Chapter 149 The unlucky Cen Chunxuan
After Wang Bin listened to Liang Zilong's report, although he was happy for the tax of up to 10 million this year, this tax was used quickly, especially now when he wanted to continue to develop his strength, after all, according to his own understanding, there were only about five years before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, but I don't know how much strength I have developed in these five years.
But in the past, Wang Bin thought about it for a long time, but he completely forgot that although the general historical progress of this era is similar, it does not necessarily mean that everything will go according to Wang Bin's thoughts.
Just when Wang Bin was thinking about these miscellaneous things in Fengtian, Yuan Shikai, who was far away in the capital at the moment, was not so good, the so-called higher he stood up, the more he would be noticed by others, Yuan Shikai was like this at this moment, Yuan Shikai's strength above the court was a little too great, especially Yuan Shikai's subordinates had the six towns of Beiyang that had been compiled, and Yuan Shikai's current status could be described as a very popular minister, so the current Yuan Shikai was even Cixi had three points of fear, not to mention that the current court was basically Yuan Shikai covering the sky with one hand.
The court urgently needed someone who could compete with Yuan Shikai, so Cen Chunxuan came into Cixi's eyes.
Since the events of the Gengzi period, Yuan Shikai inherited the main legacy of the Westernization faction, and rose to become a powerful Beiyang warlord group, especially after Gengzi, with the ****** Yixuan of Bingzheng as the Austrian aid, through the development of the Beiyang New Army, the establishment of various new political undertakings and foreign affairs, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang series became the most active and powerful political force in China in the late Guangxu period.
The second is the "magnate" force, composed of Manchurian young nobles, these people also entered the political arena after the Gengzi Incident, these people are mainly led by Prince Zaifeng, Zhenguo Gong Zaize, Minister of Military Aircraft, Shangshu Tieliang of the Ministry of War, Prince Su Shanqi, and Liangbi of the clan.
At first, these people fought against Yuan Shikai's Beiyang group with the support of Cixi, but although these people had a special status and prominent momentum, they were difficult to meet the expectations because of their strong racial color, and most of the members were young and vigorous, and the means, experience, and experience were insufficient, so they were always in a situation where there was more than enough success and more than failure in the internal strife.
The last faction is the Qing school headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Qu Hongzhen (ji) and the governor of Liangguang Cen Chunxuan, because of Gengziqin Wang and the Empress Dowager Cixi's favor, Cen Chunxuan is one of the few local governors who can confront Yuan Shikai, the governor of Zhili, and is sometimes known as "Southern Cen and Northern Yuan".
In addition, some local officials, such as Lin Shaonian, the governor of Guangxi, Yu Shimei, the governor of Guangdong, and Liang Dingfen, the Hubei envoy, also participated in the meeting.
Because of the Qingliu forces, they were quite popular because of the incorruptibility of the officials, and the support of the Imperial History of the Imperial Court and Cixi in secret, they became the main force against Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Group.
Especially at the beginning of 1906, the imperial court announced its preparation for the constitution under internal and external pressure, which opened the transformation of the monarchy into a constitutional monarchy, and it is precisely because of the constitution that it provides opportunities and possibilities for the development and growth of various political forces.
Let's just talk about this Cen Chunxuan, originally Cen Chunxuan's position as the governor of Liangguang did a good job, but because he needed an extremely powerful figure to deal with Yuan Shikai in the court, so Cixi's secret edict recruited Cen Chunxuan to the capital, and Cen Chunxuan was summoned by the Empress Dowager Cixi four times in a row after arriving in the capital.
So on the same day, Cixi gave him the post of secretary of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, so that Cen Chunxuan was able to gain a foothold in Beijing, and Cen Chunxuan's next move did not disappoint Cixi, Cen Chunxuan played Cixi in front of him on the same day, saying that Zhu Baokui, the waiter of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, drilled the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, colluded with outsiders to swallow up huge sums of money, and bribed the cardinal government.
