Old Yuan Zhilu said that Mr. Sun Wen chose to give in, and he understood that Sun Wen's submission was a kind of wisdom and a kind of dormant waiting for an opportunity. If you lose this round, you lose, and you can do it again in the future.

But the problem is that he is different from Sun Wen, Lao Yuan is already sixty years old this year, even if he stays in the green mountains, it may not be his own if he grows again. What's more, Yuan Dagongzi doesn't look like a person who can inherit his career, a person like Yuan Shikai makes it absolutely impossible for him to take risks to fight the world for others.

When Yang Xiaolin came to Lao Yuan's ward, he found that Yuan Shikai was standing in front of the window looking out, and it could be seen from Lao Yuan's white hair that this old guy was in a bad mood these days.

"Yuan Gong."

Yang Xiaolin shouted softly from behind, Yuan Shikai hurriedly turned his head, and after seeing Yang beating ghosts, he immediately threw away his cane, and suddenly knelt down according to the etiquette of the Qing Dynasty: "Oops! The grass people don't know that President Yang is coming, and they are disappointed, so I apologize to you! ”

Yang Xiaolin didn't care about Lao Yuan's mocking tone at all, the country and the mountains were brought by himself, so he said a few words. Of course, he wouldn't let Yuan Shikai really kneel, and rushed up with an arrow to support Yuan Shikai's body: "Yuan Gong, what are you doing here?" I just heard that you're not in good health, so I'll come back and come to see you, how about it? Have you adjusted your bones? ”

Old Yuan Ha smiled: "This is also thanks to President Yang for taking care of him, the best doctor and the best medicine for Lu, of course there will be no problem." It's just that I don't understand, is this place a prison cell or a ward? ”

Yang Xiaolin forcibly pressed him to sit on the bed, and he didn't beat around the bush with him, Lao Yuan is a smart person, and it is impossible to fool him: "I know that you have an opinion on me now, you are my father-in-law, you can scold me, or even beat me." But now it's really like this, we're all a family, won't we make trouble? ”

Yuan Shikai snorted coldly: "Family? How could I not feel it? If you hadn't blown up Huang Xing's martial arts hall, I would have killed Sun Wen step by step, and if you hadn't burned down the Prime Minister's Cabinet building, Beijing wouldn't have started fighting! You're ruthless enough, so I blame myself for not seeing it before? ”

Yang Xiaolin didn't argue anything, both of these things were done by Yang Du. The result was that it directly disrupted Lao Yuan's footsteps, so that Yuan Shikai had to take a very drastic behavior, and he was just announcing the date of his return trip, which made Lao Yuan feel that he had little time to act more hastily.

However, what Yang Du did was what he Yang Xiaolin did, and there is nothing to explain.

The two of them were silent for a while and didn't speak, and finally Yuan Shikai spoke first: "Commander Yang, I admit that I haven't fought you this time, Lao Tzu has been stormy all his life, but he fell into the hands of you, a bandit, in the end." Nothing to say, I admit it! You just say what we should do next, whether to cut off the head or shoot you to make a speech, I have lived for more than 60 years. ”

Lao Yuan said very heroically. In fact, he is not this kind of person at all. The older a person gets, the more afraid he is of death, and Yuan Shikai is the same, the reason why he said this is because he knows that Yang Xiaolin will not kill him unless he has to, and he is the president of China. It was the president of China during the Great Patriotic War, and China won the first foreign war in half a century during his tenure, and these were Yuan Shikai's capitals.

Most importantly. Beiyang has been in business for decades, and the power is intertwined, and Yang Dagui wants to undergo major surgery and take a big risk if he uproots it, which is not cost-effective for Yang Dagui.

Sure enough, Yang Xiaolin pulled over a chair and sat in front of Lao Yuan: "Don't say that, Gong Yuan, calm down, as long as you don't make trouble anymore, we can discuss anything, I promise you that no matter what conditions you propose, I can satisfy you to the greatest extent." ”

Lao Yuan snorted, his anger could only be sprinkled like this, and if he didn't give in, he would force this to take a risk, which would really not be good for himself: "Okay, tell me how you plan to place me first?" ”

Yang Xiaolin had already thought about this problem, and immediately said: "Yuan Gong, you see if this will work, you come forward to apologize, just say that this matter is impulsive, plus you are not in good health, so you ask the people of the whole country to resign, so that everyone's face is good." Of course, I won't let you take this matter alone, Sun Wen and Song Jiaoren have also admitted that they are responsible, and I believe that no one will hold you accountable. ”

Lao Yuan looked at him and touched his wrench with his hand: "Is that all?" ”

It can be seen from his attitude that he is not satisfied with Yang's plan to fight ghosts. Yang Xiaolin straightened up: "What other conditions do you have, I will try my best to consider it." ”

Lao Yuan pondered for a while, raised his head and sighed: "Hey, in fact, this is how old I am, what other conditions can I have?" It's just that Keding and Kewen are still young......"

Yang Xiaolin didn't wait for him to finish: "Don't worry, that's my brother-in-law and brother-in-law, I will arrange it." ”

said that the conditions were good, but what Yang Xiaolin was afraid of was that Lao Yuan had no conditions.

