In March, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and there is no trace of ice and snow on the prairie. The snow melts, causing rivers in the grasslands to surge. However, it also made the remnants of the Manchu Qing in the city of naturalization completely free of natural obstacles that could stop the advance of the Qin army. The breath of despair and fear enveloped the city with the warm spring breeze!

The Qin army has plenty of ammunition at the moment. From the New Year Festival to the present, although the army has not been dispatched for three months, the transport troops have not stopped for a moment. Military rations, guns and ammunition, grenades, and artillery shells were piled up in the arsenals of Shuoping and Liangcheng.

As long as the Qin army is ready, they may advance at any time. There has never been a better time in the Manchu dynasty than to realize that their limit is approaching.

Cixi woke up from nightmares again and again.

Whether it is Shuoping or Liangcheng, the distance from Suiyuan is a direct point of soldiers, and in the middle, except for the Helinger Hall, there is not even a decent city. Even the Qin army in Liangcheng was able to avoid Helinger Hall City and kill directly to naturalization.

How could Cixi not have nightmares? How could the Manchus not be afraid? Already in February, there were people fleeing naturalization. After the two months and the Qing Dynasty, how many princes and important ministers have been thin like dry wood? The six kings, the whole person is going to be bad!

Dorona's body is no longer good. Thousands of people pointed out, and died without a problem. The crowd is full of gold, and the bones are destroyed. Even Cixi was very, very impatient with Duolonga. The status of Dorona in the army has also dropped much, much. But after all, the New Army of the Eight Banners was trained by Duolonga, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty cut Duolonga into a white body in the true sense, but did not give him death.

Naturalization City is really going to fight, and Dorona still has to be activated. Even if it's to be a counselor. It's also useful.

But Cixi did not want to fight. She didn't think that if she fought again, the Manchus would still be spared. It's time for now. Her first thing to do is how to save the lives of herself and others.

The continuation of the Manchu dynasty has been unconsciously left behind 'life'.

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But for Emperor Guangxu, no matter what the sudden change in the situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was. His own life doesn't seem to have changed much. The living route is still two points and one line dormitory - study. It's just that the dormitory has changed places.

"The study of the Buddha is also the main one of the heart, and the vast ears of the heart. A certain press: must be like "University" Mingde, Xinmin, do everything to the extreme, Fang is extremely vast, Shi Shi seems to be insufficient to say this ...... "In the study, Guangxu is reading the "Testament of the Duke of Wawenduan".

Wawen Duangong is Wa Ren.

The cultivation of the emperor does not rely on talent to raise people, the Four Books and Five Classics are just stepping stones, history books, and anthologies that expound personal ideas. And so on are all things that need to be dabbled in.

In today's Manchu academics, Cheng Zhu Lixue undoubtedly occupies a dominant position. As a generation of science masters recognized by the whole country, his writings and thoughts were naturally a compulsory course for the Manchu Qing Dynasty to train little emperors.

And the Guangxu Emperor is very smart. Overall, his life is 'high scores and low ability', but he can get high scores, which also proves that he is very good at learning.

Fu Lishan is a native of Manchuria's Zhenghongqi, and is now a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. For the smart and studious Guangxu Emperor, he loved it from the bottom of his heart. Before, when the situation in the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not completely destroyed, they were all the same as Weng Tongyi. With the idea of teaching a generation of Mingjun. As the emperor of Tongzhi and Guangxu, Weng Tongyi's evaluation of Emperor Guangxu is much better than that of Emperor Tongzhi.

But now, Fu Lishan looked at Emperor Guangxu and only felt that his heart was like a knife. A ten-year-old child of impaired mind. What a tragedy it is to fall into the abyss of the king of the fallen country all of a sudden.

However, Guangxu himself doesn't seem to have much emotion. I saw that after a pause, he suddenly spoke: "Master Fu." If only I had been a well-educated Confucian like you. ”

"Your Majesty, you are the Ninety-Five, destined to rule the heavens and the earth. How can such a joke be made. Fu Lishan hurriedly shook his head.

"What a ninety-five. I can't go to court. It can't decide state affairs, and it's like honoring mud bodhisattvas there. It's better to be like a rich master who can travel to the sea of learning, which is interesting. Guangxu sighed as if yearningly. Moreover, the Qing Dynasty was in danger, and it was in danger of collapse in the blink of an eye. I don't want to save my life......"

"Your Majesty, the Qing Dynasty will not die. You are still young, and when you grow up, you will turn the tide......" Fu Lishan said anxiously. But no matter how stupid Guangxu is, he will not take this kind of high-sounding perfunctory to heart. "Although I don't know what the situation is outside, even if the emperor doesn't say it, I know that the Qing Dynasty is almost over. I may soon be exiled to the grasslands, and I will become a complete ruler of the lost country compared to Emperor Yuan Shun. What if you grow up? I still can't get anything back. ”

Speaking of this, Emperor Guangxu's face showed a frustrated and slightly mocking expression. This expression made Fu Lishan in the study sigh, and even made Cixi, Ci'an and the Seven Kings who were listening outside the door feel like knives. Originally, I planned to take a look at the three people of Emperor Guangxu, but I didn't expect to hear such words from the little emperor outside the door. For a long time, whether it is Cixi, Ci'an, or Yixun, they have tried their best to maintain their reserve and self-confidence in front of Emperor Guangxu. That is, to maintain the original shelf. No matter what their considerations were, they didn't want the worse and worse shape outside to have a negative impact on the little emperor's mind. However, after hearing Guangxu's words just now, Cixi, who has always been strong, couldn't help but quietly wipe the corners of her tearful eyes with a silk handkerchief.

