Breaking through Guandong, I became Zhu Chuanwen

Holding a sword is called a swordsman, and holding a sword is called a swordsman. At this time, Mao Guangting was in the capital, just like holding a treasured ladle in his hand.The eight major alleys in the capital are occupied by him, and they are full of banquets all day long.However, the Hanyao people at this time had strict discipline, no matter how late it was, Mao Guangting never stayed there.

But under such a wide range of banquets, some middle and senior generals in Beiyang got to know this shopkeeper Mao from the Kanto.

Mao Guangting also heard some interesting voices. It turned out that after Yuan Shikai became the prime minister, he still faced a powerful Manchu forces.

"Treasurer Mao, I... Let me tell you, our Master Yuan has not been going well recently!" A military guard in the capital pulled Mao Guangting's neck and was drunk, but his eyes were fixed. He stared at the oiran who accompanied him to the left and right.

"Oh, what do you mean by that?" Mao Guangting winked, and the two oirans picked up the wine glass and put it in the mouth of the pipe.

"That's why you asked Brother Mao, I'll tell you about it secretly. Recently, Liangbi's people contacted me and asked me to join him in the incident. They said they wanted to depose Mr. Yuan and form a "wartime royal cabinet". With Tie Liang as the commander-in-chief, organize an army loyal to the Qing Dynasty to fight a decisive battle with the south!"

"Really want to fight?" Mao Guangting pretended to be surprised.

"Brother Mao, don't panic! If you can't fight, you Hanyao's business will continue, and our soldiers will be our soldiers. It's not our turn to play. And I have already told Master Feng about this matter." Guan Dai smiled charmingly , the Master Feng he was talking about was exactly Feng Guozhang, the commander of the imperial guards in the capital at this time.

"Brother Li, come, please..." After hearing this, Mao Guangting greeted him and started to eat.

After the imperial guard was helped into a room, Mao Guangting entered several rooms in turn. This is a kind of ability that makes these people feel taken care of but not left out.After returning to the resting place, Mao Guangting wrote a telegram to Zhu Chuanwen:

Prime Minister Jun Jian, I have finished my work in the capital, and Yuan Yuwo has no real promise, just let us do business well.However, he praised Hanyao very much in words, saying that Hanyao in Kanto is like Krupp in Germany.

Within two days, I wanted to entertain the two generals, Dragon and Dog, who were from Beiyang in the capital, but the two generals did not attend the appointment, and only presented gifts.But when I was entertaining a group of middle and high-level Beiyang Army and Forbidden Army officers in the capital, I found out that the general fighting spirit was not high.

Only the royal family was running around, trying to oppose the peace talks between the north and the south and the abdication of the Qing emperor.Guang Ting fears that there will be changes, and how to act will be instructed by the Prime Minister.

In addition, the Wangjiashan Warehouse has now turned the corner. Captain Wang Keren took the train to Bingcheng today. Yuan seems to be acquiescing to our actions. The Wangjiashan Warehouse can continue to sell ordnance.

Mao Guangting was in Beijing on the night of January 1.

Under the influence of alcohol, Mao Guangting fell into a deep sleep...

The next day, when the sun was rising three poles, Mao Guangting faintly heard the movement outside, which was a bit noisy, and only heard a voice saying: "Has the director woke up? There has been a major change in the capital!"

"What a big change, wait, let the director sleep for a while!" This is the voice of Secretary Mao Guangting.

"Can't wait, the red-level document reported by the hunter."

When the secretary heard this, he hurriedly pushed open Mao Guangting's door in a hurry, and Mao Guangting, who was still a little pale, had already got up on the bed.

"Chenghui, what's the matter?" Mao Guangting asked his secretary Lou Chenghui.

"Director, the red document reported by the hunter!"

As soon as Mao Guangting heard it, he came over, and there was a short line written on it: Liangbi, the leader of the Zongsha Party, was assassinated at the door of the house in Guangmingdian Hutong on his way home after the meeting. His family was looking for a famous doctor.

Liangbi was assassinated, and Mao Guangting immediately thought of the telegram he sent to Zhu Chuanwen yesterday, "Quickly, send another telegram, saying that Yuan Shikai has no opponent in the capital. Shall I return to Bingcheng?"

At this moment in Yuan Shikai's mansion, a group of generals from the Yuan family gathered at the gate of Yuan Shikai's study, all of them were beaming with joy, and they even bowed their hands to each other in a somewhat festive manner.

But for a moment, as the door of Yuan Shikai's study opened, everyone was silent, waiting for their leader to make the final mobilization.

"Liang Bi, the injury is good!" Yuan Shikai said as soon as he opened the door.

