The midsummer in Beijing is really a torture for Manchus. These nomads who lived in the White Mountains and Black Waters have no genes to resist the heat at all. Although they have been in the pass for more than two hundred years, summer is still difficult for them.

The sun above my head emitted endless heat, the big willow trees on the roadside had already wilted leaves, and even the cicadas hiding in it were screaming weakly. The old man who was dozing off in the shade was open, and beads of sweat were rolling down as big as beans.

"Herbal tea...herbal tea, big bowl of herbal tea...new mint tea..."

"Watermelon...watermelon, the sandy watermelon produced in Daxing, the old man has no teeth to eat without fear of sweet tooth..."

"Selling fans, the concubine's folding fan, the big palm fan... It will come naturally if you shake the cool breeze..."

In the alleys in Sijiucheng, even the shouting was wilted by the vicious sun. In the end, even the most ferocious dogs were too lazy to yell at these vendors, lying on the ground and sticking out their tongues. The first update was made

Just as the entire capital was swept by heat waves and everyone was struggling to endure the summer, a sudden shocking rumor was like igniting a foreign fire in a boiling oil pan, and the raging flames instantly filled the capital.

It was hot at noon, and all the teahouses and wine shops in the capital suddenly filled up. People lowered their heads and talked about it. A bizarre rumor shocked the entire capital.

"Master, you are here, sit down... Oh, have you heard that there is a riot in Tanggu Port, and it is said that thousands of people died..."

"It's true... The waiter came to the pot high and broken... Tanggu City is a place where the Chinese and foreigners live together. So many foreigners are not allowed to negotiate? Tell me quickly..."

"Oh, are you two talking here? Let me tell you, the city of Tanggu was killed in 100,000 people died, and blood dyed the sea red..."

"Yo! Where did you come from? You're so old..."

"Hey... don't believe it. The tenant who grows vegetables in my Changping Village is his uncle's fisherman in Tanggu. I heard that people in Tianjin Wei no longer eat sea fish..."

When people heard this, they rushed up, "Master Liu, please tell me carefully, why don't you eat sea fish?" The Master Liu wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, enjoying the feeling of the stars supporting the moon. The first update was made

"Grandma's, there are too many dead people. More than 10,000 corpses were not too late to bury them, so they were thrown into the sea. Those sea fish were full of human flesh. Do you think you can still eat them..." Before he finished speaking, there was a sound of dry retching in the room, and it took him a long time to calm down.

At this time, the waiter who was carrying a copper pot and water was stunned and asked stupidly, "What's this for? Why did you kill someone?"

"Silly boy, you don't understand this. Do you know the civil war? Even the people are crazy, rushing onto the street to kill whoever they see, robbing the money in the store, and rushing to the police, killing people and setting fires at will... Why do you ask? Who else can Xiao Letian be because of that second Japanese devil..."

"You know that in the beginning of spring, the Zongli Yamen in Beijing sent a group of people...the inspection teams, which were specially inspected by the special industrial zone. The first update was to experience a civil war in Tanggu, but that time it was drizzling, and only a few hundred people..."

"It's different today. Tens of thousands of people messed with Tanggu City. All the foreigners in the city fled to the sea. The foreign guns and guns on the ships on the sea were all erected, and they opened fire with the mob..."

In the mouths of these rumor walkers, Xiao Letian completely became a cruel and ruthless murderer. His subordinates gathered hundreds of bandits. In the face of the good protests of the people, he actually suppressed bloodily. The first update was that even the Ninth General Zeng Guoquan was involved. The Hunan Army's Jizi Camp dispatched heavy cavalry, and the people killed were crowded.

The speakers in the teahouse were spitting and the listeners were stunned. The shopkeeper's abacus beads in front of the counter were not easy to make, and he didn't even know how many mistakes he had made.

Just as everyone was scolding Xiao Letian, the second Japanese devil, suddenly two young scholars came in from outside the teahouse. When they heard the group of Eight Banners gangsters talking, they became angry.

"A group of fools who follow the crowd are just too stupid. If Xiao Letian is so powerful, wouldn't the Tianjin general officer go to suppress it? Tens of thousands of people still die. Do you know how big a set it is if tens of thousands of people are lined up together? Do you know how many people are in Quantanggu?" After saying that, the two of them snorted, very disdainful.

"Oh! Whose belt is not tightly tied to reveal you... Oh, aren't these two masters from the Zongli Yamen? Look at me forgot about my nature, your surname is here..." The rumor-maker turned his head and wanted to curse, but he didn't expect that he could see an acquaintance, two Zongli Yamen's pen posts.

"Waiter, I'm so angry..." The two Zongli Yamen were not angry, and bowed to the bannermen who were shopping in the teahouse.

"Dear men, don't listen to those rumors that are gone. Everyone is a bannerman. If you want to listen, you must also listen to the emperor and the queen mother. If you listen to the words of our Eight Banners, these rumors are obviously some people secretly bewitching us... There are only more than 10,000 people in Tanggu City, why are they all dead? They are thrown into the sea? Our Qing Dynasty has no cemeteries?"

"Tell you the truth, what do you think of the secret letter received by the Zongli Yamen last night? Damn, it was actually the one who was a civil servant. It was a local gentry. The juren named Huang used land rent to seduce the people to go to the streets to make trouble. The purpose was to ruin the Qing Dynasty's industrial special zone..."

The pen style made the matter clear in a few words. The people present suddenly realized with a bang, "What's so bizarre about the rumors? It turned out that it was a rumor made by these scholars. These guys are really a bunch of bad guys..."

