Yuan Shikai was a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty and the best representation of traditional morality. Because of his efforts, Guangxu was able to receive state funeral treatment. The remaining old men and young officials of the Qing Dynasty were not stripped of their wealth. The new court finally left them with five years of salary and saved a decent amount. The real estate of the bannermen in Beijing was not completely redeemed at a low price. Some bannermen who did not rely on price and could survive on rent were strongly stayed in Beijing. However, when registering the household registration, they all changed their surnames to avoid possible liquidation in the future.

If you speak with the exact number, Yuan Shikai's existence made the central government spend more than 11.3 million taels of silver to win over the hearts of the people in the first year of financial difficulties, and made about 70% of Zhili's tax revenue stay in the area every year; he also nominally retained four Manchu and Qingxin military towns, which had more than 44,000 people during the armistice last year. And because of the three-year retirement system, the Beiyang towns still had about the same number of veterans scattered in Zhili, Shandong, and Henan.

Yang Rui and the Revival Association have no resentment for such a person who brought huge losses to the new government, but have a lot of favors. At least, Yuan Shikai is a person who knows about the current affairs. He knows very well what he can do and what he cannot do. Because he is not trusted by everyone, he is still thinking about how to prosper the life of the Qing Dynasty. Zhirui, who was quickly restored to the old situation between Beijing and Tianjin, and the country has also quickly restored peace. For a new regime, peace is precious. Especially when he was still fighting against Japan.

But such an important person was assassinated on the first day of his official founding of the country, and there was no need for Liu Boyuan to explain. Yang Rui could understand the seriousness of the problem and understand Chen Qimei's plan: if he could not assassinate Zhu Kuansu, he would immediately assassinate Yuan Shikai to incite the old and new forces. Yuan Shikai was aware of the current affairs, but were those below him known about the current affairs? If he put evidence related to the Revival Society during the assassination, would the reckless men in Beiyang see through the provocation? God would not know if the reckless men in Beiyang could see through the provocation.

After thinking about all the things in his mind, Yang Rui calmed down and had a meal. He began to think about what to do about these things. After a while, he said, "You asked Li Zilong to find Mr. Cen. He and a friend were wandering around the capital and saying that it was to look at Feng Shui. If you find him, I will go back immediately after I finish it."

Yang Rui was not anxious or slow down on such an important matter. Liu Boyuan only suspected that he had heard it wrong. When Yang Rui said it again, he left in a hurry. He knew that Mr. Cen, who was not very talkative, was also Yang Rui's aide, especially in handling internal relations. He was actually looking at Feng Shui. Where should Feng Shui be?

At the Chengtian Gate of the Forbidden City, Cen Chi was escorting a few forbidden soldiers, with a tall and thin man in a blue shirt slowly walking on the city tower. Behind them was a boy in the same blue shirt, carrying several cloth bags and a compass in his hand. The Chengtian Gate was on the central axis of the north and south of Beijing. On the city tower more than ten meters high, you could see the straight Qianbulu and the Daqing Gate and Zhengyang Gate in the distance. When you thought that the imperial edict was issued from here, Cen Chi was a little excited.

He was like this, but not the tall and thin gentleman. He twisted his beard and looked at the scenery on the south and said thoughtfully: "Zhi Ren, Beijing was an old thing in the Ming Dynasty. Although there were many changes in the Qing Dynasty, it was not a big deal. Just keep it the same. However, Yang Jingcheng was not in harmony with the Forbidden City. After the founding of the palace, he was still in Prince Zheng's mansion. Although it was not the middle, the Feng Shui of the capital was precious in the west and the east was cheap, and the other was better than Nanhaizi."

"Yes, Mr. Li. I've told him about this a long time ago." Cen Chi said. "I'm just worried..." He pointed to the embassy district at the east gate of Tianjie, "There is a real bad Feng Shui over there. Foreigners are still building cities and garrisoning soldiers. If they don't go, the country will not be able to live in peace!"

"What are you going to go? The time is not coming, so you will naturally not go!" Mr. Li was there, "The embassy of foreigners is just a trivial matter. If you just want to be willing, you don't think about the virtues of the dynasty?"

