On the 24th, Yuan Shikai made a twist: on the one hand, he lied that he had repeatedly negotiated with the other party, and Wu Tingfang "replied to the delusion, and there was no continuation", and he could feel that the other party's attitude was particularly tough and impatient, and deceived the Empress Dowager Longyu.

On the other hand, he said that his illness was getting more and more serious, and he continued to ask for leave, leaving it alone, making it difficult for the Empress Dowager Longyu. If the Qing Emperor does not abdicate, he will no longer participate in decision-making, and let the relatives and nobles fight and quarrel by themselves.

Sick leave continues day after day. In fact, he hid behind the scenes, planned everything, and everything was under his control. He was waiting, waiting for the Qing court to speak for himself if he couldn't stand it anymore.

After waiting for a few days, seeing that there was no obvious effect, Yuan Shikai played his killer trick and instructed Duan Qirui to send a telegram to the Qing court.

A few days ago, the Beiyang generals also sent a telegram to the whole country, supporting the constitutional monarchy and opposing the republic. It's only been a few days, why are these Beiyang generals shouting about the republic again? You don't have to think about it, you can know that this is all instructed by Yuan Shikai.

But if you look at the list, there are still other personnel, some people may say that this is Yuan Shikai's deliberate, but in fact, it may not be.

Because the Beiyang generals are not monolithic, let alone a point of view. For example, Duan Qirui and others advocate a republic, while Feng Guozhang and Zhang Xun and others advocate a constitutional monarchy, and even serve the country loyally.

There are also Duan Zhigui's people, who don't seem to have any opinions, and they are the only ones who are the first to look forward to Yuan Shikai.

What kind of telegram Yuan Shikai needs to send and what kind of people he uses, he can be regarded as making the best use of it.

No matter how different these people's views and value orientations are, one thing is the same now, they are all loyal to Yuan Shikai.

According to Yuan Shikai's instructions. Duan Qirui and a group of Beiyang generals, a total of more than 50 people, jointly played a concert, suggesting that the Qing court accept the preferential conditions and favor the republic, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

The telegram said: "Although Qirui and other public officials are loyal and self-motivated, death and life can be guaranteed, but the source of salary is scarce, the morale of the army is shaken, the general trend is the same, and the heart is not solid, once the break is broken, what can be feared to fight...... It is bound to sit and die. ”

The attitude of the soldiers put a lot of pressure on the imperial court and the Empress Dowager Longyu, but the pressure on the Empress Dowager Longyu from the Zongshe Party was also very great.

Although the Empress Dowager Longyu has long seen through these people of the Zongshe Party, they are not successful enough and have more than enough failures, but they are strongly opposed, and the Empress Dowager Longyu cannot ignore them.

Besides, in her heart, she is also unwilling, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, she is not willing to bow down and be captured.

Now, she also needs the Loyalists to provide an excuse for herself. Yuan Shikai pressed step by step, and the Empress Dowager Longyu just refused to give in, and still insisted on convening the National Assembly.

Yuan Shikai threw another heavy punch. He threw out a draft of his own draft for preferential treatment of the Qing Chamber, and declared: "If it is insisted that the National Assembly decides on the national system, then the conditions for the preferential treatment of the Qing Chambers must also be decided by the National Assembly. ”

The implication is that if the National Assembly really decided on the national system, what kind of preferential treatment should be given to the Qing family, and whether or not to give preferential treatment, it would be difficult to say. Clearly tell the Empress Dowager Longyu not to miss the opportunity.

Seeing that the Zong Socialist Party was too arrogant and repeatedly interfered with the abdication of the Qing court, Yuan Shikai decided to intimidate these guys who didn't know how powerful the three eyes of Ma Wang Ye were.

Therefore, he instructed the Beiyang generals to send a telegram to warn.

On January 26, Duan Qirui sent a telegram to the cabinet, accusing Zai Ze, Pu Wei and others by name and sabotaging the peace talks, and clearly stated: "I implore you to change the trumpet, make clear the decree, declare China and foreign countries, and establish a republican form of government." ”

If anyone dares to go their own way and sabotage the peace agreement, they will be held accountable.

But these people were not intimidated and continued to go their own way.

When the stalemate was in the midst of a stalemate, there was a variable on this day, and the assassination department of the Beijing-Tianjin Alliance came to help Yuan Shikai uninvited.

Luckily, the scales were still tilted in favor of Yuan Shikai, because the assassination of Liangbi soon occurred.

The organization of the assassination department of the Beijing-Tianjin League was not tight, and it was difficult to avoid the situation of going their own way, and the communication was also very unsmooth, which also required secrecy at that time. The original goal of the revolutionaries who attacked Liangbi was also to assassinate Yuan Shikai. But because there are too many talented people around Yuan Shikai, they can't start.

In desperation, he began to turn the spearhead to Liangbi. They felt that Liangbi was also a very important figure at that time, and the influence of killing him would definitely not be small. And he doesn't have a strong protective force around him, and the assassination is easy to succeed.

The specific perpetrator of the assassination of Liangbi was the revolutionary Peng Jiazhen,

Peng Jiazhen graduated from the Sichuan Military Academy, and was later transferred to the Fengtian Martial Arts Academy Barracks Officer and Instructor, and was appointed by Zhao Erxun, the governor of Northeast China at that time, as the adjutant of the Tianjin Military Station Headquarters.

In the Wuchang Incident, Peng Jiazhen stole the military salary of the headquarters and funded the revolutionary party, and was wanted. Before the meeting of the Senior Administration, the Qing prince gathered, and Peng Mou bombed the meeting but did not succeed.

