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This incident caused Xu Shuzheng to be questioned by many parties and his reputation was greatly damaged.It also picked up the hatred between the Anhui faction, especially Xu Shuzheng, and Feng Yuxiang, which was outside the Zhili lineage, and brought new seeds of discord between the Zhiwan and Zhiwan factions; The strong support of Lu Jianzhang from Jilin Meng Enyuan has a lot of benefits to Zhang Zuolin but no disadvantages.The sequelae caused by the assassination had already set Duan Qirui on fire, and now he has no intention of pursuing the matter of Fengjun's two arms seizures!

In order to eliminate internal and external doubts about Lu Jianzhang's death in the Fengjun garrison, Zhang Zuolin ordered Yang Yuting's fall into the "assassination gate" and his ineffective control of the Fengjun outside the pass as the reason for his revocation of the post of chief of staff outside the Fengjun pass, and Zhang Hanqing took over the post.He also appointed Zhang Zuoxiang as the leader of the "Assassination Gate" investigation team. At the same time, he suggested that the Beiyang government remove Xu Shuzheng from the post of deputy commander-in-chief of the allied forces who participated in the war outside the customs, and successfully transferred the gunpowder cartridge.

If one plan fails, Zhang Hanqing will try again.

The Anhui Department can't have no worries about Cao Kun.In fact, Cao Kun also felt that Xu Shuzheng's methods were too vicious, and he had to be wary.But the Anhui Department quickly cured his heart disease, Xu Shuzheng vowed to promise that the vice president issue would be handled as originally agreed, and there would be no change.Xu Shuzheng also said: In the future, he is not required to go to Hankou to preside over the military. As long as he does not object to the fifth phase of the battle plan and let others fight, the vice president can be secured.After Cao Kun ate this "ecstasy soup", he wavered again.

On the 31st, the Overseer Corps held another meeting in Tianjin.A feature of this Tianjin meeting was that Zhang Zuolin personally participated in the meeting of the military governors. Other participants were: Cao Kun, Zhang Huaizhi, Xu Shuzheng, Ni Sichong, Tian Zhongyu, Long Jiguang, etc.The three governors of the Yangtze River have not yet sent representatives to attend.Ni Sichong arrived on the same day after receiving a secret message from Xu Shuzheng.

The Tianjin meeting is still discussing the issue of the president and the issue of the Southern Expedition.Zhang Zuolin agreed to elect Xu Shichang as the next president, and suggested that Duan Qirui be elected as vice president.This is the countermeasure discussed with Zhang Hanqing and his son.Because at this moment, although he is the governor of Fengtian and has a huge army of 4 divisions and 5 brigades, he cannot legitimately intervene in the situation in Jilin.Zhang Hanqing suggested that Zhang Zuolin's goal was to use the vice president of the Beijing regime as a cover. Zhang Zuolin also knew that with his current strength, it would be difficult to achieve this goal.

Ni Sichong was afraid that the meeting would lead to a stalemate, so he suggested that no decision be made on the candidate for the vice president for the time being, and that it be left to those who have made great achievements in the war against the south.This suggestion was proposed by Xu Shuzheng through Ni Si, because Xu Shuzheng had already promised Cao Kun, so he was inconvenient to break his promise, but now that Zhang Zuolin entered the customs in person, he wanted to win Zhang Zuolin over with this son, so as to encourage Zhang Zuolin to transfer all Fengjun troops to the south. On the other hand, he used the vice president as a bait to lure Cao Kun and his direct army to continue fighting in the south.To restore the deadlock in the South.

Cao Kun thought he was the only candidate for vice president, and Xu Shuzheng said at the time that as long as he did not oppose fighting in the south, it was enough, and he did not need to actively march south. How did he know that changes had taken place on the Hunan front, and his general Wu Peifu But he refused to fight, and established an armistice agreement with the southern army, but this time the Tianjin meeting left the vice president to those who had made great contributions to the southern expedition, and Zhang Zuolin was on the sidelines.The Tianjin meeting unanimously decided to persuade Cao Kun to go south to make meritorious service.On the one hand, Cao Kun was reluctant to give up the position of vice president, and on the other hand, he received a secret message from Wu Peifu to prevent him from going south, which made him really in a dilemma.

