If Kunming is taken, then it can be driven into Guizhou, and Guizhou also has a revolutionary party, and the recovery of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces is a sure thing. What I really didn't know was Guangxi, there was no new army in this place, and there was no base area, and the ones who could really rely on were those revolutionary party members in the army primary school, and Zhang Mingqi, the governor of Liangguang. Because of the Guangzhou Uprising, he had completely turned against the Alliance, and when the Manchu Dynasty fell, he could only take refuge in the Furen Literary Society. This person was Cen Chunxuan's staff member before, unlike Cen Chi, he was very keen on fame and fortune, as long as he was promised a high-ranking official, he should be able to assist the Fuxing Society to stabilize Guangxi.

In the French Concession Church in Shanghai, when Yang Rui was reverie from the north to the south, Liang Qichao's mansion on Xihuamen Street in Beijing was also talking about the situation in the country from north to south. is different from the appearance of everyone queuing at the door before, and now this house is full of birds at the door, and the reason for this is because Liang Qichao changed his course, built yì Guangxu completely delegated power, and increased the power of the Congress.

Liang Qichao was supportive of Guangxu's closure of the first Congress, but the joint reaction caused by the closure of the Congress only made him feel afraid, especially now the petition to the Congress initiated by Yang Du and Lei Fen is amazing and has a wide impact. This couldn't help but make him think of the situation when various places asked Guangxu to open a congress in the year of Bingwu, and at that time, it was also the governors of various places who used the revolutionary party to intimidate the imperial court and secretly instigated the gentry and students to make a big fuss. However, unlike last time, last time Cai Yuanpei, the nerd, didn't know how to borrow the power of the governor and the gentry, and this time the revival will almost manipulate public opinion. Just when Guangxu wanted to accept the will of the people and not change the constitution of the Congress. The news of the loss of nearly 30,000 people by the Yanzhou Revolutionary Party suddenly came out, and Guangxu, who got the news, did not need to take into account any public opinion, he thought that as long as he encircled and suppressed it for another year. Then the Zhejiang bandits can be completely wiped out.

Guangxu sees it this way, and the Manchu magnates see it this way, but Liang Qichao, who has more than ten years of experience in running newspapers, can still read something from the turn of public opinion, that is, the revival will deliberately show weakness, and the alliance will be on the side of Sun Wen, except for the consideration of Sun Wen's great achievements. It is also possible to show weakness. The revolutionary party won the war, but uncharacteristically showed weakness, because of what. Didn't you just want the imperial court to lower its vigilance and make the Northern Expedition?

"Teacher, according to this, Jinan and Xuzhou should be important places to prevent the revolutionary party from going north?" Although he retreated peacefully with half of the army, Cai Ye still lost the position of the commander of the Eastern Route Army and the commander of the 5th town. Now I can only go back to the capital to find Liang Qichao to arrange a way. But. Liang Qichao talked about the current shape for a long time, and did not say where to arrange for him to go.

"Hey! With Yang Jingcheng's ruthless and vicious temperament, Xuzhou is estimated to be no need to guard, the key is Yizhou this way, although it is now said that it is repairing water conservancy, but repairing water conservancy is also training the army, this year's water conservancy is completed, next year I am afraid that I will take 100,000 people to the north. "The empire is in turmoil. Liang Qichao still saw it very clearly, "The subordinates of the new army stationed in Zhili are basically the mounds. Now that the revolutionary party in Yizhou has been suppressed repeatedly, and the revolutionary party in Yanzhou can stand firm, isn't it a good thing for the backbone of the mound? ! The emperor shouldn't have looked at the faces of foreigners in the first place, how could there be such a thing when he killed him? ”

The mound bone is the Royalist's affectionate name for Yuan Shikai, of course, because this title is too inferior, it is only used within the Royalist Party. Cai Ye has long understood who the mound bone is, and he has also reminded his teacher before to think about the relationship between the six towns of Beiyang and Yuan Shikai, but he never thought that he would press the gourd to float the scoop, Guangxu took Tieliang and replaced it with Zaitao, but it made Zai Ze and Yiliang hook up again, and transferred those towns in Beiyang back to Zhili to repair and recuperate, and even gave the newly trained 27th town and Shandong mixed association to the Beiyang department, and now the four and a half towns in Beiyang are really not much weaker than Yuan Shikai when he stepped down.

