The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and although the city of Nanjing has just calmed down from the war, it has not stopped the enthusiasm of the people for the New Year.The sound of firecrackers was scattered on the streets, and every household was cleaning their houses, wanting the Lord of the Stove to say something good to the Emperor of Heaven.This year is destined to be extraordinary, especially Prince Gong Yixin, who is in charge of the imperial court, has not slept peacefully for several days after being tortured by military newspapers from all over the south of the Yangtze River in the past few days, and as soon as he closes his eyes, he seems to be able to hear the guns of the Qing army.Prince Gong has become more and more convinced that the thief who robbed Zeng Guoquan in the capital last time was assigned by Qiao Zhiqing.Except for the Qingzi army, no one has such a strong firepower."
This family is not good" Prince Gong let out a long sullen breath and stood at the door of the Summer Palace, waiting for the summons of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces.In the past few months, Prince Gong has also been addicted to the regent.If there is about to fall into chaos today, it is as if he is sitting on a brazier.These days, the decrees of the imperial court do not leave the palace, and the governors and governors of the provinces do not take him seriously at all.Prince Gong had no choice but to unite all aspects of the imperial court to jointly give the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces a fold, and asked the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces to come out of the mountain and listen to the government again.The country has weakened to the point that it relies on two weak women to support it."
The Queen Mother sent a decree to summon Prince Gong to advise."
At the gate of the courtyard, a little eunuch with a delicate face came out, and his eyes looked three points brighter than An Dehai.Prince Gong knelt down and saluted, and followed the little eunuch into the gate of the Summer Palace.Since the Manchu Qing Dynasty settled in Beijing, because they have just come out of the deep mountains and old forests, they have not adapted to the hot summer climate of Beijing.Therefore, from the Kangxi period, a large number of royal gardens were built around the city of Beijing to escape the summer.The Summer Palace and the Old Summer Palace are the two most famous royal gardens, but after the foreign devils burned down the Old Summer Palace, the royal family could only choose to spend their days in the Summer Palace.At this time, it was the cold winter wax moon, and the lakes in the Summer Palace were covered with thick ice.Cixi and Ci'an often drove to Wanshou Mountain and played ice games in Kunming Lake at the bottom of the mountain.When Prince Gong was taken all the way to Wanshou Mountain by the little eunuchs, Cixi was being pulled by a group of little eunuchs in an ice cart to have fun in the lake.Unlike the serious expression in the court, she had an innocent smile on her face, and she laughed out loud regardless of her image.Ci'an likes to be quiet, so much so that she doesn't go crazy like Cixi, but wears a thick cloak and sits in a small pavilion by the lake and looks at Cixi with her mouth covered and smiling."
Queen Mother, Prince Gong is here."
The little eunuch whispered in Ci'an's ear, and Ci'an noticed Prince Gong standing outside the pavilion."
Uncle Nine is here, hurry up and reply to the pavilion."
Ci'an got up with a smile and shouted at Prince Gongjiao.In the past few months, she and Cixi have not taken care of political affairs, but they have lived very comfortably.Prince Gong walked in with an embarrassed smile and stood aside.At this time, Cixi also stopped frolicking, put on a fur collar cloak under the service of the maid, and entered the pavilion laughing loudly."
Sister, it's really interesting if you don't go down to play."
Cixi shouted sweetly at Ci'an and sat down opposite Ci'an."
I can't stand that."
Ci'an covered his mouth and smiled, and glanced at Cixi.Of course, Cixi knew that Prince Gong was standing aside, but she just wanted to hang him for a while, and let out the sullenness of the original withdrawal of the curtain and return to the government."
Prince Gong, you don't have a good assistant to the saint in the imperial court, why do you have time to come to us sisters" Cixi glanced at Prince Gong and snorted coldly."
Back to the Queen Mother's words, now the court is in trouble both internally and externally, and the people are struggling to make a living.The whole world is looking forward to the two queen mothers being able to listen to the government again to stabilize the people's hearts.The minister came this time to invite the two queen mothers to come out of the mountain and reorganize the national prestige of our Qing Dynasty. ”Prince Gong replied cautiously with his fists clenched, his face full of embarrassment."
You were the one who asked us to remove the curtain and correct the government, and now you are the one who wants us to listen to the government.Are you our sisters a vase and place it wherever you want" Cixi glared at Prince Gong with a coquettish face, obviously dissatisfied with his original coercion and power struggle."
Queen Mother, the slave is guilty.At the beginning, the Hunan army was strong, and the minions had no choice but to agree to this method of retreating as advance. ”Prince Gong looked panicked, and quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Cixi to apologize."
I have no choice but to retreat into the mourning family and ask you, our sisters have been in power for a few months, and the Hunan army has now been wiped out" Cixi stared at Prince Gong with a bright eye."
The Queen Mother is angry, and now the Hunan army has fled to the wild land of Yunnan.Nowadays, the situation in Yunnan is complicated, with the rebellion of the Hui leader Du Wenxiu and the French troops stationed on the border.And most of them are high mountains and dense forests, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack.In order to preserve his strength, Su Yibo guarded against the rebellion of the Qingzi army.He has led the army back, and now the troops are stationed in Hankou and Wuchang. ”Prince Gong gave a brief introduction to the current situation, and his face was covered with cold sweat."
