Chapter 60 Section sixtieth

The Xishiku Church was attacked by Gangyi himself, but it was in vain, but the embassy area could not go beyond the thunder.The power of the Boxer Regiment and the Gan army cannot subdue the few foreigners in the capital, how can they resist the heavy troops sent by various countries?Thinking that the Empress Dowager Cixi would have nothing to answer if she questioned her like this, Zaiyi really couldn't hold her breath. "Xing Wu, you have to show your skills! If you can't kill a chicken with a sledgehammer, it will damage your prestige, right?" Dong Fuxiang has an extremely competitive personality, and of course he felt very uncomfortable when he heard this. At the same time, he was also deeply perplexed. He really didn't understand, why can't a small place be flattened?Turning to this thought, I am not only ashamed, but also angry, and I will use any means when I am in a hurry!

"My lord, don't be afraid to throw a mouse." He said, "If your lord is willing to take on the responsibility, Fuxiang can take down the entire embassy." "Yes! Tell me, what do you want me to do?" "Now ministers from various countries gather in the British embassy. To his place, across the river to the east is Su Wang's mansion; to the south are Russian and American embassy; to the west is the open space of Shangsi courtyard. Foreigners are blocked by barbed wire and cannot rush through. If we want to shoot with guns, our guns are not as good as his, and we can't shoot far enough; only the north can attack, but there is a difficulty."

"Isn't the Hanlin Academy to the north? There is no road, how can we attack?" "Can attack!" Dong Fuxiang said, "Burning the Imperial Academy, wouldn't there be a way?" "This," Zaiyi took a breath, "burning down the Imperial Academy, it seems..." He didn't say any more. "It seems impossible, doesn't it?" Dong Fuxiang said, "My lord, burning the Imperial Academy is better than waiting for foreigners to come and burn the Summer Palace, isn't it?" One sentence made Zaiyi impulsive again, "Okay!" He patted his chest without hesitation, "I will take it, as long as I can take down the embassy."

Because of Xishiku's gunshots and clamor all night, the Empress Dowager Cixi decided to "move" and move to Ningshou Palace in the northeast corner of the Forbidden City. She made an order and prepared for each other. Eldest Brother asked Cui Yugui, "Is Er Maozi going to move from Yingtai too?" The Empress Dowager Cixi had sharp eyes and ears, and she just heard it. She immediately called the elder brother in, and asked sharply, "Who are you talking about? Who is the second hair?" Seeing this scene, the elder brother was terrified, and said in a murmur, "The slave didn't say anything!"

"You're so good-for-nothing! Who do you think is Yingtai's second son?" The elder brother hurriedly knelt down to meet each other.The Empress Dowager Cixi didn't sleep well all night, and her anger was extremely high. She scolded her elder brother vigorously, but her anger still lingered. After being scolded, the eldest elder brother kowtowed and got up, his naturally pouty lips were even more arched to the tip of his nose, with a resentful expression on his face, he flicked his sleeves and hurried out of Yiluan Hall. "Hey!" Empress Dowager Cixi looked at his back and sighed, "Lianying, do you think I picked the wrong person again?"

Li Lianying understands that this refers to Li Pujun as the eldest brother, and he also thinks that the eldest brother is not pleasing to the eye, but when Duan Wang Zaiyi is domineering and domineering, he must avoid it a little, lest the walls have ears and dare not confide in his heart. He only comforted him and said, "It will be fine if you slowly become sensible." "What year did you have to be sensible? You have a wild heart, so you don't study hard." After speaking, the Empress Dowager Cixi sighed again. When encountering this kind of situation, Li Lianying had to deal with it with all her strength, slowly divert the topic away, and talk about something new and interesting, or what the Empress Dowager Cixi liked to hear, or things she cared about, until she completely forgot about the unhappiness just now.

After talking for a short time, Cui Yugui lifted the curtain and entered, and said in a moderate voice, "Long Live Lord, please greet Lafayette!" This means that the emperor has something to play in person and is waiting for an order outside. If the Empress Dowager Cixi is in a bad mood, or if she knows what the emperor is playing and does not want to listen, she will say: "Forget it!" Without this sentence, the emperor can enter the palace . There was no such sentence today, and a sentence was added: "I have something to say to the emperor." After the emperor entered the hall and kowtowed, he stood up and found that his expression was different, five points sad, three points wronged, and one or two points angry, and the upper lip was a little swollen, which looked like the mouth of a big brother.