"Teacher, what should we do then? If the chlorine cannon is really useful, then the revolutionary army may not be able to kill Yanzhou? Cai Ye had no choice but to turn the topic back to the Northern Expedition for Yuan Shikai for a long time.

"Do you really believe that chlorine cannons work?" Liang Qichao shook his head, "If it's useful, why didn't the Western Route Army rescue it?" You shelled the positions of the revolutionary army, but you didn't even see a single corpse? His question only made Cai Yi speechless, "I really think how clever the Fuxing Society's tricks are, and those staff committees of the Military Advisory Office don't know that there is something strange in it?" Now everyone chooses to believe that it is nothing more than reporting good news and not bad news, and besides, on the emperor's side, even if this matter is verified to be false, then he must say that this thing is true. It's just that those straw bales at the bottom will be taken seriously if they read too much newspapers. ”

Liang Qichao looked at him with a mocking face, and then said: "Now there are Tonghua, Linxi, Yizhou, and Yanzhou in the open places of the revolutionary party, and I really don't know the places in the dark." If there is no accident, within two years, the world will ...... Ay!! ”

Thinking that he finally found a Mingjun, but there was no way to recover it, Liang Qichao was very angry in his heart. Is it really as Yang Jingcheng said, the change of the rotten wooden ship into an iron ship in the Qing Dynasty is to fish for the moon in the water and seek fish from the wood? Thinking of this, he was a little unwilling, and even more disdainful. From the words of the Fuxing Association and Yang Jingcheng, he understood what they would do if they won the world, it was just to rob the family and the house, cut the rich and help the poor. He also understood this, but he could not do it first, because it was mostly the gentry who supported him, and secondly, he did not believe that the cultivators would produce more grain and more silver if they had their fields. China's problem is actually one word: poverty!

It is precisely because they are too poor that they cannot run a new policy, and if they cannot run a new policy, then there will not be enough talents and capital to compete with foreigners for profit, and the result will be even poorer. If China wants to be rich, it has to be pulled from the mouths of the people and squeezed from their belts. Could it be that a change of dynasty will make China rich? The result of the change of dynasty will only make China poorer, with money running out, great powers dividing up, and the country being dissecured, making the situation worse and the hope of reviving national prestige more and more difficult.

Liang Qichao was thinking about his thoughts, and Cai Yikut sat aside. Although he was shocked by his teacher's judgment, he didn't dare to disturb him. He only saw his teacher looking up at Tan Sitong's prison wall on the wall: look at the door and stop thinking about Zhang Jian, and endure death and wait for Du Gen. I smiled at myself. Go to leave the liver and gallbladder two Kunlun.

Looking at Tan Sitong's poems, Liang Qichao only thinks that it has been thirteen years now, and the situation has changed in the past thirteen years. I thought that even if Cixi died of old age, Guangxu would never come out, but I didn't want God to bless my emperor, and Cixi was actually sniped by the revolutionary party in the Bingwu year. According to the comeback of Guangxu, the natural national strength of the monarch and the minister is thriving, but now it is exhausted. Do you want to flee back to Japan and never return to your homeland? No. He was not reconciled!

"Songpo, you'd better go to Yunnan, right?" After thinking for a long time, Liang Qichao said. "Li Zhongxian, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, asked me last year. Today I am writing to recommend that you go to him, maybe you can leave a residual pulse for my Qing Dynasty. ”

"Teacher!" Why didn't Cai Yi think that Liang Qichao would let him go to Yunnan, and said: "If you want to leave a residual vein for me in the Qing Dynasty, wouldn't it be better outside the Guan?" It's sparsely populated and ...... of products."

"Kanwai is the birthplace of the revolutionary party. Could it be that there is no arrangement? Liang Qichao asked rhetorically. In fact, he can't say that this is not for Guangxu to leave a residual vein, but to leave a residual vein for his own reform party. "Besides, the current governor of the three eastern provinces is Zaishu, although it was a party of the Restoration in the past, but there was always a difference between Manchu and Han, even if you went to the northeast, you can't control the military power."