"My lord, Duan Qirui has arrived at Zhending Mansion, should we let him go to Beijing to remonstrate?" Yang Du's chest kept rising and falling. Obviously, he who was in charge of the mediation between the North and the South and hurried over had already seen the hope of peace.

Yuan Shikai glanced at Yang Du. He was kind to Yang Du. He discovered Yang Du when he was down and down. Yang Du also believed that Yuan Shikai was the "extraordinary person" he was looking for. When Yuan Shikai was about to be killed, Yang Du dared to refuse the draft order and risked his life to save him.But at this time, Yuan Shikai actually shook his head in his heart, Yang Du was too deeply involved with the progressives in the south.

However, Yang Du was exactly what Yuan Shikai needed at this time: "Xizi (Yang Du's character), contact the south, and I will let the Qing court abdicate and realize the republic!"

After Yuan Shikai made intensive arrangements for a day, at the court meeting on January 1, Yuan Shikai looked at Longyu and the little emperor on the Jinluan Hall, and walked out of the court with a blank expression: "My lord, Yuan Shikai, I have something to play." !"

"Speak!" Longyu's voice seemed weak, and she knew that the day that should come would always come.

"My Majesty, Empress Dowager, Commander-in-Chief of the Sixth Beiyang Army, Duan Qirui, Commander-in-Chief of the Anti-Insurgency Frontline, I have something important to tell my Majesty and Empress Dowager!" Yuan Shikai knelt on the ground and said loudly.

"Yuan Shikai, the Beiyang army moved without orders and led the army into Beijing. How should we deal with this matter." Longyu took on the role of the queen mother and began to put pressure on Yuan Shikai.

"Empress Dowager, I am no longer a minister of Beiyang. As the saying goes, the general is away, and the emperor's order is not accepted. I think it is better for the emperor and the queen mother to meet!" Yuan Shikai's meaning is obvious. He is not the minister of Beiyang now. He will be outside. The king's order is not acceptable, let alone his prime minister.

Hearing this, Longyu trembled a little, but still pulled himself together and said, "Let's announce it!" It seems that seeing is not enough.

But this battle frightened Longyu and the little emperor, and a group of officers in Beiyang military uniform walked into the Golden Luan Hall with a murderous look holding the petition in their hands.

The little emperor had seen this kind of battle before, and jumped into Longyu's arms.

As soon as Duan Qirui entered the Jinluan Hall, he filled the entire Beiyang army with a sense of oppression under the "Fair and Bright" plaque, and said: "Minister Duan Qirui, I have seen the Queen Mother and the Emperor!"

However, wearing a military uniform, he didn't even perform the ceremony of a general, which made all the Manchu and royal ministers frown frequently.

how?Bingjiao is addicted, how many times has this happened in the past few months?Luanzhou military remonstrance, Jin Province military remonstrance, and southern provinces' military remonstrance, two hands can't count.

"General Duan, what's the point of bringing troops into Beijing?" Longyu said. Seeing that Xiafeng was directly squeezed out of the Golden Luan Hall by Yuan Shikai, and only King Qing Yikuang could have weight. But just now Longyu gave him a look. see.As a last resort, Longyu could only ask questions in person.

"The emperor and queen mother, my frontline soldiers have been fighting on the front line for more than 4 months. In 4 months, my Beiyang army has expanded from 6 towns to 6 armies. In the south, I have also gathered 10,000+ people. The emperor and queen mother, the people are suffering. There are countless people who died by accident, minister, I can't bear it!
They are all the people of my Qing Dynasty, why are they here!

There are countless innocent souls dancing in front of my eyes every day, and I can't sleep at night, so I think about why I and the frontline soldiers are fighting. Now, I want to understand.This battle is ridiculous!Ridiculous! "Duan Qirui's saliva flew all over the place. If it was before, it would be more than enough to punish him for the crime of yelling at the imperial court, but now...

People, they brought soldiers here.In the Golden Luan Hall, no one dared to criticize.

Duan Qirui continued: "Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, we frontline soldiers are not afraid of fighting, nor are we afraid of death, and obeying military orders is our soldier's bounden duty, but in this battle, we fought too poorly!
The war in the South is for a democratic republic, and we are fighting for a constitutional monarchy!This is a dispute over the state system, but our soldiers have to pay the price with their lives, I can't figure it out! "

"Duan Qirui, why can't you figure it out? The emperor and the queen mother are here today, but you just talk about it. If you can't say one, two, three, I will punish you for leading troops back to Beijing without authorization!" Yuan Shikai said. Said.

"Lord Yuan, I heard that you were assassinated by the South a few days ago. I must be quite resentful. But today, in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, I still want to say, please abdicate the queen mother and the emperor! The realization of the republic is for the sake of saving the country. The dispute can be resolved in a peaceful manner, and my frontline soldiers join hands to hope that the emperor and the queen mother will approve." When Duan Qirui said this, the court was in an uproar.

