Back to the Republic of China as a commander

In Beijing in May, the wind is smooth and the climate is pleasant.The Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall has changed to a new owner, and the troops that went south to suppress from Beijing have returned to Beijing one after another.After all, due to financial difficulties, it is difficult to pay the double salary for sending troops for a long time.Compared with the harmony of the southern Nationalist government, the central government in Beijing has great contradictions.

At present, Duan Qirui, the chief of the army, also has the first division, the third division, the fifth division, the sixth division, the tenth division, No.11 division, No.15 division, No.16 division, eight field divisions plus The total number of Dingwu Army and Anwu Army moved to Henan was about 20.Calculated on the basis of each soldier's salary of eight yuan per month, so many troops would spend at least more than 600 million oceans a month if they did not fight, which is 200 million yuan a year.And the central government's finances went bankrupt as early as Lao Yuan's time, all traffic tickets became waste paper, and the empty state treasury can be used as a mouse.However, the establishment of the national government in the south has little impact on the central government's finances. In the southern provinces, Lao Yuan did not pay taxes when he was alive.What is really terrible is that the customs of the nine southern provinces were taken back by the national government, and the central government lost 2000 million customs surpluses every year (while the national government gained [-] million Chinese yuan in customs surpluses after the tax increase), and the debts to be repaid each year remained the same , This will kill the government.

There is no way, the central government's own monthly expenditure is almost more than 200 million oceans, and the items that come with money, such as local taxes and transportation funds from the Ministry of Communications, are all in the hands of Duan Qirui.Xiong Xiling would be a bachelor if he didn't come back. With a swipe of a pen, he authorized the Ministry of the Army to raise military expenses from the railway and the local area. Duan Qirui was so angry that he secretly called Xiong Xiling an old fox.If it wasn't for Xu Shuzheng's dissuasion of the so-called international influence and southern attitude, Duan Qirui would have planned to let the soldiers who couldn't get the military pay go to the Prime Minister's Office to ask for money.

Duan Qirui, who still needs to buy arms after such a round of upheaval, can only pay [-]% of the army's salary, which also makes the subordinates feel a lot of resentment.

Qianmen Building, Yutai Teahouse, Wang Lifa, the shopkeeper, is counting money with his abacus!

Since the founding of the Republic of China, the business of teahouses has been getting worse and worse. After the death of President Yuan, the banner people in Beijing were left alone.This caused the Bannermen, the largest customer source of the teahouse, to go bankrupt one after another. Since they were all bankrupt, they naturally couldn't make a show of coming to the teahouse to drink tea.

As a result, large and small teahouses, teahouses, and teahouses in Beijing immediately collapsed.Only this Yutai Teahouse, because of Wang Lifa's good management, has remodeled and rented out the backyard early.Although there are no people living in this backyard nowadays, the monthly house payment is paid on time, so the income is guaranteed during drought and flood. Although there are fewer tea customers in front, the business can still be maintained.

I don’t know that the magpie on that branch croaked, and as soon as the door opened, five or six young people pushed the door in and asked for a private room.Wang Lifa immediately asked the young man to clean up the private room, made a pot of hot tea, and left. Wang Lifa was also an old gangster in the capital, and he could tell at a glance that these people had something to talk about, so he didn't go close to his eyes.

These seven or eight people are actually officers of the Beiyang Army, and they are vaguely headed by the man in the middle.If there were officers of the youth army, they would find that the leader and their commander-in-chief, Wang Zhenyu, looked somewhat similar.It's true that this person is Wang Zhenyu's younger brother Wang Zhenpeng, who is on vacation in Beijing right now.

This is the fault of the Beiyang army not paying much attention to file management. In the whole Beiyang, except for the people in this small room, no one knows that Wang Zhenpeng, the captain and company commander of Beiyang No. 15 Division, is Wang Zhenyu's younger brother.

The people in the room are all Wang Zhenpeng's classmates in the first phase of Baoding, and most of them are currently serving as company commanders or deputy battalion commanders in the [-]th Division.Sun Zhen, Sun Chu, Wang Tianpei and others, and Wang Zhenpeng's classmates at the same time as Tang Shengzhi, Yan Daogang defected to the youth army, and now they are at least assistant teachers.And everyone knew the fact that when Tang Shengzhi and Yan Dao just went south, they took Wang Zhenpeng's family letter to go, and Beiyang was already depressed, so everyone decided to come to Wang Zhenpeng to see if they could go south together.

"If you want to talk about Beiyang's defeat this time, it's not because the youth army is so powerful. It's because Beiyang is rotten to the root. It's already in this state, and it's still thinking about its own little abacus." Wang Tianpei has a straightforward personality, what to say .

"The [-]th Division and the [-]th Division of ours are in Xuzhou. As long as Commander Xu gives an order, we can reach Nanjing in two days. But you see, we stayed in Xuzhou for more than a month, just looking at the troops in front of us." Let the youth army defeat them one by one. This battle is a deceit!"

"Hehe, what is this? Do you know the military salary? We have a brother in the military supply department of the division headquarters in the first phase. Hey, the senior generals are not short of a penny. The so-called [-]% of the salary is us low-level officers and big soldiers."

"Hey, what do you mean? My brother, I was assigned to the [-]th Division, and the troops were stationed in Langfang. Let's not talk about the bad things about eating empty quota. The commander arranges us to escort the goods every day. It's not easy for us to say anything, but once After overturning the car, I realized that the escorts were full of opium. We, soldiers, are supposed to escort this harmful thing, it’s too fucking bad.”

