After the agreement was signed at the customs, Yuan Shikai was really depressed, and the foreigners only cared about their own interests and did not think from his point of view at all.

Once he becomes the president, he will slowly deal with the provisional political axe in East China, and if he can not increase their strength, he will not increase.

The agreement signed by the foreigner and the East China Provisional Political Axe, the East China Provisional Political Axe pays 5 million taels of silver every year, and the other tariffs are kept and used by the East China Temporary Political Axe, and if the customs operate well, then the income is very considerable.

However, Yuan Shikai could only accept this fact, and Xia Jun sent another telegram to urge him, limiting him to force the Qing court to abdicate within one month, otherwise he would take a large army to Yanjing.

Yuan Shikai had to increase the strength of the [***] palace, and on January 21, seeing that it was Chinese New Year's Eve, Yuan Shikai ran into the palace and cried with Empress Longyu in the East Nuan Pavilion.

Yuan Shikai cried profusely, denouncing the revolutionary party for betraying the country, and then said that the revolutionary party was powerful, Yanjing City would definitely not be able to hold it, and now there was no suitable place to move the capital, etc., and then said that he fought desperately and finally won the "Preferential Treatment of the Qing Room Agreement", saying that Yuan Shikai handed over the "Preferential Treatment of the Qing Room Agreement" to the Empress Dowager Longyu, which meant that she wanted her to announce her abdication.

The Empress Dowager Longyu cried sadly, and the six-year-old Pu Yi on the side looked at Yuan Shikai, a fat old man, kneeling on the ground, and the two cried so much that they didn't know what was going on.

Yuan Shikai said what he should say, and he left the Forbidden City.

I didn't think that just outside the Sanyi Teahouse, three bombs were dropped directly from the teahouse, the first bomb was not thrown, the second bomb killed and injured several of Yuan Shikai's guards, and the third bomb rolled under Yuan Shikai's carriage, but it didn't detonate, Yuan Shikai's coachman hurriedly whipped his horse and galloped away in a panic, so that Yuan Shikai escaped like shit luck.

As soon as the assassination happened, Yuan Shikai immediately thought of the Imperial Clan Socialist Party, and the one who wanted him to die the most in the capital was the Imperial Clan Socialist Party.

However, sixteen Assassins were soon arrested, and after interrogation, it was revealed that some of them were members of the League and some of them were members of small revolutionary groups in the north, and they were dissatisfied with the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe giving up the fruits of the revolution, so they thought of assassinating Yuan Shikai.

This assassination gave Yuan Shikai a chance, and the Empress Dowager Longyu, who was originally suspicious of him, trusted Yuan Shikai again, and then immediately gave Yuan Shikai a knighthood.

Yuan Shikai, as a celebrity around Cixi, naturally won the trust of the Empress Dowager Longyu, because the Empress Dowager Longyu was Cixi's niece, but the revelations of the royal clan party such as Liangbi made the Empress Dowager Longyu lose trust in Yuan Shikai before.

Liangbi entered the Forbidden City the next day and suggested to the Empress Dowager Longyu that Yuan Shikai should be dismissed first, so that the Beiyang Army would be leaderless, and the Beiyang Army would be held hostage by the Praetorian Guard, which could still stabilize the situation in the north and let the Qing Dynasty keep half of the north.

This plan was soon known by Yuan Shikai, and when Yuan Shikai heard this, he immediately felt cold, and hurriedly called Tang Shaoyi to ask Wang Jingwei to sneak back to Yanjing.

After Wang Jingwei returned to Yanjing, he and Yuan Shikai soon planned an assassination operation to assassinate Liangbi.

On January 25, as soon as Liangbi came out of the Forbidden City, a man walked up to him, and this man handed out an official post from the Yamen, saying that he had an urgent matter.

As soon as Liangbi received the post in the sedan chair, he immediately heard a loud bang, and then Liangbi's left leg was injured, and the assassin died on the spot.

The assassination of Liangbi shook the Qing court, and in order to save Liangbi, the Qing court hurriedly went to ask a Western doctor to do an amputation, Liangbi was only injured in one leg, and he could continue to serve the court.

