The capital was martial law, and the five cities sent troops to guard the war. In addition, the peace agreement failed. It is said that foreigners had sent troops north from Tianjin, and the vanguard had approached Tongzhou. The officials, gentry and people in the city were in a panic and were startled in a day.

Zhou Zupei and others felt that Mingyuan was remote in the west of the capital, and the situation was urgent, so they wanted to ask the emperor to take the opportunity to visit the palace. First, they recommended Prince Gong to come in to see him. How dare Prince Gong take this lead? He said that the emperor was partial and honest. Even if he went there, he would not be able to obtain approval. Zhou Zupei and others saw that Prince Gong was unwilling to go there, so they simply submitted a memorial. The wording was extremely sincere. After the presentation was submitted, it seemed like a stone sinking into the sea. Seeing that he was about to be kept again, they submitted a memorial again.

Seeing the memorials on the ministers and looking at the secret memorials on Senggelinqin yesterday afternoon, Xianfeng finally remembered Han Xiufeng and ordered Han Xiufeng to come to see him.

After not seeing each other for more than ten days, the emperor became haggard again. After Han Xiufeng took Sheng'an to court, he couldn't help but reminded: "Your Majesty, the more you need to take care of the dragon body!"

"I'm very good. Let's take a look at these memorials first." Han Xiufeng was not Jia Zhen, a pedantic person like Zhou Zupei and Weng Xincun. Xianfeng had no scruples. While signaling Datou to give the memorials to Han Xiufeng, he started drinking again.

The palace was not only full of alcohol, but also mixed with the smell of smoke. Although I had heard Datou say it, Han Xiufeng still couldn't believe that the emperor, who was ambitious and worked hard to govern the emperor half a year ago, not only drank alcohol all day long to relieve his sorrows and even became addicted to smoking, but he felt so uncomfortable.

"Look at it quickly, I'm busy," Xianfeng urged impatiently.

Han Xiufeng recovered from his senses and hurriedly said, "I obey the order, I will see it."

I didn't know if I didn't look at it, but I was shocked when I saw it. These were actually several completely opposite notes.

Zhou Zupei, Weng Xincun and even Wen Xiang jointly asked the emperor to return to the Forbidden City to calm the people's hearts. Senggelinqin was not sure whether he could resist the British and Buddhist coalition forces whose vanguard had approached Tongzhou, so he asked the emperor to patrol Mulan.

"Emperor, I've finished reading." Seeing that the emperor was silent, Han Xiufeng calmed down and continued: "The ancients said that a gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall, let alone, you, I think you should make plans early."

"This is such a big deal, I have to let me think about it again." Xianfeng put down his wine glass and said listlessly: "But as my dear said, you might as well make some preparations first."

"The Emperor's Holy Spirit."

"You just went to the office for a foreign affairs office and were familiar with the situation along the way. Baofeng was diligent in his work and was deeply loved by me. You should discuss with Baofeng first, prepare and do it cheaply, and handle it properly."

"I obey the order."

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There are several ministers in charge of the Office of Internal Affairs. Han Xiufeng did not expect that the emperor would choose Baofeng instead of Wenfeng, but it is hard to say that, so he could only go find Baofeng immediately.

As soon as he left, the emperor summoned all the princes, grand clerks and military ministers to come in and let them see the secret letters on Senggelinqin. Unexpectedly, a stone caused a stir. Most princes, including Prince Gong, tried their best to dissuade them. Seeing that the Minister of the Interior Office, Bao Yan ordered Shuntian Prefecture and the Infantry Commander's Office to send four missions to search for carriages and horses. The next day, he heard that the emperor ordered the emperor's ministers and officials on duty to go to court and wait for the court to stand by. The more he was forced to visit the court, the more he was forced to go to the six ministries and nine ministers and the nine ministers and the officials on duty.

Such a big disturbance soon spread to the harem.

