When Chu Yu's ship was heading towards the dock in Tang Hualong's nervousness and some expectation, in the wind and snow outside the Jinghua Gate of Beilu, three radical young people of the Northern Association were also burying their heads in sorting out the bombs.

"Xianwen, did you see Yuan Shikai enter the palace with your own eyes?"

"Definitely! After a while, I will be allowed to leave here, this time Lao Tzu has to blow up this living Cao Cao to avenge Suiqing (Wu Luzhen) and them. Zhimeng, give me another one to bundle together, more powerful. ”

The young man who was busy tying up the bombs was called Li Xianwen, and the eldest brother who asked them about this operation was called Zhang Xianpei, and the one who was buried in the window was the like-minded partner Dong Zhimeng, all three of whom were once students of the Northern Beijing Army Noble School, and after the Wuchang Uprising, they actively promoted the independence of the north, but they did not expect that Yuan Shikai not only sent someone to kill Wu Luzhen after he came back, but also recently fought against Shanxi.

Seeing that the comrades were killed and wounded innumerable, Zhang Xianpei, who was only 23 years old, couldn't sit still, and immediately put forward a plan to assassinate Yuan Shikai.

Dong Zhimeng said while sentry: "By the way, don't you think Yang Qiu is very similar to that living Cao Cao?" They all made their fortunes in their twenties, and they all relied on wars. ”

"! Yang Qiu is a big hero against the Tartars, if he hadn't blocked Beiyang in Hubei, and killed Wang Zhanyuan and the Fourth Town, would Lianghuai and Nanjing be able to fight down so quickly? After Li Xianwen retorted, he said enviously: "It's a pity that I wasn't in Xiaocang Mountain at the time, otherwise I would have caught Wang Zhanyuan and slapped him a few times." ”

"Big hero, who sealed it? Didn't many people say that he wanted to hold the three provinces hostage and set himself up as king? In my opinion, you have to be careful. ”

"This is what Vice President Li said personally, not to mention that his patrol envoy was also Mr. Sun who announced it to the world!"

"Okay, Mr. Sun has the affairs of the south, and it is not our turn to worry about it." Recently, everyone's opinions on Yang Qiu have been disagreeable, and Zhang Xianpei was afraid that the two would quarrel and alarm outsiders, so he interrupted the topic.

Dong Zhimeng closed his mouth, and after a while, he asked uneasily: "Brother Zhang, is it true that Mr. Sun wants to give up the presidential seat to Yuan Shikai?" ”

"How many times have you said it, that's a delaying tactic ()! Today Lao Tzu blew him up, look what he still dreamed of! Li Xianwen bundled up the explosives, weighed it in his hand a few times to test the weight, lit a cigarette and stopped talking, and waited for the carriage to appear with peace of mind.

In the Forbidden City, Yuan Shikai didn't know that there were already bombs waiting for him outside, although Xiao Zhang De was waiting outside early in the morning, but how could he have the mind now?

Yang Qiu became the patrol envoy of the three provinces, and Sun Wen simply proclaimed himself president in Nanjing! The two pieces of news are like five thunderbolts for him! Especially the latter, who said before that the position of the president would be reserved for himself, but now he actually sat on it by himself without even saying hello! Isn't this a joke? Aggrieved, the nest is on fire, and the internal organs are about to burn, and they hate Tang Shaoyi and Yang Du, and I don't know how they talked about it, but it became this result. Although Sun Wen sent a telegram saying that he would abdicate the throne and that the president was only temporary, who had ever seen how much power could be easily handed down?

There are hundreds of thousands of rabble in Nanjing, and Yang Qiu's national defense army that cannot be underestimated, and it is difficult to get it back now! So he regrets it very much now, he knew what he was still watching like this? Directly ordered the second and third towns to enter Hubei together, and after killing Yang Qiu, he went down the river to pacify the south.

