Perhaps, Lu Guangquan wants to be president, and Duan Qirui also wants to.

But everyone must face the reality that China's new army was completely founded by Hu Chuyuan, and in China's current political structure, all the people who can be used are also Hu Chuyuan's people.

In the past 20 years, Hu Chuyuan has paid a price of not just a few hundred million taels of silver, but more than a billion taels of silver, involving all aspects.

It is simply impossible for China to live without him now.

Even if he doesn't want to be the first assistant, prime minister, or president, and just wants to be a pure patriotic businessman, everyone can't tolerate this happening, let alone accept it.

Whether Hu Chuyuan wants it or not, if he wants to realize the dream of a strong China, everyone must force him to be president.

He just doesn't do anything in office, and that's a hundred times stronger than others.

His name, prestige, achievements, connections, funds, vision...... It is the best insurance for the power of the country.

China does not need anything now, it only needs him to sit in the position of president, and as long as he sits in this position, others will not dare to have evil thoughts, no one will dare to engage in secession, and military generals will not dare to dream of being a warlord.

As long as he sits in this position, there is no second person who dares to play in this position.

As long as he sits in this position, even if Emperor Guangxu is under house arrest, China's political situation can be stabilized, and the administrative officials will continue to do their own business.

Hu Chuyuan understood these things in his heart, and he knew that he had no choice.

Although he is unwilling to continue to be the first assistant and prime minister, he will instead do something he likes...... But he really can't let go, he can't watch China enter the era of competition.

Lu Guangquan, Li Kaiye, Duan Qirui...... None of them are people who can deter others, and they are far from it.

To be honest, all three of them together are not worth half of Hu Chuyuan, and they themselves understand this.

Hu Chuyuan agreed to the mutiny, but he did not plan to go north to Beijing at all and directly force Emperor Guangxu to completely relinquish power.

The relationship between him and Zai Xiang is actually very good, and the cooperation has been very good in the past few years.

Everyone knows this, but Chen Shanyuan knows best.

Since Hu Chuyuan agreed to the mutiny, but he had another plan for the specific operation, everyone could only continue to do what he said, Duan Qirui was responsible for leading the army to take the railway north to meet the Tongzhou Zhili Division controlled by Lu Guangquan.

Four divisions of the New Army were encircled in a few days near the Beijing Division, and one division was responsible for moving north to Jinzhou to contain Ronglu's northeastern corps from moving south.

The attitude of Zai Xiang and Zhang Zhidong was tough, and they refused to give up, and in the end they could only attack the city and attack from Chaoyangmen, and soon, a large-scale mutiny broke out within the Beijing Division Corps, and several young non-commissioned officers of the Han Banner rebelled.

Things got out of hand.

At the last moment, Emperor Guangxu Zaiyan still sent a telegram asking Hu Chuyuan to come back quickly to control the situation, but Hu Chuyuan could not be contacted, and Zhang Zhidong also sent the dead soldiers to leave the capital to find Ye Fu, but there was still no follow-up.

However, Yin Chang and Rong Lu contacted Hu Chuyuan, because Hu Chuyuan did not really leave Dezhou to go to Laiwu, but continued to stay in Dezhou, they found Chen Shanyuan and reluctantly sent a telegram to Hu Chuyuan.

Hu Chuyuan received a telegram, facing Rong Lu, who can be regarded as a good personal friend with him, he really can't say anything at this time, so he can only reply to appease Rong Lu and let Rong Lu sit with him to watch the situation, at this moment, he is really powerless.

Fart.

When Rong Lu received the telegram, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and he knew that even if Hu Chuyuan was the mastermind behind the mutiny, he was deliberately indulgent in this.

Lu Guangquan engaged in a mutiny, and that was not the first time.

Duan Qirui is two different things, without Hu Chuyuan's consent, will Duan Qirui follow Lu Guangquan?

However, it is precisely because he knows Hu Chuyuan's attitude that Rong Lu does not dare to act rashly, he knows better than Emperor Guangxu how capable Hu Chuyuan is, he really forced Hu Chuyuan to be anxious, Hu Chuyuan waved up, then he was going to change the emperor.

Rong Lu was in a dilemma, and he didn't dare to really attack Jinzhou even though he had military power in his hands, so he could only fight empty artillery on the periphery of Jinzhou for several days and nights.

On June 4, in the hopeless situation of waiting for Ronglu, Emperor Guangxu Zaiyan was forced to accept the military advice, announced the implementation of a new constitution, the equality of Manchu and Han, civil liberties, and completely transferred all rights to the Prime Minister's Office, the establishment of the Beijing Division Corps was abolished, and the 10th Division of Zhili was responsible for guarding the Beijing Division.

Except for the last few clansmen, all Manchu noble titles were abolished, all Manchu cities were ordered to be demolished, Manchus chose their own jobs, all allowances were stopped, the extra land occupied by Manchus was returned to the political axe, and all Manchu armed forces were disbanded within a time limit.

