Qing Dynasty Secret History

Chapter 105
It is said that after the empress dowager closed the curtain for the second time, all political affairs will follow the old rules, and those who are promoted are all old and promising.From the imperial court to Luyan, there was a sudden quiet atmosphere, which was not as disturbed as before.At this time, in Laocheng Shuowang, there was an outstanding talent named Gangyi, who was translated from Qing and was the governor of the Liguan Ministry. He only knew Chinese and had little literacy.Shrewd and capable, he is the most capable in searching.In the Jiawu period of Guangxu, the Empress Dowager had a long life in her [-]s. She resolutely served as the governor of Guangdong. I wish.

According to the rules in the Empress Dowager's palace, regardless of whether you pay for an audience or pay tribute, you are allowed to send a palace gate fee.This palace gate fee is a big injection of benefits from the eunuchs. Dezong greeted him once a day, and also gave the palace gate fee 50 taels of silver.Below the concubine, the descending order.Those who have money in the palace family will be subsidized by the family; those who have no money will be forced to do nothing by the eunuchs, and they will all die because of this.You are a poor official in Nanshufang Hanlin. Whenever the palace rewards Baohan and drafts the enshrined texts, and the eunuch passes them on to pay them in, they will also be paid palace gate fees.If not, the object will be sunk by him, and the family will be neglected.

What a smart person Gang Yi is, knowing that the palace gate fee is too small and he can't invite his family, so he gave a palace gate fee heavily, which is about tens of thousands of silver.Get people's money and get rid of disasters with people.

The eunuch put the screen in the imperial way.The queen mother passed by, and the eunuch knelt down and said: "Yue Fu resolutely paid tribute to the twelve screens. The iron flowers are very exquisite. Has Lafayette ever admired them?"

The queen mother stopped playing and watched, and placed it in the bedroom as ordered.The eunuch then played again: "Fortitude knows that Lafayette has a long life, and there are many awards, so I specially minted [-] new coins to show my respect."

After finishing speaking, present the currency sample.The Empress Dowager was very happy when she saw the silver light and the delicate patterns, she said to the left and right: "I don't see the fortitude, but I can do things like this, and I have such ability, it's really loyal and good."

It's a good time to praise.He was summoned the next day and rewarded him with a few words.

He was ordered to walk on the military plane and made up for him in the Ministry of Punishment.The governor of Guangdong released others.The fortitude is in this situation, and the pride is extraordinary.I only suffered from the general office of the Silver Dollar Bureau in Guangdong, wasting [-] silver dollars in vain, and gained no benefit at all.

On the day when Resolute took office, the secretary attended the meeting as usual.After discussing a few business matters, and suddenly talking about the origin of the criminal officer, Gang Yi said to all the officers: "Gao Tao is Lord Shun, the Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Mr. Gao."

Gao Tao's word "Tao" read the original pronunciation, and all the officials laughed secretly when they heard it.A few days later, the prison hall reported the manuscript of the prisoner's death.Resolute didn't understand the meaning of the word "瘐", so he pretended to be clever, picked up a pen, and changed the word "瘐" in "瘐死" to "thin", and every sentence became "Shou"; When it was passed on, they were severely reprimanded and said that they were illiterate.During the time of the military aircraft, Sichuan Zou reported that the victory of conquering and suppressing Fanyi was a discount, and there was a phrase "chasing and chasing the north".Gang Yi was suddenly furious, and said: "How can Governor Chuan be so careless? The memorial can be wronged arbitrarily to such a state. I can't forgive him. I plan to send a decree to reprimand him."

Everyone asked why.Resolutely said: "Look at this 'chasing and chasing the north', how do you explain it?
I know he always used the false phrase of 'chasing after each other'.Because of running against the barbarians, he chased and captured him in the past. After capturing him, he chased after the Han people's property that he had looted in the past.If it is interpreted as "chasing the north", could it be that he managed to escape to the barbarians, instead of walking in the east, west and south, but going north alone? "

Suddenly a person laughed and said: "My brother made a mistake himself, how can he say that others are wrong? Does it mean that if you want to make a good mistake, you can make a mistake!"

