Seeing Zhang Zhidong vomiting blood, Pu Wei was startled, he was unintentional, he really didn't want to stimulate Zhang Zhidong, at this time he was also panicked, Yuan Shikai ran, everyone in the court was in danger, Longyu and Zaifeng blamed him for not being able to do things, and he had already reprimanded him, if Zhang Zhidong was angry with him again, he was afraid that Prince Gong's iron hat would have to fly.

Yixuan gloated, Lu Chuanlin couldn't interject, Qu Hongzhen was Hanchen, and he had to avoid suspicion, Pu Wei opened his mouth and stammered, Zaifeng had always been wooden, only Shixu and Natong came out to play a round, and the two patted Zhang Zhidong's back while calling someone to call the imperial doctor.

But Zhang Zhidong was in a hurry, and he still fainted in the end, this time, everyone panicked, and they didn't have time to shout people, the military bigwigs took it personally, and lifted Zhang Zhongtang on the kang with all hands and feet, and pinched the people, and poured ginseng soup, and it took a long time for Zhang Zhidong to ease up.

The imperial doctor came, and Xiaode Zhang also rushed to the order of Yi, and passed the oral message of the Empress Dowager Longyu in front of Zhang Zhidong, and reprimanded Xiao Gong Wang Pu greatly, ordering him to immediately withdraw from the military aircraft and walk, and fined him for half a year, and then rewarded Zhang Zhidong with two century-old mountain ginseng trees and two catties of bird's nest to show comfort.

After passing the decree, Xiao Dezhang said to Zhang Zhidong: "Zhongtang will take care of it, you are just in a hurry, and it will not get in the way." We still count on your old man to support it, you have to take care of yourself, don't worry about the mouths of others. Xiao Gong Wang has always been open-mouthed, young people, you take care of it, when Li Hongzhang was in the old Zhongtang, this little prince was a 'Shaoquan', which also made Li Zhongtang, who was in his seventies, angry enough. ”

Zhang Zhidong shook his head with a wry smile and said: "I know from my own body and bones, I Zhang is a person who has half a piece of the earth, how can I worry about the younger generations?" I'm worried about national affairs. Seeing the chaos in the world, but the imperial court is still stubborn in the Manchu and Han domains, it is really to drive away the birds for the bushes and the fish for the abyss, is it a self-consolidation plan? Since the establishment of the dynasty, all kinds of national policies have been very appropriate, but this division between the Manchu and Han is really a block in the chest of the Han people in the world. Since the New Deal, most of the newly promoted people are banner people, how can they convince Hanchen? People are dying, their words are good, birds are dying, their songs are also mourning, this is Zhang's heartfelt words, and I hope that my father-in-law will tell the queen mother and the emperor that you can't be full of Han, that is the way to self-destruction! ”

Xiao Dezhang nodded, turned around, the military aircraft department was eerily quiet for a while, if Zhang Zhidong's words were said in the past, even if he was not guilty, he would have to be reprimanded, the most important thing in the new policy is to eliminate the Manchu and Han domains, if not, how could the ancestral system of "Manchu and Han not intermarry" be abolished? Of course, everyone also understands in their hearts that Zhang Zhidong's words are indeed good, and the court calls the Manchu and Han integration, but in fact? Isn't the flag man superior?

How can the rules of more than 200 years be changed in one day? To say that the imperial court does not want to consolidate the country's foundation, it is a lie, which emperor does not want to consolidate the country forever? But if you really do what Zhang Zhidong said, I am afraid that the imperial court will be demolished by the banner people themselves before they are overthrown.

Yixuan put away the snuffbox and said: "Zhang Zhongtang should hurry back to the house to raise it for a few days, and then go back to the military machine room, there are us here, Zhongtang can rest assured." ”

Zaifeng also said: "The king of Zhongtang has remembered the words, go back and tell the queen mother again, you can rest assured that you will go back to the house to raise." When the spirit is stronger, the imperial court will still count on Zhongtang to go to Huguang to take charge. In addition, don't sit on the sedan chair, the snow is thick on the road, the sedan chair drivers are unstable, the king's four-wheeled carriage is sent by the British minister, there are springs under the car, the wheels are also wrapped with rubber, and the horse's hooves are nailed with non-slip horseshoes. ”

Zhang Zhidong arched his hand and said, "In this way, thank you to the regent, Zhang Mou trespassed." I really can't sit in this sedan chair. ”

The two little eunuchs carried Zhang Zhidong out with their shoulders and accompanied him to the four-wheeled carriage of Zaifeng, and Zhang Zhidong's two relatives also followed, but they didn't dare to sit in the car, only standing on the pedal by the door.

