Master Yuan, start!

The clever middle-level members of the Eight Banners had already exchanged all the antiques and jewelry in their homes for silver and deposited them in foreign banks.

Only the useless bannermen who have no ability and shout "My Qing Dynasty is so-and-so, My Qing Dynasty is so-and-so" all day long would cry in the temple here.

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At ten o'clock in the morning, Yuan Shikai led a group of entourage and soldiers, as well as an increasing number of citizens from the capital, and rushed to the south of the Meridian Gate and outside the Jinshui River.

After Yuan Shikai arrived, the bannermen here cried even more miserably.

They seemed to firmly believe that "If all the civil and military officials in the court cried from night to dawn and from dawn to night, they would surely cry Xiangcheng to death!"

It’s a pity that Dong Zhuo didn’t die of crying, so how could Yuan Xiangcheng do that?

At 10:15, Liu Jia, dressed in white, with bandages wrapped around her body and a mourning hat on her head, slowly walked out of the Meridian Gate with the support of the eldest prince Zaifeng.

Accompanying him were Li Hongzao, Shiduo and other princes and ministers.

Under the gaze of everyone, the eldest prince took a half step forward, took out the imperial edict wrapped in white cloth from his arms, and said loudly:

"Prince Gong Yi-D, by the will of his father, the Regent Prince Yi-X, was granted the title of Prince Regent. When the Emperor was seriously injured and unconscious, he took charge of government affairs.

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As a result, the place where our ancestors rose up was disturbed, the military and civilians in various provinces rose up in rebellion, the whole country was in turmoil, and revenge killings were frequent between the Manchus and the Han people.

Today, Yuan Shikai has shouldered the hopes of the people of the world and has come to the capital in person with the pretext of suppressing the foreign invasion and quelling the rebellion. The people's will is clear, and the destiny is clear.

Although I am the eldest prince, how can I go against the likes and dislikes of hundreds of millions of people for the sake of one person's honor?

He watched the invasion of his country in the Northeast and the sudden rise of public opinion in the world, so he handed over the rule of the Qing Dynasty to Yuan Xiangcheng as the crown prince of the Qing Dynasty.

I hope that Xiangcheng will comfort the people in the country who are tired of chaos and hope for order, and will also align with the ancient sages' ideal of making the world public.

After the establishment of the new dynasty and the withdrawal of the Russian army, the emperor and I were able to retire and relax, recuperate from our illnesses and injuries, and continue to receive the respect of the people.

Qin~this~! "

Abdication edict, this is the abdication edict!

At this moment, this sentence appeared in the minds of everyone present.

Moreover, it not only marked the end of the old dynasty, but also pointed out the candidate for the emperor of the new dynasty.

As soon as the imperial edict was read, a shout suddenly came from the crowd gathered together.

"Long live Mr. Yuan! Long live the National Revolutionary Army!"

Then he knelt down and pledged his loyalty to Yuan Shikai.

Seeing this, the people nearby, both Manchus and Han, quickly realized that they could not neglect the new emperor, so they also knelt down and kowtowed.

But at this moment, no one expected it.

Yuan Xiangcheng stepped forward, snatched the imperial edict from the eldest prince Zaifeng's hand, and tore it to pieces with his hands.

"You want me to inherit the Manchu Qing dynasty and become emperor again? Dream on!"

Yuan Xiangcheng spat in disdain and immediately shouted behind him, "Ming Ye!"

"exist!"

"Raise the national flag! Reveal the country's name!"

"Yes!"

While everyone was still shocked by Yuan Xiangcheng tearing up the imperial edict, the National Revolutionary Army behind him quickly changed its formation.

After a while, two wooden poles over ten meters long were slowly erected from the blue military uniform formation.

The people on the ground looked up and saw something hanging on the two wooden poles.

The top of one of the wooden poles is red, decorated with a flag with a yellow sun and yellow stars.

The other one has the five big characters "People's Republic of China" written in white on a blue background.

Republic?

The people of Beijing, who had been influenced by the New Deal, knew what the word "republic" meant.

Yuan Xiangcheng, doesn’t even want to be emperor?

For a moment, the people kneeling on the ground and kowtowing didn't know whether to stand up or continue kneeling.

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"Stand up, don't kneel!"

Yuan Xiangcheng roared and walked forward quickly, wanting to personally pull up a civilian who was kneeling on the ground and kowtowing.

However, the commoner glanced around and saw that others were still kneeling, but stubbornly refused to get up.

Among the crowd, many people were dressed like scholars, or were obviously bureaucrats and frustrated scholars from various departments in the capital.

Among them were many former high-ranking officials in the court, such as assistant ministers and junior ministers.

These "scholars" were the first to react. They knelt down the fastest and shouted "Long live the emperor" repeatedly.

Of course, there were more ordinary people present, including prostitutes in bright clothes and heavy makeup; beggars in tattered clothes and thin bodies; and even children with childish eyes and no knowledge of the world.