When he looked at it resolutely, it was Weng Tonghe, the master of Yuqing Palace, who said this.Then he said: "Master Weng, could it be that my brother made a mistake? I don't believe there is such a thing as 'chasing and chasing north'."

Weng Tonghe explained the meaning of the text with a smile, and blushed resolutely: "Everyone is as knowledgeable as you old man? I have this kind of knowledge, and I have already become a master."

Weng Tonghe said: "I can't blame you, your elder brother is a banner man. I remember that day, when we were discussing military affairs in the temple room, Prince Fushan sighed and said: 'Asan Pyongyang has been defeated repeatedly, and the matter is urgent. Tan Daoji must be named as a general." The prince was alluding to Dong Fuxiang. Unexpectedly, a man who heard it asked me how to write the word "Tan Daoji". I didn't know his intention, so I wrote it to him. Unexpectedly, the next day, the master of the capital went to the memorial to invite Tan Daoji. There was another censor, Shuli Baosun Kaihua. In the northeast of Japan, there are two big countries, one is Burma and the other is Jiaozhi. The land is several times larger than Japan, and Japan fears it like a tiger.

Please send an eloquent minister to the two countries and make an agreement with them to attack Japan together, and you will surely succeed.It can be seen that all of you banner people are like this, so you don't have to be embarrassed. "

Resolutely said: "Could it be that all of us bannermen are ignorant of arts and sciences? How come Baozhupo and Duanwu Bridge are all from Broadcom?"

Weng Tonghe said: "Don't mention Bao and Duan. I remember that there used to be an internal affairs officer who released the Yangzhou Salt Court. One day Ding sacrifice, the officials prepared according to the routine. He asked who to sacrifice, and the official said: "Sacrifice to Confucius He was puzzled, and asked the teacher: "What is Confucius?" "Confucius was Lu Sikou, taking care of his ministers. I don't understand anymore, so the master had to say, "Si Kou is now the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment."Photographing and acting as a relative is to co-organize the university.

He suddenly said, "I don't know what the master and sage are talking about, even Kong Zhongtang can't say it." ’ There is another joke. When Pan Zuyin in Suzhou was the secretary of the Ministry of Punishments, a Manchu officer knew that Pan Gong liked elegance, so he wrote dozens of poems, transcribed them respectfully, and presented them to Pan Gong.

Pan Gong flipped through it immediately, and saw the title of the first chapter, which reads the eight characters "going to the temple with the second grandpa and grandma". He couldn't help laughing wildly.Where can the Bannerman find authentic products?It is Baoting, also known as straw bag.When he was a student, he married a pock-marked prostitute from Jiangshan, so there is a couplet of "clan family, eight banners, famous scholars, Jiangshan, nine surnames, beauty". "

After listening to Gang Yi, his face was red and white, and he couldn't bear it.At this moment, the New Deal was overthrown, and the Queen Mother drew the curtain again.Gangyi took advantage of this moment to retaliate, invited Rong Lu, and spoke many bad things about Weng Tonghe in front of the Queen Mother.Only when Tonghe was dismissed and handed over to the local officials for strict control can he fulfill his wish.

At this time, the queen mother hated Dezong and plotted to abolish him.Every day, Rong and Gang will be called to the palace to play against each other.Rong Lu advocated training troops first, and Fortitude advocated raising funds first.For fear that the border officials would not accept it, with soldiers, they could be in the middle and control the outside.So it was decreed that the Yi Army under Song Qing, the Gan Army under Dong Fuyang, the Wu Yi Army under Nie Shicheng, the New Army under Yuan Shikai, and the Beiyang armies were all controlled by Ronglu.Rong Lu paid homage to En Ming, and asked to divide the troops of Nie, Dong, Song and Yuan into the front, rear, left and right armies of Wuwei.Another ten thousand Chinese troops were recruited, and Zhang Jun, the admiral of Kashgar, was appointed as the wing commander of the military guards.Ming Gang resolutely went to the south of the Yangtze River to investigate and deal with the incident, and rectified tariffs, lijin, salt and other items.After checking in Jiangnan, he went to Guangdong to raise funds.The iron abacus of fortitude, as far as searching, got a total of millions of taels.

