108341908 Far Eastern Maniac Chapter 33 on embattled

The sky was overcast, and the wind blew from the east with a heavy wet whi, and the warm army was in the gloom.

This is the Japanese Concession of Tianjin, Fukushima Bai

Fukushima Street 55 is a small Japanese-style courtyard, from the outside there is nothing special, but if you walk into the small courtyard, you will find that the residents here are not Japanese, but Chinese, and no matter the master and servant, there are still braids on the back of their heads, and the dress on this body is completely the same as in the officialdom of the former Qing Dynasty, the servant wears a cool hat and soap boots, but the master is dressed in officialdom, judging from the complement on the chest, it seems that it should be a character like a governor.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty has perished, this old and young can still be seen everywhere, and the owner of this small courtyard obviously belongs to this category of characters.

The owner of this small courtyard is named Ben Chunxuan. Guangxi people, born in a family of eunuchs, his father once served as the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, relying on this ancestral shade, Ben Chunxuan became the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple as a mere person. And before that, the biggest official he did was just a "principal" This official was still donated, originally, an official like Ben Chunxuan who was an ancestor of the shade grabbed a lot of a handful in the Manchu officialdom, if there was no chance, he would be the apex of the Taifu Temple Shaoqing's official, but Ju Chunxuan was different, his chance was very good, because he caught up with the "Wuxu Change".

Guangxu is twenty-four, and Guangxu, who has been a puppet emperor for half his life, decided to take away all the real power from the Western Empress Dowager through law changes. This began like this, this reform movement that was seriously detached from the national conditions from the beginning became a turning point in the fate of many officialdom figures, and Ben Chunxuan benefited from this change, because he was in favor of the change, so he was favored by Emperor Guangxu, and he ascended to the sky in one step and was promoted to the political envoy of Guangdong. went to Guangdong to take office, but political speculation is a risk, Ben Chunxuan lacked experience, looked away, and made the wrong choice of Emperor Guangxu, as a result. However, in just over 100 days, the reform movement failed, and the blood of the six gentlemen was splashed in Caishiqiu, Beijing, and as a suspected figure of the "Imperial Party", Ben Chunxuan was not treated by the "Hou Party", plus his own personality. At odds with Tan Chung-lin, who was the governor of Liangguang at the time. So he quickly left his post and was forced to leave Guangdong and be reappointed as an envoy to Gansu, which was tantamount to being idle, but as a person from a family of eunuchs. Ben Chunxuan understands that the ups and downs in the political arena are no longer normal, and as long as he has the opportunity, he may still make a comeback.

Ben Chunxuan patiently waited for this opportunity to rise, and soon, the opportunity came, in the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, the Eight-Nation Coalition captured the capital, and the Empress Dowager of the West took the Guangxu Emperor to flee to the west in embarrassment, and fled to Shaanxi "West Hunting" through Shanxi. Among the many local officials, Ben Chunxuan led the army to the "King Qin" earlier, and happened to meet the dusty Son of Heaven on the road, for the embarrassed Empress Dowager of the West and the Guangxu Emperor, this is a move in the snow, especially in the heart of the Empress Dowager of the West, the bad image of Shu Chunxuan suddenly became better, and almost immediately promoted him to be the governor of Shaanxi, and went to Shaanxi with the car, Ben Chunxuan's second political speculation was very successful.

After that, because of the matter of volunteering to take over as the governor of Shanxi, Ben Chunxuan further won the trust of the Empress Dowager of the West, and since then, he has been on the rise and has never fallen from the political arena. Because he found the right backer this time, he was more confident, and his relationship with his colleagues and subordinates was more tense, and there were many officials who were impeached by him, so Ben Chunxuan won the title of "official slaughter" in the officialdom, and "Qian Tu" Zhang Zhidong and "human slaughter" Yuan Shikai were called "the three massacres of the Qing Dynasty". ”

This "official slaughter" is not just a predicate, Ben Chunxuan can be impeached by anyone, even the cronies of Prince Qing Yizhu, the first celebrity in front of the Empress Dowager of the West, also dare to impeach, and it is precisely because of this that Ju Chunxuan and Yizhu have become political enemies, and they have also become political enemies with Yizhu's first arm Yuan Shikai, and the two parties have been fighting for many years. Because Ben Chunxuan and the Minister of Military Aircraft Zhai Hong were formed a political alliance, as a result, no one on either side could help anyone, until the death of the Empress Dowager of the West and Emperor Guangxu, this struggle has not yet been decided.

