Zaichun's cronies monitored Prince Qing every day, and the feedback was the same every day. They ate fasting, chanted sutras, and chanted mantras, and the merits of daily practice were dedicated to Emperor Tongzhi in front of the Buddha.
Eating every day is no longer as luxurious as it used to be. A plate of red pickles and a bowl of porridge taste just as delicious!
Zai Chun finally let down his guard against Prince Qing Yikuang, "After all, he is a man who has died once. He has walked around the gates of hell. If Prince Dun hadn't saved his life, would he still want to have today's porridge and pickles?"
After all, Zai Chun is still young. He has no idea how difficult it is to switch from extravagance to frugality! When Prince Qing was in power, his life was not much worse than that of the Emperor, and he didn't have as many rules as the Emperor.
To say that having fun and enjoying life is more luxurious than a king, can you forget this kind of life? Will people who have experienced such enjoyment completely change their minds?
He underestimated human nature so much that Zai Chun had no idea that this person wanted to change, especially how difficult it was to change from extravagance to frugality!
Everything about Yikuang is a scam. He has been lying dormant waiting for Prince Gong's orders. A coward prince is also a prince, and he also has his own direct line of servants.
"The sky is going to change! Haha...what is supposed to come will still come!"
In the northern suburbs of the capital, in the ruins of the Old Summer Palace, in the dilapidated courtyard, Prince Chun Yixuan stood on the highest point of the rockery, looking at the billowing smoke of the Qinghe Industrial Zone in the northwest. Those towering chimneys were taller than the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Towering into the clouds.
Every day, black smoke billows and blows in all directions with the wind. Black ash falls here in the Old Summer Palace every day, just like snow. It is impossible to sweep the inside and outside of the house clean. After a while, the table after cleaning is covered with a layer of black ash.
The rumbling sound of the machine made him sleep poorly every day. The broken water system in the Old Summer Palace had not been desilted and repaired for a long time. The moisture was everywhere, and Yixuan suffered from severe rheumatism!
But just like this, he had to climb high and look far away every day. He kept looking at the industrial area, imagining how much fuel this behemoth would have to eat in order to spit out so much ashes!
"The industrial power of the West is nothing but the power of the devil... Do you know? Something happened when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was in power!"
Dozens of guards were kneeling behind Yi Xin, motionless as black soot fell all over him. They had obviously been kneeling for a long time!
These were the guards sent by Emperor Tongzhi to monitor Yixuan, but who would have thought that the Eight Banners had its own rules and its own master-slave system!
At least half of the people Emperor Tongzhi thought he could trust were direct descendants of the well-hidden Six Kings Party and were double agents!
In fact, a long time ago, when his brother Emperor Xianfeng was still alive, Yi Xin planted many informants in the court. These people were openly on the opposite side of Guiziliu.
They should be scolded when they should be scolded, and they should be confronted when they should be confronted. Once there is a political turmoil in the court, they will also be the vanguard against Yi Xin!
Before the Xinyou Coup, many of these people were subordinates of the Eighth Minister Gu Ming. After the Xinyou Coup, most of them took refuge under the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces.
When the little emperor takes charge, he will naturally become the backbone of the little emperor's anti-Japanese army!
But who would have thought that many of these people were direct descendants of Guiziliu during the Xianfeng period, so deep that Emperor Tongzhi would actually use these people to look after Yixuan!
Yixuan said to himself, "When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he once dug a pool in Chang'an City to train the navy! The project was huge and the ground was very deep..."
"In the end, we dug out black-gray stones that can be ignited with fire... People at that time didn't know that this thing was called coal, which was very strange!"
"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went to ask the learned Dongfang Shuo, but Dongfang Shuo said, I heard that there was a monk Hu in the Western Regions who said! Deep underground, there are ashes of previous lives!"
"It's black and can be ignited by fire... Your Majesty, you have dug up the ashes of your previous life!"
"Haha... The catastrophe ashes of the previous life, what an interesting name... This coal is actually just a little bit of ashes left after the catastrophe I don't know how many lives ago!"
"The evil devils in the West extract the ashes of such a calamity and turn it into energy to promote industry. Isn't this just forcing the dead souls to grind?"
"Look at the chimneys in this industrial zone. The coals are burning inside, and the ashes that are spewing out are the ashes of disaster! If the Qing Dynasty continues like this, it will surely perish!"
The direct descendants knelt on the ground without saying a word, waiting for Yixuan to vent his emotions. It took a long time for the excited Yixuan to calm down.
"Is Gordon gone?" he asked suddenly.
A guard behind him bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, Gordon, an Englishman, left Xishan Camp and returned to the capital yesterday. He will stay for another two days and get a train ticket to Tianjin Wei the day after tomorrow!"
"He took a Chinese steamer from Dagukou to Hong Kong! At present, our biggest obstacle in Xishan Camp has been cleared!"
"Please give your order... let your subordinates contact the brothers in the Xishan Camp. When Prince Gong takes action in the south, our Xishan Camp can mutiny!"
"Haha...you know nothing!" Yi Xuan sneered, "Don't underestimate Xiaohunjun's methods. He has learned a lot from Xiao Letian!"
"There are now three direct branches of the capital, the Yulin New Army, the Guaizima, and the Xishan Camp... they restrict and supervise each other, and they have become the three cornerstones of his rule over the capital!"
"Although we can infiltrate part of it, a pattern of mutual restraint has been formed, and no one can act alone!"
"Especially the new Yulin Army and the Guaizima, they are simply not something we can command!"
"Even the group of people in Xishan Camp who were trained by Gordon himself are no longer reliable. Once we raise troops, it will be difficult for other brothers to join us!"
"What should we do?" everyone exclaimed.
"There is no good way! We can only divert the tiger away from the mountain! Prince Gong and I have already predicted it. We cannot start the army first this time. We must let the refugees start chaos first!"
"Shanxi, Zhili, Henan... where the three provinces intersect, there is also the northern part of Shandong, which is the first wave of chaos!"
"As long as there is a rebellion of refugees, then the Hunjun will have to mobilize troops to suppress it... What we want is to mobilize these direct descendants of his capital. As long as the tiger leaves his lair, we will have a way to deal with him!"
"Haha, you want to fight with my sixth brother? He's still a little green, he's far behind... Get out of here and do whatever you need to do during this time!"
Prince Chun Yixuan looked at the capital from a distance and sneered, "Nephew! How do you think you can fight with your sixth uncle? Your sixth uncle competed with your father for the position of crown prince!"
"Your sixth uncle had already begun to support his own power when your grandfather, Emperor Daoguang, was alive! The people in the show are all fake, and they were all deliberately let you see them and then dismantle them bit by bit!"
"You don't even know where this secret team is hidden! There are many things that your father, Emperor Xianfeng, has not discovered, and even the Queen Mothers of the two palaces can't figure it out!"
"Just because of you, you want to uproot all your sixth uncle's influence?"
"Hehehe... I think back then, that was the heir that your grandfather admired the most. If your father hadn't been able to act and performed a filial drama, how could it be your father's turn to take the throne!"
"It's time to collect interest, just wait..."
