10781908 Far Eastern madman

Beijing, Xiyuan, Presidential Palace, back garden. The garden is on the edge of the South China Sea, standing in the garden you can overlook the Yingtai in the South China Sea, after the Guangxu Emperor failed to change the law, he was imprisoned on that small island until he died, and was removed from the secluded

Place.

Because Yingtai is the place where the emperor is imprisoned, and the emperor is still dead here, it is unlucky, usually inaccessible, there used to be a few old eunuchs with small eunuchs stationed on the island, guarding the palace on the island, but since the republic, the eunuchs on the island have also disappeared, leaving only a few lonely dilapidated palaces, as evidence that the dying dynasty once existed and "crunched".

But now, there are so many individuals on Yingtai Island who are walking in the bleak and barren grass.

Most of these individuals were guards of the presidential palace, and they did not come here to defend the dilapidated palaces, but as the servants of the provisional president of the Republic of China, they accompanied President Yuan on a leisurely tour of Yingtai.

In addition to his sons Yuan Keding and Yuan Kewen, there were several high-ranking government officials who accompanied Yuan Shikai on his tour of Yingtai, among which Zhao Bingjun and Duan Zhigui were the most trusted.

Yuan Shikai was dressed in a silk gown, with Western handicraft skills, and cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles, although he was not shining, but he was much more energetic than the haggard appearance some time ago, and the two sons who followed him were also smiling, talking to their father from time to time, and a group of civil and military officials behind him also made fun of it, using witty words to say some allusions to the previous dynasty. For Yuan Shikai, he relieved the boredom in his heart.

It's just that Yuan Shikai couldn't smile all the time. When he walked out of the dilapidated Hanyuan Palace, the expression on his face also became gloomy, he turned around and raised his cane, pointed to the dilapidated dougong and cornice, and said: "This Hanyuan Hall was also a place where Emperor Guangxu was imprisoned back then, how could it be so dilapidated?" ”

Zhao Bingjun, who was following aside, hurriedly said: "Originally, it was not so dilapidated, but after the Qing Dynasty issued the edict of abdication, the eunuchs guarding here stole all the valuable things in this Hanyuan Palace, even the ornaments on the dougong and cornices, so it looks like this Hanyuan Hall is particularly dilapidated." ”

Duan Zhigui also said: "Now there are a lot of things stolen from the palace in the glaze factory and the big cultivation bar, those eunuchs don't know the goods, the official kiln porcelain of the Ming Dynasty dared to shoot a few pieces of ocean, in recent times, many merchants who poured antiques have made a fortune, a few days ago I also received a piece of Song Dynasty royal celadon from a person, the inscription on the top is thin gold, it is not good to say that it is the imperial pen of Song Huizong, but it is true or false and stunned to find someone to identify it, if it is genuine, Zhigui will take it to play with the godfather. ”

When Yuan Kewen heard Duan Zhigui's words, he immediately raised his eyebrows and said: "I know a few connoisseurs, why don't I accompany you to find them, you brought that celadon A few days ago, I also received a lot of good things, so I just took a spoonful of it." ”

The people around him tried to lead the topic to antiques, but Yuan Shikai didn't interject, glanced at Yuan Kewen, sighed, shook his head, turned around, and continued to walk forward with his cane.

Seeing that he was depressed, Yuan Kewen glanced at Yuan Kewen, Yuan Kewen hesitated for a moment, and said: "Father, yesterday someone from Xiangcheng's hometown brought a letter from his uncle, saying that he was going to come to meet the president of the Republic of China in a while, and there were a group of Yuan's sons and nephews who came with him, and asked the president to write a new gold plaque for Yuan's ancestral hall, and they wanted to bring this golden plaque back to Xiangcheng's hometown and glorify their ancestors." ”

Yuan Shikai just said "oh", and did not discuss this topic, Yuan Keding glanced at Yuan Kewen, so he had to go into battle in person, and said: "Yesterday, my son sent a few friends out of Beijing at the train station, and I heard a joke by chance. If the father is interested, the son will tell the joke about the "United Front, parliamentarians" in the South. ”

Yuan Shikai barely squeezed out a wry smile on his face. Nodding, he pointed to a weeping willow by the lake, and the accompanying guards hurriedly placed a rattan chair and held an umbrella.

After Yuan Shikai sat down on the rattan chair, Yuan Keding told the joke of the councilor.

