Not long after Jin Yuran arrived in Europe to take up his post, he received a telegram from his friend Xu Shuzheng, which read: Negotiate and purchase a batch of large trucks for transporting troops as soon as possible, and send troops to Mongolia in the near future! Be sure to! It turned out that Xu Shuzheng was appointed in April 1919 as the Northwest Frontier Envoy and Commander-in-Chief of the Northwest Frontier Army, and he wanted to solve the Outer Mongolia problem. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The so-called "Outer Mongolia question" refers to the fact that since the Qing Dynasty, Outer Mongolia, which had been subordinate to China for more than 200 years, took advantage of the Xinhai Revolution and the civil war, and the Mongolian upper class aristocracy declared independence from China on December 28, 1911, with the support of external forces in Tsarist Russia. In addition, the Oriental people were also meddling in the affairs of Outer Mongolia, and sent troops to form a de facto military presence in Outer Mongolia.

Xu Shuzheng knew very well that to solve the problem of Outer Mongolia and even the entire northwest, it was necessary to have a strong military force as the backing, and he actively recruited troops for this purpose, and with the support of Duan Qirui, he built four mixed brigades and a supplementary mixed brigade, and he stationed these troops in Yujing and Suiyuan. Xu Shuzheng also set up the headquarters of the Northwest Frontier Army in BJ in order to maintain close ties with the central government.

After receiving the telegram, Jin Yuran was extremely excited, and he immediately rushed to Stuttgart, Germany, and used his connections in Germany to negotiate and sign the contract in only 10 days. Jin Yuran quickly sent a telegram to Xu Shuzheng, telling him that the truck he needed would soon arrive in China, and that he would personally escort the goods back to China, and that he would go to BJ to meet Xu Shuzheng and help him.

Because some of Jin Yuran's family ancestors were ministers of the Interior, and his father served as the commander of one of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, he heard about it when he was a child, so Jin Yuran was more familiar with the local customs and political and religious regulations of Mongolia. When Jin Yuran introduced these situations to Xu Shuzheng, he especially mentioned a person, this person is the current Mongolian religious leader, and the younger brother of the 8th Jebzunbadan Living Buddha, the actual ruler of Mongolia, and is a classmate of Jin Yuran when he studied in Germany, his name is Boymbabri, although this person has a cowardly character and no practical talent, but his wife, that is, Jebzunbadan's younger brother and daughter-in-law, is a remarkable figure, strong, courageous, courageous, and charming, is a famous courtesan in Mongolian high society, and has a close and ambiguous relationship with Jebzunbadan, He is the most trusted person of the Living Buddha, and he told Xu Shuzheng to make good use of this person. At the same time, Jin Yuran put forward several suggestions to Xu Shuzheng: it should be hard rather than soft for the RB (Oriental) and Tsarist Russian armies; The march to Kulen (present-day Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) should be carried out quickly; It is not advisable to kill the upper class of Mongolia; The garrison in Outer Mongolia should be false rather than real; It is advisable to carve out the Mongolian people rather than disturb them; However, we must not be soft on some diehard separatists, and so on......

Jin Yuran further analyzed: There is no need to have any illusions about foreign invaders, in addition to having strong strength as a backing, but also having the courage of Wen Xianggong (Zuo Zongtang) to help the coffin into Xinjiang, and the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road! In addition, for the Mongolian upper group, they are just a small group of interests of flies and dogs, as long as they know the benefits and temptations, they can be taken down one by one, in addition, the rapid march is for the sake of strategic secrecy, and to maintain the suddenness of the attack, not to give all forces time to fully prepare, Mongolia is sparsely populated and nomadic horsemen, so the central garrison must maintain deterrence with both reality and fiction! Xu Shuzheng thought so deeply and invited him to be the military counselor. On October 23, 1919, Xu Shuzheng ordered Chu Qixiang, the Third Brigade of the Northwest Frontier Army, to lead his troops to Duolun City, and then thousands of troops were neatly changed to 80 large cars and drove majestically to Kulun.

The yellow sand is long, the desert is boundless, the cold wind is iron-claded, the horse neighs and the frost moon, and the corpses of countless soldiers who have defended the country and defended the border for thousands of years are buried here. Xu Shuzheng was moved, and when he set off from Duolun, he wrote a poem "Early Hair Talking Forest" before leaving:

Chong Han is light from the party's iron clothes, and he travels thousands of miles in the deserted sand,

Like the moon and frost, only the horse roars, and the suspicious clouds and rain crow to the chicken.