"What's going on?" Empress Dowager Cixi asked in surprise. "The elder brother punched his son in the face." Empress Dowager Cixi's face changed suddenly, but she quickly calmed down, "Oh!" she asked, "Why?" "My son doesn't know why!" "You don't know, but I know. You go to the back to cool off, cool off!" Empress Dowager Cixi shouted: "Cui Yugui!" "twitter!" "Bring it to Big Brother! Tell him that I have something good to reward him." "twitter!" The eunuchs and maids in the palace immediately became nervous.Knowing that there would be unusual behaviors, Li Lianying kept casting vigilant eyes on the people he could see.For a while, the hall was silent, and there was a tendency of a mountain rain.

Soon, there was the sound of boots outside the hall, Cui Yugui rushed forward and opened the curtain, the elder brother entered the hall and saw that something was wrong, but he could only bite the bullet and salute. "Let me ask you, who is the emperor?" Needless to say, things went wrong!The elder brother replied in a murmur, "It's uncle." "Uncle!" The Empress Dowager Cixi sternly corrected her, then relaxed the muscles on her face and said with a slight sneer, "Probably you only know that your 'Ama' is Prince Duan. Don't you?" Eldest brother can't understand the reason why he inherits Mu Zong and is the son of the current emperor. He belongs to the imperial line alone and has the most important status. Therefore, although he feels that the tone of the question of "Lafayette" is different, it is impossible to fathom it. Answer: "Yes!"

The elder brother's biological father——"Ama" was originally King Duan, and his answer that was not wrong was really a big mistake.Obviously he has become the elder brother who is equal to the prince, but still thinks that he is the heir of the county king.Not only did he forget the kindness of supporting and supporting him, but he also showed invisibly that once the elder brother becomes a great treasure, he will only respect his biological father Xingxian King like Ming Shizong, and despise others.At that time, King Xingxian had passed away, and now King Duan is in his prime, so maybe he will not be a domineering emperor in the future?

