Back to the Republic of China as a commander

"Qianmen building is nine feet nine, four gates, three bridges and five archways"; "Qianmen building is nine feet nine, and nine alleys are nine willows";These old Beijing folk songs have multiple meanings: one is to symbolize the height of Zhengyangmen, the other is to show the size of Zhengyangmen, and the third is to reflect the profound cultural connotation of Zhengyangmen.

Beijing Zhengyangmen, commonly known as Daqianmen, is getting dark at this moment, and people are pushing wheelbarrows in and out of the open city gate from time to time.But for the old gate guards, although the capital is still the capital, the current prosperity of Zhengyang Gate is not as good as it was in the Qing Dynasty.

Not too far from Zhengyangmen, there is already a steamed bun shop on the street to buy steaming steamed buns.But Yutai Teahouse, the largest teahouse on this street, has not opened yet. "The water boils before the golden rooster sings, and the tea is fragrant when the sun rises." The couplet on the door is quietly placed there, motionless.

The owner of Yutai Teahouse, Wang Lifa, got up early, and he was graciously guiding two guests from the south to the backyard.This Wang Lifa can be regarded as a capable person, since the Reformation, he will take over the teahouse from his father.After the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces and the end of the Qing Dynasty, this teahouse can still stand.You must know that the biggest customers of the teahouses in Beijing are none other than the gang of Eight Banners who are born military masters, get paid twice a year, don't farm land and don't work as errands.Now that the imperial court is gone, the lives of these Eight Banners men are not as good as the dogs on the street!

Times are changing, and Wang Lifa is naturally changing too. No, he asked someone to tidy up the backyard, and converted it into eight upper rooms, which are going to be rented to college students who come to Beijing to study in other places.Unexpectedly, as soon as the rental sign was put up, a master came, full of Beijing movies, and took down the entire backyard without even paying back the price.Moreover, he gave three years' rent plus one year's deposit in one go, and the shopkeeper didn't need to send someone to clean it up on weekdays.A few days ago, more than a dozen people lived in at once, and they fiddled with the whole yard.Wang Lifa thought he was making a lot of money, so he stopped meddling in his own business and let them set up a door at the entrance of the backyard, and then told the work on the cabinet that no one would be allowed into the backyard from now on.

The two people from the south both looked resolute and ignored Wang Lifa's enthusiasm for the shopkeeper. No matter what you said, he would not answer the conversation, which made Wang Lifa very boring.After sending the person to the place, he was about to leave, but the person walking behind threw a big light at the shopkeeper Wang, and then walked in without looking back.

Wang Lifa pinched it, he was in perfect condition, and the shot was really generous, and he muttered softly that the weirdo was busy with his own business, it was getting late, and he had to tell the guys to get off the board.

The two people Wang Lifa brought in were none other than Wang Yaqiao, the head of the Beijing Station, and his deputy, Xu Xiyong, just appointed by the National Socialist Party Affairs Investigation Department.Among them, Xu Xiyong was brought in by Wang Yaqiao on the way north. The two were close friends. They rebelled together during the Revolution of [-], and their friendship was fatal.

The original head of the Beijing Station of the Investigation Department had been sent by Minister Zhou to the most dangerous Northeast to deal with the Japanese because of his ineffective work.Therefore, the members of the station were very nervously waiting for the arrival of the new boss. Wang Yaqiao glanced at the people present, and announced the end of the meeting without saying anything.

Then Wang Yaqiao left behind three key members: Zheng Jun, Wang Wei, and Fang Ronghai. These three are the heads of intelligence, operations, and communications of the Beijing Station. They are also cadres who came from Anjiang with the former station chief. They are relatively loyal and reliable.

"This is Xu Xiyong, my deputy. From now on, you will be the director of the General Affairs Department of the Beijing Railway Station. There is no need to adjust your positions. All those who attended the meeting just now will be sent to Anjiang to study within three days, which will take one and a half years. The manpower will be re-recruited, and Anjiang will also send some capable people over there. I only have one request, and all people should be in one-line contact. Don't be like Lu Jianzhang's Beijing Law Enforcement Department. It's over, let's adjourn."

The three middle-level cadres at Beijing Railway Station looked at me and I looked at you, and finally got up and left according to the order.

Seeing the three of them go out, Xu Xiyong asked in a low voice: "Brother Jiuguang, you are a newcomer, you should be more courteous."

Wang Yaqiao shook his head and said: "Just now I was very polite, this Beijing station is not suitable for spy work at all, their level is only in intelligence collection, I have already asked some old friends of mine to come to Anhui to help. The task this time is very critical, and there is no room for negligence, Brother Xi Yong, our ideals in life may start from here, we must use our hands to defend our leader and change the destiny of China!"

Looking at the extremely excited Wang Yaqiao, Xu Xiyong, who was completely ignorant of the task content, suddenly thought that maybe only such a person could do something seriously.

