Zhongnanhai Huairentang Chai Dongliang succeeded Yuan Shikai as acting president, things went very smoothly, Yuan Shikai's family quietly returned to Zhangde's hometown with 1 million cash and equity certificates. Chai Dongliang originally planned to arrange a high-standard farewell ceremony for him, but Yuan Shikai refused on the grounds that he was seriously ill. This is also easy to understand, after all, he was forced to go home, and Lao Yuan couldn't accept a young junior to show off his might in front of him.

Chai Dongliang couldn't help sighing, another piece of history has been rewritten, and it is impossible for Yuan Shikai to restore himself as an emperor.

Sun Wen, Yuan Shikai, Li Yuanhong??? All competitors were eliminated by this era because of the low-level mistakes they made, some were too aggressive, some were too cowardly, and some were just faint for a while because they were seriously ill, but as heroes in troubled times, they can't tolerate the slightest mistake, they have become a thing of the past, and the new era belonging to Chai Dongliang has just begun.

Chai Dongliang was accompanied by business figures such as Wu Jintang and Yu Qiaqing, who lobbied the Beiyang generals with checkbooks, demanding that they surrender their arms, return to their hometowns to enjoy happiness, or go to the Shanghai Concession to work as dukes. This kind of thing, Yu Qiaqing has long been familiar with the road, during the Xinhai Revolution, the governor of Jiangsu, Cheng Dequan, was bought by him with a million silver dollars. At the same time, Chai Dongliang secretly ordered the Jianghuai Army of the two divisions of Mongolia and Fengtian to enter Beijing into Tianjin and Yanjing, these are soldiers who have fought with the Mongols and himself, not to mention the advanced equipment armed to the teeth, even the evil spirit on their bodies has already made Beiyang frightened. Lei Zhenchun, the governor of Guangdong, and Feng Guozhang, the governor of Hunan, were ordered to secretly enter Beijing and ask them to help Yu Qiaqing and Wu Jintang, and use their old friendships to persuade the governors and division commanders of the Beiyang Department to hand over their arms.

On the one hand, there are large checks waving in the sky, and on the other hand, there is the murderous Jianghuai army. Carrots and sticks, grace and power, it depends on whether they choose silver dollars or bullets.

Chai Dongliang is now the acting president and the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, and the incorporation of the Beiyang Army is a matter within its jurisdiction, and it is legally impeccable, and any act of resisting the incorporation can be regarded as resisting the central government by force. Chai Dongliang can be like Yuan Shikai to extinguish Sun Wen's "second revolution", and launch an armed crusade against the rebellion!

Wu Peifu, Cai Yi, and others were also secretly doing the work of middle and lower-ranking officers of the Beiyang Army, so that they could understand their duties and responsibilities, and at the same time promised that if they honestly accepted the reorganization, they would enjoy the same preferential treatment as the officers and men of the Jianghuai Army, and not only would the military salaries be paid to the Jianghuai Army according to the same standard, but also the land would be given priority during the land reform.

Cao Kun, Meng Enyuan and others, who had long been warned by Yuan Shikai not to cause trouble, were also deflated, and now there is no other spell to recite except for entanglement in the amount of the check, even if they want to rebel, their soldiers must be willing to follow!

Chai Dongliang now holds the name of the central government, occupies the moral high ground, and at the same time has strong force and a lot of money, and the officers of the Beiyang Army will not follow the commander to rebel unless they are drunk!

As Gu Weijun, who entered Beijing, became the acting senior secretary to the president, he kept reading the telegrams sent from various places: "President, the Russian minister has asked to submit his credentials, hoping to upgrade the diplomatic relations between the two countries from the minister level to the ambassador level. ”

Chai Dongliang read the official document without raising his head and said: "This is no problem, I will go back and receive the credentials in person, it is estimated that after a few days of European fighting, the great powers will upgrade the minister-level relationship to the ambassador-level level!" ”

"Gu, the governor of Fengtiandu, sent a telegram that the first batch of 150,000 rifles, 1,000 Makqin, and 200 artillery pieces had been delivered to Russia, and in addition, the Russian political axe had submitted an order, including clothing, horses, weapons, and other materials, with a total value of more than 150 million US dollars, and asked for delivery within two years. He asks for your instructions??? My goodness, 150 million dollars! Gu Weijun was dumbfounded by the numbers on the telegram.

