"Lord Wang, do you see this?" A clear imperial history asked Prince Zaifeng to instruct, but he didn't know that the desire to vomit swelled in the heart of this minister, this damn imperial history actually reported the process of taking out the secret document in such detail, looking at his righteous and awe-inspiring thin face, Zaifeng's biggest regret is that he didn't take advantage of the guy, if there is a mace, he must kill this hateful guy with a stick.

Either say it earlier, or don't say it, and watch yourself spitting and looking through the secret documents, only to tell that this is something that has been turned out of the stomach pouch of a dead man, this damn dog minion. However, Zaifeng no longer doubts the authenticity of this document, after all, from the execution ground to the dungeon, dozens of people witnessed it, and indeed no one can fake it, and the guards in his house also clearly guaranteed that if the paper filled in after death could not be put into the stomach pouch, it would not be so seriously corroded by stomach acid, it could only be caused by the traitor who knew that he could not escape, so he swallowed the document in a hurry.

"Participate in the righteous deeds, and wish to serve Weiting as the prosperity of the Han people." , "Expelling the Tartars, the merit is in the future, Xiangcheng has great merit and hundreds of millions of people, and the rest is willing to attach Jiwei and create a great cause together." "If there is disharmony, the public can be false and wronged, and when the time is ripe", "Qiao wrote in Tokyo. ”

These words filled Zaifeng's heart, who was still suppressing his desire to vomit, with hatred and resentment. Calmed down a little, Zaifeng bowed his hand, "All the adults are loyal to the country and work hard for the country, Xiao Wang has thanked him here, and he will ask the Queen Mother later, there will be a reward." With a wave of his hand, a Goshha hurriedly stepped forward to ask for instructions, "Quickly invite Prince Qing, Yin Chang, Tie Liang and Shu Qing'a to come to the study to discuss matters." ”

"Huh" Goshha took the order and left, all the imperial historians bowed their waists and passed glances to each other, and it could be seen that they were all excited, seeing that Zaifeng was going to convene all the ministers to discuss the matter, everyone retired with interest, anyway, a reward is indispensable, and if you don't get it, you can still put a fat difference, and the dream of 100,000 snowflakes and silver is not far away.

"Killing? Banishment? Standing still? "Zaifeng really has a headache, but his son's country, his father can't talk about it if he doesn't make a difference.

"I'm afraid someone is dividing this one." Yin Chang spoke first, although Yuan Datou didn't have much to do with him, but he always felt that without the containment of Beiyang, wouldn't the Wuyi New Army be even more domineering. "The writing is incomprehensible, the language is vulgar, and how can such an important letter be carried with us, it is clearly a ploy to sow discord."

"Not really, Lord Yinchang." Tie Liang first raised a different opinion, after all, in the capital, his main opponent of Tie Liang was Yuan Weiting, and Tie Liang did not get much benefit from Beiyang. "This Qiao Fu was originally an overseas outcast, of course his writing can't be compared with the Hanlins, as for the letters, the chaotic party is often full of mistakes and omissions, this Shi Congyun is also a fine character, and he even thought of swallowing the secret letter, thanks to Sun Guan's meticulous observation. All the imperial historians acted impartially, so that this evidence of guilt was not annihilated. Lord Yinchang, you didn't talk to you in detail. If the words on this papyrus encounter acid, they will soon disappear without a trace, thanks to Sun Guandao's timely discovery, there is no delay. This secret letter has been corroded in many places, and it is lucky to be able to make out some words, can someone calculate the time to let this secret letter melt how much and how much is left? ”

"Alright, let's stop talking about secret letters." Tie Liang's analysis is very objective, but it makes Zaifeng feel the bitterness in his mouth again, as if he has been fumigated by the smell of the corpse, but Zaifeng has also analyzed the situation, it seems that the authenticity of the secret letter does not need to be questioned, but how to deal with it is difficult. "This is just a letter from Qiaofu's traitor to Yuan Shikai, but without Yuan Shikai's reply, it is not evidence of guilt, I don't know what your lords think?"

