Chapter Ninety-Four: Entering Beijing
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The four of them thought about their hearts and left Liuyang. After returning to Wuhan a few days later, after going to the governor's yamen to ask his father for peace, Tan Sitong told Tan Jixun that Li Yan had miscarried and concealed Zhu Huanyu's assassination. After being reprimanded by his father, the first thing he did was to go to Gu Hongming.
I must not marry Zhu Huanyu as the second room, which will hurt Run'er.
But if Zhu Huanyu is rejected by herself, what if she lives alone in the rivers and lakes? Who will take care of her? Although she is gifted and intelligent, she is like an idiot to the worldly life, can she rest assured?
The Zhu family has finally cultivated such a talent, will they find ways to find her back and use her?
She was hit, if her mind changed drastically and she was willing to serve the family, with her intelligence, would she be like Chen Jinnan back then, and set off another bloody storm? Wouldn't that be a huge disaster for the people and the country?
So the only way to send her away and send her to the West is to let Gu Hongming ask her friends to take care of her, so that the Zhu family can't find her. Give her a new life. No longer work hard for the family, nor for love. She's still young, so she's sure to have a fresh start!
Gu Hongming has many friends in the West, and he agreed to Tan Sitong's request in one bite.
The rest is how to convince Zhu Huanyu. Tan Sitong was about to go home to discuss with Li Yan, and he didn't want to just walk out of Gu Hongming's door, but he was blocked by Zhang Zhidong.
"Zhang Xu, the governor of Hunan, impeached me for spending the country, abusing my power, making great achievements, and granting public property and private money, and listed a total of ten charges against me, and sued me to the emperor.
This was originally just an ordinary recital, but the old guards in the court were preparing to seize this opportunity and use it as an excuse to suppress the reform of foreign affairs. I've heard that they're going to join me. My personal honor and disgrace are small, and reform cannot be stopped.
You should immediately go to the capital, find Prince Gong to explain the current situation of Hubei's reform, and ask him to contact the pragmatic officials of the DPRK and China to turn the tide. If you strive to be able to meet the Holy Lord and clarify the facts in person, you must resist the pressure of Prince Gong and the Holy Lord, and you must not let the reform give up halfway. ”
Tan Si thought about it with one heart, and a few days ago he was still discussing with Tang Caichang that Zhang Xu and Zhang Zhidong's political views were different, and he didn't want to really make trouble.
If Zhang Zhidong steps down, then the vigorous Westernization movement will come to an abrupt end soon. Tan Sitong didn't want Zhang Zhidong to be wronged, let alone the fledgling national recovery plan to be stifled by those old-fashioned officials. He promised Zhang Zhidong to leave for the capital immediately.
"There is another thing that you can do together, Li Hongzhang saw that I was in danger, and he actually fell into the well and seized a batch of my machines from Germany in Shanghai. The reason is that these machines are old goods that have been eliminated by Westerners, and they are evidence that I have wasted state property. This machine was used to make guns, and it was indeed a production line that the Germans had eliminated, but we needed it. In fact, he wants to take it for himself, so that he can make weapons for his Huai army, and you have to try to retrieve these machines. Otherwise, the Hubei Arsenal would not be able to function. ”
Tan Sitong had heard about the dumping of the ministers, but he didn't expect that this Li Hongzhang was too unauthentic, and he wanted the machine to buy it himself, why did he come to rob halfway at this time?
But this is the fighting method of the two most powerful people in the dynasty, can he have a way to snatch food from Li Hongzhang's hands? Tan Sitong shook his head, thinking that he could only do his best.
Returning to the governor's yamen, Tan Sitong immediately packed up and prepared to go to Beijing. Zhu Huanyu asked the reason and insisted on following.
"This is a dispute between the governor and the governor, as long as we grasp this point and transfer Zhang Xu out of Hunan, the turmoil can be calmed down. Now it has become a party struggle between the old and new factions, and this matter has become big or small, and I can help you with advice when I go to the capital, and you are right to take me. "Zhu Huanyu learned the art of overlordship, and she can see through the essence of this kind of political struggle at a glance.
When it comes to power and trickery, Tan Sitong thinks that he is not as good as Zhu Huanyu, and thinks that having her with him can indeed help him, so he nodded and agreed. At that moment, he took Long Er and Zhu Huanyu and rushed to the capital.
It is the root of the year, and it will not be until the fifteenth day of the first month that the emperor will hold a court meeting. But the undercurrent in the capital is surging, and the storm is coming.
Zhang Zhidong's path of westernization innovation from Liangguang to Lianghu has had successes and setbacks.
In the capital, the reform of Zhang Zhidong was also divided into two factions, some for support and some against.
A group of pragmatists led by the emperor who opened their eyes to the world had already seen the gap between the country and the West, and also knew that the country had reached a situation where it had to change. They support the use of the West for China and learn from the West. I also understand the detours taken by Zhang Zhidong in the reform.
However, the Manchu elders of the emperor's father, Yihuan, were very dissatisfied with Zhang Zhidong's radicalism. They controlled the government and hated the Westerners, believing that it was the Western disasters that shook the rule of the Aixin Jueluo family. If it weren't for the strong guns and cannons of the Westerners, they would have been eager to close themselves off from the country and stay away from all Western things.
Because of Guangxu's support, they have always been tolerant of Zhang Zhidong, which does not mean that they support Zhang Zhidong's reform.
Now that Zhang Xu is attacking his boss, they can seize the handle and insist on making an article to crack down on those who support reform.
