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Chapter 188 The Great Crash (3)
Zhang Zuolin earned it because of the Japanese.And Feng Guozhang suffered extremely badly because the Japanese were playing tricks.The cause was that Chen Qimei, a member of the party, and his little brother Jiang Zhiqing gathered their party members and set up a chain. They set up five death traps from Shiliupu, Race Hall, Bund, Navy Pier to Baidu Bridge, and assassinated Zheng Rucheng, the guardian of Shanghai. .This matter had nothing to do with Feng Guozhang in the first place. You were the one who engaged in the assassination of your party members. Why did you involve Feng Guozhang in it?
But the party members disagreed. As early as when the two assassins Wang Xiaofeng and Wang Mingsan shot at Zheng Rucheng, various newspapers received contributions from Japan, saying that Feng Guozhang did the assassination of Zheng Rucheng.The reason is also ready-made, saying that Zheng Rucheng wanted to replace Feng Guozhang, so Feng Guozhang was jealous and killed him.

For this matter, Feng Guozhang had to hold a press conference to refute the rumors, saying that he really did not do this matter, really not.

As we know, soon Chen Qimei will also be assassinated. This matter finally turned a corner at Zhang Zongchang, first hanging on Feng Guozhang, and then hanging on Yuan Shikai.

But now we can be sure that this matter was definitely not done by Feng Guozhang, nor by Yuan Shikai.It is necessary to send detectives to the depths of history to find out who did it, but it is indeed impossible for Yuan and Feng to be related to this.

why?

Because in terms of time, if some things happen, other things are unlikely to happen again.To put it plainly, if Feng Guozhang turned his face on Yuan Shikai, then he would be unlikely to assassinate Chen Qimei for Yuan Shikai again.

Looking at the time, Zheng Rucheng was assassinated on November 1915, 11, Chen Qimei was assassinated on May 10, 1916, and the newspaper published the news on the 5th.And Feng Guozhang and Yuan Shikai fell out on March 18, 19.The specific time is at 1916:3 pm on March 19th. During the day, Yuan Shikai had just received the news that Long Jinguang and his son had been captured by Lu Rongting. When he was depressed, someone sent a confidential telegram. Yuan Shikai opened it and looked at it. Stand up, then slowly collapse to the ground, passed out.

The servant was terrified, and hurriedly picked up Yuan Shikai, and at the same time ran to call the prince Yuan Keding. Yuan Keding rushed to see Yuan Shikai opened his eyes, and two lines of turbid tears flowed down, saying, "Dabao, you have cheated your own father to death." , I told you again and again not to be called emperor, but you were crying and fussing, insisting on being called emperor, in order to pass it on to you in the future.The results of it?Now finally a catastrophe is upon us, people's hearts have changed drastically, and after all the scheming, it's all broken, cheating, Dabao, you have vividly explained to the whole world what cheating is.

Yuan Keding said dissatisfiedly: Old man, why are you muttering again?Didn't I tell you a long time ago that the troublemakers are Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi, the old and the young and the poor areas of Yishui, ignore them.

Yuan Shikai said: What about Feng Guozhang?Feng Guozhang, don't you plan to talk about it?
Yuan Keding laughed loudly: Let me tell you a joke, father, Feng Guozhang wrote to you a few days ago, saying that there is something going on outside Beijing, and Feng Guozhang will take care of it for you, and there will be no problems.It is unlikely that there is something going on in Beijing, as long as Duan Qirui and Xu Shichang are optimistic about it, everything will be calm.I showed Feng Guozhang’s telegram to Duan Qirui, and Duan Qirui cursed at that time, saying that Feng Guozhang was originally a dog, woof woof, but now he is not even a dog, and dogs bark better than him, woof woof, Hahaha, Dad, do you think this is fun?

Yuan Shikai shook his head slowly: It's not fun.

Yuan Keding: Why isn't it fun?I think it is very fun.

