Chapter 68: National Change 2

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The weather in the capital is getting hotter and hotter, and Cixi herself fanning in the Yiluan Hall of Zhongnanhai doesn't count, but the palace maid behind her also helps her fan the fan. However, at this time, Cixi didn't care whether it was hot or not, but said sharply to Yuan Shikai who was kneeling in front of her: "Yuan Shikai, you are making too much trouble!" After that, he grabbed a bunch of white folds from the imperial case, raised it and said, "Have you seen it, there are so many people who participate in you!" ”

Cixi was furious, Yuan Shikai hurriedly kowtowed, "The minister is guilty of capital crimes!" Capital crime! After pleading guilty, he argued: "However, the word is ......."

"Stop arguing!" Cixi saw that his strong argument was even more angry, and said, "Hurry up and return to office!" There are so many people who join you, and I can't protect you! ”

Seeing that the words came to this, Yuan Shikai could only kowtow "knock", "knock" and "knock", and said while kowtowing: "Yes!" The minister obeys the decree. After saying that, he bowed back and left the Yiluan Hall in high spirits, and returned to the new strategy hall in the east three gates (now the left gate of Chang'an).

In fact, this new strategy hall was originally a new inspection of the political hall last year, after the constitution was determined, it was changed to the compilation bureau, this bureau was presided over by the town of the state of the government, the bureau is mainly divided into three types of people, one is the head of the ministry, in addition to the presiding Zai Ze, there are also Dongge University scholar Shixu, Tirenge University Shi Natong, co-organizer Rong Qing, business Shangshu Zaizhen, the Ministry of Officials Shangshu Kuijun, the household department Shangshu Tieliang, Zhang Baixi, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Dai Hongci, the criminal department Shangshu Dai Baohua, the patrol police department Shangshu Xu Shichang, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu 6 Runzhen, Zuodu Yushi Shouqi, There is no military department book in it, but Yuan Shikai was added as the minister of Beiyang.

In addition to the ministers of various ministries, it was also stipulated that the governors of Liangjiang, Huguang, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Liangguang should "select and send senior officials to Beijing to accompany the council." "But because of the distance, the people in the area haven't arrived yet. At the same time, the General Department approved the dispatch of Prince Qing Yixuan, Wenyuange University Scholar Sun Jiading, and the co-organizer of the University Scholar Military Aircraft Minister Qu Hongji.

Here, Yuan Shikai only came to discuss matters in place of the Minister of War, which originally had no impact, but the officials mentioned above were all masters. Those who can only drink tea and chat, and don't know how to do things at all, those who do things are called compilers, there are only seventeen people in total, and they are all chosen for a while, and most of them are foreign students from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce, and there are four of the most popular ones. Known as the "Four King Kongs", they are Wang Rongbao, Zhang Zongxiang, 6 Zongyu, and Cao Rulin. Many of these people were appointed by Yuan Shikai, and with them, most of the drafts for the compilation of the official system were determined by Yuan Shikai, and then submitted to the ministers for consultation.

And Yuan Shikai was trained this time, because he wanted to abolish the Inspectorate and the Ministry of Officials, Officials, Households, and other ministries. According to Yuan Shikai's plan, the Military Aircraft Department will be abolished and transformed into a responsible cabinet, and as for other inspectors, Honglu Temple, and the General Administration Department, they will not be allowed to stay, and the cabinet will be established in full accordance with the principle of separation of powers, and the prime minister of the cabinet will be Prince Qing. As for him, he is the vice premier, and then he and the officials of Zai Ze's family, such as Tie Liang and the brother-in-law of the Red Flag Banner Lord Nalehe, etc., will equally share the major positions in the cabinet, and Qu Hongji, Sun Jiading and others will just give a few famous and powerless positions. But who would have thought that Qu Hongji, Sun Jiading and others had already reached an agreement with Zai Ze and others, which leaked out some things about the compilation bureau, saying that Yuan Shikai was going to cut off everyone's jobs. Suddenly, the crowd was turbulent, and many officials broke bullets to impeach Yuan Shikai, and only then did Cixi reprimand him for returning to office.

"You all know that, right?" Yuan Shikai's face was gloomy, and he asked Yang Shiqi and Sun Baoqi who were standing in the room weakly.

