Yanjing City is full of haze, and the door of the Shida Hutong State Guest House. The Yellow Dragon Banner, which symbolizes imperial power, and the five-color festival flag of the official are blown by the rustling golden wind, and the two rows of Beiyang New Army, licking their chests and stomachs, ignore the wind and sand blowing from the Mongolian Plateau, and carry the Mauser gun without squinting at the knife and axe carving.

Not a single idler around could be seen, and the silence was as quiet as the cold wind blowing in the face.

In the flower hall inside the second gate, there is a table of eight immortals in the lion fairy fighting hall, several people are eating around the table, and the fire dragon is coiled in the room, and it is warm.

A room full of people surrounded by a short and fat man, the room was very hot, he was wearing a gray robe and casual clothes, a thin yellow braid coiled on the top of his head, and under the two thick eyebrows was a pair of sharp eyes like a falcon.

The table full of delicacies and delicacies, although it is not a boiled phoenix and a dragon, but it is also a mixture of water and land, but he didn't move a single chopstick, but took out four tea eggs from the big bowl, slapped it with one palm, peeled it with his own hands, and sandwiched it into the white steamed bun, and ate it with relish.

With such momentum and such a style, which one else is there in the officialdom of the Manchu Qing Dynasty besides Yuan Shikai?

"Go on, I'll listen!" Yuan Shikai said while eating steamed buns and eggs.

Sitting on his left was a middle-aged man of thirty-six or seventeen years old, with a long face and fine eyes, and a dashing demeanor, he was Yang Du, a disciple of the great Confucian king of Huxiang and the first generation of Confucianism.

"Gong Bao just asked, how can China become rich and strong... The student thought, no! A strong country must first strengthen its troops, and a strong army must first be in military obedience and education, such as morality. The Chinese people have no education, so they cannot strengthen the country. Yang Du picked up the crystal goblet and took a sip of grape trellis and said.

Yuan Shikai smiled and said: "What the blue son said, why don't I know? But you have to find a way, right? The living can't be suffocated by urine! ”

Yang Du nodded and said: "There is only one foundation for the prosperity and strength of the country: constitutionalism!" There are generally two kinds of Western constitutional states, one is the constitutional government of the United States and the Republic of France, and the other is the constitutional government of the monarchy of England, Germany, and their own country! ”

"Then the republic and the monarchy have constitutions and parliaments, which is higher and lower?"

Yang Dumeng stood up and said categorically: "Everyone in the republic can be called a president, a monarch, and under the name of righteousness, there are many people who do not have the heart of arrogance." Judging from the quality of our country's people, if there is no monarch for the eternal legal system, the young people will surely covet the presidency, and the country will not be a country! ”

"I have issued an edict in the Qing Dynasty to formulate a constitution and convene a congress, but the party and bandits in various places are still making trouble! In the middle of October, the revolutionary party has already occupied half of the country! From this point of view, this constitutionalism is also unreliable! Yuan Shikai frowned.

"When I was in this book, I had a deep conversation with the great educator Jigoro Kano, and Mr. Kana once said that China does not lack resources or manpower, and the only thing that is lacking is talent, so the foundation of constitutional government is education! Mr. Garner once asserted that if the Chinese can change the scattered national surname, follow the example of Germany and the Ben, and vigorously advocate Western learning, they will surely become a large industrial country in the world within 20 years! ”

Sitting on the right of Yuan Shikai was a middle-aged man in his early forties, he drank with his head stuffy, the temperature in the room was too high, he was a little sweaty, took off his hat with fake braids and continued to drink, but there was impatience between his eyebrows and eyes.

"Yansun, is this not to your taste?" Yuan Shikai asked with a smile.

Liang Shiyi, the word Yansun, the waiter of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, Yuan Shikai's confidant, and the God of Wealth in Beiyang. He has always been worried, the speed of the collapse of the world is beyond everyone's imagination, waiting for Yuan Shikai to do the big things piled up in the case, and he is still in the mood to listen to Yang Du talk about these nonsense out of tune!

"Gong Bao, it's just that the southern provinces have fallen, but the branch of the Daqing Bank has acted as an agent for the treasury of several provinces, and the revolutionary party has seized the deposit of the semicolon, and now the people of Yanjing City are panicking, the head office of the Daqing Bank has been squeezed, and the gate has been smashed, I am afraid that it will collapse in a short time!" The war is fought against the gold mountains and silver seas, once the Daqing Bank collapses, it will be a big mess! Liang Shiyi spoke with a puffed mouth, which affected his image very much.

Yuan Shikai touched his head and said with a smile: "This country belongs to their bannermen, so it's okay for us to fight in Beiyang, but they have to find a way to raise the silver, even if they sell the throne of the Forbidden City, they can't miss my penny..." In a word, if the imperial court has no money, then let them fight with the revolutionary party themselves! ”

Liang Shiyi suddenly realized, he didn't care that Yuan Shikai didn't care about the run on the Qing Bank, and the more chaotic the world, the more beneficial it was for this benefactor.

