With the astonishing and sudden change in the overall situation from southern Liaoning to Liangjiang, the 21st year of Guangxu appeared to be noisy, excited, and noisy from the beginning. People of all colors, some of them lament that the world is chaotic, and the quiet and leisurely in the past will no longer come back. Some people are enthusiastic, and their eyes are shining looking at this rushing chaotic world. In addition, the death of Jaito himself is used as a footnote. On the land of Northeast Asia, everyone consciously or unconsciously became involved in the trend set off by Xu Yifan.

The Jiangning Governor's Office is the center of this trend. In Jiangning nursery rhymes, there are already lyrics of Wukong as the Jade Emperor. In the past, the Liangjiang Supervision Office, which was quite quiet and murderous, was said to be full of people coming and going, and how many things had to be summarized and dealt with here, and the trends of the governors in various places should also be sent to the Supervision Office in a timely manner. However, what made Xu Yifan's subordinates, who were full of interest and running for a big cause, was depressed that after the tide was set off, Xu Dashuai was lazy and didn't take care of things very much, and he handed over the dog meat tents that were all over the country to Zhang Peilun to take care of. At present, the only guest of Xu Yifan, who is not nameless, is Jiang Ningcheng - no, the dazzling star of the whole country is red and purple. Some people are already talking jealously, Zhang Peilun is really visionary and can drill camp! When he saw that Qingliu had a good reputation, he became famous all over the world, and suddenly changed from a small Jingqing to a minister in Fujian. Mawei was defeated, and hugged Li Hongzhang's thick legs again. Li Hongzhang fell, and now he is Xu Yifan's think tank, who can compare with this kind of vision?

This gossip, Zhang Peilun just laughed when he heard it. There is also a reason why Xu Yifan handed over all these things to him. After all, the local governor has no friendship with Xu Yifan, and when the official is at such a point, he rashly comes to show his loyalty, and he really can't pull his face. Zhang Peilun has been traveling for half his life, intersecting all over the world, and any governor can pull a few words around the bend, let alone those who are from the Huai family. He pimped in the middle and talked about the conditions, and he was the most suitable person. He is also unyielding, not afraid of this limelight.

At this time, in the flower hall of the superintendent's office, Xu Yifan was doing something that made the three people in the inner house led by Li Xuan hate it - he was sitting opposite Xiuning, holding the chess pieces and baskets, and was talking with his hands. The tide is so turbulent, he is very idle.

Of course, Xu Yifan's chess skills are not very clever, and a few new style novices in later generations were taken aback by Xiuning. Xiuning was in the capital at the beginning, and she was already known as a female national player. Playing chess with Xu Yifan in the past few days has been much harder than meeting a master, and he has to be careful to let him leave no traces at all. The most hateful thing is that Xu Yifan knows that he is letting him, but he is still a scoundrel to see that he is alone, but instead sets off wars everywhere - as if he expected Xiuning not to slaughter him Dalong so facelessly. Seeing that Xu Yifan was one step at a time, he forced Xiuning to kill a big dragon, and he was very happy. Xiuning knocked on the chessboard angrily with a white child: "Dashuai, your big dragon only has one breath left!" That eye is a fake, why don't you make it up quickly? ”

Xu Yifan took a look, and sure enough, a large piece of dead chess had been placed there for a long time, and Xiuning had been holding back from doing it, which was considered to be giving him face. He didn't feel ashamed either, and he smiled and messed up the chessboard: "............ Who said I had one eye? Now there are two places in Liangjiang and Liaonan, and I have survived with two eyes! I don't play with you, your chess strength is too low, but it's not enjoyable. ”

Xiuning smiled faintly: "Yes, compared to the handsome, you take heaven and earth as a chessboard and heroes and heroes as chess pieces, this kind of chess power, what the little woman says can't compare............"

The weather was already cold, and Xiuning was hugging a white mink fur, which made her face like snow. These words, Jiang Ningcheng knows the situation of the Supervision Bureau, who doesn't know this shocking thing! A rare beautiful woman among the banner people often comes to worship Xu Yifan alone, and the two sit and talk, and they can't get down for an hour or two. But this kind of thing, I can only think about it, I can't say it, and no one is going to Xu Yifan for this matter!

