"beep……"

Clam, clang, accompanied by a whistle, a train with only fourteen cars left the Xizhimen platform. Unlike common trains, the locomotive of this train does not look like coal smoke is sprayed, but it only sprays some burning smoke on the roof. This is an internal combustion locomotive, which is the latest product of Lianyun Locomotive Company, but it is not popular in China at present.

However, in Beijing, many people know that this "no coal burning" locomotive belongs to the State Council. To be precise, it is the Prime Minister's special car. This is a special train purchased by the State Council after the Prime Minister was attacked. On the surface, this train seems to be no different from ordinary trains except for the more advanced high-power internal diesel locomotives. But in fact, it is an armored train. Except for the internal diesel locomotives that have been specially modified, each car has been specially improved to ensure the safety of passengers.

In addition to the armored steel plates with a thickness of 15-25 mm are installed inside each car, an anti-explosion design is even adopted at the bottom of the car. After careful design and a series of explosion tests, the "V" type anti-explosion car was obtained by just completing the explosion test to maximize the safety of passengers in the car. Even if 150 kilograms of explosives explode under the car, relying on the explosion relief design and the anti-explosion design at the bottom of the car, the passengers in the car will be injured at most, and may not be seriously injured.

Even the windows that look very ordinary use bulletproof glass up to 10 cm thick. If necessary, armored steel plates can be raised behind the windows. In addition, each car is equipped with a separate filtered air conditioner, which makes the car in a closed state. Even if it is attacked by poison gas, relying on air conditioner filtering can also prevent passengers in the car from poison gas. It can be said that when designing this special train, the designers considered almost every possibility to maximize the safety of passengers in the car.

At the same time, this train has some unknown designs. Although it is well known that there are two carriages specifically used by the Prime Minister's convoy. However, there are three tanks in one carriage. If the railway is attacked and the railway is destroyed, it will be difficult for the three armored tanks to be captured by relying on the agents on the vehicle to cooperate with the three armored tanks, even an infantry regiment or even an infantry division. Of course, the outside world has no way of knowing all this.

However, for the passengers of the train, they can enjoy the safest railway traffic of this era. When the flowers, plants and trees on both sides of the train began to slowly retreat, in a carriage with a somewhat luxurious decoration, a young man with beards looked at the capital outside the carriage, frowned from time to time, and stood there, looking outside the car without saying a word.

"Go to Tianjin!"

Thinking of his mission to this trip, Li Zicheng sighed in his heart.

Why go to Tianjin at this time? Originally, although Yuan Shikai went to Tianjin on behalf of Yuan Shikai, it was on the schedule. Now, Yuan Shikai suddenly ordered him to go to Tianjin. Will there be any changes?

There is no intelligence on the Secret Service, but although there is no new information, it is well known that Yuan Shikai's physical condition is not optimistic now. Has his condition worsened further? Why did he spend himself in the capital?

For the coup?

Perhaps, I had been worried that when I was seeing off the Expeditionary Force, one of the Yuan family fathers and sons was in Beijing and the other was in Tianjin. When his son Yu Yuan army detained himself, and then the father launched a coup in the capital. But this possibility is not great. Perhaps Yuan Shikai's condition is not optimistic now, but out of his understanding of him, Li Zicheng knew very well that this situation was the case, and the less he would not do this.

Compared with many historical figures, Yuan Shikai may be the most misunderstood historical figure. Yuan Shikai is just similar to Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms. He was a capable minister in governing the world, and he could be a traitor when encountering troubled times. However, the ending and choice of his life is actually similar to Cao Cao, Liu Yu, Yang Jian and others. According to the laws of traditional Chinese society, his future will be to rectify the chaos, unify China, and firmly hold the position of Taizu for a dynasty...

However, history did not give him this opportunity, and he was an old school figure. For the weak China, he saw the inevitable direction of rebuilding authority, but did not use the awareness of the new signs of "Training" and "dictatorship" to break his way. If he had not been emperor, if he could be more politically wise, if he could see the situation clearly, and even if he could live ten more years...

Unfortunately, history has no if. Because of this, in history, under the description of the Tongmenghui Dukes, he became an extremely greedy thief in the country, and in people's eyes he became a traitor who signed the "Twenty-One" to seek emperorship. In the following literary works and even historical works, he became a clown who betrayed Tan Sitong. Although many people say, "There can be these!", in fact, anyone who knows a little about history can only say with regret: "There are really nothing!"

In this era, even as a political enemy, Li Zicheng could not refuse to admit that in many cases, Yuan Shikai did everything for this country. Of course, more often it was in his own way. If he was really the kind of extremely greedy thief in the country, how could he support himself?

Without his support and the foundation laid by China for ten years, I am afraid that it would not have been possible for me to achieve all this in just a few years. Now people only see "the achievements of State Li", but some people understand Yuan's painstaking efforts. While sighing in their hearts, another thing appeared in Li Zicheng's mind.

