But Shanqi, Pu Wei, Tieliang and others had a fight all night and left after slapping their butts, but left a mess for Zhang Zhidong.

First of all, Shanqi, Pu Wei, Tie Liang and others made trouble, and naturally, some people took advantage of the situation to rob and fish. Some rogues and unemployed vagrants saw the opportunity, so they began to smash and rob. Some troops followed suit and began to rob. Secondly, the city was originally in panic in Beijing. Shanqi, Pu Wei, Tie Liang and others retreated, and suddenly made many royal families lose their minds, so they also fled from Beijing. Many people were robbed during the escape.

As a result, in just a few days, the order in Beijing was in chaos, and everyone was in danger. Every family closed their doors and shops were closed. Every day, there were fighting and looting. Human life was like setting fire. If the big Beijing suddenly became deserted, the market was depressed, and lifeless.

Although Zhang Zhidong tried his best to mobilize the army to maintain order, the morale of the army completely collapsed at this time, and no one tried his best. Therefore, he could only avoid forcefully maintaining order in important places such as the Palace and the Six Ministry. Other places could not take care of other places. Officials had their own servants, and wealthy families also had some servants, so they could also avoid force support. However, ordinary people and small families could only leave their fate.

In less than two days, the envoys of Britain and France came to Zhang Zhidong and asked Zhang Zhidong to take effective measures as soon as possible to restore order in Beijing. If Zhang Zhidong is unable to maintain order in Beijing, it is better to take the initiative to surrender to the People's Army, and all countries are willing to come forward to deal with it.

It turned out that there was a turmoil in Beijing. Although the embassies of various countries were defended by soldiers from various countries and maintained stability, other expatriates and churches in Beijing were affected by a lot. Originally, after the Boxer Reform, the Qing court did not dare to easily provoke foreigners, but in Beijing, almost all of them had to support foreigners to heaven. Whenever the Chinese and foreigners had conflicts and disputes, the Qing court would favor foreigners and blame the Chinese. The embassies of various countries had soldiers from various countries to defend, but the Qing court would focus on sending people to protect the church and foreigners, for fear that another diplomatic incident would occur if it was accidentally caused.

But now, the order in Beijing is in chaos, and the Qing court's protection of foreigners is inevitably loose. Secondly, many people who have a certain understanding of the current situation know that the Qing Dynasty is almost over. The East China Government is about to be in power, and the East China Government is not afraid of foreigners. Therefore, this is a good time to use foreigners to be evil. After all, foreigners do too many bad things on weekdays and are hated too much. Once they have the opportunity to retaliate, they will naturally not miss it. Therefore, foreigners' churches, shops, stores, etc. have been robbed to varying degrees, and some were even beaten to death. So foreigners hid in embassies to take refuge. Many foreigners are rumoring that it is difficult to repeat the story of the Gengzi Year?

All countries also realized the seriousness of the situation, so they decided to protest to Zhang Zhidong after consultation. Of course, the purpose of the countries was not to really demand that Zhang Zhidong restore order in Beijing, because this was not realistic, and Zhang Zhidong was powerless. If you really want to restore order in Beijing, you can only let the People's Army enter the city to take over Beijing. Of course, all countries also knew that it would be a matter of time before the People's Army entered Beijing. Anyway, Shanqi, Pu Wei, Tieliang and others have left now. Therefore, instead of letting the People's Army invade Beijing, it is better to resolve the issue peacefully through negotiations, and strive to participate in the negotiations and try your best to win interests for yourself during the negotiations.

After listening to the suggestions of the two ministers, Zhang Zhidong said that he needed to think about it again and asked the two ministers to go back to listen to the news. As soon as the two ministers left, Xu Shichang came to Zhang Zhidong and reported a message to Zhang Zhidong: Tang Shaoyi came to Beijing with Guangxu's letter to meet Zhang Zhidong.

It turned out that after receiving Guangxu's letter, Qin Zheng immediately asked Tang Shaoyi to bring him into Beijing to persuade Zhang Zhidong to surrender. Tang Shaoyi was naturally willing. This was a great opportunity to bring closer relationship with the East China government. Moreover, with Guangxu's handwritten letter, Tang Shaoyi was also very sure that he could persuade Zhang Zhidong to surrender, so he was happy to accept the order. Moreover, at the request of Tang Shaoyi, Qin Zheng ordered people to notify the hidden personnel in Beijing first, ask them to notify Xu Shichang and ask Xu Shichang to take care of him in the city.

After receiving the notice from the lurking personnel of the East China Government, Xu Shichang was also very happy, so he made an appointment with Tang Shaoyi to make time and place to enter the city, and personally led a team of servants to wait at the agreed city gate, and arranged for the soldiers guarding the city in advance. As soon as Tang Shaoyi arrived, Xu Shichang opened the city gate and let Tang Shaoyi enter the city, but did not immediately lead Tang Shaoyi to see Zhang Zhidong, but took Tang Shaoyi to his home first. The two discussed for a day and determined the plan to persuade Zhang Zhidong and the subsequent actions. It was not until the next day that Xu Shichang informed Zhang Zhidong.

