Chapter 750: The Rise of the East

Every dynasty and every generation is actually inseparable from the political struggle above the court, Li Kaifang is not the first, and it will not be the last, but starting from Li Kaifang, the military and political power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been stabilized to the greatest extent, and the concept of military and political separation and political leadership of the military has been sublimated, which is exactly what Xiao Yungui wants. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

As for the discordant voice against the former Qing royal family, it was just a tool used by Xiao Yungui, and the dissatisfied voice in the army was suppressed, but Xiao Yungui ignored the voice of the people, and he still needed to continue to use this voice to do something.

For the old and young people of the former Manchu Qing Dynasty and the banner people, these people have not been producing all the year round, although there are still a large number of people who have been able to support themselves, but there are still many people who are hidden in the people, they have sold all the things they have received, and then they still have not been able to become self-reliant people, and these people have become a factor of social instability. They are the remnants of the former Qing Dynasty, and they will not support themselves, so they must be eliminated, and leading them to gather people to make trouble is a good excuse.

The second is that the remnants of the former Qing royal family are still there, and they were treated well because Xiao Yungui needed to use them to recruit the former Qing forces in Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, Guanwai and other places, and now these places have been recovered for several years, leaving them is no longer of much use, but some extreme people began to delusionally use the former Qing royal family to make some articles, and even these people made up a "anti-Han and Qing" organization. As a result, the former Qing royal family and Prince Alcohol's Mansion have become another destabilizing factor, so they also need to be eliminated. But Xiao Yungui didn't want to ruin his reputation by doing it himself, and he was also worried that if he did it too obviously, there would be dissatisfied voices in these places in Mongolia, so killing people with a knife was the best result.

The last point is to completely end the people's resentment against the former Qing royal family through this incident, and think that the resentment of the new dynasty for the former Qing royal family is too preferential has never stopped, and people need an outlet to vent, maybe it really comes to the point where it must be vented. And what the alcohol prince Yiyun did gave all parties a very good excuse, so the alcohol prince's mansion inevitably sat on the crater,

On the morning of September 19, 1865, more than 30,000 people gathered outside the palace of Prince Alcohol to demonstrate. The inner three layers and the outer three floors are crowded. Just when the people were excited, the people of the Alcohol Palace's Mansion did a stupid thing, it is said that a big lama in charge of the palace walked out of the gate and wanted to go out to buy things, but was stopped by the people. In the ensuing quarrel, the steward actually made the first move, which completely ignited the anger of the people. The thousands of people gathered in front began to storm the gate of the palace, and at this time, the police who maintained order quietly retreated, and as a result, the people rushed in.

Completely out of control, the populace began to vent their anger in the palace. Murder and arson are certain, Yi Xun was pulled out of the study and beaten to death, and then the body was incinerated on the spot. The concubines and concubines of the former Qing Dynasty did not escape their fate, they were killed by the mob and then burned. The contents of the palace were looted, the houses were set on fire, and the entire palace was destroyed.

After receiving the report, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government in the capital belatedly arrived, and they dispatched a large number of police forces, and even mobilized thousands of regular troops outside the city to completely quell the chaos. The fire was extinguished the next day, and more than 1,000 unrecognizable corpses were removed from the rubble. Judging by the ornaments left on the bodies of two of them, one large and one small. The Beijing Police Department recognized the two corpses as the bodies of the former Empress Dowager of Qingxi and the little emperor Zaichun, and some people also identified the bodies of Prince Yixuan and his family, and the last bit of blood of the former Qing Dynasty seemed to have completely disappeared in the flames of the palace.

The impact of this incident was enormous, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government in the capital also acted quickly, and on the same day they announced that they had captured nearly 2,000 people, all of whom were directly involved in the atrocities of the palace. The case was tried for three months, and then it was quickly learned that more than 800 people had been shot, and more than 1,000 had been sentenced to various prison sentences, in addition to the so-called former Qing Restoration Party. Tens of thousands of people were forcibly exiled to hard labor.

Careful people may find that among the people who were punished for being implicated in the palace incident, there were very few Han people, almost only a few people. And more of them are the old and young remnants of the former Qing Dynasty, but no one will ask why, because their evil spirit has come out, and the evidence given by the government is quite sufficient, so the case is closed.

The Mongolian side did not express much dissent, and many murderers were punished. At least on the surface, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom maintained the face of Mongolia, and the attention of the Mongol princes was focused on the construction of the railway, so there were not too many waves.

The Manchu Restoration Party was purged, and there may be some fish that slipped through the net, but without the benchmark of the former Qing imperial family, it is difficult for them to raise any waves, on the contrary, they can only survive in the dark corners, and maybe they will be found out soon.

The disappearance of the prince's palace satisfied all parties, of course, the biggest winner was the emperor himself, Xiao Yungui made a sternly worded speech a month after the incident, he reiterated the necessity of the common prosperity and republic of the five ethnic groups, strongly criticized the people who still had resentment against the former Qing Dynasty, and called on everyone to focus on the construction of national production, so Yunyun. As a result, the residual influence of the former Qing Dynasty disappeared completely, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country began to develop their production vigorously, and an era ended completely.