Seeing Mr. Li talking about virtue, Cen Chi pretended to be relaxed and said: "What's so strange about this? The emperor of this dynasty is the remnant of the previous Ming Dynasty. It should be the same as the previous Ming Dynasty. It belongs to the fire virtue and the color is red. Now the flag of the Fuxing Society, the military flag, and the official uniforms of the dynasty are all red. As for the country's name "China"..." Cen Chi couldn't write it anymore.

Mr. Li continued to say, "The middle and inner are wood; Hua, those who are familiar with flowers and flowers in ancient times also have wood. Your country is called the Five Elements belong to wood, but the people in the world have the surname Zhu, which is not in line. In addition, Qing is water virtue, and the previous Ming is fire virtue, so water overcomes fire and replaces it. Now the dynasty still calls himself fire virtue, so how can this fire overcome water? In such a disorder of yin and yang, the five elements are chaotic, and this country will have a big problem."

"This..." Cen Chi knew that Mr. Li was right, but he was difficult to explain some things, so he had to say: "Mr. Li, please don't worry. Our dynasty can achieve today's miracle, and it is also a result of the help of gods and men. When the teacher saw it, he realized it. Besides, whether this fire can overcome water, isn't it just a victory now? As it is settled today, the world is peaceful and the country is in power..."

Before Cen Chi finished speaking, Li Zilong's voice came from behind, "Mr. Juren, the Prime Minister is looking for you..."

Upon hearing Yang Rui's invitation, Cen Chi's eyebrows just jumped and he said calmly: "What's the matter? I'm accompanying Mr. Li to shui Fengshui, this is a big deal."

"Mr. Zeren, yes..." Li Zilong looked at someone beside Cen Chi, walked two steps, and said in a low voice, "Sir, something big happened in Tianjin, Yuan Shikai was assassinated, and the Prime Minister was anxious about this..."

When he heard that Yuan Shikai was dead, Cen Chi knew that he had to go. Just as he was about to apologize to Mr. Li and leave, Mr. Li bowed to him and said, "Ji Ren, since there is an urgent matter, then go. I'll just go there."

Seeing Mr. Li say this, Cen Chi hurriedly bowed his hand and then hurriedly left. As soon as he left, the boy following Mr. Li said, "Teacher, is this foreign ministerial area really not in the way?"

"How do you say this?" Mr. Li stroked his beard, "When the city of Beijing was built, in order to suppress the evil dragon here, he had to build an eight-armed Nezha City. Zhengyang Gate is Nezha's head, this imperial city is Nezha's five internal organs, the Minxiang Lane in the east suburbs is Nezha's shoulders, and the foreigners' barracks and guns over there are nothing more than swords and necks. Although it is hindered, it is not fatal for a while. The biggest concern now is that the five elements are incompatible. If this continues, the evil dragon will cause trouble and must someone sacrifice to the country to be peaceful!"

Mr. Li said that when he died, Yang Rui had finished his meal. He returned to Prince Zheng's mansion early. He now only had a very unlucky feeling. Today is the founding ceremony, and two people died in a row. One was Fang Junying. He was shot dead in the attic on the street of Zhengyangmen. He originally had an explanation that it was best not to see blood today, but the situation was critical at that time. Bai Ru did not kill him. If Zhu Kuansu died, it would be very unlucky. Moreover, Yuan Shikai, among the old ministers of the Qing Dynasty, he had a greater influence than Shen Jiaben. After all, he had territory, soldiers and money. He was still beside the concession of the nine countries in Tianjin, and foreigners supported him. Both of them died tragically on the day of the founding of the country. Yang Rui felt that it was really unlucky.

But if it is unlucky, it is unlucky. Things have to be dealt with. Fang Junying's death was not reported, but what should I do if Yuan Shikai's death? Although the four towns on his side have been reorganized into the General Staff Department, the defense areas of each department have been transferred, and the squad leader has mostly mastered it, but once it is not handled, it will take a small battle. Moreover, in terms of people's gains and losses, this is very unfavorable to the central government, especially the foreign ministers who have a good impression of Yuan and believe that he has adhered to the duties of a minister.

