After Li Lianying finished reading, she saw Cixi lying on the bed with her eyes closed and motionless. She thought Cixi was asleep, so she called out twice: "God of Lady, Lord Lady."

Cixi opened her eyes again and said slowly: "What does the emperor look like?"

Li Lianying hesitated for a moment before saying, "The emperor seems to be a little depressed. After returning to the dormitory, he lay on the couch, but he didn't ask anyone to serve him. It seemed that he had something to worry about."

"Things to do?" Cixi sneered and said, "Don't I know his little thoughts yet? She doesn't know anything and thinks she is the lord of wiseness? This family is so easy to be. If she really gives it to him, she still doesn't know how defeated she will be."

Speaking of Guangxu, Li Lianying stood by her hands and waited for her, but she did not dare to say anything. Although Li Lianying was deeply trusted by Cixi, she was quite self-aware and cautious in dealing with the world, and was more respectful to ministers with great power. This was also learned from the lessons of her predecessor An Dehai. Of course, it is inevitable to ask for bribes in daily life, but she absolutely dared not interfere in the affairs of the government. Because between the emperor and the empress, Li Lianying basically pleased both sides.

After the Wuxu Coup, Guangxu was imprisoned in Yingtai. Some powerful eunuchs were not very respectful to Guangxu, but Li Lianying always remained obedient to Guangxu. This time, Cixi reduced her trust in Li Lianying and trusted more by another eunuch Cui Yugui. However, after the Gengzi Reform, Li Lianying fled with Empress Dowager Cixi, serving Cixi in front of her horses and horses along the way, working hard and resenting her trust in Li Lianying.

Seeing that Li Lianying didn't say anything, Cixi didn't care too much. Although the incident of Wan Haicheng made Cixi lose face in overseas Chinese, this time she met, Cixi discovered that overseas Chinese did not have the intention to support Guangxu. Moreover, judging from Qin Zheng's response, he seemed to disagree with Guangxu's behavior and even severely criticized it. It seems that this time, overseas Chinese may not be targeting themselves. Perhaps their style is so inclined. As Li Hongzhang said, overseas Chinese only wanted to separatist in Shandong and had no intention of participating in the Qing court's affairs. It seems that it is true. Although this cannot make Cixi completely relieved the overseas Chinese, at least she doesn't have to worry about them supporting Guangxu.

This also made Cixi feel much more at ease, because since the Wuxu Coup, Cixi had never had any hope for Guangxu. Even if Guangxu could not be abolished, Guangxu would never be able to regain power, even if it was symbolic. The behavior of Guangxu to pull overseas Chinese has greatly increased Cixi's dissatisfaction with Guangxu. It seems that this kid is unwilling to let him go. This time, overseas Chinese did not have the intention to support Guangxu. However, if overseas Chinese really supported Guangxu, Cixi would face a very difficult situation. To be honest, Cixi did not have any good countermeasures. It seems that keeping Guangxu would eventually be a future problem, so Cixi had the idea of ​​abolishing Guangxu.

In fact, the abolition of Guangxu was one of the main causes of the reform of the Gengzi Kingdom. Because foreigners opposed the abolition of Guangxu, Cixi was allowed to rely on the so-called magical powers of the Boxer Regiment to fight against foreigners. In addition, various forces promoted the fire, which eventually prompted various countries to form an Eight-Nation Alliance. Cixi declared war on various countries, which resulted in the almost destruction of the Qing court. Therefore, if Cixi wanted to abolish Guangxu again, she had to act cautiously.

Before the Gengzi Rebellion, Cixi had two obstacles to abolishing Guangxu. One was the local governor and governor. After the Wuxu Coup, Cixi imprisoned Guangxu. Rumors of abolishing the emperor were rampant. Liu Kunyi, who was the governor of Liangjiang at the time, directly wrote to the court, strongly opposing the abolition of Guangxu: If there is any decree, the scholars and people of the two rivers would be indignant. He also wrote to Ronglu: The division between the monarch and the ministers should be fixed for a long time, and the mouths of both Chinese and foreign countries should be guarded. Kunyi served the country here, so he also reported to the Duke here, of course, he used Ronglu's oral message to Cixi. The second was the foreigner. Just after Cixi established the eldest prince, the ministers of various countries jointly issued diplomatic notes to the Qing court, hoping that the Qing court would clarify a certain rumor and stated that all countries would not recognize any emperor except Emperor Guangxu. Of course, for Cixi, the latter was the main obstacle. After all, the local governor and governor were still a minister of great purity, and dared to rebel?

In fact, Cixi had never understood why foreigners opposed his destruction of Guangxu. This was obviously his own family matter, and what was the matter of the foreigners. It was not until Xi'an that Cixi figured out the truth. The foreigners did not oppose his destruction of Guangxu, but were worried that the court would change its foreign national policy after changing the emperor, causing damage to the interests of various countries. If the Qing court could communicate with various countries at the time and stated that after changing the emperor, the agreement signed by the Qing court and various countries would remain valid and ensure that the interests of various countries in China might be guaranteed. If necessary, some concessions could be made to the foreigners. Moreover, now that foreigners have been defeated by overseas Chinese, it is probably not possible to cause any major obstacles to the abolition of Guangxu. However, it is hard to say what attitude overseas Chinese have to take on the abolition of Guangxu.

Although overseas Chinese have basically expressed that they do not support Guangxu, it is hard to say whether they will support themselves in abolishing Guangxu. For example, Liu Kunyi, who opposed his abolishing Guangxu before the Gengzi Kingdom, also strongly opposed Kang Youwei's reform during the Wushu reform, and was also appealed by Guangxu. Therefore, it is necessary to test the attitudes of overseas Chinese.