"The old man thinks that since it is only a letter to Lord Yuan, it is better to let the Queen Mother hand it over to Lord Yuan herself to dispose of, I believe that Yuan Weiting will not live up to the high hopes of the Queen Mother, so that the hearts of the people of Beiyang will naturally fall to the court even more, why not?" Qing Wangye's idea is to calm things down, anyway, he must not offend Yuan Weiting, who led the troops, as for who is willing to offend, who will offend. Prince Qing has a close relationship with Yuan Weiting and Wu Chenxuan, and everyone knows it, of course, it is just fate with the silver of these families, but since it is a meeting of adults in the study, I can't help but invite this old prince to participate. However, this method, in fact, Zaifeng did not expect it, but he had a kind of vigilance in the heart of these Hanchen who led the troops, and always felt that his son's country must not fall into the hands of the Han people, so he psychologically Zaifeng resisted the soft policy of * system. Although he also felt that the Great Qing Kingdom had no spare strength to hold this Beiyang minister who was the head of the Han Dynasty.

"Master Shu Qing, what do you think?" Shu Qing'a has always maintained a thinking demeanor, without words, Zaifeng didn't intend to let him go, and ordered his general.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this Yuan Weiting is the minister of Beiyang, and his soldiers are well fed, and he is close to Gyeonggi. Under no circumstances can it be tampered with. Shu Qing's nonsense made everyone look down on him, but he also had dry goods, "Regardless of whether Yuan Weiting is a bandit or not, just because he controls Beiyang and is private property, he needs to move." However, it is good to have a safe plan, after all, there are more than 200,000 elite soldiers in Beiyang, and they are in the important places of Gyeonggi, if they miss a blow, I am afraid that they will be counterattacked. ”

"Not bad." Tie Liang saw that Shu Qing'a's opinion coincided with his own, and suddenly came to the spirit, "It is urgent to get rid of this fang." All the towns in Beiyang must be controlled, and the eight towns of Beiyang that the court has worked so hard to pile up the money will not fall into the hands of traitors. "Tie Liang hasn't been beaten up or down by Yuan Shikai yet, his sharpness is still there, and he can't wait to knock Yuan Weiting to the ground and step on one foot.

"Who can subdue these Qiu Ba in Beiyang?" Yin Chang lukewarmly came to the general's words.

"The twenty towns and twenty-three towns were withdrawn to Guanwai, and the governors of the three eastern provinces, Xiliang and Zhao Erxun, were in charge of the whole army in the northeast. Needless to say, the first town of the army controls Fengshan, the second town Wang Yingkai is also considered his own person, the fourth town Yang Shande is partial to Shanghai, and he does not have to go to this troubled water, the fifth town Zheng Shiqi Zheng Yunqing is also a bastard with no ambition and is stationed in Baoding, Zhao Guoxian of the sixth town is not appreciated by Yuan Shikai, and the court can be incorporated with kindness, but the third town is still a hard stubble, Duan Zhigui and Yuan Shikai have a lot of relationship, and they may not be able to obey the dispatch, but there are Uncle Sun and such loyal and righteous people who are loyal to the court, Maybe you can take the third town without blood. The other mixed forces are outnumbered, so there is nothing to worry about. Tie Liang still did his homework for the army under Lao Yuan, after his analysis, everyone seems to think that Beiyang is not enough, and even Prince Qing is not opposed to getting rid of this domineering Yuan Datou with full certainty.

"Since everyone has no opinion" Zaifeng is a person who is full of relatives and nobles in the court, and it is most suitable for him to make a decision" Let Yuan Shikai return to Beijing to resume his life, explain Luanzhou matters to the imperial court, and then capture him as soon as he enters the palace, let him hand over his military power, and let him go back to his hometown to recuperate. ”

Zaifeng's plan is quite safe, and everyone has nothing to say. The Qing court was rare and efficient, and the next day Yuan Shikai, who was in Tianjin, was urgently summoned to Beijing, and when he entered the palace to meet the two iron hat kings and Tie Liang, Yuan Shikai understood that he was planted. Fortunately, Lao Yuan didn't have any plans to break the net at this time, so he was caught. In the afternoon of the same day, it was announced that he had a recurrence of foot disease, and it was difficult to be a director, so he returned to his hometown to recuperate. Wu Chenxuan was still an otaku next door to the Huguang Guild Hall, and Yuan Shikai was also vacant, and now the Han ministers in the court understood that the Manchu nobles planned to come to a big purge. The Han officials were silent, the Manchurians had long been waste dim sum and became scum, and the court was almost paralyzed, and it was easy to survive the internal and external troubles for a while.

