Chapter 916

In the morning of April 8, 1881, Beijing Zhongcui palace!

Jingyi, the little maid of the palace, walks around the yard, and finally bites her teeth. She opens the Palace door and wants to rush out.

Many bodyguards outside the palace gate stop it. Eunuch Li guizheng comes from a distance with a food box. Seeing this situation, he rushes forward and pulls Jingyi, who is held by the guards, behind him.

"Jingyi! What are you going to do if you don't take good care of the Empress Dowager in the palace? "

Jingyi looks at Li Gui awkwardly. Li Gui's back turns to the guard and looks at Jingyi in a hurry.

In desperation, Jingyi knelt down and said to Li Gui:

"Duke Li, the Empress Dowager is seriously ill. I want to go to the imperial doctor to have a look!"

"Presumptuous! How can the imperial doctor listen to your call? " After a slight pause, Li Gui said: "I'm waiting for the Empress Dowager today. She has already known the Empress Dowager's condition. They are very close to each other. When the time comes, they will arrange a suitable doctor to check. You can go back quickly and take good care of the Empress Dowager. If you miss something, be careful of your life!"

With that, Li Gui quickly steps forward, directly pulls Jingyi back to Zhongcui palace, and closes the Palace door tightly!

"Granny, why are you so stupid? The outside is the Empress Dowager of the Western Palace. Now the palace wall is under the control of yehenara. She calls secretly. If anyone in Zhongcui palace wants to leave, the guards can kill him. The charge is theft! " Li Gui lay in Jingyi's ear and gently reprimanded.

Jingyi is only 15 years old. She is also a smart servant girl.

Naturally, she knew the situation of her own side, but now the Empress Dowager of the East Palace was critically ill. If she didn't find someone to treat her, she might really die!

At this moment, someone outside the palace suddenly called out:

"the Empress Dowager is here!"

Li Gui and Jing Yi turned pale. They quickly opened the Palace door and knelt down to greet each other!

Cixi, the Empress Dowager of the west, will be in her prime at the age of 47.

She strolled into the courtyard of Zhongcui palace, followed by two guards with swords and Li Lianying, the eunuch's chief manager.

In fact, eunuch Li Gui and Li Lianying have some relatives, but Li guipingri is with empress dowager Ci'an, and Li Lianying is Cixi's slave!

On the surface, they are hostile, but in private, they are harmonious and close!

Life in the court is not easy for eunuchs. If there is no secret network, it is difficult to mix.

Masters are enemies, but slaves can be friends. They can report information to each other so that they can ask for credit in front of their masters. This is also a way of life.

At this time, Li Gui and Jing Yi both knelt on the ground. Cixi didn't even look at them. They walked directly into the bedroom of Zhongcui palace.

Jing Yi is a little nervous after seeing it. She gets up in a hurry and follows up!

Seeing this, Li Lianying, the chief manager, said angrily: "brave slave, who let you get up!"

At this time, several eunuchs and maids of Zhongcui palace all ran to the courtyard to meet Cixi. They had been kneeling on the ground. When they heard Li Lianying's roar, they were so scared that they could not even get out of the atmosphere.

Only the little maid of honor, Jingyi, was still standing there.

The Empress Dowager turned around and looked at Jingyi. Then she said with a smile, "Lianying, my sister is recuperating. You will disturb her Qingxiu if you shout like this. Don't you shut up?"

After listening to the master's words, Li Lianying fell on her knees and claimed that the slave should die.

Cixi ignored him and said to Jingyi, "are you Jingyi, the maid next to your sister? Come in with me. My sister's condition is getting worse now. I don't feel at ease because there is no one to take care of her. "

After that, Cixi pushed open the door and went straight in, ignoring the people kneeling outside.

Jingyi bit her teeth and finally followed her into the door!

The bedroom was a little dark. On the big bed, a woman was lying weakly. Beside her, there was a baby that looked just a few days old.

Jingyi enters the room and quickly lights the candle. Then she runs to the bedside and stands with her head down without saying a word.

The Empress Dowager slowly walked around the room, finally sat down on the chair, sighed and then said:

"it's a pity that I haven't come here for a few days, and I feel that my sister's bedroom seems to be down a lot."

"I've given you all the power in the palace. What else do you want?" The woman on the bed coughed weakly, then said weakly.