At this time, Cao Kun deeply felt that he was deceived, because if he really went south, Zhang Zuolin would definitely take the opportunity to penetrate into the Beijing regime. Zhang Zuolin was his biggest threat, he had the ambition to become the vice president, and he was also the only candidate besides him. .Duan Qirui sent a float to take Cao Kun to Beijing for a detailed discussion, but Cao refused.

Duan Qirui's Beijing government's power was greatly damaged after the direct gangsters turned against each other.In order to comfort Zhang Zuolin and prevent the fire in the backyard, Zhang Zuolin was appointed as the tour envoy of the three eastern provinces.This position is tantamount to a replica of the post of governor of the three eastern provinces in the former Qing Dynasty, and can command the military power of the three provinces. In terms of actual power, Zhang Zuolin's patrol of the three eastern provinces has far more power than the governor of the three eastern provinces.The appointment of this position gave Zhang Zuolin reasonable and legal control over the three northeastern provinces.Of course, the Duan family will not and dare not mention the matter of Zhang Zuolin's robbery of arms.

When discussing the war against the south at the Tianjin meeting, there were differences of opinion on who should be the first and who should be the last. Since Zhang Zuolin appeared as a "fighter", the warlords of the provinces advocated that the Feng army should be the main force in the front instead of standing still on the front line. military.But of course Zhang Zuolin refused to do so. He suggested that the Fengjun should be used as the general reserve force on all fronts to help the front at any time. Of course, this was opposed by other warlords. , everyone is not a fool, who is willing to do this?Therefore, this issue is delayed by everyone, and you push me to rely on it.During this period, the only thing that the warlords of the provinces agreed on was to demand military pay from the Beijing government, and the amount they offered was 1500 million yuan.

Of course, one cannot fight without money, so Cabinet Duan was busy using his brains on "money".Therefore, although Zhang Zuolin personally participated in this Tianjin meeting, there was still no result-but this was the result that Zhang's father and son wanted.Although Zhang Zuolin's support for going south was loud and loud, no one doubted the sincerity of this old man on the surface.

Finance Minister Cao Rulin proposed to issue 2 million yuan in gold coin certificates and borrow 4 million yuan from the North Korean bank as one-third of the reserve.The currency represented by gold coin coupons is one-half of the US dollar. The Currency Bureau was established as the supervisory authority for the issuance of gold coin coupons, and a trading company was set up to operate the issuance and international exchange business.Duan adopted this suggestion and proposed to ask Feng Guozhang to promulgate and implement the regulations on the issuance of gold coin coupons.And Feng once again refused to affix the seal.

But President Feng finally convened a meeting with the heads of various ministries and the heads of China Communications Bank and China Communications Bank on August 8 to discuss the issue of gold coin coupons.Cao Rulin reported at the meeting that the issuance of gold coin coupons was a reform of the currency system and a preparatory step for the adoption of the gold standard. On August 9, Feng announced in the name of the president the formulation of the gold coin certificate regulations and the official regulations of the Currency Bureau.

Western countries have expressed opposition to the Beijing government's measure.They believed that China's reform of the currency system should be discussed with the five-nation banking group first, and should not be done alone. This is against the common interests of the West, so they jointly protested against China.At this time, since the European War was coming to an end, the big powers began to pay attention to China again, and they were not as relaxed as they were during the emergency period of the European War. Therefore, they could not tolerate various collusions between the Japanese government and the Duan Qirui government, and still wanted to use the five-nation bank group to deal with China. China took control, which also prevented Japan's monopoly on Chinese borrowing.

In view of the strong pressure from Western countries, the Japanese government did not want to incur excessive dislike from Western countries, so it recalled Nishihara, the personal representative of the Prime Minister who stayed in China, and temporarily did not consider the matter of borrowing gold coins.

Without money, it is impossible to fight wars, because soldiers are paid.The princes from all walks of life created a mess for the distribution of benefits, but they didn't make any decisions about going south. They could only follow the lineage, go empty-handed, and get vital equipment in the melee of warlords, which took a big advantage.