Having said so much, the Hunan army is not still alive and well.At the beginning, they informed the world that our two sisters were in trouble and wanted to enter Beijing to come to the side of the Qing monarch.As a result, our sisters retreated, didn't they still give up Prince Gong, you can tell me, who is causing trouble to the dynasty" Cixi replied stiffly, and finally let out the fire in her stomach."
Queen Mother, it was the minions who fell for the Zeng brothers, and the minions already knew that they were wrong.Please also ask the Queen Mother to come to the court to calm the world, and the minions will never dare to complain in the future. ”Prince Gong nodded in agreement, not daring to refute at all."
Okay, you go back, my sister and I will go back to the palace tomorrow to preside over the overall situation.Those Han thieves want to turn the sky upside down, but they can't help it. ”Cixi looked at Prince Gong and sneered, and waved at him.Although she and Ci'an were in the Summer Palace, they knew the situation in the court well.I pretended not to know just now, just to vent my evil anger.Let Prince Gong and the royal family understand who is the head of the Qing Dynasty.Wei Guodong, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, has been the mayor of Nanjing for a month, and he has lived up to Qiao Zhiqing's trust and single-handedly pulled up a team.The first Nanjing government was formed, and all of them were newcomers selected from Huaxing Academy.With Wei Guodong's active mediation, most of the displaced people outside Nanjing were properly resettled when the New Year arrived.Thanks to the expansion of the naval division and artillery brigades, more than 30,000 young and middle-aged people were recruited among the displaced people.Since the naval division captured six warships of foreign devils, two more 5,000-ton ironclad warships were launched at the Jiangnan Shipyard at the same time.Seeing that the time was ripe, Qiao Zhiqing finally expanded the naval forces of two divisions and officially renamed the naval army "Navy".This name is not simple, and at this moment it means that the navy is about to go out of the inland rivers and lakes and rush to the ocean.Huang Wenzhong was also officially promoted to the first commander of the navy.At the same time, 5,000 mortars and 1,000 field guns specially made by the Jiangnan Military Factory for the Qing Army were also delivered.The artillery brigade was officially expanded into an artillery division, with more than 10,000 people under its jurisdiction, with a total of more than 6,000 mortars and more than 2,000 field guns.Qiao Zhiqing personally served as the division commander, and according to the current conditions, the artillery division was assigned, and each corps was equipped with an artillery regiment to fight together.In addition to the dispersal of displaced people to the army, the city's infrastructure and sanitation and medical care have also recruited a large number of young men and women.Nanjing's first regular military hospital was also formally established and named Jiangnan Military Hospital.The entire hospital was renovated from the former Ganwang Mansion.Hong Renji also has no opinion, now that Nanjing City is no longer the Nanjing of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Ganwang Mansion naturally has nothing to do with him.There are more than 10,000 wards in the entire military hospital, and the wings of the Ganwang Mansion have also been transformed into single wards one by one.After two years of practice, the attending physician of the Military Medical Department has a very strong professional level, and Huaxing Academy has also opened a major in Western medicine, and the first batch of thousands of students have naturally embarked on their posts.Most of the women from outside the city were recruited to work as nurses and cleaners in hospitals, absorbing tens of thousands of women.Because after the Spring Festival, Qiao Zhiqing will officially establish the country, so there are a lot of projects to be built in Nanjing.Among them is the People's Square in front of the presidential palace, which is the size of a football field, and is all paved with terrazzo marble.In front of the square, a central axis avenue running from east to west and north to south was built, which was widened along the former official road.All are paved with asphalt, the road is about 30 meters wide, and there are two parts: branch lanes and sidewalks.From outside the presidential palace to the north gate, it is more than 20 miles long.Because the construction period is very tight, a large number of migrant workers have been recruited to join.The wages of these migrant workers are not much, only one tael of silver a month.But take care of food and shelter, the homeless people are already long live the mountain.After they successfully survived the cold winter and the project was completed, they were all resettled in the rural areas of various cities and counties in Jiangsu.Under the leadership of Hong Renji, the administrative area of Jiangsu Province has been re-surveyed according to the specific local conditions.It is roughly the same as the administrative division of the previous Qing court, but it has been adjusted in some places.It also mixed with a lot of Qiao Zhiqing's opinions, such as the formal merger of Wuxi County and Jinkui County between Changzhou and Suzhou to form a new big city, Jinkui City.For example, the county was withdrawn and the city was replaced, and Changzhou County, Wu County, and Yuanhe County around Suzhou Prefecture were all included in the jurisdiction of Suzhou City, Kunshan City, and Taicang City.After a month of running-in, except for the prefectures and counties in Jiangbei that have not been recovered, the officials of the newly planned cities and counties in Jiangsu Province have all taken up their posts.Most of these officials are graduates of Huaxing Academy, which also makes Huaxing Academy famous, and students who are studying come in droves, all of whom want to become officials and half-officials in various places after further their studies in Huaxing Academy.Although there are still more than 1,000 displaced people from all directions outside Nanjing every day, under the coordination of various departments, no one starves to death.After the interior of Nanjing City stabilized, Qiao Zhiqing gave the order to attack the armies, and the battle to pacify Jiangnan also began
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