Chapter 194 Just a little backbone

"Don't say that the Kunming pool is shallow. It turns out that it is to train the navy!"

In summer, the three seas are rippling with willows. Compared with the palace ban, it is naturally cool and quiet. Therefore, the emperors and concubines often come to the three seas for recreation in summer. Since the arrival of Yanjing, the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, the three seas have been continuously expanded. In the Qing Dynasty, the three seas were a group of palaces and pavilions. The emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong not only used it as a place for fun, but also entertained princes and ministers here, summoned officials in palaces such as the Qinzheng Hall, dealt with state affairs, received envoys of foreign vassals in the capital, and welcomed the soldiers who returned to the court.

The water in the three nautical miles is often dredged, keeping it clear and clean all year round, and a lot of lotus roots have been planted. Every three summers, at a glance, the green leaves and fields on the three seas are in full bloom. It is really "the lotus flowers are different red", and the situation is indeed extremely elegant! However, Cixi still thought that it was not strong enough and luxurious enough, so the King of Alcohol ordered that he, who presided over the naval government, transferred the navy to repair the three seas.

The weather of the three seas is really new, and Cixi is naturally happy in her heart. However, the repair garden officially began under the high-sounding name of restoring the old system and preparing for the construction of Kunming Lake Marine School, and the funds naturally came from the navy. Everyone understands that this is "hanging sheep's head to sell dog meat", and naturally left "Don't say that the Kunming pool is shallow. It turns out to be for training the navy!" The poem.

The poem stayed. A few years later, the military expenses were moved to repair the garden, so the poor and inexplicable Beiyang sailors were also defeated. The Qing Dynasty lost hundreds of millions of taels of silver, but Cixi got her own garden. Even after Gengzi, the people of the Qing Dynasty lost one or two pieces of silver in order to reorganize the garden that was humbly made cheap by the Eight-nation Alliance. Zi, Cixi still spent millions of taels of silver to repair the garden.

In the early morning, Yi Qian came to the Dongshou Hall of the Summer Palace to meet the empress dowager, and first handed over the report from the military office:

"Chen Yi and his party members are active in various places. Recently, the bandits rebel against the river and the incident has been calmed down. Yesterday, the officer of the Xi'an artillery battalion got up and was defeated to death.

Cixi, who was shocked by the news and closed her eyes, sighed.

"The situation of this country is small, and it seems that there are still a lot of thugs like Chen Yi."

Yi Qian, who knelt on the ground, said quickly.

"Old Buddha, the Han people's hatred is tight. The slaves have ordered all places to strictly prevent criminals and search for Ba'ath Party disciples. At the same time, they sent a note to countries to restrict the activities of those who graduated from Huangpu School and asked for the arrest of those involved."

"Very good. All localities should strive to eliminate evil, and must not be soft-handed. It is better to kill by mistake than to miss the net, let the ashes rekindle. All localities should pay close attention to those literati, who are the most deceive and instigating. You are now issuing an order with the Military Aircraft Department: prohibit students from interfering in politics and meeting speeches.

"The slave is ready to handle it."

He kowtowed his head, and Yi Qian took the order.

Thinking of Cixi, I asked again.

"Has Yuan Shikai made an expedition from Baoding?"

"Ferv. Buddha, Lord Yuan has a lot of affairs to be done. If you want to finish it, you will naturally go on an expedition."

"Why did he stay in his quilt to support his life after he returned to Baoding and gathered the generals in the governor's mansion?"

" Back to the Buddha, Lord Yuan..."

"Nonsense!"

The new minister of military aircraft and the minister of the Ministry of War roared.

"He clearly had no intention of going south, intending to support troops to threaten the court."

"Who are you talking to? Such presumptuous and rude! If he really leads the soldiers to the capital, will he hold a meeting? He was going to threaten long ago. How can he stay now?

Yi Qian turned to Cixi and kowtowed.

"Old Buddha, Yuan Shikai has always been loyal to the Qing Dynasty. I'm afraid that he also called the generals for the sake of the Southern Expedition. The old Buddha imagines that if he was a little unfaithful to the old Buddha, he would not have betrayed the emperor's notoriety to protect you, right?

With that, Yi Qian took out another memorial.

"This is Yuan Shikai's invitation today. Yuan Shikai wants to leave now but can't leave."

