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Afterwards, the Empress Dowager Cixi really read the article several times. Although every time she read it, she was very tired and terrified, but she still read the article again and again. At the same time, her understanding of the chaotic party called Zhang Jiang changed again.

"I originally thought that Zhang Jiang was a person who had read a lot of books, but he was too angry. Now I read this article and turned out to be a hero. No, this article shouldn't be written by Zhang Jiang, at least in it. It doesn't mean that he owns. A person who holds Chinese traditional studies and lectures on revolution all day does not have such deep thoughts. There must be other people behind him, and there is also a terrible hero hidden behind him." Cixi couldn't help thinking like this.

Cixi assigned the words "hero" to the person who wrote the article because in this article, that person showed a deep understanding of the current situation and the things behind the chaos. Some of them even surpassed Cixi by a lot, and Cixi was deeply inspired by reading it in many places.

This article did not swear at Cixi. If she did so, she would laugh at most. Anyway, more people scolded her. What's insidious and vicious, what is Sichen the chicken, what is the filthy harem, what is traitorous for glory, what is it that harms the country and the people. There are so many kinds, nothing new.

However, this article is not the same. It only coldly traces the political actions of Cixi and those around her: her allies and her opponents. And made a cold analysis of the interest entanglement after these political actions, and explained why Cixi did these actions, the purpose of these actions, the results, and even if they did not do so and adopted other measures, what kind of actions they might receive. The effect analysis is clear.

However, it was this kind of analysis that made Cixi extremely frightened, because she found that all her deeds were completely invisible in this article, and the reason for her doing this was also clear to the other party, but she was very concerned about it. The other party knows nothing. This asymmetry is naturally scary. But this is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that the opponent also seriously analyzed her efforts and seriously deduced the conclusion that she came to. This conclusion is that the contradiction between Cixi and Guangxu is irreconcilable. If Cixi wants to continue her life's career-as much as possible to preserve the Manchurian Qing Dynasty, then she must be the most threatening to this before she dies. Internal factors-Emperor Guangxu killed. Otherwise, I'm afraid that Cixi's body has not had time to be buried in the grave, and the Qing Dynasty that she dedicated to defending will be buried first.

However, if Cixi chooses to kill Emperor Guangxu and establish another emperor, it is definitely not a good choice. Especially after this article. Today's Manchu can still be maintained, to a large extent, only by wearing the skin of the court's loyalty and filial piety. Once Emperor Guangxu died before Cixi as predicted in this article, all kinds of unfaithfulness and unfilial piety within the royal family were directly exposed to the people of the world, and the so-called "loyalty, filial piety and great justice" could no longer be put on the skin.

Of course, if there is enough power in the hands of the Manchu court, this is actually not a big problem. For example, Li Shimin killed Brother Own and imprisoned Daddy Own. What he did was not much different from Emperor Sui Yang, but he had the power in his hands, so he eventually became the King of Ming Dynasty. More recently, such as those emperors of the previous generations of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there are also many such emperors, such as Nurhachi's braid, his sons forced his eldest wife to death together, and then the old eight emperors Taiji killed several more. Brother; and then when Huang Taiji died, his brother Dorgon went to bully Huang Taiji's widow again, and played a story of "the queen dowager marries". Later, there will be the "Four Masters" of our brothers and friends, who traveled all over the world in the south of the Yangtze River six times, and the "Shenquan Old Man" who likes to put barrage on cultural relics. In short, none of them are fine. However, because of their power, they all became Mingjun.

However, the Manchu court nowadays has no such conditions. Except for the skin, it has no decent power anymore. Once the skin is lost, it will naturally become an independent husband and a thief, and everyone has to overthrow it. That's it. This article also unobtrusively presented such a result. And tell everyone that the only choices Cixi can make are these two, and no matter which choice she makes, it is tantamount to pronouncing the death penalty of Manqing. Even which one Cixi will choose, this article has made a detailed analysis and prediction. This article finally pointed out that there is no doubt that Cixi will choose to kill Guangxu and establish a new monarch, even if this article has exposed her intentions. Because the two evils are the lesser of the two, losing the righteous skin, the Qing Dynasty may be able to survive for a while, at least, even if the local governors do not put the imperial court to put in one's eyes, even if the Southern Revolutionary Party makes trouble again. At least, in the north, near the capital, the Manchu Dynasty still has a little power, which can barely be maintained, although it will probably not last long. But if Guangxu is allowed to mess around and internal struggles together, it is almost certain that the Qing Dynasty will be over immediately.

