Chapter 136 Three-way struggle

"Mr. Honda's words make sense, but this matter is important. Rong Ai's family will go down and discuss with the ministers to make the final decision." Longyu had been motivated by Honda. She also knew that the Qing Dynasty was exhausted at this time, and she had only one breath to survive. What capital would be used as a bargaining chip to keep the capital? Now it depends entirely on the Japanese's expression, so she said softly.

"Then I'll go down and wait for the good news for the Queen Mother. Don't think about it for too long. The night is long and dreams are too long. After a long time, it's hard for us Japanese to guarantee that we can suppress the chaos in the north at this time." Seeing that Takayu was still shirking, Honda immediately smiled out of the corner of his mouth and reminded him.

Then Honda's genius left with the arrogant Yamamotoro. Yamamotoro did not even look at Longyu and others when he entered the hall, and was extremely cold and arrogant.

When Yamamoto left, he murmured in a low voice at the entrance of the hall: "Hmph, what are you talking about with them? Are they coming to ask us or we asking them? If we don't agree to our conditions, I will lead troops back to Japan tomorrow and lead the Zhenguo Army and the Beiyang Army to Beijing, so that they will regret it."

Although Yamamoto's words were said at the entrance of the hall, they deliberately used a slight slap in order to let Takayuta and Yiri and others hear it. The threat was beyond words. It was probably also pre-designed by Honda Kou.

Long Yu, Yi Li, Zaifeng and the other two were heard, and immediately guessed that Yamamotojiro had deliberately left this sentence for them. At this time, they had completely seen through the Japanese's wolf ambitions. They did not appear as a character who was enthusiastic to help, but wanted to control the Qing royal family as a dominant posture and make them obey their will. The three of them immediately fell into painful contemplation.

Ryu sat on a spacious and comfortable dark red yellow pear wooden seat with dragons and phoenix carved dragons and phoenixes. His body leaned weakly to one side, supported his elbow on the chair handle, supported his cheek with one hand, staring blankly at the golden ground in front of the hall, silent for a long time, and the words that Honda Kou said, and the threatening words that Yamamoto said before leaving. His thoughts were immersed in his mind for a long time, and he couldn't figure out a reasonable idea, and his face was unstable.

The three Qing dynasties and a small eunuch in the hall spent every minute and every second, as if it was an empty hall, silently, so quiet that it was so terrifying that the air in the hall seemed to solidify, and the atmosphere was so depressing that it was suffocating.

The little eunuch stood by Longyu uneasy for a long time, his legs were almost numb, and he didn't dare to move around. His body felt very uncomfortable, and he couldn't help but move slightly and bounced a few times, trying to activate his stiff limbs.

"Xiao Dezi, you go back and rest first. It's so tiring to stand. I have something to say to several ministers." Longyu observed the little eunuch's restrained and uncomfortable expression with the light of his eyes. He immediately woke up a little, waved his hand to the little eunuch, and signaled him to leave.

"Tsk" The little eunuch knew that they were going to discuss important matters and was not convenient for him to be present, so he responded lightly, then turned around and stepped back.

"Do you two have any opinions on the moving capital?" Longyu just thought about it and went there. He thought that there was no way to think about it except to accept the manipulation of the Japanese and withdraw from Beijing. If Yuan Shikai had not betrayed the Qing Dynasty, she would still have hope of resisting the army of the country. At this time, everyone in the whole country betrayed her. There was no power or opportunity to turn the tables, so he had to accept his fate. He had gradually settled his attention and accepted the so-called good advice from the Japanese.

"Empress Dowager..." Yi Li felt a heart-wrenching feeling of discomfort, and blushed and wanted to object, but she really couldn't come up with a feasible way. When the words came to her mouth, she had to swallow it back with discomfort.

"Ah, Empress Dowager, I already knew that there would be no good results to bring the Japanese in, but I didn't expect that the Japanese would reveal their fox tail so quickly and pretend to be a great charity. They said that it was for our own good, but in fact they wanted to control us in their hands and become chess pieces at their mercy. However, if we do not follow the Japanese's advice, we really have no way out." When Zaifeng received Longyu's appointment task for help from the Japanese, he was already worried about being controlled by Japan. It was about to become a fact, and he had to accept this helpless result and said lamentingly.

"Then we have to compromise at the moment. Since we have decided, don't delay any further. We need to collect the opinions of the ministers below. However, one thing is, no matter how loud the opposition is, we will make a decision like this. Those ministers who want to risk their lives to advise, let them stay in Beijing by themselves, and we just move the capital." Empress Dowager Longyu really wanted to settle this upset thing. The anxiety over the past few days has caused her body and mind to be extremely haggard. She could no longer withstand any torture. She had already thought that someone in the court would try her best to oppose it, but she had decided to abandon these people and take her to Changchun with her own people.

