It was late at night in the capital, and the drums to clean the streets had already sounded. Even the banging and shouting were so weak in the cold weather. As for the soldiers who needed to patrol the streets regularly, they didn't know where the cat had gone.
Yang Zhi, who was drunk, was sitting swaying on the horse. The servants were afraid that he would fall off the horse and hold the horse's reins on foot. In the dark night, the moonlight was pale and pale.
After all, Yang Zhi had a title, so the ban on cleaning the street drums had no effect on him. Occasionally he met two lone night watch soldiers on the road. One look at Yang Zhi's swagger and he knew that they were untouchable. If you throw out the good stuff and a handful of copper coins, the other party will do nothing but kowtow and thank you.
Tonight was undoubtedly an unforgettable night for Yang Zhi. He thought he was an old fox who was practicing well, but after hearing many secrets today, he realized that in the eyes of these big shots, he was just a harmless fox. Just a little white rabbit.
The court is indeed the filthiest and most complicated place in the world. Everything on the surface is fake. Who would have thought that Cixi and Yi?, the two protagonists of the scandal, have actually been inseparable for a long time?
Who would have thought that Yi? At present, a secret agreement has been reached with the British. There has been a rift between the uncle and the sister-in-law in Xishan Camp. Last month, a guerrilla general fell off his horse and died after drinking. In fact, it was the internal fighting between the two factions. result.
No one would have thought that the Nine Admiralty Offices led by Yixuan were the real direct descendants of Cixi. The French had just handed over 3 million gold francs in military aid to Yixuan three months ago. God knows where all the money was spent.
What good things are Cian and Fuqing? Ci'an, through her status as the Queen Mother of the East Palace, had reached a secret agreement with the Mongolian princes and nobles. Now many trading caravans outside the mouth and outside the customs are actually under the control of Fuqing.
Yang Zhi always thought that Fan Ru, the elder brother of the old shopkeeper Fan Jian, was a rotten loser that people often laughed at, but he had no idea that thanks to Fan Ru's integration and matchmaking, a large number of people from Shanxi Merchant Group had begun to join Qing Dynasty. The third master’s subordinate.
Some people think that the elite soldiers trained by the little emperor in Fujian were funded by Jiangnan. In fact, this is bullshit! The military expenditure provided by Hu Xueyan only accounted for about 40%. The remaining military expenditure was actually raised by the department of Qing Sanye in the Prime Minister's Yamen.
The Forty-Nine City alone has been divided into so many forces, not to mention the Hunan Army Group with self-respecting troops outside, the alarming Zuo Jigao in the northwest, plus Xiao Letian and the West on the sea. The great powers of various countries and the entire Qing Dynasty have turned into a complete mess.
In such a situation, people are united in fighting against differences. There is no unified ideological and unified goal at all. Each person has a trumpet and each plays his own tune.
Even for the benefit of their own faction, they can completely ignore the other party's good governance and disrupt it, turning the good ZTE situation into an even more chaotic stinking quagmire.
Everything should not have been like this. The Tongzhi ZTE in history was originally a great victory for Cixi's faction, and then suppressed all the disobedient forces, including the Japanese Liuyi who did not dare to stab her in front of her.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty was under the personal dictatorship created by Cixi, and its life was extended for several decades. Cixi is not a fairy who has the power to save herself. She is just a veteran politician who knows how to balance and use centralization of power to suppress different opinions.
The only medicine she could prescribe to the Qing Dynasty was a bowl of ginseng soup. She tried her best to extend the life of the Qing Dynasty, with only one purpose. At least to prevent her from seeing the earth-shaking revolution before she died, so that she could live smoothly. A lifetime of happiness is enough.
It is a pity that the emergence of Xiao Letian broke the already gradually formed political situation. Cixi failed in front of Xiao Letian time and time again, seriously damaging the political reputation she had accumulated before. Many people have already started to think carefully. People have begun to be unconvinced by her.
