Gao Shifu offered to hand over Changchun peacefully, but allowed him to withdraw his troops to Jidong and station them on the Sino-North Korean border. Zhang Hanqing agreed to this condition very neatly: yes, but the condition is that the Gao Brigade must not cause trouble when it retreats, otherwise the preceding paragraph will be invalid, and the Security Command will still declare it a rebel.

Gao Shiwei, who wanted to leave the encirclement and join forces with Lu Yonggui, agreed to this matter, so Wu Junsheng was ordered to return to Hei Province and get out of the way for Gao Shifu to pass.

Everything is under control, attacking the heart, winning. As long as Gao Shiwei leaves the South Manchurian railway line in Changchun, Gongzhuling, and Siping, which may involve the Japanese, the rest of the matter will be negotiable.

Ahem, why should I be concerned about the feelings of Japanese people? He was ashamed of his indignant youth, but he was constrained by the realities of reality and accommodated to the situation. From the bottom of his heart, Zhang Hanqing did not want to offend the Japanese at this time and add some variables to his career. But the ancients said: If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, and before you have absolute strength, you will not be brave in blood. At this time, he somewhat understood why the dignified China would make concessions in the South China Sea when it was under the guise of many small countries.

Strength is everything.

Now the Northeast has the opportunity to connect, which is a good prospect, and the pace is at least more than a year faster than in the official history. When you can free your hands, you can see!

At the time of the vigorous work in the northeast, the political situation in Beijing once again underwent a major change, Feng Guozhang stepped down as president, and Xu Shichang took over. Feng is the standard direct boss, Xu is the important general of the Beiyang system, and their transposition has made drastic changes in China.

First Sun Yat-sen objected, because Zhang Xun dissolved the first Congress after the restoration, and Duan Qirui did not resume it after rebuilding the republic because the Congress opposed to participating in the European War, but under Liang Qichao's suggestion, he followed the example of the Xinhai Revolution in the early days of the establishment of a provisional Senate and formulated a new National Assembly Organization Law.

Of course, this is in favor of the old section, no, because the five southern provinces (Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan) oppose being left out, and the three provinces of Hunan, Hubei, and Shaanxi cannot handle the elections normally due to the war, so only the fourteen provinces actually hold elections.

Of course, there was a great deal of corruption and cheating in the election process, which was consciously ignored by the senior officials of the DPRK and China, and the result was that the Anfu Department, which was supported by Duan Qirui, won an absolute majority of 330 seats, the old Department of Transportation had 120 seats, and the Research Department had more than 20 seats. According to the rules, the Anfu department can elect the president of their choice.

Former President Feng Guozhang and Premier Duan Qirui were at odds, and the battle between the government and the court lasted for more than a year. Feng's term as acting president expired, and Feng Duan and the two agreed to go down together.

Xu Shichang was able to take over, and Duan Qirui's support was inseparable. In October 1918, Xu Shichang was elected president by the Anfu National Assembly, which was manipulated by the Anhui system. He flaunted the "Yanwu Xiuwen" and ordered an armistice against the south.

Immediately after the expiration of the first session of the National Assembly, the provisional Senate was naturally dissolved because it had fulfilled its historical "mission", and the Anfu National Assembly was officially established. Its leader, Wang Yitang, is the speaker of the House of Representatives, and Liu Enge is the deputy speaker; The president of the Senate is Liang Shiyi and Zhu Qichao is the vice speaker, and the two of them are leaders of the transportation department.

It's a joy for all.

In the battle between the government and the court, the acting president Feng Guozhang, who is directly in the line, has been in a state of loss, and everyone can endure it, and now even the title of "president" as a fig leaf has been taken away, and replaced by Xu Shichang, who seems to be neutral but is actually biased towards the Anhui family. This method of boiling frogs in warm water was expressed by many people of insight in the immediate line, and Wu Peifu, a direct general, sent a telegram in Hengyang on September 13 not to recognize the presidential election of the Anfu Congress.

