Here's the thing, Yuan Shikai was the governor of Zhili, the minister of Beiyang, the minister of foreign affairs, and the name of the minister of military aircraft, walking on the military plane. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the Zhili Governor's Mansion is in Baoding and Tianjin, Yuan Shikai has been living in Beijing on errands.

Recently, there was news that the imperial court was not favorable to Yuan Shikai, and Prince Qing Yikuang personally told Yuan Shikai, but Yuan Shikai, who had 40,000 new troops, didn't care too much, so he went to the military aircraft office as usual.

But before he entered the Forbidden City, a eunuch was waiting for him, secretly telling him that someone was trying to kill him.

As a result, Yuan Shikai couldn't take care of it, so he ran away in a hurry, and no one knew where he was, and at this time, the whole city of Beijing was looking for Yuan Shikai, and even Zhang Zhidong was in a hurry.

Speaking of which, it's still the group of Eight Banners upstarts who are making trouble.

Zaifeng is Guangxu's younger brother, but Zaifeng's circle has not been large, the reason is that after Guangxu became the emperor, his father Yiyun was extremely low-key, and the family did not go out all day long, and they did not go out if they could.

Zaifeng grew up in such an environment, and his social circle was that of some noble children of the same age, and several of his younger brothers.

Therefore, after Zaifeng became the emperor, he naturally reused these people.

But these Eight Banner teenagers have a good impression of Guangxu, and even many people have been involved in Guangxu's Wuxu change and have been implicated, and Guangxu was betrayed by Yuan Shikai, even when Guangxu was imprisoned by Cixi, I heard that every day I draw a turtle, write 'Yuan Shikai' on my back and shoot with an arrow.

Guangxu is like this, this group of Eight Banners teenagers naturally hate Yuan Shikai to the bone, and many people think that if it weren't for Yuan Shikai, the Wuxu Law would be successful.

After Zaifeng came to power, like his two younger brothers, Zai Tao and Zai Xun, as well as cousins, Zai Zhen and Zai Ze, Prince Gong Pu Wei and others who were young and attacked the jue, were all reused and formed a circle of relatives and nobles.

Among them, especially Pu Wei, who wanted to kill Yuan Shikai with the heaviest heart, and even the knife was ready, that is, the white rainbow knife that Emperor Xianfeng rewarded his family with.

Pu Wei wanted to kill Yuan Shikai, in addition to avenging Guangxu, but also because he thought that Yuan Shikai was a big problem, which he was a bit far-sighted, so a young Eight Banners nobleman planned to follow Kangxi's method of killing Aobai back then, summoning Yuan Shikai into the palace, and they killed together.

Kangxi's killing of Aobai was a bit of a child's play, and he didn't scruple to rebel against Aobai's henchmen, and Aobai's henchmen did not rebel, which shows that Aobai's autocracy does not rely on strength, but on prestige. But Yuan Shikai is different from Aobai, Yuan Shikai has soldiers in his hands.

But where are Yuan Shikai's soldiers?

In Tianjin!

After the Eight-Nation Alliance withdrew from Beijing, Yuan Shikai's new army entered Beijing for the first time, and Yuan Shikai was indispensable at that time, because in the entire north, he was the only one who had such an army in his hands, and Zaifeng did have to rely on Yuan Shikai in order to succeed to the throne and reach an agreement with Li Hongzhang.

But after the throne was stabilized, Zaifeng began to form a Praetorian Guard of the Eight Banners, and then transferred Yuan Shikai's army out of Beijing step by step.

If Yuan Shikai's army was in Beijing, those Eight Banners would not dare to move Yuan Shikai.

In the same way, as soon as Yuan Shikai heard that someone was going to kill him, he immediately ran to Tianjin, because Tianjin had his army.

Because the Eight Banners had soldiers in their hands, Zaifeng dared to kill Yuan Shikai, and in order to hold on to his life, Yuan Shikai must also have soldiers in his hands.

If there are soldiers, you must have guns, so Yang Chao realized that there was something wrong with Yuan Shikai, and the reason was that Yuan Shikai needed these guns too much.

"I see!"

After Yang Chao listened to Yuan Keding's words, he understood.

Speaking of the movements in Beijing, he still knew that the Empress Dowager was too poor in his intelligence capabilities in Beijing.

I didn't care much about it before, but now that something like this happened, Yang Chao felt that he should strengthen his intelligence network in Beijing, otherwise the general trend of the imperial court would not know how to advance and retreat freely in the tide, which Yuan Shikai was much stronger than him, and the nobles of the Eight Banners wanted to kill themselves, and the Prince Qing of the Eight Banners would personally report the news, and the eunuchs in the palace would personally block it.

