What is puzzling is that Zhang Guogan's coming to Hei Province is indeed a tailwind: Zhai Wenxuan resigned early to make way for him, and Zhang Zuolin lived up to his preface and let him delegate all the administrative powers of officials and officials stationed in Hei Province, and really let go, which made people who were worried about Zhang Guogan amazed.

Zhang Guogan was as strong as ever, and soon made a lot of big moves in the black province, and it was quite a match with Zhang Hanqing's industrial rejuvenation of the province. After holding power, Zhang Guogan refused to give up an inch of land to the Japanese in Hei Province, which made the Japanese look sideways. However, knowing that he is this character, even Duan Qirui, who holds great power, has nothing to do with him, Zhang Zuolin is completely let go, Bao Guiqing is just an empty shelf, and the Japanese have no corresponding strength in Hei Province to back him, so they have to dare to be angry and dare not speak.

In the Republic of China, there is no one else who can make the Japanese do this, except for this one. Zhang Zuolin used him to resist the Japanese, which can be said to be the right medicine. Invisibly, it consolidated the situation in Hei Province very well, and later Hei Province became the most secure rear of the Feng Department, and his credit cannot be erased.

Zhang Zuolin Group is full of civil and military affairs, and its career is thriving, but the center is happy.

Originally, after Feng Guozhang became president, he once said that he respected the responsible cabinet system and did not interfere in Duan's decision-making decisions on the administration and decision-making of personnel, and Duan's attitude towards Feng was much better than that of Li Shi. But they are two powerful factions, Feng Guozhang is quite scheming, and unlike Li Yuanhong, he has a status in the Beiyang military system, military power, and the three governors of the Yangtze River as the backing, so of course he is not willing to be a popular president like Li Yuanhong; Duan Qirui was stubborn and refused to give up any power, so the dispute between the two was just as sharp.

The first of the disputes was military power, which has always been the focus of disputes between presidents and prime ministers. Soon after Feng Guozhang took office, he wanted to restore the "Generalissimo Army and Navy Command Office", but Duan naturally refused to agree. Duan set up a "Mainland Affairs Office" in the State Council to replace the "Command Office" in the Yuan Shikai era. Feng wanted to ask about national affairs, and did not want to be a big president who was in name only, like a clay sculpture, so Duan finally gave in in this regard and sent an official every day to report the political situation to the president.

However, the struggle between the president and the prime minister is not superficial, or a little concession on a matter can be eased, so the power struggle has made the rift between these two Beiyang giants bigger and bigger. The secret struggle between Feng and Duan was the beginning of the struggle between the direct line of the Beiyang faction and the Anhui line.

Duan Qirui usually calls Feng Guozhang the "fourth brother", but in the face of power, these two brothers fight even harder! Duan and former President Li Yuanhong are fighting each other, but they are real swords and guns! Duan's domineering and domineering forced Feng Guozhang to be cornered, so he brought a brigade of elite soldiers and 22 boxes of bullets, and in the name of patrolling the southern battlefield, he went south along the Jinpu line and went straight to Nanjing's lair. Duan sent his henchman Duan Zhigui to intercept the president halfway through Anhui, and it was impossible for President Feng to not see the soldiers with loaded guns around the train, so he had to look at Nanjing, which was close at hand, and hated it in his heart, so he obediently returned to Beijing, and completely delegated power to Duan Qirui. But in private, he always remembers to get back a game, and this breakthrough is in Feng Yuxiang's hands.

The main battle faction led by the Anhui faction waved the banner of the southern expedition for the second time, and this time it was not a wave of the flag and shouting, but a real action. After deciding to go south, the northern warlords withheld taxes, expanded their forces, and seized territory. At this time, the national newspapers were filled with the electricity of the main battle, and the sound of killing was endless. The Beiyang faction has a great Zhongxing atmosphere, and some people actually advocate that Duan Qirui should be the commander of the expedition to the south.

Just as the sound of killing in the north was earth-shattering, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River suddenly broke out in the sound of the main peace: Feng Yuxiang sent a telegram in Wuxue to declare his independence, denouncing the Civil War as the most unconscious and unreasonable war.

Feng Yuxiang had previously been ordered to "aid Fujian" and not advance to Pukou in order to promote peace between the north and the south. The basis for the peace talks is that Yuezhou will return to Hunan and Jingxiang will return to Hubei, each defending its territory and not violating the two sides, which is not impossible to achieve. Finally, he said that soldiers should obey the president, and the president has always been the lord and the peace, so the lord and the lord are obedient to the president. His conclusion has two ways: "Either stop the army, or kill Yuxiang to thank the world." ”

Killing must not be killed. The 16th Mixed Brigade in Feng Yuxiang's hands has more than 10,000 people, which is equivalent to the size of an army division. If you want to move him, you have to see if the guy in his hand agrees.

Feng Yuxiang's move was of course arranged by the main peace faction, and it is said that it was planned by Lu Jianzhang behind the scenes to disrupt the main battle party's attack on Hunan. Because Wuxue was located between Hubei and Jiangxi, his actions had an impact on the first and second route armies of the main battle faction. And Lu Jianzhang also has a plan to raid Anhui and drive away the governor Ni Sichong. Ni is not popular in Anhui, and if Ni is driven away, Lu can take Ni's place, so that Anhui, as a traditional force in Anhui, will join the camp of the three governors of the Yangtze River who are directly in line, and the southern section of Jinpu is all in the hands of the main and faction, and the power will be great, how can the Anhui system fight?

The reason why Feng Yuxiang made such a statement at this time was because of the words of his uncle Lu Jianzhang. And Lu Jianzhang is Feng Guozhang's loyal confidant.

