Usurping the Qing Dynasty: My first love was Cixi

Chapter 301 Great victory over France! Great victory

Killing so many scholars at once, and not long ago they just wrote to the emperor, asking him to rule the country.

Just a few months later, you killed them.

Although the killing was in the name of cheating in the imperial examination, it will undoubtedly give people the feeling of revenge.

Mother Queen Mother, do you really not care about your reputation at all?

What does the emperor think of you doing this?

Before, your reputation has always been tolerant and gentle, but now it is you who kills people.

How do you want the world to see you?

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Inside Changchun Palace.

The little emperor paid his respects to Yehenara as usual.

He is fifteen years old this year. For children from ordinary families, this age is certainly not considered an adult, but for the royal family, this age is really not young.

Many things have been figured out.

At least, the little emperor now clearly understands who is the biggest obstacle to his own rule.

Do you want to say how much he wants to rule the country and hold power? That's not necessarily true.

But as an emperor, especially as the heir of Aixinjuelu, he is still very sensitive to some things.

Of course, there is another thing.

That is the affair between Su Ye and the two Empress Dowagers.

This is what the little emperor cares about most.

He feels ashamed in his heart.

For a long time, the little emperor had a closer relationship with Empress Dowager Ci'an, and was not as close as Empress Dowager Cixi.

But since Ci'an followed Su Ye, especially after giving birth to a child, all her emotional focus was no longer on the little emperor, which was a major blow to him.

"Mother, these scholars are not guilty of death." The little emperor couldn't help but say.

Yehenara said: "Damn it, of course they deserve to die. They dared to cheat in the imperial examination. Don't they deserve to die?"

In fact, they didn't need to be so careful when speaking at this time.

Because Zhu Sanniang and several sisters all withdrew from Changchun Palace, all the palace maids, nannies, and eunuchs in Changchun Palace were now selected by Yehenara personally.

At least to some extent, they are no longer under surveillance.

At this time, when the empress dowager and the little emperor were talking, the nearest people around them were dozens of meters away.

An Dehai, as an absolute confidant, was just outside the door.

"Mother, this time my Qing Dynasty is facing three foreign enemies. If we win, we will surpass the Holy Ancestor and Emperor Gaozong." The little emperor suddenly said.

Yehenala said, "It's not the same as the past, but... it's unprecedented."

The little emperor said, "Now those people in the local area are all saying that letting the son and minister rule the country will bring disaster?"

Yehenala said, "Don't worry, it won't happen. Your teacher is not an ordinary person."

After a long while, she asked again, "What did Master Weiren teach you recently?"

The little emperor thought for a while and said, "He was talking about some things in Britain."

Yehenala felt bad immediately. Weiren, a great Neo-Confucian scholar, was considered the most loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty. Now he didn't tell the emperor about the great cause of governing the country or the new book of the emperor, but talked about the monarch of the British Empire?

Yehenala was not very clear about this.

But she probably knew that the British king was a constitutional monarchy and the Queen of England did not have absolute power.

What did Weiren mean by telling the little emperor these things? Did he want him to give up his fantasy?

Did even a loyal minister like Weiren change his mind?

And Sai Shang'a, the most senior minister in the Political Affairs Hall, now completely follows Su Ye's lead.

Do the most elite ministers of the Qing Dynasty think that Su Ye should continue to be in power?

The little emperor looked around and said slowly: "Mother, the Qing Dynasty can't die in my hands."

The expression on Yehenara's face changed slightly.

From her perspective, she really couldn't tell whether the little emperor in front of her was Emperor Xian of Han or Emperor Shunzhi.

But there are some things that must be prepared mentally.

If these three battles are won, how high will Su Ye's reputation reach?

By then, will Su Ye still be satisfied with the position of regent?

Indeed, she still has the military power in her hands.

Jingshou has withdrawn and dared not stay in the capital anymore. Now the two guard divisions in the capital are Su Ye's direct line.

However, the third division is still in Ronglu's hands.

And Ronglu is still a member of the Yehenara clan.

This Third Division is not only fully staffed, but completely overstaffed, with a full 26,000 people.

Every time it was overstaffed, Su Ye did not stop it.

There is another detail. In the last war, Su Ye ordered Ronglu's Third Division to be transferred to the Heilongjiang battlefield. This time, whether it was to the Vietnam battlefield, the Outer Northeast battlefield, or the Japanese battlefield, Ronglu's Third Division was not mobilized, leaving more than 20,000 troops to guard the capital.

In fact, many people know that Su Ye is waiting for the Third Division to ask for a fight.

But since you don't ask for a fight, I won't dispatch it.

Yehenara thought countless times about how to solve this situation.

The result is... there is no solution at all.

Although the two sides still maintain a certain degree of harmony, Su Ye has almost stopped communicating on key matters.

In fact, there is a thought that always comes to mind.

What is the best ending for her and the little emperor?

Su Ye won three foreign wars, resolved all internal conflicts, completed the Westernization Movement, completed the naval construction, and resolved all domestic and foreign affairs, leaving behind an extremely powerful Qing Dynasty.

Then... he left this world quietly.

