With Xiao Afeng's departure from Beijing, public opinion has another topic that can be used to make a fuss. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the people's attention to the matter of the parliamentarian's betrayal of the country is obviously not as interested as the triangular relationship between Xiao Afeng, Zhao Guanhou, and Cai Feng. After all, Fusang is far away, Xiao Afeng is very close, international disputes, how can there be a sense of peachy news.

With the efforts of several tabloids that are not capable of reporting the turmoil of the parliamentarians, Zhao Guanhou's name was called again in the capital. It's just that compared with the heroes of the previous time, this time Zhao Guanhou's image is a little differentiated. Some people insist that only the great hero can be who he is, while others feel that he is just a drunkard and embarrassed to do the job. Even the exploits of the Battle of Weifang must be a question mark.

Simply for the sake of Zhao Guanhou's image dispute, several brawls broke out in the capital, which caused Jiang Zongchao a headache. The rumors were like the wind, blowing all the way into the spring lotus root, and after Yuan Weiting heard it, he only shook his head and spit out two words: nonsense.

Yuan Weiting's state is not good, since the news of Cai Feng's entry into Kunming came, Yuan Weiting has been sick, and he is very sick. The legs are weak, and it becomes difficult to relieve them. My legs are swollen and I can't sleep all night. The Prussian doctor and Qu Tinggui worked together to help him, and his condition was finally stabilized. However, the doctor specifically instructed the patient to rest and recuperate, and also to maintain a happy mood.

The president could only enter a state of rest for the time being, and handed over state affairs to Xu Juren to manage on his behalf, Yuan Weiting lay on the bed, and Shen Jinying accompanied him, reading the Napoleonic biography for him.

The previous snub did not make Shen Jinying angry, but took the initiative to help Yuan Weiting find a young and beautiful woman. This made Yuan Weiting feel very guilty, and the relationship between the two returned to the past state. When Shen Jinying finished reading a book, Yuan Weiting said:

"When I read the book of sages, I was determined to seek fame and wealth, and to make my wife and son, until Guanhou translated this book to me, and I realized that after so many years, I have been on the wrong path. Whether it is the book of sages or fame, it is just a shackle that binds people. The emperor relied on this to restrain the heroes, so as to protect his country for generations, the world is so stupid, fascinated by these things, but can not see what is really precious. Manly, big husband, as vigorous as Napoleon, whether it is immortal or stinking for thousands of years, it is better than mediocrity! ”

"From the first time I met you, I knew that you were not a mediocre person. Facts have proved that I am not wrong, you are not now the king and landlord of this country, and when it comes to territory, I am afraid that you are even bigger than the emperor, right? The two of you, both of you started from the ranks, and you have both reached this position, and you want me to see that you are better than him. ”

Yuan Weiting shook his head, "How can I be virtuous, how dare I compare this heroic emperor to Cape?" He could have been president, but he chose to be emperor anyway. Do you know what this is for? ”

Seeing Shen Jinying shaking his head, Yuan Weiting said with a smile: "The president is just the leader of the alliance, not the co-leader, and the arrogant generals under his subordinates may also be the president. When you become an emperor, it's different. The emperor is the lord of all peoples, and it is a matter of course that his subjects are loyal to the king. You see his last battle, and his marshal would rather sit back and watch him lose the battle than dare to disobey the temperance and send troops to rescue him without authorization. This is where the majesty of the emperor lies, the president, how can he have this authority. There is no authority, it is difficult to enforce government decrees, and the generals of the provinces only regard you as a big alliance leader. Obey orders that have interests in oneself, and disobey those who have no interests. It's such a miasma now, I'm a big president, but I can't even be the master of my subordinates, what's the point of being a president? ”

As he spoke, there was another violent cough, and Shen Jinying hurriedly fed him honey water, and he didn't

"You still blame Guanhou in your heart, right? If I meet, I will scold him and slap him a few times. How can you make a plan with the people of Albion, calculate Prussia and Fuso, and actually don't consult you in advance, and use your own people as thieves to prevent this? I'm a sister, don't I make a compensatory for him first, and when he enters Beijing in the future, see if I don't clean him up? ”

"Guanhou...... Forget it, he is now a big hero of the Commonwealth, and half of my fame comes from him. If you scold him harshly, beware that the people will not answer. This matter has passed no matter what, we don't need to mention it again, so that he can't do it again in the future. But what he is doing now makes me a little helpless. Self-staining ...... When, between us, will we also engage in this kind of means? If he doesn't use this method, I will harm him? Shandong abolished the patrol envoy and gave him all the military and political power, isn't this what I promised him at the beginning, but which one has not done it now? The identity of the generalissimo, apart from him, only Zhiquan has it, what else is he worried about? Otherwise, in the next step, I will transfer Huafu to Beijing and put the entire Liangjiang in charge of him, he should always believe that my brother-in-law is not the capricious and mean lord of Shizongye. ”

