Tuqing: My first love was Cixi

Chapter 301: Great victory over France! Great victory
Killing so many scholars at once, and not long ago they had just submitted a letter asking the emperor to take charge.

Just a few months later, you killed someone.

Although he was killed in the name of cheating in the imperial examination, there is no doubt that it will still give the people of the world the feeling of avenging private revenge.

Queen Mother, Queen Mother, do you really not care about your reputation at all?
What does the emperor think when you do this?
Before, you had a reputation of being tolerant and gentle, but now it's you who is the one who kills me.

How do you want the world to see you?

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Inside the Changchun Palace.

The little emperor paid his respects to Yehenala as usual.

He is fifteen years old this year. For ordinary children, 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 current little emperor clearly understands who is the biggest obstacle to his pro-government.

Do you want to say how much he wants to be in charge and take charge of power? That's not necessarily the case.

But as an emperor, especially as the heir of Aisin Gioro, he is still very keen on some things.

Of course there is another thing.

That was the affair between Su Yi and the two empress dowagers.

This is what the little emperor cares about most.

He felt ashamed inside.

For a long time, the relationship between the young emperor and the Empress Dowager Ci'an became closer and closer than that of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

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

"Mother, these scholars are worthy 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, shouldn't they deserve to die?"

In fact, they no longer need to be so careful when speaking at this time.

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

Not so monitored anymore, at least to some degree.

At this time, when the Queen Mother was talking to the little emperor, the nearest people around were dozens of meters away.

As an absolute confidant, Andehai is right outside the door.

"Mother, this time our Qing Dynasty faces 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, but... it's also unprecedented."

The little emperor said, "Now those people in the local area are saying that if I let my sons and ministers personally govern, will it 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 Woren teach you recently?"

The little emperor thought for a while and said, "He was actually talking about something about Britain."

Yehenala suddenly felt something bad in her heart. Wo Ren, a great Neo-Confucian scholar, was considered the most loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty. Now he did not tell the emperor about the great cause of governing the country or the emperor's new book. Instead, he went to speak about the Great Britain. The king of the empire?

Regarding this point, Yehenala is not very clear either.

But you probably know that the King of England belongs to a constitutional monarchy, and the Queen of England does not have absolute power.

What does Wo Ren mean by telling these things to the little emperor? Do you want him to give up his fantasy?

Has even a first-class loyal minister like Wo Ren changed his mind?
And Sai Shang'a, the oldest political minister, is now completely following Su Yi's lead.

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

The little emperor looked around and said slowly: "Mother, the Qing Dynasty cannot fall into my hands."

The expression on Yehenala's face changed slightly.

With her field of vision, 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 you must be mentally prepared for.

If he wins these three battles, how high will Su Yi's reputation reach?
By then, will Su Yi still be able to satisfy the position of regent?
It is true that she still holds military power in her hands now.

Jing Shou has withdrawn and no longer dares to stay in the capital. Now the two security divisions in the capital are direct descendants of Su Yi.

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

And Ronglu is still a member of the Yehenala clan.

This third division is not only full-strength, it is completely over-strength, with a total of 26,000 people.

Every time when super staffing was needed, Su Yi did not stop him.

There is another detail. During the last war, Su Yilai ordered that part of Ronglu's third division be transferred to the Heilongjiang battlefield. But this time, whether it was going to the Vietnam battlefield, the Outer Northeast battlefield, or Japan On the battlefield, Ronglu's third division was not mobilized, leaving more than 20,000 troops to guard the capital.

In fact, many people knew that Su Yi was waiting for the third division to ask for a fight.

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

Yehenala thought countless times about how to solve the current situation.

The result is...completely unsolvable.

Although the two sides still maintained a certain degree of harmony, Su Yi was almost out of breath on key matters.

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

What is the best ending for her and the little emperor?
Su Yi won three foreign wars, resolved all internal conflicts, completed the Westernization Movement, completed naval construction, resolved all matters at home and abroad, and left 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 optimal solution.

Niu Hulu may have a love brain, but she, Yehenala, has completely faded away.

The most important thing is that the relationship between smart adults is really clear, and it is difficult for both parties to fake it.

Yehenala knew that Su Yi didn't have deep feelings for her. Although it was his first love, his feelings at this time were far less than those of Ci'an.

