heard that Cixi was going to make a move on Guangxu, and Wang Guorui knew that this matter was irreparable. Guangxu was overconfident and wanted to regain power directly, quickly and effectively, and even did not hesitate to pretend that Wang Guorui would go north to support the change of law as a nonsense, which also made Wang Guorui very unhappy. And this time, Cixi, as in the previous history, has begun to completely attack Guangxu, after all, Guangxu has gone too far. And even if Wang Guorui doesn't support it, Cixi has to do it, but it's just later.

So in this case, Wang Guorui was also estimating in his heart what price he could sell Guangxu. Anyway, he originally supported Guangxu, just to add disgust to the Manchu Central Committee, so that Cixi did not have much time to think about dealing with herself and set up an opponent for Cixi. But now that Guangxu has played things badly, there is no need to keep Guangxu. However, Guangxu's current value is to let Wang Guorui estimate what is the most suitable price for him to be sold to Cixi.

Anyway, Wang Guoru thinks that he has no more temperance, and since he became the governor, he has also had the idea of feeding his temperance to the dogs. Less than half a year ago, he supported Guangxu, and now he immediately sold Guangxu, after all, Guangxu is no longer valuable, don't you sell it now and wait until it is completely worthless in the future?

"If your Queen Mother can give me this thing, then I can also give up supporting Guangxu, and I can even take the initiative to support the Queen Mother!" Wang Guorui handed a note to Li Lianying and said.

"This ......, I want to send a telegram to ask the Queen Mother!" Li Lianying said.

"Please!"

Soon, Li Lianying also secretly transmitted this related thing to Cixi through a telegram from Taiwan, and then asked Cixi to prepare to discuss whether to accept Wang Guorui's conditions.

At the Summer Palace, Cixi was meeting with some of her cronies. Then discuss the terms of this kingdom.

"Let's take a look, Taiwan wants the position of our Nanyang Minister of the Qing Dynasty, what do you think?" Cixi said.

The Minister of Nanyang, whose full official title is the Minister of Nanyang International Trade, is subordinate to the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen. The Minister of Nanyang is responsible for foreign affairs and foreign affairs in southern China. There are also various machine factories set up. It is even necessary to train the Nanyang Navy Division and the Nanyang Army, which are the responsibilities of the Nanyang Minister. At present, the Minister of Nanyang has always been concurrently held by the Governor of Liangjiang, which is a part-time job, while the Minister of Beiyang is concurrently held by the Governor of Zhili. However, the status of the Minister of Nanyang cannot be compared with that of the Minister of Beiyang.

Because although both of these are engaged in diplomacy, since the consulates of various countries are in Beijing, the minister of Beiyang can get close to the water and get the moon first. In addition, the main targets of aggression of various countries are also in northern China, and the interests of northern China are greater, and the aggression targets of Britain, Russia, Japan, and so on are mainly in North China, so the negotiations are mainly in the north. In this way, the Beiyang minister also has a great increase in his power. And the Nanyang area, that is, the colonies of the Netherlands, Spain and other second-rate countries in the West, these countries are not the main force in the invasion of China, so the Nanyang ministers have no real power.

"The queen mother, the minister doesn't know what Wang Guorui is doing with the position of rebellious minister of Nanyang? This Nanyang minister is completely a chicken rib, and it's a pity to abandon it if it is tasteless! An officer who is not too old said.

This young official, who is now the prime minister's minister of national affairs, Rong Lu, was in charge of the diplomatic work of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Nominally, both the Minister of Beiyang and the Minister of Nanyang worked under his management, but in fact the Minister of Nanyang and the Minister of Beiyang were parallel to him. The Prime Minister's Office for State Affairs is nothing more than a nominal boss. At most, it is to convey some documents for the Minister of the North and South Oceans, and be responsible for some upload and distribution work. But after the Sino-French War. The power of the Minister of Beiyang has surpassed that of the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen, because the Beiyang Minister was able to negotiate peace with France without authorization, and it is conceivable that the real power of the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen has declined.

But since Wang Guorui wants to get the position of Nanyang minister, it is also Rong Lu's subordinate, and Rong Lu also has a very toothache for the possibility that he will have another Taiwan governor as his subordinate in the future. He had heard about Taiwan's strength from foreigners. Not only is the army outrageously strong, but if it weren't too small in number, it might have scared the Western powers. The navy is not weak, and the tonnage of warships alone can rank among the top eight in the world. As for the ability of those naval sailors, it is impossible to judge this for the time being, because at that time, there were hundreds of shells. This immediately shocked Westerners. So the foreign devils can't figure out the Su zhì of the sailors on these warships, which is the reason why they don't dare to mess around.