The Empress Dowager also ordered Qing Prince Yikuang to manage the affairs of the yamen of various countries.This Yikuang was originally not a nearby clan, how could he be named a prince and be so honored by his kindness?But because there is no descendant of Emperor Qianlong's No.17 prince, he inherited the past, so he became close brothers with Emperor Xianfeng, Prince Gong, and Prince Jiu.When I was young, I was very miserable. Thanks to my many talents, I painted a few landscapes and wrote a few strokes. I found a place for a museum, half of teaching and reading, and half of playing painting, barely making ends meet.In the fourth year of Xianfeng, he had to make up a fourth-rank official.In the tenth year of Tongzhi, he was promoted to the third rank.In the tenth year of Guangxu, he was promoted to the second rank and worked as an errand in the Prime Minister's Yamen.In the 13th year of Guangxu, Mengzi in Yunnan was opened as a treaty port, but he signed the treaty.In February of the 20th year of Guangxu, he was named the king of the county. In 24, Prince Gong passed away. Although he was very old in the Prime Minister's Office, he was distrusted because Dezong thought he was slick.The queen mother knew that he was not quite right with Dezong, so she took Tepei Longen for her own use, promoted him to be a prince, and asked him to manage the affairs of the prime minister's state affairs office.So the full diplomatic power was in Yikuang's hands alone.

The Empress Dowager also gave a special discussion because Zaiyi, the king of Duanjun, trained the Tiger God Camp with great results.

The ministers of the court and the central government all praised the queen mother for her actions.Zaiyi is the most sincerely praised.This Zaiyi is the son of Prince Dun.King Dun is the son of Xuanzong, the brother of Wenzong, and Yu Zongzhi is the closest.After Mu Zong passed away, he inherited the throne. Zai Yi was the longest in Zai's generation, and Pu Lun was the longest in Pu's generation.Because the queen mother had ulterior motives at that time, Dezong was elected.Zaiyi is not allowed to inherit. Although due to the strict laws of the country, he dare not hold any grudges, but his covetous thoughts have no time or rest, but he has no chance and dare not express it in words.

Tianxing Dezong, in order to reform and strengthen himself, was tabooed by the queen mother.Zaiyi got this opportunity and was so happy that she tried everything to get the emperor's seat.The people who knew the empress dowager trusted were Li Lianying, the head of the palace, and Ronglu, Fortitude, and Yiqian in the court.He groveled and made friends with them in a humble manner, all he wanted was for them to speak well of themselves in front of the Queen Mother.When everyone saw Zai Yi so easygoing, they also liked him.The few who knew his background felt more pity for him.

Li Lianying, the manager, originally had a long-standing suspicion with Dezong.Because Lianying has a sister who is very beautiful, with a shrewd temperament and frivolous behavior.Lianying took him into the palace and met the queen mother. The queen mother was very happy, she held her hand, looked at him from head to toe, and said with a smile, "That's great, you're so handsome! You're in your teens? What's your name?" name?"

The reply said: "The maidservant is 16 years old. She is not famous yet, please ask Lafayette to give her a name!"

The Empress Dowager said happily: "Good boy, it's the first time you enter the palace, thanks to your understanding of the rules. You have no name, the head of the family, what did you call you?"

The reply said: "The slaves are at home, and they are called big girls."

The queen mother said: "Miss, I really like that you are here often, are you willing to accompany me and be my palace servant?"

Miss Li hurriedly knelt down and said: "This is the grace of the Lafayette, and the servants are blessed."

The queen mother was so happy that she held her neck and kept sniffing her cheeks.Then he said to Li Lianying: "Your sister, there is no need to ask her to leave the palace, she is also very willing to be my company."

