Beijing.

At the end of the day, the howling wind gradually subsided, and only the snow was still falling endlessly, falling on the patio and the roof, rustling. Yuan Shikai felt that the kang was too hot, and he was always restless when he sat up and lay down, frowning and pacing back and forth under the lamp.

The pair of stunning sisters knew his heart very well, and they didn't dare to move, they stayed by and thought about their own thoughts, from North Korea to China, from Concubine Min to think of herself who followed Concubine Min's adopted daughter to marry Yuan Shikai, and didn't feel full of sadness.

There is also a capital that is terrifying, the first humanoid vicious dog next to Yuan Shikai, Zhao Bingjun is also among them, but the corners of his eyes keep peeking at the pair of stunning sisters.

"Zhi'an," Yuan Shikai suddenly turned around and asked, "The matter in Hubei is really a headache. ”

Yuan Shikai was dismissed and returned to his hometown, and Shanqi took advantage of the situation to seize the police power in Beijing. On March 23, Zhao Bingjun was dismissed, and the Manchu nobles took control of the police power in Beijing. On October 10, 1911, the Xinhai Revolution broke out, and on November 13, the Qing court was forced to use Yuan Shikai to form a cabinet, and on the 16th, Zhao Bingjun served as the Minister of Civil Affairs of the Yuan Cabinet. Zhao Bingjun still won Yuan Shikai's trust.

Zhao Bingjun was stunned by his question, quickly retracted his gaze, and said with a smile: "Crazy Li is far away from the emperor, what can't be done?" Foreigners are not afraid of any of them, but they are afraid of this madman. Rest assured, wait, there will be messengers coming to spy on the eastern suburbs soon. As for the commander of the Duan army, ......" Zhao Bingjun muttered, "I'm afraid I still can't clean up the madman Li, after all, the northern army is alone in Hubei, and the madman Li has a home advantage......

"You don't have to go on," Yuan Shikai stopped Zhao Bingjun, he knew the situation in Hubei well, "This matter is clear, and he must be punished for dereliction of duty." ”

"Whose sin will the father condemn?" Yuan Keding came in as soon as he lifted the curtain and said with a smile, "Father wants to run a military command, at this time, it must not be, the battle situation in Hubei will not affect the peace plan, why fight with the villain for the short and long of the day?" If you really want to set up a military command, don't you let everyone in the world know that we lost to Madman Li on the battlefield in Hubei? ”

"The eldest prince is right." Zhao Bingjun also smiled and said, "Why bother with Madman Li for a while, isn't this to give Madman Li a face?" -- Reasoning, a matter of one word, do not mess with him anywhere. ”

"Can't you do him in Hubei?" Yuan Shikai was a little disappointed when he heard this, sat back on the edge of the kang and said, "Look at the overwhelming boasting of can we let Madman Li be so arrogant?" ”

When Yuan Keding heard this, he was also furious, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Father, this matter, foreigners are more anxious than us, Hankou involves huge interests of various countries, let's see what the foreigners do first." At a time when the tide was frenzied and I didn't know how the situation was developing, the eastern suburbs had lost confidence in Duan Juntong, fearing that Hankou would fall into the hands of Li Maniac again, and they could not do anything about it, so they sent reporters from the Times of London to Beijing, the daily newspaper of Paris, and the daily newspaper Columbia in Germany, to meet their father in the Hutong of Thira Hutong in an unofficial name......

Yuan Shikai was surprised and delighted, and said with a smile, "Fang Caizhi'an also said that there should be a messenger in the eastern suburbs, but I don't want to really have it, this heavy snow, it is difficult for them to walk in the dark." Please! Hurry up, please! ”

Hubei is soaring again.

Public opinion in the imperialist countries either showed disappointment with the Qing court or pinned their hopes on Yuan Shikai, but they were likely to expose the weaknesses of the Chinese revolutionaries and argue that the capitalists were trying to seize control of China and take advantage of the opportunity to reap the benefits.

The seizure of China's customs custody by the General Department of Customs and Taxation was an important event for imperialism to take advantage of the opportunity of the Chinese revolution to expand its interests.

After the Wuchang uprising, the Wuchang revolutionary authorities did not immediately inquire about the local customs. However, Li Xiang recovered the Hankou Concession by thunderous means, and at the same time firmly controlled the Hankou Customs. But the time was very short, Li Xiang was soon squeezed out of Hankou, and the Hankou concession and customs returned to the hands of foreigners.