Seeing that he didn't wait for me, if he didn't do anything, he would probably have to go back to his hometown to fish, and he simply gritted his teeth and asked Yang Shiqi and others to write a good persuasion to abdicate, and rolled up his sleeves and went on his own, so he didn't care that there were Liangbi and others on the side, and when he walked into the palace, he knelt down and shouted: "The Empress Dowager has done it this time!" ”

Yulon was now counting on him, but he didn't expect to be smashed as soon as he met, and tears immediately flowed down, and he said with a crying voice: "Comfort Pavilion get up quickly." What's wrong with that? Could it be that the rebel army has come to kill me? ”

For fear that acting too much would be counterproductive, Yuan Shikai didn't dare to get up, and said first: "Empress Dowager, Emperor." In the past few days, Weichen has tried his best and sent a large army to collect it, but they are all blocked outside Xuzhou, and Wusheng Pass is about to be lost! Now those chaotic parties are gaining momentum and have stopped negotiating. The minister found out that they had more than 500,000 troops! 1,000 artillery pieces, more than 100 naval warships! The Northern Expedition is about to be made soon, and that Sun Wen may never abdicate and negotiate again. ”

500,000 Northern Expeditionary Army? A thousand cannons! Yulong cried even louder, and Liangbi and the others next to him were also so frightened that their faces turned dirty and scolded again and again: "Yuan Weiting, if you didn't send troops to recruit for a long time, how could you be in such a situation, Lao Tzu told you, if the Qing Dynasty is gone, Lao Tzu will be the first to bury you ()!" ”

Yuan Shikai had long been unaccustomed to Liangbi's arrogance, and dared to talk nonsense by winning over some old immortals to make a sectarian party, and threatened to kill himself many times, and replied unceremoniously: "Why didn't I send troops?" More than 10,000 loyal bones are buried in Hubei, is this fake? But some people ran away from Nanjing as soon as the cannon went off! If it weren't for Tie Liang who lost Nanjing Lucheng? Those chaotic parties don't even have a nest, how can they be self-proclaimed? ”

"Isn't that your delay in sending troops?" Liangbi jumped up as if he had been stepped on by his tail.

Yuan Shikai snorted coldly: "Send troops, what kind of troops?" The treasury is empty, Hubei alone will run out of military salaries, and the soldiers will be rushed into battle without eating or drinking. ”

Seeing that the two were arguing more and more, the ministers persuaded each other one after another, and Yulong still had to rely on Yuan Shikai at the moment, so he hurriedly persuaded and asked, "Comfort Pavilion." Today, you open up and say it, no matter what you say, the mourning family will forgive you for your innocence, and now the mourning family only wants to know whether this great Qing country can be kept. ”

Yuan Shikai waited for this sentence, and hurriedly knelt down: "Queen Mother Mingjian, it's just a twist and turn that the soldiers in the army want me to bring, and the non-ministers don't dare to say it, the Queen Mother, you can see it yourself." After he stopped, he handed the fold prepared by Yang Shiqi and others to Yulon.

"All countries in the world, except for the monarch and the people, the people are like Yao Shun Chan, which is the place where the people want to go, which is not comparable to the death of the country in the past dynasties, and the people and the army do not want to change the people and reduce the honor of the royal family. Reading the history of the French Revolution, if you can follow the public opinion as soon as possible, how can the descendants of Louis be left behind. The people's army is fighting for the form of government, not the throne. The one who wants is a republic, not a clan. My queen mother, the emperor He endured the shock of the nine temples, and he forbears the hunting of public opinion, and will be able to look down on the general trend and conform to the people's wishes. ”

Yuron read the memora softly, and his mind went blank.

Where is this twist and turn, it is clearly persuading the Great Qing State to abdicate! What to say look around the world, the republic is the trend. Since the start of the war, the imperial court has been unable to make ends meet, and the foreigners are even more eyeing it, in short, it is impossible to fight, and the army will not be able to stop it even at the doorstep. Therefore, persuade the initiative to abdicate, lest the rebels of the Northern Expedition kill Beilujing and fall to the barren mountains and wilderness, and Aixin Jueluo will be killed (). Hippo Sanren bar starters

Yuan Shikai observed Yulon while accompanying him to tears, and finally saw that she finally eased up, kowtowed and said: "Queen Mother, this matter is very important, and the minister also dared to hand it over today, you discuss it with the princes and ministers, if not, I will resign from the errand of the Prime Minister's Yamen and return to Zhangde's hometown." ”

By the time he finished speaking, there were already deafening shouts and cries in the palace. He looked at it, and felt a lot more comfortable in his heart, and straightened up and walked outside the palace gate.

In Hankou, while Yuan Shikai was crying, Miao Luo came to the dock accompanied by Chang Si, looking at Yang Qiu on the deck, his beautiful eyes lit up with something indescribable.

