"Humph!" Zhang Zongxiang stood up with his hands in his hands, he looked at Yang Yide in front of him and said angrily: "Yang Bangzi, don't think that I don't know about your fancy intestines, if something really happens on the Wanshou Festival, you won't be able to get better." ”

"Your Excellency!" Yang Yide panicked, and immediately slid from the chair to the ground, "My lord, Xia Guan really didn't see that there was anything wrong." That's it, it's ......"

"What's it? Say it. Zhang Zongxiang hurriedly asked.

"It's that a lot of people came from Tianjin, all of them had no braids, and they all bought train tickets to the capital early the day after tomorrow. Many of these people have a southern accent. Yang Yide saw Zhang Zongxiang asking and hurriedly told the matter.

"Tianjin? The day after tomorrow? Or take the train to the capital together? Zhang Zongxiang felt a little incredible.

"Yes, my lord! There are four or five hundred of them, all of them are from Shanghai, and they all look like students from Shanghai, and they come to the capital to say that they are here to visit and play during the summer vacation, but if these people really come to play, why don't they come tomorrow when the emperor is on his birthday, but they want to come on the last day of the birthday festival the day after tomorrow? There must be something strange in this. Yang Yide said, although he is the general office of the Beijing Arrest Bureau, he originally came out of Tianjin, and he can still know what is going on over there.

"Good! If you can't find it in Beijing, then start investigating it in Tianjin, and these people will most likely be revolutionaries. Zhang Zongxiang immediately ordered, he was in the grass and trees first.

The lord ordered, and Yang Yide immediately agreed, although those people in Tianjin were not in Beijing for a while, if they really came, it would still be a problem. The matter is over. Zhang Zongxiang cautioned him again, and then sent him away.

When Yang Yide left, it was already six o'clock. At this time, it was the time to eat, and the noisy city of Beijing finally rested. He got into the sedan chair with a lot of worries, and as soon as he arrived at the Arrest Bureau, he asked for the phone number of Liu Jinbiao of the Tianjin Northern Section Patrol Police Bureau, but it seemed to be raining tonight, and the wind was blowing quite strongly, and this long-distance phone call was afraid of wind, a wind. Then there is a murmur of lines, and you can't hear it at all. "Hey, hey, hey...", or after it didn't work, Yang Yide could only ask someone to write a telegram. Handed over to his subordinates to send it out in a hurry, and then waited for the Tianjin side to call back, but the telegram did not come back until dark, so he could only wait for tomorrow to urge.

When the night darkens. The bench ditch five miles northeast of Mentougou. Lei Yizhen was watching the rainstorm outside. According to the revised plan, the arms for the uprising would arrive a day earlier, which would save time for receiving the arms on the night of the uprising, but the probability of being discovered by the Manchus was greatly increased. At that time, after Wu Xifen explored everywhere, he only chose the landing site of the airship in Bench Ditch, which is the remnant of Yanshan Mountain, and there are only a few villages around it except for a few temples. Now these villages have been bought by mining companies. It became a miners' settlement, and people were installed on the temple. Firmly control this area.

It's just that it can't be kept secret just by buying the village, after all, the airship flies in the sky, and although the moon is not full on the twenty-fifth and sixth of the lunar calendar, there are still stars. The only way to be foolproof is to choose to land on a rainy or cloudy day, and the closer to the day of the uprising, the better.

Wu Xifen's plan was that if there was suitable weather within five days before the uprising, then the airship would be transported once in advance and again on the night of the uprising, because 24,000 guns could be transported at one time, so the large army should not pack up again, as long as it received another batch of ammunition the next day, and it could attack at 11 o'clock that night; However, if there is no suitable weather five days before the uprising, it can only be transported once on the night of the uprising, and the firearms at this time are insufficient, and there is still a need to organize the packing and distribute ammunition, and to attack the Praetorian Guard barracks more than 40 miles away, then it will have to be launched before dawn, that is, around half past four.

