"Oh, the Regent, this is the time and time. We don't have to worry about these things. As long as we can protect the Qing Dynasty, we can ignore the royal face. The ancients said that if we keep the green mountains, we are not afraid of burning firewood." Yi Li comforted.

"Okay, Uncle Wang, I'll listen to your old man. Let Xu Shichang set off immediately tomorrow.

Go to Huanshang Village to negotiate and let Yuan Gongbao come out of the mountain." Zaifeng said with a shame and lowered his head.

"As for the order." Yi Li bowed his order and quickly left the hall to arrange matters.

Although Yi Li was usually greedy for money and made countless money, it was shaky in the Qing Dynasty.

When he was about to fall, as a member of the Aisin Gioro family, he was dragging his sick body and still tried his best to support him.

...

"Brother Bu Wu, don't be fine!" Yuan Gongbao was very happy to hear that Xu Shichang was coming, so he arranged for his eldest son Yuan Keding to the Yuanjia Station to welcome him grandly. He walked to the entrance of the village for the first time, which was the gate of the mansion.

"Oh, my lord of the middle hall, you are inconvenient to your legs and feet, so you are still here in person. Bu Wushi dare not be the one!" Xu Shichang hurriedly stepped forward to salute, feeling a little flattered.

Xu Shichang and Yuan Gongbao were fellow villagers in Henan. He passed the imperial examination in his early years, later became a Jinshi, and was awarded the title of Shujishi of the Hanlin Academy. To outsiders, this is a bright career in the officialdom!

But he is a very talented but also very scholarly scholar. He has a deep foundation in Chinese studies. He not only writes books and speaks, but also studies calligraphy and has great achievements. He is an official in the capital. He is not good at adapting and is jealous and excluded.

Yuan Gongbao's career was tortuous. He failed to pass the imperial examination for the second consecutive time. Later, he was forced to join the army, but he was able to make a name for himself. He was trained in Tianjin Xiaozhan. Xu Shichang was sent to work there and threw it from the big fish pond to the small stream ditch. However, Yuan was attracted by him and highly valued. He served as the General Office of the Army Barracks Office and gradually became Yuan's ally and was a fellow disciple of each other.

Later, Yuan inherited all the positions of Li Hongzhang, and was the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang. He recommended Xu Shichang to the Military Affairs Office as a walker. Five years later, he served as Minister of Military Affairs and Secretary of the Patrol Department.

In the first year of Xuantong, he entered the cabinet and became the assistant minister of the cabinet, equivalent to the vice premier, helping Prince Qing Yili to handle the government affairs.

"That's right. Brother Bu Wu came from afar. How could Yuan not welcome him? Haha... please..." Yuan Gongbao seemed very excited. He knew that the court sent Xu Shichang to be a lobbyist, which was exactly what he wanted.

The two walked hand in hand into the Yangshouyuan in Huanshang Village and sat down at the host and host of the East Academy.

"Mr. Zhongtang, this time, Xu followed the imperial edict from the court and asked the emperor to serve as the imperial envoy, take over Tieliang's position, supervise Hubei, and eliminate the chaos." As he said that, Xu Shichang stood up and took out the edict from his arms.

Yuan Gongbao was stunned for a moment, but still knelt down on his knees and took the Jin Rotten Decree with both hands, "I will thank you for your gratitude!"

After the ceremony, Xu Shichang stepped back and followed Yuan Gongbao into the inner court of the academy. The two of them drank tea and talked about some topics they talked about.

From the end of last year to the present, outsiders have not understood this play, that is, Yuan Gongbao was ordered by Zaifeng to go home, and since then he became a fisherman. The young and strong sect of the Qing royal family became the master of the temple, while Yuan's Beiyang clan was constantly cleansed, but the Beiyang clan elder Xu Shichang entered the cabinet and instead of surrendering, he became an assistant minister of the cabinet and an important minister of the court.

From then on, Yuan Gongbao knew everything about the movements in the court without leaving the house, because Xu Shichang was present on the surface, and Yuan secretly controlled everything in the Beiyang faction through telegrams.

This was Zaifeng's mistake on the surface, but he did not eliminate the roots. In fact, Prince Qing Yili tried his best to stop it, because he loved Xu Shichang's wisdom and ability. There were not many capable people among his cabinet ministers, all of them were the Eight Banners. There were only Xu among the Han ministers. He had to keep his dignity. Otherwise, it would be too painful for the constitutional monarchies.

After the Wuhan uprising, Zaifeng offered a price to ask Yuan Gongbao to be the governor of Huguang, but before the edict arrived, Xu's telegram arrived first, which was obviously not what the Beiyang faction expected.

This time, Xu Shichang came in person. The two of them discussed the conditions for Yuan to come out of the mountain together. There was only one core element, that is, how to get Yuan Gongbao to come out of the mountain and maximize the interests of the Beiyang faction.

"Lord Zhongtang, this is the best time. After this village, there will be no such store. We must seize it!" Xu Shichang said.

He has always used the previous honorific title because in his mind, Yuan Gongbao is the only prime minister who can turn the tide in his contemporary era.

"Brother Bu Wu said that, Yuan didn't expect Yi Li to let you come to Huanshang Village as a lobbyist." Yuan Gongbao said with a smile on his beard.

"He was also forced to do so. The cabinet is now in internal and external troubles, and the outside is aggressive by the powerful powers of the East and West. Japan and Russia use the Wuhan rebellion as an excuse to take the opportunity to invade, while Britain, the United States, France and Germany hope that someone can come to power and turn the tide. Yi Li is old and he is powerless and unwilling to deal with such a mess. He is eager to give up his position and you will take over the position." Xu Shichang said.

"So, Prince Qing is still self-aware!" Yuan Gongbao said with a smile.

"That's of course. Prince Qing has made a lot of money over the years. The treasury is so poor. To put it bluntly, he is a labourer for him. He has given up. If Prince Qing is still him, why bother! Now the governments of Britain, the United States, Germany and France all hope that you will form a responsible cabinet. In my opinion, this is one of the conditions for you to come out of the mountain."

"Okay, let's negotiate this condition today." Yuan Gongbao nodded and said.

In this way, Yuan Gongbao and Xu Shichang formulated the conditions for leaving the mountain in the academy court: that is, establish a parliament, organize a responsible cabinet, govern the country's army and navy, make up military salaries, forgive revolutionaries, and disband the infamous Military Consulting Department.

With the six requests signed by Yuan Gongbao, Xu Shichang returned to the capital without stopping and presented Zaifeng with Yi Li in person.

Zaifeng's face looked very ugly, but he had no choice but to lose power. It's better to lose power than to destroy the country, so he can only accept it in full.

In this way, Yuan Gongbao took the airs and took office to Xinyang. As the imperial envoy, he replaced the futile Tieliang, and led the Beiyang Army, as well as the Qing army patrol and green camps in Hubei, Henan and Hunan, and took control of the military power in all.

Tieliang was demoted to the admiral of Jiangsu and set off on his post since the date of the promulgation of the imperial edict.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Jiangnan is now in the tide of revolution, and the rule of the Qing Dynasty there was a mixture of wind and snow. Tieliang took office and jumped into the fire pit, which was a lot of danger.

The first thing Yuan Gongbao did after taking office was to order the reorganization of the Qing army.

Feng Guozhang was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the front line of Wuhan to suppress the rebellion, and the president of the First Army. He commanded the former Beiyang First Army sequence, and Zhang Biao and other more than 15,000 Qing troops, totaling more than 40,000 Qing troops rushed to Hankou.
Chapter completed!