Xiao Letian was hampered by numerous major projects related to the national destiny, forcing him to stay in Nanyang for a long time. He could only control the situation in the capital remotely!
However, this is a rare training opportunity for Zai Chun. There is no need to be afraid of failure. There is no king who does not fail. Maturity is gained by falling!
Ever since the conflict at the Great Court Meeting, the Manchu and Qing Dynasty suddenly became unusually peaceful!
Guiziliu temporarily gained the upper hand and robbed Emperor Tongzhi of 600,000 taels of silver and obtained a lot of treasures. He also eliminated Zaichun's close aide Manshun!
Whether there is money or not is a trivial matter, but what is fatal is the shock to the hearts of the ruling and opposition parties. People say that the six Japs have high power, but they have no intuitive impression!
But today, the aggressive Yi Xin showed his true face as Cao Cao, and he showed no mercy to his nephew!
Especially the cruel torture of Manshun and the final assassination made the government and the public look sideways for a while, and all the ministers were terrified when facing him!
People! They are always afraid of power but not moral. When they see a strong person, they will be afraid of kneeling down and licking him. The more strong Guiziliu shows, the more he makes some people with ulterior motives have undesirable thoughts!
For a time, Prince Gong's Mansion was crowded with people. It was originally a shortcut for officials to climb up the ladder. Now that they encountered this force-forcing performance, countless people were even more optimistic about the power of the Prime Minister and Minister Wang!
There are so many people who want to join us!
Fortunately, the fifth master of the capital took action and cut off Wang Zhong's head in Prince Gong's palace. The bloody revenge made Yi Xin restrain himself, so during this period, he did not dare to be disrespectful to Zai Chun, and there was a temporary truce of peace!
Of course, this kind of truce is meaningless. Yi Xin won't go to the palace anymore and will just handle official business in the Prime Minister's Yamen!
And Zai Chun and the Queen Mother did not call for a court meeting. During this period, the three wives were studying the matter of getting married!
The sun and the moon shuttle, time flies, and it’s April in the capital in the blink of an eye. After a few strong winds in the beginning of spring, warmth is coming quickly, the grass and trees are turning green at a speed visible to the naked eye, and all kinds of early spring flowers are beginning to bloom!
The legend of the battle between Prince Gong’s Mansion and the Forbidden City is still circulating in the streets and alleys, with various versions emerging one after another!
In particular, the plot of Wang Zhong's head being cut off has become a version of Three Heroes and Five Righteousness, and even the Shushan Sword Immortal has appeared!
It was precisely such a bizarre assassination counterattack that made many fence-sitters in the officialdom have their thoughts and always wanted to take another look at the situation, so they had not completely surrendered to Guiziliu's sect.
The people were even more divided. Many people still tended to favor the emperor, especially since Emperor Tongzhi could instruct the Shushan Sword Immortal to take someone's head thousands of miles away.
This is such a great thing, it seems that this little emperor still has his own way!
The royal party and the imperial party are already at war, but generally speaking, Guiziliu has the upper hand here. After all, the Xishan Army of 60,000 has become a force, and the Prime Minister's Yamen has very great authority and can coordinate and manage almost all the errands of the ministries!
And he was also responsible for the diplomacy of the entire Qing Dynasty!
Can such a prince with swords and guns really be able to deal with it by a teenage emperor?
Especially as soon as the incident of killing Wang Zhong came out, I'm afraid Yi Xin will be careful. The trick the little emperor wants to use against Obai will not work!
After the Yangxin Palace forced the palace, Yixin went to the Forbidden City twice in total. Both times, Yixin came with the Xishan soldiers to report on work!
Moreover, his personal bodyguards are always with him. They will be stationed outside any palace the prince goes to, and they will never give Zai Chun a chance to make any changes!
But unexpectedly, Zai Chun seemed to have forgotten the previous conflict, and faced the emperor's uncle with neither humility nor arrogance, talking only about the specific matters of his wedding!
Seeing that the little emperor stopped talking about national affairs, Guiziliu was secretly happy. What he wanted was your attitude. As long as you didn't rob the national affairs, everything else would be easy to talk about.
Cixi, Ci'an and Zai Chun, after a long period of competition, the three of them had been arguing for several months over the issue of selecting the queen.
In the end, Cixi was still unable to resist the joint efforts of Ci'an and her son. In the end, the candidate for the queen was Chongqi's daughter Alute, while Cixi's favorite Fengxiu's daughter Fucha was named a concubine, along with several others. The candidate for the concubine was also determined.
As long as you Zaichun don't fight for power and gain with me, then it's all your problem which wife you want to marry, as long as you don't ask me for money!
The two big guys have temporarily ceased fighting, so the case of Bajiao Liulijing will also be settled!
All the more than 600,000 taels of silver confiscated were put into the national treasury, and Ouchi's treasures were returned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. However, Manshun was disabled and he was also the eunuch in charge of the palace, so the Ministry of Punishment did not let the Ministry of Punishment do the sentencing and sent the case file directly to the Imperial Palace. As the emperor, you can judge whatever you like!
The 600,000 silver nominally returned to the national treasury, but the Jiumen Admiral's Office had no intention of sending it out at all. He didn't even need to leave his yamen, he could just go to the Accounts Department and pay the bill!
The barracks of the Nine Admirals and the night watch room were dilapidated and dilapidated. Yixuan casually offered an approval discount of more than 600,000 taels!
Can the Ministry of Household Affairs refuse to approve it? The money is all in other people's yamen. If you don't approve it, they won't bring it back to you. You might as well just be a favor!
The slaves of Prince Gong's Mansion, Prince Chun's Mansion, Wuye's Mansion, Prince Qing's Mansion... the four families sent a representative to contract the 600,000 yuan project in the name of an independent person.
In the end, how many thousand taels of silver can be turned into money to repair the house? Then you have to ask their conscience!
conscience? There is definitely no such thing as conscience. During this period, the workers sent by Emperor Tongzhi to explore the foundations on both sides of the Qinghe River in the north of the capital often got into trouble!
Under the instigation of people with ulterior motives, all the villages in Huangzhuang and Eight Banners on both sides of the Qinghe River became panicked!
All kinds of rumors about large iron factories are flying all over the sky. All the rumors that Xiao Letian encountered before establishing the industrial zone in Tanggu are repeated today and are even more bizarre!
What about imps pushing carts, killing people and sacrificing people in boilers, catching slaves, collecting the blood of children... People who work in the iron factory will not enter the six realms of reincarnation even after they die!
The common people had never seen such a scene before. They were all frightened out of their wits, and some people started to cause trouble under the leadership of someone with good intentions!
The engineering teams sent out will hit each one when they come, and every village will jointly defend and set up cards in every village!
More than 13,000 households and more than 46,000 residents have already taken the attitude of living and dying together!
Emperor Tongzhi saw all this, but at this moment, he no longer had the impetuousness he had when he first entered the city, and instead became calm and relaxed.
Don't make any noise, just wait and see what happens!
Until the end of April, outside the Yongding Gate of the capital, a group of strange-looking people covered in dust came to the imperial capital. What was even more interesting was that there was a large carriage in their group, pulling a huge black iron-wood coffin!