The former has enough guns, and the strength of two divisions, one division is divided into two ways to solve the Praetorian Guards in Xiyuan and Nanyuan, and the other division breaks into the capital to solve those patrols and patrols, and capture Guangxu and the princes and ministers, this battle will be easy; And the latter, because only one division has weapons, can only solve the first town of the Praetorian Guard in Nanyuan at most, and the other Praetorian Guard town can only wait for Nanyuan to capture weapons after the war before fighting.

Under such circumstances, the arrest of Guangxu can only rely on Wang Menghui's department in the city. But his troops were also unarmed, and they had to rely on airships for supplies. Unlike Mentougou, his airship did not land outside Beijing, but directly landed in the outer city of Beijing -- the current Beijing city is very empty, two-thirds of the outer city is wasteland, and there are no residents in the inner city near the city wall.

Everyone wanted the first option, and the staff wanted to bring in the guns months in advance, but the sooner they were shipped, the greater the chance of exposure. This uprising can only succeed and not fail, three or five days in advance, even if it is exposed, at this time the troops everywhere are already on standby, if you really want to surprise the attack, you can still attack; Months in advance, in case it was exposed, the plan would be a complete failure, so after discussion, the final result was still shipped within five days before the uprising, and once it was discovered, it would immediately launch a strong attack.

Although the rain is heavy in summer, it usually falls for a short time, and when the pouring time passes, the rain becomes smaller. Wu Xifen looked at the table at this time, silently calculated the time, and then said, "It's eleven o'clock, it should be almost there." ”

"It's almost there." After Lei Yizhen finished speaking, the telegraph bell in the room rang, and looking at the length of the paper code spit out from the telegraph, the communications officer said loudly without decoding: "Commander, the guest has arrived, and it should be above us." ”

Hearing what he said with such certainty, Lei Yizhen immediately said: "Then turn on all the indicators immediately, and assist the airship in landing at each landing site." Be careful when the road is slippery in rainy weather, and the one that carries the bazooka. ”

The adjutant took the order and left, and the code was decoded, and sure enough, it had arrived. After more than ten minutes, the lights of all the landing fields were turned on, and the people who were hidden everywhere also ran out in the rain and began to inflate the buffer belt with compressed gas cylinders. There are four landing sites, but they are very scattered, that is, they are afraid that the airships will collide with each other when they land, and their engines can only be turned off in order to conceal them, and these airships have no power. There were four ships floating far away from the landing field, and the four ships that were about to land were not to collide in order not to collide. All high and low are all staggered.

The cushion bag on the landing site finally bulged like a hill, and the officer in charge of directing the landing took a special bright flashlight to signal the airship in mid-air. At this time, the airship in mid-air just used the fan driven by the battery to continuously inflate the auxiliary airbag, so that the airship could descend slowly, but when it was raining heavily before, the water droplets hit the airship and made the airship fall sharply, in order not to crash into the mountain. The main airbag is completely full, and the counterweight in the cabin has also lost its essence, so that now the rain is less and the buoyancy is greater. A few airships couldn't come down.

Wu Xifen looked at the behemoth hanging in the air, and said uneasily: "What should I do if I can't fall?" ”

Lei Yizhen had seen the airship land in Tonghua, and replied: "There are two ways, one is to discharge part of the hydrogen. Make the airship less buoyant. But this is very dangerous, the second is the rope gun, now the airship is more than 100 meters above the ground, their rope can't get down, then we will hit the rope. ”

As soon as Lei Yizhen finished speaking, a signal was issued on the airship to discharge hydrogen, and as soon as he saw this light, the people below the landing field all avoided it. If the exhaust process catches fire due to static electricity, the entire airship will fall like a torch. At this time, Major General Hong Huangnan, who was sent by the General Logistics to land the loser, hurriedly ran over. After saluting, he said: "Commander Lei, now that the rainstorm has stopped, the buoyancy of the airship is too great, we are preparing for exhaust operation, is it allowed?" ”

Lei Yizhen sighed slightly in his heart, looked at the sky and the thunder flashing on the other side of the sky, where there were still no stars, and said, "Let's wait a little longer." We'd rather not land than have an accident. ”

Lei Yizhen was not allowed to exhaust, so Hong Huangnan could only salute and pass on the order. In fact, he felt that it was possible to exhaust the operation, and when he encountered this situation before, he basically dealt with it like this, but now all the command is on Lei Yizhen's side, Lei Yizhen disagreed, and he had to order the airship not to exhaust.