Chang Si looked at her carefully from the side, and guessed from his eyes that his gang leader might have a little like Yang Qiu, but what should Miss Miao do? What's more, even if these people have a relationship with others, in the final analysis, they are all mixed with the rivers and lakes, how can they be worthy of such a person? So I sighed secretly in my heart, and was about to speak to distract her, when I suddenly found that Jin Leprosy appeared in front, and I wanted to take action immediately, but thinking of Chen Haohui's warning, I didn't know what to do for a while.

Rui Yao also saw the back of Jin Leprosy at this time, because she was wearing makeup, she didn't recognize it at once, but she felt that this back was very familiar, so her attention slowly focused, and she quietly took a few steps closer under her feet.

On the deck, after Lei Meng nodded quietly, Yang Qiu walked towards the gangway. Hippo Sanren bar starters

Tang Hualong didn't see Sun Wu and the others, so he could only stubbornly lead the officials to the gangway, and when he saw Yang Qiu coming down, he immediately said: "Welcome Inspector Yang back, you don't know, you went to Shanghai during this time, and I have no backbone." ”

Yang Qiu held his hand and smiled slightly: "Minister Tang is too polite, Chenhua is young, and he will have to rely on everyone's help in the future." ”

Seeing that there was nothing unusual on his face, Tang Hualong breathed a sigh of relief: "The patrol envoy is young and heroic, and he can buy back so many foreign machines when he goes to Shanghai, it seems that we are going to live a good life in Hubei!" It is really a blessing for us to have you to lead our three provinces, and Hubei is a blessing. ”

"Minister Tang, don't make fun of me, Li Du is going to Nanjing to be vice president, and the civil affairs of the three provinces will rely on Minister Tang and you to help me in the future."

"Yes, you are an expert in civil affairs." Tang Hualong was about to be polite again, when he suddenly saw another man in his forties wearing glasses and an elegant appearance walking down the gangway, Yang Qiu introduced: "I will introduce to you, this is Mr. Zhang Binglin, he has agreed to serve as my adviser to the government. ”

Zhang Binglin? Chapter Maniac! Tang Hualong immediately remembered the characters who were famous all over the world because of "Refuting Kang Youwei's Book of Revolution" and almost went to the guillotine. This is a well-known unscrupulous speech, I heard that he quarreled with Sun Wen when he was in Japan, and he scolded the party members for not doing their right thing and falsely reforming their lives! So he couldn't figure out how he was recruited by Yang Qiu as a staff member.

Zhang Taiyan smiled, in fact, he agreed to Yang Qiu to be a staff member to see how far this young man would go, and when he saw Tang Hualong, he was stunned and laughed: "Casting a new brother, don't you welcome me, a crazy person, to Hubei?" ”

"How so. Brother Zhang can come to our Hubei, and it's too late for Hualong to be happy. Tang Hualong hurriedly snorted, but he was already anxious to death, Zhang Taiyan was not an ordinary person, if he accidentally injured him, I am afraid it would not be more troublesome than killing Yang Qiu.

Yang Qiu smiled slightly, glanced at Wuchang and said, "Yang has just taken office, let's go and see President Li first." How about Minister Tang come with me? ”

How dare Tang Hualong walk with him now, maybe a gun will come over when he pretends: "Don't hide it from the patrol envoy, something happened to Tang's family, so." ”

"Oh? What's up? Do you want your brother to help? ”

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"A little thing, how dare you ask the patrol envoy to help, I can go myself."

Seeing that his face changed slightly and waved his hand repeatedly, Yang Qiu smiled coldly in his heart: "Then the minister will go back first, and when things are done, Chenhua will come to ask for advice on how to manage civil affairs." ”

Tang Hualong breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly left. This made the officials around who didn't know what was going to happen a little strange, and they didn't understand how this guy who was usually the best at sycophants avoided it, but who cares about him now. Yang Qiu is now the patrol envoy of the three provinces sealed by the central government of Nanjing, and in the future, the three provinces will have to look at his face and act on the borders of the three provinces, and there are 100,000 elite soldiers in his hands, so it is too late to tie up.

Jin Leprosy and Zhang Zhenwu stood together, and when they saw Yang Qiu being surrounded by a group of nasty guys, he was a little anxious to come out for a long time, and his fingers involuntarily touched the two grenades stolen from under the cotton jacket, slowly unscrewed the lid with his hands, and hooked the drawstring on his fingers while people were not paying attention.

