Gu Weijun didn't expect his father-in-law Tang Shaoyi to make such a quick decision, when their carriage arrived in the south of Beijing, Tang Baoyue was already waiting in another carriage. Seeing her father and husband coming in the same car, Tang Baoyue's anxious face finally showed a smile.

"Baoyue, you and Shaochuan go south together, leave me alone. Take care of yourselves! Tang Shaoyi said calmly.

Tang Baoyue didn't expect her father to say this, she obviously felt that these words were full of the determination of life and death. Tang Baoyue couldn't help shouting: "Dad, you can go with us." ”

"At this time, whether I die or live, others know that I Tang Shaoyi is the vice premier of the Beiyang Cabinet, and I have nowhere to go except to stay in this Beijing city!" Tang Shaoyi laughed miserably, "Baoyue, you and Shaochuan must escape." As long as you live, someone will always remember your father. ”

Tang Baoyue didn't expect Tang Shaoyi to say such words of life and death, in fact, when she was pulled out of the study by the servant, she was embroidering the child's swaddling clothes with joy. She is already pregnant with Gu Weijun's child.

"Daddy! What the hell is going on? Tang Baoyue asked anxiously.

"You and Shaochuan will go south now, and if something happens, Shaochuan will tell you." Tang Shaoyi forcibly held back all his emotions and said with the kind of indifferent expression that only a father can have, "Your brothers and brothers have already gone south, and now you are the only ones left who have not gone south." There is already money in the car, be careful yourself. Hurry up! ”

Gu Weijun already knew his father-in-law's plan at this time, although he couldn't fully understand his father-in-law Tang Shaoyi's plan, but Gu Weijun had no intention of resisting. As far as he knew, the danger of crossing the North Ocean was greater than he thought. The fearsome adversary of the People's Party did not hesitate in the slightest, and they were mercilessly pounced on Beijing.

Tang Baoyue was forcibly pulled into the carriage by Gu Weijun, and after Tang Shaoyi watched the carriage drive towards the south, he breathed a deep sigh of relief, and finally felt a relaxed mood. Sitting back in his carriage, Tang Shaoyi picked up the leaflets that fell from the sky, and just by looking at the words, he could determine that this "Yuan Shikai's Life" was Chen Ke's handwriting. A few years ago, Chen Ke wrote a leaflet for "This Life of Cixi", and the result was that Cixi and Guangxu died violently.

The flyer was printed on both sides, and even then there was not enough paper, and it took two sheets of paper to piece together the entire article. In this article, Chen Ke clearly told the world, or the residents of Beijing, that Yuan Shikai was once a hero, but in the current situation, Yuan Shikai will become a traitor for his own interests and for the existence of Beiyang.

This prophecy is not ridiculous, at least in what Tang Shaoyi knows, it is a fact that already exists. No matter what Gu Weijun's attitude is. The Beiyang government has pinned its hopes on foreign power. Whether it is the two "Aftermath Loans" or other exchanges, Beiyang is at a loss without the support of foreign countries.

In this regard, even if Tang Shaoyi does not agree with the attitude of the People's Party, he agrees with what is said in "Yuan Shikai's Life", "Yuan Shikai represents the interests of the propertied people, if the meaning of the old democratic revolution is that the propertied people replaced the imperial power and became the ruling class, then Yuan Shikai undoubtedly did everything for this propertied class, or to control this propertied class." Although Yuan Shikai thought that he was the only political power above the propertied class. But Yuan Shikai himself had to admit that the propertied class and the army were the basis of his rule. This is something that all the most sober rulers can understand......"

“…… If Yuan Shikai's army and the regime supported by the army were destroyed, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang regime would fall, and Yuan Shikai would never think that China's interests and the interests of the Chinese people would be paramount to the interests of Yuan Shikai's Beiyang regime. Fellow citizens, we must recognize this, even if it is for our own personal interests. The order of interests in Yuan Shikai's mind is the Beiyang regime, the propertied people, and finally the working people......"

“…… If Yuan Shikai's reactionary Beiyang regime cannot be overthrown, the Chinese people will face the greatest traitor, Yuan Shikai......"

These words went straight to the core of Beiyang, and Tang Shaoyi knew very well that Gu Weijun's refusal could not stop the general trend of Beiyang at all. Beiyang, under the command of Yuan Shikai, was already asking for foreign government intervention. Although this movement only happened recently, or rather, before this war, Yuan Shikai and the Beiyang regime were full of confidence that they could annihilate the power of the People's Party, but they still privately put forward their own demands on Britain, France and Japan, hoping that Britain, France and Japan could "jointly build China".

