As the news of Liu Hai's army crossing the Yellow River reached Empress Dowager Cixi, all kinds of people in the palace were now in chaos.
As bangs became more and more powerful, those who followed Empress Dowager Cixi and hid in Tibet gradually lost their original spirit.
And now the Empress Dowager Cixi is sitting in the palace, unable to do anything. She has not slept for several days, and now her eyes are black and her face is ashen.
If you don't know her, you might look at the current Empress Dowager Cixi and think she is a ghost.
The Empress Dowager Cixi is now feeling sorry for herself and lamenting her bad fate, as there is no decent person who can give her advice.
Look at the ministers around you. The useful ones are running away to death, but the ones who are left behind are all sycophants.
It's okay to ask them to tell a joke and flatter you, but it's really impossible to ask them to make suggestions to resist bangs.
In the end, Empress Dowager Cixi had no choice but to turn her eyes to Li Lianying who was standing aside.
"Xiao Lizi, you understand the situation now. What do you think about what we should do next?"
When Li Lianying heard the Empress Dowager Cixi asking her about state affairs, she was immediately frightened and sweating all over her body.
You must know that in the Qing Dynasty, it was stipulated that eunuchs could not interfere in politics, otherwise they would be executed immediately.
Therefore, Li Lianying plopped down and knelt down beside the Empress Dowager Cixi, "Old Buddha, I am just a servant, how dare you participate in state affairs?"
Empress Dowager Cixi sighed, and then said: "What time is it now? Don't worry. If you have anything to say about this, just say it."
Li Lianying listened to the words of the Empress Dowager Cixi, took stock, and then said: "Judging from the strength of our current troops, I'm afraid we won't be able to stop the rebels, so why don't we continue heading west."
When Li Lianying said this, he wanted to lower his head into the cracks in the ground.
The Empress Dowager Cixi did not show any anger after hearing what Li Lianying said.
Her eyes were full of confusion now, and she kept muttering: "Is it really like this?"
The Empress Dowager Cixi was in a dilemma: she did not want to continue fleeing westward, but she had no way to stop Liu Hai who had already crossed the Yellow River.
There was a sudden noise outside, and Li Lianying, who was kneeling on the ground, immediately felt that she could finally leave this suffocating and suffocating place.
So Li Lianying glanced at her Queen Mother secretly, then knelt down and stepped back. She didn't dare to stand up until she was out of the door, then turned around and went out to check.
The Empress Dowager Cixi clearly saw Li Lianying's situation, but she no longer had the energy to care about it anymore.
Now the Empress Dowager Cixi felt that all her thoughts were lost, and she lay there exhausted.
As a result, it didn't take long before Li Lianying ran in from outside where he could be waiting.
As soon as Li Lianying came in, he knelt down in front of the Empress Dowager Cixi and said loudly: "Lafayette is in trouble. The rebels have captured Xining, and now the army is almost at the gate of Xi'an."
When Empress Dowager Cixi heard this, she immediately stood up from her seat in shock, then pointed at Li Lianying with trembling fingers and asked: "Is the news true?"
Li Lianying now had a sad face. He held the letter with both hands, lifting it as high as possible and said nothing else.
Empress Dowager Cixi stepped forward and took the memorial, opened it and took a look.
The content above is exactly what Li Lianying said. The city of Xining has been breached. The rebels, tens of thousands of men and horses, are less than 100 miles away from Xi'an under the protection of large iron cars.
When the Empress Dowager Cixi saw this, she immediately felt dizzy and fell to the ground.
This frightened Li Lianying next to him. He hurriedly summoned the palace maids and eunuchs, carried Empress Dowager Cixi to the harem, and then immediately summoned the imperial doctor.
Soon the imperial doctor crawled into the palace of Empress Dowager Cixi.
Li Lianying didn't care about the eunuch's embarrassment and directly ordered: "Go and see how Lafayette is doing?"
