On the night when Guangxu ordered to stay in Shanhaiguan for one more day. Guangxu had fallen asleep, but in a small room under the moon, it was brightly lit.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are all close ministers of the emperor. Now that the emperor is staying at Shanhaiguan, I don't know what your lords think. Tang Shaoyi recruited everyone and said this straight to the point. It's not necessary to ask this sentence or not, knowing that people can't say it, and people who don't know can't say it.

Lin Qizhao, Ouyang Zhenhua, Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui, Cheng Cheng, Wu Deren, Yang Dongzi, and Zhou Qin, director of the CIA, and Leng Jun, director of the National Security Bureau, who came back to report after completing their current work, were also present, and even the emperor's close attendant Kou Liancai was called. But there was no Liu Kunyi. These are all people who have followed the emperor's ups and downs, everyone knows what Tang Shaoyi means, they just looked at each other and didn't speak. Only Wu Deren said nonchalantly: "In the middle of the night, if there is a fart, let it go." ”

Tang Shaoyi asked this to show an attitude, as a courtier, he was going to start advising the emperor. Let those who are unwilling to join consciously quit, and those who also quit will also quit the circle. This is not an ordinary circle, this is a circle that Guangxu can rely on to sit on the throne. Now that the emperor is about to take power, they will naturally also ascend to the court, and who will withdraw at this time. Even Wu Deren didn't move his ass. These people all have a part of the power of the state in their hands, and they are also people with certain rights in the part they control. To put it nicely, these people are the top officials of the imperial court after Guangxu took power. Now the emperor is hesitant about what to do after returning to Beijing, but what worries them the most. Especially Tang Shaoyi is the most. After the Yiwei Palace Change, he was arrested and put in prison and tortured. He didn't want to suffer it again.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak and there was no other movement, Tang Shaoyi spoke: "The reason why the emperor is stranded in Shanhaiguan. It was because the emperor hesitated what to do after returning to Beijing. The emperor was wise and did not want the Qing court to have a big change so that the world would vibrate. Indeed, the Qing Dynasty cannot withstand this vibration even now. But will the Queen Mother hand over power with peace of mind? She wouldn't. So ......"

"Presumptuous." Ouyang Zhenhua shouted in a low voice: "I rule the country with filial piety in the Qing Dynasty. You want the emperor to do the way of great unfilial piety, believe it or not, the general will kill you on the spot. ”

Tang Shaoyi bowed deeply to Ouyang Zhenhua: "My lord, calm your anger, listen to what the lower official has said." After the first afternoon, the Queen Mother moved to the Summer Palace. It's not nice to say, that is, I want to put the Queen Mother under house arrest. But the result? The Queen Mother came out in less than half a year. also backhanded the emperor to house arrest in Yingtai. All of you here are also greatly implicated, if it were not for this Russian invasion, and the Queen Mother's soldiers would have no way to defend against the enemy. I'm afraid that the emperor and I will have no chance to make a comeback. Do you think so? "Tang Shaoyi's name is Ouyang Zhenhua, that's right. Ouyang Zhenhua is the secretary of the military department from the first rank, and Tang Shaoyi is only the waiter of the second rank of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is still an official position before the palace change. Although speaking in front of the emperor is more effective than Ouyang Zhenhua, the official positions are arranged like this.

Ouyang Zhenhua nodded. Didn't speak.

Tang Shaoyi smiled faintly. Then he said: "The Queen Mother, we naturally have to be untouchable, but this matter cannot be left alone. I believe that you adults don't want to do it again. The reason why the Queen Mother was able to walk out of the Summer Palace was, in the final analysis, the support of those old ministers. So, if there are no old ministers, princes or whatever. Can the Queen Mother turn out flowers? ”

"Having said that, which princes and ministers should be dealt with, and to what extent. If you act without the emperor's will, be careful that the emperor will take you Tang for the sake of the people. Zhou Qin's words attracted everyone to say yes.

"Who said that if there is no will, it will be done. What we have to do is to let the emperor make a decision. ”

"If the emperor can make a decision earlier, do I still need to stay here?" Lin Qizhao shook his head: "With the emperor's temperament." It's not something we can persuade. ”

"We don't persuade, we only need to do one thing - let the first division cross the Shanhaiguan."

"That's a solution." Grim nodded.

"No, without the emperor's will, no army can be mobilized without authorization." Ouyang Zhenhua stepped forward to stop it again. The military does not interfere in politics, this is something that Guangxu has said a long time ago.

"What does Chief of Staff Wang think?" Tang Shaoyi asked.

Wang Shizhen shook his head, and said without hesitation: "Lord Tang is trying to force us to surrender our name." Okay, I'll hand it in. The emperor's return to Beijing is inevitable. Although the emperor did not order the first division to enter the pass, as the emperor's guards, arranging security in advance is not a private transfer. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the first division entering the customs. It's just where to go in advance, and it's not up to me. After speaking, Wang Shizhen looked at Ouyang Zhenhua.

