The two messages made Zhang Zhidong realize the danger of worshiping Xiang

As mentioned above, Zhang Zhidong received an edict from the Emperor asking him to see him. According to the analysis of information from all sides, there is a good chance that this entry into Beijing is to make up for the lack of Weng Tonggong, which means that his majesty will worship the phase this time, and this phase is a reality with office and power.

For more than twenty years, Zhang Zhidong has been waiting for such a day. This is also the highest situation that The ancestors of the Zhang family have been looking forward to for generations, and it is also the greatest glory. Zhang Zhidong will carry out a series of restoration undertakings in Huguang to the eighteen provinces, rectify the four seas of Kyushu, and realize his ambitions and ambitions.

With excitement and pride, Zhang Zhidong left Wuchang by waterway with his staff and family, planning to take the Victoria freighter imported from Britain to Shanghai, transfer from Shanghai to Edo-maru in Japan, land at Tianjin Tanggu Port, and then take the newly built Jingjin Road train into Beijing, which is the most convenient route.

Arriving in Shanghai, Sheng Xuanhuai greeted Zhang Zhidong according to the full honor guard that had received Li Hongzhang in the past. Zhang Zhidong spent three days socializing in shanghai's ten miles of ocean field. In the past three days, Zhang Zhidong received two messages. These two messages made Zhang Zhidong, who was in a state of mental excitement, wake up and begin to realize the danger of jinjing's majesty.

The first news was written by Yang Rui. On the sixty-ninth birthday of Weng Tonggong, Guangxu gave Weng Tonggong a birthday gift of ginseng. Ginseng is usually not a birthday gift, but a gift to an elderly person who has returned home. Guangxu sent ginseng, which obviously showed that in his eyes, Weng Tonggong was not a revolutionary, but a hero who returned to his hometown.

Weng Tonggong was dismissed this time because Cixi was angry with him, but Cixi was sixty years old and four, Guangxu was only twenty-eight years old, and the days after Guangxu were still very long. Once the Cixi Mountains collapsed, it was also the time when Weng Tonggong made a comeback. Because everyone thought so, the scene of sending off the deposed senior officers to return home was actually rarely lively, and more than 500 people from the imperial court, the officials of the Six Ministries and the Nine Secretaries of the Nine Qing Sects, and the young xinjin sent them off. Even Li Hongzhang, who hated Weng tong to the bone, sent his son Jingfang to send him off with his handwritten letter.

The second news is from the "Zi Lin Han Bao". The conflict between the new and old factions in Hunan was fierce, and Xu Renzhu, the scholar-politician of Hunan, tried to reconcile, but the current scholar-politician was unable to defeat the gentry of Hunan and personally went to Yuelu Academy to apologize. This shows the strength of the conservative forces. From one province in Hunan to seventeen other provinces, how difficult it will be for the great cause of restoration to be carried out throughout the country!

Through these two pieces of information, Zhang Zhidong saw that this entry into Beijing was extremely dangerous. If the restoration cause is successful, Guangxu will make the imperial power a big deal, and at that time Weng Tonggong will inevitably return to the imperial court. With the feelings of Weng Tonggong and Guangxu, Weng Tonggong will use a little means, and Zhang Zhidong will be doomed. The restoration and reform of the law failed, and as the leader of the implementation of the new policy, Zhang Zhidong could not escape the fate of being liquidated by the conservative faction.

Zhang Zhidong decided not to go to Beijing as he was told, and the question now was whether there was any good excuse not to go to Beijing. Just at this time, the governor of the lake, Yamen, sent a telegram to Zhang Zhidong reporting the incident of the sha people's religious conflict. Newspapers also said that the people of Shashi had burned more than ten foreign houses, and the French consul in Hankou threatened to send troops to Shashi to arrest the perpetrators. The imperial court has always attached great importance to the teaching plan, and if this is used as an excuse not to enter Beijing for the time being, it can be said that it is justified.

After thinking of an excuse, Zhang Zhidong immediately turned the rudder back to E. His choice saved him from a terrible catastrophe.