Chapter 625: Yuan Shikai's Olive Branch (I)

Wang Yongan was deeply sorry for Yu Qiaqing's forced resignation, and he sent a telegram to Yu Qiaqing, inviting him to go to Sichuanbian with him, and promising Yu Qiaqing to serve as the financial director of the Sichuanbian Special District.

Yu Qiaqing hesitated after receiving the telegram, the temptation of the finance minister was great, but Yu Qiaqing had always had his own ambitions, and in the end Yu Qiaqing still refused Wang Yongan's invitation. He sent a telegram to Wang Yongan explaining the reasons why he did not go to Sichuan, first, he wanted to rest for some days, and second, he planned to start China's own stock exchange to prevent the stock market crash in the late Qing Dynasty from happening again. (The stock market crash at the end of the Qing Dynasty was largely the work of the banks of the four countries, which controlled the stock exchanges in the concession and arbitrarily issued shares of foreign companies in partnership to deceive the Chinese) Yu Qiaqing's ideal cannot be described as great, and a country's stock trading cannot be controlled by foreigners forever.

Wang Yongan expressed his respect for Yu Qiaqing, supported his idea, and even offered to finance him 10 million taels of silver, Yu Qiaqing said that he didn't need so much, saying that you can use silver to build Chuanbian and turn it into a new Jiangbei.

After the two exchanged several telegrams, Wang Yongan's day of leaving Beijing was getting closer and closer. Because Yuxiu's body has been pregnant, Wang Yongan is inconvenient to take her to live in the riverside, as the saying goes, it is difficult to go to the blue sky in Shu, and this trip to the river not only has to take the Shu road, but also to go deep into the area where the Kham people live, the conditions are too difficult.

However, Wang Yongan was not at ease about leaving Yuxiu in Beijing, and decided to send Yuxiu back to Yangzhou after consideration, because the Seventh Division of the National Defense Force of the Jiangbei Department was stationed in Yangzhou, Wang Yongan thought that it was safer for Yuxiu to live in Yangzhou. Yuxiu naturally likes to go back to Yangzhou to live, since the last time Wang Yongan was assassinated, she has been worried about her life every day, and she is like a frightened bird in Beijing. Everything in Jingshi made her uncomfortable, and she missed the people and scenery of Yangzhou very much. After Wang Yongan made a suggestion, Yuxiu nodded again and again and expressed her willingness to go back.

Of course, there is one thing that Wang Yongan can't let go of when he leaves Beijing, Suo Ling'er.

For Suo Ling'er's feelings, Wang Yongan's heart has always been very complicated, it can't be said to be infatuation or love, but a kind of reluctance to make up for the regret of the first love. This kind of reluctance to first love is human nature, every man or woman has this kind of compensating emotion in his heart, some people are exposed, some people are hidden, and those who are exposed have caused some slang in later generations to "participate in the class reunion, break up a couple is a couple".

If you summarize Wang Yongan's feelings for Suo Ling'er, it is more appropriate to use possessiveness, he hopes to possess everything about the girl in his first love, including life. This kind of feeling is very selfish, maybe Wang Yongan is an ordinary person who will suppress hard work in his heart, but now that he is the deputy minister of the army and the envoy of the Kawabe Economic Strategy, all the officials around him have three wives and four concubines, which also affects his judgment, and makes him make a decision not to miss Suo Ling'er.

Wang Yongan knocked on the side and asked Suo Tudong about his plans and if he went to Chuanbian, if Suo Tudong was willing to go to Chuanbian with him. Unexpectedly, Suotu Dongfei was not only willing to go to the riverside, but also smiled and said that the whole family was willing to move to Ya'an with the army, and the two sons of the Suo family also expressed their willingness to quell the rebellion with Yun Shuai.

Wang Yongan was overjoyed, wondering if Suo Tudong understood his thoughts, so he paid more attention to Suo Tudong.

Soon after, Yuan Shikai summoned Wang Yongan to the presidential palace and introduced Wang Yongan to a person, Hu Jingyi, the new governor of Sichuan Province.

