Cai Ye stayed in Nanjing for a few days and then returned with a batch of munitions, and Qin Yu and the others also entered into intense work.

The suspended tripartite talks continued, Song Jiaoren expressed his approval of the election, and Yang Du was forced to agree with the consent of Qin San and Song Jiaoren, but there was a fierce debate in military affairs, and finally it was decided to establish only three military regions in East China, Beiyang, and South China, plus a capital military region, and the three military regions were still under the original people's control, but they had to accept the management and dispatch of the central government, and the three sides were not allowed to attack each other.

The last question is how to arrange the seats in the Congress, Qin Sanjian yì three parties each take one-third, but they were directly rejected by the provincial representatives who originally came to play soy sauce, on the grounds that they also want seats, and they should be divided into four parts, and the three parties each take a share, and what is left is theirs, but Yang Du is not convinced, their Beiyang government got rid of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it stands to reason that the credit is the greatest, and half of the seats should be taken, and Song Jiaoren thinks that the credit for their Republic of China government to take the lead in the revolution is also very large, not your Beiyang has the final say.

Because neither Song nor Yang Du relaxed their views in this regard, the talks were stopped several times without progress, and soon both Song and Yang Du were recalled on the grounds that the seats could not be determined and the talks were postponed indefinitely.

In fact, this is also a ghost done by the Japanese, the Japanese revealed the news that Qin Yu has a strong navy to Yuan Shikai and Sun Dacang, and these two people urgently recalled their own people after determining this, what else is there to talk about, they dare not believe that Qin Yu will not attack them after he has a navy.

Sun Cannon and Yuan Shikai personally had their first call for this matter, and both of them were in the telegraph room, waiting for each other's telegrams.

Yuan Shikai: "Hello President Sun Wensun, I am President Yuan Shikai of the Beiyang government, and the virtuous brother should also know that the navy in East China not only has the navy of Sa Bingzhen Yizhi, but now it has more powerful warships, which is a very big threat to us. "Qin Yu, who now has a strong navy, is the biggest threat to him Yuan Shikai, who calls himself no navy.

Sun Wen: "Thanks to His Excellency President Yuan, you can afford to call me a good brother, as for the East China Navy, the threat to our side is not very big, after all, we are inland here, and the East China Army is too strong, I believe Brother Yuan has also experienced, our revolutionary army is short of weapons and ammunition, I am afraid it will not be able to support the long-term war with the East China Army, and the army's salary has not been paid for several months, and my brother is helpless!" ”

Yuan Shikai scolded Sun Wen for taking advantage of the fire to rob after seeing Sun Wen's telegram, but he really needed Sun Wen's help, after all, he couldn't carry the East China Army alone.

Yuan Shikai: "In this way, I can support Brother Xian with a batch of arms and some funds to support our plan to attack Qin, when the time comes, Brother Wei will attack the East China Army in the north, and Brother Xian will attack in the south and flank the East China Army, this move will definitely be able to destroy the East China Army at one time." ”

Sun Wen: "This is okay, but I don't know if the interests of East China can be distributed after the victory?" ”

Yuan Shikai: "In this way, whoever occupies the territory belongs to whom, and the two sides are not allowed to attack the territory that has been occupied, if whoever enters Nanjing first can directly have the right to say what state system will be established later, and the other party must not object." ”

"Okay, but this national system must be a democracy, if Brother Yuan enters Nanjing first, then Brother Yuan will be respected as the president of the country, no matter who must abide by the laws of the Republic of China, if it is my brother and I are advanced, I will be the president, and Beiyang must obey the arrangements of the government of the Republic of China."

Yuan Shikai thought in his heart that this was okay, anyway, it was a secret agreement, and when the time came, he would just say that there was no one. Yuan Shikai: "Yes, we have to make a secret agreement, and the two sides will send someone to sign the contract secretly, what should we do with Qin Yu in East China?" ”

Sun Wen: "As for Qin Yu, it's better for him to disappear when we act, so that he can also defeat them from the inside, and the effect is better, but this is still better for Brother Yuan." ”

Yuan Shikai mentioned when he saw it: "It's up to the intelligence officers on both sides of us to do it, each doing their own thing, whoever succeeds, will have more power in the future." ”

"Okay, so when is the attack?"

"Just one day after Qin Yu's accident, we will jointly carry out the plan to destroy Qin, and now it depends on who is more powerful."

After Sun Wen and Yuan Shikai chatted a little more, they went to arrange the plan to cut down Qin.

Sun Wen held secret talks with the leaders of the First Cadre Alliance, and after coming up with evidence that he had discovered a large number of navies in East China, he made a theory of the threat to these leaders in East China, claiming that they would solve East China as soon as possible, otherwise they would definitely cause a catastrophe. After getting the approval of Yizhi, Sun Wen directly moved out of the secret agreement between himself and Yuan Shikai, and then said that he would carry out the plan to destroy Qin, although everyone felt that it was not very good, but since Sun Wen had decided, they were not easy to refute. Among them, Chen Qimei even guaranteed that the assassination mission would be absolutely successful, and he personally went to contact the personnel of the East China Army, because he hated Qin Yu very much for snatching his Shanghai governor.