"But if you go to Yunnan, you can control the military power?" Cai Ye didn't know the details of Zaishu, and he was even less familiar with Li Jingxi.

"Northeast, Shanxi, Henan, Yunnan and Guizhou, only these few places do not affect the war. Among these places, only the Northeast and Yunnan and Guizhou have the most troops. It is not good to go to the northeast, but Yungui has just the opportunity, then Li Zhongxian is very at odds with the original Beiyang officers, and there is no right-hand man in the army. At that time, in the event of turmoil, your ministry will be able to enter Sichuan from southern Yunnan. As for Cen Chunxuan's side, it can be in the name of King Qin, don't pay attention to it, if the Central Plains shape can't be reversed, then it will directly occupy Sichuan as the foundation for the future. Liang Qichao was no longer angry at this time, just like when he ran the Xinmin Cong Newspaper, he swayed freely and pointed out the country.

Liang Qichao arranged the way back, but Cai Yi was uneasy, and said: "What if the revolutionary party stabilizes the situation and also convenes a constitution?" Teacher, do you really want to welcome Guangxu or the Manchurian relatives back to be the emperor? ”

"Nope. After Yang Jingcheng founded the country, he must have seized the people's property and land to comfort his gang of people, as long as he did this, it would definitely be a great chaos in the world. At that time, we should no longer ask the Manchus to come back as emperors, but should preach republican democracy. Liang Qichao said thoughtfully.

"Republic? Democracy? Cai Ye was smart, but he couldn't keep up with the pace of his teacher, and said, "But we're not ...... now."

"One time, another." Liang Qichao looked at his disciple and explained attentively: "After the Manchurians are gone, Yang Jingcheng should appoint Zhu Kuansu as the emperor, and then control the dynasty and monopolize the power. If we talk about the imperial system again, we will no longer win the hearts of the people. He used the emperor of the Han people to replace the emperor of the Manchus, which can be regarded as a kind of progress, but if he wants to make another revolution, he must preach republican democracy, so that he can be regarded as progress and gain power. ”

Liang Qichao's step-by-step teaching only made Cai Yi a little stunned, Cai Ye actually just wanted to be a pure soldier, but he didn't want politics to be so mysterious and complicated. Liang Qichao saw that he was stunned, so he had to say carefully: "Songpo, you are a smart person, I can talk to you in a smart way, but other people can't." If Yang Jingcheng really conquered Beijing, most of the people who have read books and understood things will defect to him, so if we want to confront Yang Jingcheng, we will use some stupid people. When dealing with those foolish people, you must never tell them the truth, but you must hypnotize them in the form of religion to make them feel that what they are doing is right...... So 'republican democracy' is just a slogan, and it's actually the same as 'Amitabha'. ”

Liang Qichao wanted to explain the truth clearly, but who would have expected that Cai Yi would be even more dazed after hearing it, and he was helpless after sighing, he didn't understand this, so it would be even more useless to talk about it further.

When Liang Qichao was helpless about Cai Yi, some people were scolding Cai Yi.

"Speaking of the 5th town, I'm in a hurry, so Cai Songpo is a pig's brain?! The revolutionary party surrounded the point to send reinforcements, and you can't see such a simple road? Is...... Is...... Town 5 is now only half left! Bang, Yuan Shikai only kicked the entire sand table over, although more than two months have passed, but every time he talks about the 5th town, Yuan Shikai has to be angry, and now seeing him like this, Xu Shichang and Yang Shiqi are busy with comfort.

"Gong Bao, the matter has come to this, what are you angry about. It should be glad that the other towns are still there, or else...... Ay! Xu Shichang said, Yuan Shikai stepped down. He was also excluded by Guangxu not long ago, and now he is only in a deserted yamen, and he is very miserable. It is said that Guangxu wanted to kill him. But when he saw his sad face in the back, he was very happy, so he left him in the palace.

