(There should be two more in the fourth watch.) ）

The night is already very deep, but the entire southern suburbs barracks has no solemnity and silence of the past, even if you don't have to deliberately, you can hear the cheers from the barracks from time to time, the soldiers' holiday has begun, there is no hard rule on when to turn off the lights and go to sleep, this night is completely their liberation day.

After the devilish mid-term assessment, and then the ups and downs of the award ceremony, the soldiers always need a few days to digest slowly, spit out the words in their stomachs little by little, and the high-level simply let them go, which can be regarded as a degree of relaxation.

On this holiday, the officers also held a small banquet, after three rounds of drinking, drunk people abounded, looking at this scene, it seemed that everyone was immersed in a leisure atmosphere, but this informal banquet was only missing Ye Kai's figure.

His gaze circled the overlapping barracks, and he stared closely at the light-focused center of power a dozen miles away

In the office, it was unusually quiet, Ye Kai didn't do anything, his fingers tapped on the table, and he was bored waiting for someone to arrive.

Few people can make Ye Kai wait like this, and he rarely has time to wait for others, but tonight, everything is reversed, and he urgently needs a piece of news to confirm the conjecture that has been hanging in his heart for a long time.

The door opened with a "squeak", and a figure slipped in, and walked directly in front of Ye Kai without anyone's notice.

I am afraid that the only one who can come in without knocking on the door is Han Chun'er, as Ye Kai's first confidant, not knocking on the door is to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.

Ye Kai has been waiting for him for a long time.

"Master, everything has been brought, we'll see if it's going to be a while now." Han Chun'er lowered her voice and asked, given the close relationship between the two, such an inquiry was not considered "trespassing".

"Now"

After listening to her master's instructions, Han Chun'er unbuttoned her coat without any scruples, took out a plate of documents from the pocket sewn inside, and placed it in front of Ye Kai.

"There are eight parts in total, red, orange, and blue, which are one, three, and four respectively."

Han Chun'er roughly classified the eight documents by color, and then stood aside respectfully, and then there was nothing to do with him.

Ye Kai didn't follow his previous habits, starting from the lowest blue file, he directly grabbed a single red file on the table, and didn't have time to carefully remove the outer skin, so he tore it open and began to read.

"Tianjin emergency telegram, this morning, Yang Shixiang, the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, died violently, the cause is unknown, the death is unknown, the incident happened suddenly, and the department did not have time to check."

In just one line of words, it set off a storm in Ye Kai's heart, and he waited for a long time, and finally waited for this earth-shattering news.

"Sure enough"

Ye Kai's upper body trembled slightly with excitement, he was still a little worried before, whether history would change other people's timelines by mistake because of the arrival of an outsider like himself, from the current results, at least Yang Shixiang's part has not changed, so it couldn't be better, if he hadn't gotten up early to plan and preemptively control the telegraph exchanges inside and outside the capital, this top-secret information would not have reached Ye Kai's hands in such a short time.

As Yuan Shikai's successor, the high-powered first governor also has an inextricable relationship with Beiyang, once planned for the funds of the Beiyang Army, and had a close personal relationship with Yuan Shikai, so he had predecessors to take care of him, he has been doing smoothly in his governorship, I haven't heard of anything difficult, plus Yang Shixiang is less than fifty, as a politician is in the prime of life, so his sudden death naturally attracted everyone's sympathy.

Regarding the cause of Yang's death, there were different theories at the time, including death of illness, vendetta, love killing, assassination by the revolutionary party, etc., but these theories ended up without a problem.

Like everyone else, no one will pay attention to the cause of Yang Shixiang's death, Ye Kai is no exception, they fancy the title of the governor of Zhili, and the dead person is like a discarded card, and it is meaningless to talk about it.

Putting aside this top-secret document, Ye Kai thought about it carefully, since this telegram can reach his hands at this time, naturally Zai Feng Yixuan and others can also see it, perhaps, in a few days, everyone in the Qing Dynasty officialdom will know, but it is this transition period that is the most frequent time for all parties to operate, outsiders only see a result, insiders are the protagonists, and all forces are stepping up to brew new candidates.

As one of the nine highest-ranking feudal ministers of the Qing Dynasty, he was in charge of the military and civilian affairs of Zhili, Henan and Shandong, and because Zhili Province was located in the important area of Gyeonggi, plus the official title of the governor, the title of a Beiyang minister was often added, so the word "one" could be removed in advance, and the first governor could be replaced.

"Chun'er, pack up the rest of the documents, and don't read them today." Ye Kai instructed Han Chun'er, he didn't have the heart to look at anything else, the only thing he wanted to do was to calm down and plan well.

"Master, these official documents are going to be taken away tonight?"

Han Chun'er remembered Ye Kai's request before, he couldn't stay here, he needed to rush back overnight.

"You don't have to go back today." Ye Kai shook his head and said, "Come back to Beijing with me tomorrow." ”

Hearing this, Han Chun'er looked at Ye Kai in surprise and said, "Master, you're going back too?" ”

"Hmm" nodded.

Of course he has to go back, and only by joining in as a participant can he pout the greatest interests, otherwise as a bystander, he can only end up with empty joy.

"Nothing happened in the capital, right?" Ye Kai asked as usual.

"Nothing major has happened lately." Han Chun'er touched his head and said, and after a while, he added, "The government closed several newspapers a few days ago, as if that Kang Youwei made an empire, I'm afraid it's going to rebel again!" Master, do you say that this Kang Youwei is not a thief, how can these newspaper sellers dare to publish his articles? Not afraid of killing heads? ”

Listening to Han Chun'er's question, Ye Kai couldn't help but laugh.

"At this time and that time, this 'Kang Sage' is amazing, back then he was a thief, and he almost spilled blood in the market, but now he is fragrant, and many ministers in the court are on his side."

"The ministers of the court also have it?!" Han Chun'er looked at Ye Kai incredulously.

Ye Kai smiled, he didn't expect Han Chun'er to understand these words, perhaps, like Han Chun'er, many ordinary people didn't understand either.

"Anything else?"

"No," Han Chun'er replied after thinking about it, but it seemed that she was still immersed in the shock just now.

"Okay Chun'er, if you can't figure it out, just read more books, go down." Ye Kai waved his hand, and Han Chun'er closed the door playfully.

Han Chun'er's departure does not mean that Ye Kai can rest, in the dead of night, he needs to take care of his thoughts again, after tomorrow, new challenges will come.

By the way, he still needs to write a letter, executing more than 20 army-team-rot-defeat-division in one go, and he can't help but give Zaifeng an explanation, and at the same time use it as a reason to go back.

(End of Volume 2)