Since Feng Guozhang removed Duan Qirui as prime minister, he wanted to take the opportunity to complete the monopoly of presidential power, so the first step was to restore the generalissimo command office in the era of Yuan Shikai, but slightly changed the name to be called the Military Office, which was called the Military Staff Office in the era of Li Yuanhong. But Li Yuanhong only has a name but no strength, even if he has ambition and means, he does not have enough ability to complete this plan, so Li Yuanhong thought of using the strength of Zhang Xun in Xuzhou, who knew that Zhang Xun was not the same way as him at all, so after the removal of Duan Qirui and the dissolution of the Congress, there was a scandal of Zhang Xun's restoration, but Feng Guozhang is different, he has ambition, means, strength, capital and fame, so Duan Qirui and him disagree to the extent that he can't accept it, there is no need to find someone, Immediately issued a recall order to drive Duan Qirui to Tianjin.

"Qirui is tossing things again in Tianjin!" Feng Guozhang picked up the bowl, gently brushed it twice, took a sip slowly, and said with a smile.

Wang Shizhen, who was on the side, sighed softly and said, "Brother is on the wall, which is the way to self-destruct the family. Are you and I doing something wrong? ”

As soon as Feng Guozhang heard this, the smile on his face fell, and he said lightly: "If Qi Rui's arrogant and domineering temperament is not well managed, he will suffer in the future!" I'm also for his good, after all, how many days do I have to live? In the future, the world of our Beiyang will not be his! ”

At this time, the door of the study was opened recklessly, and Chen Zhiji rushed in in a panic with a stack of telegrams in his hand.

When Feng Guozhang saw it, he glared at him fiercely and said, "What's so flustered, there's no stability at all!" Didn't you see the old man here! Hum! ”

Wang Shizhen smiled faintly and said: "Zhiji is a good boy, don't blame him too much." ”

Feng Guozhang said coldly: "Since I hired the old man to speak for you, I will spare you today, and say something to make you so flustered!" ”

Chen Zhiji took the opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief, handed the telegram in his hand to Feng Guozhang, and said, "Dad, Duan Qirui instigated the overseers in various places to demand that the war in the south continue!" ”

After Feng Guozhang casually flipped through a few pages, he couldn't help laughing, and said to Wang Shizhen: "What should I do, Qirui is really a child's temper when he engages in these famous halls." He glanced back at Chen Zhiji and said, "Be steady!" "Chen Zhiji is just a promise.

Wang Shizhen said: "When Lord Yuan was alive, he has been emphasizing that Beiyang should be united, Qi Rui is doing this to openly divide our Beiyang, it's really damned, but Qi Rui is not an idiot, when he was the prime minister, he shouted about the main battle every day, this time Tianjin is afraid that it is not something that can be done by a few main war telegrams, I think there are other inside stories here!" ”

Feng Guozhang glanced at Chen Zhiji, who was speechless and bowed his head on the side, and said, "Is that so?" ”

Chen Zhiji hurriedly rushed over, wanting to explain a thing or two, but before he could speak, he was glared at by Feng Guozhang and said, "Forget it, Lao Tzu has seen it himself!" Chen Zhiji hurriedly lowered his head and retreated to the side. When Feng Guozhang read the telegrams in his hand one by one, his smug and smiling face suddenly stiffened and turned blue, and the fingers holding the telegram couldn't help but tremble, Wang Shizhen threw Chen Zhiji a look out, Chen Zhiji hurriedly ran out of the study and gently closed the door.

Wang Shizhen stretched out his hand to hold Feng Guozhang's hand and said, "Brother, let's take a look at what that kid from Qirui has done." After speaking, he pulled the telegram in his hand, and after reading it one by one, he said: "This kid Qirui is still a little bit advanced, and he has even pulled Cao Kun, Wu Peifu and others into the main battle camp, which is really a great progress!" ”

Feng Guozhang was so angry that he trembled and said: "Cao Kun, Wu Peifu, these guys who eat inside and out, Lao Tzu will never spare them, hum, the Zhili overseer is amazing, Lao Tzu will resign his official position!" ”

Wang Shizhen said with a smile: "It's just a disagreement, Duan Qirui also has anti-war people, but people don't say anything, but if you quit other people's official positions at every turn, you will do more ruthless than that Duan Qirui, and the old brothers will inevitably be chilled." ”