Duan Qirui was extremely shocked by Feng Yuxiang's sudden peace, so he focused all his anger on Feng Guozhang, determined to carry out a military coup to drive Feng from power. However, because the troops of the Anhui system were all transferred to the south, there were not enough troops in his hands to support his plan, so he sent his cronies and think tank Xu Shuzheng, under the pretext of "contacting national defense", to go to the northeast to find Zhang Zuolin, in an attempt to persuade Zhang Zuolin to send his Feng army into the customs to carry out the plan to drive Feng.

The Anhui system called for war, and the direct line called for peace, and the two sides made a big fuss about this controversy. The Anhui system said: "If you can fight, you can make peace, and you should force peace with war." The direct line said: "Peace is to show sincerity, peace is a means, if you can't achieve the goal, you can only be strong when you fight again." In fact, the main and faction is against Duan, and the main battle faction is against Feng. It's not really a peace, or a war, but a new "battle between the government and the court".

The Beiyang faction had split when Yuan was proclaimed emperor, but the split at that time was only for Yuan, or it could be said that Yuan's people betrayed their relatives. After Zhang Xun's restoration, the split of the Beiyang faction became superficial, Zhang Xun's restoration, Duan Qirui's oath to crusade was not a real split, and when the direct line and the Anhui faction went to extremes, it was the official split of the Beiyang faction.

For Feng Guozhang, since Yuan Shikai's death, he began to dream of Xinhua Palace, but when he got his wish, he gradually realized that the title of glorious and magnificent mansion and president is not an ideal fairyland on earth, and the pain he suffered is exactly what Li suffered in the past. He, like Lai, is the stamping machine of the Duan cabinet.

When he approved the resignation of Duan Qirui's think tank Xu Shuzheng as vice minister of the War Department on November 20, Xu caused trouble in Tianjin and pulled Cao Kun out of his direct line of four governors and denied it. In addition, he also recruited Zhang Zuolin to hold a meeting of the Governors in Tianjin, preparing to pull up a so-called Qin, Jin, Anhui, and Fengda alliance as a reprint of the Governors.

When the Japanese minister came to see Feng Guozhang, he also released a threatening tone, saying: "The situation in China is facing great difficulties, and the cabinet cannot be changed, and if it changes, there will be great chaos." When Duan Qirui was in a difficult situation both internally and externally, his Japanese supporters couldn't wait to jump to the forefront.

When the "battle between the government and the court" was in full swing, Zhang Zuolin focused on how to deal with Meng Enyuan, the last roadblock on the road to domination in the northeast.

Zhang Hanqing's Gao Jiren's "Fengqing Bureau" lived up to expectations, and collected sufficient evidence to prove that Meng Enyuan also made the same fatal mistake as Feng Delin, and he even participated in and supported Zhang Xun's restoration activities! Top secret information flowed like a tide to Zhang Hanqing's Fengjun base camp, and in an instant, Zhang Hanqing grabbed the impeccable Meng Enyuan's pigtails.

Therefore, Zhang Zuolin sent his henchmen to Jilin by secret faction, and launched the "expulsion movement" on the grounds that Meng Enyuan's "restoration and rebellion" were based on evidence, abuse of the provincial treasury, and cronyism. In the name of the people, he called the Beijing government to demand that Meng Enyuan be held accountable and strongly demanded that he be replaced. At this time, the power of the people was far from the "monstrous" mentioned in the telegram, but at that time, everyone at home and abroad shouted and beat the "restoration" act, but it was true.

Meng is a native of Zhili, and his in-law Lu Jianzhang is also a direct line, and most of Meng's troops belong to the children of Zhili. As an Anhui tycoon who is incompatible with the direct family, Premier Duan Qirui has long had the intention of getting rid of Meng Enyuan. At this time, it is timely to conform to public opinion and let others replace Meng Enyuan. So he soon issued an order of dismissal to Meng Enyuan, and at the same time appointed his own general, Chahar Dutong Tanakayu, to succeed him. Tanaka was a native of Funing, Hebei Province, who had previously been stationed in Changchun and had excellent relations with the Japanese.

drove away Meng Enyuan, but came to Tanaka Yu, this result was something Zhang Zuolin didn't expect. He saw very clearly that if Tanaka Yu, who had Duan Qirui as the backstage and had a close relationship with the Japanese, was appointed as the overseer of Jilin, it would be equivalent to planting a nail in the northeast of the Anhui system, which would undoubtedly become the biggest obstacle to his unification of the three eastern provinces.

As the so-called "two evils invade each other to take the lighter of the two", Zhang Zuolin decided that instead of welcoming Tanaka Yu, it is better to keep Meng Enyuan for the time being.

Meng Enyuan heard some rumors early on, and sent his secretary Dai Yizhen to Feng Guozhang in Beijing to inquire about the truth, Feng said that there was no such thing, and persuaded him not to listen to the rumors. Soon after, however, the rumors became true, and when he received the order, he was furious, and sent a telegram asking the reason for the cabinet transfer, and gave a reply within three days, otherwise Jilin would declare its independence.

They also sent Pei Qixun, commander of the Jilin Mixed Brigade, as the commander-in-chief of the Independent Army, and at the same time, they sent petition representatives to Beijing one after another, actively campaigning, and complaining for Meng Enyuan. His henchmen, Gao Shiwei and others, also insisted on resisting Tanakayu's arrival, and oppressed the anti-Meng forces in Jilin by force, and telegraphed the Beijing government to revoke the appointment of Yi Du.

The new overseer, Tanaka Yu, was excited to take up his post, but when he saw the chaotic political situation in Jilin, he was immediately interested. He felt that he was in the position of Chahar Dutong, and there was no need to get involved in the chaotic political whirlpool, so he politely declined the appointment to Duan Qirui.