Chapter 10 9. The Socialist Party vainly tried to protect the emperor, and the Revolutionary Party killed Liang Bi

After the assassination incident, the three revolutionary parties were punished, but Yuan Shikai just took this opportunity to stay behind closed doors, saying that he wanted to recuperate at home, and he would not see him, and he was embarrassed to see the Queen Mother Longyu again. With Prime Minister Yuan no longer showing up, the state affairs were getting worse day by day. The Empress Dowager Longyu was so anxious that she had to hold an imperial meeting to hear the opinions of the royal family's close relatives and clan on abdication.When the meeting was about to be held, Yuan Shikai did not attend, and only appointed Zhao Bingjun and Liang Shiyi as representatives to attend.Those princes and county kings talked and laughed on weekdays, but they couldn't come up with any ideas when they really wanted to solve the problem. When they came to the meeting place, they just chatted with each other and didn't mention state affairs at all.

Prince Gong Puwei (the grandson of Prince Gong Yi) was young and energetic after all, he couldn't help being anxious after seeing such a scene, and asked Zhao and Liang sharply what they were discussing.Zhao Bingjun was Yuan Shikai's confidant, knowing that Pu Wei was just bluffing, he just said indifferently: "The revolutionary party is powerful, and the provinces have responded one after another. The Beiyang Army has no pay and no weapons. Today we want to discuss the issue of the state system." After hearing this, Pu Wei was furious: "The imperial court used Yuan Shikai as the prime minister of the cabinet. What he wanted was to fight against the bandits and put down the chaos. Now that Hanyang has recovered, it is just time to take advantage of the victory to suppress the pain, but they stop the war and negotiate peace. What is the reason? If you encounter bandits That is to say, everyone can do it, so why use Yuan Shikai?"

Zhao Bingjun and Liang Shiyi were at a loss for words for a moment, but Prince Qing Yikui came out to smooth things over: "There is no dispute about the matter, and besides, the matter is so important that we dare not make a decision. It is better to ask for an order to handle it." Just as they were talking, the Empress Dowager Longyu arrived with the little emperor. Seeing that Prince Jin Zaifeng, Prince Qing Yikuang, Prince Gong Puwei, Belle Zaitao and others had all arrived, she sat down slowly and scanned the venue for a while. The back of the circle asked: "This revolutionary party wants to change the state system, do you think it is better to be a monarchy or a republic?"

After hearing this, the people below were silent, only saying that it was up to the Queen Mother to make the decision.The Empress Dowager Longyu sighed, and said: "Why do I want a republic, but Yuan Shikai said that the revolutionary party is too powerful, and we have no guns and no wages, so we must not fight." After hearing this, Pu Wei stepped forward and said: " The rebellious party is nothing to be afraid of, Feng Guozhang has already defeated the enemy in Hanyang, and as long as the military pay is paid for three months, the rebellious party will be wiped out." The Empress Dowager Longyu said: "The last time the pay was paid, Yuan Shikai had already taken all the internal funds. People refuse to borrow money, I really have no money!" Pu Wei said: "The Empress Dowager only needs to give a few pieces of gold and silver vessels in the palace to pay for the army, and the soldiers in the front must be grateful. A few years ago, Japan In the war with Russia, didn’t the Japanese emperor and empress use their gold and silver jewelry to pay for the army?” The Empress Dowager Longyu hesitated for a while, and said timidly: “It’s good to win, but if you lose, don’t you even get preferential treatment? The conditions are gone? Isn’t it true that the country is about to perish?” At this time, the Empress Dowager Longyu, under Yuan Shikai’s repeated intimidation, was already in chaos.Thinking of Emperor Chongzhen who was hanged from the crooked neck tree in Meishan more than two hundred years ago, Empress Dowager Longyu inevitably felt shuddering and trembling all over.King of subjugation, widow and orphan, who made himself unlucky to receive this last blow?

After all, this woman's mentality is different from that of a man. When she encounters a problem, she tends to think about the bad outcome, and the more she thinks about it, the more afraid she becomes, blindly going to a dead end.Yuan Shikai said that the army has no pay and cannot fight. This is indeed true. Empress Dowager Longyu knows this well. If she can't defeat the Revolutionary Party, she won't even be able to keep her family and life. Why are you still attached to the throne now?What's more, Prime Minister Yuan talked all kinds of things, and finally won preferential treatment for their mother and son. As long as their lives are safe and their lives are guaranteed in the future, it might be considered!What's so good about being an emperor? The responsibility is heavy, and he's exhausted to the point of death. Maybe he will bring disaster to his descendants. If this burden is relieved, there will be four million yuan in preferential treatment for the royal family every year, and there will still be a palace to live in. You can still be the emperor in the Forbidden City. What is the difference between this and the original?

Pu Wei, Prince Su Shanqi, and Fuguo Gong Zai Ze were still quarreling there, insisting on the main battle. Empress Dowager Longyu was so quarreled with them that she lost her mind, so she asked Zaifeng, the younger brother of the regent Zaifeng, the Minister of the Military Advisory Office, Tao: "Zai Tao, you are in charge of the Ministry of War, you know what our soldiers are like." Zai Tao blushed, kowtowed quickly and said, "Your servant has trained in the army, but he has never fought in a war. I don't know about it." After hearing this, the Empress Dowager Longyu was silent for a long time and lost her voice.After a long while, she said: "Okay, you all go down!"

