Zhongcui Palace is located in the west of Jingyang Palace, the north of Chengqian Palace, Zhongcui is the same as Zhongcui, in ancient times it is the meaning of gathering essence and essence, here was originally the sleeping palace of Emperor Xianfeng when he was the prince, and later the Empress Dowager Ci'an entered the palace, and Ci'an has been living in Zhongcui Palace since entering the palace.

Zhong Cui Palace is the second courtyard, the main gate is southward, the name Zhong Cui Gate, the main hall of the front yard is the Zhong Cui Palace, the face is 5 rooms, the yellow glazed tile is the top of the mountain, the front corridor, the eaves ridge is placed with 5 beasts, the eaves are applied to the single warped single ang five feet bucket arch, painted Soviet style color painting. In the past, the palatial Zhongcui Palace was already full of Qing court guards on the third floor and the outer three floors.

Xingzhen's Luan drove all the way to Zhong Cui Palace, since the beginning of martial law in the capital, Zhong Cui Palace was guarded by Yi Xuan, who was also the minister of the guard, and no one could enter and leave Zhong Cui Palace without Xingzhen's hand.

Entering the Zhongcui Palace, the plaque of Qianlong's imperial inscription "Shushen and Gentle" was hung in the bright room, Ci'an was lying on the soft couch behind the screen, and no one reported, Xingzhen took people to the back of the screen.

Imperial Physician Huang Jingci was checking Ci'an's pulse, Ci'an saw Xingzhen entering, Liu Mei's eyebrows were raised, and a pair of phoenix eyes glared at Xingzhen fiercely. Xingzhen smiled, didn't salute or care, just asked Huang Jingci, "How is the condition?" ”

Huang Jingqi got up and bowed after saluting: "If you go back to the Queen Mother, the illness may recur, and it is best to recuperate in peace and not work anymore." ”

Xingzhen snorted, waved her hand and ordered everyone in the house to go down, then walked forward, looked at Ci'an lying on the soft couch and said with a smile: "Sister, I, as a sister, have come to see you." ”

Ci'an closed her eyes and turned her head to ignore her, Xingzhen didn't think she was angry, and then said: "My sister should recuperate in peace if she is sick." What's the nonsense of nothing? Prince Hui Mianyu has spent a lot of time on this matter. It's a pity that Prince Hui led the troops out of Beijing. But it didn't come back. ”

Ci'an still didn't say a word, Xingzhen smiled and continued: "That's fine, I don't have to bother anything, and thanks to my sister you instigating behind my back, I can see clearly who is a loyal minister and who is a traitor, and it also saves my little sister I have to bother to fabricate their charges." ”

At this time, Ci'an couldn't hold back any longer, opened his eyes and glared angrily: "Yehenala clan, do you think that you and Devil Six can cover the sky with one hand?" There will come a day. God will have retribution! ”

Xingzhen shrugged her shoulders indifferently and smiled: "Sister, what are these words?" Little sister, this is to guard this ancestral country for the first emperor again, and those who block the plan of the palace are all obstacles, and they have to move away! God's retribution? It seems that this God is on my sister's side. ”

Xingzhen paced two steps and continued: "If our court wants to be saved, we have to do foreign affairs and change the old law, and those old and young people who can't eat the old will be eliminated sooner or later." We Manchus are always a minority, who do we rely on if we don't rely on Han people in this world? It's ridiculous that Prince Hui always blames the palace for using the Han people too much, sister, you don't know, this time it was the soldiers and horses of the Han people and the Han generals that blocked the British and French Yangyi and Prince Hui and their soldiers and horses. ”

Ci'an said indignantly: "You fox charmer, you don't know shame. The sixth and seventh were so dazzled by your sisters that they didn't know they were full! ”

Xingzhen smiled slightly and said: "Sister's words are wrong, my sister-in-law married the Seventh Master, and you also approved at that time." As for the sixth master? I'm not going to do something shameless. ”

Ci'an snorted and said, "What are you doing here?" Is it just that you want to humiliate Hongu? ”

Xingzhen shook her head and said, "Where does the little sister have such a mind? The little sister mainly came to see her sister's condition. Sister still has to take good care of herself, I promised the first emperor, no matter what, I won't embarrass my sister. ”

Ci'an said coldly: "Put away your false compassion." It's a pity that the first emperor didn't leave a testament for me to treat you, a little slut, otherwise how could you be so free? ”

Xingzhen laughed. Said slowly: "When the first emperor died, it was me who trusted me more. Just like my sister trusted me at that time, how could I leave any legacy? ”

Compassion came from it, and tears flowed from the corners of his eyes: "When the first emperor died, I let you in first, and then I was summoned, and the first emperor said to me at that time, the Yehenara clan has a pure character and intelligence, which can be relied on, it seems that I and the first emperor have lost our eyes!" ”

Xingzhen sighed, took out the embroidered pa to wipe away her tears and said: "Sister, you have to take care, in fact, looking back, there is one thing that my little sister did is dangerous?" Those princes and nobles have nothing to do on weekdays, and they can't share worries about the country, and they will oppose you everywhere in the end. The burden handed over by the first emperor is already terminally ill, and it can't be saved without fierce medicine. ”

Ci'an turned her head and ignored her, Xingzhen hummed and said, "Okay, let's not talk about these useless things, the little sister has one more thing to do today." As he spoke, he took out an edict from his bosom and continued: "Little sister knows that Prince Hui and Rong Lu and other rebellious ministers and thieves are making trouble, that is an edict, not what my sister meant, so my little sister has written an edict here to announce it to the world, in order to correct the public, sister, you take a look, and then we will jointly issue this edict." ”

Ci'an didn't look at the edict, and knocked it to the ground: "Prince Hui, they are doing things according to the will of this palace, they are here to crusade against you and Devil Liu, you adulterers and adulteresses are waiting to die!" ”

Xingzhen sank her face and sneered: "Sister, I don't know what to say about you, you have followed the emperor for so many years, and you are still so scheming, since my sister is so clear to the little sister, the little sister has to do it herself." After saying that, he reached out and took out a bag from Ci'an's arms, Ci'an was taken aback and wanted to reach out to grab it, but was pushed away by Xingzhen lightly.

