The imprisonment in Xiling did not dampen Yi Xin's fighting spirit, but made him sharper in thinking and sharper in words. Not only did the emperor hear this harsh advice, but also the ministers waiting outside the carriage heard it.
On the one hand, Zai Chun wanted to show the achievements of his industrial reform to the ministers today, but on the other hand, he wanted to show off his imperial demeanor with a big belly.
The purpose of bringing the three imprisoned princes out is to tell everyone that I have not given up on them, and I still give them a chance.
So after visiting the battleship, Zai Chun and his ministers prepared to meet the three imprisoned princes. However, he did not expect that the image of Ren Jun was not shown, so he asked Yi Xin Dootou to teach him a lesson first.
Zai Chun was so shameless now that his face was so gloomy that he was about to break out. Outside the carriage, Prince Yipei saw that his sixth brother was in trouble again and ran in without caring about the loss of etiquette.
"Old Liu! Are you crazy? You're talking to the emperor like this when you're celebrating the New Year?" Yi Pei knew that he couldn't let Zaichun scold him today. It would not be easy to let the emperor scold him, so he had to take the responsibility himself. the wicked!
"You know nothing! The Holy Emperor will help you. As long as His Majesty is determined to do something, help will naturally come from all aspects! Then why is Xiao Letian's map not given to the British, but the Americans will give it to His Majesty for free?"
"Isn't it the friendship between master and disciple? How can you regard this friendship as so sinister and vicious? Where in the world is there a teacher who plots against his students?"
"Besides, it doesn't matter even if it's a little calculation, isn't it just a little bit of money and a little profit? Isn't the Qing Dynasty so short of money? Isn't it natural for Your Majesty to let your teacher make some money?"
"Obviously, the master helps the apprentice, and the apprentice helps the master... How come this mutually beneficial good thing turns into a huge disaster in your mouth?"
"It's not like you haven't seen the gunboats on the Tongzhou Pier. Xiao Letian even sold the airship to the Qing Dynasty. He just won a beautiful victory in Yili two years ago!"
"Isn't this all a good thing? It all turns out to be Xiao Letian's conspiracy in your mouth! You, you...how did you, who has been in charge of the Prime Minister's Yamen for several years, develop such a suspicious habit?"
Yi Pei raised his hands and smiled at Zai Chun, "Your Majesty, please ignore him. There is something wrong with Lao Liu's brain and he is too suspicious... But he is worried about the fate of the country, and it is out of good intentions. Your Majesty, please forgive me!"
Zai Chun's anger subsided a bit after Yi Pei was disturbed like this. He looked at Yi Xin and said angrily, "You said Xiao Letian has sinister intentions? But it was with the help of my master that I was able to successfully negotiate with Tsarist Russia!"
"Did you know! The negotiations between me and Tsarist Russia have already taken back the Transoxingan Mountains, Lake Baikal and the entire Ili Valley! You said that the head of state has evil intentions? If this can be considered evil intentions, I hope there will be more evil intentions. of!"
In fact, Yi Xin already knew the outside information when he was imprisoned, but now he had to pretend that he had no idea at all and that it was the first time he heard it.
"Ah! This...this...is this true? Where is the treaty...where is it?" Yi Xin acted extremely shocked, and the expression on his face was so distorted that it was a bit exaggerated.
Emperor Tongzhi did not doubt him, but smiled contemptuously, "Ulan Geli has already nodded, and now we are waiting for Moscow's final decision!"
"I'm sorry that the Rakshasa ghosts don't dare to go back on their word. With a hundred thousand troops in the Western Region and so many artillery and airships guarding them, the Rakshasa ghosts can't defeat them even to the death!"
"Haha...you think I can't do it? I don't know how many inches of land you opened and expanded for the Qing Dynasty when you were in power?"
Yi Xin blushed and knelt on the ground without saying a word. At this time, Prince Qing knew how to kowtow to the emperor while holding a cigarette butt and praising, "Long live your Majesty! Your Majesty is holy! Blessed is the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty is reviving..."
"Please give me some good cigarettes from your majesty! The guilty minister has received a discount from your majesty..."
Zai Chun frowned and glanced at Prince Qing and whispered, "Why did he turn into a dog? Someone... give him two boxes of Cuban cigars, smoke them!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you very much, Your Majesty..." Prince Qing kowtowed as if pounding garlic.
Of the three princes, one turned into a dog begging for cigarettes, and the other did not dare to speak after being lectured by Yipei. Zai Chun turned his attention to Prince Chun Yixuan.
"Haha...Prince Chun...why don't you say a word? You haven't seen me for a long time, don't you have nothing to say?"
Yi Xuan kowtowed, then looked at Zai Chun and said in a neither humble nor overbearing tone, "Your Majesty can build railways and build factories... There is nothing to say, it is all good! Now that our Qing Dynasty can produce its own steel and make its own munitions, no one can I can’t say anything!”
"This is a good thing... I'm just a little worried, and I won't be happy if I don't vomit!"
"Oh... then tell me, it's been a long time since I heard some unfavorable advice. Please tell me and I'll listen!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty! This room is full of descendants of the Aixinjueluo family, and I won't hide them anymore! Everyone knows what our Eight Banners are like!"
"The ancestor of eating, drinking and having fun, an expert in corruption! He has nothing to do but still finds something to do to make money!"
"We, as a group, don't even know what it means to love the people, what it means to be considerate of the people... Your Majesty is now sending 100,000 civilians to build railways, and another 100,000 people to build iron factories!"
"The capital will have an extra 200,000 people for nothing! In the future, as the projects get bigger and bigger, will there be more and more people?"
"Xiao Letian's Industrial Zone, the guilty minister personally visited it. At that time, the population was no less than 300,000! After so many years, how can it be more than 500,000?"
"Your Majesty, please think deeply. In the future, when there are hundreds of thousands of people in our capital's industrial zone, how will we manage it? It will be a disaster if so many people gather together!"
"The guilty minister was imprisoned in the Old Summer Palace, and he was allowed to climb the mountain every day to watch the construction projects in the capital... The more he watched, the more frightened the guilty minister became!"
"Our Qing Dynasty has always only had experience in managing farmers and no experience in managing workers? How can we make these people work hard without causing trouble?"
"Your Majesty, we have no experience. This is a pit! A deep pit that you will fall into if you are not careful... That's all I want to say. Your Majesty, believe it or not, I can't do anything..."
Zai Chun was stunned for a moment, "Haha... I didn't expect that Uncle Qi no longer dealt with government affairs, but he was still worried about the country and the people? His eyes were swollen with such worry?"
Fifth Master Yi Pei immediately said, "Your Majesty... Lao Qi is so evil! The place where he lives has too much moisture. The water system of the Old Summer Palace has not been dredged for many years and has formed stagnant water..."
"Prince Chun lives too close, and his body and bones can't bear it!"
Zai Chun thought about it for a while, and suddenly thought of the endless nagging of his mother Empress Cixi in the past year, and became afraid. He sighed and said, "Well... let's move the confinement to another place!"
"Wasn't Prince Chun's Mansion empty before? Clean up a courtyard and let them move there... just confine them at home!"
Zai Chun smiled, "After all, Qi Shu has been responsible for the security of the capital for many years, and his worries are different from others... What he said makes sense. This construction site is indeed crowded and the security is poor. It really needs to be rectified!"
"Haha... A few days ago, King Yu Benge complained to me that people at the construction site were stealing and harassing young wives and girls in the surrounding villages every day. There were more than a dozen complaints filed every day!"
"We really need to punish them severely. How can we do this in the long run?"
