I Evolved The Heavens

Chapter 66 Two Women

Beijing, Forbidden City.

Cixi is enjoying breakfast. Her breakfast is very rich. There are seven or eight kinds of porridges alone, such as rice porridge, Yutian red rice, Jiangnan fragrant glutinous rice, barley rice, eight-treasure lotus seed porridge and so on.

There are also a variety of tea soups, desserts, cakes, soy products, stewed products, etc., there are fifty to sixty kinds.

At this time, a little eunuch rushed in, making Cixi’s chopsticks tremble, and the stewed duck liver fell on her body.

The expressions of the surrounding eunuchs and maids changed drastically, as if they had seen something frightening.

Before the master became angry, Li Lianying stood up and pointed and cursed: “Damn dog minion, ran into Lafayette. Come on, drag my father-in-law out and beat him to death.”

The little eunuch turned pale with fright. He quickly knelt down and kowtowed his head begging for mercy: “Lord Lafayette forgive me, Lafayette forgive me. There is a serious situation that has happened, and the slave dare not neglect.”

Cixi’s expression was sullen, and she let the maid beside her wipe her clothes, and said lightly: “Let’s talk about it, what’s the major situation.”

The little eunuch held a piece of paper in both hands and said, “Lafayette, this is an urgent call from Guangzhou. It said that last night, six people including the governor, admiral and chief envoy of Guangdong were all killed overnight. ”

Cixi’s face changed, and he asked hurriedly, “What’s the matter, it’s so good, why are they killed overnight? Also, are their guards all furnishings, and they can’t even protect themselves?”

Li Lianying was also very frightened. He quickly took the translation and passed it to Cixi.

Among the major governors of the Manchu and Qing dynasties, the governors of Guangdong and Guangxi rank third, and their status is only under the governors of Zhili and Liangjiang.

Such officials in frontiers have been killed, and the whole ruling and opposition parties will be shaken.

Where the little eunuch knew the reason, he was also a messenger.

Cixi took over the translation and quickly read it.

In addition to saying that the governor and others were assassinated, he also asked the court to send someone to the south to preside over the overall situation as soon as possible. At the same time, he also guessed that it might be the White Lotus Sect.

After Cixi finished reading, she just put down the translator, when another little eunuch trot in hastily.

He stepped forward and bowed and said, “Lafayette, there is an urgent call from Guangzhou, and the White Lotus Church is rampant and is attacking foreign consulates. Because the dragons have no leader, the officers and soldiers of Yamen and the local garrison cannot receive orders, so they dare not send troops to suppress them.”

Cixi was shocked when she heard the words.

If the Governor was assassinated, she was only frightened; then the consulates were besieged by the White Lotus Cult, then she was frightened.

The Governors are slaves, and if you kill you will kill them.

But the foreigners were killed, wouldn’t that give the foreigners an excuse to start a war?

“Come on, let’s announce that Li Zhongtang will enter the palace!”

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Foshan, a yard somewhere.

After Xiao Yunfei heard that Yang Yi came back from the tour, it came to Foshan in secret, and wanted to meet Yang Yi to discuss the next cooperation, hoping that the other party could introduce them the machinery and equipment to make artillery.

This time with her, and her grandma Hong Xuanjiao.

Hong Xuanjiao’s main purpose here is to meet Yang Yi, and it is best to be able to subdue the other party for his own use.

Although Yang Yi has achieved extraordinary achievements, in the eyes of Hong Xuanjiao, he is just an individual.

It’s just a pity that when they first came to Foshan, they heard that Yang Yi had gone to Guangzhou.

Concubine Xiao Yun played Fist Technique several times in the yard. She was about to accompany her grandma to have breakfast when she saw Xiao Songlin, the person in charge of connecting with Yang Rui, hurriedly.

“Uncle Songlin, what is so urgent?”

