It seems that, as a famous person said, the enemy will not destroy itself, and if you don't fight anything reactionary, he won't fall, just like sweeping the floor, and the broom won't run away by itself if it doesn't get dust. And how much more is it to let a dynasty automatically withdraw from the stage of history?

has come to this point, and the Empress Dowager Longyu still refuses to give up. She seems to have been consumed with Yuan Shikai, you have come, I have a deal, if you make a move, I will see the move.

Soon after Liangbi was bombed, Prince Alcohol, who had retired to the domain, that is, the former regent Zaifeng, came to Yuan Shikai and read out the edict of the Empress Dowager Longyu to crown Yuan Shikai as a first-class marquis.

The Empress Dowager Longyu was very smart and also saw the root of the problem. Everything is on Yuan Shikai, as long as Yuan Shikai is encircled, all problems will be solved. A first-class marquis, how honorable? But it's when, who gives it, who gives it, and so on. To tell the truth, no matter how noble the title of a marquis is, can it be compared to the position of the president?

Zaifeng urged Yuan Shikai to hurry up to thank him, but Yuan Shikai insisted on refusing.

When sending Zaifeng out, Zaifeng hesitated for a moment and asked Yuan Shikai: "Lord Yuan, please tell me the truth, is there really no other way to think about it except abdication?" ”

Yuan Shikai also hesitated for a moment, and said: "Lord Wang, now, at this point, there is really no other way to think about it, even if you fight for the lives of my people, it will not help." ”

"That means there was a way to think about it before, right?"

Zaifeng looked at Yuan Shikai with his eyes, but Yuan Shikai did not answer, indicating acquiescence.

Zaifeng understood what he meant, and he didn't force Yuan Shikai to answer, but just sighed, "Remember, you promised me to be kind to the mother and son." ”

"Lord Wang, I promised, and it hasn't changed yet. However, I just promised, and many things were not under my control. For example, if the abdication continues like this, I don't know what will happen? We are blessed by the country, but there are many people who may only hate our court. Yuan Shikai looked sincere.

Zaifeng nodded, "I know what Lord Yuan means, I just need Lord Yuan to promise alone." ”

Yuan Shikai thought for a moment, "I also have one thing, I have a request for the prince." ”

"Something to ask me? Please say, as long as I can. "Zaifeng was surprised.

"This matter is very simple, very easy, if it is convenient, please persuade the queen mother." Yuan Shikai said.

"I will." Zaifeng immediately agreed.

Yuan Shikai really couldn't imagine that the Empress Dowager Longyu still had such a hand, and said to Wang Xitong very angrily: "Recently, for the monarch and to protect the dignity of the royal family, I have been hoarse and exhausted, and the court thinks that I am putting on a show?" Isn't that driving me to my death? ”

"This person is the same, he won't die until he doesn't see the Yellow River, and he won't cry when he doesn't see the coffin." Wang Xitong said.

Not long after Yuan Shikai came out of the mountain, Wang Xitong defected to Yuan Shikai as a staff member.

Yuan Shikai played back, and strongly resigned the reward of the Empress Dowager Longyu, but the Empress Dowager Longyu was not allowed.

Yuan Shikai played again, and said: "The ministers have received the grace of the country, and they have repeatedly talked about special encounters, and this year's Wuhan incident has risen, and he has regained the Xinjiang send, and he is also a soldier, looking for to update politics, recommending Bingjun Heng, when the difficulties are multiplied, and the anger is irreparable." After a few months, the inch effect has not been harvested, the country has collapsed, the people's hearts have collapsed, there are thousands of holes, and there is no skill to make up for it. He then listed in detail the four manifestations of "injustice", that is, the failure to maintain the constitutional monarchy, the lack of military improvement, the failure of diplomatic mediation, and the political corruption as before.

He also said: "The minister is sick and sick, he is favored like this, he is appointed like this, and the guilt accumulates day by day, and the trickle is useless, and he should be reprimanded by self-affection, and only receive grace for many generations, and look up to the night and toil, and he who cannot bear to go away with words is seriously troubled by holy worries." However, if he is subject to the high lord again, he will be tired of the court's rewards and punishments, and he will live up to the hopes of the military and the people of the whole country. Only by earning mercy to withdraw the order will the minister's heart be a little clearer, so as to avoid the sins of the minister. ”

The Empress Dowager Longyu is still not allowed.

Yuan Shikai played for the third time: "If the major events are like this, they will be subject to the high lord, and the ancestral system will not be tolerated; In the previous period, it is suitable for decay. Now the difficulties are pressing, there are many difficulties, the court loves the ministers, and the ministers should not be ridiculed by the power and reward; The ministers love the court and do not want to make the court famous. ”

Empress Dowager Longyu is still not allowed.

Yuan Shikai folded up for the fourth time: "Now the overall situation is shocked, people's hearts are shaken, success or failure is blunt, and I dare not gamble against the grain. The effect is magnificent, and Mo Yufu will return to the sun. If you accept the high lord and steal the honor, you will not only be ashamed of the previous generations, but also afraid of being laughed at in the future. Rather than live up to grace in the future, how to be attentive and beforehand. ”

The Empress Dowager Longyu is iron-hearted, but she is not allowed. The posture that opened was: Whether you want it is your Yuan Shikai's business, and whether you give it or not is her business. Whether Yuan Shikai wants it or not, she must give it.

She may have also figured it out, the country and the society are going to be lost, what is a title! If you don't violate the ancestral system, as long as you can keep the Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Longyu is afraid that Yuan Shikai will be the king and even the iron hat king.

