I can't die

Although Zaichun said that he was pro-government, he didn't intend to let Cixi Ci'an really roll the curtain back to power. To be honest, compared with letting these two astounding mothers concentrate on the harem, it is really called him Worry about it.

Cixi and Ci'an are all impatient, deep and scheming women. Asking them to advise on state affairs on weekdays can make them divide their minds. Sometimes the backyard is on fire, which is annoying; moreover, now that the government is in the hands of Zai Chun, I am not afraid of Cixi Ci'an making any big waves, and it is not bad to be able to listen to their opinions from time to time.

The Fucha family was not surprised when they heard that Zai Chun agreed with the queen mothers of the two palaces to continue to participate in politics. It can be seen, the ability of the two empress dowagers, and the connivance of the emperor in certain aspects, I am a new wife, so why bother to go up and find it uncomfortable at this time?

Seeing Zai Chun's attitude, Cixi Ci'an was also satisfied, so Ci'an also took out a seal and handed it to Zai Chun: "The emperor is now an adult, and it is useless to keep this seal. take it."

But the maid Lingzhu took out a small box from the side, and inside the check-in box was a 5 cm high, pale yellow Shoushan stone seal.Zai Chun took the imperial reward seal from Lingzhu and couldn't help playing with it.In fact, the imperial reward seal is essentially the private seal of Zai Chun's father Xianfeng, but because of the will, it has a special function, but this function has disappeared with Zai Chun's personal administration. .

"Thank you Queen Mother."

Even so, it was Ci'an's attitude after all, and Zai Chun still accepted it with a smile.After all these things, the two finally left after asking about their health and wellbeing.The emperor's big wedding had to stay in the Kunning Palace for two consecutive nights, and only then was it officially over.After the Fucha family entered the Kunning Palace, they chose the Changchun Palace as their bedroom (similar to the emperor who wanted to live in the Qianqing Palace, but more often lived in the Yangxin Palace.)

One month later, Arut entered the palace and gave him the Banquet Palace.The emperor's draft, which has been tossing for a long time, finally came to an end.

Zai Chun has finally settled his lifelong affairs, and can finally shift his focus back to the previous dynasty.

In the past few years, although China and the United States have jointly defeated the United Kingdom and even drove away the British garrison in the lease, the opening up has not weakened. Even with the return of the first batch of Eight Banners students who went to study in the United States, the strength of Sino-US communication Increasingly, the Qing government accepted more and more foreigners coming to China.

Obviously, with the opening up to the outside world, the Qing court has undergone more and more changes in recent years.First of all, under the cooperation of China and the United States, military telegraphs began to be laid. This telegram passed through Ryukyu, Shanghai, and Peiping, connecting the north and the south with several major military islands, which rapidly increased the intensity and speed of communication in various parts of the Qing Dynasty and greatly facilitated military deployment. .

The second big thing is the train.

Speaking of which, the construction of the train also caused a lot of trouble in the court at that time.In the past few years, even with the gradual development of the Westernization Movement, there are still many corrupt scholars in the court. They don't know much about trains, but they like to talk about Feng Shui.

There was Qin Tianjian who reported to the court that the construction of the railway would destroy the feng shui of the ancestors, which aroused the support of many people in the court who were dissatisfied with the Westernization faction in power, and attacked the Westernization.

Zaichun looked at the voices of controversy in the court, and wanted to dismiss those corrupt officials, but because some of them were over sixty years old and had experienced three dynasties, it was not easy to do too much, so he could only Ordered Li Hongzhang to repair the plank road secretly to Chen Cang, and to kill first and then play in private.

Li Hongzhang is also worthy of being an incomparable talent. After getting Zai Chun's will, he privately used soldiers as a substitute for labor, and converted a part of the idle Hunan army into a production force, and built the first train from Jinling to Songjiang Mansion. It also created the first batch of engineering regiments in the Qing Dynasty.

Seeing that Zai Chun didn't listen to their persuasion, the corrupt scholars couldn't help being very indignant, and the papers of impeaching Li Hongzhang filled Zai Chun's table like snowflakes in an instant.Looking at these excerpts, Zai Chun felt that these people hadn't made any progress over the years. Fortunately, the leading senior ministers would reach the age of begging for bones in two years, otherwise he really didn't know how long he would have to endure them.

"Since everyone says the railway is not good, let's go on a southern inspection tour! You have to let them see it for themselves, so that they can shut up."

Such things as southern tours are also in the ancestral system. Qianlong and Kangxi have visited the south of the Yangtze River many times. Zaichun thought that instead of letting these ministers go to beep, it is better to go to Shanghai in person. Anqing has a look at today's big How convenient it is to clear the industry, so that they can stop their mouths.

Since ancient times, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been rich in humanities and are the most culturally developed areas in China. The number of talented scholars is several times dozens of times that of other provinces.Especially in the past few years, with Shanghai as the center of opening up to the outside world, the advanced international culture here is also the fastest. Zai Chun intends to take the ministers of Beijing and China to experience it. Zhuoran, you can't pay homage to Mount Tai, and the southern tour is also made, so you agree.

Then, Zaichun took the Empress Dowager Cixi Ci'an, the Empress Fucha, the noble concubine Arut, and a minister, and set off from Tianjin on a new type of steam ship, heading for Shanghai by land and sea.

According to the plan, the journey of this southern tour is from Beijing to Shanghai by land and sea, then take the train to Jinling, and then return to Beijing by land.Many officials who have never been on a steamship in their life were startled when they heard the sound of steam-propelled horns on the steamer, and some people who had read a lot were godlike, and their posture was so amazing. surprisingly.

Cixi Ci'an, these two women who have lived in the deep palace for a long time, are also the first time to take such a huge modern ship. Gradually got used to this kind of transportation, and then sighed: "It's no wonder that the Qing Dynasty was defeated by foreigners several times before. Such a magic weapon is really hard to compete."

Cixi Ci'an supported the Westernization School before, most of them obeyed Zai Chun and wooed Li Hongzhang by the way. It was not until this time that they really felt the powerful power contained in Western technology.Therefore, it is the truth that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books.