Yuan Shikai: That's a great treasure. Dad will show you something more interesting.

What is so fun?Yuan Keding went to the table and looked, and immediately fell down and sat down on the ground, this, this... Father, isn't Feng Guozhang rebellious?
Yuan Shikai: It's his own business, you don't care about it, you go and ask Duan Qirui to come out right now.

Yuan Keding: Duan Qirui... At this juncture, I'm afraid he won't answer us at all.

Yuan Shikai: That can't be helped, you have to go there.

09 He Must Die
At night, Yuan Keding hurried to find Duan Qirui with people and lanterns. When he arrived at the door, he knocked on the door and said, "Duan Shibo, Shibo."After a while, I heard a voice coming from the crack of the door: What's the matter, it's in the middle of the night?
Yuan Keding said anxiously: "Shi Bo, you open the door, I have something to say when I go in."

Duan Qirui inside said: I'm not at home now.

Yuan Keding: ... Uncle, please don't... tell you that something serious happened.That guy Feng Guozhang suddenly lost his nerve, and called the generals of the provinces, asking everyone to sign together to oppose the monarchy and punish the culprit.Jiangxi General Li Chun, Zhejiang General Zhu Rui, Shandong General Jin Yunpeng, and Hunan General Tang Xiangming have jointly signed Feng Guozhang's telegram.Feng Guozhang's actions were really ruthless. Fortunately, the telegram was received by Zhu Jiabao and secretly sent to my father. Otherwise, my father would not even know that Feng Guozhang had been cheated to death.

Voice from the door: That's right.

Yuan Keding: That's right, Duan Shibo, my father treated you kindly in the past. At critical moments, you should come out and preside over the situation. We can't let Feng Guozhang mess around.

Duan Qirui: But I'm not at home now, what do you think about this matter?

Yuan Keding: ...you...I...Duan Shibo, can I call you father?
After tossing around for most of the night, Duan Qirui refused to open the door, insisting that he was not at home, and his mentality of watching the excitement from the other side was clearly revealed.Yuan Keding was helpless, came back dejectedly, and told Yuan Shikai about it.Yuan Shikai let out a long sigh: Once the friendship of many years wears off, he will be as mischievous as a child.

That night, Yuan Shikai called his secretaries Zhang Yizhen, Zhu Qiqian and others to discuss, and said: Look, the telegram between Feng Guozhang and the five generals is to ask me to abolish the imperial system.I didn't say no, I didn't have the idea of ​​an emperor in the first place, but the environment forced me to sit on the dragon chair. Now that everyone is not happy, let me see, I don't want to sit on it all the time. up.

Zhu Qiqian objected, saying: Your Majesty, absolutely not, absolutely not. If the monarchy is abolished, the prestige will be lost, and the officials will dare not obey orders.

Zhang Yiling said: "Old Zhu, don't be ashamed of yourself here, the courtiers will never dare to obey orders, not your size."Yuan Shikai, what is going on right now is obvious. The soldiers are rising in the southwest and the party members are clamoring. It is nothing more than because you have become the emperor.You ignored this matter, so you can't blame others for bullying you.But if they take this opportunity to cancel the monarchy, the other party will have no reason to make trouble anymore, and it will be their fault if they make trouble again.Yuan Shikai, you used to always say that you sacrificed your children and grandchildren only for the sake of the country and the people. You still hear these words in your ears. Why are you still so greedy for the throne?

Yuan Shikai said: You have said this before, and now I only regret not listening to you.

The next day, Yuan Shikai called his confidant Liang Shiyi, and they sat opposite each other at a square table with two glasses of water on the table.This secret meeting is an absolute secret meeting. The secret is so secret that neither of them speaks. They dip their fingers in water and write on the table. The tea smears the table, wipes it clean and continues to write, so no one knows what they both wrote. What.