Beijing Jurentang, located on the west bank of Zhonghai in Xiyuan, is a two-story Western-style building and the largest building among the old buildings in Zhongnanhai.This is a building in which the auxiliary decoration of the entire building and exterior has a distinct style difference from the surrounding building complex.Perhaps it is because of its outstanding appearance and European-style elegance inside that it is the most luxurious and beautiful building in Zhongnanhai.However, what originally stood here was a group of authentic traditional Chinese-style palace complexes, and it was the Yiluan Hall where the Empress Dowager Cixi lived after the "removal of the curtain and returning to politics".This group of buildings is centered on the two-volume hall-style Yiluan Hall, with three front and rear entrances, facing south from the north, and a glazed screen wall in front of the main hall.

The Hall of Yiluan is the main hall with the largest scale and a total of 5 rooms.The middle one is the place where ministers were summoned. More than a hundred days after the Reform Movement of 1894, Empress Dowager Cixi launched a coup. Emperor Guangxu was summoned here to be reprimanded, and then placed under house arrest in Yingtai.The Dongci Room adjacent to this room is Cixi's bedroom.According to historical records: the five main halls are nearly 7 feet wide and more than 6 feet deep, which is larger than the Palace of Preserving Harmony in the Forbidden City.

However, when the Boxer Movement arose, Cixi took advantage of her blind xenophobic sentiments to induce the movement into a track where she replaced Emperor Guangxu and put pressure on the powers that opposed the abolition of the emperor.In the name of protecting the embassy and preaching, the powers formed the Eight-Nation Allied Forces to invade China. Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an with Guangxu, causing the Chinese nation to suffer and humiliate again.

After the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing, they used Zhongnanhai as a garrison camp.The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Waldsee, set up the headquarters in the Yiluan Hall occupied by the Japanese army. Waldsee lived in the Yiluan Hall from October 1900, 10 to April 17, 1901. On the night of April 4, 17, the German kitchen in the courtyard of Yiluan Palace caught fire, and the main hall and side halls were burned down. Vadsi escaped and later moved to Fengzeyuan Yinian Hall, but the chief of staff of the German major general died in the fire.The palace, which cost millions of taels of official silver, was destroyed in one fell swoop.

After Empress Dowager Cixi returned to Beijing, she accepted the suggestion of foreign envoys to build a western-style building at the site of Yiluan Temple to receive and entertain foreign female guests to show her peace with the foreign powers.As a result, construction was rebuilt on the ruins, costing more than 500 million taels of silver, and a building comparable in size to the original Yiluan Hall was built.

The Western-style building is divided into two buildings, the south front and the north back, and the middle is connected by corridors on the upper and lower floors.There are European-style carved decorations on the top of the Western-style building and outside the window frame.The window lattices are either inlaid with stained glass or decorated with Western-style flowers.The original wall of the Yiluan Hall has now become the courtyard wall of the Western-style building, but the south, east and north doors behind the imitation Russian Pavilion have been changed to Western-style flower doors.It was completed in October of the 30th year of Guangxu (1904), and Cixi named it "Haiyan Hall".

However, Haiyantang did not bring prosperity to the declining late Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty died in the gunshots of Xinhai.Yuan Shikai, the first president of the Republic of China, took Haiyan Hall as his office and meeting place after he came to power, and changed its name to Jurentang.

At this moment, President Yuan Shikai, who is worried about state affairs, is summoning his staff in Ju Ren Tang.

In fact, the core content of so-called politics is the word power, and there are only two components of power, one is personnel and the other is finance.

What old Yuan is worried about now is these two things. Regardless of the history textbooks of later generations, in film and television works, Lao Yuan has been vilified into a heinous murderer.

But in the real history, Yuan Shikai was a very helpless person. For the aggressiveness and extortion of the great powers, especially the Japanese, Lao Yuan could only be submissive and compromise; Okay, Lao Yuan can only pretend to be stupid, pretending not to know.

But here today, Yuan Shikai has no choice but to continue to pretend to be stupid, because very real problems are in front of him, and China's military orders and government orders must be unified.Otherwise, I can still live like Li Zhongtang while I am alive, but I will be sorry for future generations when I am dead.

"It's all a bunch of white-eyed wolves, bastards." Thinking of this, Yuan Shikai became furious. These bastards are not as worrying as Cai E and Wang Zhenyu. These two have come to Beijing honestly, However, Feng Guozhang relied on life and death in Nanjing and refused to move.It seems that the method of the boss and Yang Du is the right way!

"Where are Cai E and Wang Zhenyu now?" Yuan Shikai asked Xu Shichang, Xiong Xiling and others softly.

The leader of the law enforcement team, Lu Jianzhang, hurried forward and said: "Reporting to the President, according to reliable sources, the two met together in Wuhan, and then went to Baoding to visit the Army Officer Academy. They arrived at the capital at the same time yesterday. I am fully responsible for the reception, so nothing will go wrong."

Lao Yuan nodded, picked up a briefing, glanced at it and yelled angrily: "What is Zhang Zhenfang up to, the civil uprising in Henan has corrupted into Sri Lanka, who the hell, let Duan Qirui go to Henan, if you can't figure it out , he, Zhang Zhenfang, the governor of Henan, will come to an end..."

The fire of the famous Bailang Uprising in history is burning in the Central Plains!