To bring bad luck to Fu Qing, it is now impossible to rely on the power of the harem. Cixi has long lost the right to participate in politics, and the factions in the DPRK and China are more complicated than before.
Fu Qing was highly regarded by Emperor Tongzhi and even married Xiao Letian. There was also Ci'an in the harem who had an unclear relationship with him. Such people were not something Cixi could trip up alone.
We can only rely on the power of the outer court, and those civil servants in the outer court are all smooth-talking old fritters. They will definitely not work hard for themselves. They can only rely on the military attachés and their own direct descendants!
After Ronglu returns to the capital, he will naturally put down the rebellion, and he will also lead troops to fight. When the war is in chaos, he will secretly attack!
If it doesn't work, let Ronglu secretly sell some information to Guiziliu and use the enemy's hands to kill Fu Qing. This is called killing with a borrowed knife!
When the South was in trouble, this vicious trick was not uncommon. The imperial court used this trick to deceive the Han officials, and the Han officials also followed suit and used this trick to deceive the people.
With the help of Shaggy's hands, both sides killed so many direct descendants of each other. This is a confusing account that cannot be written into the history books!
Cixi knew very well why the Ping Changmao Rebellion took so long? It was because there was internal fighting within the imperial court, and the deepest struggle was the Manchu-Han conflict!
And vaguely, Cixi could feel that in the two or three years following the Ping Changmao War, basically all factions in the DPRK and China deliberately slowed down the pace of the war.
Changmao was deliberately allowed to live for a few more years. Those few years were actually used by various factions to use the war to carve up the distribution of post-war benefits!
The Manchus wanted to seize the fruits of victory, but the Han people refused to give away the sphere of influence they had conquered. Both sides used their swords to kill people and attack the mountains to scare the tigers. How many soldiers and generals were killed?
There is no danger for those at the top who have reached the level of generals, but many of the middle and lower-level officers and soldiers under them died unjustly!
Sigh... It has been a long time ago. Those who died unjustly may have turned into white bones. They must have been reincarnated a long time ago, right?
Cixi recalled the bloody scenes of that year, and when she thought about her excitement of listening to politics behind the curtain and engaging in conspiracy, she felt infinite power surging in her heart!
"It's great to have rights! That kind of feeling cannot be achieved by a hundred men..."
Cixi went back to the harem in disgust, while Li Lianying quickly left the inner palace and headed to the Nanchizi area!
In Xiao Letian's previous life, Nanchizi had become a wide street where people could walk around freely, but during the Qing Dynasty, it was a restricted area in the imperial city.
Ordinary people have no right to enter. There are many warehouses, temporary barracks, and some royal workshops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Industry.
There are many empty houses, and Zai Chun has decreed to 'invite' the family members of all the third-rank officials and above in the court to come here. They are actually a group of hostages!
Zai Chun was confused by Guiziliu's rebellion and frightened to the root of his illness. At this moment, he looked at all the officials in the court, and 90% of them were dangerous elements!
You can't tell the difference in a hurry, so let's gather all the family members as hostages. Anyway, there is plenty of room in the imperial city!
Li Lianying came here with the young eunuchs and ordered them to go down and find out where Ronglu's family members were. However, after asking for a long time, they found nothing.
"Oh...what the hell, Ronglu has the official title of General of Xi'an on his back. He is from the first rank! How can he not find it?"
As a result, just when he was confused, Fengxiu, the father of Concubine Hui, the head of the household department, saw him: "Oh... isn't this Mr. Li? You are lucky, why are you here..."
"Ouch... Lord Fengxiu, the head of the country! Haha, aren't I looking for someone..." Li Lianying said briefly.
Fengxiu slapped her thigh, "Hey... you're lucky to have met me. Most people really don't know what's going on!"
"Your Majesty wants the families of the third-rank and above high officials in the capital to come to Nanchizi, but Ronglu is not a capital official at the moment, so the officials must have not notified their families!"
"On the list of officials, Ronglu is still an official posted abroad! Besides, even if we notify him, it will be useless. Ronglu and his family are not in the city..."
"Two days ago, Ronglu and his wife took their family to Zhuangzi in Xishan... Doesn't the Ronglu family have more than 60 acres of land in Xishan? There is also a courtyard with three entrances..."
"Mi Gui's family in the city has a hard life. It's easier to live in a village outside the city. They can just grow some things in the vegetable field and eat some melons and vegetables..."
This Fengxiu is still a talkative, and her chatter is endless and has no theme. Li Lianying asked in confusion, "Go out of the city to plant crops? Is there any bannerman who does this? How can he be so poor?" ?"
Li Lianying felt as if she had heard a fairy tale. She could not imagine that the wife of a general from Xi'an could not stand the price of rice in the city and went to farm outside the city.
Fengxiu sighed, "My father-in-law, you don't know how hard it is to be an official. Many bannermen officials are too good to be good but they are ruined!"
"Rong Lu went to Xi'an just to get a job, and everyone there was unfamiliar with the place. How can you maintain connections without spending money? If you don't have connections there, you're looking for death!"
"His family is very generous in the capital, and there are many relatives in the Eight Banners. Weddings, weddings, and even New Year's goods are a huge expense!"
"It's a shame to pretend to be fat, but the pawn shop will also make progress in the future! They say that being an official is good, but in fact, being an official is useless. Everyone who is welcomed and sent away costs money..."
Li Lianying quickly stopped, "Hey, hey, hey... Father of the country, how about we talk about your gossip in the teahouse later? Just tell me how to find their family!"
This Feng Xiu was living a small account of how much money she could save by living outside the city instead of living in the city. When she saw that the manager was impatient, he didn't dare to talk nonsense.
"Zhuangzi over in Xishan is too far away. Go to his house... It seems that a cousin is helping to guard the house. If you have anything to say, just talk to his cousin directly..."
After bidding farewell to the chatty Fengxiu abbot, Li Lianying and his entourage came to the Ronglu family's old house in a hurry. In fact, it was near the Dongdan Archway. They saw Ronglu's cousin. The sixth-rank official who was guarding the house was so frightened that he quickly knelt down. kowtow.
But after he listened to Li Lianying's order, the cousin nodded and vowed to do everything possible to send the news to Ronglu!
Li Lianying didn't think much about it, thinking that it was your Ronglu family who couldn't possibly trick her!
But no one knew that the situation outside the city was changing a lot. This cousin sneaked into Dongjiaomin Alley late at night and rhythmically knocked on the back door of the British Embassy.
After a while, the door opened a crack, and he ducked in!
Where is Ronglu now? At this moment, Ronglu's army had already marched near Gaobeidian. All along the train track were the troops of Emperor Guangxu, and it was so dark that one could not see the end of it.
Late at night, the army was camping and resting along both sides of the train track. Ronglu was patrolling among the army with red eyes!
"Report...general...your majesty's secret message, please ask the general to open it personally!"
After Ronglu opened it, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "Haha, Cixi, I'm afraid you don't know that I have taken refuge with Prince Gong, right?"
"The British have sent information from the capital...Fuqing mobilized 20,000 troops to go south for reinforcements. The troops are so fast that they don't want to rest and are traveling all night..."
"Damn it! Night attack on Zhuozhou... Looks like I have to capture Fu Qing alive, hahahaha!"
Come on! Cixi never expected that her wanton behavior would directly give her son's military intelligence to the rebels in vain!