After taking over the memorial, Cixi looked a few times, and the smile on her face froze, standing there in a sma. He frowned and gave it to Tie Liang after seeing it. Tie Liang took a closer look and said angrily.

"Is there such a coincidence in the world? What Liu Lingzhi went to Sakharov alone and Baoqing Niwa returned to the court. Although these great achievements are made by the state, I'm afraid that people will interfere... This is all excuses.

I didn't wait for Yiqi to speak, but Cixi nodded.

"It seems that Yuan Shikai is indeed for the purpose of the court."

So he picked up the pen and criticized Yuan Shikai's memorial: "The left and right towns are going south, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for handling foreign affairs."

It's written, and Cixi handed it over to Yi Qiandao.

"The Military Aircraft Department immediately sent this approval to Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai can handle foreign affairs, but the military affairs in the south are tight. This is the first-class event. Let him lead the army to the south! Although he is the minister of Beiyang, he has the responsibility of foreign affairs, but Chen Yi in the south is more important! In this way, let him slow down for a few days first.

"zhe--"

Tie Liang added a sentence next to him.

"If it weren't for Prince Qing's recommendation, how could Yuan Shikai have such a big airs? Why can't he deal with foreign affairs? Is it true that there is no one in my Qing Dynasty?"

"Bah! What do you know about milky smell? First, are you worthy of the Rongzhong Hall under the nine springs when you talk like this? Lord Yuan is from Rongzhongtang, and he is also a talent that the Buddha himself like. When did I know him? If you say this, it's disrespectful to me, disrespectful to Rongzhongtang, and disrespectful to the old Buddha; two,..."

"Don't say it!"

At this time, Cixi was angry. She was not afraid that Yiqi exposed her shortcomings, but Yiqi mentioned Ronglu. When it comes to Ronglu, she is a heart-warming pain.

It's like thinking of something again, Cixi thought and said something else.

"At least Qing Niwa, isn't Uchida Gengzai talking to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? If you say that your attitude is tight, give it to me! This matter should be discussed again in the princes and ministers. Guanwai is the birthplace of the Qing Dynasty, and the lifeline is there. You should do it carefully. - If you have nothing to do, just leave.

After Yi Qian left, Cixi sent a decree to come to Dongshou Hall as soon as possible.

Seeing Liang Bi entering the hall and looking at the heroic posture of Tie Liang and Liang Bi in front of her, Cixi was much relieved. There were still people in the Qing Dynasty, and there were still people in the flag to use.

After Liang Bi's salute, Cixi opened his words.

"Come and talk here."

Liang Bi and others thanked and stood in front of him.

Looking at the two of them, Cixi's face showed some relief.

"In the future, the Qing Dynasty will count on you. After Rongzhongtang, none of us can preside over the military. What's more, even if Ronglu is here, we have to rely on Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong. Before this, we had to rely on Zeng Guofan, and the descendants of Manmeng have declined to such a point. Do we have to rely on the Han people to stabilize the world?"

"Old Buddha."

Tie Liang and Liang Bi knelt down together and said.

"The slaves dare not work hard anymore."

"If you don't work hard, there will be no place to die! Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang are still a little loyal to the Qing Dynasty, but now Yuan Shikai has a bad heart, and the Qing Dynasty is in danger!"

This time, Yuan Shikai was sick and vomited blood, and now she uses the green mud. In short, she wants to drag time not to go south. In the past, she thought that Yuan Shikai was still an obedient slave, but now Cixi has seen that she doesn't know what kind of bad intentions are in this slave's heart.

"So kill him!"

Tie Liang said something harshly.

"This will provoke a change. His army is in the capital, and he can't act rashly against him now. What's more, over the years, he has a lot of friendship with other countries. If he suddenly takes a sudden action, the countries will also interfere. What's more, the southern Chen is against the trend. Although he has not invaded the north, the sailorian was reversed the day before yesterday. He wanted to come to Zhang Zhidong or investigate the rebellion. Or loyalty, that is, in the past few days, the Qing Dynasty now has to rely on Yuan Shikai's new army to support it for a while.

"If Yuan Shikai is forced to reverse, I'm afraid that the Qing Dynasty will be out of protection. The children of the flag bearer will only go to the kiln and raise birds to listen to the play. I'm afraid they can't even run and fight?"