Originally, in history, Tie Liang got the help of Liangbi (the word is a minister, a red belt, a person with a yellow flag, and graduated from the Infantry Department of the Tokyo Army Non-commissioned Officer School in Tokyo, Japan), and the two joined forces to overthrow Yuan Shikai, and then the two became fire and water for military reform. The so-called reform is a plan to take over Yuan Shikai's political legacy and take over the military power of Beiyang to the imperial court. Tie Liang, who had suffered repeated setbacks in the position of the secretary of the War Department, advocated the formation of the old Beiyang generals and the implementation of the strategy of slow progress, and Liangbi's newborn calf did not agree with this kind of conciliation, and he advocated the use of non-commissioned officers and students studying in Japan to replace the old Beiyang people, of course, Liangbi also knew that most of his classmates were unreliable and inclined to revolution, so he also advocated the transfer of the backbone of the first town to speed up the formation and training of the flag soldiers and the Praetorian Guard. This kind of idealistic plan, in layman's terms, is to drive away the wolf and devour the tiger on the one hand, and consolidate the foundation on the other. It's a pity that experience tells you that idealism is mostly very operational. In the same way, Liangbi's reform plan, which turned out to be less effective, was not ideal, and was played by Lao Yuantou.

"Alas, I didn't expect that Brother Wu was under house arrest in Beijing for more than a year, and he didn't visit him in order to avoid suspicion. So soon it was my turn to be punished. Yuan Shikai returned to his hometown Xiangcheng from the capital in a light car, planning to live a quiet life for a few days, sit firmly in Diaoyutai, and smile at the rising clouds.

"But has Lord Yuan returned to his hometown?" An old man on crutches was basking in the sun on the crossing at the head of the village, looking at the scenery, and saw a carriage passing by, the old man quickly got up, who knew that after sitting for a long time, his legs and feet were not good, but he staggered towards the carriage. If it was somewhere else, the guards would have gone up to the butt of a gun and flew away, but unfortunately this is the ancestral home of Lord Yuan, and it is already close to Yuan Ge Village, Gaosi Town, Xiangcheng.

Yuan Shikai was lamenting the ups and downs of his Huan Hai, and he didn't remember which garlic this was for a while, but Yuan Shikai, who has always been a good countryman, is not good at not showing up in the car again. So Yuan Shikai asked the guards to lift the curtain and lean out to see if he could still know the old man.

The old man trembled, and the snot on his face flowed for a long time, as if he felt unsightly, and hurriedly took out a towel from his arms to wipe it. Yuan Shikai looked at it and felt that he didn't seem to be impressed, but he didn't think much about it, after all, he had been traveling for many years, and most of the people in his hometown didn't know him, and he was about to say hello and then board the car and hurry, when he looked up, he saw a fierce light flashing in the old man's eyes, and a black and shiny gun card flashed under the towel, and the other party's fingers buckled, and a bullet rushed out of the chamber and drilled into Yuan Shikai's oily belly, followed by the second shot, the third shot, and the fourth shot, the guards who were still holding the old man just now pushed the old man to the old man in a hurry, Looking at the blood stains slowly appearing in the three gun holes on Yuan Xiangcheng's chest, Yuan Xiangcheng didn't seem to realize that there was an assassin, standing stiffly in front of the car, the smile on his face had not yet dissipated, but there was consternation in his eyes, but soon a wisp of blood overflowed from his mouth, and there was no way to spit it out with a gurgling sound in his throat.

Then there was a panic among the guards, and the old man seemed to accept his fate and did not struggle, and was held down by two guards with big shoulders and round waists. Just when the guards put Yuan Shikai flat on the wheel, intending to see if there was any rescue, a sudden change occurred. The chief guard was snatching the pistol from the old man's hand under him, but found that the moment the pistol was snatched, a wisp of green smoke came out from under the old man, and the old man tried to raise his head, and a smile of relief flashed on his face, so that the chief guard instantly understood something, but he didn't have time to say another word.

The fire thundered, the flesh and blood flew, and an old era ended in a bloody storm.