King Yelu Aoluo of the Eastern Liao Dynasty colluded with the Jurchens, and the Song Dynasty planned to rebel, attacked the summer palace where Wu Haogu and Xiao Sesse were located, causing a fire in the summer palace. Wu Haogu and Xiao Sesse were missing and the whereabouts of Wu Haogu and Xiao Sesse were unknown. The bad news of his death was immediately taken back to Tianjin by Wu Chenglan, a matter of Chengde Prefecture.

The news came late at night on the second day of August. At that time, the Minister of War Zhang Zhifeng was on duty at the government office. Even though he was both civil and military, he was also a self-contained person in the Nanyang Province for many years, after hearing Wu Chenglan's bad news, he was so scared that he fell on the rose chair, staying silent for a long time, unable to speak.

When the Secretary Zhang Da was relieved, he immediately jumped up and ordered the secretary on duty to copy Wu Chenglan's report to send two copies to the left and right ministers' mansions and one copy to the Senate. Then he pulled Wu Chenglan, who had been in chaos, to go straight to Wu Hao's ancient mansion!

The sky of the Republic may collapse!

The country founded by Wu Haogu is unprecedented in China in two or three thousand years!

The Great Zhou was not a family and country with one family, but a country with the same surname as the public. In other words, the position of the head of state was not hereditary by Wu Haogu's descendants, but was elected by the Senate.

There is a problem with this. Wu Haogu cannot designate a successor to the head of state! His own head of state is not for life, but is elected by the Senate every five years. Although the possibility of his election is almost zero, it is different with this procedure!

In that election three years ago, Wu Haogu even arranged an opponent for himself...

Such a system was nothing when Wu Haogu was alive. He was the father of the Republic, a great scholar who was the public, and was also the most wealthy man in the world. He was rich, powerful and famous. There was also a huge group surrounding him, just like the sun of the Republic, irreplaceable.

So the head of state and the emperor were no different to him.

But if Wu Haogu is really gone, who will be the head of the republic?

Although Wu Haogu's sons are all adults, none of them are elders. According to the Republic's "Constitution", the head of state should be born among the elders!

They are not even elders, can they become heads of state in one step?

Moreover... the Wu family has more than one son qualified to inherit Wu Haogu's political status. The three sons of the "Yi" generation are theoretically legitimate sons, and they all become old. Among them, the eldest son Wu Yiyong and the second son Wu Yixin are still leading troops outside!

If the two of them were princes, they could probably lead troops back to Tianjin to seize the throne? But now they are the sons of the head of state...

Can the son of the head of state lead troops to seize the throne? This is to destroy the republic and openly treason!

Although the third son Wu Yijiu did not lead troops, he was in Tianjin. Moreover, his mother Pan Qiaolian was Wu Haogu's wife and also controlled the Wu family's account with huge assets.

The internal account can control the Tianjin Bank and can use a huge sum of tens of millions of taels at any time! Even if you spend money to buy it, you can buy a head of state, right?

In addition to the three legitimate sons of the Wu family, there are many giants in the Senate. For example, Brother Zhao Zhong, Murong Mu, Ma Zheng, Ximen Anguo, Zhang Xizai and others are also qualified to become the head of state!

In addition, Mi Youren, who had been fighting back and forth in the position of left prime minister and right prime minister for many years; Su Guo, who changed from a scholar to a right prime minister; Zhang Xizai, the senator of the Senate; Su Dalang, the second-money in the Great Zhou Dynasty, seemed to be qualified to win the throne of the head of state!

These people are all veterans and are very qualified. They are also divided into two parties in the Senate. There are many disciples and officials in the military, political and financial circles. Are they not more qualified than Wu Haogu's three sons?

The head of state is originally the one who is the public, and he can be the one who is not surnamed Wu!

But so many people can be the head of the head of the country, and there is only one throne of the head of the country! If everyone wants to be the head, wouldn’t it be a broken head?

The sky of the Great Zhou Kingdom will not really collapse, right?

...

It is not known whether the sky of the Great Zhou Dynasty will collapse, but the sky of the Wu Haogu family house has a big collapse.

As soon as Wu Chenglan and Zhang Zhifeng arrived, Pan Qiaolian immediately fainted when she told the bad news. Although Ximen Qing, Du Wenyu, Bai Feifei and others were not dizzy, they all cried like tears and had no idea.

However, Wu Haogu's "female knight" Oliga was relatively calm and made a suggestion with tears in his eyes: "Big sister, now the eldest brother and second brother are not in Tianjin, only the third brother is in the South Bank Fortress. The slave immediately took people to take him back..."

Among the three legitimate sons of the Wu family, Wu Yijiu is the one who is most qualified to inherit Wu Haogu's political status! Now he is the only one in Tianjin. If he is harmed, the consequences will be unimaginable!

Because Pan Qiaolian was fainted, the target she proposed was her concubine Ximen Qing. Sister Ximen also cried loudly, but after all, she did not faint.

Ximen Qing heard what she said, and stopped howling, wiping her tears and said, "Sister Ao, now my wife is dizzy, I am in a mess, and I don't know how to arrange the guards at home. If you want to leave again, I really won't do anything..."

