Nearly midnight, Beijing Yongding Gate, Guan Street, the Prime Minister's official residence.

The sleepy-eyed cabinet ministers gathered together, most of them at a loss, looking at each other with suspicious eyes on Prime Minister Yang Zhengjin at one end of the long table.

"It's urgent, I'll make a long story short, please listen to me first, don't interrupt."

As soon as Yang Zhengjin's remarks came out, except for Defense Minister Hu Ke, Minister of the Interior, Culture and Education Zhang Zhigao, and Justice Minister Mo Ning, the rest of them were silent, as if they were facing a great enemy -- obviously they all realized the seriousness of the situation from Yang Zhengjin's words.

"At a time when the enemy was at the head and the front-line officers and men were fighting bloody battles, a small number of officers who were not firm in their beliefs, deceived by fallacies, impulsively attempted to march in the imperial capital in order to pressure the government to transform the wartime system based on the constitution into a thorough and long-term military dictatorship."

Hearing this, there was already an uproar in the conference hall, and Yang Zhengjin had to cough a few times deliberately to remind everyone to be quiet.

"Fortunately, it was discovered in time, and by the emperor's decree, I have ordered the Ministry of the Interior to initiate the preliminary disposal measures, and at the same time decided to suspend the functions and powers of the chief of the general staff and the chief of the army staff, and the supreme military order power will be temporarily returned to the emperor. Now that the emperor has transferred reliable troops to Beijing to defend the palace, you don't need to panic, you will be in the prime minister's residence tonight, and your family members will also have proper arrangements. ”

"This is a rebellion! Punish severely! ”

Someone slapped the case and roared.

Someone else asked sharply: "This is the emperor ** team we built at the cost of hundreds of millions of taxes?" Dogs are for biting their owners! Someone is to blame for this! ”

In the midst of the continuous commotion, Tian Zhenghong, Minister of Industry and Industry and People's Livelihood with a dark horse face, raised his hand and shouted: "Please explain to the Prime Minister why the Chief of the General Staff and the Chief of Army Staff should be suspended?" How deeply are they involved? And also. Is the Secretary of State responsible for negligence? ”

Yang Zhengjin had already prepared, was not in a hurry, and said calmly: "The suspension is the emperor's intention, and as for the involvement, there is no evidence so far." The emperor said, although I believe that the two will not be involved. However, the responsibility for negligence must not be held unpunished, and they are ordered to suspend their duties for reflection.

As for the Minister of Defense. Although there must be a duty of negligence. But the emperor did not ask for the guilt. He only said that the key to this matter lies in the army's ideological education, and that the director of education was originally the chief of staff of the army, and that this matter had been brewing for a long time, and that the powerful organs of the General Staff Department were not aware of it, so the chief of staff and the chief of the general staff should be severely punished. If you don't believe it, the emperor's edict will soon arrive, and you will know it at a glance. ”

"Everybody be quiet." Follow the agreement you just made before the meeting started. Zhang Zhigao followed and jumped out of the town, "Now is not the time to find out who should be responsible, the most dangerous moment has not passed, the rebels may enter the city at any time, everyone should work together, under the leadership of Premier Yang, assist our emperor to tide over the difficulties!" ”

"I think the same as Chigo." Mo Ning immediately took the baton, "The emperor is worried about your safety. Don't make trouble for the emperor anymore. The most urgent task now is to pass the Cabinet Council. Retrospectively recognize the previous emergency measures, and legitimize the two matters of the Ministry of the Interior's emergency handling and the return of military orders. ”

"Rebels...... How many can there be? Sun Wen, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, interjected nervously and asked.

Yang Zhengjin glanced at him impatiently: "According to the list that has been mastered, the other side can use up to 100,000 troops around Gyeonggi, but to launch this at the same time, the emperor has ordered the military police to search for the main leaders in the list overnight, and at the same time, the special police team of the Ministry of the Interior has also gone to various military and civilian communication hubs to seize telegraph rooms, telephone relay centers, radio stations, and printing houses......

