"General seat, this is the monitoring record of Shanghe Duan." Yu Jian actually didn't plan to do anything to the revolutionary party, but as a subordinate, if his immediate boss was assassinated, he didn't say anything at all, wouldn't this eagle dog be too unqualified.

"It seems that Lao Duan and this Lord Shang are still chess opponents, and they will meet good talents." Wu Chenxuan found that this Shang Qiheng seemed to be loyal, but in fact, before he arrived, he had already begun to dig the foot of the wall and mix sand with small actions, but Shandong's unique system made all levels of Fudao County in the Qing Dynasty have been basically hollowed out, and the administrative power was held by Xiong Phoenix. Many people hold the generous dividends and two respects to taste tea and poetry all day long, and they are very elegant. Some people who are not long-sighted still want to rectify the rule of officials, but they either die of misfortune or are exposed for their bad deeds in the past, and they end up losing their officials and going to work. There are many such negative teaching materials, no one is stupid, and there is no one who can't get along with his future, except for a few landlords in remote prefectures and counties who have been suppressed by the Chamber of Commerce, and no one in the official team has listened to the open and secret greetings of this acting domain.

As for Xu Ju and Yang Xingcheng, they came to Jinan one after another to meet Duan Zhiquan secretly. At the beginning, Duan Zhiquan was polite to Xu Shichang, had a banquet in Desheng Tower, and took a day off to accompany him to visit Daming Lake. For some reason, the two broke up unhappily, and finally Xu Shichang left Jinan, and Duan Zhiquan had already rushed to the Huamawan base to participate in the report exercise of the second phase of the military academy. As for Yang Shiqi, he was even more closed, and he didn't even see Duan Zhiquan's noodles.

Duan Qirui has already expressed his position, as for this, Wu Chenxuan is very confident, because so far only the only people who have really seen the magic of the base are this Duan Gong and Brother Tieliu, the two of them are full of confidence in this fairy-like boss, and of course they will not choose the desperate path of betrayal. As for the others, Wu Chenxuan is actually looking forward to their performance.

The imperial court is also helpless about the situation in Shandong, fortunately, Wu Chenxuan is already in the capital, and going abroad to investigate is more than half a year's work, if you do something on the itinerary, you may not come back in a year, the imperial court has time to divide the military and political officials in Shandong, and is not worried about what excesses Shandong will make in the absence of Wu Chenxuan.

It should be said that when the dynastic rule was in jeopardy, the Qing court, on the one hand, wanted to save its own image, and on the other hand, it was also out of the consideration of seeking a way out and getting out of the predicament, so it decided to send important officials of the imperial court to set foot in a foreign land to experience the political atmosphere of Japan, Europe and the United States and other countries, and focus on a systematic and in-depth investigation of the constitutional form of government. Letting Wu Chenxuan participate in the investigation, so that the tiger can be transferred away from the mountain, is actually just a matter of Qingui and Beiyang taking the sheep with the tacit consent of Lafayette.

Compared with the envoys sent by the Qing government to various countries, it is not a new thing to send ministers to go abroad, but after all, this time the Qing government officially sent a group of important officials of the imperial court to go abroad in the official name, and in essence, it can also be regarded as a formal recognition of the leading position of Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries in the national political system, and in terms of the scale of this dispatch and the number of countries visited, there is indeed no one else who is unparalleled.

Because of this, the edict of sending the five ministers to the sea immediately aroused great repercussions in both the government and the opposition. People from all walks of life rushed to tell each other, but there were also a few radical figures of the constitutionalists, such as Yingzhi, the chief writer of Ta Kung Pao, who quite calmly pointed out the problems existing in the move of sending members to go abroad to investigate: "Those who are close to each other are forced by the situation, and there is nothing to be done, the government and the opposition are competing to establish a constitution, and the government has the intention of sending four ministers to go abroad (at that time, it was not decided to add Wu Chenxuan, the political envoy of Shandong). As a result, countries have paid attention to its measures and commented on its pros and cons, and most of them have taken this as the starting point for political reform. However, they are full of suspicions, and they are worried that they may not be able to explore the essence of the politics of various countries, and they will sigh that Baoshan will return empty," and he proposed that he hoped that "Hou Guan Yan Youling, Dantu Ma Xiangbo, Nanhai He Wosheng, and Sanshui Hu Yinan" would replace the five ministers who visited the country, so as to truly achieve the actual results of the inspection. Naturally, public opinion did not have the power to change the government's decision, and the five ministers' overseas inspections were thus put on the agenda.

The departure of the five ministers has been postponed due to the murder of the Wu Yue bomb in September. Xu Shichang, who was originally scheduled to go abroad, had been appointed as the secretary of the patrol police department, and Shaoying, the right man of the Ministry of Commerce, was injured in the murder case and could not make the trip, so the Qing court appointed Dai Hongci and Li Shengduo to replace him. The route of the five ministers going abroad was drawn up and arranged by the German minister in China.