However, the current Gu Weijun has become a stumbling block to this policy, which is a little surprising to Tang Shaoyi. Gu Weijun's firm attitude surprised Beiyang. Tang Shaoyi originally thought that Gu Weijun would first take the position of the Beiyang government as his own position, but now this idea has been proved wrong. If it was before, Tang Shaoyi would feel that there was time to reverse his son-in-law's "wrong position", but now there is no time. The speed of the People's Party's advance exceeded Beiyang's imagination.

As the vice premier of the cabinet, Tang Shaoyi learned that after the People's Party conquered Cangzhou, he already knew that the general trend was gone. The reason why Beiyang was able to become Beiyang was largely due to the fact that Beiyang occupied Zhili. That is, Hebei and Shandong. Occupy the old imperial city of Beijing.

If Beiyang is driven out of these two foundations by the People's Party, to put it more bluntly, as long as Beiyang is driven out of Beijing by the People's Party, then Beiyang will be reduced to a local power. Up to now, Beiyang's position as the central power has been largely determined by the occupation of Beijing by the Beiyang government.

Driving back to Beijing, Tang Shaoyi found that the outer city of Beijing had begun to block the city gates. The Beiyang Army of the brigade was running to fortify the city gates, check the passers, etc. This can create tension, but it is meaningless. Such a blockade is meaningless to the People's Party, and letting the citizens of Beijing know that the People's Party is now about to attack the city of Beijing is meaningless to create panic in the current situation.

Tang Shaoyi knew that he was only afraid that he would soon return to charge the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beiyang, but he didn't have the slightest idea in his heart except for sadness. The Manchu Qing Dynasty had to admit the traitor in the context of defeat, and now Beiyang had to accept it in the absence of foreign defeat. This is also greatly beyond Tang Shaoyi's psychological capacity.

As soon as he arrived at the cabinet, the military attache of the Presidential Palace, who was waiting there, told Tang Shaoyi that he would go to see Yuan Shikai now.

"Shaochuan! You should go and meet with the ministers now and ask them to support us now. No matter what the conditions, we will agree! Although Yuan Shikai wanted to say such things solemnly, there was still a panic in his voice that could not be hidden.

Tang Shaoyi was really discouraged, it was not that he didn't want to do what Yuan Shikai thought. No matter what Gu Weijun thinks, being afraid of foreigners, respecting foreigners, and even relying on foreigners is not a very unusual idea in Beiyang. No matter how much the Beiyang New Army shouted in the early days of "changing the law to make it strong" and even took a nationalist stance, no one really dared to ignore or even contempt foreign forces like the People's Party.

Tang Shaoyi is not a very superstitious person, but for Chen Ke, Tang Shaoyi can't help but be afraid. This matter has lessons from the past, not to mention that Chen Ke has clearly pointed out in "Yuan Shikai's Life" that Yuan Shikai is now either dying as a Chinese or dying as a big traitor. The difference between the two determines Yuan Shikai's evaluation behind him. But in Chen Ke's own prediction, he is not optimistic about Yuan Shikai's reputation behind him at all. Yuan Shikai is no longer optimistic, so as Chen Ke focused on the question of "where will Yuan Shikai's accomplice go", Tang Shaoyi also felt that there was no way to make a final decision.

Yuan Shikai saw the expression on Tang Shaoyi's face, and he sneered, "Shaochuan, have you already seen those notices?" ”

These notices must have been thrown by the planes of the People's Party, and Yuan Shikai knew this very well. Beiyang also has its own aircraft, but it is not comparable to the People's Air Force in various performances. At the end of this basic knowledge, the leaflets that fell from the sky were dropped by airplanes. Yuan Shikai did not have any superstitious attitude.

"President, what are we going to say to the great powers about this?" Tang Shaoyi asked with a dry throat.

"I don't really care what you think." Yuan Shikai smiled, and there was a kind of hellish coldness in his laughter, "But if Shaochuan says anything to the foreigners, you tell them what they take from the People's Party, and we will give them something!" ”

"In other words, Beiyang won't let anything? Just begging the Entente to intervene? Tang Shaoyi felt that she had regained a lot of vitality. If Yuan Shikai proposed a complete surrender and betrayal of the country, Tang Shaoyi would not be able to accept it.

"Shaochuan guessed that he read the People's Party leaflet, right?" Yuan Shikai sneered, "If you look at it, the People's Party is nothing more than saying that I, Yuan, have betrayed the country." Am I, Yuan Shikai, afraid of death? I just want to maintain Beiyang, if Beiyang is gone, where are you going to go? ”

Tang Shaoyi didn't dare to deny anything at all, if there was no Yuan Shikai in Beiyang at the moment, God knows what would happen.

"Shaochuan, you go to see the foreigner now, no matter what happens, you should accept it first! I can tell you first, our Beiyang is no longer there, and I can't make the foreign devils and the People's Party feel good! Yuan Shikai said indignantly. As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Shikai had already coughed loudly.