When the sky was not clear, Tao Chengzhang got up under the service of his wife, and there was already a trace of cold in the morning of early autumn in Beijing, when he put on the melon skin hat, the next person said that Master Gong was coming, he hummed, straightened out his clothes again, and then went out.

Last year, he and Yang Rui talked about it in the northeast, Tao Chengzhang only felt that the success of the revolution was hopeful, and this first-class brothel opened in Rouge Hutong this year was extremely successful, and there were many princes, ministers, and Beizi Baylor, and there were many hidden things in the Manchu court. I don't know, I was startled, Tao Chengzhang since the end of last year, he couldn't sleep, he used to think that the Manchu Qing was corrupt, but it was so corrupt, every day he looked at the powerful people who spent a lot of money for those prostitutes in the garden, he immediately wanted to pick up a knife to kill the Manchu Tartars and corrupt officials in the entire capital, but he couldn't.

Huanqing ...... Huanqing ......" Gong Baoquan called Tao Chengzhang with red eyes and an angry face, he guessed that he was a little crazy, since the work in Beijing was carried out, Tao Chengzhang came like this from time to time, Gong Baoquan understood, this is hateful!

Tao Chengzhang was a little distracted, he patted his head with his hand and said, "Oh, it's okay, I'm fine." Let's get out of the house. ”

Gong Baoquan responded, the two got on the sedan chair respectively, out of the rouge alley, at this time the sky was already bright, buying pomegranates, selling rock sugar gourds, selling buns all came out, and the street would shout "honey, sugar gourd!" After a while, it was called "Pomegranate!" Grinning pomegranate! Only to hear the shouting of the steamed bun seller, Tao Chengzhang stopped the sedan chair for a while, and bought a few steamed buns before returning to the road. He didn't take the noon train, but took the 7:18 in the morning, from Rouge Hutong to Zhengyangmen Railway Station, although it was not too far. But there are also more than four miles of road, and if you don't get up earlier, I'm afraid you'll be a little mistaken.

Because of the bombing case the previous month, the Zhengyangmen station was inspected very strictly, the female passengers were fine, and the male passengers were checked more carefully. Instead of staying in the waiting room, he walked straight to the location of the explosion mentioned in the newspaper photo and stood still for a long time. At this moment, he only felt that he was already Wu Yue.

The train arrived at Tianjin Old Station before 12 o'clock at noon, and according to the address given before, Tao Chengzhang and Gong Baoquan found the Fuxing Inn in Zizhulin. But after entering the courtyard. Chen Guangshou said that Yang Rui was still sleeping, and asked them to have lunch first. Tao Chengzhang was extremely displeased, not that he was unhappy that he had been given a cold reception, but that the leader of the dignified revolutionary party actually slept lazy, how revolutionary was this. Seeing that Tao Chengzhang was about to get angry, Gong Baoquan persuaded him to go down.

When Chen Guangshou saw them go down, he thought that Tao Chengzhang was angry, so he just shook his head and smiled bitterly. At first, it seemed to him, a student. Sir was not at all a conscientious leader, as he used to say. 'I've done everything, what are you doing, don't throw your problems at me.' Then he threw his hand out of the door and threw the people who asked for instructions. Chen Guangshou felt that this was extremely inappropriate before, but later found that these people actually have a way in their hearts, and they came to ask for instructions for fear that they would be afraid that they would be bold and reckless, and second, they were afraid that once things were done, they would take the responsibility themselves, if Mr. instructed them, even if Mr. said it was wrong, they would do it according to the wrong, because it was Mr.'s responsibility rather than his responsibility when something happened, and at the same time, it could also give Mr. a good impression - this person is obedient and can be reused.

In fact, since the establishment of the Renaissance Society, the organization construction and management are improving step by step, two years to the present, each position has a specific job description, rights, responsibilities, principles, resources have been explained, and Yang Rui, in addition to occasionally maintaining the smooth operation of the entire organization, coordinating conflicts between various departments, more consideration is the development direction of the Renaissance Association, management is decision-making, only the right direction of the revolution can get twice the result with half the effort. Some people can be soldiers, but some people are generals, in Chen Guangshou's view, Mr. is a master of generals, such a person, not to mention lazy sleep, even if he does not serve every few days, it is normal. Tao Chengzhang doesn't understand this, in addition to his temperament and personality, the most important reason is that he has not fully integrated into the organizational culture of the Renaissance Society, he can't even pass the membership training, right? Chen Guangshou guessed this.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Rui woke up, and the first thing he did when he got up was to ask Tao Chengzhang if he was here, Chen Guangshou said, "I'll come in the morning." ”

"Ahh He came in the morning, didn't he say that he would come in the afternoon? "Yang Rui is a little strange.