The Central Plains stirred up the letter and was lonely and angry, and the sea echoed as the sound of the night,

And promote the felt car to take advantage of the dawn, and gradually clear up.

In addition to describing the desolation of the northwest and the difficulties of running the northwest, the poem also expresses his personal pride in going out for the country.

General Xu Shuzheng and his entourage arrived at the Kolin forest, which was more than 100 miles away from Kulen (now Ulaanbaatar), but there were RB (Oriental) troops stationed in Kulen, and General Xu Shuzheng immediately called the office of the RB (Oriental) military attache in Kulen, Matsui Nakasa, pointing out that the Japanese troops stationed in Kulen had no treaty basis and had not obtained the consent of the Chinese government, which was an illegal act, and ordered the RB (Oriental) soldiers stationed in Kulen to hand over their weapons to our office in Kulen for a time limit of three hours, otherwise the two troops would clash, and the Japanese side would be responsible for all the consequences! The Japanese army, which had bullied the weak and feared the hard, had no choice but to obediently hand over their weapons to the government office in Kulun, which had a strong deterrent effect in Kulen and had a good impact on future negotiations. Afterwards, the Japanese government didn't even dare to let out a fart, they were very afraid that Duan Qirui would be angry and would "fight to the death with the Orientals!" From this point of view, the inferior roots of the small RB (Oriental) bullying the weak and fearing the hard are exposed. After the army was stationed in Kulen, Xu Shuzheng focused on attacking, dividing and disintegrating, virtual and real, envy and power, accompanied by beautiful men who wanted to capture the old and longitudinal schemes, etc., and quickly controlled the situation, including the "prime minister" and the living Buddha, the Mongolian upper echelons all bowed down to obey orders, although in the process of return, a small group of Mongolian dilapidated nobles colluded with the Tsarist Russian bandits to hold a riot, but under the joint suppression of Xu Shuzheng's army and the vast number of Mongolian people, the riot was quickly quelled.

On November 17, 1919, a memorable day for the Chinese nation, the "parliament" of Outer Mongolia formally petitioned the government of the Republic of China to "revoke its autonomy" and return Outer Mongolia to the embrace of the motherland, in addition to the Tangnu-Ulianghai region, which had long been occupied by Tsarist Russia, and the return of Outer Mongolia not only dealt a blow to the national separatist forces, but also ensured the territorial integrity and sovereign unity of the Republic of China. The return of Outer Mongolia to China was a major event in China's history, and the return of nearly 1.8 million square kilometers of territory, including the Tangnu-Ulianghai, which now belongs to the northwestern region of Russia, to the jurisdiction of the Chinese government, gave the Chinese territory a full, rich, and tense shape.

After the recovery of Outer Mongolia, Xu Shuzheng did many useful things in Outer Mongolia, such as introducing vegetables, building roads, opening border banks, founding a daily newspaper, writing off old debts owed by the Outer Mongolian government to the central government, and strengthening Chinese culture and education......

In particular, the plan of Wang Yintai, director of the Northwest General Affairs Department, and the "cabinet premier" of the puppet regime in Outer Mongolia, Badma Dorji, were used to the extreme, which not only highlighted the character characteristics of his "little fan", but also demonstrated his superb military talent and outstanding political vision. Mr. Sun Yat-sen spoke highly of Xu Shuzheng's recovery of Outer Mongolia: "I can call and know that Outer Mongolia is introverted. Our country has not had a Ban Chao Fu Jie Zi and his people for a long time, and the deacon (referring to Xu) built this miracle in ten days, and the ancients did not know which one would be cured? ......" compared him to the famous historical figures Fu Jiezi and Ban Chao thousands of years ago.

