At this moment, in the Beijing Division, the house of the Ministry of War Shang Shu Tieliang ushered in a guest, Tie Liang and this guest seemed to be discussing something in the study, the forty-three-year-old Murcha Tieliang has entered the age of confusion, but as the most trusted Manchu official of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Murcha Tieliang has been making various efforts for the continuation of the Qing Dynasty.

The current Murcha Tieliang is slightly bloated, his face is also round, obviously the living conditions are excellent, although he is not very good-looking, but Tie Liang is a person who has the ability to save the country like Yuan Shikai.

Originally, Tieliang studied in Ji'an in his early years, after the death of his grandfather, he and his father returned to Beijing in mourning, and was taught by his mother Borzigit, four years later, Tieliang's father died, because of the difficult family situation, Tieliang gave up the imperial examination, and instead studied finance and economics, military, after completing his studies, Tieliang entered the Ronglu shogunate, assisted in handling various military affairs, and won the trust of Ronglu.

Immediately Rong Lu recommended Tie Liang to join the Ministry of War, as a squire of the Ministry of War, will run the Beijing Flag Training, in the 29th year of Guangxu, the imperial court sent Tie Liang to Japan to inspect the military, after returning to China to be promoted to the Ministry of Household Shangshu, during this period of time in Japan to inspect Tie Liang and the Japanese government had a preliminary exchange, and knew a lot of Japanese political leaders.

Soon, the Qing court set up the Prime Minister's Training Office to unify the leadership of the New Army, with ****** Yixuan as the premier, Yuan Shikai as the minister of military training, and Tie Liang as the Xiangban, assisting Yuan Shikai in handling various military training matters and secretly monitoring Yuan Shikai.

Until Yuan Shikai was demoted to death, Tie Liang became Cixi's most trusted official, and Tie Liang naturally did not live up to Cixi's trust.

After Tieliang was reused by Cixi, he immediately sent people to leave Beijing, and successively went to Shanghai, Suzhou, Nanjing, Wuhu, Wuchang and other places, and when he returned to Beijing again, the most important financial source of eight provinces, "soil plaster tax", had been collected by Tieliang to the central government; The brave battalions of the governors in various places were either reorganized or disbanded; The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau's large sums of money and human rights were also taken away by Tie Liang.

At this point, the local forces were greatly weakened, and the central power was temporarily strengthened. After returning to Beijing, Tie Liang's recital of the fold was as long as 10,000 words, detailed and practical, and was appreciated by Cixi.

Therefore, Tie Liang is a strong official who is "capable, clear-minded, intelligent and keen, and decisive", but compared with the previous Yuan Shikai, Tie Liang lacks a decisive ability, although he has the ability to do things and is strong, but he is a little hesitant after encountering major events.

And sitting in front of Tie Liang at the moment is a typical yellow person, but the body is slightly thin, and his height is not as tall as Tie Liang, and he looks like a typical Japanese with the beard and a somewhat pale face on the side of his mouth.

This person's name was Lin Quansuke, and he was a minister of the Japanese Legation in the Qing Dynasty.

"Your Excellency, Minister the year before last, your country fought a war with the Russians for the interests of the Qing Dynasty, although it was said that it was a draw in the end, but it still strengthened the momentum of our yellow race, and made a great contribution to the interests of our Great Qing Kingdom not to be occupied by the Russians."

Tie Liang's words were good, and he did not mention that the war was fought on the territory of his own country, let alone the external neutrality proposed by his side, and he just put gold on the face of the Japanese, completely ignorant that the interests of the Qing Dynasty in the Far East had been divided between the Japanese and the Russians.

Lin Quanzhu smiled after listening to Tie Liang's words and said: "Your Excellency Shangshu said that the relationship between our two countries has always been very close, and the interests of your country have been violated by other countries. ”

"Yes, your country has driven out the Russians, and it is much quieter outside the pass, not to mention that your country still has troops stationed in the Far East, and now who dares to rob me of the interests of the Qing Dynasty outside the pass!" Tie Liang patted the Japanese government's ass.

"That's natural, the Great Qing Kingdom is a good friend of our Great Japanese Empire, and we naturally want to protect his interests from being violated by other countries." Lin Quanzhu said to Tie Liang.

"Your Excellency the Minister is right, but now the situation outside the customs of my Daqing is a little bad." After Lin Quanzhu finished speaking, Tie Liang said to Lin Quanzhu.

"Oh, why did Your Excellency Shangshu say that, is there something in your country outside the customs that needs to be solved by our Great Japanese Empire for your country?"

After the Russo-Japanese War, the relationship between the Qing court and Japan can be said to have entered a honeymoon period, and the attitude towards the Qing court is not known to be much better, so Japan will agree to some of the requirements put forward by the Qing court as appropriate.

And Tie Liang said that there is something bad outside the pass is because of Wang Bin's reason, in order to stabilize Wang Bin's court, the territory outside the pass was given to Wang Bin, but it was a helpless move, and after the situation is stable now, Cixi immediately regretted it, although Jilin Province and Heilongjiang Province outside the pass are now in chaos, but as long as Wang Bin cleans up this chaos, it is out of thin air that there are two more provinces of territory, such a feudal minister who sits on the land of three provinces has an army under his hands, and it is next to Zhili, If there are any bad thoughts one day, can this court still exist?

Therefore, Cixi ordered Tie Liang to think of a way to come out and weaken Wang Bin's strength outside the Guan, and no matter how bad it was, Wang Bin should be loyal to the imperial court.

Tie Liang spent all day thinking about how to weaken Wang Bin after receiving Cixi's edict, until not long ago Tie Liang finally thought of a good way, that is, to use the power of the Japanese to deal with Wang Bin.

If you want to weaken Wang Bin, it is inevitable to use force, or international pressure, but Tie Liang thought about it and found that international pressure is useless to Wang Bin, the relationship between the United States, the Germans, the Americans and Wang Bin is not bad, especially the Russians and the United States have also joined forces with Wang Bin to establish an industrial zone and a commercial area outside Mukden City, so this trick is useless, and the issue of force can only be considered.

But the imperial court has just stabilized and is unwilling to use force, who has ever seen which dynasty and which generation used force against their subordinates for no reason, and Tie Liang did not dare to use force against Wang Bin even if he had an excuse to use force, this Beiyang army in Zhili The imperial court has not yet finished controlling it, and this is going to be used in a hurry, who knows if these new Beiyang troops will be in battle against the water at that time?

So this came and went, and Tie Liang took the Japanese into account.

But this Japanese has always been unprofitable and can't afford to be early, and he won't make a move if he doesn't give some real sweetness, so Tie Liang pondered whether to give some benefits outside the customs to the Japanese, so that the Japanese could get the sweetness to deal with Wang Bin, but whether to sell the interests still has to be nodded by Lafayette.

A few days ago, Tie Liang told Lafayette about this intention, and it was not until today that Lafayette agreed to Tie Liang's method, so Tie Liang hurriedly invited Lin Quansuke, the Japanese minister in the Qing Dynasty, after getting Lafayette's permission. (To be continued.) )