The situation is so deadlocked, on the west mountain, eight incomparably huge airships hovering in the dark rainy night, the ground is full of anticipation of the Renaissance Army soldiers, this is the first time in their lives that most of them see the airship, although they can't see clearly, but the darker it is, the more they are afraid, especially the soldiers of the Fourth Army drawn from South Africa, they can't help but kneel and worship, they think that this is the revival of Yang Jingcheng's magical powers, or it is the spirit of hundreds of millions of Han ancestors in the sky.

The rain kept falling, and everyone in the house who was waiting for the rain to fall was very anxious, only Lei Yizhen was sitting, and the others were walking around the house. Looking at the continuous lightning outside, Major General Hong Huangnan finally couldn't help it, and he said: "Commander Lei, now the lightning is getting more and more violent, once the thunder hits this side of Xishan, the airship will still be exposed, and I will start the exhaust operation." ”

"No way!" Lei Yizhen still insisted: "I'd rather go back than exhaust operations, now it's thundering, once the discharged hydrogen is ignited and ignited, then it will be troublesome." ”

"But that's just another plan." This time it was Chief of Staff Wu Xifen who spoke, and he also wanted the airship to land early.

"No, if it's really going to catch fire and crash, then you can't even carry out that plan, you can only attack." Lei Yizhen said. "We're waiting for an hour, and if it doesn't rain heavily, then we'll tell the airship to return!"

Lei Yizhen said that the generals did not say any more, he was the first general of the Fuxing Army, and the prestige was the highest among the cadets. When Hong Huangnan heard this, he sat on the chair and took out a cigarette to light it, so that the enthusiasm in his heart cooled down, and in the rumbling thunder, the room was filled with smoke.

I don't know how long it took, but there was a sudden "click" in the continuous thunder, and another huge thunder exploded, only shaking the entire city of Beijing. Guangxu of the Forbidden City's Heart Cultivation Hall suddenly woke up from his dream at this time, and before he could recall the details of the dream, the earth-shattering thunder made him tremble, and he shouted loudly: "Li Chenda!" Chancellor Lee!! ”

"Hooray! Hooray! "Li Lianying knew that Guangxu had been afraid of thunder since he was a child, so he was waiting outside." Long live the lord, the minions are here, the minions are here. ”

Hearing Li Lianying's voice, the lights in the room were also on, Guangxu felt a little relieved, and only asked Wen Yan: "What time is it?" ”

"Back to Long Live Lord, it's going to be ugly soon, the wind and rain are too big today, and the thunder is also fierce, but the rain is going to stop as soon as the day dawns. Ming'er is long live the lord's life, it must be a good weather. Li Lianying said comforting words, afraid that the emperor would be angry again.

Guangxu didn't hear his words. only said: "Is it ugly?" It was raining heavily before I went to bed, and now it's raining again, and it seems to be getting even heavier. ”

"Hooray. No matter how hard the rain falls, it will still stop, and tomorrow will be the first birthday, and the ministers and foreign ministers will come to congratulate them, so let's rest early. Li Lianying looked at the emperor who was still stunned on the bed, and said politely.

As Guangxu's temper became worse and worse, Li Lianying was the only eunuch who dared to comfort the emperor. After the death of Cixi. He originally wanted to go home and resign, but in the end, Guangxu was not allowed, and in the end he only left him by his side to serve. For the emperor. Among the familiar old people, only Li Lianying is not an eyesore, and when she is with him, she can recall the old days.

"Li Chenda, don't go. Just waiting outside. Guangxu still hasn't slept enough. But I was afraid of the thunderstorm outside, so I had to let Li Lianying wait nearby, and I felt a lot more comforted.

"Long live the master, the slave is waiting outside, not going anywhere." Li Lianying replied.