At the end of the writing, Yuan Shikai finally spoke. He said: Now that things are up to now, I can only make such a decision, which will be divided into several aspects.Xu Shichang and Duan Qirui were in charge of central government affairs, and Feng Guozhang was in charge of stabilizing the Central Plains military.Please send a telegram to Chen Huan in Sichuan for me, telling him to make peace with Cai E as soon as possible.Then there is Liang Qichao, you have a personal relationship with him, you should contact him more, then go to Kang Youwei, ask him to write a letter, and help Liang Qichao a lot.In a word, if it can make the country stable, I can sacrifice to any extent.

On March 1916, 3, Yuan Shikai announced the abolition of the imperial system.

Yuan Shikai is really old and his brain is not enough.He thought everyone was targeting the imperial system, so he abolished the imperial system, but in fact, everyone was targeting him.

He must die!

For what reason, it doesn't matter.

10 The Last Stardust
On the day when the imperial system was abolished, Yuan Shikai talked to his secretary Zhang Yiling three times. At this time, his IQ suddenly recovered, and what he said was quite wise.

He said: I only know today that those who are indifferent to fame and wealth are the real national scholars.You, Zhang Yiling, have worked here for decades, and you have never mentioned promotion or asked for a raise.There is also Yan Xiu and Yan Fansun, who never asked for a promotion.And you two have discouraged the monarchy many times.But with country seekers like you in front of me, I can't accept your honest advice, I really regret it.Besides Liang Shiyi, he originally opposed the imperial system, but decided to support it after consideration. Once he made a decision, he would never repent. So now, only Liang Shiyi still insists on the imperial system, because once the imperial system is abolished, those who wholeheartedly hope for titles and promotions, If you lose your goal, who will clean up the mess?It seems that Liang Shiyi is not the kind of person with both ends of the head, but those supporters in the past who oppose me the most today.In short, they all blame me for reading too little and having limited knowledge.

After this introspection, Yuan Shikai summoned Zhang Guogan, Li Yuanhong's confidant, and said to him: I regretted not listening to you at the beginning, and it has nothing to do with others to get to this point.But what happened in the past, it's too late, and we should think about the future. Now that the situation is chaotic, what relief measures does the vice president have?

Zhang Guogan: The vice president did not say so.

Yuan Shikai: Did you hear any discussion outside?
Zhang Guogan: It is to discuss whether to abdicate or not to abdicate.

Yuan Shikai: According to you, should I abdicate, or should I not abdicate?

Zhang Guogan: Now it is not a question of which one you choose, but a question of you must abdicate.

Yuan Shikai: Do you think Cai E is my opponent?
Zhang Guogan: The problem now is not the southwest, but the southeast.

Yuan Shikai: You mean Feng Guozhang?

Zhang Guogan: Feng Guozhang has been with you for so many years, the president should know him better than me.

Yuan Shikai: So which side do you think Feng Guozhang will support?Do you support me or Cai E?
Zhang Guogan: The most I can say is that whoever Feng Guozhang supports wins.

Yuan Shikai: You haven't answered my question yet.

Zhang Guogan: President, whoever Feng Guozhang supports will win, there is no doubt about it.The scary thing is that he doesn't support anyone, that's why everyone is so miserable.

Yuan Shikai: ...this old Feng...

Zhang Guogan: I send eight words to the President, and he retires bravely, and he deserves it.I am leaving.

It was night, Yuan Shikai was alone in the courtyard, feeling depressed, when he looked up suddenly, he saw a big star, bright and horned, sliding and falling towards the west, making a faint sound.Yuan Shikai felt sour and went back to sleep, but he didn't sleep all night and wept until dawn.

The next day, the secretary Xia Shoutian came to visit him. Yuan Shikai said: "Last night, I saw a big star with horns falling to the west, and it seemed to make a faint sound. This is the second time I have seen it in my life."The first time was the eve of Wen Zhonggong Li Hongzhang's death, and a big star fell to the west. This time, it should be my turn, right?

(End of this chapter)