Chapter 33 This has gone through the years like a shuttle streamer

Regarding the riots in Beijing, although the outside world is already boiling over, neither Duan Qirui nor Li Hongzhang cares much about it. www.biquge.info Li Hongzhang came from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom era, not to mention hundreds of dead and wounded, even if it was a slaughter of the city, it was just an idle matter.

Duan Qirui is also a soldier, and he scoffs at student movements such as parades. It is precisely because of this attitude that his student Xu Shuzheng is so bold to dare to make this kind of big news. As for Wang Shizhen, he was already not surprised and angry about anything.

Among the high-level leaders in the capital, the only one who was angry about this matter was Zhang Zhidong alone. Zhang Zhidong is the current vice president of China, a big boss under one person and above 10,000 people. Theoretically speaking, in the current Chinese country, he is only under President Li Hongzhang, who does not care about anything.

And he has the backing of the base camp of Hubei, which can be said to be a soldier, a money, a person, and a reputation. has such innate advantages, so he has always regarded himself very highly, thinking that "the world of the world, who else can I be".

It's a pity that neither Yuan Shikai, nor Li Hongzhang, nor the current Duan Qirui have taken him very seriously. Even if he has heavy soldiers, even if his protégés are all over the world, in the eyes of these people, he Zhang Zhidong is still just a soy sauce player.

When I was trapped in a corner of Hubei in the past, it was just ignored by this group of people in the central government. When he entered the Central Committee and became the prime minister and vice president, he was still ignored, which made him very unhappy.

In the more than a year in the capital, no matter what he did, there were always some people who didn't know the truth to make up all kinds of jokes for him. At the beginning, he said that he was a circle of friends to govern the country, and later said that he was a steamed bun office, he just wanted to do a little practical thing, why is it so difficult?

Those Diao Min and bureaucrats at all levels not only did not appreciate his various actions, but ridiculed him wantonly.

This kind of thing, even if the uncle can bear it, the aunt can't bear it.

Now that there is a shooting case in Wangfujing, Zhang Zhidong knows that this is an excellent opportunity for him to change his current situation. Therefore, he co-opted a lot of people in Shilin and began to attack the Northwest Town Guard.

He not only officially issued an official document demanding that the culprit of the "Wangfujing shooting case" be handed over, but also mobilized public opinion to attack all actions and policies in the northwest, especially the land policy.

In the mouths of these scholars, Chen Cheng is the mastermind behind everything and the source of all evil. If you listen to their words, it seems that this sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy is plotting all kinds of conspiracies every day.

For Zhang Zhidong's behavior, Li Hongzhang was dumbfounded. Lao Li is already very old, he has ups and downs when he was young, intrigue after middle age, and the shame of Jiawu when he is old, and he has seen everything. He saw Zhang Zhidong's thoughts at a glance, but he still didn't do anything, just stood on the sidelines, watching everyone act there.

His energy has not been very good in recent years, and it is estimated that he will go to see the ancestors of his old Li family in a few years, anyway, he is a mascot, and he also has such self-knowledge. When he finishes this term of president, it will be good to be able to leave a good fate for future generations.

Zhang Zhidong is different, he feels that he is still young and feels that he still has a lot to do. He is a serious imperial examination background, has military merits, and can also do foreign affairs, shouldn't he be the first person in China?

It's just that, in addition to the fact that the people in the capital don't treat him very well, Chen Cheng and Lin Mengchu in the northwest don't take him seriously. Although he can be regarded as a big man in history and in this world, he is indeed not the kind of person who can lead or at least influence an era.

Although Yuan Shikai later became Emperor Hongxian, and finally betrayed his relatives and died, he still influenced at least one era. In another world, after the death of Yuan Datou, the generals he left behind attacked each other and killed each other in the dark, until the Soviet Union-supported KMT came to power, which ended the era of Beiyang.

And what did Zhang Zhidong do? The first steel mill in Asia was built, which was later sold to the Japanese.......

The Hubei New Army, which was on par with the Beiyang Army, was established, and then these Hubei troops were wiped out by the Beiyang Army or later abolished and divided. In other words, everything Zhang Zhidong did did not play any role in history at all, and all disappeared under the wheel of history.

Since Zhang Zhidong is such a person who likes to have low eyes, it is natural that Chen Cheng and Lin Mengchu can't look down on him.

Chen Cheng was also very angry about Chen Erpi's order to shoot and kill people on the street, feeling that this guy had a lot of brains and couldn't figure out the situation. But even if he is a bastard, he is also his own bastard, how can he hand it over, how can he let Zhang Zhidong's group judge him?

At that moment, the Northwest Town Guard Office replied to the request of the Prime Minister, and said very tactfully, "This kind of thing is beyond the scope of the Prime Minister's authority." At the same time, more troops were sent to conduct a small-scale military exercise a hundred miles north of the capital.

The slogan of the play is of course for peace and other things of universal value, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a demonstration of Chiguoguo. The great powers of this era are very direct and don't talk too much nonsense. Usually protests come first, then demonstrations, and then military action.

Whether it is the current global hegemon Britain, or the beacon of hope for democracy in the Americas, they are all doing this. The United States was also very imperialist at first, but it was only beaten several times by the Canadians and Spaniards, and the British later burned down the White House again, which made the Americans stop.

The results of the exercise were very good, and the cavalry from Mongolia and the elite infantry from Handan left a deep impression on the onlookers. In particular, when the 16 155 howitzers fired in a salvo, the earth-shattering explosion caused everyone in the accompanying military attaché to change their complexions.

This 155 howitzer is the standard equipment of PLA in a certain world, weighing only more than four tons, and can hit shells up to 20 miles away (this is the result of the northwestern side concealing the firing range), and a salvo will bombard a brigade-level position.

The trenches that could hold off 75mm rapid-fire guns, the barbed wire that posed a great threat to the infantry, were all reduced to dust in this overwhelming shelling. (To be continued.) )