"Yansun and Yanzi, eat them all, the dishes are cold! Unexpectedly, I, Yuan Shikai, a fool who can't even lift people, can have a champion and a leader to eat with me one day! It's worth living this life! Yuan Shikai laughed and poured wine for the two of them with his own hands.

The two of them picked up the cup and drank a full glass with Yuan Shikai, but only they could understand the taste of this wine. Liang Shiyi was originally edited by the Hanlin Academy, and in the 26th year of Guangxu, the imperial court opened a special economic department, Liang Shiyi also participated in the examination and was admitted as the first first, and Yang Du, who returned to China from the book, was the second in the first class, and the two were equivalent to the champion and the leader. As a result, Cixi Lafayette was annoyed when he saw the name Liang Shiyi, saying that he was "Liang Tou Kangwei", and he must be a natural chaotic party! As a result, with a big stroke of the pen, Liang Shiyi's champion was lost, and this was not the end, and he ordered a thorough investigation of all the personnel who took the examination of the special economic subject. This also implicated Yang Du, and found out that he had viciously attacked the imperial court when he was studying in this book, suspected that he was a revolutionary party, and issued an edict to arrest him.

In an exam, Liang Shiyi's position as a Hanlin editor was gone, and overnight, the two of them changed from the glory of the champion and the list to the wanted criminals. If it weren't for Yuan Shikai recruiting them to the shogunate and entrusting them with important tasks, their fate at this moment was really unpredictable. One foot in heaven, one foot in hell, the taste of which is like people drinking water, cold and warm self-knowing.

"Gong Bao, Hankou has a secret message!" A high-nosed, dark-eyed, slightly curly-haired, bearded officer walked in. Judging by his appearance, it should be a return to the northwest.

"Just pick the important thoughts, just say what you mean!" Yuan Shikai didn't care.

"The ministry has recently been fighting and winning successes, and the bandits and wolves are all losing their courage, just when the plough court sweeps the holes to punish this ugly class..." The bearded officer didn't seem to know much and stammered.

A cold light flashed in Yuan Shikai's eyes, and it was fleeting: "What, Feng Guozhang is addicted?" Don't want to quit? You must not enter Wuchang! ”

The bearded officer snorted and said, "This is not the court to give a baron and burn him!" Lord, rest with the country... People still want to make a yellow jacket to wear! ”

The words were full of sourness, full of the meaning of sowing discord. Yuan Shikai didn't care. Ma Longbiao, the old Beiyang from the Huai Army, and the new characters such as Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui have always been incompatible, and it is not a matter of one or two days... Subordinates fighting each other are much better than them colluding in a mess!

Let your subordinates fight, this is also the strategy of your majesty!

"Long Biao, don't be careful, Feng Guozhang is just a soldier surnamed Xi, and he just wants to make meritorious contributions! There is no outside heart! Yuan Shikai said with the mud.

The bearded Ma Longbiao said unconvinced: "Back then, under Li Zhongtang's account, there was no such officer who dared to bargain with his old man!" ”

Yuan Shikai laughed and said: "Long Biao, you are the one who has served Lao Zhongtang, so tell me, how about I compare with Li Zhongtang?" ”

Ma Longbiao was speechless for a long time.

Yuan Shikai said with a smile: "Let's say it bluntly, I don't blame you for saying it wrong!" Why are the Northwest men so unhappy? ”

Ma Longbiao pondered for a moment and said: "Zhongtang is arrogant, Gong Bao is humble and retreats, Zhongtang is arrogant, Gong Bao is trembling, Zhongtang is annoyed and scolds his subordinates, even if Gong Bao is angry, he never angers his subordinates... But I don't know why, I'm not afraid of Li Zhongtang, but I'm a little afraid of Gong Bao! ”

Yuan Shikai laughed at first, then his expression was a little gloomy, and he sighed and said: "You are not afraid of Li Zhongtang, because Li Zhongtang treats you as his nephews, and he beats you without remembering it, and you still have to reuse it after the fight!" There is one sentence of your words that is the most correct, I, Yuan Shikai, are indeed trembling!

Li Zhongtang was born in Hanlin. Scholars put pen to paper from Rong Ping long hair, exterminate the twist bandits, three thousand lonely soldiers withstood the attack of tens of thousands of bandits to defend Shanghai, decades of corpses in the sea of blood to kill the iron feats, the establishment of Beiyang to handle foreign affairs, in the group of small attacks under the callus hands and feet to support half of the Qing Dynasty, the court in charge of the princes hated him and was afraid of him and there was no way to take him! Back then, someone attacked him that the old man was a Kang Party, and the Queen Mother Lafayette asked him about this, and Li Zhongtang admitted it at the time, saying, 'If changing the law is the Kang Party, then I am the Kang Party!' Can Li Zhongtang say this, can I Yuan Shikai say it?