"I don't want to do anything, but it's a pity! Elder sister, it seems that I am two years older than you, but I call you elder sister for so many years! After my sister is gone, I may be alone! My elder sister has been hiding in this Zhongcui palace for several months. The ministers have doubted it! Ah, after all, you are the Empress Dowager of the eastern palace. You should have been respected in the harem, but now you are a disgrace! Elder sister, I'm a little afraid. I'm afraid that your affairs will leak out and lose the face of the emperor. What do you say to do? " Empress Dowager Cixi's tone is sad, it seems that she is really worried."Well, yehenara, do you still have the face of the former Emperor in your eyes? I heard that nazengjize signed the Ili treaty and the revised land trade regulations with Russia more than two months ago. According to these two treaties, although we can take back Ili and no longer cede the Tekes River, the area west of the Horgos river will be occupied by the tsarist Russia. How could the imperial court even pay 50000 taels of silver to the tsarist Russia? Are you so cowardly and worthy of the emperor The tone of Empress Dowager Ci'an was a little excited and coughed again.

Cixi's eyes were indifferent. After a long time, she said in a low voice:

"I have no choice but to fight again and again. In order to make the war subside, I can only make reparations by cutting the land! I did this just to protect the foundation of Qing Dynasty. Elder sister, don't get far away from the topic. Let me tell you one thing. I've killed the bodyguard who adulterated with you. Now no one in the world knows your scandal except the people in Zhongcui Palace at this time! The reason why I come here today is to say goodbye to you! Lian Ying is my man. He will keep this secret for you all his life when he is with me. Is there anything else you want to say before you are temporary

She finally understood that Cixi had controlled many rights in the past few months. This time, she came to kill her.

The eastern and Western palaces have been listening to the government for several years. As the empress of Xianfeng, Ci'an has been suppressing the empress Cixi.

Now everything has changed. She made a mistake and was caught by others. In order to save face, she had to give up power.

Without the mind to pay attention to the affairs of the country, Ci'an looked at the baby sleeping beside him, and there were tears in his eyes!

After a long time, she looked up at Cixi and said in a hoarse voice:

"sister, can you let this child go? You can ask Li Lianying to adopt him. He is innocent and he doesn't know anything! Let him be an ordinary bodyguard in the palace in the future, OK? Or just send him to the people and be an ordinary person? "

Cixi frowned slightly and did not speak.

Ci'an slowly climbed down from the bed, knelt down, crawled to Cixi, kowtowed and said, "sister, you and I have been widows for more than 20 years! I know that you should have some infidelity in the palace these years, but I didn't send someone to investigate you deliberately, so I couldn't catch hold of you!

Now I lose! I don't know!

But can you look at Zai Chun's face and open up to me?

I used to treat your children sincerely in those years. Now can you let my children go? "

Looking at the tearful Ci'an, Cixi frowned more tightly and recalled the past.

After he entered the palace, he was granted the title of Yigui. The next year, he was granted the title of Yipin. Four years later, he was born the eldest son of the emperor, aixinjueluozaichun.

After the death of emperor Xianfeng, Zaichun succeeded to the throne, that is, Emperor Tongzhi.

As Tongzhi's own mother, she became the empress dowager, while Ci'an became the Empress Dowager. The situation of the empress dowagers of the eastern and Western palaces listening to the government from behind the curtain was formed, and the fight between the Empresses of the eastern and Western palaces began!

Now zaidian, the son of Prince Chun, is Datong, and his own son Zaichun has been dead for several years.

At that time, Ci'an really took good care of Zaichun.

In a word, Ci'an is a qualified empress dowager. She is virtuous and has the ability to govern the country!

But she is a person who has a strong desire for power. Cixi has to admit that she has been looking forward to the day when she can monopolize power!

When this day is right in front of us, Cixi is a little lonely.

She doesn't like Ci'an because she is always a woman who is above her power.

She also likes Ci'an, because since emperor Xianfeng died, she and this woman have been accompanying each other for more than 20 years!

After pondering for a long time, Cixi finally nodded her head. She stood up and prepared to leave. When she came to the door, she stopped and said:

"sister, sister is leaving!

At dusk, I will ask Lian Ying to take the baby away and bring you the last meal!

Lian Ying is a slave beside me. She is too dazzling.

He seems to have some relatives with the slave Li Gui around you. I heard that Li Gui already has two adopted sons. How about this? Let Li Gui have another adopted son, which is called Li Gui San Hao!

Tonight, in Zhongcui palace, the Empress Dowager of the east palace will die suddenly. All the eunuchs and maids in Zhongcui palace need to be buried with them!

Li Lianying will adopt Li Gui's three adopted sons. After that, there is no story or legend about the Empress Dowager of Donggong!

Sister, what a story like this? "

Empress Dowager Ci'an had a look of joy on her face. She knelt down behind Empress Dowager Cixi and said in a trembling voice:

"Niu Hu, Lu Ruifen, congratulations to the Empress Dowager!"

Cixi's face finally showed a smile of victory. She walked out of her bedroom, and then walked out of Zhongcui palace with Li Lianying.

"From now on, no one is allowed to enter or come out. Those who disobey orders will be executed!"

This is Cixi's last words to a group of bodyguards when she left Zhongcui palace!From today on, it's all over.

And today is a new beginning!

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