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When Lin Yuan heard the news, he almost couldn't help asking: "What is Li Jingfang doing here?"

Liu Yufeng said: "Could it be that you are here to catch up with Lin Shuai?"

Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "Would Li Jingfang have such leisure?" Lin Yuan then asked his subordinates: "Did he say what he came for?"

The subordinate shook his head repeatedly and said, "No, he only said that he had something important to discuss with you, but he didn't say anything."

Lin Yuan thought for a while and asked, "How did Li Jingfang get here?"

The subordinate replied: "He came by train. The train was stopped by us on our control line, and the frontline troops sent him to us immediately."

Lin Yuan thought: "Come here by train? Then he is very anxious! There must be something urgent." So he said: "Call him in, and I will talk to him alone."

Liu Yufeng hurriedly said: "Shuai Lin, this Li Jingfang must be an assassin, right?"

Lin Yuan laughed when he heard this, and said, "Assassin? None of the ten Li Jingfangs are my opponents. It's okay. Even if he is an assassin, it's okay. Let him in."

The doorman immediately went out and took Li Jingfang to the reception room. Lin Yuan came to the reception room, and when he saw Li Jing, he smiled and said, "Brother Li, are you all right?"

Li Jingfang stood up with some fear, and said, "Shuai Lin..."

Lin Yuan smiled heartily and said, "Brother Li doesn't have to be like this. Although you and I are enemies on the battlefield, we are not on the battlefield right now. You and I should be called brothers."

Li Jingfang smiled lightly and said, "Okay, Brother Lin Xian, how have you been lately?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Brother Li, there is no need to say these polite words. You must have something important to do here, so let's talk about it directly."

Li Jingfang nodded and said, "Okay, I'll just say it straight. I don't know if Brother Lin Xian knows about the Imperial Tomb in Beijing?"

Lin Yuan said: "Of course I know, you can go back and tell Emperor Guangxu that he doesn't have to worry about the safety of the imperial tomb. The imperial tomb is a treasure of ancient Chinese architecture and the wealth of our descendants. We will definitely protect it and it will definitely not appear. The matter of stealing the tomb."

Li Jingfang said: "That's natural, but I didn't come here for this matter. I just wanted to ask, if someone in the royal family died, can they be buried in that imperial tomb? After all, we are all Chinese. People have always said that the whole family should be buried together."

Lin Yuan's eyes suddenly became sharp, piercing Li Jingfang's eyes like two knives, Li Jingfang was startled, Lin Yuan immediately asked, "Is the Empress Dowager Cixi dead?"

Li Jingfang barely had time to think about it. He blurted out the sentence "How do you know?" and then regretted it. He thought to himself: "Lin Yuan doesn't know anything at all. He was just deliberately defrauding me just now. Yuan Yi's eyes were so frightened that he lost his sense of control, and leaked this huge secret."

Lin Yuan didn't expect that the Empress Dowager Cixi was really dead, so he couldn't help saying in surprise: "Is the Empress Dowager Cixi dead? When did it happen? Why is there no news at all?"

There was no need for Li Jingfang to hide it anymore, so he said: "She died in the early morning of the day before yesterday. Emperor Guangxu wanted to keep the funeral secret, so there is no news."

Lin Yuan asked: "Did Emperor Guangxu want to bury Empress Dowager Cixi in the imperial tomb?"

Li Jingfang looked at Lin Yuan in surprise, and asked, "How do you know?"

Lin Yuan smiled lightly and said, "Not only do I know that Emperor Guangxu wanted to bury the Empress Dowager Cixi in the imperial mausoleum, but I also know that the real purpose of Emperor Guangxu asking you to come is not to discuss this matter at all, but that Emperor Guangxu wants to ask me And, I don't know if I'm right?"

Li Jingfang said in surprise: "Do you have eyeliner by the emperor's side?" But as soon as the words came out, he felt that something was wrong, because the matter of seeking peace was said to him by Emperor Guangxu himself. With three people present, it is absolutely impossible for Lin Yuan to know.

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "I'm guessing. I don't have eyeliner around the emperor. If I had eyeliner, I would have known his exact location and captured him in one fell swoop."

Li Jingfang asked: "Then how did you guess?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "It's very simple, the Qing court has no one to count on now, I can't count on it, the Japanese can't count on it, and my army is very close to Nanjing, the Qing court can do it without asking for peace." What?"

Li Jingfang said helplessly: "Since brother Lin Xian said what he said so directly, then I won't hide anything anymore? This is exactly the purpose of my visit this time. Your Majesty asked me to sound out your tone. If you ask for peace, what do you have?" condition?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "What conditions can he accept?"

Li Jingfang said: "Then he didn't say anything."

Lin Yuan said: "That is what you want me to say? Well, I will say it again: I definitely do not accept the condition of dividing the country, that is to say, there can only be one China, and one government of the People's Republic of China representing China. The Qing government must step down, this is the basis of all my conditions."

"The second condition is that we resolutely do not engage in a constitutional monarchy like the UK, that is to say: there will be no such thing as an emperor in China in the future, and the Qing emperor must abdicate. These two conditions are benchmarks, as long as they are not violated, We can talk about other things."

Li Jing looked distressed, and said: "Brother Lin Xian, the Holy One still wants to keep the foundation of the Qing Dynasty..."

Lin Yuan said firmly: "That's impossible! But I can guarantee that if Emperor Guangxu surrenders, I will never kill anyone in the Qing court, including Emperor Guangxu, the empress and concubines, and his children, oh , I forgot that Emperor Guangxu had no children, that is, people from the royal family of the Qing court, no one will be killed, and they will all become self-sufficient laborers in the new China."

Li Jingfang smiled and said: "Brother Lin Xian, in view of our friendship for so many years, is there no room for negotiation?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Brother Li, we once participated in the Shimonoseki negotiations together, and you later negotiated with the Russians in Vladivostok. How did you forget that there are no fathers and sons in the negotiation field! Now you are talking about brotherhood with me, How can I accommodate?"

Li Jingfang remained silent, and said, "That's that."

Lin Yuan laughed, and said: "Brother Li is exhausted, so let's go to the post house to rest first. In the evening, I will ask the cooking class to add two dishes. Let's have a good drink."

Li Jingfang smiled and agreed, and moved into the post house arranged by Lin Yuan. The post house is actually the consulates of various countries in Shanghai, and there are France, Switzerland, Ethiopia, etc. that have formally established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China at the ambassadorial level. In the country, Li Jingfang had just moved into the post house with his entourage when he heard someone knocking on the door.

Li Jingfang was very surprised, thinking: "Someone is knocking at the door? Who could it be?" So he asked someone to open the door. When the door opened, he saw a middle-aged man in plain clothes standing at the door, pushing a big cart in his hand. , the car was full of garbage, and seeing the door open, he rushed inside and asked, "Is there any garbage to throw away?"

Li Jingfang raised his head and said, "No, we just lived here."

The middle-aged man smiled and said: "Then I will interrupt." Then he left, and after a while he pushed the garbage truck to the outside of the embassy area, and whispered to a young peddler in the corner: "The person who came is Li Jingfang!"