"It's... He and Mr. Gong took the earliest bus, and they arrived at noon. Chen Guangshou looked at Yang Rui and said, "Mr. Tao is estimated to be in a bit of a hurry." ”

got his reminder, Yang Rui said "oh", slept at eight o'clock in the morning, got up at three o'clock in the afternoon, slept for seven hours, just enough, he grabbed two steamed buns and went to find Tao Chengzhang.

Tao Chengzhang had already made a fire in the living room, although Chen Guangshou finally came to explain again, saying that Yang Rui only slept during the day, and then hugged a lot of newspapers over to help pass the time, but Tao Chengzhang couldn't sit still without reading two pages, he went out for a turn, and when he came back, he found Yang Rui grabbing steamed buns.

Everyone was very enthusiastic when they met, although Tao Chengzhang was anxious before, he was anxious to meet Yang Rui as soon as possible and overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty as soon as possible. Without waiting to report on the situation in Beijing, he began with a sentence, "When will we do it?" ”

Yang Rui didn't expect him to be in such a hurry, and said: "It will take a few more years, and we still have a lot of work to ......."

Tao Chengzhang got up with a "ho" and said, "I can't wait for a moment!" Last year, there was a gap in the Yellow River in Shandong, and they were in Yichun Garden to discuss how to swallow up the relief funds, and thousands of victims in Shandong starved to death, and these dog officials were greedy for disaster relief money, so they came to Rouge Hutong to talk about pomp and pomp, and I ...... I couldn't take it anymore and I just wanted to ...... Kill these Tartar dog officers and hurry up! ”

Tao Chengzhang said that when he talked about the sad atmosphere, he burst into tears, Yang Rui knew that Tao Chengzhang had been to the disaster area in Shandong, and what he saw and felt had been sent to the publications in the meeting. Yang Rui's heart is also sad, he is no longer the Yang Rui who has never been out of the concession, the Northeast has made him see many, many things in a year. He couldn't imagine how anyone could be so poor and still be able to live so poor.

"Huanqing, I know what you said. But ......" Yang Rui thought about the words, he didn't want to hurt Tao Chengzhang's heart too much, "but many things are not prepared, rash action does not say failure, even success will not help change the status quo of China, everything has a fast and slow urgency, this revolutionary preparation." Can't wait! ”

"I've been preparing for two years, not to mention the prince in the capital, those Tartar Beizi Baylor are all frequent visitors to Yichun Garden. As long as it is launched one day, it will not be difficult to invite them to the feast, and it will not be difficult to catch them all at that time; In addition, I have mastered the map of Beijing and the brave deployment of soldiers. There will only be a few thousand people. Fiercely entered the capital, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty had to fall under the combination of inside and outside. "One year in Beijing, Tao Chengzhang did a lot of things, but they were all preparing for the uprising, and his own job, the position of brothel owner, was basically lost to Gong Baoquan and graduates of the management training course. That's why it became popular in the Eight Hutongs.

Seeing Tao Chengzhang standing there excitedly talking about righteousness, Yang Rui consciously sent him to Beijing to open a brothel. Yi Chunyuan is mainly responsible for building relationships with the ministers and finding out the news, but he has been planning to raise the righteousness. "Brother Huanqing, before we are ready, it is unacceptable to act rashly. Now there is still a court that will pretend to give relief, once the army is raised, the war will not stop, and the people will still suffer, I am afraid, now there is only the name of relief, just for show, but after the righteousness, I am afraid that I will not even be able to do relief. ”

"If there are still Manchu remnants after the uprising, just beat them!"

"It costs money to fight in the past, and in the Russo-Japanese War, Japan spent more than a billion yuan, and this is the land for the three northeastern provinces. Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty was weak, Beiyang had become a force, and you had killed all the Tartars in Beijing, but it was unscathed to the governors everywhere, and they still wished that we would help them kill the Manchus, so that they could establish themselves as kings, and then the whole of China would change from one emperor to a dozen or dozens of emperors. The revolution is not in a hurry, and the preparations are slow, but the longer we prepare, the faster it will be launched, and in three or five months, we will be able to set the pinnacle. In this way, it takes about the same amount of time as the current uprising. "Yang Rui has a lot of things that are difficult to say, so I can only make a rough comparison.

