After Yan Xishan changed the banner and announced the revolution, Zhang Zuolin took office as the "Generalissimo of the Army and Navy of the Republic of China" in Beiping, kicked the Beiyang government aside, and officially announced the formation of the Anguo Military Government. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He finally got his wish and became the "head of state".

Principal Chang, who has always had a tacit understanding with Wang Zhaoming, probably reached some kind of secret agreement with Zhang Zuolin, suddenly suspended the Northern Expedition, decided to go west, and united with Feng Yuxiang to attack the Wuhan Nationalist Government. Wuhan also gave up the Northern Expedition and went westward, wanting to solve President Chang first.

Feng Yuxiang was exquisite, flattering on both sides, but he just refused to send troops, and clearly sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight. As a result, Nanjing and Wuhan were afraid of each other, and at the same time ceased war to guard against each other, but neither dared to take the lead.

And Yan Xishan in the northwest was also reorganizing for battle, because the south entered a stalemate, and the main force of the northern Feng army finally took time out. Although Zhang Zuolin has always said that he wants to form an alliance with Yan Xishan, it is possible to form an alliance today and send troops to clean him up tomorrow.

The south is divided and hostile to each other, and everything is developing according to Zhang Zuolin's plan, but Sun Chuanfang has ruined his good deeds. Sun Chuanfang couldn't wait to restore his territory, and when Chang Chang was preparing to deal with Wuhan, Sun Dashuai suddenly crossed the river and attacked Nanjing, which was empty.

His nest was attacked, and Principal Chang finally got angry, and turned around and divided his troops into the Northern Expedition, planning to destroy Sun Chuanfang first.

The battle situation was originally good, but now it is a mess. All sides are on guard against each other, attacking each other, forming alliances with each other, you unite with me, I unite with you, you betray me, I betray you again, and it is no longer clear who is the enemy and who is the friend.

The great powers were completely incomprehensible, and they were both happy and worried. They are glad that a divided China is better controlled than a unified China, but they are worried that if the war continues to be fought, their interests in China will suffer greatly.

At the family banquet of the British Consul General in Tianjin, Roger asked with a smile: "Zhou, can you still distinguish the situation now?" ”

"The situation is clear." Zhou Hexuan said.

"Understand?" Roger spread his hands and said, "I can't figure out the relationship between them, Nanjing and Beiping secretly form an alliance, but they attack each other; Nanjing and Wuhan, nominally allies, also intended to attack each other; The Northwest Army and the hostile Nanjing and Wuhan were allies, but they could not move; Shanxi nominally supported the South, but actually united with the Northwest Army, and seemed to intend to ally with the enemies in Beiping...... Even buy karma, you Chinese really know how to fight, I am dazzled to see it. ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled: "I recommend you to read two books. ”

"What book?" Roger asked.

Zhou Hexuan said: "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Thirty-six Strategies". ”

Roger nodded and said, "I'll find it and read it." ”

Zhou Hexuan dipped his fingers in wine to draw a simple map on the table, and said: "Our Chinese Go pays attention to the layout of officials, and at this moment the chess pieces have been laid out, and the two sides who really play chess are actually the northern military government and the southern revolutionary government. The whole situation has entered the end of the middle game, but there was a small accident, there were two players in the south, and they started fighting because of disagreement. Now the key lies in the south, as long as the south can reach an agreement, it will be full of life, and all that remains is how to end. This is called the general trend, and the Chinese believe in following the trend. ”

"The more you talk, the more confused I become." Roger didn't understand Go.

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "That is to say, as long as Nanjing and Wuhan are reconciled, Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan will inevitably stabilize their position to attack the Feng army, and Zhang Zuolin will only have one way to retreat and get out of the customs." ”

"Do you think Nanjing and Wuhan can be reconciled?" Roger frowned.

"Let's wait and see," Zhou Hexuan didn't say anything more, and asked instead, "Mr. Consul, how is the waterway management plan going?" ”

"We have come up with a rough plan, and we are just waiting for the cooperation of the Tianjin local government." Roger laughed.

Because of their own interests, the concessions in Tianjin were very united, and even the Japanese merchants agreed to issue public bonds with the tariffs after three years. They hired water conservancy experts and quickly came up with a plan for the Haihe River control project. It is planned to follow the Qing government's method of detaining and desilting in the triangle lake in 1760, and introduce the water of the Yongding River into the area of the Luohe Lake in northern Jinbei, so that the sediment accumulation and clean water will be discharged into the Jinzhong River.

After the general plan was presented, we began to formulate a specific plan, which was divided into three major items and more than 20 sub-items.

This project is extremely huge, involving a wide range, east to the basket port river, west to the east of Xianhe Village, south to Liu Anzhuang, Xiaodian, north to Liu Zhaozhuang, Eryanzhuang. The total budget cost is more than 1.07 million yuan, and now Yihexiang, Tongyicheng, Daxing Civil Engineering, Qichang, Far East, Yongtai and other engineering companies are bidding for contracting.

