The city of Beijing is unaware of the battle that took place in Langfang. Whether it is the emperor's relatives and the pawns of the peddlers, since the Boxers entered the city in the opening of the Nine Gates, they were shocked by the new things that happened in the city, and they liked to watch the excitement was one of the characteristics of the Chinese people, and the people of Jingshi showed this more obviously.

Now, the officials and people of Jingshi can be regarded as having opened their eyes. The once heavily guarded palace has become a boxing arena that comes and goes at will. The dignified prince actually put on the service of the Boxer Rebellion and swaggered through the market. Even the lowest class of people feel that something is wrong with this world.

Duanjun Wangfu and Prince Zhuang's Mansion both became the main "headquarters" of the Boxers.

The foreigners ruined Duanwang's business, so that his son could not sit on the dragon chair, Duanwang hated foreigners, whether it was officials or ordinary people, they all understood. You say, Prince Zhuang Zaixun, what are you tossing about? It seems that Jae-hoon is even more fierce about making people's hatred. His prince's mansion in Taiping, the root of the Western Imperial City, became the headquarters of the Boxer Rebellion, and the prince himself rode a tall horse every day, dressed in the bright and eye-catching service of the Boxers, and wandered through the streets and alleys of Beijing surrounded by a large group of people. All the gates of the capital division were pasted with notices issued in his name: kill a foreigner, and reward fifty silver; If you kill a female foreigner, you will be rewarded with 40 silver, and if you kill a foreign baby, you will be rewarded with 20 silver.

From the Boxer Brigade into Beijing, the open space in front of Prince Zhuang's mansion became an execution ground. It has replaced the vegetable market. Foreigners are not easy to kill, they all hide in churches or Dongjiaomin Lane, then kill "Ermaozi", anyone who does things for foreigners is among the killables. Killing people is not enjoyable. King Zhuang also took people to raid the homes of those "foreign officials", and the raid may still be light, and if it is not good, he will be taken to King Zhuang's mansion and beheaded.

During that time, King Zhuang became the person officials were most afraid of seeing.

The Manchurian aristocracy, all of whom are Hengqing, is said to have always been friends with Zaiyi, but this time they were killed by the Boxers, and a family of thirteen died. The Manchu Shangshu Lisan, who was at odds with Zaiyi, was imprisoned. Beizi Pulun. Sun Jianai, a university scholar, Chen Xuedi, and Zeng Guangluan, the deputy capital of the imperial history, were raided. The most peculiar thing is that even the home of Na Tong, a bachelor who has always supported the Boxers, was raided. The loss of gold, silver and jewellery is not counted.

Officials were terrified. They forgot. The peasants are uprooted. The fundamental motive for the rise is to hate the wealth of high-ranking officials and hate the inequality between the rich and the poor in the world. They don't care what the political attitude of the fired family owner is. Living in such a big house and hiding so much gold, silver and jewelry, who will you copy if you don't copy it?

If it weren't for the fact that the war besieging the embassy in the capital started quickly, and the contradictions and attention were diverted in time, even Xiyuan and the Forbidden City might have been attacked.

On June 16, Cixi convened an important imperial meeting in the Yiluan Palace, which was also attended by Emperor Guangxu.

According to the information available, Seymour's coalition forces were blocked in Langfang and may have begun to retreat. But the situation in Jingshi was extremely complicated, and the Boxers began to attack the church, and the famous Xishiku Church was attacked yesterday. The Boxers and many radical officials have shouted slogans to capture Dongjiaomin Lane and kill all the foreign devils.

As the highest decision-making level, it is time to make decisions on the situation.

The courtiers did not say a word. Listening more and talking less is common sense in being an official, especially in the current situation. But no one expected that it was the emperor who spoke first, "The country is in turmoil, and the chaotic people are all over the capital, why don't you suppress it?" ”

This is the characterization of the Boxers, not a patriotic group, but a chaotic people.

Xu Jingcheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was an imperial party, and immediately answered, "China has been concluding with foreign countries for decades, and there is no matter of enmity between people and religion, but it is just compensation. But if you attack and kill a foreign envoy, you will summon the soldiers of all countries and conspire with me, so how can you resist them? Those who attack the embassy will be the place where the lives of the sect will be? ”

Before Xu Jingcheng's words fell, Duanjun Wang Zaiyi's loud voice sounded, "Okay, this is the way to lose people's hearts." ”

The ministers were secretly looking at Lafayette sitting on the throne, but Cixi did not say a word.

Yuan Chang, the secretary of Taichang Temple, who knelt outside the hall gate because of his low rank, shouted, "Minister Yuan Chang has something to say." Boxers and bandits must not be feared, external provocations must not be opened, killing envoys and ministers is contrary to public law! ”

This is the representative of the minister who resolutely opposes the attack on the embassy and the killing of diplomatic personnel, but his words were reprimanded back by Cixi, "Isn't magic enough, and people's hearts are not enough?" China has been extremely weak for a long time, and only the people who rely on it are the ears of the people! If you lose the hearts of the people, how can you build a country? ”

She reprimanded Yuan Chang, and then asked for the minister's opinion, the Manchu courtiers who had already practiced the wisdom of self-preservation were only Weiwei, where did they have any clever ideas? So Cixi made two decisions: one was to appease the rebellious people; The second is to send the waiters Natong and Xu Jingcheng to go out of Beijing immediately to negotiate with the Seymour coalition army, so that the foreigners should not send troops to Beijing.

Again, this is a ridiculous decision. Why did Seymour's coalition come to Beijing? Is it because the embassy is threatened, and if you don't stop the attack on the diplomats, how can you negotiate there?

