108491908 Far Eastern madman

Let the day of the season, bright is very early, the rooster crows do not bother to measure the sound of the net to ask for the eight days of the sun, and then, a round of red sun jumped up, quickly dispelled the faint coolness of the night, the temperature rose rapidly.

The door of the teahouse opened, and the man walked to the outside of the store with the removed door panel, leaned the door panel to the side, and then walked back to the store, carried the cloth banner out, stood on the stool, and picked the cloth banner under the eaves.

The bugle sounded, and the curfew in the city was lifted. The barricades at the intersection were removed by the soldiers, accompanied by military songs, and the soldiers of the Beiyang Army gathered up and returned to the camp, which made the city more or less lively, but soon, the streets were quiet again, the city gate had not yet opened, and even the vegetable vendors outside the city had not entered the city, and everywhere was still quiet. The occasional dog barking adds to the dead silence of the city.

This teahouse did open a little earlier, now there is no small guest, even those beggars who can usually be seen everywhere are gone, taking advantage of this opportunity, the shopkeeper of the teahouse decided to take out some aged tea leaves to dry, anyway, this is also bought with real money, can not entertain regular customers, those broken down flag people are not counted. This world is indeed no longer the world of the flag people.

The net set up the basket in front of the store, and the two tea customers actually walked through the store.

"Your Excellency is here! Distinguished guests, please! ”

The shopkeeper was facing away from the door of the store, carrying a bench with a fellow, and when he saw the figure on the ground, he shouted professionally, but he immediately found that the guy opposite did not look right, so he turned his head to look at the door of the store, but was surprised to find that the tea customer was actually two officers, officers of the Beiyang Army.

"Ouch! Sir, rare guest! The villain's store has always been well-behaved, and there has never been a mess of the party! I have always paid taxes according to the regulations, and the guys in the store have also done ID documents with small photos, and a fellow came to the firewood house a few days ago, and this ID card has not yet been done. But the little photo was also taken. ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly put down the bench and nodded to greet the two Beiyang officers.

"Alright, alright! We're here for tea. Regardless of the of your teahouse. Besides. This matter is not under the control of our army, you have to be verbose, go and go to the commander of the infantry army, Yamen, or not. Go and talk to the plainclothes team. ”

The Beiyang officer waved his hand, and with his companion chose a table by the window, and sat down. The shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly carried the teapot himself to entertain the two tea guests.

"Two chiefs, listen to the accent, are they from Shandong?"

"Inquire less! This is a military secret, and if you can't get it right, you have to shoot it. ”

The shopkeeper went to the set closely, but he hit a nail. So he closed his mouth with interest and served diligently, but he soon discovered that the two officers were big mouths, and the other party leaked a lot of "military secrets" between the conversations without him asking.

"I said, last night your battalion was transferred around the presidential palace, what kind of fame are you doing? Mo is not a foreigner, and the doctor issued a "critical illness notice" to that Yuan Gongzi. Finish? ”

"Ahem! What do you kid ponder all day long? Even if Yuan Laoshuai drives the crane to the west, it has nothing to do with your catty regimental vice, it's not that Lao Shuai dies. You kid can be promoted? I'll tell you. At the beginning of last night, our battalion was first moved to the east, and then to the west, and this was transferred back and forth. I was also very confused, I only knew that the presidential palace had strengthened its vigilance again, and a small infantry regiment and a cavalry regiment were transferred from outside the city. At dawn today, I heard from the regiment commander why he transferred us around last night

"Why? Don't sell it, finish it in one breath, don't be like the storyteller. ”

"Actually, it's nothing. Last night, a telegram came from the south, which was taken from Nanjing by the First Army of the Beiyang Southward Advance, and the regiment commander and brigade commander all signed a joint name on it, saying that they wanted to promote Yuan Dagongzi out of the mountain and be the acting president of the Republic of China. ”

"What? Beiyang southward march to the first army? Isn't that Wang Shizhen's team, he wants to nominate Yuan Keding as the acting president? Isn't the acting president of the Republic of China Xu Shichang and Xu Xiangye? What's the matter, Xu Xiangye also plans to learn from that cannon Guiqing, and come to a "power on the field,?" ”

"You're thinking about it again, aren't you? There is nothing to do with Wang Shizhen here, this telegram was jointly photographed by the brigade commanders and regiment commanders under him, Wang Shizhen did not come out, because he was assassinated yesterday and was blown up half dead with a bomb. Where do you still have the leisure to that mind?.