After listening to the instructions, the imperial doctor quickly came to his bedside, put his hand on Empress Dowager Cixi's pulse gate, and quietly felt for her pulse.
As time went by, the imperial physician's face became increasingly gloomy, and in the end he was almost dripping with water.
Li Lianying stood aside and watched with fear, and could only ask softly: "How is the Queen Mother Lafayette?"
After listening to Li Lianying's question, the imperial doctor turned his head tremblingly, and then said with a sad face: "Old Buddha, your pulse is weak and comes and goes! It is already extinct."
Although Li Lianying did not understand medical skills, after hearing the doctor's straightforward words, he knew that Empress Dowager Cixi might not be around for long.
"Is there any way to wake up Lafayette?"
"Only using Dushen Decoction can temporarily restore Yang."
"In that case, go down and get ready."
After hearing this, the imperial doctor hurriedly turned around and crawled out of Cixi's palace.
After a while, he slowly came to Li Lianying's side with a bowl of soup.
"Mr. Li, Dushen soup is ready."
If it had been in the past, Li Lianying should have sent a eunuch to test the medicine on Empress Dowager Cixi first.
But now that the Empress Dowager Cixi is in danger, there is no need for that.
So Li Lianying personally took the medicine bowl and came to the Empress Dowager Cixi, used a spoon to pry open the Empress Dowager Cixi's mouth, and fed her bit by bit.
After Empress Dowager Cixi took the medicine, she slowly opened her eyes soon. She first looked to the left and right and saw Li Lianying beside her.
So Empress Dowager Cixi reluctantly waved and called Li Lianying over.
At this time, the words of the Empress Dowager Cixi were already very weak. Li Lianying put his ear to the mouth of the Empress Dowager Cixi and could barely hear what the Empress Dowager Cixi was saying.
"The Ai family is in trouble, let the emperor take a stand in front of the Ai family."
After hearing this, Li Lianying was so frightened that her face turned pale.
The Empress Dowager Cixi seemed to have noticed Li Lianying's scruples. Although he was speechless now, he still looked at Li Lianying with sinister eyes.
And Li Lianying has lived in the shadow of Empress Dowager Cixi all year round. Now that Empress Dowager Cixi is angry, she naturally dares not disobey him again.
Therefore, he could only kowtow to the Empress Dowager Cixi and accept this task.
The Empress Dowager Cixi's face looked better now, and then she closed her eyes gently.
When Li Lianying saw that the Empress Dowager Cixi seemed to be asleep, he hurriedly ordered someone to look at the Empress Dowager, but he quietly withdrew.
About the next morning, when Empress Dowager Cixi woke up again, she saw Li Lianying standing next to her like yesterday.
Now the Empress Dowager Cixi was speechless and could only look at Li Lianying with expectant eyes.
Li Lianying knew what the Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to ask? So he took a step forward, quietly came to the Empress Dowager Cixi, and whispered in her ear: "The Emperor passed away yesterday."
When the Empress Dowager Cixi heard these words, she seemed to finally let go of her worries, and a smile couldn't help but appear on her lips.
Li Lianying, who was standing aside, saw that the Empress Dowager Cixi had not moved for a long time, and felt something was wrong, so she gently put her finger on the tip of the Empress Dowager Cixi's nose.
Then Li Lianying let out a miserable howl, "The Queen Mother Lafayette has passed away."
Not long after this cry, the entire city of Xi'an turned into a white field.
Due to Cixi's death, the remaining Qing army was leaderless and therefore had no intention of fighting.
Coupled with being attacked from two sides by Liu Hai's army, these people quickly collapsed and either threw themselves into the countryside or knelt down and surrendered.
In this way, Liu Hai entered the city of Xi'an easily.
In the city of Xi'an, Liu Hai finally met the world-famous general manager Li Lianying.
Now Li Lianying has lost his original majesty and looks like an old man who is dying.
