In the Yanjing City of Yanjing City in April 3, 1914 in the Western calendar, people leisurely lived according to the accustomed rhythm of life, and the horror brought to them by the battle at the mouth of Dagu had passed, and the teahouse was already full of friends early in the morning, and the men carried copper kettles to refill the water for the tea guests.

Guests bring their own sesame baked cakes, coke rings and other food, and make a pot of tea to start the day.

"Second Master He, give you a high pitcher?" The guy was polite, but his face was stiff like a filial son of a dead old man.

"High? Is high foam considered high? Fool Lao Tzu and make a pot of Biluochun in front of the Ming Dynasty for Lao Tzu! The person known as He Erye registered the bird cage, took out the gourd from his arms, listened to the insects screaming a few times, and happily put a piece of foreign money on the table: "See, I have cash today!" Wipe the name on the chalk board for me, and our accounts are cleared! ”

The guy looked at the shiny silver dollar, and suddenly there was a smile on his face, and the smile turned out to be foreign money, and he blew it in his ears to listen, and shouted in an octave of his voice: "He Erye has a pot of Biluochun in front of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Several familiar guests bowed to each other, and someone also gave a thousand bows to Second Master He: "Second Master is auspicious." ”

Second Master He also hurriedly bowed and returned the salute: "You are auspicious." ”

After a round of Luo Quanyi, Second Master He pretended to be mysterious and said: "Have you heard, we fought a battle with Xiao Yueben in Dagukou!" ”

"Hey, it's all old yellow calendar, who doesn't know! Xiao Yue was beaten away by the soldiers sent by our president! ”

Second Master He sneered: "The soldiers sent by the president? Grandma, Beiyang only sent a group, and Xiao Yueben almost served it to Lian Guo! ”

"Oh, it's not the soldiers sent by the president, who sent them?"

"Who else can there be, the governor of Chai Dadu in Anhui!" He Erye said.

"No, Anhui's soldiers have arrived at Dagukou? Why haven't you heard a letter? Some will be skeptical.

Second Master He took a bite of the scorching circle, his mouth was still rattling, and he said vaguely: "Let you know?" If you know everything, Xiao Yuben also knows! ”

"Our president is doing a beautiful job, he looks quiet, and secretly mobilizes the Jianghuai army to Dagukou to fight Xiaoben, high, really high!" Some people applauded.

Second Master He pursed his mouth and said disdainfully: "It's beautiful? It's beautiful! Let's tell you the truth, forget it, or don't talk about it! Seeing Second Master He selling Guanzi, the people around him were itchy and unbearable when they heard it, and hurriedly asked: "Second Master talk about it, talk about it!" ”

The taste of the stars holding the moon is obviously very useful, and Second Master He said triumphantly: "Tell me? Then I'll talk about it! The Jianghuai army is disobedient, and the three divisions and one regiment of the Beiyang are also disobedient, and the big president of our country is talking about the excitement, but in fact, he is afraid to death, and the soldiers of the Jianghuai army can't even fight the military flag, so they secretly set off from Fengtian to Dagukou to fight with him. ”

Second Master He pouted as he spoke.

"It's really fake, the second master isn't making fun of us, right?"

He Erye folded his hands and made the shape of a turtle: "Whoever says half a nonsense is this!" The second boy of my family is the platoon commander under Brigadier Wu, what he said in person can be fake? The battle was a miserable one, and as soon as Xiao said that the cannon was blown, my son's regiment served more than half of the service, and he didn't even see what he looked like! ”

"Second master, who won the battle between China and Xiao Yueben?"

"Little is the ??? of Bensheng" He Erye chewed on the Jiao Circle and said.

"Huh? Said I won? The crowd was shocked.

"Xiao Yue has less than half of the book left! The Jianghuai Army recruited heavenly soldiers and generals to help, you think, Xiao Yue is a ghost, which fight is a heavenly soldier and a heavenly general! "The rise of what Second Master He said, there is no door on his mouth.

"Second master, when the Eight-Nation Alliance was in trouble, that's what you said, saying that the Boxers can call the wind and rain, and when the foreign soldiers enter Yanjing City, your old man has been hiding in the cellar for three months!"

The crowd burst into laughter.

He Erye said with a bare face: "Don't believe it, my second boy said, at that time, they were all beaten by Xiao Yueben, and the officers of the Jianghuai Army pinched and chanted the mantra, and soon saw a group of iron birds falling from the sky, thunder and fire, and the blood of Xiao Yueben was killed!" ”

Everyone shook their heads, refusing to believe it: "The second master is talking about the "God List"! ”

Suddenly, a young man in the corner of the room slapped the table and said, "I know, the second master is talking about airplanes!" I've seen that thing, last year I followed my second uncle to Anhui to do goods, good guy, wings stretched out six or seven zhang, boom can fly into the sky, flying is called a high, can take people into the clouds! ”

He Erye saw someone helping, and nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, it's that foreign thing!" That thing is powerful, it can lay eggs and spit fire, and the little devil's steamer will be given for nothing! ”

The room was full of horror: "Led people into the clouds? Isn't that the magic weapon of the gods? Nezha's three princes' hot wheels are not so evil! I don't care about the Jianghuai army's victory in a hundred battles, and I never pee on a little devil! ”

Just when everyone was talking, I heard the newsboy outside shouting: "Today's "Declaration", it is said that the army has committed China, the president is untruthful, and the Jianghuai army has no way to serve the country!" ”

"Get me a copy!"

"Give me a copy too!"

The guests who drank tea and ate breakfast took out three copper plates and bought newspapers, took a cursory look at them, and the sound of scolding the street sounded.

