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"Do all my lovers have a good strategy to retreat from the enemy?" Seeing that Yuan Kai stopped talking, the Empress Dowager Longyu had to turn to the officials for help.Now that the building is about to collapse, these ministers below are not of one mind with Yuan Kai, waiting for a change of dynasty.It is the old master who embraces the teachings of Confucius and Mencius all day long, speaks clearly but is powerless in practice.When the country's affairs are so difficult, who can reverse the situation?Therefore, hearing the Queen Mother's inquiry, the ministers all lowered their heads and did not look up at all.

Seeing that the ministers down there shrank their heads and no one was willing to give her advice, the Empress Dowager Longyu couldn't help feeling sad.At this time, Empress Dowager Longyu couldn't help but miss Zaifeng a little bit. Although he didn't have much ability, he was at least willing to share the burden with her.At this time, the Empress Dowager Longyu even complained to the Empress Dowager a little. If she left herself a minister like Li Hongzhang, she would not have to rely on Yuan Wei, an ambitious man.

"Yuan Aiqing, you are the prime minister of the cabinet. Let the cabinet discuss this matter first. I am tired, so please kneel down." Empress Dowager Longyu had no choice but to push the issue to the cabinet. back to the palace.

After the Empress Dowager Longyu left the hall, Yuan Kai straightened up and looked at the upright plaque and the golden dragon chair, with a smile on his lips. "Brother Meng, what should we do now?" Xu Haichang approached and asked in a low voice.

Yuan Kai put his hands behind his back, and said confidently: "Everything is under control, brother brother, don't worry, let's go back and talk about it." After he finished speaking, he looked at the ministers on the left and right, and left the hall with ease.

Back at the Palace of Compassion, the Empress Dowager Longyu was so angry that she was stunned for a while and said to the maid: "Ask the Imperial Dining Room to bring me a bowl of Poria cocos and black-bone chicken soup. Remember to add more pearl powder." Powder to suppress shock.

The palace lady still went to pass on the message, and the eunuch Pang who was serving her came over and handed the hookah, lit it for the Empress Dowager Longyu and said in a low voice: "The Empress Dowager is for the affairs of the Revolutionary Party?"

"Isn't it? Yuan Wei is useless, even the Revolutionary Party can't be defeated, and now there is another Zhao Shouhong who has failed God." Empress Dowager Longyu sighed, now she doesn't believe any ministers in the court, and the depression in her heart I can only talk to the eunuch and maid who is close to me.

"Queen Mother, I heard everyone talking in private that the Revolutionary Party kills people without blinking an eye. I heard that these people killed all the local officials when they took over the place, leaving no one alive at all." A court lady said beside her.

"Yes, I heard that the Revolutionary Party has now occupied more than a dozen provinces, and they are about to hit Zhili." Another court lady also said that these people were bought by Yuan Kai to deliberately scare the Queen Mother Longyu.The effect of this move was very obvious. After hearing what the maids said, the Empress Dowager Longyu's expression changed immediately, and her body trembled even more.

"Go aside, don't talk nonsense." Eunuch Pang drove the maids away, and then said in a low voice: "Don't listen to them, Queen Mother, it's all nonsense. If the Revolutionary Party is so powerful, how can Lord Yuan regain Jiangkou and Hebei?" Xiakou two towns."

After Eunuch Pang said this, Empress Dowager Longyu's face looked a little better. She nodded and said, "That's right, with Mr. Yuan's new Northern Territory army here, the Ai family can feel relieved."

"That's right, the Revolutionary Party doesn't have much power, and it can't turn the sky." Eunuch Pang said in a thin, womanly voice, calmly: "The most worrying thing is Zhao Shouhong from Zhongchuan. I heard that he He has been operating in Zhongchuan for many years with the intention of usurping. The last time Zhongchuan troubled the army to protect the road, he actually secretly instigated it, forcing Prince Jin to let him go back. Now that the Revolutionary Party just started, he sent troops to occupy the Western Regions , Beijiang, and Guanghai City, and later took down half of the inner Xiongnu, and it is said that the army is almost at Zhangjiakou."

Eunuch Pang was not of one mind with Queen Mother Longyu either, in fact he was also bought by Yuan Kai.Eunuch Pang's words were even more vicious. The Empress Dowager Longyu didn't have any sensory understanding of the fact that the Revolutionary Party killed people without blinking an eye. Made her really scared.

The place name Zhangjiakou is no stranger to Empress Dowager Longyu. It is an important gateway to Zhili, very close to the imperial capital.Once Zhao Shouhong conquered Zhangjiakou, the imperial capital would be at stake. The Zhongchuan army could reach the imperial capital in one day along the Dizhang Railway. How could this not scare her.Thinking that Zhao Shouhong might attack the imperial capital within a day, Empress Dowager Longyu couldn't sit still: "Hurry up, invite all the cabinet ministers to enter the palace to discuss matters."

