Chapter 190 Yang Du’s Suggestion (Third update! Please vote for me!)

"The braided commander was assassinated by a bomb in Yangzhou"

"Zhang Xun was blown up"

"The second Xu Baoshan, the braided commander was assassinated by a bomb"

"Rebellious parties are causing chaos and bombing the commander's mansion..."

Commander Zhang Xun was bombed to death in the living room. This news was like a thunder in the summer, which shocked the whole country. Without the commander, the news that the armed guards were engaged in rebellion in Yangzhou and other places north of the Yangtze River was secondary.

No one even cared about it, since the braided army had long been the norm for burning, killing and looting, but the assassination of this braided handsome man was really shocking.

Zhongnanhai, one of the "Great Neighborhoods", is located on the west side of the Forbidden City. It was originally the location of Wanning Palace, the palace of the Jin Dynasty. It was designated as "Great Neighborhood" when the capital was built in the Yuan Dynasty. Zhongnanhai covers an area of ​​more than 1,500 acres, of which the water area is

700 acres, since the Qing Dynasty, there has been a lot of construction work, and Fengze Garden, Chongya Hall, and Yingtai have been built around the water surface; there are Huairen Hall, Ziguang Pavilion, and Wucheng Hall on the west bank, Wanshan Hall on the northeast bank, and Baoyue Tower on the south bank.

The palaces, pavilions and pavilions are arranged in an orderly manner and the architectural forms are rich and colorful. It is an extremely beautiful place and a famous royal garden in China. There is only one entrance to this garden, called Baoyue Tower. Except for the royal family and nobles, there are few other people.

You can come in. When the Qing Emperor abdicated, this garden was still owned by the royal family.

At the beginning of the year, the Congress decided that it was no longer appropriate to use the Guest House as the temporary presidential palace, so the Prime Minister followed the president's order and drove all the "Tatars" with pigtails, big and small, out of the garden.

, Yuan Shikai, as the interim president, moved from the Guest House to Zhongnanhai.

Yuan Shikai moved into Zhongnanhai.

He moved into Jurentang. The east end of the downstairs of Jurentang is his office, and the west end is the reception room and conference room. Haiyan Building was changed into "Jurentang", which is the president's reception room. Yuan Shikai

After entering Zhongnanhai, the wives, concubines and children naturally had to follow them. So, large and small cars, accompanied by maids, all entered Zhongnanhai in groups: Mrs. Yu, the second concubine, the eldest son Keding and his wife, and the Keduan couple moved in.

Fuluju; the eldest aunt, the third aunt, the second son Kewen and his wife, and the third son Keliang and his wife live in the courtyard; the fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth aunts and their children live in the courtyard, which is connected to Jurentang by an overpass.

's back floor.

In this way, this former royal garden became the Presidential Palace of the Republic of China, and Baoyue Tower was changed into Xinhua Gate and became the gate of Zhongnanhai.

At this time, Yuan Shikai's face was full of joy. The gloomy and sad look on his face when he first became the interim president seemed to have been wiped away in the past few months. At this time, China could be said to have gradually calmed down from the turmoil in the early days of the Republic of China.

, the Kuomintang was disbanded, and many of Sun, Huang and others were exiled overseas and wanted. However, the situation in the south was just like the plan for the Song incident. Under the pressure of the army, all the local powerful factions of the party returned to the central government.

He also fled overseas.

“After great chaos comes great order.”

According to common sense, China is about to enter a period of great governance after experiencing the chaos at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. It was at this time that Yuan Shikai moved into Zhongnanhai, opened the doors and windows, and let in the bright sunshine and the beautiful early spring.

The fragrance of flowers rushed towards him, and Yuan Shikai was in a very good mood.

"Zhang Xun is dead"

After receiving the telegram from the south, Yuan Shikai was surprised but breathed a sigh of relief. For him, Zhang Xun was like a thorn in his throat. Zhang Xun, who was living in Shandong, was a thorn in his heart. After all, that was

A big braid was a bit irritating, and after Sun Huang made a rebellion, Zhang Xun asked himself to put down the rebellion. The reason why he agreed was to use Sun Huang's hand to weaken Zhang Xun's strength. But who would have thought that Sun Huang and others

The troops we relied on were so unsatisfactory that they were disintegrated by Li Zhiyuan's silver bullet before Zhang Xun could take action.

Later, Zhang Xun was ordered to stop crossing the river. On the one hand, it was because Li Zhiyuan was assassinated and he wanted to put aside the relationship between the central government and "Jiangsu Autonomy". On the other hand, he did not want to grant Zhang Xun the post of Jiangsu Governor. Cheng Dequan was a scholar.

The governor is easy to deal with, but Zhang Xun is different. He has nearly 20,000 braided troops under his command.

In the past period of time, I was worried about how to solve Zhang Xun's problem. But now, Zhang Xun was killed in a bomb.

But Zhang Xun was dead, but Yuan Shikai found that the dead Zhang Xun was more difficult to deal with than the living Zhang Xun.

"It's difficult"

"President, Yang Du, Mr. Yang is here"

When Yuan Shikai was frowning, he listened to the voice of the attendant outside the door. Yuan Shikai nodded and walked out. He was meeting Yang Du in the small living room. Yang Du now has no official or position, but Yuan Shikai knows something.

Yang Du is indeed better at it than others.

"Xizi, thank you for your hard work, thank you for your hard work!"

As soon as he entered the small living room, Yuan Shikai said politely and asked him to sit down. Yuan Shikai had his own way of treating people and things, especially with "scholars" like Yang Du. To be able to achieve what he has today, Yuan Shikai saw

I came because I am good at "employing people".