"Yes, Kung Pao. There are still four and a half towns on the side of Shandong Zhili, and it is already hard for these troops to stay. We can't keep the 5th town. Yang Shiqi watched Yuan Shikai get angry, and he was as comforting as Xu Shichang. However, he added some hope, "Now that Congress has reconvened. But the governors and gentry everywhere are all dissatisfied, and the foreigners have already said what we discussed before, and the foreign reporters have also done a lot. But Guangxu is going to die, I don't want you to go out of the mountain. ”

Since the First Wu Dynasty, the self-respect of the foreign has never been the usual trick of the officials below to deal with the imperial court, and Yanzhou was defeated again and Zaitao was dismissed, under the instigation of Zai Ze. Yuan Shikai wanted to go out of the mountain. But this matter can't be mentioned by him. Of course, foreigners are only one aspect, and many of the gentry who are engaged in petitioning the Congress have also established him as the prime minister, but these are useless in front of Guangxu, which is really distressing.

"What else does the big guy say?" Speaking of big things, Yuan Shikai is no longer entangled in the loss of the 5th town, he just wants to know the old fox Yixuan's plans.

"Qing Wang Ye is still closed. According to sources in Beijing, the cabinet will be elected after the reconvening of the Diet, and it is very likely that the post of prime minister will be held by Zhirui. In fact, this parliament has no power. The imperial court didn't want to set up a cabinet again, but it was afraid that foreigners would be able to speak, so it still set up a cabinet. Xu Shichang introduced the changes in Beijing, especially the political situation last year, which was really as exciting as watching a play, and several people fell in a row. First Zai Ze overthrew Zai Feng, and then Qu Hongji was dismissed because of a photo, and finally Zai Ze, not long after he became the prime minister of the cabinet, he was involved in the embezzlement of state-owned assets, and he stepped down with Sheng Xuanhuai; And the parliament was abruptly shut down amid the petitions and cries of countless hungry people.

"And when will this cabinet be elected?" Yuan Shikai asked.

"Next month." Xu Shichang said: "It is said that it is a choice, but in fact, it is still a matter of the emperor's words." It is estimated that there will be a lot of relatives and nobles inside. Now the yellow ribbons in Beijing say that it was those Hanchen who misled the country to make the country look like this, and I really don't know where they heard the rumors. ”

"It's not the Ta Kung Pao's boasting, after he saw those hungry people petitioning last year, he died of heart on the Congress, thinking that only by putting all the power on the emperor's side, the country can be governed well, if the power is given to the gentry below, it will only make the Qing Dynasty more and more civil unrest. The opening of the National Assembly is not to save the country, but to mislead the country, and he has been talking about this for half a year. "Yang Shiqi is not an official, but he is Yuan Shikai's eyeliner in Beijing, and he knows very well what is going on in Beijing and Tianjin.

"Hmph. This is not a good thing in the first place. "Yuan Shikai remembered the boycott of American goods, and Ta Kung Pao was one of the Tianjin newspapers that actively agitated." When he said this, he was just trying to curry favor with Guangxu. Now that the situation is like this, you can't watch the revival meeting hit Beijing, you can tell me when you turn around, this revival will really go on a northern expedition, and Guangxu is stubbornly holding on to not want me to go out of the mountain, what should I do? ”

Yuan Shikai asked, Xu Shichang only glanced at Yang Shiqi and did not speak. And Yang Shiqi knew what he meant, and said: "The revolutionary party is getting stronger and stronger, and I am afraid that it will not be able to exterminate it, and the Northern Expedition is a matter of the past two years, if there is no Northern Expedition this year, then there will be a Northern Expedition next year, and once the Northern Expedition occurs, it is really possible to hit Beijing." ”

Yang Shiqi only said things so strictly, Yuan Shikaiqi said: "Even if the revolutionary party is not afraid of chlorine cannons as Ping Qing said, then they will not be able to win the Northern Expedition?" ”

"Of course it's impossible to win. But even if they don't win, then they must be released to Shandong, so that the imperial court will know that the revolutionary party's Northern Expedition is unstoppable, so that the Manchurians in Beijing will panic, they don't panic Gongbao, how can you get out of the mountain? Yang Shiqi said. Only when the revolutionary party went on the Northern Expedition would the Manchurians think of us, and when the time comes, they can negotiate peace with the revolutionary party, and the situation will be under our control. We no longer want the Manchus to be emperors, and they don't want the Han people to be emperors, and everyone chooses the republic. On the side of the army, we have the advantage, and Yang Jingcheng is only in his thirties, and the previous presidents promised to do it to the palace guard. ”

