Chapter 116: The Qing Court Digging Its Own Grave
"Let's talk about it......" Wang Yongtai sat on the Taishi chair with a sword, his eyes looked at the officers and staff officers around him, and a satisfied smile rose on the corner of his mouth, now this group of people are all his own henchmen, and it is even more difficult for outsiders to intervene. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Everyone looked at each other, and they didn't want to be the first to speak, Feng Heng lifted Wang Yongan, and motioned to him, the adjutant, and said. Since there is no deputy co-ordinator of the 24 Mixed Association, Wang Yongan, the adjutant general, can be regarded as the second-in-command of the 24 Mixed Association.
"The court is digging its own grave." So Wang Yongan was the first to get up and speak, he looked at everyone, saluted Wang Yongtai and said, "Lord Xietong, do you remember the rebellion of the New Army in Guangzhou a month ago?" It was precisely because a few officers in Japan were revolutionaries that the Guangzhou New Army was able to launch a riot! If it weren't for the rebellion of the new army in Guangzhou, but because the rebel soldiers were exposed, they were hunted and killed by Yuan Shuxun, the governor of Guangdong, I am afraid that Guangzhou would fall into the hands of the traitors of the Sun Party at the first time. It can be seen from this that if the scope of recruitment of military officers in Japan is expanded, and they are entrusted with important tasks without inspection, they will inevitably be used by the traitorous party. In the future, there will be more rebellions of the New Army in Guangzhou. ”
Wang Yongtai sneered, "This royal family actually made such a move in order to suppress Yuan Gong's power, which is really stupid." ”
Feng Heng, chief of staff, said secondly: "Lord Co-ordinator, colleagues, at the same time, our General Staff Department received a telegram from the War Department, which intends to assign the seventh batch of officers who stayed in Japan in the Qing Dynasty to our 24th Mixed Association One month after the year, the War Department requires us to make proper arrangements and entrust us with important tasks. ”
Yang Zhenshan said: "Chief of Staff, do you mean that someone wants to come to our team to be an official?" ”
Feng Heng shrugged his shoulders and said, "That's what the newspaper meant!" ”
"Fuck it!" Yang Zhenshan and other officers scolded, "Come to us to pick up the bargain, let's train the troops desperately, and they will be officials?" ”
Wang Yongan heard that the seventh phase of the Japanese military academy students, what are the celebrities in the seventh phase, the most famous are two people, one is Xu Shuzheng, but Xu Shuzheng graduated early, and the other is the second son of Lu Zhongqi, the governor of Jin Province, who was killed by the rebels during the Taiyuan Uprising...... In addition, none of the students in the seventh phase have become talents, and it can be said that among all the students, if it were not for a Xu Shuzheng, who graduated early, they would all be a group of mediocre people. However, it is no wonder, because 40 percent of the students in the seventh batch are banner people, and many of the other 60 percent of the Han Chinese have joined the revolutionary party. After the Xinhai Revolution, the bannermen officers were dismissed one after another, and the revolutionary party officers among the Han officers were also excluded, and they were originally determined to overthrow the Manchu Qing for the sake of the country, but eventually found themselves overthrowing a rotten Manchu Qing and ushering in an equally rotten Republic of China......
Everyone was noisy, probably scolding the court for digging its own grave, Wang Yongtai was annoyed by hearing it, and slapped the table and shouted: "Give me a quiet moment, just talk about those useless, what's the use of fart?" Who wouldn't swear? Lao Tzu won't scold? If scolding can make those idiots in the War Department wake up, Lao Tzu will send a battalion to scold, do you think it's okay? ”
Everyone quieted down, and after a while, Chief of Staff Feng Heng got up and said, "Officers, in fact, the biggest problem we encounter now is that the imperial court has instructed these officers who have returned from Japan to lead troops. But if they lead an army...... Lord Xietong, Fang Xianwu and I both graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and although the revolutionary party tried its best to win them over when we were in school, our classmates still stayed away from them. Only a few people got close to the revolutionary party, after all, everyone was sent by officials to study military affairs in Japan, and if they got involved with the revolutionary party, it would be difficult for them to come back to become military officers in the future. However, since Japan allowed self-financed study abroad, Chinese students from the Japanese Army Noncommissioned Officer School have joined the revolutionary party one after another, and they have taken joining the revolutionary party as a fashionable behavior, and those who do not join are the laggards. But these people at least knew how to do military affairs and command, and if they started a rebellion, it would inevitably be more troublesome than the rebellion of the New Army in Guangzhou. ”
Fang Xianwu also supported on the side: "We can't let them mess up the army." ”
Wang Yongtai touched his chin and was silent, pondering in his heart how to send these people away, not letting them get their military power, and not letting them mess up the boundaries of Yangzhou.
At this time, Wang Yongan's eyes rolled, he laughed, got up and said: "Report to Lord Xietong, there is an idea below, which can not only make these Japanese military cadets sent by the imperial court retreat in difficulty, but also let the imperial court find no excuse to embarrass us." ”
"You say." Wang Yongtai and the officers had deep ears and listened carefully to how this little Zhuge came up with a plan.
