(Thank you ~~ for the reward of this road, thank you for the vegetables in the vegetable garden, A$ "swastika" sand boat "string empty", hard change history, big brother Yong's long-term support, slippery and lili can not be repaid, only more code words, more updates.) Another point to note is that the exchange rate at the end of the Qing Dynasty was unstable, and the price of silver was not the same in various places, according to my speculation, in 1909, one tael of silver in the capital area was roughly around 150 yuan to 200, what do you think? ）

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Maybe it's Zaifeng's sentence "there are soldiers" that broke the heart of the old minister in the twilight, maybe it's that this minister who has always cared about state affairs and is worried all night, or maybe it's just a simple old age and frailty, when he was sick, Zhang Zhidong, who returned from the court, couldn't afford to be sick, and for more than two months, his lack was always hung on the list of points in the military aircraft department.

As the weather turns from warm to cool, everything presents a precursor of decay, and the late autumn arrives in this month, the cool breeze rises, straight to the crack of people's bones, a generation of celebrities can no longer withstand such a big move, in a cold morning, Zhang Zhidong's beating heart for seventy-three years finally slowly stopped, with his passing, the era of the four famous ministers was also completely sealed into the old paper pile of history.

Judging from Zhang Zhidong's age, his death is certainly reasonable, but when the news of his sudden death came out, the reaction of the government and the opposition was still sensational, the Minister of Military Aircraft, the scholar of Tirenge, and one of the two ministers appointed by Cixi, these official titles weighing as many as a thousand catties are like medals hanging on the collar of giants, shining in the world, and the fall of giants is destined to splash a large area of dust.

The next day, Zaifeng borrowed the name of the emperor and released a long obituary, fully affirming the contribution of this old minister of the empire, including the governance of Hubei, supervising the content of the war, and then posthumously sealing him the title of the criminal department, the household department, the official department, and the Ministry of rites.

But in any case, Zhang Zhidong's mourning is still grand, and after a few days of suspension in the capital, he will be buried in his hometown according to his last wishes.

Zhang Zhidong's apartment in Beijing's Baimi Xiejie has become a place where everyone gathers, and in a few days, many celebrities and former ministers in the capital rushed here to mourn the dead, and the princes and ministers also sent people to send funerals in various ways, whether they came from the heart or not, these practices are also enough to do a little bit of superficial intentions, at least no one will poke the backbone in the back.

On the fourth day after Zhang Zhidong's death, Ye Kai came to Zhang's mansion to mourn, and personally finished a pillar of incense in the mourning hall, he left slowly, solemn white, falling Western, heavy mourning, it seemed to indicate that an old era had quietly ended.

With the failure and bankruptcy of the Westernization Movement, the future belongs to a more advanced constitution and revolutionary theory.

After the power of the older generation withered one after another, the new ministers who held such views followed closely and finally stepped onto the historical stage of the late Qing Dynasty.

This includes Ye Kai and the small group he painstakingly built.

Zhang Zhidong's death gave Ye Kai a golden opportunity, and the new candidate to replace the former as the Minister of Military Aircraft is bound to break the balance between Zaifeng and Yixuan for a long time, and this time, the balance of victory is obviously tilted to Zaifeng's side.

On the eighth day after Zhang Zhidong's death, a piece of paper was issued from the Chongde Palace, the new minister had been decided, and he was about to take office, and except for a few people around Zaifeng, the news was not made public until the last moment, and the whole discussion process was ignored at all.

Dai Hongci went straight.

Compared with history, Dai Hongci, the secretary of the Ministry of Law, became the Minister of Military Aircraft a few months in advance, and the previous candidate for this position should have been Yulang, of course, for well-known reasons, the latter has no chance at all.

More concerned than about Dai Hongci's background, the Five Foreign Ministers, the newly established head of the Ministry of Law, a reformer in the judicial field, and a conspicuous constitutionalist title, these labels have gained a more or less guessable political attitude of those in power.

The reason why Zaifeng chose Dai Hongci was largely because of the advice of Ye Kaisheng Xuanhuai and others, one of the most critical reasons moved Zaifeng, he and Yi-Liang are not all the way, which means that he can use it boldly with confidence.

At the same time as the letter of appointment, there was another order, according to the usual practice, the status of the last Zai Ze was much higher, the name of "study" was removed, and he became the real prime minister of one of the five major military aircraft.

Zai Ze, Dai Hongci, and their opposites, Yi Xuan, Shi Xu, plus an old dragon bell Lu Chuanlin, the small military aircraft department class room, will become more crowded.

In the face of an increasingly unoptimistic situation, the most unhappy person is probably Yi-Xuan, the reason why he can wrestle with Zaifeng is because he still has the military aircraft department, the highest administrative hub, under his hands, and the military aircraft department, which was firmly controlled before, has now given up half of the country.

Therefore, Yi-Xuan, who got the news, fell into a deep loss, and his face was always gloomy for a few days, suppressing Yu Lang, he seemed to have been approved a lot, but what he got was just a false name, there is no doubt that his situation has become increasingly isolated, at this time, he even began to wonder if it was really appropriate to tear his face with Zaifeng too early.

Without Yuan Shikai, without Natong, without Xu Shichang, and without Yang Shixiang, there is only one life-continuation is also lonely, with the fragmentation of the Beiyang Group, Yixuan's life in the court is becoming more and more sad.

Ye Kai's wait was not in vain, and Zaifeng did not expect that the change of the relationship between victory and defeat would be so fast, and in just two months, he saw the results.

As soon as he saw that the situation was unfavorable to him, Yi Xuan simply played the old trick, and as soon as the edict appointing Dai Hongci arrived, Yi Xuan called himself sick and hid at home alone, watching the external developments, trying to divert the attention of others, especially Zaifeng.

Of course, if Yixuan thought that he would be able to successfully avoid Zaifeng's attention to him in this way, it would be too vain to ignore his political sense for many years, in addition to Ye Kai, there were dozens of pairs of eyes from the Security Bureau staring at him, day and night.

The good time to take advantage of the victory and pursue it is at this time that quietly comes.

If Zhang Zhidong's death only caused a local shock within the empire, then after a lapse of twenty days, the unnatural death of another famous figure suddenly made the surrounding situation of the Great Qing Kingdom tense.

In the face of sudden events, this time, Yi Xuan couldn't escape no matter what.