Avoiding talking and delaying time is actually the best way to deal with it now, because Guiziliu has already taken the advantage, and the more stalemate it is here, the more trouble it will cause!
Zeng Guofan wanted to interrupt the court meeting as soon as he opened his mouth. This was to give all parties time to operate in secret. The emperor could no longer win the frontal battlefield, so now he had to fight secretly!
Cixi was so angry that she fainted for a moment, her blood pressure was so high that it was as if there was a three-stringed string player in her head who kept plucking the strings.
Jumping, jumping... Every move seemed to tug at her nerves and tremble!
With a splitting headache, Cixi could no longer make any decisions at this time!
Ci'an was still shocked. He immediately understood Marshal Zeng's plan to rescue the siege, and immediately issued an edict to interrupt the defeat!
The court meeting was stopped and evidence and prisoners were transferred. Although Lian Xing of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had openly defected to Guiziliu, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was not an yamen where one person had the final say. There were three thousand permanent staff near the capital alone!
Such a huge team cannot be controlled by Lian Xing alone. As long as Man Shun and the evidence are sent back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Queen Mother will have room to move around within one-third of an acre of the Forbidden City!
Prince Gong is not stupid either. He certainly knows the principle of taking advantage of victory and pursuing it, and he immediately expressed his different opinions!
"The Queen Mother is wrong! It's very wrong!" Yi Xin said, "Then Manshun and Sun Xiaoxiao colluded together to steal treasures from the palace, and the source of more than 600,000 yuan in cash is unknown!"
"It is absolutely impossible to say that there are no accomplices of theirs in this palace! This case should be handed over to the Nine Admirals or the Criminal Department for trial!"
"The trial in the palace, I'm afraid I won't be able to deal with it fairly!"
"Yixin! Are you doubting the Ai family?" Ci'an suddenly became furious.
"Don't dare! I don't have the courage, but this is the biggest case in the eunuch world in the past two hundred years of our country! We must be cautious!"
"We have to give an explanation to future generations! We can't just make a pot of stupid porridge!"
Hahaha... Marshal Zeng burst out laughing. "The biggest case in the eunuch world? Prince Gong is so forgetful. Is this a trivial matter worth making a big fuss about?"
"Have you forgotten that during the Jiaqing period, when the Tianli Sect rebelled and invaded the Forbidden City, wasn't it because the eunuchs opened the city gates as internal officials?"
"Five years ago, the Andehai Supervisory Army went to stop Xiao Letian's army. As a result, they sent troops to harm the countryside before the war. Hundreds of innocent people died tragically, and thousands of houses were looted and burned..."
"Why did you have to chop off Ande Hai's head in the end? It's not to make the people angry!"
"Which of these cases is not bigger than today's? Prince Gong must have made a fuss out of a molehill!"
Faced with Zeng Guofan's rebuttal, Guiziliu did not dare to be careless, "The commander's words are serious! Maybe Manshun's case is not the biggest, but stealing palace treasures privately is also a heinous crime!"
"Just imagine, even the palace guards can't stop these thieves, so how can we ensure the safety of the emperor and the queen mother?"
"This is no longer a matter of stealing money. This is a major flaw in the security of the Forbidden City. This is a major matter related to the national system!"
He really knows how to use the topic to his advantage, and he really knows how to mix it with sand! These beautiful words and insinuations included Zai Chun's crime of seizing the door!
What he said clearly made it clear that the previous palace ban system was good, but it was only after you Zaichun seized the Donghua Gate that such a mole appeared!
These thieves went through Donghua Gate, which has become a dark hole in the Forbidden City!
Zeng Guofan sneered and said, "Then according to the prince's wish, we will wait here without eating or drinking today for the trial result? Sir, can you guarantee that the trial result will be available in half a day in the afternoon?"
"Okay! If you want to get the criminal's confession this afternoon and close the case, then I will wait here!"
"But what if you can't do it? Let the Emperor and Queen Mother starve together?"
"Veteran, I don't understand! Logically speaking, such a big case will take a long time to be solved. The more serious and important the case, the more careful you must be to avoid unjust, false, or wrongful convictions!"
"But today Prince Gong is always impatient and wants to kill him immediately... Could it be that you are trying to cover up something, my lord?"
"By the way, there is something I forgot to ask just now...you said that the soldiers were dispatched to arrest people after receiving inside information!"
"Excuse me, who is the insider? Who is that person? How can you be so sure that there is a treasure cave in Bajiao Liulijing?"
"Hand over the people behind the scenes! Don't think of excuses, the person leading the team today is your precious son Cheng Beile!"
"If there was no complete chance of victory, would you send your son to take action personally?"
Older gingers are more spicy! Marshal Zeng has been born in struggle all his life, and fighting in the officialdom is even more demanding on the battlefield. Guiziliu's tricks can drive Zai Chun crazy, but against Marshal Zeng, it is as easy as farting!
"My lord! I really don't understand... You can collect the information about the theft of things by Manager Manshun in the palace, and it's so accurate!"
"I copied it to Bajiao Liulijing in one go. How come it's so accurate?"
"Could it be that...you have a lot of informants in this palace!"
"Shut up!" Prince Gong yelled like a cat whose tail was stepped on, "Slander! How dare you slander me!"
"Slander? Since it is slander, then tell us your inside information! You have to explain clearly, why do you have such accurate information?"
"This is the Imperial City! How could you get such accurate information! Speak...my Prince Gong!"
Oops... The eunuchs in the palace all breathed a sigh of relief, which can be regarded as a comeback. Just seeing the emperor being bullied, they all felt very uncomfortable and panicked!
The disastrous defeat finally allowed the old commander to make a slight comeback, but it only slightly suppressed the enemy's arrogance. The overall situation could not be changed!
In any case, the Manshun family was caught outside the palace, and the money was also copied, so both the man and the man got the stolen goods!
Zeng Guofan turned to look at Emperor Tongzhi. The pale little emperor and the old commander met each other's eyes. At that moment, it seemed that it was back to the time when Zai Chun secretly sneaked into Nanjing to meet Zeng Guofan five years ago.
At that time, Marshal Zeng and his brother Ninth Marshal knelt on the ground and swore to Emperor Tian that they would be loyal to Emperor Tongzhi for the rest of their lives, and they would never change their minds!
Today, Zeng Guofan fulfilled his vow, and he looked at Zai Chun with calm and deep eyes!
Zai Chun understood the old commander's inner thoughts, and his encouraging eyes restored his confidence and courage!
The little emperor sat on the throne and took two deep breaths to restore some color to his cheeks!
"According to my decree... this case should be handled according to the emperor's wishes! Hand over the evidence to the Nine Gates Admiral's Mansion!"
"The silver and treasures will be taken care of by the Nine Gates Admiral's Mansion!"
"As for the people involved in the case, everyone in the palace should be sent back to me... I will personally interrogate these bastards!"
"As for other irrelevant personnel, let the Nine Admirals' Mansion come to trial!"
"That's it! If anyone is still not satisfied...hehehe... If I can't even be the master, then why should I be the emperor?"