Before leaving, the dual reports of the Security Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Secret Service mentioned that in the past two months, the Revolutionary Party raised funds by robbing banks and money houses and preparing to make an uprising in a southern province. Li Zicheng's face was still worried.

Compared to Yuan Shikai, perhaps the revolutionary party is the "enemies of life and death". The political struggles with Yuan Shikai are still controlled within the scope of "mutual tolerance". Yuan Shikai is a political enemy who is addicted to "power schemes". "Power schemes" are also "political schemes", which are all solved within the framework of politics. But unlike Yuan's family, the revolutionary party is a group of complete thugs.

The butt determines the head, and this sentence is never false. Perhaps, in the past, Li Zicheng admired many revolutionaries, but now, after the "Ministry and Second Rebellion", the lessons of the collusion between revolutionaries and foreign enemies during the "Jiaoao Incident", and the assassination of revolutionaries by themselves by revolutionaries. Now, Li Zicheng has long lost a trace of goodwill towards the revolutionary party, and even different from Yuan Shikai, Li Zicheng believes that the revolutionary party is the "source of a century of chaos" in China.

Because of this, after taking over the State Council, Li Zicheng would always try his best to suppress the revolutionary party. Unlike Yuan Shikai's suppression, he suppressed more fundamentally. While exposing their treason through public opinion, he also launched a march of millions to protest the revolutionaries' treason. In short, the most fundamental point is to make it bad in terms of reputation. For a political party and politician, the most important thing is reputation, to be connected with foreign countries, collude with foreign enemies, and betray the country. If these crimes are held up, the chances of the revolutionary party turning over are very slim. Even in the United States, he also warned Situ Meitang not to support him, and to rob the support of overseas Chinese through diplomats. In this case, what will the revolutionary party do?

Take the risk to launch a rebellion?

If his own was the "revolutionary" of the rogue American, what choice would he make when facing this situation? Perhaps he had to take the risk to launch a rebellion. Through an armed rebellion, he told the Chinese people through actions that the revolutionary party was not silent - the revolutionaries were still fighting!

What an intriguing year!

Frowning and thinking, Li Zicheng's eyes turned out to the train. At this time, the train had already left the city area, and the sight was white. The snow that had fallen one day and one night had already dyed the world white. But who knew how many undercurrents were surging under this seemingly calm holy...

Thinking about the current situation, Li Zicheng hopes that Yuan Shikai can recover from health. Time, in history, God did not give Yuan Shikai time, but now that Yuan Shikai has lived a few more months than in history, will he have enough time? Will he give himself enough time?

"President..."

While sighing, Li Zicheng frowned, where will the future go, perhaps...

The sunlight scattered by the sunset shines through the thin curtains into the bedroom on the second floor of Jurentang, and the faint light of the footlights underground beside the door is shining with each other. At this time, outside the door of this bedroom, Yuan's wives, concubines and children, each of them is waiting anxiously.

From time to time, there will always be bursts of painful moans in the bedroom.

"This, how come this is a good one!"

Listening to his father's painful moans, Yuan Keding walked outside the door from time to time and complained, but when he was complaining, his walking and limping look seemed a little funny.

My father's physical condition worsened again. In the afternoon, Yuan Keding finally made a decision and agreed to Bexiye's suggestion to catheter his father to relieve his condition. However, listening to the painful moans coming from the bedroom, his heart, which was like a son, hangs tightly under his heart.

In the bedroom, the famous French doctor, Beshiye, had already had sweat dripping as big as beans on his forehead. This was definitely not because of the indoor heating, but because of nervousness. In order to catheter Yuan Shikai, Beshiye put five glass cups on his waist, but all the pulled out were blood.

"Um……"

Although he had never shown his weakness in front of others, the pain of catheterization still made Yuan Shikai moan in pain from time to time. This pain was unprecedented, but he still held on, but the painful expression on his face betrayed him.

Yuan Shikai, who was sweating on his forehead, looked at the dirty hematuria mixture dripping from the catheter bottle. He closed his eyes in pain. He was extremely weak. He was using his last trace of energy to fight the pain coming from his body. The struggle against the pain was exhausting his energy.

Finally, everything was over. When he could no longer cause hematuria, Bexiye looked at Yuan Shikai who was extremely weak lying on the bed and sighed in his heart. If he could receive treatment earlier... Thinking of this, Bexiye, who had already packed up his equipment, quietly called out to Yuan Shikai and left, and walked out of the bedroom. He had just walked out of the bedroom, and Yuan Keding came over.

"Doctor Beshiye, dad..."

When Yuan Keding wanted to figure out his father's physical condition, he heard a weak shout from the bedroom.

"Kiding..."

"father!"

Yuan Keding hurriedly walked into the room, but saw his father, who was ashen, lying on the bed. Yuan Shikai looked at his son with his tired eyes and sighed in his heart.

"Go and invite Yan Sun, Ju Ren, Zhiquan, all..."

After saying this, Yuan Shikai, who seemed to have exhausted his energy, closed his eyes. If it weren't for the painful moans coming from his nose, Yuan Ke would have shouted in surprise.

