For Yuan Shikai's repeated invitations, Wang Yongan was in trouble, to be honest, if it were not for Yuan Shikai's support, this war would inevitably fail, so he owed Yuan Shikai a great favor. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Yuan Shikai's envoy came to Yangzhou and asked for a secret meeting with Wang Yongan, and Wang Yongan received the envoy at home.

It's not easy to find time, there are too many things in Jiangbei, so this time the secret meeting was scheduled for seven o'clock in the evening, Wang Yongan pushed down several activity arrangements, returned home, and met the secret envoy.

Entering the study, Wang Yongan was surprised to see his old acquaintance Huang Bo, and couldn't help but say, "Don't you know how many people want your life?" ”

Huang Bo smiled and said, "So I put on makeup." ”

Wang Yongan couldn't help but shake his head and said, "You are really a master of art and bold, I regret letting you go at the beginning." ”

Huang Bo said: "This is wrong, it's not that Yun Shuai let me go, but that I escaped by myself." ”

Wang Yongan smiled slightly and said, "Sit, sit, are you my father-in-law's secret envoy this time?" ”

"No, I'm just leading, he's the secret envoy." Huang Bo turned around and introduced, a tall and good-looking middle-aged man with some ordinary smiles and nodded, this person was elegant and showed a cunning, it was hard to imagine that this person was a secret envoy, Wang Yongan had not even seen this gentleman in the Yuan family.

Wang Yongan walked over and shook hands with the secret envoy and asked, "Sir, your surname." ”

"Don't have your surname He, how to understand, self-declaring." The secret envoy smiled and said, "Yun Shuai is famous all over the world, I can see him today, and it is better to meet him than to be famous." ”

Wang Yongan asked everyone to sit down, and asked Yuxiu to make tea for everyone, and then dispersed and was not allowed to enter. Even the guards were asked to leave, leaving only Liu Tong as a secretary by his side.

He Xie smiled and said: "Yun Shuai can trust us so much, it really makes me admire it." ”

Wang Yongan said: "To be honest, I am not the new to you, but I don't think it is necessary, even if you assassinate me now, it will have no impact on Jiangbei." ”

He Xie shook his head and said: "Yun Shuai looks down on himself too much, your current position is the soul of Jiangbei." ”

Wang Yongan smiled, picked up the teacup and took a sip, I don't know if it's okay.

He Xie said again: "Yun Shuai, I guess you know very well that the purpose of He Mou's visit this time is to persuade you to go to Jingshi to discuss with Yuan Gong how to deal with Japan's retaliation, right?" ”

Wang Yongan nodded.

He Xie said: "Yun Shuai's worries are nothing more than afraid that when you go to Jingshi, someone wants to murder you?" Yes and no? ”

Wang Yongan said: "This is one aspect, and there is another aspect. ”

"I want to hear about it." He explained.

"Money." Wang Yongan said succinctly, "Jiangbei is short of money, very short of money, very, very short of money." ”

He Xie and Huang Bo looked at each other, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, they didn't think that Wang Yongan would use this to refuse to go to Beijing, who can say that he has a lot of money, in their opinion, Jiangbei's convenient money is not a problem, the problem is how to use the money.

Wang Yongan said with a bitter face: "The number of casualties in our Jiangbei Army is as high as 190,000, and the people are displaced by 10 million. According to the standard of bereavement pensions of our Jiangbei Army, the pension of a soldier who died in battle is 50 taels of silver and his family members are exempt from tax for 10 years, the pension of a wounded soldier is 50 taels of silver and his own tax exemption for 10 years, and the pension of nearly 200,000 people is 10 million taels of silver. This is only a pension, and I need another 10,000,000,000 taels of silver for my victory. The reconstruction of the Soviet Union and Central China will require another 10 million taels of silver. Of course, this is only visible, according to our preliminary calculations, Jiangbei needs at least 80 million taels of silver to rebuild to the pre-war level. Where do I get this money? ”

He Xie thought for a while and said: "Actually, it is very easy to solve, what the Jiangbei local government can't solve, the Republic of China can solve." Wang Yongan raised his head to look at him, and He Xie said confidently: "If a new Republic of China is established, the expenses of Jiangbei will be borne by the national government, and you don't have to worry about it at all." Yun Shuai, in fact, the reason why you are worried and so eager is because you have only seen one place in Jiangbei. But please don't forget that although the Jiangbei Army defeated the Japanese army, it was the strength of the whole country. Do you still want to be a local warlord in Jiangbei? Do you still want to dream of a local emperor? ”

Wang Yongan raised his head, no one had ever spoken to him like this, and no one had accused him of dreaming of being an emperor so much.

He Xie got up and sneered and said, "Yun Shuai, don't blame me for speaking too bluntly, I'm just telling the truth." What you have done before has proved your ambition, and you will accumulate food and become king slowly, just waiting to lead your troops to kill the king. The only time you wanted to take the initiative to go to Beijing was when you led the Jiangbei Army on the Northern Expedition half a year ago and wanted to go straight to Beijing, didn't you? ”

Wang Yongan didn't deny it, he took a sip of tea, nodded, and said, "My father-in-law governs China, and I can too." ”

"You can." He explained, "But people are not as good as heaven, and the Japanese happened to see this, and suddenly launched a war against you, which caused Jiangbei's vitality to be greatly damaged." Before the war, there were more than 200,000 Jiangbei troops and more than 100,000 militiamen, but after this war, your army was less than 100,000, right? ”

Wang Yongan smiled slightly and said: "Even if there are only a few thousand people left, who dares to underestimate my Jiangbei Army, they can fight with it." ”

He explained: "The Jiangbei soldiers are irresistible, and the Beiyang army is beyond their reach. However, the Jiangbei Army can beat two Japanese divisions, but Japan still has 16 divisions, can the Jiangbei Army still be able to fight? ”

Wang Yongan sneered: "You don't have to trick me, it is impossible for Japan to launch a national war, and they have no money." ”

He explained: "But the Japanese still have the money to send another six divisions, Yun Shuai, I have two pieces of information here, one is the information on the movement of various Japanese corps, and the other is the information on the logistics and material reserves of Japan's military camps on the Korean Peninsula. ”

Wang Yongan frowned tightly and took the telegram, he did not doubt that the content of the telegram was false, because the intelligence agency in Jiangbei also sent back similar information, but it was not as detailed and accurate as the intelligence agency in Beiyang. But if the Japanese really sent six divisions, not to mention that the Jiangbei Army would not be able to stop it, even if the Beiyang Army came, it would not be able to stop it. And whether the Japanese can make such a crazy move, the answer is yes, judging from the character of the Japanese, Japan will definitely do this.

In the history of Wang Yongan's memory, the Qing government should have been overthrown in January this year, but because of his appearance, the Qing government still exists, and if Japan launches a war against China, will it lead to the destruction of China? Isn't his butterfly a blessing but a curse for China?

Wang Yongan's hand shook, and the telegram fell to the ground, is it all because of his arrival, which has brought great harm to China? At this moment, he began to doubt himself and his life.