Muge, whose real name was Mugeji, was Sushun's distant wife's brother. He was highly regarded by Sushun. After the Xinyou coup, he changed his name and hid in the Xiling Guards. In Yi County, that is, he was captured during the battle to surround Xiao Letian. The third master revealed his identity in one word and was so frightened that he ran away.
Ersu, a Mongolian, was the personal soldier and general of the deceased Prince Yi Zaiyuan. He was extremely loyal to his master. Since Prince Yi was executed, he has been living near the capital with the intention of avenging the prince.
Cheng Huai, a Han man who personally carried the flag of Prince Zheng Duanhua, was a banker in the west of Beijing. He became a big landowner with the reward from his master. After the Xinyou coup, Duanhua was ordered to commit suicide. This loyal landowner began to Revealing his extraordinary business talent, he used the property given by his master to secretly support the activities of small groups.
There are also two brothers, Shi Shan and Shi Shui, who are both students of Luyuan Academy in Jinan. They are good at literature and martial arts, and they were taught by Kuang Yuan.
The eldest of these five suffering brothers is Fu Qing, the third master of Qing. This small group is the so-called reformist group that the Manchu Qing court focused on severely punishing some time ago. They are the remaining forces of the Eight Ministers of Gu Ming.
Sushun, Prince Yi Zaiyuan, and Prince Zheng Duanhua were the three pillars of the eight ministers who were killed by Cixi and others in the Xinyou coup. Two of the princes committed suicide, and Sushun was the most tragic. He was pushed to the market entrance and beheaded.
Imperial Minister Jing Shou, Minister of Military Aircraft Mu Yin, Minister of State Affairs Kuang Yuan, Minister of Industry Du Han, Minister of Military Aircraft Jiao Youying, these five brothers are the lucky ones among the eight ministers of Gu Ming who were lucky enough to save their lives. Their circumstances were all different. Some stayed behind closed doors to reflect on their faults, and some were sent thousands of miles away. In short, the political landscape of the late Qing Dynasty had nothing to do with them.
Facts have proved that any top minister who can stand at the top of a country's politics cannot be alone. In the decades they have been officials and politicians, they will inevitably know many people, mentor many people, and have disciples and former officials. They are all over the world.
Take Sushun, for example. Without his secret rescue, Zuo Zongtang would have been framed to death by the then governor of Huguang, Guan Wen. Sushun and Zuo Zongtang had a life-saving grace.
Zeng Guofan's path to success was also inseparable from Sushun's strong support. During the Xianfeng period, without Sushun's strong support and support, it would have been impossible for the Han Dynasty to become big, and the Hunan Army would not have been able to grow. Today's scale.
As for the two princes, Prince Zheng and Prince Yi, they are the famous Red Princes in the royal family. They are powerful and have disciples and former officials all over the world. There is also Kuang Yuan. After the Xinyou coup, he was hired as the mountain director of Jinan Luoyuan Academy and lectured 17 In 2006, there were more than 3,000 disciples.
As for the other ministers Gu Ming, they were all well-known powerful people in the court at that time. Emperor Xianfeng had no bright spots in his life in power, but the eight ministers Gu Ming he chose for his son were really an elite team, and their vision was absolutely amazing.
But it is a pity that before Xianfeng's body was cold, the eight ministers Gu Ming were crushed to pieces by the empress dowagers of the two palaces and his two brothers. He was exiled to death, and no one cared about Xianfeng's painstaking efforts.
The leader is dead, but the flock is still there. Those servants who have been greatly favored by their master will always produce a few dead men who are willing to avenge their master. With the help of thoughtful people, the forces left behind by the eighth minister Gu Ming begin to secretly contact And it went dormant, and finally became a moderate force.
Until finally they met Mr. Qing by chance. Encouraged by Mr. Qing's new Westernization ideas, this group of dead soldiers united by hatred actually became a strange flower among the Manchu ethnic group, a revolutionary faction.
Because of hatred, they hate all the decisions made by the court. Since the court wants to be conservative, then they must innovate. Since the court wants to be insular, then they must look overseas. This does not mean that they have much knowledge, this is purely an instinct. It’s just hatred and resistance.
But when they really came into contact with Western learning, under the subtle influence of Mr. Qing, they really changed. They actually made the effort to learn and accept Western learning.
They had seen the mysterious telegraph experiment conducted by Mr. San. The east and west wings were more than ten meters apart. Shi Shan in the east wing wrote a line of poetry. As a result, the telegraph operator moved his finger. In an instant, Shi Shui in the west wing received it. When the telegraph operator translated it, , two top students from Jinan Luoyuan Academy were so shocked that they were speechless.
They also saw the various types of Western guns privately collected by Mr. Qing, the two generals Ersu and Mugeji, and Spencer, who controlled the continuous fire, imagined that such a military formation would begin to massacre the cavalry regiment. They Only then did I realize that Baliqiao’s loss was not unfair at all.
There is also Cheng Huai, who is good at doing business. He even secretly went to Ryukyu for an inspection. The spectacular scene of thousands of sailors and goods flowing all over the world conquered him. The magnanimity of old shopkeeper Fan Jian, the head of the top chaebol, oppressed him and made him breathless. Come.
Facts speak louder than words. Qing Sanye was not only able to come up with theories, he was also able to come up with irrefutable facts. From then on, he was the leader of the Manchu Qing Reform Party.
