That night, a secret report had fallen into the hands of Tie Liang!

"The people of the secret meeting include Wang Duan, Zhao and Wu, and the talk is unknown!"

Tie Liang's face was dark after seeing it, and then he looked at the visitor: "Are you sure it's them?" ”

The messenger whispered: "This is the news that my imperial intelligence officers risked their lives to get it, and it will definitely not be wrong!" ”

Looking at the messenger who turned to leave, Tie Liang took a deep breath and looked at the secret report in his hand again, although he didn't want to believe that the secret meeting between the four bigwigs in Beiyang was true, but there was no need to deceive himself on that day just now.

"These Orientals are all looking forward to chaos in my Great Qing Kingdom!" Tie Liang scolded in a low voice, he naturally knew that he didn't have any good intentions in sending this news to himself these days, why? Because of the Japanese himself, he wished that the Qing court and Yuan Shikai would have a conflict, and then let the Qing court kill Yuan Shikai.

In contemporary times, who wants Yuan Shikai to die the most?

This one is certainly not a Beiyang.

Although many people in the Qing court wanted Yuan Shikai to die, they would never dare to kill Yuan Shikai, because once Yuan Shikai died, it would not only represent a political turmoil, but a great chaos in the world, so even if the Qing court hated and guarded against Yuan Shikai, it could only play the trick of rising and descending secretly, and even now it did not dare to directly remove Yuan Shikai from his official position.

In addition, in recent years, the revolutionaries who have been very active in recent years actually do not like Yuan Shikai, but not liking does not mean that they are willing to Yuan Shikai's death, in fact, many revolutionaries still have a lot of illusions about Yuan Shikai, hoping that Yuan Shikai can be the Washington of the East to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and rebuild the republic.

So who wants Yuan Shikai to die the most in these years!

Day' myself!

Why?

The reason for this is more complicated, the first one is Yuan Shikai's service experience in North Korea, he killed a lot of Ri' himself, and in a certain way, the relationship between Yuan Shikai and Ri' himself has not been good.

Secondly, Yuan Shikai's role in the New Deal at the end of the Qing Dynasty was too great, not to mention presiding over a series of New Deal reforms, and in just a few years, a Beiyang New Army of more than 100,000 people was produced. This is something they absolutely cannot accept.

Moreover, if Yuan Shikai dies, not only will the government and people die, but more importantly, the Beiyang New Army under his command will be 100% chaotic, and fools can see that as soon as Yuan Shikai dies, Zhao Dongyun, Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai will definitely look at everyone who is not pleasing to the eye, and then the Beiyang split is certain.

Once Beiyang is finished, then it can almost be said that most of China's national strength will also be finished.

Once Yuan Shikai dies, it will be the most beneficial to Japan.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have sent this news to Tie Liang, and I said before leaving: "Now that Yuan Shikai has thrown himself into the net, if the tiger returns to the mountain, I'm afraid it won't take a few days for the Beiyang Army to come to the city!" ”

Tie Liang not only thought about many possibilities, but also began to break out in a cold sweat, he knew that the imperial court wanted to suppress Beiyang and Yuan Shikai, and even supported it, but he didn't want to directly force Yuan Shikai to rebel, because once Yuan Shikai wanted to oppose the Qing Dynasty, it would be a matter of minutes!

After a long time, Tie Liang took a deep breath and then instructed the house slave: "Be proud! ”

Regardless of whether Yuan Shikai wants to be true or not, it is true that several other bigwigs in Beiyang secretly went to Yuguan for a secret meeting, which at least means that Beiyang has already rebelled, Tie Liang naturally will not sit idly by and watch the situation appear uncontrollable, he will go to several other clan ministers to discuss one or two.

The situation in the past few days has been tense enough, but after the secret discussion of the four Beiyang bigwigs in Shanhaiguan was poked out by those spies, the world suddenly changed dramatically.

The next day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tokyo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Lin Dong, listened carefully to the report of his subordinates, and after a while, he said: "How can I say that the Qing government has already reacted? ”

"That's right, according to the telegram we just received, Tie Liang, the Minister of War of the Qing Kingdom, had already met with a number of ministers overnight last night, and they are very likely to take action against Yuan Shikai!"

