Volume VIII 1126 Southern Emergency

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In the West Warm Pavilion of the Yangxin Palace, that is, on the east side of the famous Qianlong Sanxi Hall, a round table has been set up, in the middle of a cloisonne copper hot pot, the silver silk charcoal inside is prosperous, and a group of white meat, blood sausages, prawns, sea cucumbers, deer tendons, venison are placed around the stove...... The rich dishes are full of sauerkraut and vermicelli.

The whole room is full of strong meat aroma and fresh and sweet aroma, which is the unique way of eating hot pot brought into the Central Plains by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a bit like Jiangnan hearth hot pot, but the ingredients are more domineering than the hearth hot pot, and the materials are also more focused on game, which is very strong temperament of the Baishan and Heishui peoples.

Around the cloisonne hot pot are some appetizing side dishes, the amount is not large but very exquisite, at first glance it is the specialty of the imperial dining room carefully cooked, definitely not warm food.

Cixi and Ci'an can put out a hot pot banquet outside the Guan, which is a very clear signal, today is a family banquet without so many politeness, and there are not so many etiquette, and there is a faint meaning to bridge the contradiction between the two queen mothers.

Li Lianying and Zhou Daoying were holding a wine pot and a towel at the table, smiling like two old chrysanthemums, such a warm and cordial atmosphere is rare in the Forbidden City.

In fact, they also know very well that this kind of banquet is very inconsistent with the etiquette law, although the rules of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are much less than those of the former Ming Dynasty, but the widow and sister-in-law and the brother-in-law gather together to eat, and there is no third party present, this situation is not allowed.

But who can manage it? The core high-level of the Manchurian people is to sit in these four again, and only if they make trouble for others, who can find trouble for them.

What's more, the two chief eunuchs of today's family banquet have already issued a gag order, and the outer court Xiu wants to know the shadow of a star.

"This is a five-year Chen Shaoxing wine sent by Jiangnan, warm but not dry, sister wants to drink a few more glasses...... Two uncles, the deer breast sent by General Heilongjiang outside the Guanxi this year is really good, try it more......"

Cixi toasted cloth dishes, left and right, the atmosphere of the scene made him extremely warm, if it weren't for everyone present who knew the details of each person, the newcomer really deceived her.

Prince Alcohol sighed in his heart, when you forced Ci'an to Jingshan and almost hanged himself, he was not so kind, and now the emperor's secret decree has also been burned, you can be regarded as fearless.

The most basic element of the political character is to be able to afford to put it down, only the common people will hold a grudge for a lifetime, the politicians in the court, today are mortal enemies, tomorrow they will be allies, interests are greater than the sky, and their personal face is a fart.

The sweet Shaoxing wine is not high, but the backlash is still very powerful, and after three or four cups, the face of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces became more and more ruddy.

Ci'an drank a few sips of hot soup and suppressed the wine, and said with a smile: "I still have a number of qi in the Qing Dynasty, although the years are not smooth, but there are always people who can turn things around at critical moments, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a gang of Hunan troops, and the northwest is a little chaotic, so Zuo Ji Gao ......"

"When the British and French forces came, the mourning family really thought that the dynasty was about to end, but they didn't expect that in the end, this group of Xiyi took some silver and left...... And also provided a lot of mercenaries to help us fight long hair, don't you say this is a blessing?"

Cixi slapped her face, "That's it, I knew that the foreigners didn't overthrow our Qing Dynasty's heart, they just wanted money, why should we fight with them?"

Yi smiled bitterly and said, "Hey...... At that time, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, including the former emperor, were exhausted by internal and external troubles, coupled with the incessant slander of Sushun's gang...... As a result, my brother thought in his heart that foreigners, like Long Hair, were here to overthrow us all over the world!"

"As a result, in the end, when I talked with foreigners in Sijiu City, I suddenly realized that what the group of people wanted from beginning to end was a switch, that is, to do business...... To put it bluntly, we are too rich in the Qing Dynasty, and everyone who is jealous is anxious!"

"If you can solve the problem with money, we have to use swords and soldiers, and it's no wonder if we don't suffer losses......

Cixi nodded, "Fortunately, the difficulties have passed, and now although a Xiao Lotian has popped up, there are also Yang Zhi, French, and Russians to restrain him...... What does this mean? It means that we have not exhausted our great clear qi!"

In today's small meeting, Yang Zhi's big revelation made these four people feel good, life is sometimes like this, the root of panic is because you don't understand, once you understand the routines inside, even if the enemy is strong, it is not so terrible.

What's more, Xiao Lotian is not so strong now, and there are still forces in this world that can restrain him.

If you are in a good mood, drink a few more glasses, just when the four of them felt that it had not been easy in the past few years, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps from outside the hall, and a little eunuch and a duty official of the Prime Minister's Yamen knelt outside, sweating profusely.

"Empress Dowager, Prime Minister Yamen received an urgent telegram from Jiangnan...... Zeng-sama called!"

"Huh, the marshal has sent a telegram? Didn't you already have a congratulatory telegram to the imperial court a year ago?" Everyone changed color, and Li Lianying hurriedly picked up the telegram.

According to the officialdom system of the Qing Dynasty, during the Spring Festival, unless the yamen of the whole country involves the lifeblood of the military, there will be a five-day sealing time, which is the legal rest day of the Qing Dynasty.

However, in the process of execution, people generally rest until the fifteenth day of the first month, and of course the imperial court will not trouble the people below because of this trivial matter, so the yamen will not do errands at all in the first month.

Zeng Guofan had already sent a New Year's greeting message to congratulate the emperor, the queen mother and the Qing Dynasty before the Spring Festival, according to common sense, there will be no movement before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and today is only the first day of the new year!

Ci'an snatched the telegram from Li Lianying's hand and read it at a glance, and finally the expression on her face was extremely incredible: "How can this be......? The marshal is about to enter Beijing? He is looking for the imperial court to directly subordinate to the governor's official position!"

"Huh?" Everyone was stunned, no one thought that Zeng Guofan, who was celebrating the New Year, would come with such a telegram.

In fact, according to the rules of the original history, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Twist Army were pacified, Zeng Guofan was soon transferred to the Beijing Division, and after the marquis, the imperial court did not let him go, but directly arranged the position of the governor of Zhili.

What's more interesting is that this governor of Zhili spent most of his time in Beijing on errands, and the governor of Baoding, Yamen, basically did not stay for a few days, which shows that the Manchus were taboo against Zeng Guofan.

But Xiao Letian's birth changed the situation, and because of the addition of Xiao Letian, a sudden spoiler, a certain idea that had been suppressed within hundreds of thousands of Hunan troops began to stir again.

Needless to say, when Xiao Letian's Lotte Foreign Company opened in Tanggu, the nine handsome Zeng Guoquan would actually support the scene in person, and the deep meaning of this had already sent chills down the spine of the imperial court.

After thinking about it, the imperial court felt that half of the south of the Yangtze River still had to be shaken by Zeng Guofan, because he was still a little more old, and once the radicals in the Hunan army reached an alliance with Xiao Letian, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Therefore, Zuo Jigao's western expedition was much smoother than the historical western expedition, and the resources taken away were also more, and the purpose of the imperial court was to hope that Zuo Zongtang would take away more elite Hunan troops, so that the Hunan army would be completely divided into two parts, northwest and southeast, so that a joint force could not be formed. For mobile phone users, please visit wènhttp://mnet

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