At midnight, the city of Beijing finally temporarily regained its calm. After working hard all day, Guangxu's frail little body finally couldn't hold on any longer. He lay in the empress's generous arms and fell asleep. However, the poor empress did not fall asleep. This honest and kind person
The woman and her sister are not the same kind of people at all. The reason why there has been no trouble in the palace until now is because she has always been respected by the palace maids and eunuchs. But tonight, perhaps because of the woman's intuition, she always had an unknown premonition.
"Oh, please protect me from Bodhisattva and prevent any more troubles. It's all caused by those scholars. In order to live a stable life, I just have to provoke Prince Qing. If I kill him like this, there will be no one in Beijing!" She sighed, wiping her tears.
Her premonition was very correct, because the furious Guangxu ordered the dog slave who was eating inside and outside to be beaten to death with sticks, and he extended his anger to the entire group of eunuchs, calling them all a bunch of castrated dogs, so it caused a great stir among the eunuchs.
Indignation, Nima, the castrated dog is not the castrated one you want to be the emperor. Is it possible not to castrate it if you have the ability?
The anger of the eunuchs is completely justified. Their lives have been so miserable this year. Guangxu, who can't even pay official salaries, naturally doesn't care much about their lives. Besides, he has been abused by eunuchs since he was a child.
, which made him have no good impression of these people. Moreover, they were of little value to Guangxu. The limited funds were used to win over the trusted ministers. The expenses in the palace were reduced again and again. At this time, no one except Yikuang cared about filial piety.
How could they, a saint like Kang Youwei, take them seriously?
Those big eunuchs who have some private goods can still be more self-sufficient at this time. Those ordinary eunuchs who are numerous in number cannot even have a full meal every day. They only eat gruel every day, even if they don’t eat glutinous vegetables.
Pickled vegetable and egg steamed buns, every time I miss the Holy Mother and the Queen Mother in my dreams, I can’t help but cry.
Now someone finally avenged the Queen Mother, and it was Prince Qing who was extremely virtuous in their eyes. They all stared at the war outside with eager eyes. However, the result of the battle during the day made them extremely disappointed. In private, many people even
Express your feelings of loss openly.
At dinner time, the aroma of meat when the royal chef rewarded the three armies made these guys' eyes turn green. You must know that many of them have not tasted meat for almost a year. What's even more disgusting is that because the palace reserves are limited, they are all used to feed the soldiers.
He went to prepare food and drinks, but forgot to prepare food for the eunuchs and maids. When he remembered it, it was already late at night. Guangxu, who was in a bad mood, had no time to take care of them. He would not die of hunger without eating, although the fat lady also ordered that tonight
All the concubines in the palace, including her, made do with the hastily cooked gruel. Therefore, the conflict did not break out immediately. However, late at night, when the palace maids and eunuchs were lying in bed and tossing and turning with hunger, their anger finally emerged one by one.
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Eunuchs are not human beings anymore? Why should we serve them with hungry stomachs when those Qiu Ba people are so big on fish and meat? Holy Mother Queen Mother, please open your eyes in the sky and strike down that faint king with thunder! The eunuch who is too hungry to sleep.
They slipped out one after another. While looking for something to eat, they expressed their feelings to each other. Anger is bound to have a chemical reaction when it comes together, and it didn't take long for it to turn into murderous intent.
A dozen or so people who were close to the little eunuch who was beaten to death first formed a group, and then the group grew like a snowball. They took advantage of the opportunity in the middle of the night when the houses in each room were asleep. The palace ladies were responsible for keeping watch.
They got together and began to plot how to welcome King Qing into the palace.
The minds of these guys are much more reliable than Kang Youwei's group. First of all, they have no weapons. Although there are a large number of arms in the imperial city, they are all in Xishiku and are guarded by soldiers from the patrol team. Moreover, even if they have weapons, they
They didn't know how to use it, and it was impossible to learn it in a hurry. The martyrs of the Wuhu Uprising were probably ashamed after hearing this, so the last solution they came up with was to set fire to it.
Of course, it is not the new emperor who set fire to the Forbidden City and burned down the palace. The northeast wind blew today, and it has not rained for a while. It was the time when the weather was dry. During the day, there were several battles caused by shells falling on the palace.
If a small fire ignites the entire west coast of Zhongnanhai, it will definitely form a continuous fire. Driven by the wind, it will easily burn all the way to Xi'an Gate. The city gate there has been opened, but the defenders are behind it again.
A barricade made of sandbags will definitely run away once the fire breaks out. At that time, Prince Qing outside would know what to do without having to notify him.
A group of eunuchs discussed a plan and immediately split up. Anyway, all the troops are guarding each gate now. There is no one to defend the Forbidden City. Of course, even if there is a defense, it is impossible to stop these local snakes from sneaking out and destroying the lamp oil, vegetable oil and the like in the palace.
