Zou Tingbi's worries were not unreasonable, and on the second day after the official opening of the Chuwangtai Military Hospital, hundreds of masters with braids and horse coats surrounded Li Yuanhong's mansion in Wuchang Zhonghemen, shouting that "bad morals" and "not giving and receiving kisses," shouting and shouting and killing, tossing and turning for most of the day, so frightened that Li Yuanhong and a few of his staff members climbed over the wall, fled to Hanyang under the escort of Ma Ben, and hid on the heavily defended cruiser "Haichen."

The reason is also very simple, because Li Yuanhong also knew in advance about the establishment of the Chuwangtai Military Hospital, and moreover, the Li Mansion is next to the Chuwangtai, looking at each other from a distance, which makes Li Yuanhong's "crime" even more serious, as for the initiator Zhao Bei, because he lives on a warship and has heavy military protection, the nickname of "Xiao Zhao Tu" is not made up by Mr. Storyteller, these elders and gentry dare not provoke, so they can only wronged him Speaker Li, of course, they don't have the courage to really rush to Lifu, the "Hanyang made" in the hands of those two spearmen is not a burning stick.

On the warship, Li Yuanhong snorted and cried to Zhao Bei to complain about his grievances. In order to maintain the authority of the speaker of the Li parliament, but also to make an example of killing chickens and monkeys, Tian Jinfu immediately led thousands of revolutionary guards to rush to the Zhonghe Gate, and arrested the old and young people who were still surrounding outside the Loei mansion, cut their braids, and detained the charges of "disturbing public order" and "resisting civilization", and all of them were escorted to the arsenal to carry scrap iron. Now the arsenal is busy making weapons and ammunition, and can't spare the manpower to clean up the donated bronzes, which are just in handy, and they can be regarded as waste utilization.

Li Yuanhong didn't expect Zhao Bei to "maintain" him so much, his gratitude was overflowing, and he stayed on the warship until dark, and then he took advantage of the night to touch back to the mansion, cleaned up and moved to the provincial parliament where the army was stationed overnight, which was originally the "imperial palace" of the flag people, and the Han people were usually forbidden to approach, and the republican army occupied Wuchang, Zhao Bei ordered the confiscation of this building that symbolized the privileges of the flag people, and then rebuilt it into the house, no way, now the funds are insufficient, you can save a little is a little, good steel is used on the blade, as for other aspects, It can only be simplified because of ugliness.

But as soon as Li Yuanhong settled down in the house, he didn't have time to open the package roll, so Yang Du posted a post to visit, for this celebrity in front of Yuan Shikai, Li Yuanhong didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly met in the reception room.

Yang Du didn't come alone, he came with Tan Yanmin, these two people are Hunan little fellows, and they are both Junxian pioneers, the two have been inseparable in the past two days, quite talkative, Yang Du moved from Loei to the inn, lived with this little fellow, and had a long talk.

When the two saw Li Yuanhong, they wanted to make a big salute, but they were stopped by Li Yuanhong.

Li Yuanhong said: "Now that the republican military government has abolished the kneeling salute, let's shake hands." ”

The two of them didn't insist, bowed and saluted, and sat down separately, and several miscellaneous servants of the House served fragrant tea, and when they retreated, Yang Du said straight to the point: "Speaker Li, I came here today to ask, what is the idea of the commander-in-chief?" Before the Yellow Crane Tower, he said that in the end, the monarch or the republic, should be carefully considered, but did not say that it should be considered for a few days, now the situation is turbulent, the powers are ready to move, the sooner the plan is made, the national system can be established sooner, and the world can be settled down sooner, and the state affairs cannot be postponed like this. ”

Li Yuanhong said with a straight face: "Huizi, I don't know what the commander-in-chief thinks, but you only gave the advice of Junxian yesterday, and it is only a day until today, and the commander-in-chief is busy with government affairs, so he has to find a time to discuss with his subordinates, where can he call you back so quickly?" ”

Yang Du exchanged glances with Tan Yanmin, took out a telegraph and presented it to Li Yuanhong.

"The telegram from Yuan Xiangcheng? Please ask me to be the vice president of the Advisory Council? Li Yuanhong took the telegram and glanced at it, quite surprised.

