Prince Yang has been living in Beijing for half a month, and has plundered the city worse than any other Eight-Nation Allied Forces in history, especially in the palace. Not to mention valuables, not even the palace maids were left.
The next few, looking at the entire world of a eunuch, I wonder how angry Guangxu was when he came back and saw this scene.
In fact, in the past few days, Guangxu had been either explicitly or implicitly hoping that Lafayette would die of illness or be burned to death in an accident, fall while walking, or hide and seek. In short, the Queen Mother must be buried before the emperor returns to the palace, and
Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and the old guys in the south telegraphed to him every day to advise him that the Queen Mother was old, and even though she had made some mistakes, she and the Emperor were still mother and son in terms of status, so they must not kill her, otherwise they would let her go.
The whole world laughed at him.
I have to say that these old guys seemed to have real feelings for Cixi, and Yang Feng was naturally very considerate of their advice. During the time he occupied Beijing, not only did Lafayette not die of illness or accident, he was even treated poorly by the Queen Mother.
Not much has changed, and the outside world can't help but exclaim that King Zhennan's style has changed drastically recently. Even Guangxu and a group of his men in the Funing Palace were itching with hatred, especially after seeing those landing ships in Qinhuangdao Port
After another ship shipped goods to Fujian, they were even more anxious and scratching their heads. Unfortunately, they couldn't go back to Beijing now. All the loyal and brave troops were watching outside!
Fortunately, after the dust of this war settled, governors from all over the country expressed their allegiance to Guangxu. Even Yiketang'a from Fengtian did the same. This was a bit of comfort to Guangxu. Half a month later, he finally got
After receiving permission to return to Beijing, he hurriedly set off with a group of escorting heroes. At this time, the King of Zhennan set off from Tianjin and returned directly to Fujian. Even the city defense of Beijing was handed over to the Qing army led by Zai Zhen, and then the Zhongyong Army
All were withdrawn from Beijing and returned to Fujian in batches.
Of course, not all of them were withdrawn. There is still a brigade left in Qinhuangdao, which is euphemistically called the Jidong Training Center. From now on, the Zhongyong Army will send a large number of troops to conduct winter combat training in the area north of Luanhe River and south of Shanhaiguan every winter.
, these are also the conditions that have been agreed with Guangxu a long time ago. Yang Feng went south with him, and he also served as the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen part-time. The reason why he insisted on this official position was because it would be more convenient to go out to rob in the future, such as protecting someone.
Overseas Chinese, create diplomatic pressure or something. From now on, the Prime Minister will be solely responsible.
Guangxu didn't care about the small problem of not welcoming him in Beijing. Besides, he didn't want to see this villain who played with his woman and robbed his property. He didn't even pay attention to the inexplicable disappearance of his queen. After returning to Beijing, he was arrested by the palace.
His Majesty the Emperor, who was so angry at the shocking tragedy, immediately raised his butcher's knife against the culprits who had brought his empire to this point.
Those cronies of the rear party were killed one by one from top to bottom. He killed the entire Beijing city in a bloody storm every day, and Caishikou was crowded with people every day. Xu Tong, Sun Yuwen, Zai Xun, and even the son of Guiziliu
Pu Wei's biological father Zai Ying and Prince Rui Long Qin, who had not had time to run, all went to the execution ground together. In addition to the relatives of these people, as well as the new army generals who resisted tenaciously, Ronglu's group of cronies, including those who had already
Tie Liang, who surrendered, was not spared. Within half a month of Guangxu's return to Beijing, more than a dozen of the princes and ministers in Beijing were executed, not to mention those who were executed individually. There were more than 5,000 in total.
People were executed, and countless people were dismissed from their posts. The Iron Hat King was left with his own father's family. In addition, he took refuge with the meritorious King Qing Yikuang, who was rewarded with a hereditary replacement. Although Guangxu was unwilling to do this, considering the current situation in the capital,
Military power was actually in the hands of his son Zai Zhen, and he had to win over this duplicitous villain.
Originally, he did not want to kill so many people, but Zhi Rui, Kang Youwei and others were instigating him from behind. In their words, if the reform was to be carried out, then the old ministers in the DPRK would definitely be opposed to it, and they would just take this opportunity to kill people to establish their authority, so as to prevent future resistance.
They were also smaller, so Guangxu finally went on a killing spree, but what he didn't know was that this fulfilled Yang Feng's wish.
"The emperor's killing is too heavy. Your Majesty, you don't send a telegram to advise." On the Nautilus outside Fuzhou City, Liu Kunyi, who came to receive the refitted Naniwa and Takachiho, said worriedly.
Like Matsushima, the two cruisers were equipped with Swedish impulse steam turbines, and additional armor was added. The fastest speed could exceed twenty knots, especially the wave speed and even the speed reached Yoshino's level.
Next, Yang Feng is also planning to refit all the old warships of the Beiyang Navy with steam turbines, including the captured Kaiyuan and Zhuyuan. He is not planning to return these warships to the court. As for the future defense of the Bohai Bay, at worst, it will be handed over to them.