"This kind of thing will be handled by the Ministry of the Army, and the public will be invited to bid for tender, and He Haiming of the Independent Commission Against Corruption will be notified, so that he can keep an eye on it, and don't have a shameful thing when the new political axe is just established! If this tender is out of the way, and when you go to jail, then don't blame the law for being ruthless??? I also inform the members of Congress, isn't it that the Congress has not been convened yet, they are idle anyway, so they will work part-time to oppose [***], these guys' noses are more than dog noses???? This order of 150 million US dollars is only the first step, there will be countless orders with a larger amount than this in the future, there is too much money in this, merchants will go crazy in order to compete for these huge orders, I am really worried that some of the people around us will not be able to bear it! Chai Dongliang said worriedly.

Gu Weijun said disapprerovingly: "If anyone can't resist the temptation and is pulled down, the police should be arrested, the court should be sentenced, and the murder should be killed, you don't have to worry about this!" ”

Chai Dongliang smiled bitterly: "After all, they are all old brothers who have followed me for many years, how many times have they been born and died, if anyone is sentenced to death by the court, my heart hurts!" ”

Gu Weijun felt that Chai Dongliang was a bit of a woman's kindness, he was a doctor of law from Columbia University, and he took the dignity of the law very seriously, and his creed was that no matter how strict the law was, he would not kill innocent people. If anyone is really not afraid of death and hits the muzzle of the gun, this kind of person really does not deserve sympathy.

Among Chai Dongliang's subordinates, He Haiming is hot, if it weren't for this, he would not have been able to fight against the Beiyang Army for more than half a month with a lone army of 5,000 unequipped troops in the "Second Revolution", and repeatedly repelled the attacks of Zhang Xun's pigtailed army with hand-to-hand combat. For the sake of ideals, we can not hesitate to kill a thousand by mistake and never let go of a dangerous element. Therefore, Chai Dongliang used him as the director of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and used his keen sense of smell to dig out the moths in the system. It doesn't matter if the wrong person is caught, after all, there is still a public trial in the court.

Fang Qingyu is ruthless, ruthless to others and ruthless to himself, he dares to smoke openly with an explosive bag strapped to his body, and when he was the director of the Jianghuai Army Law Enforcement Department, even Lu Kai, Kuang Haishan and others were afraid of him. Chai Dongliang put him in Shanghai, just to use his evil spirit to shock the gangsters and foreigners who were rampant in Shanghai.

Gu Weijun is polite and polite to everyone on the surface, but in his bones, he regards the law as bigger than the sky, and has no sympathy for those who break the law.

These three guys are the plague gods in the entire Jianghuai army system, if He Haiming and Fang Qingyu are ruthless, but there are still favors to talk about, Gu Weijun is absolutely not accommodating.

Chai Dongliang used him in the field of diplomacy and domestic affairs, and Gu Weijun is indeed a wizard in diplomacy. Chai Dongliang planned to make him the foreign minister of the new political axe, so he sent a notice of appointment.

"President, do you think there will really be a war in Europe?" Gu Weijun asked.

Chai Dongliang nodded resolutely: "Definitely!" ”

"Not really, right? Austria-Hungary has already delivered an ultimatum to Serbia, and I believe that no matter how stupid Serbia is, it will not dare to risk war and refuse, right? ”

Chai Dongliang smiled bitterly: "Who in the world would have thought that the Empress Dowager Cixi would declare war on the eleven Western countries?" Don't use normal people's thinking to judge the actions of hooligans! Hey, Ferdinand's death is a bit unjust! ”

"President, why are you a little sentimental?" Gu Weijun asked with a smile.