"Second master, you are still well-informed, the first regiment of the third division of the Beiyang and the Jianghuai Army are really disobedient to the order! Pity a hero like Chai Dadudu, the army went out to spill blood for the country, and he couldn't even play a serious banner??? Listen, Jianghuai People's Volunteers! What kind of name is this? ”

"Yuan Shikai, what kind of thing is he? sold Emperor Guangxu back then, and later sold Li Hongzhang, and finally sold Emperor Xuantong, relying on the seller to seek glory and become the president, shouting lively, inciting us to donate money and say that it was going to fight Xiao Yueben, and he didn't let go of a fart, Chai Dudu took the Jianghuai Army to go on the expedition, and killed the corpse mountain and sea of blood, and he had to be like an angry little daughter-in-law, if it wasn't for the second master to say, we wouldn't know that it was they who beat Xiao Yueben! ”

"It can't be, can it?"

"Can't, this newspaper is written in black and white, can it still be fake?"

The Chinese people have always believed in words, especially because of the "Declaration" tracking and reporting on the case of Yang Naiwu's cabbage, it overthrew hundreds of officials below the governor of Zhejiang in one fell swoop, and reported that Duan Zhigui sent a girl to Baylor Zaizhen in order to be promoted, and Zaizhen's post as Minister of Agriculture and Industry was also removed. After the two major cases were exposed, "Declaration" became so famous that even the Empress Dowager Cixi must watch it every day. When the imperial history impeached the officials, he took the "Declaration" as evidence, and opened his mouth to say: "The black and white words are here, and you dare to deny it?" ”

Officialdom is still like this, and the common people naturally have more confidence in the "Declaration", which has always had a tradition of not fearing the powerful, and has laid a solid foundation among the people.

"Declaration" was like a bombshell, newspapers around the country reprinted it one after another, and for a time the doubts about Yuan Shikai overwhelmed his call for a national hero. As a matter of fact, the press is really not afraid of the imperial court, whether it is the Manchu court or the political axe of the Republic of China, they are not afraid, at least eight of the ten newspapers are set up in the concession, and the remaining two at least one is foreign-run or has foreign shares.

The influence of newspapers and periodicals on the people in the early years of the Republic of China is so great that no matter how overestimated, it is not too much. The comments of politicians are like a lift, one moment in the clouds, and the next time it is thrown to the ground. After the Xinhai Revolution, Sun Wen's prestige reached its peak, especially when he gave Yuan Shikai the presidency and ended the war, making his image almost equal to that of the sages of the past dynasties. But after the Second Revolution, he became a rebellious minister and thief, and everyone was punished for it, and the street was stinky. During the Wuchang Uprising, Huang Xing was regarded as a savior, and an apricot yellow banner was embroidered with the three characters of "Huang Xingto", and after being defeated by Baron Feng Guozhang, Huang Xing was degraded as a "runaway general" and had to leave gloomily.

The reporters of the "Declaration" collected real evidence, and it was true that Beiyang had only sent a single regiment to resist the invasion of Yuben, and that the Jianghuai Army was indeed under the banner of the Volunteer Army. The reporters accompanying the army dug deeply, and even the news that the second and third regiments of Wu Peifu's first brigade had quietly escaped before the war was dug out.

The dignified president of the Republic of China can only assign one regiment to participate in the war, who will believe it? Yuan Shikai was speechless, and Qi's condition was a little heavier.

The uncoolness of the press and the immaturity of the people caused the politicians to be deified for a while and demonized for a while, and Yuan Shikai had just tasted the feeling of a national hero being worshiped by the people, when he was pulled a ladder and fell to the ground.

The cinema screened a documentary from Dagukou, the ferocity of the warship guns was embarrassing, the counterattack of the Jianghuai army made the theater a sea of joy, and the fighters descended from the sky to chase and kill the Yue army, which made the audience very enjoyable, and when they saw Mitarai Jiro tied behind the horse's buttocks, the audience burst into laughter. Even before Yang Xiaolou and other famous actors started the play, they also used documentaries from Dagukou to cushion the scene.

Chai Dongliang, who came to the front line in person, was held up to the clouds at this moment??? Although by the time he reached the mouth of Dagu, the battle was over.

In order to prevent Yuan Shikai from being restrained, the Jianghuai Army, which had to use the name of the "Jianghuai People's Volunteers" to participate in the war, became a model of enduring humiliation for the country and the people.

When Yuan Shikai dissolved the National Assembly and the Kuomintang, he had already offended the elites of the world, and these people had long been holding back their anger, but the current great enemy Yuan Shikai was shrouded in the halo of a national hero, so they had to endure this breath, but they had to be consistent with the political axe.

In the battle of Dagukou, the Jianghuai army sank four ships and annihilated a wing of the Kumamoto Division, and the military might of the Jianghuai army excited the whole country, and the halo that originally shrouded Yuan Shikai was quickly deprived of Chai Dongliang's body. The Jianghuai Army's great martial arts frightened the Beiyang generals, including Cao Kun, who began to secretly communicate with the Jianghuai Army, paving the way for the change of ownership in advance.

In the Huairen Hall of Zhonghai South, Yuan Shikai's condition is getting worse and worse, and it is gradually difficult to even get up, his violent coughing can be heard from afar, and the servants around him are trembling, and the president's temper is getting worse and worse, just like his condition!

Dividing line

Author's words: Today's second watch, there is a third watch and a fourth watch before zero o'clock.

A few days ago, because the width of the line was smashed by the construction, which affected the update, and even during the big closure, there was a record of breaking the change, which was really embarrassing.

(To be continued)