Chapter 254: Showdown
(2nd Update)
Ye Kai is busy in Shanghai, and Beijing must not be at peace. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the past few days, Sino-foreign relations have always been in a state of tension, and after the French Minister Marcley put pressure on the Qing government, the envoys of Britain, the United States, Russia, Japan, Belgium, and other countries successively sent notes to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, without exception, asking the central government to interfere in the affairs of Jiangnan and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the great powers in China.
All kinds of unfavorable news came out of nowhere, which made Yi Huang suddenly feel like a mang.
Foreigners, Liangbi, no matter which side is particularly tricky....
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"There is no one in Liangbi's eyes, Amma, let's just dismiss his official and give him some color."
Qing Wangfu, Yixuan Palace, private meeting, Zai Zhen vigorously pouted Yi-Xuan, must "teach a lesson" to this unruly governor of Liangjiang.
"Recall? What crime? Yi-Xuan asked back.
"There are many crimes, such as violating the contract and breaking into the concession... That's enough. Zai Zhen said a lot of charges, which in his opinion were enough to lose his official position, but several cabinet ministers, including Yixuan, kept shaking their heads.
"The foreigners who are good and rushed to go, those ordinary people who don't understand political affairs naturally agree, and now he has the will of the people in his hands, and the will of the people cannot be violated, have you forgotten how Ama came to power?" Yi-Xuan sighed, but it was not to teach his son a lesson, in fact, he had no good way, otherwise he would not have called Xu Shichang and the others over.
"Besides, he has the Praetorian Guard in his hands." Yi-Xuan continued.
"Then you can't let him continue to make trouble, Ama sent him a telegram, Liangbi is unheard of, is there a central court in his eyes!" Zai Zhen was not convinced.
"Kikuto, what do you think?" Yi-Xuan turned his gaze to Xu Shichang.
"King Qing, Liangbi suddenly made such a fuss, there must be a reason for it, you think, what a transparent person this Liangbi is, if he doesn't have a certain intention, he will not provoke foreigners."
Xu Shichang said half of the words, and Yi-Xuan pinched his beard, feeling that it made sense.
"Juren's words are reasonable, this king let him go at the beginning, because the Jiangnan road is far away, his hand can't reach out to the capital, even if he sits there through the sky, there is no big problem, listening to Juren's words, this king also wondered, why did he want to provoke foreigners?"
Xu Shichang continued: "King Qing, I heard that a while ago, there was a stock boom in Shanghai, and all the major banks owed a lot of silver. ”
Xu Shichang's sense of smell is not insensitive, in fact, the stock crisis has spread across the country, and news has already been reported in various places, but Shanghai is the most serious.
Yi-Xuan lowered his head, pondered Xu Shichang's words, and fell into a short contemplation.
"The official document from the prince, the prince, the degree branch, and the Ministry of Posts and Communications has arrived, and they say that the official document is urgent and needs to be decided by the prince quickly." The next person suddenly came to report.
"What official documents? Open it! ”
Yi-Xuan shouted, took the official document in his hand, and after quickly browsing it, he turned to Xu Shichang and said: "Juren is really a strange person, this Liangbi is really for money." ”
As he spoke, he handed the official document to Xu Shichang, but Xu Shichang couldn't help but be surprised after reading it, which detailed the tense situation faced by Shanghai in the stock market, and the amount of losses added up to more than 40 million taels, which is a super huge amount of money.
"The government relief, a mouth will cost 20 million taels, Liangbi is just a lion with his mouth open, this Zaize, Sheng Xuanhuai really dares to send it to this king?" Yi-Xuan sneered.
"What a disaster in Shanghai?" Xu Shichang was shocked in his heart, and said, "Do you need so much all at once?" ”
Yi Xuan sneered, "Who knows what his good minister has in mind?" ”
"King Qing should send someone to investigate, is it really so difficult to get on the beach?" Xu Shichang persuaded.
"Juren, don't you know, the good minister has always been deceitful, this king has been fooled by him many times, this time you must not believe it!"
"Liangbi may dare to deceive alone, but to deceive the central government, it is impossible for the branch and the Ministry of Posts and Communications to cooperate with him to deceive the central government, and it is easy to say that it is 20 million taels at every turn, such a big thing can't all be deception, right? King Qing still thinks twice. ”
Xu Shichang said slowly, but Yixuan waved his hand and signaled not to say any more.
"You told Zai Ze in the past, Sheng Xuanhuai, this year's government's use has been clearly scaled, and the silver in the treasury cannot be misappropriated without authorization." Yi-劻 commanded the comer.
"Juren, Liangbi is having a showdown with this king, the trouble is the same as Yinzi Xuan, hum, this kind of unprovoked ghost trick, this king must not let him succeed!"
"But.." Xu Shichang hesitated for a moment, but still said, "What about the foreigners?" Will Liangbi give up? ”
"This king will make it clear to them that this is the personal practice of the governor of Liangjiang, not the intention of the Qing government, and they can do whatever they want, and don't pay attention to this unprovoked person." Yi-劻 had already thought of a countermeasure.
Xu Shichang also stopped talking, although he felt unreliable, but now he can only do this.
"It would be good if Yuan Xiangcheng was here, his intelligence and scheming are not under the good ministers, with him, he will definitely be able to restrain this person." Xu Shichang said quietly.
"Soon, soon, in another month, Shikai will be able to go to Tianjin, you said that he is really, not to buy a ticket directly from San Francisco to return to China, but to take a long detour, to Chile, Brazil, from Africa to bypass, well, this detour, but much farther." Yi-Liang said complainingly.
"Yuan Xiangcheng did this, I'm afraid he has a reason, maybe he has noticed something?" As an old friend for many years, Xu Shichang knows Yuan Shikai's personality very well.
"Kikuto, what do you want to say?" When Xu Shichang said this, he was alert.
"I'm afraid that someone doesn't want him to return to China," Xu Shichang said.
"Who? Revolutionary party, or? Yi-xiao hurriedly asked.
"Haha, King Qing, I'll just guess casually, you don't have to take it to heart, maybe Xiangcheng just wants to go around elsewhere, let's not be too nervous." Xu Shichang said with a smile.
"King Qing, I'm leaving."
"Oh, Kikuto walk slowly."
Xu Shichang left quietly.
Xu Shichang left, but Yi-Xuan's heart could not be calmed for a long time, the former just said, inadvertently poked his heart knot, he still clearly remembers, just a month ago, Zhang Zongxiang was killed in a sedan chair, and his death is simply too strange, if it is really as the outside world said, it was done by the revolutionary party, then the killing methods are too clever, so clever that they don't need to send an amateur killer like Wang Zhaoming to assassinate Zaifeng.
Yi-Xuan pondered for a moment, and suddenly came to a startling conclusion.
"Murderer, I'm afraid it's not this thief, right?" (To be continued.) )