Feng Guozhang snorted angrily and said, "Did Cao San fool ever think that he would do this, how sad should my old brother be?" ”

Wang Shizhen smiled faintly and said: "Cao Kun is not this kind of person who doesn't talk, in my opinion, it's still the ghost of Wu Peifu!" This person can be regarded as a first-class figure among those young people in Beiyang regardless of his intelligence, but it is a pity that if he is young and vigorous, if he does not teach him well, he is afraid that he will have to follow Xu Shuzheng's old path. ”

Feng Guozhang said: "Xu Shuzheng tinkers with Duan Qirui every day, the dispute between the palace and the courtyard was not caused by this kid, this is finally Xu Shuzheng got out, Lao Tzu's ears have been clean for two days, and now there is a Wu Peifu to dig up the root of Lao Tzu's wall, it is strange to say, what kind of ecstasy did he give this Cao San fool, so that he is so confused, what is what!" This Wu Peifu sold him, maybe he still helped Wu Peifu count the money! ”

Wang Shizhen smiled and said: "Cao San's fool is not a good material whether he fights with soldiers or supervises the army in a province, only this broad-minded person who does not care about it is commendable, so let's take this Wu Peifu as an example!" Smart, excellent, but more than just enough, lack of flexibility, if you can't stand Cao San fool, it is estimated that this life will be wasted, Cao San fool obeys his words and obeys the grace higher than the sky, brother feels that he will not betray Cao San fool no matter what, there is such a pair of acquaintances and ministers, enough to support half of the country after the old brother. ”

Feng Guozhang snorted coldly: "It's okay, Duan Qirui has taken over from the central side, and Cao San is a fool on our side, so let's just let Lao Tzu die!" ”

After Wang Shizhen was stunned, he immediately laughed, patted Feng Guozhang's shoulder, and said, "Brother, you are really angry, angry, angry!" There is a way that the general's forehead can run a horse, and the prime minister can hold the boat in his belly, you are the president of a country, you can't be like this. Feng Guozhang took out a few copies from the telegram and handed them over, saying, "Brother Wang is looking at this." Wang Shizhen took it and looked at it, and said in surprise: "Duan Qirui is really powerful, he actually thought of asking the overseers to electrify against the military office!" This trick is really powerful! ”

Feng Guozhang said unhappily: "In the end, I still underestimated Duan Qirui, a wolf cub, and dared to harm me, Lao Tzu can't spare him!" Shizhen, you think of a way for my brother, no matter what, you have to knock down the signboard of the military office, only in this way can we Beiyang have a chance to regain its strength, otherwise a pool of loose sand will let those outsiders succeed sooner or later. ”

Wang Shizhen thought about it, sighed and said: "So far, there may be only one way to maintain the signboard of the military office!" ”

Feng Guozhang was overjoyed and said, "Brother, tell me quickly, what is the solution!" ”

Wang Shizhen glanced at him and said in a deep voice: "The bell must be tied to the bell, you two brothers should make peace!" ”

"Absolutely impossible!" Feng Guozhang said viciously: "Don't you know what that wolf cub is thinking!" ”

Wang Shizhen said: "The use of force in the southwest is not a bad thing, as long as this military office is set up and in our hands, you are still afraid that he is the prime minister of a small government?" It's just a big deal in the next recall order! ”

Feng Guozhang glanced at Wang Shizhen suspiciously, and said: "This is not a bad expedient measure, okay, the old brother has worked hard to help me go to Tianjin to ask, if he Duan Qirui can really help Lao Tzu talk about the military office, he might as well let him use troops in the southwest this time!" ”

Wang Shizhen said: "The elder brother has spoken, how can the brother be embarrassed to shirk?" Well, I'll go to Tianjin to have a look now. ”

At this time, there was a gentle knock outside the door, Feng Guozhang sighed softly and said, "Come in!" ”

Chen Zhiji strode up to Feng Guozhang and said, "Father, Duan Zhigui is here from Tianjin and says he wants to see you!" ”

Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen glanced at each other, and saw a trace of panic in each other's eyes, Wang Shizhen said lightly: "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided!" ”