Pu Wei was still not convinced. After the meeting, he found a few relatives who knew the military and organized a social party of some kind. He insisted on resisting to the end and desperately defending the dignity of the royal family.At that time, apart from Pu Wei, the main members of the Zong-Social Party included Tie Liang, the former Minister of Army, and Liang Bi, the Commander of the Guards, among whom Liang Bi was the most active.Liangbi was originally the descendant of Prince Rui Dorgon, and his grandfather Yiribu was also a cabinet scholar in the Daoguang Dynasty, and he has always been greatly favored.Liangbi lost his father in his early years, and lived with his mother when he was a child. When he grew up, he was extremely filial to his mother. Later, he was sent by the government to Japan to study military affairs. In 1903, Liangbi graduated from the second phase of the Infantry Department of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy. After returning to China, the Imperial Guard was established. The Qing court appointed him as the commander, and the Imperial Guard was in his hands.Liangbi is considered capable among Manchu relatives, but he is aloof and arrogant. Prince Qing and others who are in power do not like him, but Pu Wei and others are congenial to him.However, after Yuan Shikai became the prime minister of the cabinet, the Imperial Guard under Liangbi's charge had been placed in charge of Feng Guozhang, who had returned from the front line. prestige.

At that time, Liangbi and others boasted that they would summon the old ministry, and if they did not suppress the rebellious party within three months, they would rather have their necks and heads cut off.After this word reached the ears of the revolutionary party, it immediately angered a righteous man.This martyr is from Sichuan, and his surname is Peng Jiazhen. He is a chivalrous man, advocating martial arts and being brave. He also studied in the East to study military affairs.Peng Jiazhen has a long-standing revolutionary ambition and is most in favor of assassinationism.After the Wuchang Uprising, when Peng Jiazhen sneaked into the capital and was about to start a big business, it happened that Liangbi was in the limelight at this time, and he deserved to be a short-lived ghost.

On the evening of January 26, Peng Jiazhen wrote the suicide note, dressed herself as the new military standard, and then went to the Jintai Hotel first, opened the room as Fengtian New Military Standard Chong Gong, and then ordered the hotel clerk to give him He's looking for a carriage, and we'll pay the bill together.After the bomb was ready, Peng Jiazhen hid it in her coat, then went out in a carriage, and went straight to Liangbi's mansion. After waiting behind the door of Liangbi's mansion, Peng Jiazhen took out a pre-forged badge of admiration, and said that she came from Fengtian and wanted to see Liangbi on important matters.The janitor at Liangbi's mansion took the famous assassin and said, "Your Excellency has gone to the Ministry of the Army on business and has not come back yet." After speaking, he asked Peng Jiazhen to sit in the living room and wait for a while.Peng Jiazhen was a little hesitant after hearing this. He was worried that Liangbi would be suspicious if the gatekeeper handed over the forged name badge when he came back, so he evaded and said that he still had something to do and would come back later.

After leaving Liangbi's mansion, Peng Jiazhen walked to the corner where the gatekeeper couldn't see and waited.Not long after, a carriage came across the dust, Peng Jiazhen saw that it must be Liangbi who came back, so she followed behind.When Liangbi got out of the car and was about to enter the door, Peng Jiazhen went up to meet him and called out loudly: "Brother Liangbi, are you safe?" After speaking, Peng Jiazhen handed over Chonggong's famous badge. It was dusk at that time, Liang Bi saw a man who looked like a soldier calling him, before he could take a closer look, he took the famous card.The moment Liangbi lowered his head to take a closer look, Peng Jiazhen took a step back, then took out a bomb from his coat, and threw it at Liangbi.Be good, just heard a loud "boom", before Liangbi could react, he was blown to pieces, and before the foreign doctors came to treat him, he reported to Lord Yama.As for the perpetrator, Peng Jiazhen, because the retreat distance was insufficient, the fragments of the bomb fell and pierced his head, so Liang Bi had to go one step ahead.

Although Liangbi resisted the republic, he was an honest official. If he hadn't been born in the last days of the dynasty, he might have become a leader who killed the enemy, and he could be called a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty.Furthermore, Liangbi is known as "Bole" in the military circle, and he spares no effort in supporting talents, such as Wu Luzhen, Jiang Baili, etc., who are recommended and supported by him. Although it was a pity to be killed for the first time, it was a well-deserved death. On the contrary, Liangbi left three daughters after his death. Although they received pensions from the Qing court at the time, the Qing court collapsed before the money was distributed. In the end, the survivors fell into poverty and almost lived on the streets.Fortunately, a good friend of Liangbi was an official in the Republic of China, and finally won some pensions for his children to survive. After Liang Bi was killed, there were rumors in the capital that the Revolutionary Party had entered the city, and those Manchu relatives were frightened into frightened birds.Even those clan and social parties who were brazen and vowed to defend the imperial court before, most of them discounted their family properties and deposited them in foreign banks, and hid in the concessions of Tianjin and Dalian with their families. The worst cases were also in the capital He rented a room at the Liuguo Hotel, leaving a way out for himself. As for the most popular Prince Gong Puwei, not only was there no sound at this time, there was no movement at all.Under the strict order of Lao Fujin, Pu Wei moved the whole family to Tianjin—it is more important to save his own life first, let's talk about it later in the clan! In the season of rumors and panic, the most terrified is actually the Empress Dowager Longyu. She can't go anywhere, but stays in the Forbidden City with gloomy clouds and tears every day.At that time, the only one who was not affected was the little Emperor Xuantong who was less than seven years old. He was playing carefree in the palace as usual, unaware of the fate of the impending doom of the country. When Yuan Shikai sent people to press her tightly, the Empress Dowager Longyu had to convene another royal family meeting to decide on the issue of the state system.But what made her dumbfounded and sad was that no one came this time for a long time.Although relatives and nobles love the imperial court, the bombs of the revolutionary party are short-sighted, so it is better to avoid the edge for the time being! Everyone ran away, and it was hard for the Qing Dynasty to survive.