Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Sunset of the Dynasty
The 200-year-old Dynasty has not even had a person who can make up its mind. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter Yuan Shikai left, the princes and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty just sighed and didn't say a word.
Empress Dowager Longyu looked at Yixuan and said, "Prince Qing, what is your opinion?" ”
Yixuan was very embarrassed, although he and Yuan Shikai had secretly reached a consensus on the abdication of the Qing Emperor, but it could not be put on the table, at least he still had to take care of the face.
After pondering for a while, he still spoke: "Queen Mother, now that the revolutionary republic is a fashionable trend, no one in the court and the world can resist it." Now there is still a Yuan Gongbao supporting us, striving for preferential treatment for us. I heard that Nanjing has promised that the emperor's title will never be abolished, and that in the future, it will be treated with the courtesy of foreign monarchs and ministers, and it has also decided to allocate 4 million taels to the imperial family every year, and the palace guards will also use it as usual. These conditions have been published in the newspapers, and both China and foreign countries are aware of them, so what's so bad? ”
"Then you are in favor of the republic, and the emperor has abdicated?" Mrs. Longyu was desolate and bitter in her heart.
"The minister is judging the current situation according to the truth, as for whether the royal family abdicates, the minister is favored by the country, how dare he make such a rebellious speech, everything is clearly determined by the queen mother." Yi Liang waved his hand again and again, he is a member of the royal family, and his position is still on the side of the royal family.
The Empress Dowager Longyu looked at the others again, and after a long time, she only gained a piece of submissiveness, and everything was at the will of the Empress Dowager. Empress Dowager Longyu burst into tears, and the clan relatives and nobles only knew how to talk big, but they couldn't come up with a useful idea.
"Emperor Dezong left early and threw the country to me as a woman. This damn revolutionary party has now ruined the country and the family, and Yuan Shikai has no conscience, and he has come to bully our orphans and widows. If you don't say it, it seems that I want to bear it alone, or not, I will be the master in the future, don't say that the three hundred years of the foundation of your ancestors will be lost in my hands alone. ”
Listening to the sad words of the Empress Dowager Longyu, Liangbi was full of tragedy, stood up, looked at the Empress Dowager Longyu with red eyes and said: "Queen Mother, please rest assured, the ministers have their own arrangements, and the ministers believe that they can still clean it up." I have been deeply gracious in the Qing Dynasty for more than 300 years, what kind of wind and waves have not been seen, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was rampant, everyone said that I couldn't keep the Qing Dynasty, but Zeng Wenzhenggong of Zeng Guofan didn't believe it, and led the Hunan army to rise up and perish, can't we learn from his old man now? Please don't mention any abdication for the time being, the days to come will be long! ”
"The preferential treatment regulations of the Qing family are about to be formed, why do you have to act like this, trapping the queen mother and the emperor in danger!" Yixuan shook his head with a bitter face.
Liangbi ignored him, and he couldn't be described as hateful anymore. The so-called day and night defense, the thief is difficult to prevent, he believes that Yixuan is the thief among the royal family and nobles.
Seeing that no one spoke anymore, this court discussion has reached the final stage.
"Queen Mother, the ministers will retire first."
The princes and ministers walked out of the Forbidden City in twos and threes, and it began to be quiet again.
Liangbi also strode out of the main hall, looking at the sunset in the west, no one thought that Liangbi would go, but it was a road of no return. A few days later, a bloody incident occurred in the city of Beijing. On the eighth day of the lunar month, when Liangbi returned to the mansion by carriage, he was seriously injured by Peng Jiazhen, a revolutionary from the assassination department of the Beijing-Tianjin Alliance, and died two days later.
Any regime has its extremists, and as the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for more than 300 years, how can it be an exception? The building is about to fall, the general trend has gone, and for the pain of losing the country, whether it is that dynasty or generation, those royal relatives are the most difficult to let go.
Liangbi is the same, this has been different from ordinary people since he was a child, the young handsome, upright, arrogant, he studied in the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, he prides himself on knowing the soldiers, participated in the Qing court's reform of the year system, and trained the new army, he and Tie Liang were rare leaders in the clan at that time, and they were the few talents.
Nanjing established a provisional government, and Yuan Shikai's Beiyang generals coerced and enticed the imperial court and strongly persuaded the emperor to abdicate.
