"Brother, you came from Tianjin Wei, didn't you come to remind my brother to pay attention to safety." Wu Chenxuan nodded, feeling that there was nothing to detour with this old fox, so he simply picked it out and said, "This Lafayette doesn't know which style it is smoking, originally what I proposed was to transfer Zhongzhen to the relatives and nobles to establish a new military town full of people, who knows that Tie Liang is fighting to the death, I am angry and say that I don't want to go to the right town, and the court loves to give it to whom." Lafayette is not bad, at that time he pointed out the command of the right town to your brother, I thought in my heart, your brother is as strong as a cloud, and he can't treat my brother and my soldiers badly, so I agreed. Who knew that after the court discussed this day and night, tonight he actually came up with the idea of changing one town for another. Why do you think the Qing Dynasty didn't do anything serious? ”

"Brother be cautious." Yuan Datou saw that Wu Chenxuan was more and more outrageous, and it was a big crime to kill his head with resentment, and Han Chen, who led the troops, was even more silent, that is, this stunned man dared to say this. Sometimes Yuan Shikai thinks that this guy is not pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, but what Wu Chenxuan said and Yuan Shikai's own situation are confirmed one by one, and they are all reasonable. Among the Hanchen who are now in charge of the army, the most powerful and the most elite soldiers are the Beiyang towns and the Wuyi New Army. At this moment, Yuan Shikai suddenly felt that if he was plotting to rebel today, the troops in the hands of the two of them would be combined, and if the Qing Dynasty did not have foreign aid, it would be a sure thing to change the flag of the country. This thought passed by in a flash, although he knew that this possibility was extremely high, but the experienced and deep Yuan Datou was not willing to risk his life.

The two of them tested each other for a while, and Wu Chenxuan, who had not had a good rest, couldn't hold it anymore. simply threw out two plans for Yuan Datou to choose.

"First, you send an officer I am familiar with to the right town, this right town is still mine, and I will not interfere in your newly built town, I will take charge of your new town, and I will not send other officers. As for military salaries and equipment, each is in charge of its own affairs. Second, I will put all my men and horses into the military uniforms of the Beiyang New Army and stationed in Xuzhou, and all the people and horses in your Xinjian Town will be put into the military uniforms of the Wuyi New Army and garrisoned in Handan, and the rest will be my nephew playing lanterns, as usual. Wu Chenxuan knew that Lao Yuan's most important thing was his military power, so he first stated that he was not interested in Beiyang's military power, which reassured Lao Yuan.

"That's not good, the will of the court is not to let us play a dress-up game, if this falls into the ears of someone who cares, I'm afraid it will hinder you and me." Lao Yuan actually agreed in his heart, but his duplicitous performance made Wu Chenxuan very disdainful.

"I said, brother, you still play this Reagan with me. What kind of errand do you think you are the Minister of Beiyang and the Governor of Zhili, that is a target. In the Manchu Dynasty, your position is the most prominent and the military power is the largest, even if you pretend to be the third grandson, someone must believe you. Believe it or not, I'll let people swallow your new town tomorrow, and more than half of the people in this capital can say that we are playing double reeds and using the court as monkeys. Therefore, it is already unreliable for you to be a good general in the court now. Well, I'm a copper smell, lucky to enter the villain, how to do it is normal, the silver and guns in my hands are there, ordinary people can't offend me, we can offend a part, the other part is even if you dig out your heart and lungs is for nothing, just what they like to say, anyway, Lao Tzu is a self-respecting feudal town, can help me, even take my life together, but I can't play tricks to go, contemptible people are too lazy to accompany, at most tired of listening to him to reward him with a copper peanut to taste salty. ”

"You" Yuan Datou didn't expect Wu Chenxuan to be so open, and simply spread the words on the table, so that he had no room to maneuver at all, Yuan Shikai was very unaccustomed to this way of talking, and he felt that he had never been in the lead of this conversation since he entered the door, "Brother Xian, I have served you, you dare to be alone, the whole family is not hungry, there is Du Niang and your high-ranking brothers to protect you, the big deal is to roll up the silver and run back to your overseas home, this Qing Kingdom is also staring at you." Brother, I have been a courtier of the Qing Dynasty for generations, and there are no less than a thousand people in my hometown Xiangcheng, and I don't dare to make a mistake at any step. ”