The coachman shouted, the carriage started slowly, and drove away from the Daqing Gate, and more than a dozen Goshha of the Zaifeng faction also followed behind on horseback to escort them.

The two eunuchs were curiously touching in the car, Zhang Zhidong didn't pay attention to it, just squinted slightly, looking at the decoration in the car, he also had a Western carriage, but it was not as luxurious and comfortable as this one.

"This foreigner is even better at enjoying than us." Zhang Zhidong closed his eyes helplessly and began to think about writing a testament. He knows his own affairs, and now he is running out of oil and lamps, even if he doesn't have Xiao Gongwang's words, he is worried that he won't live long, this legacy is still prepared earlier, so as not to get too late, as for the matter of sitting in Huguang, he didn't think about it at all, and now this situation goes to Hubei to preside over the overall situation, it is self-inflicted, it is better to die in the military aircraft.

But how does this fold come about?

Just a few days ago, the German minister and the British minister threatened the imperial court for the Guangdong-Han and Sichuan-Han railways, forcing him Zhang Zhidong to choose one of the British and German banking groups, and chose Britain and Germany were not happy, and Germany was chosen to protest, and the imperial court was caught in the middle, and he became a mouse in the bellows. At this time, the Belgians also came to join in the fun, under the pretext that the revolutionary army blew up the two bridges on Jinghan Road, the Belgian counselor made a big fuss with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asking the court to give an explanation, although Belgium is a small country, but behind it stands a France, and the court will never dare to offend this small country.

The great powers must serve well, the rebels must be eliminated as soon as possible, the current urgent tasks are thousands of heads, and they can't figure it out, but one thing is clear, the foreigners just want to make money, but the rebels want to demolish the broken house of the Qing Dynasty, compared with the two, which is more important, Zhang Zhidong can still carry it clearly, and he has been loyal to the emperor of the Qing Dynasty for a lifetime, I am afraid that he will not be able to be a subject of the Republic of China.

But before he could prepare a draft, Zhang Zhidong heard someone shouting outside the carriage, and the accent was from the south.

"Zaifeng dog thief, take your life! Long live the republic! ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a muffled sound from the carriage, followed by a "boom", and suddenly debris flew, the carriage overturned, and Zhang Zhidong also fell.

"I can't write this testament." This was Zhang Zhidong's last thought before he passed out.

Two young men who had been guarding the teahouse on the side of the road rushed out of the teahouse when the carriage passed by the door, ripped off the fake pigtails at the back of their heads, and threw two bombs in succession at the four-wheeled carriage, which almost completely shattered, and then the two returned to the teahouse, drew their pistols, and engaged in a shootout with the Goshkha guards guarding the carriage.

There are two unknown meteors across the dark sky, although they disappeared quickly, but the light that burst out in the moment before disappearing is forever left in people's memory, people do not know their names, but they know that if there are not thousands of such nameless meteors, this dark sky will not be bright after all, and the sun shining in China will not appear.

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At dawn on December 11, 1908, Zhao Bei, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Revolutionary Republican Army, took the oath in Hanyang, and then, under the cover of artillery fire, the revolutionary army erected two pontoon bridges on the Han River and launched a fierce attack on the opposite bank, and the Battle of Hankou officially began.

On the same day, the Qing court issued two edicts:

The first edict announced the formal constitution in the following year, and set up an advisory council outside the Donghua Gate in the capital, and selected counselors from the constitutionalists of the provinces to consult the royal government, and at the same time formed an advisory council in each province, and the councillors were elected from among the gentry of the provinces.

At the same time, the Qing court organized the new armies of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and other provinces into the second army of thieves, and appointed Liangbi, director of the Military Science Department of the Ministry of War, as the presidential officer to control the first armyHe commanded the Second Army to move south by train from the north, and the front of the troops was directed at Wuhan.

The two Qing armies attacked the three towns of Wuhan with murderous spirit, vowing to wipe out the republican army in one fell swoop. All of a sudden, the Yangtze River was full of wolf smoke, beacon fires everywhere, commerce and trade along the way were cut off, pedestrians were extinct, and the great powers increased their troops along the river concession and declared armed neutrality.

The next day, Zhang Zhidong, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty Tirenge University and Minister of Military Aircraft, died in his apartment due to serious injuries and died in his apartment at the age of 72.

Another huge pillar supporting the broken house of the Manchu Dynasty fell, and in the wind and rain, people seemed to have heard the "creaking" breaking sound, this broken house could not last long, in what way would it collapse? All of them waited with wide eyes, curious and anxious.

(Keep canvassing, keep canvassing.) ）