Yang Shiqi only said it so easily, Yuan Shikai still laughed, and said after laughing: "How do you know that Yang Jingcheng will make peace with us?" There are a lot of people in the revival of him, and after a few years of hard fighting, will he really willingly let me be the president? ”

"Yang is a lot of adults, but if he wants to run for Congress, then he will have fewer people. His mud legs can only fight, and he doesn't know a few words, and Gong Baoyou, which councilor doesn't remember that it was you and Zegong who made this parliament open? Then the governors of all the lands will be on our side; And what the revolutionaries are most afraid of is foreigners, once the ministers of various countries also say that the president still wants you to be the president, what can they do? Even if the Jiangnan Bureau is occupied by them, under the blockade of various countries, how many cannons and shells can they buy? Relying on the previous seizures, they estimated that Jiangning would not be able to defeat them. Yang Shiqi said.

Yuan Shikai's words sounded somewhat reasonable, but he still asked: "What if the revolutionary party does not negotiate peace, and has to fight to Beijing in one go?" ”

Knowing that Yuan Shikai had this question, Yang Shiqi smiled: "That's better." There are also two town Janissaries in Beijing, a town flag battalion, tens of thousands of patrols, and many Prince Baylor. Let go of the road and let them fight, we will pull all the governors from all over the country, no matter who occupies Beijing, it is just a tablet. If he wants to take back all his power like Guangxu, or open a parliament without power, then we can attack it en masse. Anyway, we are biting the Congress and not relaxing, and whoever wants to oppose the Congress, then we will oppose whom. Gong Bao, there is a person named Song Yufu in the revolutionary party who is very right, he said that the power is in the Congress, and the revolution is also for the Congress. When the time comes, he can raise the matter of opening the Congress. ”

"The power is in the Congress, and the revolution is also for the ...... Congress" Yuan Shikai repeated, chewing the meaning inside, although he advocated the constitution to open the Congress, but what is the Congress, not very clear, after a while, he asked uncertainly: "So, it doesn't matter if the emperor is not the emperor or not?" ”

"Exactly!" Yang Shiqi glanced at Xu Shichang, who was also listening, and said loudly. "This is republican democracy, this is constitutional politics. If the Revival Society does not recognize this, it is uncivilized, and if they want to make an emperor, it is not progressive. But if they recognize it, then things will be easy. The governors, the gentry, the ministers and consuls of various countries, and the other revolutionary parties were on our side, and the matter would be easy. ”

Yang Shiqi said and said, he actually involved other revolutionary parties, Yuan Shikai's face suddenly sank, and said, "Why are you involved with Sun Dacang?" ”

Seeing Yuan Shikai blaming, Yang Shiqi hurriedly said: "Gong Bao, I'm not talking about Sun Wen, but Song Yufu, although he is also from the Alliance, he and Sun Wen are not all the way." He is a native of Hunan and a student at Hosei University in Tokyo. Now those people from the League and Liangguang followed Sun Wen and basically died in Guangzhou, and those people from Lianghu followed him and basically stayed in Tokyo. ”

Listening to what Yang Shiqi said was not Sun Wen, Yuan Shikai was slightly relieved, he still remembered the false accusation of Sun Dacang in Bingwu Nian, and he only felt that this person had no moral personality at all, and was purely a scoundrel. "This Song fisherman is reliable?" He asked.

"Totally reliable. At that time, no matter who occupies the capital, we will work with him to advocate the implementation of the constitution and the early opening of the National Assembly. Yang Shiqi said. At that time, Yang Jingcheng had to obey. ”

Yang Shiqi's words were convincing, but Yuan Shikai was still a little uneasy, he always felt that things would not be so simple, and said: "Yang Jingcheng is not a good person, in case he doesn't negotiate peace, and he doesn't open a congress, what should he do?" No matter how talented this Song fisherman is, he is not from the Revival Society......"

Yuan Shikai said this, and Xu Shichang next to him suddenly said: "Huh! I'd like to think of someone! Isn't that Cai Xiaomin locked up in the capital? When the time comes, we will ensure that he will come out, and he will come forward to propose peace talks and open the Congress, and with his prestige in the Revival Society, then Yang Jingcheng is afraid that he will not be able to go his own way. (To be continued......)