At the end of the meeting, Wang Yongan went to the presidential palace to attend the next meeting, at which everyone discussed how to establish provinces to keep the richest areas, and everyone collectively discussed until the evening, and finally decided to establish the Chahar Special Region, the Rehe Special Region, the Suiyuan Special Region, and the Chuanbian Special Region (later renamed Xikang Province), so as to retain the richest place in the border provinces, so as not to be divided away by foreign forces to divide the rich areas. This move ensured the territorial integrity of most of China at that time, benefiting future generations, and when later generations of people mentioned Yuan Shikai, they had to mention his behavior of safeguarding the territorial integrity of the country.

However, these four rich frontier regions were still inferior to the Central Plains, and only four special regions were established, so it was necessary to send four officials to serve as military governors of the frontier provinces to deter the border separatists by force, and at the same time to prevent foreigners from forcibly occupying Chinese land.

Wang Yongan knew that the local military governor of Xinjiang here must have nothing to do with him, and the three places in the north would inevitably belong to the Beiyang system, and the place on the Sichuan side was generally difficult for outsiders to enter. Jiang Dengxuan, the chief of the general staff of the Sichuan army who supported the revolution in Sichuan Province, wasn't it because he was squeezed out of Sichuan Province by the Sichuan people that Wang Yongan picked up a bargain?

The next day, the president soon announced that Rehe would be unified as Jiang Guidi, Suiyuan as Zhang Shaozeng, Chahar as He Zonglian, and Kawabian as Yin Hengchang. Among them, Yin Hengchang also served as the governor of Sichuan Province, except for his identity as a Sichuan person, the other three were all Beiyang officers.

Wang Yongan guessed correctly, it is difficult for outsiders in Sichuan Province to interfere, and the three special regions in the north can be said to be in the hinterland of the Beiyang sphere of influence, and it is absolutely impossible for Yuan Shikai to let outsiders interfere in the north.

However, as soon as the mission was announced, there was a war in Sichuan, and it turned out that some princes and lamas in Xizang were encouraged by the British, especially because the Russians supported the secession of Outer Mongolia, and the lamas and nobles saw a good opportunity and immediately prepared for independence and attacked the yamen of the former Qing government in Lhasa. At the same time, some Zang of the Sichuanbian Special Region was dissatisfied with the central government's localization into a special region, which hindered their opportunity to split and establish themselves as kings, so they sent troops to attack the Han people in the Sichuanbian area.

Yuan Shikai ordered Yin Hengchang, the overseer of Sichuan Province, to immediately quell the turmoil in the Sichuanbian area, and dispatched the Ninth Division of the National Defense Army into the Sichuanbian Special Zone, preparing to enter Xizang to suppress the Zang rebellion and support the Yamen of the Xizang Administration. Outer Mongolia is different from the Xizang River, the former Russians have been planning for a long time, and the Japanese are eyeing the Yalu River, and the Xizang turmoil is just a spontaneous behavior of the Zang nobles, and it did not pass through the British, and even the British were surprised that they did it at this time. As the Ninth Division of the Wehrmacht, there was absolutely no reason to refuse the War Department's counterinsurgency order.

However, the Ninth Division of the National Defense Force belonged to the Jiangbei Department, and it was not able to satisfy the Jiangbei Department if it mobilized the Jiangbei Department without greeting Wang Yongan without saying hello. In particular, the Ninth Division is stationed in Xuzhou, which is thousands of miles away from Sichuan, and the Sichuan people have always excluded outsiders, so how can the Ninth Division have good fruits to eat when it enters Sichuan.

Fang Xianwu immediately sent a telegram to Wang Yongan to inquire, Wang Yongan called back, and the War Department could not help but listen to the order, but this march of thousands of miles needs to be considered in the long run, and the preparations must be done sufficiently, otherwise the communication with the Sichuan army will be poor after entering Sichuan, what should be done with the supplies of the Ninth Division, how to deal with the wounded of the Ninth Division, and how should the ordnance of the Ninth Division be replenished.

