"I see that this homework is too profound, the emperor, you learn first, and you know a few more words, I call it Guozijian, and the Hanlin Academy runs a textbook suitable for the emperor's age to read and write," Cixi comforted the emperor, "But don't forget one thing, the body and bones can be practiced well, these days and practice bows and arrows in the palace, and after the Dragon Boat Festival, let's go to the garden, at that time, we have to practice equestrian skills." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Yes!" The little emperor's answer was loud and crisp, and he seemed to be in a very happy mood.

The mother and son chatted quickly for a while, "If you reward people, you should be angry, Emperor," Empress Dowager Cixi's voice turned serious, "Those who abandoned the city and fled in the old year should also be dealt with." ”

"Huang Eniang, is this what you call a combination of rigidity and softness, grace and power?"

"That's right."

Cixi wanted to do it as He Guiqing, the former governor of Liangjiang.

In May of the tenth year of Xianfeng, the Taiping army led by Li Xiucheng broke through the camp in the south of the Yangtze River, and then took advantage of the victory to enter Changzhou, where He Guiqing was seated. Political envoy Xue Huan, Prime Minister Liangtai Cha Wenjing and others suggested that He Guiqing abandon Changzhou City and leave, save his strength and retire to Suzhou to raise salaries, in order to fight again. He Guiqing took their advice and abandoned the city for Shanghai. Because He Guiqing abandoned the city, the imperial court dismissed him from his post and was succeeded by Zeng Guofan as the governor of Liangjiang.

How to punish He Guiqing, the supreme ruler of the Qing court, the emperor and Prince Gong Yixun, the elders of the three dynasties, scholars, and important ministers such as Qi Liaozao, the secretary of the ministry, all advocated that He Guiqing should be spared from death on the grounds of "a high-ranking official, and it is advisable to be cautious in the use of punishment". In particular, Qi Liaozao, who presided over the trial of the matter, insisted that He Guiqing would not die for his crime. He even said to the faction that advocated killing He Guiqing: "The people of the country are all said to be killable, and the ministers are also the people of the country, and they dare not say that they can be killed." However, He Guiqing's political enemy, Zeng Guofan, who was becoming more and more popular at this time because of his successes in fighting against the Taiping Heavenly Army, insisted on killing He Guiqing to thank the countrymen. He said: "Xinjiang officials regard the city guard as a major festival, and it is not appropriate to take the words of their subordinates as the advance; The minister does not have to weigh the guilt of the minister on the basis of his heart. ”

Gui Qing led 100,000 Qing troops to abandon the city and abscond, resulting in the loss of Changzhou, Changshu, and Suzhou, and Xianfeng issued an edict to arrest and send him to Beijing for interrogation. Coincidentally, when encountering the British and French forces, Emperor Xianfeng took refuge in Rehe, and the case was shelved for two years. During this period, Wang Youling and Xue Huan, the governor of Jiangsu, successively went to beg for favor, but they were not allowed.

In the first year of Tongzhi, the officials were impeached one after another, and Prince Gong negotiated with the concession, formally arrested and imprisoned, and planned to be beheaded. Yu Guangzhuo, the general office of the Autumn Trial Office and Zhili Shilang, changed it from the "beheading and waiting for imprisonment" to the crime of "killing 19 people who knelt down to stay in the incense and leaving their fathers and elders, and endured the unreasonableness, and the crime should be aggravated" and changed it to "beheading and making a decision". Zhao Guang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, because of his friendship with Xu Naizhao, who assisted in Jiangnan military affairs, understood the details of Guiqing's fall to Su Chang and the people, and repeated: "If you don't kill He Guiqing, why thank you for the millions of war-stricken people in Jiangnan?" "The Empress Dowager Cixi issued a decree ordering the meeting of the six departments of the scholars, the nine Qing, Han Zhan Kedao. Li Tangjie, the secretary of Dali Temple, believed that Gui Qing was the governor of Liangjiang, arrogant, and had no way to govern the army, and the deduction of military salaries led to the mutiny of the soldiers and the annihilation of the whole army, and he abandoned the city and fled and blamed others, and his crime cannot be punished. The result of the meeting was like a discussion of the criminal department, and the queen mother had another purpose: "He Guiqing once served as a member of the first rank, and it is advisable to be cautious in the use of punishment. There are 17 people who went to the rescue to talk about the rescue, and Qi Liaozao, a scholar of the Tiren Pavilion and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, quoted the edict of Emperor Jiaqing: "The criminal department shall discuss the prison, and there shall be no aggravated words." "It is believed that the Ministry of Criminal Affairs does not fit the system. In addition, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Wan Qingquinoa and Yushi Gao Yanhu, and Xue Huan dredged with a lot of money, so the delay in late autumn was still undecided. The Ministry of Rites gave Bian Baodi (who had participated in the impeachment of Guiqing during his tenure as the imperial history of Zhejiang Province) to refute Qi Liaozao: "Renzong's edict is only for ordinary crimes in the Chengping period. He also said: "During the Daoguang period, Yu Buyun, the governor of Zhejiang, lost the Dinghai, and Qinglin, the governor of Hubei during the Xianfeng period, lost Wuchang, all of them were closed to the law. ”

In the end, the Empress Dowager Cixi made up her mind to make an example of the chickens and monkeys, and ordered: "Punish and reward the great government, don't be scratched by the ridiculous discussion, and now you want to pacify the thief, and first shelter the fleeing commander, how can you be a Zhongxing soldier?" With the hope of being sensitive to the moment, Yingjiang table was re-sent. Gui Qing has no anticipation of the enemy's wisdom, and he invalidates the festival of death. The name is gone, and the crime is hard to understand. He Guiqing immediately refused to forgive him to comfort the hearts of the military and civilians in all parts of the Yangtze River. ”

Coming back from the Xiangshan Martyrs' Shrine, there was nothing to do in the afternoon, and on the second day, the military plane was summoned, and the matter of tax-free grain in various places was discussed, and the things of foreign affairs were broken down in the same detail, and the same discussion was discussed, the queen mother gave tea, and they dispersed, and in the afternoon, the queen mother rested in the middle of the jue, refreshed and refreshed to drive the heart palace, ready to review the fold, just the Heilongjiang general on the "prayer for silver with border defense folding" on the top of the written "hand over to the household department, the military department." After opening the next book, after only a few glances, the Queen Mother's eyebrows wrinkled.

It is a matter of Li Ke to Yu Minzhong in the "Impeachment of the King of Politics and the Military Aircraft of the Corps Vegetarian Meal"! (To be continued.) )