At this time, there was no one in the Qing court, and Yuan Shikai leaned towards the government and the opposition, and sent those Manchu magnates home, leaving only Liangbi, a shrewd and capable talent.

Therefore, Liangbi was also regarded as the last hope by the Qing court, and the Empress Dowager Longyu refused to abdicate, apparently because of Liangbi's obstruction, which gave birth to some hope and luck for the Empress Dowager Longyu.

"Didn't blow up!" Yuan Shikai was shocked in the secret room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Wang Jingwei replied: "Yes, godfather." ”

"Hmmm! Let me think. Yuan Shikai walked left and right, walked back and forth a few times, and suddenly clapped his hands and said, "There is." ”

Wang Jingwei listened eagerly, only to see Yuan Shikai say: "Go and call Zhao Bingjun to come, let him go to see Liangbi in the name of visiting, and find a clever Chinese medicine doctor to give him fire poison." ”

"Attack it with medicine?" Wang Jingwei asked in a low voice.

"Not bad." Yuan Shikai nodded and said, Wang Jingwei couldn't help but admire this godfather again.

About half a day later, Zhao Bingjun went to see Liangbi in the name of visiting, and brought a Chinese medicine doctor to dispel Liangbi's fire poison, Liangbi didn't care much, so he asked the Chinese medicine doctor to give him cupping and so on.

As a result, in the afternoon of the same day, Liangbi was in pain all over his body, and he died after two days.

On the same day, the Empress Dowager Longyu was resting in the palace, and she saw a little eunuch hurriedly running in, and shouted sadly: "Empress Dowager Qiyu, Lord Liangbi is gone......"

"What! What happened to Liangbi? The Empress Dowager Longyu sat up in shock.

"Lord Liangbi has gone." The little eunuch replied.

"How?"

"He was poisoned with medicine."

"Who is it?"

"It's Zhao Bingjun......"

The Empress Dowager Longyu was almost frightened when she heard this, and hurriedly ordered a meeting to discuss abdication the next day.

The next day, only Zhao Bingjun came, and those Manchu ministers were all sent home by Yuan Shikai, and the Empress Dowager Longyu cried and said to Zhao Bingjun: "Zhao Bingjun, go and tell Yuan Shikai quickly, everything is easy to discuss, and it is important to save my mother and son's surname." ”

When the news of the abdication of the Qing family broke, it didn't take long for the Praetorian Guards to lose control and block the gates of Yanjing City in this New Year.

The Praetorian Guards threatened to hang Yuan Shikai and other cabinet members on the four city gate towers. At this time, Feng Guozhang didn't know what the reason was, and he also began to stand up and speak for the Qing court.

Yuan Shikai hurriedly rushed to see Feng Guozhang, and said to him with a slap in his face: "Do you know where the hero Xiang Yu was defeated? He was defeated by the kindness of the woman, and defeated by not being able to recognize the overall situation. ”

Feng Guozhang's position was trained by Yuan Shikai, and he immediately changed again.

On the same day, Feng Guozhang went to the Praetorian Guard barracks, and the Praetorian Guards soldiers surrounded him to death, Feng Guozhang said that the revolutionary army is powerful, you go to fight the revolutionary army, who will protect the royal family in the capital? The soldiers of the Praetorian Guard said that the Qing Dynasty was gone, and the Praetorian Guard would definitely be disbanded, and it was better to fight to the death than to sit still.

Feng Guozhang immediately held the "Agreement on the Preferential Treatment of the Qing Room in the North-South Peace" and ascended the platform, announcing that the Praetorian Guard would never be disbanded, and the treatment of officers and soldiers would remain the same, if you don't believe Feng, you can send two representatives to follow you at night, and if Feng can't do it, you can ask Feng for his life at any time.

In fact, these Janissaries rioted, but they were just reluctant to be treated well.

A mutiny was thus eliminated, and Yanjing City, which had just passed the New Year, was filled with confusion and excitement at this time, and people found that people on the street had already begun to cut their braids.

