"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?" Da Sixi, who was standing outside Yourixin, ran in with several young eunuchs. "Your Majesty, are you having nightmares?"
Zai Chun's face turned pale. "What time is it now? Tell me what time it is..."
He turned to look at the golden clock in the corner. The hour hand pointed to five ten in the morning. At this time, it was time for the eunuch to wake up the emperor.
"Your Majesty, you have been very tired these days. Please be brave and ask your master to rest for a while. The Queen Mother knows that she will not blame you at this time!"
"You should take a rest for a while..."
Zai Chun was very panicked. The dream was so clear that it was difficult for him to fall asleep again. He got up and paced back and forth with his clothes on, which frightened all the eunuchs and didn't even know what was happening!
The emperor had to study and practice martial arts early in the morning. The Qing court had strict rules for two hundred years. Being an emperor was not that easy!
Zaichun, who was wearing casual clothes, was moving around freely in Meiwu, but he still couldn't stabilize his mind. As a result, the bad news finally came at 5:30!
A young eunuch ran out of the Yangxin Gate, staggering in with a plain-colored memorial in both hands. He almost fell over when he passed the screen.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... something serious has happened... Donghua Gate has received an urgent report..."
"What are you stuttering about? Speak properly, there are no rules at all..." Da Sixi glared at the little eunuch.
The young eunuch knelt down and kowtowed to Zai Chun outside Meiwu. At this moment, the emperor's face turned pale as if he already knew something.
"Your Majesty... there was an express delivery from Donghua Gate just now... the bodyguards from Marshal Zeng's Mansion in the south of the city have sent... a message of condolence!"
"Your Majesty...Zeng Guofan is dead!"
ah! Zai Chun jumped up immediately. At this moment, he couldn't tell what was reality and what was a dream. The commander-in-chief had just entrusted him with a dream, but within twenty minutes a dead letter had been sent to the palace!
"Hurry... return my clothes quickly, I'm going to take a look... and give the handsome man a ride!"
The entire Yangxin Palace was in chaos. The eunuchs were looking for clothes, holding handkerchiefs and washbasins, calling the guards who were leaving the palace, summoning the officials of the new imperial army and the military ministers who stayed behind!
Suddenly, the little eunuchs were running back and forth at the Yangxin Gate!
"Quick, quick, quick... Long live my lord, go to express your condolences. Take that piece of white marble with you. Why do you get such bright green jade? Blind things don't know how to serve..."
With a bang, the hurried palace maid knocked over the emperor's face plate that he had just washed. Xiao Sixi was so angry that she acted like a coward, "You bitch! How did you serve me! Drag me out and kneel on the porcelain..."
"I'll skip breakfast first. I'll give you ginseng soup for Long Live Lord... Wait, Lord Long Live doesn't like ginseng soup, so I'll give you tremella and bird's nest soup..."
"Hurry up and call Ma Ming in again. Long live the Lord is waiting for him..."
The scene was as noisy as a vegetable market. At this time, Mr. Baojun, who was on duty, also ran in from the military plane with red eyes. He was about to kneel down and kowtow, but Zai Chun stopped him!
"What time has it been? Don't kneel down and behave yourself! My mind is too confused. Can you tell me what to do?"
Baojun was also frightened by the sudden news and turned pale. "Long live! At this moment, the first thing to do is to inform the Queen Mother of the two palaces as soon as possible. The second thing is to immediately think of a way to reward the Marshal's family and other generals of the Hunan Army!"
"When people's hearts are at their most unstable, we must reassure these people...especially two people, one is Zuo Jigao from the northwest, and the other is Zeng Guoquan, the ninth commander who stayed in Jiangning. Li Hongzhang is in the capital at the moment. Don’t worry…”
"If these three people are stable, basically the Hunan Army will not be in chaos!"
"This... I also understand, but how stable should it be!" Zai Chun was also at a loss.
Baojun thought for a while, "Immediately invite Li Hongzao and Weng Tonghe to come and give Marshal Zeng a posthumous title first! This is the most important thing. First, stabilize people's hearts in the name of justice!"
“Then it’s time to spend money!”
"Okay, okay... listen to you, invite them two over immediately..."
While the monarch and his ministers were discussing, there was a bustle of footsteps at the Yangxin Gate. Li Lianying supported Cixi and hurried in under the protection of a group of eunuchs and maids.
"Bo Han is dead? Zeng Bohan is dead... Oh my god, my god! Why did he die?" Cixi continued to babble after she sat down.
"Mother, now is not the time to express emotion. I am going to express my condolences. I have to send the commander off..."
"No!" Cixi screamed, "Your Majesty is absolutely not allowed to go!"
The young emperor and Bao Jun were both stunned, and asked in confusion, "The Queen Mother... This former commander had unparalleled miraculous achievements in the empire! He was the Dinghai Shenzhen of Jiangnan during the Hongyang Rebellion!"
"The death of the commander-in-chief...if it happened outside the capital, it would be unreasonable, but this is within the capital. It would be unreasonable if His Majesty did not go to express his condolences!"
"Yes! Mother, we can't delay this matter. Why are we waiting?"
"The Ai family said they couldn't go, so they couldn't go!" Cixi's eyes stood up, and her face was covered with flesh. "Tomorrow is the day of my son's wedding. It's such a happy time. How can a dead person take away the joy? ?”
"It's unlucky! It's so unlucky! Our court can just give the Zeng family a little more reward. Why bother to go there in person? Baojun, just be the court's ghostwriter!"
"Oh... Queen Mother, although I am the Minister of Military Discipline, I can't replace the Emperor! If that doesn't work, you have to find a prince to express your condolences!"
Zai Chun thought about it carefully and shook his head, "Queen mother...I think I should go take a look at this matter...I have come forward, which means An Xiangjun's heart, they will feel my friendship!"
"Commander Zeng is different from ordinary ministers. He is an important minister who can resolve difficulties! If he doesn't go, I'm afraid he will chill the hearts of future generations..."
It's a pity that Zai Chun and Bao Jun underestimated the stubbornness of superstitious old ladies. People like Cixi took superstitious Feng Shui too seriously, otherwise they wouldn't have believed in the Boxers' nonsense in their previous lives that drinking talisman water would make them invulnerable!
In the minds of such old ladies, money can be given away and land can be given away, but one must pay attention to auspiciousness in life!
It’s not okay to see a dead person before Zai Chun’s wedding. It’s just a surprise! What if the feng shui is ruined and the country is in trouble in the future?
Cixi slammed the table and stared, saying, "If you want to go, beat the Ai family to death first! Step on the Ai family's bones and get out of the palace! Whichever palace gate you go out from, the Ai family will kneel at that palace gate and let you kill them!"
Ouch... Zai Chun's nose and eyes were on fire after he said these words!
At this time, a familiar figure came to the Yangxin Hall, and Ci'an's confidant Zhou Daoying also came. As soon as he entered the Yangxin Hall, he shouted, "There is a decree from Yi... The decree from the Queen Mother... The Queen Mother passed the order to Prince Gong Yixin." The plenipotentiary representative of the imperial court in mourning!"
"Your Majesty must not express condolences in person! The Queen Mother is coming from Beiyuan... Please stop the Queen Mother of the West!"
Come on, these two old ladies are quite superstitious!
