Duan Qirui heard that Zhang Zuolin turned his face, for fear of causing other trouble, so he quickly called Xu Shuzheng to see Zhang to apologize, and promised to return the money in a short time. In order to comfort Zhang Zuolin, on August 24, Beijing issued a letter of appointment, and Zhang Jinghui, the former commander of the 53rd Brigade of the 27th Division under Zhang Zuolin, was the commander of the newly organized 16th Division of the Fengjun Army, and the two new brigades under the jurisdiction of Yu Zhen and Ding Chao were newly organized.

In the same year, the "Anfu Congress" under the manipulation of the Anhui system elected Xu Shichang as the president with an absolute majority, and was the third president of Beiyang.

Such an investigation result completely put the blame on Xu Shuzheng. Xu Shuzheng was at fault first, and he wanted to admit his mistake to Zhang Zuolin on the matter of military spending, and he had to bear the black pot on the assassination of Lu Jianzhang; Zhang Zuolin also made full use of his acting talent, in the name of "colluding with foreign aid and building henchmen inside", he was angry and wanted to shoot Yang Yuting.

Naturally, the generals of the Fengjun army wanted to persuade one after another, although Zhang Hanqing had a poor relationship with Yang Yuting, he had always admired Yang Zhi's talent, and he tried his best to dissuade him with his rare talents. Zhang Zuolin originally regarded Yang Yuting as Zhuge and a "think tank", and he has always relied on it, so he naturally wanted to give this great favor to Naizi.

Yang Yuting deeply thanked the young marshal for his kindness, but he felt shameless to face Zhang Zuolin, so he was idle in the Pure Land Temple Hutong in Beijing's Andingmen, and his life was provided by Li Jingming, a giant businessman in Beijing and Tianjin.

As a result, Zhang Zuolin went out this time, not only gained real shortcomings, but also gained strength, and was the biggest winner of each faction. Internally, Zhang Hanqing took over Yang Yuting's power completely, Zhang Hanqing simply let Mi Chunlin take over the Shenyang Arsenal---- logistics department was inextricably linked with it; Chief of the General Staff of the Fengjun Army, it's time for Zhang Zuoxiang to take over, this is the best reward for veterans who focus on the overall situation. From this point of view, Zhang Hanqing is the biggest winner in the Feng department.

Turning back to Feng, Zhang Zuolin stretched out his hand to Jilin again. As long as Meng Enyuan is still in Jilin, Zhang Zuolin's military orders will not be smooth in Jilin, which makes Zhang Zuolin feel like a fish in his throat. Across Jilin, the control of Heilongjiang is not so handy, is it? And on the side of the couch, how can you allow others to sleep soundly! If you want to take the three eastern provinces completely into your own hands, you must expel Meng Enyuan from Jilin. So, Zhang Zuolin started a second attempt.

Now he has the number of 5 divisions: the 27th Division, the 28th Division of Ji Jinchun, the 29th Division of Wu Junsheng, the 1st Division of Han Linchun, and the newly reorganized 16th Division of Zhang Jinghui. There are 7 brigades reorganized from the robbery of arms, and a mixed brigade newly built after Song Jiuling of the Yi Army returned to Shun, a huge army of 5 divisions and 8 brigades. Of course, Zhang Hanqing's Guards Division will not be counted in the formal combat army sequence.

With such a large number of troops, it is no longer possible to manage them as before, and the establishment of new military institutions is inevitable. There is an example of the existing Zhang Hanqing Military Committee, and Zhang Zuolin is not polite and comes easily. He announced the unified deployment of the troops of the two provinces, collectively known as the Feng Army---- which was also a sign of the formal formation of the Feng system, and he himself served as the commander-in-chief of the Feng Army.

This is legitimate, because he is the official envoy of the three eastern provinces and the Fengtian overseer officially appointed by the government of the Republic of China, and theoretically is in charge of all the large and small armies in the northeast.

Naturally, Jilin, which lies between Fenghei, is definitely his next target, and he has been staring at this place for a long time.