Along with everyone, a eunuch arson team of several hundred people quietly sneaked to the Xihua Gate. They first asked a few palace maids to go up and lure the soldiers guarding the gate into an ambush position. Then they knocked them down with a sap and opened the city gate.
Go out, and after crossing Zhongnanhai, start pouring oil and lighting fires.
This work is going very smoothly. This area is full of institutions such as royal horse pens, wine and vinegar bureaus, and straw pens. Due to the difficulty of making a living, there are not many people left. If a fire breaks out, there will probably not even be people to put out the fire.
, after setting the fire, these eunuchs looked at the rising flames with ferocious smiles on their faces, and then hurriedly sneaked back to the palace, then assigned people to kill several defenders at various city gates, and closed the city gates tightly to prevent Kang Youwei.
Wait for the people to come back and guard the Forbidden City.
Zai Zhen, who had Guangji Temple as his headquarters, was sleeping with his arms around a woman he had captured from nowhere, when he was suddenly awakened by his own soldiers.
"Commander, there's a fire in the Imperial City, and it's heading towards Xi'an Gate!" The soldier shouted excitedly, ignoring Zai Zhen's angry eyes.
No matter how stupid Zai Zhen was, he knew that this was God's help. The anger on his face disappeared instantly. He kicked the woman beside him away, grabbed his clothes and ran out. As he ran, he shouted: "Hurry, hurry up!"
Get up, mother, prepare to attack!"
After going out, I saw that the two sides of Xi'anmen Street in the Imperial City had turned into a huge torch. Driven by the wind, the flames jumped up to a height of more than ten meters. In the light of the fire, you could hear the panicked people in the city shouting.
There was a hissing sound, especially as one of the fires was spreading towards Xishiku, which was the main arsenal of the city's defenders.
"Damn it, God is helping me!" Zai Zhen shouted excitedly as he looked at the flames soaring into the sky. His soldiers had already gotten up and were preparing to attack. Even the cannons on the inner city walls were firing.
Started firing into the imperial city.
At this time, Kang Youwei, who was personally in charge of Xi'an Gate, was stunned. The fire that ignited inexplicably spread towards the city gate at an extremely fast speed. The fire brigade he organized hastily could not stop the arson zone that stretched for more than one kilometer, and the fire
The horse pen was burned down, and hundreds of horses were running wildly on the street, even heading towards the barricade behind his door. The defenders had to turn their machine guns to kill all the horses, but the dead horses were again on the street.
An obstacle was formed on the fire brigade, and the fire brigade's actions were hindered. In addition, the fire was heading towards the arsenal, so he had to send more people to put out the fire there. In short, it was a mess and chaos.
At this moment, the attack outside the city began. The shells falling continuously intensified the chaos in the city. When the shouts of killing rang out, some of the defenders had already started to run away. They had no choice but to run away.
At this time, the flames were almost licking my back. There were thousands of enemy troops in front of me. This battle was still a fart.
"Everyone come back and bear it, for the sake of the emperor and for the sake of our country!" Kang Youwei angrily pulled out his sword and waved it in a serious manner, but the result was still very gratifying to him. After all, these people were deeply favored by the emperor, and there were many of them.
He was still a student, and he was usually very impassioned. But at this time, the danger finally showed up. When the soldiers were running away, the officers fought very firmly, and worked hard to serve the Qing Dynasty in the adversity of being attacked from two sides.
In fact, because of the barrier between the city wall and the road below, the fire could not burn directly to the top of the city. Although the barricade below could no longer be defended, the job of throwing grenades behind the parapet was still unaffected, and the fire was too fierce.
, even if Zai Zhen's men could rush into the city gate, they did not dare to brave the fire and run inside. Seeing this situation, even the soldiers who escaped gradually calmed down and came back, but they also firmly blocked the enemy.
Outside the city.
At this time, Zai Zhen also knew that there was no such shop after passing this village. Although many officers had begun to cower, he remained unmoved and personally waved his saber and rode up to supervise the battle. No one dared to show his head on the city wall anyway.
Shoot, grenades can't blow him up.
After receiving the news, Yikuang also rushed over, and the old guy actually waved a sword with his uninjured arm.
"Brothers, come on, open the palace and take whatever you want. Women and treasures are all yours!" He knew very well how to boost morale at this time. When he heard this, the soldiers' eyes turned green and they grabbed
The emperor's woman, robbing the emperor's things, this job makes people's blood boil.
The morale of thousands of hungry wolves suddenly soared, and they howled and rushed towards Xi'an Gate one by one. The defenders on the city wall threw grenades out like crazy, blowing up the city gate like a huge bonfire, and the fire did not go out.
At that time, the attacking enemy troops were blown up into piles of dead bodies. However, at this time, Zai Zhen became red-eyed and frantically urged his soldiers to launch wave after wave of attacks towards Xi'an Gate. The cannons in the distance instantly
The city was constantly bombarded with explosions, gunshots, shouts of death, and the sound of buildings collapsing in the fire resounded throughout the night sky.
However, at this moment, an accident that no one expected suddenly happened.