When Tang Jian heard that Wang Jianchuan was back, he was overjoyed. He knew that Wang Jianchuan must have returned from completing the task and that Wang Jianchuan would definitely not disappoint his expectations. Haha, this is a great gift from Tang Jian to Yan Fu!

"Call him in now!" Tang Jian said happily.

"Yes, commander!" The messenger ran all the way out of the door and went outside the mansion to convey Tang Jian's orders.

After a while, Wang Jianchuan stepped into the conference room first. Behind him were Ma Rushan and He Shan, two lone wolf company commanders. The three of them had not changed their combat uniforms, and the military boots were still stained with bad soil.

Wang Jianchuan looked tired. He had been waiting in Yanqing for three days and three nights and had no rest for a moment just to catch Yuan Shikai, but his tired look still could not block the excitement in Wang Jianchuan's eyes.

Wang Jianchuan and the other two immediately saluted Tang Jian. Wang Jianchuan grinned, revealing two rows of snow-white teeth, and smiled and said, "Commander, I'm back!"

Tang Jian patted the three of them on the shoulders with encouragement and said, "It's good to come back, it's good to come back!"

Wang Jianchuanhui reported: "Report to the commander, this combat mission was successful, and no one in our army was injured or killed. Look, who did I bring you?" Wang Jianchuan pointed behind him.

Tang Jian looked up and saw a man slowly walking in from outside the door with his head hanging down. The moment the man walked in, everyone in the conference room was surprised and lost their voices. Nie Shicheng murmured: "Yuan Weiting!"

Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang were surprised by You Sheng, and their eyes almost fell out because the person came was their former commander-Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Shikai slowly raised his head, his face pale, but he didn't panic once, and his face was like a pool of stagnant water that had been silent for a hundred years.

Yuan Shikai said hoarsely: "Haha, they are all familiar faces!"

Tang Jian stretched out his right hand and said, "Brother Yuan."

Yuan Shikai did not reach out, but shook his head and smiled miserably: "Haha, the defeated general."

Tang Jian turned his head to the generals of the Southern Army and said, "You all go out, let's discuss it tomorrow! I have something to say to Brother Yuan."

"Yes, commander!" Everyone responded, Jie Jiajun and Yuan Jingxiang walked out of the conference room first, and others walked out one after another.

Nie Shicheng gently patted Feng Guozhang who was still stunned in the original place, Duan Qirui said softly: "Go out first!"

Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui's eyes were slightly red. They looked back at Yuan Shikai at the same time, then shook their heads and sighed, and left the conference room with Nie Shicheng with great sadness.

After a while, only Tang Jian and Yuan Shikai were left in the entire conference room.

Tang Jian said, "Brother Yuan, sit down!"

Yuan Shikai casually found a chair to sit down. Tang Jian then brought a chair and sat against Yuan Shikai. The two of them looked like they were not like they were hostile to the death, but more like friends who had never seen each other for many years.

Tang Jian handed Yuan Shikai a cigarette and smiled and said, "Do you want one?"

Yuan Shikai nodded indifferently and took Tang Jian's cigarette. Tang Jian naturally handed Yuan Shikai a match. Yuan Shikai did not refuse. After lit the cigarette, Yuan Shikai took a hard breath and then slowly vomited it out.

Tang Jian also lit one for himself, followed Yuan Shikai and started to suck the clouds and spit out the mist. After a while, the whole meeting was filled with smoke, and the faces of the two people gradually became hazy.

Speechless for a long time.

After smoking, Yuan Shikai threw it under his feet and gently twisted it out. Then he sighed, raised his head and looked around, and then sighed: "Ha, we are back to the origin, and you are back to the Prince Zhong's Mansion."

Tang Jian threw a cigarette butt and said lightly: "But, we can never go back to the past."

Yuan Shikai smiled bitterly: "Since it has become history, why bother with it?"

"Does Brother Yuan not miss the time when we fought side by side?" Tang Jian asked.

Yuan Shikai said quietly: "Haha, miss it, of course, miss it. Alas, all memories are in vain. No matter how you recall it, it will only add to sadness."

"Brother Yuan, I have always had a question to ask you!" Tang Jian said.

"Ask, I think this question has been bothering you for almost three years, right?" Yuan Shikai replied.

Tang Jian nodded and agreed: "Why did Brother Yuan harm me that day? Is there anything I am sorry for Tang Jian? Why did I kill me and take so many lives? Are these all you want?"

Yuan Shikai did not answer directly, pondered for a moment, and then slowly said, "Fuhua, have you read more of the Three Kingdoms?"

Tang Jian nodded.

"Then you should know what Zhou Yu left before his death, right?" Yuan Shikai asked.

Before Tang Jian could answer, Yuan Shikai continued, "Since he gave birth to Yu, he gave birth to Liang, according to his current situation, I should be that Zhou Lang!"

Tang Jian showed grief: "Why? Why do you do this? You brought me out of North Korea that day. Without you, there would be no Tang Jian at this time. Once upon a time, I dreamed of working hard with Brother Yuan to make progress, enrich the country and strengthen the people, expel foreign humiliation together, and protect the Beiyang fleet that Brother Chang fought for. But why did you turn your back on our former ideals in the end?"

