"Your Majesty, please calm down. Your Majesty, please calm down..."
When the ministers in the Yangxin Hall saw that Yi Kuang was going to be shot alive, they all stood up to persuade the emperor. However, the people who tried to persuade him also had different ideas and could say anything.
"Your Majesty, calm down. Although Prince Qing lost his temper today, his starting point is still good. He is also worried about the opposition from the government and the public..."
"Your Majesty, please calm down. No matter what Prince Qing said is right or wrong, it is indeed widely circulated among the people. All people believe this and must be on guard against it!"
"Your Majesty, calm down. Yi Kuang hasn't practiced the invulnerability method yet. How about you give him a few months to practice it first, and then it's not too late to shoot..."
Um? Everyone in the room turned their heads, wondering who is this, being so wicked and cheating on the prince?
A closer look at the careless Prince of Xia, Xiao Wu Ye Yi Pei, saw him looking at Yi Xin and Yi Kuang with a smirk on his face, while Prince Na Qing's face turned pale with fright.
"Nonsense!" Looking at the farce in front of him, Ci'an scolded from behind the curtain. Sure enough, the Queen Mother was powerful, and the scene suddenly fell silent!
"Go back to the Ai family. Get out of here, Yikuang. If you dare to cry and wipe your eyes again, you will be banned for life!"
Hiss... Yikuang shrank his head and did not dare to speak. He retreated to the class and became a coward!
"Let the emperor finish his speech, and all of you ministers will also speak one by one... No matter what, this is a big event and one that we can't avoid in the future!"
Zai Chun stood up and saluted Ci'an, "What the Queen Mother said is so wise! This steel plant is still a big problem that we cannot escape!"
Zai Chun took two deep breaths, "Why are there no resistance? What Yikuang just said is naturally a lot of opposition from the people, and I can hear it!"
"But no matter how strong the opposition is, it must be changed! We, the Qing Dynasty, cannot always remain so weak!"
"When the foreign enemies came to attack us with guns and cannons, where were all the people who opposed it? Did they all die on the battlefield and sacrifice their lives for the country?"
"I don't think so! Those who oppose the reform the most fiercely, when the enemy invades, they escape faster than anyone else! Those who cannot escape are under the enemy's butcher knife, and they are more respectful than anyone else!"
"Now you are accusing me of disturbing the feng shui of my ancestors' tombs? When the invader puts the butcher's knife on his neck and asks him to dig up his ancestors' tombs with his own hands, he won't dare to resist at all!"
"Think about it! Do you hope that one day, the Qing Dynasty will not be able to protect the tombs of Dongling and Xiling, and let the enemy lead the army and pull cannons to bomb the Minglou?"
"You led engineers and soldiers to brazenly blow up the underground palace, snatched away all the funerary objects, and even humiliated the bones of your ancestors. Only then do you know how to regret it?"
"Don't call me alarmist! How many tombs from the Han and Tang Dynasties can be preserved? After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, how many tombs are left?"
"Without the protection of powerful force, all the so-called traditional customs you insist on are nothing!"
"Yikuan!" Zai Chun still didn't want to let him go and yelled at him, "After retreating from the imperial court today, go to the ruins of the Old Summer Palace and face the wall for three hours!"
"Go and take a look and see how our Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens in the Qing Dynasty ended up like this?"
"Is this a feng shui attack? Is this the Western evil invasion you mentioned? At that time, we didn't change anything, we didn't do anything, just as you just said, we still lived the same old life! "
"Did you protect it? Did you protect it? Where is the Feng Shui you mentioned? Where are the gods and Buddhas in the sky? Go and think it through for me!"
Zai Chun, who had vented his emotions for a while, could no longer sit still and stood up and paced around in front of the throne. "Many people just pretend to be confused because they understand! They know that the country cannot survive without this power, but they still stick to the old ways and refuse to change." !”
"If you ask me, this kind of person has only two thoughts, one is greed and the other is laziness!"
"What is greed? He wants to see if the reform is good for him, or whether the reform will hurt his interests! He won't do anything without money and money!"
"If it hurts his interests, he will jump up and down and curse more than anyone else!"
"The second kind of people are lazy! This kind of people are even more humble. They are too lazy to solve problems. They run away when they see resistance. They live one day at a time and live their own lives without offending others!"
"To be honest! This kind of person doesn't care about the life and death of the Qing Dynasty. Even if the country falls, it has nothing to do with him... As long as he ensures that he can live a good life!"
"After I die, even if the floods are raging! Right..."
As soon as these words came out, there was no one left standing in the room. "I await the death penalty!"
Zaichun stamped his foot angrily, "What I want is not a weakling who only kowtows and begs for mercy. What I want is to solve the problem and solve the problem!"
"Now I want to ask you, should the Qing Dynasty build a steel plant? How many years will the Qing Dynasty miss this era?"
"Answer! Answer me immediately!"
Everyone was forced to sweat by Zai Chun's series of sharp questions. They haven't seen such sharp political questioning in many years. Even when Emperor Xianfeng was alive, no matter how bad his temper was, he was just more eager to chase after him. !
No matter how much the emperor urges, the ministers only need to make peace with each other, kowtow and plead guilty to let the emperor calm down, and finally do things according to the old efficiency!
But this Zai Chun doesn't play according to common sense!
Prince Qing has objections and wants to ask people to perform a trick of invulnerability and drinking talisman water? Isn’t this just wanting to be shot alive?
The Queen Mother couldn't make peace with him, so she finally forced him to go to the Great Water Method in Old Summer Palace to face the wall and think about the past!
The rest of the people can't get better, so they have to express their opinions on the spot, without even a moment of thinking?
Li Hongzao whispered, "Your Majesty... this... this matter is too big. Please allow all the ministers to discuss and think about it..."
"No! I don't have time to give you, I want the answer now!"
"Time, time! Still want time? In the 20th year of Daoguang, the British came in. How many years has it been now? Tell me how many years have it been!"
"Do you still need time? It's been 31 years. It's been 31 years. Haven't you even figured this out?"
"Your Majesty! I have figured it out!" At the critical moment, someone finally stood up and broke the deadlock.
Marshal Zeng looked at Emperor Tongzhi with bright eyes: "I have already figured it out. In the 20th year of Daoguang's reign, Wei Chen just entered the Hanlin Academy. This is just a small review to revise the text!"
"Master Lin Zexu was in the smoke of gunfire at Humen, and the British found an opportunity to come to the door. The whole story was clearly visible to me!"
"At that time, the British still came to Asia on sailing wooden-hulled warships, armed with front-loaded rifles and cannons!"
"But thirty years have passed. In just thirty years... the Europeans have begun to use pure steel to build warships, and all rifles and cannons have entered the aftermarket era!"
"Not to mention that there are not many thirty years left, how many thirty years does this dynasty last?"
