Chapter 261: Coup d'état

At dawn, the Praetorian Guards had withdrawn to their respective barracks, and there was no trace of the army in the streets and alleys of Yanjing City, and occasionally a team of patrols passed by.

After a night of suppression, the [***] armed forces of more than 1,000 people secretly organized by Cixi and Guangxu were wiped out one after another by the Janissaries, the Imperial Forest Army, and the National Guard dispatched by the Beiyang political axe. More than 200 leaders, including members of the main reactionary armed forces, such as Rong Rok and Jae Cheng, were arrested and imprisoned by the Homeland Security Bureau, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Police Agency, and the Gendarmerie.

Cixi and Guangxu were killed by Li Guodong and Li Bing's men, and they committed suicide in fear of crime. Cixi and Guangxu carefully planned the plan for more than a year, and they always thought it was seamless, but they were stifled before they could implement it. Cixi and Guangxu always believed that as long as they didn't make the first move, Wang Chenhao would definitely not dare to risk the world's condemnation to make the first move on them. But what they never expected was that a camera captured evidence of their plan to assassinate Wang Chenhao, which was the real bargaining chip for Li Guodong and Li Bing to dare to kill them.

Cixi, Guangxu and the clan bannermen conspired to assassinate the imperial prime minister Wang Chenhao and launched a coup d'état to overthrow the Beiyang political axe, which was quickly reported by the news media of all sizes in Yanjing City, and quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys of Yanjing City.

The people expressed their hatred and scolding for Cixi and Guangxu's despicable act of plotting to assassinate Wang Chenhao, and they strongly supported Wang Chenhao and shouted for severe punishment of Guangxu and Cixi. In the same way, everything that the Beiyang Political Axe has done for the people since its inception has also been rewarded at this moment, and the people strongly support the Beiyang Political Axe, and support the Beiyang Political Axe to crack down on and severely punish any [***] elements who plan or attempt to carry out a coup d'état.

Ruan Zhongshu, Yang Shixiang, Zhang Peilun, secretary general of the Beiyang Political Axe Prime Minister's Office, and others have written and issued the "Political Axe to the People", first of all, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has committed repeated crimes since it entered the customs for more than 200 years, from Yangzhou Shiyue and Jiading Three Massacres, to the forced Han people to shave their hair, the encirclement of Han land, the great revival of the literary prison, the eight foolish people, the forced Han people to be slaves, and then to the modern Qing court's Yelang arrogant, self-contained, not thinking of making progress, losing power and humiliating the country, resulting in the backwardness of the country, etc., sprinkled tens of thousands of words, portraying the Qing political axe as the darkest and most reactionary, the most corrupt, the most brutal, the most barbaric, the most incompetent, the most miserable and humiliating dynasty.

Then the pen turned, starting from the First Sino-Japanese War, Wang Chenhao turned the tide, and then the Sino-Russian War, the Second Sino-Chinese War, and the Sino-Western War The national army became famous overseas, and the national army was no longer threatened by foreign invasions, to the establishment of the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base, the great economic prosperity of Zhili Province, and then to the establishment of the Beiyang political axe, the rapid growth of the national agriculture, industry, commerce and other economies, the establishment of national education, national medical system, and scientific system, and the realization of the political axe and the right of national freedom, open cooking and openness in the five provinces and nine ministries. In the end, hundreds of achievements were made in the abolition of unequal treaties, the complete ban on opium, and the realization of equal dialogue with international powers, all of which included the great personal achievements of Wang Chenhao, the premier of the empire, and the great achievements of the Beiyang political axe under his leadership.

For 90% of China's citizens who lack cultural knowledge, this "Letter to the Nationals" is enough to make them frantically worship and appreciate Wang Chenhao personally, and strongly support the Beiyang political axe under the leadership of Wang Chenhao, and at the same time hate the conspiracy of Cixi, Guangxu and others who tried to assassinate Wang Chenhao and subvert the Beiyang political axe, and scolded them loudly.

As for the remaining 10 percent of China's intellectual class, 9 percent of them are strong supporters of Wang Chenhao and his Beiyang political axe, and the remaining small number belong to the neutral Mingzhuo people, who look at things with personal preferences and disgust, and just take matters as they are. They questioned the plot of Guangxu and Cixi to assassinate Wang Chenhao and subvert the Beiyang political axe, and demanded that the political axe disclose all the information.

Li Bing had already prepared a plan to deal with them, and the Homeland Security Bureau then released the video secretly filmed by the agents to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Procuratorate.