"I heard." Sun Baoqi said.

"It's nothing. In the past, Li Wenzhong and Prince Gongzhong passed by, and later they were still benevolent. Yang Shiqi looked at Yuan Shikai's deflated appearance and comforted him.

"Later is later!" Yuan Shikai didn't think so, "The most important thing is to save face right now." What should I say about this return to the excerpt. I really can't think of it. ”

"No!" Yang Shiqi said: "I can't ask myself to return to office, I have to think of some other reason, and send the palace guard out of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty." ”

"That's right! Right! Yuan Shikai perked up when he heard this, and said: "In this way, you can go out of Beijing and return to work in an open and honest manner." When things are done later, you can stay here for a few days when you come back, so you can always say that it is always a thing. But what reason do you have to think of to go out of Beijing? ”

It is important to save face, and it is also important to participate in the compilation of the official system, but more important than these two is prestige, so he was kicked out halfway, and then he will have nothing to do with this matter in the future, and he will even say that he is obstructing the constitution and being driven out of the capital by Cixi, if so, then his reputation will be almost ruined. As soon as Yuan Shikai asked, Yang Shiqi and Sun Baoqi were stunned, everyone knew the direction, but how to go?

In contemplation, Yang Shiqi said: "I still have to ask Donghai (Xu Shichang) to see if there are any major cases in the Military Aircraft Department that need to be sent out to investigate." Also, the most important thing is to think about the way to pacify ......"

During the discussion, they suddenly heard a eunuch in the hall outside reading the edict, separated by several layers of walls, Yuan Shikai held his breath and pricked up his ears, and could only hear the voice of 66 continuation: "...... On the same day, the official system bureau will be compiled...... Longrun Garden......"

Hearing the last three words "Langrun Garden", Yang Shiqi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Lafayette is going to the Summer Palace." ”

Langrun Garden is actually an attached garden of the Old Summer Palace, which is close to the west and very close to the Summer Palace.

Xu Shichang came after Yi Zhi read it for a while, and he was very clear about the current situation, the most important thing at the moment was to find another excuse to go out of Beijing, and then turn back to the capital when the matter was done. It's just that everyone thought of a lot of excuses, but it didn't work, and Xu Shichang thought carefully about the report received by the most handsome military aircraft, and there was no serious accident.

"Then, isn't there a bandit on the Dongmeng side, it is said that they are still mixed with the rest of the Fuxing Army, is it okay to ......" Sun Baoqi heard that there were people in Dongmeng who opposed the reclamation, and there was a lot of chaos.

"It won't work." Xu Shichang is so experienced that the Revival Society has been regarded as the best example of civil strife eliminated by the constitution, and it is absolutely inappropriate to propose it to rebel against the imperial court, "Besides, in order to prevent Japan and Russia from dividing Mongolia, the Military Aircraft Department ordered Prince Su to go to Mongolia to investigate the incident in October last year, and they will come out in a few days, so it is not good to mention it at this time." ”

Another plan failed, but Yuan Shikai was inspired by this, and said with a smile: "I want to have a large-scale summer exercise this year." Go out to Beijing with Tie Baochen (Tie Liang) for a school review, Juren, what do you think? ”

"Summer exercises, not autumn exercises? Is this good......? Xu Shichang twisted his beard and thought for a while before saying, Beiyang has been an army for a year, and there was an autumn exercise last year. However, the scale was small, and only two towns did not participate in the troops, and it was completely under the command of the Japanese. The last autumn exercise is over. The people in the court said that they would do another autumn exercise commanded by their own people, and then invite envoys from various countries to visit to show the strength of our Qing Dynasty.

"When the army fights, what kind of spring and summer, as long as you find a place with few people and not damage the crops. Besides, this exercise is not only with the Northern Army. The Southern Army is also coming. When the time comes, the two armies of the north and south will practice and exercise together, and they can also test how well the new army of the imperial court is doing. As soon as Yuan Shikai talked about the military, he changed his previous decadent appearance, his spirit became high, and his hands were the same as usual, touching and pinching, and he couldn't stop at all.