If the whole country is like Zhang Zhidong, can the imperial court still control them? Yihuan didn't want that to happen. Yihuan is now in charge of the military aircraft, and he wants to help his son watch the country, and he can't let the place sit big.
And there is a deeper worry in Yihuan's heart, that is, he is presiding over the construction of the Summer Palace.
The Summer Palace was built for the old lady to play and retire. But this project is huge, and the treasury is about to be consumed, but in order to please the Queen Mother, Yihuan does not dare to stop work at all.
Now that all localities are strengthening their armaments and providing relief to the people's livelihood, it is a time when there is a shortage of money. But he built a lot of construction just to please a woman, and Yihuan knew that he would be pointed at by thousands of people in the future.
But Yihuan also has a last resort, his son was single-handedly promoted by the Queen Mother to 10,000 people, for the sake of his son's country, how can he not coax this old woman?
Then you have to find a place to ask for money, and you have to step up the repair of the garden. But if all localities buy machines and carry out reforms like Zhang Zhidong, where will the money be handed over to the state treasury? Therefore, it is necessary to dampen the enthusiasm for reform, and wait for the queen mother's garden to be repaired.
Yihuan doesn't want to raise the bar with his son, he really loves his son, and he wants to help him coax the actual family of this country, for the sake of his century-old plan.
Unlike Yihuan's selfishness, those who oppose Zhang Zhidong actually have their own intentions. Some of the elders of the DPRK and China are eating the ancients and holding the attitude that the legal system of their ancestors cannot be changed, and some are good at making amazing words, and regard everything in the West as a flood and beast. There are also people like Li Hongzhang, who actually don't oppose changing the law, but they don't want Zhang Zhidong to be alone. It's purely a struggle for power. And Zhang Xu's opinion, which is based on facts, is actually not important at all.
Everyone united vertically and horizontally, just waiting for the opening of the dynasty to deal a fatal blow to Zhang Zhidong.
On the way, Zhu Huanyu analyzed the court situation thoroughly, and even Li Hongzhang's dirtiness and Yihuan's selfishness were also clear. Tan Sitong had to admire her talent in this regard. Along the way, he thought about how to resolve these external forces and help Zhang Zhidong calm down the turmoil.
When they arrived in the capital, the three of them went directly to the half-cut alley. Yuan Shikai had already whitewashed it and gave it to Tan Sitong to be rebuilt into a Liuyang Hall.
The hall is not luxurious, entering the lobby, on one side is the guest room, for Liuyang guests to live, but also open to other guests, on the other side there is a living room, there is a kitchen bedroom, the surface is like a hotel. But Yuan Shikai built a secret room in the backyard, which is where his wit lies. Obviously, this is carefully prepared for Tan Sitong.
Yanzi Li San and Yu Jinfeng were both there to help Tan Sitong take care of the guild hall. To Tan Sitong's surprise, Kang Youwei lived there, and with him was a young man from Guangdong, his name was Liang Qichao.
After everyone's greetings, Tan Sitong talked about his intention to come to Kyoto. It's all cloth clothes, this kind of government affairs is obviously not something they can control, Kang Youwei suggested that he immediately go to Prince Gong to discuss countermeasures.
Zhang Zhidong is an old Jianghu, and asking Tan Sitong to come to Beijing is obviously to take advantage of his relationship with Prince Gong, maybe he has already known about his secret dealings with the emperor.
Tan Sitong naturally understood this, and now there was no other way anyway, so he immediately wrote a post to see Yixin.
Prince Gong's Mansion is the most magnificent palace in the capital. It is said that this mansion was built by He Shen, the first corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty, and the scale of the mansion is only inferior to that of the imperial palace. On that day, Emperor Xianfeng gave it to Yixin in order to make up for the sixth brother's inability to inherit the throne. This shows the dignity of Prince Gong's status.
Although Yi Xin has now been expelled from the military, as the leader of the pragmatist faction, he naturally still has his own status in the imperial court.
Prince Gong took Tan Sitong to the back garden before starting to talk. Yi Xin had already heard about Zhang Xu's impeachment of Zhang Zhidong, but he didn't care too much about the fermentation of the matter, after all, Zhang Zhidong had no major faults, as a prince, he believed that the court would not really knock him down because of an impeachment of his subordinates.
If, as Tan Sitong said, the conservative faction really wants to use this matter to interrupt the reform, then it has to be guarded against. Li Hongzhang dared to seize the machine destined for Hubei, naturally because he received hints from some people in the court, and it seemed that Zhang Zhidong must be protected with a clear banner.
Yi Xin was also shocked into a cold sweat for his negligence, his comeback is counting on the emperor, and the reason why the emperor relies on himself is to take a fancy to his support for him to reform the national fortunes, and now someone is obstructing Zhang Zhidong's reform, the emperor is weak, and he is against him Lao Tzu, how can he be cold at this time? Zhang Zhidong's ups and downs can not be cared about, but the banner of reform must not fall, otherwise he will be kicked out of this circle of rights forever.
It seems that there must indeed be an arrangement, otherwise when the fifteenth day of the early dynasty, those conservative factions rushed up to make trouble, biting together to impeach Zhang Zhidong and abolish the reform.
But first of all, we have to know the emperor's attitude, Prince Gong is not a reckless person, he will not do reckless things.
But now that the palace is celebrating the New Year, the Forbidden City gate is closed, how can I see the emperor?
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