In fact, when it comes to the truth, that's just it. Since Xu Yifan has come to a critical juncture on the road to usurpation, all the details of the center of the imperial court must be grasped as much as possible. The general trend has become, when creating a general trend, you might as well slash and kill, and finally on the occasion of the Ding Revolution, how to try to be as stable as possible, as little as possible to damage the vitality of the country, but it is a technical work. Learn more about the minds of the orphans and widows in the imperial court, and understand that they have the means to deal with them, there are only benefits, not harms. Especially Xu Yifan played such an earth-shattering move in southern Liaoning, it is impossible for Yanjing City not to react! Know what they might do, and you'll have the means to do it in the future. In the past few days, Xiuning has been frequently called, and what Xu Yifan asked was nothing more than these things, and Xiuning also knew everything.

For Xiuning, the wishful thinking of saving the luck of the last days of the Qing Dynasty has long disappeared. Her knowledge is extraordinary among the men in the world, but in front of Xu Yifan, she only has a clumsy share. God knows how this guy knows so clearly about the hearts of the people in the world, the trends, and even the general trend of the world! Xiuning's only request at this time is to hope that once Xu Yifan is reformed, the banner clan can survive in peace, and not follow the fate of those dragon sons and phoenix grandchildren in the last days in history.

Xu Yifan's handling of the two banner clans in Jiangning and Jingkou is already an unprecedented benevolent government for the change of dynasty. The punishment of doubling taxes for ten years has also made the people feel a little stuffy about being ridden on their heads for 200 years. Xiuning stayed in Jiangning, on the one hand, guarding his younger brother, on the other hand, if there was a banner clan at the end of the city, he was really wronged, and he was bullied by the scoundrels on the street, so he had to complain to Xu Yifan. Generally speaking, it is too much, Xu Yifan passed Bai Siwen and asked him to take care of it. The others only smiled when they heard it: "If you are bullied, I am afraid that it is inevitable, but this is not the case, I am afraid that it will be difficult for them to integrate into the big nation!" How can a person have a lifetime of uprightness? Comfortable is not sincere, sincere and benevolent is not comfortable, knowing that the world is difficult, it is not harmful to them! ”

When people are forced to rely on themselves, there are always abilities that they can't even predict. It is the time of the New Year's Festival, and there are many small stalls of the flag clan in Jiangning City. Those northern flavors of New Year's dim sum, set out to sell, the big guys are fresh, and there are a lot of people who take care of the business. Banner people have been playing for more than 200 years, their minds are on how to eat, how to play, most of their craftsmanship is very skillful, tie the lamp, tie the wrapping, the craftsmanship is no less than the old craftsman who has accumulated years, and he is busy all day, but he also sees the benefits.

There are a few people in the family, so they simply opened a shabu mutton shop with a copper stove and charcoal fire, and they are also poisonous about eating, and they really look like they do it. The weather is cold, and the business of a few new shops is really good! In these shops, it is the flag clan who runs the hall, and the one who settles accounts is also the flag clan - anyway, the flag clan is more literate. As soon as the guests come, the etiquette is so courteous, even if you don't have an appetite, you have to come to see the freshness, maybe it is an earl who is greeting the guests!

Unlike what others expected, not only did there not have tens of thousands of corpses in the city, but most of them were able to get jobs. Of course, there are also first-class people who can't make it, and they have to guard the grandfather's shelf when they die. These people starved to death, and even the banner man himself was not a pity!

