Chapter 49: Restoration and Red Flag IV

At six or seven o'clock in the afternoon, two cars with five-color national flags on their noses rumbled in a queue to the gate of Zhongnanhai's Xinhua Gate. Zhongnanhai is now the big presidential palace, and Xinhua Gate is the main gate of the presidential palace, and there are guards standing guard on weekdays, but it is not a heavy guard, but now a wooden fence is set up at the door, and there are a few presidential palace guards carrying bayonets and long rifles looking around vigilantly, looking like they are facing a great enemy. Seeing these cars coming, the leading officer shouted, "Stop!" Stop the car! ”

Both cars stopped, and when the door of one car opened, a man in his thirties who looked like a white-faced scholar came down, wearing a well-made suit and a leather bag under his arm. As soon as the guards guarding the door saw him, they all stood up and saluted, and the little officer was even more smiling: "Yo, it's Mr. Li!" I'm sorry. He raised his hand and looked around: "This is all explained by Mr. Jin himself, saying that it is the meaning of the president." ”

It turns out that this white-faced scholar is also surnamed Li, a relative and confidant of Li Yuanhong, and the current deputy secretary general of the presidential office. He nodded and smiled at the officer, turned around and pointed to the two cars: "That's the car of Chief Wang and Commander Jiang, they are guests invited by the president, and they are here for the banquet." ”

Mr. Wang refers to Wang Shizhen, one of the three heroes of Beiyang, a good man, and everyone is good, and he is a rare boss in the Beiyang system who can have a deep friendship with Li Yuanhong, but he just doesn't have any strength, and he is a "short" like Li Yuanhong. Jiang Commander refers to Jiang Chaozong, the commander of the Beijing Infantry Army, the famous wall grass, who was specifically responsible for doing some business in Beijing City in history, no matter who came, he surrendered!

As soon as the little officer who was guarding the door heard that it was Wang Shizhen and Jiang Chaozong, of course he didn't dare to slack off. The Chief Bearer and the Commander of the Wall Grass are also heavenly immortals for a minor official of his level! He hurriedly beckoned the guards to remove the wooden fence, nodded and saluted, and welcomed the two cars into Xinhua Gate.

At this time, a Western-style building in Zhongnanhai was already brilliantly lit. At the entrance of the hall on the first floor of the building, I saw several neatly dressed civil and military generals standing there waiting, and the middle one was wearing a generalissimo dress, which was actually Li Yuanhong, the president of the Republic of China!

Li Yuanhong's eyebrows were tightly twisted, and his mood seemed to be quite annoyed. Originally, Wang Shizhen, Li Jincai, Chen Guangyuan, and Jiang Chaozong were invited to the presidential palace for a banquet tonight. As a result, Li Jincai and Chen Guangyuan, the two division commanders with heavy troops, could not refuse, and only Wang Shizhen and Jiang Chaozong could not save face and followed Li Shu to the presidential palace for a banquet...... Whether or not to come to dinner is a trivial matter that is not worth mentioning, but in this extraordinary period, it is a matter of attitude!

The two division commanders of the Beiyang Army, who have more than 20,000 elite soldiers, accompanied Zhang Xun to listen to the drama for almost a whole day, but they refused to come to the presidential palace for a meal! What does this mean? It seems that he is about to come to the end of his reign.

A rush of footsteps came from the hall, and Jin Yongyan, Li Yuanhong's senior adviser, came down from the upper floor at a trot, ran to President Li's side, and said in a low voice: "President, my subordinates have already communicated with Japanese Minister Lin Quansuke on the phone, and Minister Lin welcomes the President to the Japanese Legation at any time. ”

Li Yuanhong nodded slightly and sighed: "I hope it's a false alarm......"

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"Minister Zhang Xun, I implore the emperor to restore the throne and save all the people in the world!"

Zhang Xun and Zhang Braid, who was dressed in the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, were prostrate on the floor tiles of the main hall of the Yangxin Palace, and mentioned all the dantian qi and said aloud this sentence that had been hidden in his heart for several years.

And his emperor, the 12-year-old Emperor Xunqing, loves Xinjueluo. Pu Yi was sitting on the dragon chair with an excited face, looking at the "great loyal minister" kneeling in front of him with anticipation.

