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    Under the dual pressure of foreign adults and 1 million taels of silver per year, Rutherford's three demands on behalf of Jingshi University were quickly submitted to the Military Aircraft Department by Rongqing.

    Since the death of Dai Hongci in the first month of the second year of Xuantong to the present, the Military Aircraft Department has gone through several changes:

    Five days after Dai Hongci died of illness, Zaifeng, who did not believe in evil, selected Wu Yusheng to be a cabinet bachelor to learn how to act as a minister of military aircraft.  The Military Aircraft Department was filled with six more people: Prince Regent Zaifeng, Prince Qing Yikuang, Na Tong, Shi Xu, Lu Chuanlin, and Wu Yusheng.

    The curse of the six people in the Military Aircraft Department is just like the plane falling down when the National Development and Reform Commission mentions the price of oil. It is a bloody lesson learned from dozens of lives.  But someone wants to take a gamble. What will be the result?  Soon, Lu Chuanlin took sick leave in March and was unable to go on duty at the military aircraft office.

    By July 13, the second year of Xuantong (August 17, 1910), the Military Aircraft Department completed the last personnel transfer in its life: Shixu and Wu Yusheng resigned, and were replaced by Baylor Yulang and Xu Shichang.  Including Lu Chuanlin who is on sick leave, there are still six people.  But the six-person pattern only lasted for a short 9 days. On July 22 (August 26), Lu Chuanlin died of illness.

    It was only then that Zaifeng realized that there were some things that humans could not change.  Rather than resisting and getting bruised all over, it's better to lie on the ground obediently, hand over the condom, close your eyes and enjoy it carefully.  From then on until the Military Aircraft Department was abolished, there were only 5 people.

    Among these 5 people, 4 are Manchus, and the royal family occupies three more places: Prince Regent Zaifeng, Prince Qing Yikuang, and Beile Yulang.  However, there is only one Han nationality, namely Xu Shichang.

    During most of the years of Tongzhi and Guangxu, Han people accounted for about half of the military personnel.  In just two years after Xuantong, the proportion of Han people increased from one-half to one-third to one-fifth.  It can be seen from this that while the wave of anti-Manchus was rising in society, the Manchu nobles themselves were also strongly anti-Han and gradually concentrated military and political power in the hands of the royal family members.  This rejection interacted until it reached fever pitch, and then the revolution broke out and the Qing Empire was over.

    Historically, in March of the third year of Xuantong (May 1911), the Qing government announced the establishment of the first responsible cabinet. Among the 13 cabinet ministers, only 4 were Han Chinese, 9 were Manchu nobles, and 5 were from the royal family.  , caused widespread dissatisfaction among local warlords, officials and constitutionalists, and was known as the "Royal Cabinet" in history.  In fact, the "royal cabinet" is just a replica of the military aircraft department structure in the second half of the second year of Xuantong, and even the proportion of Han people has increased.

    The proportion of Han people in the responsible cabinet is already much higher than that of the previous Military Aircraft Department. What else do you Han people have to be dissatisfied with?  It was with this mentality that the Manchu nobles not only refused to correct the composition of the "royal cabinet", but also stepped up their efforts to exclude opponents.

    At this moment, Zaifeng saw the three requests submitted by Rongqing and smiled slightly: "They all say that foreigners are arrogant and unreasonable. Now it seems that it is just due to education. Look at these foreigners, under the influence of my Chinese culture,  Finally, I am more knowledgeable and courteous. The request I made this time is quite satisfactory."

    Prince Qing Yikuang is seventy-three years old this year. There is an old saying in China: "Seventy-three or eighty-four, the king of hell will not know how to go by himself." At this age, he pays more attention to maintaining his health and cherishing his blessings.  You have worked so hard over the years to make so much money, you have to spend it when you are alive, right?  He didn't even raise an eyebrow at such a trivial matter as a protest by teachers and students of Jingshi University.

    Na Tong took it and read it carefully, but frowned.

    Zaifeng asked hurriedly: "Why, Qin Weng thinks there is something wrong here?"

    Na Tong casually handed the fold to Yu Lang, and then said: "Your Majesty, as you said, these three requirements are quite satisfactory. However, I'm afraid it may be a bit troublesome to implement them."