The first revolutionary regime to engage in customs issues and confrontations with customs authorities by legitimate means was the Hunan Military Government. It immediately sent a note to the British Department of Taxation of Changsha Customs and asked to take over the customs. On the one hand, Wei Kefei refused, and on the other hand, he asked for instructions from the British Customs Acting General Taxation Department in Beijing. Anglian was already planning a customs response to the revolution, and on October 15 he had instructed the Hankow Tax Department not to "let the tax money go to the treasury of the revolutionary party".

On the 23rd, he told Hu Weide, deputy minister of the Qing government's tax department, that he should "adopt a certain policy to ensure that the customs duties are not used for military expenses by the revolutionary party, and that they should be repaid for foreign debts."

This laid down the basic principles for them to deal with the customs duties at the ports of the revolution. On the basis of this principle, Wei Kefei negotiated with the Hunan Military Government. At this time, the military government proposed to deposit the tariff revenues in the government's Dahan Bank, which would be temporarily frozen, and neither the military government nor the tax department would use them. This has taken a step back from the original position of taking over customs, but Wei Kefei still does not accept it. He claimed that the banks of the revolutionary government were unreliable and that the military government had not yet been recognized by the Great Powers. He hinted that if he did not listen, customs officials would go on a collective strike. During this period, gunboats from imperialist countries continued to appear on the Changsha River, which actually played a role in intimidating the junta.

Under these circumstances, the Hunan military government made concessions in just a few days in early November: first, it agreed that the taxes should be deposited in the British HSBC bank; Step 2, agree to store in the name of the Directorate General of Taxation; The third step is to agree not to use it yourself under the condition that the General Tax Department does not make unauthorized withdrawals.

In this way, the right to control and use the customs revenues of Changsha was relinquished, and the custody of customs duties was handed over to the General Department of Taxation, and it also agreed that the taxes of Yuezhou Customs would be treated accordingly. Changsha set a precedent for the closure of Changsha, and Anglian and others decided to extend this method to other treaty ports where revolutions were taking place.

In particular, as soon as Shanghai turned to revolution, the British Minister Zhu Erdian immediately sent a telegram to the British Consul General in Shanghai, stipulating that the "rebellious government" should not touch the customs revenue.

While the British embassy and consulate officials and Chinese customs officials coordinated with each other to deal with the Chinese revolution, the Chinese revolutionaries lacked unity and went their own way. The attitude of the revolutionary authorities towards the question of customs and customs duties varied from place to place, and their methods of dealing with them were also different, but the results were generally the same, and in a short time almost all of them followed the footsteps of Changsha. In Guangzhou, Mei Lehe, the British Taxation Department of the Guangdong Customs, also won the right to move and pay tariffs for the General Taxation Department. The practice of the great powers made it impossible for the revolutionaries to use tariffs, which was approved by the Qing government.

On November 20, the Qing government sent a note to Zhu Erdian, announcing that the customs revenues of the various localities where the revolution had broken out had been confiscated to the General Department of Customs, and that all of them should be used to repay foreign debts and Gengzi indemnities. But imperialism is not satisfied with seizing the customs duties of the revolutionary areas, and they want to wipe out all the customs duties in the whole country. On November 19, after consultation between Anglian and Zhu Erdian, a note was sent to the Qing government requesting that all tax revenues, including those at all ports that had left the Qing government and were still under the control of the Qing government, be placed under the administration of the General Department of Taxation in order to pay off foreign debts and compensation. The Qing government did not dare to disobey and agreed on November 27. In accordance with this spirit, Anglian quickly formulated four measures: on the one hand, all customs duties should be forwarded to the Shanghai HSBC Bank by the respective customs and taxation departments, and deposited in the accounts of the general taxation department; On the other hand, the ministers of various countries are required to appoint a "committee of foreign banks" to agree on the order of repayment of the various foreign debts, so that the general tax can be paid in order and on schedule.

After the Qing government examined and approved these four measures, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a note to Zhu Erdian on December 2 and forwarded them to the ministers of various countries.

The ministers of each country consulted the directors of the relevant foreign banks in Shanghai on how to implement these measures, and the directors met and made six resolutions, which were then reported to their respective governments by the ministers of each country. After the approval of the governments, the Beijing diplomatic corps met to discuss and decide on the six resolutions and the four proposed measures proposed by Angle.