Yuan Shikai is reasonable. Xu Shichang nodded and said, "Then I'll go and discuss this matter with King Qing and Zijiu (Qu Hongji), and when the time comes, it will be approved immediately." But who came up with this solution? ”

"That's easy! After a while, I will send a telegram to Zhong Yuan (Yan Dunyuan), in the past, he was your right and left hand, and he was familiar with everything in the army. Let him pick this head and find a way to come out, and then King Qing and Qu Zijiu will help on the side, and the matter will be settled from now on. As for Zhang Nanpi's side. He has long wanted to compete with our northern army. Yuan Shikai was confident.

When the excerpts of the summer exercises of the northern and southern armies were handed over, the Yiluan Palace was already packing up and moving to the Summer Palace, although the Summer Palace already had a set of household goods, but Lafayette's things have always been exquisite, things are not ready, once out of the fork then no one can afford to wait, Cixi lived in the Yiluan Palace for a few days, and dealt with some of the things to be dealt with, then wrapped in Emperor Guangxu, sitting on the sedan chair carried by 32 Luan Yuwei, the group of people swept out of the Forbidden City, and went to Wanshou Temple. The distance between the two places is only twenty miles, but the team is very pompous, and they go out in the morning and stay until noon to arrive at Wanshou Temple.

Every time you go to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, Cixi must enter the temple to worship and rest, legend has 9,999 Buddha statues in this temple, every time Cixi comes, that is to make up ten thousand Buddhas, so there is a palace built here, in case Cixi is too tired on the journey, this day at noon Cixi arrives, when she rests, she only feels restless, and the sun is like fire, so that Li Lianying will rest here today.

Cixi comforted the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple to rest, but Fang Junying and Cheng Ying, who were waiting for her at Changchun Bridge, couldn't hold on, they had been waiting on the old locust tree by the river for nine days, but they had not yet seen Cixi and Guangxu's imperial boat. In the past few days, they are hungry to eat the special dry food given by Mr. Gong in Beijing, and when they are thirsty, they run to the river at night to drink water, but the dry food is always limited, and the rations for three days are eaten, and the dry food bought in the city is also eaten, so they can only forage for food everywhere, and they can't fight any wild beasts at night, so they have to run to the sweet potato field in the distance to dig sweet potatoes to satisfy their hunger, but the sweet potatoes are not as good as dry food, and after eating for two days, both of them are weak, and they have to help each other on the tree.

"I think this Cixi won't come." Seeing that Cheng Ying's hand holding the gun was shaking, Fang Junying finally didn't want to insist anymore, thinking that it was time to go back.

"No, Sister Ying. It's getting hotter and hotter these days, and I guess they're coming, and if we're gone, when will we find another chance. "A few days ago, when the special dry food was eaten, Cheng Ying disguised himself and went into the city to find out the news, and the people all over the city said that Yuan Shikai was reprimanded by Cixi, and since he was reprimanded, then this Cixi is still in the Forbidden City." Or I'll go into the city tomorrow and buy some steamed buns and come back. ”

"Don't go, the more you go, the more people will be suspected. This river is a royal road, and the surrounding people are vigilant. "At this time, Beijing is like an enemy country for Fang Junying and Cheng Ying, and it is very inconvenient to move.

"Then wait another day, you can't go back without firing a shot." Cheng Ying touched the body of the gun with affection, since she was lurking here, she felt that this assassination would be successful, and now the longer she waited, the stronger her sniping ** became, even she herself couldn't wait to get into the chamber of the gun, turn into a bullet, explode under the piercing of the firing pin, and then shoot angrily into the brains of Cixi and Guangxu.

Fang Junying was climbing the tree at this time, and when she heard the words, she slipped down from the trunk of the tree, sat on the ground and said: "I don't have the strength to go up, even if I go up, I'm afraid that I will fall from the tree if I stand up, and then Cixi will come, and we won't be able to kill her." ”

"Then let's go somewhere else. The grass over there is very dense, the light is good, the terrain is high, the wind direction is also very positive, and the view is even more unobstructed. "The surrounding situation is very familiar these days, except for the locust tree is a good shooting spot, there are several other locations that are also good.

"But it's too far away. You ......," Cheng Ying said, and Fang Junying also knew. However, there are nearly 600 meters to the center of the river, which is not as good as the old locust tree to the river surface 400 meters, and the sniper pays the most attention to the hit rate, although Cheng Ying used to be in Tokyo when the target of 600 meters could hit accurately, but the hit rate was only less than 30%.

