Back to the Republic of China as a commander

"Crack...you're too deceitful" Duan Qirui angrily slapped a telegram on the table, and then Duan Qirui leaned back on the grand teacher's chair and didn't speak.

Duan Qirui's cronies Liang Shiyi, Duan Zhigui, Zhang Zongxiang, Lu Zongyu, Xu Shuzheng, Zeng Yujun, and Wang Yitang were also in the study at the moment, all looking at Duan Qirui.Among them, Xu Shuzheng came back from the front line in Xuzhou. He knew Duan Qirui's character very well, so he was the first to speak: "Mr. Duan, the south side is indeed making progress, but the current situation, we will make trouble no matter what. Great."

Duan Qirui sighed softly, straightened his back and said, "But look at the conditions. If you punish the restorationists, Liang Shiyi will no longer be able to stay in the country. It's fine if Li Yuanhong becomes president, Xiong Xiling becomes the prime minister, and Liang Qichao becomes the finance minister." Chief, in this way, even if the central government remains in Beijing, how much say do we Beiyang have? What is even more ridiculous is that a regional government represented by the national government has been tossed about. What else can we have? ? What else is left in the center?"

Everyone looked at each other and smiled wryly. They really didn't know how to answer Duan Qirui's question.

After venting for a while, Duan Qirui sighed and said: "Everyone should pay more attention to Yuan Gong's funeral. Now we Beiyang have reached the most dangerous moment. If we don't work together, we will be hopeless. You guys Come back and leave me alone."

Everyone knew that Duan Qirui had to make up his own mind about the conditions in the south, so they all got up to leave, but Xu Shuzheng didn't get up.

After a while, Duan Qirui slowly said to Xu Shuzheng: "Yezheng, Yuangong is dead, Huafu is also defeated, I can't count on anyone else, only you can ask, if If you were me, how would you deal with the current situation?"

Xu Shuzheng just stood up, took a few steps and said: "Mr. Zhiquan, we might as well accept all the demands from the south. The current situation is that we need more time than them to regain our strength. If we continue to toss , our Beiyang really has no hope at all."

Duan Qirui nodded in agreement: "Then what should we do specifically? Right now, the financial and taxation areas are all in the south. Even if we delay blindly, we may not be able to turn things around!"

Xu Shuzheng thought for a while and said: "We might as well let him Li Yuanhong be the president, and the cabinet prime minister also give him Xiong Xiling, so the rest is their own arguing. But we must control the Congress. I am already fighting with Japan. They promised that as long as we declared our participation in the war, he would provide us with loans and equipment to help us organize the participating troops. And once the training of these elite participating troops is completed, and then they catch the opportunity to kill each other, we can Go south in a big way to clean them up and finally complete the unification."

"Japan?" Duan Qirui couldn't help hesitating, it's okay for others not to know, but he, Duan Qirui, knows very well that the role played by the Japanese in the matter of Lao Yuan's downfall is not very honorable.These oriental dwarfs only want to drag Beiyang back, making it impossible to complete the national reunification.But now it seems that even if they talked about the plan of joining the war with Xu Shuzheng, it was just to speed up the division of China, but if they don't cooperate with them, who should they turn to?The European War has been fought for two years, and the big powers in the traditional sense have long been unable to interfere in China's internal affairs.

Thinking of this, Duan Qirui could only acquiesce, but he still couldn't help but lamented: "Seek skin with a tiger, seek skin with a tiger!"

Duan Qirui finally nodded, and the day when Li Yuanhong finally entered Beijing was also set on April), which is said to be an auspicious day for traveling.

On April 4, the "Nanjing Armistice Agreement" was officially signed at the Nanjing Military Management Committee, and it was immediately published in the newspapers. Because this agreement eventually led to the emergence of the situation of partition between the North and the South, the agreement was also called "North-South Partition" by historians. agreement".

Now that the big cake in Beiyang is divided, the small cake in the south will be much easier to divide.

Cai E's condition became more and more serious, but the complicated situation in Sichuan made it impossible for him to get away to treat the illness.What's more, Wang Zhenyu didn't know what kind of psychology he had, so he took the initiative to ask for the establishment of a Southwest Protectorate Government, and said that he would never get involved in the Southwest territory.Seeing Wang Zhenyu's attitude, Cai E naturally expressed his gratitude.

But on the issue of Fujian and Zhejiang, Wang Zhenyu adopted a completely different attitude from Southwest. On the one hand, Wang Zhenyu began to mobilize four divisions to station in Hangzhou and Chaozhou, threatening Sun Wen and others militarily; Actively contact with Sun Wen and actively express his strong desire to form a coalition government.

This combination of civil and military forces immediately split Sun Yat-sen's originally ununited camp into two factions. One faction headed by Chen Jiongming advocated the establishment of a coalition government, while the other faction headed by Hu Hanmin opposed it. In fact, it was up to Sun Yat-sen in the end The meaning of this president.At this time, Sun Yat-sen had arrived in the Shanghai Concession with his wife Soong Ching Ling, but he didn't know what to do?

