Master Yuan, start!

On the same night, a restaurant in the capital closed down as it was getting dark.

Another group of scholars who were also discussing the emperor's ghost marriage had no choice but to put down their wine glasses and go from the restaurant to the guild hall together. Several of them drank so much that they staggered and had to pull each other to avoid falling.

The mist is so thick that people feel as if they have arrived in the fairyland of Penglai.

However, looking at the brick and tile walls around it, Fengdu Ghost Realm would be more suitable.

Thinking about the words "zombies" and "evil spirits" that were just discussed at the dinner table, the group couldn't help but shudder.

"Brother Zhang, what do you see in front of you?" a short-sighted scholar asked, pointing at several figures on the street.

"Hmm?" Brother Zhang, who had good eyesight, looked closely.

In the dim moonlight, I could only see five or six people in official uniforms, with their hands raised and shoulders linked.

But Brother Zhang was also drunk, so he didn't take it seriously and said casually:

"They seem to be officials appointed by the imperial court. Perhaps they just finished their shift and are going home together. Let's go our way."

After taking two steps, the man called Brother Zhang suddenly woke up!

An official appointed by the imperial court?

It's three quarters past ten now. How can a government office get off duty so late at night?

Moreover, when he looked carefully just now, he saw that the group of people all had third-rank patches on their chests. How could a third-rank official be on duty?

The most important thing is that the group of officials were still jumping and marching!

Thinking of this, Zhang Jian's hair stood on end and he turned around to take a closer look.

I saw a few people at the street corner turned around in an instant, with yellow talismans stuck on their foreheads!

He jumped and stretched out his arms towards this group of scholars who had returned late!

"Ghost!"

"Run! It's the old corpse from Xiangxi!"

"Run!"

The group woke up instantly, and no matter how much they had drunk, they all ran out into the street with all their might.

On the second day, more than one group of scholars reported to Shuntian Prefecture, claiming that they saw the old corpse in Xiangxi.

Someone even took out a talisman, claiming that it was knocked off the zombie.

This person claimed that he returned to the hotel alone after drinking, and when he walked into an alley, he was blocked by zombies. With no other choice, he was forced to fight the zombies for his life.

He happened to knock off the talisman on the zombie's forehead, and said that after the talisman fell off, the zombie immediately became unresponsive, and he was able to take the opportunity to escape.

However, by the time the runners from Shuntian Prefecture and the Nine Gates Governor rushed to the alley, there was no trace of the zombies anymore.

Only the scattered beads seemed to be telling the story of last night's thrill.

Soon, the theory that the emperor was a zombie, which had been rampant in the capital, spread widely with the solemn oaths of this group of scholars reporting to the authorities!

Chapter 122: Xiangcheng Breaks

In the Governor-General's Mansion of Korea, Yuan Shikai, dressed in light clothing, looked up at the sky in the freezing weather of December, waiting for the final confirmation of the news.

As long as the news is confirmed, Yuan Xiangcheng will be able to expose Cixi's scam!

Because afterwards, when Yuan Xiangcheng carefully recalled the situation when he met Guangxu in the Imperial Hospital that day, he noticed something very strange.

It was broad daylight, but curtains were hung on the windows on both sides to block out the light. Guangxu's bed was placed in the deepest part of the room, and there was a stack of white cloth next to the pillow, which seemed to have water stains on it.

Yuan Xiangcheng was only focused on staring at Guangxu's face that day, trying to determine whether it was fake or not, and did not take these details to heart.

Later, when I thought about it carefully, I realized that the water stains on the white cloth might be anesthetics, so I speculated to Yix that Guangxu was drugged.

But he knew that the knockout drug in novels had no such effect.

Unless, something else is used!

After a while, Mingye came hurriedly from outside the door.

"Have you found out clearly?" Yuan Xiangcheng asked.

"It's been checked, Chief Instructor. On the day Guangxu fell, the Western doctor living in Beijing was indeed invited to the Forbidden City."

"Did the Western doctor do anything unusual?"

"Because we were afraid of alerting the enemy, we didn't arrest him and interrogate him, but we found this thing in his pharmacy!"

Ming Ye stretched out his hands and saw that the yellow glass bottle was half filled with liquid. Yuan Xiangcheng leaned closer to smell it and felt a little dizzy.

"It is indeed this thing!"

Now Yuan Xiangcheng can confirm that the reason why Guangxu was unconscious was because he was forced to inhale ether.

寻人了解刺猬4折代：94824^、33=05过后，袁项城才知道早在1846年，乙醚就已经被申请了专利！

After knowing this condition, the emperor fell down and was hurriedly taken to the Imperial Hospital. The foreign doctor entered the palace and the emperor fell into a coma.

The truth gradually emerged before Yuan Xiangcheng.

Cixi knew that whether she deposed the emperor or established a new one, she would encounter unprecedented obstacles.

Even if she was the Empress Dowager, it would not work. So in order to establish a new emperor without any resistance, she went to Yi Lian Naiping and obtained the strong anesthetic ether from him.

It is not surprising that the Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Yiliaozhai comes into contact with these Western things on a daily basis.

On the day of the Laba Court Meeting, Guangxu was probably knocked unconscious and taken to the Imperial Hospital, and the emperor on the high platform at that time was indeed a fake.

All you have to do is cooperate with Cixi in acting out a scene and fall down from the high platform.

Once the person is wrapped in a thick quilt and sent to the Imperial Hospital, he can escape and change into new attire.

