As time passed day by day, the final deadline was getting closer and closer. As the weather was accorded, the atmosphere in the palace became increasingly tense, and Cixi's temper was getting worse and worse. The ministers entering and leaving the palace had to be careful. When they said every word, they had to think about it three times in their minds to see if there was any word that could trigger Cixi's bad associations. Not to mention the eunuchs and palace maids, they didn't even dare to speak out when they served Cixi in front of Cixi, for fear that they would anger the Old Buddha, at the very least, they would die. Some old people who had experienced the transformation of the Gengzi Kingdom vaguely felt that the history 10 years ago seemed to be about to repeat.

In the southeast, newspapers and media are still having a lot of fun in arguing about what is right and what is wrong. Some places have made a quarrel with both sides, which has really attracted no bets. However, Beijing’s emperor’s feet and the capital’s important places, newspapers dare not so scattered to discuss such major and sensitive events. However, Beijing’s residents are naturally much more interested in politics than other places. Therefore, although newspapers do not discuss it, they are very popular among the people. Moreover, in this era, the audience of newspapers is still niche. Only a few gentry classes can students read newspapers. However, the discussions among the people, whether in depth or breadth, are far from comparable to newspapers of this era. Of course, there are also the secret promotion of intelligence personnel from the East China Government.

Of course, an important consequence of the public discussion is that rumors are flying everywhere, almost every day, and people are talking about it everywhere on the streets and alleys. Even if there are some teahouses and notes of "Don't talk about state affairs" in the restaurant, they cannot stop the people's enthusiasm for discussion at all. Sometimes, the shopkeepers of teahouses and restaurants come to stop it, which will also cause a burst of ridicule, saying, "The Qing Dynasty is about to finish playing, what are you afraid of?" "God of the Qing Dynasty, now the emperor is unable to protect himself, so he has time to control us ordinary people." "Let's just talk about ours, the Qing Dynasty has been jumping around for a few days."

In short, the relaxed attitude of the people who are watching the show is in sharp contrast to the tense atmosphere in the palace.

On the one hand, it is because the residents of Beijing have seen more things. Over the past decade, such as "public buses to write", "Wuxu Coup", "Box bandits to Beijing", "Gengzi National Change", "Overseas Chinese to Beijing", "Emperor and Empress to the Court", etc., I have never seen any major events. I know that no matter how the times change, the impact will be the royal relatives and nobles, and they have no relationship with the people. As long as you prepare more food and food items in advance, stay at home honestly during the days when the old and new forces in Beijing were alternating, and wait for Beijing to restore order before coming out, it will basically be fine. Anyway, foreigners come to listen to foreigners, overseas Chinese come to listen to overseas Chinese, Lord Lafayette, Lord Lafayette, Emperor Lafayette, and Emperor Lafayette.

On the other hand, during the 10-year Gengzi Rebellion, the People's Army recaptured Beijing. At that time, the military discipline was strict and did not violate the residents. In addition, they also repaired many roads, houses, dug through wells, and did many good deeds that benefit the people. Most old Beijingers still remember it very clearly. At the same time, intelligence personnel from the East China Government were secretly promoting the People's Army to abide by discipline and not disturb the people, so that the residents of Beijing could be completely relieved. Therefore, the people in Beijing were not nervous at all, and they talked about the major events of changing dynasties with a relaxed and optimistic attitude every day.

Of course, the Qing court is basically in a disorderly state. The powerful officials at the upper level are busy packing their luggage and preparing to escape. The officials at the lower level and officials have also seen through the current situation. The Qing Dynasty has indeed not had a few days to survive. The East China Government is about to take over Beijing and change the dynasty. Therefore, at this time, who is still considering what the people are discussing?

So in this intertwined environment of tension and relaxation, busyness and slackness, time finally came to the 7th day.

At noon that day, Qu Hongyi, Xu Shichang and Tang Shaoyi, who were staying in Tianjin, came to the Lishunde Hotel and met with Li Sanjie, proposing that the Qing court refused to accept the negotiation conditions proposed by the East China Government and asked the East China Government to make changes.

However, this request was unexpectedly rejected by Li Sanjie, and claimed that since the Qing court refused to accept the negotiation conditions proposed by the East China Government, it meant that the negotiations had broken down and could only be resolved by war. He also asked Qu Hongyi, Xu Shichang and Tang Shaoyi to leave Tianjin. In two hours, the People's Army would launch an attack on Tianjin.

At this point, Qu Hongyi, Xu Shichang and Tang Shaoyi had nothing to say, so he immediately said goodbye and returned to Tianjin New City.