Li Lianying only turned off the light in the room before going out, and stood outside alone, listening to the sound of rain outside, which fell from the ugly time to the end of the day. When it was almost dawn, it stopped completely. Guangxu got up at the end of the day. First to the temple is to worship the ancestor emperor, and then to the Taihe Hall to be congratulated, at this time the ministers of various countries, the ministers of the rank of Xinjiang ministers are to congratulate one by one, so that the time passes, when the time passes, the ministers who give to sit and listen to the play all go to the Changyin Pavilion of Ningshou Palace, and Guangxu is not allowed to rest, and also come to the Changyin Pavilion for a while, after appreciating the food, the stage begins to sing.

Yu Huizu got up early that day, and it was almost ten o'clock when he went to Changyin Pavilion after Chaohe, and his stomach was already hungry. Fortunately, the emperor came at this time and rewarded him with food, which suppressed his hunger. Ke Shi is delicious to eat, but this meal is worth nearly 100 taels, the Internal Affairs Office is asking for silver, in the final analysis, he still eats his own, he laughs at himself while eating, and after eating, he starts to listen to the play.

The play was sung until noon, and the eunuch sent a decree to give a banquet, and when he was about to go to the side hall to eat, who expected a eunuch to come, and said to him: "Master Yu, long live the lord called you to be alone." ”

"Ahh I heard that it was summoned by Guangxu, and Yu Huizu, who was thinking about the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the recovery of the Han race after today, was very surprised.

The eunuch saw him like this, and he was not surprised, this old man was just a businessman, although there was a head product wearing a double dragon gold medal, but it was a fake thing, more fake than spending money to buy, and said with a smile, "Master Yu, let's go, don't let the Lord Long Live wait." ”

Yu Huizu was stunned and followed the eunuch, only to see seven turns and eight turns, and came to a palace, and saw Guangxu wearing a dragon robe outside, sitting behind the bookcase, and there were many eunuchs on both sides. He had been talking about the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Han Dynasty before, but when he saw this kind of royal prestige, he was sweating a little in his heart, and the eunuch had already gone in to report the news, and he would lead him in after a while.

Although he was reluctant, Yu Huizu still knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The grass people Yu Huizu knocked to see His Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live." ”

Yu Huizu visited the worship, but Guangxu didn't talk immediately, but said after a while: "Yu Huizu, do you know what I called you here this time?" ”

Yu Huizu, who was kneeling, only felt that Guangxu's words were not good, and replied indifferently: "The grass people don't know. ”

Seeing that Yu Huizu was calm, Guangxu raised his head, looked at him kneeling down, and said with a smile: "I heard that you still have a relationship with Yang Jingcheng of the Fuxing Society?" ”

"Back to Long Live Lord, I just came, but I didn't go." Yu Huizu replied very calmly.

"What a good one has no contact." Guangxu smiled: "What is Yang Jingcheng looking for you to do, asking you for military salary?" Aren't you giving enough? ”

"Back to Long Live Lord, after Yang Jingcheng sold the Shanghai industry to the grass people, he no longer asked the grass people for money." Yu Huizu said, "Now that the overseas Chinese of the Renaissance Association have donated a lot, I am afraid that he will not be short of money." ”

Yu Huizu is a bit second today, Li Lianying, who had received his money before, only stood aside and was in a hurry, but Guangxu smiled when he heard this, "That Sun Wen is also supported by overseas Chinese donations, and now Yang Jingcheng is also relying on overseas Chinese to live, they all say that they are patriotic, but whose country is this love, such as today's wars, the people are not happy, this is the patriotism they want?" ”

Guangxu's words were intense, but after a while, he eased up, "Yu Huizu, you get up, I came to you to talk to you about Yang Jingcheng of the Revival Society." ”

As soon as Guangxu let Yu Huizu get up, the eunuch next to him sent the chair up, which was actually Guangxu's sitting. Yu Huizu didn't panic, and only sat down on the whole chair without any scruples, which made the eunuch next to him dissatisfied.

"Yu Huizu, do you have some guts?" I don't know why, Guangxu has a very good temper today.

"The grass people don't dare." Yu Huizu replied politely, he only saw that Guangxu was much older than the photos he had seen before.

