Guan Zhuofan breathed a long sigh of relief, rubbed his sore wrist, put down his pen, stood up, stretched his muscles and bones slightly, and then walked over the tea stove, poured himself a cup of strong tea for himself, drank it, returned to the desk, sat down, took a new piece of white paper, and wrote down the words "1867, 6 years of Tongzhi". Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In 1867, the sixth year of Tongzhi.

Bai took Xiao Yun into the palace to meet - it can be regarded as a "Majesty's resignation", and after that, the sisters went to the ocean, and China sent female students abroad, and the trip officially took place.

Li Hongzhang folded up, please prohibit foot binding.

The court agreed.

I officially declare war on this millennial disease, which has brought untold suffering to Chinese women.

The "Yellow Sparrow Operation" was launched, and the little emperor happily flew out of the palace, thinking that from now on, he would have to get out of the cage, and he didn't know what was waiting for him outside.

Prussian Minister Li Fusi paid a night visit, and through friendly consultations, China and Prussia reached a consensus on joining hands to defeat France.

The next day, the British envoy came one after another, and I made a big deal with the British -- "Citigroup" supported Britain's territorial claims to South Africa, and Britain reciprocated, first, recognized the commercial privileges of "Citigroup" in South Africa, and second, British naval advisers would directly participate in China's war against a third country.

That is to say, in the future Sino-French war, Britain will join the Chinese camp in the name of "advisers".

The "Yellow Sparrow Operation" has achieved great results - the little emperor has been "dyed red".

I sped up my "national hand layout":

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was established, and Qian Dingming served as Shangshu.

The Prime Minister's Office for National Affairs was divided into two parts, one part of which was merged into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the other part of the Advisory Committee.

Both the original time and the present time and space, the Prime Minister's Yamen, which has an important position in China's modern history, has since disappeared in the long river of history.

Qi Bingrong controls the Criminal Department as a waiter.

Rui Chang and Li Hongzhang entered the palace university scholars, Mongolians, Huai Department, and became more and more "heartfelt" to me.

Wen Xiangjin co-organized the university scholar, in addition to enveloping him, it can also be regarded as an explanation and appeasement of the "Gong system" that is scattered.

The victory in Urumqi made a beautiful "good start" for the army of the Western Expedition into Xinjiang.

The little emperor's "Smallpox Joy" and "Yellow Bird Operation" ended successfully.

The meeting of the Furong Pavilion, the window paper of the heir emperor, was pierced by the alcohol king.

Surge forward.

King Gong scolded Zaicheng bitterly and showed me in a "self-defilement" way that he would not intervene in the dispute between the heir and the emperor.

The opening of the Beijing-Tianjin railway, which is China's second railway, also shows that China has truly entered the "railway era".

After the "Yellow and White Fold" system, I obtained the power of "Gong Dai Fold", and for a while, my status was almost comparable to that of a regent.

Then, I made one of the most difficult and despicable decisions of my life: to marry the woman who had fled Tianjin and was giving birth to a child for me.

The little emperor is in danger, Taiping Lake, Fengxiang Hutong, and the undercurrent is surging.

The sky collapsed - the little emperor finally rode the dragon.

The relatives and noble ministers gathered for the emperor's affairs to discuss the military aircraft, and the alcohol king shouted loudly, "She wants to avoid suspicion!" ”

She didn't know anything about her son's death, but she was the first to go out in this battle for the heir to the emperor.

Then, one by one, the potential, possible candidates are out.

Reasons for being out...... If you want to find it, you can always find it.

It's all in my calculations.

Finally, the focus is on King Gong's two sons.

At this moment, King Gong Fujin broke into the palace, and in the midst of the storm, in front of a large group of relatives and important ministers, knelt down in front of me, and resigned from his candidacy as the heir of the emperor with the life and death of Zaicheng and Zaiying.

My goal was achieved.

However, this woman is actually my mother-in-law.

In this situation, my conscience, really doesn't hurt?

The news of the great victory in Dabancheng came at the right time, and the almost suffocating atmosphere of the military aircraft department was relieved to a certain extent.

However, in any case, the job of selecting the heir emperor is stuck.

Just when the government and the opposition didn't know what to do, the monks of the Hanlin Academy began to make a big move.