In order to dispel doubts from the immediate family members caused by the death of Lu Jianzhang at the Fengjun headquarters in Tianjin, Zhang Zuoxiang, the leader of the investigation team, also lost no time in announcing the investigation results of the whole incident: "It was Xu Shuzheng and Yang Yuting who first falsely received Fengjun's military salary. They colluded with each other on this matter, and then used Yang's credulity to assassinate Lu Jianzhang at the Fengjun headquarters, intending to transfer the disaster to the east. Not only Zhang Zuolin, who was far in the northeast, was unaware of the whole incident, but Yang Yuting, his accomplice, was also kept in the dark Although Xu Shuzheng is the deputy commander-in-chief of the Fengjun in name, Zhang Zuolin, the commander-in-chief, cannot restrain him." The implication is naturally to disregard the relationship between Fengjun and this matter.

At the same time, Zhang Zuolin was also quickly investigating the bomb thrown by Zhang Hanqing, which made Zhang Hanqing's "Fengqing Bureau" famous in the Northeast, and also established the position of this department in Zhang Zuolin's heart.This is exactly the news that made Zhang Zuolin furious at the beginning: Xu Shuzheng pretended to lead the Fengjun war money to fill his own pockets, and conspired with Yang Yuting to set up another mountain.

It turned out that since Duan Qirui formed a cabinet for the third time on March 3, Xu Shuzheng had received a total of 25 million yuan in Fengjun military expenses, but Fengjun only received more than 550 million yuan.He further inquired and found that in order to expand his strength, Xu Shuzheng, together with Yang Yuting, Chief of Staff of the Fengjun Army, established 180 brigades in Luoyang, Xinyang and other places.The money was used to train the participating troops and organize the election of the new Congress. It turned out that Xu was playing with "fake reimbursement"!

Since Zhang Zuolin entered the Customs, in his contacts with all parties, he heard all about how domineering Xu Shuzheng was, how rampant he was, and how he used Duan Qirui to bully the Beiyang armies.Therefore, he was dissatisfied with Xu Shuzheng in his heart.After learning that he actually misappropriated Fengjun's military expenditures for other purposes and deceived others on his own head, how could he not be angry?It's just because the matter of getting rid of Lu Jianzhang is the top priority, and this news has been held back again and again, and now is the time to let it go.Therefore, without consulting with the Beijing government, he immediately ordered the removal of Xu Shuzheng from the position of deputy commander of the Fengjun, and asked Xu to settle the score.

When Duan Qirui heard that Zhang Zuolin had turned his back on him, he was afraid of causing other troubles, so he quickly asked Xu Shuzheng to see Zhang to apologize, and admitted that he would return the money in a short time.To comfort Zhang Zuolin, on August 8, Beijing issued a letter of appointment, and Zhang Jinghui, under Zhang Zuolin's command, was the commander of the new 24th Division of the Fengjun.

In the same year, the "Anfu Congress" under the control of the Anhui faction elected Xu Shichang as the president with an absolute advantage, and he was the third president of Beiyang.

Such an investigation result completely shifted the responsibility to Xu Shuzheng.Since Xu Shuzheng made a mistake first, he wanted to admit his mistake to Zhang Zuolin about the military expenditure, and he had to take the blame for the assassination of Lu Jianzhang; Zhang Zuolin also made full use of his acting talent and wanted to shoot Yang Yuting in a rage.Naturally, the generals of the Feng army wanted to persuade him one after another. Although Zhang Hanqing did not have a good relationship with Yang Yuting, he always admired Yang's talent and tried his best to dissuade him because of the rare talent.Zhang Zuolin originally regarded Yang Yuting as Zhuge and a "brain tank", so he naturally wanted to give this kindness to Naizi.

Yang Yuting is deeply grateful for the kindness of the young marshal, but feels ashamed to face Zhang Zuolin, so he finds a job in Beijing (Jingtu Temple Hutong in Andingmen), and his life is provided by Beijing-Tianjin giant Li Jingming.

Therefore, this time Zhang Zuolin came out of the customs, not only obtained the real shortage, but also obtained the strength, and became the biggest winner of each faction.