"Fu Qing, you are also the minister of military aircraft now. There is no other chief assistant in the military aircraft department. The Ai family only asks you, can you still hold the capital?"
Cixi stood in front of the window and pointed at Fu Qing who was kneeling on the ground and asked sternly. Fu Qing did not dare to refute and could only kowtow: "Queen Mother, calm down, Queen Mother, calm down... let's take a look at Your Majesty first!"
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty is not the one who made you sick because of your anger? This civil war should not have been fought in the first place, and the Ai family disagreed from the beginning to the end!"
Cixi was as if she had lost her mind and gone crazy, and her son didn't care about the white hair on his temples, nor did he hide his emotions like a crazy woman!
History has a very fair evaluation of Cixi, that is, she only knew how to balance the personnel in the court, but did not have any strategy for governing the country!
In other words, Cixi was good at playing with people in the power arena all her life, but once she encountered a major military and national event, she immediately turned into a mediocre old woman.
This crazy woman had a strong desire for power. She was already very angry when her son took over her right to hold the curtain. Now that the civil war in the Qing Dynasty was about to threaten her wealth and glory, this woman couldn't care less about anything.
Come to think of it, what insight can an old woman who can embezzle navy military funds to build her own garden have?
After imprisoning Emperor Guangxu, because of the pressure exerted by foreigners on the Queen Mother to return the emperor's rights, this old woman was able to think of using the Boxer Boxing to fight against the foreigners' damaging moves.
Once the foreign devils stopped following Boxing, she actually came up with an incredible and secret strategy of declaring war on all nations!
With this madness, Zhang Zhi and Li Hongzhang quickly established a Southeast Mutual Guarantee, pulling China's last rich land to choose neutrality, thus protecting a little bit of vitality.
Such a crazy woman could only flee in panic when facing the Eight-Nation Allied Forces. Before leaving, she did not forget to show off her rights and threw Concubine Zhen into the well and drowned.
This woman has no family affection, not even the affection of a mother for her child. All she wants is power, wealth and glory!
While Cixi was angrily reprimanding Fu Qing, Emperor Tongzhi's empress Alute felt sorry for her man. She knelt beside the bed and wiped the sweat from Zaichun's forehead with a clean cotton gauze dipped in water, wiping the tears as they fell.
When the other concubines saw that the empress was acting like this, they quickly followed suit and knelt beside the bed!
But Cixi didn't care about anything. Listening to the faint shouts of killing outside the Forbidden City, her emotions became more and more agitated. She didn't care about anything except scolding Fu Qing.
Fu Qing is so anxious now that he wants me to quell the chaos, so why don't he stop cursing and let me go out to mobilize troops? She wouldn't let me leave, and even forced me to quell the chaos. She just knew how to curse... what a crazy woman!
In the midst of the chaos, Empress Dowager Ci'an also hurriedly walked in. After entering the palace, she saw the chaos and Emperor Tongzhi lying motionless on the bed. She was so frightened that she said, "Buddha... what's going on... …”
His body tilted to one side and he almost fell over. The eunuchs and maids around him hurriedly supported him. Ermao rushed over and said, "Don't be surprised, Queen Mother! Your Majesty just had a temporary loss of blood and passed out! It's okay...it's okay..."
Ci'an then steadied himself and said to Cixi, "You...why are you scolding Fu Qing? If you want him to calm down the chaos, you have to let him go!"
"If you block here and scold, the thieves outside will retreat? When we encounter a big problem, let's find a solution. What's the use of just scolding?"
"Fu Qing! Get up... His Majesty believes in you, and the Ai family also believes in you. You are in charge of the Military Aircraft Department at the moment, and you can mobilize all the soldiers in the capital at will!"
"We must defend the capital...do you have confidence!"
Fu Qing quickly bowed his head and said, "This slave will not give up even if he dies..."
"Don't... don't say this... the Ai family doesn't want you to die, and don't want such unlucky words... you have to protect our wives!"
Fu Qing was everything to Ci'an, and even a fool could understand the tenderness in the man's eyes. Cixi was so sour but he still couldn't figure it out.
"There is a way! The thieves rely on the chaos of the night. It is not easy to suppress the rebellion in a short time... But as long as it is bright and there is no cover of the night, it is easy for the imperial army to defeat these thugs!"
"Tonight, I will order heavy troops to guard the three city defenses! The first is the city defense at the nine gates outside the capital to guard against sneak attacks by the Japanese Six Rebels..."
"The second line of defense is the foundation of our imperial city... Dong'anmen, Di'anmen, Xi'anmen, Tiananmen... the forbidden areas enclosed by the four cities cannot be lost!"
"The last thing is the defense of the Forbidden City... absolutely no thugs can be allowed to infiltrate! As long as Your Majesty and the Queen Mother are safe, when it gets dark tomorrow, all those thugs will be exposed to the sun. Even if I demolish all the alleys in the capital, It can also be suppressed!”
"Okay! You go on errands... Just have a plan, Aijia trusts you!"
Fu Qing kowtowed to the empress dowagers of the two palaces, turned around and ran outside. Immediately afterwards, the military aircraft department became busy again, and telegrams to various ministries began to ring.
Ci'an sat in the palace and watched the imperial doctor use the needle on Zai Chun. He said softly to Cixi, "Sister, sit down! The two of us will stay here to guard your majesty tonight!"
"Whether the Qing Dynasty can survive this crisis depends on tonight!"
Facts have proved that Fuqing's response was very effective. The mobs were large and powerful, but the disadvantage was that they could not carry out siege operations without heavy weapons.
Street fighting at night would have been a disaster, but if the city's defense system survived the most dangerous time, all the crisis would be solved as long as it was dawn.
The city defense of the capital is very interesting. The North City and the South City each form an independent area. Fucheng Gate, Xizhimen, Deshengmen, Anding Gate, Dongzhimen, Chaoyang Gate... This constitutes the external defense system of the North City of the capital.
The defense of Nancheng relies on Dongbianmen, Guangqumen, Zuoanmen, Yongdingmen, Youanmen, Guanganmen, Xibianmen... to form an external defense system.
Xuanwu Gate, Chongwen Gate and Zhengyang Gate were used to divide the north and south of the capital. Now they play a greater role in internal defense than external defense.
This city defense system was the barrier for the capital, and it was also where the imperial court stocked up heavy troops. Each horse path and stairs to the city were independent defensive fortresses.
Fu Qing ordered the closure of all horse paths and stairs to the city. From now on, the defense system of the outer city of the capital must not only be external, but also internal. If any thugs dare to approach the city wall, they can shoot immediately without warning.
The second is the defense system, which is even more important. It is what Beijingers call the root of the imperial city!
What exactly is the concept of imperial city? It’s not the wall of the Forbidden City! The walls of the Forbidden City in later generations are not a concept at all.
It is the area connected by the four city gates: Tiananmen, Xi'anmen, Di'anmen and Dong'anmen. The tall city wall separates the Huang family area from the living areas of the people.
What Fu Qing wants now is that this palace wall cannot be lost!
The palace wall is not a city wall. There are no horse paths and crenels on it and soldiers cannot be stationed on it. Therefore, it is necessary to concentrate cavalry to patrol back and forth within the palace wall. Once any thugs are encountered climbing, they must be killed immediately.
With red walls and yellow tiles, the inside and outside are the dividing line between imperial power and the people. This is the most dangerous place tonight!
As for the innermost city defense of the Forbidden City, Fu Qing did not put too many soldiers in it, because he knew that once the entire imperial city wall was lost, His Majesty and the Queen Mother would have to move.
Guarding the Forbidden City alone is a death!
