After a while, Wen Xiang, Minister of Military Aircraft, said: "What the emperor said is extremely sage. As soon as this statement came out, the rest of the people echoed it.

The Empress Dowager Ci'an was also quite happy, nodded frequently, and ordered people to draw up the decree according to this meaning, and ordered Prince Gong, Prince Alcohol and Li Hongzao to specialize in funeral affairs.

Ding Yuntong thought to himself: If you investigate the case at a low level, you can't find the murderer in Zuihou, and this case can only be hastily resolved, and only the group of eunuchs and palace maids are unlucky.

After the court meeting dispersed, Ci'an pulled Ding Yuntong to his bedroom, touched his little face and said: "You little man, you are really interesting today, let Old Master Xu have a training, and he really looks like an emperor." ”

Ding Yuntong struggled out of Ci'an's arms, and said: "Huang Eniang, Zichen is not just like the emperor, Zichen wants to be the saint and sage of my Qing Empire, the first emperor of the ages, I am the Guangxu Emperor!" ”

Ci'an was stunned for a while, and then said: "I have a spirit in the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, and Master Weng and others have taught meritorious, you will definitely be able to be a good emperor, Eniang's heart was overjoyed." In the future, you can have more ideas for everything, just like today's pilgrimage. When you are proficient in government affairs, E-Niang can also return to politics as soon as possible, and it is good to live for a long time. It's just that your Virgin Queen Mother is blessed and can't see your income. As he spoke, his eyes turned red again.

Ding Yuntong also rubbed his eyes, pretending to be sad, and thought: If she is not blessed, we will be blessed. You have to know that I poisoned Cixi, and I don't know how I would feel.

Hearing Ci'an take the initiative to say the meaning of returning to the government in the future, he was happy and said: "Now that the Queen Mother is gone, the Empress Dowager still needs the Empress Dowager to stabilize the court." Zichen is young, it is inevitable that some villains have the heart of bullying, such as Li Lianying, the chief eunuch of the Chuxiu Palace, Zichen sent someone to ask for the seal of the Tongdaotang, and the slave actually shirked, clearly having the intention of usurping and not being a minister, and then the Xisheng collapsed, Li Lianying has an unshirkable responsibility, and if she does not deal with it harshly, she will not be able to punish people's hearts. ”

Ci'an nodded: "Wu'er is reasonable, it's hard for you to tell this truth even though you are young." Anyway, I will send someone to fetch it for you, and this matter will be handled by you, and you will also practice. Usually you can also draw up the purpose, the liberal arts and science specifications, you can ask the master Weng Tonggong for advice. After the draft is completed, stamp the seal of the Tongdaotang and send it to us, and I will stamp the royal seal. In the future, the court will let the military aircraft department copy a copy of you, and when you are familiar with the court affairs, I will give you the imperial reward seal. ”

Ding Yuntong was overjoyed in his heart, he had a great harvest today, Ci'an's words were tantamount to handing over part of the power to himself, but seeing that he was still too young and not at ease, he still had to check everything, which is understandable.

The two talked again, and seeing that Ci'an was tired, Ding Yuntong kowtowed and withdrew.

With excitement, he returned to the dormitory, and after a while, the Empress Dowager Ci'an really sent someone to send the seal of the Tongdaotang.

Ding Yuntong carefully appreciated the seal in his hand, the seal of Tongdaotang, eight centimeters high, two centimeters in length and width, Shoushan stone, engraved with the three words "Tongdaotang" in Yinwen, because of the previous Tongzhi years, it has been used for thirteen years, it looks a little old.

He thought to himself: don't look down, this thing is a symbol of power. Of course, when the imperial seal is also in his hands in the future, these two things will complete the historical mission.

He thought that it was time to deal with Li Lianying, with Ci'an's words "at your disposal", Li Lianying was the meat on his chopping board, and he could cut it however he wanted. Immediately ordered Fan Changlu: "You immediately go to the respectful room to spread the word to me and the Queen Mother, Li Lianying has committed misdeeds for bribery, and will be arrested immediately." Let the Shen Criminal Division torture and ask where the money is hidden, and the details will be played back to me. Fan Changlu took the order and left.

He has no grievances with Li Lianying, and Li Lianying is not bad in other aspects of history, "very respectful in things, generous to the subordinates", the only problem is greed for money, there are clear historical materials to prove that he blackmailed Jiangning Weaving. After Cixi's death, he retired from the palace and became a wealthy man. However, he really coveted his wealth, after all, there were too many places to spend money in the future.

So how much money will Li Lianying have? According to some historical studies in his previous life, he was at least two million pounds sterling, which was a huge amount of money in silver at the time, and in fact it may have been more. How much?

Ding Yuntong looked forward to the wealth that was about to arrive, and couldn't help but calculate:

At that time, Britain implemented the gold standard system, pegging the currency pound to gold, and various countries followed suit, so that the demand for gold increased greatly, and continued to appreciate, while silver continued to depreciate, which reduced the financial revenue of the Qing Dynasty in disguise, and the outflow of silver intensified, because the Qing Dynasty used silver to buy pounds, and then used pounds to settle import and export trade.