Thinking of this, Empress Dowager Cixi only felt her heart sinking continuously, and her spine felt chills.But I feel lucky, fortunately, I found it early, and I had the time to calmly remedy it.There were foreigners intervening in the abandoned emperor, could it be that the abandoned elder brother also had foreigners to meddle in his own business?She was sneering in her heart, you father and son, don't dream!That's all right, if you are unfaithful or unfilial, you can simply lose your title and become a commoner! This is the plan for the future, and there is still a need to establish rules in front of him, so he immediately shouted: "Follow the family law!" In the palace, the eunuchs and maids were punished by using boards and whips, which are collectively called "passing the stick".Regardless of the size of the board or the cane, after this meal, even if the big brother is as strong as a cow, he will be injured.Cui Yugui was more protective of the eldest brother, and quickly knelt down to plead for him, but Li Lianying was not sure if the Empress Dowager Cixi really wanted to beat the eldest brother?If it was just to frighten him, someone would have to intercede for him, so it would be easier to turn things around, so almost at the same time as Cui Yugui, he also knelt down.He said in his mouth: "Lafayette, please calm down, and forgive this big brother for now!" "I can't forgive you!" Empress Dowager Cixi said sharply, "It's all because of you who indulged him so lawlessly that he dared to use force against the emperor! According to his behavior, he should be executed alive!" She looked around at the eunuch and maid who knelt on the ground and said: "You guys have to understand! As long as there is me, there will be a day for the emperor, whoever dares to be rude to the emperor, see if I don't peel his skin!" With just these few words, I taught my elder brother a lesson, warned Cui Yugui, but also subdued the emperor who listened quietly behind the screen, so that I couldn't help but shout out in the palace where even a needle dropped on the ground could be heard. The sound of sighing. "Cui Yugui!" Empress Dowager Cixi ordered sternly, "Take the whip and beat him twenty." "Cha!" Cui Yugui didn't dare to say more, obediently went to fetch the whip. "Lafayette," Li Lianying said with a smile, "the tea meal is ready, and Lafayette is tired, please take a rest first!" "Don't push me around! You're trying to transfer me away, so you can just let this disobedient thing go? Hmph, don't dream!" This is Empress Dowager Cixi's intention to protect Li Lianying.Because as soon as this incident got out, it must be said: "Lafayette is really angry! Even Li Lianying's intercession on behalf of eldest brother has hit a big nail." In that way, King Duan and eldest brother will Don't remember his hatred, don't blame him for being able to speak in front of Lafayette, but doing nothing to save him. When the whip was brought, Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to flog her back. After all, it was Li Lianying's begging to change her buttocks.In front of the court lady, he stripped off the elder brother's pants, and whipped twenty whips on his buttocks. After all, the elder brother was just a naughty boy who was doted on since he was a child. He wanted to be aggressive in his heart and kept silent, but he had never suffered such pain before. He cried out in pain, "Great Lafayette!" "Fight with me hard!" The Empress Dowager Cixi said loudly in order to establish her prestige. This beating naturally smashed the big brother's ass.But the eunuch who executes the sentence is also like "Sula" of the Punishment Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, or Zao Li of the prefectural and county yamen. After the beating, I thanked the Empress Dowager Cixi for the lesson, and the eunuch helped her back. Immediately, Cui Yugui led the old eunuch who was working in the imperial pharmacy, and applied a special gold-chuang medicine with a secret recipe, and the pain suddenly eased. "Yugui!" Big brother moaned, "You have to send someone to tell the prince..." "Yes, yes!" Cui Yugui hurriedly said in other words: "Brother, let's heal your wounds at ease! Beating is pain, scolding is love, Lafayette sees that elder brother is honorable, so he took the trouble to teach. Otherwise, I don't bother to ask! " "I don't blame Lafayette, I only hate that 'ermaozi'..." "Okay, okay!" Cui Yugui interrupted again, and said in a lecturing tone: "Brother, you have to remember hardships, just because of this sentence, why did you forget it in a blink of an eye? Dafuda, throw it away." Of course, Cui Yugui secretly sent someone to Prince Duan's mansion to inform him quietly that there was such a thing.If it is said that the grandmother punished the stubborn grandson, it was not a big deal, but when Zaiyi received the news, she was shocked and angry, and regarded it as a very heavy blow. "Well, well! Well done!" he said to his brother with a pale face: "Just wait, our branch should be shoveled by the roots!" "This branch" refers to the descendants of his father Dun Wang Yichen. Hearing this, Zai Lian and Zai Lan couldn't help being taken aback for a moment. After thinking deeply, they understood what he meant. "Second, do you mean that Lafayette's heart has changed?" Zai Lian asked, "Could it be possible to have something for Eldest Brother...?" He didn't continue. "Why not? It's all up to her to abolish or establish! Sure enough, big brother is going to be abolished, think about it," Zaiyi dropped a sentence: "If there is no skin, how will the hair be attached?" This is true.If the Empress Dowager Cixi still has a good impression of King Dun, she would never take such a move to abolish the title of elder brother lightly.If this happens, it means that there is nothing to cherish.The Empress Dowager Cixi has very different feelings and views on her three younger uncles. The old Qichun Wang Yizhen is her sister-in-law, and she has always obeyed her orders.The sixth Gong Wang Yixin made great contributions to her during the Xinyou coup. Although there was a misunderstanding in the middle, but when King Gong was dying, he earnestly advised that the emperor should stay away from the New Party. , Decorate the end of the ceremony, and the service is extremely long, which shows the status of Prince Gong in her heart.As for the old Wudun Wang Yichen, his nature is simple and straightforward, and sometimes he speaks freely. The Empress Dowager Cixi doesn't think much of him, and of course she has no affection for his descendants. Zai Lian and Zai Lan were awakened.As a result, many stories about being abused by the Empress Dowager Cixi among relatives, nobles and vassals rushed to my heart in an instant.Their first cousin, Zai Shu, is also the emperor's and Zai Yi's. The son-in-law of Chengen Gong Guixiang is only because of the feud between the husband and wife. Enclosed by the high wall", in winter, he only wore a pair of trousers, but he didn't freeze to death! Thinking of what happened to Zai Shu, Zai Lan shuddered, "If she wants to be abolished, she can't be established!" He said: "The Qing Dynasty was ruled by the Aixinjueluo clan, not her La clan!" "That's right!" Zai Lian said, "Anyway, there's a lot of gossip outside and a bad reputation, so why don't you come here quickly." The so-called "a lot of gossip and a bad reputation" refers to Zai Yi's instigation to abolish the establishment and want to become the Supreme Emperor.Not only did Zaiyi know this, but he did not deny it to his closest relatives and cronies.Now listening to Zai Lian's persuasion, I can't help being tempted. "Brother," he asked, "tell me in detail, how can you be happy?" "Easy to handle!" Zai Lian pointed his hand out: "Is there no one there?" This refers to the Boxers.There is a "General Altar" in Zhuangwang's mansion, and boxers from all over the country register there, and they will have rations to receive. They are righteous men who officially serve the court.There is also an altar in Duanwang's mansion, which supports several senior brothers, ready-made.Zaiyi thought about it for a while, paused, and said decisively: "Okay! Do it!"