Close his eyes, although the pain in his body still tortures Yuan Shikai, he could clearly realize that perhaps he really had no time this time. It would be better to make arrangements for some things early.

But how to arrange it?

If you retreat from the position of president, who will become president?

Out of selfishness, if there were more than a dozen more, he would be inclined to his son, but now, God has not given him this time. Not to mention Li Zhiyuan and the southern provinces, even the Beiyang lineage alone would not be able to suppress it.

Since you can't win, then Li Zhiyuan!

Although he was a political enemy with Li Zhiyuan, and in the past two years he tried every means to "cut his wings and his feathers", at this time, Yuan Shikai had to admit that Li Zhiyuan might be a good candidate, capable, vision, and... and young, but... he is too young. Sometimes his skills are softer and he is too kind. This is a responsibility of the country. How can a kind person with a kind heart be borne by those old guys? If those old guys bully him, the country will probably be in trouble...

No, Li Zhiyuan can't do it either. If he is a prosperous era, he will be the best candidate. But in this chaos, the country will be settled for the first time. What he needs is not the kind-hearted person, but kind-hearted person. But he also needs a kind-hearted person who is strong and hard-hearted, and can do both soft and hard to govern the country!

If Li Zhiyuan is not good, who else?

Thinking about it, maybe it was because he was overdrawn or because he was in too much pain. Yuan Shikai fell asleep.

Half an hour later, Liang Shiyi, Xu Shichang and Duan Qiqi rushed to Jurentang one after another. After learning that the president was asleep, the three of them waited outside the bedroom. While waiting, the three of them learned about the president's physical condition from Yuan Keding.

"Xiang Cheng is afraid it won't work!"

After the three of them learned about the president's body, they quietly said, "At this time, the Juren Hall was already quiet, and grief was heavily pressed on everyone's hearts. Like the Yuan family, the three of them just waited silently for Yuan Shikai to wake up. They knew that maybe Xiang Cheng invited them here this time, probably to discuss the funeral.

After a few more hours, Yuan Shikai, who was awakened by physical pain, opened his eyes and said the first thing he said was.

"Are they coming? Come? Let them come in!"

After Liang Shiyi, Xu Shichang and Duan Qirui walked to the bedroom, Yuan Shikai said to Yuan Keding and others.

"You all go out!"

Duan Qirui, with a look of Qiran, came to Yuan Shikai's sickbed, sat down, looked at the president with a dead face and eyes blank, and said softly:

"The President, with the expectation of the country, please take good care of the President."

Looking at Duan Qirui, who was already stranger to him, Yuan Shikai said in a weak voice:

"I'm afraid I don't have time to bear it again..."

Although he felt like a hairspring, Yuan Shikai was still clear-headed. After getting sick, he never stopped his work. Now, he knew that he could no longer bear this responsibility, but he still shouldered the important task of governing the country. Now that the deadline is approaching, he should follow the example of the ancients and be the king. No, recommend descendants to the country so that the fire can be passed on. This is the final contribution made by all wise monarchs to the country, and it is also the last move that Yuan Shikai did for this country. For this reason, he thought of a few people, and after his death, the first person could make up for his lack.

"As the beginning of the Republic of China, if the National Bureau finally stabilized, my health would not work. As the president, now when the deadline is approaching, we should follow the example of the ancients and recommend successors to the country..."

Yuan Shikai's words only made Liang Shiyi, Xu Shichang and Duan Qirui suddenly startled. They looked at the sickly face of the President in surprise, and their minds were dark. The President was afraid that there would be no more time, otherwise they would not have made such an arrangement.

"President, you are at a time of prosperity and strength. If you take good care of yourself, you will definitely be able to recover as before..."

Xu Shichang's comfort was exchanged for Yuan Shikai's shaking his head.

"Ju Ren, this time, I'm ready and am going back to Zhangde..."

Looking at the three people in front of him, they were all his close friends, and their experiences were his... but now... their eyes turned to Duan Qirui. Thinking of this, Yuan Shikai's thousands of words came to his mind, but he didn't know where to start. He was powerless to say anything. Now the most important thing is to promote the country's wise men.

After some deep thoughts, neither Keding nor Zhiyuan was very suitable. After thinking about it, he finally remembered the vice president. Originally, the position of this president should be Li Songqing, and now he is given to him, which is not very suitable... But before that, he wanted to listen to the opinions of the three of them again.

"You can help me learn more about it. Now, who is more suitable to be the president."

After saying that, he looked at Duan Qiqi and his group, with some apology and regret in his eyes. He had not been able to speak for a long time. Faced with this problem, Liang Shiyi, Xu Shichang and Duan Qirui were also silent. The president should at least speak out one candidate, and then they could only.

Seeing that the three of them were so silent, Yuan Shikai couldn't help but feel sad. They finally... sighed softly, and Yuan Shikai spoke.

"You think..."

Suddenly, the door was pushed open, but Yuan Keding walked in with a look of panic. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
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