The Jiangning Banner Clan is like this, and his old brother at least doesn't look as upside-down as he did then. Xiuning has lost a lot of the sorrow at that time. Thanks to Xu Yifan for raising his noble hand in two things, Xiuning really put together the things in the palace ban. As for how the Qiren relatives will deal with the current situation, Xiuning also tried her best to give her own judgment, although most of the time, Xu Yifan just listened to her judgment lightly, and did not express any appreciation, as if in addition to the internal affairs of the powerful in Yanjing City, other Xiuning's own opinions, whether there are or not, that is what it is.

has dealt with Xu Yifan a lot, and Xiuning also understands Xu Yifan's surname to some extent. Speaking of easy-going, he is still really easy-going, and his conversation is elegant, only occasionally swearing. In his bones, he is a very confident and decisive person. He has never attached importance to women's abilities, but he tolerates and takes care of girls very much, and does not have the commanding style that is common to men in this era - he tolerates and retreats to girls so much, not because he is afraid of a little man, but from the bottom of his heart he regards women as weak. This kind of machismo hidden underneath makes Xiuning sometimes can't help but be angry, when she is in the capital, who dares to treat her Xiuning Gege as a woman! Emperor Guangxu's brother sometimes can't get off at Lafayette's, and he has to secretly find her this way! Xu Yifan just thought she was a weak woman, she had read a little more books, and she also had some brains. Her little insight is a world away from Xu Yifan!

In a fit of anger, Xiuning was a little childish and never took her pair of twin sisters to the Governor's Office again, knowing that you love to look at them, so you can't look at them!

The chess game was chaotic, and Xu Yifan smiled proudly at Xiuning, but Xiuning was slightly distracted. The world-famous handsome man in front of him is just a healthy and cheerful young man with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and he shows a mouthful of white teeth when he laughs. What is it that made him make such a big career!

Xu Yifan didn't speak when he saw her, and stretched out his hand and shook it in front of her: "What do you think?" ”

Xiuning's face turned red for no reason: "Handsome............ I'm thinking, this time, the righteous brother of the handsome handsome, I'm afraid that his reputation in the north is also soaring, and the minister of the Hou Party, there is no reason to restrain him, so he should let him do it, right? ”

Xu Yifan smiled, and his white teeth dazzled: "It's a good thing, I really want to see if I, a righteous brother, have any growth!" "All obstacles, he Xu Yifan can be regarded as inadvertently helping Tan Sitong to sweep away, if this can't help the court, Tan Fusheng, Tan Fusheng, you should be dead, right?

Before he finished speaking, he heard Zhang Peilun's laughing voice from outside the flower hall: "Dashuai, the business is finally open!" ”

Xu Yifan was stunned, he and Xiuning were talking here, to be honest, they were lazy. You can't look at the house during the day, and it's too hard to say it if you see it for the people below. Taking the opportunity to steal a half of life is also relaxing. After all, there is a beautiful woman in front of her, which is much stronger than a bunch of stinky men! In terms of laziness, he and Chu Wanli are the eldest brother, don't laugh at the second brother.

Besides, Xiuning's flag personality can be called an interpreter. Talking elegantly, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and there is a pitiful temperament. It's just that she hasn't brought Lori twins recently, which is a bit of a pity...... Others also know a little bit about the habit of being handsome, when he is alone with Xiuning, no one will bother him so blindly, Zhang Peilun is here, there is no big thing that will not bother him. But listening to him with a smile, it was clearly a happy event. His mind moved, and he also stood up: "Youqiao, which governor made a statement first?" ”

Zhang Peilun walked in with a smile, he had dark circles in his eyes, but he was in excellent spirits. Nodding towards Xiuning is considered a courtesy, Xiuning is also interested, standing up and saluting and retiring with a smile, Zhang Peilun looked at her back with an appreciative gaze, and said with a smile: "Banner woman, Lingxiu is only afraid that the bell is on her, she forgets the vulgar when she sees it, handsome, what does it mean?" ”

"The three of them in the family are uneven! Now I don't have this spare time! Xu Yifan didn't care about Zhang Peilun's joke: "Which governor is so good at betting and rushing to burn the incense?" ”

"Xiangfu Wu Dahui! Handsome, but I didn't expect it to be him! Zhang Nanpi of the two lakes was still hesitant, and this Wu Dahui was in front! Finally opened, Wu Dahui came to the handsome to consult, and was willing to pay 1.5 million taels! ”

Wu Dahui, Xu Yifan, can be regarded as knowing, he likes to talk about new learning, and he prefers martial arts, so he practices foreign guns in the school field of the supervision office when he has nothing to do, claiming to be a hundred shots and a hundred hits. When the Huai army was defeated in the First Sino-Japanese War, he was even more on the table, to revive the Hunan army, search for the noble children of the Hunan Hunan army to form an army, and go north to recover the lost land, and meet the devil of this book. The imperial court also approved his watch, and the Xinxiang army walked to Hubei, and before he got on the boat, Xu Yifan had already defeated the devil. This Xiangfu admired Xu Yifan's martial arts very much, this time the court cut North Korea, Xu Yifan went north to protect the country, and it is estimated that he also has an appetite for this somewhat bloody governor. Since he made up his mind, he grabbed the head and repaid 1.5 million taels at once!