"Member of Parliament A has joined the United Front. Although MP X B is his wife's uncle, he has not joined the United Front, and X A often laughs at X B, saying that he cannot see the general trend of the world clearly, and X B retorts at him, saying that X has long been speculative politics, and the relationship between the two is stiff. Later, a certain person was elected to Congress, and he often talked about the "United Front", but this person was afraid of himself. His wife is the daughter of a wealthy family, and a certain A hopes that the old Taishan will also share a share of the family business after a hundred years, and has always obeyed his wife's words, and his wife does not understand politics, and does not care about his speculation in the United Front, but one day he went back to his mother's house to save his relatives, and listened to his brother A talk about the United Front, and was angry that A ridiculed a certain B, so after returning home, he ordered a certain A to withdraw from the United Front, and a certain A could not resist, and wanted to embezzle the family business, so he went to the United Front Committee to handle the withdrawal from the alliance, but before he returned home, he ate a bomb in front of his house, and the door was still pasted. Betrayal of the alliance will die, the poster, a person A was scared half to death, that night he threw away the badge of the councilor, fled to the concession alone, and did not even worry about the family business, and then a certain B arrived at the badge of a member of the council, so he wrote a sentence on it: See the general trend clearly? Running away? ”

Yuan Shikai listened carefully to the story told by Yuan Keding. When he was exquisite, he snorted for a long time.

"It's not funny! Although the United Front is a rabble, this rabble can still come in handy. Wasn't this Manchu court overthrown by the rabble in the south?

"Godfather is too modest. Who doesn't know that the Manchu court was overthrown by a godfather? There is no godfather. The Beiyang New Army has long since drawn the revolutionary party, where will it be their turn to form a united front? ”

After listening to Duan Zhigui's sycophants, Yuan Shikai still kept his face calm and snorted: "Xiangyan, you are too southern to be a gang!" Especially that Zhao Bei. From the very beginning, he planned step by step, "You and me, as well as our big ticket in Beiyang, have all planted their heads in front of him!" On the surface, it seems that our Beiyang is very beautiful, and the Qing family was ousted by us, as if we are the heroes of the republic, and I also became the interim president, and the world seems to be our Beiyang, but in fact?

From the very beginning, it was a trap set by Zhao Bei, and we were all trapped, although I have always been wary of that Commander-in-Chief Zhao, but he seems to understand what I am going to do, how I will go, he has calculated the front, and every step is faster than me. If we go far, we can't go another way, so we can only follow his ass. The "Xinzhou Incident Sichuan Han Road Money Deficit Case", "United Front" and even the matter of the foreigner international banking group, he Zhao Bei dared to intervene, he was so scheming and bold that even I admired him, if he was in the Beiyang Army, I dared to say, "Wang Long, Duan Hu, Feng Gou." The three of them plus one piece are not his opponents, if he can be loyal to the interests of the Beiyang group, I'm afraid I'm a catty. The position of Beiyang will be handed over to him in the end! When Intekai suddenly talked about the transfer of power, everyone in the room was stunned. Duan Cheng looked at Yuan Shikai, and Yuan Keding's body trembled, but he didn't dare to raise his head.

Yuan Shikai stood up from hanging his cane from the rattan chair, lifted his cane and pointed at the vast lake.

"In the final analysis, our Beiyang is too narrow-minded! The people in our Beiyang are staring at their own one-third of an acre, and they refuse to raise their heads in the distance, and there are people in the distance who have similar interests to us, but Beiyang only sees what is in front of us, and the things in the distance are taken away by the revolutionary party in the south. The so-called "Tao is more helpful, and the unrighteous is less helpful" This "Tao is the benefit, it has no distinction between good and evil, only the difference between far and near, and can collect the far way and the near Tao into their own hands, which is called "the way to be more helped" by others, it is called "the unrighteous and the little help." Do you understand this? ”

Duan Zhigui nodded, and then suddenly came to his senses. Hurriedly shook his head again, although the other people next to him were not as dazed as Duan Zhigui, but they were all strange in their hearts, and they didn't know why Yuan Shikai was talking about this topic now.

Zhao Bingjun understood a little bit of Yuan Shikai's intentions, and when he saw that no one spoke, he was a little cold, so he stood up and said: "The president's words." It's like a wake-up empowerment, which makes people feel stunned. The reason why the revolutionaries in the south formed the "united front" was that they saw this unrighteous and innocent "way," and they made empty promises of benefits, gathered together a group of people who were anxious to make money and become officials, and marched toward that ethereal "way." Rushing over, as for whether they can get this "Tao" revolutionaries do not care, they are concerned about how to use these political speculators to gain benefits for themselves. In a word, this is using others as cannon fodder

