Chapter 279 Dingmao Coup
Chapter 279 Dingmao Coup
"Boss, your wife has returned home, and brought a smaller version of you with her."
"What! Block the airport!"
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Shao Quanzhong was a pure feudal male chauvinist. In his heart, women were secondary, even Rong Hui, who was the most important to him, was ignored when he returned home to visit his family after a year and a half of expedition in the west, and only spent a few days with Rong Hui after finishing his official duties.
Sons are important. They are the incense of the old Shao family. The more the better. When my wife was pregnant, she was the most favored by Shao Quanzhong.
So if a woman really showed up with a smaller version of herself, Shao Quanzhong would block the airport, but not to lick the woman's boots, but for his son.
Shao Quanzhong didn't care that his son was half Tartar. He would marry a Mao girl and have a son who was half foreign.
Anyway, if the father is Chinese, the son is Chinese, and Shao Quanzhong’s feudal patriarchal thinking cannot be changed.
Seeing Zai Yi still looking at him with his eyes full of gossip, Shao Quanzhong straightened his back and put his hands behind his back, "What are you looking at, little brat? Why don't you kowtow to your father right now!"
Zai Yi couldn't accept it for a moment and turned to look at his mother.
Cixi looked at her son kindly and said, "Keep bowing and call me Ama."
Zai Yi had to listen to Cixi's words. It had become a conditioned reflex. He immediately knelt down and kowtowed, "Auspicious Father."
I know everything about this at such a young age. It turns out that I am not my father's son. My mother has acknowledged this, so she must be right.
He suddenly felt that he was much better than his brother, the emperor. His brother's father had died and was scolded by his mother every day. Now he had his own father, and he would not feel so inferior when he met Zai Cheng in the future.
Of course this is very dangerous, but no matter how smart a child is, he or she cannot think that much.
This child looks very smart and is more like me than Jiming and Jisi.
Perhaps it was because his mother was more evil than Rong Hui and Wen Xiu, and the combination of the two evil spirits gave birth to an even more evil son.
What a kind heart, he won't suffer any loss... Shao Quanzhong liked his son as soon as he saw him. He temporarily forgot that Cixi was going to blackmail him with his son, and hugged his son.
I was thinking about what gift to give my son when suddenly my hand touched something hard on his sleeve. It hurt?
What is this? Shao Quanzhong didn’t care about the child’s privacy at all. He stretched out his hand and took it out - two ivory dice!
Well, you are learning to gamble at such a young age? You are so rebellious!
Shao Quanzhong suddenly remembered the divine prophecy of Tian Xing's master, Taoist Qing Hong. The old Taoist had some skills. So would this illegitimate son be a prodigal son as he said?
Ignoring Zai Yi's struggle, Shao Quanzhong searched and immediately found the small album. When he found the Ruyi Fu Shou Cream, Shao Quanzhong's face fell.
I stretched out my hand and “Snap!”
He gave Zai Yi a big slap in the face.
Pointing at Cixi, he said, "You spendthrift woman, I knew you wouldn't know how to raise a child. You've raised my son to be a binge-drinker, whore-maker, gambler, and smoker. No, I can't leave my son in your hands. I don't care what kind of bastard Xianfeng is, I must educate my son."
Zai Yi not only didn't get a gift but was also slapped in the face, and he burst into tears.
Cixi was not a pushover either. She grabbed Zaiyi and slapped him in the face, "As expected, he is like his father. He was able to do something naughty right under my nose and kept it from me for so long."
Zai Yi was beaten by a mixed doubles team, but he stopped crying and rolled his eyes, "Mother, I won't dare to do it again. The dice were given by An Dehai, and the book and pills were given by Zai Cheng. I don't even know what they are for."
Cixi doted on her son after all, so she hugged Zaiyi and said, "Little Anzi, slap yourself ten times!"
An Dehai suffered an unexpected disaster and started counting the slaps he received.
"Don't blame An Dehai, you're the one who spoiled the child. My three sons were all well educated, but Zai Yi is such a bastard, it's definitely because of you! By the way, my child can't have the Tartar surname!"
Cixi smiled mysteriously, hehe, it seems that although Shao Quanzhong is cunning, he is not a ruthless ruler like Liu Bang. If you like your son, that's easy. I can control you.
He looked at Shao Quanzhong with a smile, "Then give me a name as your father."
Shao Quanzhong looked at his prodigal son and sighed, "It is hard to defy fate. Let's call him Shao Jiliang."
Cixi didn't know why Shao Jiliang was told that it was fate, but she knew that she had to hold on to Shao Quanzhong's weak spot and not let go.
Kuankuan walked over and rubbed Shao Quanzhong's shoulders, "Master Shao, if my mother and I were bullied every day, would you be able to bear it?"
With his son in someone else's hands, Shao Quanzhong's thoughts changed immediately. Truth cannot be hidden, others can see that Jiliang is like me, and so can Ci'an.
She probably hadn't thought about it that way before, and hadn't expected that if Ci'an knew Jiliang's background in the future, it wouldn't matter if Cixi was in trouble, but her son would be in danger.