"Okay, it's not easy for your brother. This army should be regarded as a company share, anyway, now the top wants us to hold shares with each other, that is, to determine the composition of shares and send personnel to each other, this is not a violation of the laws of the imperial court. Wu Chenxuan said, "Since it is a deal, it is an old rule to sit on the ground and pay back the money at a high price, today you are a guest to my master, and this guest is as you like, right?" I'll let you make a step, and you make an offer first. It seems that you don't plan to let this new town, so let's talk about the right town of the new army of Wuyi first, in fact, the arms non-commissioned officers and other things are all prepared for eight * nine and ten, put up the recruitment flag, and it will be full in three or five days. You have the final say in the control of this right town, give a list, I will choose the name if you come out, okay? ”

"It's okay, this is talking about business, let's let go of our brotherly feelings first." Yuan Shikai also understood that it was impossible to make too many concessions here, so he could only seek a balance, "Go to your land, according to your rules, so I will choose three people for you to choose, Jin Yunpeng, Duan Zhigui, and Li Chun, who used to be an instructor in the insurance group." ”

"Cut, I'm an old brother, you're embarrassed to take out these three goods to pull in, they are all useless, change a batch, these three Li Chunneng can be a battalion officer, manage a town, and there is no door."

"These are all the generals under me, so if you say it's worthless, then tell me who you want." Yuan Shikai saw that Wu Chenxuan's face lit up and was about to speak, so he hurriedly said, "Feng Guozhang, Duan Zhiquan, and Wang Shizhen are each in charge of each other, you can't transfer them." ”

"Just these three are counted as characters, brother, why don't you give one."

"I can't give this."

"This can be given."

"I can't really give it."

"Is that okay?"

"This really can't, well, change, use people or what?"

"Do you have a crush on my people?"

Lao Yuan didn't know whether it was better to shake his head or nod his head, the replacement was obviously a big loss, if he didn't change it, it seemed that he looked down on the generals of his martial arts new army, and it would be difficult to deal with him at that time. Fortunately, Wu Chenxuan didn't want to embarrass him, and then said, "Change money, guns, cannons, you can make a price." I want to replace you alone. ”

"Ah, who."

"Can you not know?" Wu Chenxuan sneered for a while, even the old Yuan Hui, who could clearly distinguish whether his ants were male or female, didn't know his thoughts, so it was strange.

Yuan Shikai, who was silent for a while, actually showed a trace of fatigue when he looked up, "Duan Zhiquan, right?" What a way to put it. ”

"Exchange money, a whole number; Changing guns, 6,000 brand new Type 88s; Change the cannon, you mention the catalog, I will count it for you, and you can ask for anything below seven and five. ”

Lao Yuan thought about it in his heart, this Zhiquan is afraid that he has long been remembered by this kid, no wonder now Lao Duan is silent, he is in charge of the staff office and rarely reports to Lao Yuan except for official business, it turns out that when he sees the unreasonable arrangement, he always can't help but give Lao Yuan advice, but now he seems to be familiar with it, I thought that Lao Duan learned to be smooth after becoming a minister, and now it seems that he should be in Cao Ying's heart in Han. Lao Yuan suddenly remembered what Jin Yunpeng told him before, saying that Duan Zhiquan's wife was seriously ill when she was in Jinan and almost didn't pass, it was Lao Duan who begged to go to Wu Chenxuan's door, I don't know where Lord Wu invited him to be sacred, anyway, this Wu family acted as ordinary people almost overnight. Yuan Datou's heart suddenly suddenly, this Qi Rui is of course a first-class talent, but if he can't be loyal to himself, the staff office he is in charge of will be the core confidential department of the future marching operations. The hidden crisis here is fatal, in case this old brother Wu thinks about himself and has Duan Zhiquan as a chess piece as an internal response, I am afraid that I don't know how he died, this is too suspenseful. Thinking of this, Lao Yuan couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and suddenly made up his mind to change it, even if he didn't change it, he had to find a way to be idle, and the elbows and armpits were not allowed to be sloppy.

