Chapter 88: Silent Thunder (2)
Tang Shaoshuai copied it with one hand, and so easily hugged Qu Ning, who was slender but also a hundred and eighty pounds, with one hand, and the corners of his lips seemed to vaguely evoke a bewildering smile, which melted away the original cold ice and snow on his face like spring breeze and rain.
At this time, the men who were frightened by him at the door came back to their senses, rushed in hurriedly, surrounded the door, and although they looked at each other but did not speak, the meaning of blocking the door and not letting them go was already obvious.
Qu Ning was held by him, her nose was full of the breath of a man, she took a deep breath, raised her face in his arms, and above her lips was his faintly green stubble, but the curvature still looked very good-looking.
Reaching out and grabbing his broad neck, she leaned over gently: "Close the door, let's go to bed and talk." β
Tang finally followed the good flow, glanced at her and strode to the bed, put her on the brocade quilt, and then turned back and ordered Suqin, who was already stunned, and shrunk beside her so that she didn't have to wait, and went back to the room to rest, he closed the door, took off his coat and returned to the bed.
The curtain hangs down, and the bed seems to be a small enclosed space of its own.
Qu Ning glanced at Tang Zhong: "...... Now can you tell me what happened? β
Young Marshal Tang nodded.
From his still calm and mellow voice, Qu Ning gradually knew what had happened today.
The morning newspaper sold like crazy, and the original xenophobic atmosphere in the capital was already tense to the extreme under the instigation of someone with a heart before, and now it added an open flame to the powder keg, and the reaction that occurred at that moment was so violent that the whole world almost trembled.
Almost in a matter of hours, everyone started moving.
Originally, those students were already indignant for the "foreign economic invasion", and this time the pot exploded in an instant, and under the leadership of a few students who were very prestigious on weekdays, the students went on strike and marched on the streets.
The mighty sweeping momentum immediately made all the people in the capital who had not read the newspaper hear about it - the last time the 21 Articles were signed was more than ten years ago, and the compensation for land cession was actually the wool in the final analysis, and it was all paid by the common people in taxes.
Now that the royal family is going to renew the 21st Article, the ordinary people and workers, who originally felt that the economic situation of the newspaper had nothing to do with them, could not sit still at this time, and a large number of workers went on strike, closed the market, and the market was almost a mess.
The procession passed by the Tang family's official residence, and before the students could shout slogans, Tang Dashuai had already walked out with a group of soldiers in military uniforms.
Seeing this, he immediately sent a large column of troops out to maintain orderβbut not to suppress the enthusiasm of the students, but to arrange and manage their ranks to prevent any injuries from being caused by the commotion.
Then, in the face of the chaotic emotions of the masses, Tang Dashuai said: Although he has just heard about the 21 things, he will never sit back and watch the royal family damage the interests of the people at will.
Immediately, in the atmosphere of countless people kneeling and crying, Tang Dashuai sent people to contact the Congress, gathered a large number of parliamentarians, and immediately held a temporary cabinet meeting in front of everyone, discussing several issues such as abolishing the imperial system and expelling the emperor from the palace.
After that, Tang Dashuai raised troops to disarm all the guards originally stationed by the National Assembly to "protect" the palace, replaced them with his own troops, and sent more than 100 troops to escort these parliamentarians and some other well-known people from all walks of life into the palace to implore the emperor to leave the palace.
At that time, when the parliamentarians rushed into the palace with the "Imperial Preferential Terms" and a large number of military police, they were almost caught off guard, and the emperor was chatting with the empress in the palace at that time, and he did not expect the situation to change abruptly.
All this commotion and chaos, Tang Shaoshuai calmly said to Qu Ning on the pillow, in a clear manner, and even his emotions did not fluctuate much, but Qu Ning could hear how many piercing murderous intentions were hidden in it.
Sure enough, everything is under Tang Dashuai's control.
The army that originally surrounded the palace and Jingshan already felt that something was wrong before she got married. There have been several incidents of insulting palace maids, how much combat power can there be, and how erosive it should be, which can be seen from this.
Now that he was admonished by the soldiers, he was easily disarmed, and the royal family had enough charges again, and the division was famous, and the entire royal family was completely just meat under the chopping block, the chicken to be slaughtered in the hands of others!
Even the "Royal Preferential Clause" and the quick agreement reached by the parliamentarians - you must know that politicians are the most ridiculous profession, and the efficiency of the work is so high at this time, that the palace has been forced within a day of the news coming out, who can believe that they did not know the news in advance!
Qu Ning was silent for a long time, and finally let out a long sigh, turned his head and quietly looked at the man beside her who hugged her tightly and didn't let go: "Be careful...... So what do you want to do? β
What do you want me to do?
Let's go, a sentence is naturally simple, but you and I are carrying too heavy responsibilities, even if the emperor goes into the wilderness, Tang Dashuai is still the uncrowned king of the capital, and you Tang Shaoshuai still has a burden that you can't let go. As a man, you also have your own ambitions that you want to achieve.