Li Lianying hurriedly knelt down to thank her, the queen mother was very happy.Whenever we eat, he always asks her to serve the food, and he takes pity on her small feet, and makes a decree to allow her to sit at any time.

At sixty years of longevity, the Empress Dowager's sister, Prince Chun Fujin, came in to congratulate her, and the Empress Dowager gave her a special seat.Fujin didn't dare to sit, the queen mother said: "I'm not for you, if you don't sit, Miss Li dare not sit, she has little feet of Han people, she can't stand for a long time!"

Fujin was furious.

But the Empress Dowager did not dare to disobey the will, so she sat for a while, excused her poor health, and withdrew.The play started for a while, and a decree was sent to reward Chun Wang Fujin to listen to the play.Fujin asked someone to play back, but he was not feeling well and could not accompany him.The Empress Dowager said: "It's my good life, but she's sick. How could it be such a coincidence? Just now I saw that she was still well. Could it be that she can't even listen to a play at this moment? She is getting more and more delicate with age." ! Ordinary people, sisters have a good day, and they also have a good day."

Said, very angry.Someone told Fujin what the Queen Mother was angry about.Fujin had no choice but to re-enter the palace, and saw Miss Li sitting beside the Queen Mother, talking and laughing, telling stories in the play.Fujin stepped forward to kowtow to the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager said: "Are you alright?"

Fujin said: "It's not all right yet, because Lafayette came here struggling to appreciate the opera."

The Empress Dowager nodded and said nothing, she took Miss Li by the hand and listened to the play and gave a speech.Seeing that the Queen Mother treated Li Nu so affectionately, and treated himself so coldly, Fujin couldn't help but feel a little resentful in his heart.He couldn't hear the two plays, so he refused to change his clothes and went back to the mansion.Dezong was by the queen mother's side, seeing her mother like this, after all the nature of mother and child, since then he has thought of protecting Wang Fujin.

Li Lianying sent his sister here to imitate Li Yannian's story.The queen mother likes her cleverness, but she also has the intention of accepting her.Signaling Dezong, Dezong pretended to be puzzled.One day, the Empress Dowager made it clear that Miss Li was very virtuous and gentle, and that if I took her in, I would feel better.Dezong met and said: "Lafayette Mingjian, my family law, man and Han are not allowed to intermarry. Otherwise, with a virtuous appearance like Miss Li, the ministers have already asked for an order.

Seeing that he had brought up such a big topic, the queen mother had to sigh and let it go. Li Lianying was very disappointed, so she often spoke bad things about Dezong in front of the queen mother, consciously or not. Brag for him.

Generally speaking, when a person's love stretches to this point, he must bow to that.Since the Empress Dowager Yu Dezong is far away and distant, and Yu Zaiyi is naturally close to each other, the plan to abolish the establishment is becoming more and more urgent.Zai Yi's son Pu Jun, the Queen Mother wanted to give him to Mu Zong as emperor.At this time, Li Boxian had been expelled from the General Administration and lived in Xianliang Temple.The queen mother was afraid that Dezong would be abolished, and if the countries would not agree, she asked Rong Lu to go to Xianliang Temple to discuss with Li Boxiang, and asked him to secretly inquire about the meaning of the countries.Li Boxiang said: "Foreigners pay more attention to the system. Now that I am idle, I go to visit. They are only receiving them with their personal qualifications. They may not be willing to answer when they ask about state affairs. If I were to let the governor of other provinces go, the countries would I must come to congratulate, I will ask them in time."

Rong Lu played back, and the Queen Mother said: "That's true. Governor of other provinces, which province do you want him to go to?"

Rong Lu said: "Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao founded the Baohuanghui, and they are very powerful. Guangdong is the place where Guini was born. We must guard against it. Li Hongzhang is experienced, so let him go to Guangdong."

The Empress Dowager ordered Li Boxiang to be the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi immediately.On the one hand, Pu Jun, the son of Duanjun Wang Zaiyi, was established as the elder brother, and Cheng Engong Chongqi, the father of Empress Mu, was appointed as the master.

