Xiao Letian saw the woman Cixi so thoroughly. No matter in her past and present life, her nature has changed at all. That is extremely selfish!

She always loves herself the most, and then her son. She must first ensure her wealth and power, and then she will consider her son a little.

Anyway, she had already figured it out in her mind that the Qing Dynasty would sooner or later, and Cixi knew better than anyone else, but what this woman needed was that this dynasty could not be destroyed in her own hands.

Anyone who doesn't make her feel comfortable is her own enemy, even if it's her two brothers-in-law!

Faced with the aggressiveness of the Japanese Sixth, Cixi decided to go to Ci'an to complain, and she had to attract an ally. After understanding this, Cixi immediately set off in Beiyuan to ask for the Empress Dowager Dong.

After leaving Shenwu Gate, pass the main gate of Beiyuan, which is Beishan Gate, and enter the huge Beiyuan. Facing you is the towering Jingshan Mountain, lush tigers and dragons scattered north of the Forbidden City.

The towering ancient trees faintly reveal the spire roofs of pavilions and towers. Many craftsmen are busy laying wood tiles. The Beiyuan project has never stopped since the beginning.

Cixi felt so sad. Looking at the golden nanmu piled up on the roadside, rosewood, rosewood, gold bricks sent from the south, and glazed tiles fired in the west of Beijing, and group of craftsmen kneeling on the ground, there was no place to spread the evil fire in her heart.

Every time I come to Beiyuan, I feel angry. Li Lianying knew that his master was sour and didn't dare to speak, so he could only urge the sedan chair to leave quickly, the faster the better.

"Why? Why should the Ai family live in the dilapidated Chuxiu Palace, so that Ci'an can overhaul the Beiyuan? She has plundered all the money from the court..."

"The shameless vixen, where can I get the money from selling meat in Fuqing? The palace will collapse sooner or later... Bah!"

I was so jealous that Cixi really thought that the palace was all hers. It would be great if the Beiyuan was all hers!

The general area of ​​Beiyuan is equivalent to later Jingshan Park and Beihai Park, plus Dashizuo Hutong, and then head north to Di'anmen.

The huge area is already full of Ci'an's Beiyuan, with tall walls connected together, and some of the original alleys have also moved away.

Cixi's sedan chair did not go up to Jingshan, but was *. She passed Dagao Hall and entered the Sheshan Gate. She saw the stone arch bridge entering Qionghua Island.

On the top of the high arch bridge, Zhou Daoying, the eunuch in charge beside Ci'an, was waiting respectfully. When he saw Cixi's sedan chair coming, he quickly ran down from Sheshan Bridge in three steps and two steps.

"Please to the Queen Mother... My master has asked my servant to wait for me for a long time. The weather is good today and the wind is sunny. It is great for the Queen Mother to come out to relax..."

Li Lianying opened the curtain of the sedan chair and nodded at Zhou Daoying, "Well... Where is sister?"

"Go back to the Queen Mother... My master is walking in the corridor on the North Pier... Let me wait for the slave..."

"Let's go...I'll pay my respects to my sister!"

"Well... get up the sedan chair..." Two eunuchs in charge surrounded Cixi, one left and the other on the right, walked towards the north pier along the waterside road on Qionghua Island.

Just after passing the inscription on Chunyin in Qiongdao, Cixi said in surprise, "Zhou Daoying..."

"The slave is here..."

"Why is the water level in Beihaizi so low today? Did Xishan News have a severe drought? I haven't heard of it..."

Li Lianying looked at this and it was true. The north coast was filled with bluestone, and the original water level line was clearly printed on the stone, and the moss and duckweed were connected to form a standard water level line.

But today the water level is more than two feet high!

Zhou Daoying quickly laughed and said, "It's not that the west mountain is short of water, but the sluice gate north of the Silkworm Hall has been closed in the past two days. The water from Shichahai cannot enter, so the water level will naturally fall..."

During the Qing Dynasty, the water systems in the capital depended on the Xishan Mountain. The water from the Xishan Mountain entered the Jishui Pond through Deshengmen and then entered the Shichahai, and finally poured into the Beihai and the moat.

The sluice between Shichahai and Beihai is behind the Silkworm Hall. When this gate closes, the water level of the entire Beihai water system will of course drop.

"What are sisters thinking? Why are you closing the sluice gate well? Was it cleaned up?"

"No... Queen Mother, you can see it bypassing this bend. The Zongli Yamen invited a Prussian engineer and said that he would build a large fountain for the Queen Mother in the Beihai. If the water level falls, wouldn't it be easy to install iron pipes..."

Hi... Cixi was so angry, "Bah... I'm shameless, I still have money to install the fountain that will last forever? What kind of engineer hired by the Zongli Yamen is not your beloved Fuqing...'

Just as she was cursing in her heart, the sedan chair passed by the old willow tree beside the Yiqing Tower, and you could see the North Pier and the corridor in a glance.

Sure enough, Ci'an was looking at the waters of the North Sea from the corridor. When Cixi saw that her nose was so hungry, she was not so angry. Sure enough, there was a large hall more than 300 steps from the pier. On the area of ​​700 to 800 square meters, three engineering ships were busy getting off the iron pipes.

From a distance, it seemed that there were several foreign engineers, who were taking craftsmen from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to install pipes covered with anti-rust paint onto the racks in the water according to the drawings. There was a brass water spray nozzle not far from the pipes.

The sedan chair fell in front of Ci'an, and Cixi came out and bowed her knees to greet her sister. "Sister is so elegant! I'm paying her respects!"

"Oh! My sister is very free today... It's a coincidence that I happened to try the water in the fountain today. I asked them to arrange lunch on Bizhao's building. When I was drinking, I asked them to try the fountain to see if it was fun or not..."

"I like it, and I must also like it...but I have something else to do today and want to bother my sister!"

"Let's go... let's talk about anything else first, go upstairs and have a cup of tea..."

Bizhao Tower is right next to the corridor, overlooking a large area of ​​water from a high place. The construction ships in the distance have already finished their work, and two of them have begun to return.

"Sister..." Cixi immediately sat down and immediately got on the show, her eyes turned red and she was about to cry.

She choked and said, "Sister didn't come today. Can you let Yi and Yihuan be bullied to death... You have to make the decision for me!"

As he cried, Cixi added fuel to the fire of everything that happened in the morning. Of course, in his words, he greatly vilified the two princes and downplayed the responsibilities of Zaichun and himself.

"What's the matter with this! Even if Master Long lived in power, he wouldn't even have the right to set up an expedition team, right?"

"What do they mean? Why should the Emperor Long Sui should not reward the army privately, especially the Han army... Isn't this nonsense? Then Zuo Zongtang is not an official of the court? Not a minister of Emperor Long Sui?"
Chapter completed!