There is also a new year calendar from Nanjing, the top of which is the year of Xinhai yesterday, and the year of the first year on the right. The people are very confused, whether it will be called the year of Xinhai or the year of the first year, or the third year of Xuantong in the future...... On January 30, the seventh day of the first lunar month, the Qing court issued an edict to formally abdicate, and the Qing Dynasty, which had ruled China for more than 260 years, came to an end.

When the news reached Hangzhou, Xia Jun still couldn't fully accept this result, because he did not agree with the "Qing Family Preferential Treatment Agreement", so he did not sign this agreement in the previous negotiations, but signed the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe.

However, Xia Jun is not in a hurry, and this will be calculated slowly after the account.

This New Year, Xia Jun held a Spring Festival party, at which the art team from the army came to perform, and the art team sang the songs "Singing the Motherland" and "East China Army Soul" copied and rectified by Xia Jun, and the lyrics of these songs were modified by him.

In addition to the personnel of the East China Temporary Political Axe, many industrial and commercial people were also invited to participate in the party.

These sketches are mainly used to popularize the political axe policy for the common people, and the stories are all related to the political axe policy, including the sketches about the tax exemption policy for farmers, the sketches about the relief of poor households, and the sketches about encouraging industry and commerce, and the sketches about changing the dynasty and encouraging people to restore the clothes and crowns of the Han people.

Considering that Mandarin is not widely spoken in various places, Xia Jun asked people to record it, and then let the local people dub it in the local dialect, and then the projectionist took it to the countryside to show it.

However, in this Spring Festival, Xia Jun's East China Provisional Political Axe was sued in court, and it was Sheng Xuanhuai, the Minister of Posts and Communications of the Qing Court, who sued the East China Provisional Political Axe.

The cause of the incident was the confiscation of the steamship China Merchants Bureau when the East China Provisional Political Axe conquered Shanghai, and not only the official shares, but also the shares of Sheng Xuanhuai.

Then the East China Provisional Political Axe captured Jiangxi and confiscated the steel plant of the Hanyeping Iron and Steel Company in Pingxiang.

Sheng Xuanhuai was angry, so he sued the East China Provisional Political Axe to court. As a result, the People's Court of the East China Provisional Political Axe really accepted it, so the two sides faced off in court on the fifth day of the first lunar month.

After trial, the East China Provisional Political Axe People's Court ruled that Sheng Xuanhuai was a Manchu official, and that he did not respond to the East China Provisional Political Axe at the time of the revolution, and that he was a hostile force, and that the confiscated property would not be returned.

Speaking of Sheng Xuanhuai, I have to say that Hu Xueyan, who was rich in the world back then, was yin by this person, and as a result, Hu Xueyan's money bank was run, and the huge industry was crushed due to the inability to turn over funds, and Hu Xueyan died in anger soon after.

And last year's road protection movement was also caused by Sheng Xuanhuai's announcement of the state-owned railway, although the main reason was not him, but he could not escape responsibility.

The East China Provisional Political Axe has not arrested and prosecuted him, and it is simply a fool's dream to want the East China Temporary Political Axe to return his property.

China Merchants Steamship is a freight company, Xia Jun doesn't care very much, but there is one talent among them, that is, Zheng Guanying of China Merchants Steamship Three, this person is one of the three heroes of China Merchants Steamship.

Zheng Guanying is already 70 years old, and has twice presided over the steamship China Merchants Bureau, under his auspices, the steamship China Merchants Bureau has twice got rid of its predicament and gained a place in the freight competition with foreign banks, and this time he returned to the steamship China Merchants Bureau for the third time, and he returned as Sheng Xuanhuai's cronies, and did not have the right to preside over the overall situation.

Xia Jun planned to dig this person into the East China Ocean Shipping Company, which was specially in charge of the transportation management of domestic ports and the Yangtze River waterway.

At this time, the Qing family has announced its abdication, and the next thing is the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe and Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Political Axe, and Xia Jun can develop with peace of mind.

(To be continued)