Yang Rui was thinking about these things in a mess, and Li Zilong came with Cen Chi. He did not politely when he saw someone, and only said, "Mr. Ju Ren, Yuan Shikai from Zhili is dead."

"I understand." Cen Chizao heard Li Zilong say this, "Who killed it?"

He had to know the process of the matter and arrange the subsequent things. Yang Rui looked at Liu Boyuan, and Liu Boyuan quickly said: "Today, Yuan Shikai didn't know why he wanted to go to the concession. When the carriage entered the concession, a crazy carriage rushed out of the queue. When the guards stopped the carriage, a young woman came out of the carriage and fired several shots at the carriage that Yuan Shikai was riding. Yuan Shikai was not dead immediately, but was sent to the French hospital in the concession and could not be rescued and died."

"Young woman?" Cen Chi asked, "Where does this woman come from?"

"The woman's name is Fu Wenyu, who claims to be a member of the Fuxing Society. She said that she had known that Yuan Shikai was a remnant of the Qing Dynasty and a traitor from the Han Dynasty. She wanted to eliminate the harm to the country, so she wanted to assassinate him." Liu Boyuan said that shortly after the murder in Tianjin occurred, he learned the inside story.

"Then is she a member of the Fuxing Society?" Cen Chi asked. He knew that the Fuxing Society was a secret party membership system and had not been completely changed since the founding of the country, especially when Zhili was Yuan Shikai's sphere of influence, ordinary members would not disclose their identities.

"She is not." Liu Boyuan said. "This is just her own nonsense. The most strange thing now is that she said this as her own separate behavior, but the more she did this, the more we would think that it was something we were intentional. In addition, Yuan Shikai still had an objection to the Kailuan Coal Mine some time ago."

The Kaiping coal mine was seized by the British in the Boxer period. After several years of disputes, the coal mine was still from the British. In response, in order to deal with the Kaiping mine under the control of foreigners, Zhili Yamen established a new Luanzhou coal mine under the strict order of Yuan Shikai. The mining area surrounded the Kaiping coal mine and then began a price war with Kaiping. A few years ago, the coal in the Kaiping mine was about to be dug, so the British wanted the Qing Dynasty to spend tens of millions of taels of silver to redeem Kaiping, but was rejected by Guangxu. Seeing that the Kaiping coal mine, which was about to be resurrected, was revived because of the revolution. Yuan Shikai, who had encircled and suppressed Kaiping coal mines, had applied to merge the Kaiping and Luanzhou mines to some extent in order to gain support from foreigners.

Yang Rui might have agreed to the other things, but he had already paid attention to the Kaiping Mine when he opened the Changxing Coal Mine several years ago. Although Yuan Shikai's plan to encircle Kaiping lowered the income of the Changxing Coal Mine, he still called for it. On that day, Yuan Shikai's application was handed over and he immediately rejected it. He also said on the application, saying: "Since you want to merge today, why did you open it?" It only made Yuan Shikai shame and ashamed, making it difficult to attend the founding ceremony. Zhou Xuexi and others who made suggestions for him, in order to shirk responsibility, said that the Prime Minister was too stingy and wanted to suppress Zhili economically. These may be trivial matters in normal times, but when they were assassinated, it would be a great big thing.

Without thinking about the Luanzhou coal mine, Yang Rui looked at Cen Chi and said, "Mr. Ju Ren. What should we do now? Is it possible to pay my respects to the people in Zhili in order to win the trust of the people in Zhili? "

"Don't go!" Liu Boyuan and Cen Chi shouted in unison. One of them thought that Yang Rui would be in danger in Tianjin when he went there, and the other believed that Yuan Shikai's death was suspected to be related to the Revival Society. Now Yang Rui went to pay his respects against his usual circumstances, for fear that they would mistakenly think that this Revival would be more obvious.

"It's been done. Now the plan is not to think about how to defend yourself. The more you argue, the darker it will be. Let's think about how to deal with the aftermath first. Since Yuan Shikai died, who should be granted the position of governor of Zhili?" Cen Chi said, only pulling Yang Rui out of Yuan Shikai's death. He had thought about what to do if there was chaos in Tianjin.

