104 Pioneer 8
A new moon in the sky is like the thin eyebrows of a woman in the south of the Yangtze River. The scenery is delicate, and the leaked moonlight is really miserable and bleak. In the late autumn night in the north, there was already a slight chill. Cining Palace quietly became a lonely place, and several guarded eunuchs shrank their necks like a bear.
Empress Dowager Longyu sat on the soft couch, and her dress was still as elegant as the graceful and elegance of the old Buddha in the past, but the desolate look could no longer be concealed. The white-haired stars on the temples could not be hidden. The apocalyptic atmosphere of the Qing Empire has been written on the face of this yellow-faced old lady.
Wearing Flagman's bottle shoes, like several female officials stepping on the crow's high stood silently and did not dare to make a sound. The brocade cheongsam on his body is so gorgeous, but it is not a hundred years later that the fork is opened to the waist, revealing the bloody cheongsam of the white thighs. The cheongsam worn by these female officials is not prominent at all, the fork is not high, and the trousers are still worn underneath.
The old woman's face is as dark as it is. In the past few days, she is in a very bad mood. Even the Ruyao left by Master Qianlong was broken by the unhappy old lady. The waiters are extra careful for fear of bringing unprovoked disasters to themselves if they don't pay attention. Stuffed into the well, or a white-collar worker, that is the vip treatment only for concubines. There are many ways for these slaves to die. Anyway, there is no whole body. In the eyes of this master and empress dowager's wife, it is not as good as a Ruyao, and even a Dongzhu is more expensive than these slaves.
It seemed that they had been holding each other for a long time, and they were so quiet that they breathed weakly. The old master of the Empress Dowager made a slight move, and the female officials immediately understood and retreated. He came out of the ghost gate again, all of whom were surprised, and tried their best to suppress them from the surface. The court is like this. The masters are always moody, and the lives of the slaves are always at risk. The slaves are always shocked step by step, and the life of the slave is like the grass on the ground.
Out of Cining Palace, the eunuch who walked with her head down would also chat. An eunuch sighed, "The master is becoming more and more difficult to serve. Just standing there, which scared me to sweat coldly."
The eunuch on the right said, "This shows your ability. If you are comfortable serving the master at this time, the master's reward will not come like splashing the sky, or you can be as majestic as Li Lianying and Zhang Dehai."
The eunuch said these two names and immediately shut up alertly. If the names of these two people are mentioned in the palace, it will cause trouble for no reason. But being a slave in the palace is this hope. The outside revolution is surging, fighting for human rights, civil rights, and national sovereignty. In their eyes, they only think that these revolutionaries are crazy. For thousands of years, Chinese people have been like this. Those revolutionaries want to change. What if they are not crazy? Slaves will always be slaves. They don't dare to do things with the revolutionaries. They are afraid when they just think about it.
"It's all revolutionary, and it's not easy to serve the master." In a moment of silence, the eunuch couldn't help opening his mouth. Life in the Forbidden City is extremely boring, and only gossip can be used to pass the time.
The two eunuchs approached a little closer, and their voices were lower, and their voices were inexplicably excited. "I heard the outside bodyguard say that Wang Jingwei wrapped two "duck eggs" with Nanyang cigarette packaging tin foil, and wanted to kill the regent in Jinshui Bridge. Crazy, he is really crazy! It is said that Wang Jingwei is a figure who looks like a brocade rat and a white jade hall. He learns from Jing Ke to stab the King of Qin and the five rats to make trouble in Tokyo. The capital is very noisy. The princes outside hide in the house and dare not go out.
"No, the eunuchs in the palace have spread. The revolutionary enemies are all seven chivalrous and five righteousnesses, Liangshan and green forests. Sun Wen, the bandit leader, has green eyebrows and red eyes, and fights the world with these vicious bandits. Li Xiang, the newly rising revolutionary in Hubei, is even more amazing. He kills people without blinking an eye and never leaves prisoners. Hubei has been slaughtered by him for several times, and he wants to steam a baby every day. He is good at martial arts. He is as fierce as a murderer on the battlefield. The four heavenly kings under Ruicheng's seat were sucked to death by him. The eunuch said here and couldn't help shivering. The people in the capital are deeply influenced by the Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness, which is the same as the Four Books and Five Classics. There are many legends about revolutionaries in the market, which are basically the fears of revolutionaries. Which child cries at night, or it is not easy to discipline, as long as the revolutionary comes to ensure that it can be cured.
In the majestic palace, there is no gossip outside, but it can't stop the old woman's fear of the revolutionaries. Nowadays, there is only the old woman sitting alone, and the four outside are even more terrible quiet. The drums of the woodcutter sounded again, and it was already the third watch. Usually, the little emperor goes to bed early, and the Empress Dowager also has the habit of going to bed early, but tonight, she seems to be waiting for something, sitting all the time. What has happened in the past few days is a thunderbolt for her, an old lady! Her eyes stared straight at the silver candle without a lampshade, and the candle flame beat and imprinted deep into her pupils.
After Yuan Shikai accepted the position of imperial minister on the spot, he did not come to Beijing for a long time. After being awarded the position of Prime Minister Yuan Shikai, he was still so humble that he didn't accept it. Now the Cabinet and Parliament is talking about this matter, and there is no result in the third update.
