"Uncle Yuan, are you saying that I shouldn't take the initiative to resign?" Jae Zhen asked.

"The resignation still has to be submitted, so that the prince can be saved." Yuan Shikai said.

"Brother Yuan, the more I listen, the more confused I become." Yixuan should have been confused by Yuan Shikai.

"Actually, the Queen Mother protects us, she doesn't protect us, she supports us, and she doesn't support us." Yuan Shikai said.

Yixuan shook his head vigorously, "Brother Yuan, I don't understand it even more." ”

"yes, so do I." Zai Zhen echoed.

Yuan Shikai glanced at the straw bale father and son, "The Queen Mother accepted the resignation of Zai Zhenxian's nephew and reserved the punishment for Duan Zhigui. Eliminating Zhao Qilin over there is actually a fifty board each. If she wants to beat us fifty boards, we have to stretch out our butts and let him beat us. Otherwise, let the Queen Mother find a place, and she won't know where to fight. ”

"Brother Yuan, as soon as you say that, I understand. It seems that we must be cautious in doing things in the future, try to shrink back in everything, and keep a low profile as much as possible. Yixuan nodded.

Yuan Shikai waved his hand hurriedly, "Lord, I'm afraid it won't work, after I hit a wall in the reform of the official system, I also wanted to retract back to Tianjin, quit my part-time job, and no longer care about the affairs of the court." However, they refused to let go. If you retreat, people will enter, and if you want to hide, people will search everywhere. You want to run farther, but not necessarily faster than the chase. ”

"Is it that serious?" Yi Liang was a little unconvinced.

"It's quite serious, people are coming at you this time, coming to your position as the head of the military aircraft department, I am at most honest in Tianjin, they may not be able to do anything to me?" Yuan Shikai tried his best to pretend to be careless.

He knew that Yixuan didn't have any scheming. If one day, his own faction loses, he is likely to push himself out, saying that everything was instigated by himself, and that he has been tempted and deceived.

"Father, we must get rid of the two old things, Ling Chunxuan and Zhai Hongxuan, otherwise, we will never have peace." Zai Zhenyan said.

"Lord Wang, we all know that you have a good heart, but you should know the story of Mr. Dongguo and the wolf, and you should have heard the story of the farmer and the snake." Yuan Shikai hurriedly agreed.

"What are we going to do?" Yixuan is alive.

"Unscrupulous means, get rid of Ling Chunxuan and Zhai Hongxuan at all costs." Yuan Shikai said resolutely.

"These two people are very hateful, but to be honest, they are both good people, they are serious people, and they are loyal to the court." Yixuan seemed to be a little unbearable.

"What the prince said is right, you are thinking about the court, but will others think like this? This time the two of us were tied, which was actually very lucky, and there was also a bit of luck. Next time, we may not be so lucky? ”

Seeing that Yixuan was still hesitating, Yuan Shikai continued: "Didn't people say it? Don’t wait for prosperity to care for the things important to you. Who are we messing with this time, Yang Cuixi's matter is a? Men and women love it, but people want to make a big fuss, what can be done? Did we mess with them? Didn't you? It was they who refused to let us go.

"When people cut us with knives, we can't stretch out our necks for others to cut, we have to protect ourselves and defend. Lord Wang, you should know that taking the initiative to attack is the best defense.

"Lord Wang, you think about it, if you want to live peacefully with them, I don't care. But you have to be more careful, but I heard people say that Ling Chunxuan is here for you this time, he said to the Queen Mother and the Emperor personally, he wants to be a vicious dog for the Queen Mother and the Emperor, specifically biting you. ”

"Father, what are you waiting for? Now we are on the same page with these two old things, with them without us, with us without them! Listen to my Uncle Yuan, that's right. "Zai Zhen is urging.

"That's right, there is him without me, and there is me without him. If anyone does not offend me, I will not offend, but if anyone offends me, I will offend. People have already come to the door, Brother Yuan, what do you say? I'll listen to you all. Yi Liang waved his big hand.

Yuan Shikai snorted, pressed his hand down, got up and opened the hall door, stretched out his head to look out, then retracted his head and closed the door.

"It's okay, brother, everyone in my house is reliable." Yi Xuan said.

"Lord Wang, Zhuge is only cautious in his life, Lu Duan's major events are not ambiguous, not afraid of 10,000, just in case, be careful to sail the ship of 10,000 years."

Yuan Shikai already has a complete set of plans, but he mainly has to implement them.

As a result, the late Qing Dynasty, initiated by Zhai Hongsui and Ling Chunxuan, Yuan Shikai and Yi Xuan as one side, with Zhai Hongsui and Ling Chunxuan as one side, the great tide that shook the political scene of the late Qing Dynasty entered a white-hot stage.

This year is 1907, and the year of the Ganzhi is "Ding Wei", so it is also called "Ding Wu Political Tide".

Minister of Military Aircraft and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shangshu, Zhai Hongsui is a native of Changsha, Hunan, with the word Zijiu and the number Zhian. Tongzhi Jinshi, the first in the country in the early years of Guangxu's big examination, started from the Hanlin Academy and the bachelor's degree to be taught.