Half a year later, the railway from Shanghai to Guangzhou was opened to traffic, the emperor and the empress personally set off from Shanghai to Guangzhou, and began the emperor's first southern tour after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Of course, the emperor's southern tour is very lively, which also represents the beginning of a country's national strength recovery, and what is even more surprising is that this time the emperor's southern tour brought the eldest prince Xiao Youhe, the young soldier who is currently the chief of staff of the Gyeonggi Garrison Command gradually appeared in front of people's eyes.

The prince accompanied the southern tour, which is a very obvious political signal, indicating that the emperor began to gradually express his position as the crown prince, and at the same time let the dispute between the eldest prince and the second prince for the throne completely end, whether it is the people or the court, everyone is no longer afraid of standing in the wrong line.

The last stop of the Emperor's southern tour was Hong Kong, and the railway was built to the Kowloon Peninsula, which brought more business opportunities to Hong Kong, a free port in the Far East. Standing on the shores of Victoria Bay, watch the cargo pulled out of the Kowloon Peninsula Railway Station pile up in Kowloon Harbour. Then it was transported to Hong Kong and directly transferred to the sea, and the whole Victoria Bay is a huge commercial gathering place.

Xiao Yungui nodded and said, "This is a bit of the meaning of Hong Kong in the future." Hong Yuner said: "In fact, there are very few goods that really go to Hong Kong to transfer ships, and many goods are transferred directly from the Kowloon Peninsula, and the development of Hong Kong Island will not be too big." In the future, the real business center will actually be in Kowloon. Xiao Yungui smiled and said, "We have changed history again." ”

Xiao Yungui followed and said: "Those Jiulong Township soldiers are also too ruthless, and the mines laid back then have not been cleared yet. Hong Yun'er sighed and said: "Demining is already very troublesome, so it can only be cleaned up gradually, anyway, there are no mines on the main channel now." ”

A long whistle sounded, and several women with white veils wrapped around their heads walked slowly. Behind them is the largest passenger ship in the Far East, the "Oriental Xing", which was jointly built by China and Britain, can carry 800 passengers, and often travels between the Far East and Egypt.

The women boarded the passenger ship, but one of them stopped, and then walked in front of the emperor and empress under the leadership of the emperor's personal guard, Tang Erniu. The woman came to the two of them, and the rest of them consciously retreated. The woman slowly untied the white veil underneath, revealing a delicate face, this woman turned out to be the former Qingxi Empress Dowager Xingzhen who had long been rumored to be buried in the fire!

Xiao Yungui looked at her and smiled slightly and said, "I'm sorry, I have to wait for things to get a little lighter before I can go to Europe from you." Xingzhen smiled slightly and said, "It's also good to be able to follow you, the emperor, on a southern tour." ”

Hong Yun'er's eyes turned red, and she took Xingzhen's hand and said, "Qingyun, I'm really reluctant to let you go." Xingzhen said with a smile: "There is no banquet in the world, people always have to face the barrier of separation, and now I and Zaichun and others have a new identity, and we can go to Europe to start a new life, which is very good." ”

Xiao Yungui nodded and said, "It's just that Yiyun couldn't be rescued, it's a pity." Xingzhen glanced at him and said, "You did it on purpose." Don't think I don't know. Xiao Yungui laughed dryly, and Xingzhen said again: "That's okay, the seventh master can't let go of some things, even if he goes to Europe, he can't guarantee that nothing will happen." ”

The three of them were silent for a while. Xingzhen said: "I'm going to board the ship, if you want me, come to Europe to see me." Xiao Yungui stepped forward to hold her hand and said: "Remember, France is going to war with Prussia, don't go to those places, Britain is the safest, if you have any difficulties over there, go to the embassy in Britain to find Zeng Jize." He is someone you can trust. Hong Yun'er also stepped forward to take Xingzhen's hand and said, "Qingyun, you can write to me, remember to write a letter." The three hands were clasped tightly together, and the cherished parting instructions warmed people's hearts, and at this moment the three of them seemed to have returned to their former student days.

In the end, Xingzhen boarded the passenger ship and went away, Xiao Yungui watched the passenger ship gradually disappear from view, and couldn't help but hold Hong Yun'er's hand and said: "Yun'er, we did it, you can see that our passenger ship can go to the ocean with our flag." Hong Yuner said with a warm smile: "I think our greatest achievement is to walk together......"

A few days later, an explosive news came from the South Seas that the "Dongfang Xing", the largest long-distance passenger ship of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, had wrecked and sank in the South China Sea, reportedly capsized by huge waves, and in the end only eight seafarers survived......

On the emperor's special train to Shanghai, Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er broke out into a fierce conflict. "You say, did you send someone to do it?!" "I've said it more than 800 times, I didn't do it! Can I make waves that big?! "Are you still afraid that their mother and son will threaten your throne?!" "I swear to God, it's really not me, and I'm not a madman!" "I think you're like! You even killed Lu Sixuan, can you still let their mother and son go?! "You're insane! If I wanted to kill their mother and son, they would be killed in the capital! "Look, the fox's tail is out! You've thought about killing their mother and son! ”“……”

There is also a lot of speculation about the shipwreck, which was adapted into a movie based on the memoirs of the survivors of the time decades later, and is said to have done well at the box office. But there are also legends that several passengers left the passenger ship in a dinghy before the shipwreck, and it is not known where they ended up......

End of book! (To be continued.) )