If we get rid of Ci'an and let Cixi hold all the power, no one will dare to say anything. We have to do this even if we have to hold our noses.
"Well, you—"
"Don't say 'your yours' anymore. When there are no outsiders around, just call me Lan'er."
Cixi had become a mother, so Shao Quanzhong could no longer act like a bear. In essence, he had no respect for Cixi, so he immediately changed his address to "Lan'er, I helped you!" Cixi was delighted, "Great! A man's words are as good as his words."
The two of them high-fived, and the Queen Mother and the powerful minister reached an alliance.
"However, I have to go back and think carefully about how to do it."
There is nothing to consider. Just lead your troops into the palace and do it. But this matter cannot be forced.
Cixi rolled her eyes and suddenly regained her old Buddha tone, "Shao Quanzhong, didn't you ask me for Ping'er as a concubine? Ping'er!"
Ping Er bowed and said, "Your servant is here."
"I have given you to Lord Jingyuan as a concubine. Go with him."
Ping'er was secretly delighted. Shao Quanzhong had a large army under his command, so if he helped Cixi to stage a coup, it would definitely succeed.
When Cixi came to power, it seemed that Shao Quanzhong would become a powerful official like Dorgon, and might even become the regent.
She entered the Shao Mansion herself. Even though she was a concubine, with her beauty, talent, and palace fighting skills, she could replicate Cixi's successful experience. Wouldn't it be easy for her to ascend to the throne?
Of course, I can't show my joy. As a natural master of palace fighting, I have to pretend to be loyal.
"Master, I can't bear to leave you."
"Ping'er, you are already a 20-year-old girl. You can't always follow me. You are already past the age to leave the palace and get married. If you don't get married, you will get old. Go, go."
Shao Quanzhong immediately quit, "I don't want it, this is not the apple I want."
"It's not up to you. This is the order of the Holy Mother Queen Mother. Do you dare to disobey it?"
"What can you do to me if I disobey your order?"
Cixi suddenly softened her tone and pinched Shao Quanzhong's shoulders, "Because of my status, I can't always be with you. You see, Ping'er looks a lot like me when I was young. When you see Ping'er, you will think of Lan'er, just like I have always been by your side."
Shao Quanzhong knew that although Cixi was playing the emotional card with him on the surface, there was actually no love between them, and that Chun and Jiliang were just friends with benefits.
Cixi was probably afraid that I would deny my promise once I left the palace, so she sent her confidants to monitor me. In the future, she could also contact me through Ping'er to maintain the enthusiasm of the cooperation between the two parties, so that I could always be her military backup.
It doesn’t matter if you think about it. In fact, Jiliang is in her hands, so she is not going to betray her alliance.
As for the matter of expelling the Tartars, it does not seem to contradict this.
When the time comes, I will push Cixi down to restore China, and I have no psychological barriers. Anyway, I have Jiliang, so I can't kill her when the time comes, so I can just keep her.
Shao Quanzhong turned around and planned to go back to the barracks to think about how to carry out this coup, but suddenly turned back and said, "I forgot something. This is my gift to the old Buddha."
Cixi took the gift from Shao Quanzhong and blushed, "Tsk! What an indecent thing."
What Shao Quanzhong gave to Cixi was the Buddhist treasure "Jade and Agate Pestle" which he got from Zhang Zhidong.
Cixi liked jade and agate, and was a Buddhist. Zhang Zhidong, who was a thoughtful man, heard about it from others and specially asked someone to make one for her as a present.
Since Shao Quanzhong was going to meet Cixi, this thing was given to him. He could just make something else himself.
If someone else presented this gift to Cixi, she might not think much about it, but when Shao Quanzhong presented it, it was ambiguous. It felt like giving Apple to herself, which reminded her of someone else.
Cixi stroked the demon-subduing pestle. It felt really good. It was a real treasure. "Master Shao, I'll accept this gift. I'll carry it with me when I sleep. It's like having you by my side. Don't forget me in the future. Come to the palace to see me when you have time."
Shao Quanzhong laughed loudly, took his new concubine Ping'er out, and returned to the temporary barracks that had been moved outside Dongzhimen, and immediately issued an emergency order.
"Come here, order the team to stop moving. Also, get back to me the photos of Mark Twain taken at Chengtian Gate. Two of them need to be modified and cannot be published in the newspaper."
It would be a mistake to post photos of Cixi at the military parade even though she has already passed away.
A coup was about to take place, and Shao Quanzhong hesitated.
He has the courage to launch a coup, but it is a delicate job.
If things go wrong, we will have to fight a bloody battle with the four princes, and possibly with Jin Shun's Bordered Blue Banner.
If he staged a coup, Nie Shicheng, Ma Yukun and Zhou Shengchuan in his own army might not be able to resolutely carry out his orders.
There is also the Nine-Gates Commander in charge of the capital, there are 20,000 Eight Banners soldiers in the Fengtai camp, and there are also the Shenji Camp and Xishan Ruijian Camp guarding the imperial palace. They rely entirely on brute force, so even if they win, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses.
(End of this chapter)