C208 ostrich court (2/2)
Everyone in the hall could not believe their own ears. The nine year old Emperor Tongzhi had actually started discussing politics? Furthermore, he criticized the Queen Mother and Uncle Wang the moment he opened his mouth. However, no one dared to refute him, because what he said was the key point that everyone ignored.
”Xiao Letian was born a foreign devil, and now he is in the business at sea. What if we send troops and he finds out? What if he goes to sea on a boat? He has two hundred new troops. If he were to randomly kill them along the coastline of the Qing Dynasty … Hurry, hurry and bring up the globe! ”
Tongzhi circled around the entire hall nervously with the Dragon Throne's face, and not long later the globe was brought over.
”Mother, Uncle Wang … Look, Xiao Letian's new army is a pure western army that is one against ten. If he were to follow the coastline and circle around once … ”
His little finger moved along the land on the map and formed a circular arc. ”Yingkou, Gourd Island, Mountain Customs, Tanggu, Danzhou, Yantai, Qingdao …” Tongzhi's face was covered with sweat as he recounted the names of the cities by the sea on the map.
”To the south, Ningbo, Shanghai, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Qiongzhou... If Xiao Letian was determined to go against the imperial government, he could just lead his troops around the coast and commit murder and arson everywhere, just like the pirates in the past and the current westernization. That is a major event that will shock the entire world! ”
”Hiss …” The leaders of the Qing Dynasty all took in a breath of cold air. The little Emperor's prophecy might really come true, this foreign devil's familiarity with the sea was something no one in the imperial court could compare to.
Yi Yu was stuttering. If that was really the case, then let's not talk about disarmament, Ceng Guofan's Xiang Army would have to rush to the front line of the coast, he … ”He will definitely expand the army. She will expand it to a million and even though she said that she will help the Great Qing to defend the country, he wants to imprison us all …”
”What a vicious scheme!” Who told you this, Huang'er? ”Is it Hairy # 2 …” Ci Xi asked nervously.
Tongzhi shook his head: ”No, Hairy # 2 did not say anything. I learned these things from the west. You all have never heard Er Mao mutter these words before, Xiao Letian knows too much about the oceans, no one in our imperial court can compare to him, so I just casually learned a bit … ”
and the others didn't think of this because they had received the education of the continent since childhood. There was a blind spot in their minds, and that was the blind spot of the ocean. Therefore, they were unable to figure out Xiao Letian's methods. As Tongzhi was a nine year old child, coupled with his interest in Western learning, he already guessed Xiao Letian's plan in a flash.
Ci Xi looked at her son with gratitude, the morehe looked, the more she loved him. In the end, he even lightly caressed her son's shoulders. It seems that I should let my son off a little bit in the future. As a mother, I was really too strict with him in the past.
Thinking about that, Ci Xi nodded his head and replied, ”Huang'er's analysis is not bad.
Tongzhi felt his mother's encouragement, and continued while blushing, ”Assassination is actually not that high of a skill. Whether or not it was a success, put it aside for now, even if it was a success, with Xiao Letian's brain, how could he not prepare for it? ”I'm just afraid that if he dies, his brotherhood would go even crazier. When that happens, things will get even more out of hand …”
”That's right, that's right. The Emperor has really grown up!” Ci An also laughed with gratitude. ”In the end, none of us present here truly understand Xiao Letian. To deal with this kind of person, you still have to be careful …”
At this time, Yi Yeyu frowned and said, ”Will it …” Could it be that this Second Demon was Ceng Guofan's man? What did he do to pave the way for the Zeng Family? This would also explain why Jiu Shuai would use his personal guard cavalry to back Xiao Letian up in the summer … ”
This sentence was like a cold wind blowing across the palace, causing everyone to shiver. If this guess was true, then it meant that Ceng Guofan would definitely not disarm them, and the 500,000 troops under his command would gradually become its private army.
”Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao's military mutiny isn't too far away …”
”It shouldn't be, right? The reason for this unforeseen event was still because Sun Sanhu had acted on his own accord. Otherwise, with Xiao Letian's private army of a few hundred people, he wouldn't dare to take the initiative to attack. Furthermore, the imperial government did not treat him unfairly previously. Fu Hui might have given it to him, and the Industrial Zones might have also asked him to, and he might even have accepted the woman from the Faculty Division.
”I just hate them. These idiots who messed things up forced him to do the opposite …” Ci An was not that pessimistic. Even though she could not say anything, she felt that Xiao Letian and Ceng Guofan were not the same type of people.
The higher ups of the Qing Dynasty took more than four hours to come to a consensus, but the result was so funny that it was treated coldly. When Hun Mao secretly sent the information to Xiao Letian, he angered Xiao Letian.
”What the heck is this?” Cold treatment, that is to say, digging your head into a pile of sand and pretending that nothing had happened? Green Battalion died in vain? Sun Sanhu also gave it to me to play with? ”You're not going to annihilate these two hundred soldiers?”
”Damn it, what kind of government is this? If we encounter something, we will leave it in the government and only the f * cker knows how to hide.” Just close your eyes and pretend like it doesn't exist? ”I'm afraid that your wishful thinking is not going to be good …”