Ci'an moved out of the Forbidden City, Yi? trained troops in Xishan, and his son Zai Chun also left to study in the Qing Dynasty. Now even the fifth master of the capital can't stand it anymore, and they all want to go out and do something.
Yi Pei's drunken words kept lingering in Yang Zhi's ears: "Fifth Master, I don't want to be the emperor. Whoever wants to take that position can take it... I just don't think the court can continue like this! In the past few years, Su Shun and others were killed. After that, the DPRK really seemed to be reviving, so I didn’t want to meddle in things anymore!”
"Why have you kept doing more and more in the past two years? To be fair, I personally don't resent the concentration of power on Cixi. After all, she is the biological mother of our nephew. In order to take care of the situation for her son, it doesn't matter if she has more power... …”
"But in recent years, what Cixi and Ci'an have done has become more and more outrageous! A war broke out on Jingshan Mountain, and even Xiao Letian led his troops to Beijing. This shame was all left to grandma's house. Already..."
"We can't let them continue to act like this. After all, I am also the biological son of Emperor Xuanzong. I can't watch them continue to act like this... Yang Zhi, you have the power of the Xishan Banknote Printing Factory in your hands, and Li Tuo There are many well-known billkeepers in the Qing Dynasty. If you two cooperate and make a real deal with me, how much money can you raise for me?"
After hearing Li Tuo and Fifth Master's plan, Yang Zhi's head went numb! He never expected that Fifth Master would hide so deeply and be so knowledgeable.
"Yang Zhi! To be honest with you two, the Qing Dynasty actually fell when it was in trouble. I always feel that there is a lot of ghosts in this court. In fact, it is just a dead body occupying the throne. Don’t let go…”
"Does the city of Beijing still have control over local areas now? Bah... It has long been gone. Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hunan... many places have become independent small kingdoms of Han governors. They are still nominally the land of the Qing Dynasty. But the court can’t control it anymore!”
"Only the common people are still very stupid. They are too far away from the dragon throne, so they look at the dead body in the dragon robe from a distance and still release the power of the dragon like a living person... But I have already been fucking You can see clearly that the person sitting on the dragon throne is not a living person at all, but a dead person!"
"My ideal is actually very simple. To be the last life raft for the Manchus... Don't all foreigners have life rafts on their warships? I, Yi Pei, will be the last life raft. When the sky falls apart, I will save as many as I can. How much!"
Note: Recently, many book friends are very anxious, anxious that the war will start soon. In fact, I am also anxious in Xinjing. I also want to start the war as soon as possible, but the preparation before the war must be done well, otherwise the subsequent plot will not be able to unfold.
If the war between Russia and the Chinese is an open war and a hot war, then what is happening now is a secret war and a cold war. This is a preview and foreshadowing before the real war.
In fact, all open and hot wars in human history did not appear out of thin air, but after countless secret confrontations, compromises, negotiations, balances, and conflicts between the two sides... It was not until the final unity of interests was impossible that the accumulated hot wars broke out. , open war.
In fact, there are not many natural killers in this world. They just enjoy killing. Real politicians are all about interests. If they can use espionage wars, financial wars, assassinations, small-scale border conflicts... and use these small conflicts... If they can achieve their expected goals, who will fight for the founding of the People's Republic of China?
In fact, on the surface, the war between Russia and the Chinese was caused by the conflict in the Qingdao gold mine in the Far East. In fact, the bloody war broke out because the balance between the various forces in Asia was broken.
Once the balance between forces is broken, a secret war will inevitably occur, which cannot be changed by human power. If the secret war and cold war cannot restore the balance among multiple forces, then the situation will escalate to a hot war and an open war!
This is the law of nature and cannot be controlled by humans, so these plots are necessary. Although they take up tens of thousands of words more, they are absolutely useful.
By the way, you have read more than three million words, don’t you have enough patience? The quality of Xinjing's writing is worthy of your trust, so please read it patiently.