And as the last word came out of Duan Qirui's mouth, a "Republic Petition" full of names was unfolded by the confidants behind Duan Qirui with a "wow", and a sonorous voice sounded: "Please!" The emperor and the empress dowager abdicate to achieve a republic!"

"Duan Qirui, are you going to rebel?" King Qing finally couldn't help it, and shouted sharply.

"Your servant, Duan Qirui, dare not." Duan Qirui casually bowed his hands towards King Qing, "I don't take presumptuousness today, but I just led the whole army, boarded the car with tears in my eyes, and risked my life to go to Beijing to express my pain to the emperor, queen mother, and princes. Chen is powerful, the importance of the country is far greater than that of our monarch with the same surname in the Qing Dynasty."

King Qing clutched his heart, now he understood that it was not Duan Qirui who wanted to rebel, but Yuan Shikai who wanted to rebel.

Just when everything was silent, Feng Guozhang, the commander of the forbidden army, walked up to the Golden Luan Hall vigorously, and knelt down on one knee: "I report to the emperor and queen mother, Lord Liangbi, he is dead!"

Liangbi is dead?It was like the last straw that broke the camel of the Qing Dynasty.

Longyu couldn't sit still and stood up, hopping and asking Yuan Shikai, "Yuan Shikai, I dismissed Zaifeng from the post of regent and made you the prime minister, so you repay our mother and son like this?

I let you come to the capital to protect the lives of my mother and child, but now that the army is in the Golden Temple, you, Yuan Shikai, have failed you! "

But who is Yuan Shikai? A resigned character, he hurriedly knelt on the ground: "What the queen mother blames is that the minister deserves death!"

I heard that Emperor Kangxi hated this sentence the most. If you die, everything will be over once you die. But at this time, it is enough to see Yuan Shikai and Si Ni's appearance, and he continued: "Queen Mother, the people's sentiments are so popular that scholars don't need to die. The general trend is over. .The minister is afraid that while the wall will be destroyed, foreign enemies will enter the palace. At that time, the whole body may not be available!"

This is a blatant threat...

Finally, Longyu couldn't bear it any longer, and hurriedly asked, "South, what do you mean?"

"If I abdicate the Qing Dynasty, they will agree to all preferential treatment conditions." Yuan Shikai said, but then his tone became firmer: "I have flatly refused to insult the emperor and queen mother like this. Don't worry, the queen mother, I also hate these rebellious officials and thieves, and I also hate them." Deeply hurt by it!" This is once again a clear boundary between him and the South.

It can only be said that Xu Shichang was right. Yuan Shikai's assassination was really an opportunity to show that he had nothing to do with the south.

But at this time, Longyu's inner defense line was completely defeated, and he hurriedly said: "Don't refuse, don't refuse, let's talk to them again!"

Yuan Shikai stood up all of a sudden, and straightened his back vigorously: "Queen Mother, we can't talk about it. I'd rather be a piece of jade than a tile. I'm also a general. I can't command this army now, but I will wait for the emperor and the queen mother." In front of the front, I must shed the last trace of blood to protect the emperor and the queen mother."

And just when Longyu was about to make a statement, King Qing Yikuang couldn't bear it any longer, clutching his heart and jumped out: "Yuan Shikai, don't be so hypocritical, you are a traitor, I will beat you to death."

As he spoke, he rushed up shouting and kicked Yuan Shikai down, while Feng Guozhang, who was kneeling on one knee, and Duan Qirui, who was standing, saw him and immediately stepped forward to stop him.

"None of you are allowed to move!" Yuan Shikai staggered to his feet, with an unprecedentedly painful tone: "Master Qing, you and I have been officials in the same dynasty for more than [-] years. You should know me best. Dare to ask, my Yuan Shikai's Isn't choice the best choice for Qing Dynasty?"

Hearing this, King Qing stopped in his tracks, as if he was on the verge of death, and Longyu also shed tears when he heard this.

On February 1912, 2, Empress Dowager Longyu took the little emperor Xuantong who was only six years old, and issued three edicts in succession, announcing that the Qing emperor would abdicate, the Qing court would end the imperial system, and "put the ruling power to the whole country and make it a constitutional republic. ".

The imperial edict stated that "the psychology of the people of the whole country today tends to be republican". The complete territory of the Hui and Tibetan ethnic groups constitutes a large Republic of China."

The edict also exhorts the people to remain calm, maintain order and support the new government.At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Qing government also issued a note to the embassies of various countries in China, announcing that the Qing Dynasty had automatically abdicated, and hoped that all countries would recognize the ROC government as their legal successor.