The ancestor laughed: "Declare war on the powers of the world? Is this old woman crazy? Even Japanese in Japan can't defeat it, and they still go to war with the powers of the world? These powers of the world really turned against her for the sake of Emperor Guangxu. If a young and promising emperor really comes up, he can really reform and strengthen his powers, which is not good for the powers. And you have said before that the powers are fighting each other, and I have a conflict. How could they suddenly be kind to each other? This must be a trick of the great powers of various countries joining forces to put pressure on the rulers of the Qing Dynasty and demanding more benefits. This Empress Dowager Cixi can't even understand this. How can she be worthy of being the lord of a country?"

Liu Yu said coldly: "The desire for power has made her lose her basic political judgment ability. As long as anyone wants to challenge her power, she will turn against this person, live to the death, and turn the reformists from support to elimination. It is such a process. In rationality, she also knew that the Qing Dynasty was much behind, even the East Japan was inferior to the East Japan. If the reform and strengthening were not thoroughly reformed, it would be a destruction of the country and the race. After all, those Western powers may not be interested in the land and people of the Qing Dynasty, or temporarily unable to control the vast territory of the Qing Dynasty, and only want to open the Qing Dynasty's gates and come in to sell things. However, the East Japan and the Tsarist Russia in the north really wanted to annex the Qing Dynasty. If they did not rise up and protect themselves, how could she have power if the country was destroyed?"

"But when Empress Dowager Cixi discovered that this reform and reform was for her. She wanted her to hand over power to the emperor like the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, and could no longer do anything to rule the country behind the curtain, because only when the monarch was in power could he issue orders and make big moves. A woman who was regent was not qualified to carry out these great changes in the ancestors. Besides, her series of actions were also the direct reason for the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and she had to abdicate for this. However, Empress Dowager Cixi had military power, and in the end, she directly dispatched an army loyal to her to capture all the reform officials and patriots. All the reforms carried out in the past 100 days were overturned and no longer carried out. In other words, she chose the latter on the two roads of choosing to save the nation and destroy the national security power."

"From then on, the Qing Dynasty did not even establish its own arsenal. It directly purchased new weapons from the great powers, and appointed those Manchu and Han officials who were completely obeying Empress Dowager Cixi, and then they formed another army. In the economically developed areas in the southeast, they were handed over to the former regiment leaders, such as Li Hongzhang and their subordinates, allowing the Western powers to open the doors to carry out various trades. As long as they paid enough taxes, they even handed over the customs taxes of the Qing Dynasty to the British."

The ancestor laughed: "This is almost half-destroyed. However, the great powers of all countries are not satisfied. They have to put pressure on Empress Dowager Cixi in the name of restoring Emperor Guangxu to demand more benefits. I don't understand, where does this old woman have the confidence to declare war on the great powers all over the world?!"

Liu Yu said seriously: "Because in those years, a group of people in the country who hated Western powers, especially the religious churches that hated them. Before, the Qing Dynasty could not defeat foreigners and was forced to allow them to preach in China. These churches also took the opportunity to develop many Chinese people to become religious people. These religious people thought that with foreigners, they became more and more rampant, just like the five dou of rice road. Not only did they donate their property to the church, but they also often ran rampant in the villages and bullied ordinary people. Such lawsuits hit local governments. Local officials often calmed down and even favored religious people with foreign support, so the conflicts became increasingly serious."

"In Qingzhou, Bingzhou, and the Youyan area of ​​Jizhou, where the capital of the Qing Dynasty is located, many people from the bottom of the lower class also set up an organization called Yihequan under the leadership of some returning officials and gentry. They organized the people in the name of practicing boxing and martial arts and strengthening their bodies to deal with the religious people in the countryside. They no longer expect the government, but gathered people to deal with the religious people directly. Later, some Yihequan people who practice Qigong even claimed to be invulnerable to swords and guns, and those Western weapons were just demonic magic and evil magic. As long as they used various traditional Central Plains to destroy evil techniques, such as sprinkling dog blood, they could crack it."

The ancestor curled his lips: "It seems that they have hired some earth gods and fairies. This kind of invulnerable trick has been around since ancient times, but it consumes extremely magic power. It is okay to protect one or two people from harm in a short period of time. But if it is on a large-scale battlefield, thousands of people have this ability, unless..."

Speaking of this, the ancestor stopped and laughed strangely.

Liu Yu gritted his teeth: "What you mean is to use evil magic such as ghost soldiers and immortals to deal with the guns and cannons of Western powers, right?"

The ancestor smiled slightly: "I'm just a little strange. At this time, why are these ancestral magical skills gone? Even if you, Liu Yu, don't like them, if you are to defeat these foreign invaders, these forbidden techniques from previous generations should have been used."

Liu Yu said sternly: "These demons and evil magic will no longer appear in the future. I am afraid that you evil gods and demons will be completely eliminated and will no longer appear in the world. Even if there are still, how could you help the Chinese people to deal with the invasion of the great powers?"

The ancestor shook his head: "This may not be necessary. According to the Yihe Fist you mentioned, some people have some magical skills. I am afraid they have the bonus of these magicians and sorcerers. If they can make military achievements by fighting against the outside world, then become high-ranking officials, control the government and gain power, they can still attract some gods to the world."

Liu Yu sneered: "It's a pity that, as you said, these magical deceptions cannot be used in a battle of thousands of troops. Yihequan is a resistance from the lower class people against foreign invasions, but they have not received good training and lack the powerful organization of this Yihequan. Their more function is to deal with the lackeys of foreign powers, such as the Christians and the foreign powers, destroy the church everywhere, and massacre the entire family of the Christians. These things have angered the Western powers, so they used the excuse to restore Emperor Guangxu and demanded that Empress Dowager Cixi order severe punishment of Yihequan in various places."
Chapter completed!