Shen Jinying smiled shyly: "Guanhou is a good person, but there is a ten-grid next to him, who is that?" Since I was a child, I have seen a lot of open and secret battles in the imperial court, and the tide rises and falls, and it is inevitable that I will learn the officialdom methods of Qianjin and the United States. It's always your own person, don't blame him. We are now popular, and many of them are also brought by the crown marquis. He should always look up to him. ”

"If I hadn't looked up to him, how could I have pulled out those councillors for him? He did this, and there was a lot of gossip, and I, the president, had no choice but to come out and be a villain. ”

Yuan Weiting smiled bitterly and closed his eyes slightly

"My body, I didn't expect it to collapse so quickly. A-Ying, you know, I'm scared. I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid, I'm gone now, and you and the child don't know what to do. Hanyun is not a person who can hold money, and you are spoiled by him. In the future, without authority, it will be difficult for him to keep his share of the family business. No matter what, I have to leave you a wealth that you can eat and drink, and a power that is not easy to live with for a lifetime. ”

"Rong An, don't think about it so much. The doctor said that he wanted you to have a good rest...... It's not a big deal, take care of it, and you can get better. ”

Yuan Weiting shook his head and said, "I have my own body and bones, and I know it myself." None of the people in our family who came out to be officials lived to be sixty. I don't think my life span is much. While I still understand that things have to be done quickly, we can't delay......"

"Phew! Don't talk nonsense, I've heard people say that the Son of Heaven has dragon qi to protect his body, I'll go over there, bring the jade seal over, and ask a god to do a ritual, no illness will not be cured. ”

Yuan Weiting smiled, "A-Ying, you're still too stupid." That jade seal has a room, where do you borrow it? Do you really think that what the storyteller said, the jade seal is on that side? The jade seal is useless, but the dragon qi of the Son of Heaven protects the body...... This may be an opportunity. Anyway, I'm going to give it a go. Napoleon was invincible in the world, so his generals and colonels supported him. I have now received the military power of the world, and in the future, as long as I fight a few good battles and train a few strong troops, I don't believe that anyone dares to oppose my accession to the throne? Even if there is, it's just a local chicken tile dog, vulnerable! Although Cai Feng arrived in Yunnan, but I am a tiger in the six towns of Beiyang, and Shandong has just won the Fusang people, and the morale is sharp, I don't believe that he can turn the sky upside down with a little Cai Feng! This time, I'm going to take a bet. Look at the fate of my Yuan family and the Hongfu of the Son of Heaven, which one is tougher! You talk to the boss and ask him to pay attention to two things, one is the movement of Fuso, and the other is the reaction of various countries. Especially the Times, if the foreigners do not object, our affairs will be foolproof. ”

Fuso, Tokyo.

Before the disaster, Fusang happened to take Shandong as a teacher, learned advanced disaster relief experience, and compiled it into a manual. Logically speaking, with the guidance of advanced concepts, coupled with Fuso's mature industrial system and abundant life-saving knowledge, the number of victims of subsequent disasters should be greatly reduced. However, in the aftermath of the earthquake, the number of victims in the Tokyo area was even higher than in previous disasters.

Fires, explosions, looting, and even extremists inflict harm on citizens are not causing new casualties all the time. The old law enforcement agencies were largely paralyzed by the earthquake and lost their original functions, and the new ones failed to fill the gaps in a timely manner, causing increasing damage.

Although the army urgently mobilized troops to take charge of the bullet pressure, the effect was not very obvious. There is even evidence that soldiers from poor backgrounds, in collusion with illegals, consciously attacked the middle class and robbed property.

Relief supplies could not reach the victims in a timely manner, and violent groups relied on the protection of the military to do whatever they wanted in the vacuum. Ordinary people in Fuso live in fear and hunger, men are robbed and killed, women are violated, and even during the day, crimes are endless. The police department is powerless, and even some crimes are directed at the barracks, which is simply beyond the scope of the police's ability to investigate.

The reason for this is that the main government wrestles with each other, and deliberately does it in order to achieve its own goals by sacrificing the people. Secondly, it is the Fusang Zhengfu, which really does not have the energy to ask about this part of the social security problem. For Fuso, the most important thing now is to establish a cabinet, restore authority first, and then talk about order.

Da Fear Shigenshin submitted his resignation report. His rise to power was the result of the support of Youpeng in Shanxian County, and the entire cabinet was regarded as a minion of bureaucratic warlords. When the two tasks of expanding the army and cracking down on the political friends were completed, the cabinet was already in jeopardy. With the outbreak of the earthquake, the economic situation worsened, the emperor died, and the army and navy were tense, and Ogami was clearly not interested in staying to clean up the pieces, so he simply walked away.