Xu Shuzheng and Jin Yuran returned to BJ and the Beiyang government awarded Xu Shuzheng the "Two Honors" medal as a special award, and Jin Yuran and Chu Qixiang were awarded the second-class "Golden Harvest" medal. The first recipient of the "Meritorious Two" medal awarded by the Republic of China was Sun Wu, the leader of the Wuchang Shouyi Rebellion eighteen years ago. Xu Shuzheng was very happy and set up a church in his own home, and he happily appeared in person, and Xu Lingyun, Xiang Xinwu and the famous Kunqu opera student Yu Zhenfei and other Peking Opera masters and famous actors on the same stage. Zhang Jian, the champion of the late Qing Dynasty who was present, was also Xu Shuzheng's best friend in the New Year, and once gave a poem: "The general sings the great Jiangdong, and the two heroes of Meilangjiao" This is also the most glorious day of the life of Xu Shuzheng, a fierce general of the Beiyang Anhui system!

Jin Yuran always thought that Xu Shuzheng was a talent, but unfortunately this talent was revealed, but his life span was not long!

In May 1925, when Xu Shuzheng visited Europe as a special envoy to Europe, the United States and Japan, Jin Yuran accompanied him throughout the whole process as the commercial consul general in Europe. Everywhere Xu Shuzheng went, the heads of government gave him high courtesy, especially the German government that welcomed him as a head of state. During his visit to the UK, Xu Shuzheng was invited to give a speech at the Royal Academy in the United Kingdom, entitled "The Evolution of Ancient and Modern Chinese Music", which caused a sensation and made classical British gentlemen and ladies look at Chinese soldiers with admiration. On December 11, 1925, Xu Shuzheng returned to Shanghai after completing his investigation, and on the 19th he left for Beijing to report to Duan Qirui, and on the evening of December 29, he left for the south by special car, passing through the Langfang Station between Beijing and Tianjin, and was killed by Feng Yuxiang's subordinate Zhang Zhijiang in the early morning of 30 December, at the age of 45.

Jin Yuran was very shocked by Xu Shuzheng's death, and made a special trip from Europe to return to Xu Shuzheng's house to pay respects, but Xu Shuzheng had been buried for many days. Jin Yuran was so grief-stricken that she wrote an elegiac couplet:

Shoot the soul of a strong man, and the golden iron horse is like a hussar regenerating!

Zhentianshan scholars, throwing pen from Rong, where is Dingyuan now? Jin Yuran compared Xu Shuzheng to the national heroes Huo Qubing and Ban Chao more than 2,000 years ago to mourn his respected brother. Jin Yuran, who has served in the national government many years later, in a conversation with Wang Shijie, Zhu Jiahua, Gu Weijun, Yu Dawei and other government dignitaries, when talking about Xu Shuzheng's death, Jin Yuran said: The ancestors said well: If the soldiers are strong, they will be destroyed, and if the wood is strong, they will be broken! General Xu was young and vigorous, and although he had a tough, bold and resolute personality, he was also careless and frivolous.

Jin Yuran believes that if Xu Shuzheng does not die, according to General Xu's courage, ability and courage, Outer Mongolia will definitely not evolve into this, but at the same time he also believes that Xu Shuzheng made two big mistakes: first, he shot and killed the army general Lu Jianzhang, a veteran of Beiyang, without authorization, breaking the rules of officialdom in the era of warlord secession, making other warlords and politicians endanger themselves, and have a sense of sadness that the rabbit is dead and the fox is dead, so that he is in an isolated position in the entire Beiyang group; Second, the strategy of imposing "reunification by force" is even more wrong. The various warlord groups in Beiyang have not undergone long-term, systematic, complete, regular, and modern military training and ideal education, nor have they undergone the baptism of brutal war, and some civil wars are only "birds and beasts" for their own interests, and the Anhui faction, like other factions and warlords, are all a rabble of feudal separatists, and there are no obvious advantages and disadvantages between them, and it is very difficult for anyone to destroy whom.

Jin Yuran analyzed: These people have neither our party has a clear political goal, nor does the communists have a firm political belief, so the Northern Expeditionary Army can swear to the Northern Expedition with 80,000 people from seven armies, defeat Zhiwan, and complete the mission of the Northern Expedition with the threat of Fengzhang; And the Communists were able to survive in extremely difficult circumstances and continue to grow and develop. Jin Yuran concluded: The failure of the Anhui system had its own mistakes, but in the final analysis, it was the consequences of the forced implementation of "reunification by force," and it was also the result of the times! Of course, that's all for later.

After the return of Outer Mongolia, Jin Yuran bid farewell to Xu Shuzheng and returned to Hamburg before the Spring Festival in 1920.

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