What a big hat. Cixi was really anxious. The court meeting had only lasted for more than half an hour, but she even dug out the old accounts!
The Xinyou Coup is an obstacle that can never be avoided when studying the political situation of the late Qing Dynasty. After this coup, the Qing Dynasty never realized the emperor's centralization of power until the fall of the country!
The power of the central government of the Qing Dynasty has been in a situation of being dispersed and dispersed until the country was destroyed!
This is a hidden pain among the Manchu people. No one is willing to mention it more. No one will use this matter as an excuse unless they have to!
But today Cixi really worked hard. She didn't allow the control of her son to slip away. She was the biological mother, so she didn't even have the right to decide her daughter-in-law?
Although Chongqi is the Manchu champion, there is a fatal weakness in his identity, that is, he is related to the eighth minister Gu Ming!
Zaiyuan, Duanhua, Jingshou, Sushun, Muyin, Kuangyuan, Duhan, Jiao Youying
Among them, Zaiyuan was Prince Yi, who was finally given a three-foot white silk to commit suicide!
Sushun became the imperial minister and the minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the end, Caishikou was beheaded!
Prince Zheng Duanhua, Chongqi's father-in-law, was also given three feet of white silk to commit suicide!
Only these three people were executed in the entire coup, while the other six people spared their lives and had different life situations after being convicted separately!
It can be seen that these three people are the most hated by the party initiating the coup, and they are also the ones with the most intense conflicts!
Let Emperor Tongzhi marry Duanhua's granddaughter? If this were to go online, it would not sound good!
Ci'an frowned and felt a surge of disgust in her heart, but she couldn't bring herself to speak about it, but Master Qing made up his mind in the decision he just made, and his fighting power increased!
"What the Queen Mother said is wrong! Although Chongqi is Duanhua's son-in-law, during the Xinyou years, Chongqi was not an official at all. He was just a down-and-out Eight Banners scholar!"
"I donated military funds in exchange for a casual job as a director of the Ministry of Industry, and I mainly focused on studying!"
"He was not involved in it, and the whole incident had nothing to do with him! When the late emperor was hunting Rehe, this Chongqi personally patrolled the inner imperial city and organized group training to maintain order in the capital!"
"From the beginning to the end, Master Chongqi has never been close to power, and it is impossible to run errands for anyone. It was not until the third year of Tongzhi that he passed the major exam!"
"If there were problems with his background, then why did the Queen Mother select him as the top pick in the end?"
Hey...the ball has been kicked to Cixi's feet again. Now you call Chongqi a rebel, but she was the number one pick at the time?
This counterattack was so beautiful that Cixi was immediately speechless!
In the third year of Tongzhi's reign, it was 1864 in the Western calendar. In the autumn of that year, a man named Xiao Letian traveled through the depths of the Taihang Mountains!
Ermao had not yet purified himself that year, and Emperor Tongzhi raised him like a little fool in the Forbidden City, not even knowing that the earth was round!
Who will be the top pick in the imperial examination? Of course the emperor cannot make the decision, so the two empress dowagers can only make the decision!
At that time, Ci'an was not feeling well, so the job of grading was handed over to Cixi. At that time, the imperial examination also required anonymity!
The eight examiners selected the ten best papers from all the sealed papers and submitted them to the royal family for review, and Cixi happened to choose Chongqi!
Seeing that Cixi was speechless, Fu Qing struck while the iron was hot and turned to look at Li Hongzao, "Master Li, if I remember correctly, you were one of the examiners that year, right? You should be the one who marked the exam!"
Li Hongzao stood up and said, "That's right, Wei Chen was very clear about what happened back then, and the commotion was very loud!"
"Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there has been an unwritten rule called 'the flag does not point to the yuan', which means that the flag people cannot point to the number one, second place or third flower!"
"The Manchus voluntarily gave up the three consecutive places! This is the rule in the hands of Emperor Shunzhi, and it continues to this day! Of course, it was also the intention at the beginning of the founding of the country to win over the world's talents!"
"In the third year of Tongzhi, Lord Chongqi was selected as the number one scholar by the Empress Dowager. At that time, there was a lot of discussion between the government and the public. The Empress Dowager was afraid of hurting things, so she returned the paper to the Minister of Military and Aircraft and the Ministers of Examination for discussion!"
"I was present at the time. I remember Lord Baojun was also there... Of course Prince Gong was also there, and Prince Chun was also there..."
"The final result is, 'How can we say Manchu and Han based on words alone?' That's how it was settled. Only then did we have the first bannerman champion in the past two hundred years!"
Li Hongzao smiled and said to Yi Xin, "I wonder if Wei Chen remembered it wrong? Please correct me!"
Yixin's expression changed and he recalled what happened back then. He also supported these eight words and agreed with Chongqi to be the number one scholar!
"Hmm... I guess so!" Guiziliu said with a snort.
"Then there is no problem!" Fu Qing took advantage of the victory and pursued, "Since Lord Chongqi is the number one scholar selected by the Queen Mother, all the military ministers have approved of it!"
"This means that he is not a remnant of the Eighth Minister Gu Ming! Otherwise, the Queen Mother and the Prince can't choose him as the number one scholar, right?"
pretty! Even Zai Chun gave Fu Qing a thumbs up in his heart and counterattacked beautifully, blocking Guiziliu's mouth in no time!
Ci'an let out a long breath and felt sorry for the man, "You have offended everyone now, and it will be difficult for you to walk in the future!"
Cixi really wanted to give herself a slap in the face. When he ordered Chongqi, he simply thought the article was very good and didn't have much other ideas.
But after clicking the name, I found out that he was a bannerman from the Zhenglan Banner of Mongolia! Arut is also a popular surname in the Mongolian palace!
This is a bit interesting. At that time, Cixi, Yixin and others had other thoughts!
The third year of Tongzhi was the last year to pacify the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It was in that year that the city of Nanjing was captured. Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army was so powerful that it was at the height of its power!
As for the Manchus, the Eight Banners were unable to defeat the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Japanese invaders had to cede territory to pay compensation and even burned the Old Summer Palace!
Even Emperor Xianfeng died in the Rehe Palace!
When he returned to mourning, there was a Xinyou coup that shocked the world!
The entire Manchu Eight Banners Group has fallen into an unprecedented crisis of trust! Not to mention what the Han people thought of it, even the Manchus expressed distrust in themselves!
Is it okay for the world to be governed by full people? Have you exhausted all your energy?
In this special period, we urgently need a little stimulant to cheer up the people. It is a huge event to have a banner man number one!
This is to show the whole world that our Eight Banners Group is doing okay, very good!
However, the means used to stabilize people's morale back then have smashed her own feet today. Cixi wanted to give herself two slaps in the face!
Zai Chun was mesmerized while watching the show. The fight today was really exciting. He looked at the embarrassed Prince Gong and smiled lightly, "Uncle Huang has been talking about history for a long time, but he never said who you support?"
"We have to talk about business today and look to the future! We can't just settle old scores!"