Xu Yifan and Zhang Peilun looked at each other and smiled, this kind of thing, with the first person to start, there will naturally be people following up. Not to mention that Li Hongzhang has already called from Hefei to express his willingness to make a contribution to this assistance matter! At the beginning of the trend, the world was in turmoil, and most people had already seen that the number of qi was about to change, and it was indeed thinking about changing. The only thing that hinders it is the monarch and minister system for more than 200 years, and now Wu Dahui, the governor, has fired the first cannon, which can be regarded as tearing off this last face, and the rest is nothing more than moving with the waves!

Zhang Peilun said with a smile: "Although the other governors haven't expressed their stance yet, it's almost the same." The imperial court issued an edict to transfer Tan Fusheng's father, Tan Jixi, who was living in the countryside, out of the mountain and transfer him from the governor of Hubei to the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang. Looking at this meaning, one is really going to use Tan Fusheng, and the other is to see if he can put a nail behind the two rivers of the handsome, but now he has received the news, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Xu Yingji, said that the war has not yet ended, and the Japanese division is still entrenched in the south of Korea, the land of Fujian and Zhejiang, the military affairs have not been appeased, and the coastal defense is still heavy. As soon as the military affairs are over, he promised that he would immediately go to Beijing to report on his work. I see, Xu Yingji should also immediately express his stance to the marshal, and he wants to cooperate, Fujian and Zhejiang have expressed their attitude, and Liangguang naturally can't hide. Liangguang, Lianghu, Fujian, Zhejiang, Liangjiang...... Half of the country is no longer owned by the imperial court! ”

"In this world, there are still many smart people............ Xu Yifan just faintly agreed. The situation has developed like this, as early as he expected, and it is not as exciting as he imagined.

"Dashuai, what's next?"

"When the governors have finished choosing a side, please be willing to be on my side, go to Jiangning City-or anywhere, everyone will meet for a while, and the rear will be stable............ Youqiao, I'm afraid I'll have to break my promise when the time comes............"

"Dashuai, what promise?"

Xu Yifan looked at the chessboard and smiled faintly: "............ Enter Yanjing City. Perhaps, when the time comes, there is no need to break the promise, and this glorious Qing Dynasty will fall with a bang............ I really don't see any other way they can revive this remnant! ”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ in the Leshou Hall of the Buddha Xiang Pavilion, Cixi and Guangxu sat silently opposite each other and did not say a word for a long time. There was only one Li Lianying who was waiting for the two of them, and the old eunuch stood not far away, wiping his eyes from time to time.

This atmosphere is already extremely bleak. But when the times are like this, what can be done!

Xu Yifan made this move, and in the Summer Palace, it was like being struck by lightning at that time. When the news came, it was rare that Cixi was in a good mood, and on the first day of the New Year, the opera troupe came to liven up. Guangxu is naturally also waiting, the nobles of the clan, the six departments and Jiuqing can come to accompany them, as if it is for the emperor and the queen mother, Lafayette.

On the stage, it was the time when the gongs and drums were noisy and lively, and the news came. At that moment, Cixi almost fell off the bed! The eunuchs shouted at the top of their voices to stop the gongs and drums, everyone on the stage froze, and everyone under the stage was like clay carvings and wood sculptures!