As soon as they got home, the cabinet ministers whose buttocks were still hot were brought back again.Yuan Kai and others walked into the hall one by one, but Emperor Xuanxing was not present at this time.In the Nuan Pavilion, apart from the accompanying maids and eunuchs, only the Empress Dowager Longyu was there sighing.

"The ministers will kowtow to the Queen Mother." Yuan Kai led the crowd to kneel down and salute.

"Let's get back together." Empress Dowager Longyu wiped away her tears and said, "Yuan Qing's family, let me ask you, is it true that Zhongchuan's army is about to hit Zhangjiakou?"

Yuan Kui was secretly happy when he heard that, it seemed that the money was not in vain, the people in the palace dared to say such things to scare the Queen Mother, it was really bold.Seeing the opportunity came, Yuan Wei naturally had to perform well. He pretended to be trembling and knelt down in the tunnel and said: "The old minister is incompetent, please forgive me the Queen Mother. In the Central Plains, it is difficult to return for a while. I ask the Queen Mother to patrol Rehe to avoid its edge."

What Yuan Kai said seemed to be extremely critical, and the Empress Dowager Longyu was so frightened that she burst into tears. "Is there no other way? Isn't the patrolling Rehe going to disregard the imperial capital?"

Yuan Kai pretended to ask: "Although the army in the northern region under my minister's command is not afraid, they can only deal with one enemy at a time. Now the main force of the new army in the northern region is attacking the revolutionary party in the Central Plains, and it is really beyond the reach of the Zhongchuan army." After a pause, he continued: "For the current plan, I'm afraid the only way left is to negotiate a peace."

"Negotiate peace?" Empress Dowager Longyu stopped her mourning, and looked at Yuan Kai with red eyes from crying.

Chapter 423 North-South Peace Talks

"That's right. Now the country's affairs are difficult, and we can't support the two-front battle at all. Once the Zhongchuan army takes advantage of it, the minister will die. The only plan for the present is to negotiate a peace to preserve the peace of the royal family." Yuan Kai said.Empress Dowager Longyu was terrified, now that she heard that Yuan Kai had a solution, she agreed without even thinking about it.

With the decree of the Empress Dowager Longyu, Yuan Kai had confidence, and he immediately sent a peace talk intention to the Central Plains military government.Yuan Kai sent a signal of peace, and soon won the support of the great powers.Westerners consider their own interests, and the post-Golden government has long been a deck of cards in their hands. Although it has become decayed, it is easy to grasp.Therefore, at the beginning of the democratic revolution, almost all the forces in China in the Western Continent did not support the uprising forces. They did not know where the situation in Hualan would develop next.

Although the rebels claimed to recognize the rights of the Western Continent countries in China at the beginning of the establishment of the military government, and recognized all the treaties signed with the Western Continent countries.However, for an owner of existing interests and an invader of the sovereignty of the host country, even if the revolution is not the target, it will feel uneasy and feel like a huge potential threat.Therefore, Saar, White Eagle, Rakshasa, Gaul and other countries all hope to keep the imperial court so that they can continue to squeeze and exploit.

It was under such circumstances that when Yuan Kui issued a peaceful invitation, ministers from various countries expressed their support.But to Yuan Kai's surprise, he sent a signal of peace, and no one from the southern revolutionary party was willing to come out to negotiate.

In fact, it is not that the Revolutionary Party does not want to negotiate. On the contrary, under the strong military pressure of the Northern Territory Army, the Hanxia Revolutionary Party has reached the verge of collapse.Since the Jiangxia Uprising, all provinces have become independent one after another, among which there are three relatively powerful ones.The Hanxia Revolutionary Army, which established the Central Plains military government, captured Hangzhou, and Chen Qimei, who led the Ningjiang Warlord, and the Nandu National Army led by Huang Bin.

At this time, the Revolutionary Party was in a state of anarchy, with many internal factions and no leader that everyone expected.Among the more than a dozen independent provinces in the country, except for Zhao Shouhong's party who did not participate in the resolution of the Gongxinghui, the three major forces mentioned above, Hangzhou, Hanxia, ​​and Nandu, were not convinced by each other.

Li Yuanhong first came forward as a leader, saying that the provinces should send representatives to come to Hanxia to discuss the formation of the central government.Not to be outdone, Chen Qimei immediately contacted Jiangbei governor Cheng Dequan and Ningjiang governor Tang Shouqian to jointly issue a statement, hoping that the provinces would send people to the affluent Hangzhou to form a central government.Huang Bin, as a revolutionary pioneer and Sun Wenhai's agent, asked the provinces to send representatives to Nandu to discuss the convening of the National Assembly.

