Chapter 30: The Emperor's Dream
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The capital is divided into the inner city and the outer city, the so-called inner city is full of cities, and the children of the Eight Banners live in, although the ban was slightly opened in the early years, and the accurate Han shops lived in, but the inner city is always the inner city, that is, the ban has been opened in recent years, and ordinary Han people are still not allowed to live, after all, the Eight Banners are the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, and the "Manchu and Han Dynasty Defense" is indispensable, and the emperor in the Forbidden City has to rely on the children of the Eight Banners to live in peace.
This Forbidden City is the imperial city of the Qing Dynasty, and the Forbidden City is in the daytime, it is the jade character of Qionglou, and the glass is light; But as soon as the sun sets and the twilight is boundless, layers of eerie and even terrifying atmospheres will attack people. At that time, the people who entered the palace to do errands were gone, and the mournful cries of the eunuchs came from the silent Qianqing Palace: "Take the latch, put down money and food, and the light is small-heart-".
With the aftermath of a person, the echoes of the eunuchs on duty sounded one after another in all corners. This kind of call makes the entire Forbidden City spread a burst of ghostly aura with the sound waves, which is creepy, and the timid will even feel like they were born in the "Power Mansion".
Even as the nominal "master" of the Forbidden City, Guangxu was only four years old when he first entered the palace, and when he left the palace and came to this gloomy Forbidden City, there was no joy at all, and there was just a creepy feeling, but for him, this feeling was day and night.
In the daytime, when he was only four years old, he always saw the stern-looking aunt, no, "Kiss Daddy", she asked him to call him "Kiss Daddy", and that unsmiling expression always made him creepy; At night, he saw the shadows of the majestic palace, the remnants of the corpses that served him, the eunuchs who were neither male nor female, and the ghosts everywhere, which made him creepy. The only thing he relied on in fear was his nurse, but the nurse was not always around, and most of the time, he was still alone. It wasn't until he was six years old that Master Weng Tonggong came to teach him to read. It was really at this time, in the daytime, that he no longer felt so terrifying, in Weng Tongxiao's place, he found some family feelings, this kind of famous teachers and students are like family feelings, so that the teacher-student relationship between them is far deeper than outsiders imagine,
Since he was a teenager, Master Weng planned to let him be in power, and finally survived until he was nineteen years old, and the Queen Mother formally returned to him, but he, the emperor, was empty, and the real power was still in the hands of the Queen Mother. Although the Queen Mother did not hang the curtain in the Taihe Palace, she still stretched out a sky net in the Ningshou Palace in the Forbidden City, covering Beijing City and the entire Qing Dynasty.
After the big wedding last year and the return of the Queen Mother, the state affairs that Guangxu saw were a mess. This Great Qing Kingdom has been under the hands of the Queen Mother for thirty years. From 30 years ago, the queen mother grasped the power of the country, the Qing Dynasty has been weakening day by day, five years ago, with the French war, lost the millennium of the vassal state, and later Burma also lost, and even together with North Korea, the last vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, the last bit of face of the Qing Dynasty "Heavenly Empire", this will also run into trouble, the little Oriental people are there to compete with the Qing Dynasty, in the face of the Oriental people's step by step, this move up and down, do not dare to start the side affairs, have to give in bitterly.
With the deterioration of the national situation and the growth of age, Guangxu wants to be like Kangxi and Qianlong, to be a Ming monarch, a holy monarch, and then enjoy the holy world of all nations. But he knew that it was just a dream, and even now, for him, the biggest desire is probably to be a decent emperor.
In the past, "my father" hung the curtain and listened to the government, he was just an ornament, but now that he has grown up, he really wants to govern, but the curtain is still there, not only tangibly blocked there, and invisibly extended to the outside of Beijing, stretched to the great Qing Dynasty.
In Ningshou Palace, Guangxu has to go to the palace five or six times a month to ask the queen mother for instructions and peace. Although you are the emperor, he can't enter Ningshou Palace directly, he has to kneel outside the door, waiting for the meeting, and even have to give them red envelopes like ordinary ministers, so that he has to go in quickly, otherwise he will kneel outside the door for half an hour first.
What kind of emperor is this!
The successive emperors of the Great Qing Kingdom, have they been as cowardly as him.
The huge court, the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, except for the teacher Weng Tongyi, he has no man who can say intimate words. After he was returned to power, it was rumored that there was a distinction between the queen mother's "queen party" and the emperor's "imperial party", the former was nicknamed the "old mother class", and the latter was nicknamed the "children's class", but the real "imperial party" leader and the "children's class" class leader was a lonely person!
How can he have any party and team, everyone is the eyes and ears of the queen mother, even his queen is no exception, isn't the queen that Longyu? She is the niece of the Queen Mother! There are even no women around him who say intimate words, except for Concubine Zhen, who is the woman he loves. However, this beloved has become the queen mother's door to rectify him. The Queen Mother often showed her authority to him as the emperor, but the way to show it was to punish Concubine Zhen for kneeling and order Li Lianying and others to slap Concubine Zhen as a warning to him.