Sun Zhen thought for a while and said, "I have received Tang Shengzhi's letter. The youth army all eat and live together. I have never heard that the regimental commander does not stay in the barracks at night. And the military salary is paid in full. Never delay. This time they have taken back the customs, and now those ordinary people in the south see the youth army as if they are relatives, it is like us, and they can’t hide when they see it.”

Sun Chu waved his hand and talked about another matter: "I heard a fellow of mine working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs mention something. It seems that our Chief Duan is planning to join the war behind the back of the President and Prime Minister. With the sum of money, what kind of army to join the war is formed, in fact, it will go south to fight against the Nationalist government."

Wang Tianpei patted the table and said, "Damn, little Japan is easy to mess with. They cannibalize people without spitting out their bones. President Yuan made their Article 21 dirty. How could Mr. Duan do such a thing?"

Wang Zhenpeng hasn't spoken since he came in. He knows what the brothers mean when they say these words, that he doesn't want to work in Beiyang anymore, and wants to lead him south to find a way.

Why didn't I think about it, at the beginning of the Baoding first-term exam, I just wanted to be more promising than my brother, but after a few years, the gap became wider and wider.The third brother has already become a commander in nine southern provinces, but he has only been a captain and company commander in Beiyang, and there is less and less hope for him.There have been more than a dozen letters from my family, all of which are persuading me to go home, including a few letters from my third brother, and the most recent one also mentions that I should go home as soon as possible, because Beiyang has no future to speak of.

In fact, Wang Zhenpeng has long since lost the thought of competing with the third brother, but now it is difficult for him to leave, why?Because Wang Zhenpeng fell in love with a girl, and this girl is not simple, it is Yuan Shikai's third daughter Yuan Shuzhen, now named Yuan Jingxue.

To say that this Yuan Shuzhen is also a little famous existence in the history of the Republic of China.

During the preparation for the Hongxian Monarchy, Yuan Shikai lived in Jurentang all the time, and he mainly relied on a Chinese newspaper "Shuntian Times" run by the Japanese for information about the outside world. How could he know that the "Shuntian Times" he read was all colluded by Yuan Keding The fake newspaper forged by Yuan Naikuan and others was first revealed by Yuan Shuzhen.One day, one of Shuzhen's girls wanted to go home to see her father (this girl is the daughter of an old lady, she is free, so she was allowed to go home and visit once in a while), and Shuzhen liked to eat black-skinned five-spice crispy broad beans, Then let her buy some back home by the way.The next day, the girl bought a big bag, which was wrapped in the whole "Suntian Times" and brought back to Yuan's Mansion. When Shuzhen was eating broad beans, he accidentally saw this newspaper and the "Suntian Times" she usually read. The Suncheon Times had a different argument, so I hurriedly found the newspapers of the same day to check, but the results showed that the date was the same but the content was different, obviously someone made a fake.That night, she showed Yuan Shikai the real version of "Suncheon Times". Yuan frowned and said nothing but "Go and play".Early the next morning, Shuzhen was woken up by a burst of shouting and cursing. When he woke up, Yuan Shikai was holding a whip and scolding Yuan Keding for "deceiving his father and wronging the country" amidst his elder brother's kneeling begging for mercy. .

When Yuan Shikai was the president of the Republic of China, he probably wanted to marry a daughter of the Yuan family to Puyi, the last emperor, out of the consideration of alleviating conflicts with the Qing royal family. The third daughter, Shuzhen, was picked.One day, Yuan Ke revealed the news half-jokingly and half-seriously to Shuzhen: "Sanmei, will you be sent to the palace to be a concubine?" It was very interesting, and he threatened her and said: "If you cry again, I must give you a gift." Shu Zhen refused to listen even more, and said, "I am not a snuff bottle at home. I can give it to whoever I like." Old Yuan He laughed loudly after hearing this, and repeatedly boasted: "Our third daughter has personality, high intelligence, and strong fighting spirit. It would be great if she was a boy." Seeing that Lao Yuan was so happy, the fifth aunt beside her said something bitterly. "Look at her being so disobedient, it will be unlucky for whoever marries in the future." Lao Yuan retorted with a smile, "That's not necessarily true." .

According to the original history, Yuan Jingxue should marry Yang Yuxun, the nephew of Yuan Shikai's confidant Yang Shiqi, who served as the pseudo-governor of Shandong during the Anti-Japanese War.Then according to the trend of history, the traitor husband was shot by Dai Li, and Yuan Jingxue began to live alone, writing memoirs about her father.However, history obviously made a big deviation here. When Wang Zhenpeng was ordered to return to Beijing to garrison with No.15 Division this time, he suddenly wanted to go to Beihai for a stroll, so he met a few colleagues and went there in plain clothes.

As a result, when rowing here, because of too many people, I was squeezed into the same boat with two strange girls.I didn't think so at the time, but later everyone remembered what it meant to be able to cross the same boat after a hundred years of cultivation.

And one of the two girls knew Wang Geng, the younger brother of Wang Zhenpeng's classmate. Her name was Lu Xiaoman. Her father, Lu Ding, was the director of the Taxation Department of the Ministry of Finance.The other girl didn't know who it was, but her aggrieved appearance deeply inspired Wang Zhenpeng's strong desire to protect.Although Wang Geng, who was studying at the West Point Military Academy, returned to China for a short-term vacation and was not familiar with Wang Zhenpeng, he volunteered to find Miss Lu for information.Only then did I realize that this girl was actually the second young lady of Yuan Shikai's family, Yuan Jingxue, who was only 16 years old.At this time, Yuan Shikai had died less than a month ago, and the entire Yuan family was already on the verge of collapse.