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The cabinet with Tang Shaoyi as prime minister looks more presentable than in the past:

The premier of the state is Tang Shaoyi, the chief minister of the interior is Zhao Bingjun, the chief of foreign affairs is Lu Zhengxiang, the chief of finance is Xiong Xiling, the chief of the army is Duan Qirui, the chief of the navy is Liu Guanxiong, the chief of the Ministry of Justice is Wang Chonghui, the chief of the Ministry of Education is Cai Yuanpei, the chief of agriculture and forestry is Song Jiaoren, and the chief of the Ministry of Communications is Tang Shaoyi.

even left two positions for Brother Pao's brother, Chen Qimei was the chief of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and Huang Xing got the chief of staff, but neither of them went to Beijing to take up their posts, but went to Japan with the boss Brother Cannon.

In this cabinet, there are a large number of important members of the League and other forces, such as Finance Minister Xiong Xiling, who has a background in the reformists and industrialists, but is famous for running education in the local area.

Xiong Xiling became famous as a teenager, won the show at the age of 15, raised people at the age of 22, and entered the scholar at the age of 25. After the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, Xiong Xiling was young and vigorous, felt that it was useless to study, and wanted to put pen to paper, wanting to go to North Korea to fight, but was finally stopped back by Liu Kunyi.

During the Hundred Days Restoration, he stood on the side of the reformers and actively campaigned for it, and was a typical reformer. However, the Restoration soon failed, he was implicated, and his political future was bleak, but fortunately, with the protection of Zhang Zhidong and his ministers, he was able to settle down in the Hunan countryside.

But he did not do loneliness, actively campaigned, successively opened shipping and other industries, and raised his own funds to set up a new type of education in Hunan, in the folk fame is very great, after the reform and reform incident subsided, he was reused, and also with Duanfang and other ministers to inspect the constitutional, after returning to China, he served as the general office of the three eastern provinces of agriculture and industry and commerce bureau and other official positions, because he can raise money for the government, and has the title of financial expert.

Because he has a lot of connections in the Westernization faction and has always been in contact with Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai chose Xiong Xiling as the Minister of Finance, in fact, he is also cultivating his own forces.

Not to mention the rest of Duan Qirui, this is Yuan Shikai's henchman, even if Yuan Shikai has been in the field for many years, he has not lost contact, and even sent a telegram to threaten the abdication of the Qing Emperor, as soon as Yuan Shikai was used, he was immediately transferred back as soon as possible, and this time he was pushed to the position of the chief of the War Department by Yuan Shikai, and he was also cultivating power.

Zhao Bingjun is also Yuan Shikai's own person. Liu Guanxiong is a veteran of the Beiyang Navy, in the year of Gengzi, he accepted Yuan Shikai's suggestion to take the naval fleet south to Shanghai to participate in mutual protection, and did not participate in the war with foreigners, obviously colluding with Yuan Shikai.

Wang Chonghui, the chief of justice, was a scholar-type bureaucrat who was very proficient in business, and the famous Wu Tingfang admired him very much, and he has always been subservient to him. In his original history, Wang also participated in the drafting of the UN Charter and was very familiar with public international law and Western law. He was also the first student at Peiyang University and studied at Yale University in the United States.

Although Wang Chonghui is not Yuan Shikai's 'own person', such a professional does not pose a threat to Yuan Shikai's power.

The remaining director of education, Cai Yuanpei, who is a member of the Restoration Society, was obviously given the position of chief of education that did not threaten his power. Song Jiaoren is the general director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and this person is the vice president of Huang Xinghuaxing, Huang Xing is tied with Brother Pao, and they are both giants in the alliance. Giving a minister to a person who has close ties to figures like Brother Pao and Huang Xing is obviously still a means of political co-optation, and giving him a minister of agriculture and forestry is simply using an idle post to send him away.

You can take a look at the cabinet of the big brother, obviously this is a cabinet of Beiyang that controls the overall situation.

Using this cabinet, the big boss not only stabilized the domestic situation, but also took full control of power.

After taking power, the first problem faced by the big boss was how to deal with the problem of attitude towards the war against Russia.

"Of course, we will continue to fight! We will show the world that there will be no compromise on the issue of Chinese safeguarding their rights and national dignity! ”

Between President Yuan's vigorously waving arms, a powerful voice erupted from his stubby neck.

The big brother looked so high-spirited and passionate, as if there was a powerful aura around him, which made the reporters who interviewed him admire.

However, the eldest brother will not fight by himself, and he will not even send his own people to die, and the fight can only be fought by Yang Chao.

The big brother discussed with Yang Chao, and after Yang Chao said that it was impossible for the Russians to win the war, the big brother decided to fight, and if he had just come to power, he would be able to have a brilliant victory against the foreigners, which would obviously be very beneficial to his political achievements.

However, Yang Chao did not give his life to the big brother in vain, and the big brother asked for 500 million taels of silver.