How many times, when Guangxu went to Jingren Palace and Concubine Zhen's room, and saw Concubine Zhen hiding her face and lowering her position, he knew in his heart that it had happened again today. And every time, he sat on the edge of Concubine Zhen's bed, patted her on the back, he couldn't say anything, distressed, pity, anger, guilt, helplessness...... All the mixed feelings came together and overwhelmed him.
How many times has he come back from Jingren Palace, where Concubine Zhen lived, with comfort, but also with nightmares. Nightmares are night and day, it is an obsessive mind, he lingers during the day and wakes up in his sleep at night. Nightmares always start with the eldest aunt, no, the queen mother, it is a majestic, cold, gloomy face, silently pressing towards him, forcing in, getting closer and bigger, so big that he doesn't even dare to cry, he stretches out his arms to the left and right, ten fingers grasping, as if to grab a little help, a little warmth, he seems to have grabbed a soft hand in his left hand, he feels that it is the hand of the nurse, the nurse.
But that hand was slipping, slipping. In the end, he could no longer hold on, and he lost his nursing mother; On the other hand, in a trance, the other hand was grabbing him, grabbing his right hand, which was a softer hand, and he felt that it was Zhenfei's, Zhenfei's hand. But his own right hand was so weak that he couldn't help it. In the end, Concubine Zhen's hand was slipping, slipping...... Suddenly, the Queen Mother in front of her retreated, turned around, and gradually moved away.
However, some noisy voices came from a distance, Guangxu rushed over curiously, and the terrible picture was displayed there: in the distance, the Queen Mother was clustered left and right, high up, sitting on the sedan chair, Concubine Zhen knelt on the ground, her clothes were torn, Li Lianying grabbed her hair, slapped her, and counted in the harsh tone of the eunuch while beating.
"One, two, three, four, five
Guangxu rushed up, he couldn't care about it, and shouted loudly.
"Stop! Stop it! ”
Annoyed, he grabbed Li Lianying's shoulder, and stretched out his hand to slap him. Although he was a slave, Li Lianying did not regard him as an emperor at all, and did not kneel down in fear and beg for mercy because of Guangxu's anger and slap, but directly broke free from Guangxu, bent down and pounced on the Queen Mother, knelt down, and cried loudly.
"Slaves for Lafayette! But if you get angry......"
Covering her face with one hand, Li Lianying cried and shouted as she showed his center.
"This is so bad that the minions can't do it, wow! The slave made the long-lived master angry, and he was already guilty and deserved to die."
Then there were five knocks in a row.
"Please be gracious to Lafayette! Cut off the life of the slave, so as to calm the anger of the Long Live Lord......"
Looking at the appearance of Li Lianying, a slave, although he seems to be begging for mercy, but the one who is begging is the queen mother, and what he is begging for is forgiveness, and he clearly wants the queen mother to show his head, and his anger suddenly burned in Guangxu's chest, is there still him as the emperor in the eyes of this slave? Can't he, the emperor, even teach his slaves a lesson?
Huo Ran, Cixi, who was sitting upright, stood up, her face was cold, and she looked at Guangxu coldly and said coldly.
"Your Majesty, this is a big man, and his courage has become a lot of practice! What's wrong with the master hitting the minion's mouth! Since the emperor is so angry, I think he will take me, a minion, down and cut off his head......"
Cixi's cold words seemed to cut Li Lianying, but when she stared at her emotionless eyes, Guangxu was suddenly frightened, and his legs were weak.
"Dear Daddy! Dear Daddy! ”
Guangxu, who was still faintly angry, knelt down as soon as his legs became weak.
"Erchen doesn't dare."
"Okay,"
Glancing at the emperor's cowardly look, Cixi said coldly.
"We can't afford to provoke and hide, look at this, my poor old woman has to hide in the Summer Palace, and I don't dare to come to the emperor's palace again......"
Cixi's cold words only made Guangxu's back break out in a cold sweat, which made him still have a trace of anger, but he kept kowtowing.
"The sons dare not dare, the sons dare not ......"
As soon as her eyes opened, Cixi looked coldly at Guangxu, who couldn't stop kowtowing, and said coldly.
"Don't think that if you become the emperor, you can ask for a wife and forget your mother. Someone can make you an emperor, someone can pull you down, what kind of emperor you are, you just see what kind of emperor you can do! ”
"Just watch it!" "Just watch it!"
…… The queen mother's majestic, cold, and gloomy face approached him again, but this time it was not silent, there was no nurse in his left hand, and there was no concubine Zhen in his right hand. He looked left and right, but the nurse disappeared and Concubine Zhen also fell......
He woke up and sat up, sweating profusely. The candlelight in the room was flickering, and there was only one candle, burning itself, and in the gloom, bringing a little pitiful light to the world.
It turned out to be just a dream!
Good thing it's just a dream! But although it was a dream, this time Guangxu couldn't sleep anymore, he stared into the distance and muttered to himself.
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