Chapter 105 Pocket Watch Suspect
Not long ago, Tan Sitong, a member of the Weixin faction, came to the Xiaoqi Camp, met Nahawu, and talked with Nahawu about many difficulties of the emperor. Tan Sitong's idea is very clear, that is, he hopes that Nahawu can stand on the side of the emperor and escort the emperor's great cause of innovation. Tan Sitong has seen that changing the law and changing the new will inevitably violate the interests of those vested interests. In the end, the Weixin faction is bound to have a showdown with the conservative faction, and the conservative faction holds military power in their hands. Once the two sides turn against each other, the new faction can only be captured. If the Xiaoqi camp can stand on the side of the Weixin faction, even if it can't compete with the old faction, at least it can play a restraining role.
Nahawu doesn't understand what is new and old-fashioned. His idea is very simple. As long as the Empress Dowager Cixi opposes it, he will agree. Moreover, he is still the emperor's uncle. The emperor has long kindness to him, without the full support of Emperor Guangxu, and there is no today's Xiaoqi camp. Therefore, Nahawu and Tan Si are allied together and expressed their determination to stand on the side of the emperor and support the great cause of the new law. To agree with the new change is to be against the Empress Dowager Buddha!
Nahawu is a martial artist who is good at marching and fighting. When it comes to politics, he is a young bird. In fact, in the Qing Dynasty, there are many generals who sympathize with the newists and the emperor, but the generals all know a truth that in the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, their personal attitude should not be too clear! It's so clear that it's equivalent to death!
Naha tied himself with the emperor without hesitation, which is equivalent to pushing himself to the edge of the cliff, and there is no room for manoe.
Now, Lai Chuanwu was ordered by the Empress Dowager Buddha to assassinate him. The Empress Dowager must have noticed his secret conversation with Tan Sitong.
Lai Chuanwu nodded: "That's right. The Empress Dowager knows about you and Tan Sitong. However, this is only one of the reasons.
"Yo, do you still need to find many reasons to kill me?"
Lai Chuanwu said with a gloomy face, "For the sake of our work together, I will tell you the truth, so that you won't be a fool. The most important reason why the Empress Dowager Buddha wants to kill you is that Zhou Charter is still alive!"
"What!" Naha was shocked: "Lai Chuanwu, if you want to kill, just kill me. Don't fool me!"
"To tell you the truth, at the beginning, Zhou Charter's so-called drowning was not an accident at all. It was designed by Duan Jun Zaiyi to deceive Zhou Charter into the sea, and then Ding Ruchang, a Beiyang sailor, sent a cruiser to sink his ship. The Empress Dowager thought that this matter was seamless, but she didn't expect that Zhou's fate was so great that she was not drowned.
"Is this true?"
"Is it necessary for me to lie to you as a dying person?"
"Where is my eldest brother now?" Then Hawu shouted.
"It should be in Shanghai." Lai Chuanwu said, "Someone found a pocket watch in Shanghai, which is something in the palace. It is said that the pocket watch was given to Zhou Charter. The pocket watch is there, and the person is there!"
Naha Wu looked up to the sky and laughed: "Big brother is still alive! Hahahaha! I'm dead, it's worth it! Damn, the Empress Dowager Cixi will never have peace! Lai Chuanwu, do it. My eldest brother will avenge me. Lai Chuanwu, I'm waiting for you in the underworld! However, I also remind you that I'm afraid that if you can't wait for my eldest brother to take action, your boy will be in a different place!"
"Why?"
"Don't forget that you are also from Zhang Jun! The old woman of Empress Dowager Cixi can't tolerate you! You will have a time when the birds hide their bows! Besides, you know too much!" Then Ha Wu said with a smile.
Lai Chuanwu's face became more and more gloomy, holding the hand of the pistol and shaking slightly.
"What, are you afraid?" Ha Wu smiled and said, "If you do too much, you will hit the ghost when you walk."
"I'm afraid of shit!" Lai Chuanwu shook his hand with a gun and pressed it fiercely on the forehead of Hawu: "Then Hawu, today next year will be the anniversary of your death!"
"I remember!" Then Hawu closed his eyes.
But he heard Lai Chuanwu say, "Well, Ha Wu, let's make a deal."
"Trade bullshit, shoot the fuck!"
Lai Chuanwu put down his gun and said, "Lao Na, the Empress Dowager ordered me to come. First, she wanted your life, and second, she ordered me to take over the Xiaoqi camp. She was worried about this army's dealings with the Weixin faction. Well, you go to Shanghai, hide your name and hand over the troops to me. We are both clear."
Then Ha Wu's eyes widened: "Lai Chuanwu, what the hell are you doing? Won't you kill me?"
"See Zhou Charter and say hello for me."
"What the hell do you have to do to ask my eldest brother!" Then Hawu scolded.
Lai Chuanwu didn't care about Nahawu. He threw a black cloth pocket, jumped on Nahawu's horse, waved his whip, and sped away out of the woods.
Nahawu picked up his pocket and opened it. It turned out to be 2,000 oceans inside!
"Damn it, Lai Chuanwu, you didn't want to kill me from the beginning!"
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Lai Chuanwu is right. The Empress Dowager Cixi has concluded that Zhou Charter is still alive!
The problem is with the pocket watch.
At the beginning, Huang Zunxian sent his pocket watch to the Forbidden City in Beijing. After seeing the pocket watch, the Ministry of Internal Affairs determined that it was a thing in the palace, and then searched the thief who stole the pocket watch in the palace. In fact, this is just an ordinary theft case, which is not a big deal.
However, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has not found the source of this pocket watch. Finally, it attracted the attention of the Empress Dowager Buddha.
A theft case can't find a thief, which is nothing new. What's new is that you can't even find the ownership of the items!
In the palace, there is only one situation that can be explained, that is, this thing is something that the emperor has done.
This aroused the vigilance of the Empress Dowager.
It is understandable that the emperor rewarded meritorious officials, which was originally the emperor's power. But the problem is that this pocket watch is not in the official file of the emperor's reward items at all. If this thing really flowed out of the palace through the emperor's hand, there is only one explanation. The emperor secretly handed over the foreign minister!
The emperor is going to act again! He is accumulating strength.
This is what the Empress Dowager is most worried about! After the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing Dynasty was defeated by Japan, which is nothing. Anyway, since 1848, the Qing Dynasty has suffered too many defeats and lost to Japan, which is just one more defeat. However, the battle between the Empress Dowager and the emperor cannot be defeated!
The greatest possibility of the emperor's way to hand over foreign ministers is Zhenfei! Empress Dowager Cixi has always looked down on Guangxu, but she is extremely worried about Zhenfei. This little woman is much more difficult to deal with than Guangxu!
Therefore, Empress Dowager Cixi ordered Cui Yugui to send this treasure to the imperial concubine and the emperor.
Zhenfei's performance is still calm, but Guangxu's performance is too calm.
Cui Yugui carefully reported the expressions of Guangxu and Zhenfei to the Empress Dowager Cixi. Cixi sneered. Obviously, this pocket watch really flowed out from the emperor! However, it is not known exactly through whose hand it flowed out and to whom it was handed over.