Zhang Zhidong, an old minister of the Qing court, felt that his body was getting worse, and he had been unable to read the folding documents in various places for several days, and his head was swollen when he saw it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

But the news from the front still made him feel satisfied, forty years later, he finally waited for this day, his country finally saw a ray of light, although this ray of light was not directly brought by him, but a young and vigorous young man, in a radical and reckless way, he was still very happy.

When Zhang Zhidong faced Yang Chao, he sometimes couldn't help but wonder, was he wrong with Li Hongzhang back then, the direction of the Westernization movement was not wrong, but the steps were too shallow, did he stride forward from the beginning?

But with Zeng Guofan, he Zhang Zhidong can't do it, Li Hongzhang can't do it, Zeng Guofan's mountain is in front of them, they can only look up, no one has enough prestige to forcibly climb over that mountain.

Although I feel that my health is not very good, I am afraid that I will not live this year, but Zhang Zhidong is still very happy that he is not sick or sick, this is a good death, he can lie in his bed, the bed is surrounded by filial sons and grandchildren, and slowly close his eyes in the sorrow of everyone, what is there to be afraid of this kind of death.

But he was still a little afraid, or unwilling, seeing that the country was rising, and seeing that he was about to see the results after fighting for it all his life, he was going to die.

Hey, what are you worried about, the rest of the things are Yang Chao's people to worry about, he should be like Li Hongzhang, when he is dying, think more about what is behind him, instead of these things like fame.

Seeing a staff member hurriedly walk in, holding a telegram in his hand, Zhang Zhidong knew that there was news again.

"My lord, it's not good!"

"What's wrong, but it's a problem at the front?"

Zhang Zhidong didn't care too much, Yang Chao was on the front line, what could not be solved, even if it was a temporary retreat, he would rather believe that it was Yang Chao that kid was playing tricks on Lao Maozi again, and said that there was a conspiracy. Although he has suffered a lifetime of losses from foreigners, until now, Zhang Zhidong does not look down on the diplomatic methods of foreigners, but he is just relying on his strength to play around. How can the vertical and horizontal lines be compared to the Chinese?

"It's not the front line, it's something happened in Wuchang, and the new army has rebelled!"

"What!"

Zhang Zhidong was shocked, and immediately took the telegram to see that the Wuhan New Army had rebelled. Huguang Governor Rui Cheng was greedy for life and afraid of death, and ran away with officials big and small, this news was already yesterday, and it was sent out by the employees of the railway company after figuring out the situation.

Yesterday?

Thinking of yesterday, Yang Chao fought bloodily on the front line, broke through the three lines of defense of the Russian army in one day, repelled the Russian reinforcements, and continued the frontal counteroffensive against the Russian army, in order to do so within three months. Advance the front to Russian territory.

And Wuchang turned out to have an accident, the new army actually had an accident, Wuchang, which he had worked hard for many years, the new army he had built single-handedly, Zhang Zhidong's hand began to tremble, and an irrepressible sense of shame and anger rushed to his head, and his eyes immediately turned black, his body was unstable, and he slowly sat down with his hand touching the armrest of the chair, but suddenly fell. He slipped out of his chair and couldn't hear anything in the shouts of the staff boss.

"What? The new army of Wuchang rebelled and occupied Wuchang City, and Prime Minister Zhang Zhidong fainted! ”

Yang Chao is located in Harbin. Almost at the same time as receiving the news that the Russian army had retreated to Manchuria, Yang Chao received news from Beijing.

At this time, the situation of the war was that the Russians were divided and surrounded by Yang Chao's army in Qiqihar, and the other 100,000 were forced to retreat to Manchuria, while Chita went west to Irkutsk and along the Trans-Siberian Railway. All the railway stations, transfer points, railway bridges, were bombed by airships, the Russian Far East traffic was completely paralyzed, Yang Chao had already begun to plan how to destroy the remnants of the enemy in Manchuria and Qiqihar, at this time Wuchang uprising.

Yang Chao really can't understand why he has changed so many things, why can't he change this uprising, Yang Chao is not against the Wuchang uprising, but feels that it is not the time, in the two options of stability first and then reform and revolution first and then construction, Yang Chao will not hesitate to choose the former, which will cause less damage to society and be more beneficial to the country.

Before the original Wuchang uprising, wasn't Sichuan in chaos first, and now that the Sichuan-Han Railway is advancing steadily, it is impossible for anything like the road protection movement to happen, why is Wuchang still in chaos.

In fact, many things have indeed changed, but more things have not changed, the Wuchang Uprising was an accident, it was caused by the oppression of Han soldiers by Manchurian officers, it was a military rebellion, not an uprising with any political ambitions, but it was quickly used by the League, these soldiers who beat the officers and even killed the officers, in desperation, could only take refuge in the League and rebelled.

This sudden revolution caught Yang Chao a little off guard, and Zhang Zhidong's fainting made Yang Chao feel that the passing years were unfavorable, and all the bad things had been saved together.

At this time, Britain, France and the United States jointly mediated, hoping to end the Northeast War, but Yang Chao, who originally hoped to reconcile with the Russians, suddenly refused to mediate, and instead wanted to fight wholeheartedly.

Yang Chao understood in his heart that Britain, France, and the United States saw that there was a revolution in China, just like the Russians, so they thought that it was time to mediate, and that the Chinese would not bargain too much at this time.

But because of this, Yang Chao has to fight even more, and before he gains a decisive advantage, he can't sit at the negotiating table with the Russians, otherwise he won't get what he deserves, and there will be many sequelae.