    "What's the trouble?"

    Na Tong clapped his fingers and said: "Let me talk about the first point first, try our best to treat him and let him recover as soon as possible. What does 'try our best' mean? Is it like recruiting famous doctors from across the country like the late emperor was seriously ill?"

    Everyone shook their heads together: No matter what, Sun Yuanqi is just a minister, how can he enjoy the treatment that only an emperor can have?

    "Should we let the Taiyuan Hospital send someone?" Na Tong asked again.

    Everyone shook their heads again.

    In the Ming Dynasty, there was such a proverb in the capital: "The articles of the Hanlin Academy, the swords and guns of the arsenal, the tea soup of Guanglu Temple, and the prescriptions of the imperial hospital." It was used to ridicule that the name was not true.  In the Qing Dynasty, it was expanded to the "Top Ten Ridiculousnesses of the Capital", including Guanglu Temple Tea Soup, Taiyuan Hospital Prescriptions, Optimistic Prayers, Arsenal Division Swords and Guns, Camp Repair Division Workplace, Yangjiyuan Clothing and Food, Jiaofang Si Po Niang,  Articles on the Constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Imperial Academy, and the Hanlin Academy.  Whether it is four ridiculous or ten ridiculous, "Taiyuan Prescription" must be one of them. This shows how superficial and unsuitable it is.

    By sending an imperial physician, is this a cure, or is it causing trouble?I was so ashamed that I wanted to die.

    In the following days, Sun Yuanqi received better treatment. Although his injuries improved slightly, he remained unconscious.  The doctors were at their wits' end.  As the days passed, everyone's mood gradually became heavier.

    Just like Taizu could swim and Taizong could play bridge when he was busy with daily tasks, the ministers on duty at the Military Aircraft Department also smoked and chatted in their free time.  At this moment, Na Tong and Xu Shichang were chatting enthusiastically about which families had received posthumous titles continuously in the past two or three hundred years in the Qing Dynasty, such as Liu Tongxun (posthumous title Wenzheng), Zi Liu Yong (posthumous title Wenqing), and grandson Liu Ruozhi (posthumous title Wengong) in Zhucheng, Shandong.  Zeng Guofan (posthumous name Wenzheng) in Xiangxiang, Hunan, his younger brother Zeng Zhenqian (posthumous name Jingyi), his younger brother Zeng Guoquan (posthumous name Zhongxiang), his younger brother Zeng Guohua (posthumous name Minlie), and his son Zeng Jize (posthumous name Huimin).  Talking about this kind of topic is not only consistent with the status of the Minister of Military and Aircraft, but also appears to be knowledgeable.

    Yikuang was sitting near the window, as if he was about to fall asleep under the sunlight. Suddenly he opened his eyes and asked Natong next to him: "Qinxuan, do you think the Sun family of Shouzhou, Anhui should be counted?"

    Na Tong thought for a moment and replied: "I'm afraid it doesn't count, right? Although Shouzhou Zhongtang's posthumous title is Wenzheng, no one else in his family has received the posthumous title. Although his two brothers, Sun Jiaze and Sun Jiadoo, were both Jinshi, their official positions were not prominent.  Although his elder brother Sun Jiatai died at the hands of the traitor Miao Peilin, he was only given to a fourth-rank minister by imperial edict, and he was given compensation according to the case of death in battle, without a posthumous title."

    Yikuang closed his eyes and said slowly: "Sun Yuanqi is Sun Shouzhou's great-nephew, right? He has been in coma for more than ten days now, and I don't know if he can survive it. If he is gone, should the court grant him a posthumous title?"

    Yi Kuang said: "Sun Yuan rose to the rank of Minister, but died due to state affairs. According to logic, he should be given a posthumous title."

    "Then what posthumous title should I choose?" Yikuang's face showed neither joy nor sadness, as if he was talking in his sleep.

    Na Tong looked at Xu Shichang, a little unsure in his mind: Is Yikuang just talking nonsense?  Or is the imperial court already planning to arrange the funeral arrangements for Sun Yuanqi?  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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