Back to the Republic of China as a commander

In the early morning of September 9, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi's commander rode into Liuzhou City.Unlike Li Zongren who was elated, Bai Chongxi was in a depressed mood.

Li Zongren looked at the welcoming crowd all around, and comforted softly: "Okay, Jian Sheng, it is already a great achievement to be able to take down Liuzhou City so easily, so don't feel depressed and sad because you let Shen Hongying go."

But Bai Chongxi shook his head: "Brother, you don't know, I thought I had no plans, but this Shen Hongying is really a strange person. The behavior is completely beyond my expectation. Instead of going south to Lu Rongting, he ran away from the north gate. My little brother is the greatest shame in my life. If I don't get this Shen Hongying back, I won't let it go."

Li Zongren knew the temper of this righteous brother, so he shook his head and stopped talking.

The group finally arrived at the Commanding Mansion of the Fifth Army and visited Liu Guxiang and others who were recuperating from injuries. Li Zongren took a risk in this matter.According to Bai Chongxi's intention, Liu Guxiang and the others should be dealt with directly, lest the commander-in-chief come and have another entanglement over the issue of the Liuzhou area's dominance.Li Zongren, on the other hand, saw the tragic situation, and finally couldn't help but vetoed Bai Chongxi's suggestion.

Fortunately, Liu Guxiang had already learned what happened from Liu Zhenhuan. This is an old world, and he immediately guessed what the idea of ​​the Xiangxi Commander Wang sent troops to Guangxi was.So when he saw Li and Bai entering, he expressed that he was willing to command his troops (if there was still such a unit) to join Marshal Wang in order to report the life-saving grace of Marshal Wang.This time, he really succeeded in convincing others with virtue. . .

The news that the Xiangxi army appeared in Liuzhou spread throughout Guangxi in just three days. The reason is very simple. Bai Chongxi sent a nationwide telegram in the name of Liu Guxiang, inviting the Xiangxi army to enter northern Guangxi to put down Shen Hongying's rebellion.This action, which seemed redundant at the time, was later praised by Wang Zhenyu, who thought this action was perfect.

While telegraphing the victory to the commander in chief, Bai Chongxi did not intend to let Shen Hongying off. How could this kind of person who dared to break away from his own schemes allow him to be free!

Including Li Dachao's company, a whole regiment of officers and soldiers was used in the hunt. The officers and soldiers worked day and night during the operation, constantly cutting sideways and taking shortcuts. As a result, although a large number of Shen Hongying's subordinates were captured, only any of Shen Hongying's family was caught. one person.After the torture and interrogation, Bai Chongxi received a piece of news that made him even more angry. It turned out that after breaking through the North Gate, Shen Hongying played the golden cicada to escape the shell again.He let the guards and cronies run towards the mountains, while he himself took the whole family to the riverside, rented a boat and fled to his in-law Mo Rongxin in Wuzhou.

When Bai Chongxi got the news, he seemed to hear the mocking voice of Shen Hongying, a guy who had never masked his face.For this person who dared to insult his IQ, Bai Chongxi's anger has escalated.If the previous plan was to take it back and bring it back to justice, then now it is to take it back and torture it. (Is there a difference in the end result?)

On September 9, Wang Zhenyu, who had marched for more than 26 miles on horseback, finally arrived in Liuzhou under the escort of Long Yunfei's cavalry from the Mobile Brigade of the Jingzhou Security Detachment.Almost at the same time, Lu Rongting sent a national telegram to Wang Zhenyu in the name of the governor of the Guangxi military government, ordering Wang Zhenyu's troops to withdraw from Guangxi within ten days, otherwise he would use the entire province's army to suppress Wang Zhenyu's rebellion. military. . .

As the situation in the southeast became more and more stable, Wang Zhenyu finally attracted the attention of Yuan Shikai, the president of Beijing.

In Zhongnanhai Jurentang, the chubby Yuan Shikai was sitting on a big armchair after the secretary finished reading Lu Rongting's telegram.Said a word to Yang Du: "This is called Wang Zhenyu, I seem to have heard of it somewhere! Well, I remembered, it has been more than a year, I think I heard Keding stand up."

Yang Du replied with an astonishing memory: "Report to the President, the student happened to remember that it was this person who led the troops to attack the Yudaimen Station in Hankou the year before last."

Yuan Shikai was surprised immediately: "What's the situation in Xiangxi and Guangxi? Can the Senior Advisory Office have details?"

Yang Du said very calmly: "In August, Wang Zhenyu, the governor of Xiangxi, captured Changde, and Wang Zhengya, the governor of Lizhou, went to the field. Because the war in the southeast was intense at that time, and the place was killing each other, it had nothing to do with the war situation, so we didn't report it in time."

Yuan Shikai thought for a while and said, "It's okay, baby, it's just a small matter. If you think about Sun Dapao's serious troubles, you don't need to worry about mange like Wang Zhenyu. You still have to put your mind on the official meeting next month. The presidential election has come up, and Cai E from Yunnan has sent troops into Chongqing. The second revolution of the chaotic party has been suppressed by me. The next personnel arrangement you have to come up with a charter. The most important point is the election of the governor of Hunan Didn't Li Yuanhong advocate Tang Xiangming? Let him do whatever he wants. Fatty Li is credited with being able to quell Sun Dapao and others' rebellion so smoothly this time. I drove to Yuezhou and stayed there, and I sent Shen Jinjian to be his deputy."