Of course Cixi had feelings for Su Yi, but they were far less than her love for herself and less than 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 left.

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

The Political Affairs Hall, the Military Aircraft Department, the Six Ministries, and several important yamen were all loyal to Su Yi.

Almost all of the hundreds of thousands of army and navy forces were loyal to Su Yi.

Even the emperor's loyal ministers like Wo Ren gradually changed their mentality.

What hope is there?
As for these Han people and elites who clamored for the emperor to rule personally?
They have no soldiers, so what's the use?

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Minister of Military and Aircraft, Minister of Rites, in the Mansion of Wo Ren, Minister of the Study.

"Prime Minister, are you just going to sit back and watch? Don't you say anything at all? You are the leader of the world."

Woren said: "What do you want me to say? I scolded the Queen Mother in the memorial, shouldn't I kill these scholars?"

"This is clearly revenge. Even if these scholars are involved in imperial examination fraud, they will not be punished to death. At most, they will be deposed from their titles and exiled to the frontier."

"The killings were endless. It was clearly revenge for their proposal to let the emperor rule personally."

"In this case, no one will be allowed to talk about the emperor's personal administration in the future."

Wo Ren was also extremely conflicted. He was definitely not a direct descendant of Su Yi and had always been outside of Su Yi's influence.

However, during the reign of the late Emperor Xianfeng, Wo Ren was always denounced and suppressed, and was not allowed to be reused at all.

On the contrary, after Su Yi took charge of the central government, he, Woren, was promoted many times, and now he has become the prime minister in the study room.

The most important thing is that every position Su Yi assigns to him is very suitable, and the real quantity is the best.

Moreover, over the years, Su Yi and Wo Ren did not have any personal relationship.

Every time, Wo Ren sighed in his heart, if it belonged to a monarch, then Su Yi was truly a first-rate monarch.

Of course, Wo Ren is still a conservative and a die-hard.

However, he still had his place in Su Yi's system to balance the radical power of the Westernizationists.

This allows both parties to see a little more clearly.

The Westernizationists knew that Westernization required a certain degree and that Chinese traditions should not be completely abandoned.

However, Woren has been involved in the great cause of reform for a long time, so he is not so pragmatic, and he understands the necessity of the Westernization Movement.

So during this period of time, Woren went through countless struggles and thoughts.

reached a conclusion.

It is nonsense for the emperor to rule personally.

The emperor will not be able to rule personally for at least ten years.

Let the regent settle everything first and bring the country back on track, and then gradually let the emperor take over, train him for more than ten years, and then let the emperor gradually take over.

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

In addition, Wo Ren was also the emperor's teacher, and he knew the emperor's character and wisdom very well.

This little emperor really cannot be called a wise master, even... worse than the late emperor.

How can such qualifications be accepted by such a large country?
On the contrary, the second elder brother is really suitable.

Smart, generous, and clever.

It's a pity that the second elder brother has gone south.

Wo Ren looked at the ceiling and sighed: "What should I do? What should I do?"

"The young emperor's qualifications are mediocre and his personality is out of control. On the contrary, the regent is wise and powerful, and he is a British king who has not been seen in a century."

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The battlefield of the far north.

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

However, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau's secret weapon, the Su machine gun, really went on the battlefield.

The prototype of this secret weapon is of course the Maxim machine gun. When this weapon was released in history, it did not cause much sensation. It was not until the Battle of the Somme that it shocked the world.

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

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

In the past three years, a large amount of mass production has been completed.

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

As a result, it was not in the ground war that it showed its great power, but in the air battle.

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

This advantage is too great, just like opening a map in the Age of Empires game.

The fog of the battlefield is gone.

Therefore, Tsarist Russia and even the whole of Europe tried their best to create airships.

This time, Tsarist Russia built a total of thirty airships and transported them to the Far East battlefield, intending to compete with China for air supremacy and also complete the transparency of China's military deployment.

But unexpectedly, Su Yi moved the machine gun onto the airship.

As a result, the world's first air battle broke out.

This is an extremely disparate battle, completely crushing.

The airships from both sides were fighting madly in the air, but the Tsarist side could only shoot with rifles, while the airship on Su Yi's side was spraying bullets frantically with its machine guns.

The difference in firepower between the two sides was so great that the Tsarist Russian army watched helplessly as their airships fell one after another.