"Queen Mother, the minister thinks that since Wang Guorui wants this Nanyang minister, it is good for him. This Nanyang minister has no meaning at all, the Nanyang Navy Division is completely empty, and the Nanyang Army is useless at any time. And we can use this Nanyang minister in exchange for Taiwan's support, and then let us go along with the ......," someone said.

Although they want to depose the emperor, it is not so direct, after all, they still have some reverence for the imperial power in their hearts.

"Rong Lu, what is your opinion on the Minister of National Affairs?" Cixi asked.

And Rong Lu quickly said: "Queen Mother, the Minister of Nanyang is just a nominal one. We might as well empty out the things under those Nanyang ministers before appointing Wang Guorui as the minister of Nanyang. The Nanyang Army was also ordered to be reorganized into other armies, depriving the Nanyang Minister of leadership. Then the military power under the minister of Nanyang was all deprived to the governor of Liangjiang. Then we set up the Minister of International Trade again, so that the Minister of Nanyang became an empty shelf. If it's just an empty shelf, then why don't we give it to him? ”

This Rong Lu is really an old and cunning guy, and he directly wants to restore the official position of the so-called Minister of Commerce and Trade of the so-called Five Mouths and replace the Minister of Nanyang. You must know that the Minister of Nanyang was originally called the Minister of Commerce, but later he was renamed the Minister of Nanyang. However, now if the Manchu Qing Dynasty reinstates the five ministers of trade and forms a "legacy" to receive the "inheritance" of the Nanyang minister, then the Nanyang minister will become a completely empty shelf, just an empty official position. If so, it doesn't matter if you give this Nanyang minister to Wang Guorui, this is like hollowing out all the high-quality property of a company and then selling it to others again, which is not interesting.

That's what those Manchu officials thought, and gave Wang Guorui an empty shelf minister to Wang Guorui in exchange for Wang Guorui's support, and then Wang Guorui could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach. And they are all to avoid Wang Guorui from expanding his power to the southeast half, after all, if Wang Guorui obtains a veritable minister of Nanyang, it will inevitably use this official position to obtain the situation of garrisoning troops in the southeast half, so in order to avoid this situation, they must curb this result and give Wang Guorui an empty shelf.

"Well, this method is deeply mournful!" Cixi said.

Cixi was also very satisfied with this method, since Wang Guorui wanted the Minister of Nanyang, that industry was just to give him a name, and it was not interesting to follow it. Originally, the power of the Minister of Nanyang was not as great as that of the Minister of Beiyang, and even less than a fraction of the rights of the Minister of Beiyang. The Beiyang Minister was the real diplomatic core of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Nanyang Minister was just an add-on, almost meaningless. Therefore, they have already begun to plan to give up the position of Nanyang minister, so as to exchange Wang Guorui's strong support for them, and then they can depose the Guangxu Emperor.

Anyway, the ministers of Nanyang will also be deprived of all kinds of official industries at that time, and even the military powers, port management rights, and other rights of various ministers of Nanyang will be deprived, so they actually didn't give Wang Guorui any good things, that is, some names for Wang Guorui. Wang Guorui can use the name of this Nanyang minister to communicate with Nanyang countries, but is this interesting? Nanyang is currently a colony of Westerners, for example, Indonesia is a colony of the Dutch, the Philippines is a colony of Spain, and Vietnam has long been abandoned by the Manchus, and then the French will be the emperor. As for India, that is the pearl on the head of the British Empress, does Wang Guorui still dare to touch the tiger's buttocks?

Therefore, there are no independent countries in the Nanyang area that have come to the table at all, they are all colonies. And these colonies are all Westerners, and those Westerners also recognize the Beiyang Minister and the Manchu Qing government in Beijing, and they don't pay attention to the Nanyang Minister in the south at all, so they don't take the Nanyang Minister seriously. Therefore, even if the position of Nanyang Minister is given to Wang Guorui, it will not have much impact on the Manchu Dynasty, that is, it will lose the name of southern exchanges. However, as long as you interact with a few big countries, what is there to interact with those Nanyang colonies?

And they didn't know at all that Wang Guorui wanted the real idea of being a minister of Nanyang. If they knew Wang Guorui's true thoughts about wanting the status of Nanyang minister, then they probably wouldn't be able to laugh. For Wang Guorui, some things really need a name, and the Chinese have been paying attention to the name since ancient times, even the West has paid attention to this issue many times. If Wang Guorui doesn't have enough name, then his next move will be really difficult. And the identity of this so-called minister of Nanyang is to give him this name, so that he can develop further. (To be continued......)