Yang Du wrote them down one by one, thought for a moment and said: "President, what should I do with Tan Yankai, the former governor of Hunan?"

Yuan Shikai waved his hand: "That's the new governor's business, I don't care."

Yang Du nodded and said he would do it, and asked another question: "What about Guangxi?"

The complacent Yuan Shikai stood up and said: "It's just the last few provinces, let them make trouble, we just clean up the mess. Don't you think so? Xizi?"

How could Yang Du not know that he deliberately reminded Lao Yuan of the cannibalism just now, but now he still did not forget to put on a look of admiration, and then sent a free flattery: "The president is wise!"

Yuan Shikai laughed and left Ju Ren Tang.

Seeing President Yuan walking away, Yang Du also tugged on the sleeves of his suit, and walked out of Ju Ren Tang step by step.

This Zhongnanhai used to be the Nanyuan of the Imperial Palace, and to be precise, it was also a part of the Imperial Palace. More than ten years ago, the Reform Movement of [-] failed, and Emperor Guangxu was put under house arrest in Yingtai of Zhongnanhai.Now it is the Republic of China, Emperor Guangxu is gone, Lafayette, who had been in power for a while, has also returned to the west, Yang Du is even more confused about the direction while lamenting that things are right and wrong.

In fact, Yang Du has a public identity as a disciple of the Wang family, but in Beijing's political circles, this point has been ignored intentionally or unintentionally.

But Chen Shao under Wang Zhenyu did not. Almost every two weeks, a letter and a money order of 1 yuan would be handed over to Yang Du through a secret channel (Military Intelligence Department Beijing Station).

This is why Yang Du had to bother in front of Yuan Shikai and diverted his attention from Xiangxi.

In fact, not only the relationship between the students of Wangmen and the sponsorship fee of [-] yuan per month, but also some personal factors of Yang Du also played a role.

Yang Du is a very talented and ambitious person, so he defected to Yuan Shikai, and learned literary and martial arts from traditional intellectuals, which is consistent with the thinking of the emperor's family.What he pursued so hard will naturally be highly valued and then he will become a minister in the cabinet. In the future, he will leave his name in history and bless his descendants.

However, Yuan Shikai, the great president, used his talents instead of his aspirations: on the one hand, he would ask himself to refer to important matters, large and small, and fully adopted many of his ideas; but on the other hand, he has never been promoted and reused himself , What he always gave himself was the vacant title of a senior adviser to the presidential palace.

Yang Du is not very interested in being called an aide like a master of Shaoxing, so he also has some criticisms about it.

In fact, he still agrees with Yuan Shikai's character, and the treatment he gives himself is not low, and he usually treats him with extra courtesy.Moreover, in terms of private life, it is not as rumored by the outside world, such as sleeping in the palace overnight and raping court ladies.

Although this Zhongnanhai was a part of the former imperial palace, it is now the office area of ​​the central government of the Republic of China, and the small court of the last emperor Puyi has long been compressed into the Forbidden City next door and cannot get out.

As for the rape of a court lady, it is even more unreliable. Yang Du, this court lady, had seen it out of curiosity, and basically there is no good-looking, all crooked melons and jujubes.Come to think of it, this lady has no future, not to mention, it will be difficult to find someone to marry when she is released at the age of 25.Therefore, most of those who have a beautiful daughter in their families get married in a hurry at the age of thirteen or fourteen, so as to save the pain of entering the palace.In this regard, Yang Du could only express his silent condolences to the concubines in the palace.

As for Lao Yuan, he has saved more than a dozen concubines, no matter how hungry he is, he will not reach that point.

Presumably, they are also those ignorant Eight Banners children who have read Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" since they were young, and all treacherous officials have followed Dong Zhuo's model.

Although Yuan Shikai was better than Sun Yat-sen in the south who only chanted revolutionary slogans, but Yang Du always felt that something was wrong with the president, which made him feel bad.

After reading Chen Shao's letter, Yang Du knew that something was wrong with the president, and it can be summed up in two words: bad luck.

In the final analysis, President Yuan still represents the original ruling order, which is doomed to fail.Under such circumstances, even if the reunification is finally completed by force, the future of this country will still follow the old path of the past.

On the contrary, if what Chen Shaoxin said is true, then what this Xiangxi guardian envoy named Wang Zhenyu is doing now is very energetic and has a bright future.

Local government and county people rule counties, which is something that China has never dared to imagine in the past thousands of years.At the central level, power is highly centralized, and what is stronger than Yuan Shikai's is that this Wang Zhenyu completely relies on the system to control the army.Although it is also a recruiting system, from the most basic soldiers to officers at all levels are all deployed by the staff office. This approach greatly avoids the emergence of private soldiers and warlords.The most important point is that although the government is governed at the core level of the central government, it also limits the role of the local government at the economic level. It actually uses a Xiangxi Development Company to coordinate economic projects.

Yang Du can even conclude that ordinary officials would never dare to blackmail such a company that requires policies and backgrounds.And once the local economy is not destroyed by the government, the speed of development must be amazing. . .

It is not difficult to think of a way, but it is difficult to implement it.Obviously, Wang Zhenyu not only thought of it, but also did it. . .

Yang Du got a little excited and then regained his composure. The younger brother's words were exaggerated, but the monthly check of [-] Dayang was true.Since I can't get along with President Yuan, it is necessary to leave a way out for myself. . .