Hu Jingyi, a native of Ba County, Sichuan Province (later Ba County, Chongqing City), was selected by the Qing government in the 27th year of Guangxu to study in Japan, and entered the third phase of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and was a classmate of Cai Yi and Jiang Baili. In the thirtieth year of Guangxu, after Hu Jingyi returned to China, he was appointed by Xiliang, the governor of Sichuan Province, as the chief teacher of the Sichuan Provincial Wubei School, and Yin Hengchang was a student of the Sichuan Provincial Wubei School, so he was Yin Hengchang's teacher. Hu Jingyi is very low-key and unobtrusive, which is very different from the uninhibited Yin Hengchang, and it is difficult to get the attention of his boss. However, Hu Jingyi followed Xiliang to go from place to west until Xiliang became the governor of Guangxi, and Hu Jingyi was entrusted with the important task of serving as the assistant commander of the Guangxi New Army.

After the Wuchang Uprising, the Guangxi New Army also revolted, and because Hu Jingyi was appointed to be friendly to lower-level officers and soldiers, he was elected by the Guangxi Rebel Army as the overseer of Guangxi. Unfortunately, Hu Jingyi thought that the uprising would fail, so he refused to serve as the overseer of Guangxi and fled to Shanghai. However, not long after, the entire south became independent, declaring the success of the revolution, and Hu Jingyi regretted it.

In order to have a better development, Hu Jingyi took the initiative to contact the revolutionaries, but he was insulted and ridiculed by the Shanghai Revolutionary Party. Hu Jingyi returned to Sichuan Province in a fit of anger and served as a military staff member for his student Yin Hengchang, the then Sichuan Provincial Governor, due to Yin Hengchang's lack of military command ability, coupled with his arrogance and indulgence, his generals were very dissatisfied with him, at this time Hu Jingyi stood up and took the initiative to solve the trouble for Yin Hengchang, and was entrusted by Yin Hengchang with a heavy responsibility as the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Army.

After the Republic of China, Yin Hengchang and Hu Jingyi came to Beijing to report on their work, but Yin Hengchang was arrested, and Hu Jingyi took refuge in Yuan Shikai and was entrusted with the important task of supervising the army of Sichuan Province. Some people think that Hu Jingyi betrayed his friends to seek glory, but in fact, Yin Hengchang has some reasons for taking it personally, he squandered it wantonly after serving as the overseer of Sichuan Province, originally there were many factions in Sichuan Province, Yin Hengchang was proud of his achievements, and he thought that he was the first hero of the revolution in Sichuan Province, and he was born with a junior officer, if it wasn't for Hu Jingyi to put out fires everywhere, he would have fought in Sichuan Province by Britain and France, and was jointly reported by Sichuan Provincial Officers at this time, and was arrested by Yuan Shikai using the criminal evidence provided by Sichuan Army officers.

When I first saw Hu Jingyi, I only saw that this person didn't like to talk, but he was always a little secret and the clothes were harmless to people and animals, Wang Yongan's feeling for Hu Jingyi from his heart was that this person was an old fox, an old fox who ate people.

Yuan Shikai told Hu Jingyi that the vice minister of the army could dispatch the troops of the four southwestern provinces to quell the Zang rebellion this time, so he arranged for Hu Jingyi to meet with him, and Cai Ye and Wang Yongan had long been familiar with each other, and the two provinces would definitely fully cooperate with each other. Hu Jingyi immediately told Wang Yongan that after he returned to Sichuan Province, he would definitely do his best to assist the rebellion of the Sichuan Border Economic Envoy Pinding Zang's army. Hu Jingyi slapped Wang Yongan's sycophants one after another, which made Wang Yongan a little uncomfortable, and Yuan Shikai actually allowed himself to transfer the troops of the four southwestern provinces (Yunnan, Sichuan, Border and Guizhou) to Wang Yongan even more surprised, did Yuan Shikai take the wrong medicine today? You must know that this is equivalent to changing from the king of Jiangbei to the king of the southwest all of a sudden, if you recover Xizang, the five provinces in the southwest will become your own territory, and Yuan Shikai will give the territory of the southwest to himself - this is too inconsistent with his principles.