Yuan Shikai continued: "Also, those original people in Beiyang are brothers who have been with me for many years, I know that they all have the handle in your hands now, I admit defeat now, but don't touch them again!" There are people you can get them out of the government, out of the army, but absolutely no one can go to jail again! ”

Yang Xiaolin smiled: "It's no problem. In fact, I also admire some people in Beiyang very much, like Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui, knowing that I am waiting for them to make mistakes, and I still take the risk to come back to help you, which can be regarded as affectionate. In this way, I promise to catch as little corruption in Beiyang as possible, and even if I am caught, I will be punished lightly, and I will definitely let them all come out within three years, including Lei Zhenchun. ”

Lao Yuan didn't say anything anymore, his expression was a little lost, because he knew that things were about the same when it came to this level, in other words, he had given up his efforts for decades, which was somewhat unacceptable to him.

But what if you don't accept yourself, what can you do now? The overall situation has been decided, and there is no power to return to the sky, and it will not be beneficial for anyone to continue to make trouble, and after forcing Yang Dagui to raise the knife, there will be no more conditions to talk about. In the frustration, Yuan Shikai couldn't help but speak: "I have been operating in Beiyang for decades, and I have been playing like this?" ”

He didn't expect Yang Xiaolin to give him an answer, but after Yang Xiaolin heard it, he shook his head lightly: "Yuan Gong, Beiyang is not over, it is he who has entered a new period after completing the war to defend the motherland." The dragon flag of Beiyang will always be our national flag. The Chinese people will always remember that when our country was in danger, there was an army that stood up, and her name was Beiyang. ”

Yang Xiaolin's words suddenly made Yuan Shikai feel a little inexplicable, Beiyang really made a lot of efforts for today, thinking about Cao Kun and hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died on the battlefield, Yuan Shikai felt guilty about them. But I really tried my best, and there is nothing to say that the means are not as good as people, so let the living continue to live.

"So be it. Yang fights ghosts, I hope you can really do better than me. ”

Lao Yuan didn't choose to die in the end. This has allowed the matter in China to be resolved in the Chinese way. In the days that followed, the newspapers reported information about the unrest, starting with Lao Yuan admitting his mistake to the whole country, admitting that his repression of the democrats was an emotionally agitated excesse, and at the same time announcing that he had submitted his resignation to the prime minister's cabinet because of his mistake and his poor health.

In addition, Mr. Sun Wen, Song Jiaoren and Chen Tianhua also issued statements saying that the democrats were in a hurry to force President Yuan Da to carry out reforms in this turmoil, and that Mr. Sun was also responsible for the conflict, and that Mr. Sun was a leading figure in China's democracy. A resignation report was also submitted to the Cabinet.

When Yuan Shikai and Sun Wen took the initiative to admit their mistakes, some scholars' comments appeared in the newspapers, and those scholars analyzed them objectively, believing that Sun Wen and Yuan Shikai only caused the turmoil because of their ideological conflicts. In fact, both of them have contributions to China.

Under the repeated exaggeration of such comments, the people's complaints against them suddenly became much smaller, and on June 7 of the first year of the republic, the prime minister's cabinet approved the resignation of Yuan Shikai and Sun Wen. At the same time, former Vice Premier Li Yuanhong was inaugurated as the second president of the Republic of China, former Vice Premier Tang Shaoyi was inaugurated as premier, and Chen Tianhua was demoted to first vice premier. As for Song Jiaoren, the official was reinstated.

Those officials in Beiyang basically didn't touch them as long as they didn't have a big problem, and Lao Yuan personally came forward to appease their emotions, so that they could work at ease in the future, without any burden, and no more ideas. The turbulent situation quickly returned to stability, and China finally embarked on the path of development.

Yang Du also went very smoothly in the negotiation with Britain, first of all, the war with Russia, Nikolai really didn't want to end this war, in his opinion, although he lost a game, but as long as he didn't admit defeat, Yang beat the ghost There is no way to win, Russia's vast territory is his biggest reliance, the peerless military strongman Napoleon has fallen in Russia, do you Yang beat the ghost and kill me?

However, Nikolai had no choice, and Britain and France had to ask him to accept the peace talks, otherwise they would cut off Russian aid. Lao Maozi is not having a good time now, so he is counting on Britain and France to help, if the aid is really cut off, all the contradictions in the country will erupt, so Nikolai must give in.

On 7 June of the first year of the republic, China and Russia signed the "Sino-Russian Agreement on Peaceful Coexistence" in Beijing, which stipulated that the Russian side would recognize Mongolia as China's inherent territory and return to China 300,000 square kilometers of land that had been carved out of the north of the Heilongjiang River in the "Beijing Treaty." As for the other lands ceded by them, Nikolai wanted China to recognize Russian ownership, but Yang Du did not answer, and the issue was eventually shelved.

On 18 June, China, Britain, France, and the United States jointly signed the "Agreement on Free Trade in Southeast Asian Waters," which clearly stipulates that the total tonnage of the Chinese navy cannot exceed 70 percent of that of the Japanese navy; at the same time, Britain, France, and the United States have made a commitment to recognize China's ownership of the Xisha and Nansha waters, and Britain will help China build training bases here and build some islands and reefs into supply stations where ships can dock. However, the Chinese side is not allowed to intercept the merchant and passenger ships of any country here, and it is not allowed to obstruct the normal operation of fishermen of other countries. (To be continued......)