On December 11, the 31st year of Guangxu, Zhenguo Gong Zaize, Liangjiang Governor Duanfang, and Shuntianfu Cheng Li Shengduo, who were appointed by the Qing court to investigate Western politics, left Beijing and set off for Britain, France, Belgium and other countries. In view of the lessons of the last trip, this departure, the Beijing Railway Station took strict protective measures and imposed martial law, and the so-called idle people were not allowed to enter. "The station is strictly inspected, and outsiders are not allowed to enter." According to the custom, after completing the ritual of worshiping the ancestors and seeking the blessing of the ancestors, the departure begins. The other two ministers who went abroad to study abroad, Dai Hongci, and Wu Chenxuan, the political envoy of Shandong, preceded them, and set off from Tianjin on 2 December to Japan, the United States, Germany, and Austria.

Perhaps because the Qing government's dispatch of ministers abroad to inspect the constitution was particularly significant, or perhaps it was mixed with some factors that Chinese officials liked to put on a show, and by the time they arrived in Shanghai, the entourage led by the two ministers, Dai Hongci and Wu Chenxuan, had expanded to more than 40 people, including 33 entourage, four people sent by various provinces to accompany the inspection, two errand officials, four "Ghosh", and even a shaver. In addition, there were eight students who accompanied him to study in the United States, and Chen Huanzhang, who later became famous for promoting Confucianism in the United States, was also among the group of international students. On 19 December, the USS Siberia, a giant cruise ship of the US Pacific Mail Shipping Company, carrying dozens of inspectors and the ardent expectations of the Qing government and all sectors of society, lifted anchor and set sail for Japan. As soon as Dai Hongci, who was good at observation, got on the ship, he recorded in detail the structure and mechanism of the entire cruise ship. And Lord Wu Chenxuan seems to have some seasickness and never shows up.

However, Wu Chenxuan in the room actually did not have any rest, but secretly met with representatives of Shandong, the Guangfu Society, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, and even the Montagu family, and sent instructions one after another to the base in Shandong through a long-wave radio disguised as a piano, and then forwarded by the base to various organs. Yuan Datou felt that if Beiyang left him for a month, he might not have a big mess, but if it was longer, I was afraid that the military leaders under his command would have to find their own backers, and the disintegration was only in front of him, and the existence of the Beiyang series could be marked with a question mark.

During the ship's stay in Shanghai, Wu Chenxuan got off the ship again and went to Shanghai to meet many old acquaintances from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, leaving Dai Hongci to deal with the officials in Shanghai alone. However, Dai Hongci also knew that Wu Chenxuan was very familiar with the heads and brains of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the one who came to pick him up was the commercial counselor of the British Consulate in Shanghai, so he couldn't let people go. The good-tempered Lao Dai did not show any boredom, but fought with the officials in Shanghai, Shanghai is not as strong as the capital, foreigners are powerful, and local bureaucrats have more dealings with foreigners, and Lao Dai still needs to learn from this experience. On the one hand, Lao Dai is humble and vain, and on the other hand, the magistrate wants to give this god of wealth to the household, the goal of the two is the same, without Wu Chenxuan, an eye-catching guy, everyone is more comfortable, so Wu Chenxuan disappeared for ten days in a row and did not make Dai Hongci angry. Instead, Wu Chenxuan returned to the dock and boarded the ship with two brand-new English carriages, along with a complete team of British coachmen and attendants and Sikh guards.

"Lord Wu, you, what do you mean?"

"Lord Dai, you didn't bring a sedan chair, did you?"

"Of course I didn't." Rao is a clay man of Dai Hongci, and he also has three points of earthiness, so he is angry in his words, "Lord Wu, you brought a sedan chair man." ”

"I didn't bring it either." Wu Chenxuan spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders and said, in Dai Hongci's eyes, it was a sign that this Lord Wu was not solemn enough, "But I thought of this on the boat, we can't give the Qing Dynasty a share of this overseas investigation, right?" ”

"It is the duty of our court officials to visit foreign countries and publicize the prestige of our court. Of course you have to..."Although Dai Hongci knew that he might be surrounded by this guy, he had to say that if he was not sued to the court, he would not be able to run away with a gaffe.

"Then foreign countries may not have the same sedan chair as the Qing Dynasty, right?" Wu Chenxuan was slightly amused and interrupted Dai Hongci's tirade: "I don't know if Master Dai plans to hire a carriage or use his legs?" ”

Dai Hongci also knew that the Qing Dynasty had a low status among the nations, and maybe some countries deliberately buried themselves and dealt with them inappropriately when the time came, which would be a dereliction of duty. The truth that there is no trivial matter in foreign affairs was not invented by later generations, and Dai Hongci also understood this Wu Chenxuan's plan, and from the small point of view, this guy is also a guy who plans to act later.

"That being the case, Shaohuai has thanked Lord Wu for his kindness."

"Hey, Brother Shaohuai. In the future, you and I will walk together for a year and a half on this vast ocean, and we will be polite to fate. ”

"Then these foreigners are..."

"My friend sent it, and I am not short of money anyway, and Lao Ah and his uncle, Count Winston, always want to send something special, and it is also their heart. I was ready to stop before I came to Shanghai, and I had to be ashamed of it. This just reminds me that your brother didn't bring a sedan chair for transportation, so let's just have one for each of us, anyway, Lao Ah is waiting in Shanghai for a month, and India can send him a new car to use, and I even have a spoonful of his car. Wu Chenxuan said lightly, Dai Hongci was secretly shocked in his heart, this guy has an unusual relationship with the British, the person who came to pick up the person was the counselor of the consulate, and the earl's son of the British Empire called him a brother and brother, and it looked like he was a good family.