Every word in the telegram pierced Zai Chun's heart like a knife. If it was already humiliating to be betrayed and encounter rebellion and civil war, then what was ten thousand times more serious than this humiliation was that he had been deceived so far. In the drum.
That's right, Emperor Tongzhi has been kept in the dark until now. Even the British know that troops have been raised by the Yishui River, and a three-way army of 140,000 is marching towards Zhuozhou in a mighty manner.
But Zaichun was still dreaming about how to buy grain to stabilize grain prices, and how to use work-for-relief to quell the disaster. He even ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to clean Prince Gong's Mansion just in the morning.
He allocated a large number of treasures from the royal treasury and sent them to Prince Gong's Mansion to make up for the losses caused when the house was ransacked!
They were kept in the dark. They had already raised troops in the morning of the 9th, but they had to wait until the early morning of the 10th to get the news from the British.
Zai Chun felt like the biggest idiot in the world, making the whole world laugh at him.
"I...how on earth can I warm the hearts of these bastards...No, no, no...it's impossible, it's impossible for Manshun to even send a co-signed telegram!"
"I have left hundreds of loyal guards in Xiling. The magistrate of Yi County, including Erles, is trustworthy... including Manshun. Manshun cannot betray me!"
"You are all lying to me...you are all lying to me..."
Baojun saw that he was spoiled. He did not persuade Emperor Tongzhi to calm down, but blocked Delani with his body. "Mr. De, you have finished what you should say. Now please leave the Forbidden City and wait for news from the Qing Dynasty!"
"Please...please get out of here!" He couldn't be embarrassed in front of the foreign devils. Delaney's sneaky eyes just now had revealed his sinister intentions.
Being punched is nothing to such a shameless person. Perhaps returning to their country and being punched by the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty would be a political bonus.
If Delaney enters politics by then, he can say that he risked his life by entering the Forbidden City to negotiate with the Qing emperor during the Qing civil war.
The angry Emperor Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty also punched him and ordered countless swordsmen to try to hack him to death. Then Delaney went through many difficulties and dangers and used his god-like eloquence to save the day.
Blow! Anyway, it's tens of thousands of miles away from half the world, who can come to verify it? Even if they ask for verification, these politicians are thick-skinned enough and will not admit it.
Anyway, voters like such stories of lone heroes, so this is a plus!
Baojun didn't know what he had in mind, but looking at his eyes, he knew he was harboring bad intentions, so he immediately issued an eviction order!
Delaney couldn't stay here now, so he could only say goodbye and leave the Forbidden City. When he was leaving the Meridian Gate, he happened to be walking across from Fu Qing. The two didn't speak, just nodded.
Zai Chun was already crazy at this moment. He grabbed Da Sixi's pigtails and shouted, "Did you betray me too? Did you betray me too! Say..."
"Long Live Lord! This slave has been in the palace since he was a child and has been following Lord Long Live... This slave will never rebel even if he dies! Please tell me, Master, your life belongs to the Emperor..."
"Then why did Manshun send me such a telegram? Did you know there was one this morning? Why on earth..."
Fu Qing ran up the royal steps and saw the scene in front of him. He quickly knelt down and took a few steps to hug Zai Chun's hand. "Your Majesty, calm down! Your Majesty, please calm down!"
"The latest news has just arrived... Zhili Governor's Mansion and Handan City have sent telegrams of allegiance... Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang have sent a message to the whole country to declare that they are incompatible with the Japanese!"
"They have already sent a telegram of allegiance! I have just sent it from the telegraph office... Please express your condolences, Your Majesty! Eunuch Manshun is dead. During the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, he used his life to defile the ceremony of Guiziliu..."
The capital didn't know what happened to Manshun, but Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang knew because Guiziliu had frantically spread the news of Manshun's execution.
This meant that he was going to completely break with Emperor Tongzhi, and Fu Qing only learned the details of the matter from the messages sent by the two governors.
Although it is not very detailed, everything already has a context!
Ninety percent of the surveillance personnel sent by Emperor Tongzhi to Prince Gong, including all the surveillance personnel sent in Xiling, had been instigated by the Japs to rebel, and the remaining 10% had been secretly executed!
Magistrate Liu of Yixian County defected from the Qing Dynasty and defected to the Chinese. He would not remain loyal to Emperor Tongzhi. Ellesu, the director of Xiling, could not bear the pressure and surrendered.
The reports on Qing An's illness that I had seen in the past few days were all fake. They were all issued under the threat of Prince Gong's steel knife and gun. At that time, the entire Yixian County was already surrounded by water.
At this time, the entire southern Zhili was in the midst of a very violent wave of refugees. The countryside was full of refugees and bandits, and the counties and towns were like isolated islands in the ocean, with no connection with each other.
Therefore, there was such a serious rebellion in Yixian County, and the surrounding Dingxing, Laishui, Gaobeidian and other places did not notice the strange changes in Yixian County in time.
Of course, there is also a possibility that the local officials in these places were also instigated by the Japanese to rebel!
What's even more shameful is that Prince Gong's telegrams were sent to the whole country in order. First came the foreign devils and local governors, then the Chinese and the important commercial towns in Jiangnan!
But Emperor Tongzhi of the capital became the last one, and he didn't even know the news until the allegiance messages from the British and other governors arrived.
"Hahaha...hahahaha..." Zai Chun smiled so sadly, "It's great! It's great! In the end, I will be the last one, and I will be the last one to know the news!"
"My life has turned into a big joke! My sixth uncle has ascended the throne? What is the name of the year? What are you going to do with me?"
Fu Qing heavily discounted "Jai Zi Liu was arrogant and rebellious. He actually claimed to be Emperor Guangxu and falsely stated that he wanted to revive the Qing Dynasty! He also said..."
"Say! He's not even afraid, what are you afraid of..." Zai Chun shouted.
"Yes... Guiziliu said arrogantly that as long as your majesty surrenders, he will keep your majesty safe... Qingdong Tomb, the late emperor's mausoleum still lacks a son to keep vigil..."
"Hahaha..." Zai Chun laughed, "You have a conscience! I imprisoned him in Xiling, and he wants to imprison me in Dongling?"
"It's all a wake-up call for my biological father. It's beautifully done, beautiful!"
Zai Chun's whole body slumped in his chair. At this moment, all the conspiracy had been completely disclosed, and there was no sense of mystery at all. However, the feeling of powerlessness in Zai Chun's heart became stronger and stronger.
The cold wind in the middle of the night made people's bones ache, and Zai Chun's face turned unhealthy and scarlet!
"Am I...am I a pathetic person? I didn't know the news of the rebellion until the end...Until now, Uncle Six has not sent me a telegram, and I still have to hear it from other people's mouths!"
"Where did I go wrong? Where did I go wrong..."