On behalf of the diplomatic corps, Zhu Erdian sent a note of his decision to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Anglian then formulated eight measures on China's tariffs based on the opinions of various parties, the main contents of which are: 1a. Establish a committee of banks in Shanghai to determine the order of repayment of various foreign debts; 2. The General Department of Customs and Excise shall inform the Commission of the situation of the net deposit of taxes by the Customs; 3. The General Taxation Department of Customs and Excise shall make arrangements for the tax collection offices to remit their net tax deposits to Shanghai once a week; 4 The General Department of Customs and Excise shall make arrangements for the net tax deposits, which are concentrated in Shanghai, to be deposited in the banks of HSBC, Deutsch-Hua and Russia as evenly as possible on a weekly basis, for the purpose of repaying the relevant foreign debts and indemnities, etc. Both the diplomatic corps and the Qing government approved these measures, and on January 30 and February 3 respectively, they issued instructions to nine foreign banks in Shanghai and the Anglian of the General Department of Customs and Excise to put them into effect immediately.

The Eight Measures are not only a summary of the previous activities of the imperialists and the Chinese customs officials in collusion to seize the custody of China's tariffs, but also the basis for the imperialist control of China's tariffs for many years to come.

Since then, the entire process of China's tariffs from collection to payment has been separated from the hands of the Chinese, but has been attributed to the General Department of Taxation, and the three foreign banks in China and the banking committees of various countries in Shanghai have been managed and authorized respectively, and finally flowed into the hands of foreign bondholders. And it legitimizes the diplomatic corps' intervention in China's tariffs. This was a new shackle that the great powers put on China on the occasion of the Chinese revolution.

Thinking of the insatiable greed of foreigners, Yuan Shikai also felt a headache.

Three foreign adults, high-spirited.

The British gentleman's beard curled and said: "This revolutionary army is to save China from peril, because it saw the Manchurian government, which caused the country to be weak, so it was eliminated to preserve sovereignty. The purpose of the revolution is to seek to establish contact and increase the power of the nation, not to separate it. Now that the independent provinces are not satisfied, they are not bound to overthrow. The Manchu government is in turmoil and the people are separated, and it must not be preserved. The British constitutional monarchy is believed in by the people, and the Manchu monarch is not believed in by the people, so it cannot be compared with the United Kingdom. ”

Germany said mechanically with a straight face: "China's future political system will be changed to a republic, or whether it will still be a constitutional monarchy, has nothing to do with Germany." The Chinese should judge themselves and not work for outsiders. The majority of its people have attained the level of a republic, or have made great progress in political and economic fields since they were converted into a republic. In China, it must have been prepared. This is all about China's internal affairs, and Wude has never thought of interfering. I hope that the chaos will be settled quickly, and its sovereign will continue to be in harmony with Germany in any way, and that virtue will also wish deeply. ”

Yuan Shikai raised his eyebrows imperceptibly: "All parties still have to resolutely remain neutral?" ”

"Exactly!" The three foreign adults spoke in unison.

Yuan Shikai smiled dumbly: "Japan's Toyama Mitsuru, Kono Hirochu, Sugida Dingichi, Nezuichi, Ogawa Hirayoshi, etc., organized the Japanese Good Neighbor Comrades Association to issue a manifesto in favor of the Chinese revolution. It is said: We are good neighbors, and we pray for the revolutionary army to carry out its purpose quickly according to the good interests of our country and the people, and hope that the other countries will learn from the situation of the times, and there is no fallacy of interfering in the political system.

For example, the Japanese careerists thought that the Chinese revolution could take advantage of the opportunity, and there were many people who advocated sending troops to intervene. On the 6th of October, the 3rd Division of Nagoya was ordered to select a battalion of infantry and a machine gun team (750 soldiers) from the 33rd and 51st standards of infantry. Hankou also transferred 500 troops to the army, and under the pretext of protecting the concession, it also sent 13,000 troops to land at Liushutun in Dalian Bay in Mukden (present-day Liaoning). At that time, diplomatic circles suspected that Japan's dispatch of troops might be a preliminary part of its intervention, but the original agreement of the Beijing diplomatic corps to act in concert was not to interfere alone, and the United States and Germany paid special attention. Although Britain was in close contact with the Allies and the United States, and there was no excuse for the actions of the People's Army, there was nothing to do. At that time, Tsarist Russia was watching Manchuria, and the situation was extremely sinister, and the entire territory under the jurisdiction of Hulun had been occupied, and the Russian-Mongolian private agreement was negotiated......"

The actions of the great powers towards China, all kinds of Zhuang Zhuang, were brought by Yuan Shikai one by one, and the faces of the three foreign adults were extremely ugly. This is what they call neutrality, but Yuan Shikai is asking for them, so he naturally swallows his anger. At this juncture, they were still twisting and pinching like this, and he Yuan simply tore open the skylight and talked to them.

