"Brother Kikuto. The wind that blew you here? Wu Chenxuan didn't wait for the military planes of the Great Qing Kingdom, but an old acquaintance came to the door first.

"Brother Chenxuan is so interested, he actually smiled at the rise of the wind and clouds, and sat firmly in the Diaoyutai." Xu Juren is also an old friend of Wu Chenxuan, but he is also a veteran in Beiyang, Wu Chenxuan lived in seclusion in Hufang Bridge in the year, Xu Juren also came twice, and the New Year's festival rituals are still coming and going, but at such a sensitive moment, Xu Juren visited lightly, and it is strange that there is no purpose in this.

"Hehe, Brother Kikuto laughed." Wu Chenxuan invited Xu Juren into the study, and after sitting down, the two began to greet each other.

"I don't know what Brother Kikuto means by coming here?"

"Alas, it's hard to put into words." Xu Juren sighed, the situation in Beiyang was like the sky, who knew that it would become a plate of scattered sand overnight, straight to Anhui and antagonism, and the little monkeys in the south were king and hegemonic, and the good Beiyang army was dismantled. "Xiang Cheng I is a hero, but I didn't expect that today's Beiyang has become a disaster that disrupts the situation."

"It's for the Beiyang business, right?" Wu Chenxuan said: "Originally, I had an agreement with Brother Xiang Cheng that the Wuyi New Army and the Beiyang Well Water would not violate the river water, and they would be the pillars of the country and be united with the outside world. Unexpectedly, God was jealous of talents, and Brother Xiang Cheng died suddenly, which actually split Beiyang apart, which is really suffocating. ”

"Yes, Xiangcheng is indeed the mainstay of Beiyang." Xu Juren also said, "Now Beiyang has not listened to the court, even we old people have stepped aside, today I came here to say goodbye to my brother, tomorrow I will go back to the old house in Tianjin to live in seclusion, and never ask about the world." ”

"Brother Juren, why did he say this, although the scene in Beiyang did disappoint the elders, but Brother Juren, who is a talented person in the world, how could he have such negative thoughts." Wu Chenxuan took out a letter from the bookshelf: "It just so happens that Brother Phoenix has a letter to Brother Juren, and I ask Brother Juren to think about it carefully." ”

Xu Juren is not surprised, he came today to pretend to be a gesture, if Wu Chenxuan does not stay, he will also have a way out. Now it seems that the other party really intends to solicit. When he opened the letter, it was Xiong Bingsan's advice to himself, hoping to switch to the Wuyi New Army and create a foundation in Shandong together, and even said that "Bingsan admires his brother's talent and learning, and is willing to abdicate and make way for his brother to be his deputy". Xu Juren was also very surprised, you must know that Xiong Bingsan is now the de facto domain of Shandong, and the entire government affairs of Shandong are completely in his hands.

"What Third Brother Bing means is also what I mean." Seeing that Xu Juren was hesitant after reading the letter, Wu Chenxuan once again added heavy weights: "Now the government affairs of the four places are biased towards the three brothers of Lao Bing, I plan to set up the Shandong Department of Administration, the Department of Industry and Commerce, the Department of Consultation and the Department of Legal Affairs, and ask Brother Juren to take charge of the Department of Administration and serve as the general office of the Secretary for Administration, and the third brother Bing will be transferred to the General Office of the Advisory Department, and the Department of Legal Affairs will be handed over to Huang Xinpei and Huang Renzhi, and the Department of Industry and Commerce will also be responsible for Brother Miao Hainan. These all belong directly to my brother himself, and they are on the same level as the military's Duan General Staff, Lu Zhengxiang Lu Zixin of Huayang Dao, and Zhang Nanjiang and Zhang Renjie of Zhedong. ”

"This..."Xu Juren really didn't adapt to this rhythm, and he hadn't agreed yet, so he was assigned a position first.

"Of course, if Brother Juren has any relatives and friends, I will also apply to the amount in Shandong, now Shandong Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, and eastern Zhejiang are just starting, the more talents, the better, and I hope that Brother Juren will take care of the business more." Wu Chenxuan had the face of a profiteer, which made Xu Juren feel as if he had met him in Desheng Building and helped him buy an official.

"Okay, it's a big deal, please let me think about it." Although he also felt that the conditions given by Wu Chenxuan were generous, Xu Juren couldn't agree to it, and it was too undignified. "If you want to say that your heart is towards Ming Gong, there are really a few."

