Ci'an had already dropped a tureen, and she couldn't throw a tureen at Cixi's hand as well. At this moment, her breasts were still uncomfortable with breast swelling, pain, and numbness, and she felt extremely depressed.
"Here comes someone..." Ci'an's tone was extremely cold.
"The slave is here..." Zhou Daoying's face turned pale with fright and he quickly knelt down to listen to the shouts.
"Publish the Ai family's decree...Prince Qing Yikuang's behavior and arrogant words...let the Ministry of Internal Affairs send someone to confine him to his home for three months!"
"Ground the Ai family! Do it immediately!"
"Li Hongzao, as a bachelor, disregarded his decency and roared in the palace...he was fined half a year's salary!"
"Get out of here, both of you...get out of here!"
Ci'an was completely furious. Zhou Daoying stood up and waved to the young eunuch outside the palace. Six or seven eunuchs immediately pulled out the human wall and isolated the pursuing prince and bachelor.
Then they formed two circles, and the two important ministers who had disobeyed the emperor were imprisoned inside. Zhou Daoying was not polite, "Your Majesty, your lord... don't be stunned. Please obey the Queen Mother's decree!"
Li Hongzao had nothing to say and turned around and kowtowed to the empress dowagers of the two palaces, "I have lost my temper. Please atone for my sins!"
A half-year's salary penalty is nothing to an official of Li Hongzao's level. They don't live on that salary anyway. Ci'an still favors him today.
After pleading guilty, the bachelor followed the eunuch out obediently, but Prince Qing's punishment was a bit harsh!
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has imposed a three-month confinement, which is very flexible. During these three months, he must have been confined in a room, not allowed to go out, not allowed to have fun, and not even allowed to touch women!
After eating, sleep, and after sleeping, continue eating. Do you want to listen to a show? Impossible. Do you want to fight crickets? No one, you want to walk your big yellow dog? You can't even get out of the room.
This kind of punishment is simply a living hell for people like Yi Kuang!
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, you can't be so partial! Why is he fined for half a year, and I'm going to be imprisoned for three months!"
"Brother Chen didn't say anything wrong. Until now, we don't know whether the news in the west is good or bad! Why do we think that Zuo Zongtang won the battle?"
"What if the battle is defeated? The Han people all said that beacon fire plays on the princes, and beacon smoke warns the princes... I guess nothing good will happen..."
"Pull it down!" Ci'an yelled and almost lost his temper at this bastard!
"It's... it's simply hopeless... The country is already like this, why don't you expect something good to happen? Is it bad to just expect the court like this?"
"Pull it down, drag it down quickly..." Guiziliu couldn't do it without saying anything. The gun he and Yixuan were looking for today was just a stupid shotgun! I have never seen such two hundred and fifty.
Yikuang asked eight eunuchs to surround him and push them out of the Yangxin Palace. When they arrived at the Military Aircraft Department, this boy still refused and shouted angrily, attracting many ministers from the Military Aircraft Department to watch.
Everyone in the room was completely silent. After five minutes, Prince Chun Yixuan then smiled apologetically at Zeng Guofan and said, "Commander...you...how sure are you that the news from the west is good news?"
Zeng Guofan watched a farce and had no energy to deal with these people. "I just said, as long as it is not a big battle involving tens of thousands of people, a battle of thousands or more than 10,000 people, we will win!"
"Your Majesty... Although Grand Scholar Li has lost his composure, what he said is correct... It is not a bad idea to be happy!"
"As soon as the good news came, the people forgot about the beacon fire... This matter is not that serious!"
Ci'an sighed and suddenly turned to Cixi and said, "Why is my sister so silent until now?"
Cixi was bored and moved the Longjing leaves with a tureen, "What are you talking about? It won't work if I say it to the court. Who will listen to me..."
"What are you talking about? You are His Majesty's biological mother, who would underestimate you..." Ci'an said displeased.
Cixi shook her head with a wry smile and took out a folded telegram from her sleeve, "Hey...this is the greeting telegram sent to me a few days before the Fourth of July!"
"Let's see...the soldiers trained by Long Live Master are already hungry and eat rice with sand and sweet potatoes every meal!"
"Did the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs ever allocate money? The emperor's own troops are almost starving to death... What do I care about the warning of war?"
"Haha... don't let some people force us to hang ourselves one day and we will become Amitabhas!"
As soon as the sharp voice sounded, Yi Xin's face was filled with embarrassment and he didn't know how to answer the question.
Yi Xuan's face turned red. "Queen Mother... everyone will have it... they will have it... Yang Zhi has opened the silver furnace again. As long as the Royal Forest Army comes back, there will be military pay..."
Ci'an also had to persuade him, "Sister, please don't say anything else... Today we will discuss the beacon warning first!"
Cixi looked at Guiziliu and suddenly sneered and said, "Prince Gong! Is there anything else to discuss? Where is Juyong Prison? Under the nose of your Xishan New Army..."
"You make up your mind!"
Zhou Daoying and Li Lianying were already frightened into fighting. Today's confrontation in the Yangxin Palace was really weird. Everyone had hidden agendas behind their words. No one knew what would happen in the next second.
But just when the dispute could not be settled, footsteps came from outside the palace. A eunuch kneeled at the door holding a telegraph newspaper to report.
"Qi... Qi... Your Majesty the Queen Mother... Mr. Cheng Beile from the Xishan Camp has an emergency call!"
"Zaicheng? Is he in a hurry? What a joke..." Guizi Liuyi suddenly felt excited when he heard that it was a telegram from his son.
Cixi smiled, "Hey... Zai Cheng is already running errands? From now on he will be the right-hand man of his brother and the emperor... Can you bring it up and let me take a look first?"
Guiziliu said with a smile, "He is a little bastard, what does he know... The Queen Mother does not need to pay attention to him, does not need to pay attention to him..."
Unable to stop it, Yi Xin wanted to reach out to stop it, but Li Lianying took it one step faster and handed it to Ci Xi. When passing by Guiziliu, Li Lianying twisted her waist and avoided the prince's hand.
"My lord, raise your hands... I'm being rude!"
The telegram was handed directly to Cixi. Cixi looked at it and... puffed... and laughed!
Ci'an stretched out his hand to take it without knowing why. At first he frowned with anger, but in the end he smiled helplessly!
"Hey... they are all talents! Talents... Zhou Daoying, give the prince and the commander a thought!"
"Hey..." As soon as Zhou Daoying took the telegram and glanced at it, he saw that his face that was a little bloody just now turned completely white, as white as a dead person.
"Jingxi...Jingxi camp...urgent report..."
"After... interrogation... the six veterans of Juyongguan's ignition... have... already confessed..."
Zhou Daoying was about to burst into tears. He looked up at Zeng Guofan and said with a tearful voice, "Then...the six old soldiers...account...accounted that it was Marshal Zeng who ordered them!"
"They said the beacon fire was lit under the commander's order..."
It was deathly silent, and you could hear a pin drop clearly in Dongnuan Pavilion, but soon it was Zeng Guofan who laughed wildly.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"