Fang Xianwu was such a smart person, after receiving the telegram, he immediately understood that he wanted to ask the War Department for money and food before preparing to start the trip. Now that it is October, the weather is getting colder, and the soldiers must not need warm equipment, so the lion opened his mouth and asked for 500,000 taels of opening fees, otherwise the soldiers could not walk so far to the side of the river, especially the communication with the Sichuan army is very important, so as not to encounter the rebel Zang army after entering the Sichuan, but was attacked by the Sichuan army.

The army commander-in-chief, Duan Qirui, immediately sent 300,000 taels of silver to the Ninth Division of the National Defense Force, saying that they should set off immediately and allocate another 200,000 taels of silver after waiting for the riverside. Fang Xianwu still tried his best to delay after receiving the money, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the War Department, but without waiting for the War Department's request, the protest telegram from Sichuan Province was sent first.

Although there were many warlords and leaders in the Sichuan army, they unanimously demanded that without the support of the Ninth Division, the Sichuan army could put down the rebellion in Sichuan and eliminate the Tibetan rebels alone.

Yin Hengchang, the governor of Sichuan Province, and Cai Yi, the governor of Yunnan Province, marched to Sichuan from the north and south of Sichuan at the same time, trying to nip the rebels in the bud.

Yuan Shikai did not order the Ninth Division to return, he naturally hoped to let the Jiangbei army enter Sichuan, and then cause contradictions between the Sichuan army and foreign troops, so as to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and gradually eliminate the hostile forces, but the Ninth Division delayed the start for various reasons, but Yuan Shikai could not move the Jiangbei Army, and the War Department quarreled again.

Wang Yongan knew that Yuan Shikai probably wanted to move the Jiangbei Army to Jiangbei, and then gradually divide the strength of the Jiangbei Army, and once the Ninth Division entered Sichuan, it would be difficult to return to Xuzhou, Jiangbei. Therefore, Wang Yongan argued with reason in the War Department, and told Fang Xianwu that even if he marched, he could use the presence of bandits on the road as an excuse to use the bandits to disturb the people and exterminate the bandits to postpone the march. In particular, the eating, drinking, and Lazar of the 24,000-strong army was also a major event, and local governments in various localities would inevitably have difficulties in receiving them, so the Ninth Division could enter Sichuan in batches, first going one battalion, then another battalion, and then another battalion......

This time Yuan Shikai was unable to transfer the Ninth Division after all, after all, the four divisions of the Jiangbei Army were stationed in Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Hefei and Huaibei, if Yuan Shikai moved too much, the Jiangbei Army could start anew. Soon after, the War Department ordered the Ninth Division to return to Xuzhou, and the Sichuan Army could destroy the rebels alone, but demanded that the Ninth Division immediately return 300,000 taels of silver to the War Department.

It's a joke that you have to spit out the money you eat.

Fang Xian 5th and all the officers of the 9th Division collectively wrote that they had already given the soldiers the method of dividing the promotion fee, how could they ask for it back at will, and the War Department changed its order overnight, how could they convince the public? I also hope that the War Department will be more standardized, learn more from the advanced countries of the West, and not follow the example of the former Qing Dynasty and criticize the General Staff Headquarters of the War Department, so angry that Xu Shuzheng smashed several vases.

This time, the Beiyang Department did not shake the Jiangbei Department at all, and Yuan Shikai also realized that it was too difficult to attack the Jiangbei Department from the military, and the Jiangbei Department was extremely united, and they needed to find another way. Because of the transfer of the Ninth Division, the four divisions of the Jiangbei Department also resisted going north to resist Japan, and Fang Xianwu and the officers of the other four divisions collectively sent a telegram to the General Staff Headquarters, believing that the Japanese were very likely to attack the east and the west and send troops to Jiangbei again, so they were suspicious of going north.

Come on, lift a stone and hit yourself in the foot, Duan Qirui's nose was so angry that his blood pressure rose, Yuan Shikai smiled bitterly, and in the second round of the two sides' fighting, Jiangbei won again.