"It's better than standing unsteady in a tree." Cheng Ying couldn't guarantee that he would fall off the tree while standing on it two days after tomorrow.

Fang Junying also felt that it could only be like this when she heard this. Said weakly: "Then wait for two more days, if we don't come again, then we will have to leave." ”

In fact, they didn't have to wait for two more days, and on the afternoon of the second day, Cixi's Luan drove came. The first thing the two of them heard was the sound of drums and trumpets, and then they saw not the imperial boats, but the boundless Imperial Guards on both sides of the imperial river. These soldiers came from the Eight Banners Forward Battalion Escort and the Infantry Army of the Yamen of the Infantry Army. The two departments add up to a total of more than 14,000 people, and these are not all to prevent assassins, but to block the light - since ancient times, the appearance of the emperor, empress, and concubines is not allowed to be admired by ordinary people, but there are still some foolish people who don't know each other, so they can only send soldiers to guard along the way to prevent anyone from peeping on the shore, even if there are people who slip through the net. The soldiers along the river can also block the view.

Where have Fang Junying and Cheng Ying seen this kind of royal style, they were immediately startled when they saw the rows of Imperial Forest Army on both sides of the Royal River, but the previous blood feud and hard training in Tokyo, Japan made them very determined, even if they were frightened in their hearts, they waited with bated breath for the Royal Forest Army to approach. The guards on the bank of the river were divided into two groups, one of which just walked densely along the river bank to prevent outsiders from peeping. The other group routinely ran farther away to expel the Diao people.

The grass chosen by Cheng Xuan was between these two royal forest troops, if he shot in such a situation, if he couldn't dodge. You can't run away from that. In the dense grass, she and Fang Junying glanced at each other, the two had a deep friendship, and they were like brothers and sisters, and what they thought about each other immediately became clear when they looked at each other, and after a little hesitation, both of them made up their minds.

Every time I go to the Summer Palace, after the Wanshou Temple, Cixi takes the waterway by boat, while Guangxu takes the dry road by sedan chair, although his sedan chair is not as pompous as Cixi, but there are also sixteen Luan guards to carry. But maybe he has been imprisoned for a long time, and his heart has been suffocated, every time Cixi takes a boat to the Summer Palace slowly, Guangxu sits on the sedan chair and orders the Luan guards to run quickly, that is, he is still not fast enough, from time to time he pats the sedan window, and urges in Manchu: "Step up!" Hop on! Iriga step! "The journey of sixteen or seventeen miles took less than half an hour, but at this time, the guards in the team and the Luan Yuwei were already tired and couldn't stand steadily, looking at these minions and wolves, and Guangxu, who had always pulled his face, could rarely laugh. (Note)

When Guangxu arrived at the East Palace Gate, Cixi walked leisurely to Changchun Bridge, she smoked a hookah, while listening to the play of Queen Longyu singing with a fan, at this time the cool breeze on the river blew, and she was cool and contented. She was at ease on her side, but Fang Junying and Cheng Ying on the shore were really nervous. Fortunately, the place chosen is high, otherwise the soldiers will block it, and they can't see the situation on the royal boat in the river at all, in the telescope, Fang Junying only saw a few small boats and a few big boats in the river, she didn't know which boat Cixi Guangxu would be on. The boat got closer and closer, and it was only when I finally saw a big ship with a screen window on it, and in addition to the eunuch and palace maid, there was also a woman holding a fan and seemed to be singing, so I told Cheng Ying, who had been waiting for a long time.

The barrel of the gun with weeds quietly cut through the grass and stretched out, inside the sniper scope, Cheng Ying had already found the big boat that Fang Junying said, and also saw the woman standing and singing, in front of this woman, there was a person lying on his back on a big chair, unable to see his face clearly, he could only judge from the color of his clothes that this person was a woman, if this was Cixi, then where was Guangxu? The imperial boat is getting closer and closer, Fang Junying didn't find Guangxu no matter how she looked, just waiting for the boat to arrive, she patted Cheng Ying's left shoulder twice, the left shoulder means shooting, and the two beats indicate that the wind is second-class.

