Negotiations between Chen Xuan and the Japanese in the southeast reached an impasse, and Li Jinxu of the Northeast South Route Army launched a continuous attack on the Japanese army in Lushun.

After a series of wars, the shortcomings of the Baath Party army were finally exposed, Chen Xuan has been committed to military education, and has opened army academies all over the country, but the domestic intellectual strength and talent reserves are really unable to support so many teachers.

It is because Chen Xuan has opened so many army academies that it is actually exaggerated, and there are many students in the school, but the teaching quality is not to mention that compared with those foreign military schools, even the teaching quality of teachers in neighboring Japan and Beiyang also exceeds Chen Xuan's military schools.

I can't feel it in peacetime, but after a large-scale war with the Japanese, the shortcomings of the junior officers became apparent, the military quality was inferior to the enemy, the reaction ability was inferior to the enemy, and there was also a gap in cooperation between each other, not to mention the elite level of the soldiers.

Even with a lot of Chen Xuan's pioneering tactical training, it cannot be denied that there is still a gap between the Baath Party's army and the Japanese, and the gap is not small.

Li Jinxu and Zhang Xiaozhun's Northeast South Route Army roared down from Changchun, all the way like a bamboo, the Japanese also consciously contracted the defensive line, after the South Route Army gradually moved closer to Lushun, the resistance to the battle became greater and greater, and the casualties of the soldiers gradually increased.

Li Jinxu and Zhang Xiaozhun's Southern Route Army entered the Liaodong Peninsula from Changchun, which actually took only one month, but after entering the Liaodong Peninsula, especially within 50 miles from Lushun, the Japanese occupied a favorable geographical position and built a large number of fortifications, which were mainly defense-oriented.

However, the Southern Route Army was not without gains, at least the railway from Changchun to the Liaodong Peninsula was completely recovered, and a large number of Japanese-funded enterprises and industries illegally occupied by overseas Chinese were also cleaned up by the Baath Party, and it was impossible for the Japanese to obtain military resources from the Northeast, and their own casualties were not small.

After carefully studying the war in Lushun, Chen Xuan and the top brass of the army immediately made corresponding adjustments, and the armies in various places set up military schools, and the process of the Lushun war was written by the General Staff into countless cases and distributed to various army academies and military schools, so that everyone could study and make targeted combat plans and training.

The war in Lushun was anxious, Chen Xuan simply did not put pressure on the Southern Route Army, but used Lushun as a whetstone for training, because the railway was in his own hands, so the various armies in the Northeast took turns to fight, using this war training, and the recruits were also sent to Lushun to adapt to the war environment.

Now the Japanese want to cry without tears, the Northeast Army is close to the battlefield, material reinforcements and soldier exchanges are very convenient, but the Japanese are not so lucky, and try their best to draw reinforcements and strategic materials from the country and Goryeo Shandong to support Lushun.

But relying on the navy's transportation alone is really a drop in the bucket, and if it weren't for Li Jinxu controlling the intensity of the attack at Chen Xuan's request, the Japanese would have been pushed into the sea long ago.

Chen Xuan regarded Lushun as a big training ground with an iron heart, and Lushun also became a bleeding wound for the Japanese troops, constantly depleting the poor financial and war potential of the Japanese.

Lushun has become a chicken rib for the Japanese, and it is a pity to abandon it if it is tasteless, and if it is given up, it will cost so much to launch the Russo-Japanese battlefield back then, and the interests of the Northeast that hundreds of thousands of people have taken away will be in vain, and the Japanese cabinet cannot afford to lose the responsibility of losing the Liaodong Peninsula!

The capital, the Grand Presidential Palace.

Ever since the signing of the "Four Articles of the Sino-Japanese People's Treaty" with the Japanese, the Great Presidential Palace has fallen into endless grief and indignation, and after Chen Xuan's navy won a great victory in the First Battle with the Japanese in Nanyang, it dealt a heavy blow to the prestige of the Great Presidential Palace, which was in danger.

The officials of the Grand Presidential Office are invisibly divided into two factions, one is disappointed in the Grand Presidential Palace, and many people are already preparing to retreat, and the other is unwilling to give up the interests they have in hand and has become more and more crazy.

And President Yuan Da because of the signing of the unequal treaty with Japan, his mood also fell into a slump, coupled with the increasingly serious uremia, the external oppression and the torture of illness made President Yuan Da's mood worse, and even had a tendency to be misanthropic.

However, President Yuan's constitutional adviser, American Goodnow, who is the dean of the Law School of Columbia University, one of the founders of the American Political Science Association, and a globally recognized authoritative scholar of political science and administration, published an article entitled "The Republic and the Monarchy" in August, but it lit a bright light for some people in Beiyang, who were depressed during the period.

Goodnow's essay "On the Republican Monarchy" mentions the current situation in China, where the Chinese people have a low level of education and no ability to study politics, and are only suitable for the monarchy.

After President Yuan's chief aide Yang Du Yang Huizi saw Goodnow's "Democracy and the Monarchy", he quickly wrote "The Theory of Monarchy and Saving the Country" as if he had found a treasure.