When he heard that Tang Shaoyi brought Guangxu's handwritten letters, Zhang Zhidong was immediately energetic because at this time, Guangxu's letters would not have any other content, and they would definitely persuade him to surrender, otherwise the East China Government would not allow Tang Shaoyi to bring them out. Originally, Zhang Zhidong had the intention to surrender, but he was too fond of his reputation, so he could not make up his mind. However, with Guangxu's letters to persuade him to surrender, it would be different. This was an order from the emperor, so Zhang Zhidong could legitimately open the city and accept surrender without fear of damaging his reputation.

So Zhang Zhidong immediately ordered to meet Tang Shaoyi. After the two met, Tang Shaoyi took out the letter first and raised it above his head. Zhang Zhidong did not dare to neglect it. He first tidied up his clothes and bowed to the letter three times before he took the letter from Tang Shaoyi. Because although this was just a letter, the nature was not much different from the imperial edict, and of course there should be no rudeness.

The content of the letter is not complicated. The general idea is that the Qing court has lost its morality, and its energy has been exhausted, and it is unable to turn the world back. The East China Government promised to treat the people with kindness and protect the tombs of the Qing Dynasty. Guangxu could not bear to the people's suffering from the war again, so he ordered Zhang Zhidong to give up resistance and surrender to the People's Army. At the end of the letter, Guangxu's jade seal was also covered.

After reading the letter, Zhang Zhidong first shouted long live, and then started crying as if he was pretending to be. Xu Shichang and Tang Shaoyi also accompanied Zhang Zhidong for a while, but in short, he had done enough play.

Finally, Xu Shichang stopped crying and advised: "Zhongtang, now is not sad. Since the emperor has an order, we should act according to the orders and do not let the holy grace be done!"

After hearing this, Zhang Zhidong stopped his sad voice, wiped his tears, and said, "The chrysanthemum's words are reasonable." So he immediately ordered to gather ministers to discuss.

Not long after, the ministers also came to the Military Affairs Office one after another. However, Han ministers Lu Chuanlin, Liang Dunyan, Zou Jia, Tang Jingchong and others were basically all here, but only the ministers of Manchu were left with Na Tong, Shaochang, Rongqing and Zaitao. None of the others came, and they all escaped.

Of course, Zhang Zhidong no longer wanted and immediately took out Guangxu's letter and let everyone watch it.

After everyone passed it over to each other, Na Tong said, "Is this letter really written by the emperor?"

Tang Shaoyi immediately said: "It was indeed written by the emperor himself, and I saw it with my own eyes, and there was no falsehood." In fact, Tang Shaoyi himself didn't know if the letter was written by Guangxu, because Qin Zheng just handed him the letter to him, and told him that it was written by Guangxu, and asked him to take the letter to the city to persuade him to surrender. But at this time, he naturally could not give someone a handle, so Tang Shaoyi insisted that he had watched Guangxu write with his own eyes, leaving no loopholes for others. Anyway, others could not prove that he had not seen Guangxu write.

Lu Chuanlin said: "Zhongtang, then according to your opinion, how should we act?"

Zhang Zhidong said: "Since the emperor has an order, we who are ministers should naturally follow it, so that we can be ministers."

Liang Dunyan, Zou Jia, Tang Jingchong and others also nodded frequently. Liang Dunyan also said, "It's reasonable, it's reasonable." In fact, everyone knows in their hearts that Beijing City will definitely not be able to defend, but if they want to surrender to the People's Army, no one can stop this. But now with Guangxu's letter, it undoubtedly put a ladder on everyone and just went down the ladder.

But some people couldn't see it, and Shaochang said, "Even if this letter was written by the emperor, it must be forced by false rebellion. It is definitely not the emperor's sincerity. We must not take it seriously."

Tang Shaoyi said: "Mr. Shao is such a bad word. As I saw with my own eyes, the emperor was never threatened by false rebellion. It was definitely out of sincerity and there should be no doubt."

Rong Qing couldn't help it and said loudly: "Tang Shaoyi, I think these things are your one-sided words, which are not enough to prove it. Moreover, even if this letter is true, we cannot be ordered because it is a mess of life, a mess of life, and we cannot listen, and we must never listen."

Xu Shichang said: "What does Lord Rong mean? If this letter is the emperor's true intention, Lord Rong dares not accept orders, is this going to deceive the emperor? If this letter is really written by the emperor under false rebellion, then if we do not believe in it, how can we be lucky to be the emperor? Are you planning to take the opportunity to kill the emperor!"

These words were simply blocked, and Rong Qing couldn't speak for a long time, so he had to look at Zaitao and said, "Zaitao, what do you think?"

Zaitao hesitated for a moment before saying, "Since it is the emperor's letter, let's do as we do."

When Rong Qing heard this, he was so anxious that he stamped his feet and pointed at Zaitao and said, "You...you...you..." But after saying a few words of "you", he couldn't say anything else.
Chapter completed!