Baoting forced Wan Qingqui, a scholar in charge of the academy, to deliver him a fold of "Pray for Emperor Wenzongxian's blood heirs".

He believes that Princess Rong'an is the "unfinished" "blood heir of Emperor Wenzongxian", which is extremely explicit to imply that Princess Rong'an should inherit the heir.

The government and the opposition caused a sensation.

Bao Zhanlin responded with a drum and put on an excerpt of "Li Chen Xiaozong enters the succession of the great sect and wins the words and prays for the wise and learns the matter", implying that the heir emperor can only choose among the "big sects" - if you admit that Rong An is the "blood heir of Emperor Wenzong Xian", then the current "big sect" is only Rong An's ear.

The alcohol king is gone, and the upper fold is opposed.

However, Ci'an was frightened by what the former Ming Shizong did, and she did not want to repeat the mistake of Empress Dowager Zhang kneeling in front of her nephew.

At that time, Cixi of Tianjin ...... produced.

Alas.

At the meeting of the king's ministers, King Alcohol was scolded by Bao Ting and had nothing to say, and the "ally" Wu Keyu inexplicably "defected to the enemy", and the emotionally uncontrollable King Alcohol finally made a big move - he claimed that if Prince Xuan "retreated to the domain", I would agree to Rong An as the heir emperor!

I happily agreed.

There was chaos at the venue, and there was chaos in the government and the opposition.

The "above" repeatedly issued decrees to me to "sell the fake and go straight", and I took Qiao again and again - just not going back!

issued a decree to reprimand the alcohol king, and I was not moved.

During this period, Xinjiang was very lively, and good news and bad news came back and forth:

Good news, the Tuksun-Turpan victory.

Bad news, Ili Tarantzi threatened to defect to Russia.

The ministers of military aircraft turned to me for help, and although I commanded the strategy, I still refused to accept the edict to "cancel the fake and enter the straight".

Li Hongzhang, Ruilin, Liu Changyou, Ding Baozhen and other local governors folded one after another, asking Prince Xuan to come back, and the rhetoric was fierce.

The Queen Mother couldn't sit still, so she was fortunate to face the North Street and came to "talk" to me in person.

After a long time, I finally agreed to "sell the fake and go straight".

Then, I was "assassinated".

Everyone could feel the wrath of Prince Xuan, who was immortal.

The Xuan army entered the city and entered the palace.

The city of Beijing and the Forbidden City are completely under my control.

Who is the "mastermind" behind the assassination of Prince Xuan?

All the doubts point to the alcohol king.

The suspect did not sit still, he gathered his cronies and planned to "reinvent the world".

It's a pity that his three "whole battalion wing commanders", as soon as they left the Taiping Lake Alcohol County Palace, went straight to the Mansion of Prince Xuan of North Street, and betrayed him cleanly, without a trace of mud and water.

Alcohol King is arrested.

Rumors are raging, all saying that the massacre is coming, and the Shenji Battalion has fled on a large scale.

Afterwards, all those who fled were deposed on suspicion of causing chaos and violating the will.

The Eight Banners have been significantly weakened, and at the same time, the entire Eight Banners structure has also been broken up and disrupted.

King Fu Jin pleaded with me, and I led her to Fengxiang Hutong, so King Gong understood what he was going to do.

After visiting King Alcohol, the two brothers Gong and Alcohol folded up one after another, and asked Princess Rong'an to be the heir of the emperor.

Relatives and nobles have followed suit.

The big picture is decided.

In return for King Gong's persuasion, I not only spared Yiyun's life, but also gave him the best possible treatment: no jade, only forbidden, returned the family property, and at the same time, the wife retained the name of "Fujin".

Now, the only problem left is the woman in Tianjin who is still ignorant of the series of earth-shattering changes in Beijing.

I went out to Tianjin with my mother, the Queen Mother.

Finally, it's time to face her.

I tried to close myself to all my inner turmoil, but when she almost fainted from crying, I almost gave up my persistence and intentions.

At that moment, I felt a deep disgust for what I did and how I behaved.

Anyway, there was one thing I decided to change my tune: I was going to wash off the dirty water I had spilled on her.

Although, at that moment, I didn't know how to do it.

