The tragic news brought by the military attache shocked everyone, Weibei lamented in his heart, at this critical time, there was news that His Majesty the Tsar was assassinated, and the Chinese who saw the wind turning the rudder would definitely not let go of this opportunity, he waved his hand, let everyone leave the Prime Minister's Yamen together, return to the Russian embassy and discuss the next affairs, I don't know if it is a psychological effect, at this time Weibei felt that the Chinese who accompanied the reception looked at him with strange eyes, with a murderous feeling in pity, It seems to be a lonely traveler staring at a lonely traveler in the wilderness, with green eyes and hungry Siberian wolves. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Wei Bei tiredly got into the carriage and closed his eyes, but he thought of something, quickly opened his eyes, and said slowly to several officials in the carriage, "I have thought of a serious problem. ”

"What's the problem?"

"Why did the Chinese know about the death of His Majesty the Tsar before we did?" He said solemnly, "The news from China is that His Majesty the Tsar has not died after the explosion last night, but the news has been blocked, and the news has not been released until he passed away this morning, these Chinese," Wei Bei broke out in a cold sweat on his head, he was a little shocked by the Chinese intelligence system. "They are better informed than we are diplomatically!"

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"What?" "Ouch!"

The previous was a scream of surprise with doubts, followed by a scream of pain, the Empress Dowager Cixi stood up suddenly, and was using a hairpin to insert the Empress Dowager Cixi on the left side of the sick palace maid caught off guard and drew a long wound behind the Empress Dowager Cixi's ear from top to bottom, the palace maid's face turned pale with fright, and she quickly knelt down and kowtowed again and again to ask for guilt, "Slave and maid should die, Xisheng forgives sins!" ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi had a mixed expression of pain and joy on her face, she touched the blood stains on the back of her neck with her hand, a tingling pain, stretched out her palm, and there was a blood bead on her fingertips, trembling, bright red, emitting a bewitching light, Li Lianying lightly slapped the palace maid's head, and scolded in a low voice, "Blind your eyes, you actually injured Xisheng's phoenix body, I see that you have ten heads and it is not enough to cut off!" ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi wiped the blood stain with the fold in her hand and shook her head, "Okay, I was careless, don't blame her, get up quickly, don't frighten the child." Call the doctor in and wait for me to be bandaged. ”

The palace maid calmed down at this time, and went out to call the imperial doctor with a white face, and the Empress Dowager Cixi put down the blood-stained fold, and the smile on her face became bigger and bigger, and finally she couldn't help laughing, "Haha," the Empress Dowager Cixi laughed happily, "The Russian Tsar is actually dead?" God help me! ”

Only then did Cixi believe that she was a traverser with the "Mandate of Heaven", "The Russian emperor was assassinated, then in the foreseeable future, this abnormal transfer of power will inevitably produce great turmoil, this is our good opportunity, Xiao Lizi," Cixi said decisively, "Immediately instruct Guo Songtao that the terms negotiated with Russia before are all invalid!" Then tell them to give us the land of the North Sea first, otherwise nothing can be discussed. ”

"Huh."

"Tell the military planes to come in, and we will go to the Qinzheng Palace." The Empress Dowager Cixi raised her eyebrows, it was really like divine help, the emperor of Russia died, which means that there is no need to care about Russia's attitude at all, so that there is room for turning around the affairs of Beihai.

The Empress Dowager Cixi put on some Yunnan white ointment, did not bandage, hurried to the Qinzheng Palace, the military planes have arrived, as soon as she sat down, the Empress Dowager Cixi announced the matter: "Russian Emperor Alexander II was assassinated!" ”

The ministers of military aircraft were a little surprised for a while, and Prince Gong hurriedly asked, "Is it true?" ”

"True," the Empress Dowager Cixi spread out the booklet she had been holding in her hand and read: "On the 24th, Tsar Alexander II of Russia was killed by members of the People's Will Party in St. Petersburg who blew off his legs with bombs, and on the morning of the 25th, he died after ineffective medical treatment. ”

That's definitely a big deal! Of course, in the past, the Chinese did not care about these things at all, because they never opened their eyes to the world, but now it is different, Zuo Zongtang took the lead in speaking, "The courtier asked the Empress Dowager to immediately order the abrogation of the negotiation agreement with Russia." ”

"I have already made an order, Guo Songtao has stopped negotiations with Russia at this time." Empress Dowager Cixi nodded, "As for the equal exchange of North Sea and Kashmir territory between the two countries mentioned earlier, I am prepared not to continue to negotiate with the Russians according to this condition." ”

"The Queen Mother," Li Hongzao admonished, "between countries, we need to use faith, if we go back on our word, I am afraid that it will be harmful and useless to act between countries." ”

"Between countries, it is more necessary to consider interests than faithfulness," Empress Dowager Cixi said awe-inspiringly, although she said interests, but the expression on her face was very dignified, "If you still hold the way of the former gentleman's country and foreign exchanges, I am afraid that the bones that are eaten are not careless at all, such as the United Kingdom, have you ever talked to us about faithfulness?" The shares of the Suez Canal said that we would withdraw if we wanted to withdraw, and the warships said that they would withhold it, but this would not be trustworthy. Master Li, your article is doing well, but against foreigners, it will not work by relying on faithfulness, or in other words, if our China is strong in the future, then it is also feasible to talk about faithfulness to small countries, such as Ege, don't I just let him go to Vietnam to talk about honesty and honesty? ”

Li Hongzao was silent, and the Empress Dowager Cixi didn't say anything more on this matter, "Moreover, the two countries have not reached a formal agreement, and there is no way to renounce the alliance, the British have put too much pressure on us on several things, everyone knows it, I have thought about it these days, and I really have no choice, so I have to take Kashmir to send the British first, so the negotiations with Russia will naturally be impossible to talk about, if this is the case, I am afraid that the land of the North Sea will be all in the pocket is also a fool's dream, who knows that if you want to doze off, you will come to a pillow, God really help me, the death of the Russian emperor, there will be a big turmoil, I will take advantage of the fire to rob, presumably Russia will also give in. ”

"Empress Dowager Shengming," Zuo Zongtang hurriedly patted his ass, "The minister thinks that relying on Guo Songtao alone to negotiate is afraid that the effect will not be great, and the twelve towns should be sent out to send a few more towns to deter in Mobei Uriya, Sutai, Tangnu, Wulianghai and other places, so as to take the land of Beihai as soon as possible." ”

"That's very good," the Empress Dowager Cixi nodded approvingly, "I also have this intention, the Russians used to take advantage of the British and French invasions to blackmail and want to seize the land of Longxing in the northeast," the Empress Dowager Cixi squinted slightly, with a sharp light in her eyes, "Now it's our turn." (To be continued.) )