Hearing Longyu call his name, Zhang Zhidong froze slightly, restrained his thoughts, and started playing on the ground.

If the court rashly rejects it at this time, the minister is afraid that the people of the world will not be convinced, and he is afraid that the Manchu and Han regions will be deeper, and finally the upper and lower centrifugation, and the court situation will be even more uncontrollable. The emperor is in the old age, and the lord is suspicious, and in this eventful autumn, if the court lightly starts to kill and dethrone the people, and starts to kill the ministers, I am afraid that no one will be willing to serve the court anymore. These remarks are the words of the minister's heart, and the minister is not for the Yuan family, but for the court and the society. ”

Zhang Zhidong paused again and again, and couldn't help but feel desolate in his heart, at this time, what these young strong banner people thought in their hearts was to reprimand Han Chen, if these remarks in the Heart Cultivation Hall reached Yuan Shikai's ears, I was afraid that even if he had no intention of rebelling, he would never work for the court again. In fact, before the call, Zhang Zhidong visited the regent Zaifeng, and repeatedly analyzed the various drawbacks of killing Yuan Shikai, otherwise, Zaifeng would not be so cautious at this time, in fact, according to the meaning of the regent, it is best to kill Yuan Shikai, so as not to be difficult to control.

The power of the army still has to be in the hands of the banner people, which is the goal that the imperial court has been working for, although it is now getting farther and farther away from that goal, but the flag people are still working tirelessly.

Recalling the scene when he entered Beijing last year, Zhang Zhidong felt more and more that this was a conspiracy, perhaps since then, the banner people and nobles have begun to plot to cut off the Hanchen forces, and this is likely to be from the Empress Dowager Cixi's personal planning, transferring Zhang Zhidong into Beijing can be described as "killing two birds with one stone", one can keep him away from the Huguang territory that has been operating for many years, in case the tail is too big, and the other is to use his popularity and qualifications to assist in the "New Deal" and clean up the people's hearts, especially to appease the constitutionalists.

Since the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the "constitutional" voice among the Chinese people has become increasingly loud, in the eyes of the gentry, the reason why Japan has successively defeated China and Russia with the strength of a small country is really the credit of the constitutional monarchy, so if the Qing Dynasty wants to be finished, there is only a way to go by the constitution, so it has repeatedly written to the Qing court to make a constitutional monarchy, set up a parliament, issue a constitution, and imitate the Japanese Restoration. The above two prompted the Qing court to begin to implement the "New Deal", building schools, running industries, managing household registration, and nailing house numbers...... All kinds of measures are dazzling for a while, and they are quite refreshing.

But what is going on with the so-called "New Deal" carried out by these banner people, Zhang Zhidong has already seen the fire, the new deal is fake, and the seizure of power is true, especially after the death of Cixi, these banner people and nobles are jumping up and down, anxious to seize power, like King Qing and Natong, the old guys are still at peace, but the new young and strong relatives like King Xiaogong are grabbing power everywhere without scruples, carrying the flag of the "New Deal" for their own personal interests, their tricks have deceived the people of the world and the constitutionalists, but they can't fool Yuan Shikai, and they can't fool him Zhang Zhidong.

In fact, in the eyes of King Xiaogong's gang, it was not only Hanchen who blocked their way, but also King Qing's gang of "old decay", but at present, when the enemy was in the past, they couldn't take care of the infighting for the time being, so they squeezed Hanchen out first.

Open your eyes and see, since the beginning of the Tongzhi years, the situation of "Hanchen supervising half the world" is now unrecognizable, in recent years, most of the new feudal officials of the imperial court are banner people, and the Hanchen finally relied on the extermination of the "twist" to fight for the right to fight for themselves Seeing that they are about to be taken away by this group of banner people who don't understand anything, but they want everything, not to mention others, even he Zhang Zhidong is also very unconvinced, the funny thing is that when the hearts of the people in the world are scattered, and the people who jump off the beam are jumping around, These banner people are still daydreaming of "preferring to give friends to domestic slaves", and they are forcibly isolating themselves.

The most difficult thing in the world is the hearts of the people, and when the hearts of the people are scattered, no matter if you are a nobleman, you will not be able to return to the sky.

In this world, you still have to rely on Hanchen to govern, and the banner people can't do it!