Let the emperor take over the entire country without any obstacles.

This... this is really the best solution.

Nianhulu may have a love brain, but she Yehenala has completely faded.

The most important thing is that the feelings between adult smart people are really clear, and it is difficult for both parties to fake.

Yehenala knows that Su Ye's feelings for her are not deep. Although it is first love, the feelings at this time are far less than Ci'an.

Cixi certainly has feelings for Su Ye, but it is far less than her love for herself and her love for power.

At this time, she and the little emperor looked at each other quietly, but they were speechless.

Because there are almost no allies.

Ronglu is her direct descendant, but his current power is too weak.

The Political Affairs Hall, the Grand Council, the six ministries, and several important government offices were all loyal to Su Ye.

Hundreds of thousands of land forces and naval forces were almost all loyal to Su Ye.

Even loyal ministers to the emperor like Wei Ren gradually changed their mindsets.

What else can we expect?

As for these Han clans and Han elites who shouted for the emperor to rule the country?

They have no soldiers in their hands, so what use is there.

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Inside the residence of Wei Ren, the Grand Councilor, the Minister of Rites, and the Minister of the Imperial Study.

"Prime Minister, are you just going to sit there and watch? Don't you say anything? You are the leader of the world's clean stream."

Wei Ren said, "What do you want me to say? Shouldn't these scholars be killed for submitting memorials to curse the Empress Dowager?"

"This is clearly revenge. Even if these scholars are involved in cheating in the imperial examinations, they are not guilty of death. At most, they will be deposed and exiled to the frontier."

"Killing so many heads is clearly revenge for their proposal to let the emperor rule the country."

"In this way, who will let the emperor rule the country in the future?"

Wei Ren was also very conflicted. He was definitely not Su Ye's direct descendant and had always been outside Su Ye's power.

However, during the reign of Emperor Xianfeng, Wei Ren was always demoted, suppressed, and not reused at all.

On the contrary, after Su Ye took charge of the central government, Wei Ren was promoted repeatedly and now he has become the prime minister of the Shangshufang.

The most important thing is that every time Su Ye arranged a position for him, it was very suitable, and it was truly suitable for the job.

Moreover, over the years, Su Ye and Wei Ren had no personal relationship.

Every time Wei Ren sighed in his heart, if it was a monarch, then Su Ye would be a first-class monarch.

Of course, Wei Ren was still a conservative and a stubborn person.

However, he still had a place in Su Ye's system to balance the radical forces of the Westernization Party.

This allowed both sides to see more clearly.

The Westernization Party knew that Westernization also had to be done to a certain extent, and Chinese traditions should not be completely abandoned.

And Wei Ren had been involved in the reform cause for a long time, so he was not so idealistic, and he knew the necessity of the Westernization Movement.

So during this period, Wei Ren experienced countless struggles and thoughts in his heart.

A conclusion was drawn.

It was a nonsense for the emperor to rule the country.

At least for ten years, the emperor could not rule the country.

Let the regent solve all the problems first, bring the country to the right track, and then gradually let the emperor get started, cultivate it for ten years, and then let the emperor gradually take over.

Therefore, about twenty years later, when the regent Su Ye is in his fifties and the emperor is in his thirties, it will be the right time for him to rule the country.

In addition, Weiren is also the emperor's teacher, and he knows the emperor's character and wisdom very well.

This little emperor is really not a wise ruler, and even... is not as good as the previous emperor.

With such qualifications, how can he accept such a big country?

On the contrary, the second prince is really suitable.

He is smart, generous, and clever.

It's a pity that the second prince has traveled south now.

Weiren looked at the ceiling and sighed, "What can I do, what can I do."

"The little emperor has mediocre qualifications and a lively personality. On the contrary, the regent is wise and brave, and he is a British king who has not appeared in a hundred years."

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The battlefield in the far north.

Now both China and Russia have airships, and both sides have mortars.

However, the secret weapon of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, the Su machine gun, has also really been on the battlefield.

The prototype of this secret weapon is of course the Maxim machine gun.

When this weapon was first introduced in history, it did not cause much sensation until the Battle of the Somme broke out and shocked the world.

In the war with the Russians five years ago, this machine gun was never mature and was not used on the battlefield until the end of the war.

After countless researchers worked tirelessly, this weapon was finally fully mature three years ago.

In these three years, a large number of mass production was completed.

Now, it has appeared on the battlefield on a large scale.

As a result, it was not in the ground war that it was so powerful, but in the air war.

In the last war, the Russian army fully felt the importance of air supremacy. The Chinese army's airships were in the air and had a clear view of everything on the battlefield.

This advantage is really too great, just like the map of the Age of Empires game.

The fog of the battlefield disappeared.

So, the Russian Empire and even the whole of Europe did their best to build airships.

This time, the Russian Empire built a total of 30 airships and transported them to the Far East battlefield, intending to compete with China for air supremacy and complete the transparency of the Chinese military deployment.

But unexpectedly, Su Ye put machine guns on the airship.

So, the world's first air battle broke out.

This was an extremely disparate battle, completely crushing.

The airships of both sides fought madly in the air, but the Russian side could only shoot with rifles, while the airships on Su Ye's side were madly pouring bullets with machine guns.

