At the vermilion gate of the Cheng'en Mansion, a slim and jade young man was swaying his hand to welcome him, "Lord Zhang, please come inside." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" The young man smiled at a seven-rank official who nodded and bowed, the official went up the steps, and hurriedly surrendered his hand, "Uncle Guo, I don't dare to call you an adult," After greetings, the Lord Zhang waved his hand, let the attendant serve an iron box, and smiled at Gui Xiang, "I, a countryman, don't have anything to give to Grandpa Chengen, it's just some local goods, I heard that the queen's mother and phoenix are not safe, and it just so happens that my hometown sent a good codonopsis, and it has been two hundred years old, so I don't dare to hide my secrets, Take it and honor the queen. ”

There are not many codonopsis now, there are more Korean ginseng and Changbai ginseng on the market, Gui Xiang also accepted this Lord Zhang's affection very much, and nodded hurriedly, "So the little brother is disrespectful, and he must accept it for the queen's mother, please." ”

The side door was wide open, and a group of servant women walked out of the side door with the Fucha clan in court clothes, Gui Xiang saw his mother come out, and hurriedly stepped forward, "Mother, is this going to enter the palace?" ”

"The queen mother suffered from the cold, I really can't rest assured, originally Prince Gong Fujin served the mother in it, I didn't dare to interfere, but I heard that Fujin has been out of the palace, there is no competent person in the palace, your second sister and third sister are in Rehe, and the other is serving your brother-in-law at home, and they are all empty," Fucha was distressed, and turned into disgust, "I have to go and see, Amitabha, a girl's family, how can you go to the place where you fight, I really don't care about my body!" ”

Gui Xiang said with a smile, "There are more imperial doctors in the palace, and there are fewer people serving the queen mother," Fucha glared at Gui Xiang, and Gui Xiang hurriedly changed his words, "It is inevitable that E-niang will go in and take a look, who can know the queen's body better than E-niang." Fucha nodded, looked at the bustling traffic outside the mansion, and was slightly worried, "It's not been peaceful lately. You have to be careful, you can't make your son unhappy. ”

"I know, Eniang, you will enter the palace to take care of the eldest sister," he said, and handed the box he had just received to the servant woman of the Fucha clan who followed up the palace. "This is the party ginseng that the officials outside have just honored, you brought it into the palace, and it is also a wish of me as a younger brother, if the eldest sister is free, I miss her a little. I want to go into the palace to see her. ”

Fucha was a little relieved, "You can think like this, it's not in vain that your big sister has always loved you so much," Gui Xiang helped Fucha to the carriage, "By next year, you will be almost old enough to come out on an errand, it's time to come out and help your big sister." ”

Gui Xiang was overjoyed, "That's a good feeling, I'm too bored to stay at home," and was about to say something more. A large group of people ran through the street, all of them were idle scholars and children of the Eight Banners, I saw them waving their hands, with excited, incomprehensible, angry, and miserable looks on their faces, and their behavior was a little crazy, and they shouted loudly while running: "Negotiate peace!" Peace! ”

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"Yes, it's time to make peace," Prince Gong put down the letter in his hand, and Gui Liang just asked about the next line, "Yongtongqiao is victorious." Britain and France were defeated, so naturally they couldn't keep fighting like this, and the queen said that she wanted to win and seek peace, and I also thought so. The foreigners' warships left the army on the road, but stayed away from Tianjin and went to harass the waters," Prince Gong was a little helpless, "Two more grain ships were destroyed by the foreigners, and I have ordered the household department to suspend the transportation of grain into Beijing." Hey, it seems that this year's luck is hopeless. ”

"This is a trivial matter, Caoyun was originally also through the Grand Canal, but it was rampant rebellion, so it had no choice but to turn to shipping, this year's war between the two rivers is good, and the rebellion has shrunk Jinling and dare not come out, we can also turn to the Grand Canal," Gui Liang said worriedly, "But Britain and France are entrenched in the Bohai Sea and refuse to go, and now they are going to bombard Lushun, Shengjing is over there, if they are ruthless, they know that our Qing Dynasty's Longxing Land is there, as long as they send a small team to Taizu's mausoleum for a while, I'm afraid these people who run the Fu Bureau won't be able to eat and will have to go around. ”

Prince Gong nodded, "I'm also worried about this, I'm afraid that when the time comes, the foreigners will be ruthless, abandon these turtles in the urn, and fight with the Qing Dynasty to the death, then we really have no future, fortunately they are far away!" This is another blessing! ”

"Are the people of Honglu Temple ready?"

"It's ready, just wait for the letter to leave for Tianjin, originally Cheng Engong invited Ying, thinking about going to negotiate, I thought in my heart that the main lord has not been seen, our long live the old man has gone out, this is not appropriate, call the Lang Zhong Wailang of Honglu Temple to go and say it, bring my handwritten letter, this sincerity is enough."

"But the prince," Gui Liang wanted to speak and stopped, "If you have been defeated repeatedly before, the prince has gone out and successfully handled the situation, even if you lose more silver, it will be fine, everyone will only praise the prince for turning the tide, but now such a situation has been reversed by the queen alone, and everyone in the world is shouting to kill all the foreigners, if you are like this, there will be a lot of infamy on your body, this queen is really, she has a good reputation, and this black pot is for you to carry." ”

"How can I not know the reason," Prince Gong touched his nose and smiled bitterly, "It's just that someone has to do these things, and the peace talks may not be land reparations. The people who called Honglu Temple hurriedly left Beijing, by the way," Prince Gong remembered something, and hurriedly ordered again, "When you go to see the Americans, bring a lot of thank you guards, but you can't let those people arrest the Americans too, good guys, now the people on the ground in Gyeonggi, as long as they see a person with light eyes and yellow hair, they are all red-eyed, and they want to count on rewards and official positions!" ”

"Yes."

The American minister Hua Ruohan took a letter handed to him by the Chinese, according to them a handwritten letter from a prince in charge of foreign affairs in Beijing, he looked at a few Chinese officials opposite who were trembling but fighting with their heads held high, took out the letter in his hand, handed it to the translator on the side, the translator glanced at it, his face showed a surprised expression, and said a few words of English to the American minister Hua Ruohan in disbelief, Hua Ruohan's eyes widened, "Negotiate peace?" ”

On 9 October, Prince Gong sent a note to the US minister Hua Ruohan, who was staying in Tianjin, hoping that the US minister would intervene to mediate and negotiate peace with Britain and France. (To be continued.) )