"That's right, my banner owner has said a long time ago that these clear streams are afraid that this industrial special zone will be formed. On the surface, they are afraid that foreigners will be bewitching people's hearts, but in fact they are afraid that our bannermen will have a hardcore crop..."

Now, the whole teahouse was talking, and everyone started to scold these Qingliu scholars. Then the two pen posts began to divert hatred again. "Actually, this matter is also a matter of Jiushuai. The Hunan Army was too much and actually intervened until Zhili came. Jizi Camp actually confronted our Green Camp. Even if he was right to suppress the rebellion, he could not kill people at will..."

When people heard that there was something hidden here, they were all in a panic, and the crowds were tighter, and they were not afraid of prickly heat in hot weather. In the teahouses, brothels, and wine shops, in these most basic social places in the Qing Dynasty, various rumors began to collide with each other and fiercely clashed.

The scholars who took Qingliu as their mission, threw dirty water on Xiao Letian and Jiushuai, who had a life of trying to clear themselves, were also a natural fight against the royal family and Hunan Army forces. In their minds, Xiao Letian, the second Japanese devil, offered the strategy of the Industrial Special Zone to seize the status of the outstanding academic school.

As the representative of the local governor, the Hunan Army did not have the same heart as our Qingliu. Then you are not a good thing, and you are poured up like dirty water. Updated as soon as possible

Of course, the Zongli Yamen is a firm defender of the interests of the Eight Banners. They are as clear as they are in their minds. They can also guess what the idea of ​​Qingliu and the Hunan Army have fought. In this public opinion war, protecting Xiao Letian to attack Qingliu and disgusting the Hunan Army is their fundamental strategy.

Among the three forces, the southern governors and governors represented by the Hunan Army were relatively calm and did not get involved in this civil war of verbal war. However, their counterattack was more direct. Three days later, Zeng Guofan submitted a memorial and originally planned to return to Beijing to report his duties in the autumn, but he dragged it back. He actually said that a remnant of the kingdom of heaven with 20,000 people was found in the Wuyi Mountains.

Threat, this is the threat of nakedness. The Zeng family used this method to express their protest. There were actually hairy in Wuyi Mountain? There were more than 20,000 people? God knows if he was going to drink Dahongpao. Please come to more and faster chapters.

In the summer of this year, the three forces had already been so messed up in the back because of a small civil war in Tanggu, and now they are almost tearing each other apart in the court.

The memorials sent from Tanggu have been quietly piled up in the Forbidden City for seven days. The two empress dowagers just simply looked at the memorials and abstracts. As for the testimony of more than a foot high, they were not interested in paying attention to it. For politicians, evidence is a fig leaf, sometimes they can be asked, and sometimes they have to be thrown away.

The two empress dowagers were silent, and the Japanese Liu Yi? They were also silent. The remaining princes of Manren stopped talking when they saw that it was not right. In the Forbidden City, the little emperor Tongzhi jumped up and down and talked about this matter, asking the empress dowager, asking the prince, and annoyed the ministers. But strangely, the people on both sides couldn't say anything, and they all stammered and made the emperor angry. The first time update

"My mother, what should I do? This is a civil unrest! Isn't it strictly for such a big thing?" Emperor Tongzhi sat next to Cixi angrily, his face turned red and red.

"What a big deal? How big can this be!" Cixi looked at her son with a smile. Tongzhi was not calm when she heard this. "What a big deal? All the people have changed. Isn't it a big deal to die for thousands of soldiers and civilians?"

Cixi shook her head, "Not big, not big at all. Master, you are the master of the world. You must keep your face unchanged. Some chaos occurred in Xiaoxiaotanggu. In the eyes of the people, the sky and the earth have collapsed, but this is not a problem in front of you..."

"I won't talk about the distance, just take the Changmao Rebellion in the south. There are more than one million people who die. This is called a big deal. There are also the Western barbarians from the sea, which is also a big deal. In addition, the Rakshasa Kingdom, which is staring at our north, is even more a big deal. Only a small civil unrest like Tanggu is not big at all. On the contrary, it is still very small. This small memorial note can only be kept for the first time and not sent..."

Emperor Tongzhi seemed to be a little enlightened. Through his mother's teachings, he gradually understood that an empire is not what the emperor wants to do. The so-called supremacy of imperial power is purely a false proposition.

"In this Qing Dynasty, our royal family and the Eight Banners will always be one. With the Eight Banners, our royal family will be our royal family. Without the Eight Banners, our royal family will become orphans and widows. This is the iron rule left by our ancestors to save lives. You can't lose it."

"As for the Han Confucian ministers, those pure people, you must remember to slap them and give them a sweet date. All they want is to rule the imperial examinations forever. As long as you ensure that this will remain unchanged for thousands of years, these slaves will not rebel. When we, Manchus, killed so many Han people, in the end, didn't they kneel on the ground and shout long live us?"

Cixi gently stroked her son's head and instilled in her son with a rare and kind tone that the secret of governing the country was not passed on. This secret of word-of-mouth is not something that anyone can learn if they want to learn it.

"Son, you have to remember forever that the internal affairs of the Qing Dynasty are three forces, and three groups of people are entangled, one is our royal family and the Eight Banners, the other is the Confucian scholars and the Qingliu, and the last one is the Han governor, especially Zeng Guofan and his group of people. As long as you can balance these three forces, the country will be in chaos..."

"What about the foreigners? And the two Japanese devils Xiao Letian? What kind of power are they? How should we deal with it?" Tongzhi was so shocked that Cixi was stunned for a long time without saying anything.

"The major changes that have not been seen in three thousand years may only be answered by the wizard who has not been seen in three thousand years..."

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