It was a complete one-sided massacre.

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

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

Then, half a million troops from both sides fought fiercely on a battlefield spanning hundreds of miles.

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Battlefield in Hanoi, Vietnam.

After two months of construction, the Chinese and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians mobilized hundreds of thousands of manpower to finally build an almost exaggerated defense line.

Moreover, the number of troops assembled outside exceeded 60,000.

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

An absolute world-class power.

Coaches Chen Yucheng and Feng Zicai are really careful, careful, and more careful.

Moreover, the weapons and equipment of this southern expeditionary army are also very elite.

There are not only machine guns, rapid-fire cannons, and high-explosive bombs.

Wait, wait, everything.

But even so, the Chinese army still behaved very cautiously.

After knowing that the preparations were complete, the Hanoi counterattack began.

With an order, the war broke out.

The first thing to break out was still an air battle.

The airships from both sides were fighting madly over Hanoi.

result……

It was still a one-sided massacre.

Just a few hours later, almost all the French army's airships 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!

………………

"Boom boom boom boom..."

There was an earth-shattering explosion.

The city walls of Hanoi were blown into the sky.

Immediately afterwards, there was another violent explosion.

Another section of the city wall was blown open.

Immediately afterwards, another section of the city wall was violently exploded.

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

At this point, the city of Hanoi was destroyed.

Chinese troops poured into Hanoi like a tide.

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

but……

It only lasted eleven days!
The main force of the French army collapsed and formally surrendered.

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

From the all-out attack to the end, it only lasted half a month.

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

"This...this isn't that great."

"I've been worried for so long and cautious for months, just...that's it..."

Feng Zicai next to him said: "Be careful, you won't make a big mistake after all."

But he said in his heart, if it were ten years ago, whether it was the army of the Qing Dynasty or you, the Taiping Army, would have tried to fight.

Facing 30,000 French troops, your 150,000-strong army will only be defeated miserably.

Don't look at this battle. In terms of weapons and equipment, firepower density, and even troop superiority, it greatly surpassed the French army.

but……

Many generals still find it incredible, like a dream.
Just... just win?

This, this is the world's top power.

This is a total of 30,000 troops.

Ten years ago, an army of 8,000 foreigners captured the capital and completely destroyed it.

And now we have defeated 30,000 French troops?

We, are we so powerful?

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News of the great victory in the Battle of Hanoi was first transmitted to Shanghai by sea, and then to the capital by telegraph.

It was spread to Ryukyu by sea.

In the Ryukyu Palace, the last shogun Tokugawa Yoshiki couldn't believe it when he saw the battle report at first.

How is this possible?
This is the French Army, a total of 30,000 people.

So defeated?
It must be the Qing Dynasty that is creating fake news to lure me into being deceived.

However, the news coming out is getting more and more detailed.

Finally, the Chinese Navy invited Tokugawa Qingxi to Hanoi to visit the battlefield.

Visit the French prisoners.

Facing this scene, he had to believe it.

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

Then, it's 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 force of China is in the northern battlefield, and the regent even personally commands the northern battlefield.

Then if you don't make a choice, it may be too late.

Bai Feifei's voice on the side also became colder.

"General, our deployment is very clear. Regardless of whether you invite us or not, after we end the war in Vietnam and the war with Tsarist Russia in the north, we will directly attack Japan's homeland."

"Of course, we will not have enough reputation, and the food will look very ugly, but as long as we win the two wars between the North and the South, and defeat the French and Russians, then it won't matter whether the food looks good or not."

"General Tokugawa, your time is running out, but we still have plenty of time."

Finally, Tokugawa Yoshiki, the last shogunate of the shogunate, finally made up his mind, left Ryukyu, and headed for the capital of China with his mission.

half a month later.

Tokugawa celebrated his visit to Beijing and went to the palace to meet the two empress dowagers and the emperor.

The establishment of the government-in-exile was officially announced.

Officially invited Chinese troops to land in Japan to help the shogunate regain power.

Finally, I got this name.

A few days later.

The Chinese Navy officially attacks Tokyo Bay.

The battle against the Japanese mainland has officially begun.

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

Japan's tragic situation has finally arrived.

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Note: Five thousand words are sent here, thank you all, thank you benefactor. (Halo, the goal set yesterday was 8,000 words)
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