How to break this situation now? Gordon was worried about this problem. Here and there were situations that his realm could penetrate. Gordon only understood the confusion, but had no idea how to break it.
"Hey, you Chinese believe in one yin and one yang. I am very interested in this theory. It is obvious that the current situation is a life and death situation of yin and yang, which is plaguing East Asia!"
"Your Majesty's life and death determines the future of the imperial court. This is both a bright and positive situation. The life and death of the missing head of state in the sea determines the future of the Chinese nation. His mysterious disappearance is a negative situation..."
"On the surface, the key to our current problem is the life and death of His Majesty. The Yang situation dominates everything, but I know very well that the Yin situation of the Head of State's life and death is the key to all problems!"
"With the head of state here, His Majesty's life will be safe, because the head of state will not let your majesty have problems, right?"
"And let's say something that shouldn't be said..." Gordon smiled bitterly and shook his head, "As an Englishman, I shouldn't say that..."
"Because as a British person, I should naturally think that the head of state deserves death, but I am full of curiosity and inexplicable affection for the head of state. In my heart, I hope that the head of state can live..."
Er Mao sighed and smiled, "I can understand this kind of complicated emotions. In fact, there are many people in Europe who have such emotions. This is the charm of the head of state. The godfather is too mysterious..."
Gordon smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, this damn mystery is so attractive... Let's get back to the subject, the head of state, a life and death situation, can ultimately determine the fate of East Asia!"
"Let me put it bluntly, if the head of state is really gone... the Chinese would be better off surrendering. They can't defeat us, Britain. You really don't know how big the gap is!"
"I can even say bluntly that even if the head of state is personally in charge, the probability of winning or losing is only between 50 and 50, and it is also full of gambling. The sun never sets on the empire superimposed on the power of the industrial revolution, and sea power and industrial hegemony are concentrated together. You Can it really be defeated?"
Gordon shook his head, "If the head of state is here, he may have the means to draw a tie. If the head of state is not there... the remaining people will definitely lose!"
"Look at you now, you can't even deliver the medicine..." Gordon looked at Er Mao and whispered, "Are the anti-Qing forces within the Chinese so strong? Have they blocked the medicine... Don't hide it from me. , we have already deduced it, this situation is not unexpected..."
Er Mao's mouth was full of bitterness at the moment. It was so embarrassing for Gordon, a foreign devil, to say this, but he couldn't refute it.
At this moment, the eunuch's urgent voice came from upstairs: "Master Steward, Sir Gordon... Come upstairs quickly, His Majesty is calling you two!"
Not daring to hesitate, the two of them ran all the way upstairs. When they entered the house, they were hit by a heat wave. There were actually three charcoal braziers lit in the house. The fire in the house was even more intense in autumn than in winter.
The eunuchs and maids who were close to him were so hot that they were sweating profusely, but no one dared to take any of them away, because Emperor Tongzhi was shaking with cold, his whole body was wrapped in quilts, and he was leaning on the bed.
The two of them were about to salute when Zai Chun shook his head, "Sit down...don't...don't be so fussy...sit down and talk to me..."
Zai Chun's face was wrapped in a layer of white gauze, which looked like the mummy dug out by King Shangtai from Egypt. Er Mao knew that Emperor Tongzhi had sores on his face now, and pus and blood were flowing all the time.
The current condition of Emperor Tongzhi has reached an advanced stage. If the penicillin cannot be delivered, Emperor Tongzhi will undoubtedly die.
"I'm...suddenly in good spirits today...my mother-in-law came to make trouble just now...I heard it too..."
"Er Mao, no need...don't stop me...I want to say a few words...if I don't say something...there will be no chance in the future...ginseng soup...give me ginseng soup..."
The weak Zai Chun took a few sips of the century-old ginseng soup. The wild ginseng was indeed powerful enough, and soon his eyes lit up again.
"I have something to say. It's good to have Gordon here. There are foreigners and Qing people. We can verify each other in the future..."
"I always have to leave some answers for future generations...I can't let future generations guess randomly. I want to talk about myself..."
"Your Majesty..." Everyone in the room cried, but Zai Chun shook his head.
"Don't do this, isn't it just death? I have already figured it out. I am not the kind of trash raised in a deep palace. I have seen this world and what the Franco-Prussian War was like. I have seen it all... "
"Who can survive? Look away, really look away... There must be regrets, but what can we do?"
"I... really regret it! What I regret is that I had second thoughts about my master. Everything I am doing now is actually my own fault..."
Er Mao fed Zai Chun two more mouthfuls of ginseng soup, and Emperor Tongzhi regained some strength.
"Although my mother-in-law is arrogant, there is one thing that makes people admire her. She is really pure and her thoughts are consistent. She is always chasing power!"
"Eniang knows what she wants and won't change it, so she lives a pure life... But I can't. My only failure today is because of my swaying thoughts..."
"Do you know? In the Naha recruit camp, after I completed the graduation training of new recruits, the head of state gave me guns to form an army, and we had a secret conversation afterwards..."
"I don't want to hide this secret, because the master's life and death are unknown now... I don't want to confuse future generations, I want to have an explanation..."
Zai Chun's eyes began to wander, as if he saw himself in the summer of 1867.
"Gordon... you have to listen carefully. As a British person, you have to remember these words... because this was our final strategy to deal with you..."
Gordon was stunned for a moment, and a bad omen emerged in his heart. Emperor Tongzhi wanted to tell him, the British, about the strategy against the British that he had originally conceived with Xiao Letian.
Is your Majesty's time coming soon? Is this to leave no regrets or secrets? Does he want to show the world a possibility, a possibility that can defeat Britain?
Yes, that's what Zai Chun was thinking in his heart. At the moment, Zai Chun had already expected that he would fail because he was powerless to face the disease.
Cixi had just made a big fuss downstairs, letting him know that it was difficult to deliver the magic medicine, and he was determined to die.
He is going to die, and the master does not know whether he is alive or dead. Both the real and fake dragons in Asia are showing signs of falling. If both the Yin and Yang dragons in Asia are dead.
Then there will be no hope for Asia anymore, and no one can stop Britain.
You can't leave a lot of infamy, right? We can't let future generations have no hope at all, right? Zai Chun didn't want to let himself, mainly because he didn't want his master to bear such a reputation.
So he wants to speak out and tell a lot of secrets.
"It's my fault...it's my fault...if I hadn't jumped left and right and didn't listen to the master's strategy...why would the situation in Asia be like this!"
"I'm sorry, master...master..."
Zai Chun's tears rolled down his face and wet the gauze.