What finally ended the political dispute between Ben Chunxuan and Yizhu and Yuan Shikai was the "Wushen Revolution" In that short period of time, the officialdom of the capital was a farce, first Ben Chunxuan and Zhai Hongzhu united with King Xiaogong and the regent to overthrow King Qing Yizhu. drove away Yuan Shikai, seeing that their gang was about to take control of the situation, but before Ben Chunxuan and others could celebrate, Yuan Shikai suddenly launched a military attack in the Beijing-Tianjin area.

"Xiucai meets soldiers, and it is unreasonable."

Under the bayonets of the Beiyang Army, Ben Chunxuan wisely chose to flee and threw away the official robe of the governor of Zhili. After hiding in the Tianjin Concession and refusing to come out, he finally chose to live in seclusion in the Japanese Concession for a period of time, and put on a newly made official robe all day long to show that he was incompatible with Yuan Shikai.

To say that Ben Chunxuan misses the Qing Dynasty, this is not accurate, what he misses is actually the kind of glorious days when a few and hundreds of officials were impeached at a time. It's usurped. Yuan Shikai is the "usurper" mentioned in the history books!

Speaking of the contradiction between Ben Chunxuan and Yuan Shikai. The main reason is not because of Yipu, but because of the "Wushu Method." The struggle between the two began at that time, "Yuan Shikai betrayed the reform faction to change the top" The saying has been prevalent since the failure of the reform, the parties cannot argue, and the court does not seem to intend to delve into the matter, but it is a fact that Yuan Shikai has been on the rise since the failure of the reform, and Mu Chunxuan does not believe it, a Yuan Shikai and a Feng Chunxuan, both of whom are speculative people who change the law, but the situation is completely unclear. It would be strange if Feng Chunxuan could be convinced.

If you really investigate it, Ben Chunxuan was relegated to the poor countryside in Gansu at the beginning, which is directly related to this Yuan Shikai, and since then, the mustard between the two has existed, and Yili is just adding a few firewood to the fire.

It is said that in the eyes of the monarchy, Ju Chunxuan and Yuan Shikai are both new-school figures, both of whom strongly advocate "constitutional monarchy" Yuan Shikai in Zhili and Tianjin to run new policies, and Feng Chunxuan also called for constitutionalism in the southeast. Together with the champion industrialist Zhang Xiao, he was called "a constitutional leader." But because of political differences and those old accounts, Ben Chunxuan and Yuan Shikai can't cooperate in the end, for this reason, after the revolution. Many monarch figures sighed, they thought that if Ben Chunxuan and Yuan Shikai joined forces. The Qing Dynasty will not be overthrown by the revolutionary party, so the current world will not be so chaotic.

In the past, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not arrive, although the country was poor and the people were weak, there was no need to fight every day, but now the Manchu Qing Dynasty is one, and the republic has been established. But there are wars going on everywhere, today Sichuan is fighting in the south, and now, Henan is fighting again. In this world, it looks like the "troubled times" mentioned in the history books.

"The world is in chaos. I, who are powerless scholars, am afraid that it will be difficult to do anything in this troubled world

Ju Chunxuan sat under a cherry blossom tree and sighed a few times to one of the guests sitting diagonally across from him.

The guest's name is Zheng Xiaoxu, he is a native of Min County, Fujian, has served as Li Hongzhang, Ben Chunxuan's staff, when the Qing court "prepared for the constitution", Ben Chunxuan had appointed him as the chairman of the Southeast Preparatory Constitutional Association, which can be seen Ben Chunxuan's trust and respect for him, and Zheng Xiaoxu was also very close to the southeast constitutionalists, the champion industrialist Zhang Han, Zhang Yuan's owner Zhang Shuhe and others are his close friends.

After the "Wushen Revolution", Ju Chunxuan lost power, and the guests had to scatter in order to make a living, Zheng Xiaoxu also left Mu Chunxuan and went to Shanghai to join Zhang Xiao, president of the Constituent Association, after the establishment of the United Front, Zheng Xiaoxu also joined the United Front, and also participated in the election of Yan in the National Assembly, and is now a member of the House of Representatives.

Since losing their positions as members of the United Front General Committee, the bigwigs of the Constituent Assembly have all plans to break new ground, but they are unable to speak alone. They needed help, and on the other hand, Sheng Xuanhuai's gang of the Yuan faction also needed to rely on the power of the Constituent Council, so the two sides hit it off and joined forces.