Wu Peifu fought bravely on the southern front and was the hope of "reunification," and his dissatisfaction was likely to be bad. In order to appease him, Duan Qirui signaled that the Anfu Club was secretly operating, and planned to elect Cao Kun as vice president. Cao Kun is Wu Peifu's boss and benefactor, and if Cao Kun is settled, Wu Peifu will not be able to say anything. However, due to the boycott of the research department, the old transportation department, and some members of the Anfu department, the vice presidential race was aborted due to the lack of quorum.

Zhang Zuolin, under the encouragement of Zhang Hanqing, a senior staff member, has long held the policy of "no matter what turns the world upside down inside the Guan, I will only sit back and watch outside the Guan", and stepped up the pace of recovering power in the three eastern provinces. As soon as Gao Shifu left Changchun, he transferred the three newly established infantry brigades that were being reorganized into Jilin and officially placed them under the name of the Jilin Security Command.

At the same time, another recruit brigade was placed under the jurisdiction of the Heilongjiang Security Command, and at the same time, Song Jiuling's mixed brigade and the former Jilin mixed brigade were added to it. In this way, the security commands of the three northeastern provinces each have three brigades of troops under their jurisdiction, and at the same time, the Jilin troops have been transferred from their original garrisons. As for how to play in the future, according to the old and small Zhang's usual forming ideas, you know.

Naturally, Jilin Overseer Bao Guiqing concurrently served as the Jilin Security Commander, and Heilongjiang Overseer Sun Liechen concurrently served as the Heilongjiang Security Commander.

Since it is a local security force, the retention of heavy artillery is not necessary. As a result, the artillery battalion of the Jilin Mixed Brigade was separated from the formation and incorporated into Zhang Jinghui's 16th Division---- which had no artillery yet.

Continuing the spirit of the independence of the previous Governor Corps, Zhang Zuolin proposed to the Central Committee that the Northeast should be autonomous and the three eastern provinces should be established as autonomous governments.

This can smash Duan Qirui's life: the local autonomy of the Overseer Corps was just to confront the president's peace strategy. Now that time has passed, the country has nominally been unified in the hands of the new Beiyang regime headed by Xu Shichang, and it is the time when the central government takes over power, but Zhang Zuolin has come to "autonomy" in the opposite way, but is Lao Zhang really stupid, or is he really stupid?

Regardless of whether the central government agrees or not, the signs of the autonomous governments of the three eastern provinces have been hung up. Not surprisingly, Zhang Zuolin was elected chairman of the autonomous government of the three eastern provinces, and of course, he would not be stupid enough to resign from the post of patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces and the superintendent of the Fengtian army appointed by the central government.

The Northeast was finally unified, and Zhang Hanqing's rejuvenation plan was fully implemented. In order to take overall control of the industrial economy of the three provinces, the original Fenghei committees were upgraded to the affairs committees of the three eastern provinces, and the committees of industry, agriculture, commerce, transportation, education, finance and economics, justice, police, construction, and water conservancy were established like mushrooms after a rain. In addition, the Supreme Court and the procuratorate of the three eastern provinces were also established in a grand manner. In a word, Zhang Zuolin's autonomy has reached the highest level of his own governance.

The various committees and organs performed their own duties, the northeastern provinces were running smoothly, and in addition, the old and young marshals had installed people in high positions, so a rare situation of harmony appeared in the military and political circles in the northeast. At this time, the benefits of the last Fengtian financial reform were finally reflected, and after vigorous rectification, the finances of Northeast China had taken a considerable turn for the better: not only 4 million yuan of foreign debts were paid off, but the provincial inventory was also 11 million yuan, which made Zhang Zuolin feel that the situation of financial crisis no longer existed. The two pieces of good news are where Zhang Zuolin's confidence lies in daring to announce the autonomy of Northeast China.