"Look at what I'm doing, since it's to do security in advance for the emperor to return to Beijing, it's limited to the speed of the train in one day. If the train is fast, we can directly arrange security to Tongzhou. But intelligence support is needed. "Let's go into the water, let's go down together.

"I can immediately notify the people in the capital and let them keep an eye on everyone who needs to be targeted." Leng Jun was decisive.

"I don't have anyone in the capital, and the most I can do is kill people who enter and leave the capital." Zhou Qin did not hesitate.

"Rest assured, the vanguard of the First Division can set off immediately." Duan Qirui didn't say anything.

Yang Dongzi smiled: "I'm bringing the Royal Praetorian Guard, it seems that I can't help." ”

"Who says no, you can send someone to take over the train station in advance or take over the Forbidden City directly. After all, the emperor will return to the palace, and it is not wrong for you to enter the palace in advance. It's useless for our navy. Cheng Cheng smiled.

"The Navy can't help at the moment, but it can come up with ideas. Besides, Lord Wu's temper may be of great use. Tang Shaoyi said with a smile.

"I know you're not at ease." Wu Deren's eyes turned white: "Lao Tzu knows, if you don't agree to this matter, you will be willing to think of deducting Lao Tzu's naval funds after returning to Beijing." Damn, not a good bird. What do you want to say, Lao Tzu has nothing to say. ”

Kou Liancai, the only one in the entire room who had not spoken, was stared at by everyone and felt uncomfortable: "Ladies and gentlemen, our family is a servant of the emperor. This major event of the court is not something that only a slave of our family can participate in. ”

"You don't need Gong Kou to participate, but Gong Kou also knows the princes and ministers in the capital. Who is close to the Queen Mother, who is close to the Emperor. My father-in-law doesn't want some unnecessary casualties. Of course, there can be fish that slip through the net. Wu Deren said with a smile: "For example, Li Lianying and the like......"

"We know. We know that it will not be good to be called by you. Kou Liancai said the names of several people with a sad face, but he was secretly happy in his heart.

Seeing that everyone expressed their attitudes, Tang Shaoyi was not polite: "Some people may say that I Tang Shaoyi is hypocritical, and I am afraid that I will lose my official position by coming to Yiwei Palace again." That's right, I'm just scared. You didn't suffer in prison, but I did suffer all night. It was a nightmare. I'm scared. I believe everyone also knows the reason why I was punished, and that is because the emperor lost power. ”

"It's just that I always feel like it's not good. After all, the emperor has no will. Ouyang Zhenhua was still a little hesitant.

"Lord Ouyang. If it weren't for the emperor's transfer to the new army, I'm afraid your lord would have been forced to retire by now. Or do you forget that you went to Germany alone to study military loyalty? The world is declining, and the court is incompetent. So much so that foreigners regard us Chinese as pigs and dogs. Only the emperor turned the tide. First defeat Japan, then victory over Russia. I don't talk about the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, but only about the current foreigners, where are they as arrogant as in the early years. I'm selfish, I want to go down in history. As long as we assist the emperor with our hearts, after the revitalization of China, why is it difficult to leave a name in history. I still have the sentence of the first Wu year: People live for a lifetime, and the word fame and fortune are two. Now the only one who can give me fame and fortune is the emperor. ”

Move with affection, know with reason, and lure with profit, that's what the emperor did back then. When sent to Hawaii. The emperor said that he would build a fleet that could truly gallop across the oceans, and a few years later, there was the number one fleet in the Pacific. The emperor said that he would build a completely new army, and as a result, the imperial army defeated Japan and then Russia. The emperor wanted to collect the wealth of the world to rebuild China, and the Daqing Bank was born against the trend. The emperor said that he would catch up with the Western powers, and the chimneys of the two rivers in the northeast towered...... Now all that's left is the last thing - power. The emperor must not be allowed to lose this great opportunity because he is worried about domestic unrest. Whether you want to leave a name in history, or whether you want fame and fortune, it is all based on the emperor's power. There has never been a smooth transition in the succession of rights, there has never been before, there will not be now, and there will never be in the future. Once a son of heaven and a courtier are not empty words, blood must be shed, only the light and shade of flow.

The sky in the distance had just been revealed, and the military generals who had been discussing all night slowly left. The 1st Regiment of the 1st Division had already entered the customs overnight, and its destination was Tongzhou. They were accompanied by a company of the Royal Janissary Battalion, who would enter Beijing to demand the takeover of the Forbidden City. The C.I.A. and the NSA have taken the list provided by Kou Liancai, and the people on the list can no longer run out of their eyes. If necessary, the follow-up special forces will make these people disappear all. The ** division had already begun to assemble, and a day later the ships of the navy would transport the vanguard of the ** division to Tianjin, when the emperor was already in Tongzhou. Now that he has done everything he can as a courtier, it depends on whether the emperor can make up his mind.