Lin Dong smiled slightly when he heard this, and his beard curled even more: "Okay, you did a good job this time, as long as you can provoke the contradiction between the Qing government and Yuan Shikai, and then chaos occurs, then the progress of the Qing State's new policy will be slower and slower, so that we can have more time to restore the national strength!" ”

After saying that, he continued: "Your recent work is still fruitful, but don't just focus on the Qing government and Yuan Shikai, but also pay more attention to the Qing alliance, give them more powerful support, it is best to let them launch an uprising in the near future, we will completely disrupt the process of the Qing country's new policy!" ”

The Russo-Japanese War, the damage to the Japanese is too great, hundreds of thousands of casualties are nothing, after all, for a whole country, hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded are actually nothing, the Japanese caused a heavy blow to the economy or the economy, in order to fight this Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese spent billions of military spending, and these military expenditures are generally borrowed, originally the Japanese I still thought that after the end of the war, I could get Russia's war reparations, repeating the old events of the First Sino-Japanese Years, but I didn't expect that although the war was a big victory for the navy, But the army did not achieve a crucial victory, and the Russian Tsar Nicholas II was not a Cixi, he was not a man who would rather be a foreign enemy than a domestic slave, but a ruthless man who shouted that he would not cut an inch of land and was not worthy of a ruble, so in the end the war ended in Japan, and he did not make a dime in reparations, and the only gain was to obtain a trusteeship in Manchuria and Lushun.

However, this trusteeship is a multinational trusteeship, and there are a total of six countries, Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Japan, and Russia, and Japan is only one of the shareholders at best, and the actual benefits obtained are very limited.

The Japanese had to pay off billions of yen in debt, which was more than 10 times more than the Japanese fiscal revenue for the year, and it is difficult for the Japanese government to pay the annual interest on these debts!

I have to say that as the driving force behind this war, Britain made a lot of money, not only suppressed the momentum of Russian expansion, but also crippled the Japanese capital, leaving only the British to laugh arrogantly......

Leaving aside how to solve the financial problem for the time being, in short, Japan after the Russo-Japanese War was a tragedy, and in history, Japan had to get rid of this predicament until after the outbreak of World War I.

And the huge financial pressure is also reflected in Japan's foreign policy!

After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, Japan's foreign policy was mainly based on affinity, and its policy toward China was even more friendly, so from 1905 to the end of World War I, there was an extremely rare Sino-Japanese friendly relationship between China and Japan.

However, this is only superficial, and behind the scenes, what is Japan's China policy? That is to use a means to delay and undermine the process of China's New Deal reform and reunification.

How did the Alliance, which has been praised by countless Chinese people, come about? It's the day I supported it!

Japan's support for the League to launch various uprisings, is it really to help the Chinese seek national independence, democratic freedom, Sun Yat-sen himself did not believe it, the reason for people to support the League is very simple, that is, all kinds of uprisings and rebellions will cause great chaos in China, and even cause civil war!

It can be said that in the decades of warlord melee in history in China, a large part of the Cheng dù was promoted by the Japanese himself, and the Japanese pushed the League to play N revolutions and then came to a Wuchang uprising, which resulted in the Qing Dynasty being killed, and then saw that Yuan Shikai wanted to unify China, so he supported Sun Wen to play the second revolution, and after the failure of the second revolution, he supported Cai Yi and others to launch wars to protect the law and protect the country, and finally supported the Kuomintang 'Kuomintang' to do something like the Northern Expedition, all in all, the reason why China was so chaotic in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, It is inseparable from the troublemaking of Japan's book.

Well, just like the current Arab Spring and Ukraine's independence, those war scumbags still think that they are seeking independence or freedom, but in fact, they are all being used as guns by Western countries.

Of course, this is not to criticize the various uprisings and the pursuit of freedom, but rather to say that these things are often more than the pursuit of freedom.

Today, I informed the Qing court of the news of the secret talks between the four major Beiyang tycoons, and the reason was simple and the purpose was clear, that is, to make the Qing court and Yuan Shikai turn against each other, and it was best to trigger a civil war in China, which would definitely be called a huge victory in Japan's diplomatic cause!

