Outside the noon gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing, countless scholars also gathered, and then they began to chant slogans one after another, led by the organizers. And the slogan they chanted was to abolish the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan, and then fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army again, and finally regain the lost benefits. And these scholars are obviously unwilling to be lonely, and then all slogans are shouted. What is to revive the emperor's power, and even ask the Empress Dowager Cixi to get out. And many people are also taking advantage of this trend to reap their own interests.

"Please ask the emperor to abolish the contract with the Japanese Invaders, and then prepare for a decisive battle with the Japanese Invaders!" "Please behead the emperor and the faction to show his determination to fight to the death with the Japanese invaders!" "Please ask the emperor to severely punish Li Hongzhang and behead Li Hongzhang to show the public, so as to show that he is listening." "Kill Li Hongzhang, kill the national thief!" ……

All kinds of slogans were shouted, and the Empress Dowager Cixi was immediately furious.

"Smack!" The Empress Dowager Cixi smashed a cultural relic porcelain, and then shouted; "Bastards, these bastards, scholars have misled the country! What do these scholars know? What kind of beheading of the Lord and the faction, what kind of bastard words are this! They are all pillars of the country, how can they kill and injure at will? ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi couldn't help but be angry, because the Lord and Pai Ke were both the descendants of him, the Empress Dowager, and they were the backbone of him, the Empress Dowager, how could they be killed casually? And please kill Li Hongzhang, this is even more nonsense. Let's not mention that although Li Hongzhang was removed from his post, he is also a protégé and a former official all over the world, where is he so easy to provoke! As for Li Hongzhang, countless people in the world know that he is carrying the black pot for the Empress Dowager Cixi, if Li Hongzhang dies like this. Where is the face of the Empress Dowager Cixi? People carried the black pot for you, so that's it, can you still let the family die?

And the Empress Dowager Cixi's anger was different. In the Taihe Hall of the former palace, Emperor Guangxu rarely took the initiative with a smile and started an early dynasty.

"Your Majesty, the ministers and the emperor are playing together, Li Hongzhang is a cowardly traitor, and he actually ceded the great rivers and mountains of my Qing Dynasty to the Japanese Kou, which is really a crime that deserves death. Please give an order from the Emperor. Behead Li Hongzhang to show the public to thank the people! Zhirui, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, said.

Zhirui, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, is the cousin of the concubine of the Guangxu Emperor. It's the people of the Imperial Party. Now Wang Guorui was able to defeat the Japanese army this time, which also made the imperial party led by Guangxu see the hope of criticizing the Empress Dowager Cixi. The latter party supported the Lord-Peace faction at the time, and then signed a traitorous treaty. But now that everyone has seen that the Japanese army is so "vulnerable", how can this not make them feel that the opportunity has come! Now, all the facts have proved that the original peace negotiation was wrong. The Japanese army is a group of parallel goods. But the Empress Dowager Cixi actually admitted it, isn't this an excuse for Guangxu to criticize Cixi's post-party?

However, Zhang Zhiwan, a member of the cabinet of the Minister of Military Aircraft, said: "Hmph, the strength of the Japanese army was obvious to everyone at the beginning, and our army was continuously defeated and retreated, and it was simply impossible to hold out for a moment and a half. The strength of the Japanese army was something that our Qing army could not resist, so it was only right to negotiate peace at the beginning. Therefore, the emperor's words put the responsibility on Lord Li Hongzhang, which is really biased! ”

"That Taiwan's Wang Guorui. Lead troops to annihilate most of the Japanese army, so what? Zhirui asked.

Then the party was silent for a while. Because this is too difficult to explain, Wang Guorui actually relied on Taiwan's weak brigade to achieve such results, which is obviously incomprehensible to them. No matter how you look at this matter, it is strange, and Wang Guorui's battle report is not clear, so now everyone is speculating about the reason. However, many people have begun to make up a lot of things according to their own ideas and wronged their own brains, so they have relied on these things made up by their own brains to attack their political enemies.

Wang Mingluan, a waiter of the Imperial Party's Ministry of Labor, took the initiative to say: "Wang Guorui, a small magistrate in Taiwan, was able to lead some unpopular troops to defeat the Japanese army's Imperial Forest Army in the absence of ordnance personnel, isn't this enough to show the weakness of the Japanese army?" If a prefect can do this, shouldn't we, the princes of the imperial court, be able to defeat the Japanese army more easily? And I also learned from the Ministry of Officials that Wang Guorui, the governor of Hsinchu County, Taiwan, is a donor class who spends money to buy officials, not a professional class. A county from a donation class can defeat the Japanese army and annihilate most of the enemies, so shouldn't we, the two Jinshi who read poetry and books and receive the teachings of the saints, be more powerful? ”

"Idiot!" Countless post-party members are secretly scolding in their hearts.