"Zhi'an, you have a high level of understanding, but you often go to extremes when you think about things. It is true that the United Front is using parliamentarians as cannon fodder, but the benefits they have promised are also real, although they cannot be touched for the time being, but it can be seen that this interest is the Congress. It's the Cabinet of Responsibility! ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Shikai hung up his cane and paced for a few steps, stood on the edge of the rattan chair and touched the back of the chair, and sighed: "The reason why I mobilized troops from all walks of life to march south this time is not only to prevent trouble before it happens, but also to take back this small "Dao!" I used to go to the Congress, but some time ago, Tang Shaoyi and Cai Tinggan wrote a note that made me see this Congress more clearly. Whether it's true or not, it's all a tool used to win people's hearts, and now the United Front is "getting more help from the right" and we are "unrighteous and less helping" in Beiyang, this is not okay, we have to take this catty, "Dao, take it back." That's why I took a-for-tat confrontation and sent troops to make an offensive posture to force the Southern United Front to back down. But after all, it was a step too slow, and Zhao Bei's delaying tactic made me hesitate for a moment, otherwise. Before the congressional elections were over, the Beiyang Army had already advanced south. We'll be the first to speak. ”

Others don't understand what Zhao Bei's "delaying strategy" is, but Zhao Bingjun knows that this catty. The strategy of delaying the army is the election of the official president of the Republic of China. The reason why the United Front said it would not put forward a candidate for the official presidential election. It was to make Yuan Shikai indecisive and postpone the time for the main force of Beiyang to move south.

After all, the current Beiyang Army is not fully sure of defeating the southern revolutionary camp in an offensive war. Other forces are fine, but the Republican Army is a hard nut to crack, and they want to fight the Republican Army. We must be determined to break the boat.

In fact, in addition to announcing that he would not participate in the official presidential election, Zhao Bei also made a series of small actions behind his back to confuse Yuan Shikai. He even sent a secret telegram to Yuan Shikai, asking for a share of the huge loan of the international banking group, at least one and a half, and if Yuan Shikai was willing to give it, then he would dissolve the United Front.

Yuan Shikai couldn't make up his mind about this, and consulted Zhao Bingjun, Ruan Zhongshu and several other confidants and cronies, but everyone's opinions could not be unanimous, so Yuan Shikai had to call back Zhao Bei first.

Before everyone finally made up their minds, the results of the congressional election were announced, and as a result, Yuan Shikai immediately became very passive in the eyes of the world. The reason why the Beiyang Army marched southward after the congressional election was because Yuan Shikai was not satisfied with the results of the congressional election; morally, the Beiyang clique suffered a great loss, and public opinion was more inclined to the united front at home and abroad, and American newspapers jumped up and down, accusing the Beiyang clique of "undermining the constitution." Moreover, public opinion in the United States is almost overwhelmingly in favor of the United Front, although I don't know whether this means that the US government has planned to abandon the Beiyang Group, but it makes Yuan Shikai very worried.

By the time the Beiyang side realized Zhao Bei's delaying tactics, the army of the United Front had completed its mobilization. In the name of "assessing the first division", they began to assemble in the northern region, and Beiyang had to take action against the imminent movement in the south. In fact, this North-South "big exercise." "The mobilization in the south was earlier than in Beiyang, but on the surface, it seemed that the Beiyang Army acted first.

The operation in the south is to prevent trouble, and the operation in the north is also for the same purpose, but the preparations before and after this operation are very different

When Yuan Shikai finished his summary, Duan Zhigui, who was standing on the side, whispered a few words.

"Godfather, this time the Beiyang Army is going south, it can't just be wasted, and a day is a day's military expenses. In Zhigui's opinion, he simply took this real opportunity to wipe out the revolutionary party in one fell swoop, and fought to defeat both sides, and also to destroy the Republican Army. As long as the Republican Army is eliminated, the revolutionary party will have no backbone, draw divisions, and sow discord, I don't believe that those revolutionary parties are monolithic! ”

"Xiangyan, do you think that I am only sending troops south this time to intimidate those revolutionary parties? Since they dare to stir up trouble, then I dare to kill chickens and monkeys.

Yuan Shikai sneered and took a few steps with his hand skills in hand. Lifting his cane, he pointed to the ruined palace not far away. The icy tone made everyone shudder.

"The reason why I formulated the battle plan of "defending the east and attacking the west" this time is to give Zhao Bei and his republican army a little color! Don't hurt him anymore. He didn't know how powerful the Beiyang Army was! This time, Feng Huafu and Feng Guozhang were ordered to supervise the battle in Zhengzhou, and I just asked him to fight Dubei, if the attack went well, it would not be difficult to push it to Wuhan in one go! It depends on whether Feng Huafu can command flexibly. I don't believe it, so I rely on a bunch of gangs of, students, farmers, and homeless people who have just learned to pull the trigger. I can confront the Beiyang elite who have been trained hard by my Yuan family for more than ten years! Some time ago, Zhao Bei shouted that he wanted to build Hankou into a model city in Central China, and now, I will send Beiyang Huben to Hankou to see if his model city is strong, or the Beiyang Army's artillery is sharp, if he dares to build it, I will dare to destroy it! If he dares to call me out, I'll let him see the power of Beiyang! ”