A qiē seems to be ready, and a qiē seems to be fate. Cheng Ying gently pulled the bolt, gently pushed the bullet into the load, and then gently put the index finger of her right hand wrapped in white gauze into the trigger, and she closed her glasses at this time. While listening to the rhythm of the drums and trumpets of the accompanying guards, he adjusted his breathing, waiting for himself to dissolve with the gun in his hand, and the qiē around him. After a long time, when she opened her eyes again, her eyes suddenly became extremely sharp, and with the sound of a gong and drum. She pulled the trigger steadily, and with a "bang", the moment the gun body shook, a 6.5mm special sniper bullet rushed out of the chamber, breaking through a qiē obstruction and heading towards the target.

Time seems to stand still in this moment, this moment. Guangxu had already arrived at his prison Yulan Hall, he had already entered the door, and every time he returned, the craftsmen outside would build a brick wall with stone bricks at the entrance, and then he would live in this cage, hoping that Cixi would die early, or that he would die early;

This moment. Yuan Shikai has returned to Tianjin, he is planning the summer exercises of the northern and southern armies, and at the same time remotely controlling the compilation of the four kings of the bureaucratic bureau, in order to make the Beiyang family will not suffer any losses, under the opposition of various forces in the court, he is no longer as full of interest as before;

At this moment, Sun Wen asked for more funds in addition to meeting with Dog Yangyi. It also gathered all the members of the League in Tokyo to cheer everyone up, and revealed to the backbone the news that they were going to raise righteousness on a certain day, which greatly boosted the morale of all members;

At this moment, Yang Rui has put aside his feelings and is with everyone, according to the following investigation report. Formulating an outline of township work under the guise of self-government, he did not know that he was already the target of some people, nor did he know that the bullet fired by his beloved woman changed history.

In a harmonious and celebratory royal ship, there was a "poof" sound at the same time. The hookah that Cixi was smoking suddenly fell to the ground, and blood splattered. After a brief silence, "Ah! Yes! ”…… The palace maids and eunuchs exclaimed together, and the singing Empress Longyu suddenly became dumbfounded, the blood on her face suddenly disappeared without a trace, and the fan in her hand also fell off, while Li Lianying rushed to Cixi's side after panic, and she was at a loss while crying......

The commotion on the boat was completely in the eyes of Cheng Ying and Fang Junying, in fact, they were not completely sure that the shot was Cixi, or maybe it was Longyu, but the opportunity was just one, there was no chance to fire the second shot after one shot, Cheng Ying felt hit when the bullet came out, she quietly put the gun in, and then crawled out of the grass with Fang Junying one after the other, although they did not make any retreat plan at all, but at this time, the scout in charge of the perimeter patrol had already moved forward, and the distance of six hundred meters, and the sound of gunfire accompanied by the beat of drums and silenced to give them a glimmer of life.

However, just when they climbed out of a few tens of meters, the sound of "catching assassins" on the royal boat had already shouted through the sky, and more than 10,000 royal forest troops moved, some jumped into the river, some searched the riverbank, and some went to the fields from the riverbank.

Listening to the commotion behind them getting bigger and bigger, Fang Junying and Cheng Ying no longer crawled forward, and after turning a small forest, they began to run with all their might, but at this time they were exhausted, and they fell to the ground after not running far.

"Give me the gun! I can't run. Fang Junying gasped, propped up on the ground weakly, and seemed to have no strength to speak.

Cheng Ying knew that she wanted to stay behind the broken queen, and then die with the Manchu Tartars, if it was before, I was afraid that she would also have such thoughts, but Bai Ru's teachings to her during training made her understand that a living warrior is the best warrior, she wanted to pull Fang Junying up, but unexpectedly she also fell to the ground, she said loudly: "If you don't leave, then we will die together!" Seeing that she was still indifferent, she said, "You are dead, what should I do with the fourth sister-in-law's child?!" ”

The fourth sister-in-law died to protect everyone, but a three-year-old child left behind was left unattended, thinking of the fatherless and motherless child, Fang Junying didn't know how to give birth to another strength, struggled to get up from the ground, and ran forward under the pull of Cheng Ying.

ps: [Note: The above historical facts are excerpted from Su Xuncheng's "Cixi and Guangxu I Saw" in "Anecdotes of the Qing Palace". ]