As soon as the "decree" was issued, the whole country was in an uproar.

Once upon a time, there would be such a decree in China, and the Manchurians were actually canceled all their privileges, which was really a few joys and a few sorrows!

The Manchu landlords soon launched riots large and small throughout the country, except in the northeast, the rest did not produce much climate, the new army did not have a new order, everyone did not dare to act rashly, and the governors and prefects in various places did not know the new attitude of Hu Chuyuan and the Prime Minister's Office, and did not take tough measures.

However, after all, the Manchurians are only Manchurians, and the total number is too small, and millions of people want to compete with hundreds of millions of people, which is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

What really counterattacked the Manchus was the revolutionary armed forces of the Chinese League in various places, and the Han troops who quickly led the peasant households, hooligans and other forces gathered under the banner of this wave of Han Chinese troops rushed into all parts of the city in a frenzy, and the result was only a river of blood.

What was really most surprising was that abroad, including Britain, France, the United States, Germany, and Russia, the European and American powers were all surprised as never before, and they reacted as quickly as possible, denying the legal surnames of the military and political axes headed by Lu Guangquan, Duan Qirui, and Lu Han, and withdrawing their envoys to China, demanding the restoration of the imperial system and the re-establishment of the Manchu regime.

The word proposed in this book is "to clear the house and return to the government".

At this time, Hu Chuyuan was still in Texas.

All kinds of information were gathered into his hands, and he clearly realized that most of the Entente countries wanted to use this as an excuse to start a war with China, and all this was originally expected by Hu Chuyuan, who had always believed that Russia and France needed an opportunity to intervene in China's internal affairs.

Now they gave the Entente a chance.

…… Texas is a great place to be.

Not only is there oil, gas and geothermal, but it's also famous for its Texas black pottery. Today, the export scale of handicraft industry is expanding, Dezhou black pottery has become a kind of national handicraft in Shandong Province, with excellent quality and exquisite craftsmanship, more than 600,000 pieces of export to foreign countries every year, especially the black pottery of imitation bronze style is quite well received in foreign markets, in recent years, there are also a lot of black pottery art masters in Texas.

In the Yamen of the Texas Governor's Mansion, Hu Chuyuan got some very exquisite Texas black pottery for making tea and playing.

He likes these ethnic handicrafts, they belong to both the locality, but also to this nation and the country, they represent the image of China, when you see these black pottery handicrafts, you will think of China, think of a Chinese black pottery city called Texas.

I heard that Hu Chuyuan is in Texas, and many black pottery masters are working hard to make a few works of art that can represent their highest level, and then try their best to give them to Hu Chuyuan...... The reason in this is too simple, he is the most famous top collector in China, as long as he takes a fancy to someone's work and is willing to collect it in his Phu Quoc Villa, that person's value will immediately skyrocket tenfold.

Today, Hu Chuyuan received a very peculiar black pottery bookcase, 1.3 meters high, 3 meters long, the surface is polished, using a variety of techniques such as carving, relief carving and layer by layer flower carving, it can be seen that the maker has put a lot of effort into this large-scale black pottery work weighing 238 kilograms, and has been revolving around it for at least two years.

The most commendable thing is that the firing heat and polishing skills have reached a peak level, without a single burnt spot or blemish.

Rare.

Rare!!

Hu Chuyuan was very happy, he had been playing with black pottery, purple sand pottery and white pottery for so long, and it was the first time he had seen such a large and exquisite shape.

But he couldn't be happy, on this exquisite work of art worth at least tens of thousands of yuan, there was also a new report compiled by the Privy Council and the Secret Bureau, as well as a diplomatic joint announcement.

Russia and France said that the three countries jointly demanded that the military and political axes be "returned to the government and paid off," and demanded that the Guangxu Emperor be in power pro-government, not recognize the existing political axe, and if he did not return to power, they would not rule out the use of force.

The United Kingdom, Germany and the United States have only expressed concern.

At the same time, France demanded that China compensate French citizens, missionaries, and parishioners from France and other countries caused by the Boxer Movement, and that they should pay 4 million yuan to the French political axe at one time.

What is four million clear yuan, every year, China can earn at least more than 20 million yuan of foreign exchange just for the export of black pottery, and France is still one of the most important importers and collectors.

Money.

There is no shortage of China.

Sitting in the recliner, Hu Chuyuan slowly pondered in his heart.

Putting aside the appearance, what he saw was the truth about the Entente's attempt to take advantage of the opportunity to invade China. For France and Russia, this is an unprecedented God-given opportunity, China's internal political situation is in chaos, the main division has been transferred to the northwest, as long as a small part of the army is sent from the northeast and Vietnam at this time, it can gain a lot.

Of course, Hu Chuyuan is not afraid of this battle.

Don't look at China's new army, there are only 31 divisions, and the total number is only 450,000 people, once it expands...... The speed will be very impressive.

