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Excavation started on both sides of the Long Street, and the fresh loess was dug out to cover up the dark ground that was burned by the fire. The foundation was dug deep and wide, and the top and bottom of the pit were those captured Qing soldiers. Li wanted to send them to reform here and rebuild Beicheng Street, which was burned to ruins by them.

Li Xiang walked in front of him in a robe, holding a folding fan in his hand and shaking it from time to time. If you ignore the mud on Li Xiang's shoes and the bandages tied on his head, it will also be turbid. Li wanted to look around, and the progress of the project was also satisfactory. Although there is no speed of building one floor in three days, it is also fast to dig the foundation in three days in this era.

Zeng Gao, Song Que and Zhao Youcheng are also in plain clothes beside him. They are also looking left and right, but they are absent-minded. Yuan Shikai went to Xinyang, Huang Xing went to Wuchang, and the news almost reached Xiaogan at the same time. Li thought about how to deal with it, whether to go north or south, they can't argue with a result. Li Xiang just took them out for a walk without any expression, but they didn't have the leisure thoughts of Li Xiang.

When Song Que looked at Li Xiang's back, he had never figured out Li Xiang's thoughts. He quietly touched Zeng Gao's shoulder. Zeng Gao and Li have been very tacitly talking, and I don't know if Zeng Gao has been able to understand it. Zeng frowned and shook his head, and he was also confused by the current situation.

At this time, the rapid sound of horses' hoofs sounded, and a ride came and appeared on the street corner. Now the material loess is piled up on this street, and it is not convenient to run the horse. I immediately turned over and got off the horse. Tang Yuewan was stunned when he saw Li Xiang's nondescript shape at a glance, and then loosened the rein and walked quickly towards him.

Li wanted to see Tang Yuewan's eager appearance and also greeted him. What's the big deal again? Is there any more urgent trouble than he is now? Tang Yuewan approached, and Li Xiang saw a trace of secret anger on his face, so that Li Xiang thought he had lost his eye. Li thought strangely and asked, "What makes you so anxious?"

Tang Yue's eyes like water fell on Li Xiang. He was silent, as if there was a subtle breath flowing between them, which made Li Xiang feel uneasy as if he had done something wrong. Li wants's eyes flashed and she kept recalling what she had done in the past few days. Except for Zhao Youyu, there was nothing else. Is it so difficult that she could see it?

For a long time, Tang Yuewan said softly, "Someone is looking for you."

Li Xiang looked at Tang Yuewan's eyes and asked carefully, "Who is it?"

"Naffodil." Tang Yuewan's eyesight was not good, and finally he was a little unwilling and sour, "How's your old man?"

Tang Yue was not high or low. Zeng Gao, who eavesdropped with his ears in the back, could just hear it and couldn't help laughing.

Li wanted to hear the name of Narcissus's face change greatly. He pulled Tang Yuewan aside and asked eagerly, "Where is the person?"

"Look at your anxious look. Why didn't I see it in Liu Yuan? She takes good care of your reputation, and she also comes to meet you secretly and mysteriously. No wonder no one saw that you two were still hooking up. When Tang Yuewan saw Li Xiang's eager appearance, he couldn't help sarcasm.

Li Xiang suddenly appeared at the head of the stage, with a fleeting anger in his eyes, which turned into helplessness in an instant. When a woman meets a woman, she will be in trouble, which makes Li think that she can't get angry.

Tang Yuewan did not anger Li Xiang, and did not feel like messing around any more. He muttered, "Outside the West City, waterside."

Li wanted to look at Tang Yuewan with an aggrieved look and said with a smile, "I'll explain to you when I come back."

Li wanted to hold the palm of Tang Yuewan's hand and leave as soon as he touched it. Without the entanglement of ten fingers, it can also convey his heart. Li wanted to turn around and step on the horse when Tang Yue came, and left.

The river is wide and the clouds are low, the autumn wind is blowing sharply, and the reeds by the river are a white wave. There is only one woman with a lost body on the ferry, dressed in plain clothes, just like a fairy. She listened to the sound of her hooves behind her, and then creaked footsteps in, but never looked back.

The autumn wind by the river is accompanied by moist water vapor. Li wanted to walk to her and didn't know how to speak for a moment. He always felt that he owed a lot to the woman in front of him, especially when he had just seen her lonely figure. As he got close, the daughter on the daffodil seemed to get into Li Xiang's nostrils. Li Xiang shrugged his nose and said softly, "Nice."

Hearing Li Xiang's soft whisper in his ear, Narcissus didn't know what it was like in his heart. He turned around and saw the bandages and eye-catching blood stains on Li Xiang's forehead. The indifference just now could not be maintained. However, after all, she was a strictly trained agent. Her hand that wanted to touch his wound was halfway and frozen in the air, but she calmly spit out a sentence: "Your head is injured, you are too careless. If you were a little unlucky at that time, would you still be lucky?"

Li wanted to shake the fan and saw the fleeting struggle of the beautiful face of the narcissus, but he said indifferently with a hard heart, "Thank you for your concern. I'm fine. I've always been lucky."

"I'm just that my boss is dead. Who should I ask for money?" Narcissus stared at Li Xiang and calmly returned to her.

