Now the most beneficial thing for Jiangbei is that the Southern Revolutionary Party cannot cross the river to flank the Jiangbei Army because it is in the state of liberation, but they have never had any friendship with the Jiangbei Army and will not help the Jiangbei Army. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info considering the relationship between the revolutionary army and the Jiangbei army, they were able to watch the fire from the other side of the river has relieved Wang Yongan and Feng Heng of a lot of pressure, and this Jiangbei recovery is actually through the hornet's nest, so that the Jiangbei army has become the target of the siege of the royalists and reformers, for them, the recovery of Jiangbei actually means that the real end of the Manchu Qing is coming, Wang Yongan sounded the death knell of the Manchu royal family ruling China. For Yuan Shikai, Wang Yongan's presence was a challenge to his rule over China, and Yuan Shikai was not afraid of Sun Yat-sen, but of this young man who was only twenty-four years old.

But now there is one of the biggest questions, where does the Beiyang Army get the money to dominate such a huge military operation, Wang Yongan and Feng Heng looked at each other with a wry smile, and they all thought of one thing, salt tax.

Yes, the largest income of the ancient dynasty was the salt and iron monopoly, after the foreign powers opened the gates of the Qing Dynasty with cannons, the iron monopoly has become a thing of the past, but the official salt monopoly has always existed. One of the reasons for the monopoly of official salt is that it is the largest income of the Qing Dynasty, and on the other hand, it is also because of the Gengzi indemnity, in the Gengzi Treaty, the indemnity of 450,000,000 taels of silver was repaid to the Bank of the Four Kingdoms by the official salt monopoly of the Qing Dynasty, and the distribution center of the official salt of the Qing Dynasty was Yangzhou. After the official salt was used by the foreign powers to repay the reparations, Yangzhou was also no longer prosperous.

Therefore, the great powers were worried that after Wang Yongan announced the liberation, he would withdraw the official salt monopoly and not recognize the Gengzi indemnity, thus bankrupting the banks of the four countries.

"This gringo also comes to make peace, and things will not be easy." Wang Yongan smiled bitterly.

Feng Heng asked: "Is it possible to contact the banks of the four countries?" ”

Wang Yongan shook his head and said: "If before Yuan Shikai's army went south, the Four Nations Bank would have negotiated with us, but now that Yuan Shikai's army has all gone south, the Four Nations Bank must have spent a lot of silver, what do you think they will do?" Would you rather lose money and no longer support Yuan Shikai, or support it until you defeat our Jiangbei? ”

Feng Heng said: "But all this is just speculation. ”

Wang Yongan sighed: "Yes, although it is our speculation, but if this is the reason, we will not be able to fight this battle." ”

Feng Heng once again showed a wry smile and said, "It's a big deal, we collectively defect to the Southern Revolutionary Party." ”

"That's the worst." Wang Yongan said, "War is a continuation of politics, but the problem now is that our politics have fallen into a dead circle." ”

Feng Heng said: "I think you should discuss it with Zhang Jian, if Zhang Jian comes forward in this matter and asks the Four Nations Bank to negotiate, at least we can force the Beiyang Army to stop." Otherwise, both of us will continue to die like this, and it will be us who will suffer sooner or later, until all your funds are lost, and it will be time for our Jiangbei Army to collapse. ”

"Well, you're right, this matter has to be betrayed by Zhang Jian to find the Four Nations Bank." Wang Yongan said.

Feng Heng suddenly asked, "Yun Shuai, how can you support Li Shirui's suggestion to let Jian Chen serve as the right deputy marshal?" ”

Wang Yongan smiled deeply: "Because this is Li Shirui's suggestion." ”

Feng Heng frowned: "What do you mean ......?"

Wang Yongan said: "Do a good deed for Li Shirui, lest he make too many enemies." ”

"Hahaha...... You, you, you really deserve to be Xiao Zhuge , this has been calculated by you. Feng Heng shook his head and said, if it was him, he would definitely not think of this layer, of course, if Feng Heng was the commander, he would never dare to let Li Shirui serve as the right commander to lead the 80,000 army on the right side.

Wang Yongan also laughed, and then said: "Compared to Jingtang, you have also heard that there are new and old factions in the army now, right?" ”

Feng Heng said: "I know, but I don't like factional struggles very much, so whenever I mention the subordinates of the faction in front of me, I will all reprimand them." ”

Wang Yongan laughed, and then found Zhang Jian, and asked him for Zhang Jian to come forward to meet with foreign ambassadors, Zhang Jian didn't care at first, thinking that China's own civil war, why should foreigners be involved, and Jiangbei was not short of money. However, Wang Yongan explained it to him carefully, and proposed that the Qing army must have the support of the financiers behind it when it went south, and the biggest financier was very likely to be the Siguo Bank, so they needed to reach some agreements with the Siguo Bank to end the war, force Yuan Shikai to withdraw his troops, and force the Manchu royal family to abdicate.

After returning to the headquarters, Wang Yongan felt more and more helpless, he originally thought that his ambition could be displayed in the late Qing Dynasty and realize his ambitions, but he did not expect that he was still a puppet of imperialism, subject to the imperialist white cloth, even in such a large-scale war, there was no shadow of the imperialist powers everywhere behind it.

He gradually understood the helplessness of the Middle Eastern countries in later generations, who also spoke Arabic and used Arabic scripts, and were also dominated by the world powers behind their backs, and once they had the slightest will to resist their masters, they were imposed on various reasons such as dictatorship and autocratic chemical weapons to eradicate them, and then look for new puppets.

Arafat, Gaddafi, Saddam, Mubarak, Bashar, which one can control himself, is nothing more than a puppet whose life is tied to someone else's rope, and even a puppet who is manipulated by many ropes.

In an instant, Wang Yongan felt a cold chill penetrate into his whole body, did he want to become such a puppet? Could it be that the purpose of reunifying China in the future is to become a puppet of the imperialist powers? In the past, I saw the pictures of various beasts on the map of China in books, maybe in the eyes of the children of later generations, it was just a picture, but now Wang Yongan really felt a sense of domination, and he gradually discovered that himself, Yuan Shikai, Sun Wen and others were just hunting dogs fighting and biting each other under the control of Western powers.

Wang Yongan's mood became more and more depressed, he didn't know who to talk to about this grievance, maybe only Yuan Shikai and Sun Yat-sen could understand his sense of powerlessness. In fact, the three of them have a common characteristic, they all know that it will not benefit anyone if they continue to fight like this, but they are unwilling to be under others.

In history, Sun Yat-sen was forced to give way to Yuan Shikai as the president of the Republic of China, because Sun Yat-sen's southern revolutionary government made the only choice under the military deterrence of the Beiyang system, and now, the war between himself and Yuan Shikai led to the continuation of the Qing Dynasty that should have ended a long time ago, which cannot but be said to be the sadness of his own historical traverser.

"Is my arrival right or wrong?" Wang Yongan couldn't help but ask himself.