Of course, there are still a very small number of people who continue to oppose Wang Chenhao and his Beiyang political axe, most of them are Manchurian magnates and bannermen, and they are not willing to let Manchuria be recaptured by the Han Chinese, so they continue to complain about Guangxu and Cixi. But their numbers were too small, and their voices of resistance were quickly drowned out in the context of the Han Chinese regaining control of the world. The Homeland Security Agency and the CIA sent agents to arrest, discipline, and even assassinate these people, but instead the property and land held by these Manchurian magnates were also divided up by the people, and in the end these people could only end up with bankrupt families and ruined families.

By guiding the forces of public opinion, the Beiyang political axe successfully controlled the coup d'état, and took the opportunity to uproot the tens of thousands of Manchu elite forces in Yanjing City, which not only cleared up these potential threats for the political axe, but also confiscated the property worth a total of 360 million dragon coins from the political axe. These are the people of the Manchu magnates who have been widowed and Han people for two hundred years, including dozens of princes and county kings of the royal family, thousands of Baylor and Beizi, and tens of thousands of children of banners under the jurisdiction of the Zongren Mansion, who directly contributed about 210 million dragon coins to the political axe.

And Prince Qing Yixuan personally accumulated as much as 15 million dragon coins over the years, becoming the most corrupt official in the late Qing Dynasty. Although Yixuan pleaded with Wang Chenhao many times, and Wang Chenhao also said that he would not embarrass him, but at this time, the minister of the Independent Commission Against Corruption had been replaced by the very backbone Tan Sitong, Tan Sitong did not give Wang Chenhao face at all, and listed eighteen charges to investigate and prosecute Yixiao, and all of Yixiao's property was confiscated.

Similarly, Li Lianying's atonement for her sins can be regarded as a great contribution to the Beiyang political axe. But Tan Sitong didn't let him go. In Tan Sitong's words, merit is merit and demerit, and the two cannot be offset. Tan Sitong thanked him for everything he had done for the political axe in front of Li Lianying, but then ruthlessly announced that Li Lianying had embezzled and accepted bribes, and Li Lianying was imprisoned, and Li Lianying's personal property of more than 8 million dragon coins was confiscated.

After Wang Chenhao, who was far away in Shanghai, learned of this, he could only shake his head and smile bitterly, not only could he not intercede for Li Lianying, but he had to praise Tan Sitong for doing the right thing, and he had to ask other political officials to learn from Tan Sitong. Because Wang Chenhao knows that if he wants the political axe officials to be honest and honest forever, the Independent Commission Against Corruption needs more people like Tan Sitong.

Property seized by the Ministry of Finance does not include royal property. The Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Imperial Palace and other assets directly under the royal family are unable to be valued by the Ministry of Finance because they contain a large number of unvaluable treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

At the same time, the ministers of the interior, Zhang Feng and Li Dehai, sent people to seal all the royal property at the first time of the coup, prohibiting the Ministry of Finance from statistics, and other departments were also prohibited from visiting all places involving the royal property.

The big and small officials of the Beiyang political axe all know what Zhang Feng and Li Dehai of the Ministry of the Interior do, especially the latter Li Dehai, who is Wang Chenhao's personal housekeeper, and the two of them have taken over all the royal property, and no one dares to ask.

A few days later, the coup faded away. The political axe civil servants continued to work, the workers rushed to work, the peasants prepared for spring ploughing, the merchants were busy buying and selling goods, and the students started classes.

However, the Homeland Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Police Agency are still busy, and in addition to interrogating those suspected of participating in the assassination, they have also expanded the scope of investigation on the pretext of protecting the security of the Prime Minister's Office, and have driven more than 300,000 bannermen out of Yanjing City by means of advice, threats, and semi-coercion against the children of the bannermen in the imperial city of Yanjing and the outer cities.

Although the Senate and the House of Representatives were dissatisfied with this, the problem in front of them was that the children of these bannermen lived in the Imperial City of Yanjing, which was the main office location of the major organs of the political axe, and they must be a group that posed a threat to the political axe. At the same time, with the establishment of the Beiyang political axe, the Han people returned to power, and hundreds of thousands of Han officials, officials' families, military officers and their families also had to live in Yanjing.

However, in order not to affect the reputation of the political axe, the parliament asked the political axe to provide a sum of money to provide basic living security for the banner people who left Yanjing. But then Li Bing said in his congressional report that in addition to confiscating their real estate and land, the political axe did not confiscate their other finances. In Beijing, the children of the people are all in their pockets, and they will not have the problem of living difficulties after leaving Beijing. Of course, if they are extravagant, there is no guarantee.

