Chapter 107 climax

Although he failed to bring Yiqiang down this time, Qu Hongxuan was not particularly disappointed, because he had already prepared a big meal for Yiqiang, and even if he couldn't hold on to Yiqiang, the old boy would have to let him eat and walk around. Everyone is familiar with the protagonist of this feast. He is Qu Hongxuan's staunch ally Cen Chunxuan, who was also the Cen Chunxuan who was escorted by thousands of miles when Cixi escaped. To talk about the most glorious deeds in Cen Chunxuan's life, escorting Lafayette for thousands of miles must rank first, and his impeachment results rank second.Although this man loves to flatter Empress Dowager Cixi, he also hates corrupt officials. He is a famous "anti-corruption hero". Please see his achievements:

When he was governor of Sichuan, he killed 40 officials by impeachment. When serving as the political envoy of Guangdong and Guangxi, Tan Zhonglin, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, his immediate boss, was eliminated by impeachment. When he was governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, more than 1,400 officials were impeached. In other words, up to now, nearly 1,500 officials have been reported by him.Great man, definitely called the "God of Impeachment"! Now, the "God of Impeachment" Cen Chunxuan has entered Beijing.He made a special trip to see Empress Dowager Cixi to report to Yikuang Hei, and stopped by to see if there were any better job opportunities in Beijing, the imperial capital.

Cixi wants to give Cen Chunxuan face.After the two met, after reminiscing about the glorious past, Cen Chunxuan immediately entered the role of impeachment, and said with a resolute look and an unusually sad and indignant tone: I know that the queen mother really wants to improve politics, but from my observation, your employment seems to be Not quite right.As a result, the current administration of officials has not only not improved, but is even more corrupt than before.For example, the governor of a province can be obtained by trading power for money and sex.The chief culprit for all this is Yikuang. He corrupted and exercised power and promoted villains, causing corruption in the government and separation of people's hearts. He should be punished severely to make an example to others!

In view of Cen Chunxuan's consistent performance, Cixi still believed his words, but it was impossible for her to win the next country's first assistant and interrogate him because of Cen Chunxuan's own words, so Cixi asked Cen Chunxuan to go back first, and she had to think carefully. Later, Cixi summoned Qu Hongxuan, who wore the same pair of trousers as Cen Chunxuan, and asked Qu Hongxuan for his opinion on Yiqian, an old colleague who had worked together for many years.In the following plot, Qu Hongxuan accidentally slipped his mouth and said a few bad things about Yiqiang.

Therefore, Cixi's words showed that she wanted to reprimand Yikuang.Qu Hongxu immediately couldn't restrain her excitement, the opportunity she had been waiting for for many years finally came! After returning home, Qu Hongxu was eager to express his excitement, so he told his wife the explosive news. When Qu Hongxuan was excited with his wife, Yiqiang and Yuan Shikai also received news from the inside of the palace: Cen Chunxuan and Qu Hongxuan have already made a move, and they are going to kill you, and there is not much time left for you. Now that we have come to this point, and everyone is completely torn apart, let's get serious!If you want to kill us, then kill you first!

The famous "Ding Wei party struggle" in the history of the Qing Dynasty came to a climax. Of course, this kind of conspiracy has to be done by Comrade Yang Shiqi, the "King King". When Yang Shiqi is free, he likes to figure out other people's psychology and study their preferences.Empress Dowager Cixi, the core leader of the Qing Empire, is one of his most important research objects. After some research, Yang Shiqi knew that Cixi had two untouchable knots.These two knots are related to her relationship with Guangxu. One is "returning to the government", and power will always be a forbidden area that Cixi cannot touch.

The other is "Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao".First, Kang and Liang fabricated the "Kang and Liang" version of the "1898 Coup" deeds to confuse the public; second, they scolded Cixi in the newspaper as a concubine abandoned by Emperor Xianfeng and insulted her; A friend named Tang Caichang staged an "independent army" uprising to rescue Guangxu, but of course it failed. So Yang Shiqi decided to make a fuss about this matter. Yang Shiqi used the power in Yikuang's hands to search the archives of the 1898 year, and found and copied several memorials recommended by Qu Hongxuan and Cen Chunxuan for Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao.

A few days later, when Yikuang went to court alone, according to Comrade Yang Shiqi's intention, he took out the memorial of Qu Hongxuan and Cen Chunxuan recommending Kang and Liang in the Year of 1898, and pointed out angrily that Qu Hongxuan and Cen Chunxuan jointly set off a political tide. The purpose is to get rid of myself and Yuan Shikai, who have a bad relationship with Kang and Liang, and win back power for Guangxu from the Queen Mother (to overthrow the big boss, reject Beiyang, and return to politics——"Selected Collection of Beiyang Warlords Historical Materials"). Cixi has gone through several coups, of course she understands that the two groups are pinching each other, so she has to wait and see and observe.Yikuang's argument that Qu Hongxu was impeached and that Cen Chunxuan was the best friend of Kang and Liang failed to impress her.

Yang Shiqi also knew that this was far from killing the other party, he just wanted to put eye drops on the other party in front of Cixi. Yang Shiqi is waiting for an opportunity, waiting for an excellent opportunity. Soon, the opportunity will come. Qu Hongxuan's wife is a big-mouthed woman with a lot of words, and she took the explosive news that her husband told her that "Cixi wants to depose Yikuang" as entertainment news to the wives in the same circle.One pass ten, ten pass one hundred.Soon, Cixi learned of this news that was not news to her from the British "Times".