Xiao Songlin took out a letter from his arms, and said in a deep voice, “Princess, this is the letter Yang Rui personally delivered to me last night. It is Yang Yi’s and requires me to personally deliver it to you as soon as possible. It’s just past four o’clock in the morning last night, I’m not good to disturb you, so I just delivered it now.”

Concubine Xiao Yun looked solemn, she tore open the envelope after receiving the letter.

Yang Yi asked Yang Rui to deliver the letter overnight. It must have happened.

Concubine Xiao Yun took out the letter paper and read the ten lines at a glance.

She was surprised and delighted that Yang Yi and the others were about to rebel right away, but they seemed to be in a hurry.

As for how to choose, she still needs to discuss with her grandma.

“Uncle Songlin, take a break first. I’m going to discuss things with grandma.”

When Concubine Xiao Yun finished speaking, she turned around and left quickly.

She soon found grandma Hong Xuanjiao, and Yang said on the letter paper in her hand: “Grandma, Yang Yi wrote a letter, saying that they are going to rebel, and ask if we want to participate together?”

“What? They’re going to be upset. Why didn’t they move at all before? Let me have a look.”

Although Hong Xuanjiao is over sixty years old, she still looks like she is in her forties.

She looked solemn, took the letter paper and looked at it quickly.

Soon, Hong Xuanjiao put down the letter paper and said solemnly, “Concubine Yun, what do you think?”

Concubine Xiao Yun’s beautiful eyes gleamed with wisdom, and she slowly said, “Grandma, I think so. With our current strength, it’s not enough to shake the Manchu Qing. Unless we can secretly develop for ten or eight years. Yes, we may be able to accumulate a certain level of strength. After all, our background is too weak.”

Since the Tianjing was breached, the Manchus had not stopped pursuing and killing the rest of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Hong Xuanjiao has worked hard for more than 20 years, and now there are only about 3,000 people that can be mobilized. All of these people are hidden in the mountains by her to avoid leaks.

It is not that they have never thought that, like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, they will grow stronger in battle.

But in the end, they were still negative.

Because the early growth of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was supported by many people.

But by the late stage, they have lost popular support.

If you still use the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, I am afraid it will not be the support of the people, but the boycott.

Concubine Xiao Yun paused and continued: “But Yang Yi is different. He has enough money. There are more than 100,000 employees in the factory located in various prefectures and counties. Once there are enough muskets, it is not difficult for them to occupy Guangdong in an instant.

By then sitting on the elder land of Guangdong, and being able to resist the imperial army by virtue of the natural dangers of Nanling, they are not without the opportunity to develop and grow, and then sweep the world.

So the granddaughter’s idea is to join them, and then use their power to develop.

As long as we have enough troops in our hands, whether we choose to rely on them or do it ourselves, we have enough choice instead of being trapped on the mountain like we are now. ”

Hong Xuanjiao nodded appreciatively and said: “Concubine Yun, you have analyzed well. If that is the case, then do what you want. Inform your hometown to deliver 7,000 muskets as soon as possible. Xiao Ziying assembles urgently and waits for us at any time. Command to attack Zhaoqing.”

They are hiding in the Tianding Mountain, and the city of Zhaoqing is nearby.

As a rebel leader, Hong Xuanjiao knew the importance of the base area better than anyone, so she chose Zhaoqing, the nearest to them, when she couldn’t get in touch with Foshan.

With a base, they can collect money, recruit people, and grow their strength quickly.

As for the 7,000 muskets shipped, they were naturally lent to Yang Yi.

After all, they have only 3,000 people, but there are already more than 10,000 guns in stock. These guns can be used to make conditions.

Concubine Xiao Yun’s eyes were bright, showing eager excitement, and nodded: “Okay grandma, I will make arrangements. By the way, grandma, Yang Yi asked to meet tomorrow. Are you going to see him?”

Hong Xuanjiao nodded and said, “It’s okay. Such a young talent, the old man would like to see him too.”