Gong Baoquan said dumbly: "Can you set the title in three or five months?" ”

Yang Rui nodded, "Yes." You can make a note of it, and when the time comes, you'll see if I'm right. ”

Tao Chengzhang was also attracted by the statement that it would be fixed in three or five months, and said, "Then when will we launch it?" ”

"After Cixi's death, you can plan and promote, and you can prepare for another two or three years at most, and then you can launch it."

Tao Chengzhang only listened to Yang Rui's previous sentence "After Cixi's death, you can plan and promote," and the later sentence "Prepare for two or three years" and didn't listen to it at all...... Yang Rui really didn't expect his words to have such an effect, he just wanted Tao Chengzhang to wait slowly, if he really knew the consequences, he wouldn't say this sentence to death.

After the agitation faction was pacified, it was Gong Baoquan's turn to report on the situation in Beijing Yichun Garden. Eight alleys began in the Qing Dynasty Qianjia period, but at that time this was not a brothel, but the Xianggong Hall, to the Xianfeng Dynasty, the prostitution was blazing, at the same time, the brothel in the Xicheng Brick Tower Hutong was pointed out by the imperial history, driven out of the capital, the female prostitutes of the eight alleys began to prevail. After Gengzi, the brothels in the inner city all moved to the outer city, and also settled in the eight alleys, at this time there were more brothels, according to the number of donations, there were more than 300 brothels here, including more than 50 first-class brothels, but also because the women of Suzhou and Hangzhou went north together, and the previous Rouge in the north competed for beauty, since then the eight alleys are full of flowers, and the fame is far and wide all over the world.

Tao Chengzhang and others went to the Bada Hutong at the beginning of last year, and he didn't know what to do at all, but Gong Baoquan was delicate in the back, digging a few big teapots of other families, and then gradually understanding the things in the Bada Hutong, and at the same time, because the brothel opened was Western-style, and the arrival of foreign prostitutes made the dignitaries and nobles in Beijing itch very much, and they couldn't wait to live in Yichun Garden for three or five months, and enjoy those Western beauties, Persian dancing girls, and Dongying actresses; Yichunyuan's business is good, which provokes the original south team and north team of Bada Hutong, the backstage is too hard to move, seeing that the foreign woman can't play a musical instrument, he co-authored a red song party, delusionally trying to beat the limelight of Yichunyuan, but Yichunyuan is not easy to mess with, and he pays tribute to a Western concert, the prostitute wears a white wedding dress with a full chest, pretending to be more holy than a saint, plus a violin. As soon as the piano was played, the powerful men snatched their brides back to the room. Since then, Yichun Garden has become a first-class brothel in Bada Hutong. If the official is less than four grades, there is no money to come, only what you can't think of, and what you can't do without it.

Yichun Garden cost Gong Baoquan a lot of effort to start from scratch, and he said that the previous things were endless, and when it was time for dinner, he had to stop. Yang Rui had never seen Gong Baoquan before. When I first saw that he was weak in writing, he was extremely stable and not impatient. What a talent. At the moment, I didn't pay attention to it, and I directly asked people to send the meals to the room, and the meals were all made by my own people, and there was no big meal. There are not even four dishes and one soup. It's just fast food, a bowl of bone broth per person, a bowl of half-meat and half-vegetarian side dishes, and then four fist-sized steamed buns. When Tao Chengzhang and Gong Baoquan were still stunned, Yang Rui had already started eating, and after five minutes Yang Rui finished eating, Tao Chengzhang hadn't started yet, he said: "It's done." That's all there is to eat? ”

Yang Rui thought that he didn't like to eat well, and said with a smile: "Yes." The food is fragrant when there are few dishes. Besides, I am most afraid of washing dishes when I find someone, when I used to live alone, I didn't buy plates to hold vegetables, and directly put the dishes and rice in a big bowl, so that I only need to wash one bowl. ”

Tao Chengzhang and Gong Baoquan were stunned when they heard this, looking at Yang Rui's appearance not like a joke, Yang Rui finished speaking, and said: "My rules for eating here are to finish eating, and to wash the dishes, I was embarrassed to say last time Huanqing went to the Northeast, but now I am all my own people, so I am welcome." Hehe. ”

Yang Rui said go out and wash the dishes, draw the scoop according to the gourd, Tao Chengzhang and Gong Baoquan also washed the dishes after eating. They are all men, and they have never done the work of a woman's family in their lives, although they are not used to it, but they also find it interesting. Now that it's over after eating, Gong Baoquan continued to talk about the inside news in Beijing.