Liu Hai saw that he was pitiful, so he didn't take it seriously. He rewarded him with more than 100 taels of silver and asked him to stay at Cixi's funeral outside Xi'an City, which could be regarded as their master and servant.
In the next few days, Liu Hai held a grand military parade in Xi'an.
The hundreds of thousands of troops who participated in this Western Expedition showed their faces in front of Liu Hai, and at the same time, the people of Xi'an City also had a look at this most elite army in the world.
With the death of Empress Dowager Cixi, the situation of the entire Qing Dynasty gradually became clearer.
The governors in various places no longer resisted when they saw Liu Hai's power, and wrote documents of surrender to Liu Hai one after another.
Liu Hai did not punish these people excessively. He just kicked out all the Manchus among them, while the remaining Han people still held their original official positions.
Then he collected all the troops under these people and put them under his own command, so that they would not have soldiers in their hands and be dishonest.
Next, Liu Hai left an army stationed in Xi'an to guard against the Rakshasa people in the north.
The others followed Liu Hai's army in triumph and headed towards the capital.
When Liu Hai came to the Shili Pavilion near the capital, he found something unusual. It turned out that Emperor Xingqing was kneeling here with the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty to greet him.
Although Liu Hai has always regarded Emperor Xingqing as his puppet, it would not look good on his face if word got out.
Liu Hai could only get on his horse, lead the generals to Emperor Xingqing's chariot, kneel down and salute him.
When Emperor Xingqing saw Liu Hai, he knelt down and was startled. He hurriedly kowtowed to Liu Hai every year. Then he rushed out of his arms to grab the imperial seal, raised it high above his head and said: "Master Liu's reputation is spread all over the world.
But Xiao Wang is too young and incapable to rule the world, so I would like to ask Mr. Liu to ascend the throne first."
As soon as Emperor Xingqing finished speaking, Zhao Jiahua, who was kneeling behind Emperor Xingqing, shouted to Liu Hai: "Your Majesty, Zhao Jiahua, bow to my emperor, long live, long live, long live!"
With Zhao Jiahua taking the lead, all the civil and military officials behind him fell to their knees one by one and shouted long live the mountain.
When Liu Hai saw this posture, he didn't understand anything. This was a play performed by Zhao Jiahua.
Although Liu Hai had long wanted to usurp the throne, he still wanted to be reserved in public, so he shook his head like a rattle.
"You want to frame me for injustice because of your business. I, the commander-in-chief, will never agree to this."
Before he could finish speaking, Lu Chun, who was standing behind him, suddenly took out a dragon robe from a package next to him, shook it, and put it on Liu Hai's body.
At this time, not only the civil and military officials of the entire court began to shout long live, but even the hundreds of thousands of soldiers under Liu Hai's command, seeing Liu Hai wearing the imperial robe, all knelt down together and shouted long live.
At this time, Liu Hai seemed to be forced by the civil and military forces, and he had no choice but to put on the royal robe.
In the next few days, Liu Hai offered sacrifices to heaven and earth at the Temple of Heaven, and he ascended the throne and his country was named "Wu".
In the next dozen years, Liu Hai relied on his ability to travel between two worlds and quickly built his Wu Dynasty into the world's most powerful country.
And while the Western powers were taking great action to fight for the lost colonies, they kept fanning the flames from behind.
This made the losses of the Western powers even greater, and the war lasted until seven or eight years.
By the time the Western powers reacted, it was already too late. Their country had now become very poor.
But Liu Hai took advantage of this opportunity to make a huge war fortune, and began to slowly control the world's resources by using his economic advantage.
By the time Liu Hai died, the only big country in the world with an area of more than 1 million square kilometers was the Great Wu Kingdom.
And those countries with larger territories were either annexed by Liu Hai or divided, and they are still fighting happily.
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It was Liu Hai who left a huge empire to his descendants, allowing his descendants to control the planet safely for four to five hundred years.