Looking at the back of everyone leaving, Tang Shaoyi smiled faintly, he still has a selfish intention that he can't say or say. In order to revitalize state affairs and compete with the queen mother, the emperor pressed resources to the military, so now the emperor's close ministers are still more military generals than civilian officials, and the emperor has set a regulation of military non-interference in politics. The civil officials who followed the emperor were headed by Tang Shaoyi, although he also knew that after the emperor returned to Beijing, in order to appease the ministers of the DPRK and China, he must first promote and reuse the ministers of the DPRK and China, such as Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong. But they must be old, and they will have a few more years to do. In addition to them, the only one who can compete for the post of auxiliary prime minister is Yan Fu of Liangjiang. But with the foundation of today's credit, who said that he can't fight.

Famous in history, high-ranking officials, this kind of temptation of fame and fortune is not something that anyone can resist. Guangxu slept deeply, and slept until dawn. Putting down your mind and sleeping can naturally sleep fragrantly, but when you wake up, you still have to face the trouble. Guangxu, who was staring wide-eyed, didn't want to get up, even if Kou Liancai came to call, he didn't want to remember. Because after getting up, you have to decide whether to bring the troops back to Beijing or not. For the first time, his morning run, which he had never stopped, was interrupted for his own reasons. But what he didn't know was that in his sleep, the ministers he relied on had already made decisions for him.

"Your Majesty, there's an urgent call from the capital." It was when Guangxu decided to stay for another day and was about to get up, when Kou Liancai's voice came from outside the door.

"I've gotten up, come in and read." Guangxu put on his clothes and said.

Kou Liancai pushed the door in, glanced at the emperor and whispered: "This is an urgent telegram from the Queen Mother, and there is a sentence on it: The emperor led the troops into the customs, and he wanted to do it?" ”

"What's going on?" Guangxu was confused, he didn't give an order to enter the military pass: "Let the ministers come to see me immediately." ”

Outside the courtyard, Tang, Wang, Ouyang and others were still joking and laughing with each other, waiting for the emperor's summons. I didn't expect the emperor to go out with an angry face, and without waiting for them to salute and ask: "Who is privately transferring the army, say." ”

Tianwei was furious, these close ministers who followed the emperor had never seen the emperor so angry, and they all fell to their knees at once. The emperor attaches great importance to military power, firstly, it is a mirror from history, and once the army is mobilized without will, this is often a sign that a dynasty has begun to split. Second, the emperor used military power to resist the queen mother, and he valued military power more than anything else. The purpose of setting up a general staff department is to restrict the rights of military commanders. Didn't the emperor think that what he was doing was to prevent these officers from being outside the central command when the imperial power was unstable?

Privately deploying troops is to expose the emperor's reverse scales. As the supreme military commander, Wang Shizhen certainly understood this truth, and he said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the Qing Imperial Army is under the command of the General Staff Headquarters, and no one is transferred privately. "Everyone knows that the first division pointed out by the emperor entered the customs, but now they can only pretend to be stupid.

Guangxu didn't speak, and instead stared at Ouyang Zhenhua. Ouyang Zhenhua was honest and inflexible, his face was blue and white for a while, although he also felt that it was inappropriate for the first division to enter the customs, but he did everything. Ouyang Zhenhua said tremblingly: "Except for the North Korean headquarters, the naval and army armies are all stationed in the designated places, and there is no transfer. The only thing that has changed is that the 1st Division stationed in Shanhaiguan entered the customs last night. What is the emperor referring to? Ouyang Zhenhua didn't dare to raise his head when he spoke, he was afraid that the emperor would see something from his face.

"Say, who ordered the first division to enter the customs." Guangxu was still furious.

"The emperor is angry." Tang Shaoyi came out to speak, and he must have started the matter, and he had to finish it: "The emperor has no will to let the first division stay in Shanhaiguan. Therefore, the first division, as the emperor's guard on his return to Beijing, was bound to deploy at the next station in advance. It's been like this all the way, isn't there anything wrong with the first division entering the customs and deploying defenses? ”

Tang Shaoyi's puzzled voice made Guangxu's anger stop abruptly, Tang Shaoyi was right. This is not a battlefield, the emperor is in honor of the guard, and the guards really have to be deployed in advance. Guangxu said goodbye: "It's me who didn't explain it, it's not your fault." In that case, let's go back to Beijing today. ”

Guangxu turned around and walked firmly. Until he couldn't see the emperor's figure, Wang Shizhen, who was kneeling on the ground, pulled Ouyang Zhenhua and ran back.

Soon, the ** Division and the Navy Transport Team, which were loading the ship, received a telegram from the Military Department and the General Staff Headquarters at the same time: stop loading the ship and return to the garrison immediately. (To be continued......) u