Brothers Yi and Yixuan walked out of Yangxin Gate and turned east into the road outside Zunyi Gate, heading towards the South Military Airport. It was just when lunch was about to start, and the hands on their pocket watches had already reached eleven o'clock in the morning.
The imperial dining room is located opposite the Yangxin Hall. It is quite convenient for the emperor to eat. The east-west row of houses is already full of people coming in and out. The sound and smell of frying have long been wafted out.
Yi called to a young eunuch, "Let the imperial kitchen prepare some side dishes and send them to the military aircraft. Prince Chun and I will have lunch there."
"I'm going to do it now, my slave." The little eunuch with a low eyebrow smiled brightly and started beating him. In the palace, the prince could not use the emperor's eunuchs in vain. Yi casually took out a delicate gold ingot weighing two coins and threw it over.
"Let's get two jugs of good wine by the way. Let's go and do it quickly."
The little eunuch who received the reward smiled so hard that his molars were exposed. "Thank you for the reward, Your Majesty. I am born with quick legs and a quick mouth. I will definitely do a good job for you."
The little eunuch turned to look at several eunuchs with lower status than him, changed his expression and said, "Why are you still hanging around? Go and run errands for the prince!"
After sending away the young eunuchs around him, Yi looked around and found that no one was listening. He quickly tugged on his brother's sleeves, and the two leaned against the west wall of Qianqing Palace and whispered in a low voice.
"It's so suspenseful. I thought you would tell the emperor in a hurry."
Yi Xuan spread his hands and said, "I'm stupid if you treat me as a brother. Even if you say this in this situation, you can't say it tacitly!" Yi Xuan looked at the Yangxin Palace with lingering fear. "Brother, you also know that I have two caravans outside the customs." , one of them ran on the line of Ning Guta. When someone impeached him in Hunchun, it was he who took the line of my housekeeper, and I said a few good words to him."
"That's it. There are a group of generals over at Ninggu Pagoda who are still loyal to me. A few days ago, a general sent me a secret message. Brother, guess what?"
Yi asked, "What's the matter? What are you trying to do? Tell me quickly."
"Hey, my brother, none of us thought that Zai Chun had actually given Hunchun a secret order years ago. None of us knew that Xiang Shaolong's volunteer army was hiding in Wusuli Jiangdong this winter. An, it was us, the people of the Qing Dynasty, who kept them through the winter!"
"The young general definitely didn't know what the secret decree said, but he could guess that Xiang Shaolong was close to ten years old. It was only after this secret decree that the checkpoints in the upper reaches of Suifen River and Wusuli River were able to attack Xiang Shaolong. Open! Zai Chun must have ordered Hunchun to secretly cooperate with the Volunteer Army!"
With a crisp sound, Yi's left fist hit his right palm hard, "Zaichun, this little beast! Traitor! This little traitor! He is determined to recognize the thief as his father, and he wants to sell our ancestors' country and country." ah!"
"The Qing Dynasty must not be left to him. Look at what he has done. He has been completely bewitched by Xiao Letian. He trained new soldiers in the imperial forest by himself. He dared to go to the south of the Yangtze River without being in charge of the government. He also dared to secretly order him to destroy his ancestor's family. Is the law just a piece of cake? What qualifications does he have to issue decrees?"
"Shh, keep your voice down, let's go and talk to the Military Aircraft Department." Yi Xuan dragged his brother out of the inner right door, ignoring the surprised looks of everyone in the Military Aircraft Department, and occupied a duty room in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Only the two princes talked in secret.
In fact, the two reasons why the Volunteer Army must be destroyed as mentioned before in the Yangxin Palace are only secondary. The most critical thing is the third one, which involves the future struggle for power within the imperial court.
There is no mercy in the struggle for power within the imperial court. On the surface, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is a dynasty that very much follows the laws of its ancestors. Generally speaking, the decrees of the previous emperors are unchangeable rules, but there are conditions. Once something happens, Don't talk about ancestral rules when it comes to life and death, even if it means selling thousands of miles of land, it will be sold.
During the Xinyou coup, the Eight Ministers of Gu Ming were the deliberation group left by Xianfeng to assist the young emperor. There was no such thing as a regent at that time. Will Yiyi give power to Yi? To the brother who once competed with him for the throne? Isn't this a joke? In the eyes of the fourth brother, Yi, the sixth brother, is just used to wipe his butt.
The city of Beijing has been captured. Anyone can escape, but you can't escape. Go ahead and negotiate with the foreign devils. No matter what the outcome is, the shit will definitely be on your head.
Yi was not stupid. He didn't want to throw away the tissue in his brother's hands forever, so when Cixi and Ci'an sent him an olive branch, he immediately launched a mutiny. At that time, the remaining soldiers left in Beijing were all He had integrated it, and it was not easy to kill a few ministers who had been deceived.
This can be said to have completely overturned the late emperor's will before Xianfeng's corpse was still cold. The imperial edict was overturned even if it was overturned.
How can people who have experienced that bloody storm be so soft-hearted? They know very well how cruel the struggle for power is. If the coup nine years ago had been delayed by even half a beat, Cixi and Ta Yi would have died.
Will the transfer of power be smooth and stable after the young emperor Zaichun takes charge? Isn't this a joke? How in the world can power be transferred peacefully? Behind all the so-called peaceful handovers, there may be many secret fights and conspiracy deals, but the kind-hearted people cannot see them.
Zai Chun has shown a strong character since he was a child. Although he is frail and sick, his inner character cannot be changed. When he is six or seven years old, if he encounters any troubles, he can show off his face to his mother. If such a person takes charge of the power **It must be very big.
Real history also proves this point. In the absence of a good teacher like Xiao Letian, the first major thing Zai Chun had to do after getting married and taking office was to rebuild the Old Summer Palace! This made the entire court stunned.
No matter who opposed it, it would not work. The stubborn Zai Chun actually pushed the Ministry of Internal Affairs to carry out preliminary preparations, and even placed a lot of orders for wood and masonry.
Prince Gong Yi was a clear-cut opponent of Zai Chun's nonsense. As a result, the half-year-old emperor directly issued an order to remove Yi from the title of prince. Now the whole court was in a panic.
The title of Prince Yi was given by your grandfather, okay? What are your qualifications for exemption? Cixi and Ci'an came forward at the same time to scold Zai Chun, and then forced him to issue an order to abolish the chaos, and the plan to rebuild the Old Summer Palace fell through.
From then on, Zai Chun ignored the government affairs, played with women every day, and even wandered around Huajie and Liuxiang. To put it bluntly, it was because he was angry with his elders.
At that time, no one knew what adolescent rebellion meant. It was not unusual for a sixteen or seventeen-year-old child to get angry when something went wrong.
Modern people know that it is called the rebellious period of youth, and there are many methods of psychological counseling, but the ancients did not know that, and Confucianism pays attention to benevolence and filial piety, and will not allow you to be rebellious.
If you dare to rebel, you will be crushed to death by secular rules, and no one will let you do it!
"Zaichun! Are you about to take action now? Do you think these two uncles are puppets for nothing? Just wait, let's play slowly."