"If some rebel leaders get the news in advance and suddenly enter the city, even if it is a regular army of 10,000 or 20,000 people, the military police and police in the city together will not be able to withstand it, right?" Ma Feng, former prime minister and current minister of munitions and chairman of the wartime economic commission, is clearly very aware of the difference between the army and the police.

Yang Zhengjin smiled slightly when he heard this, and suddenly raised his hand and shouted: "Quiet! Be quiet! ”

Everyone was stunned, and their eyes gathered again, waiting for him to speak.

Yang Zhengjin didn't say a word, got up with shaking shoulders, approached the closed Victorian-style carved window on the side of the hall, and slowly pushed it out.

"Listen—"

Everyone listened attentively, and as long as their ears were not deaf, they could hear the rumbling sound of engines and tracks on Guanjie Avenue......

In Xinhua Palace, in the imperial study on the second floor of the Chengxian Hall, that is, the emperor's special office, two officers walked in front of the other, holding military hats, and knelt down on one knee at the desk in front of Liu Qianhua, who had changed into a Western skirt.

"Pan Guochen, Liang Gensheng, you came on time - get up quickly, give me a seat."

"Emperor Xie—"

Dressed in a knee-length Western dress, the waitress placed the sandalwood chair covered with gold silk embroidered brocade cushions, and respectfully exited the door, and the heavy copper-clad oak door slowly closed behind Pan Liang and the others.

Seeing that the two of them were seated, Qianhua lifted her skirt and got up, picked up the Jinlang coffee pot on the table with both hands, and poured two cups of hot and fragrant coffee.

"Pan Guochen, yours want to add three pieces of sugar, right?"

Pan Guochen was stunned

He nodded his head like a peck.

"How does the emperor know ...... Dao?"

Qianhua blinked with ulterior motives: "The mirror said it." ”

Pan Guochen's heart trembled: "Mirror...... Is Your Excellency the Lady Judge okay? ”

"It's not good, because I'm old, I can't get married-Liang Gensheng doesn't add milk, right?"

Liang Gensheng scratched his head shyly: "Let the emperor bother......"

"Pour a cup of coffee, what's there to worry about, but you, it's still long tonight, and before dawn, you have to spend a little bit more."

While speaking, the coffee cup with a tray has been handed to the two of them.

"How? The road went well, right? ”

The two nodded yes in unison.

"It's just that the army is too thin...... The imperial city, the nine gates of the inner city, the seven gates of the outer city, the prominent city wall and the foreign official street, and the disarming of some troops in the city, it is not enough to rely on the two of us to bring ground soldiers. Liang Gensheng said worriedly.

Qianhua also poured herself a cup of coffee and reclined in front of her desk. Stir gently with a small spoon in the cup.

"Liang Gensheng, you just hold this Xinhua Palace, Pan Guochen has some reserves in the imperial city, the main force is based on Guanjie, and the rest will naturally be done by others."

Pan Guochen's eyes lit up: "Gu Yingyang is a native of the land? ”

"Well, and the people of Yang Zhengjin and Hook - just as I expected. immediately abandoned Liu Bailiang and the others, and lost the car to protect the handsome. It couldn't be more sensible. ”

"Then Liu Bailiang ...... them"

Qianhua took a sip of the coffee in her hand. Frowning, he threw in two more pieces of candy.

"Liu Bailiang softened, but I still can't fully trust him, I didn't let him call, I asked the Haw Par Battalion to dress up as a gendarme to arrest people separately, and I had already used the method of voice synthesis to make the leaders relax their vigilance, plus the late night attack, it shouldn't be a big problem. In addition, the Eagle Wolves were dispatched as a special force for national security, and they had long taken control of various military-civilian communication centers near Gyeonggi. The police have also blocked the city gates and official streets, patrolling the city walls, and cutting off communication with each other as much as possible. It will not be long before the cabinet will pass a cabinet meeting and temporarily return the military order power to me, which will be announced after dawn. I can command the army directly, and those who don't obey will be rebels. Everybody's got it! ”

Speaking of which. Qianhua put down the coffee cup and lazily brushed the hair around her ear. Sigh:

"If it doesn't work anymore, I have to go with Yang Yuxiang and drive those two individual mecha to kill, Yang Yuxiang is now on standby in the underground of my dormitory, tired of her all night, she won't secretly fall asleep——"

Pan Guochen patted his legs and smiled: "It turns out that the two mecha are not broken, even we have been deceived, the emperor is the emperor." ”

Liang Gensheng didn't move his hands, his expression was indifferent but funny, and he gave a thumbs up: "Didn't Yang Yuxiang say that it was broken when he came to the place?" It seems that this is all the bureau of the first emperor, high-really high. ”

Qianhua tilted his head and smiled: "My unit fought with the rebellious tiger and leopard battalion during the Yimijing Rebellion, and the stealth system was broken, but it's still okay to drive up and rush into battle...... As a last resort, I don't want this kind of thing to be watched by the people all over the city. ”

Pan Guochen hurriedly poured half a cup of coffee, stopped the cup on the crystal coffee table next to him, rubbed his hands and said, "Anyway, we have the chance to win, right?" ”

Liang Gensheng was not as excited as him, and raised his eyes indifferently and said, "What about Zhang Yiye and Xiao Lieri?" They shouldn't be able to get out of the relationship, what does the emperor plan to do with them? ”

Qianhua snapped her fingers with interest: "I will summon them immediately, see their performance, and then make a decision." ”

Femdom beasts, it turns out that there is really supreme pleasure......

……

On August 2, 1915, when the sky was still bright, the cleaners who were the first to get up to sweep the streets and carry dung in Beijing were frightened by the soldiers with loaded guns and the chariots with iron armor and steel cannons.

All kinds of rumors spread like ripples in the crooked alleys, and were soon repeatedly washed and buried by the radio and flying horns that sounded all over the city.

In front of the bulletin boards in the public offices of the districts, almost at the same time, mimeographed red-headed newspapers with ink had not yet dried, and the loudspeakers next to the bulletin boards repeatedly broadcast the words "Emergency Cabinet Discussion in Wartime" and "The Emperor's Imperial Decree." The volume was turned up to the maximum, causing the nearby windows to tremble, and police cars with loud horns above their heads were slowly circling the streets, constantly warning citizens to stay at home until the "exercise" was over.

Newspaper boys carrying canvas bags and postmen on bicycles went deep into every alley, and more than one number was stuffed into the cracks of the doors of each courtyard, with the words "In wartime, the cabinet will hold a special military exercise around Gyeonggi on August 2 by decree of the emperor during the wartime, and the city police headquarters will ask all citizens of the city to stay at home and not go out without authorization."

Although there are patrols at the entrance of every alley, and soldiers and even chariots are guarding at the entrance of every street, this does not affect the old Beijing gentlemen squatting in front of the courtyard in twos and threes, drinking bean juice and eating baked cakes and burnt circles—the military and police do not stop those who carry the carts and sell breakfast

pinched the number in his hand, and talked nonsense, from the "matter of the second year" all the way to the beginning of the year.

"The emperor's feathers have grown, take the old men under the knife."

"I think there are old men who are proud of their achievements and have annoyed the emperor, you say, the emperor is a woman. What can you compete with a bunch of old men? ”

"Look at this one on the street...... It's not easy, it's not easy. ”

"You don't believe it, a friend of my second brother is from the Iron and Blood Society, and he said that they were called into the palace last night, saying that someone in the army wanted to abolish the throne, and the emperor's throne was not guaranteed, so let them find a way!"

"Excuse me. These calves have no soldiers, and they have no power. Three no soldiers. If the emperor wants to find someone to help, he can't talk about them. ”

Discussions like this spread like fires in the alleys, and soon spread to every corner of the city walls through hawkers who had the right to move freely by default, and in front of the district office, there were grumbling factory owners, shopkeepers, coachmen, clerks in a hurry, and poor odd workers waiting for the next meal, suddenly begging for mercy, and suddenly shouting how to live, and the stewards, under the protection of the heavily armed military police, for a moment they comforted each other, and then moved out of the emperor's decree to suppress the threat......