If Zaifeng wanted to kill Yang Chao, he was afraid that the knife would cut his neck, and he didn't know.

"Brother Yang, there is one more thing about the younger brother. I don't know if Brother Yang can still get a foreign gun? ”

After Yuan Keding finished speaking, he immediately asked, Yang Chao sent 10,000 rifles, but it was far from enough for the 40,000 new army, and in Yuan Shikai's new army, at best, there were 20,000 rifles that could only be used, which were still made in Hanyang, so at least 10,000 had to be bought.

But 10,000 rifles are 400,000 taels of silver, Yang Chao can't be so bad even if he has money, not to mention that he is actually in deficit now.

"There are guns, and we should be able to build 10,000 by the end of the year. But the money is—"

Yang Chao smiled apologetically.

Yuan Keding waved his hand and said: "Brother Yang doesn't have to be embarrassed about the matter of silver, my father has prepared one million taels of silver here, which is enough for Brother Yang to get 10,000 foreign guns and add 30 cannons." ”

Yuan Shikai had no money at this time, and he couldn't compare with Zaifeng, who had 30 million pounds in his hand, but to say that he couldn't even make up a million taels of silver would be too underestimated.

Since he has money, Yang Chao is happy to do this business: "In this case, Brother Yuan can rest assured." ”

"Then the little brother will wait for good news."

After that, Yuan Keding arranged a table of delicacies, and the two ate and drank until the sun set, and then sent people to the dock to unload the goods.

After helping Yuan Keding unload the arms, Yang Chao left directly by boat.

Yuan Keding took the arms and secretly returned to Tianjin.

Yuan Shikai hadn't slept yet, he had been waiting for him, and he was relieved to hear that the arms were safe.

"It's a pity, he actually has a wife, no wonder, he should get married early when he is young and rich."

Yuan Shikai sighed.

Yuan Keding echoed on the side, Yang Chao had a wife, he told Yuan Shikai, but in fact, he didn't know it, it was completely made up, he could see that Yuan Shikai valued Yang Chao very much, but the more Yuan Shikai valued it, the more he couldn't let Yuan Kewen's gang get too close to Yang Chao.

It's good like now, and if he comes forward to communicate with Yang Chao, it won't be the same as bringing Yang Chao closer to the Yuan family. As for women, it is not easy for the Yuan family to find a few stunning women.

In fact, Yuan Shikai really planned to marry Yang Chao at the beginning, because he felt that Yang Chao had a close relationship with the Germans, and he was the governor of Shandong, and his family had so many daughters, he really didn't care about marrying one to Yang Chao. But he was soon promoted to the governor of Zhili, and the status gap with Yang Chao widened, and he couldn't marry his daughter. At this time, his son reported that Yang Chao already had a wife, so Yuan Shikai didn't care even more.

Later, seeing Yang Chao building the railway and fighting with the Germans for the right of way, Yuan Shikai thought that his previous judgment was completely wrong, Yang Chao was not a close confidant of the Germans, and he, like Zaifeng, was inclined to believe that Yang Chao was only from a big family in Nanyang, and he only returned to China to serve the country. Since he has nothing to do with the Germans and fights completely alone, it is not worth Yuan Shikai's bothering to win over.

But this time, Yang Chao helped him get 10,000 rifles, which once again made Yuan Shikai sigh, this kind of person who stands up by his own ability is sometimes more terrifying and more worthy of wooing, so he has to regret it.

Yang Chao's ship finally arrived in Shandong one day and night.

The cargo ship was a cargo ship of the Germans in Qingdao, so it was directly anchored in Qingdao, and Yang Chao brought another million taels of silver to the arsenal, and Mars, the director of the factory sent by Krupp, was eager to produce it according to the requirements.

Time is very urgent, where is there still 10,000 rifles in Zaifeng that have not been delivered, plus Yuan Shikai's 10,000 rifles here, this year's output will reach 40,000, and the original output is expected to be only 30,000, so I have to work overtime. As for the cannon, don't worry, Yuan Shikai only needs ten cannons, and the cannon production line has also started, and the production capacity is more than enough.

I stayed in Qingdao for a day, waited for a passenger ferry to Shanghai, and then took Ma Tengfei and Zhang Guozhu directly south.

The purpose of going to Shanghai this time is not to go to Shanghai, but to Nantong.

Yang Chao went to find Zhang Jian, and he had already set a time.

Yang Chao is very busy, and Zhang Jian is also very busy.

So you have to make an appointment.

Yang Chao spent three days in Shanghai, met with Sheng Xuanhuai, who was handling affairs here, and had a meal.

I walked around the ten-mile ocean field again, and when I waited for the ship, I immediately took the British passenger ship to Nantong.