Chapter 202 The Battle for Name

If so, the emperor's anger is understandable. Not long ago, the emperor was arbitrary and gave Zhou Charter full responsibility for the military and politics of North Korea. Now, he suddenly found that Zhou Charter turned out to be a traitor, which put the emperor's face!

The Wenwu of the Man Dynasty were watching the emperor's jokes.

"You strongly recommended Zhou Charter to me, and you said he was a loyal minister! This is the loyal minister you are talking about. He colluded with the Japanese! What good did he give you to talk about him like this!" Guangxu stared at him fiercely.

He was frightened, and the emperor doubted that she had accepted the benefits of Zhou Charter! Not long ago, she tried her best to have her own supporters, and she was even humiliated by the emperor, and the emperor seemed to have forgotten all this! Forget it too soon!

"Your Majesty, my concubine did not accept the benefits of Zhou Charter. If the emperor doesn't believe my concubine's words, my concubine will not force it. You are the emperor, and what you say is golden words!" He said lightly.

"You, you..." Guangxu was choked and speechless.

"However, I still have to say a few words for Zhou Charter. If the emperor wants to listen, I will say that if I don't want to listen, I will forget it."

"Tell me! Say it!" Guangxu's voice is fierce, but he can't hide his inner strength.

"The Emperor's Mingjian. It is a fact that the Zhangjun of the Zhou Charter has cut off his braids, and the concubine won't say anything. Speaking of Zhou Charter's refusal to obey the order and secretly colluded with the Japanese, I can't believe it.

"The evidence is conclusive, and you still have to speak for him!" Guangxu said angrily.

"Your Majesty, at the beginning, under the leadership of Ye Zhichao, our Qing army retreated all the way from Seoul to the Yalu River, not to mention the loss of soldiers along the way, and all the weapons, food and fodder were lost to the Japanese. Zhou Charter finally gained a foothold in Yizhou City. All his men were received by scattered soldiers. Where did their weapons, ammunition and food come from? The court only gave him 5,000 taels of silver, and nothing else. It won't fall from the sky, will it?"

"This..." Guangxu said, "I once asked the Ministry of Household to allocate weapons and food to them, but the Ministry of Household said that there was no money, the treasury was empty, and there was nothing the Ministry of Household."

"The treasury is empty, and the soldiers are fighting with the Japanese desperately, but the empress dowager still has to repair the garden!" Hela sneered: "Zhou Charter's army, there is no grain and no ammunition. How did they destroy 5,000 Japanese? I don't know anything about military, but I can imagine that Zhang Jun's victory was exchanged for human life! Your Majesty, my concubine asked you, how many people in the Zhang army had before the war, and how many people in the Zhang army now?

"I really don't know this."

He lamented in his heart that as emperor, he didn't even know his army.

"The emperor can send someone to investigate. I estimate that Zhang's military strength is less than half of that before the war! Moreover, no one has given them weapons and ammunition, and they probably don't even have cotton-padded clothes for the winter! Your Majesty, think about it, we feel cold when we sit in this garden in cotton-padded clothes, and the soldiers of North Korea are still wearing summer clothes! It's good that they can defend half of North Korea. How can you expect them to capture Seoul and contain the Japanese army?

"If Zhang Jun is in a difficult situation, how can they not know?"

"Your Majesty, on the one hand, those imperial historians do not understand military affairs, and on the other hand, the Beiyang minister's office is fully responsible for the Japanese war. Others can only see the general situation of the war from the mansion newspaper, and they have no way to know the specific difficulties of the soldiers in front of them. They only saw a Zhangjun in North Korea. They couldn't see it. It was a lonely army with no food and no reinforcements! If this lonely army attacks Seoul, it will definitely break its head. In the end, they not only can't capture Seoul, but they are afraid that the northern part of North Korea will fall into the hands of the Japanese. Emperor, what kind of situation will our Qing Dynasty face if the Japanese army advances to the Yalu River?

In addition to a cold sweat, a terrible prospect appeared in his mind. A Japanese army went straight to Beijing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty from Shandong, while another Japanese army crossed the Yalu River and went straight to Fengtian, the location of the ancestral tomb of the Qing Dynasty!

The descendants of Nurhachi can't save not only themselves, but also their ancestors under the nine springs!

He said, "It is a great credit for Zhou Charter to be able to defend Pyongyang!"

Guanxu hurriedly grabbed the medal from his hand, read it carefully, and threw the two medals into the snow fiercely: "The clear talk is wrong to the country! Concubine Zhen..."

"Your Majesty, my concubine is now a nobleman." He said coldly, and her back was still faintly painful.

Guangxu said urgently, "No matter what others say, in my mind, you will always be my concubine!"

A warm current surged in his heart, and the emperor still had her in his heart!

She suddenly remembered that the emperor also had the difficulties of the emperor. The most difficult thing to do in the whole Qing Dynasty is the emperor!

Guangxu gently took his hand and said, "Princess Zhen, you are suffering."

Tears swirled in his eyes. Women don't ask for much, as long as their husband gives them a word.

As the emperor's woman, you should not ask for more! Empress Yehenara was also the emperor's woman, but she couldn't even get a smiling face of the emperor.

