Chapter 251 Anecdotes

Zhou Charter no longer dared to hold it big and said, "Mr. Zhang, how can you teach me?"

Zhang Peilun was silent for a long time and said, "Mr. Zhou, I came to Taipei because of Qingdao. However, let's put down the matter of Qingdao and talk about a few things first.

"What have you seen? Mr. Zhang, please give me some advice.

"I dare not give advice, just talk about the matter." Zhang Peilun said calmly, "First of all, to tell you the truth, not long ago, Sun Wen, the leader of the revolutionary party, secretly sneaked into Guangzhou and had a meeting with Li Zhongtang."

Zhou Charter was shocked. Sun Wen, the leader of the revolutionary party, vowed to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and expel the Tarots. Li Hongzhang has always been loyal to the monarch and patriotic. He is an important minister trusted by both Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu! Li Hongzhang always regarded himself as a student of Zeng Guofan. Zeng Guofan refused to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and automatically disarmed the Hunan army, and Li Hongzhang also unreservedly gave the powerful Huai army to the court!

Li Hongzhang is the loyal and filial son of the Qing Dynasty, and Sun Wen is the leader of the chaotic party in the Qing Dynasty! However, Sun Wen dared to visit Li Hongzhang!

After the First Sino-Japanese War, the Empress Dowager Cixi forced Li Hongzhang's adopted son Li Jingfang to come forward and sign an agreement with the Japanese to cede Taiwan. This took the blame for Empress Cixi and became a traitor referred to by thousands of husbands. Li Hongzhang was once revoked from the official position of the governor of Zhili and lived in Beijing Xianliang Temple in officialdom, which means that Li Hongzhang lost power from then on. However, in the year of Wuxu, the court suddenly reactivated Li Hongzhang and appointed him as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Li Hongzhang once again became a powerful official in Xinjiang. This appointment of the imperial court surprised many people. However, it is clear that the court dared to appoint Li Hongzhang as the governor of Liangguang, which shows that Li Hongzhang is still a trusted person by Empress Dowager Cixi, and he is still loyal to the Qing Dynasty!

In fact, Li Hongzhang can return to politics because of Zhou Charter.

In the view of the imperial court, Zhou Charter belongs to Li Hongzhang's Huai system, because the predecessor of Zhang Jun is Li Hongzhang's army. In the First Sino-Japanese War, there were many unclear concerns between Li Hongzhang and Zhou Charter. On the eve of the Second World War, it was Li Hongzhang's strong recommendation that persuaded the Empress Dowager Cixi to reassem Zhou Charter to reassem the Zhang army and fight across the sea. As a result, Zhou Charter captured Taiwan and North Korea and became the dominant princes. . Therefore, without Li Hongzhang, there would be no Zhou Charter today.

After the Sino-Japanese War, Empress Dowager Cixi once wanted Li Hongzhang to be her a scapegoat, but it was because Zhou Charter's leader and formed a posture of attack on the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi did not dare to attack Li Hongzhang. Today, Zhou Charter has become bigger in Taiwan and North Korea, which in turn has consolidated Li Hongzhang's position. In the year of Wuxu, the domestic political situation in the Qing Dynasty was turbulent, and the court was not safe. Zhou Charter was aggressive in Taiwan, and the southeast coast was blowing. Empress Dowager Cixi was helpless and thought of Li Hongzhang, hoping that Li Hongzhang would govern both sides and stabilize Zhou Charter.

The Empress Dowager Cixi tried to use Li Hongzhang to appease Zhou Charter, purely to drink poison to quench her thirst. If these two people take up their hands, the Qing Dynasty will never have peace. But she really can't think of any other good way.

Before Zhou Charter met Li Hongzhang, Sun Wen came to visit Li Hongzhang first.

A chaotic party, a loyal minister and filial son of the Qing Dynasty, these two people unexpectedly met quietly in Guangzhou!

"Did Sun Wen see Li Zhongtang?" Zhou Charter asked: "Is it Li Zhongtang..."

Zhang Peilun said, "The two met in the study, and there were only Li Zhongtang and Sun Wen at the scene. However, Li Zhongtang asked me to sit inside, only through a screen. I can hear the conversation between the two people in the study clearly.

"Why is Li Zhongtang?" Zhou Charter asked. Since Li Hongzhang thought that his meeting with Sun Wen was a secret, he let Zhang Peilun sit behind the scenes and eavesdrop. Li Hongzhang, an old fox, doesn't know what he is doing.

Zhang Peilun smiled and did not answer.

"What did they say?" Zhou Charter asked.

"Sun Wen is endless. He planned a blueprint to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, end the imperial system, and establish a democratic republic. He hoped that Li Zhongtang would lead the two Guangzi to rise up and help him realize this blueprint.

"How could Li Zhongtang make Sun Wen go on with these rebellious words?" Zhou Charter was very surprised.

Zhang Peilun said, "Li Zhongtang is old and not in good spirits. As soon as Sun Wen said a few words, Li Zhongtang fell asleep and snored like thunder. Later, Sun Wen said, feeling bored and got up to leave. It was not easy to disturb Li Zhongtang. I had to go out and send Sun Wen out of the house. When I returned to the study, Li Zhongtang has not yet Wake up. Later, when the old man woke up, he was first surprised why the guest was missing. Hearing that Sun Wen had left, Li Zhongtang sighed: He is old and useless! If I had been at the age of Zhou Charter, I wouldn't have been so rude!"

Zhou Charter laughed dumbly.