The real Guangxu had already been lying on the bed in the Imperial Hospital, which is why Yi Xin did not find anything strange.

Because the person on the bed was Guangxu, the real emperor.

As for why news later came out from the Imperial Medical Bureau that the emperor was able to get out of bed in the middle of the night to drink porridge and walk around.

This is because ether cannot keep a person unconscious all the time, otherwise it will be fatal.

When Guangxu was needed to show up, they would knock the real Guangxu unconscious to fool everyone. After everyone left, they would let the fake Guangxu get up in the middle of the night to pretend.

Why do you think the real Guangxu was so cooperative?

Of course, it was because he had no idea that such a thing existed. From his perspective, he was completely confined in Yangxingzhai and had no communication with the outside world.

Every day when you open your eyes, you are nourishing your nature; every day when you close your eyes, you are still nourishing your nature.

At most, he felt a little dizzy and nauseous in the past few days. As long as the eunuchs around him were Cixi's men, he would have no idea that he was forced to act out a play with Cixi.

Clear the area around Yangxingzhai and don't allow anyone to approach, then Guangxu won't be able to know that earth-shattering changes have taken place outside!

I'm afraid that after the wedding, Guangxu will be completely useless and will never wake up again!

What Yuan Xiangcheng had to do was to bravely run into the emperor's carriage on the wedding day.

If the person in the carriage is a fake emperor, he will definitely be exposed.

If the person in the carriage was a real emperor, he would definitely be in a state of unconsciousness.

Ether cannot make the person unconscious for too long. As long as there is ventilation, the person will wake up soon if the anesthesia is not replenished in time.

So Yuan Xiangcheng only needs to wait for a moment, and Guangxu will naturally prove everything for him!

"Mingye, the Red Search Department did a great job this time! However, there's still one thing to finish..."

...

While Yuan Xiangcheng was discussing matters with Ming Ye in the Governor's Mansion, the scholars in Beijing were also busy.

The corpse-driving people from western Hunan suddenly appeared in Beijing. As a Hunanese, Tan Sitong was naturally pulled out for questioning by the scholars from various provinces whom he had recently made friends with.

Tan Sitong took a deep breath and said solemnly, "My name is Tan Sitong. My father is the current governor of Gansu. I was born in Liuyang, Hunan, which is the Xiangxi area you are talking about. This rumor about corpse-driving in Xiangxi is indeed true!"

After hearing what Tan Sitong said, the last group of people who didn't believe it had to believe it, because there was no reason for the governor's son to lie to them.

Soon after, Tan Sitong and the others talked about the various matters of corpse-carrying in western Hunan. The characteristics of corpses jumping forward, wearing yellow talismans on the head, and wearing official uniforms all confirmed the statements of the previous groups.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Tan Sitong continued, "As for why I wear the uniform of an official of the third rank or higher, this is also the Taoist priest's reward to the zombies.

After the Taoist priest awakens the soul of a dead person, he will ask the person whether he is willing to be controlled by him. If so, the Taoist priest will open the coffin and dress the body in the official uniform of a third-rank official.

In this way, after the people on earth have done chores for the Taoist priests, when their souls return to the underworld, they will also be wearing the clothes of high-ranking officials, and the Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons will have to be polite to them when they see them.

"what?"

7 It was the first time for everyone present to hear such bizarre things from the mouths of serious scholars.

Even though they were sitting in a steaming hot greenhouse, many young scholars were still frightened and broke out in cold sweats. They even considered whether to pack up their bedding and return home.

Are you talking about the imperial examination?

Your life is important. The feng shui in the capital is not good this year. Let’s fight again next year!

As the news of the old corpse in western Hunan continued to spread, the capital was shrouded in a strange atmosphere, as if the soul-calling incident from 100 years ago was about to be repeated.

The Si Shuntian Prefecture and the Jiumen Governor had to send more people to patrol at night, but even so, they were unable to prevent the evil from happening.

2 ...

One night, a Korean scholar and a Shandong scholar went out drinking together. After getting drunk, the scholar rushed back to the inn alone, but encountered zombie soldiers passing by on the way.

The man was stripped of his outer clothes, sprinkled with blood, and a yellow talisman was stuck on his head. His body then jumped forward uncontrollably.

If we hadn't happened to encounter patrol soldiers, we would probably have disappeared after tonight!

Of course, the above words are all the personal accounts of this Korean scholar. Except for the evidence that was later discovered by patrolling soldiers, there were no witnesses to the rest of the events.

However, in such a panic-stricken situation, the news that living people were captured by zombies still spread like wildfire in Beijing.

The emperor was in a coma, and scholars from various provinces claimed to have encountered corpse-driving people from Xiangxi at night. Korean scholars were inexplicably found jumping in the street with yellow paper taped to their heads.

This capital city seems to be turning into the ghost city of Fengdu.

Gradually, everyone pointed the finger at the emperor's wedding.

It seems that the emperor insisted on getting married after he fell into a coma, which attracted the ghost soldiers to the world of the living.

Some even claim that the current emperor has long been possessed by the "Emperor of the Underworld", and that the ghost soldiers who frequently appear in the capital are the former generals of the underworld summoned by him.

When the wedding day arrives, the Yin Emperor will ascend the throne in the world of the living. The capital will immediately turn into a ghost realm on earth, and the people of the capital will turn into wild ghosts in the underworld to be driven by him.