Seeing that everything in Qingzhou had been decided, Guangxu also said goodbye to Cixi: "Since the matter is settled, my son is going to return to the palace, so the empress dowager will take a good rest in the Summer Palace and return to Beijing as soon as possible."

Cixi said, "What's the hurry? There are Prince Qing and Zhang Zhidong in Beijing. If they can't do anything, let them deal with overseas Chinese. After returning to Beijing, the emperor hasn't been to the Summer Palace yet? It's not too late to stay in the garden for a few days before leaving." He said to Li Hongzhang and Ronglu again: "It's also rare for you to come to the Summer Palace, so stay together for a few days."

Guangxu was stunned for a moment. He didn't know what Cixi sold in this gourd, so he insisted on staying in the Summer Palace. However, Rong Luji said: "Emperor, the Empress Dowager is right. For overseas Chinese, it is enough to have Prince Qing and Zhang Zhidong go to get rid of it. The Empress Dowager's health is not suitable. The Emperor should also stay in the Summer Palace. It is best to serve the Empress Dowager sooner or later. Maybe the Empress Dowager's health is better. Isn't it better to go back to the palace with the Emperor?"

Seeing Ronglu say this, Guangxu naturally couldn't refuse any more, so he said, "That's true, my son respects him."

So Guangxu immediately wrote an edict, and asked someone to take it back to the palace and hand it over to Prince Qing, asking them to negotiate with overseas Chinese according to the edict. Cixi ordered people to arrange housing and let them rest. Li Hongzhang and Ronglu sent people back to Beijing to get some changing clothes and supplies. Although there were many rooms in the Summer Palace and there were no shortage of items, they still had to take them from home, such as clothes and personal supplies.

Cixi seemed to be in good spirits, so she arranged for everyone to visit the Summer Palace the next day, but during the chat, she kept asking Li Hongzhang about overseas Chinese. Cixi certainly knew that overseas Chinese were a major concern of the Qing court, and Li Hongzhang should be the one who knew overseas Chinese best in the court. Cixi wanted to find an opportunity to fully understand the situation of overseas Chinese from Li Hongzhang. However, the Qing court had been back to Beijing for 5 months, and because there were too many kinds of things, Cixi also expressed her feelings, but she did not expect that something would happen so soon. So Cixi also wanted to take this opportunity to fully understand overseas Chinese.

Li Hongzhang was prepared for this, so he told Cixi what he knew in full. Of course, a few more sensitive things were not mentioned, but this also gave Cixi and Guangxu a new understanding of the situation of overseas Chinese.

There was a lot of information about Guangxu for the first time. After all, he had always been controlled by Cixi before, without any freedom, and had no power to attract a minister, so he could understand these situations. After listening to Li Hongzhang's speech, Guangxu realized that there was a huge difference between overseas Chinese and what he imagined. They would not be loyal to Daling at all, so it was impossible to rely on overseas Chinese to change their situation.

However, Cixi received much more information than Guangxu. She had long concluded that overseas Chinese would not be loyal to the Qing court. However, when she heard that overseas Chinese occupied a place, she forced the land of gentry. Cixi looked down on overseas Chinese a little, thinking that their eyes were too short-sighted. She just got to the point of asking for help, and it was a forceful robbery. You must know that the gentry still set the cornerstone of the place, and overseas Chinese offended all the local gentry. How could this last long? Therefore, it seems that overseas Chinese are not afraid of it.

But after Li Hongzhang explained the land reform system of overseas Chinese in detail, it turned out that although overseas Chinese forced to acquire the land of local gentry, they did not occupy a mu, but distributed it to ordinary people for free. Only then did Cixi realize that her previous ideas were very wrong.

Although Cixi did not understand what liberation of productivity, production relations, and land ownership system means, one thing she understood was that overseas Chinese were buying people's hearts. Although Cixi still couldn't figure it out, were all overseas Chinese gentlemen, and no one wanted to buy land? But another truth was clear. Overseas Chinese distribute all the land to farmers, so these farmers who obtained the land would definitely support overseas Chinese wholeheartedly. Compared with the vast number of farmers, local gentry was nothing at all? Cixi had experienced the two large-scale peasant movements of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Boxer Rebellion. Of course, she knew what a terrible force it would be to mobilize all the farmers. Moreover, the leadership and organizational ability of overseas Chinese were far from comparable to those of Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, Zhang Decheng, and Cao Futian.

If Cixi had some confidence in the past, she could deal with overseas Chinese through differentiation and disintegration, sand-blending and buying, etc., but now Cixi's confidence has begun to shake, and she instinctively realized that this time she might not be able to deal with overseas Chinese.

In addition, Cixi did not think about using foreigners to deal with overseas Chinese. However, on the one hand, Cixi knew that foreigners' power was not so easy to borrow, but in the future they would have to pay back the capital and profit. On the other hand, after hearing Li Hongzhang's statement, overseas Chinese seemed to be fighting with foreigners. In addition to Russia, they had commercial relations with many countries. Not long ago, they also launched a bid for shipbuilding. More than 10 shipyards from five countries, Britain, France, America, Germany and Italy, came to bid for bids, and even countries moved their consulates in Tianjin to Qingdao, which also shows that the relationship between overseas Chinese and foreigners is very harmonious.

Although Cixi couldn't figure it out that the overseas Chinese defeated the Eight-Nation Alliance, forced the foreigners' concessions, and collected the customs rights of foreigners, the foreigners seemed to not remember this hatred at all. Instead, they were making friends with overseas Chinese. What is the reason?