"Yuan Shikai has many abilities, Xu Shichang, Yang Shiqi, Zhou Xuexi, Wang Shizhen, all of them can be the governor of Zhili." Yang Rui said, feeling that this is not a difficult task.

"It turns out. These people can be the governor of Zhili. But it is precisely because these people can be the ones that they cannot be the ones. Once Zhili is stable, no matter whether Yuan Shikai is killed or not, Beiyang's spearhead will be pointed at us. The best way is to choose an unqualified person as the governor of Zhili, which will make them fall into internal struggles, so that they have no intention of thinking about how to deal with us." Cen Chi's idea was not Ning Shixi, but instead he was thinking about how to take this opportunity to seize some benefits.

"Mr. Zhu Ren, it may not be necessary to do this. But what if Yang Shiqi and others resent because of this, they should still point the finger at Beijing?" Yang Rui thought about his suggestion carefully and felt that it was still a bit risky.

"It's done. The situation is different now. The country is determined and the parliament has already begun. Since the assassination of Yuan Shikai has been arrested, the trial according to law is that if the assassination is what we do, it cannot be determined by a woman in a few words. Zhili is full of smart people, and we are afraid that we will know if the person we killed is aware of it." Cen Chi said, "Appointing a person who cannot sit as the governor as the governor, this person will rely more on the central court in isolation. Even if Yang Shiqi and others are dissatisfied, what can we do if we are dissatisfied? These people are just counselors, and they don't have the courage to rebel.

Besides, I really want to comfort the people on Yuan Shikai's side. The best way is to ask King Min to issue an order to comfort and comfort his family. Isn't there any idle officials in the palace? Yuan Shikai's eldest son can give me some rewards and be granted a idle official. This matter is left to King Min, and everyone will not think that Yuan Shikai was sent to assassinate him, right?"

When Cen Chi said that Zhu Kuansu came forward, Yang Rui thought that it would be best for him to come forward. The emperor was the only one who ordered his ministers to commit suicide, and never sent anyone to assassinate him. Chen Qimei only wanted to provoke disputes between the two sessions, but there was a King Min as the third pole to preside over justice. Even if those people in Beiyang were dissatisfied, they would only cry, instead of drawing their swords at the beginning. The imperial power was useful, but they didn't expect it to be used like this. He said happily: "Who should I appoint the next governor of Zhili?"

Yang Rui asked Cen Chi, and Cen Chi looked at Liu Boyuan. Liu Boyuan was the most familiar with the people in Zhili. Seeing this, Liu Boyuan thought about it and said, "Most of the people in Beiyang are talented, and it is not easy to choose people, but in terms of seniority, Zhao Bingjun is the most suitable one. He was a policeman, originally from Zuo Zongtang, but later followed Yuan Shikai. It is precisely because of this that the military general Xian, who was born in Xiaozhan, was a policeman, and those literati Xian had never studied and were a servant, and even looked down on him. If he was appointed as the governor of Zhili, then Zhili would be lively."

"Zhao Bingjun?" Yang Rui muttered the name of this person. This person was considered to have been from martial arts. In his early years, he actually followed Zuo Zongtang to fight a war in Xinjiang. Later, he started to make a name for his military achievements and started to make a name for himself. He started as a patrolman and became the assistant minister of the patrol department. Later, he was dismissed because of political struggles. He said immediately, "Okay, let's decide this person. And how to write the imperial edict for comfort to King Min, please ask Mr. Zeren to worry."

Yang Rui was as good as the flow of good deeds. Cen Chi was happy and immediately wrote a manuscript of comforting with emotion. He sent it to the palace to polish it and turned it into an imperial edict. He sent it to Tianjin that night.