Under the leadership of the former, people from all walks of life knelt down and kowtowed.

The lower class people were a little slow to kneel, but they knelt the most honestly.

They were not like the "scholars" in the front row. After kneeling down and kowtowed, they looked around and glanced at Yuan Shikai and the revolutionary army to see how they would react.

These people of the lower Jiujiu class kept their hands, feet and heads pressed tightly to the ground, not daring to lift their heads even a bit. They could even smell the fragrance of the earth in their nostrils.

"Master Yuan, please understand!"

Amidst the crowd, a young scholar with a round face and a slight foreign accent suddenly stood up and said loudly:

"The Qing dynasty misled China for 250 years, causing China to fall behind the foreigners step by step in this major change that has not happened in 3000 years.

Over the past sixty years, China was first defeated by Britain during the Daoguang reign and signed the first humiliating treaty;

Then during the Xianfeng period, the capital was broken into, the gardens were destroyed, and the Tartar chieftains fled north in panic;

When the evil Empress Dowager Cixi was in power, Japanese pirates invaded Korea. If it were not for the support of Yuan Shikai, how could Korea have returned to China?

Now that Master Yuan has the power to challenge for the throne, why should he continue to decline and yield?"

"Who are you?" Yuan Xiangcheng frowned and looked at the young scholar in front of him.

He seemed to have some impression of this person, but he couldn't remember it for a moment.

"Student North Korea, no, the descendant of the Haidong Jeonju Lee family, Syngman Rhee!"

Syngman Rhee raised his head proudly and took off the melon-shaped round hat on his head. The braid he had shaved off before to participate in the imperial examination and please Empress Dowager Cixi had disappeared long ago.

The thing on the hat is a fake braid!

Instead, there is a neat short hair.

When Syngman Rhee was studying Chinese in Korea, Yuan Shikai was reforming the imperial examination system in Korea.

In order to achieve greater development, he did not choose the "Western test" but chose the "Chinese test". See Chapter 100 for details.

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That is, after passing the imperial examination in Korea, he rushed to the capital to participate in the joint examination for all the juren in China. He wanted to try his best to become a jinshi of a great country.

In his opinion, the development prospects of the Qing court were much greater than those of Korea under the rule of Yuan Shikai.

Unfortunately, things are unpredictable. Although he expressed his loyalty to Cixi several times, it never reached Cixi's ears.

In the imperial examination that year, he was unable to compete with the candidates from the mainland and failed.

After that, there was the Curtain-Reverse War, Empress Dowager Cixi fled south, and Emperor Guangxu began to promote the reform of the imperial examination system.

Syngman Rhee was delayed in Beijing.

As a person who was extremely eager for power, Syngman Rhee was unwilling to sink into oblivion. He began to write letters to important officials of the court and published articles in the Suncheon Times.

But he suffered setbacks one after another.

The article did not cause any stir, and the Qing Dynasty's ministers felt that Lee Seung-man was just an adult, a young boy, and dared to talk about governing the country, so they did not take it seriously.

After several setbacks, just when he was discouraged and planning to return to Korea, Yuan Shikai issued a telegram opposing the Manchus and rejecting Russia.

After seeing the telegram, he knew that his fortune had come.

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Syngman Rhee shook his head and cleared the distracting thoughts from his mind.

After recalling his difficult years in Beijing, he took another step forward and started to talk to Yuan Xiangcheng:

"I know that when Yuan Shikai was in charge of Korea, he discussed the merits and demerits of the English monarchy and the French republic.

The students thought that compared to the bloody massacre in Paris, the capital of France, after the Republic, the bloodless constitutionalism chosen by the London scholars was the best way to demonstrate Mr. Yuan’s tolerance towards others!

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Mr. Yuan, now that Russia is imminent, China cannot afford to be in chaos any longer!

In front of everyone, Syngman Rhee spoke to Yuan Shikai in a straightforward and explicit manner, urging him to become emperor.

"Sir Yuan, please ascend the throne and establish a constitutional monarchy!"

After seeing Syngman Rhee shout, the other bureaucrats and scholars finally reacted and shouted together.

"Please ascend the throne and establish a constitutional monarchy!"

Although Syngman Rhee was extremely blatant in his flattery, these scholars might not necessarily want to flatter him.

It’s just that Syngman Rhee was shameless enough.

These scholars thought that shouting "Long live Yuan Shikai" to Yuan Shikai was a beneficial thing with no harm.

Since ancient times, anyone who led a large army into the capital after a rebellion would always register and proclaim himself emperor.

Who can resist the temptation of the supreme throne?

If you persuade him to ascend now, that would be the merit of following the dragon!

This is a rare opportunity that comes once in a century. The chance for your family to rise and for your career to prosper is right before your eyes. If you don’t seize it, what are you waiting for?

In their view, Yuan Shikai's talk of "republic" was nothing more than the old routine of "three refusal and three concessions".