Under the strict supervision of his father, the young Qu Hongzhen was full of ambition to serve the country, worked hard, and won the Xiucai at the age of seventeen, was promoted at the age of twenty-one, and was promoted to the Jinshi at the age of twenty-two, and entered the Hanlin Academy. In the first year of Guangxu (1875), he took the Hanlin examination, and Qu Hongzhen ranked second in the first class.

In the following 20 years, Qu Hongzhen served as an examiner twice and four as a superintendent of school administration, covering five provinces. In the late Qing Dynasty, the internal affairs were deeply corrupted, and the Hanlin Dynasty took the study of politics as a fat difference. With such an opportunity, an official who loves money has already made a fortune. In the province where Qu Hongzhen went, he wholeheartedly selected talents, refused all extravagance and waste, refused all hospitality and gifts, and strictly forbade his subordinates to harass the local area in the name of education. After more than 20 years of loyalty to the country, his honest and honest official style was finally praised by the world, and his official position gradually rose from the fourth-grade waiter to the second-grade right waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

The Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, and the Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an with Emperor Guangxu in a hurry. Four of the ministers of military aircraft were deposed for the crime of "covering the fist", and only two were left, Rong Lu and Wang Wenshao, who urgently needed to be supplemented. Qu Hongzhen was recommended and rushed to Xi'an on the 15th day of the first month of 1901, and was appointed Minister of Military Aircraft after selection.

Since then, Qu Hongzhen has served as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, the Minister of Military Aircraft, and the Minister of Administrative Affairs. Later, the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen was changed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was above the six ministries, and he served as the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Because of his honest and honest officials, conscientious work, and courage to take responsibility, he has a very high prestige in the court and is deeply trusted by the Empress Dowager Cixi.

Yuan Shikai actually admired Zhai Hongsui very much, and he had worked hard to make friends. At the beginning, he put down his body and signaled that he was willing to become Zhai Hongsui's protégé.

Zhai Hongsui pushed back with "flattered, don't be". Then he asked someone if he could change the sticker, but Zhai Hongsui refused.

That's it, Yuan Shikai still wants to have a good relationship with Zhai Hongsui, and when he proposed to set up a responsible cabinet, he wanted to take Yixuan as the general. Li, he and Zhai Hongsui are the general manager of Fu. and co-organize.

Unexpectedly, Zhai Hongsui actually went to the Empress Dowager Cixi to play a copy of him, saying that he was very ambitious and wanted to firmly grasp the power of the cabinet by setting up a responsible cabinet, which eventually led to the miscarriage of the official reform plan that he had worked so hard to come up with.

After sticking a hot face to a cold ass again and again, Yuan Shikai still didn't give up, and later heard from others that Zhai Hongsui didn't look at a person like him at all, and he didn't care about being in the company of people like him at all.

That's not all, Zhai Hongsui also openly declared to the outside world: The greedy and mediocre Yixuan and the arrogant and domineering Yuan Shikai have formed a party for personal gain, how can an innocent person like him be in the same stream as Yuan Shikai and others?

finally made Yuan Shikai angry.

When Yuan Shikai learned that it was Zhai Hongsui who instigated this attack on himself and Yixuan, he made up his mind to get rid of it quickly.

According to Yuan Shikai's strategic arrangement, Yixuan began to act step by step.

Their first step was to deal with Cen Chunxuan.

Under the instigation of Yiliang and Yuan Shikai, Zhou Fu, the governor of Liangguang, and Songshou, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, successively telegraphed Raoping, Huanggang, Qinlian and other places to calm down the troubles.

On 27 May, Yi Xuan "went to Cixi" and vigorously exaggerated the military situation in Liangguang, claiming that Cen Chunxuan could not be pacified, and proposed that Cen Chunxuan be reappointed as the governor of Liangguang.

When Ling Chunxuan first came, how did Cixi see and like it, and felt that this court really lacked such a selfless person who didn't recognize his six relatives and was iron-faced.

However, it didn't take long for Cixi to get a little annoyed.

What's the matter with this man? No matter how you look at it, it's not pleasing to the eye, today to participate in this, tomorrow to participate in that, there are no good people in this world, are you Ling Chunxuan a good person?

Cixi gave him a privilege to enter at any time, and he did not refuse. Regardless of the repeated requests for meetings or slackness, he spoke unscrupulously, causing frequent waves in the government and the opposition.

What made Cixi most unhappy was that just the day before yesterday, he also secretly played a copy of Li Lianying.

Of course, if Li Lianying has a problem, it is not impossible to play the book. But there is nothing wrong, that is, "the relationship with Yuan Shikai is not ordinary". "The relationship with Yuan Shikai is not ordinary", what is the problem?

Xiao Lizi, a subordinate, can he offend a feudal official like Yuan Shikai? Isn't it reasonable to get closer to Yuan Shikai?

Therefore, after listening to Yixuan's words, on the one hand, I felt that Yixuan's proposal was reasonable, and Liangguang was originally Ling Chunxuan's territory. On the other hand, I really want to get Ling Chunxuan away as soon as possible and make my ears cleaner.

An order was immediately issued that Ling Chunxuan should be appointed governor of Erjiang and that he would be removed from his post as Shangshu who had not completed a month.