"Duan Qirui listened to the order, led your department of 30,000 people, and Zhang Guozhu's department and Niu Fu's department of 30,000 people each, and continued to surround Qiqihar."

"Wu Peifu obeyed the order and ordered you to take the main force to start attacking Manchuria, and a thousand airships are all under your control, bombing and shelling day and night. I don't want to hear any difficulties, any casualties and excuses, I just want Manchuria. Capture Manchuria and first burn the flames of war to Russia. Qiqihar continues to besiege, but there is no need to worry. ”

In the Harbin command, Yang Chao kept giving orders, and after the deployment, after assigning the command of the front line to Duan Qirui and Wu Peifu, he immediately rushed back to Beijing, where he needed to deal with the government at this time, stabilize the domestic situation as soon as possible, and then restart the next wave of offensives.

That's why Yang Chao wanted to capture Manchuria as soon as possible, because the next time the offensive was restarted, he would start a war directly on Russian soil.

"Weichen see the emperor, long live the emperor, long live the emperor!"

The first time to enter the palace, to meet the emperor Zaifeng.

Zaifeng was also anxious like an ant on a hot pot at this time, the Wuchang uprising was the one who made them full of people. Ruicheng, who was brought back, exaggerated the strength of the rebels, which made the children of the Eight Banners panic.

Zaifeng is not a person who is greedy for power, and in the original history, he reached an agreement with Yuan Shikai. After letting Yuan Shikai pay, he retired and handed over power to Yuan Shikai as a regent, even if Yuan Shikai forced his son to abdicate in the end. He didn't come out either.

In this era, although he is the emperor, when the Kangliang group failed and the weakness of the imperial power was completely exposed, Zaifeng could also happily accept Zhang Zhidong's leadership, and then launch the constitution, he was happy to be a hypocritical emperor, but the southern alliance would not even let him do this hypocrisy, and Zhang Zhidong fainted as soon as he heard the news, and the court was leaderless. The old ministers withered one by one, and even Yang Shixiang died the year before last.

Zaifeng's ministers who can be used are only one end at the moment, and Yang Chao who rushed back. As soon as Duan Fang was the first time, he had already invited himself to go to the south to suppress the rebellion, and Duan Fang was also the most suitable candidate, because he had been an official in Huguang for a long time, and those new rebels were all trained by him, and it can be said that they were all his old troops, and he went after. The combination of suppression and appeasement should soon calm down the incident.

Fortunately, Yang Chao rushed back from the front line urgently.

"Aiqing, how is it good. The front line is urgent. There is a rebellion in the state, can peace be negotiated? ”

Zaifeng opened his mouth to ask, he had been thinking about this question for a long time, although he had the advantage at the moment, but if the Russians' asking price was not too much, Daqing would admit defeat. Let the Russians fight Japan first, and when the Qing Dynasty has cleaned up the mountains and rivers, it will not be too late to fight the Russians outside the pass.

"Your Majesty, the matter of peace must not be mentioned again. The country is turbulent, and if peace is discussed again, I am afraid that it will provoke a popular uprising. ”

When Zaifeng heard it, it made sense, and he was even more anxious, he couldn't deal with such a complicated situation, otherwise in the original history, Yuan Shikai would not have been invited to come out and let Yuan Shikai deal with it.

"Your Majesty, the top priority is to invite a famous doctor to treat Zhang Xiang first. And it's time to take the next step, it's time to elect a new prime minister. ”

Yang Chao did not shy away from being optimistic about Zhang Zhidong's condition, he had long known that Zhang Zhidong's body was declining, and in 1909 he knew that Zhang Zhidong would not live for more than three years.

The reason why he died until today was because he had lived a peaceful life for a few years in the past few years, but the Wuchang Uprising still made him unbearable.

Originally, in history, Zhang Zhidong was angry to death by Zaifeng, and Zaifeng had no chance in this time and space, Zhang Zhidong monopolized the power, and this time he was completely angry with Wuchang's affairs.

Electing a new prime minister, this is not easy, among the ministers who can be used now, Zaifeng knows in his heart, a Cen Chunxuan, this person is capable, but he is called an official slaughter, and he will set off a storm in officialdom wherever he goes, and he has to kill a large wave of corrupt ministers. The other is the end side, the end side wants to go to quell the rebellion, and he can't get out of it for the time being.

Do you want to make a minister as young as Yang Chao the prime minister?

Zaifeng couldn't help but hesitate.

"The emperor will use Yuan Shikai!"

When Zaifeng was hesitating, Yang Chao spoke.

Zaifeng couldn't help but be stunned.

Use Yuan Shikai?

But Yuan Shikai fell because of the conflict with the Eight Banners, can Yuan Shikai stabilize people's hearts?

Zaifeng didn't agree immediately, nor did he refuse, he had to imagine it carefully, and he had to discuss it with his younger brothers, he always only believed in the people around him.

But soon the bad news came, and he set off south to quell the rebellion and was assassinated at the train station.

This stunned Zaifeng, a minister like Duanfang was killed, this is the Qing Dynasty that is going to die.

Along with the news of Duanfang's killing, there was also news of the deterioration of the situation, under the influence of Hubei, Hunan was also chaotic, Jiujiang was also chaotic, and then the Shaanxi New Army also had an uprising, and in just a few days, it seemed that the whole world had rebelled.

At this time, Yang Chao proposed again: "Your Majesty, use Yuan Shikai, only Yuan Shikai can clean up the situation." ”

This time, Zaifeng had no choice, so he could only agree. (To be continued.) )