There is only one explanation: Qu Hongxu leaked the secret, it must not be Cixi herself.Because only they know about it. Cixi was very angry: Damn it, I can't believe that Qu Hongxuan is so naive and politically immature!How can such top secrets of the state be disclosed to a third party?Could it be that Qu Hongxuan intentionally made Yikuang separate from me? How could Yang Shiqi miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.This dear friend quickly instructed Yu Shi Yun Yuding to report Qu Hongxuan's crimes of "secretly notifying the hall, instructing the officials, conspiring with foreign aid, and spreading party members".

The timing of the report was very precise, and Cixi was in a fit of anger.Cixi did not conduct investigations at all, and did not follow the normal procedures, and directly asked Qu Hongxuan to go home immediately (in the words of the minister, he was dismissed immediately without investigation, which was unprecedented. ——Yun Yuding's "Chengzhai Diary" ")! Politicians have always been deadly if their mouths are not strict, and Qu Hongxu was not wronged. After Qu Hongxuan was dealt with, the rest of Cen Chunxuan was helpless. Yang Shiqi carefully prepared two gifts for Cen Chunxuan in order to confirm that Cen Chunxuan was the "criminal facts" of Kang and Liang's buddies. The first gift was a piece of evidence: a forged photo of Cen Chunxuan with Kang and Liang, and it looked like the three of them were conspiring. This great task, this pioneering use of composite photos as a tool for political struggle, was entrusted to Cai Naihuang, the "father of the PS world". It is of course very simple to achieve this goal with today's means, but in China a hundred years ago, people did not understand this kind of PS trick of embedding flowers and trees, so it is really too difficult to achieve this.But this is exactly where Cai Naihuang's value lies. The next thing was much simpler. Yang Shiqi instructed Yun Yuding to go out again, and asked him to take a "group photo" to report that Cen Chunxuan secretly colluded with Kang and Liang to plot wrongdoing. Of course, Cixi could not see through the authenticity of the "group photo", and Ling Chunxuan was convicted.Although Cixi sentenced Cen Chunxuan to death in her heart, she remembered Cen Chunxuan's affection for escorting him thousands of miles back then, which saved him enough face: I originally wanted to keep you working in the imperial capital, but after careful consideration, I still think you are more suitable for Guangdong and Guangxi.I won't keep you any longer, hurry up and take up the post! Cen Chunxuan knew that he was hit by Yikuang and Yuan Shikai's bad tricks, but the overall situation was settled, so he could only stare unwillingly at the direction of the Zhongnanhai Yiluan Hall (now Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall) where Cixi was located, and slowly walked towards Shanghai , seems to be obediently returning to the land of Guangdong and Guangxi where he fought. However, after arriving in Shanghai, Cen Chunxuan said he was ill and would not leave.He has to wait for the conspiracy of Yikuang and Yuan Shikai to be exposed, and he has to wait for Cixi to change his mind. Cen Chunxuan wants to stay in Shanghai and wait for the opportunity to come back.But Yang Shiqi, who was sitting in the corner observing Cen Chunxuan's whereabouts, showed a triumphant smile.Because the second gift he prepared for Cen Chunxuan could come in handy.He gave this gift to his imperial censor Yun Yuding, this is a very wonderful conspiracy text.In view of the fact that this conspiracy text is really a stroke of genius, it is quoted as follows: To explain, Mai Menghua in the article is not only Cen Chunxuan's staff, but also Kang Youwei's son-in-law. To put it simply, Yang Shiqi attributed the reason why Cen Chunxuan fell in love with Shanghai and did not go to Guangdong and Guangxi to take up the post: Cen Chunxuan, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao secretly met in Shanghai under Mai Menghua's matchmaking and conspired to use the power of Japan to rebel! In order to defeat political opponents, although Yang Shiqi used an extremely despicable method, he had to admit that it was a perfect conspiracy.This impeachment memorial is accompanied by the previous photos, echoing back and forth, which perfectly fits the fact that "Cen Chunxuan is Kang and Liang's best friend"! After seeing Yun Yuding's impeachment memorial, the Empress Dowager Cixi was silent for a long time, and suddenly issued the last important instruction in the "Ding Wei party struggle": Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, issued a vacancy to recuperate, as a show of compassion! So far, Qu Hongxuan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and Cen Chunxuan, a member of the Vice Premier of the State Council, have both been dismissed and returned home. Qu Hongxu was getting old, she gave up her efforts and stopped struggling, and died of old age a few years later.But Cen Chunxuan is different. This brother is in his forties and is in the prime of his life. He is not reconciled to failure, and is always working hard for his comeback in the future.The hard work paid off, and later he was re-appointed by the court to continue fighting with Yuan Shikai. Of course, this is another story. In August 1907, the "Ding Wei party struggle" that lasted for nearly a year finally came to an end. But the ending is not what the history books say: in the dark and cruel political struggle, the morally noble Qu Hongxuan and Cen Chunxuan lost to the morally corrupt Yikuang and Yuan Shikai, but the shrewd Qu Hongxuan and Cen Chunxuan lost to the more For the shrewd Yikuang and Yuan Shikai!