The sky was bright. On the main avenue of Diguan Street, where the army was most tightly garrisoned and where a long chariot was parked along the street, a procession unexpectedly sprang out, with the leader waving the banner of "Respect for the Emperor," and the flags of the three "nationalist front" political parties, namely the Iron and Blood Society, the Xinghua Party, and the Youth Party, fluttering in the back.

"Respect the emperor for the emperor, and respect the emperor for the ......"

"Down with the warlords! Long live Her Majesty the Empress, long live, long live! ”

"Conniving at the warlords, the government neglected, and Yang Zhengjin stepped down.

Yang Zhengjin - step down! ”

With increasingly fierce slogans, thousands of marchers broke through the police barricade. Rush to the gate of the defense headquarters. A confrontation ensued with the troops guarding the area.

"Stop! If you get closer, you'll shoot! ”

The major who jumped on top of the chariot and brandished his pistol was not intimidating, as he drank to the crowd. The soldiers around him all pulled up the bolts of their guns with a clatter, and the muzzles of the black holes pointed at the opposite side.

"We are all here to protect the emperor, now that the emperor is in charge of the army, there is nothing to worry about, if you really want to respect the emperor, you should obey the holy decree and stay at home, otherwise, you will be regarded as an accomplice in the chaos of the party, and you will be severely punished!"

There was still a bustle below: "It's nice to say, who knows which side you are on!" ”

"Is the emperor really fine? Who knows if it's an exaggeration! ”

"We agreed to suspend the power of the Congress, but we are not trying to make a mess for the courtiers!"

"We want to see the Prime Minister, we want to see the Emperor—"

"Down with the warlords! Restore Congress! Get rid of the wicked! Long live Her Majesty the Empress—"

Seeing that the atmosphere was becoming more and more tense, the major began to order the soldiers to load their bayonets, and around the crowd, riot policemen armed with shields and clubs slowly gathered around......

Suddenly, a tall and thin man in a suit and leather shoes wearing the insignia of the House of Representatives stood up and shouted, "Everyone, stop, please allow me, Lan Tianwei, to talk to this chief on behalf of everyone." ”

"It turned out to be President Lan, we still have a task, please make a long story short." The commander apparently didn't want to make a big deal out of it either.

"First of all, I request a meeting with your chief in charge."

The major pondered for a long time, then nodded reluctantly: "Yes, but you can only go alone, but the assembly here will be dissolved immediately." ”

"If we can see Her Majesty the Empress with our own eyes, we will dissolve it immediately." Lan Tianwei said decisively.

"It's impossible......"

Before the major could finish his call, he saw a figure appearing next to the chariot, and hurriedly jumped down and saluted: "Brigade seat, I'm dealing with ......"

The man raised his hand to signal him to get out of the way, walked straight to Lan Tianwei, crossed his waist and asked, "You are Lan Tianwei, the president of the Xinghua Party?" ”

"Exactly down there." Lan Tianwei is neither humble nor arrogant, and responds calmly.

"I'm Pan Guochen, the brigadier general of the 1st Marine Armored Brigade, the person in charge here, do you want to see the emperor?"

"Yes, as long as we see the peace and freedom of Her Majesty the Empress, we believe that the army here is under the control of Her Majesty, and a certain warlord has been defeated, and everyone will naturally disperse."

Pan Guochen didn't think much about it, tilted his head, turned around and said, "You wait, I'll report it." ”

A quarter of an hour later, Pan Guochen came back with his waist crossed.

"Blue Sky Blue."

"Despicable."

"Jiang Zhi, chairman of the Iron and Blood Society, and Han Xinhuo, president of the Youth Party, are you here?"

Immediately two men in the same suit and leather shoes and wearing the badge of the councillor on their chests jumped out.

"I'm Eji."

"I'm Han Xinhuo."

Pan Guochen sighed, nodded, and waved his arm: "Come with me, the emperor wants to talk to the three of you by name." ”

The crowd suddenly boiled, and rhythmic cheers resounded throughout the audience.

"Hooray—hooray—hooray—"