However, even though I can't figure it out, Cixi also secretly decided in her heart to try her best not to have conflicts with overseas Chinese. If she can tolerate it, she will endure it. Anyway, she is an old man who is almost 70 years old, and she will have a few days to live. As long as she survives until the day she lets go, she will ignore the things behind her.

Guangxu, Ronglu and Li Hongzhang lived in the Summer Palace for three days. On the morning of the third day, Li Lianying came to report that Prince Su Shanqi, Prince Chun Zaifeng, Dorobel Zaitao, Zaixun, Duke Zhenguo Zaize and others asked to see the Empress Dowager and the Emperor at the gate of the Summer Palace.

Cixi snorted and said, "Come in."

Guangxu was confused, but Ronglu and Li Hongzhang exchanged glances with each other and were tacitly aware of each other. This was the real purpose of Cixi to keep them in the Summer Palace. Because the resolution to deal with Qingzhou would definitely cause dissatisfaction with the bannermen and come to Cixi to argue. Therefore, instead of staying in Beijing and causing a lot of controversy with the bannermen, it would be better to solve the problem in this Summer Palace, so that it would not be too alarmed.

The people who came were all royal families of the Qing court, and they were also a group of upstarts who rose to the Qing court after the Boxer Reform. Cixi had an important means to control the government, which was to focus on balance, to fight against the other faction, and not let the other faction dominate. In the past 30 years, the largest political faction in the Qing court was the Westernization Clan, so Cixi has always been supporting a political force that can restrain the Westernization Clan.

Before the Sino-Japanese War, Cixi used the Qing sect to offset the Westernization faction. After the Wuxu Coup, the Qing sect was weak because it supported Guangxu. So Cixi changed to support the royal family and promoted her niece, Duan Prince Zaiyi, Prince Zhuang Zaixun, Duke Fuguo Duan Zailan and others, and made Zaiyi's son Chuanjun the eldest prince. After returning to Beijing, because someone was responsible for the Gengzi Kingdom, the eldest prince was deposed. Zaiyi, Zaixun, Zailan and others were all deposed, but Cixi promoted a group of new royal family members.

Prince Su Shanqi was the tenth generation grandson of Prince Suwu Haoge, the eldest son of Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty, and was also one of the twelve iron-hat princes of the Qing Dynasty. Prince Chun Zaifeng, Dorobele Zaitao, and Zaixun were both half-brothers of Guangxu. Although Cixi did not like Guangxu, she was quite grateful to Guangxu's biological father, former Prince Chun Yihuan's loyalty to him, so she still promoted Yihuan's son. Shi Zhi personally ordered Zaifeng to marry Ronglu's daughter. Although the title of Duke Zhenguo Zaize was a little worse, the sixth generation grandson of Kangxi, the saint of the Qing Dynasty, was also considered the authentic relative.

These people came to the Summer Palace to save Cixi and Guangxu, of course, for Wenrui. After the time traveler's memorial was sent to Beijing, these people jumped the highest and shouted the most fiercely, saying that this matter could not be calculated, and overseas Chinese must pay the price to avenge Wenrui, etc.

Yesterday, the military aircraft decided to determine that Wenrui was rebelling, and these people were immediately anxious. In fact, they did not come to ask Wenrui for an explanation, but originally wanted to take this opportunity to restore the power of the people, but if the court believed that Wenrui was rebelling, how could they take advantage of the situation? Therefore, they hurried to the Summer Palace to ask for a meeting with Cixi, and they must persuade Cixi to take back her life.

After the ceremony, Shanqi said, "Empress Dowager, Wen Rui was clearly framed and killed by overseas Chinese. How could he rebel? Moreover, overseas Chinese are so arrogant and bold that they dare to attack the Eight Banners garrison and murder the Lord. The crimes cannot be forgiven and must not be punished."

Zai Ze said: "Yes, Empress Dowager, overseas Chinese are so rampant. If the court does not punish them, there will be a place for our bannermen in the world."

Zaiyi, Zaixun, Zailan also spoke, and of course they also wanted to severely punish overseas Chinese and avenge Wenrui.

Cixi's face was as deep as water and said, "What should we do according to your wishes? Shanqi, I will let the emperor issue an order to lead the army to wipe out overseas Chinese. Do you dare to go?"

Shanqi was stunned and said, "This..."

Cixi said again: "Zaize, is the Qingzhou magistrate is empty? You go to Qingzhou magistrate to compete with overseas Chinese, okay?" Then he pointed to Zaiyi, Zaixun, Zailan and others, and said: "And you, who dares to go to Shandong? Tell me directly, I will issue an order immediately."

Zaize and others couldn't help but lower their heads and dared not take Cixi's words. Although they were so fierce, they all knew very well that the court still had the ability to punish overseas Chinese now? Are you looking for death when dealing with overseas Chinese by yourself?

Cixi snorted again and said, "Why don't you stop talking? Aren't you going to severely punish overseas Chinese? Why do you ask you to go to Shandong and catch overseas Chinese but don't reply?"

Seeing that several people bowed their heads and stopped talking, Ronglu knew that it was time to attack the yard and let both sides have steps. So he said, "Wenrui is wronged or not, is it difficult for the empress dowager to be difficult? But now the court has just returned to Beijing and is in trouble. How can we easily launch another war? Besides, the momentum of overseas Chinese is in full swing, so the court has to avoid the edge. This is a small impotence that will cause chaos. It is not too late to wait for the imperial court to recuperate for a few years and prepare enough to deal with overseas Chinese. Do you know the empress dowager's clear view?"
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