Jilin is not as important as Mukden outside the Guan, and its population is only half of that of Mukden, so there are not many garrisons, and only the two brigades of Jilin Mixed Brigade and Jilin Second Mixed Brigade have combat strength. Under such advantageous conditions, if Zhang Zuolin could not come up with the idea of embezzling Jilin, he would have lived in vain.

Meng Enyuan, the overseer of Jilin, is a native of Shuangqiaohe Town, a southern suburb of Tianjin. He trained in the army at a small station, and in 1904 he served as the commander of the Jilin Patrol Army, and made his career at the same time as Zhang Zuolin. In the 2nd year of the Republic of China, Chen Zhaochang, the governor of Jilin, was expelled and obtained the military and political power of Jilin Province. When the Overseer made trouble, he was promoted to be the leader because he was the oldest, and everyone respected him as Brother Meng. He is also similar to Bi Zhi, he can write a "tiger" character, supervise the affairs of the office, and hand over the internal affairs to his son-in-law Lu Chengwu (his father is the first director of the "Jingshi Law Enforcement Department" at the time of Yuan Shikai, and later the overseer of Shaanxi, Lu Jianzhang, who has just been shot), and the foreign affairs are handed over to his nephew and chief of staff of the Supervision Office, Gao Shifu.

His background experience is also quite legendary. Due to his poor family and the early death of his parents, he was orphaned and lived on the streets since he was a child. By chance, Meng Enyuan became an errand in charge of tea in the Tianjin "Night Primrose" brothel. Seeing him carrying a large copper teapot from morning to night, shuttling upstairs and downstairs to various rooms, making tea and pouring water, busy non-stop, a naughty prostitute named him "big teapot".

At that time, Yuan Shikai, who was training at a small station in Tianjin, was a frequent visitor to "Night Fragrance". Meng Enyuan quickly became acquainted with him. Once, when making tea for Yuan Shikai, he revealed to Yuan the idea of joining the army, and Yuan Shikai saw that he was flexible and witty, and his body was strong, so he agreed to his request. In 1896, Empress Dowager Cixi went to Tianjin to inspect Yuan Shikai's new army. Cixi was supported by the eunuch and walked in front, followed by Yuan Shikai. During the review, one of Cixi's jeweled hairpins fell from her head. The eunuch didn't see Cixi's side, and Meng Enyuan, who served as Yuan Shikai's guard, was quick and picked up the hairpin.

After the review, Cixi was going back to her room to rest. Meng Enyuan ran forward in three steps and two steps, knelt at Cixi's feet with a hairpin in both hands, and said loudly: "The phoenix hairpin has landed, return to Foshan." Cixi was very happy to hear Meng Enyuan's well-behaved words. After Meng left, Cixi asked Yuan Shikai, "Who was holding the hairpin just now?" Yuan replied truthfully. Cixi said: "Now that even an officer of the new army is so shrewd, it shows that Lord Yuan has trained his troops well." Before Cixi returned to Beijing from Tianjin, she said to Yuan Shikai: "The person surnamed Meng can do something big." Yuan Shikai saw that Meng Enyuan was so valued by Cixi, and he earned face for himself, and immediately mentioned Meng Enyuan as the standard after returning to the small station. After the news of Meng Enyuan's hairpin picking spread, he got the nickname of "General Picker".

Meng Enyuan led his troops to fight, often taking the lead, charging ahead, commanding flexibly, and winning every time, so he climbed step by step to the position of commander, general soldier, and general soldier of Nanyang Town, Henan Province. Yuan Shikai appreciated Meng Enyuan very much, and after becoming president, he appointed him as the overseer of Jilin. nephew Gao Shifu, served as the commander of the Second Mixed Brigade in Jilin; His confidant Pei Qixun is the commander of the Jilin Mixed Brigade, and he runs Jilin like an iron bucket. He was stationed in Jilin for 12 years, and his influence spread throughout the province, and he had considerable influence in the three eastern provinces, and his status was not easy to shake, and he was known as "Jilin Zhang Zuolin".