Such a large-scale water conservancy project naturally requires the cooperation of the local government of Tianjin.

At this time, Chu Yupu was stationed in Jiangbei for a generation, and after repeated telegrams, Chu Yupu responded impatiently: "As long as it is not Lao Tzu's money, you can watch it." ”

When local officials in Tianjin received the promise, they immediately took action and sent water conservancy departments to contact the foreigners and jointly set up a Haihe River Consolidation Committee. Then there were various meetings and discussions, which dragged on until July, when Wang Zhaoming was in Wuhan to "purge the Communist Party," and the water conservancy project in Tianjin had not yet started.

Zhou Hexuan didn't wait for the work-for-relief, but waited for Zhong Guanguan, the acting president of Peking University.

……

Zhong Guanguan rushed to the newspaper office, and as soon as they met, he said, "Principal Zhou, I'm here to ask you for money." ”

"The Ministry of Education has not allocated funds?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

Zhong Guanguan complained bitterly: "It's not that there is no appropriation, it's that there has been no appropriation, and the teachers haven't received their salaries for four months." I didn't want to bother you, but I just couldn't hold on. Now that the end of the semester has passed, the students have all left the school, but the teachers are not leaving, one by one they are clamoring for the rice to be cooked. ”

"How much does it cost?" Zhou Hexuan asked.

Now that Zhang Zuolin has established a military government, the Beiyang government has completely become an ornament, not to mention letting the Ministry of Education allocate funds, and even the Ministry of Education's own people can't get salaries.

Zhong Guanguan calculated: "Now I owe 30,000 yuan to the teacher's salary, and I don't want to think too much, just have 10,000 yuan to tide over the difficulties." You go to Zhang Zuolin to intercede again, and let him leak a little out of the military spending. ”

"I'm not his father, where do I get the money?" Zhou Hexuan smiled bitterly.

He despised Zhang Zuolin quite a lot in his heart, and Lao Zhang managed his one-third of an acre of land in the northeast quite well, but after entering the customs, he only cared about fighting and did not pay attention to civil affairs at all. To put it bluntly, Zhang Zuolin didn't regard Zhili as his own territory, and didn't care about the lives of civil servants and ordinary people.

Just like that, you still want to be a "head of state"?

He's not like it!

Now the ordinary civil servants of the central government can't wait for Zhang Zuolin to get out of the house as soon as possible, and the new owner may be able to make up their salaries.

"Alas!"

Zhong Guanguan shook his head and sighed, waved his hand and said, "That's it, I don't embarrass you, let everyone hold on a little longer." ”

Both fell silent.

At this moment, Zhang Leyi came in with tea: "Mr. Zhong, please drink tea." ”

"Thank you." Zhong Guanguan picked up the teacup and drank the cow, and it was finally cooler.

Zhou Hexuan introduced: "This is my fiancée Zhang Leyi, who is also my secretary. ”

Zhong Guanguan was stunned for a moment, then hugged his fists and smiled: "Congratulations!" ”

Zhou Hexuan ignored his congratulations, but gritted his teeth and said: "In this way, I will personally borrow 10,000 yuan to the school, you can use it first, and then wait for the government to have money." ”

"This ...... How does this work? Zhong Guanguan hurriedly refused.

Zhou Hexuan smiled instead: "It's okay, I made some money selling belly pockets in the south, plus the manuscript fee for writing a book, I can be regarded as a rich man." Ha ha. ”

Seeing that Zhou Hexuan didn't seem to be fake, Zhong Guanguan got up and bowed solemnly with a solemn expression: "Thank you so much!" Mingcheng, no matter when, you are the eternal president of Peking University, and I thank you on behalf of all the teachers and students of the university. ”

"It's not that serious, it's just a loan, and it needs to be repaid." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

Both of them knew in their hearts that they might not be able to repay the money.

Zhong Guanguan was moved by Zhou Hexuan's selfless spirit and said: "The old man opened a factory in his early years, and there are some coffin books, and I also lent 5,000 to the school. ”

"Mr. Gaoyi!" Zhou Hexuan clenched his fists and said.

"Hahahaha!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, feeling like confidants.

Zhou Hexuan immediately wrote a cash check for 10,000 yuan, Zhong Guanguan didn't have the heart to stay, and returned to Beiping with the silver on the same day.

Zhang Leyi joked: "My dad wouldn't do this kind of loss-making business. ”

"So I'm not qualified to be a businessman, so I'd better write books honestly." Zhou Hexuan laughed at himself.

Zhang Leyi asked: "Inspired again?" ”

"Sort of. "Novel Monthly" is in a hurry, let me hurry up and publish a new work. Zhou Hexuan nodded.