Several major powers in the south are arguing with each other, and no one pays any attention to the peace talks in the north.They can ignore it, but Yuan Wei can't. If he can't negotiate peace with the revolutionary party, how can he seek the best interests.At this time, Yang Xizi stepped forward, and he offered advice to Yuan Kai: "They quarrel with them, let's talk about ours. Since the revolutionary factions can't be separated for a while, we can send three groups of representatives to compete with Hangzhou, Hanxia, ​​etc. Get in touch with Nandu."

What Yuan Kai needs most now is to make a posture of negotiating with the south, so as to bargain with the court.Negotiation with representatives of the three parties is at least much better than no negotiation.Unexpectedly, after Yuan Kai made this intention, several major forces in the south agreed.

Soon Yuan Kai sent a high-level negotiating delegation, with Tang Shaoyi as the head and Yang Du and Yang Shiqi as the deputy.The other party's delegation was also not low in standard. The head of the delegation was Wu Tingfang, a famous modern diplomat, and the deputy head of the delegation was one from each of the three parties. They were Li Yuanhong from Hanxia, ​​Huang Bin from Nandu, and Chen Qimei from Hangzhou.

At Yuan Kui's request, the two parties decided to hold negotiations in Guanghai City.Chen Qimei was guilty of being a thief and dared not enter Guanghai City for fear of Zhao Shouhong's revenge.In the end, the place where the two sides negotiated was placed in the Ministry of Industry Bureau in the public concession, but in this way, the Dashu military government also sent several representatives.

Soon the delegations from both sides arrived in Guanghai City as scheduled. When Tang Shaoyi and Wu Tingfang met, instead of the tense atmosphere, the two sides were very friendly.It turned out that the two had known each other since they had worked together in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for many years, and they had a very good personal relationship.

After exchanging greetings, the two parties sat down. Tang Shaoyi looked at the people across the way and asked, "Didn't you say that Zhongchuan would also send someone over? Why didn't you see it?"

Wu Tingfang said: "The Dashu military government in Zhongchuan is not a member of our Gongxinghui. Their organization is the Hualan Vanguard Party, which has little to do with us, so we don't know their whereabouts."

"Hualan Pioneer Party?" Tang Shaoyi frowned. He knew this organization that had just gained fame in the country in the past two months.The internal structure of this party is obviously very tight, and it has grown to such a large extent without any prior disclosure.

But now they are extraordinary as soon as they make a move. In the short period of the Northern Territory Army and the Revolutionary Army's war between Han and Xia, this organization has already occupied the Western Regions, Northern Xinjiang and most of the Huns in the north.In the east, they ran for thousands of miles, not only occupying Songjiang Mansion, Haimenting and Taicang Prefecture where Guanghai City is located, but also conquering the nearby Tongzhou, Yangzhou Mansion, Zhenjiang Mansion, Changzhou Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, and Huzhou Mansion in just half a month. They have already captured one-third of Jiangbei Province and a corner of Ningjiang Province. In addition, they also captured Jiujiang Prefecture in Jiangzuo Province. Such combat efficiency, even It is also difficult for the Northern Territory Army to match.

If we only talk about the territory, the current Dashu military government has become one of the most powerful forces in the country. However, Tang Shaoyi and Yuan Kai share the same point of view. Those sparsely populated territories are not very useful even if they are occupied.According to his estimation, all the northwest areas occupied by the Dashu Military Government combined are not as rich as Guanghai City.

Just when the two delegations were wondering why the Dashu Military Government, which had agreed to send representatives in advance, did not arrive for a long time, hearty laughter came in from outside.A handsome young man in a grass-green military uniform walked in quickly, accompanied by two young men in suits and three soldiers.

Seeing that the two sides had already sat down, the young man said to both sides: "Everyone, don't be offended, because the road is not smooth, Zhao Shouhong came late."

"Hiss." Hearing the other party's name, everyone gasped.They never expected that Zhao Shouhong would be able to come to Guanghai City from Zhongchuan in person, which is simply impossible.

Chapter 424 The Battle of the National System

Since Sa Zhenbing had no choice but to leave, the navy on the Hanxia River fell into the hands of Tang Xiangming.He immediately announced the naval uprising, and then the fleet was docked at Jiangxia nearby to defend the position of the revolutionary army.

With such a fleet blocking the waterway of the Longjiang River, how could Zhao Shouhong get from Zhongchuan to Guanghai City through the Longjiang River.In fact, these people didn't know that Zhao Shouhong didn't take the Longjiang route at all, but arrived at Guanghai City by taking a long way.