Sure enough, envoys from all over the world came to Xianliang Temple to congratulate Li Boxiang. After receiving him, Boxiang said: "Our country has established a big elder brother and is about to become emperor. Will you come to congratulate me?"

The envoys from various countries said: "We have never had insight into the inside story, so we don't know what to congratulate. But the current emperor has been a monarch for more than 20 years and has made a treaty with us. Now that another emperor has been established, where will he be placed?"

Li Boxiang listened silently.

After the envoys of various countries retreated, Li Boxiang went to Ronglu's house and explained in detail the intentions of all countries to deny the abolition of the emperor.Rong Lu turned to the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager said angrily: "Foreigners are here, doing business and preaching, it's fine, how can they take care of our family affairs? Abolishing the Chinese emperor is not abolishing foreign emperors, whether they recognize it or not, It's really unreasonable."

Rong Lu said: "In Jiang Chen's mind, I don't know what, Lafayette should also send a telegram to inquire about it!"

The Empress Dowager said: "You reminded me, I've lost my temper these few days."

He drew up the draft of the telegram as ordered, and took a telegram to send it out.

But in a day's time, the calls from the governors arrived one after another.Jiang Du Liu Kunyi was the first to object.It is generally said that the distinction between monarch and ministers has been determined, Chinese and foreign mouths should be guarded against, and the responsibility for helping the crisis is determined and shared.In the rest of the provinces, some are ambiguous, and some are slightly dissenting.The Empress Dowager looked at a telegram and was very angry, when another telegram came in from outside, but it was from Jing Yuanshan, a Shanghai gentry and businessman, and they were all against it.The queen mother said angrily: "Even a manager scolded me, isn't that why I'm in a daze and it's dark!
"It's not over yet, the royalist party's public telegram arrives again, saying that the volunteers have gathered, and soon they will raise troops to serve the king, go to the Anzong Society, and save the people. The queen mother was so angry that she trembled all over, and then told Ronglu to enter the palace and told him Call the governor of Jiang and strictly take the scripture Yuanshan. On the one hand, he called the governor of Nanyang, Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong, offering a reward of 10 taels for arresting Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. Rong Lu complied with the order.

The Empress Dowager sighed: "This court has exhausted all its benevolence and righteousness when it comes to foreigners. I don't know why foreigners want to oppose the court. Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao are traitors of this dynasty, and they want to protect them. Abolition is a family affair of the court, and they want to take care of it." Account. I am the master of a country for nothing, and I have to wait for foreigners to show me everything. Is it shameful or not?"

Words, beyond resentment.At this time, the ministers Rong Lu, Gang Yi, Xu Tong, Qi Xiu, Zhao Shuqiao, Song Qi, Yingnian, etc., and the ministers Zai Yi, Zai Lan, Zai Xun, etc., all sighed with embarrassment when they heard what the Queen Mother said. .Zaiyi thought he was going to be the emperor's father soon, but was blocked by foreigners out of thin air, and his teeth itch with hatred.

Luo Chengxiang, who was compiling and compiling, was ordered to test Guizhou, and went to say goodbye to his teacher Qixiu.Qixiu said to him: "When I come back, there will be no foreigners in Beijing."

At that time, I only knew that he was just talking about it for a while.Unexpectedly, in May, I got a good opportunity to take revenge.If this opportunity does not come, China will never be so weak again.

It turned out that during the Sino-Japanese War in the Jiawu Year, Jin County was disturbed, and officials and people migrated.At this time, Beixiang excavated Zhihe and found a remnant stele with only twenty characters in it, which can be seen clearly.The article said: "This suffering is not considered suffering. Two four plus one five. When the red lights illuminate the streets, then it is considered suffering."