What am I Yuan Shikai? I am a rough billet who doesn't even have a reputation, if it weren't for Li Zhongtang's support, how could I be today? People say that I am a red top dyed with the blood of the Kang Party, and I have heard too much of this, and it is useless to argue! It's not a day since the imperial father in the palace wanted to kill me, and the revolutionary party also wanted to kill me. If I had learned from Li Zhongtang, I am afraid that this human head would have been lost 800 times! Hey, I want to learn from his old man, but I really don't dare to learn! ”

Yuan Shikai seemed to be moved, and looked a little depressed after his tirade.

Liang Shiyi and Yang Du looked at this benefactor, and they couldn't help but feel a little sour.

"Gong Bao doesn't have to be sad, Li Zhongtang failed to enter the military plane in his life, and now Gong Bao Gui is the prime minister, and he has a cabinet! Xuan He is ten times better than Li Zhongtang, and what is even more gratifying is that there will be no villains to hinder him from now on, and it is the time to spread the ambition of Qingyun! Liang Shiyi comforted.

Yuan Shikai suddenly laughed and said: "I'm really old, sad and sad for no reason!" What I admire about Li Zhongtang is that he doesn't think about personal grudges when employing people! I offended the old man in Xianliang Temple back then, I guess you've all heard of it, right? But his old man still recommended me to the imperial court to inherit his mantle and become the minister of Beiyang and the governor of Zhili! ”

Hearing this, the corners of Ma Longbiao's eyes twitched involuntarily!

Liang Shiyi and Yang Du have heard of this matter. After the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, Li Hongzhang went to the book to sign the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", and for a time the people of the country said that they could be killed! At that time, the Minister of Military Aircraft, Weng Tongyi, was called Zhongtian, but because he did not have the title of university scholar, he could not be regarded as the prime minister. And there is a quota for university scholars, if Li Hongzhang does not quit this errand himself, it is useless for Weng Tongyi to be anxious.

Weng Tong was so famous, Yuan Shikai moved his mind, ran to Li Hongzhang's apartment in Xianliang Temple, and changed the law to make him take the initiative to resign from the title of university scholar. As a result, Li Hongzhang saw through it at a glance, and scolded Yuan Shikai in Xianliang Temple.

This matter has been pressing on Yuan Shikai's heart, and when Li Hongzhang comes back to wipe the butt of the Queen Mother Lafayette and clean up the mess of the Gengzi National Change, Yuan Shikai will be even more afraid! But what he never expected was that Li Hongzhang didn't trouble him, and the successor recommended to the imperial court when he was dying turned out to be him Yuan!

This made Yuan Shikai have mixed feelings.

"I've always wanted to learn from his old man's mind and bearing, but the longer I stay in the court and the higher my position, the more I feel that Lao Zhongtang is not easy, and the more I am trembling!" Yuan Shikai sighed.

"Gong Bao, you don't have to be too humble! Three years ago, when Gong Bao was dismissed and his life hung by a thread, Yang Lian Mansion (Yang Shixiang Zi Lian Mansion) threatened you in every way, and even Gong Bao was not allowed to take refuge in Yuben... But you still trust his younger brother Yang Xingcheng (Yang Shiqi's name Xingcheng)! Gong Bao's mind and bearing are not much better than those of the old middle hall! Ma Longbiao said with a smile.

When Yuan Shikai was scolded by Li Hongzhang in Xianliang Temple, Ma Longbiao was by Li Hongzhang's side and saw the whole process with his own eyes. Ma Longbiao didn't expect that Yuan Shikai would expose his shortcomings in front of everyone, which surprised him.

"Xingcheng is loyal to me, and Lianfu is just forced by the situation! By the way, Xingcheng has gone to Anqing for some time, and the matter of lobbying Zhu Jiabao should be done! ”

"Gong Bao let go of 10,000 hearts, Zhu Jiabao was pulled by Gong Bao, Brother Xingcheng's ability to do things is even more outstanding, how can a small matter go wrong!" Yang Du said with a smile.

"My lord, my lord, something happened to Anqing!" A pro-soldier rushed in, still holding a translation of a telegram with undried ink in his hand.

"What's the matter?" Yuan Shikai's hairs stood on end.

"The revolutionary party occupied Anqing, and Zhu Jiabao's whole family was killed!"

"Then how is Yang Xingcheng? Any news of him? The green tendons on Yuan Shikai's neck burst out, grabbed the neck of his own soldier, and asked with trembling lips.

"Lord Yang is trapped in the city, his life and death are unknown!"

Yuan Shikai was stunned by the collar of his own soldier, unable to speak for a long time, and after a while, his eyes turned black, and he fell down with a pop.

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