It's sad. When did the Manchu court rely on people's hearts? At the beginning, the Eight Banners soldiers entered Shanhaiguan, killed Jiangnan, made Yangzhou for ten days, and Jiading Three Massacres, where did they think about people's hearts? Isn't it force by trust? When his strength is weakened, but he remembers people's hearts?

Since the successful coup d'état of the six devils in the year of Xinyou, Cixi, the most noble woman of the Qing Dynasty, has been in charge of the government for 30 years, and she can be regarded as a veteran of dealing with foreigners, how can she not think of the current development trend of the situation? Unable to stop Seymour's coalition army, the imperial court was defeated, and the Beijing division suffered. Even if Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy and other countries are separated by oceans and it is not easy to transfer troops, then Japan and Russia are close at hand, and with a strong navy, they can quickly mobilize troops. Only five or six years have passed since the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, how could Cixi forget it cleanly? In the First Sino-Japanese War, China was justified and dealt with Japan alone, but it was defeated by land and sea, and the land was ceded and reparations were paid. Now attacking foreign embassies and slaughtering foreign clergy is exactly what Yuan Chang said "contrary to public law", which does not make any sense, but against the eleven-nation coalition army, where are the chances of victory? Why ask the ministers for their advice again, and why make idiotic decisions?

There are still courtiers who dare to speak and are sober-minded, at the end of the meeting, Guanglu Temple Qing Zeng Guanghan, Dali Shaoqing Zhang Hengjia, Bachelor Zhu Zumou and Yun Yuding stayed, kneeling in front of the Queen Mother and the emperor again, Zhang Hengjia spoke first, thinking that the Boxers must be suppressed, the method is very simple, just kill a few leaders. And Zhu Zumou had the audacity to ask Cixi, the empress dowager trusted the traitorous ministers, and resisted the countries with bandits, and the catastrophe was just around the corner. How can such an important thing be done by relying on bandits? Cixi said that Dong Fuxiang was reliable. Zhu Zumou asserted that Dong Fuxiang's big words are hot, treacherous and cunning, and he must not be trusted. Cixi was furious, what is your name? What is the official? How dare you be so unscrupulous! Zhu Zumou reported his name, saying that he was worried about Sheji, and even if he was armed with a knife and axe, he must enter this advice. At this time, Yun Yuding said that Yuan Shikai, the governor of Shandong, was loyal and strategic, and had strong soldiers under him, so he could quickly transfer Yuan Shikai to Beijing to quell the chaos.

Rong Lu, who had been staying in the palace, hurriedly played a round and said that the imperial court was ready to transfer Yuan Shikai to Beijing.

Only then did the four bold courtiers kowtow and retreat, and Cixi "sent them away with angry eyes".

Jiang Yun and Tian Shubang sold two coats cheaply at Dashilar outside the front door, and left Dashilar with fifteen taels of silver. The clothes were stolen from the house, and they exchanged them for silver at Dashilar. The Boxer costume on his body had long been thrown away, Jiang Yun was dressed as a scholar, and Tian Shubang was in a blue coat and a small hat, turning back into Jiang Yun's entourage.

The weather was hot, Jiang Yun wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Lao Tian, you go back to Deshengmen to sit and wait, wait for contact, and I will go to Tianjin." ”

"Is this leaving? Let Zhang Xiaoding go with you. I heard that the fighting in Langfang was fierce, and many people were safer. ”

"No, I don't. Beijing's affairs are very important, you and Xiaoding should pay attention to safety. Jiang Yun looked around vigilantly, it was all a chaotic crowd, and no one paid attention to them, "Let's break up." Lao Tian, I'll leave the matter of Beijing to you. ”

"Please rest assured, section chief, I will definitely do a good job and welcome our people in." Tian Shubang said solemnly.

Leaving Zhang Xiaoding, in fact, he is still a little worried about Tian Shubang. Zhang Xiaoding is a veteran of Mengshan and has been wounded, compared to Tian Shubang, a northeasterner, Xiaoding's loyalty (this word is taught by Long Qian, Jiang Yun often ponders, everyone's loyalty to Mengshan Army is different) There is no problem. But Tian Shubang hopes that he can withstand this test.

Jiang Yun thought that after this incident, he would be considered to have entered the core of the Mengshan Army. At this point, with Tian Shubang's cleverness, he had already guessed the general point of Commander Long's plan. The recent events scared this kid a lot, how could he have expected that Commander Long had expected this scene in Beijing a few months ago?

"I still brought fewer people. In the future, a large intelligence station will definitely be built in Beijing. A place like this is the best place to gather information. Jiang Yun's mind was racing, and when he saw Tian Shubang still standing there, he waved at him, turned around and walked in the direction of Yongding Gate.

Jiang Yun left Beijing that day. The day after he left Beijing, the Boxers set fire to Dashilar. By the time he came back here, it was already in ruins.

This is the most famous business district in Beijing, the reason why it is called Dashilar, because more than 100 years ago, due to the continuous political turmoil against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing court in order to strengthen the defense of the capital, ordered the streets and alleys inside and outside the capital to set up a fence, outside the front door of this street where merchants gathered, the fence was built to be particularly tall and beautiful, becoming the most famous scenery in the capital, so it is called Dashilar. For what is the big fence to burn, it is said that it is to burn the old Deji foreign pharmacy. Don't forget, everything that is stained with foreign gas is within the scope of the Boxer Rebellion.

As a result, Lao De Kee Western-style houses affected the entire business district, more than 4,000 shops and Lao De Kee Pharmacy turned into ruins, and even the arrow tower of Zhengyangmen was on fire. (To be continued......)