Ci'an's long-ailing body was not Xingzhen's opponent at all, and she took the bag at once, only to see Xingzhen take a few steps back, and after taking out the imperial seal given to Ci'an by Xianfeng from it, Xingzhen said with a faint smile: "Originally, I didn't need my sister's imperial seal, but now the seal of the same hall of the palace and the seal of Zaichun can take effect after being stamped, but this edict is mainly to make Prince Hui and those people lose their righteous reputation, so they have to use your imperial seal." ”

Ci'an struggled to climb out of bed, trying hard to grab Xingzhen's feet, and said weakly: "Give it back, give it back to me!" ”

Xingzhen squatted down and said slowly: "Sister, Prince Hui outside has made enough trouble, it's time to let them sober up, Xiaomei has always known what your sister is planning, and Xiaomei has also given her sister a chance, if my sister can listen to the persuasion at that time, take care of her illness, don't care about these things, and she won't make such a fuss." ”

After speaking, Xingzhen slowly got up and said: "Sister, it's cold on the ground, you better go back to the couch, this little sister of the imperial seal will naturally return it to your sister when she finishes using it, after all, this is the thing that the emperor left for her sister, isn't it?" Now this imperial seal can only be a thought thing, hahaha......" In the laughter, Xingzhen shook off Ci'an's hand and walked out slowly.

After a while, several eunuchs and palace maids came in, and then helped Ci'an to the soft couch, Ci'an's face was red, panting and breaking out in a cold sweat, and several eunuchs hurriedly asked Huang Jingqi to come in.

After Huang Jingci's visit, he only gave a few words of advice, and then ordered someone to find his righteous daughter Cheng Lingxiu to administer a few injections to Ci'an, and then Ci'an fell asleep peacefully. After Cheng Lingxiu finished administering the needle, he silently put away the acupuncture and moxibustion things and retired with Huang Jingci.

Huang Jingci looked at the sullen Cheng Lingxiu and asked, "What?" What's upset about you? ”

Cheng Lingxiu said gloomily: "Father-in-law, was the Empress Dowager Dong the mastermind of the murder of Brother Li back then?" ”

Huang Jingci was slightly stunned, and then sighed lightly: "I have also heard about Li Ding, although the Empress Dowager Dong doesn't know much about it, but she can't get rid of it." How? Do you want to heal her anymore after you know about it? ”

Cheng Lingxiu slowly shook his head and said: "No, I will heal more attentively, looking at her now, living is a kind of torture, I will let her live for a long, long time......"

After Xingzhen took the imperial seal, she stamped the imperial seal in the edict on the same day, and then distributed the edict to the world, in this edict, Xingzhen was written in the tone of Ci'an, directly reprimanded Mianyu, Ronglu and others for the edict, and called on the rebels to lay down their arms and surrender to the imperial court, only asking the first offender not to coerce Yunyun.

In fact, from the very beginning, the plan of Mianyu, Ronglu and others was to quickly conquer the capital after joining forces with foreigners, as long as the capital was conquered, they would no longer be affected by the name of righteousness, and they also knew that sooner or later there would be a day when they would see the poor dagger, and at that time, whoever controlled the capital would be able to occupy the name of legal justice. But they didn't expect that the Anglo-French army would be blocked in Tongzhou, and then the addition of the Taiping army shattered their dream of quickly attacking the capital, and then the situation would become unfavorable for the rebels, after all, Ci'an was still trapped in the capital, and sooner or later the Empress Dowager Xi would definitely use her to make a fuss.

From the time Xingzhen began to know that someone in the court was going to deal with her, she began to lay out, from Li Ding's death to letting Ronglu leave Beijing, from using the noon gate petition to fight dissidents in the capital to letting Mianyu leave Beijing, Xingzhen has been planning to make all the people who oppose her surface, and then she can serve it in a pot, and at the same time, she even calculated the king of the west, and now the Taiping army outside the capital has indeed complicated the situation. And Xingzhen still does her own thing step by step, she is ready to start closing the net, first she wants to make those rebels lose their excuse in the name of righteousness, and then it is divided and disintegrated, she has to deal with Mianyu and Ronglu, and she can let go of those soldiers who are forced to obey.

After solving the threat of the rebels, Xingzhen's next purpose is to provoke the British and French to go to war with the Taiping army, which she has planned for a long time.

Back in Chuxiu Palace, after Xingzhen sent the edict, her heart was very relaxed and happy, and after a nap, she got up and continued to review the chapter, and at this time, Cheng Lingxiu asked to see.

Cheng Lingxiu said after seeing it: "Queen Mother, Bai Zetang of the Taiping Army in the city has a letter delivered. ”

Xingzhen sighed slightly, Cheng Lingxiu has been acting as a messenger for her to contact the Taiping Army, this kind of letter was also sent by her personally, and then Xingzhen opened the letter and looked at it, only to see that it was Xiao Yungui's handwritten letter, and only wrote a few words: "Find a time, meet and talk alone!" (To be continued......)