The next day, the Beiyang newspaper said: Compared with the bloody circle of the Han people after the banner people entered the customs, the Han people today are merciful to them.

The children of the banner people who left Beijing did not mean that they were safe, because the Han people who suffered from the oppression and abuse of the banner people would not sympathize with them, and they would face the danger of being killed, robbed, and humiliated. The political axe could not prevent the Han people from retaliating against the banner people, after all, the law did not blame the public, but they did not want to do too much, so most of the banner people were allowed to change the ethnic composition on their ID cards and household registration, so that they could save their surnames.

Compared with the children of the banner people outside the gate, these flag people who changed their names and surnames in the gate are very lucky.

Outside the Guan, a 15-day war broke out in the three northeastern provinces. The Eight Banner generals such as Yi Ketang'a and Changshun led the Guanwai Banner people to launch a rebellion, and tens of thousands of banner people fought fiercely with the political axe military police, but in the end their weapons were inferior and their fighting qualities were too poor and they were defeated and killed. The remaining children of the banner people have nothing since then, and they are used to being old masters and young masters, and they can't make a living, so they will either live on the streets or in prison.

In Mongolia, the arrest of Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, Prince Banda Dorji, and Grand Lama Cherin Zimit did not go smoothly.

Because the Beiyang political axe retained all the original rights of the Mongol princes and nobles, the development of the homeland security bureau and the CIA in Mongolia was much less than in the interior. The agents were stopped by the local Mongolian police during the arrest of Jebtsundan, Handa Dorji, and Grand Lama Chelin Zimit. These local policemen are all Mongols, and no matter what Jebzundan does, outsiders are not allowed to arrest them. However, Prince Hangda Dorji, Grand Lama Chelin Zimit and others were under the protection of Jebtsundan, so these people could not be caught.

In turn, the actions of the Homeland Security Service and the CIA alarmed Jebzendan and others, who quickly gathered their troops to protect themselves, and at the same time seized the time to contact Russia and plan [***] to stand.

The 17th Army Town stationed in Kulun, because Kulen is too far away from the Central Plains, it is very difficult to supply from the General Logistics Department, so the supply of the Army in the 17th Town can only rely on the local political axe of Kulen to complete.

With the great changes in Beijing, the Manchu regime was completely destroyed, and after the death of Cixi and Guangxu, Zhebu Zundan and they had to protect themselves. As a result, Hangda Dorji mobilized tens of thousands of Mongol troops to surround the army garrison of the 17th town and cut off the supply to the 17th town.

Peng Wenqiang, the commander of the 17th Town, did not pay attention to tens of thousands of Mongol troops at all, and was ready to start a battle. But a huge crisis forced Peng Wenqiang to abandon military action, because the 17th town was a cavalry division, and half of the soldiers in it were Mongols, and although they had no intention of rebelling, they were not willing to shoot at other Mongols.

Peng Wenqiang knew that if he started rashly in this situation, there would be huge risks. So Peng Wenqiang immediately reported the situation to the General Staff, and the General Staff decided to let Peng Wenqiang lead the 17th Town to quickly evacuate Kulun and retreat to Guisui in Inner Mongolia to join the 19th Town.

Although the princes and nobles of Inner Mongolia were also dissatisfied with the Beiyang political axe in dealing with the Manchu regime, they were calmer than the princes and nobles of Outer Mongolia, they were too close to the Central Plains, and once they rebelled, they would face a huge military retaliation from the Beiyang political axe, so all the ministries of Inner Mongolia remained silent and waited to see what happened.

At the same time, the Ministry of National Defense quickly mobilized troops from the Fengtian Military Region, the Yanjing Military Region, and the Lanzhou Military Region to prepare for the Mongolian war.

At the same time, the Russian political axe is also highly concerned about the political changes in China. While other European and American countries expressed their understanding of this matter, the Tsarist Russian political axe made a big fuss about this issue. On the one hand, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tsarist Russia strongly criticized the actions of the Beiyang Political Axe and threatened that the Beiyang Political Axe would not use force against Mongolia, otherwise Tsarist Russia would send troops to Mongolia at the request of the Mongolian Jebzundan.

Tsarist Russia openly interfered in China's internal affairs and supported the establishment of [***], which caused tension between China and Russia.

(To be continued)