The next day, Empress Dowager Longyu issued an imperial edict for Puyi to move the capital. In order to avoid the court, she did not go to court and rest in the harem and prepare for the moving capital.

Zaifeng, Yi Li, Zai Tao and others presided over the court discussion. As expected, the court officials heard the content of the imperial edict for moving the capital, but had not sought the opinions of the people through the court discussion. So they made a hasty decision. Sure enough, there were a large number of opposition voices. At this time, almost no court officials from Yuan Shikai's side came to court. Many ministers of the Qing royal family expressed their opposition, but Yi Li then read Longyu's imperial edict, allowing those who did not want to move the capital to stay in Beijing. They must leave. The court suddenly became excited. However, Zai Tao had military power, and no one dared to take the initiative. He was just confused and vented his indignation. Several people successively staged tricks of robbing the ground with their heads and crying with tears, but it did not work at all, and they had to give up in the end.

Early the next morning, Yuan Shikai ordered the fifth town of the Beiyang Army to start an attack from the south of the city to the city. Because they had learned that Longyu had decided to move the capital, Yuan Shikai knew that once the Qing royal family moved the capital, they would take away all the precious items in the Forbidden City, including their dragon throne, jade seal and various rare treasures, as well as many beauties and beauties in the harem. These are what Yuan Shikai dreamed of wanting to get, how could he give up easily?

After getting up in the morning, Yuan Shikai was shocked when he heard the edict of the capital relocation in the court. At this time, he understood what the Japanese sold. He wanted to support the Qing Dynasty to establish a new regime in Changchun, and this regime would be completely controlled by the Japanese and become a puppet of the Japanese. In other words, in the future, Japan needs to obtain any benefits in the Northeast, and can be obtained on behalf of them through this puppet regime. It is almost like Japan directly obtaining colonial rule in the Northeast, and its ambition to invade China is obvious.

Yuan Shikai only felt a little angry about the loss of land, and Yuan Shikai was furious about the Japanese helping the Qing Dynasty move away from the Forbidden City in Beijing. This was originally his belongings. Because Japanese soldiers suddenly appeared in the capital, Yuan Shikai's plan to completely occupy the palace was bankrupt. What he wanted was not an empty palace, but all the precious things in the palace, including the countless beautiful women he had been thinking about day and night, and the jade seal representing the supreme rule power of the Qing emperor.

Yuan Shikai's original plan was to force the Qing emperor to abdicate and let the Qing emperor voluntarily hand over the jade seal to him in name, and he also justifiedly accepted Puyi's abdication and became the new Chinese emperor. This would be better than taking it over by himself, so that people in the world could quickly recognize the legitimacy of his emperor. Now all the wishful thinking has been broken by the Japanese.

In a furious manner, Yuan Shikai immediately ordered the new army of the Fifth Town of Beiyang to launch a fierce attack on the imperial guards and guards from the southeast, south and west directions of Beijing. Taking the Qing Dynasty's slogan of selling the country and seeking honor as the expedition, he issued a brief expedition manifesto, announcing that he would go on the way to attack the Qing emperor and the empress dowager for heaven.

After only half an hour of the court talks in the Forbidden City, there was a fierce sound of artillery fire in the south of Beijing. Then the news of the Beiyang Army's attack on the urban area immediately reached the palace. Zaitao then urgently left the palace to organize the Imperial Guards to resist. At the same time, Zaifeng immediately notified the latest developments of the Japanese situation and asked the 12th Division stationed in the northeast of the capital to go south immediately to help suppress the Beiyang Army. However, the Japanese flatly rejected Zaifeng's request on the grounds that they had not yet established a stable foothold and lacked military supplies, but in fact they wanted to wait for Longyu's final decision to appear.

Queen Mother Takayu also understood the Japanese's intentions, and then immediately took all the original and duplicates of the capital relocation edict to Honda's residence. After seeing the imperial edict, Honda's Antonym notified the 12th Division. Kazuichi Noda then ordered Yamamoto to lead a brigade of more than 5,000 people to march southward to the flank of the Fifth Town New Army, but ordered them not to fire first, as long as they threaten the Beiyang Army to retreat, the Japanese naturally wanted to get the greatest benefit without spending one soldier.

When the Beiyang Army saw the Japanese army heading south, it looked fierce and its purpose was very obvious, and it was to stop them from entering the city, he was immediately panicked. Yuan Shikai was extremely angry at both ends of the Japanese head rat, but at this time he had to rely on the Japanese army in Shandong to resist the offensive of the Zhenguo Army and did not dare to break up with the Japanese. So he had to order the Beiyang Army to temporarily cease fire, retreat ten miles, retreat to the original garrison, stand by, and then urgently sent people to negotiate with the Japanese...
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