He is responsible for it. Recently, he has become soft because of his wealth. Therefore, including Liu Kunyi's, he has fully paid for the modification costs of all warships. However, the condition is that there will be sea battles in the future. When needed, the warships in the hands of these people must be matched with his.
Form a combined fleet to fight together. Of course, this will all happen in the future.
"How did I know he was so capable of killing? I just put these people under house arrest at the beginning, just to tell them not to be too cruel after returning to Beijing. After all, let's be honest, it was normal for these people to vote for the Queen Mother under the circumstances at that time. If it was
If he stayed in Beijing, these people would definitely vote for him. Who would have expected that he would kill so violently. You asked me to advise you. How should I advise you? Those people around the emperor are still wary of me. I advise them that they might kill him.
Be more ruthless." Yang Feng said with an innocent expression.
On this point, he can indeed express his innocence. It can be said that he basically did not kill a single member of the rear party in Beijing. Although he almost dug out other people's rat holes, this is normal behavior. It would be Liu Kun and his troops who entered Beijing.
It is also necessary to condone the soldiers to do this, but without killing anyone, it can be said that it shows leniency to the greatest extent. Besides, if you only rob frivolous wealth, you will definitely not be able to rob other people's houses and land. Even if all the gold and silver treasures of these people have been plundered, but
There is no problem in maintaining a wealthy life. Therefore, even among the princes and ministers who were robbed by him, no one said that Yang Feng was not kind enough. But now that Guangxu is doing this, it is in sharp contrast to him.
Not to mention Han officials like Liu Kunyi, even the Manchu governors in various places felt that their emperor was not even as good as this fake foreign devil.
"You want me to persuade you, why don't you ask Xiang Gong to come forward? As far as I know, you have some contacts with Kang Youwei and others, right?" Yang Feng asked Zhang Zhidong with a smile. Not only him, but also Li Hongzhang came this time.
In order to receive the warship, I also paid a visit to the King of Zhennan. After all, they are all in cahoots with each other. Now that this guy has become a prince, it is always bad not to come and congratulate him.
"It's just a little acquaintance. Now these people are the new rich, the favorites in front of the emperor. People like the old ones will look down on them." Zhang Zhidong said with a wry smile. He was telling the truth. Now these new rich are exactly the same.
When he was ambitious, let alone him, even when Hubei Governor Tan Jixun personally wrote a letter of advice to his son, Tan Sitong rejected it. He even accused the old guy of sitting back and watching the emperor's crisis without sending out troops to serve the king, and spent his whole life.
The honest Tan Jixun was so angry that he ran to Zhang Zhidong to cry.
"It's no longer interesting to talk about these things. These people have been killed. We can't save it here. The most important thing now is the Queen Mother..." Before Li Hongzhang could finish his words, Xue Fucheng hurriedly got on the ship with the telegram.
"I just got the telegram from Beijing. There was a fire in the Changchun Palace last night, and the Queen Mother was unfortunately killed!" he said solemnly.
Li Erjiazi slapped the table with his palm, and it was obvious that his face was almost turning green with anger. The death of his old Prince Gong Li was already making him feel a little uncomfortable, and now the death of Cixi was added to the mix.
It would be a lie to say that I am not full of anger.
"These people are going crazy!" Zhang Zhidong muttered to himself.
We are all old foxes. Needless to say what happened in this fire. Concubine Zhen was burned to death. Now it is nothing more than the emperor avenging his little henchman. This is truly matricide. In these lifetimes
In the eyes of the old man who values filial piety, this crime has been linked to heinous crimes. Even if the emperor had to bear this crime, he would not be able to recover for the rest of his life.
But in this matter, they had wronged Guangxu. Guangxu himself had not made up his mind yet. Kang Youwei found someone to do it. The palace was in a mess now. It was too easy to find someone to do this job.
He bribed several eunuchs and set the Changchun Palace on fire in the middle of the night. When Cixi saw the fire outside, she naturally understood that her end was coming. She simply drank the poisonous wine she had prepared long ago, and then died peacefully.
Lie down and wait for death. The eunuchs and maids around the Changchun Palace are not stupid. At first glance, they thought that the emperor really wanted to kill the Queen Mother, so they had to delay and cooperate when putting out the fire. By the time the fire was put out, the body would have been burned.
It turned black. In this case, Guangxu had no choice but to acquiesce to the reality, and the poor old Buddha ended his remaining life like this.
But this incident caused an uproar across the country. Those local governors were not fools. There were more than one empress dowagers killed like this in history. Although it was unlikely to publicly accuse the emperor of killing his mother, the emperor should still be held responsible.
Yes, all kinds of public opinions continued for a while. Even the angry Iketang Adu implicitly pointed at Guangxu in his memorial. The folk saying that the emperor personally ordered the burning of the Queen Mother in order to avenge Concubine Zhen also began to spread rapidly.
, coupled with the large-scale killings in the previous series, Guangxu's reputation as a matricide tyrant is firmly established.
But at this moment, the chief director behind the scenes has already started to focus on the next target. (To be continued...)