C965 Outside and Within (1/2)
After Yang Zhi left, the meeting for the Yangxin Palace did not disperse. Li Lianying changed the soup for the princes, this was not just for show, everyone had to drink this due to the grace of the empress dowager.
”It's not easy to get together. No matter how hard we work, we'll talk about whatever we need to discuss. It's not like we'll be able to slack off even if it's difficult …”
After taking a few mouthfuls of soup, all the officials recovered a bit of their Essence and raised their heads to say, ”Right now, the empire is attacking from both inside and outside, with hundreds of thousands of Xiang Army in the south and Xiao Letian eyeing them covetously from the East Sea, even His Majesty is leaving the capital to travel the world, this is a situation that the empire has not seen for a hundred years …”
The entire region of Xinjiang has been completely eroded. Not only did General T?pchin of Black Dragon River send over an urgent military message ten days ago, the remaining citizens of the East bank of the Wusuli River and the Russian have clashed multiple times. It is said that several villages have already been massacred.
”What?” ”How dare you …” After all, the northeast of the Manchu was the place where the Manchu was flourished, and the Wusuli River was the home of the Hassie girl. The Yehonala tribe that Ci Xi was at was born here.
Eight years ago, the Russian took the opportunity to cut off the land east of the Wusuli River. Although the imperial government had knocked down all of their teeth and swallowed all of their blood, the anger in their hearts had not yet subsided.
Ci Xi saw the change in the atmosphere in the Yangxin Palace, so he hurriedly said, ”When we are outside the city, we will settle the internal matters. Let's discuss the problems that we are facing now, let's slow down the battle in the Northeast and Northwest, as long as the imperial government is around, there will be a solution!”
Everyone thought that they could do nothing about it. Although they were angry, this was not the time to turn hostile with Russian. Even if they wanted to, they might not be able to do so.
Since they could not talk about external problems, then they could only talk about internal problems. Right now, the inner sect Twisted Army and Long-hair had completely calmed down, and with Zuo Zongtang's army suppressing Gan Shan's return, it would only be a matter of time. As for the distant Xinjiang, it would also be a problem for Zuo Jigao.
Furthermore, the Great Wall's defense system built by the Han Chinese in the past thousand years was still there. As long as the Dunhuang of the Anxi Province could defend both sides of the wall, then the rebel army would not be able to threaten the Central Plains anymore.
After all, Ceng Guofan and Xiao Letian were the two most troublesome people to deal with, although the old fox Ceng Guofan was not easy to deal with, he had always been loyal to his subjects.
His true opponent was still Xiao Letian!
But Xiao Letian was also not an easy target. If one were to say that Ceng Guofan was an old cunning fox, then Xiao Letian would be a little fox.
90% of the officials in the imperial court hoped that Xiao Letian would be done for. Maybe some of them wanted him to die, while the others wanted him to fall, but no matter what, they did not wish for such a force to exist.
This Xiao Letian was simply like a ferocious black fish in a pond. His existence made all the goldfish carp feel threatened.