The British gave the prince enough respect with a faint smile, but would not listen to any nonsense from him. "Dear Your Highness, sovereignty needs cannons and battleships to protect it. Otherwise, it is just two words and one word..."
"Let me tell you the truth, Prince. Emperor Tongzhi still has very tight control over the capital. Especially Fuqing controls the Qing Post and Telecommunications Bureau, which makes it difficult for Emperor Guangxu to set up his own secret telegraph line in the city!"
"Currently, the entire capital is under curfew, and Emperor Tongzhi's new army and the capital's police department have begun to block the people in sections. Therefore, the traditional intelligence transmission based on personnel exchanges is also impossible!"
"As for the older homing pigeons? There are countless sharpshooters in the city, targeting all the pigeons flying in the sky. During this period, the price of roasted squab in the capital has plummeted because the supply of pigeons is so huge!"
"Emperor Tongzhi is very smart. He has actually guessed that Emperor Guangxu will secretly communicate with the city, and then instigate civil unrest... In order to prevent this trick, he screened and killed people over and over again, and destroyed the internal and external communication channels over and over again!"
"He did a very beautiful and very good job...but unfortunately, he never counted on us!"
"The imperial court does not dare to cut off the telegraph line in our embassy, and our couriers inside and outside do not dare to block it... This is the channel for information exchange!"
"Just now... we have sent the latest information from outside to the city. It is estimated that this news will come faster than the Forbidden City!"
"Haha...please listen! Chaos has broken out..."
Following the direction of the British finger, Prince Chun and Prince Qing heard faint shouts of death coming from the east and west. Although they could not hear clearly, they could guess what these thugs were saying.
"The old and young men are in trouble... Tianjin Guards have been lost... Emperor Guangxu's army has killed Hunchun..."
"The Yangcun railway exploded, and the connection between the capital and the Japanese was cut off... The Yongding River has been breached, and Emperor Guangxu's army has arrived outside the city..."
"Men of the Eight Banners... rise up and overthrow the Hunjun! Go to the Forbidden City... Let us sleep with Hunjun's women as long as we like..."
"Robbing the gold from the Forbidden City... to eat the rich..."
Yi Xuan burst into tears and was speechless. Prince Qing's face turned pale, and he didn't know whether he was happy or sad, while the British were still making fun of him.
"Why are your two highnesses sad? It is estimated that you will be free tomorrow day, and your palace will be returned to you. It is estimated that it will be expanded and decorated more luxuriously..."
"Your power and wealth will further increase. This empire will still be yours after all!"
"This is a good thing, why are you sad?"
"Shut up!" Yixuan growled, "What am I so happy about? This wealth is all obtained with the blood of my people in the Qing Dynasty! That person is not an outsider in the Forbidden City, that is my nephew... We are a family Blood relatives!"
"Oh...I'm sorry, but the civil war is still going on? There will always be pains on the way to the empire's reform. Even when we in the UK carried out the revolution, the blood of the royal family was shed, not to mention the people!"
"Recognize the reality, Your Highness! The Qing Dynasty's innovation should rely on British power rather than Chinese power... Emperor Tongzhi's choice was wrong!"
"Okay, please allow me to take my leave...tomorrow we will go to the Forbidden City to say hello to you!"
There was sudden chaos in the capital at midnight. Zai Chun cut off all the message transmission in Guizi Liuhe City but could not cut off the British.
The British helped Guiziliu complete the issuance of the order, and secret agents everywhere knew the inspiring news.
Almost at the same time, war broke out in various parts of the capital!
Boss Xiao Huang didn't sleep that night. The war in Yongding River made him worried. Prince Yu even went to the streets to maintain order in person, and they were even called small characters like them running errands.
Mr. Huang led his men to patrol the north city of the capital carefully, not allowing any idlers to wait on the streets. Even officials were questioned when they came and went.
The curfew tonight is really strict. Not only are people not allowed to go to the streets, they are not even allowed to light up lamps and speak.
Once they saw light and sound in the courtyard of that house, a group of guards rushed up and smashed the door. Without saying a word, they dragged the owner into the yard and whipped him. Finally, they took away all the lamp oil in the house.
The brutal suppression made the entire capital as quiet as a ghost town. People did not even dare to cough loudly, but covered their mouths and noses with quilts.
But the quieter it is, the more fear there is in people's hearts. The sound of horse hooves coming from the street from time to time will wake up the people who are in light sleep, and all kinds of weird speculations will appear in their minds.
At midnight, Xiao Huang couldn't stand it anymore. He went to the duty shack at the entrance of the alley and went to the wooden bed. "Brothers, help me keep an eye on it for a while, and I will sleep for half an hour..." As soon as his head hit the pillow, he was snoring loudly.
Xiao Huang was not woken up by his brothers. He was woken up by the rapid sound of horse hooves. When he opened his eyes, he saw that his brothers were intercepting the horses.
But I didn't expect that the ones they stopped tonight were the foreign cavalrymen. I heard the British devils on horseback yelling in weird Chinese, "Get out of here... We are delivering a message to... your Capital Police Station..."
"I will send you a message later...from the Military Aircraft Department...it's all top secret...go away and don't stop me..."
"Oh... Mr. Foreigner... you must have a badge to deliver the letter. Let us take a look at the badge you got from the military aircraft department and the nine admirals..."
Pah, pah, pah... the cracking sound of the whip struck the person, causing Xiao Huang to jump up after rubbing against him.
"What's going on?" he asked loudly as he rushed out of the shack.
"Master Huang... Look, we asked questions according to the rules and regulations, but they beat people without giving them waist cards... It's too arrogant..."
It would be okay if they were bullied on normal days, but not tonight. Xiao Huang always tried his best to offend the foreign devils and had to stop them.
"What time is it today? There's a lot of killings on the other side of the Yongding River. Even the prince's eight-carriage sedan has to be searched in the capital. What's so great about the foreign devils?"
"Go to this guy...surround him...check him...arrest him without giving him a badge..."
As the officials became more tyrannical, their subordinates naturally became more rigid. They surrounded them with bayonets, and pointed their red-tasseled guns at the foreign devils on horseback.
When the war horse saw so many sharp weapons, it screamed violently and subconsciously retreated.
"Rebellion! You dare to besiege British soldiers...rebellion..."
"Dismount...get checked...dismount...or we will take action..."
Xiao Huang rushed up to the boss and grabbed the foreigner's belt, "Come down here..."