"Zhao Erxun, the governor of the three eastern provinces, sent a letter to visit the first Wang Xiaotang, who is now living in the Daxing Hotel and the Shenyang Pavilion at Shenyang Nanman Station, recruiting many people, and there are many bombs and arms, intending to riot. 1. Wang Xiaotang and others claimed that the Japanese merchant office borrowed more than 100,000 yuan in silver and provided arms and bombs. The daily use of old man's tickets in the concession was extremely profligate, so that the lower class tended to have a lot of attachments. 1. Yuelai Pavilion, Daxing Hotel, Shenyang Pavilion and other places are all places where bandits gather, and every Japanese person helps to take care of everything. 1. The Japanese Kawasaki and the other three claimed to be members of the Kanto Prefecture and were the masterminds of the bandits, and now they are going to Dalian to ask for instructions, and they will immediately riot. 1. The Japanese soldiers were reorganized and stationed in the offices of various residence firms in the city, and they immediately intervened when they planned to riot. 1. Lan Tianwei changed his name and recruited soldiers in the Shenyang Pavilion in Dalian. 1. Zhuanghe, Fuzhou Pan Si, Gu Renyi and other bandits hid in Piziwo, Sandwich and other places, and bought Japanese guns and many Japanese guns from Japanese businessmen at heavy prices. 1. The remaining bandits in Fuzhou should live in the Sixth Brigade of Japan, and there are currently four Japanese who are the masters of the Zhuangfu Party. On the night of the fifth day of the first lunar month, more than 20 Japanese soldiers led more than 20 soldiers into the city with loaded guns and inspected near the Ordnance Bureau, causing the people to be quite confused. 1. The Japanese agreed that as soon as they heard of the riots, they would enter the city with a brigade to intervene. 1. Today, on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Xiaotang, Liu Danian and others have issued more than 20 pistols and more than 170 large guns. 1. All bandits are issued free tickets by the South Manchurian Railway. All of the above are indeed reported. The Japanese, including Shigeo Moto, Hidesaku Tashiro, Massujiro Yamane, and Juro Kobayashi, threw three bombs at the bell tower of the provincial capital and the same place as Hanmoxuan Hu. Fortunately, the military and police immediately recovered Arimoto and Tashiro, and found two bombs. ”

The British gentleman said innocently: "According to this confession, this bomb was purchased by Wang Xiaotang. ”

Yuan Shikai said coldly: "Recently, there has been chaos in Liaoyang, Phoenix, Zhuangfu and other places, and I plan to disrupt order from the provincial capital, so that I don't have time to look outside, so I can get it." And it is scheduled to start on the 14th, and the incident outside the province will start at the same time. Among the Japanese people, Togo Yoshiki subsidized the salary. There are also Ezaki Mizuho, Yano Shinnosuke, as well as Ohara, Hamada, Kawasaki, Miyazaki, etc., all colluding with Wang Guozhu. It is not a day since Wang Guozhu disappeared from Japanese stations and recruited troops to buy weapons. Stacked with the Japanese collar to ask for cooperation, and often prevaricated without evidence. Bandits from outside the province have repeatedly obstructed our troop movements, and they have deliberately delayed the movement of troops under the pretext of a special order from the government, causing the troops to advance on foot, which is extremely difficult. According to the confession of the Japanese person, it is actually intended to undermine the public order and reap the profits. The evidence is conclusive, and it is by no means comparable to rumors. It is planned to ask for serious negotiations, and the Japanese envoy will quickly call the Japanese to take the Wang Guozhu and hand it over to curb the chaos. It is still necessary to strictly restrain the people of the country, and it is forbidden to help sell weapons or collude with bandits. If there is any such behavior, the leader shall be held responsible. and hope to inform the ministers of various countries to destroy their schemes. It's what I want. ”

The grievances between Yuan Shikai and Xiao Dongyang, this has to start from North Korea, and the three foreign adults know it, but they are only unofficial representatives, and they dare not accept it. They came here to find out if Yuan Shikai had any intention of continuing to fight in Hubei, but they didn't listen to him complain, Gao Xiao Dongyang was black. It's just that the conversation has reached this point, and it has seriously deviated from their original intention, and they can't even ask.

They can only say routinely: "Civilized countries agree that everything that is done in China must be consulted, and no interference can be made alone." If people of all nations violate their neutrality, they will be stopped. ”

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