"Although there is a division between the Manchu and Han dynasties in the DPRK and the Chinese Dynasty, and there are reformist and conservative proposals, on the whole, there is only a struggle for power, and there is no essential difference. At this time, because of the connivance of Cixi, the Qing Yuan family was extremely powerful, one of them was in Beijing, the other was outside, and they colluded inside and outside, plus Yuan Shikai had many in-laws, and his relatives were all over the government and the opposition, which was the largest force in the country; The second is those noble children, Qishan, Fu Lun, Zaifeng, Zaitao, Zaixun, and Zai Ze and others, relying on themselves as yellow belts, often argue with Qingyuan and others, but these people may not be the same, for example, Qishan is friendly with the ministers of the DPRK and the central government, Qu Hongji, Lin Shaonian, and other people who do not want to establish a constitution, and Qu Hongji has an old relationship with Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang. Now Qing Yuan and others are vigorously advocating the constitution, it is estimated that they are using this to gather momentum and plot a big plan, and these people are very anxious now, afraid that they are planning something. ”

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai slaughtered the people, and one qiē took harmony and stability as his own responsibility, which is considered a rightist; Cen Chunxuan slaughtered officials, killing corrupt officials can please the people, and he can even install cronies, killing two birds with one stone, which can be regarded as a leftist; Zhang Zhidong slaughtered wealth and built a lot of underpantsless political performance projects, focusing on economic construction, which can be regarded as a centrist. Yang Rui understands these three people, but he doesn't understand the entire force that these three people are connected with, he only feels that he should find a staff member who is familiar with the internal situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that he can know himself and his opponent.

Suppressed thoughts, Yang Rui asked, "Who is the Fengtian General Zhao Erxun now?" ”

"It's Yuan Shikai's people."

"Oh..."Yang Rui thought he was a clear stream before, but it seems that the clear stream is also unclear.

The three of them talked until nine o'clock in the evening, Yang Rui recorded everything Gong Baoquan said, and it was best to instruct him to run Yichun Garden well and do a good job of detective work under the nose of the enemy, while Tao Chengzhang once again said that the revolution could not be in a hurry, and finally informed him to hold a meeting in Shanghai early next year, when the backbone of the revival association would hold a large-scale meeting to discuss the development in the context of the constitution.

Sending them back to rest, Yang Rui picked up the newspaper he should have read and read it. The kidnapping case of Anton and the American delegation has been solved, and Japan has arrested the Black Dragon Society's Sueyongjie, but it did not file a lawsuit for fear of arousing public anger, and the United States only reaffirmed the friendship between the United States and Japan, and did not make any changes with Japan about the kidnapping incident, and the delegation's itinerary was still as previously set, and after staying in North Korea, he would go to Japan again, and then return to the United States.

Yang Rui felt extremely uncomfortable when he saw the friendship between the United States and Japan, damn, where did the world police go in the future, why are you so cowardly? He held the newspaper and stared at it for a long time, only feeling that he valued the US imperialist too much because of the relationship of later generations. At this time, US imperialism is still a local power, that is, France and Germany, and it is estimated that their international status is higher than his. Roosevelt came to power, at least the Americas have been recognized by Britain as its sphere of influence, but it is estimated that before that, the United States was probably a second-rate power.

Yang Rui warned himself not to think too highly of the United States, for fear that this concept would affect his future policy toward the United States. On the other hand, he was thinking about how to tie up with the United States, especially the Liaodong area, which the US imperialists did not support. That's really going to be fun. Now there is no news of Harriman and the Japanese in the newspaper, Yang Rui only expects Harriman to be rejected in Japan, and then start to cooperate with his side, but will this really be the case?

After thinking about the Americans, the other side of the newspaper is Zhang Rong's, which praises him very much, and there are few people who praise him. It's hard to survive. In fact, although he is a Han banner, his ancestors have been from the dragon since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and this kind of background is actually no different from the banner people. This time, he faced the Japanese and just rose to the occasion to destroy the conspiracy of the Japanese, and the reputation of Guoyong had already spread to Kyori, because he was his own child. Cixi and Guangxu still have to be summoned. saw the news of Zhang Rong's entry into Beijing in the newspaper. Yang Rui was suddenly a little worried, he was so expressive, could he still go back to Liaodong? Although it must be reused after being valued by Cixi, there is a shortage of people in Liaodong now.

