Li Hongzhang, get your butt to Beijing!
Have Deshou handle Guangdong and Guangxi as well.
Yuan Shikai, get your troops to Beijing, now!
If things get hairy in Jiaozhou Bay and the Governor can't get away, send a trustworthy general and his troops to Beijing.
Yulo, quickly send telegrams to Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai with this order, don't delay!
Get a six-hundred-li express to them. Do it now!