Chapter Eighty-Four: The End of the Dynasty (Second Vote)
"Extra, extra! The Revolutionary Party assassinated Premier Yuan, and seven assassins were released in court! ”
"Outside, outside, Shanghai Governor Chen Yingshi has been arrested! Sent to Ningbo overnight for trial! ”
From Nanjing to Yanjing, the newspaper offices in the Huajie and Concession areas opened their machines to print out the newspapers with the fragrance of ink overnight and distribute them to the newsboys in the early morning, and the whole of China was shaken by these two events overnight. In the streets and alleys, these two things were discussed everywhere, and the literate and hyphenated people read the newspaper to the illiterate people, and everyone was amazed while discussing.
A total of ten assassins assassinated Yuan Shikai, and after the trial by the Yanjing Court, except for the three who were sentenced to death for finding bombs on their bodies, the other seven were released in court due to insufficient evidence.
Chen Yingshi was arrested by the Shanghai County Court on suspicion of killing Tao Chengzhang, and in order to prevent accidents such as prison robbery, he was escorted to Ningbo by boat in the starry night for interrogation. The Shanghai Council submitted an impeachment against Chen Yingshi, and unanimously approved the removal of Chen Yingshi from his post as governor of Shanghai, and the defense of Shanghai was temporarily taken over by the police and gendarmerie. The Consultative Bureau has long been dissatisfied with Chen Yingshi, and the election of him as the governor was also a helpless move under the threat of pistols and axes, and now that he has been arrested, how can he not fall into the ground?
The world has really changed, and the people deeply feel the changes in China! Who is Yuan Shikai? In the minds of the Chinese, he is the Cao Ying who coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes!
His assassins were to be beheaded, if not by the Nine Clans, and he acquitted most of them.
What is the Governor of Shanghai? According to the official system of the Qing Dynasty, that is, Shanghai Dao and Shanghai Customs Dao and Wusong Town General Soldier! This is at least a second-class officer, and he was actually arrested by a few bailiffs sent by a small county court!
Newspapers across the country sent special reporters to Shanghai and Yanjing to follow up and report on these two incidents. The news spread and the whole country celebrated, and the scholars rushed to tell each other, and the rule of law in the land of China has taken root since then, and from then on, the prince will really be guilty of the same crime as the common people!
The news of these two explosions overwhelmed all other news, and even the news of such a major event as the assassination of the leader of the Zongshe Party, the Manchurian pro-Gui Liangbi, was only perfunctory in the newspapers.
And these two things, but not the slightest touch on the Manchu court, the Empress Dowager Longyu is holding the six-year-old Emperor Xuantong, sitting on the dragon chair of the Taihe Hall with a sad face.
"Queen Mother, wait a little longer, maybe someone will come in a while!" Xiao De said with red eyes.
Longyu kept silent with a bitter face, and after a long time she sighed: "Could it be that our Daqing Dynasty has also reached the point where we can't recruit ministers when we knock on Jingyang Bell?" Do we really want to hang ourselves on the coal mountain like Emperor Chongzhen of the former Ming Dynasty? ”
Xiaode knelt on the ground with a puff, and cried at the top of his throat: "Queen Mother, you old man can't say such depressing words, the slave is scared!" ”
Since Yuan Shikai's assassination, he has no longer been in the court, and his henchmen Zhao Bingjun and Liang Shiyi threatened at the court meeting every day, saying that they wanted to talk about the change of the national system. And the Manchurian nobles could no longer come up with any charter except for shouting at them and scolding a few words such as "chaotic ministers and thieves" and "great rebellion".
After Liangbi was assassinated, the true nature of the Manchurian relatives and nobles was exposed, and it was rumored in the capital that the revolutionary party had entered the city. Even the Zongshe people, who had repeatedly declared that they were not ashamed to fight a decisive battle with the revolutionary party, deposited their family wealth in foreign banks and then transferred them to Tianjin and Dalian concessions with their families.
In the Forbidden City, there was left the six gods and no master Longyu and the ignorant Xuantong who were frightened by rumors. Just when the Empress Dowager was already frightened, a telegram from the front line in Wuchang made her heart break!
"Now the overall situation is urgent, embattled, assassination of the party all over the capital, a little careless, it will become elbows, and the two palaces are also in danger... Death is up! ”
Rui, naturally, is Duan Qirui, the ruling officer of the First Army of the Wuchang Front, and the signatures behind are Jiang Guidi, Ni Sichong, Duan Zhigui, Cao Kun and other forty or fifty generals of the Beiyang United Army!
When Longyu saw the telegram, he was frightened, especially the last sentence of the telegram was even more murderous.
Things have been endangered to such a point, Longyu's first reaction was to notify the convening of the royal family meeting, but he didn't expect that no one would come over after half a day!
The scene at this moment, and when the Ming Dynasty died, Chongzhen knocked on Jingyang Bell without the escort of the minister, how familiar it is!
When a dynasty loses the hearts of the people, and when it is on the verge of destruction, Huanghuang Tianwei is a joke!
The Great Song Dynasty was weak, but the scholars were raised for hundreds of years, and there were more than 100,000 people in Yashan who were martyred for the Great Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was fierce, and the board of the court staff broke the buttocks of the scholars, but it also broke the backbone of the scholars, when Chongzhen hanged the coal mountain, there was only one old eunuch by his side, and the Qing Dynasty ruled China with a foreign race, "rather than foreigners than domestic slaves", and finally ended up in a miserable and panicked end, even the Manchurian relatives and nobles sat back and watched the fall of the Qing Dynasty!
Yin Jian is not far away, in the world after summer!
In the Taihe Palace, the lonely Empress Dowager Longyu secretly wept, and after a long time, she finally waited for the crown prince to continue the world. Like a drowning man seeing the last straw, Longyu asked eagerly: "The master came just in time, what do you say about this?" ”
After reading the telegram, Shixu's hands and feet were cold, and he knelt on the ground and wept silently: "Queen Mother, now I have to ask Yuan Shikai to negotiate peace with the south to see if I can ask for a preferential treatment!" ”
Longyu was still a little unwilling, wiped his tears, and said with a crying voice: "How much gold and silver has the country spent over the years to raise such a tiger and wolf teacher, but I don't want this tiger wolf to swallow our Qing Dynasty now!" Knowing this, I might as well have died with the emperor back then, but I would have been clean! ”
Shixu knelt on the ground and cried, Longyu cried on the dragon chair, and couldn't make up an idea after crying, and finally Longyu had to sigh: "Abdicate, abdicate, you go and ask Yuan Shikai, let him be sure to fight for dignity for the court, even if he abdicates, he must have a trace of decency!" ”
Shixu kowtowed like pounding garlic, and the gold bricks on the ground were banged, and after a long time, he howled and cried in the direction of the temple: "Ancestors and ancestors, descendants are not filial!" If you can't keep the family business of your ancestors, the slave will be guilty! ”
A gloomy cloud and miserable fog lingered over the Forbidden City, and it did not disperse for a long time!
And at this time of uproar, a bigger news shocked the Chinese people again!
The Shanghai County Court issued a summons to the Provisional Presidential Palace in Nanjing!
President Sun Wen has become a defendant!