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The 33rd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, that is, February 12, 1907, the 30th lunar month, this day happened to be Chinese New Year's Eve, and at this moment Wang Bin was gathering with Wang Wu, Zhou Zuoxi and others to eat a beautiful reunion dinner.

There were bursts of firecrackers outside the mansion, and the family at the table was also talking and laughing.

For Wang Bin, the past two months can be described as very comfortable, there is nothing too big to worry about, the only thing to care about is some major events that happened in the gate.

This made Wang Bin start reading the newspaper every day and caring about what was happening in the customs during these three months.

First of all, in early December, there were uprisings in Pingliuli and other places, and anti-Qing armed uprisings were launched by the party and miners in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, Liuyang, and Liling, Hunan.

Such a major event attracted Wang Bin's attention, so that Ma Zikai collected more detailed information, first of all, there was a flood in Hunan, and the bureaucrats and gentry took the opportunity to raise the price of rice, and the hungry people carried the road.

Then the members of the Hui Party took this opportunity to propagate their ideas, and finally decided to launch an uprising in Pingxiang in Jiangxi, Liuyang in Hunan, and Liling at the same time.

At the beginning of December, the uprising broke out, and the rebel armies spread all over the nearby counties, occupying important towns such as Mashi, Wenjia City, and Shangli City within a few days.

At the beginning, the rebel army was huge, and the Qing army was repeatedly defeated, and the Qing government in desperation managed to mobilize tens of thousands of troops from Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangning and other places to suppress it, so that the rebel army finally failed.

In Wang Bin's view, the Pingliuli uprising could be regarded as the first large-scale armed uprising launched by the Hui Party, and it could be called the largest anti-Qing revolutionary struggle that broke out in southern China since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Although it dealt a heavy blow to the rule of the Qing court, this time the uprising was not yet free from the weakness of the old-style Hui Party uprising in terms of organization.

The haste of the attack, the swarming of various forces, the inconsistency of orders, the lack of a strict plan in advance, and the lack of a battle plan for a quick attack after the incident all showed a lack of preparation.

Therefore, in Wang Bin's view, this uprising had no effect except for the Qing court to strengthen its vigilance against the party.

This was followed by an earthquake measuring 8 on the Richter scale in southern Shawan, Xinjiang, killing hundreds of people.

But these are not the most important things, and the real major event throughout the month of December was the imperial court's complete edict abolishing the imperial examinations.

Previously, it was the local ministers who raised this, and the imperial court also took it seriously and did not hold the imperial examination again, but the edict on the complete abolition of the imperial examination has never come down.

Until this time, the imperial court finally issued an edict to cancel the imperial examination, which Wang Bin did not have a good evaluation, but Wang Bin still thought that this was a good thing, which could better select talents and not be constrained by the imperial examination.

In 1907, that is, after the 33rd year of Guangxu, some of the things that happened in China were reflected in Mukden.

First, on January 14, there was a total solar eclipse in the Russian Empire and parts of Xinjiang Province, Qinghai, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, and Heilongjiang Province, with the longest 2 minutes and 25 seconds visible in Xinjiang Province.

Originally, it was just a simple total solar eclipse, but this total solar eclipse became a major news after Wang Bin joined it.

Before the total solar eclipse occurred, Wang Bin received news about the total solar eclipse, and together with the Russians, he formed an astronomical observation team to observe the total solar eclipse in the Sulyukta coal mine area in the Alai Mountains of the western branch of the Tianshan Mountains.

As soon as such news came out, it was simply an exciting thing for the people of the country, and the simple people just knew that this time the people outside the customs kept up with the pace of the great powers, and also carried out some astronomical observations with the great powers.

For some well-intentioned people, this is Wang Bin and the Russians showing their friendship, and the relationship between himself and the Russians can be described as intimate.

As soon as this news came out, the Americans suddenly couldn't do it, and now Wang Bin can be said to have completely controlled the three eastern provinces, how can the huge resources be taken by the Russians!

So not long after this news came out, the Americans, who originally had certain interests in Mukden, began to get closer to Wang Bin.

First, some of the most basic livelihood investments were made in the three eastern provinces, such as hospitals and some cheap goods for sale, and when these series of livelihood investments arrived, the American minister very tactfully expressed his desire to establish a consulate general in Mukden.

Wang Bin readily agreed to the request of the American minister, and reached a series of cooperation with the American minister to provide some preferential tax reductions for American businessmen to invest in the three eastern provinces.

Through this series of actions, Wang Bin has become closer to the Americans and Russians.

Then there was a matter of the Royalist Society headed by Tie Liang and the Constitutional Council, and now Wang Bin is discussing this matter with his father and father-in-law at the dinner table.

"If you want me to say, Tie Liang's move can be regarded as a thick-skinned move, he was dismissed for betraying the interests of the country in the blink of an eye, and he also set up a royalist meeting, claiming to save China, I think he Tie Liang don't protect the court, it's good."

Zhou Zuoxi's somewhat mocking voice suddenly came out.

Since Tie Liang was forced to be deposed by Cixi, it was still a strong beat, which led to the establishment of this royalist association, with the purpose of defending the imperial family, and proposing to revive the Qing Dynasty.

For a while, it also attracted many Manchu magnates above the court to join, and then because the imperial court put forward the idea of establishing a constitution, and once again issued a proclamation to prepare for the constitution.

Tie Liang couldn't wait to change the Royalist Council into a constitutional council, claiming that "he thought that China could only establish a constitutional monarchy, and could not carry out a republican revolution.

"Father-in-law, even if Tie Liang does this, what can he do, except for adding more jokes, nothing else will work, I really don't believe it, he Tie Liang can help the Qing Dynasty, if he Tie Liang can do it, the sows will be able to go up the tree."

As soon as Wang Bin's words came out, Wang Wu also nodded.

Just when Wang Bin took a sip of wine and was about to continue his tirade, Ma Zikai hurried to the living room under the leadership of Fu Bo and handed a note directly to Wang Bin.

As soon as he saw the content on the paper, Wang Bin suddenly woke up, and there was only one line of small words on the paper: The Queen Mother has already driven west.

Wang Bin realized that the sky of the Qing Dynasty was about to change. (To be continued.) )