During the Opium War, one pound was equivalent to three taels of silver, and by the time of the Eight-Nation Alliance, one pound was almost equal to seven taels of silver. All kinds of indemnities need to pay additional changes in the exchange rate, which is called "pound loss", and this "pound loss" alone is an astronomical amount.

It is now 1876, and it should be equivalent to three and a half taels of silver, and two million pounds is more than seven million taels of silver.

Thinking about the fastest dome cruiser in the Beiyang Naval Division, the Zhiyuan Ship, it was only 850,000 taels of silver.

The next day in the imperial study, Ding Yuntong saw Weng Tongyi and told him what happened yesterday. Weng Tongyi is very happy, if Emperor Guangxu can grasp real power in the future, he, as the emperor's teacher, will not be a problem.

But Ding Yuntong has his own plans in his heart, he has more than 100 years of historical accumulation in the future, and he has heard a lot about some outstanding talents in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, whether it is a civil and military general, or an economic management official, or a diplomatic personnel arrangement, he has a plan in his heart. Although this Weng Tongyi is erudite and extremely loyal to himself, he really can't put forward any high opinions on the establishment of a modern country, and can only refer to it in the handling of specific affairs when the time comes. However, in his official position, he can be taken care of and will not disappoint him.

After returning to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, Fan Changlu reported: Li Lianying confessed a total of 2.3 million taels of silver, all of which were stored in the ticket numbers of major money banks in Beijing, as well as some Zhuangzi, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc. The Shen Criminal Division has also been ordered by Ding Yuntong to suffocate Li Lianying with wet paper. Ding Yuntong nodded, the amount of this silver tael is less than one-third of what he expected, but this is not surprising, after all, Cixi has only been in power for thirteen years, and Li Lianying still had a big eunuch An Dehai on top at first, so the time to fish is not enough, and it is not bad to have so much. So he ordered Fan Changlu to deposit the money in the internal affairs department's own account book, forgiving the people of the internal affairs department for not daring to talk more.

Fan Changlu looked at Ding Yuntong's young age, and when he dealt with Li Lianying, his face was ruthless, and he was scared, feeling that his small body was respectable and terrifying. I secretly swore in my heart that I must be on an errand.

Ding Yuntong promoted Fan Changlu to the deputy chief eunuch, and after watching him kowtow gratefully, he ordered him to retreat.

It's 1876 now, time is really running out, I have a lot of things to do, and there are not many talents available in the current court, so Prince Gong Yixin, Minister of Military Aircraft Wen Xiang and Shen Guifen, but Wen Xiang seems to be dying this year, and Shen Guifen can only live for another five years.

With the support of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, you can first make some personnel arrangements in the imperial court, promote some people who will be used in the future into the power center or put them in some key positions, and at the same time slowly eliminate some mediocre and incompetent people, the so-called precautions are also. However, these actions should not be too hasty, if they cause controversy, it is not good for themselves, after all, he is still a little emperor, and the decision is still in the hands of Ci'an.

So create the right opportunities.

Come to think of it, isn't there a good opportunity this year?

There is a major foreign-related matter that needs to be resolved, and that is the Sino-British Yantai Treaty.

In the first month of last year, the British sent a pathfinder team, led by Colonel Brown and more than 200 soldiers, to go deep into Yunnan in an attempt to probe the land traffic from Burma to the Yunnan-Guizhou region. This is the Margaret affair.

The British sent troops into China, and Zuihou caused trouble and killed people, and in turn blamed the Qing government. Wei Tuma and Hurd, an Englishman from the General Department of Customs and Excise, sang a double reed and constantly threatened with force, forcing the Qing government to sign the "Sino-British Yantai Treaty".

This treaty is extremely harmful, it confirms the destruction of China's judicial sovereignty, if the British break the law in Chinese mainland, they can only be tried by the British themselves in accordance with British law, China has no right to arrest and detain, that is to say, the British can do as they please.

British goods did not pay a fee in the concession and did not pay mainland taxes when entering Chinese mainland, further undermining tariff sovereignty.

Moreover, the British had free access to China's southwestern border, undermining territorial sovereignty.

Historically, on September 13 of this year, the two sides signed this treaty, but now that they have crossed here, they will not let such a tragedy happen, although the Qing Dynasty at this time has no capital to confront it, but they have the future history of shijie in their heads and know some secrets.

In fact, Britain's threat of force was purely intimidation, because the other side was too busy to take care of itself at this time, fighting with Russia for Turkey, and the war in Europe was imminent, and it had no energy to start with China.

On the other hand, Britain's actions aroused the suspicion and opposition of other powers, and when the signing of the treaty was signed, ministers from various countries went to Yantai to exert pressure in the name of summer vacation.

Therefore, British Foreign Secretary Derby clearly expressed his hope for a speedy solution to the Yunnan issue in his telegram to Wittoma.

It was the concessions of the Qing government that allowed the British to achieve unexpected negotiating results, and all their demands were met.

Wittoma was overjoyed by the British government, and was given the title of "knight".

But now that I know these historical materials, I can completely stick to them, and I can end the Margaret incident without paying too much price, which is very good for improving my prestige.

In the court, there must have been some officials who were afraid of Britain and advocated backing down. Zuihou proves their mistakes with the results, and he can naturally replace a group of people, which is really a lot of wins, and the crisis is a turning point.

Ding Yuntong thought like this, and couldn't help but look forward to the future a little more.