"Duan Zhiquan is my chief of staff, the one who takes the lead, this can't work." Yuan Datou, who had made up his mind, rejected Wu Chenxuan's proposal even more resolutely. However, Wu Chenxuan also discovered Yuan Shikai's strangeness, and said in his heart that he was playing negotiation psychological warfare with me, don't look at the officialdom, you are an old fritter, you are still a little tender in this negotiation field.

The two of them slapped the table and smashed the bench and yelled for half an hour, Wu Chenxuan simply stood up and was about to leave the table, of course this old Yuan couldn't let Wu Chenxuan really leave, so to put it mildly, an agreement was finally reached, with 8,000 German original Type 88 rifles plus 32 7-life 5 mountain guns of 2 artillery battalions, 600 rounds of ammunition for each supporting rifle, and 5 base shells for each mountain artillery. To be honest, these are enough for Lao Yuan to arm another town, but thousands of troops are easy to obtain, and it is difficult to find one, especially the grass platform team of a local tyrant like Wu Chenxuan.

Wu Chenxuan also calculated in his heart, the inventory of 88 Committee rifles (the prototype made in Hanyang) in Germany is not less than 100,000 pieces, even if it is not through the relationship of Montagu, he and Lihe Foreign Bank can negotiate a more favorable price, after all, Lihe Foreign Bank is very concerned about several special drugs of his own, but he has not let go, but let the managers of Europe and the United States in Zhuang hurry up to use Wu Chenxuan's English names Sean and Winston. Montague jointly registered the patent in his name. Now I sell the patents of one or two sulfonamide modified drugs, which is enough to give you and a foreign company a round belly. As for the mountain artillery is simpler, sell high-specification seamless steel pipes from German steel, find Krupp's factory to draw a rifling, come back to surface treatment, and the rest can be assembled with standard factory accessories that are not inferior to German assembled mountain guns, now the shells have been mass-produced, it is not a problem to provide thousands of shells to Lao Yuan, as for the life of the barrel, with Lao Yuan's financial resources, he can't shoot three or five rounds of live ammunition a year, and the surface carburized seamless steel pipe plus the inner chrome plating treatment should be no worse than the Japanese goods. The use of this strength is not a problem at all. In Wu Chenxuan's opinion, the matter of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, Lao Yuan's military quartermasters can't fight it without one or two million taels, even if he doesn't have the bad habit of filling his own pockets, Lao Yuan is also a typical Kaizi in the international arms trade, so he feels that although it is a pity, but Duan Qirui can sell it for a price of two million taels is already an unexpected gain, although his heart may not be happy, but reason tells him that this deal is worth it.

Both sides didn't talk about the issue of the new Beiyang town, they both knew that even if Wu Chenxuan sent someone to take over, it would just be an end of being overturned by the grassroots officers in Beiyang, so it was better to maintain a tacit understanding, and simply send someone to be the tablet, and go back to their respective homes after the exercise, and find their own mother's convenience. As for Wuyi New Army Zhongzhen, Wu Chenxuan was not worried at all, not to mention whether those muddy Manchus could withstand the suffering of the lower company, that is, the loyalty of the non-commissioned officers and grassroots officers trained in the night school of his own army was not something that a few bombastic Manchu young men could master. The Manchurians can't endure hardships, they can't get off the shelf, and if they don't have such abundant military pay and equipment as themselves, even if they give them soldiers and horses for a town, they are just fosters, and they never worry that they can pull away a unit in a formation. If they had this ability, the Qing Dynasty would not have less than ten years of longevity.

Sending away Yuan Datou, Wu Chenxuan watched Lao Yuan's green tweed official sedan chair gradually walk towards the mouth of the alley, knowing that his friendship with Yuan Datou had come to an end, they were all heroes in troubled times, since Lao Yuan knew his true face of pretending to be stupid, there was no reason not to understand what he was trying to do, and he was afraid that it would be a life-and-death rival to meet again in the future.

"Old Yuan, go all the way!" When Wu Chenxuan turned around and entered the door, he took another look, and the shadow seemed to move slightly, but he didn't see Lao Yuan. "Next time we meet, Yuan Datou, don't let me down!"