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Ren Yuer had no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "Impress, there is a chaos outside. The people were afraid that they would be blocked by foreigners and could not get out, so they all took their families to escape. Several patrol ministers and the Wucheng Censorate saw that they could not persuade them, so they simply closed the city gates."

The queen muttered, "It's better to close it, otherwise everyone will run away. Will this capital still look like a capital?"

"The Empress doesn't know that it's easy to close the city gate, but the rice, flour, grain, oil, coal and other life needs outside cannot enter. What do the people in the city eat and drink? Seeing the price soaring, Zhou Zupei and several other adults had no choice but to open a city gate. Anyway, those who can run away are all running now. I heard that some people who were blocked back even took the risk of climbing over the wall and leaving the city."

"Where is the Tongzhou area?"

"There is a shortage of food and salary, and there are many defeated soldiers gathered from the fortress on the south bank of Haikou, Tianjin, so the morale of the soldiers is not strong." Ren Yuer thought for a while, and then said carefully: "Before Yuer came, he heard a message from Tianjin."

"What news?"

"Tianjin magistrate Shi Zanqing was kidnapped by foreigners from the yamen. He swears to death and fight against foreigners' military camps. He is a famous honest official. The people of Tianjin went to argue with foreigners one after another, and they didn't know whether they could come out alive." Ren Yuer put away the palace gate and continued: "There is still a news that is true or false, but it's simply unbelievable anyway."

"How can you be unbelievable?" Concubine Yi asked subconsciously.

"A person who ran back from Tianjin said that it would be fine if some of the defeated soldiers removed from the South Bank Fortress could not defeat the foreigners, but they actually looted everywhere and harmed the local area. The people wanted to go to the yamen to file a lawsuit, but the yamen were occupied by foreigners. Even the yamen was captured by the foreigners, and they ran to complain to the foreigners!"

"What do foreigners say?" the queen couldn't help asking.

"The foreigners not only accepted their complaints, but also sent troops to suppress the bandits. Those illiterate people actually thought that the foreigners were 'Bao Qingtian'. They were not only grateful, but also greedy for the little profits given by the foreigners to do things for the foreigners."

"What to do?"

"Lead the way for foreigners, help foreigners transport supplies, and even help foreigners find out about our news."

"What do the people know? They all blame those Qiu Ba, which is really a disaster to the country and the people!"

"What the Empress said is very true, but it is unclear whether the news is true or false for a while."

Concubine Yi really didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, so she suddenly asked: "Yu'er, what is your righteous brother busy with?"

"I'm sorry, he didn't tell me, and I didn't dare to ask."

"You have done the trouble for the court with the token of the Internal Affairs Office, and you don't even dare to ask about this." Concubine Yi snorted coldly, then said with a frown locked and said, "You don't know, I know something. The reason why the emperor was deceived into going out to the capital was caused by Senggelinqin. She asked the infantry commander and Shuntian Mansion to search for carriages everywhere, but it was your righteous brother and Bao Jing. It can be said that the people in the city were panic, and your righteous brother made a great contribution!"

"Empression, my fourth brother is just a third-rank Fengchen Yuanqing. Lord Baosheng is the top-ranking minister of the Interior Affairs Office. He would not dare to ask the infantry commander and Shuntian Mansion to do this job with my fourth brother's courage."

"I don't think it's that simple!"

"Empress, my fourth brother is wronged. I don't know what he is busy with. Even if he is really involved in this matter, he will be on order and he will be unable to help."

"When he was Fengchen Yuanqing, why would he be unable to help himself? If he really knew the general and understood the truth, why wouldn't his name be on the memorial that just now advised the emperor to stop his patrol?"

"The Empress Dowager doesn't know that although my fourth brother was in the third grade Jingtang, he was born in the end. Although the emperor later gave him a juren, he was still looked down upon by the adults who entered the imperial examination. He would not bring him such a joint title and memorial."
Chapter completed!