When Yang Rui was reading at night, a steamer from Japan docked at Tanggu Wharf in the night. Before Fang Junying could get off the boat, Zeng Shaowen greeted him.

Zeng Shaowen is a native of Guangshan County, Henan. At that time, Zhang Ji, the only person in Zhili, died, and the alliance was all with a southern accent. He volunteered to go out and arrived in Tianjin one step ahead of Fang Junying to arrange everything. Some time ago, he received a tip from Yang Dusheng, the fifth minister, and he immediately notified Tokyo to send someone to come.

After the group met, they hurriedly left the dock and entered the concession in the carriage hired by Zeng Shaowen in advance. There was nothing to say all the way, but when he arrived at the inn, Zeng Shaowen said: "There are more than 20 high-rollers from Guan living next door, I don't know what they do, our room is next to their small courtyard, be careful when talking or something." ”

Zeng Shaowen entered the Tokyo Zhenwu School last year, and he paid attention to the one in the army, although the men next door did not have guns and uniforms, but he felt that these people were very similar to soldiers, and they were extremely difficult to provoke, so he told Fang Junying a few.

Fang Junying nodded, she and Cheng Ying and Tang Qunying went into the room, and after closing the door, they carefully took out the bomb on their stomachs - after hearing that the bomb fuse failed last time, Mr. Zhongshan got the Japanese military explosives and fuses through the relationship with the Japanese, but at this time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was already a frightened bird, and any checkpoint at the dock station was strictly checking guns and ammunition, in order to conceal it, they had to tie the bomb in their abdomen with bandages, disguised as a pregnant woman, and narrowly passed.

The explosives were removed and carefully placed, and Fang Junying came to another room to listen to Zeng Shaowen's briefing. At this time, Zeng Shaowen had already hung up the map of the operation. Fang Junying saw that the map was a map of Tianjin, not a map of Beijing, and said strangely: "Why is this not a map of Beijing?" ”

Zeng Shaowen knew that she would ask like this, and said: "Beijing can't go anymore, now there are patrols and arrests everywhere in Beijing, and the search is extremely strict, and the five ministers went to sea, and they were going to go to sea from the port of Tianjin, and they blew up when they got on the train last time, and now we get off the train and bomb it again, and if we are surprised, we can succeed." In addition, there are many concessions in Tianjin, and it is easy to get rid of them after the matter is completed. ”

After listening to Zeng Shaowen's plan, everyone was extremely happy, but this is because things can be done, not because they can get away afterwards, the four of them all know that they owe Zeng Xing and Zhang Ji a life, and if they don't succeed, they will become benevolent, and they all wrote suicide notes when they came from Tokyo.

"So how do we pit stop?" Fang Shengdong said, last time he came, this time Fang Shengtao stopped him from coming.

"Use this." Zeng Shaowen took out two servants' clothes, with the words "Xinkaihe Station" on them.

"But there are three railway stations in Tianjin, won't they get off at the other stations?" Cheng Ying asked, she didn't know anything about the situation in officialdom.

"No, it won't." Tang Qunying said, "Officialdom greeting and sending off is the most cumbersome. This time, the five ministers went abroad, and the big and small officials in Tianjin would not let them go unless they hurried to curry favor. They will definitely get off at Xinkaihe Station. ”

Cheng Ying's worried question Fang Junying didn't think about it, she was sure that the Manchu Qing must have gotten off at Xinkaihe Station, but, "This dress is good, you can wear this dress, how can we bring the bomb?" ”

"This dress is very big, after you wear it, tie up your hair, and black your face, no one will pay attention, and when the time comes, everyone cares about the five ministers and others, and no one cares about us at all." The bomb was too big, and it was a problem to enter the station and conceal it, so Zeng Shaowen couldn't buy the station for a while, so he had to pretend to be a servant to enter the station.

"Good way!" Fangsheng Cave Road. "When to do it?"

"This will have to wait for news from Beijing, maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow, anyway, in two or three days." Zeng Shaowen looked at the Xinkaihe Station on the map, and only felt that a ball of blood had stained it red. (To be continued......)