Peng Jiazhen was very familiar with Chonggong when he was in Fengtian, and knew that Chonggong had a friendship with Liangbi, so he first sent someone to Fengtian and sent a telegram to Liangbi in the name of Chonggong, saying that he would enter the capital to discuss the plan.

Then, dressed in a high-ranking officer's uniform with a knife, he insisted on honoring the name of the assassin, and checked into the Jintai Hotel from the railway station.

First drove the carriage into the front door to the military advisory office to find Liangbi, and then returned to the Liangbi apartment in Xicheng Hongluo Factory, but Liangbi did not return. The concierge waited for a long time in the house, and he had already decided to leave. When he went out, he saw Liangbi's carriage galloping towards him, so he immediately retreated.

Liangbi car arrived, the doorman Chonggong name thorn, Liangbi got off the car but found that the person who came was not Chonggong, stunned, fried. The bullet has arrived. The distance is too close, it is the same way of playing, but Liangbi was blown off his left foot, but Peng Jiazhen died on the spot. It was the eighth day of the first month of Xinhaila (January 26, 1912), and three days later, Liangbi also died at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve.

Later, the revolutionaries buried the bodies of Zhang Xianpei, Huang Zhimeng, Yang Yuchang and Peng Jiazhen, who assassinated Yuan Shikai, in Huifangxuan, Sanbeizi Garden, Beijing.

That's for later.

Liangbi was stabbed and only broke one of his legs, and he should have no worries about his life after the operation.

When his family asked him who had done it, he said, "It is not difficult to imagine that the one who harms me today is the one who will seize the country in the future." ”

He believed that the murderer was instigated by Yuan Shikai.

As soon as he received a warning from the Beiyang generals, the leader of the Zongshe Party was assassinated, and people could easily contact one place. Moreover, Liangbi is the number one person in the Zongshe Party, but Duan Qirui's telegram is not named, and it is easy to feel that this itself was planned in advance.

Next, what happened was even more obvious, Zhao Bingjun went to visit Liangbi's house and introduced a famous Chinese medicine doctor, but Liangbi only took a pair of medicines and died.

Liangbi's death should be related to taking this Chinese medicine. The truth is Yuan Shikai's instructions? It is unknown whether Zhao Bingjun did it or whether the famous Chinese medicine doctor made the move.

Things in this world are really complicated, because there are other possibilities, such as Liangbi's family, such as the link of buying medicine. But who would use so many brains? Except for those who know the inside story, almost everyone pointed the finger at Yuan Shikai.

So the news came out that whoever Yuan Shikai wanted to die, he had to die.

These members of the Zongshe Party are stronger than the other on weekdays, but in fact, one is more afraid of death than the other, and one is more timid than the other.

There is a wise saying that those who clamor for war generally never go to the battlefield. Before the catastrophe came, these impassioned people on weekdays were so frightened that they fled the capital, lest they be chased and killed by Yuan Shikai; The arrogant Zongshe Party immediately ended with the scattering of birds and beasts.

Liangbi's death scared the Empress Dowager Longyu half to death, and she may also think that Yuan Shikai did it.

Liang Shiyi once told others about the fear of the Empress Dowager Longyu: "On the day of the bombing of Liangbi, the situation in Beijing was in a hurry, and after entering the court to salute, the Empress Dowager Longyu hid her face and wept: 'Liang Shiyi! Zhao Bingjun! Hu Weide! The lives of my mother and son are in the hands of the three of you You go back and tell Yuan Shikai that you must save the lives of our mother and son. 'People's hearts are flesh and blood, it looks really uncomfortable like that, Zhao Bingjun couldn't help crying first, and vowed to protect it, and I couldn't help it. ”

Liang Shiyi (1869-1933), a native of Sanshui County, Guangzhou Prefecture, Guangdong, was born in Gangtou Village, Baili Town, Sanshui City, Foshan City, and was a famous economist, banker and politician in the early Republic of China.

Liang Shiyi studied with his father Liang Zhijian in Sanshui, Guangzhou, and ** in his early years, and later studied with Liang Qichao in Foshan Academy.

In the twentieth year of Guangxu (1894), he was admitted to the Jinshi examination, and successively served as the Minister of Posts and Communications, the Minister of State, and the Director of the General Administration of Railways of the Qing Dynasty, making great contributions to China's early railway industry.

In 1911, he assisted Yuan Shikai in coercing the Qing imperial family to abdicate.

In the early days of the Republic of China, he served as the secretary-general of the presidential office of Yuan Shikai and the general manager of the Bank of Communications. Vice Minister of Finance, Beiyang Zheng. General of State Affairs. As the head of the Department of Transportation and the president of the National Railway Association, he fully supported Sun Yat-sen's national railway construction plan. Liang Shiyi is known as the "living god of wealth" and "the second president".

In 1916, he was called "the brain of China" and "the powerful minister behind the throne" by the New York Times, and was an important political figure who was very active in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.

On June 6, 1918, Liang Shiyi founded the Beijing Stock Exchange, which was the first stock exchange founded by the Chinese themselves.

In 1932, when the January 28 Incident broke out, Liang Shiyi sent a private telegram to British Prime Minister MacDonald, asking him to unite with other countries to stop Japan's atrocities. On March 3, 1933, he went to Shanghai to discuss with Duan Qirui the anti-Japanese plan, but unfortunately died of illness on April 9.