The post-party officials treated Wang Mingluan's words like a ball of stinking shit. Wang Mingluan said that Wang Guorui was a magistrate, and he could defeat the Japanese army, so those high-ranking officials should be even more so. And they also think that Wang Guorui is from a donation class, so his ability is poor. He actually wanted to take advantage of Wang Guorui's low official position and his non-professional background to indirectly prove the strength of the Japanese army, which is simply nonsense. But everyone can't refute anything, because in the eyes of ancient people, officials born in the imperial examination are the highest and the right way. And those who donate to the class are never on the right path, and everyone can't say that the ability to donate to buy officials is better than that of the professional class, otherwise they will really slap themselves in the face.

"Then so many generals before my Qing Dynasty suffered a big loss under the Japanese Kou, so what is the explanation?" Someone asked.

Wang Mingluan immediately said: "That's because those officials are incompetent, so they will be defeated again and again. If you only need to change some capable people, you will definitely be able to defeat the Japanese army. It is precisely because of those faint officials that I have a huge army, so that I will be defeated by the Japanese invaders. You see, now that Taiwan is no longer constrained by faint officials, that small county from a donation class can defeat the Japanese Imperial Forest Army. The Japanese army's Imperial Forest Army is nothing more than this, so will our millions of male soldiers in the Qing Dynasty still lose to the Japanese Invaders? Therefore, every qiē is the constraint of this group of faint officials. Ask the emperor to dismiss the faint officials, and then promote young and promising cadres to take office. ”

At this time, the Hou Party also smelled the smell, and this time the Imperial Party wanted to use Wang Guorui's victory as an excuse to purge the Hou Party's officials in the imperial court, so as to achieve the effect of cutting off the wings of the Empress Dowager Cixi. But of course, the Hou Party is not simple, they are all a group of old fritters, how can they make Emperor Guangxu succeed?

Soon, various characters with various purposes in the capital also began to move, wanting to achieve their goals.

"We must launch a second petition to ask the imperial court to annul the contract with the Japanese Invaders, and then fight against the Japanese Invaders again." Kang Youwei said.

Soon, the scholars wrote to the court again, and they proposed several suggestions.

"Reward Wang Guorui, the hero of reuse!"

"Abolish the contract with the Wakos!"

"Reuse young and promising officials, and clean up mediocre and incompetent officials!"

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A large number of scholars also put forward a lot of their own ideas, and these ideas are all examples of "very stupid and naïve". They don't even think about whether it will work or not, and they just talk to themselves here, they don't have any experience in governing at all, but they seem to be able to do better than those officials.

"Your Majesty, the people's hearts are available! So many scholars can support the emperor so much, so why worry that the emperor can't regain power! Weng Tongshu said.

And Guangxu was very happy to see so many scholars supporting him, because he felt as if he was about to regain the imperial power, and Guangxu had forgotten an old saying - Xiucai rebelled for three years.

"Then this time, thanks to Wang Guorui, the county magistrate of Hsinchu, otherwise we really wouldn't have been able to get this opportunity! Look, how is this Wang Guorui? We just don't have the kind of people who can fight and know how to fight. Guangxu asked.

Guangxu's meaning is very obvious, that is, he wants to win over Wang Guorui, because Wang Guorui defeated the Japanese army, so no matter what, he can be regarded as a person who can fight. The reason why Guangxu was not able to grasp the real power was that he did not have military power, and the military power was not in his hands. If he can pull Wang Guorui, a person who can fight, or even the soldiers under Wang Guorui, it can be said that this will be a great help to him.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's okay. If Wang Guorui is willing to support the emperor, and can have a force to support the emperor, then the emperor will definitely be much better. Even if it is far away in the sky, it is like a sword hanging over their heads, although the threat is not big, but it is not small. Weng Tongshu said.

"Then I will give him a high-ranking official and canonize him as the governor of Taiwan! Tang Jingsong was really useless, he, the governor of Taiwan, actually ran away when he saw the Japanese army, and lost a huge Taiwan to the Japanese invaders. Guangxu said.

But Weng Tongshu also said: "Your Majesty, now that we have signed a cession agreement with the Japanese Kou, and they have all been handed over, Taiwan is no longer our territory!" ”

Weng Tongshu's meaning is obvious: Taiwan is no longer the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty de jure sense, so naturally it has no right to appoint officials. And this made Guangxu annoyed for a while, and he didn't know how the Manpai Kingdom Rui.

"How about knighthood?" Guangxu asked.

"No, I can't determine which country Wang Guorui is from now!" Weng Tongshu said.

Taiwan has been ceded de jure terms, so Wang Guorui's current identity is embarrassing, is he Japanese? Or the Chinese? This is inconclusive, and nationality cannot be determined from the legal theory, so it is naturally not good to be knighted.

"The minister has a Jianyì, then Wang Guorui's family is in the mainland, he is from Fujian, then we can consider canonizing his mother as Mrs. Xuan!" Weng Tongshu said.

"Wonderful, wonderful! This is not far or close, and the weight is just right! Guangxu replied. (To be continued......)