Rui Yao's eyes were sharp, and it was already very strange when she saw the rope, and when she saw the familiar Yangtze River Gang tattoo on the wrist of the rope, she immediately recognized who this back was! His face suddenly turned pale, and he immediately touched his waist. When his hand reached his waist, he found that he didn't bring a gun at all when he came out in a hurry, and when he raised his head and saw Yang Qiu walking slowly under the crowd of everyone, his eyes were red in a hurry, and he didn't care so much and suddenly rushed towards Jin Mingsheng, and scolded loudly: "Jin Mingsheng!" Don't you dare! ”

Chang Si knew that something would happen today, but he also knew that Chen Haohui and those people were nearby, they must have been ambushed a long time ago, just waiting for Jin Leprosy to take down the charges immediately, and the hippo was the first to start, but he didn't expect Rui Yao to also find Jin Leprosy, and it was too late to stop it, so he saw Liangying shouting and rushing over.

The sudden shouting made the dock a mess, and Chen Haohui was even more dumbfounded when he saw this. Yang Qiu's order was to let them control it immediately when Jin Leprosy and the others made a move, so that they could confirm the evidence that the other party was going to assassinate, but they didn't expect it to be complicated! The golden leprosy was even more violently shocked, and he shot back without thinking about pulling out the gun.

"Smack!" The crisp sound of gunfire suddenly broke the cheerful atmosphere of the dock, and when the guards who had been prepared for a long time quickly blocked in front of Yang Qiu, he only saw that in the crowd, the beautiful woman gang leader fell down suddenly, and then the surroundings seemed to be crazy and chaotic.

Zhang Zhenwu's brain was fast, and he knew that there was no way out, so he immediately pulled out his gun and threw a grenade and shouted: "There is an order in Nanjing!" Kill Yang Qiu!! ”

"There is an order in Nanjing! Kill Yang Qiu! ”

"Kill ()! Kill Yang Qiu's dog thief! ”

At the same time as the sound sounded, two grenades were thrown at Yang Qiu, because the distance was still too far, so Zhang Zhenwu quickly pulled out his gun and fired all the way towards Yang Qiu, and at the same time, more than a dozen robes and assassins who were hidden in the crowd also drew their guns and beat indiscriminately. Because of the practice of two people staring at one this time, as soon as these people made a move, the guards next to them also took action, and suddenly the entire dock was filled with shouts and gunshots. Chen Haohui was staring at the most dangerous gold leprosy, but gold leprosy was worthy of being an old oilman who had been mixed in the rivers and lakes for decades, and he knew that it was not good when he saw Rui Yao rushing out, so he followed Zhang Zhenwu and rushed out one step earlier, and after hitting several guards in a row, he got rid of Chen Haohui, and rushed towards Yang Qiu, who had been heavily protected, like crazy.

It is said that it is slow but it is fast, in fact, from Rui Yao rushing out to Jin Leprosy and shooting continuously, it was only a few seconds, and the sudden gunfire made the entire China Merchants Wharf fall into a frenzy, and the crying, shouting and fierce gunfire swept the entire Hankou in an instant.

The two violent explosions pushed the turmoil to the maximum, Zhang Zhenwu threw the grenade and knew that the distance was too far, so he rushed over together regardless of the swept shrapnel and the golden leprosy, and people kept falling in the fierce gunfire, and even the officials who were around Yang Qiu just now were killed and injured.

When the two of them rushed through the smoke and were about to rush into the dock, two sticks with thick bowls took the opportunity to sweep at their feet at the same time, and before they could understand that the two of them were swept away again and again, the soldiers of the guard company, who had been on standby for a long time, immediately flew up and pressed the two to the ground and punched and kicked them. Zhang Zhenwu avoided a fist with all his might, and when he glanced at the back, his eyes suddenly split, it turned out that those companions who should have rushed over together had all been killed and fell to the ground, and not far away, a large number of soldiers wearing black skull badges began to rush into the dock with loaded guns.

When he turned his head and saw Yang Qiuzheng behind hundreds of guards looking at him coldly, he finally understood that people had been on guard for a long time! Suddenly angry, his eyes were blood-red, and he wanted to scold a few times to let out his anger, but a gun butt had already smashed head-on.