Duan Zhigui strode over, saw Wang Shizhen smiled slightly, and then bowed to Feng Guozhang, Feng Guozhang waited for him to finish saluting, and then said slowly: "Zhigui has worked hard all the way, this time I came from Tianjin to Beijing to find someone Feng to catch up or to talk to Duan Qirui!" Duan Zhigui smiled faintly and said: "Brother Feng is serious, Brother Qirui and Brother Feng's affairs, where do brothers dare to participate in peace!" This visit to Beijing was only at the recommendation of the twenty-seven overseers of Tianjin, the envoys of the army and the representatives of the overseers, to meet with the president and convey to the overseers a little opinion on the peace between the north and the south! ”

Feng Guozhang snorted coldly and said, "Duan Qirui is shrinking into Tianjin, isn't he coaxing the main battle vigorously? After a long time, the Overseers still want to negotiate peace, but you tell me how the Overseers plan to negotiate peace between the north and the south! ”

Duan Zhigui said: "The meaning of the overseers is very simple, dissolve the extraordinary Congress, recognize the legitimate status of the president and prime minister, and withdraw from Hunan!" This is the minimum bottom line of the North-South peace talks, if the president cannot adhere to the bottom line and curry favor with the southwest, the overseers will deal with President Feng Da in the same way as the former President Leba, and the provinces will declare their independence from the central government and even establish a separate central government! ”

After Feng Guozhang listened, his face turned dark and said, "Are you forcing the palace?" ”

Duan Zhigui smiled, and then said solemnly: "To maintain the peace and unity of the country, it is the responsibility of my generation of martial artists, dare to ask the elders, are these conditions excessive?" Zhigui thinks it's not too much, there are three reasons! The government is in Beijing, and most of the members of the National Assembly are also in Beijing, and only a handful of lawless elements who have fled to Kunming dare to cut off their powers. First, if we do not recognize the president and the legal status of the prime minister, how can we negotiate peace? Wouldn't the princes of Beijing be reduced to Kunming rebellion and the like! Second, Hunan was in the hands of the central government before, and if the southwest does not withdraw from Hunan and return to the local area, how can the central government show peace sincerity? The third also! Do you think it's right to hire an old man? ”

Wang Shizhen said: "The dissolution of the extraordinary Congress, the recognition of the president, the legal status of the prime minister is a matter of division, I think the southwest monarchs will not insist too much, only this Hunan land, the front of the station is five or five, now the southwest is with troops in Changsha, soldiers in Yuezhou, if they return to the province, it is tantamount to snatching food, I am afraid it is not easy to do!" ”

Duan Zhigui said: "If the southwest rebellion is insincere, and continues to defy the national law Wang Zhang, the provincial superintendents, and the army protectors must not sit idly by, the day the soldiers go south is the time to clear the southwest rebellion, and I hope that the president will quickly issue a crusade order!" Listen to it! ”

Feng Guozhang was furious, his hands trembled angrily, and he said, "Duan Zhigui...... You ......"

Duan Zhigui said: "If the president can't face up to the southwest, I'm afraid that the central government will only have Beijing tomorrow!" Swift crusade orders! Listen to it! ”

Wang Shizhen saw that Feng Guozhang's face was not good, so he hurriedly grabbed his hand, glanced back at Duan Zhigui, and said: "The president knows all these things, as for whether or not to issue a crusade order, it is a matter for the president and Premier Duan, if it is not your turn to speak, you can't go down!" ”

Duan Zhigui smiled and straightened up, and saluted: "That humble authority and retirement, I hope that the president, Premier Wang is in good health, haha." Laughing, Duan Zhigui turned around and left.

Feng Guozhang attached one hand to his chest, coughed, and said angrily: "It's too arrogant, Lao Tzu...... Lao Tzu ...... said and fainted without taking a breath. Wang Shizhen hurriedly called over for a while, and after working for a long time, Feng Guozhang slowly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Duan Zhigui, this bastard, Lao Tzu ......"

Wang Shizhen said: "Don't be angry, brother. It's not been a day or two since Duan Zhigui was a bastard, why do you have to be like this kind of person, let me go to Tianjin to find out Qirui's thoughts! ”

"Then please trouble my brother to go to Tianjin!"

"It's incumbent!" Wang Shizhen sighed and said leisurely. then explained that he would take good care of Feng Guozhang and went out.

