"Apricot City, Apricot City. What's wrong with you? Seeing Yang Shiqi who was in a daze with a telegram, Liang Shiyi had an ominous premonition.

"It's going to change. It's going to change. Yang Shiqi muttered in his mouth, but his eyes were out of focus.

Liang Shiyi, who was anxious, snatched the telegram, and a few lines made Liang Shiyi feel like he was struck by lightning, and the telegram in his hand was like a thousand boulders, and he couldn't hold it and fell to the ground. Liang Shiyi's lips trembled, and he couldn't say a word, "It's going to change." That's what he said in his heart.

The same message is the most repeated message among the telegraph operators today in the standard telegraph offices that have just been established in various places: "Lord Yuan has been assassinated." These seven words, the land of Shenzhou overnight knew that the Beiyang minister who had just returned to his hometown, Yuan Shikai, the governor of Zhili, was assassinated and killed less than five miles away from his hometown, and the murderer also detonated the explosives tied to his body very ferociously, and suddenly the murderer himself and six guards of the Beiyang Army were blown up and the bones remained, and Yuan Shikai's body was also overturned out, and the skin was broken, but it was still a whole corpse.

From the common people to the soldiers of the Beiyang New Army, they were all asking, "Who assassinated Yuan Shikai and Lord Yuan?" The answer is that the benevolent and the wise see the wise, from the revolutionary party to the Manchu aristocrats, from the Japanese to Lao Maozi, and even Kang Liang's royalists, the boxer brothers were all taken out as suspects. In the end, even Yuan Keding had to sigh that the old man's life was too worthwhile, and he dared to love so many enemies waiting in line for his old man's life, it was not easy to live to this day, and it was considered a lot of money.

However, these suspects shouted grievances, and then sent a telegram to the Yuan family to express condolences, and everyone found out that it was supposed to write a letter to mourn, but the telegram came in time, otherwise others would have sent a message of condolence, and your family was still grinding and chirping to write a letter, and everyone thought that you didn't plan to mourn Lord Yuan? The name of the suspect can't be taken off. So Wu Chenxuan made a small fortune, and one by one he sent long messages of condolence, which made the Standard Telegraph Bureau make a profit.

"Defeat the enemy, defeat the enemy. You see, is this their handiwork? "Eating the eel sushi made by his Japanese lover Xiao Yuexuan, plus yesterday I got a reply from Toushan Man, you can use the arms exchanged for Yantai to train the revolutionary army on Ezo Island, although there are only two hundred, but it makes Jofu's mood happy all night, and even Xiao Yuexuan deeply feels the excitement of her husband. However, the news on the front page of the newspaper this morning almost choked Qiaofu, who was eating sushi, to death: "Yuan Weiting was actually stabbed to death?" ”

"Joff, you've watched the news too." The big fat man Huang Kedi also rushed in, and he seemed to be in a good mood, and the haze brought about by the failure of the Luanzhou uprising just now has disappeared, "Now the Beiyang group of dragons has no leader, and it is a good opportunity for us to start things in the south." Do you want the comrades to prepare and plan to raise the uprising again in the Liangguang region? ”

"I agree with you, but we have a better choice." Qiao Fu smiled slightly, "Beiyang is now the time to watch each other and people are panicking." If a Beiyang army close to Gyeonggi could raise the banner of righteousness and attack the Manchu capital, it might be able to bring about a major change in the situation in the entire Beiyang. If we unite with the Beiyang rulers and capture the capital in one go, we can overthrow the Tartars and rebuild China in the shortest possible time. ”

"Having said that, our comrades in the Beiyang Army have lost almost everything in Luanzhou this time, and we have no strength to plan to revolt for the time being."

"By the way, how is our organization developing in the Wuyi New Army?" Isn't Shandong also in the north? The combat effectiveness of the Wuyi New Army is not inferior to that of Beiyang, and the Wuyi New Army of the Five Towns is also 60,000 or 70,000 tigers, but half of them fall to him, and Qiaofu is also promising.