"Yu Huizu, I ask you, Sun Wen's alliance wants a democratic republic, but what does Yang actually want for him, to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?" Guangxu asked, he has repeatedly suppressed bandits, but he has a different kind of thought.

"Back to Long Live Lord, the former Ming Dynasty is just a thing of the past, then Yang Jingcheng is definitely not to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, the reason why the Revival Association wants to launch a former Ming sect now is just to gather the hearts of the people. Taking donations as an example, Sun Wen's overseas fundraising, usually only tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of taels, this has to be cheated and abducted, and the former Ming clan went to raise donations, when it was above a few million taels, especially in Peru and Chile in South America, overseas Chinese were all descendants of the Taiping Army in the early years......" Yu Huizu said this, Li Lianying sweated for him very much, and this bandit was said that he was a Taiping army.

“…… There are millions of overseas Chinese, one tael per person, and millions of taels over there. Ten taels per person, then tens of millions of taels. Only the imperial power can gather the hearts of these people, and it is not possible to rely on a democratic republic like Sun Wen. "Yu Huizu has the meaning of knowing everything and saying everything, and only talks about things in detail.

"Since he doesn't want to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore his sight, what does he want to do?" Guangxu asked. "Now that the great powers are oppressing, if he really wants to be patriotic, then he must stop the war and be appeased."

"Long live the Lord." Yu Huizu said, "What Yang Jingcheng is going to do, the grass people don't know, but if you want to be cared for, there were some possibilities a few years ago, but now it can't." At present, China is worried about domestic and foreign troubles, but officials big and small are derelict in their duties and bend the law for bribes. Only by tearing down everything and rebuilding the system can we make great efforts. ”

The more Yu Huizu said, the more Li Lianying's heart hung, and Guangxu still didn't ask Yu Huizu about his disrespect, but laughed and said: "Push it down and start over...... Haha, work hard...... Ha ha...... Isn't Yang actually afraid of the division of the country? Now that our Qing Dynasty is surrounded by foreign powers, and if there is a slight turmoil in the country, it will be torn apart. He doesn't really believe that as long as the rights of all countries in China are recognized, they will not interfere, right? ”

"It was precisely because of the fear of interference by foreign powers that Yang Jingcheng did not happen." Yu Huizu looked at Guangxu who was smiling, and wanted to laugh in his heart, "But there are also contradictions between the great powers, and now the situation in Europe is turbulent, as long as there is chaos over there, I am afraid that Yang will be launched." ”

As soon as Yu Huizu said Europe, Guangxu was stunned, now he is no more than before, the longer he sits on the throne, the more he understands the situation at home and abroad. At the beginning of this month, Germany and France made a fuss because of Morocco, and Germany also sent a warship to Morocco.

Thinking that during the European War, the revival army of Yanzhou and Yizhou would go north in a big way, Guangxu suddenly lost the interest of questioning, he looked at Yu Huizu in front of him, his face was cold: "Yu Huizu, if you have the opportunity to sue Yang Jingcheng, if you really want to fight, then he is my sinner in China." ”

Guangxu only raised his words to the perspective of China, Yu Huizu did not answer, in his eyes Guangxu is now a dead man, why should he compete with a dead man. After seeing Guangxu, he returned to the side hall of Changyin Pavilion in a comfortable mood, and his appetite suddenly became excellent, first he ate a meal of meat, and then gnawed a few pieces of chilled watermelon, and then returned to Changyin Pavilion to listen to the play.

When night fell, Yu Huizu's ears in Changchun Pavilion were not on the play, he only pricked up his ears to listen to the sound of gunfire, but until the play ended, there was no other sound in the whole city of Beijing except for the sound of singing. Returning to the apartment with a disappointed expression, Yu Huizu asked his housekeeper, "Is there any news today?" ”

"Sir, there is no news." Mr. Fu knew what the master was asking, and replied affirmatively.

"What time is it?" Yu Huizu asked again.

"Master, it's half past nine." "Master, since you have been preparing for many years, why rush for a while? You should rest in peace, maybe when you wake up, the world will change color. (To be continued......)