So no matter where I want to go, even if I am willing to follow you, I can't just say go......
Tang Shaoshuai was silent for a moment: "If I tell you that I didn't know anything about all this before today, would you believe me?" β
"If you say it, I will believe it." Qu Ning replied softly.
"That's good." Tang Shaoshuai repeated softly, "Before today, I didn't know anything about all this. My father also knew very well that if he told me his plan, I would definitely not agree, so he didn't even tell me the slightest rumor, including today, when I was sent to the suburbs of Beijing to collect the next month's money and food, and when I returned to the barracks, I found out that the situation was abnormal. β
Qu Ning listened to him quietly, and pursed his lips: "I know you hate the existence of the royal family very much...... Then why do you say that you will not agree...... "His position has always been clear - he is more in favor of a republican form of government, and the current constitutional monarchy is still a decadent and backward form of government that allows the royal family to lie on the people and suck the blood."
"What I can't agree with is my father's way of dealing with this matter," Tang Shaoshuai's eyebrows wrinkled into a "Chuan" character, "It is also to let the royal family go into the wilderness, but the political system overthrown in an instant by power and violence has brought the lesson to future generations is not the advantages and disadvantages of the political system itself, but the instigation of future generations, how to learn the methods of politicians to play with people's hearts and politics." And in this way, one will eliminate the other, you will retreat and I will advance, and I am afraid that the Beijing division will be restless! He stretched out his hand and hugged Qu Ning tightly, took a deep breath, leaned β‘ whispered in her ear, "A large part of the preferential terms of the imperial family were already discussed with those parliamentarians a few days ago, but our original plan was not to force the palace with soldiers, but to directly express to the Japanese side our determination to refuse to fulfill the treaty, if not, we will fight two battles to speak." As long as the war can be won, then there will be public opinion to exert pressure on us, and at that time, from the bottom up, this matter will naturally come to fruition. But now my father is in a hurry and has made things like this, such an example ahead......" He shook his head and sighed deeply.
Qu Ning held his breath when he listened, and it wasn't until he finished speaking that he felt a little dampness in the corners of his eyes.
There have been such examples in history. Just like Dong Zhuo abolished the emperor with violence, the three kingdoms were in turmoil for a hundred years, even if it was a short period of unification, and then it was still spent repeatedly in the struggle between power and court, how many emperors died under the knife of their courtiers, how many heroes died well, that period of time, perhaps because of the beginning of violence, led to hundreds of years of war, blood and tears sprinkled all over the Chinese soil.
If they die on the battlefield of struggle against foreign races, they will die a well-deserved death and be praised by others, but if they die under the butcher's knife of their own people, they will not be blind to death, and it is not worth dying.
At the moment, the bigger enemy for them is actually a foreign enemy who has always wanted to use various methods to invade and occupy China, as for the change of the domestic political system, at least in Tang Shaoshuai's view, it is not worth consuming the current little Huaxia vitality for this, so he would rather slowly figure it out, and would rather temporarily tolerate the royal family still standing on the throne.
And the disagreement between Tang Dashuai and Tang Shaoshuai's father and son has become white-hot at this moment: Tang Dashuai is too radical, perhaps because he is getting old and knows that his time is not as generous as that of young people, Tang Dashuai's methods have become extremely radical, and now, it has completely become an unscrupulous means who can't wait, regardless of the consequences. But the people under them, each out of their own interests, would rather go to Tang Dashuai's side - think about it, there are no two days in the sky, there are no two masters in the people, this emperor is thrown down, in the eyes of the current people, sooner or later there will be another emperor to go up. As for the president or some other name, isn't that also exercising the duties of the emperor? Chen Qiao's mutiny, the benefits that the people under him can get after the yellow robe is added, how can they not make these soldiers and ruffians who have their heads hanging on the waistband of their pants blush? So now, Tang Shaoshuai's predicament seems to be a reasonable thing.
Both of them were silent for a moment before Tang Shaoshuai spoke again: "After sending the "Preferential Treatment Terms" into the palace today, the two sides are still in a stalemate. My father had already set up a cannon on Jingshan, saying that if the emperor did not leave the palace at noon tomorrow, he would bombard the palace, and even if the blood in the palace was flowing at that time, he would not stop again. β
ββ¦β¦ Oh my God......" Qu Ning spit out these two words in shock, and his heart was shocked.
Although this move is very rude, but at the same time, if the cannon is really fired, the power of this cannon is simply greater than the French Revolution when Queen Mary was guillotined.
Tang Shaoshuai reached out and touched the thin long hair of the woman in his arms, and then spoke: "I know that at this time, what you do is a dilemma. But I still have to ask you, now that you know what happened today, what are you going to do? β
Qu Ning thought for a long time, and then she held Tang Shaoshuai's hand tightly: "Sincerely, I want to enter the palace once tomorrow." β
His firm voice came from the darkness: "Good. β