With the appearance of her own family, Cixi is a burst of heartache.

"After Yuan Shikai led the Beiyang New Army to the south, even if the capital is empty, our Qing Dynasty can't only have Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army. I asked you to come today to learn from Yuan Shikai and train your own army!"

"Yes, the Empress Dowager has thought about it for a long time!"

Good porridge nodded hurriedly.

"We also want to train troops, and we also want to run a military school."

Cixi smiled with a comforting smile.

"Tie Liang is already the secretary of the Ministry of War. There is no need to seize Yuan Shikai's military power. As long as he goes south and fights with Chen Wei, it is good to win, but the Beiyang Army must also be a group of wounded and disabled generals. If defeated, the Beiyang Army will be finished. Liangbi, you can help Tieliang more, recruit talents as soon as possible, and train a group of generals who can command and fight as soon as possible. You graduated from this military school. You should have a way.

"If I don't do my best, I will not be the descendants of the Qing Dynasty!"

Liangbi's high-spirited answer.

"Hmm! It's good to have this intention. Yuan Shikai asked nine million taels of silver to train the new army in six towns. If the foreign bank borrowed 13 million pounds, he would take out three million pounds to train you two soldiers and train the new army of ten towns for me! Our flagman's new army!"

The two of them couldn't help but be happy when they heard Cixi, and they kowtowed and replied at the same time.

"I will definitely live up to the trust of the old Buddha and train the new army in ten towns!"

"Well, in the future, you will all have to experience and learn how to deal with personnel. Although training soldiers is related to the life and death of the Qing Dynasty, this method of dealing with personnel is related to whether the new army can be trained!"

After saying that, Cixi waved her hand, and the two retreated.

"Yuan Shikai is a wolf, and Yi Qian is a scum of the Qing Dynasty!"

Why are there so few available people around here? Thinking of Chen Yi in the south and the green mud in the past few days, Cixi only felt a headache. Thinking about these things, Cixi lowered her eyes and said silently in her heart.

"May the Buddha bless me for long live the Qing Dynasty, and may the Buddha bless my health. I will definitely keep all the temple incense.

As soon as this sentence was over, I felt that a whirlwind seemed to be blowing from the cave, and swept from the outside coldly and shady. Cixi was shivered by the excitement, with goose bumps, and her head couldn't help but feel dizzy.

After Yasuya Uchida, dressed like a British gentleman, sat down. He came straight to the point.

"Prince Qing, let me tell you an unfortunate news: China's political axe believes that your country's unauthorized acceptance of green mud depression is not only an extremely serious and negative incident, but also seriously undermines your country's neutrality clause! I don't know if Prince Qing knows?"

Yasuya Uchida's words surprised Yi Yu, the head of the "Qingji Company". His first feeling was that Liu Lingzhi, who escaped from the Russian hard labor camp, was stabbed.

"Convoy Uchida,"

Although Yi Qian is famous for corruption, he has presided over the Prime Minister's Office for such a long time, and he has also talked with the eight countries. Although he has seen a big scene, he is threatened by Yasuya Uchida, but he is fighting haha.

"I really don't know the inside story of what you said. Our political axe has always been friendly with other countries. Even if it is neutral, it will never destroy the neutral clause. What's more, you also know that the envoy of Uchida. Although our Qing Dynasty is neutral, we are still interested in this East Asian Tongwen. In Kanto, there are 20,000 to 30,000 people in the Qing Dynasty to assist your army in the battle. This year of Liu Lingzhi Geng's At that time, he had been detained by the Russians in the hard labor camp, and his behavior had nothing to do with the court.

And he laughed at Yiqi, talked about the inside story, and finally put himself aside. Yasuya Uchida said with a cold smile.

"Prince Qing, as far as I know, doesn't your court want to reward Liu Lingzhi? My information comes from the interior of the imperial court. Can I understand this as that you not only acquiesce to Liu Lingzhi's behavior, but also prepare to promote the recovery of the green mud depression?

From the look of Yasuya Uchida, Yiqi has felt the serious surname of the situation. Whether it is Russia or Japan, for the Qing Dynasty, they are two plague gods who can't afford to provoke. If it weren't for the fact that they can't afford to provoke them, as Yuan Shikai said at the beginning, Li Hefei had an alliance with Russia. In terms of public law, he should help Russia, and said that he should protect our territory, rejuvenate teachers with righteousness, and help. With national strength, it is impossible to help Russia, and the battlefield is within the territory of the Qing Dynasty. As a last resort, the Liaohe River was used as the boundary to declare neutrality, and the north of the Liaohe River was included in the war zone.