"Sister, Seventh Prince, I'm a little unwell, so I'll go back first."

Cixi didn't know what mood to face Guangxu, and she didn't know how to speak next. This kind of affection is very abnormal for Cixi, a strong woman. But that's the way it is at the moment.

Not only Cixi, but also Ci'an and the Seven Kings didn't know how to face Guangxu and this child who was just ten years old.

Cixi walked out of the courtyard quickly, but heard a eunuch hurriedly come and say, "Empress Dowager, Lord Mutu Shanmu asks to see you." ”

Cixi's heart thumped. Mutushan asks to see? Could it be that the Qin army really came over? Cixi was going to tremble. But she still had a calm and calm expression on her face. Immediately asked the eunuch to bring Mu Tushan, and after a while, Mu Tushan, who looked anxious, stepped forward with an arrow and reported in a low voice: "Empress Dowager Qiqi, the front is reported, Liangcheng and Shuoping have moved the Qin army, and the five thousand defenders I garrisoned and Lingle are afraid of the enemy, flee from the wind, and disperse without a fight. ”

"What?! Mu Tushan, you say it again, the mourning family didn't hear it clearly just now. Cixi's calm smile froze there for a moment, and she couldn't believe her ears, and she asked again and again. However, Mutushan's answer again was still so cruel. "Queen Mother, this matter is true. The five thousand and eight banners of Heringel scattered in all directions, and it was reported that less than a third had been reverted. ”

Cixi, who was shocked and frightened in her heart, only felt that the world was spinning in front of her, and she almost fainted on the spot.

Without Helinger's blockade, the Qin army could directly kill under the Naturalization City. Moreover, after the loss of the 5,000 and 8 banners of Helinger, there were less than 10,000 people in the naturalized city. The entire city of Naturalization fell into a deep state of despair.

Soon the news spread throughout the Naturalization City. Not only the princes and nobles, but also the small people of the Eight Banners at the bottom also know about it. After all, the people who are still following the naturalization are the hardcore of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the emperor still has three poor relatives, and the relationship between them is closer than a fishing net. News like Helinger can't be concealed at all!

Hundreds of people gathered in one place, Cixi and Ci'an sat at the top, and there was no little emperor Guangxu in the middle.

The six kings and the seventh princes who were sick, as well as the five kings and other clan princes, all showed up. But everyone's face was pale and bloodless.

"What should I do?"

No one could answer.

Desperately resisting, no one wants to die. surrendered, and no one was willing to be the first to speak, to be the unscrupulous descendant of that ancestor.

However, Cixi had anticipated this situation for a long time, and naturally had her own response. She invited Balfour, a reporter from the naturalized "Zilinxi Newspaper" who had arrived only the day before, to come here.

Cixi didn't have much of a feeling for Balfour, a little reporter, and didn't care at all. But after hearing the news of Qin Jun's movement and Ringle, she felt that Balfour should have another identity.

Balfour, an Englishman, went to Shanghai in the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870) to sell silk tea, and later engaged in journalism. Since the twelfth year of Tongzhi (1873), he has successively edited the English "Evening News", "Jinyuan Daily" and "Huayang Tongwen", and in the thirteenth year of Tongzhi (1874), he published a collection of newspapers and periodicals "Far East Wandering", and is now the top reporter of "Zilin West Daily".

Sure enough, in the face of Cixi's inquiry, Balfour did not hesitate to admit his other identity.

"Then you can talk about Liu Xian's conditions. The mourning family knew that the current Qing Dynasty did not have the qualifications to put forward conditions. But I am at least qualified to listen to the conditions. ”

"Refreshing! The Queen Mother is really a heroine among women. Balfour spoke quite fluent Beijing Mandarin, and when he saw him, he took out a letter from his black suit and handed it to Cixi, saying, "Dear Empress Dowager, please read this letter first." ”

"This is Liu Xian's handwriting?"

"It is the handwriting of His Majesty, the emperor of the Qin Empire."

"Liu Xian wants us to go out of the city and surrender, can we really guarantee that we will not be liquidated afterwards?" Cixi opened her mouth again and again, but she couldn't call out the four words Emperor Daqin to Liu Xian.

"So please rest assured. In black and white, the credibility of His Majesty the Emperor of the Qin Empire is still worthy of a new visit. ”

Although the word 'surrender' was harsh, Cixi and everyone in the Manchu Qing present at this moment knew that they really had no conditions or positions to negotiate with the Qin army.

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The March spring breeze blows on the face. A procession stretching for four or five miles was marching across the grassland.

The scout rode and ran in front of the Zhou army. "Report to the military seat, ten miles ahead is the Xilimbu River. No traces of enemy troops were found in the vicinity, and no Mongolian herders were seen. ”

"Then camp there tonight." (To be continued......)