At the same time, a few Manchu important ministers such as Tie Liang and Duan Fang were secretly asking to see Cixi!

In 1906, Cixi was already old, and the whole person was paralyzed, and there was no indication that this woman was the actual ruler of the Qing Dynasty.

Her eyes were slightly closed at this time, and at first glance, she seemed to think that she was asleep, but if she looked closely, she could find that her gloomy gaze was staring at Duan Fang and the others.

At this time, Tie Liang was still continuing: "In addition to the news passed by the friends of Japan, the slave has obtained a number of other news, and it has been confirmed that Zhao Dongyun did not show up in Jinzhou yesterday, and Wang Yingkai was not in Baoding yesterday!" ”

Cixi, who had not spoken, just listened quietly, said: "In this way, the secret talk is true!" ”

Tie Liang said: "It's true! ”

Duan Fang also nodded!

Cixi opened her eyes slightly at this time, and then said in a sharp but slow tone: "I have a heart, go down!" ”

Hearing Cixi's words, Tie Liang raised his head suspiciously: "Lafayette, this ......"

Duan Fang couldn't help but speak: "Now is the opportunity not to be lost!" ”

Cixi didn't speak anymore!

Tie Liang and Duan went out blankly, but not long after he left the palace, the queen mother in the palace handed out a decree: Tie Liang has been dismissed!

Hearing that he had been dismissed from his post as Minister of War, Tie Liang almost couldn't believe his eyes, what the hell was going on?

However, when he learned who succeeded him as Minister of War, he couldn't believe his eyes even more, because he was not replaced by several other famous generals of the Manchus, but Feng Guozhang of the Beiyang faction!

The original transfer of Yuan Shikai from the governor of Zhili to the head of the household department as a scholar was also overturned instantly, Cixi not only did not transfer Yuan Shikai from the governor of Zhili, but once again returned many of the original concurrent tasks to Yuan Shikai.

In the afternoon of the same day, the queen mother's will was once again reported in the palace, and Cen Chunxuan was allowed to give him permission to be appointed as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu due to his old age and illness, and Zhao Erxun was transferred to serve as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu.

What does this series of wills represent, and it means that in this life-and-death battle between the DPRK, the Beiyang Army has once again won a huge victory!

not only forced the imperial court to retract the trick of Mingsheng and secretly surrendered, but also forced Zhao Erxun back to become the governor of the three eastern provinces, and after the War Department was taken back by the Beiyangs, it meant that the imperial court had stopped collecting the Beiyang military power.

If these are not great victories, then what is a victory?

The next day, Yuan Shikai went to the train station, ready to take the train back to Baoding, he was smiling all the way, the world thought that the secret talk of the four big men in Beiyang was to prepare for the rebellion, but who knows, the so-called secret talk was not a secret talk from the beginning, even if he didn't poke out the news, he Yuan Shikai himself had to send someone to poke out the news.

Once this news comes out, unless Cixi really wants to force him Yuan Shikai to rebel, he will definitely choose to give in, so that this political crisis can be dealt with.

"After such a time, those people in the court should be clean for a few years in the future, and the province is always annoying!" Yuan Shikai smiled and muttered to himself, but then he suddenly heard a few loud shouts outside, and then the sedan chair he was riding in was an emergency stop, and at this time Yuan Shikai still vaguely heard the words republic, freedom, etc.

At the same time, outside the sedan chair, the scene was already a mess, some people shouted "assassins" and "protect adults" and the like, more than ten gunmen wearing regular clothes, I don't know where to run out of the gunmen rushed out of general life, one person and two pistols were all aimed at Yuan Shikai's sedan chair and shot continuously, and Yuan Shikai's guards were shooting back, while using their bodies as shields to guard around the sedan chair, but unfortunately the incident happened suddenly, and the gunmen were very dense, and the bodies of the guards did not have time to form a dense human shield wall.

Soon, Yuan Shikai in the sedan chair felt a sharp pain in his body, and when he looked down again, he found that countless blood had gushed out of his body!