The candidate to succeed the prime minister, Yama Prefecture has a friend who belongs to Keigo Kiyoura. In order to ensure that Prince Mikasa would succeed to the throne and to form an alliance with the Chinese, the list of his cabinet members was all from the House of Nobles, except for the Prime Minister, the Sea Minister, and the Land Minister, so as soon as the list was submitted, it was criticized as a "transcendent cabinet" that did not take the House of Representatives seriously.

The Constitution Society, the Constitutional Council, and the Reform Club, which are known as the three factions of the Constitution Protector in the Diet, joined forces to resist the Kiyoura Cabinet and resolutely resisted it. Politicians don't mind the lives of the people, and in Fusang, a country with a strict class concept, the safety of the lives and property of ordinary people is not a matter for the higher-ups to consider at all.

What the Choshu Valve and the Constitutional Protectors are only considering is their own interests and calculations, or the overall situation called the interests of the imperial state, and as for the vast number of struggling to survive in front of them, who cares?

Under the boycott of the parliament, Keigo Kiyoura had a difficult time forming a cabinet, and at one point he sighed, "I smelled the smell of eel, but I couldn't eat the food." He almost gave up the hope of forming a cabinet, but at the last moment, because of the support of Yuzaburo Kato and the veterans of the Restoration, he survived the death and succeeded in forming a cabinet.

Yuzaburo Kato's concession also had his own conditions, and he was the minister of the sea, and the handling of the Navy's Kato Fleet's unauthorized return to China had to be handled in accordance with his own charter, and could not be carried out in accordance with the requirements of the army.

The chaotic law and order in Tokyo is the pressure exerted by the army on the government, and its purpose is to attack the navy. Some officers of the saber group even said, "If we can't give a reasonable deal with the incident of the navy's escape, the army will no longer bear the responsibility of maintaining law and order!" ”

Kenichi Oshima, who succeeded Ooka City as the prime minister, was born as an adjutant of Aritomo Yama Prefecture, and in the cabinet, he was regarded as the mouthpiece of Yamaguchi, and his remarks basically represented the will of Yama Prefecture, the speaker of the Parliament. Regarding the Army's statement, Oshima's attitude as Minister of War was ambiguous, and he finally said something ambiguous

This method is not advisable, but its remarks are also the expression of the wishes of patriotic generals, excluding the radical parts, most of the opinions are still worthy of our attention. If we act against the will of the soldiers and force them to do what we ask, who else will be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor? ”

This point of view can naturally be regarded as the view of Yama County Youpeng, that is, the riot of the army, Yama County Somepeng is not ready to restrain it. In order to restore order in Tokyo as soon as possible, it is necessary to deal with the navy strictly and severely. Blame the defeat in Shandong on the unauthorized retreat of the navy, deal with Kato Masakayoshi, and correct the name of the army.

Yuzaburo Kato is adamantly opposed to this approach, and it is not based on factional interests. Born in Hiroshima, he is not a member of the Sacho faction, and can be regarded as a member of the cabinet faction. He came forward to endorse Kato, defining his behavior as pursuing the Prussian warship, not out of factional considerations, but from the perspective of maintaining a stable Fuso order, trying to avoid friction between the two armies.

At his suggestion, Vice Admiral Kato and fourteen leading officers of Kato's fleet were transferred to the reserve, but not court-martialed. The responsibility for Shandong's unfavorable operations should be borne by the army and navy, and neither side should be blamed alone.

In the appropriation for the next fiscal year, the Navy will be cut by 20 percent and allocated to the Army for the expansion of the establishment. On the naval side, it is necessary to abandon support for Prince Takamatsunomiya's claim to succeed to the emperor and support Prince Mikanomiya as emperor. In return, the Navy will not cut its spending in the next 10 years, and the Navy's previous funding accounts in the process of building ships will no longer be verified.

This series of exchanges, which was jointly agreed upon by Yuzaburo Kato, Konobo Saionji, and Aritomo Yamagu, and other faction bigwigs and predecessors of the Restoration, can be regarded as final. If there are no accidents, the struggle for the throne of Fuso, as well as the struggle between the two factions on land and sea, will also come to an end in this way.

The number of marines is far less than that of the army, and even if the fleet on the expedition to Shandong successfully returns, it can only form an overwhelming advantage at sea, and its ability to play a role in the domestic political situation is limited. This kind of outcome can be seen as a result that the Navy must accept, and it is impossible to reverse it.

Now, Youpeng in Shanxian is already thinking about who to replace Da Wei, and what strategy should the empire adopt next to recover the losses caused by the defeat of Shandong and the Kwantung earthquake, and which province of China should be used as a breakthrough to open this channel? (To be continued.) )