Before Zhang Zhidong's death, a total of five national bonds were issued, 100 million taels each for the first two times, 200 million taels each for the second time, and 400 million taels for the fifth time, totaling 1 billion taels. Maybe he felt that his health was no longer good, and the last time he issued bonds, Zhang Zhidong issued far more than he actually needed, and all of them were directly deposited in Yangzi Bank, so that Yang Chao could access them at any time.

At present, these billion taels of silver have not been completely spent, and the military salaries sent out by one million people in two years are only 300 million taels, weapons and ammunition have been consumed 500 million taels, and various other materials have been consumed 100 million taels, and there are still nearly 100 million taels left, which can be supported for a while.

But for the next wave of spring and summer offensives that are about to be launched, this money is obviously not enough, so Yang Chao asked for 500 million taels, but the big brother's money is not so easy to ask, the big head brother is an iron rooster and does not pull out a dime, and it is okay to borrow, but the tariffs are almost mortgaged, and the big head brother wants to use the factory tax of the factory in Shandong as collateral to lend this money.

Yang Chao also agreed, the money will be raised in Shanghai, underwritten by Yangzi Bank and 30 large money banks, although it will be repaid with the factory tax of the Shandong factory in the next ten years, but it is also equivalent to buying out the tax that the Shandong factory has to pay to the central government.

500 million taels is enough for Yang Chao to launch a counteroffensive.

"Counter-attack, as soon as the time is right, we will counterattack. Advance the war to the enemy's territory until the Russians admit defeat! ”

The big brother continued to answer reporters' questions.

"The purpose of our army's operation? The purpose of our army's war has always been very clear, that is, to recover the rights of the northeast, abolish the unequal treaties, and recover all the territories that the Russians have ceded from China since Xianfeng. ”

The big brother made a clear statement and announced the political pursuit of the new government to the outside world.

Needless to say, Brother Datou's statement will make the Chinese people who have just calmed down enthusiastic again.

At this time, in a small place in Nanpi, Zhili, in front of a large tomb that is not too luxurious.

Yang Chao was holding a bottle of wine, a bouquet of flowers, and a stack of fire paper.

While burning paper, I thought about it as if I was talking to an old friend.

"Zhang Xiang, don't blame the subordinate for offending, it's really not the right time for you to die, it's really difficult for the subordinate to do."

This is the tomb of Zhang Zhidong, and the new soil on the grave has not yet dried out.

Zhang Zhidong died after ten days in a coma, and he didn't have time to explain his last words.

When Zhang Zhidong was alive, he was not greedy for money or power, and devoted himself to foreign affairs, built a large number of new-style schools, and selected more than 30,000 international students.

When Li Hongzhang grasped the navy, a kind of foreign affairs that could improve his political power, Zhang Zhidong honestly transferred the trained new army to Liangjiang under the orders of the imperial court; When Li Hongzhang opened the Luan Coal Mine, a money-making business, Zhang Zhidong was thankless to build the Luhan Railway, and for this purpose, he also established a large heavy industry group with the Hanyang Iron Works as the core; When Li Hongzhang left more than 20 million taels of silver to his children and grandchildren after his death, what Zhang Zhidong left behind was a large and small new-style school in Hu, which was a primary education system covering the whole country.

"Boss, I used to think that I only admired three and a half of the characters of this era, Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai, Zhang Jian, your old man is only half, but now I feel that I admire half of you more. And it's admiration! ”

When Zhang Zhidong died, no one cared, Yuan Shikai had just arrived in Beijing, replaced Zhang Zhidong as the new prime minister, and everyone with great power rushed to Yuan Gate, but they didn't know that an old man had just died.

It was the people of the Zhang family who quietly collected the body for him, and asked Yang Chao where to go, so he arranged a special car, escorted him to his hometown Nanpi, and then quietly buried him, except for three or five friends, no one came to attend the funeral.

Even Yang Chao didn't rush back because he was in the northeast, and this was the first time he came to Zhang Zhidong's grave.

Yang Chao came to say goodbye to Zhang Zhidong.

"Boss, the lower officials are about to go on the expedition, and this trip to the north will definitely bring you back good news. If there were nine springs, I'm sure you'd laugh. ”

The fire paper slowly burned into ashes, Yang Chao fiddled with it to make sure it was burned clean, then stood up, bowed silently to the tombstone, and then strode away.

In the original history, fifty years later, a wave of young students, in the name of the revolution, dug up this grave, opened a museum to dump their corpses, and exposed them to the wild for a few days.

Yang Chao is not sad about Zhang Zhidong's death, people will eventually die, but after death, they fall into a fate that should not be ended, which is the most sad, especially the leaders of those students, or the talents cultivated in the education system of Zhang Zhidong, which is particularly sad.

Yang Chao doesn't know if such a tragedy will happen in this era, Yang Chao doesn't know if he can reverse some wrong history, whether he can make the country and the nation turn around smoothly, but he hopes not, he hopes, he hopes.

Spring is already blooming in the Zhilu area, but the spring breeze in the north is not warm at all, and it is still as cold as winter.

But Yang Chao was also about to get up, and before leaving, he held the first meeting of the Rich and Strong Party to arrange some important things. (To be continued.) )