On the first day of the lunar month, five o'clock in the morning.

On this day, the adults above the third grade in the capital are resting at home, and they do not need to participate in the early dynasty.

Outside the noon gate, a group of monks and Taoists entered the palace one after another, preparing to hold a prayer ceremony for Cixi.

There were not only many Taoist temples and monks near the capital.

There are also some famous people from the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism who came from afar to pray for Cixi.

For example, Master Huiyuan, a senior monk of Qingliang Temple in Wutai Mountain, and Yunxiu Zhenren, the contemporary head of the Kongtong faction.

These monks have been arranged to wait at the Hamruo Pavilion, and the puja will officially begin at the time of the hour.

At the same time, the Qianqing Palace.

Several of the eunuchs who were guarding the outside fell to the ground, but they only fainted, and their lives were unharmed.

A tall young man dressed in a royal blue robe stood calmly by the window, looking outward.

Behind him was a young man in a yellow robe with a somewhat pale face.

The young man sat on the edge of the bed with his hands on his knees, sweating profusely from his forehead.

His reddened eyes stared at the ground, twitching from side to side.

"It's not early, it's almost dawn."

Yu Ke turned around and looked at Zai Yan who was looming in the depths of his eyes: "Have you thought about it, little emperor?" ”

"This year is the twelfth year of Guangxu, and you are almost seventeen years old."

"When the First Emperor was your age, he had only been on the throne for three years, but he had already done something."

"And you have been on the throne for more than ten years, but you don't even have the opportunity to be in power."

"The Queen Mother has always said that she wants to return the government to you, but she has a different heart and mouth, and she has always firmly controlled the government."

"Look at what she has done to the scourge of the Qing Dynasty over the years? The family is about to be ruined, right? ”

"I heard that in order to build the Summer Palace, she has spent more than six million silver to build it."

"Not only did they empty the little silver that was left in the Qing treasury, but they also borrowed millions of pounds from the British Empire?"

Zai Yan raised his head, and his eyes, which were originally a little hideous, instantly became soft and timid.

He said in a weak tone:

"My father has worked hard all his life, what's wrong with repairing a garden?"

Yu Ke asked indifferently, "Do you really think so?" Little emperor, there is no one else here. ”

"I ......"

Zai Yan said hesitantly: "This is naturally my heart. My father knew that I was not capable, so he just helped me preside over government affairs. ”

Yu Ke sighed and said, "You are really a waste, and you are about to be completely detained by Cixi." ”

"Do you know that if you have been in waste for a long time, it is easy to really become a waste of nests."

Anger flashed in Zaiyan's eyes, and he held back stiffly, but he listened to Yu Ke continue:

"I guess you've been out of the palace no more than ten times over the years, right?"

Zai Xiang seemed to be deflated when he heard this.

Yu Ke saw that the method of agitation was useless, so he changed his thinking and asked sentence by sentence:

"Have you ever climbed the majestic Dai Sect?"

"Have you ever seen the sea as far as the eye can see?"

"Do you know the taste of thin horses in Yangzhou?"

"Do you want to lead the troops to fight on the battlefield, seal the wolf Juxu, and drink the sea of horses?"

"Don't you want the days when you wake up to the power of the world and lie on the knees of drunken beauties?"

As Yu Ke asked one by one, Zai Yan's expression changed again and again, with longing, anger, resentment, and unwillingness......

Yu Ke walked to the table and picked up the globe on the table:

"This world is so big, my self-styled land is vast, and it's just a corner of the country?"

"There are so many beautiful days in this world, and life is in a hurry for a hundred years, isn't it a pity not to see and see?"

Jae-yan remained silent, not saying a word.

In fact, this young man, who grew up in the palace and ascended the throne as emperor at the age of four, is far more mature than his peers.

It's just Cixi, Li Lianying, those cabinet ministers, and the old eunuchs who are accompanying them, which one is not the human spirit among the human spirits?

In front of them, Zai Yan was immature like a newborn baby, unable to jump out of his palms at all.

His situation is not much better than Pu Yi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Yu Ke saw that Guangxu never answered, and felt less patient in his heart: "Little emperor, have you thought clearly?" I'll give you the last five minutes to think about it. ”

Zai Yan lowered his eyebrows and asked rhetorically, "Do I have a choice?" ”

"Of course you have!"

Yu Ke smiled slightly sarcastically: "You have already chosen." ”

"You chose to give up the whole country to an old woman and watch him squander it at will."

"You chose to sit back and watch your favorite concubine being thrown into a well and drowned alive."

"You choose ......"

"Enough!"

Zai Yan let out a low snort, and it was only at this time that he had a trace of the courage of being an emperor.

"If you don't explode in silence, you will die in silence, Your Majesty." Yu Ke still said.

Zaeyan's chest continued to rise and fall, and his face was even whiter than before, and it took half a minute to calm down.

He said in a low tone: "I promised you that I would take you to see the Queen Mother." ”

"But you have to tell me who you are? And what exactly is your purpose? ”

Yu Ke had an extra whisk in his hand out of thin air, and saluted Zai Yanji: "Poor Dao, Wang Ye." ”

"As for the purpose,"

Yu Ke raised his head and showed his bright teeth: "Poor Dao has three big gifts to give to the Queen Mother." ”

Zai Yan saw that Yu Ke conjured a handful of dust out of thin air, and although his eyes were suspicious, he didn't ask much.

"What gift do you want to give to the Queen Mother?" Jae-yan asked expressionlessly.

"Don't leak it!"

Zaiyan: "......"

A few minutes later.

Zai Yan walked out of the door, and Yu Ke followed behind, dressed as a eunuch.

He woke up a few eunuchs outside the door, and his voice was extremely high-pitched:

"You minions are not too timid, dare to sleep here!"

When several eunuchs saw the emperor walking out of the house, they quickly got up and knelt on the ground, not daring to raise their heads, and explained:

"Minions are not ......"

Yu Ke crossed his waist with one hand, pinched his throat and shouted angrily: "You dare to quibble!" I will go and get thirty whips in a while, and I will have a good memory! ”

Several eunuchs were so frightened that they couldn't speak.

"Prepare a sedan car! Your Majesty is going to Chuxiu Palace to greet Lafayette, if you miss the time, be careful of your skin! ”

Zai Yan on the side looked at Yu Ke as a demon with a strange expression.

After a while, the sedan chair was ready, Zai Yan sat in the sedan chair, and several eunuchs carried the sedan chair in the direction of Chuxiu Palace.

Yu Ke held a whisk in his hand and took the lead in front (PS: eunuchs also use dust).

Several eunuchs carrying sedan chairs looked at Yu Ke's back with some doubts.

Who is this eunuch? How come you've never seen it?

They glanced at each other, but they didn't dare to communicate loudly, after all, the rules in the palace were strict.

After turning two corners, a group of Ouchi guards with torches came to meet them.

After seeing the emperor's palanquin, these Ouchi guards immediately knelt down on one knee, and waited for the emperor's palanquin to pass before they got up again and continued to patrol.

After another two or three minutes, Chuxiu Palace arrived.

Zai Yan got off the sedan chair and walked towards the palace, and Yu Ke followed Zai Yan and walked towards the palace together.

Zai Xiang knelt outside the house and said loudly: "Dear father, the child has come to greet you." ”

After a while, the head of the house answered: "The emperor is here, get up quickly, don't freeze." ”