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Everyone couldn't be calm, Yun Shuai was in person, this is simply ...... Just kidding, as we all know, Yun Shuai's strength is strategy rather than command, and letting him go to the front line in person is simply attacking the other's strengths with his own shortcomings, which is "making trouble" in the vernacular. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And as the core figure of the Jiangbei regime, Wang Yongan maintains the stability and development of Jiangbei, even if the Japanese really occupy Nantong this time, what they lose is only the time to temporarily compete with Yuan Shikai for domination, and the involvement of small Japan behind them makes them lose the territory of Anhui Province at most, but they can't shake the real core interests of Jiangbei.

Everyone in Jiangbei understands how old Yuan Shikai is and how old is Wang Yongan, even if time is lost now, but what about the future? Ten years from now? The future belongs to the people of Jiangbei, so Jiangbei can lose this opportunity, but Jiangbei cannot lose the core, if Wang Yongan has an accident on the front line, Jiangbei will soon fall apart.

This was also the biggest weakness of the warlords in the late Qing Dynasty, all warlord factions were led by their core leaders, and once an accident happened to the core figures, the local warlords would soon change dynasties or even fall apart. The people in Jiangbei knew this truth, so they couldn't let Wang Yongan take the risk in person, so everyone hurriedly persuaded him.

At this time, Li Yao received an urgent call from Li Shirui, he had hurried back from Xuzhou, and was about to arrive in Yangzhou this evening to report, Zhang Jian and others were willing to recommend Li Shirui to Nantong to command. Seeing that everyone dissuaded him, Wang Yongan had no choice but to promise not to go to the main battlefield, but immediately ordered Shao Yongqin to lead all the rest of the First Division to rush to Nantong to support immediately.

When the tense moment came, Wang Yongan was restless again, and suddenly received another telegram, which turned out to be from St. Lucas, Wang Yongtai's family and his wife finally arrived safely in St. Lucas after sailing for more than two months. The voyage to San Lucas was so long that the ships were so slow that they had only arrived until now.

Knowing that their physical condition was good, and Xiaoyue didn't feel any discomfort, Wang Yongan was much more relieved. Wang Yongtai also sent a telegram saying that the Yokohama telegram had spread all over the world, and now the Chinese population in San Lucas had exceeded 800,000, and many of them were indignant that they could not sit idly by and watch the invasion and occupation of the motherland, and they decided to return by boat, including Xia Ming, Zhou Fu, and other officers whom Wang Yongan valued most.

San Lucaste Prime Minister Yu Yadong said that if Wang Yongan needs funds, San Lucas can immediately mobilize $10 million in support. Wang Yongan thought about it again and again and decided not to want this money, this 10 million US dollars may be St. Lucas's inventory, let them go bankrupt and only support Jiangbei, maybe they can resist it, but St. Lucas will face the realm of making ends meet, and it may even lead to the collapse of the government. Now that there is finally a Chinese pride overseas, he can't take this opportunity to destroy this glory.

Rejecting St. Lucas's support, Wang Yongan began to coordinate his funds to see how long he could support if he fought with the Japanese, but what he never expected was that Yu Qiaqing's reply to him was that his funds and Jiangbei's finances together could only support half a year.

Since Jiangbei's finances were all settled by the Zhonghua Industrial Bank, Yu Qiaqing could easily calculate Jiangbei's economy, and Wang Yongan was depressed; if this war against Japan could not be ended within half a year, not only would he go bankrupt, but the Jiangbei government would also go bankrupt because of its finances.

Of course, this is still the best situation, Yu Qiaqing said to Wang Yongan: "There is a fierce quarrel within the banks of the four countries, and the Japanese propose to raise the interest rate on savings, so that the people can deposit their money in foreign banks, so as to run on the Zhonghua Industrial Bank...... Immediately fell apart. ”

Wang Yongan was shocked and said: "Could it be that the finances have reached such a difficult situation? ”

Yu Qiaqing asked with a wry smile: "From a year ago to the present, for the preparation of this war and the infrastructure construction of Jiangbei, Jiangbei has spent a total of 80 million taels of silver, what do you say we have money?" Now there is a place to make money, but after using it, it is tantamount to drinking water to quench your thirst. ”

"You say." Wang Yongan said.

Yu Qiaqing said: "Salt tax, take back the power of Haiyan, and do not recognize the Qing government's Gengzi indemnity, then I can enter Jiangbei with 50 million taels of silver every year." ”

Wang Yongan could only smile bitterly after hearing this, he just announced the liberation of the four countries and already aroused the dissatisfaction of the Four Nations Bank, and supported Yuan Shikai to go south to exterminate the local warlord government, if the salt tax was recovered, I am afraid that Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Russia and other eight-nation coalition forces will come to attack China for the second time -- to attack Yangzhou. This is not a good idea, and it can even be said that a rash withdrawal of the salt tax may allow the regime to last for half a year, but after half a year, there will be no good end.

So Wang Yongan waved his hand and said, "Then we will try to resolve the battle within three months." ”

Yu Qiaqing said: "Perhaps, we can also secretly call on the people to raise funds to support the war with the Japanese, hasn't Sun Yat-sen always done this?" ”

Wang Yongan thought for a while and said: "Although this is more shameless, it is natural for those who engage in politics to do shameless things, so let's do this kind of thing, I let Wei Wenkang do this kind of thing, and it is easier for him to do shameless things as a literati." ”

Yu Qiaqing couldn't help but laugh and said, "Your eldest brother has made you miserable in this life." ”

Wang Yongan also laughed, and Yu Qiaqing couldn't help but ask, "Jingyun, are you confident in defeating the Japanese?" ”

Wang Yongan was silent for a moment and asked: "If I can't win the war, can I give up resistance and obediently dedicate Nantong to the Japanese?" ”

"I can't."

"Yes, no." Wang Yongan said, "I am the commander-in-chief of the Jiangbei Army, I am a Chinese soldier, I must not give up the country, just like you don't want to see foreign banks dominate China's finances, we have our own positions to hold, if we don't even have the courage to resist because of the strength of the opponent, we are not worthy of sitting in this position." ”

"I understand, but now the Japanese are very clear, only for Jiangbei, only for you, if you succeed, you are a national hero, but if you fail, you will be a national sinner." Yu Qiaqing said worriedly, "Do you think that after you fail, will the north and the south fall for you?" ”

Wang Yongan said bitterly: "I didn't think about it, because I didn't have time to think about it, maybe I didn't wait for them to judge me, I died on the front line of defending my family and country." ”

Yu Qiaqing couldn't help but stretch out his thumb and said, "Wang Jingyun, a national warrior, is worthy of being the unparalleled Wang Jingyun." ”