Since the establishment of the new army, Hu Chuyuan has always adhered to the strategy that the army is a military academy, specially recruiting young people between the ages of 18 and 22 for long-term training and education, and implementing a rotation system on a large scale, adopting the policy of temporary squad leaders, platoon commanders, and company commanders, and training a large number of young army officers among these 450,000 people.

In recent years, all provinces have adopted new-style military training schools, and the old six schools have gradually been upgraded to Fuzhou Shipbuilding University, Nanchang Army Academy, Changsha Artillery College, Jiangning Artillery Academy, Fuzhou Army Academy, Tianjin National Defense University, and new military academies have also been set up in Xuzhou, Dalian, and Guangzhou.

Abroad, the Navy, Army and Navy Academies of the University of Oakland and the University of Virginia have been recruiting Chinese students on a large scale, and China has also continuously sent young officers to the Army Academy in Berlin, the German Army Staff College, and the Royal Naval College in the United Kingdom for further study.

Hu Chuyuan did not dare to say more, but within a year, he could expand the army to 1 million men and the navy to a total of 750,000 tons.

Of course, he can not fight.

If he had signed a long-term military alliance with Britain now, the war could have been avoided for the time being...... The problem is that there are too many drawbacks, especially when you consider the long-term relationship between China and Germany.

Over the past two decades, China has produced a very large number of German students, accounting for about 30% of high school students and foreign language majors.

Chinese studies German ...... In other words, plagiarizing the German Empire is a major national policy, and it will not be changed because Emperor Guangxu is under house arrest.

If Sino-German relations can be maintained, the number of Chinese students studying in Germany will be at least 40,000 in the next 20 years, and the changes they can bring to China will be enormous.

At present, in the world, German university education is indeed the first, and the first choice for studying in the United States and Japan is also Germany.

Hu Chuyuan's heart is entangled, and he constantly carefully ponders the pros and cons in his heart.

To fight or not to fight?

This is indeed a problem!

He refused to stand up and organize a mutiny, first, he had no "reason", Emperor Guangxu gave him all the power, what he lacked was only the last military power, he really did not "reason" the mutiny; the second is to sit and wait for the situation to change, he is hiding behind his back, so he can see the change in the situation more clearly and it is easier to respond; Third, he also considered the possible surnames of foreign interventions, and if he directly led the mutiny, he would lose room for maneuver, and China would also lose room for maneuver.

Just when Hu Chuyuan was thinking about all this carefully, Sun Yuanheng, Lan Jianshu and other people walked in, and Lan Jianshu took a step forward and said to Hu Chuyuan: "My lord, it's time to go back to Beijing." ”

Hu Chuyuan hummed slightly, and glanced at Sun Zongyuan in the crowd.

This man is indeed his confidant.

True henchmen.

No matter whether Hu Chuyuan is ready to do good deeds or bad deeds, Sun Zongyuan has always stood behind him and made suggestions.

Everyone has their own ideals.

For Chen Shanyuan, Chen Shanyuan gradually had his own ideals, and his ideal was to establish a republic with Hu Chuyuan, but Hu Chuyuan may not really think so.

Even if he thinks so, Hu Chuyuan's estimate is very long.

In the matter of the Boxer, Hu Chuyuan was basically sure that Chen Shanyuan's secret bureau consciously hid some of the information related to the Boxer, or consciously ignored it, so as to create an opportunity for the eventual mutiny.

Hu Chuyuan can't say that because of this incident, it means that Chen Shanyuan is no longer loyal to him.

Just like Dai Li and Jiang Zhongzheng, the intelligence chief and the boss may not always be so closely connected, fortunately, Hu Chuyuan has several intelligence agencies in his hands, but the intelligence agencies in China are only the Secret Bureau for the time being.

In the future, Hu Chuyuan will definitely retain another set of intelligence agencies and Chen Shanyuan in China to restrain each other.

Sun Zongyuan may not be suitable for this job, but Sun Zongyuan is indeed a good confidant.

At this time, Sun Zongyuan also looked at Hu Chuyuan silently, hoping that Hu Chuyuan would return to Beijing as soon as possible to end the military mutiny.

If Hu Chuyuan can return to Beijing, then at least he can keep the constitutional system, otherwise he will force Lu Guangquan and others to make a complete revolution, if so, it will do more harm than good.

At this moment, it is really an internal and external trouble.

Hu Chuyuan didn't get up, and continued to sit on the recliner, thinking silently...... The French, the Russians and the Russians really found the right time, but they found the wrong opponent, how can China be intimidated by sending two warships or 100,000 troops at this time?

No kidding.

Times have changed, and the thinking of the French and Russians is still stuck in 1880.

Since only through war can we prove our own strength, prove China's strength, then ...... Hu Chuyuan hopes to fight a big war that is enough to convince the world.

(To be continued)