Super Dictator

I feel irritable. I believe everyone knows the reason. Some people have specifically blackmailed me. I don’t know if I have offended you by writing honestly. I deserve your concern for me.

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In the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City, Guangxu was so angry that he could not speak. He was in a daze, as if he had just taken opium.

"Li Hongzhang, Li Hongzhang, what do you want me to do to you?" Guangxu's mood is extremely unstable now, and he even thinks about killing Li Hongzhang. I believe that if he has real power in his hands now, he will definitely do so. .

The courtiers of the Qing Dynasty kneeling below looked like their dead parents. They were all devastated, lying on the ground and not daring to speak.

Minister of Military Aircraft Weng Tonghe was just an afterthought. At this time, he stood up calmly and said: "Your Majesty, I have long said that the Huai Army is useless. Now that Lushun is lost, the Japanese Navy has gained a foothold in the Bohai Bay. , from now on our Beiyang gateway will be opened, and the Japanese army can march straight into our Beijing and Tianjin areas. I hope that your Majesty will quickly recruit the Hunan Army and recruit troops to help the north to save the critical situation. "

It turns out that just this morning, military news came from the front line. Lushun, known as the "No. 1 Fortress in East Asia," actually fell into the hands of the Japanese army.

When the Japanese vanguard marched into Lushun, only Xu Bangdao's guard troops resisted tenaciously in Tuchengzi. However, Gong Zhaoxuan, the former general manager of the enemy's camp affairs office, ignored all the troops and fled to Yantai in a torpedo boat.

Subsequently, three commanders, Huang Shilin, Zhao Huaiye and Wei Rucheng, also absconded one after another.

The generals have no fighting spirit and the soldiers have no morale.

In the end, the Lushun military port, which the Qing government had spent huge sums of money to operate for 15 years, known as Port Arthur in the West and Gibraltar in the East, and the largest shipyard in East Asia at the time, was occupied by the Japanese army.

Since then, the Bohai Sea has opened up, directly threatening the vitality of Tianjin and Beijing.

It's no wonder that these Qing officials, who only plundered people's wealth and wealth all day long, were also frightened and felt that the sky was about to fall.

Li Hongzhang knelt on the ground, his face equally ashen. Facing Guangxu's questioning, he could only cry: "I, I have nothing to say."

Li Hongzhang really had nothing to say. He didn't understand why Lushun, which he had worked so hard to manage, was attacked by the Japanese overnight.

Are the Japanese too powerful, or are our own people too stupid?

"Since you have nothing to say, just keep your black gauze hat and go home to take care of yourself." Guangxu scolded angrily.

Weng Tonghe pulled a sneer from the corner of his mouth and said in his heart: Li Hongzhang, Li Hongzhang, you also have today.

Just as Li Hongzhang was about to be dismissed from his post and investigated, he heard a chamberlain outside the door shouting loudly: "Your Majesty, a telegram has come from the front line."

Has something new happened? It couldn't be that it was lost somewhere again.

The ministers, with sad faces, began to discuss among themselves one by one.

One and two are talking about what to do.

After Guangxu made the announcement, the little eunuch quickly ran in with the telegram.

The eyes of all the ministers followed the telegram held by the little eunuch, and their hearts were so nervous that they almost jumped out of their chests.

Guangxu felt that the little eunuch was walking too slowly, so he left the throne in a hurry, walked down quickly, and personally picked up the telegram in the little eunuch's hand.

After opening the telegram, Guangxu read it anxiously.

All the ministers craned their necks to see Guangxu's reaction, even Li Hongzhang, who had been kneeling in despair just now, was no different.

The expression on Guangxu's face was stunned for a moment, and then the corners of his mouth trembled slightly.

"Okay, okay, we in the Qing Dynasty still have brave and capable warriors." Guangxu read the telegram over and over again, then put it down and said softly.

Weng Tonghe was anxious and couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, what is this?"

"My lords, good news came from Dakaoling. Nie Shicheng and Heilongjiang general Yiketang'a regained Lianshanguan and Caohekou, annihilated more than 5,000 enemies, and killed Major General Li Jian Shangwen of the Japanese 10th Brigade and several other generals. Ten men captured the flag of the 11th Japanese Regiment and achieved the greatest victory since the war began."

Guangxu finished the words in the telegram without missing a breath, and then he breathed a long sigh of relief and continued: "My dear friends, it seems that God has blessed me in the Qing Dynasty!"

Guangxu was in a state of ice and fire, and he didn't even know what to do. On the one hand, he had lost the most important strategic location in Liaodong, and on the other hand, he had achieved the greatest victory since the war began.

"I will reward those meritorious soldiers greatly, and I will not show any mercy to those useless people who are greedy for life and afraid of death." Guangxu was so excited that he walked back and forth for a few steps, then stopped, his face flushed. said.

Originally, Guangxu would not have thought of severely punishing those who were greedy for life and fearful of death. In the Qing Dynasty, there were many people who were greedy for life and fearful of death. If they were all punished, it is estimated that the whole hall would be deserted tomorrow morning.

However, everything depends on comparison. On the one hand, they are brave and good at winning, but on the other hand, they are constantly losing territory. Of course Guangxu would weigh it in his heart.

Hearing that Nie Shicheng had won another victory, Li Hongzhang couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. This great victory came at the right time. It was a timely blessing from his Li Zhongtang protector.

Li Hongzhang winked, and Zhang Yinhuan, the Minister of Household Affairs, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, since the front line has achieved a great victory, Mr. Li has no merit but hard work, so I ask Your Majesty to give him a lighter punishment."