Saying that, Xu Juren took out three letters from the document bag and handed them to Wu Chenxuan. Wu Chenxuan took a look, okay? It turned out to be the signatures of Wang Huaiqing, Ni Sichong, and Lu Yongxiang, needless to say, they all planned to follow the example of Li Chun and Li Xiushan and defect to the heads of the Wuyi New Army. At that time, Wu Chenxuan did not say anything, accepted the letter with a smile, and then chatted with Xu Juren about current affairs, and learned that Xu Juren was also a minority shareholder of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce, and the shares in the investment bank of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce were no less than one million oceans. It just so happened that Xu Juren still had a sum of 300,000 Beiyang equipment purchase fees in his hands, and he also cheapened Lao Xu, he knew Wu Chenxuan's ability as the God of Wealth, so he simply voted for Wu Chenxuan, and took a capital stock on Standard Pharmaceutical, not participating in management, just paying dividends.

After Xu Juren left, some high-ranking officials from Beiyang and the Qing court came to visit one after another, and for a while, vehicles and sedan chairs were parked in front of the Huguang Hall, and Wu Chenxuan also ended his life as a simple otaku and began to appear in the public eye in a high-profile manner.

At this time, the turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River broke out again, and a salt lord named Yu Mengting embarked on the road of anti-Qing Dynasty, and he was enlightened and helped by Ao Jiaxiong, a native of Pinghu, Jiaxing. Ao Jiaxiong was also a revolutionary, and was called the first person to promote the revolution in Zhejiang Province by Tao Chengzhang, and established the Wentai Hall in Jiaxing in 1904, which was the earliest revolutionary organ in Zhejiang. At the end of 1904, the revolutionary group Guangfu Association was established in Shanghai, and its president, Cai Yuanpei, came to Jiaxing to invite Ao Jiaxiong to join the association. When Ao Jiaxiong heard of Yu Mengting's name, he sent someone to contact him, and then met with Yu in person, and repeatedly enlightened him with revolutionary principles.

The uprising took place in the Hangjiahu area centered on Jiaxing and the adjacent southern Jiangsu region. The harbors here are staggered, dense as spider silk, and have always been a place where bandits haunt. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, there was an active secret hall of the Qing Gang and the Salt Lords, which became a powerful armed gang after the intervention of a large number of reduced Hunan and Huai soldiers. Among them, there are many people in Chaohu in Anhui, also known as "Chaohu Gang". Yu Mengting, a native of Lujiang, Anhui Province, practiced martial arts at an early age and had great ambitions. At the age of 19, he went to Hangzhou to enlist in the Xiang Battalion, and later was admitted to the Wu Fuhai Regiment Battalion and served as a flag officer. After that, the battalion was disbanded, and he wandered between Su, Song, Jia, and Hu, making a living by gambling at the beginning, and was later imprisoned in Xiushui Prison by the Qing officials. In March 1907, he successfully escaped from prison and became acquainted with the leaders of the salt lords, Guan Da, Li Nengzhang, Xia Xiaobraid and others in Zhenze, Jiangsu, and joined them and was promoted to the leader. Later, it joined up with another wolf, Xia Zhulin, to form an armed force with nearly 50 ships, more than 300 guns, and nearly 600 soldiers.

In the early decade of the 20th century, social contradictions intensified, and the Hangjiahu Plain, known as the "land of fish and rice," became a powder keg against the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

The large-scale military operation of the Jiaxing uprising began at the beginning of the sixth lunar month of the first year of Xuantong. They first looted more than 80 barrels of gunpowder from the ordnance station outside the west gate of Jiaxing, and then attacked the local defense camp in Nanhui Town, Xiushui County, and looted all the new guns and other ordnance. Later, from Jiaxing to Huzhou, from northern Zhejiang to southern Jiangsu, they attacked the official offices everywhere they went, chased out the officials, burned the bureau cards, plundered the munitions, burned the ships, and developed into a vigorous anti-Qing armed uprising. The uprising intensified, "and the Qing army fought in Su, Song, Jia, Hu, Ning, and Hangzhou, more than 40 times, and Meng Ting personally supervised the formation more than 20 times, and the battle was invincible." Before and after, more than 2,000 soldiers and regiments were killed, and more than 100 generals were colonel. "There is a great tendency to sweep the south of the Yangtze River, and the new army of Wuyi has been sending troops to chase after it, but it maintains a tacit understanding with the rebel army and never enters the thirty-mile range of the rebel army. The rebel army also did not harass the industrial and commercial enterprises in the prefectures and counties of eastern and northern Zhejiang, but uprooted the local landlords and government forces, which was just convenient for Zhang Shaozeng to send people to take over, the imperial court was helpless, and the local gentry also threw themselves under the command of the Wuyi New Army in despair, and the orders of the governor of Zhejiang were no longer out of the palace.

