Two days later, after Li Yao got the information, he immediately found Wang Yongan, who was at home to give him a holiday and rest, and reported: "Dashuai, the city of Nanjing was beaten down last night, but Zhang Xun and his men escaped across the Yangtze River overnight and came to Jiangbei. Li Shirui, commander of the 7th Brigade of the www.biquge.info Pen Fun and Pavilion, led his army to detain the 8,000 Jiangnan pigtail soldiers who had retreated from Nanjing to Jiangbei at Pukou, while the navy in the south was displayed outside Pukou with the muzzles of their guns facing us. However, Li Shirui said that the Southern Army was only armed and provoked, did not shoot, and did not infringe on fishing boats and merchant ships, and he asked you how to deal with the Jiangnan Army and how to deal with the Southern Navy. ”

Wang Yongan said: "Don't pay attention to the Southern Navy, they don't dare to take the initiative to provoke us, and we have long been in contact with the Southern Revolutionary Party, and they will not go north when they are internally unstable." ”

"Yes." Li Yao immediately asked people to send a telegram to Li Shirui, and then asked how to deal with the Jiangnan army.

"Jiangnan Army......" Wang Yongan had a headache, the team of the old man Zhang Xun is not easy to deal with, and there are 8,000 people, how to deal with it has become a big problem. He touched the beard on his chin and thought for a long time before saying, "Lao Li, what do you think?" I'm a big headache, my husband is not an ordinary person, he is very second! ”

"Two?"

"Yes, it's just that he doesn't have a mind to do things, let him stay in Pukou and definitely find a way to go to Nanjing after recuperation, so we will become his rear base camp, and make him a wedding dress, which is not a hit." Wang Yongan smiled bitterly, "But I just married her daughter not many days ago, so I dismantled his platform and drove him away, I'm afraid it's not good." ”

Li Yao's eyes froze, and he laughed evilly, leaned over and whispered: "Dashuai, either like this, since they are all a family, what else is yours and mine, what is yours is mine, and I am still mine!" You simply annexed the Jiangnan Army, and the left and right are also your father-in-law's team, let him retire as soon as possible. The 8,000 Jiangnan Army, plus the supplementary soldiers in our recruit camps in various places, made up the 10th Brigade of the Jiangbei New Army of 13,000 people, what do you think? ”

Wang Yongan laughed, and said in his heart that this is a wonderful good idea, after he annexed these 8,000 pigtail soldiers, his strength was further expanded, and his father-in-law Zhang Xun should withdraw from history, after all, he is not suitable for complex political struggles. Most of the ugly dramas of Zhang Xun's restoration in history were designed by others, otherwise Zhang Xun rushed into Beijing with a mere 3,000 pigtails in history to carry out the restoration?

And after Zhang Xun's restoration, the Quartet crusaded, but it achieved Duan Qirui, the premier of the three republics, Wang Yongxin, said that this matter has a lot to do with Duan Qirui. Although Duan Qirui is iron-clad externally, he has no less moral deeds when he is internal, and the trapping of Zhang Xun is one of them. Of course, the military and politicians of the Beiyang Department have this characteristic, although they do everything internally, but once they encounter the invasion of the country and the foreign enemy, they will throw their heads and shed their blood to be loyal to the country.

Among them, the most representative ones are Cao Rulin, Lu Zongyu, and Zhang Zongxiang, who were scolded as traitors during the May Fourth period. However, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Cao Rulin refused to cooperate with the Japanese, hid at home without leaving home, and refused to serve as the prime minister of the puppet Republic of China government, although he was later named as the top adviser of the puppet North China Provisional Government, a member of the North China Political Affairs Committee and other senior positions, but he never contributed to the Japanese to do a thing, but took the lead in resisting when the Japanese wanted to occupy the central hospital, and took the initiative to serve as the director of the central hospital with great danger, refusing the central hospital to become a Japanese hospital, and the Japanese wanted to win him over on the one hand, so it was impossible to occupy the hospital, and the Central Hospital became one of the few hospitals in the Japanese-occupied area that was completely controlled by the Chinese themselves. And Mei Siping, the May Fourth Youth Leader, has become a big traitor, which cannot but be said to be a kind of irony.

After thinking about it, Wang Yongan felt that it was inappropriate to annex the 8,000 pigtailed soldiers of the old father-in-law, and if he rashly annexed the army of the imperial court, he would directly confront the imperial court represented by Yuan Shikai, which was not in line with the interests of Jiangbei at this stage. Today's Jiangbei is the safest place in the Qing Dynasty on the surface, but Wang Yongan himself understands in his heart that this apparent peace cannot hide the undercurrent surging underwater, as a zone between the north and the south, Jiangbei must make its position clear sooner or later, otherwise it will face the attack of the north and the south.

The longer it can be delayed, the stronger the Jiangbei Army will be, Wang Yongan is well aware of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's "build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slow down the king", before the railway is completed, it is best not to make a big move. So Wang Yongan had no choice but to shake his head and say to Li Yao: "If we annex the army of my old father-in-law, we will be too hooligans, and who will dare to come to us in the future." Regardless of whether the imperial court has a government decree to ask for it, in the eyes of both the north and the south, we have swallowed Zhang Xun's army so directly and violently, and we will never show mercy to them in the future, but will make them wary of us. So...... I want to annex 8,000 pigtailed soldiers, but I can't easily annex it, you send a telegram to Li Shirui, and ask him to escort my father-in-law's Jiangnan army all the way to Beijing by rail, his old man likes to be loyal to the imperial court and loyal to the Manchu emperor, we can't cut off the old man's wishes, otherwise he will scold my son-in-law to death. ”

Li Yao pouted and said: "Why do you want to help him, although this person is your father-in-law, he will not receive your affection, and he will not show mercy to your subordinates even if there is a chance in the future." ”

"It's his business that he doesn't show mercy, it's my business that I'm good to him, after all, he's my father-in-law, I can't really kill him, right?" Wang Yongan sighed first, and then said helplessly, "And his Jiangnan pigtail army is also a trouble, you must know that most of the people who can escape from Nanjing with him are people from Fengxin County, Jiangxi, his hometown, don't you know that Fengxin people, the people there are stupid and loyal, and they will never listen to us." Moreover, those people were arrogant and spoiled by Zhang Xun, and when they were in Nanjing, they did not abide by military rules, sometimes disturbing the people and sometimes causing trouble, and we annexed them and swallowed trouble. So, let's leave this trouble to my other father-in-law, Premier Yuan, I think he is not afraid of trouble, and we should send the regular army of the imperial court to the imperial court. ”

Li Yao nodded.

Wang Yongan smiled evilly: "Zhang Xun is loyal to the Manchu royal family, but the Manchu royal family does not have a single soldier in its hands, and even the forbidden army of the imperial court is in the hands of my father-in-law Yuan Shikai. I sent Zhang Xun's 8,000 pigtailed soldiers to Beijing, these people are still loyal to the Manchu royal family, do you think Yuan Shikai can sleep peacefully? Do you think he's going to be upset? Do you think he still has time to trouble us? ”

"Huh?" Li Yao was taken aback, then laughed out loud and said, "Dashuai, you, you-it turns out that you are letting them fight with each other, you are a good fisherman, aren't you?" No matter how good things are done for you, your mind is too terrible. I estimate that even if you send a telegram to Zhang Xun now, asking him to come to Yangzhou to rest and rest for a few days, he will not dare to come. ”

Wang Yongan said: "Let Zhang Xun come to Yangzhou?" Don't you still have to fear that I will kill him to get revenge? Therefore, sending him and his army to Beijing is good for me and for him, so as not to be embarrassed when everyone meets. ”