"That's enough! Stop crying! Look at your worthless energy!" Ci'an roared and immediately suppressed Guiziliu's mourning cry!
"Your mind is still clear, and you haven't gotten too hot or fainted to do anything wrong! Just stay home for a few more months, Zaicheng!"
Ci'an turned to look at Zeng Guofan and said more politely, "The commander-in-chief won't mobilize troops without permission, will he?"
Zeng Guofan laughed: "The scraps of metal that I have are still in Gaobeidian, Zhuozhou. I don't dare to touch them without my will!"
"Okay... let me ask you, Prince Chun, you are responsible for the security of the nine admirals, that is, the capital. So the Ai family would like to ask you if there is any change in the new Yulin army outside the city?"
"No! There is indeed nothing unusual!"
"So are there any changes in Xiao Letian's troops over in Tanggu? Are the foreign warships here again?"
"No, none..."
"Ha! Not even that, but you have already turned into such an earth-shaking situation? Did the Ai family think that the country was going to fall? You thought that the rebels came to kill the Ai family's head!"
"The centipede insect is dead but not stiff. It must be stirred up in its own stomach. If it kills itself, it will die quickly!"
Ci'an vented his emotions and took several deep breaths to calm down. "Since you still listen to the Ai family, and since the country has not collapsed yet, then let's do this!"
"Publish the Ai family's decree, Enguang is disrespectful to His Majesty, and pass the decree to dismiss from the Ministry of Internal Affairs... Send him back home to eat his hard-core crops!"
"The security behind Donghua Gate is in charge of the new Yulin Army! But please remember, Your Majesty, you are not allowed to leave the palace at will until you are in charge!"
"Don't follow the tricks of the foreign devils. This is the Qing Dynasty, not Europe!"
Zai Chun wanted to say something more, but his mother Cixi kept winking. Zai Chun knew that nothing could be overdone, and he had to make things right now!
"Well...I will naturally obey you, and I dare not let down the Queen Mother's kindness!"
"Hmph! If you don't cause too much trouble, it will be a blessing if I can live a few more days!"
Ci'an looked at the ministers and said coldly, "The late emperor had already made the rules when he was dying. Today the emperor will get married and then take charge of the government himself. This is also the ardent hope of the late emperor's soul in heaven!"
"Long live this empire, and naturally the rules will also live long! The emperor of the Qing Dynasty can't even change the access control system?"
"What a joke! What kind of ancestral system is this system of listening to government behind the curtain? What kind of ancestral system is it when the foreign devils occupy Dongjiaominxiang?"
"Marshal Zeng is right, things in this world can no longer be discussed behind closed doors. How many people's interests are involved in national affairs cannot be changed by whoever says it should be changed, or it cannot be changed by whoever says it won't change! "
"Open the door and discuss it. What else can we do?"
Li Hongzao immediately blushed when he heard the Queen Mother's words, "The Queen Mother...did she really let Cai Bixia, a woman, negotiate with me, the Qing Dynasty?"
"No way... The Queen Mother really can't do it! Do the officials of the Ministry of Rites have to talk to a woman? Please forgive me and you can't obey the imperial edict!"
"What else can we do? Let's not talk about driving away other people's envoys, right?" Ci'an was furious, "Don't forget that the food prices in these 49 cities are still controlled by others!"
"If you fail to live up to your expectations and cannot manage this country, why don't you let us girls show their faces in the end?"
"I am waiting for death..." He knelt again.
"Don't think the Ai family are fools. All of you are loyal to the emperor and serve the country, and you are all moral gentlemen! But what can you do behind the scenes?"
"Who in your family hasn't done some small business with the Northern Special Economic Zone? Who of you hasn't invested in the Jiangnan stock market? To be honest, Xiao Letian issued so many high-interest treasury bonds during the war. Have you ever bought them?"
This series of questions made no one dare to speak!
"Are they all mute? They keep their mouths shut when making money, but they all jump out when it comes to singing high-pitched tunes in the court... If you have such great ability, go and lower the price of rice in the capital!"
"Don't always expect Xiao Letian's Nanyang rice to be okay? The Aijia just ask you if it's okay?"
Who dares to say it’s okay? At this moment, everyone’s face is as red as red cloth!
"Since you men are no longer good, and you have forced us ladies to show up in public, then what kind of face do you need? What kind of face do you need!"
"Li Hongzao and your etiquette department don't have the face to talk to others, so let Cai Bixia come to Beiyuan and the Ai family can talk to her, okay?"
"I won't enter your Forbidden City anymore, and I won't embarrass you gentlemen, okay?"
"I am waiting for death..." They kowtowed in unison again.
In chaotic disputes, sometimes a hard-liner is needed to make the final decision!
Because of the long-term dispute, many parties refuse to give in to each other, and the situation has become overwhelming. Moreover, many parties understand that no matter how hard they insist, the other party will not give in!
How can the many parties on top step down at this time? Who gives such an excuse to step down?
Of course he is a hardliner, a person with a high status like Ci'an who can make decisions with a low profile!
Ci'an made the decision, but the face of all parties was saved!
Yimin, Yixuan and the others can look back and say, "I'm trying to give the Queen Mother some face, but I'm not afraid of you, a brat like you. Otherwise, I'll definitely fight you to the end!"
Zai Chun would also say, "I am doing this out of filial piety, so I will not leave the palace because of my advice. Otherwise, do you still want to take care of me?"
Everyone can point to Cian to give themselves an excuse to go downhill. Anyway, in the end, it will not hurt their own face to label Cian as a domineering and authoritarian person!
Donghua Gate was finally snatched away by Zai Chun. The so-called rule of not being allowed to leave the palace was actually a joke!
Zai Chun has a crowbar personality. He has already opened a crack, do you expect him not to continue to pry it down?
Cai Bixia's matter was left to Ci'an and Xini. They did not enter the Forbidden City and did not contact the Six Ministries. They asked Xiao Letian's female diplomat to go directly to Beiyuan to have secret talks with senior officials.
This not only takes care of the officials' male authority and face, but also does not affect the negotiations, so both face and face are saved!
What else can we say when the topic reaches this point? Enguang, just accept your misfortune, you are just a victim!
The Supreme Harmony Sect's political hearing was over, and people's heads were beaten into dog's heads. They came in droves with livid faces. Zai Chun smiled and sent the two empresses to the harem.
As a result, as soon as she arrived at the Square of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Cixi reached out and pinched Zai Chun's ears and squeezed them to death!
"You want to die! Don't you want to live anymore! You want to die... Wuwuwu..."
While twisting her ears, she cried. Cixi was really scared today!
"It hurts! Mom, please be gentle, it really hurts..."
Ci'an stopped protecting him today and said fiercely, "Try hard and squeeze you to death... If you don't want to die, why don't you leave the palace and wait for someone to kill you?"
"My child, if something unexpected happens, how will we survive?"
Those who have not truly experienced political cruelty will not be afraid. The ignorant have nothing to fear!
But Cixi and Ci'an had seen too many killings, injustices, battles, assassinations... They had personally experienced how bloody it was.