The situation was urgent, in order to resist the coercion of the revolutionary party and Yuan Shikai, he secretly held several meetings with Zaitao, Zai Ze, Tieliang, Pu Wei and other royal clansmen to discuss countermeasures, and deliberately established the Constituent Monarchy, that is, the Zongshe Party, whose members had two dragon motifs tattooed on their chests and Manchu names as symbols, and were actively active in the Beijing-Tianjin area to oppose the republic. He also issued a manifesto, preparing to regain Yuan Shikai's powers, set up a "wartime imperial cabinet", with Tie Liang as the commander-in-chief, organized the army of the imperial court, and went south to fight to the death with the revolutionary party.
Liangbi, who served as the commander of the Praetorian Guard, although his position was replaced by Feng Guozhang after Yuan Shikai came to power, his connections in the Praetorian Guard are still there, and Tie Liang has been in the army for a long time and has a great influence in the army. Therefore, for a time, the momentum of the Zongshe Party was also extraordinary. His appearance was like a shot of morphine, which made the dying Daqing seem to be refreshed again.
In 1905, Wu Yue, a revolutionary aspirant, wrote an article "The Age of Assassination", proposing the means to overthrow the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
In 1912, the era of revolution can be said to have arrived, although the south has been established by the Republic of China, but the Qing court in the north has not abdicated for a long time. The revolutionary party decided to assassinate the recalcitrant enemy, and the two major targets were Yuan Shikai, the head of Beiyang, and Liangbi, the soul of the Zongshe Party.
It's just a pity that although the assassination of Yuan Shikai has been planned for a long time, it still ended in failure. As soon as they missed, they turned their attention to Liangbi.
Liangbi was a Manchu royal family with a certain number of troops in his hands, and he was the soul of the Zongshe Party. He was a staunch opponent of the emperor's abdication, an extremely stubborn and conservative man, and a sworn enemy of the revolution. The revolutionaries vowed to get rid of this sworn enemy, the chief reactionary.
The person who was ordered to assassinate Liangbi was Peng Jiazhen, a 24-year-old revolutionary from Sichuan. He had served in the Jiangwu Hall in Fengtian, and knew that Chonggong, the overseer of the Jiangwu Hall, had a good relationship with Liangbi, so he compiled and printed Chonggong's name post, and after dressing up, he went to assassinate him. On this trip, he was with a heart of death.
On the eighth day of the lunar month, Peng Jiazhen wore the uniform of the new army standard and wore a saber, took a carriage to the mansion in Liangbi, Hongluochang, and presented the name of Chonggong to Menzi. At this time, Liangbi was still working in his own office of the Military Advisory Office, and when he saw the greeting post that the subordinate specially came from home to bring him, he had no doubts in his heart, he and Chonggong were both students studying in Japan, and they still had a friendship with each other.
It's just that he was busy with official business at that time, and there were many things in the yamen, so he asked his subordinates to tell this Chonggong to meet at his home in the evening. After getting the letter, Peng Jiazhen carried the bomb in his arms and began to stand in front of the house of Liangbi in the West Gate Dahongluo Factory to wait.
Wait until late. Liangbi returned home in a carriage. As soon as the gate opened, the light emitted from the courtyard clearly reflected Liangbi, who was dressed in a military uniform. Seeing this scene, Peng Jiazhen quickly flashed out and threw the bomb in his hand. The bomb exploded when it landed, and Liangbi's left leg was immediately blown off, and he fell to the ground with serious injuries, which was unbearable. And Peng Jiazhen couldn't dodge, and was hit in the head by flying shrapnel and died on the spot.
Liangbi, who was seriously injured, did not survive in the end, and two days later, he also died of exhaustion.
Liangbi's death, this is a great event, and it immediately set off earth-shattering waves in Beijing. In addition to Yuan Shikai, who benefited the most, the revolutionaries also applauded.
But as the soul of the Zongshe Party, his death greatly shocked those Manchu relatives and nobles, and the ants still steal their lives, not to mention them. As a result, those nobles who were still talking about their co-existence with the Qing Dynasty a few days ago either closed their doors, deposited their family wealth in foreign banks, or hid in the concession with their families, and began to become like frightened birds. And Pu Wei and Tie Liang and other core figures of the Zongshe Party were also disheartened, and they no longer insisted on using force and opposed the republic.
There was a sense of despair all over the city of Beijing, and the heavy snow fell one after another, falling on the golden roof of the nine-fold palace, like singing an elegy for the end of the dying dynasty.