"Don't worry, my lord, now that the Beiyang Army has been defeated in southern Henan, its vitality has been greatly damaged, and Yuan Shikai's prestige has also plummeted, as long as Yuan succeeds this time. The North and the South are in harmony, and this chaos will soon be over. ”

Zheng Xiaoxu saw that Leng Chunxuan was a little discouraged. So I hurriedly cheered him up. With the defeat of the Beiyang Army in southern Henan, there is now an anti-Yuan force within the Beiyang group, they plan to oust Yuan Shikai from power, and use him as a scapegoat for the civil war between the north and the south, to retreat into advance, to ensure the central position of Beiyang, but only relying on the Beiyang Yuan faction's own strength is not enough, they must win over the powers. At the same time, it is also necessary to win over the constitutionalists, therefore, Zhang Sai's constitutionalism was also favored by the Yuan faction and was pulled into the Yuan camp. So, Zheng Xiaoxu went to Tianjin, and his identity was a lobbyist, persuading Feng Chunxuan to go out of the mountain and drive Yuan Shikai down before the Northern Expedition of the United Front arrived in Beijing and Tianjin.

"It's hard, it's hard. Yuan Shikai is a hero. I won't be caught, what's more, I have no power now, what use can I use? Right now. My heart has also been lowered, these ways, that is the way of martial arts and martial arts, we literati and scholars. It's better to clean yourself, don't webp this troubled water, the concession is still there, let's hide here and watch those martial artists fight to death. ”

Seeing that Ju Chunxuan was in low spirits, Zheng Xiaoxu smiled bitterly: "This truth is good, but you have to be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and the martial artist can immediately fight the world, but he can't rule the world immediately, this governs the world." It still has to rely on literati and scholars, that is, the great powers. It is also a civilian rule. ”

Ben Chunxuan also smiled bitterly and was about to refute. But he saw a servant walking quickly with a business card in his hand, and knew that a visitor was coming, so he sat up straight in his chair.

"Sir, the German Consulate has sent a clerk to invite Sir. to the German Chamber of Commerce for a banquet."

"The German Consulate? What kind of medicine are the Germans selling in this gourd? ”

Ju Chunxuan was a little surprised, when he lived in the German Concession. The German consul didn't have a good face, and like the French consul, he didn't like to see this disgraced official, but now, why did the Germans take the initiative to send someone to invite him to a banquet?

"Along with the German consulate clerk was a former Henan county magistrate, who said that he had a very important message for the lord."

The servant said as he handed the business card over.

Ben Chunxuan glanced at the business card and snorted coldly.

"Just a county order, dare to come to see me? This fallen phoenix is still a phoenix, then it's really not a chicken! Missing! ”

"Wait!"

Zheng Xiaoxu stood up, took the business card and looked at it, and said, "In my opinion, it's better for adults to see each other." A former prefectural magistrate who had failed in his duties. How could it be associated with the German consulate? There must be something strange in this, and the county order came all the way from Henan, obviously it will never come to fight the autumn wind of adults, so why not see it? ”

Ju Chunxuan shook his head helplessly, glanced at the servant, and said, "Please sit in the east chamber for a while, and I'll go in a moment."

After the servant left, Feng Chunxuan said to Zheng Xiaoxu: "Yesterday, the Japanese consul also came over and wanted to invite me out of the mountain to do something" The director of the Greater East Asian Culture Research Association, I didn't agree, and today the German consul also sent someone over, if I was also invited to do what the council or senator, I wouldn't go.

Zheng Xiaoxu said: "There is a foreigner wearing a hat, it is naturally much more convenient to do things, so why not if the adult is false and wronged?" ”

Ju Chunxuan shook his head noncommittally. He gestured to the chess room on the edge of the courtyard.

"You go to the chess room first, there are a few national players there, and when I come back, we will talk again."

After Ju Chunxuan left, Zheng Xiaoxu watched chess in the chess room. But he didn't look at it for long, and Ju Chunxuan quickly turned back, looking very strange.

"My lord, what's the matter?" Zheng Xiaoxu asked

"This is not the place to talk, you come with me."

Ju Chunxuan led Zheng Xiaoxu to the study and handed over a letter to the other party.

This letter was brought by the Henan County Commander, and it was a handwritten letter from Zhao Zhenhua, chairman of the United Front Committee. Zhao Zhenhua invited me to join the United Front and promised me to be a member of the General Affairs Committee

Ju Chunxuan's words surprised Zheng Xiaoxu very much. He glanced at the letter and asked, "What is the United Front's money?" ”

"This matter is confidential, and you must not tell outsiders. The United Front wanted to invite me to Shanxi and instigate the rebellion of the local magistrates in Gongxi. ”

Zheng Xiaoxu was stunned and said: "In this way, the United Front wants to borrow the prestige of important people, which is similar to the idea of Sheng Xuanhuai's gang

Ben Chunxuan groaned: "A battle in southern Henan. Yuan Shikai was swept away, the United Front didn't take him seriously, and Sheng Xuanhuai's gang also planned to kick him out of Beiyang. In this way, the current Yuan Shikai. That's embattled. ”