Pu Yi is now a half-grown child, and he has received reactionary "imperial education" since he was a child, and he knows a little bit about the hatred of the country and the restoration of the ancestors. Last time, when I summoned Shixu and Chen Baochen with the two concubines, I heard that it was going to be restored, and I was excited when I went back and didn't fall asleep for several days. It's finally come true today, of course the little emperor is very happy, just about to nod his head and agree, he heard his teacher Chen Baochen coughing on the side, and then remembered that the teacher had taken care of him before, and he had to be polite before he became the emperor.

"I'm too young, I have no talent and no virtue, and I can't take on such a big responsibility." Pu Yi sat up straight, his little face tensed, and he said solemnly.

When Zhang Xun heard this, he immediately praised: "The emperor is a wise saint, the world knows that in the past, the Holy Ancestor Emperor was also a chongling practitioner!" ”

When Xiao Puyi heard Zhang Xun compare himself to Emperor Kangxi, he was very useful, and he laughed again on his little face, and hurriedly said according to Chen Baochen's instructions: "Since this is the case, I will make it difficult!" ”

Hearing that Pu Yi promised to come out and become the emperor, Zhang Xun kowtowed again and shouted long live, and Chen Baochen, Shi Xu and others in the hall also knelt down and cheered casually. The little emperor hurriedly smiled and ordered them to sit down and let the eunuchs sit down, and then asked happily, "Zhang Aiqing, I heard in the palace that there are tens of thousands of elite soldiers under Aiqing's command, all of whom have braids like Aiqing, and are loyal to the Qing Dynasty, right?" ”

Zhang Xun smiled faintly: "Back to the emperor, there are sixty-three old battalion heads, a total of 30,000 elite soldiers, all of whom are loyal to the emperor with braids, and more than 30 newly recruited battalion heads, who are now wearing braids." With these 100 battalion soldiers, the Qing Dynasty will be able to come back, please rest assured. ”

Pu Yi smiled, turned his head to look at Concubine Jin, and Concubine Jin smiled: "With a loyal minister like Zhang Aiqing, there is naturally hope for our Qing Dynasty." It's just that...... Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang: What is their opinion on the restoration? What is the international opinion? I don't know if Zhang Aiqing has been contacted? ”

Zhang Xun nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "Please rest assured that the concubine and the emperor have all been arranged, and the overseers and governors of the thirteen provinces and regions in the north and south have already expressed their support for the emperor's reinstatement." Internationally, Japan now also supports the emperor, and Britain, France, Germany, Russia and other powers are too busy with the European war to worry about it. With the support of the thirteen provinces and regions and Japan, this restoration can be said to be nine out of ten. ”

When the two concubines and the little emperor Pu Yi heard this answer, they all nodded with satisfaction, and the old-fashioned emperor Chen Baochen smiled even more, and a pair of old eyes narrowed into slits, only the minister in charge of the internal affairs department, Shi Xu, had a sad face, as if he wanted to say something, but seeing the monarchs and ministers in this room who were rushing to restore the Qing Dynasty, he just shook his head and sighed in his heart, and didn't say anything.

Zhang Xun had already stood up at this time, nodded at the emperor's concubine, and said in a respectful tone: "Your Majesty, the concubine, the old minister has received the will and will arrange the restoration, and when the major event is decided, he will come back to report the good news to the emperor and the concubine." ”

The two concubines glanced at each other, and they both saw a trace of fear in each other's eyes, but more of it was excitement, the kind of excitement that was about to seize power! The Manchu Qing Dynasty has produced three empress dowagers (Ci'an, Cixi, and Longyu) in a row! Now that the emperor is young and the regent doesn't care about anything, is this unclear that the situation of the two palaces hanging curtains will be restored during the Tongguang period? This is really a daughter-in-law who has become a mother-in-law for many years......

Thinking of this, Concubine Jin hurriedly nodded at Zhang Xun with a smile: "Zhang Aiqing, the Qing Dynasty can be restored, Aiqing is a great contributor, a hero like Aiqing, we love Xinjue Luo family can always not be treated badly, and when the major event is decided, the title of a prince is always indispensable." ”

Concubine Yu also hurriedly echoed: "What my sister said is that a prince cannot do without Zhang Aiqing, and he is also the kind of hereditary iron hat king, as long as the Qing Dynasty is in one day, the prince of the Zhang family will be one day!" ”

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