At the beginning, it was written: "The armies of Germany and Japan are strictly forbidden in moderation, so they can dominate the world, but France and the United States are not, they can pay but cannot be strong, there is no other, one is the monarch and the other is the republic, so France and the United States are so, and the rest is not enough, so the republic must have no strong country, which has become the general rule of the world, but France and the United States have national education, and still have a sense of obligation to the country, which can be maintained and unified, so they cannot be strong externally, and they are not chaotic internally." ’

Vigorously advocating the monarchy, "The Theory of the Democratic Monarchy" and "The Theory of the Monarchy and the Constitution of the Monarchy to Save the Country" were vigorously disseminated by well-intentioned people, and soon became the theoretical weapons for the restoration of the imperial system, known as the 'double bib'!

"Guys, what do you think of the current situation in the country?"

Yuan Shikai adjusted his sitting posture to make himself more comfortable, and the long-term pain had greatly reduced Yuan Shikai's energy.

"The great president, although the cause of the great president has a little twists and turns, but the situation is not so bad, the European and American powers still support the president, and they do not want to see a divided China and the Japanese increase their aggression against China, that is not in their interests, Chen Xuan in the southeast, jumping off the beam clown, the forces of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and the confrontation with the central government, is tantamount to shaking the tree, there is no need to worry, and today I am contained by Chen Xuan in the Liaodong Peninsula, there is not much threat to our Beiyang, As long as we in Beiyang are united, vigorously organize and train the army, and develop industry, it is not impossible to wash away the shame of the "Four Articles of the People's Covenant"! ”

Yuan Shikai's chief staff Yang Du spoke first.

"Mr. Yang, don't you think Heilongjiang Jilin doesn't exist? There is also the Xia Kingdom controlled by Chen Xuan, added up, the strength is not necessarily worse than our Beiyang, and there is also Xiao Jin of Annan, who is hoarding an army in Yunnan, and is also eyeing the country, how can it become a no-brainer in Mr. Yang's mouth? ”

Duan Qirui, Minister of the Army, has long been dissatisfied with Yang Du, he thinks that Yang Du has to pay a lot of responsibility for many wrong decisions in Beiyang in recent years, and he has recently advocated the restoration of the imperial system, which Duan Qirui can't bear.

"Hefei is too worried, how many people can there be in the Northeast? And how many people are there on our territory in Beiyang, in fact, Chen Xuan's population is a large province, but Zhejiang is just a province, and foreign forces in Shanghai gather, how can Chen Xuan be arrogant? As for the so-called Xia State and Xiao Jin's Qin State, the barbarian land, it is not enough to say that Xiao Jin is still in Annan and is unable to move by the two major powers of Britain and France, and it is good to be able to support it, let alone chase the Central Plains, and then my Beiyang territory is ten times that of it, what is there to be afraid of? ”

Yang Du was disdainful of Duan Qirui's arguments, and Yuan Shikai, who was present, hardcore Sun Yuyun, Li Xiehe, Hu Ying, Liu Shipei, Liang Shiyi and others also echoed it.

Duan Qirui is a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, so many people call it Duan Hefei, such as Yuan Shikai is a native of Xiangcheng, Henan, also known as Yuan Xiangcheng, which is another title in order to avoid calling names and words.

"Mr. Yang and all of you This is the old yellow calendar, Chen Xuan and Xiao Jin have emigrated to the Northeast, Xia and Annam in large numbers over the years, not to mention others, the Chinese population of Xia alone is conservatively estimated to be only eight or nine million, civil wars and natural disasters continue, and a large number of people have also flowed to the Northeast and even Suiyuan Mongolia and other places, if Chen Xuan has no strength, how can he defeat the Japanese Navy in the South Seas, and Chen Xuan's air force is also somewhat famous even in the world, Britain, France and Germany are even vigorously introducing Chen Xuan's aircraft, Is it not a matter of concern what you have said?

Xiao Jin of Annan beat the French to the point that they could not stand, and the British had to temporarily conclude a verbal agreement with Xiao Jin on mutual non-aggression, how did it become worthless in everyone's mouths? ”

"Haha, Hefei also said that Xia is only eight or nine million Chinese, and Hefei can know that we Beiyang don't talk about anything else, just the president's hometown of Henan, the population is nearly ten times that of Xia, and there is something to worry about? And the Xia Kingdom has only been established for a few years, I'm afraid that it is still in the middle of a battle with the natives, not to mention the reinforcements in the country, it would be good to be able to gain a firm foothold! ”

Liang Shiyi said with a smile.

"Not only that, look at Chen Xuan's territory, the only thing that can be controlled is only Zhejiang, and he will continue to transfuse blood to other places, Zhejiang has been suffering Chen Xuan for a long time, just waiting for the army to go south, won't the Zhejiang fathers and elders eat pot pulp to welcome the arrival of Wang Shi, and the northeast has always been the sphere of influence of the Japanese and Russians, how can the two countries sit back and watch Chen Xuan sit big? Chen Xuan and the Japanese have been fighting in Lushun for two or three months, and they may not necessarily capture Lushun, which shows that Chen Xuan's military strength has also been exaggerated. Besides, Chen Xuan has an air force, don't we have it? In recent years, the country has ordered to Europe and the United States. A large number of new fighters have been purchased, dozens of them have been purchased, and the Baoding Aircraft Plant, which cooperates with the Americans, is also under construction. ”

"Reasonable, reasonable, Hefei is just afraid that it is too much."

A group of civilian officials began to conform again.