Chapter 12 The Elites of the Qing Dynasty
Forbidden City, West Garden.
Since "returning power", Cixi simply moved from Chuxiu Palace to Xiyuan, the westernmost palace in the Forbidden City.
Even Cixi had refused to visit most officials.
On this day, Cixi's confidant eunuch Li Lianying rushed over from outside the Western Garden in a hurry, like a rabbit burning her butt, passing through the corridors and pavilions, and then arrived at the Qingya Hall where Cixi was.
At this time, although it was hot summer, the hall was located by the river, surrounded by green trees, and the temperature was not high. Cixi was lying gracefully on a wide bed in the hall. Two palace maids stood beside her, shaking the palm-leaf fan for her. Even if you look at it, you can imagine how comfortable Cixi was at this time.
When Li Lianying arrived here, her originally hurried steps suddenly slowed down slightly. Then, the old eunuch let the sweat fall on her forehead, but the man walked carefully to Cixi.
"God of Lafayette, the Grand Secretary wrote that the one who successfully recruited the Yihequan Rebel Party... However, on the way to recruitment, the Yihequan had a rebellious rebel Party, killed the two leaders of Yihequan, and assassinated the Qingzhou Prefect... The Grand Secretary planned to borrow the hands of foreigners to make the one sober..."
When he arrived at Cixi, Li Lianying slowly spoke. Following his words, Cixi stretched out her hand on the bed. Li Lianying smiled and handed over the note in her hand, and then sat next to Cixi very naturally and reached out to press on Cixi's shoulder.
With decades of experience serving people, Li Lianying's massage technique has reached its peak. After being squeezed by him on his shoulders twice, Cixi couldn't help but hum comfortably, but opened the fold without any impact on her hand.
"Let the foreigners provoke those slave warriors, and then attract the rebellious and rebellious party of Yihequan. No matter the final victory or defeat of the competition, the foreigners will die at the hands of the rebellious party, and then provoke the foreigners' army to attack Yihequan. Finally, with the new army in Tianjin as the finale, not only intimidating the foreigners, but also dismantling the Yihequan in Shandong... Haha, the old boy Ronglu is becoming more and more smart..."
On the bed, Cixi looked at the Zhezi and chuckled. As her laughter, the sweat beads that had been slowly drying out on Li Lianying's forehead suddenly surged out again.
Later generations probably had the impression of Cixi, which was old witch, stupid, useless, etc., but in fact, Cixi and Chang Kaishen were very similar, because they were both underestimated by history because they were losers. If they were in a prosperous era, these two people would at least be at the level of Jiajing.
"Tell Ronglu, if you don't know whether the foreigners' Ai family is sure, I will peel him off... Then, when he gave 70% of his harvest in Shandong, he sent him treasury and a penny was less, and the Ai family also peeled him off..."
The laughter finally subsided, and Cixi's voice sounded fiercely.
This memorial is about how to design the rebel party so that the throne can restrain a little. However, Cixi could see at a glance that Ronglu might indeed have opposed the reform, so he wanted to destroy the reform faction to recruit the throne. However, at the same time, Ronglu wanted to make a big profit in Shandong.
"God of Lafayette is wise, and Lord of Lafayette is kind..."
Listening to Cixi's words, Li Lianying immediately stopped what she was doing, stood up, and fell to worship.
"Go, go, some people always have too many thoughts, and don't think about how hard it is to stabilize this country. I honestly put my bags in the outside world first. If Taizu of the Song Dynasty adopted Zhao Pu's proposal, he could still defend half of the country and reform, haha... I'm afraid that this country will return to the hands of the Han people too soon. You can tell Ronglu again, that the new army in Tianjin must be optimistic about the Ai family and tell him who will be the real master of the new army in the future..."
Cixi raised her head and looked at Li Lianying who was kneeling there, and said slowly word by word. After saying a few words, she slowly showed a hint of disappointment in her eyes when she looked at Li Lianying. However, this hint of disappointment flashed away. Not to mention Li Lianying who was kneeling there and lowering her head, even the two palace maids who were fanning her by her side had never seen any of them.
Without knowing that Cixi showed a disappointment in her, she respectfully bid farewell to Cixi after she finished speaking. Li Lianying quickly left the hall. When she arrived outside the gate, Li Lianying's face suddenly showed ecstasy.
At this moment, Cixi was living here and had no official sight. Li Lianying was not the one who arranged for Cixi to receive the official's memorial. The reason why he helped Ronglu give this memorial was not only because the content was to help Cixi deal with the throne, but also because Ronglu sent a silver note of 100,000 taels with the memorial, and admitted that there would be a big gift after the Shandong incident.
Tianjin, small station.
Less than half an hour after Li Lianying came out of the palace where Cixi was, Ronglu had already received a telegram from the Forbidden City.
Half an hour later, Ronglu's people had already appeared in the Tianjin Zizhulin Ying Concession. Here, Ronglu, who came secretly, met Seymour, the commander of the British fleet in China at this time.
"God of General, my Qing Dynasty is willing to give the German territory in Shandong to the British Empire in exchange for the help of the British Empire to my Qing Dynasty..."
Ronglu looked at Seymour without hesitation at all.
The solution that Ronglu thought was really simpler than Cixi thought. He directly asked Seymour, the commander of the British fleet in China who had been friends because of gifts and stolen country, and through the latter, he found a British strongman, boxer and other warriors to trick Cao Zixia.
Then, on the pretext that British warriors had an accident, they asked Britain to attack Shandong Yihe. At that time, because Britain invaded Shandong in large numbers, Germany, which had already regarded Shandong as a forbidden body, would definitely not watch it, but would take action faster.
The final result must be that Yihequan is finished.
Next was the negotiations between Britain and Germany. As for the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty watched and then gave the two fathers a generous gift again.
This kind of thing has long been used to the Qing Dynasty. Anyway, it was not the Qing Dynasty who was in the end, but the Han slaves. Even when the British and German fathers enjoyed it, the remaining benefits in Shandong were all from the Qing Dynasty.
These barbarians don’t know much about Han slaves, and even if they scrape the ground three feet away, they can’t even scrape away many things. However, the Qing Dynasty is different. When the British and German fathers leave, let alone the fertile fields that were empty in Shandong, the treasures and money that were searched for by scraping the ground three feet away would be enough for the Qing Dynasty to have a full meal.
What, you say that this country belongs to the Qing Dynasty. Hey, if that is the case, then the Qing Dynasty took out its own things and gave it to the British and German dads. It would be more natural to solve the internal problems by the way.
Chapter completed!