It's also like slang, and it's like prophecy. Everyone just read it, but they don't understand it very well.In this year, a Dasao Guild suddenly formed in Shandong. The leader was Zhu Hongdeng, who claimed to protect the Qing and destroy the foreigners, and made troubles for the church members.When I met Governor Yuxian, who hated foreigners the most, not only couldn't help it, but also tried his best to protect him, showing that it was changed to "Boxer", and all the boxing parties raised yellow flags with the word "Yu".As a result, the priests and the people did not have a peaceful life. They plundered the people and burned the churches.Dongchang, Caozhou, Jining, Yanzhou, Yizhou, and Jinan are all the spheres of influence of the boxing party.The French imperial envoy sternly questioned the General Administration.The imperial court decreed that Yuxian was transferred to internal use, and Yuan Shikai was released as the governor of Shandong.When Yuan Gong arrived in office, he ordered the general to send troops to suppress him severely, captured Zhu Hongdeng, and beheaded him to show the public.The situation of the Boxers suddenly declined.

There was no room for hiding in Shandong, so they all fled into Zhili.

The boxing parties all call themselves "Yihe Shenquan".This Yihequan is said to be the legacy of the Qin Gua Sect. Its old name was Yihehui, so it has various names and colors such as Gan, Kan, Zhen, and Kun.Kan Ziquan is the remnant party of Lin Qing, and Gan Ziquan is the remnant party of Li Gua Jiao Nie Shengwen, so they are both red.Later, a new school of yellow was created in Ganzi boxing.Zhenziquan is the remnant party of Shandong Wangzhong, who was killed during the Qianlong period.It is unknown where Kun Ziquan came from.There are different teaching methods for Kan characters and dry characters.Kanziquan has been passed down for a long time, and those who practice it are called people who burn incense and prostrate.Ganzi boxing is called a practitioner who burns amulets on the ground and recites the mantra. After reciting the mantra, he closes his mouth tightly and is only allowed to breathe through his nose. When he foams at the mouth, he shouts that God has descended, and immediately jumps up and holds the weapon. And Wu, the mantra he recited is "I invite you to return to your destiny, and invite the third prince of the Dragon King, Ma Chaoshi, Ma Jichaoshi, Tianguang Teacher, Diguang Teacher, Sunguang Teacher, Moonlight Teacher, Long Stick Teacher, and Short Stick Teacher."

If you want to invite a fairy, you can call any character in the novel at will, such as Monkey King, Zhu Bajie, or Huang Tianba.There is also a mantra, which is "Take a whip of the horse quickly, and the old master of the four mountains will move the gate of heaven with one finger, and open the gate of the earth with the other. If you want to learn martial arts, please invite the immortal teacher to come."There is also a mantra, "Heaven is spirited, earth is spirited, I invite the patriarch to manifest the spirit. First, Tang monk Zhu Bajie, second, sand monk Sun Wukong, third, Erlang to manifest the holiness, fourth, Ma Chao Huang Hansheng, fifth, Jidian my Buddha, sixth. The willow trees in Jianghu are invited, the dartboard Huang Santai is invited for the seventh, the former emperor is cold in the ice, the ninth is invited for Hua Tuo to treat the illness, the tenth is for the Tianwang Li Tianwang of Tota, and the third prince Jin Zha Mu Zha Nezha to lead the [-] magic soldiers in the sky."

Practice is divided into Qinggong and Qinggong. You only need to practice Hungong for [-] days, and you need to practice Qinggong for [-] days. Hungong can avoid guns, and Qinggong can ride the clouds.But those who practice martial arts are good for quick success, and none of them is willing to practice Qinggong.There is also female boxing, what is called "red light photo", they are girls in their teens, wearing red clothes and red trousers, holding a red light in their left hand, a red scarf in their right hand, a red folding fan, and the young ones with their hands on their heads. Yaji, the older ones wear a high bun, and the whole body is as red as coals.It is said that if you hold a fan and fan yourself, you can gradually rise and rise, climb up the clouds, and become a star. Its light can be near or far, up or down, as you like.

The boxers called the foreign priests and the people "big hairy", "second hairy" and "third hairy".At this time, Kanzi boxing spread in Cangzhou and Jinghai areas, and Ganzi boxing spread in Shenzhou, Jizhou, Laizhou, Dingxing, and Gu'an areas.If you want to know the purpose of the imperial court, let's listen to the next chapter.

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