In addition to the military power, he also owned a large area of land in the three villages of Mengyu, Daxin, Futian and Qinghe Farm in the present-day Hanzhi District, and also invested in and operated flour, cotton yarn and other industrial and commercial enterprises in Tianjin, which can be called the first rich and powerful in the southeast of Tianjin.

His sons and daughters, Lu Jianzhang, who had just been killed, once served as the commander of the guard army of Yuan Shikai's presidential palace and the overseer of Shaanxi, and he was extremely trusted and the backbone of his direct line. It can be said that there is a strong outside, and there is a strong reinforcement inside. Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin of the province could not be excluded, let alone involved in Jilin. He watched for a long time, but he didn't find a chance to start.

Just when Zhang Zuolin was worried, the opportunity came.

Meng Enyuan, who is an old qualification, will not willingly support Zhang Zuolin as a patrol envoy to the three eastern provinces, and he is full of tension and fear when he sees Zhang Zuolin's power extending to the three provinces year by year. In particular, Zhang Zuolin ascended to the high position of the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces, and took over the full power of the soldiers and horses of the three provinces, and in name alone, he could already eat him to death, not to mention that there were an astonishing number of troops, and he felt an imminent threat. In a panic, he resorted to a stupid trick and used the method of indiscriminately issuing paper money to expand the armament war to deal with Zhang Zuolin.

But Jilin is not as good as Fengtian. Thanks to Xiao Zhang's efforts, Fengtian has achieved financial stability, economic prosperity, agricultural production has increased year after year, and industrial strength has also doubled. He has a lot of experience in making money personally, but he still lacks the ability to control finance. As a result, the Jilin money law was disordered, and people were panicked, so Zhang Zuolin once again held his pigtails in the palm of his hand.

Zhang Zuolin took the opportunity to send a telegram to Xu Shichang, president of the Beijing Provincial Government, in the name of the envoy of the three eastern provinces, accusing Meng Enyuan of mishandling Jilin's finances, abusing military spending, and sitting back and watching the nuisance of bandits, and requesting that Meng Enyuan be dealt with. At the same time, he also mobilized social forces to instigate the anti-Meng forces in Jilin to rise up and let things go.

Jilin Provincial Senator Yu Guiliang was Zhang Zuolin's vanguard, first impeaching Meng Enyuan for arson and people; He Shouren, a businessman from Jilin, accused Meng Enyuan of eight major crimes as a "citizen". Accordingly, Zhang Zuolin sent a representative to Beijing to petition for Meng Enyuan's dismissal and investigation, and he confessed to the Beijing government: "I, Zhang, have no personal grudges against Meng Enyuan, but I am just conveying the opinions of Jilin citizens to the central government." On the other hand, he once again expressed his determination to get rid of Meng Enyuan.

At that time, Zhang Zuolin's power in the northeast was getting stronger, and the Beijing government had no choice but to prepare to dismiss Meng Enyuan in order to entrap Zhang Zuolin, although he was also defending himself, pointing out that this was a conspiracy carried out by Zhang Zuolin.

However, the strategists of the Anhui system were worried that once this giant completely occupied the three eastern provinces, there would be no force in the north that could restrain its growth, and it would be a huge threat to the Anhui system. So in the name of President Xu Shichang, he told Zhang Zuolin that if his confidant Sun Liechen was appointed as the overseer of Jilin according to his request, he would be strongly disgusted by the military and people of Jilin, or it would add to the chaos. Therefore, the Beijing government had no choice but to make a compromise and planned to transfer Bao Guiqing, who had a relatively light penalty, to Jilin and arrange for Sun Liechen to be sent to Jiang Province.

The purpose of this was to separate the two provinces of Feng and Hei, to cultivate new local forces to split the Feng system, and to use Bao's power to contain the development of the Feng system. The idea is good, but it is too idealistic---- Zhang Zuolin was able to lead troops in Fengtian to "protect" Bao Guiqing and overwhelm Xu Lanzhou, Yingshun, Ba Ying'e and other powerful factions, but now that the strength is so strong, will it be restrained by Bao?