It is a pity that this group of people obviously did not receive the secrecy training of the execution hall. Their whereabouts had been detected by the court before the palace coup, but the net was not closed at that time. After Cixi launched the Bingyin palace coup , the nine admirals locked up the capital, none of these unlucky ones escaped, they were all stewed with a spoonful.
They were beaten a lot in prison. If they hadn't known that Mr. Qing had led his troops to attack Jingshan and Cixi, they might have had to tell all the secrets in their stomachs.
People live by hope. As the resistance in Jingshan becomes stronger and stronger, the hope in their hearts becomes stronger and stronger. They can even judge the situation outside from the strength of the executions carried out by the government officials every day.
The execution time every day became shorter and shorter, and the attitude of the government officials gradually softened. In the end, it even became a daily formality. Just a few whips would complete the task, and the quality of the food was getting better and better.
Everything proved that the third master's victory was imminent. Sure enough, when Xiao Letian's new army entered the city, the door of the prison of the Ministry of Justice was opened. A group of government officials kowtowed, asked the doctor for treatment, and even collected two thousand taels of so-called atonement. silver.
These monkey spirits have very sharp noses. The Empress Dowager Dong has already made it clear that she supports the reformists, and Third Master Qing has become a second-rank official. These ancestors will have to be promoted after they leave the prison. They will not beg for mercy at this time. Can't we wait for revenge later?
In this way, the five leaders of the reformists were invited out of the prison in a daze and returned to their respective homes under the protection of the new army.
After several days of training, the injuries on the brothers' bodies have improved a lot. Today, under the leadership of Third Master, the six of them traveled together and began to tour the 49 cities under the rule of the New Army.
"This, this, this...is this still the capital? How come it has been completely turned upside down after four or five days?" Brothers Shishan and Shishui have never seen the capital so clean. There are people cleaning every street and alley. The Eight Banners and Green Camp soldiers who were captured by the New Army were not good at fighting, but they were really good at cleaning.
Under the threat of foreign guns and bayonets, and inspired by rice and braised pork, these soldiers all became migrant workers. The silt that had accumulated for countless years on the streets was shoveled away, and countless people were working on the alley walls. They whitewashed even the public toilets clean and even flushed them with clean water several times.
What made Ran even more shocked was that there were temporary sheds built at all intersections in Sijiucheng. Inside were piles of imported white rice, with an unlimited supply for 40 cents per liter.
"Oh my god, the price of rice during the Qianlong period was nothing more than this. The price in the capital actually returned to the price during the Qianlong period. This is all Prime Minister Xiao's trick." Although Elsu is a Mongolian, he has lived in the capital for generations, so he is considered an indigenous person. He was shocked when he saw the price of rice.
Fu Qing said proudly, "Yes, this is Xiao Letian's method. In the Qing Dynasty, I am the only brother who has the means to sell goods to the world. A large amount of these white rice are transported from Nanyang. The people of the capital are blessed." …”
In a short time, the group arrived at the Longxugou construction site, a popular project that Xiao Letian focused on. Only when they arrived here could people see Xiao Letian's courage.
More than two thousand captive soldiers were rolling around like mud monkeys digging in the mud. From a distance, they looked like a group of ants crawling around. The banks of Longxugou were filled with blue bricks and pebbles. Under the command of the great craftsman, Below, roads paved with stones and green bricks are gradually extending forward.
Several of the people present were old Beijingers. They had been to Longxugou before. The soul-crushing stench was something they would never forget. Although there is still a stench now, it is far worse than before. Farewell.
"This, this, this...how much money will this cost? The Prime Minister has nowhere to spend his money."
The Third Master chuckled, "My brother is not a loser in business. He paid one-third of the price for the entire Longxugou renovation project, with the remaining half paid by the imperial court, and the other half paid by Lotte Matheson..."
"My brother has bought all the land on both sides of Longxugou. In his plan, Longxugou will bring clean running water and then plant it with lotus flowers. There will be commercial shops and brothels on both sides of the bank... and the civilians behind it will All the caves have been converted into beautiful courtyard houses, guess how much money this will make."
"I didn't understand it at first, but then my brother had someone draw a 'rendering' of what Longxugou would look like in the future, and then he copied it and sent copies to the homes of all the princes and nobles. Guess what. "
The third master sneered and said, "All the princes and stewards have secretly contacted Lotte Bank. The money is shipped overseas in boxes. These people want a piece of the pie."
"Hiss..." Everyone gasped. They didn't expect Xiao Letian to be so clever. On the surface, he led troops to intimidate the court, but secretly did business with the nobles. This skill was simply incredible.
At this moment, hundreds of trolleys suddenly appeared on both sides of Longxugou, carrying buckets of steaming white rice and buckets of pork vermicelli stew.
"Let's have lunch... Today is braised pork again. Each person has a bowl of braised pork, rice and pickles for free... Grandma's, you have to thank the prime minister for going. Damn, you didn't eat as well as you do now when you were in the army. "
"What are you talking about, brothers? When I was in the army, I could add a spoonful of lard to the stew in the big kitchen for you. Even if you celebrate the New Year, now looking at the days, braised pork every meal, just eat here, it's worth the tiring work. ”
"It's time to eat. It's time to eat. Take the bamboo sticks you used to work today and come get your lunch."
The aroma of braised pork filled the air, and the working Green Camp soldiers ate as if they were reincarnations of starving ghosts. Their heads were buried in their rice bowls, and the sound of grabbing rice bowls could be heard everywhere.