On April 4, after the signing of the Armistice Agreement, Wang Zhenyu and his wife Ye Ziwen went to Shanghai. However, he did not plan to meet Sun Yat-sen directly, but first met Huang Xing, another veteran of the Tongmenghui.

Huang Xing basically disappeared in this period of historical records, as if the failure of the second revolution made this veteran of the [-] Revolution and the giant of the Tongmenghui disillusioned.But in fact, Huang Xing participated in the War to Protect the Nation, but this time due to health and many other reasons, he was not able to fight on the battlefield as usual, but he is still silently contributing his own strength, including raising money for the National Defense He is doing all kinds of work, and his eldest son Huang Yiou even participated in the operation to cover Cai E's escape.

Due to the successive victories in the military, Huang Xing was also invited back from the United States by someone sent by Wang Zhenyu in advance.But now to deal with the gang of Chinese Revolutionary Party, Huang Xing must rely on Huang Xing's prestige, although in fact Huang Xing is not a member of the party (he refused to join the party because he did not want to take the oath required by Sun Yat-sen).

Huang Xing's residence was personally arranged by Du Yuesheng, and he lived directly in the Du mansion. The security was also at the highest level. Both Du Yuesheng and Wang Yaqiao sent special personnel to protect him.Although Yuan Shikai is dead, Wang Zhenyu feels that many assassinations against revolutionaries may not be the work of Yuan Shikai. For example, Chen Qimei was done by Wang Yaqiao under his command, but political needs put the blame on the old Yuan who was almost dying at the time. .Isn't Song Jiaoren's case still pending?Therefore, if the guarantee is not complete, some revolutionary youth who is not open-eyed will deal with Huang Xing, a revolutionary veteran, as a traitor, and then say that the Beiyang government did it.

The moment Wang Zhenyu saw Huang Xing, he did not act arrogantly. Instead, he respectfully gave a standard military salute to Huang Xing. Time seemed to return to the front line of Hanyang where the artillery was rumbling. It's like saluting Commander-in-Chief Huang who is reviewing the whole army.

Huang Xing saw that his old subordinate also became excited, he grabbed Wang Zhenyu's hand and said: "Wen Zheng, Wen Zheng, you are doing well, you are doing well for us Hunan people. "

Wang Zhenyu said very modestly: "It's a fluke to be in a humble position. This time, Yuan Shikai committed suicide and caused anger and resentment."

Huang Xing waved his hand and said: "What a lowly job, I am a commoner now, but you are the commander in chief of the six provinces, if you really miss the old love, just call me teacher, I, Huang Keqiang, have a thick skin and I am ashamed to accept it .If there is anything the teacher needs to do for you, just ask.”

Wang Zhenyu nodded and said, "Okay, teacher, I invite you here this time, mainly because I hope that with your help, peace in the south can be realized as soon as possible and economic development can resume."

Huang Xing is not a fool either, he thought for a while and said, "I have also met with Zhantang (Hu Hanmin) and Jingcun (Chen Jiongming) respectively in the past few days, and I heard that you intend to form a national government in the south. True or false?"

Wang Zhenyu said with a smile: "Teacher, you know me. I am a real person. How can this matter be false? Not only is it to form a national government, I even hope to form a joint political party to govern. In this way, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hubei and Anhui The nine provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian are integrated to seek common development and future, but it is easier said than done. First of all, it is a question of who is in charge, and cooperation is by no means a matter of one or two people. Someone needs to be matched. Just like getting married, you always need to be introduced by a matchmaker. So I hope that you, teacher, will be the matchmaker to facilitate this marriage. Of course, I will not make it difficult for the teacher. In terms of specific conditions, I will try my best to make it easier for you. , there is only one purpose, to revive China.”

"Reviving China?" Huang Xing was moved, and his thoughts seemed to return to the days when he first started the revolution.

Huang Xing stood up, took a few steps back and forth in the living room, and said, "Okay, I'll take this matter, and I'll go to see Sun Wen tomorrow to discuss this matter. But Wen Zheng, the two parties will become one It's not a trivial matter, I mean you still have to come up with the specific plan, and see how big the gap is between everyone, so we can talk about it!"

Wang Zhenyu nodded with a smile and said, "Teacher, don't worry, I already have a plan. If Mr. Sun has the heart, we can even invite him to the Du mansion to talk slowly."

Huang Xing nodded and said: "That's good, that's good. I haven't been in good health recently. I can do something for this country. Now that I think about it, the revolution did more damage than construction. Now Yuan Shikai It's down, it's time for us to build."

Wang Zhenyu roughly remembered that Huang Xing, like Sun Yat-sen, both died of liver disease, so he specially ordered Du Yuesheng to arrange for Huang Xing to be checked by a foreign doctor in order to extend his life as much as possible.It's just that the foreign doctor said after the examination that it is difficult to cure and can only rest. Wang Zhenyu is also very sorry about this.

"Then it's up to you, Mr. Lao..."