After a long time, Xiao Letian obtained the details of the Mawei farce from the backward telegraph system in Asia at the time. After hearing the cause and effect, Xiao Letian was frightened into a cold sweat.
"What a blessing from Guanshiyin Bodhisattva! It's so easy to cause a major diplomatic incident. If Ermao did the right thing, he should exchange the money for Zai Chun, and little Zai Chun handled it beautifully!"
"If this is not handled properly at all, and the British warships at the mouth of the Minjiang River intervene in the name of escort, it will be another trouble!"
"It's easy to ask the gods but hard to send them away. As long as the British soldiers land, do you want them to leave smoothly? There's no telling how many benefits they will get!"
After all, the chaos did not break out, so the British soldiers could only look at the land of the Qing Dynasty with regret and drool!
"Zaichun has a guilty conscience! It's not a case of being shy at all. It's called pro-government syndrome. Before he took office, he felt a little unsure..."
"It has been said since ancient times that the ignorant are fearless, and the ignorant are actually the most courageous. Anyone who has truly seen the world knows what it means to pull a hair and move the whole body!"
"Emperor Tongzhi is no longer the silly boy he used to be. He started clamoring to rebuild the Old Summer Palace as soon as he came into power... He has seen the weather overseas and witnessed a real super battle in which millions of people were strangled together... "
"He even knew about the civil unrest in Paris, and he knew how powerful ordinary people would be!"
"It is precisely because he knows how powerful his opponent is that he has fear in his heart! Before, under my wings, he knew that I would protect him in everything..."
"There will be nothing in the future...nothing..."
A son is better than his father, and Emperor Tongzhi's biological father has died long ago, so Xiao Letian, the emperor's master, can be regarded as half a father. Why did Zai Chun happily reward his new imperial army as soon as he saw it?
He was not already deeply worried about the political situation in Beijing. The political black hole had already opened its bloody mouth, waiting for the fresh little emperor to come to his door.
Xiao Letian's guess was not wrong at all. At the same moment that Emperor Tongzhi landed in Mawei, Shen Baozhen sent an urgent telegram to Beijing to inform the city of the little emperor's return.
At that time, in Forty-Nine City, countless power lords behind the scenes were secretly colluding together, trying every means to fight for power and gain, and forming shady political alliances.
Next to Deshengmen Street and to the west of Prince Gong's Mansion, is the residence of Prince Qing. On the day when the little emperor landed, flowing water mats were set up in Prince Qing's Mansion, famous actors from the Huizhou class appeared on stage, and top names from the eight alleys were interspersed among them.
What's the big deal today? In fact, it was nothing. It was just that Yi Kuang renovated his own theater and spent a total of 120,000 taels of silver to build a three-story theater. He opened it as a gimmick.
"Bite...bite...hahaha...look at this bronze-headed and iron-backed General Desheng...look at his aura!"
"Bite...keep biting...and earn a fortune for me!"
The sound of gongs and drums on the theater floor was as thick as rain, but the people under the stage were like a pot of excitement. Prince Qing Yikuang was a famous recalcitrant in the Forty-Nine City, and he knew all the tricks of the Eight Banners.
Yi Kuan is the great-grandson of Emperor Qianlong. He, Yi Xin and Yixuan are all uncles and brothers. He is the same generation as Emperor Xianfeng and shares the same blood relationship with his grandfather.
Because of this identity, Yikuang simply walked sideways in Sijiu City. Apart from the princes of the royal family, who else did he have eyes for?
Today he is the protagonist of the banquet. This guy has his braid wrapped around his neck. He is holding a pair of walnuts plated by Emperor Qianlong in his hand. He is making a lot of noise. With his other hand, he is pointing at the silverback dragon in the cricket cage and yelling curses. .
"Damn it, did you miss your mother-in-law last night? Is it easy for me to raise you, to be bullied like this? Bite me! Come on!"
The silver-backed dragon is Yi Kuang's precious cricket, and the opponent's bronze-headed and iron-backed General Desheng is Yi Pei, the fifth master of the capital, Prince Chun!
"Ouch? Are you a little bit competitive, Yikuan? If you have the ability, raise the bet! I'll bet another hundred taels of gold, will you follow me?"
"Hey, Fifth Brother, are you trying to get on with me? Are you someone who can stand up to me? I'll give you a hundred taels of gold..."
Good guys, this pair of uncles and brothers have already won 600 taels of gold in a cricket fight. It is rare for even a prince-level player to play such a big game!
Six hundred taels of gold, including gold ingots, gold bars, and handfuls of golden melon seeds, were piled like a mountain on the red wrapper. The surrounding poor officials and the poor relatives of the Eight Banners were all drooling.
"So rich! How the hell is he so rich?"
"Shh... keep your voice down, don't offend others, that's the Red Prince... they have more stores in Longxugou, and I heard they even secretly do business with the Northern Special Administrative Region..."
"Prince Qing has contracted the distribution rights for iron nails, mining lamps, cooking pots and other iron items throughout the northwest... A total of sixteen caravans took turns taking goods from Tanggu to sell to the northwest, making as much money as the sea water... "
"Twenty-two thousand taels! Build a theater...for others, it's just for fun!"
The crowd lowered their voices and bit each other's ears, but they couldn't hide the greedy light in their eyes.
"Prince Chunqin is not bad either! Yang Zhi is behind him to give advice, and with the support of his two younger brothers, I heard that he contracted four silver furnaces at the Ministry of Household Affairs!"
"What is burned is silver water, and what is poured is silver coins! The money is gone..."
While everyone was chatting quietly, there was a sudden uproar among the crowd watching the cricket fight. It turned out that the fifth master, Yipei's General Desheng, removed one of the thighs of the silverback dragon in one go, and the winner was immediately clear.
"Hahaha... Thank you for your righteousness, brother... Who is waiting by your side? Jin Zi took it away!" Prince Gong and Prince Chun's fifth brother laughed loudly, and quickly teased their beloved Grasshopper into the gourd they carried with them. Hidden in his arms like a child.
The little eunuchs who were close to the Fifth Master rushed up to him. They smiled and divided the large amount of gold into several packages and wrapped them in several packages. Six hundred taels of gold. If you put it in one package, you would have to tear the cloth into pieces.
"Monkeys, be careful... I will reward you with golden melon seeds..." Yi Pei grabbed a handful of golden melon seeds and threw them into the sky. They fell to the ground like rain.
The little eunuchs, the poor relatives of the Eight Banners, and even some poor officials from the capital threw themselves on the ground like dogs to grab it. Coupled with the gongs and drums on the stage, it was a lively and festive celebration!
Prince Qing Yikuang looked at the struggling silver-backed dragon and angrily threw it to the ground and trampled it to death. "I raised you in vain, you are an embarrassment to me..." After scolding him, he still smiled playfully.
"Come on, don't you just have a few hundred taels of gold? Let's give the fifth sisters-in-law some gold hairpins to play with... Haha... My fifth brother, you are such a good General Desheng. Five hundred taels of gold, please give it to me, brother. ?”
The fifth master Yi Pei glared, "Get out! I'll give you a car for the beautiful girl in my room, but this General Desheng won't give it to you... You won't even exchange it for a gold mountain!"
The two brothers quarreled and made trouble until they reached a private room in the main hall with a separate small banquet. This was the place where the two brothers had private conversations.
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