Tan Yanmin said: "Xiangcheng is sincere, and I hope that Speaker Li will not refuse." The Advisory Council is a state advisory body, and it will replace the Military Aircraft Department in the future, and its authority is no less than that of the Cabinet, and the person who presides over it must be highly respected, look all over the world, and the people who can take on this position are only a few people in Song Qing and Ji Lao, and now Zhang Ji Lao has set off to go north to be the president, and the vice president is none other than you Li Songqing, if Song Qing agrees to take office, this advisory council is in the hands of the constitutionalists. ”

Li Yuanhong stood up, paced back and forth a few steps, and said, "I'm leaving, who will preside over this Hubei Provincial Assembly?" ”

"Xiang Cheng means, it is better to ask Mr. Tang Jiwu (Tang Hualong) to succeed to the post of speaker of the Hubei Provincial Assembly, Mr. Tang is also a strong general of the Jun Xian, quite popular, and it is safer for him to preside over the Hubei Provincial Assembly."

"I'm afraid there's something wrong with this." Li Yuanhong calmed down, sat back, and put the telegram on a few points.

"Now although the north and the south are talking about peace, but even the people who discuss peace have not been elected, Yuan Xiangcheng advocates the monarch's constitution, Zhao Zhenhua advocates the republic, these two sides can't get along, I'm now the speaker of the republican house, not the speaker of the monarch's faction, if you go north so recklessly, as a republican faction to serve as the president of the monarch's faction, wouldn't it be suspected of selling dog meat on the head of a sheep?"

On the one hand, he is the speaker officially appointed by the republican military government, and on the other hand, he is the vice chairman of the "constitutional council" of the monarchist faction, and he has both the identity of a republic and a monarchy, and so far, he has not yet decided which identity should be erased.

The reason is also very simple, now that the national body has not been established, it is not good to speculate, so ah, it is better to step on two boats, and the commander-in-chief does not mind anyway.

Yang Du said: "Speaker Li don't worry, now the representatives of the North and South have been elected, Tang Shaochuan (Tang Shaoyi) in the north, and Wu Wenjue (Wu Tingfang) in the south. As long as peace is negotiated and the north and the south join hands, there will be no division. ”

Li Yuanhong was even more surprised and asked, "Where did you get the news?" Why don't I know anything about it? The League, the Liberation Society, and our Republican Army all telegraphed against the monarchy and advocated a republic, so how could they elect representatives for peace? ”

"The matter of peace negotiation is true, it was said in the telegram from Xiang Cheng in the morning. Now that the fleets of the great powers are cruising in South China and the balance of tariffs has been withheld, among the revolutionary forces in the south, the League and the Restoration Society have agreed to Yuan Xiangcheng's proposal for peace and asked the foreign consuls to convey their intention to negotiate peace. For the sake of peace between the north and the south, Tang Shaochuan has returned to China and has resigned from the post of governor of Fengtian, and Wu Wenjue has also left the United States and is rushing to Shanghai by boat. This matter has not yet been reported, and it will be published in the foreign language newspapers of the concession at the latest tomorrow. ”

Li Yuanhong's face sank, the representatives of the North and South Parliament had already been elected, such a big matter, he, the speaker, didn't know at all, even Yang Du knew about it, but he was still in the dark, and he couldn't bear it!

"Who elected this councilor?" Li Yuanhong asked coldly.

"The north was recommended by Yuan Xiangcheng, and the imperial court also nodded, and the southern representative seems to be jointly elected by the Alliance and the Restoration Society." Yang Du said.

"The Alliance and the Restoration Society?" Li Yuanhong pondered for a moment.

Zhao Bei was "born" in the Restoration Society, he knew a little bit, it turned out that he thought that the strongest force in the revolutionary army in the south was the Republican Army, and it was also the Republican Army that single-handedly provoked the general trend of history. It did irritate him a bit.

"Two, please tell Yuan Xiangcheng that the peace meeting has not been held, and it is really inconvenient for Li to go north, so everything will wait for the peace to be discussed." Li Yuanhong was a little uneasy, and after a few perfunctory words with Yang Du, he served tea and sent off the guests, and then took a carriage, hurried to the wharf, crossed the river to Hanyang, and explored the wind in Zhaobei.