Although the military in Hubei heard her confidant eunuch Zhang Dehai say, it seems that after Yuan Shikai arrived in Xinyang, he had a little clue and took a barrier to open the door of Hubei. However, there is unstable news from other provinces. This province is also independent, and that province is also independent. If the momentum continues like this, the Qing Dynasty will collapse.
In the Tengyue Revolution in western Yunnan, the civil and military officials fled and surrendered without resistance. Taiyuan, Shanxi Province became independent, and the governor Lu Zhongqi and his son were killed. On the second day of Shanxi's independence, on the ninth day of September, the Yunnan Alliance rose again. Cai E was promoted as the governor and is now marching towards Sichuan. During the day today, the regent came to the palace to deliver a message. The navy sent to Hubei has never fought against the civilian army. A few days later, he actually sailed down the Jiujiang River yesterday and also declared independence! There are emergency reports in Shanghai, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangsu, Guangxi and Guangdong, and they can't protect the day of the accident.
For a period of time, Yi Kuang, La Tong and others have been singing every day to ask Yuan Shikai to come out to maintain the overall situation. The regent will not do it, but it seems that his tone is not so hard today. This afternoon, he will convene a cabinet meeting to discuss the request of Yi Kuang and others, that is, the request of Yuan Shikai, and ask the Empress Dowager to send someone to attend the meeting in order to report to her. She sent Zhang Dehai, but he hasn't come back yet. It's the third watch, and it's time to negotiate a charter.
While the old lady was hesitant with a headache, there was a familiar sound of footsteps in the corridor, and her headache was fierce. Zhang Dehai knelt down at the Empress Dowager's feet like a ghost, still as obedient as ever, and his whole body lay on the cold ground.
Long Yu looked at the slave under his feet and asked in a trembling voice, "Zhang Dehai, why did you come back so late?"
Zhang Dehai raised a charming and smooth face, with a feminine smile, and a unique feminine voice of the eunuch: "The princes of Qing forced him fiercely, and the regent showed it."
The old lady closed her eyes and couldn't help but jump. In fact, she didn't know that it would be such a result, but she continued to ask, "He just handed over the power?"
"This is also a matter of no way! Prince Qing said: If he doesn't give Yuan Shikai full military and political power, he won't come out to do things honestly. I'm afraid there will be a problem in Beijing after a few more days! Xu Shichang also said: The foreigners on the other side of the people's alley in the eastern suburbs also unanimously said that they were not Yuan. The regent also received a note from the foreigners. If the bandit party is not fast to be extinguished, the foreigners will form a coalition to fight. Prince Qing said again that if he hesitated again, everyone had to burn all the jade. He doesn't have to come to court. If you annoy the foreigners, the story of Gengzi Year will happen again. Zhang Dehai picked up serious words to scare the old woman, and secretly looked at the old woman's face.
Mrs. Longyu's face was pale, and she never felt that the palace was cold and helpless at this moment. In the hand of the inheritance of the Qing Dynasty, he actually fell into such a situation. At this moment, his heart is really contradictory. There was a glimmer of hope that the regent could stick to the previous stubbornness and withstand the pressure of the court. It seemed difficult. What did the regent say?
Zhang Dehai quickly replied, "The regent works on state affairs day and night, and his spirit is also very bad these days. The meeting has not been held for a long time, and he is also very frustrated. In fear and panic, the regent has agreed to issue four "ortals" to release "State criminals", truly implement "constitutional government" and implement the organization of "responsible cabinet". The regent also said that if Yuan Shikai refused to go back to Beijing to preside over the overall situation, he would not be able to control so much. From tomorrow on, he will no longer be a director. Those four "or edicts" asked me to come back and ask the Empress Dowager to make a final determination.
The old man almost cried. The regent didn't even have this responsibility, and he wanted to let her make a final determination. She knows nothing. The nails wrapped in gold are longer than the old lady in the countryside, and her knowledge is not longer than the old lady in the countryside. Zhang Dehai, everyone left us orphans and widows behind. Do you think Yuan Shikai will come out this time? Can you stand it when you come out? Is it reliable?"
The extremely helpless old woman can only ask the eunuch under her feet. This doomsday scene is also in the Forbidden City. Who has the means to go against the sky?
Zhang Dehai still doesn't know how much money he eats Yuan Shikai. This eunuch, who is not in his body, will look at his face and only loves silver but not beautiful women, has been waiting for this opportunity to talk and fool his wife again. He lowered his head into his trousers and thought about it for a while with an extremely serious face. He was still so feminine and said calmly, "Yuan Shikai has agreed to all the conditions he wants, and he will definitely go out of the mountain. He showed his good ability when suppressing the boxing chaos. The Beiyang Army has also been brought out by him for many years. Now the combatable soldiers are also led by his old subordinates. Foreigners have recommended him more than once, which must be some ways. As for whether Yuan Shikai is credible or not, there is no one in the Zong family! In fact, there is no fact about him like that. He has been keeping a low profile at home for so many years, and he has not heard anything that is beyond the rules. What's more, Prince Qing believes in him like this. Prince Qing will naturally think about the Qing Dynasty first.
When Longyu's old lady has no way to go, no matter how illusory the future is, she has to believe it. But the prince of Qing is really not reliable at all. Even her old lady looks confused. Still asked unrevinedly, "Does the regent have nothing else to say?"
"When the regent left, he said something..." Zhang Dehai looked up at his wife and said, "He said that he would come to discuss with the empress dowager tomorrow and prepare to take the emperor to hunt in the north. The capital can't stay anyway."