

Guangxu didn't care about the small problem that he didn't meet him in Beijing, and he didn't want to see this villain who played with his own woman and robbed his property, and he didn't even care about the inexplicable disappearance of his queen.

Those cronies of the post-party were killed one by one from top to bottom, and for a time he killed the entire city of Beijing in a bloody and bloody manner. Xu Tong, Sun Yuwen, Zaixun, and even Zaiying, the father of Pu Wei, the son of the devil six. Prince Rui, who didn't have time to run, all went to the court together. Coupled with the relatives of these people, as well as those New Army generals who stubbornly resisted, the cronies of Rong Lu's subordinates, including Tie Liang, who had surrendered, were not spared. Within half a month of Guangxu's return to Beijing. Among the princes and ministers of Beijing City, there are more than a dozen of them who have been beheaded by the whole house, and there is no need to mention those who are beheaded individually. A total of more than 5,000 people were executed, as for the number of people who were dismissed from office, the iron hat king was left with his father's family, and he took refuge in the meritorious Qing Wang Yixuan reward plus hereditary replacement, although Guangxu was unwilling, but considering that the military power in the capital is actually in the hands of his son Zaizhen, he also had to win over this two-faced villain.

Originally, he didn't want to kill so many people, it was Zhirui and Kang Youwei and others who instigated him in the back, in their words, if he wanted to carry out the Restoration, then the old ministers of the DPRK and China would definitely oppose it, and he just took this opportunity to kill people and establish power, so that the resistance would be less in the future, so Guangxu finally started to kill, but what he didn't know was that this was the fulfillment of Yang Feng's wish.

"The emperor's killing karma is too heavy, and you won't send a telegram to persuade you." On the Nautilus outside Fuzhou, Liu Kunyi, who came to receive the two ships that had been refitted, Naniwa and Gao Qiansui, said worriedly that his two cruisers, like Matsushima, were replaced with Swedish impulse steam turbines, and armor was also added, and the speed could exceed 20 knots at the fastest, especially the speed of the wave and even the speed of Yoshino had reached the level of Yoshino.

Next, Yang Feng is also ready to carry out steam turbine modification of all the old warships of the original Beiyang Naval Division, including the captives of Kaiyuan and Zhuyuan, these warships he is not ready to return to the imperial court, as for the defense of Bohai Bay in the future, it is a big deal to hand over to him to be responsible, recently because he has made a fortune and made a fortune, so including Liu Kunyi, all the warship modification fees are all covered by him, but the condition is that there will be sea operations in the future, and the warships in the hands of these people will have to be formed into a joint fleet with him to fight, of course, this is all later.

"How did I know he could kill like this? I was just under house arrest at the beginning, which means that he should not be too ruthless after returning to Beijing, after all, let's be honest, it was normal for these people to vote for the queen mother in that situation at that time, if he stayed in Beijing, these people would definitely vote for him, who would have expected him to kill so violently, you let me persuade, how can I persuade? The people around the emperor are still wary of me, and I persuade them to kill them even harder. Yang Feng said with an innocent expression.

At this point, he can indeed say that he is innocent, he can basically say that he did not kill a member of the Hou Party in Beijing, although he has almost cleaned up the rat holes of other people, but this is a normal behavior, that is, he wants to condone the soldiers to do this in exchange for Liu Kun and his troops into Beijing, but he did not kill people, which can be said to be the maximum Cheng Dรน shows leniency, and besides, just robbing floating wealth, people's houses, land must not be robbed, even if all the gold and silver treasures of these people are looted, but there is still no problem in maintaining a rich life. Therefore, even if he robbed the princes and ministers, no one said that Yang Feng was not merciful enough at this point, but now Guangxu is doing this, but it is in stark contrast to him, not to mention Han ministers like Liu Kunyi, even those Manchu governors in various places, and they also feel that their emperor is even inferior to this fake foreign devil.

"You let me persuade you to let Xianggong come forward? As far as I know, you still have some relationships with Kang Youwei and others, right? Yang Feng asked Zhang Zhidong with a smile, this time not only him, but Li Hongzhang also came, by receiving the warship, by the way, to meet the king of Zhennan, there is a hookup, now that this guy has become a prince, it is always bad not to come to congratulate.

"It's just a little relationship, now these people are all upstarts, the emperor's favorite ministers, old and decayed, people don't look down on them." Zhang Zhidong said with a wry smile, he is telling the truth, now these upstarts are at the time of heroism, let alone him, it is Hubei Governor Tan Jixun who personally wrote a letter to his son to admonish, which made Tan Sitong dismiss it, and even accused this old guy of not sitting back and watching the emperor in danger and not sending a soldier to the king, and Tan Jixun, who had been honest all his life, was so angry that he ran to Zhang Zhidong to cry.

"It's not interesting to talk about these anymore, these people have been killed, we can't recover it here, and now the most important thing is the Queen Mother..."

"I just got the Beijing telegram, there was a fire in Changchun Palace last night, and the Queen Mother was unfortunately killed!" He said with a solemn expression.

Li Er's devil slapped directly on the table, and he could see that his face was about to turn green, and the death of his old Prince Gong had already made him a little uncomfortable, and now with the death of Cixi, it would be true or false to say that he was angry.

"These people are going crazy!" Zhang Zhidong muttered to himself.

Everyone is an old fox, what is going on with this fire Needless to say, Concubine Zhen was burned to death, and now it is nothing more than the emperor's revenge for his little liver, this is a real murder of the mother, in the eyes of these old men who have paid attention to filial piety all their lives, this crime has been linked to heinousness, even if the emperor only bears this crime, it is a lifetime and don't expect to turn over.

But in this matter, they have wronged Guangxu, Guangxu himself really hasn't made up his mind, it was Kang Youwei who found someone to do it, and now the palace is a mess, and it is too simple to find someone to do this work, he spent money to buy a few eunuchs, and set the Changchun Palace on fire in the middle of the night. As soon as Cixi saw the fire outside, she naturally understood that her end had come, so she simply drank the poisonous wine that had been prepared a long time ago, and then lay down peacefully and waited for death. The eunuchs and palace maids around Changchun Palace are not stupid, and they thought that the emperor really wanted to kill the queen mother, so they couldn't help but delay and cooperate when they put out the fire, and when the fire was extinguished, the corpse would have been burned black.

But this incident has caused an uproar in the country, those local governors are not fools, and there is more than one queen mother who was killed like this in history, although it is unlikely that the emperor will be publicly accused of killing his mother, but it is still possible for the emperor to be held responsible, for a time all kinds of public opinion continued, and even the angry Iketang A was vaguely pointed at Guangxu in the chapter, and the folk about the emperor in order to avenge Concubine Zhen, personally ordered the burning of the queen mother The statement began to spread rapidly, coupled with the previous large-scale killing, Anyway, Guangxu's reputation as a mother-killing tyrant is confirmed.

And at this time, the chief director behind the scenes has already begun to set his sights on the next target. (To be continued......)