Chai Dongliang smiled bitterly: "I am the acting president, not the official president, you still call me Brother Guanghua, I call you Brother Shaochuan, our brothers are commensurate, so it sounds pleasing to the ear." ”

Gu Weijun grinned: "That's not appropriate." The official document has been reported, so I'll go back first, and you can rest early. ”

Chai Dongliang was a little embarrassed, the death of Archduke Ferdinand made him feel sad that a rabbit died and a fox died. Ferdinand was a rare enlightened monarch who advocated political reform and was willing to lay down his power to change the dualist constitutional monarchy to a British-style hypothetical monarchy, which is an incredible thing in China.

It has to be said that Ferdinand was far-sighted, after the hypothetical monarch established the constitution, the monarch will not directly hold power, and the people's grievances will not be concentrated in the royal family, and the emperor will become an international symbol like the national flag and national emblem, and at the same time, it will also ensure that the royal family will no longer be affected by the change of dynasty, and the country will also get rid of the elusive rule of the talented reader and get on the right track. He even prevented the German invasion of Serbia in order to prevent Europe from falling into war and triggering the division of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Of the entire Austro-Hungarian power bloc, Archduke Ferdinand was the friendliest to the Slavs, and he even wanted to create another kingdom of the Slavs in the Balkans and give them autonomy. Turn the dual empire of Budapest and Vienna in Austria-Hungary into the triple empire of Budapest, Vienna and Belgrade.

It can be said that Archduke Ferdinand was a benefactor of Serbia and Slavia, but unfortunately he died in Serbia, which should have been grateful to him!

A gunshot in Sarajevo shattered all of Ferdinand's political ideals and efforts to achieve them, and dragged Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbia, as well as the whole world, into the quagmire of war.

After Ferdinand's assassination, the whole world was shaken. Reports from the Holy See say that Pope Pius is seriously ill and is praying when he hears the news. He fainted and had to be escorted back to his room. Wilhelm II interrupted a horse race in the Baltic and hurried back to Berlin. Joseph, the old emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, fell ill and said, "Terrible, terrible, I am very sad." In London, the Daily News wrote: "This assassination is like a thunderclap for Europe. The Times of London says it makes the conscience of the world tremble.

Chai Dongliang was also a moderate reformer, and he also hoped that his country would not be swept away by war, let alone sharp conflicts between societies and ethnic groups because of artificially created inequality. At the same time, he, like Archduke Ferdinand, believed that the people loved him sincerely.

When he was in Anqing, Chai Dongliang often took his wife to the street to eat wontons in the middle of the night when he was hungry, and he didn't even want to bring the guards, and he always felt that it was very troublesome to follow a large group of people behind him, and the movement was too loud and disturbed the people. He always felt that his policies were beneficial to the people, and the methods were not cruel, and the people would not hate him, let alone anyone would want to assassinate him. This idea is almost identical to that of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife when they go to Sarajevo.

But Ferdinand's death frightened him, and Chai Dongliang felt that his original naivety, the Serbian scholar Dimitrijevic and the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty, as well as some fanatical professional revolutionaries, were beyond the comprehension of normal people, and they often had paranoid episodes and made some crazy actions that were incomprehensible to outsiders.

Chai Dongliang remembered that when Sun Wen's deputies were negotiating peace with Yuan Shikai's representatives, there was a past incident of revolutionaries assassinating Yuan Shikai, and he couldn't help but sweat coldly.

He couldn't help but secretly get lucky, it was a miracle that he was so careless and still alive unscathed!

Yanjing City is mixed, the complexity is far more than Anqing, in the future, if you want to take your family to the street in the middle of the night, eat supper or something, or bring the guards!

Mo Xiaolian's pregnancy made Chai Dongliang very happy, and also made him sensitive, he always felt that he had a heavy concern, and at the same time felt that she and Wu Meiqi were very pitiful, they were busy with government affairs every day, and they had less time to accompany them, and in the future, they would even be restricted from going out shopping in private, after all, they were all ten years old!