After deciding, Chen Qimei went directly to Nanjing to carry out the mission, and Yuan Shikai in Beijing also had a secret discussion, and finally sent someone to Nanjing to assassinate Qin, while the Beiyang Army was secretly moving south in the direction of Wuhan, everyone thought that Yuan Shikai was going to do something to Wuhan, and the Wuhan government also began to move north in the direction of Zhengzhou, and the atmosphere on both sides was very strict.

Qin Yu, who was in Nanjing, was puzzled by the actions of the Beiyang Army and the Revolutionary Army, but the intelligence of the intelligence department dispelled his doubts, and the intelligence department said that Yuan Shikai wanted to attack Sun Wen to force Sun Wen to promise Yuan Shikai to give him Shanxi, and Yuan Shikai could no longer bear Yan Xishan's sidekick, and in order to stabilize the rear, Shanxi must be taken. Qin Yu still didn't care much about this, but in order to prevent it, the army still had to protect the line of caution.

Both the Beiyang Army and the Revolutionary Army are advancing slowly, Qin Yu has been very leisurely recently, and many things have begun to be put on the line, and he doesn't need to bother to take care of it.

In a hidden corner of Nanjing, two people were discussing a shocking matter, Chen Qimei and the spy were making final preparations, they made a lot of observations on Qin Yu's living habits and decided to assassinate Qin Yu in the downtown area, and the assassination plan entered the countdown.

On April 21, 1912, Qin Yu took a car to work in the office of the East China Government according to the previous rules, and when the vehicle drove to the lively urban area, he suddenly found that something was happening in front of him, a group of people surrounded there, and when Qin Yu's guards went to disperse the crowd, they only saw a young woman holding an old man lying on the ground and crying bitterly, and the ground was written with stones to sell her body to bury her father, and she could be sold for only fifty silver dollars.

After Qin Yu found out, he directly asked someone to send fifty silver dollars to the woman and asked the woman to bury her father, and the guard came back again and said that the woman said that she wanted to see him, but Qin Yu did not accept it and asked someone to continue driving. Just started the car, the woman cried and ran to the front of the car, knelt and kowtowed to the car, crying and saying that she wanted to see her benefactor, otherwise she would not be allowed to go, Qin Yu had to get out of the car to see the woman, and those guards also began martial law to protect Qin Yu.

Qin Yu saw that the woman was still kneeling and crying with her head on the ground, Qin Yu wanted to go up and help the woman up, Qin Yu just walked in front of the woman, the woman suddenly raised her head and stood up, I don't know when there was an extra pistol in her hand, the woman shot at Qin Yu, Qin Yu saw the woman stand up suddenly and subconsciously took a step back, and then saw the gun in the woman's hand and raised his hands to protect his head and chest, the woman fired three shots in a row and was shot in the head by the guard who found it in time, Qin Yu's left hand was shot twice, He was also shot in the left shoulder, and Qin Yu didn't shout and endured a cold sweat.

The crowd immediately became chaotic after the gunshot, the guards quickly wanted to get close to Qin Yu's side but were blocked by the chaotic crowd, suddenly the gunshots rang out on Qin Yu's left side, Qin Yu quickly fell to the right, and then the gunshots started again, and a few bullet holes suddenly appeared in the position where Qin Yu was standing just now, and then the guards ran towards Qin Yu like crazy, and several guards quickly ran along the location where the gunshots came.

I saw that Qin Yu didn't get up after he fell to the ground, and the guards quickly ran to Qin Yu's side and found that there was a bullet hole in the back of Qin Yu's left shoulder, and blood kept flowing out. Qin Yu was already unconscious, his face was pale, the guards immediately brought clothes to cover the wounds and carried Qin Yu into the car, and one of the guards shouted loudly to the driver: "Hurry up, go to the nearest hospital as fast as possible." The car sped quickly towards the nearest hospital driven by the Germans, and rushed all the way to the hospital, where the nurses quickly sent Qin Yu to the operating table.

Those guards did not find the murderer in the end, and after learning the news of Qin Yu's assassination, Jiang Fangzhen and Chen Fu were furious, and Jiang Fangzhen immediately asked people to impose martial law on Nanjing City, and they were not allowed to enter or leave. Jiang Fangzhen and the others soon came to the hospital, and saw that Qin Yu was still in operation, Chen Fu scolded those guards for his incompetence, and finally Chen Fu stopped scolding under the scolding of the nurse, and Jiang Fangzhen went over and patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "Let's hurry up and find out the real culprit, who is so bold and dares to attack the chairman, and to block the news from the outside, don't say this to the chairman's wife and Mrs. Qin." ”

Chen Fu soon secretly transferred the Third Army stationed near Nanjing into the city of Nanjing, and East China would dig out the murderer even if he dug three feet into the ground. And Yuan Shikai and Sun Cannon were very happy after receiving the success of the plan to assassinate Qin Yu, the previous women's assassination was arranged by Chen Qimei of the Revolutionary Party, and the gunfire behind was taken advantage of the machine gunfire by the intelligence officers of the Beiyang government, Yuan Shikai and Sun Cannon both thought that their own people had succeeded in assassinating, so the two had a big quarrel for this.

No matter how the assassination plan succeeded, they only needed to find some legitimate reason to fool the people before they could start a war against East China, so Beiyang and Wuhan were actively preparing for war.

This assassination incident is known in history as the "April 21 Assassination of Qin", which completely became the fuse of the three-way war, and is also known as the prelude to the great war of unification.