Why did Yuan Shikai refuse to accept it? First of all, it should be that he feels guilty, and the so-called uselessness is not punished. Secondly, he really didn't want to bear the favor of the Qing court and tie his hands and feet.

The third is that the world is afraid of being ridiculed by the world, and the court grants such a high title, but refuses to contribute to the court, what will the world think. Besides, a dynasty that is about to go to the grave is worthless, no matter how high the title is!

However, the Empress Dowager Longyu just refused to take it back, and Yuan Shikai had no choice but to laugh.

Seeing that there was no news from Yuan Shikai's side for a long time, Mr. Zhongshan thought that Yuan Shikai was insincere, and felt that he could not drag it on indefinitely, so he decided not to extend the armistice after the expiration of this armistice.

On 28 January, the Nanjing Provisional Senate was established, and Lin Sen was elected speaker.

The next day, in. Mr. Shan telegraphed to Wu Tingfang: "This peace negotiation has been extended repeatedly, and it was intended to achieve a common goal by peaceful means. Yuan Shikai initially abolished Tang Shaoyi's plenipotentiary representative, and then did not recognize the law signed by Tang Shaoyi at the formal meeting to elect the National Assembly to decide on the national system;

"After the abdication of the Qing Emperor, after many days of mutual exchanges, they suddenly telegraphed that they had not reached Wu on behalf of the merchants. It seems that all kinds of dishonesty are indignant to the military and the people of the whole country. Moreover, the Republic of China allowed to treat the Qing Emperor and the Qing Imperial Family with the best courtesy, and now because of Yuan Shikai's resistance, the day of the Republic cannot be reached quickly, and the Qing Emperor cannot enjoy the reputation of abdication, so Yuan Shikai is not the enemy of the Republic of China, but is actually the enemy of the Qing Emperor.

"The expiration of the armistice period, the Republic of China will not allow it to be extended again, if there is another military provocation because of this, only Yuan Shikai is to blame, and the whole country and the army and the people want to destroy the Yuan clan and then eat."

Mr. Zhongshan seems to have regarded the abdication of the Qing Emperor as too simplistic, thinking that it was Yuan Shikai's effort. Now there is no result, and Yuan Shikai is the obstruction.

After Wu Tingfang forwarded this telegram to Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai complained in his heart, why not be in a hurry, why not go all out. At the same time, it is also very angry, a dynasty automatically abdicates, has China ever had it? Is it that easy? The people of the South see things too simple and easy.

Whether he is anxious or angry, Yuan Shikai knows that the most urgent thing at present is for the Qing court to abdicate as soon as possible. Because from the phone call, Yuan Shikai realized that if it dragged on, the revolutionary party was likely to not still admit the original consensus, and the situation would become more and more uncontrollable.

After mobilizing so many forces and launching such a big offensive, the Qing court just refused to give in, what should I do? Yuan Shikai decided to use the power of society and public opinion. He instructed Yang Du and others to initiate and organize the republic in Beijing. A declaration was issued, clearly stating that the constitutional monarchy was outdated, and in order to save the country and preserve the imperial family, the Qing court should abdicate as soon as possible, conform to the trend of the times, and implement a republic.

The manifesto of the republican *** was published in the major newspapers, on the one hand, it exerted great pressure on the Qing court, and on the other hand, it sent a message to the revolutionary party in the south: we are doing our best to force the Qing court to abdicate.

On January 29, Yuan Shikai played: "The matter of discussing the state system has been discussed by the royal family and princes for many days. The ministers are responsible for the administration and only obey the decree of the court. "It is equivalent to issuing an ultimatum to the Qing court.

On the other hand, through Xiao Dezhang and other channels, he told the Empress Dowager Longyu that if she did not make a decision, the cabinet would resign, and Yuan Shikai would leave it alone.

This trick really worked, and the Empress Dowager Longyu was so frightened that she hugged the little emperor and cried all day long. After the collapse of the Zongshe Party, most of the die-hard elements fled, and the remaining few could no longer make waves in the imperial court. Everyone else is planning for their future, and the court is in chaos.

In fact, since the resignation of the regent Zaifeng, the imperial court has become an ornament. But just such an ornament is also so difficult to give up, I don't know who gave the Empress Dowager Longyu an idea.

On 1 February, she convened a meeting of the Imperial Council and proposed the adoption of a common form of government for the Hypocrisy and the Emperor of Japan, who did not care about political affairs but only existed in name.

Of course, this idea did not work with Yuan Shikai and the Southern Revolutionary Party.

Yuan Shikai infiltrated the Empress Dowager Longyu through Yixuan, don't have any illusions anymore, and decent abdication is the only option. There is not much time left for her, and if it drags on, what awaits her and the royal family can only be a catastrophe.

After some ideological struggle, the Empress Dowager Longyu felt that it was still important to save her life, and it was much better to strive for better preferential conditions than to be destroyed. So in the end, it was decided to abdicate and implement a republic. On the third day, Yuan Shikai was granted full powers to negotiate the terms of the abdication of the Qing emperor with the southern revolutionaries.

Yuan Shikai finally breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately sent the good news of the Qing court's agreement to abdicate and the preferential treatment conditions that had been drawn up long ago to Tang Shaoyi, and asked him to hand over to Wu Tingfang and seek the opinions of the Southern Revolutionary Party. On the same day, more than 60 people, including Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui, and the Mongolian Federation also telegraphed Wu Tingfang of the preferential treatment conditions, and the conditions were the same, so as to show that Yuan Shikai attached great importance to the preferential treatment conditions.