What Zhang Zhongtang said was too big. Yuan Shikai is not a human minister, everyone knows this, when Gengzi changed, the imperial court repeatedly ordered him to enter the king of Beijing Qin, but he just pushed left and right, and waited until the foreign soldiers were about to kill in the capital, and then he pretended to send someone to say that the ground in Shandong was not very peaceful and could not enter Beijing, how could such a person be worthy of the word 'loyal minister'? If someone hadn't protected him back then, he would have been given his crown in the year of Wuxu. Prince Su Shanqi glanced at Zhang Zhidong and shook his head. Later, the court was liquidated, and there was a copy of the imperial history, saying that Yuan Shikai was the first to be investigated and dealt with, but Cixi's humerus minister Rong Lu stood up and said, "Yuan Shikai was an undercover agent I planted", so Yuan Shikai was able to have no danger, whether Yuan Shikai was really Rong Lu's undercover agent who was placed in the Restoration, but since then, it is a fact that he Yuan Shikai and Yuan Xiangcheng have soared all the way, and how thrilling the struggle is, I am afraid only the parties know.

"What does King Su mean?" Empress Dowager Longyu asked.

"Wait and see!" Shanqi said, raising his hand and drawing a circle in front of him. "If Yuan Shikai is smart, after receiving the telegram, he will go to the meeting to ask for guilt, and then the court will say kind words to comfort him, but he will not move, give him an envoy, trap him in the capital, and he will not be allowed to go anywhere, his Beiyang Army will have to send people to watch closely, as long as Yuan Shikai is in the hands of the court, the Beiyang Army will not dare to act rashly."

"This is the theory of the old man seeking the country, and the slave seconded it." Zaifeng kowtowed and said.

"The minister also seconded the proposal." Zhang Zhidong said.

"An errand for Yuan Shikai?" Pu Wei was quite dissatisfied. "If you don't kill him, it's already the court's favor, and give him an errand? Give him errands, so do Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui, and Feng Guozhang also have to give some errands? Even the rebels in Jiujiang said that they were talents, and I don't know if they were talents, but they were all pulled by Yuan Shikai. ”

"Yes, what kind of errand did you give Yuan Shikai? Why don't you ask him to supervise the mausoleum? Longyu asked.

"The slave thinks that since the Minister of War is vacant, it is better to call Yuan Shikai to lead the Minister of War at the same time, and the seat of the military aircraft will also be reserved for him." Shanqi glanced at Tie Liang. "Of course, this is not a real shortage, the soldiers still have to be watched by the imperial court, and only Yuan Shikai is asked to sit in the name of the Minister of the War Department, so that the Beiyang New Army can feel at ease and be driven by the imperial court. As for Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and others, although they were single-handedly promoted by Yuan Shikai, they are now high-ranking officials, with fine clothes and fine food, and they may not dare to push Yuan Shikai as the mastermind. ”

"This is a wonderful proposal, and the slave seconded it. In addition, the lack of the governor of Liangjiang must also be filled as soon as possible, Duanfang is now loyal to the imperial court, and Liangjiang is a valuable land in the southeast, and no one can preside over it. In addition, the army needs to be drawn and attacked, and now the national funds are empty, and the taxes and donations in various places are not urgent, and the imperial court still needs to borrow from foreigners to meet military needs, and the borrowing must be mortgaged, and there are not many things that the imperial court can mortgage, and now there are only salt taxes and railways that foreigners can look at, although these two things are hot potatoes, but the imperial court can't take care of a lot at this time. ”

"This is a strategy to save the time, and the minions seconded it."

"Since you all said seconded the proposal, then ......" Empress Dowager Longyu was about to make a decision, but she heard a eunuch outside shouting: "Minister of Military Aircraft, Shangshu of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Yuan Shikai, Governor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, handed over the sign, respectfully ask for St. Ann!" ”

"Yuan Shikai? He...... What did he come to do? I didn't call him up. Longyu's face changed.

"Back to the Queen Mother, Yuan Shikai took off his official uniform, a cloth robe, tied his hands behind his back, knelt in front of the palace gate and cried, the slave persuaded a few words on the side, Yuan Shikai was crying, and said that he had a negative grace, sorry for the cultivation of the first emperor, sorry for the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, and he would never shirk his guilt, he said that he was in power, although he had a small merit, but he was also heavily slandered, and there were too many people who offended for the new deal, and he wanted to do it, but when he thought of the court's kindness, he had to do it hard......"

The eunuch stood outside the hall for a long time, and King Xiao Gong in the Heart Cultivation Hall couldn't help but scold: "Xiao Dezhang! You dog minion. The Queen Mother is asking you what Yuan Shikai is doing, not asking you how much silver he gave you to say good things for him! No matter how wordy it is, do you think the ancestral family law is an ornament? ”

"Porphy!"

The eunuch outside the hall knelt down and kowtowed a few times, and then said: "Yuan Shikai is here to ask for guilt, he said that he has left a testament before going out, if the emperor and the queen mother want him to die, he will never complain, I just hope that the court will see that he has been loyal to the court for many years, give him a whole corpse, and don't extinguish his Yuan family incense, so as not to let no one go to the grave in the future." It was said to be miserable and miserable, and those who heard it wept. ”