After Yang Zhi left, the meeting at Yangxin Palace did not break up. Li Lianying gave all the princes a cup of ginseng soup. This was not a mere decoration, it was the grace of the Queen Mother and everyone had to drink it.
"It's not easy to get together. No matter how hard everyone works, we should discuss everything that needs to be discussed. If the situation is difficult, we can't just be lazy..."
After a few mouthfuls of ginseng soup, all the princes and ministers regained a little bit of vitality. It was Yi? who took the lead in speaking, "Now the country is attacked by internal and external troubles. There are hundreds of thousands of Hunan troops from the south who cannot be killed, and Xiao Letian, who is entrenched in the East China Sea, is watching with eager eyes. Even His Majesty left the capital to travel around the world. This is a dilemma that the country has not seen in a century..."
"Looking at foreign aggression, Zuo Jigao is still mired in the mud of Gansu and Shaanxi, and the entire Xinjiang region has been completely eroded. Not only that, the urgent military information sent by Heilongjiang General Tepuxin ten days ago, the survivors on the east bank of the Ussuri River and the Russian There have been several conflicts between people, and it is said that several villages have been massacred..."
"What? How brave..." Everyone suddenly became furious. After all, the Northeast is the place where the Manchus flourished, and the Wusuli River is the hometown of the Haixi Jurchens, and the Yehenala tribe where Cixi is from arose. here.
Eight years ago, the Russians took advantage of the fire and robbed the land east of the Ussuri River. Although the imperial court smashed their teeth and swallowed blood, the anger in their hearts has not subsided. Now the Rakshasa Kingdom actually dares to kill the remaining people on the east bank. This What a shame.
Cixi saw that the atmosphere in the Yangxin Palace had changed drastically. This topic was probably going to turn upside down and she quickly said, "We must first calm down the internal affairs before we fight foreign affairs. Let's discuss our inner concerns first. The war in the northeast and northwest should be put on hold for a while. As long as the imperial court is in charge of the general affairs, There will be a way!"
Everyone was helpless when they thought about it. They were angry, but now was really not the time to fall out with the Russians. Even if they wanted to fall out with the Russians, they might not be able to do so. Everyone sighed in their hearts and shut up.
Foreign troubles cannot be mentioned, so we can only mention internal worries. Now that the Nian Army and Changmao have been completely calmed down within the Qing Dynasty, and the Gansu-Shaanxi Rebellion is suppressed by Zuo Zongtang’s army, it is only a matter of time to solve it. As for the distant Xinjiang , that is also Zuo Jigao’s problem.
What's more, the Great Wall defense system built by the Han people for thousands of years is still there. As long as the Dunhuang and Yumen in Anxi Prefecture are defended, the rebels will have no chance to threaten the hinterland of the Central Plains.
After much deliberation, Zeng Guofan and Xiao Letian are the two most troublesome. Although Zeng Guofan is an old fox who is difficult to deal with, he has always regarded himself as a loyal minister, and Han Confucian ministers have to be constrained by the righteousness of monarchs and ministers, so the threat level is still Not the highest.
The real opponent is still Xiao Letian!
But Xiao Letian is not a fuel-efficient lamp. If Zeng Guofan is an old fox, then Xiao Letian is a little fox, and he is full of slickness and no mercy.
Ninety percent of the princes and ministers in the court still hope that Xiao Letian will die. Maybe some people hope that he will die, while others hope that Xiao Letian will fall. But no matter what happens to Xiao Letian, people do not want such a force to exist.
This Xiao Letian is simply a ferocious black fish in the pond. His presence makes all the goldfish and koi feel threatened.
Since it is a threat, it must be eradicated, but how to eradicate it is really a huge problem. The imperial court was defeated several times in a row. Even the Forty-Nine City was attacked by others, and all the Hall of Supreme Harmony became the target of the new army. In the martial arts arena, this humiliation makes people feel feverish just thinking about it now.
When Xiao Letian proposed to take Emperor Tongzhi away for a study tour, the entire court had only one method of resistance: crying and begging. What a shame, a shame and a great humiliation!
You can't beat them in war, and you don't have as much money to play as others. You want to rely on Qingliu for moral kidnapping, but they are outside the Qing Dynasty, and you can't go to Ryukyu to criticize them. After thinking about it, everyone was at a loss. Xiao Letian put his power on the Ryukyu Island overseas. This was a stroke of genius.
After all, the civilization of the Central Plains is the civilization of the mainland. If you stand in the circle of the mainland, they have many ways to fight against you, whether soft or hard. However, Xiao Letian jumped out of the Three Realms and was not in the Five Elements. He actually chose to take root in the sea. Now the court has no choice. Well, the sea has never been the Chinese people’s sphere of influence.
There was a buzzing noise in the Yangxin Hall. Some people said that they wanted to lure the enemy deeper, some said that they wanted to build a large warship to conquer... and some even wanted to invite Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain and Tibetan lamas to open altars to accept this evildoer. , and what’s even more ridiculous is that some people want to reward Xiao Letian’s beauty so much that he will die of exhaustion on the bed.
Listening to the nonsensical discussion, Cixi, Yi?, Yixuan and others frowned, and their faces turned bitter. In the end, Prince Gong coughed twice, "Stop it down, you guys can't deal with Xiao Letian." , it’s better to listen to the Queen Mother’s opinion, don’t forget that when Yang Zhi defected, if it weren’t for the Queen Mother’s strategy, we would have been defeated long ago!”
Yi? You are right. When Yang Zhi defected, the entire Ryukyu forces went completely crazy. The total wealth involved in the banknote printing formula reached tens of billions. The leakage of the secret recipe had a huge impact on Ryukyu's financial system. At that time, Ryukyu We have even prepared a plan for a second invasion of the Forty-Nine Cities.
At the most critical moment, Cixi controlled the situation. Like a shameless shrew in the countryside, he defeated the arrogant Xiao Letian with complete shamelessness.
Do you dare to touch a hair of the imperial court? If you dare to attack me, I will betray the country. Don’t you Han people love a unified China the most? Mom, I'll break it up for you.
Do you believe that I admit that the Agube regime is legitimate? Do you believe that I gave Guangdong to the British? Do you believe that I ceded Yunnan and Guizhou in Guangxi to the French?
Isn’t that just betraying the country? If you don't want me to be happy, I will betray my country and borrow foreign soldiers to beat you. I don't believe that you, Xiao Letian, are so powerful that you can become an enemy of everyone!
This is true that those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. The most humble person is invincible! This punch really hit Xiao Letian's weakness. This time, Xiao Letian went crazy, so Xiao Letian had to calm down and negotiate with the Manchus for compromise, and half of the bond business was taken away.
It was also Cixi's successful counterattack that greatly increased his reputation among the Manchus. After the decline in his rivalry with Ci'an, the empress dowagers of the two palaces once again started to compete against each other.
Cixi pinched her long fingernails and knocked on the table carelessly, "Tsk, tsk... You guys, a group of men have to force me, a woman, to stand out. How embarrassed are you? Don't you blush at all?"
Yi? He and Cixi cooperated tacitly, and of course he wouldn't blush. "It's more work for those who can do it! Since Xiao Letian is the monkey that even the Jade Emperor can't control, then the Buddha has to take action in the end! For the sake of the imperial court's centenary plan, we can only let the Queen Mother What a hard work!”
