Li Hongzhang sighed and said, "There is room for maneuver. Article 1 and Article 2 cannot be changed. The requirement of modifying Article 3 is very simple! If you want to have the same status as the Qing Dynasty, divide the Beijing city equally, start from Yongding Gate, Yongding Gate, Zhengde Gate, You'an Gate, Zhiwu Gate, Di'an Gate, Desheng Gate, all of these covered areas belong to China! The Forbidden City still allows the emperor and the empress dowager to live, leaving Anding Gate and Zuo'an Gate, and Dong'an Gate to let the Qing Dynasty enter and exit. Xuan Yuemeng said that this is his minimum requirement, and he must give a reply within ten days. Two days have passed."

Empress Dowager Cixi shook her, "I almost fainted again. The biggest difference between the Chinese army and the foreigners is that the Chinese army is Chinese and is always resident and never leave. No matter how cruel the foreigners are, they cannot stay for a long time!"

At this time, Empress Dowager Cixi fully understood, and even better than Li Hongzhang that Xuan Yuemeng wanted to unify the whole country, and Xuan Yuemeng wanted to maintain the rule of the Qing court and let the Qing court help manage most of the backward areas to avoid warlords fighting.

This is to tie up people to do things for him. What is the difference between it and slaves? What is the difference between it and being a vassal state of China? It is just a little better in terms of appearance, but it is simply ridiculous to be the same city as the bandits. There has never been such a thing in history.

Empress Dowager Cixi shook her head, her thoughts were very confusing, "You have a discussion! Today, we must give the result! Immediately, eight hundred miles to urgently ask the Governor of Huguang, the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, the Governor of Sichuan, and the Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou to ask them to submit a memorandum to express their attitude after receiving the expedited!"

"Waaa." Li Lianying agreed and immediately went to pass the oral order of Empress Dowager Cixi.

The Governor of Liangjiang and the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang have already died in name only because they are all in Xuan Yuemeng's hands. The Governor of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Fengtian provinces is no longer there. Jilin and Heilongjiang have no contact at all, which is equivalent to the thing in Xuan Yuemeng's hands!

Although the cute president only occupied less than one-third of China's land, he mastered two-thirds of China's resources in this era. The Qing court guarded a large tract of land and had no use. If he had to repay a huge amount of 10 million taels of silver every year, he would really stop playing.

Empress Dowager Cixi left, Li Hongzhang looked at Empress Dowager Cixi's back in depression, his heart was filled with dark clouds. In fact, he could already feel that the empress dowager had a tendency to accept it! Otherwise, such harsh conditions would be rejected directly no matter what, rather than letting everyone discuss it.

"What else should I discuss? Just fight directly!" Zuo Zongtang's voice was not loud, but he was very arrogant. He still had the temperament of a scholar. "If you can agree to this, what's the difference between it and...?"

Everyone understood what the words Zuo Zongtang didn't say were, the country was destroyed!

If all such harsh conditions were agreed, the Qing Dynasty would be equivalent to being destroyed.

"You can't say that, you can keep the green mountains without worrying about burning firewood." Li Hongzao spoke.

A group of Qingliu ministers followed suit, as long as they could protect the country, it would be fine. At this point, differences began to arise within the Qing court.

Prince Gong Yixin and others have completely lost their power now, so they just pretended to be deaf and dumb. Yixin thought that his huge foundation in Beijing had been wasted, and now he is still feeling sad and slow to get excited.

The conditions proposed by the cute president were too harsh. Zuo Zongtang and a group of ministers in charge of war finally persuaded Empress Dowager Cixi and assembled a team of more than 10,000 people to make their last effort.

At the end of 1874, the Qing army's cavalry, mainly the elite troops brought back from the northwest by Zuo Zongtang, plus a small number of the remnants of the Huai Army, and more than 15,000 cavalry fought fiercely with the Chinese army in the outer city of Beijing.

"Kill!" Nie Shicheng shouted, pulled out his waist knife, shook it, and charged forward.

More than 15,000 cavalry of the Qing army rushed towards the Chinese army like a wave of tides.

Standing on the strong city defense, 6 Kangtian saw this situation and shook his head with a wry smile, "Why don't you understand when the president gives in again and again?"

The Chinese army's artillery battalions have all entered the Beijing urban defense. The city defense of Beijing is so tall and strong that it is put into later generations and in 1948, it has a strategic role!

It is easy for the Qing army to throw away the city defense in Beijing, but it is really funny to try to snatch it back.

The Chinese army was in groups, firing guns alternately. The Chinese artillery battalion accurately protected the Qing army's impact front. The Qing army's war horses fell one by one. The Eight Banners athletes, the Chu army athletes, and the Huai army athletes rolled and crawled off the horse. From the perspective of tragic and special effects, this battle was very awesome.

Bang bang! Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!

Boom boom boom! Boom boom boom boom! Boom boom boom boom!

The Chinese army's gunfire network is already the most powerful 6th Army equipment in this era. Not to mention a group of cold weapons and iron cavalry, the iron cavalry wants to attack the city. It is simply a joke. The regiment led by 6 Anti-Sky has more than 2,000 people, even if it is a division of British infantry and tens of thousands of people to attack, there is no burden at all, because Beijing's city defense is too strong!

If Empress Dowager Cixi did not take people away, everyone would defend the capital together, and the troops from all over the country came to serve the king, it would be really difficult for the cute president to deal with it. Now, the Chinese army, who became the cute president, guarded the city, and the Qing army wanted to seize the city of Beijing.

Zuo Zongtang personally suppressed the formation, and the Qing army launched four attacks.

After two hours of fierce fighting, the Qing army was wiped out, and Zuo Zongtang fled back with Nie Shicheng and more than ten senior officers.

Empress Dowager Cixi was lying on the bed and got the news. She sighed silently, turned her head toward her, and then went to bed.

The house she lives in now belongs to the magistrate of Wei County.

Li Lianying said carefully: "Master, are you waiting for the military ministers? Do you want to scream?"

Empress Dowager Cixi choked and said, "This Xuan Yuemeng is really trying hard. Now she has offered to compensate 200 million taels of official silver, so that we can pay 10 million taels a year for 20 years. This is to kill them all. I really want to go southwest and Huguang to call on the people of the world to fight with the Meng bandits to the end."

Empress Dowager Cixi was talking anger. In fact, she didn't dare to go to the southwest. The Qing Dynasty's rule in the southwest has never been stable. Wu Sangui rebelled in Yunnan. In his original history, the first shot against the Qing Dynasty was also in the southwest. The main force attacked Yuan Shikai or in the southwest. Not to mention whether he ran to the southwest to call on the people, whether he would be chopped up by the people in the mountains would be a question.

So in the original history, when the Eight-Nation Alliance was later, Cixi and her group also fled to Shaanxi and ran to the northwest, which was a bit like that.
Chapter completed!