"Your task is special. I have been letting you lurk and didn't assign tasks to you. What if you come to me now and are exposed? You don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at Hubei and me now. Li wanted to go back to business, and there was a series of ruthless lessons.

"You have a lot of lace news. If I have one more, no one will doubt it." The daffodil's expression became solemn, but she was dissatisfied with the tone of Li Xiang's lesson. The woman had this unreasonable caution. Narcissus continued, "I have information, which is very important. Listen, foreigners are worried that the development of the situation will damage their vested rights and interests, and at the same time, they try their best to find favorable opportunities from the turbulent situation in China. Tsarist Russia believed that this was the time to strengthen its position in the northern three eastern provinces, Mongolia and Xinjiang. It secretly agreed with Japan that if there was a revolution in Manchuria and the two countries would send troops to intervene, it would also take the opportunity to send troops to Kulun (now Ulaanbaatar) to collude with the prince living Buddha there and create the independence of Outer Mongolia. Japan is also considering armed intervention in the situation in China. It has inquired with the British and American powers.

Can it send troops to China to "protect the rights and interests of all countries in China"? However, Britain, the United States and other countries oppose this practice. They believe that if armed intervention is necessary, the great powers should act together by consensus.

In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, the main capitalist countries that invaded China armed themselves to assist the Qing Dynasty to suppress the revolution under the "neutral" smoke screen. In 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance openly invaded China and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion Revolution. However, the current situation is very different from that of the revolutionary period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the period of the League Movement. It is impossible for the imperialist powers to use the old methods to solve their concerns. During the conflict before World War I, it was difficult for them to carry out common military operations in China. And if there is armed intervention in China, Japan and Russia, which are closest to China, are bound to be in the most favorable position, which is the unwillingness of the Western powers.

These are certainly the reasons why the imperialist powers did not intervene in the Xinhai Revolution, but the more important reasons are still in China's domestic situation. After the Wuchang Uprising, the flames of revolution quickly burned all over the country. The rule of the Qing Dynasty has generally lost trust among the people. Although this revolution has many weaknesses, it is based on hundreds of millions of people who could not survive under the corrupt Qing Dynasty.

Many bureaucrats, politicians, officers and gentlemen who had no reason to do with the revolution have rushed to speculative under the revolutionary flag. This has caused a mixed situation in the revolutionary team, but it is also a manifestation that the revolution has become an unstoppable trend. It is not only impossible to use a few foreign troops to extinguish this revolutionary flame, but also to promote the danger of promoting the revolution into a much broader "anti-foreigner movement" than the Boxer movement, that is, the anti-imperialist movement. It was in this situation that Yuan Shikai's appearance was welcomed by the imperialist powers. The imperialist powers, especially the United Kingdom and the United States, played a great role in promoting the Qing Dynasty.

Narcissus looked at the thoughtful Li Xiang and continued, "I don't know the specific content of the Japanese-Russian secret treaty, and I don't know what actions there will be now. However, I think you can also guess that Yuan Shikai's out of the mountain has nothing to do with Britain and the United States. Zhu Erdian, the British minister to Beijing, is a good friend of Yuan Shikai. When Yuan Shikai was on his way to Xinyang, he reported to the British government and said, "Although Yuan's trip is formally military affairs, it is actually to reconcile this matter. With their reputation, they may be able to set up an tronged method to save the court and satisfy the requirements of the rebulent. This revolution has spread so widely that if he still wants to suppress it by force, Yuan Zhi knows that it can't have a great effect. And if you want to choose a harmony with the Han people, except Yuan, there is no more suitable and trustworthy person.

(Note: Xinhai Revolution Materials, Volume 8, page 318.) Britain and other imperialist powers welcomed Yuan Shikai because they hoped that he could save the Qing Dynasty and soften the revolution. Just as Yuan Shikai arrived in Xinyang and the Qing court was appointed as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, the British Foreign Minister immediately called Zhu Erdian and said, "We have a deep respect for Yuan Shikai. I hope that the effect of this revolution will be a fully consolidated government, fair communication with foreign countries, and maintain the public security and good situation in the mainland, so that in China Business progress. We will do our best to help this kind of government in diplomacy." Note: The Eighth Volume of the Xinhai Revolution, Page 314.) It can be seen that the imperialist powers have seen a completely credible "new" regime in Yuan Shikai.

Relying on Yuan Shikai to deal with the dangerous situation caused by the revolution, and even completely abandon the old horse of the Qing Dynasty when necessary, which has become the leading policy of the imperialist powers.

Li Xiang frowned slightly, without the surprise of Narcissus's imagination, just because everything is interpreted by history.

An American author wrote in a book about the Chinese revolution in 1912 that when Yuan Shikai arrived in Beijing, "he immediately became the de facto dictator of this empire. Foreigners are openly gratified that he is back in power. Note: A.J. Brown: TheChineseRevolution, page 173.) In this way, Yuan Shikai became the central figure of all internal and foreign counter-revolutionary forces, including foreign imperialists who invaded China, the Qing Dynasty facing the end of the world, and people such as Li Yuanhong, who were mixed in the revolutionary camp.