Chai Dongliang suddenly remembered the 21st century, where although there were all kinds of unsatisfactory things, at least at night when he was bored, he could invite three or five old friends to eat barbecue and drink beer on the street, and then brag in the dark. Now I have to go through my mind before I say every word, and I am always worried about what will happen.

In the long run, I'm afraid I'm going to have a nervous breakdown!

People are not satisfied, in the 21st century, Chai Dongliang dreamed of becoming a celebrity, and from then on he could live in the spotlight and be worshiped by thousands of people, and now he has done it, but he misses the free life of the year.

As a person, Chai Dongliang sympathizes with Archduke Ferdinand, whose identity and philosophy are relatively close to himself, but the supreme ruler of China, Chai Dongliang wishes that Ferdinand would have died earlier.

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand aroused the hatred of Austria-Hungary against Serbia, and those war maniacs who did not agree with Archduke Ferdinand's political ideas and tried to annex Serbia incited anti-Serbian sentiment among the people under the guise of avenging Archduke Ferdinand.

The Austro-Hungarian Young Zhuang officers shouted, "Draw your sword, aim it at Serbia, and completely destroy the obstacle to domination of the Balkans." A Viennese newspaper wrote: "For six years we have been waiting for the final outbreak of all serious tensions...... We want war because this is the belief of our hearts. Our ideal can only be realized by a war, in a radical and sudden way: it is a strong Austria. ”

In the same way as the Empress Dowager Cixi did after the Gengzi Revolution, the Serbian scholar Dimitrievic pushed out the fanatical young men as a shield, sentenced them to death, and even sentenced them to death for "treason" because some were not old enough to be convicted of murder.

However, it is clear that Serbia lacks an old slippery head like Li Hongzhang, who can sow discord among the great powers, and is located in the Balkans on the powder keg of Europe, and its geographical location is far more important than that of the Qing Dynasty, so no matter what tricks Dimitrievich plays, it will not be able to stop the Viennanian officers from conquering Serbia.

At the same time, the Austro-Hungarian intelligence service also found secret letters from Serbian customs, which clearly showed that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was very related to the Serbian army, and the assassins' weapons and poisons were provided by the army. This caused an uproar in Vienna, and the radical officers who advocated the occupation of Serbia completely overwhelmed the voices of the intellectuals.

On the streets of Vienna, the cries of "war, war" resounded in the sky, and the war cries from Vienna were heard throughout Europe.

The Austrian ambassador delivered an ultimatum to the puppet king of Serbia, Peter. The content was extremely harsh, demanding the dissolution of all Serbian organizations opposed to Austria-Hungary, the surrender of those responsible for organizing the assassination, and the expulsion of any teacher from the school if he told the story of Serbia's conquest by Austria in class. Austrian police were allowed to enter Serbia to find and punish the attackers. The last and most important one, the Austro-Hungarian political axe, demanded that judges be sent to participate in the trial of suspects.

Vienna demanded that Serbia must accept or reject the ultimatum within forty-eight hours. In the ultimatum, the officers and diplomats of the Austro-Hungarian Empire deliberately provoked, using insulting surname language.

The contents of this deeply insulting ultimatum have long been leaked, and the countries of Europe consider Serbia to be intolerable. In particular, the German Emperor Wilhelm II thought that Vienna had gone too far, and that the use of insulting words in the ultimatum was very undiplomatic etiquette.

Unexpectedly, Serbia accepted almost all of them, and went even further than the Austrians had asked for, killing almost all the young men involved in the assassination, including a few innocent passers-by.

The approach of Dimitrijevic and Serbian political axe, Chai Dongliang does not feel strange at all, the hooligan political axe has always been this style, when he causes trouble, he is more bold than the sky, and when he sees that the other party is coming to the real thing, he is immediately frightened. Moreover, hooligans never care about insults, this kind of goods has always been shameless for money and money.

Serbia's approach was still not satisfactory to Austria-Hungary, because the Serbian scholars were too weak to allow judges from Vienna to participate in the trial, rejecting the most important of the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum.