The firepower of the two sides was too different, and the Russian army watched their airships fall one after another.

It was a completely one-sided massacre.

Shortly after the war began, the Russian army lost air supremacy again.

Su Ye's army once again gained unilateral transparency on the battlefield.

Then, the 500,000 troops of both sides fought fiercely on the battlefield spanning hundreds of miles.

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Hanoi battlefield in Vietnam

After two months of construction, the Chinese and Vietnamese military and civilians mobilized more than 100,000 people and finally built an almost exaggerated defense line.

And the troops gathered outside also exceeded 60,000 people.

After all, they were facing more than 30,000 French troops.

Absolutely world-class powers.

The head coaches Chen Yucheng and Feng Zicai were really careful, careful, and careful.

And the weapons and equipment of this southern expedition army were also very elite.

Not only machine guns, rapid-fire cannons, high-explosive bombs.

And so on, everything is available.

But even so, the Chinese army was still very cautious.

Only after knowing that they were fully prepared did they start the Hanoi counterattack.

With an order, the war broke out.

The first to break out was still an air battle.

The airships of both sides fought frantically over Hanoi.

The result...

It was still a one-sided massacre.

Just a few hours later, almost all the airships of the French army were shot down.

Then, the Chinese army launched a crazy attack.

At the same time, the rebels in Hanoi also launched various sneak attacks.

One day!

Two days!

Three days!

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"Boom boom boom..."

A series of earth-shaking explosions.

The city wall of Hanoi was blown up to the sky.

Then, there was another fierce explosion.

Another section of the city wall was blown up directly.

Then, another section of the city wall was blown up violently.

Two sections of the city wall were blown up by the Chinese army, and the other section was blown up by the rebels in Hanoi.

At this point, Hanoi was broken.

The Chinese army poured into Hanoi like a tide.

Next, there was an extremely fierce street battle in the city.

But...

It only lasted for eleven days!

The main force of the French army collapsed and formally surrendered.

At this point, the Battle of Hanoi was a great victory.

From the full-scale offensive to the end, it only lasted for half a month.

Looking at the countless surrendered French troops, Chen Yucheng said with emotion.

"This... this is not that great."

"I've been worried for so long, and I've been cautious for several months, and... just this..."

Feng Zicai next to him said: "Being careful is not a big mistake after all."

But he thought to himself, if you change it to ten years ago, no matter whether it is the Qing army or your Taiping Army, you can try it.

Facing 30,000 French troops, your 150,000 troops can only be defeated miserably.

Don't you see this battle, from the weapons and equipment, from the density of firepower, and even the superiority of troops, they are far superior to the French army.

But...

Many generals still find it incredible, like a dream,

Just... just win like this?

This, this is the world's top powers.

This is a full 30,000 troops.

Ten years ago, 8,000 foreign troops broke through the capital and completely crushed it.

And now we actually defeated 30,000 French troops?

Are we, are we so powerful?

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The news of the great victory in the Battle of Hanoi was first transmitted to Shanghai by sea, and then to the capital by telegram.

It was transmitted to Ryukyu by sea.

In the Ryukyu Royal Palace, the last shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu felt unbelievable when he first saw the battle report.

How is this possible?

This is the French Army, a full 30,000 people.

Just defeated like this?

It must be the Qing Dynasty that is making up false news of victory to trick me.

However, the news that came in became more and more detailed.

In the end, the Chinese Navy invited Tokugawa Yoshinobu to Hanoi to visit the battlefield.

Visit the French prisoners.

Faced with these scenes, he had to believe it.

China did defeat the French army in the Vietnam battlefield and recaptured Hanoi with an absolute victory.

Then, it was his turn to make a choice.

Although the results of the northern battlefield have not yet come out.

However, the French are still more powerful than the Russians. The main Chinese army is in the northern battlefield, and even the regent personally commands the northern battlefield.

If you don’t make a choice, it may be too late.

Bai Feifei's voice also became cold.

"General, our deployment is very clear. Whether you invite us or not, after we finish the war in Vietnam and the war with Tsarist Russia in the north, we will directly attack the Japanese mainland."

"Of course, we won't have enough reputation, and our eating will be very ugly, but as long as we win the two wars in the north and south, and beat the French and Russians, then it doesn't matter whether we eat well or not."

"General Tokugawa, you don't have much time, but we still have plenty of time."

Finally, the last general of the shogunate, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, finally made up his mind to leave Ryukyu and take the delegation to the capital of China.

Half a month later.

Tokugawa Yoshinobu went to Beijing and met with the two empress dowagers and the emperor in the palace.

The establishment of the exile government was officially announced.

The Chinese army was formally invited to land in Japan to help the shogunate regain power.

Finally, this reputation was obtained.

A few days later.

The Chinese navy officially attacked Tokyo Bay.

The battle against the Japanese mainland officially began.

Even though several powers strongly opposed it, it was still in full swing.

The tragic situation in Japan finally came.

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Note: Five thousand words are sent, thank you everyone, thank you benefactor. (Oh my god, the goal I set yesterday was 8,000 words)