Wang Yongan cleared his throat and said with a sinister smile: "The officers assigned by the imperial court, since they are here to be officers, since they are here to lead the soldiers, they must first be able to subdue the soldiers, if they can't pass the soldiers' training exams, how can they lead the soldiers?" If they can't even afford to find soldiers, we have a reason to send them to the new barracks and be trained by the soldiers. I guess anyone would see an officer being trained by a soldier as a humiliation, right? Presumably, at that time, some arrogant Japanese graduated officers could not stand to leave, and some mediocre talents would also feel harsh and leave, and in the end, they would either be officers with tenacious hearts or officers who had infiltrated the barracks under the task of the revolutionary party, so that the truth could be revealed. ”
"Brilliant plan! Coup! Feng Heng laughed.
"That's right, just let them show their heads like Wang Ba floating in the water!" Yang Zhenshan laughed.
Wang Yongtai nodded with satisfaction and said, "There are not many people left, but we have a way to control it." ”
Wang Yongan turned around and said to everyone: "Therefore, if they can't stand the training in our military camp, they will naturally retreat, but the premise is that our training must not be sloppy." The army should look like an army, and the army is ready to fight and kill people at any time, and the army we train is the killing machine of the state and the legal killing machine. ”
This is a very innovative formulation, the army is the killing machine of the state, and everyone did not think that the role of the army is like this, but if you think about it carefully, this army is really the killing machine of the state, but the enemy they face is the rebel army or foreign invaders.
Wang Yongan said: "At the same time, we also need to instill the idea to the soldiers, this twenty-four mixed brigade is loyal to you, Lord Xietong, and anyone who wants to act in the army must get your permission. "In the end, this suggestion is to pat Wang Yongtai's ass, after all, he can't behave too well, and he has to leave room for Wang Yongtai, the military director, to play.
Wang Yongtai laughed and said, "Well, this method of the adjutant chief is very good, we will not hurt the peace with the Imperial War Department, and let them not be able to grasp the excuse - so this matter will be left to you, Jingyun." ”
"Yes, guaranteed to complete the mission." Wang Yongan saluted with a military salute.
Wang Yongtai turned his head to look at Fang Xianwu and Yang Zhenshan, the two heads of the new and veteran battalions, and asked, "There are thirteen days left before the new and veteran competitions, are your new barracks ready?" ”
Fang Xianwu immediately replied, "It's ready." ”
Wang Yongtai asked again: "What about the veteran barracks, are you ready?" ”
Yang Zhenshan said: "The veteran is ready. ”
"That's good, thirteen days later, the artillery and cavalry battalion soldiers will be the referees, I will be the arbitrator, and the veteran and new recruits will officially hold a big competition." Wang Yongtai made a decision, "Break the meeting and act separately." ”
As soon as the meeting ended, Wang Yongtai left his younger brother behind, and said worriedly: "I am worried that this move of the imperial court will cause chaos in the world, and we will inevitably be transferred to other places, and if I lead the army to leave Yangzhou, my Wang family will definitely be coveted." If I have smooth sailing, it will be fine, but if anything happens to me, someone will plunder the king's house. ”
Wang Yongan was surprised, thought about it carefully, there is really this possibility, the world was in chaos at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the twenty-four mixed association was the army of the imperial court, and the imperial court would inevitably send the twenty-four mixed association to exterminate the rebels, and once the army left Yangzhou, his family property would definitely cause others to covet it, he asked worriedly: "Second brother, what do you say to do?" ”
"What about your proposal?" Wang Yongtai sighed at the temperature.
Wang Yongan thought for a while and said: "The reuse of the trick of returning military cadets from studying in Japan is the imperial court digging its own grave. But if there is chaos in the world one day, it will be those of us who are unlucky. Our business, our land, will be affected by the chaos. ”
Wang Yongtai nodded and said, "Don't talk about it, just tell me what you can do to keep our family's property?" Everyone knows that I exterminated the Yangzhou Cao Gang, although I handed over 300,000 taels of silver to the imperial court, but it is rumored that I was greedy for at least 2 million taels of silver from the Cao Gang - his grandmother's, how much silver we have taken, and the common people will really spread the rumors. ”
"This is the big wind of the tree." Wang Yongan smiled bitterly: "So if there is chaos, we will definitely find other people's concerns, as the old saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves, our family's property cannot be placed in one place, nor can it be placed in Yangzhou." I do know that there are two places that will definitely become rich in the future, one is the Tianjin Concession and the other is the Shanghai Concession. Taking advantage of the fact that our family still has some surplus money, I suggest that in addition to keeping some spare money in our hometown, the rest of the money should be invested in the real estate of the two concessions, and we will buy a large number of real estate in the Shanghai concession. In the future, if there is chaos, the rich will surely pour into the concession one after another, and then our wealth will naturally rise and multiply, and we will be protected by Britain and France. "To be honest, not to mention the current era, that is, a hundred years later, anyone who has a little ability will try their best to transfer their wealth abroad, to put it bluntly, because China has been a country where power is supreme since ancient times, and the law is equivalent to child's play in front of power.