However, there is no need to rush these things. After all, as long as overseas Chinese do not support Guangxu, it is easy to deal with it. It is not too late to arrange it slowly after returning to Beijing. In short, this time you must act cautiously and not be thwarted again.

But Cixi's good mood only lasted for one day. Just early the next morning, Cixi received a news that annoyed her. It turned out that last night, Prince Duan Zaiyi brought a generous gift to the inn to visit overseas Chinese. However, she was refused meeting by overseas Chinese, and even the gifts were all returned by overseas Chinese.

There is no need to think about it. Cixi knew that Prince Duan’s purpose of visiting overseas Chinese, of course, was to hope that overseas Chinese would support the eldest prince, because the eldest prince was the son of Prince Duan. Once the eldest prince inherited the throne, Prince Duan would become the emperor. The overseas Chinese refused to meet Prince Duan, which once again expressed their position of no intention to participate in the internal affairs of the court.

But this did not reassure Cixi. After all, overseas Chinese have strong military power, the brilliant achievements and huge influence they have achieved since their return to China have made overseas Chinese a force that cannot be ignored, and naturally they have become the target of various forces to pull the country. This was the case with Guangxu and Prince Duan, and maybe there were others.

At this time, Cixi felt a little regretful. In order to abolish Guangxu, she hurriedly appointed Prince Duan's son Pu Jun as the eldest prince, but because Prince Duan's concubine was Cixi's niece, she thought that her relatives were obedient, but Cixi never thought that the father and son were not good at ease.

First of all, the eldest prince, Shinjun, is a typical Eight Banners. He is frivolous, absurd, and does not like studying. He has to be like a person. He has sex with the palace maid who serves Cixi in the palace, and was scolded by Cixi. After escaping to Xi'an, he was honest for a while, but he stabilized and began to reveal his true nature. He often went to and from singing halls and taverns, because he loved watching operas. If he heard the drum board on the stage was wrong, he would immediately leave the table and curse, so he would go on stage to replace him. He also fought in groups because he fought with the government troops in the theater, which was completely unsuccessful. Even Empress Longyu couldn't stand his behavior and once said to her father: "If this person really succeeded to the throne, Guozha would be ruined."

However, compared with the eldest prince's bad deeds, Prince Duan's behavior can be described as evil deeds. Because foreigners opposed the abolition of Guangxu, Prince Duan, who was determined to let his son ascend the throne, hated foreigners deeply and advocated declaring war on foreigners. He also praised Cixi for its powerful magic of guns and cannons. In order to encourage Cixi to go to war with various countries, Prince Duan ordered military machine Zhang Jinglian Wenchong to forge a diplomatic order from the great powers to the Qing government, and put forward four requirements: First, specify that Guangxu live in one place; second, collect all kinds of money and food on behalf of the Qing government; third, take charge of the entire army on behalf of the Qing government; fourth, return to the emperor. It was the last one that completely angered Cixi, so Cixi formally issued an edict to declare war on various countries.

As a result, the Qing court was defeated, and Prince Duan also fled to Xi'an with Cixi and was dismissed from all official positions. During his time in Xi'an, Prince Duan became much more honest. However, the arrival of overseas Chinese made Prince Duan rekindle his ambitions. If he could win the support of overseas Chinese, then it would not be a dream to be the emperor. So Prince Duan gave a generous gift and visited overseas Chinese overnight. However, Prince Duan did not expect that overseas Chinese would not dump him at all and would not even give him a face.

So Cixi immediately ordered the imperial edict of Prince Duan to come in and scold him, and then ordered Prince Duan to go home and think about his mistakes behind closed doors, and ordered Ronglu to send troops to supervise the situation, so that he could not go out without orders.

After sending Prince Duan, Cixi was still worried. It seemed that the overseas Chinese would probably not be at peace for one day in Xi'an, so it would be better to send them out of Xi'an as soon as possible. So Cixi immediately ordered Prince Qing, Ronglu, Wang Wenshao to immediately issue an appointment edict to Qin Zheng and others to complete the mission of court, and asked Qin Zheng to take office immediately, while Prince Qing would go back with Qin Zheng to negotiate the settlement matters in Beijing.

Prince Qing secretly complained in his heart. He was about to return to Xi'an just a few days later. Prince Qing is also an old man in his 60s. Long journeys are not easy to work. He hasn't even stopped this breath, but he dared not disobey Cixi's orders. Moreover, it is indeed too dangerous for overseas Chinese to stay in Xi'an. Maybe something will happen, so it is better to send them away early.

So on the afternoon of the same day, Prince Qing, Ronglu, and Wang Wenshao came to visit Qin Zheng again and brought the appointment edicts of all the time travelers who served as official positions. At the same time, the court also gave a lot of rewards, but asked Qin Zheng and others to leave Xi'an tomorrow, and even exempted from seeing each other when they saw each other again.

In fact, Qin Zheng and others didn't want to stay in Xi'an for a long time, and they didn't want to go to the palace again, because they had to kowtow when they entered the palace. Moreover, there was still a big deal in Tianjin, so they happily obeyed the order, so they immediately ordered others to start preparing. Fortunately, there were more than 1,000 people, so it was not difficult to prepare. Moreover, Ronglu had a request for the People's Army and supplied a large amount of food, horses and vehicles. So the next morning, the People's Army and Prince Qing and Li Jingfang left Xi'an and embarked on the way back.
Chapter completed!