"We can't develop at all in the Wuyi New Army, their treatment in the army doesn't seem to be high, but they are fully cashed, and the soldiers' salaries do not include the cost of uniforms, food and other deductions, so the silver in their hands is three percent higher than that of the Beiyang Army." Huang Kedi said helplessly, "Moreover, they popularize education in the army, ban the party, and implement the principle of military governance that soldiers do not interfere in politics, and young officers are all graduates of their own military schools, and our party members in Chengcheng School cannot enter the new army at all, even if there are occasional people who enter the new army, they are discovered by their intelligence department and the unified investigation office, and then sent out of the country." The most odious thing is that Cai Heqing, Zhang Binglin, and other people from the Restoration Society, not only did not develop their own organizations in the new army in eastern Zhejiang and northern Jiangsu, but also forbade us to develop locally, but fortunately, they were still considerate of their feelings and did not collude with the Qing court. However, under their joint suppression, our organization has no place at all, and has now withdrawn from these places. ”

"Wu Chenxuan was under house arrest by the Qing court, and these profiteers are still so stubborn." Qiao Fu was also a little angry, but Xiao Yuexuan handed over a cup of tea in time made Qiao Fu calm down his anger, "Come and don't be rude, we also have to make them suffer a little so that we can understand the general trend." ”

"You mean to use Sixth Town..."

"Not bad. Dezhou is located at the junction of Lu and Hebei, and the sixth town happens to be stationed here, which is a godsend, we just need "

"However, we have an agreement with Wu Chenxuan, if it is just a development organization, but according to the agreement, an uprising is not allowed on the ground in Shandong."

"Revolution is not a dinner party, it is not a poetry reciprocal, and there is no room for so many scruples. We just have to put a knife between Beiyang and the new army of Wuyi and turn the old world upside down, so that we can have a chance to let the light of revolution illuminate the dark motherland, and only the blood of revolutionaries and the rumbling sound of artillery can wake up the sleeping people. Xiao Yuexuan's eyes flashed with admiration, and the little hand that massaged Qiao Fu became more powerful at the moment, and Qiao Fu almost moaned out of discomfort.

Huang Kedi didn't pick up, but he also felt that what Qiao Fu said made sense, the current Wu Chenxuan was also trapped in the capital, and Yuan Shikai was also mistaken after being dismissed, the collapse of these two Han military forces was predictable, and it seemed a bit pedantic to follow any agreement.

The small stream outside the window is gurgling, as if the blood is flowing quietly, being carried away without attachment and flowing to the unknown sea.

"Lord Tie, you have also done a little bit of it" Shu Qing'a drank tea with Tie Liang in private, and almost choked Tie Liang who was taking a sip of tea in a word.

"No, you, say it's me. Don't be cheap, brother, I really have a thief's heart and no guts, ahh "Tie Liang is also in a hurry, although this Yuan Shikai is not a thing, but he depends on himself when he dies." I think the revolutionary party is the most suspicious, after all, Luanzhou has killed so many revolutionary parties, and the two families are considered to have ended, and the revolutionary party is used to assassinating with guns and bombs. The most hateful thing is the murderer, who made an explosive tied to his body when he died, but it was so ruthless that even his own bones were gone, and there was really nowhere to guess which family's manpower it was. ”

"You don't think our people did it." Shu Qing'a also understands that Tie Liang has always dared to act, and if it is his handiwork, there is no need to hide it from himself. "Maybe Liangbi and their guys were stunned."

"You say it's the Zong Socialist Party? They, don't say I look down on these guys, they don't even do it so well. One by one, they have the ability to talk big and blow conchs, but when it comes to the main thing, they are all silver-like pewter gun heads, which are useless. ”

"Who else could it be?" Shu Qing'a pondered.

"I said, Lao Shu, you don't have to think about this. Anyway, he Yuan Shikai also deserves to be robbed by this, let's think about how to deal with these hundreds of thousands of Beiyang Army. ”

"Don't think about it, these grandsons have done it." As he was talking, Liangbi came in from outside the door with a curtain, sweating profusely, and seemed to have run a lot of way, and picked up Shu Qing'a's cup of tea and poured it in as soon as he raised his neck, "The three towns and the twenty towns of the Beiyang Army have started in Tangshan, and even the cannon is used." The four towns and the twenty-three towns have all been electrified to declare neutrality, the second mixed association has been pulled up and ready to help the third town, and the thirteenth mixed association has not moved, but it has not done good things with the middle town of the new army of Wuyi. The Zhensong army plundered the Kaifeng treasury, retreated to Tongguan, and confronted the Shaanxi New Army. The other towns and mixed associations did not express their positions, but they were also in a state of listening to propaganda and not listening to tunes, and this War Department had really become an empty barrel yamen, and it was better to change it to the Praetorian Guard Headquarters to live up to its name. ”

"......" Tie Liang and Shu Qing'a were also dumbfounded, Beiyang was torn apart, and the Wuyi New Army was also doing its own thing, and the dignified Qing Kingdom had no mobile forces that could be mobilized to control the situation, and only 50,000 unreliable Praetorian Guards guarded Sijiu City.