The situation is stronger than people, stronger than her, and stronger than me.

Coupled with Ci'an's lobbying, she finally gave in, on the following conditions: one, to return her innocence; Second, I will be kind to me and her son, the petty official.

Sad condition.

I am ashamed to be a father, to be a man who is "my woman".

But—

At the end of the day, my betrayal of her wasn't for myself, I was for-

China.

If you say that, if you think about it, it doesn't really relieve me of my guilt, it can only be said that it's ...... Let my conscience better a little bit!

With the seal, "Imperial Reward", "Tongdaotang", the traces are like.

Legally, my wife officially "succeeded to the throne" as the new emperor of this vast empire.

I won the battle for the highest power.

When I returned to Beijing, I began to work on the layout of France in Vietnam.

At the same time, the war in Xinjiang has been devastating.

The successive loss of teachers and land brought fatal civil strife to the "Hongfu Khanate", and Aguba was poisoned by his son and his little wife.

Father and son cannibalism were followed by brothers Ni Wall, and Berkhuri and Hygura fought together.

The army of the Western Expedition swept eastward, and the "Four Eastern Cities" in the "Eight Southern Cities" were recovered one after another, and the "Hongfu Khanate" was declining day by day.

The new emperor moved to the Forbidden City from the palace, and I, as the imperial husband, also moved in and lived in the Qianqing Palace.

To tell you the truth, I'm very excited, I'm living in the "Son of Heaven's Sleep".

The emperor's clothing and hair accessories have undergone subtle or significant changes, and China's "clothing revolution" has begun to take off.

The first time I met Concubine Wan, I was very impressed.

This woman ...... Hey, it's not easy.

When the emperor ascended the throne, the British sent the biggest congratulatory gift - the "Old Summer Palace utensils" filled with a large boat.

At this point, Britain has returned all the "Old Summer Palace artifacts" he can collect to China.

Well, that's what France is left.

Don't worry, I'll get it back myself in a short time.

The enthronement ceremony was held, the ministers were prostrate, and my wife sat on the gilded throne of the Taihe Palace.

The army of the Western Expedition sent the best congratulatory gift to the emperor - the whole territory of Xinjiang was recovered, and the puppet Hongfu Khanate was completely destroyed.

Berkhuri died at the hands of a woman, the woman he had colluded with to kill his father.

I had a long talk with Zeng Guofan, who went to Beijing to participate in the enthronement ceremony, and finally reached a consensus -- imitating the example of "buying out the age of the flag", the "Jianghuai Salt Industry Company" would pay for it, and the imperial court would redeem the "meritorious generals" who had retired from the Hunan army in Jiangning.

The condition is - all of them will be sent back to my hometown.

Jiangning, the base and base camp of the "Hunan system", the last core territory of the "Hunan system", has finally returned to the imperial court - that is, in my hands.

When the Queen Mother returned to Luang, I greeted her with a super-standard of etiquette – not just to make up for my guilt for her.

My two wives finally met for the first time after marriage, and according to their own words, of course, the eunuchs and court maids also said the same - "very harmonious".

Dunrou is in the Qianqing Palace, from the sun to the sunset, the sisters and sons eat together, sleep in the same palace, and also "read with red sleeves" together.

Hey, everyone outside is saying that Prince Xuan's two wives are closer than their sisters!

My heart is very relieved, my heart is very relieved.

Of course, I also know that the two of them are acting to some extent, but they are willing to act, and they act quite similarly, which is a good thing!

Can't be too demanding for the time being.

The "Curtain Removal Ceremony" of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces was held as scheduled, and I added the title of "Auxiliary Political King", "Gong Dai Fold", and "Blue Pen Approval", becoming the first person in the empire without the name of regent and the fact of regent.

Looking back on the past seven years, I can't say that I have no regrets, nor can I say that I am not ashamed, but-

In any case, I have no regrets and no shame for the country and the nation.

Guan Zhuofan put down his pen, outside the glass window, the morning light was faint.

Well, all night.

Today should be a sunny day.

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(The eleventh volume of "Chaos of the Qing Dynasty" "The Wind of the King" is over, and the twelfth volume of "Fighting Qi Yang" is about to be updated)

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