At that time, I was afraid that everyone would have a sentence in their hearts: "The Qing Dynasty is over!" ”

Seeing Cixi sitting there with a blue face and not speaking, Guangxu immediately knelt beside Cixi. The nobles who served Cixi were all silent, and Cixi shouted out regardless of her dignity and dignity: "Let's all go and vote for Xu Yifan!" Sign a secret pact, and he'll know. Count on Iktanga, and he will be tied up at once. Even a Gege who often serves beside her, can't wait to give her all her heart, she can also go to Jiangning, this time, it is better to die clean! You've come up with a solution, huh? Otherwise, when Xu Yifan entered Yanjing City, everyone lined up one by one to go to the court! After that, Cixi was angry and left, and Miss Li was still proud of Cixi's scolding Xiuning, so she wanted to come up and offer courtesy, and help Cixi to leave, but she was slapped by Cixi in anger!

Cixi's long nails scratched Sister Li's face covered with blood, and the situation at that time made the palace maids cry and scream, and they were very scared on the spot. In the next few days, the originally jubilant Summer Palace was like a cemetery!

Things are pressing, and no matter how you deal with it, you have to think of ways to deal with it. First, he sent a telegram to Shi Duo, asking him to return to Beijing to be investigated. It means that Shi Duo will take this black cauldron first. Then they sent a telegram to the governors of various places, asking them not to pay attention to Xu Yifan's assistance and telephony, and the court supported their waists.

In fact, they also expected the outcome. Most of the governors in various places were vague, and some even called back to the imperial court, asking how the imperial court could sign such a secret contract of betrayal without authorization. Tentatively trying to move the position of a governor, he took over the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang with Tan Jiyi, to see if the big guy gave Tan Sitong a face, but it turned out to be the first time in the Qing Dynasty, and Xu Yingji, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, refused to confess!

Centrifugation, the prospect of the Great Qing Dynasty falling apart seems to be just around the corner!

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Tan Sitong hurriedly returned to Yanjing. Guangxu seemed to be grasping a life-saving straw, and hurriedly passed him to the Summer Palace, and the two monarchs and ministers cried and talked, making trouble for a whole day. Today, Guangxu came to see Cixi, and there was only one meaning in his words, to give power to Tan Sitong and let him train a new army!

The prestige of the imperial court has weakened to the extreme, because the imperial court thought that the Great Wall was relied on, and the collapse of the Beiyang armed forces in the local area was differentiated. In addition to the righteousness of the monarchs and ministers, there is no place for the court to settle down. The only way to reorganize authority is to train a new army!

The imperial court has been training the new army for a long time, and it has not been started. First, because this matter is really difficult, no one has the self-made ability like Xu Yifan. Second, who will train this new army, and in whose hands? The indescribable scheming between Cixi and Guangxu, who else can not know.

But what else can be done now?

"Dear father, the son asks for this one thing, this soldier, no matter what, you have to practice! Yiketang's Jilin training army is gone, and Song Qing's Yi army is not necessarily reliable, if there are no soldiers, I don't know when, Xu Yifan will enter Yanjing City! ”

Guangxu couldn't hold it anymore, and rolled to the ground and shouted: "Dear father, son-in-law can't be sorry for the ancestors and ancestors!" Tan Sitong and Kang Youwei have already patted their sons on the chest, saying that just in Zhili, they can raise a group of 100,000 people, and they don't want the court to spend any money, just give them a name! At the beginning, Xu Yifan relied on Da Shengkui's financial resources, and now they can easily say that Da Shengkui has turned to support the imperial court, and this opportunity is already our last ray of hope! Don't miss it! ”

Compared with Guangxu's credulity and eagerness, Cixi has experienced too many storms, she just looked at Guangxu: "Xu Yifan relied on Da Shengkui to train his troops?" Why does it sound a little suspenseful............ Your Majesty, I'm not stopping you from doing anything, at this time, what power do I still have to fight with you! Let's not be tied to a rope now? But in this matter, you can't listen to the wind or the rain! What I mean is, send more people to Song Qing to work hard to see if you can quickly transfer the Yi army............ If it still doesn't work............"

Guangxu straightened his waist: "Dear father? ”

Cixi's tone was also sad, covering her face and shaking her head: "............ If Song Qing can't count on it, what else can I say? Just let it go with you! Let's see, our ancestors and ancestors of the Qing Dynasty are still bless us! ”

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(To be continued)