At this time, most of the revolutionary uprisings led by Qiao Fu and others took place in remote provinces such as Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan, and often failed quickly due to weak forces and poor preparations. The uprising led by Yu Mengting, on the other hand, took place in the Hangjiahu area, the center of Qing rule, and lasted for nine months, which made the local government feel on pins and needles. The uprising caused panic among the governors of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and the Daoxian counties of Shanghai, and also shook the Manchu nobles in the imperial court. Soon, in the area from Jiashan to Songjiang, the rebel team attacked the China Merchants steamship, the Dai Shengchang steamship with foreign merchant signs, and the Japanese Daito Company steamship, causing diplomatic intervention from Britain and Japan. Therefore, the imperial court planned to send troops south, and sent the political envoy Ruizi of Jiangsu to supervise the arrest of Qingxiang, and ordered the armies of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to "jointly suppress" and arrest Yu Mengting within a time limit.

But at this time, Beiyang had fallen into a melee, and the new troops in the provinces were more or less infiltrated by the revolutionary party. As for the training of the regimental bravery, it is a group of masters, and it is okay to fight in a group, but if the bandits go into battle, they must not be dispersed in a hurry. The imperial court found that there were only two armies it could rely on, Houzhen of the Wuyi New Army in northern Jiangsu and Wuyi Xinjun Yizhen in eastern Zhejiang.

Just when Prince Zaifeng and others couldn't wipe their face and asked Wu Chenxuan to come out of the mountain again, another hammer hit the dilapidated house of the Qing Dynasty, and this time it was the revolutionary party who personally rolled up their sleeves and came to the stage.

Huang Kedi then joined more than 200 members of the Overseas Chinese Revolutionary Party in Annam to form the Southern Army of the Chinese National Army, appointed himself as the commander, and prepared to enter Madu Mountain in Qinzhou to hold an uprising, and personally went to Qinzhou to persuade Guo Renzhang, the capricious commander of the Qing army, to receive ammunition and respond to the uprising of the revolutionary army. On March 28, Huang Kedi led his army across the Sino-An'an border and marched towards Qinzhou, Guangdong. On the afternoon of the 29th (27th), the rebel army engaged the 36th battalion of the Qing army, killing dozens of Qing soldiers. The next day, on the way, he defeated 1 battalion of the Qing army and killed 100 enemies. On April 2, the revolutionary army defeated the 3rd battalion of the Qing army and occupied Madu Mountain, increasing the number of personnel to more than 600. When the righteous army was preparing to march into Guangxi, Guo Renzhang once again broke his promise and led 3,000 troops to pursue and surround the righteous army, and Huang Kedi led a death squad to attack the Qing camp at night, and the Qing army fled without a fight, and the righteous army pursued the victory and won a complete victory.

Under the command of Huang Kedi, the revolutionary army fought for more than 40 days in the areas of Qinzhou, Lianzhou and Shangsi in Guangxi, and successively defeated tens of thousands of Qing troops. There was a situation of beacon fire everywhere in the Liangguang region, and finally the Manchu nobles recognized the situation clearly, and they had to bend down to bargain with Wu Chenxuan, the great god. The Manchurian bureaucrats of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War came to the door twice, and Wu Chenxuan was unable to serve due to illness at the right time, and continued to watch the drama at Hufang Bridge to recuperate.

After the one-month delay, southern Jiangsu and western Zhejiang were already eroded out of control, and the Qing army in Guangxi and Guangxi was also silent, and the revolutionary army still did not dare to enter in the face of the exhaustion of ammunition and the exhaustion of troops. The revolutionary army and the Qing army continued to deal with each other, and Huang Kedi also contacted Qiao Fu, calling on the revolutionary party in Guangdong and Guangxi to constantly launch riots and attacks to reduce the pressure on the revolutionary army. On this day, a sedan chair quietly stopped in front of the Wu Mansion on the Hufang Bridge, and the regent of the dynasty, Prince Zaifeng, visited in person and implored Wu Chenxuan to go out of the mountain again to encircle and suppress the revolutionary party and the rebel army. The two sides have been talking secretly for a long time, but the details are unknown.