A few days ago, Tang Jiyao and Cai E joined forces to launch a mutiny in Jiaozhi and seized control of Jiaozhi in one fell swoop.With Tang Jiyao as his own person and Cai E as his good friend, Zhao Shouhong could pass through Jiaozhi without any surprises, so he boarded the train from Ningyuan Hall, and went directly to Kyaukpyu Port along the Sichuan-Jiangsu Railway and the Jiao-Myanmar Railway.

Zhao Shouhong inspected Kyaukpyu Port by the way, and specifically visited the newly built tall fort in the port.These forts were specially built by Wu Yuzhang to house the imported fortress guns of the Teutonic Kingdom to resist the attack of the Saars.Now that the fort was completed, he finally felt a sense of security.After leaving some large-caliber fortress guns for Wu Yuzhang who was stationed in the Kokang Kingdom to supplement the port fortress, Zhao Shouhong also handed over a mysterious blueprint of the warship to Wei Han who was in charge of the work in Kyaukpyu Port.

After finishing all this, the satisfied Zhao Shouhong boarded the ship and came to Guanghai City by sea.Of course, this time Zhao Shouhong not only came to Guanghai City by himself, but also brought all the remaining large-caliber fortress guns and army artillery stored by Emperor William in Kyaukpyu Port.After all, Guanghai City is geographically important and has its own industrial zone, so it should be protected.Due to the delay in loading and unloading heavy artillery at Luchao Port Wharf, Zhao Shouhong had just arrived at Guanghai City Port an hour ago, so he was naturally going to be late.

After hearing a few people report their family names, the two delegations knew that the two young men in suits behind Zhao Shouhong were Zhang Liewu, Minister of Industry and Commerce of the Zhongchuan Military Government, and Xie Mingjue, who is now in charge of the government of Guanghai City.As for the three men in military uniform, two were Zhao Shouhong's personal biochemical guards, and the other was Chen Hu, the commander of the special warfare division that Zhong Chuan did not know.The three soldiers did not participate in the negotiations, so after Zhao Shouhong, Xie Chi, and Zhang Peijue took their seats, Chen Hu stood behind to protect their safety.

"I don't know what position Zhao Dudu takes in this negotiation?" Tang Shaoyi spoke first. After all, Zhao Shouhong was anti-gold, but Yuan Kai said that he would help him, so it is very important to ask his position now.

Zhao Shouhong laughed and said, "The delegations on both sides represent Yuan Gong, the backbone of the constitution, and the Gongxinghui, which advocates the republic. In fact, what everyone is arguing about in this negotiation is not the issue of military confrontation between the two sides, but The question of which direction our country should go. Although I am more inclined towards constitutionalism, I am not sure whether this kind of state system can make Hualanfu stronger. Therefore, I plan to listen to your opinions first, maybe it can Inspired me a lot.”

Zhao Shouhong didn't say anything as soon as he called, and he couldn't tell who he wanted to support at all.Seeing Zhao Shouhong being so cunning, Tang Shaoyi had nothing to do with him, so he could only turn his attention to Wu Tingfang.

"I don't know what brother Ting Fang thinks? Can we talk openly and honestly." Tang Shaoyi turned her head and asked.

Wu Tingfang looked at Zhao Shouhong, then at Tang Shaoyi and said, "Our idea is to overthrow the decadent post-Jin rule and replace autocracy with a republic, so that the country can gradually become prosperous and strong."

"I can't even see it. Now there are so many factions on the Communist Party of China alone. If you can't unify your own opinions, how can you lead the country? If the whole country has become a lot of factions, this Is it still a unified country? How can we talk about prosperity under a state of disunity?" Zhao Shouhong interjected, and Wu Tingfang blushed when he said it.

Today's Gongxinghui is indeed like a mess. Most of them are divided by region. Each faction insists on the interests of the province and easily disobeys the domination of other provinces. This is the biggest headache for Huang Bin and others.

"Shouhong can't say that. After all, the republic is the direction of the development of human society. Don't you see that the White Eagle Kingdom and the Gaul Kingdom both have a republican government system?" Huang Bin interjected. He originally had a good impression of Zhao Shouhong , but now he had to defend his ideals.

"The success of the White Eagle Kingdom and the Gaul Kingdom does not mean that the republic is excellent. On the contrary, the most powerful Saar Kingdom and the Teutonic Kingdom in the world are constitutional monarchies, and even the later Wa Kingdom is the same." Zhao Shouhong said: "Whether a political system can be successful depends mainly on the actual situation of the country. In Hualan today, I can't see a situation that is conducive to the republic, at least the quality of the people is not there." Zhao Shouhong spread his hands, he is purely Worried about the warlords' melee in the future, I couldn't help but express my dissuasion.But this opening reassured Tang Shaoyi that he really was helping her side.

"After the Han Xia uprising, eighteen provinces across the country have responded. Doesn't this mean that the republic is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people?" Li Yuanhong asked.