The power of the imperial edict is greater than that of the pale and weak telegram. Although Yang Rui, who had awarded the medal to the heroes in the afternoon, received the news that Yuan Shikai was killed from Zhili, and sent a condolence message according to the normal reaction, the condolence message was useless. Instead, the imperial edict sent by the palace touched the people in Zhili for a while. After everyone received the imperial edict in the way of receiving the imperial edict in the former Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai's concubine, who had stopped crying, started crying loudly again. Yang Shiqi and others, who had been discussing how to deal with it, looked at Shen Jiaben who came with the imperial edict and did not speak.

After worshiping in the mourning hall, Shen Jiaben looked at the people sitting in the side hall and said, "Don't worry, as long as there are grievances, Dali Temple will enforce the law impartially and seek justice for the Gongbao."

Shen Jiaben said this, even if he had a great noise before, Yuan Keding stopped talking. This is not because Shen Jiaben was the Tingwei's Mansion, but under ethics, the emperor had already issued an order to ask for comfort in person. No matter how much aggrieved a minister is, he should bear it first. At least the emperor has expressed his opinion on this matter. Besides, everyone also felt something strange. The revival would never be assassinated. Before, both sides were just not very happy because of a coal mine, but they could not kill people because of a coal mine.

Of course, some people speculate that the revival will take action against the Beiyang group, but this is not right. If you want to take action, you can transfer Yuan Shikai to the capital and appoint a minister of the Shangshu. Isn’t it cleaner? Anyway, before the imperial edict came, everyone said everything, but once the imperial edict arrived, everyone stopped talking. The emperor had already said that he knew about this and was very sad. Not only did he comfort Gong Bao’s family, he also sent Shen’s family to handle the case in person. What else do you have to say?

Yang Rui, who received Tianjin's return, knew that the matter was finally over, but the matter in Tianjin was just over, and Roy.s. Anderson of Mobil came again. "Prime Minister, Mr. Rockefeller asked me to greet you!" Americans are becoming more and more familiar with Chinese. He came today. "In order to underwrite bonds, New York hopes to sell a batch of Mobil stocks next month. Mr. Rockefeller hopes that Congress can pass the prospecting rights and approve Mobil's agreement to run the Shaanxi oil mines in the next few days."

Listening to the Americans, Yang Rui just wanted to shake his head. His Chinese was becoming more and more fluent, but the meaning in his words was still American straight. He said warmly: "Please tell Mr. Rockefeller that Congress will pass the oil exploration case in the next two days. In addition, can't the Shaanxi oil mine be replaced? Haven't your people already gone there to verify?"

"Yes, Shaanxi oil mines have no commercial mining value, but the United States has been promoting this oil mine, saying that it will become the largest oil mine in Asia. If it cannot run it alone, then the stock may not be able to reach that high." Anderson said.

The cooperation with Mobil is a collusion between Chinese and American profiteers. One is to avoid the risk of splitting under the anti-trust case, and the other is to make a lot of effort and constantly exert it, so as to make Mobil overcome the difficulties through external favorable factors and thus borrow the US dollar obtained from the partnership fraud. Although the plan is a win-win situation, it has a lot of pressure for Yang Rui. After all, the case of Zhang Hongzhao and Wu Yangzeng has not been tried yet. Once the Shaanxi oil mine is handed over to Mobil to handle it alone, Yang Rui will become the target of public criticism. However, he still believes that he can control public opinion. After half a year, when Rockefeller's stock is sold out and Mobil announced the wrong results of the previous exploration, the matter will be over. If Shaanxi can really leave a large oil field, it will be impossible for future generations to be unknown.

"Mr. Andrew, please tell Mr. Rockefeller that this month Congress will pass the prospecting rights and the sole proprietorship case of Shaanxi oil mines. In order not to cause unnecessary trouble, according to our previous discussion, the scope of exploration has been adjusted: Zhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Gansu, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, a total of eight provinces, 25 years of oil exploration will be awarded to Mobil China, and Shaanxi oil mines will also be handed over to Mobil to undertake. China will occupy the capital ratio of the oil mine according to the previous investment. In addition, due to the protests of Asia Petroleum Company, we should put it aside first." Yang Rui said.

"Yes! We fully understand this, and what you promised just now is enough." Andrew said affirmatively. "You are such a person who keeps your promises, Your Excellency the Prime Minister."
Chapter completed!