As she spoke, she glanced at Wu Chenglan and Zhang Zhifeng in the inner hall.

Zhang Zhifeng is the Minister of War. Although he has no military power, he can always say hello to the defense envoy of the South Bank Fortress. So he said, "Miss Ximen, please go to the South Bank Fortress. The mansion needs to be arranged to protect him."

Oliga is also a knight of the Great Zhou Republic. She has always been one of the two "female housekeepers" around Wu Haogu. The guards of the mansion were also in charge of her and Luohanma.

Now that the Arhat maid is not here, she will naturally rely on her to protect the Wu family’s mansion!

However, what the guards in the Wu family's mansion can do now is to protect the mansion from being attacked by a small boy and seize control of Tianjin. That is completely unsightly.

When Zhang Zhifeng hurried to pick Wu Yijiu up and returned home, Pan Qiaolian was finally awakened by the doctor in the house.

When she woke up, she cried and was like a little girl Pan.

Ximen Qing still had some suggestions, so he comforted "Sister Pan" and several other sisters, and then took his own initiative to spend 100,000 silver from the inner account to Oliga to reward the guards.

Then he asked someone to invite Brother Zhao Zhong, Mi Youren, Ximen Anguo, Murong Mu, Zhang Xizai and others.

While waiting for the big guys and Wu Yijiu to go home, Ximen Qing called Wu Chenglan to the study room and asked carefully.

After asking about the situation, the complexion on her face improved slightly.

"That's just that life and death are uncertain..." Ximen Qing said with his silver teeth, "There are many guards around the head of state, and there are many routes to retreat from the summer palace. It's not like Ao Luwo, that's really a harm!"

Wu Chenglan nodded, "What Madam Ximen said is, it's just..."

I just don’t worry about ten thousand, I’m afraid of anything!

Entering Xinghua County is also one of the routes to retreat...

"Where are the eldest brother and the second brother?" Ximen Qing asked, "Can you come back?"

Wu Chenglan was stunned and looked at Ximen Qing, "Madam Ximen, they can't come back... They are leading troops outside, which is a restraint for the elders of Tianjin!

Although the elders and princes in Tianjin are highly respected, they all have no military power!”

When the old man Wu Chenglan was reminded, Ximen Qing also woke up a little.

Wu Haogu’s political arrangements are actually very clever!

Although the Senate holds the highest power, it can pass laws, impeach and appoint rule, declare war, pass budgets, pass peace treaties, etc.

But... if you become a veteran, you must withdraw from the military service!

In other words, the elders cannot directly control the military power! No matter whether they are dispatched, commanded, or military power, they are not.

At the same time, the main force of the Republic's army is the civilians, and most of the officers are standardized talents trained by the Military Academy.

Citizens do not rely on military leaders economically, and standardized officers who graduate from military academy can be rotated regularly in different troops, making it difficult to form personal power - those second-generation citizens who have studied will not follow the orders of officers.

Therefore, although the Republican Army did not use civil warfare, the Republic's Senate and civil government had a much greater control over the Republic's army than the Song court's control over the Song army.

Therefore, the veterans did not have an army that completely obeyed, at least in theory, not!

In fact... if Wu Yiyong and Wu Yixin led tens of thousands of troops outside, even the veterans who had considerable influence in the army would have to think it through carefully.

But Wu Yiyong and Wu Yixin were outside, but they were always a stepping stone for Wu Yijiu to come to power.

"Miss Ximen," Wu Chenglan naturally knew what Ximen Qing thought, "The head of the Republic only has a term of five years... Several young masters can take turns to serve.

If we cannot unite now, we are afraid that the head of state will be borne by others in other surnames!”

"But the third brother is not an old man..."

"It's not difficult for Shangshu Zhang. He is a legal expert and will always find a way to get San Ge'er elected. Besides... the inner account is rich! Most of the merchants and citizens in Tianjin also support the Wu family. If everyone can't use soldiers, then it's more than money?"

...

At the same time, I don’t know how many well-known figures in Tianjin are going to sleep all night!

This is the first time such a crisis has happened to the south of the Republic!

The head of state is likely dead!

So who will be the next head of state?

In theory, all elders may choose the head of state...

Apart from choosing, are there any other ways to be a head of state? Can you send troops to steal a head of state to be a head of state?

The Zhou State did not strictly control the private accumulation of force. Including Wu Haogu, all the veterans of each family had some force. However, only a few dozen or hundreds, and they could reach two or three hundred. It was not enough to be put in front of the Republic's civil army!

As for some veterans from the army, there are many old friends. However, the officers of the Zhou Republic Army have been rotating, and no one can control a unit for a long time. During the rotation process, officers from various hills have mixed together.

In addition, most of the soldiers below are citizens, and have been brainwashed by the republic ideas since childhood. They think they are the masters of the republic. How could they be loyal to a certain veteran?

In other words, Wu Haogu himself has a fake sub-army, and the number is not large, and he is not in Tianjin, so he is "missed" with him.

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