Li Hongzhang is over 70 years old. After the toss of the Sino-Japanese War, his spirit is not as good as before. When he meets guests, he often falls asleep, which is also common. However, Zhou Charter will never believe that he will fall asleep when he meets Sun Wen, the leader of the chaotic party!

Li Hongzhang, an old slippery man, asked Sun Wen to listen to Zhang Peilun! But he himself is out of the matter!

"What happened later?" Zhou Charter asked.

"There is no later." Zhang Peilun said, "Li Zhongtang never mentioned Sun Wen again, just like that incident has never happened."

Zhang Peilun said and looked at Zhou Charter meaningfully: "Mr. Zhou is a sensible person and should be able to understand what Li Zhongtang means!"

Zhou Charter is silent.

Li Hongzhang, as a local member of the imperial court, met with Sun Wen, the leader of the chaotic party. Even if he didn't say anything, did nothing, and didn't hear anything, which was itself "doing"!

Li Hongzhang is asking Zhang Peilun to send a message to Zhou Charter: He is old and is unable to bear the burden of changing the dynasty. This change of dynasty should be the matter of young Zhou Charter!

Li Hongzhang, the pillar of the Qing Dynasty, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, has been completely desperate for the Qing Dynasty!

Zhou Charter said slowly, "Mr. Zhang, what about the second anecdote?"

"Prince Gong is critically ill. If there is no accident, he will not survive April." Zhang Peilun said.

"I've also heard about this." Zhou Charter said, "I heard that Prince Gong hasn't been to court for more than a year."

"Yes!" Zhang Peilun said, "What Mr. Zhou doesn't know is that just half a month ago, Prince Gong dragged his sick body and forced him to go to the Summer Palace."

"There is such a thing!" Zhou Charter asked in shock, "I heard that Prince Gong is extremely weak and can't go out at all!"

"He asked someone to carry him in!" Zhang Peilun said, "Prince Gong kept his last breath and struggled to see the Empress Dowager Cixi. For one thing, he asked the Empress Dowager not to make Pu Yan, the son of King Zaiyi, the eldest brother!" Even dispel the idea of supporting a new king. Prince Gong asked the Empress Dowager for permission to open a parliament and implement the constitutional monarchy led by Emperor Guangxu!"

"Why is that?" Zhou Charter was greatly surprised by the constitutional monarchy, and even the members of the Weixin Party firmly opposed it. Because the post-constitutional emperor will lose power and become a symbol of the country, and what the people of the new party hope is to carry out a vigorous and vigorous change with a monarchy dictatorship. Once Emperor Guangxu becomes a symbol, it will be difficult for the reformists to launch a top-down reform.

Prince Gong Zaiyi is even more radical than the members of the Weixin Party! He actually asked the emperor of the Qing Dynasty to voluntarily give up power!

Zhang Peilun sighed, "Prince Gong is a sensible person. The constitutional monarchy is the last way to keep the throne of Aixinjueluo! Unfortunately, his wish is difficult to come true! Even if the Empress Dowager agrees to establish a constitution, the Qing Dynasty will be finished sooner or later! Prince Gong saw this, but he could only be a living doctor and put the only way out to maintain the imperial power on the constitution! In fact, what Prince Gong wants to defend is not the imperial power, but the lives of the sons of the Qing Dynasty! Once the Qing Dynasty perish, I'm afraid that the children of the Qing Dynasty will be slaughtered! The Ming Dynasty perished, and Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants were almost extinct! Prince Gong is afraid of karma! Therefore, he thought that as long as he could keep the throne of Guangxu, he could keep the descendants of Nurhachi!"

"Is Mr. Zhang too pessimistic? Prince Gong's opinion may be a way, and the constitutional monarchy may really be the best of both ways. Not only has it preserved the throne of Aixinjue Luo, but also can return the government to the people. This is the way for Japan's Meiji Restoration.

Zhang Peilun smiled and said, "This is the third anecdote. It is said that Kang Youwei secretly summoned Tang Cai, a member of the Weixin Party, to Beijing often!"

"Tang Cai often goes to Beijing!" Zhou Charter was shocked again. Tang Cai is often a radical reformist, advocating strengthening the monarchy and carrying out iron-blooded reform with Kangxi-style arbitrariness! He set up a self-supporting army in order to wash the conservative forces led by Empress Dowager Cixi and completely eradicate the obstacles of reform from the body! Tang Cai often goes to Beijing, heralding a bloody storm!

"Kang Youwei's new change has been strongly opposed by conservative forces. Kang Youwei's policy of changing the law mainly has three. The first is to cut six departments and set up a system bureau, which violated the vital interests of the officials of the Manchu dynasty and aroused the opposition of the officials of the Manchu Dynasty. The second article abolished the imperial examination, which cut off the way for the world's scholars to enter, and all the scholars in the world spit on it. The third article abolished the eight flags and broke the mantle of the sons of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. My brother cried outside the Summer Palace all day. These three were unanimously opposed by the people from the people to the court, and it was difficult for the emperor to implement them even if he had the intention. Therefore, until now, the Weixin has become thunderous and rainy, and there has been no progress. However, the Germans forcibly occupied Qingdao, and it is urgent for the powers to carve up China. Kang Youwei and Tan Sitong believe that if the law remains unchanged, China will die! Therefore, Tang Cai often went to Beijing this time, indicating that the members of the New Progressive Party want to break through the boat, solve the conservative forces by force, and forcibly implement the new policy of changing the law!"

Zhou Charter nodded: "If the people of the New Progressives successfully launch an armed coup, the result must be the arbitrariness of Emperor Guangxu, and the so-called constitutional monarchy will be hopeless!"