This is also very understandable, once the judges of the Austro-Hungarian Empire participate in the trial, they will inevitably find out the black hands behind the scenes and escort them to the execution ground to justice. Just think, how could Dimitrievic, as the founder of the "mafia", accept this condition?

War is already inevitable!

Of course, this is a good thing for Chai Dongliang, if it were not for the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, if it were not for Serbia's rejection of the ultimatum from Vienna, it is uncertain when the First World War will be fought, and Chai Dongliang's three-year preparations will not be in vain?

A rogue political axe who has lost his conscience is often the best ally of the enemy country! A ruler who lacks heart and eye is the biggest advantage of the enemy country!

Delusional attacks, always thinking that foreigners are going to take away her power, the Qing Dynasty scholar Empress Dowager Cixi and Serbian scholar Dimitrievich, the two rulers of China and foreign countries, have successfully done things that the enemy country cannot do.

The Empress Dowager Cixi was very successful in bringing together the European and American powers, who hated each other and wanted to fight immediately, and launched a war of aggression against China by the Eight-Nation Alliance. Dimitrievic succeeded in eliminating the moderates in Vienna and introducing the war into Serbia.

The phrase "his hero, my enemy" is still very reasonable, and a generation of heroes like Bismarck and Ito Hirobumi is the sworn enemy of France and China!

On the other hand, "his **, my undercover", this can also be true. For example, the Russian Governor of the Far East, Aliksayev, the Empress Dowager Cixi of China, and the Dimitrievic of Serbia are the biggest allies of the enemy.

Chai Dongliang suddenly thought that according to the constitution formulated by Yuan Shikai, his current power is no longer unlimited, will he also be corrupted by power? Will you be as trembling as you are now when dealing with government affairs?

Will he one day be corrupted by power into that kind of brainless ruler?

Chai Dongliang was frightened by his overly jumpy thinking, cold sweat flowed down his forehead, the official document was wet with sweat, and the mottled water stains spread like blood and tears!

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Author's words: Today's first shift, ask for a monthly pass.

At the same time, it is strange that in Chinese history textbooks, is it necessary to talk nonsense about the history of foreigners? Since childhood, Tang Yuan has thought that imperialism is a very bastard, and everyone in imperialism is a very bastard. For example, the history of the First World War, which I studied in history textbooks as a child, seems to be that Austria-Hungary was deliberately planning to invade Serbia, and Serbia from top to bottom, everyone is innocent.

When I grew up, I read a lot of historical materials and found that Serbia was invaded by Austria-Hungary, and it cannot be said that 100% of it was self-defeating, at least more than eighty percent of it was self-inflicted!

Austria-Hungary is an empire, not a republic, and believes in the divine right of kings, and Archduke Ferdinand was sent to the Supreme Court of Vienna to take the oath at that time, and he is already the de facto emperor, and he is God's favorite in the hearts of the Austrian people. Moreover, it was Archduke Ferdinand, who was about to succeed the Austro-Hungarian Emperor, who resolutely prevented the German Wilhelm II from attempting to invade Serbia.

Just imagine, if the Chinese emperor visited Yumoto and was clicked by the shogun of Xiao Yuben in collusion with a few ronins, what would the Chinese think? Extinguish this morning eclipse? Defeat the enemy completely?

If this emperor was deeply loved by the Chinese people, and had prevented other countries from invading Yumoto, and then was clicked by the ronin instructed by the shogun, what would the people think? Just wipe this ungrateful rogue state off the face of the earth completely??? I'm afraid this is the most normal idea of an imperial subject, right?

Strangely, in the history textbooks that Tang Yuan studied since childhood, it was always the Serbian patriots who assassinated the Austro-Hungarian invaders.

What an incomprehensible way of thinking!

History cannot assume, and if it could, then let's assume that after the Ming Dynasty sent troops to defeat Toyotomi Hideyoshi and protect Korea. Emperor Wanli visited Korea and was slaughtered by several samurai sent by the king of Korea.

So, how should our history textbooks evaluate this period of history?

The patriotic Korean youth killed the ruler of the evil Ming imperialism?

(To be continued)