"What? Wang Shizhen was bombed? Who did this to you? Where did it blow up?.

"You ask me, who do I ask? Our head of the regiment also heard what the head of the regiment said. The first thing that came out was the electrification of Yuan Keding as the acting president. What followed was the telegram of Wang Shizhen's assassination. In this hurry, the vigilance of the presidential palace was strengthened, and we didn't close our eyes all night last night. It was for these two telegrams

"Could it be that Xu Xiangye is worried that Yuan Dagongzi will commit a mutiny? If the two ends really fight, which end of our eighth division will stand with? ”

"Whoever you say you stand with, then we will stand with whomever we want, as long as the military pay is not bad. We are still the soldiers of the Beiyang! Whoever pays us, we will listen! ”

These two big-mouthed officers said a word, and soon the teahouse shopkeeper understood the tense atmosphere in the capital at present.

"Come here, all of you."

The shopkeeper walked out of the teahouse quietly. Called the two guys who were drying the aged tea to his side and pulled them to the corner.

"Immediately take the silver, and go and buy rice, noodles, and pickles, and sauced meat. After buying it, don't transport it back to the teahouse, just be careful in the old house in the west of the city, don't let people see it, run a few more times, and buy less each time. Don't hire a cart, don't hire a donkey, you both carry it on your shoulders. ”

The shopkeeper took out some silver and handed it to the two young men, carefully, Ding explained, the two young men were obviously a little strange.

"Shopkeeper, why is that? Didn't you buy a few packs of rice noodles online a few days ago? Why buy again? ”

The shopkeeper looked left and right, then lowered his voice and said, "I told you, you have to keep your mouth shut and don't talk nonsense to others." At present, President Yuan is seriously ill, and the Beiyang Army wants to elect President Yuan's eldest son to be the president of our Republic of China and the acting president, but now there is an acting president. This is the state has two masters, there are two days in the sky, look at it, it won't be long, I'm afraid that there will be a mutiny again, it's not good, this old Beijing Sijiu City will have to go to war! ”

"President Yuan's eldest son is the acting president, isn't that the prison of the country? The father dies and the son succeeds, how is this different from the previous Qing Dynasty? Now that it's a republic, it's not exciting, right? ”

The famous guy has a very republican consciousness, but this consciousness was quickly destroyed by the shopkeeper's Jiang Bangli.

"You little common people know a fart republic! Buying rice and noodles is the most important thing! A day without dying to eat. If you don't die for two days, you have to pull, and by the way, you will buy some straw paper back, and when the time comes, it will be useless to fight, and Lao Tzu will use the bamboo mats of the two of you to rub your cheeks! ”

In the urging of the shopkeeper, the two guys hurried to the grain store, but the shopkeeper's admonition to them was in vain after all, through the mouths of the two teahouse guys, the grain store shopkeeper and the guys knew the military secret of this "state-owned two masters", and then, their big mouths spread this secret to more people, and by noon, it was almost half a catty. The city of Beijing knew the news that Yuan Keding and Yuan Dagongzi were elected as the acting president of the Republic of China by the generals of the First Army of the Beiyang Southward Advance, and. Because the news is delivered entirely by word of mouth, there is inevitably a misunderstanding.