Cixi adopted Cen Chunxuan's words and deposed Zhu Baokui, who was a close confidant of Yuan Shikai.
At this time, Cen Chunxuan can be described as an incomparable scenery, and as soon as he came up, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Department was caught off guard.
Qingliu has been suppressing Yuan Shikai's Beiyang system above the court since then, and it seems that there is a great tendency to change the sky above the court.
But all this is only temporary, this Beiyang system was slapped in the face, and this beating really made Yuan Shikai a little embarrassed, although Cen Chunxuan had the upper hand, but who is Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai has been in the political arena for many years, and his scheming is one by one, so I don't know who wins and who loses!
So the counterattack from Beiyang came suddenly, and it was so violent that it directly sent the Qing faction into the land of no return, and first the governor of Liangjiang, who favored the Beiyang faction, sent a secret telegram.
In the secret telegram, Duan Fang said: "Xilin Cen Chunxuan will leave Beijing when his leave is over, and he has no other intentions, and he is not allowed to follow the rules."
Chen Qinggui of the imperial history followed closely behind Cen Chunxuan, "repeatedly refusing to go, arrogant and lawless, which is rare for more than 200 years".
The attached film also lists Cen Chunxuan's four major crimes of "greed, violence, arrogance, and bullying", and there are many places that implicate Sheng Xuanhuai, saying that Cen and Sheng rely on power to operate a joint venture.
But this matter is harmless at all, it just means that Cen Chunxuan is arrogant and lawless, and this is true of all powerful people in this court, so this is not a blow to Cen Chunxuan.
But then this wave of Cen Chunxuan couldn't bear it, this can't make you play yin, so Du Duanfang synthesized a photo of Cen Chunxuan and Mai Menghua and others in front of the "Times" hall through Yuan Shikai's cronies Cai Naihuang of Shanghai Dao, and handed it to Qing and Yuan.
After Cixi saw this photo, she was very angry, and immediately became very angry with Cen Chunxuan, you must know that Cixi's opponents have never had a good impression of her, this Cen Chunxuan even dared to take a photo with these people, so Cen Chunxuan cupped, and even he didn't know that he would lose so confused.
So Cen Chunxuan was forced to leave the capital after 25 days of being the secretary of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, and in this way, he was sent to Guangzhou again at the instigation of Yuan Shikai, but even at this time Cen Chunxuan didn't think he had lost, so he came to repeat the old trick and wanted to wait and see the situation change in Shanghai, and then find a chance to return to Beijing, but what he didn't expect was that no one could help him anymore this time, and the last backer Qu Hongzhen also fell.
Qu Hongzhen didn't control his mouth in the end, and leaked the discussion between himself and Cixi about Yixuan, so Yixuan, who seized the opportunity, immediately drove Qu Hongzhen out of the military aircraft.
The news that Qu Hongji was kicked out of the military aircraft department soon reached the ears of Cen Chunxuan in Shanghai.
After Cen Chunxuan heard the news, he knew that the general trend had gone, so after a long sigh, he helplessly packed up and prepared to go to Guangzhou to take office.
But things are not as simple as Cen Chunxuan imagined, before he left, the court was a piece of edict floating, Cen Chunxuan opened it, and was dumbfounded, only to see that the edict read: "Cen Chunxuan was asked to open a vacancy due to illness before, and he was rewarded with leave, and now the vacation is full, and he has not yet reported that he has set off, and he has not recovered from his illness."
The two places are critical, and the shortage of staff has not been suspended for a long time, and now Cen Chunxuan is vacant to show compassion. ”
The implication of these words is that Cen Chunxuan was expelled from the imperial court, so this Cen Chunxuan is really unlucky, just after a central minister's addiction was fired not long after, it can be said that there are no more ups and downs in life than this, this internal struggle seems to have a great upper hand in the Beiyang family on the surface, and for a while Yuan Shikai once again dominated everything in the court, but who knows who has the upper hand? (To be continued.) )