"The President has worked so hard and I dare not bother him with giving him a house."

While sitting, Yang Du said politely that a few days ago, Yuan Shikai gave him a house so that he could bring his family to the capital. This really made Yang Du excited for a while, which meant that Yuan Shikai would be very interested in him.

It is of great use, at least to the president, Yang Du is still useful.

"Has everything been arranged at home? Now that everything is settled, let's have a good rest for a few days."

When asking Yang Du for tea, Yuan Shikai said politely.

“There are too many things to do, so I’ll just try to make it work for a while.”

After saying this, Yang Du glanced at the president and said, no need to guess, he knew why the president invited him to the presidential palace.

"President, I heard from the newspaper that Zhang Shaoxuan was killed by a bomb the day before yesterday."

Yang Du's words made Yuan Shikai's eyelids twitch. This Yang Du always likes to show off his intelligence.

"Well, that's what happened,"

Suppressing a burst of displeasure in his heart, he originally wanted to be polite to Yang Du, but Yang Du instead put on his "air", as if to remind himself that Yang Du had great talents, but then he thought

But I thought of it again.

"Anyway, that's why I asked him to come here. You might as well listen to what he has to say."

After making up his mind, Yuan Shikai did not want to speak more clearly.

"The matter of Zhang Shaoxuan is not a big deal. Now the Jiangsu Provincial Congress is asking the president all day long to send troops to quell the Yangzhou rebels. Zhang Shaoxuan is dead, but the Yangzhou braided army is in chaos."

"President, you must not do this."

Yang Du hurriedly said that after reading in the newspaper that Zhang Xun was killed in a bombing, he guessed that there would be chaos in Yangzhou and that the president would definitely send troops, so he had already figured out the stakes.

"The Braided Army has no military discipline, and now without the restraint of Zhang Shaoxuan, Zhang Wensheng's prestige cannot be suppressed. It is not surprising that his troops will cause chaos, but..."

After he paused for a moment, he looked up and saw that the president was all listening, and Yang Du felt proud in his heart.

"What's strange about this incident is why Zhang Xun died and who killed him."

"oh"

His eyelids twitched slightly, Yuan Shikai glanced at Yang Du, this matter is difficult to handle, and it is difficult to handle it here.

"President, in today's China, who would kill Zhang Shaoxuan?"

"Sun and Huang are the two most suspects, and they also have a penchant for assassination. I think..."

"In this case, does the President know that the two of them fled to Japan, so why did they send someone to assassinate Zhang Shaoxuan in unnecessary trouble? You need to know what benefit will killing Zhang Shaoxuan do to him?"

"this……"

Thought to himself, Yuan Shikai didn't say anything. No outsider knew whether Zhang Xun was close to him or not. Even if Sun and Huang imagined that the former Qing Dynasty would assassinate high officials to show their power, why would they choose Zhang Xun?

"Then from Xizi's point of view, who did this?"

"Not out of Sun Huang's hands"

Yang Du's words only made Yuan Shikai frown. Yang Xizi is like this. He always likes to show off.

Seeing that the president seemed unhappy, Yang Du knew that he had done something wrong and quickly made amends.

"But President, you know, why did Sun and Huang kill Zhang Xun? To eliminate harm for the people? To eliminate thieves for the country? How could he have such intention?"

Then, Yang Du said proudly.

"When Sun and Huang killed Zhang Shaoxuan, their intention was not to eliminate harm for the people, nor to eliminate thieves for the country, but..."

After a pause, Yang Du's eyes flashed with excitement.

"Causing chaos to the country"

Hearing this, Yuan Shikai was not surprised. In fact, in the past two days, he had discussed this matter with officials and staff, and the final result did not include these four words.

"President, everyone with a discerning eye knows that the apparent beneficiary of the assassination of Zhang Shaoxuan is not Sun Huang, but the President. The President can not only get rid of Zhang Shaoxuan, but also recruit the braided army. Moreover, Zhang Xun has been suffering from Su for a long time, and he can take Su by himself except Zhang Shaoxuan.

The provincial people's hearts, it seems..."

Smiling slightly, Yang Du stopped talking. There was no need to say the next words. If Yuan Shikai didn't know what the following meant, then...

With a cold snort, Yuan Shikai's face was full of anger. From the moment he entered the Republic of China, it seemed that the label of assassination had become a "specialty" of the Republic of China and was constantly pinned on his head.

"If this president kills someone, he should kill him according to law and military law. Why would he use such a method of killing three people?"

"The Great President is like this, but in the eyes of those who don't know the truth,..."

Yang Du pondered and observed the President. Seeing that there was no abnormal expression on the President's face, he understood that the President had probably already figured out the pros and cons.

"But that's not always the case, especially among the people in the provinces. Who knows that there is no villain among them?"

Yang Du's words were exchanged for a moment of silence from Yuan Shikai. This was exactly what he found difficult to handle. In the early days of the Republic of China, the governors and governors of the provinces were not appointed by Yuan Shikai alone. Naturally, he had to worry about these.

The idea of ​​the governor and the military governor is that if Sun Huang and others claim that Zhang Shaoxuan was killed by Yuan Shikai, and even use the evidence that he killed Zhang and then recruited his army, I don't know what kind of chaos will be caused.

"Then, Xizi..."

Raising his head, Yuan Shikai smiled and looked at Yang Du whose face was full of lust, thinking that he already had a solution.

"Although I haven't been out of my house these days, I have read the newspaper. Didn't the President appoint him as the "Huaihai Economic and Strategic Envoy" a while ago?"
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