Yuan Shikai suddenly stood up and said excitedly: "That is your ideal, not my ideal! Don't always press your wish on me. My ideal has always been to reach the peak of the power of the Qing Dynasty and let everyone in the world surrender to my feet. Only that moment is the moment I dream of most, not the bullshit ideal you mentioned!"

Tang Jian took a deep breath and asked, "Do you really hate me so much, sacrificing the lives of innocent Beiyang Fleet soldiers and selling the interests of the country?"

"It's all you!" Yuan Shikai's face was flushed, and he pointed at Tang Jian's nose with all his might, and said hatefully: "If it weren't for you, I would have fulfilled my ideal long ago! Who told you to be better than me, everything is better than me! Everything is one step further than I thought!"

"I hate you so much. Why do I hate you better than me?" Yuan Shikai coughed twice and continued, "It's all because of you!"

"It's because of this?" Tang Jian asked, "Do you know that it's because of your jealousy that there are so many innocent soldiers of the Beiyang New Army, soldiers of the Southern Army, and ordinary people who died in this war!"

"Haha, they are just chess pieces, and it's not a pity to die!" Yuan Shikai raised his head and laughed.

"Check pieces?" Tang Jian said angrily, "Those living lives are chess pieces in your eyes? Are me too?"

Yuan Shikai smiled grimly and said, "Yes, it's just a chess piece! So, you dare to ask when you were in North Korea, didn't you regard me as a chess piece you climbed up?"

Tang Jian was speechless and immediately said, "Yes, I wanted to climb up with you at the beginning, but I didn't want to save the Beiyang Fleet for my own selfishness. I wanted to use my own strength to drive these powers out of my territory in China! And then, I always regarded you as my brother, and I want us to fight together!"

Yuan Shikai sneered: "Just! Think I am a brother? If I am a brother, why are you still going against me everywhere? I thought you would die in Liaodong or Lushun, but I didn't expect that your life was so good. At this point today, it was God's will. God will destroy me, Yuan Shikai, and I have nothing to say!"

"I really don't understand what you want?" Tang Jian said heartbrokenly.

"What do I want?" Yuan Shikai smiled madly, "I want this!" Yuan Shikai "teared" and pulled open his collar, and there was a dragon robe inside.

Yuan Shikai pointed to his chest and said, "This is this! A man was born between heaven and earth, and he should be the hegemony of heaven and earth, and achieve the achievements of Emperor Wu and Tang of Han! This is what I want!"

Tang Jian sighed heavily and shook his head and said, "The dream of the emperor is just a cloud after all. Nan Ke's dream is always the vague world. Why should I be so persistent?"

Yuan Shikai said sternly: "The success and defeat of the enemy are all right. No matter how you say it, you don't need to talk so much nonsense. Haha, isn't it just a death? I, Yuan Shikai, can't be afraid of life and death until today. You should kill me!"

"Don't worry, Brother Yuan, I will not kill you. You have kindness to me. I will always treat you like my elder brother. One day, all living beings are brothers, and I will support you forever. But you have to promise me that you will not be in power for the rest of your life!" Tang Jian said.

Yuan Shikai laughed wildly as if he had heard the funnyest jokes in the world: "Tang Jian, you don't have to pretend. I had already expected that what I am today. Haha, I don't have to agree to you anymore. Just keep your heart in your stomach and no one will be enemies with you in the future." Yuan Shikai said with a crazy laugh.

"Ah?" Tang Jian turned around and looked at Yuan Shikai in confusion, constantly pondering what Yuan Shikai had just said.

When Tang Jian turned around, Yuan Shikai's laughter came to an abrupt end. Yuan Shikai covered his mouth in pain and coughed violently. Due to the severe cough, his face turned red due to lack of oxygen.

"Look, I haven't lived for a long time, so I won't bother you to do it myself!" Yuan Shikai smiled bitterly and stretched out his palm. He saw that the hand that Yuan Shikai had just covered his face and coughed was covered with black blood clots, and the blood dripped all over the ground.

Yuan Shikai's mouth was full of blood and his face turned pale a little. He continued, "See it. I haven't had much time left, so you don't have to worry about me coming back."

"No, Brother Yuan, I..." Tang Jian stepped forward and asked with concern.

"Get out!" Yuan Shikai did not appreciate at all, pushed Tang Jian away arrogantly, and then walked out the door alone.

The guards at the door were about to stop Yuan Shikai, but Tang Jian quickly winked. The two guards retreated and allowed Yuan Shikai to walk out of the conference room.

Tang Jian sighed helplessly, and Yuan Shikai walked outside the door and whistled to the sky: "Success and kings will defeat the bandits, success and kings will defeat the bandits! Haha..."

With a "thump", Tang Jian heard the sound and stepped out of the room nervously and saw Yuan Shikai lying on the ground, with blood surging from his mouth.

Tang Jian quickly stepped forward, knelt on the ground to support Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai stroked the dragon robe in his arms with anger and said to himself: "Why did you have to be born Yu? Why did you have to be born Yu..." However, before he finished speaking, Yuan Shikai tilted his neck and fell into Tang Jian's arms. Before he died, he still stared at his unwilling eyes.
Chapter completed!