Li Sanjie immediately generated a power to the Qingdao and Beijing offices to inform the news that the negotiations had broken down. Because it took about an hour for Qu Hongxiang, Xu Shichang and Tang Shaoyi to return to Tianjin New City, no matter how fast the Qing court was, it could only receive the news in one hour.

This hour had no effect on the war, but it was crucial to the Beijing office of the East China Government. Because once the war broke out, the Beijing office of the East China Government was the most dangerous, and it was difficult to guarantee that the Qing court would not use the staff of the Beijing Office to vent their anger, and at least they would be arrested as hostages. Since the two sides began to contact, the Qing court has also strengthened the monitoring of the Beijing office, but before the two sides completely broke up, the Qing court did not dare to easily touch the Beijing office of the East China Government.

Of course, the Beijing office of the East China Government has long left a way out for itself. There are only a dozen staff members in the office on the spot, and more than 10 hidden strongholds were arranged in Beijing, and other identities were arranged for each staff member. In addition, two tunnels were dug in the office for personnel to escape urgently. It can be said that the preparations were quite sufficient.

However, since the negotiations between the two sides have not officially ended, the Beijing office cannot be closed on the spot and must continue to operate normally. Only after the negotiations have officially broken down can it be withdrawn. It is naturally very important to obtain news of the breakdown of the negotiations by one hour in advance.

Since the morning of the morning, the staff of the Beijing office surrounded the radio station, anxiously waiting for the news, and they all felt a little restless because outside the Beijing office, the Qing army was surrounded. It seemed that they would only wait for the news that the negotiations had broken down, and the Qing army would break into the door and arrest people.

Fortunately, from 10 o'clock and around 20 o'clock, the Beijing office kept receiving news of the negotiations and learned about the progress of the negotiations. By 10:20, the radio finally received a signal of retreat. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and immediately began to evacuate from the Beijing office.

The evacuation operation has been practiced for 5 or 6 times, and everyone is familiar with it. First, they move out the dummy in uniform from the cabinet and put it in their respective positions, causing the illusion of people in the house. Then they take off their uniforms and reveal other ordinary clothes that had been changed long ago. According to the order of the distribution, they escaped from two tunnels. Although the Qing army surrounded the Beijing office, they were outside the house after all, and they could only vaguely see the figures in the house, so they did not arouse suspicion.

In fact, these two tunnels are not long, only more than 100 meters long. The exit is another house near the Beijing office. Of course, there are people in these two houses to answer. After leaving the tunnel, everyone collected their own props, including baskets, loads, and carts. Then they left from the front and back doors of the house one after another, and finally locked the door and gave up completely. They went to other strongholds according to the already set route. As a result, in less than an hour, all the personnel in the Beijing office were successfully transferred to other strongholds to hide.

After the Qing army received the order, they broke into the door and found only a dozen dummies and uniforms and shoes scattered on the ground, but there was no one left. Although after the Qing army's careful search, they finally found the tunnel in the house, the Qing army sent people to search along the tunnel and only found two vacant houses, and the doors in the front and back were locked. After all, the Qing army was not a professional investigator, so they could only track down this point, and all the clues were cut off. In the end, they could only arrest several families around the Beijing office and the tunnel exit of the building to hand in the office.

However, it was dusk at this time. The brother of Prince Chun Zaifeng, Beile Zaitao, was shocked after learning about this result. But he couldn't help but admire these good methods of pseudo-rebellion, which could slip away under his nose. Zaitao was pretty good. He knew that he had left pseudo-rebellion, and the families he captured were useless, so he ordered all the people to be released and then went into the palace to apologize to Cixi.

After listening to Zaitao's report, Cixi was calm and didn't say anything for a long time, and Zaitao felt a little scared. He knew that Cixi was in a bad mood these days. He heard that several eunuchs and maids had been beaten to death in the palace, and he didn't know what to do with him.

After a while, Cixi said, "Zai Tao, you don't have to worry about the matter of catching false rebellion. She went to the Summer Palace overnight to wait."

Zaitao couldn't help but feel happy when he heard that Cixi did not pursue the matter and did not catch anyone. However, when he heard that he was ordered to go to the Summer Palace to wait, Zaitao's heart sank again. As the royal family that Cixi valued the most, Zaitao certainly knew that there was a group of people in the Summer Palace. This was Cixi's guardian army that was about to escape from Beijing. Now he ordered herself to go to the Summer Palace. Cixi obviously was going to escape from Beijing.
Chapter completed!