No matter how the Qing court and the revolutionary party viewed this situation, the Beiyang armies at the center of the storm were already fluctuating in their hearts and surging in the storm. Feng Guozhang, Cao Kun, Wang Zhanyuan, Chen Guangyuan, Wang Huaiqing, Qi Xieyuan, Wang Chengbin, Cao Qiang, Cai Chengxun, Xiao Yaonan, Sun Chuanfang, Zhou Yinren, Zhang Fulai, Wang Ruqin, Lu Xiangting, Chen Tiaoyuan, Zheng Junyan, Liu Zongji, Zhang Qiqiang, and other direct bigwigs held a meeting overnight at Feng Guozhang's villa in Wudaokou and decided to advance and retreat together, with the second town, the third town, the sixth town, and the Zhili Mixed Association as the basic troops. Feng Guozhang, Cao Kun, and Wang Zhanyuan were the direct warlords of the General Front Committee, and they were successfully established overnight. However, what is surprising is that Li Chun and Li Xiushan, who are veterans of Beiyang, actually took the Sixth Town and the Eleventh Association all the way from Jiangxi to eastern Zhejiang, and arrived in Taizhou in eastern Zhejiang five days later, announcing that they would merge with Zhang Shaozeng's department, which was called the Zhedong Patrol Battalion, which was actually the rear town of the Wuyi New Army, and became part of the Zhedong New Army.

Duan Zhigui, Jin Yunpeng, Lu Yongxiang, Ni Sichong, Zhang Huaizhi, Tanakayu, Wu Guangxin, these Anhui fellow villagers are not to be outdone. Under the organization of Duan Zhigui and Jin Yunpeng, with the Fourth Town, the Fifth Town, and the Twenty-ninth Mixed Association as the main forces, they concentrated in northern Anhui and Henan, and Liu Zhenhua's Zhensong army also failed to beat the cold babies in Shaanxi, but the strength of the army was still retained.

The situation was even more chaotic next, and Meng Enyuan, the 23rd town in the northeast, was placed under house arrest by Zhang Zuolin, Wu Junsheng, Zhang Zuoxiang and others of the Liaoyang Patrol Battalion, and sent out of the country as a gift. Then the 23rd Town declared its independence from Beiyang and became an independent warlord occupying the Guanwai. Perhaps influenced by Zhang Zuolin, the newly released king of the Northeast, Jiang Guidi's Lao Yijun, Zhao Qi's Hongwei Army, Ma Lianjia's Anwu Army (Yijun Branch), Zhang Xun's Dingwu Army, Yan Xishan's 43rd Mixed Association, Lu Rongting's Gui Army, Long Jiguang's Zhenwu Army, Yuan Zuming's Qianjun, Liu Cunhou's Sichuan Army Armament Department, and Liu Xiang's Sichuan Army Express Department have all emerged.

The world of the Qing Dynasty seemed to be torn apart overnight, and the governors and yamen in various places had no choice but to let them go, and they had to raise food and pay to feed these hungry wolves, otherwise they would plunder the prefectures and counties at every turn, kill the court officials and local gentry, and there was no place to reason.

In addition, Xinjiang Wang Yang Zengxin, Gan Du Zhang Guangjian, and Lu Hongtao do not belong to any military system, nor can they be called independent military departments. Although they have a little bit of troops at hand, because they are far away from the whirlpool of political struggle in the Central Plains, none of the Beiyang warlords who are fighting in the country can take care of them, and they have no intention of participating in the factional struggle in Guannai, and they will support whoever is in power, so the soldiers in their hands can only be regarded as the local army of a province in the state power, and do not belong to any faction.

Inside and outside the government and the opposition, Europe, America, Japan and Russia were all dumbfounded by all these great changes after Yuan Shikai's death, no one thought that Yuan Fatzi turned out to be the Dinghai Divine Needle of the Qing Dynasty, and his death was actually the Qing Dynasty that was about to enter the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At this time of chaos, in the small mansion of Hufang Bridge in the capital, Wu Chenxuan had quietly returned, and the stand-in was safely sent out of the city, while Wu Chenxuan slept with his head high every day, hanging his fishing rod high, and waiting for the big fish to arch by himself.