Within three or two days, Wang Shizhen stepped into the presidential palace again, but this time he did not come alone, he also brought an acquaintance, that is former Prime Minister Duan Qirui. Beiyang Sanjie wants to meet here again, and he has long lost the strength of sincere unity and hard work in the past. Only the embarrassment and hypocrisy of face and heart discord remained, no one would have thought of such an ending, but it was not an unexpected thing, Liu Guan and Zhang Taoyuan were so harmonious, but Guan Yu was still designed by Liu Bei, who was the king of Hanzhong, to defeat Maicheng and ruin his life. The so-called hush cold and warmth, treating it as flesh and blood, the battle of opinions, and hating the Asian enemy are also extremely sad.

What's even more sad is that now the three of them are no longer young, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to find opportunities to drink and talk in the future, and it can even be said that after everyone leaves office, I am afraid that someone will already be in the ground.

So after drinking this wine, everyone can't help but feel a little sad, Beiyang Sanjie sang with tears, the former handsome military training song was sung by them generous and tragic, the Qing Dynasty training was miserable and sad by the three people, Lafayette, Emperor Guangxu, and the handsome have been in the dragon for nine days, leaving only a world of the Republic of China that can't tell what it is, the joys and sorrows of the past years left to the Beiyang Sanjie are at this time with the sadness of the future little by little this wine slowly falls into the stomach, but the tears can't help but fall, A moment of greed and joy is their luxury and deserved, everyone recalls the past, avoids the present, crying outside the study of their respective horses Ben took advantage of Chen Zhiji's people to keep sending wine and meat, peeking inside, and seeing the top three people in the political arena of the Republic of China, they are laughing, making noise, singing, where there is still a little dignity of the superior, in the eyes of these people and those idle old men in the streets and alleys are no different, but the wine and food are much better. They had long been prepared to fight each other, but they didn't expect such an ending inside, and they all frowned on each other.

After the three heroes were drunk, they woke up slowly, and someone came to serve hot tea, after the hot tea, the three heroes of Beiyang were silent with each other, after all, the past has long since dissipated with yesterday's drink, and now it is something that everyone can't avoid. After the silence, Feng Guozhang, as the eldest brother among the three, took the lead in standing up and expressing his attitude, his meaning was very clear, hoping that everyone could reach a consensus and avoid further rupture of the Beiyang faction.

Duan Qirui resolutely said that there was no other way to unite Beiyang except for the crusade order against the southwest rebellion.

Wang Shizhen was perfunctory on both sides, not showing his attitude and standing in line at all. This surprised Feng Guozhang, after all, since Feng Guozhang entered Beijing, Wang Shizhen has always fallen to himself, and then Feng Guozhang issued a telegram to appoint Cao Kun, the overseer of Zhili, and Zhang Huaizhi, the overseer of Shandong, as the first and second commanders-in-chief respectively. This personnel order was issued not as an order, but as a telephone order, which was Feng Guozhang's method of avoiding the important and making light of it. In Feng Guozhang's view, the president is equivalent to the king of a country after all, the so-called king has no jokes, and the president's orders naturally cannot be reversed, and the telegram orders can be changed at any time. In this way, the main battle faction can be perfunctory, and the understanding of the southwest can also be obtained. In fact, this is just Feng Guozhang's wishful thinking to cover his ears and steal the bell. After Feng Guozhang's telegram was issued, Cao Kun and Zhang Huaizhi immediately demanded that 2 million yuan be paid for the military expenses of the Southern Expedition. The provincial warlords also demanded military salaries, withheld taxes, and recruited troops to expand their armed forces under the big hat of using troops in the southwest. Subsequently, Feng Guozhang gradually gave in under the pressure of the main battle faction, and finally sent Duan Qirui as the supervisor of the war, and specially appointed Duan Zhigui as the army commander. Along with the Ren order, there was also a presidential warrant that all matters related to participation in the war should be handed over to the war supervision and handling in the future, and there was no need to submit it to the government. Feng Guozhang divided their respective spheres of influence with Duan Qirui in this way, so as to avoid further separation of the Beiyang faction, and deal with external issues in a section, and he presided over internal issues, hoping that each other would get their own place and live in peace.

After Chang Zhenbang received the telegram, he immediately issued a patrol order to march to Guangxi by land and water!

This book was first published in Book King