There are no conspiracies, no traps, and no scams in this article, so all the intentions are clearly laid out in the open. The revolutionaries admitted that they were waiting for the Qing Dynasty to lose morale or civil strife, and then take the opportunity to rebel and achieve their goal of expelling the Tartars and restoring China.

This is not a conspiracy, this is a conspiracy. But it is the most unstoppable. Because the force that promotes Yangmou is not just a liberation society, or even the power of the Alliance, or even the forces that often follow them, but the general trend of the entire world. In the face of such strength, Cixi felt that she was so weak for the first time.

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Cixi is definitely not the only one who is studying this article seriously, and most of the military ministers have also read this article. For example, the chief minister of military affairs, Qing prince Aixinjueluo Yiqiu, took his own son to study this article as well.

Aixinjueluo Yiqiu, on the one hand, was determined to hold the Empress Dowager Cixi in the Coup d’état during the Wuxu d’état. During the establishment of the Crown Prince, he firmly supported the Empress Dowager Cixi to abolish Guangxu and establish a new monarch. During the invasion of China, he represented the Qing government and signed the traitorous "Xin Chou Treaty", suggesting that the Qing government and foreigners join forces to suppress the Boxer Movement, and served as Minister of Military Aircraft since 1903, and after serving as Chief Minister of Military Aircraft in 1904, he did nothing. In addition to kneeling to receive Cixi's ambitions, he would only openly sell Guan Yujue, so he was criticized. For example, Yuan Shikai's step-by-step promotion was aided by Yikui. The reason why Yikui helped Yuan Shikai speak everywhere, most later generations believed that it was because Yuan Shikai's silver was at work. Therefore, Cai Dongfan, who wrote "The History of the Qing Dynasty", commented on Yiqiu in this way, saying, "The Qing prince Yiqiu is a criminal official of the Qing Dynasty, that is, he is a member of the Yuan family." And the last emperor Puyi also said many times that Yiqiu “received Yuan Shikai’s money and persuaded the Queen Mother to give up the country, and the world of the Qing Dynasty for more than two hundred years was ruined in Yiqiu's hands.” Even after Yiqiu's death, he was ready to give him a posthumous title. At that time, Pu Yi personally prepared for him the four words "absurd, ugly, secluded, and fierce" for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to choose.

"Zai Zhen, what do you think of this article?" Yi Jiao asked.

"Ama, the person who wrote this article is really vicious!" Aixinjueluo Zaizhen replied.

"I'm not talking about this." Yiqiang shook his head and said with a slight dissatisfaction. "There are only you and my father and son, so you can honestly say, right?"

"Ama...I think...the Queen Mother probably has no other way to go." Zai Zhen's voice was trembling, "If the real Queen Mother...the emperor is still...I'm afraid..."

"I'm afraid that the first person the emperor wants to kill is me, and Yuan Shikai and Rong Lu will be the second round!" Yi Kiao said sharply, his eyes gleaming, there is no ordinary appearance of the only one.

"Ama..."

"The queen mother will not let the emperor have any chance. She knows very well that if the emperor comes out in the morning, I am afraid that there will be a large number of governors in the Qing Dynasty who will rebel. Others will not say, Yuan Shikai and his Beiyang army But I will never watch the emperor’s sword hit the owner! Those foreigners will not allow it. I really want the emperor to come out. If he comes out today, the Qing Dynasty will die tomorrow!"

"Ama..." Zai Zhen was so frightened by his father's words that he couldn't speak.

"The Queen Mother also knows this, so don't worry, one day, the emperor will definitely..." Yi Kou said gloomily.

"But...Ama...With this article, if something like this happens again, then..." Zai Zhen said stubbornly.

"The Qing Dynasty will be over sooner or later, right?" Yikui looked at his son with slanted eyes, "You can see this, very good. This great Qing country will be over sooner or later. I have been a job for so many years. , I don’t know? It’s nothing more than how it ended. Did you die in the rebellious party, or in the princes, or in the powers? After the Gengzi Year, the Queen Mother said, "Measure the material power of China, and make love with the country." It is to prove to the great powers that the Qing Dynasty is still useful to them. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty did not die in the great powers. Now it is killed by the rebellious party or by the princes. If we die by the rebellious party, how many of us can survive? Yu princes, for fame considerations, we might have a good result. In addition, Zai Zhen, you have recently stopped your errands anyway. It is better to go to Tianjin, find a place in the concession over there, and secretly We transferred those things over there. Hehe, some people say, I have been collecting Yuan Shikai’s money, and I have raised a Cao Cao to the court alive. Hehe, I don’t raise Yuan Shikai, Cao Cao, naturally there are other things. Cao Cao came out. At any rate, this Cao Cao was raised by me. When that day comes, I have to give us a way out. Do you understand?"

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