"Ask Xiao Letian to borrow troops? Ten thousand people in the Ai family disagree..." Cixi said with a cold face, "Old people of more than two thousand years have known about making friends at a distance and attacking at home, but now you have forgotten it?"
"Xiao Letian is our close neighbor, and he is a bad neighbor. He is the biggest hidden danger to our country. You actually want to ask him to borrow troops? If you want to borrow troops, you must also ask foreign devils to borrow troops!"
"Foreigners are far away, Xiao Letian is close. Don't you understand the principle of making friends at a distance and attacking at a close distance?"
Of course everyone knows the truth, but are the soldiers of the foreign devils so easy to borrow?
Fu Qing shook his head and said, "It's true that we should make friends with distant enemies and attack with close enemies, but the foreign devils are really far away. Should we wait for the British or the French? Are we still looking for Rakshasa ghosts?"
"Sending troops from Europe, how can reinforcements arrive without half a year? It takes time for the foreign devils to raise an army... How can we expect thousands of troops stationed in Asia to fight against the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops?"
"Far is far enough, but also a little too far..."
The more Cixi looked at Fu Qing, the angrier she became. Just when she was about to speak, Zai Chun suddenly said, "Don't forget, what did my good uncle Liu do to start his career?"
"When the British and French forces came, he was the prince who stayed behind and was fully responsible for negotiations! He was the first person in the Qing Dynasty to engage in diplomacy with foreigners!"
"We can think of asking foreigners for help. He wouldn't have thought of it before? My mind is much clearer now. There are various signs before that the British and my sixth uncle are definitely connected..."
"When the stock market and rice prices were fluctuating, the foreign devils were following the right rhythm and making money secretly...Who gave the news? How did they know to flee on the eve of the rebellion?"
"Damn it, if there is no profit transfer here, I will lose my head to you!"
"The foreign devils can't be trusted now! Unless we can sell them more chips than the Japanese Six... This is forcing us to compete in a traitorous competition. Whoever betrays the country and sells more, the foreign devils will support him!"
"Can such a result be desired? There is no country without a general! Even if I win in the end, there will be nothing we can do about the Qing Dynasty. The appetite of foreigners is much greater than that of the Chinese!"
Ci Xi slapped the armrest of the chair and almost broke off her fingernails, "What kind of ecstasy soup did the devil Xiao Letian fill you with? The Ai family sees that Xiao Letian's ambition and appetite are much greater than those of the foreign devils, but you don't believe it..."
"What a traitor! You are a traitor..."
Seeing that the mother and son were arguing again, Yi Pei quickly tried to persuade her, "Your Majesty, Queen Mother, what time has it been? Why are you still talking about this? They are working together, and the wolf will follow. Who has the worse heart? Is it necessary to compete?"
"In short, it's enough that they are all bastards. The most important thing now is how to resist the army of Guiziliu. He has at least one million rebels in his hands..."
"Even if half of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, there are only four to five million young people left! This is a sea of people, how can we resist it?"
"It's almost dawn, we must come up with some measures to calm people's hearts..."
Baojun gritted his teeth and said, "What's more terrifying than the lack of reinforcements is food and grass. We don't have enough food and grass, and we won't be able to sustain it for much longer. Our only hope is the transportation from the Chinese side of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway..."
"What if Guiziliu cuts off the railway? Millions of people in the capital will starve to death..."
Fu Qing spread his hands, "I still insist on my opinion and invite Chinese soldiers... Now you have also seen that the Chinese will at least send out railway soldiers to protect the Beijing-Tianjin Railway. As long as the safety of our grain roads is guaranteed, the capital can still be defended." …”
"There is no food supply, Your Majesty..." Fu Qing burst into anxious tears, "Then your Majesty, please quickly move to Rehe and regroup in Chengde before making preparations..."
Escape? Zai Chun's heart suddenly went cold. "This...does it mean that I will end up like my father? Do you want me to die in the summer resort?"
Ying Gui moved her lips, "Either...or give up the Yongding River defense line and retreat the entire army back to the capital. Our city walls can still withstand the rebels..."
"Mobilize the people in the city to defend the city together, concentrate the power from one side to one point, and use the city defense to drag down the rebels... You must know that Guiziliu also has food pressure!"
"As long as the capital can hold off his rebels for a month, he will definitely run out of ammunition and food!"
"Eating a million troops is simply something that no one can even think about...without the overwhelming support of the nation during the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong, it would be impossible to do it!"
This is also a way. The three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong had experience in using large-scale troops to the northwest and southwest. At that time, the number of troops was less than one million, but the entire empire had to be mobilized to provide food and grass support!
Under the backward productivity and transportation conditions in ancient times, feeding millions of people was a nightmare!
"But... the defense of the capital city wall will let the people know that our court has been defeated. When the time comes, people's hearts will be shaken. Will there be civil strife?"
"Besides, the capital city wall was built in the Ming Dynasty. It looks tall and majestic now, but it hasn't been repaired for decades. Is there something wrong?"
"Times have changed... Is the Nanjing city wall strong enough? In the end, it was not defeated by firearms. The Zeng family's method of breaking the city is known to the whole world. Guiziliu knows it very well..."
"It won't work this way... That won't work either. Are we going to let the court wait for death?" Cixi suddenly collapsed. "You can't go to Chengde, it's a place of death... You can't go to Jiangnan, because the people's hearts are not unified..."
"The Ai family said that they should go to Xi'an to take refuge. They can still withstand it by relying on the land of Sanqin..."
After hearing Cixi's words, Yi Pei burst into tears with a heartfelt cry, "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
"You can't go anywhere to Xi'an. That has never been the territory of the Manchus. It is the land of Longxing of the Han people..."
"Even though the dragon spirit of the Three Qin Land has disappeared now, it is still the spiritual ancestral home in the hearts of the Han people. How can it go there?"
The Ancestral Temple was also in chaos, and the seven people had turned into a mess!
After a defeat in the Battle of Zhuozhou, the topic of moving the capital was actually discussed. Only then did Zai Chun truly realize that the Qing Empire was already riddled with holes and in disrepair!
"The emperor guards the gate of the country...the king dies in the country...I won't leave, I won't go anywhere! I will stay here to the death..."
"I'm so anxious...I...I...I should establish the ancestral system and establish a constitution!"
The words were like thunder exploding in the Ancestral Temple, and the ancestral tablets seemed to buzz.
"If heaven wants to destroy me, Zaichun, I will not wait to die...Revolution! Change the state system! Change it to a constitutional monarchy like the United Kingdom!"
"I issue an order to the King of Jingqin to the warriors of all races in the world! I order the Han people in the world to join the King of Jingqin... All the Han heroes who protect the safety of our Qing Dynasty should all join the Constituent Assembly!"
"What a bastard! I will act like a false king. Even if I set up a great assembly dominated by Han people, I will hand over the power of the country to the Han prime minister to govern!"
"I will not give up this country to that bastard Guiziliu for his rebellion!"
"Ah... Your Majesty, please don't say such angry words! You can't..." Yi Pei, Fu Qing, Bao Jun, and Ying Gui all knelt down. Ci'an felt his heart tighten, his vision went dark, and he fainted!