He felt extremely satisfied, and she forgave the emperor.

"Your Majesty, there are also no concubines. I am too wayward to bump into the emperor. Please forgive me." He said softly.

"Where is it, Princess Zhen's advice." Guangxu said, "However, now the court is full of condemning Zhou Charter. How should I deal with it?"

"The emperor might as well ask Li Zhongtang."

"Li Hongzhang?" Guangxu's face was long. He didn't expect that he didn't mention Weng Tonghe, but proposed Li Hongzhang.

Everyone knows that Zhou Charter has a quarrel with Li Hongzhang, and Li Hongzhang is a post-party, how can he return to Zhou Charter! Zhou Charter is in embattles. He should be watching Zhou Charter's jokes!

Concubine Zhen whispered, "Your Majesty, at the imperial meeting, the emperor proposed to appoint Zhou Charter as the prime minister of North Korea, and Li Zhongtang did not object."

"Concubine Zhen didn't know that Li Hongzhang was sick that day and did not attend the imperial meeting."

"Your Majesty, Li Zhongtang has always done things without leaking water! He did not attend the imperial meeting, probably because he agreed with the emperor's proposal, but he did not dare to publicly agree, so he said he could not be sick.

Zhenfei woke up Guangxu in one sentence.

"What the concubine said was not bad, which must be the reason. Li Hongzhang went to Tianjin the next day and couldn't see anything wrong with her health! Zhenfei, I'm going to summon Li Hongzhang to see what he says.

As the two were talking, a little eunuch hurriedly came and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, Prince Duan is here, waiting in Yihexuan."

"What is he doing here!" As soon as Guangxu heard about Duanjun Zaiyi, he was angry. This Zaiyi was a dog in front of the empress dowager's door!

"Your Majesty, he is a prince after all." He persuaded him.

Guangxu snorted: "Let him come here!"

"Hit."

The maid of honor put up a round stool next to the eight-treasure glazed well, and Guangxu sat side by side with him.

After a while, the little eunuch led Zaiyi, the king of Duan, to come. Behind Zaiyi, there was a man who was strong and wearing a six-grade martial court uniform.

Zaiyi bowed to Guangxu and other Lashi: "Ig Zaiyi to the emperor and precious people."

There was a feeling of nausea in the bottom of Guangxu's heart. The prince changed his mouth too quickly. A few days ago, he had a precious concubine, and now he is a precious person.

"Brother, please sit down." Guangxu said lightly, "The weather is fine today. I'm talking with Zhenfei here. I don't know what's wrong with the royal brother?" Guangxu deliberately aggravated the word "zhenfei".

Zaiyi sat down on the round stool at the bottom and said to the people behind him, "Why don't you see the emperor and the nobles!" Zai Yi's tit-for-tat aggravated the word "noble man".

The emperor and the prince competed with him by the name of his La family.

The man knelt down in a hurry: "Tianjin guards Yetao, please send your peace to the emperor and nobles."

"Ye Tao?" Guangxu scolded, "Ye Zhichao's son! Sure enough, it's a tiger father without a dog son!"

Yetao's face turned red, and the emperor's words were obviously not a good word. Ye Zhichao was defeated in North Korea, and the father of the tiger could not be, but the dog returned to his name.

Guangxu's heart is even more disgusting. Ye Zhichao was defeated and retreated from Jiulian City. The fact that he lied about his achievements in the war was finally revealed. There was a lot of condemnation in the court. Guangxu issued an order to "send Ye Zhichao to the capital and Jushi under the Ministry of Criminal Justice". Soon after, the Ministry of Criminal Justice sentenced Ye Zhichao to be executed and execution after autumn.

However, this beheading has no follow-up, and the so-called post-Autumn execution seems to have become a dead letter.

It turned out that the father and son of the Ye family were next to Prince Duan's thigh!

Guangxu lamented that Ye Zhichao could not die! Next to Prince Duan, that is, next to the Empress Dowager Buddha! In any case, the emperor's will is not as useful as the Empress Dowager's.

"What are you doing here?" Guangxu said coldly.

Ye Tao looked at Zaiyi and said, "Your Majesty, Ye guarded here specially for the affairs of Zhou Charter."

Guangxu sneered: "What? Ye Shoubei also wants to impeach Zhou Charter? I think it's free. There are many first- and second-grade officials impeached Zhou Charter, and it doesn't matter if there is one less than a sixth-grade guard. I don't want to join in this fun. The Wenwu of the Manchu Dynasty were impeaching Zhou Charter. Ye Tuo came to join in this excitement. To put it bluntly, this is to grab the limelight!

Zhaiyi said, "Your Majesty, it is often said that it is dark when you listen to it, and it is clear when you listen to it at the same time. Although Ye Shou's level is low, he is also an official of the imperial court. He knows everything about the emperor. This is the duty of being a minister. Emperor, you can't block the way."

Guangxu said coldly, "Then say it."

Yetao took a look at him and lowered his head.

He stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I dare not interfere in the government."

"Sitting down!" Guangxu was so angry that even a small guard dared not pay attention to Princess Zhen. This guy thought that he could be lawless with the support of the Empress Dowager Buddha!