As soon as the gunshots rang out at the wharf, explosions and fighting also rang out in several places in Hankou at the same time, and the dense gunfire like fried beans swept Hankow, which had just regained its calm, into panic and screams, and countless people turned pale and trembled with fright.

On the second floor of the small building, Sun Wu held up his binoculars and saw explosions and gunshots on the dock and several locations that were launched at the same time, and thought that he had succeeded, so he waved his fist again and again excitedly. Fang Wei and several other officers of the Communist Association immediately pulled out their guns and prepared to go back to incite the soldiers, but as soon as they went downstairs, the courtyard gate and the wall were suddenly blown open, and hundreds of soldiers rushed in like wolves, and it was not at all a volley of guns.

"Sun Wu is glad to meet you."

After Sun Wu, who had a blue nose and swollen face, was set up by the soldiers, he found that Yue Peng and Zhang Tingfu had quietly stood in front of him, and the black skeleton on his chest exuded a cold glow. The half-dead Fang Wei and other officers understood these black skull signs better than anyone else, and the most elite group of the Wehrmacht was back!

Outside, the gunshots were still ringing, and hundreds of gathered robes, party killers, and scum in the army rushed out of the gate excitedly when they heard the explosion, and saw that the muzzles of countless black holes had surrounded them, and then they couldn't count the fire points that began to shine in front of them.

At the top of the Wuchang Governor's Mansion, Wang Anlan couldn't bear to put down the binoculars and said, "Governor, isn't this too much, at least there are hundreds of people." ”

Li Yuanhong shook his head: "Jingbo, you have been with me for many years, right?" ”

Wang Anlan didn't understand why Li Yuanhong suddenly asked this, and said in surprise: "Dudu, who are you?" ”

"Old." Li Yuanhong sighed, looked at the wolf smoke rising from Hankou, and said, "You should know now why Yang Qiu had to go to Shanghai and Nanjing to ask for this title appointed by the central government!" This person is scheming, and his methods are ruthless, and I am afraid that only the one in the north can compare with him. ”

Wang Anlan's eyelids jumped, and he pointed at the chaotic Hankou and exclaimed: "What does the governor mean, he actually guessed it a long time ago, so he wants this title?" ”

"I don't know, I just know that no matter which dynasty or generation, the assassination of the central government is a capital crime! These people are making trouble and killing, but they have forgotten that he, the patrol envoy of the three provinces, has just announced to the world in Nanjing! Do you say that when he pokes this matter in Nanjing, will the party dare to set foot in the three provinces again? Li Yuanhong slowly closed his eyes, his expression was a little painful: "You can't live if you do your own evil ()!" This time, I'm afraid it gave him the truth, and he had to thoroughly clean the three provinces. ”

"Clean the three provinces!!"

Wang Anlan's eyes widened, looking at Hankou Yang Qiu, who was really going to risk the world's condemnation to purge the officialdom of the three provinces? !

At the moment when an almost doomed storm was about to sweep through the three provinces from Hankou, three bombs suddenly fell on the roof of the carriage that had just turned into Donghuamen in the north. "Be careful! Protect your adults! ”

Yuan Shikai was squinting his eyes and thinking about what to do next, when he heard a loud drink outside, and then there was a sudden loud noise in his ears, and the blazing air wave overturned the carriage almost instantly, and he was thrown out of the car before he could react.

The guards turned white with fright, and they all rushed over.

When the sharp copper whistle sounded throughout Beilujing, and the streets were full of shouts for the party, the frightened Yuan Shikai returned to the house under heavy protection, fortunately the doctor found that such a violent explosion only tore a few cuts in his clothes.

"Bastard! All these rebels should be killed! Duan Qirui, who rushed to get the news, stood at the head of Yuan Shikai's bed and was angry, but before he could come up with a way to retaliate, Yang Shiqi had already walked over with a telegram and a distracted gaze.

"Xingcheng, you are."

"Your Excellency." Yang Shiqi swallowed his saliva, and only came back to his senses after a while: "An hour ago, Yang Qiu was also assassinated in Hankou!" ”

"What?!"

Yuan Shikai was so shocked that he sat up suddenly, swallowed his saliva suddenly, and asked in a low voice: "Is he dead?" ”

No one knows whether the two assassinations that took place almost simultaneously in the north and south on January 16, 1912, were coincidental or deliberate. The only thing that can be known is that while the voice of the republic and the people is still lingering, the ugly assassination has brought strongman politics back to the land of China.