Guangxu's face sank a little, but thinking that Li Hongzhang was still Cixi's confidant, and that this was indeed a great victory, he said: "Ai Qing is right, he should be dismissed from his post, investigated and reformed, and kept in office."

The difference between the two words is a world of difference. Although being dismissed and retained in office means that the Beiyang minister has been dismissed from his position, he is still doing what the Beiyang minister should do. As long as he can make up for his mistakes later, his reinstatement will be just around the corner.

"Your Majesty, Li Hongzhang, would like to thank you for your kindness!" Li Hongzhang kowtowed quickly to express his gratitude.

Although Guangxu did not want to trouble Li Hongzhang for the time being, he also approved Weng Tonghe's suggestion of recruiting the Hunan army, and decided to recruit senior Hunan army generals such as vassal Wei Guangtao and Taoist Li Guangjiu to recruit troops for northern reinforcements.

Liu Kunyi, the veteran of the Hunan Army and the Governor of Liangjiang, had just met the emperor a few days ago. Not long ago, Guangxu appointed him as the Imperial Envoy to supervise the military affairs of the Eastern Expedition, and ordered him to go to Shanhaiguan to command the armies.

Of course, although Liu Kunyi's appointment has been issued, it will probably be at least half a month before he arrives at Shanhaiguan.

With a stroke of his pen, Guangxu tried his best to reward a large number of meritorious soldiers in the battle to regain Lianshanguan, and notified the whole country of the victory in Dibao to boost the morale of the domestic resistance war.

For a time, the names of Nie Shicheng, Wei Jichen and others frequently appeared in government announcements, in the mouths of officers and soldiers, and in the mouths of the people.

However, just when Guangxu was slightly invigorated because of a victory, he was ready to fight the Japanese to the end.

That evening, in the Leshou Hall of the Summer Palace, four large nine-peach copper stoves were burning sandalwood. Cixi, who was the helmsman of the Qing Empire, was lying on a red sandalwood and gilded armchair.

Next to Li Lianying, Mr. Li carefully used egg white to apply on her face.

For Cixi, an old woman, in addition to admiring her power and strategy, you must also admire her beauty skills.

If this were to be seen in future generations, he would be a perfect beauty master.

After Cixi's 'facial mask' was ready, she lay down for a while. Li Lianying carefully wiped the egg white clean with fine silk from Hangzhou, and then asked softly: "Lafayette, do you want to take a bath today?"

Cixi squinted her eyes and nodded gently, and Li Lianying helped her to a magnificent bathing pool.

Several palace maids quickly poured the fishy-smelling human milk into the bath. Others could only take a milk bath, but this Cixi took a human milk bath, which was not on the same level.

Li Lianying gently undressed Cixi. When he saw Cixi's slightly wrinkled but still smooth and white skin, he couldn't help but praise: "Lord Buddha, look, your skin is better than that of a newborn baby. It’s a hundred times smoother.”

That woman doesn't like beauty. Even Cixi, who is the master of the harem, couldn't help but smile when she heard Li Lianying's praise. She walked into the bath lightly and said with a smile: "You are a sweet-tongued slave. Come on, give me this." Ai Jia's whole body is massaged. This man feels uncomfortable all over his body when he gets old. "

The reason why Li Lianying was so favored by Cixi was that in addition to her excellent oral skills, she was also good at hand skills. In a short time, she was able to press down on Cixi's body and make her feel comfortable and squeaky.

After a moment, Cixi's squinted eyes suddenly opened and she asked Li Lianying: "Little Lizi, are the Sixth Prince still waiting outside?"

"Return to Lafayette, the Sixth Prince is still waiting for your summons outside." Li Lianying stretched out her hand from below and gently squeezed Cixi's shoulder.

The Sixth Prince is talking about Prince Gong of the Qing Dynasty, Yixin. This Yixin is known as the last sensible Manchu in the Qing Dynasty. Because he is good at dealing with foreigners, he is also known as the Sixth Devil.

At the end of September, Cixi re-appointed Guizi Liuyixin, who was deposed by her in 1884, to preside over the Prime Minister's Office. Why, because Guizi Liuyuan originally advocated submission to foreign countries.

Cixi hoped that he would come forward and request Britain, the United States and Russia to jointly mediate the Sino-Japanese War. However, as the three countries each had their own plans, the mediation proposal proposed by the British in October did not achieve any results.

But now the Japanese have brought war to China and Port Arthur has fallen. Cixi is anxious, fearing that the Japanese army will invade Beijing and Tianjin. She remembers the time when the British and French forces invaded Beijing, and she followed Emperor Xianfeng like a wild dog and fled to Chengde. .

Cixi never wanted to have such an experience again. As long as she could continue to live such a stable life, the Qing Dynasty could continue to rule the Central Plains and lose some barren land. It was not unacceptable.

"Let him come in now." Cixi was lying in the bathtub and did not get up, but raised her hand and said.

"Cha!" Li Lianying called Qian and walked out lightly to report.

Not long after, he walked in with the old Guiziliu.

"Slave Yimin has met Lafayette, Lafayette is holy," the Japanese soldier Liuyimin kowtowed and saluted.

"Get up!" Cixi waved her hand and asked somewhat bleakly, "How are things going?"

Cixi was afraid and hated foreigners, and the people she disliked dealing with the most were foreigners, so she felt extremely uncomfortable asking foreigners to do things.