"Ahem! Have you heard? Yuan Dagongzi is going to be the acting president of the Republic of China

"You know? Just because of this, Xu Shichang and Xu Xiangye were like thunder, last night they sent troops to surround the presidential palace and surrounded the people in the Yuan Mansion, and Xu Xiangye himself moved out of the presidential palace. Now, I heard that there is another line in Nanyuan! ”

"! Where did you hear the bullshit? Obviously, it was Yuan Dagongzi who sent troops to surround the presidential palace. It is the son of Yuan who sets up the president in Nanyuan! ”

"Ball! If you want to be well-informed, our flag people are the most well-informed! Let me tell you! Just last night, Yuan Dagongzi Ke Dingyi used a pack of poison to send Xu Shichang's bastard back to heaven! If you are ruthless, how can Xu Shichang's Hanlin be the opponent of the Yuan family? However, now Xu Shichang's subordinates are not convinced, shouting to avenge Xu Xiangye, and now the two gangs have started a fight, and they are about to do a big job, everyone. We are all in time to catch up, and in the past, we always watched the "change of Xuanwumen" on the stage. Now, let's see this "change in the Great Qing Gate" with our own eyes. Finish! ”

"Daqingmen? Isn't it now renamed "Zhonghua Gate?" ”

"Phew! Sooner or later, our banner people will change this city gate back to "Daqing Gate.!" ”

"That master, although I am also a banner person, but I feel that our Great Qing Kingdom seems to be unable to restore the country, and those gangs" Eight Banners outside the Guanxi are also fierce, I'm afraid they don't dare to do it.

"What is this called? As long as the capital is in chaos. There must be chaos in this world! When the Three Kingdoms were in place, Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, Luoyang was in chaos, and then wasn't it the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Look, I see, our Great Qing Kingdom's qi is endless, as long as Xu Shichang and Yuan Keding eat dog, it will be a good opportunity for our flag people to restore the country, and when the time comes, the world will be divided into three, and there may not be no share of our flag people! ”

The fact that the telegraph office quickly posted the contents of the telegram of the First Army of Beiyang's southward march further strengthened the veracity of the rumors.

All kinds of rumors came out one after another, and soon showed their power, and by noon, the whole capital was full of people rushing to buy grain, and grain merchants also took the opportunity to double the price of grain. This added to the sense of panic and accelerated the "mutation" of the rumored content, and by the afternoon. Acting President Xu Shichang has been officially confirmed "dead" by the people, and the news from Nanyuan shows that the Beiyang troops of the Yuan family have officially engaged fire with the Beiyang troops of the Xu family, and the "fierce battle" between the two sides is in full swing, and Duan Zhigui, the general of the Beiyang army, is "killed". Jiang Chaozong, the commander of the infantry army and the commander of the Nine Gates, was captured. ”

This increasingly outrageous rumor has even aroused great concern among foreign diplomats, and telephone contact alone is not enough, the ministers of the eight countries in China jointly visited the presidential palace, and it is President Lao Xu or President Xiao Yuan who are now sitting in the presidential palace.

The slow response of the central government of Beiyang realized how serious the situation was at this time, so it took urgent measures, not only ordering the posting of notices everywhere to explain the situation, but also deliberately letting Duan Zhigui, who had been "killed", ride a war horse. led the guards, opened the way with a whip, and circled around the old Beijing Sijiu City.

This move did have some effect, and the people relaxed a little, but what really completely eased the situation was a public statement, Yuan Keding's public statement.

This public statement was read out by Yuan Keding and Yuan Dagongzi in front of ministers and journalists of various countries, and the content is very simple, in the statement. Yuan Keding did not hesitate to announce that he had never intended to be the president of the Republic of China, and he "resolutely refused" the proposal of the first army of Beiyang to the south

If this statement had appeared in the morning, or even at noon, the situation in the capital would not have been so corrupt and would have caused the people and officials of the whole city to panic.

Obviously, the news that I was stunned last night was not resolved until the next evening through a statement of the parties, and the efficiency of Beiyang's work was too low.

No wonder it will be beaten by the United Front and can't find the north!