But now the "D'Neill Land Delivery Charter" signed by Liu Lingzhi and Sakharov has stirred up the pool, which was originally a pool of mixed water. Thinking about Yiqi in his heart, he was silent. The old Buddha said that if he was pressing hard, he would give up the green mud to them, but if this word came out of his mouth... When Yiqi was in the expressionless silence, Uchida Yasuya was nervous. In the morning, he had just returned from Baoding and was the governor of Zhili in Baoding. In the house, he and Yuan Shikai had a deep discussion about the green mud, and Yuan Shikai's reaction was far beyond his expectation.

When he asked through the Beiyang Army's adviser Hanxi Rihachiro that if the Qingniwa was solved by force, Yuan Shikai, the governor of Zhili, who secretly supported Japan, said it himself as soon as the war broke out.

"I always said that the two countries are like brothers. Even if a good brother beats his brother's face, his brother will be angry.

Although he would never risk the complete destruction of Dalini's port to attack Dalini, the performance of Qing officials in this matter was far beyond Japanese expectations, just as those Qing officials even kept asking for a decree to reward the former Jinzhou Tongzhi Liu Lingzhi.

After meditating for a while, Yiqi remembered a telegram sent to him by Yuan Shikai three days ago when he was about Qingniwa.

"I am sincerely happy with the peace of East Asia. For this reason, I have ordered the political axe to negotiate with Russia since last year on the current situation of the Qing Dynasty and North Korea. However, it has to be confirmed that Russia has no regard for the sincerity of peace in East Asia. Gai Qing, the preservation of the territory of the two countries is closely related to my self-defense. I ordered my political axe to stop negotiating with Russia and decided to defend myself and take free action for me. I trust you and others to be loyal and brave, and I look forward to you and others to achieve their goals in order to preserve the glory of the empire.

While meditating, Yi Qian recited the Emperor's declaration of war against Russia. When he recited the content of the declaration of war, Yasuya Uchida was just nervous. The reason why it was delayed for three days, Tokyo had not yet discussed the reason. In the end, the emperor and President Ito made a decision of "diplomatic settlement". The reason is that the Qing Dynasty was forced by force to go in neutrality, and at the same time exposed the real reason for the declaration of war.

In this war, he took advantage of the hostility of the Qing people to the Europeans to call this war as a war for Asians to resist Europeans and yellow people to retaliate against whites. It is said that the two countries of the Qing Dynasty are of the same language. Like brothers, they respect the sovereignty of the Qing Dynasty, have no intention of encroachment on China, help China recover their land, etc., to paralyze the Qing people, which makes some Qing people have illusions about the Japanese, take Russia's defeat as a joy, and some of victory as a blessing, and some also report the enemy's situation to the Japanese army.

The Russians used this as a pretactic to anger their failure on the Qing people and burn and kill silver more crazily. On the contrary, more Qing people took the initiative to help the Japanese army, but none of this could be compared with the important surname of Qingniwa.

"Prince Qing, I need to remind you that your country's actions in the green mud can be fully understood by us as: your country breaks the neutrality clause and is ready to fall to Lucia!"

"What?"

Yiqi's eyes stared, and he stared at Uchida Yasuya speechless for a long time.

Yi Qian's surprise and fear showed made Yasuya Uchida feel relieved. The attitude shown by the Qing people may be unexpected, but the courage in their hearts was completely in their own expectation.

"No, envoy Uchida, we absolutely have no intention of destroying neutrality, if...if you want Qingniwa! Just take it. We will definitely not destroy the neutrality clause!"

When he said this, Yiqi completely forgot what Yuan Shikai told him in the telegram, "Drag them, be tough, and then they will naturally give in." For Yiqi, he would never want to cause any diplomatic trouble because of the green mud.

"Thank you very much, Prince Qing. Please urge your court to issue an order as soon as possible,..."

When Yasuya Uchida thanked him, he took out a check from his arms and presented it to Yiqi with both hands.

"Your Majesty, this is a little bit of the meaning of our country. Please accept it!"

(to be continued)