Women are like this. When they are angry, they don't care about anything, but when they wake up, they immediately regret it. What did they just say?
Almost all the nobles and officials of the second rank and above are here. Even if they want to make a noise, they can't make a noise here. Fortunately, the Ancestral Temple is large and has a deep door, so the conversation inside can't be heard clearly.
If it was a small door, the noise would be heard by everyone outside!
Ci'an looked at Cixi and said, "No matter how many grievances you and I have in our hearts, this is not the time to talk... I now order Uncle Wu and Fu Qing to come in and discuss it first. Do you agree?"
"Don't look at me like that. No matter how much you hate Fu Qing, Fu Qing is, after all, an important minister of the Westernization faction appointed by His Majesty, and the deputy commander of the counter-rebellion army!"
"The fifth master is the commander in charge of the army! Without the full support of the two of them, we would not be able to get through this hurdle!"
"Cixi! Fu Qing is connected to the Chinese people. He must coordinate many things. To quell this rebellion, how to get the support of the Chinese people is the top priority!"
"Do you agree with what I say? If you agree, I will let them two in..."
Cixi's face was extremely dark and ugly, but she had to admit that Ci'an was right. The little emperor now only had a few people on his right and left. Yi Pei and Fu Qing were two carriages protecting the little emperor in exercising his power!
But Cixi would not completely listen to Ci'an. She gritted her teeth and said, "Let Baojun and Yinggui also come in. They are military ministers and cannot be alienated... As the leader of Qingliu, can't the emperor's master Weng Tonghe not be present?"
Ci'an said angrily, "It's just that Baojun and Yinggui are coming in, they are all Manchus. Why did you let Han Chen come in? Let's negotiate the confidential matters first, and the Military Aircraft Department will not be in chaos first, and then we can have a meeting with Han Chen... "
"Your Majesty... you make up your mind! The ministers are waiting outside. We can't disturb the morale of the army. It will be dawn in a while, and the capital cannot keep secrets. Once the people know the news of the defeat, there will be chaos. ah!"
Zai Chun sighed with red eyes, "The people coming... Chuanyipei, Fuqing, Baojun, Yinggui... the four of them entered the Ancestral Temple, the others should wait a little longer..."
Cixi snorted and said nothing.
The door creaked slowly open a crack, and the little eunuch guarding the door shouted in a low voice, "Four adults... hurry up, the master is waiting..."
At this moment, all the ministers in the square outside the Imperial Ancestral Temple stood up with a roar, stretching their necks one by one to look inside, but through three levels of imperial steps, no one could see what was inside!
Cixi and Ci'an took a closer look and exclaimed, "Ah! Why was the fifth master helped in... Please give me a seat!"
The fifth master, Yipei, walked in somewhere. He was helped in by Fu Qing and Yinggui. Behind him, Baojun was carrying a small horse. As soon as the Queen Mother offered him a seat, he quickly put it down and helped Yipei sit down.
"Long live my emperor..." The four of them wanted to kowtow, but Zai Chun scolded him, "I don't want to kowtow at this time. Can you win the battle by kowtowing?"
"A way, what I want is a way!"
The four of them felt a chill in their hearts. King Dun's back was so bloody that his filial piety clothes were stuck to his flesh. The little emperor didn't even say a word of comfort, as if he hadn't seen him. This was so cold!
But no one dared to say anything. King Dun was in so much pain that he had no energy to speak, so he could only look at Fu Qing to ask for help.
Fu Qing actually kept his spirits up, relying on two bowls of ginseng soup and staring at the firepower in his heart: "Your Majesty... The Battle of Zhuozhou was really not a crime of war, but a defeat in court politics..."
"Even this failure was destined to be solved more than ten years ago. It is not His Majesty's fault, and it has nothing to do with the Queen Mother... It even has little to do with the newly promoted officials in the DPRK and China in the past ten years. …”
"Huh? It doesn't matter? Then the imperial court died in vain and suffered such a huge defeat?" Zai Chun asked angrily.
"Your Majesty! Haven't you seen through it yet? This rebellion is actually a continuation of Prince Gong's battle to seize the rightful son during the Daoguang reign!"
"The introduction to this war was actually laid in Emperor Daoguang's later years. In the final analysis, the battle for succession between the late emperor and Prince Gong was not handled well. The powerful forces that cannot be eliminated have been affecting the situation of the court!"
"I am young and have not experienced the matter of seizing the heir, but I heard from my father's generation that Prince Gong was indeed very popular at that time... he was smart, studious, courteous and virtuous. At that time, many people among the Manchu and Han ministers in the court supported him. !”
"These forces of support suddenly disappeared during the Xianfeng period, but did they really disappear? I don't think so. It was a kind of force. Those who supported Prince Gong must have some common ideas and values!"
"Xiao Letian has said many times that ideas are immortal, and values, whether they are right or wrong, will always be recognized by people, but there are just too many people and too few!"
"These former supporters of Guizi Liu's legitimate son-in-law, all went dormant or defected after the late emperor ascended the throne, and then Guizi Liu's behavior was also unusually submissive, so in exchange for the late emperor's merciful treatment!"
"If there is always peace in the future, or if the imperial power can stabilize the political situation and suppress his ambitions... then Guiziliu is very likely to become an honest Prince of Taiping throughout his life!"
"But the current situation is so changeable! The Japs Six are stimulated by the great changes not seen in three thousand years and are ready to move. How can the forces hiding at this time not be moved?"
"Your Majesty! Guiziliu has worked hard from the Daoguang period to the present, and the power is so entrenched and lurking that it is unimaginable!"
"So this Battle of Zhuozhou is a hasty battle for us, but for Guiziliu, it is the accumulation of more than half a lifetime, and it is the result of painstaking efforts!"
"This is not a defeat in the military. This is a defeat in the court and a continuation of politics... Please cheer up, Your Majesty, please keep your eyes open!"
"To be disrespectful...the late emperor should bear more than half of the responsibility for today's defeat! Your Majesty is the one who was most unjustly accused!"
Hiss... everyone took a breath of air. No one expected that Fu Qing would look at the problem from such a perspective!
Fu Qing looked at Emperor Tongzhi and said excitedly, "What are you afraid of if you lose? What will happen if there are too many betrayals? Many of these traitors were buried by Guiziliu before Your Majesty was born. What can Your Majesty do?"
"Isn't it ridiculous that Your Majesty is so self-blaming and unable to understand this knot now? Are you still responsible for things that happened before you were born?"
"Your Majesty, cheer up! Aren't there just too many traitors? If there are too many traitors, we will kill them. If a pair comes, we will kill a pair. If there are ten thousand, we will kill ten thousand..."
"The Qing Dynasty was created by fighting, not by calculation!"
