Chapter 270 Left Leads Huang and Right Qingcang

December 1913

Since the accession of Emperor Xuantong to the throne, the land of China is still prone to floods and droughts, and the death period of displaced people in various places, especially the evil of cold in winter, has just been the eighth day of the 11th month of the yin calendar, and it is said that Manchuria, Méng ancient and other bitter cold places, that is, Anqing, a city on the south bank of the Yangtze River, are frozen and their ears hurt.

As soon as the day dawned, Chai Dongliang rode the majestic sweaty and bloody horse, took the two-room wife and a few guards, changed into civilian clothes and went out of the city. Looking at the few remnant stars in the sky, the guards were still a little sleepy-eyed. Mo Xiaolian and Wu Meiqi were very excited, and they chattered when they came out, as if there was some treasure buried in this street that had not yet woken up.

"Hurry up, keep up, we won't be able to get out in another half an hour," Chai Dongliang urged with a smile.

The time shown on the gold watch is half past six in the morning, and after seven in the morning and before seven in the evening, no horseback riding is allowed in the city. Stagecoaches are only privileged to travel through the city during the day, unless they are on urgent correspondence and mail.

This regulation was inherited from the "Patrol Police Regulations" at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it was also a rule set by Yuan Shikai when he was the governor of Beiyang, the governor of Zhili, and later extended to the whole country.

Chai Dongliang carried a shotgun on his back and took his family out of the city to hunt, and he rarely had a few days to spare. The Jianghuai Army and the Beiyang symbol Xing were set up, but no one really fought, Lu Kai led the Jianghuai Army to press forward step by step, Feng Guozhang and Lei Zhenchun led the Beiyang Army to retreat in great strides, and both sides were stationed in Yueyang as the boundary, and there was no further action. Lin Hu led the three divisions of the Jianghuai Army, with the cooperation of the Yangtze River Fleet, to block the water in the siege of the three towns of Wuhan, and at the same time cut off the Yangtze River ferry on the Jinghan Road with the navy, and the Beiyang Army could not even think of obtaining the supply of a bullet and a grain of grain.

Yuan Shikai was not to be outdone, and sent Wang Shizhen and Cai Yi to lead the model regiment that had not yet completed the training to block the official road to Baotou, and also cut off the connection between the inner and outer Méng, Manchuria and the Central Plains, which made Kuang Haishan and Gu Mazi also scratch their heads, and the transfer of construction materials became a big problem.

The deployment of troops on both sides is symbolic, and it is the messenger who is busier than the battlefield, and the envoys sent by both sides are in a flock. Chai Dongliang's purpose was to complete the construction of the two industrial zones of Baotou and Fengtian before the outbreak of World War I, and then sell a large number of arms and strategic materials to the Russians to make a war fortune. Yuan Shikai really wanted to teach the Jianghuai army a lesson, but he really couldn't organize it. Duan Qirui sat in Xinyang to suppress bandits, Duan Zhigui was trapped in Wuhan, 50,000 Hubei troops could mutiniate at any time, Feng Guozhang and Lei Zhenchun passively avoided the battle to maintain their strength, and Yuan Shikai's men were left with Cao Kun, the commander of the third division. But Cao San is a fool with a simple face, and he has 10,000 ways to shirk it, so that Yuan Shikai has nothing to do about the root of his hate.

Clear-eyed people can see at a glance that this battle cannot be fought, and the final result is that the north and the south laugh and enmity, but the country has also seen the true strength of the Jianghuai army.

Chai Dongliang originally planned to let go of the Yangtze River ferry as long as Yuan Shikai let go of the trade route to Manchurian, let Feng Guozhang, Lei Zhenchun, and Duan Zhigui return to Jiangbei, and Jiang Huaijun and Yuan Shikai would rule the river. But unexpectedly, Feng Guozhang and Lei Zhenchun sent secret envoys to ask Chai Dongliang to allow them to stay in Jiangnan.

Beiyang is already a plate of scattered sand, Chai Dongliang can't help but secretly feel worthless for Yuan Shikai, these people are all pulled up by him, it can be said that Lao Yuan is as kind to them as a mountain, without Yuan Shikai's promotion, where would they be today.

But under the interests of youhuo, kindness is considered a fart Feng Guozhang and Lei Zhenchun couldn't help but feel cold when they saw Duan Qirui being used as a chess piece and fiddled with it. In troubled times, it is true to have guns and territory, even being a governor in a remote province is much more interesting than being an army commander.

Feng Guozhang and Lei Zhenchun expressed their willingness to reorganize the troops according to the establishment of the Jianghuai Army, and the civil affairs side was willing to let the Jianghuai Army send people to manage it, and the local finances could be handed over to the Anqing Military Advisory Office, but the army could not wait for Chai Dongliang's dispatch, and at the same time Chai Dongliang wanted to ensure that they were paid enough military salaries.

Since the price code has been opened, there is something to talk about, and I don't know how many secret messages between Anqing, Changsha, and Guangzhou are issued in a day. Chai Dongliang replied to them that the army could not be incorporated into the Jianghuai Army and be controlled by Feng Guozhang and Lei Zhenchun, and Chai Dongliang could also use the name of the vice chairman of the Kuomintang to call on the councilors of Hunan and Guangdong provinces to vote for the two of them as governors of Hunan and Guangdong.

Chai Dongliang is now firmly grasping the Anqing Army Noncommissioned Officers School, the Anqing Staff Officer School, the Anqing Army University, and the Jiujiang Naval University, which are currently being organized, and spends more than half of his time on the construction of these military academies. Chai Dongliang saw the reasons for the Beiyang Army's departure from Germany very clearly. Yuan Shikai can not say that he is not kind to several of his generals, reward, several goddaughters are married to his generals as wives and concubines, but they are limited to senior generals, these high-powered generals are too trusted and given too much power, and there are no drawbacks on weekdays, but when Yuan Shikai was sent back to Huanshui to fish in the three years, they quickly cleaned the Yuan family army in the army, and the SI army of Yuan Shikai became the SI army of several of them.

A lesson from the past, Chai Dongliang's approach is diametrically opposed to Yuan Shikai, he set out to serve as the principal of the military academy in the middle and lower level officers and staff officers, nominally all the officers of the Jianghuai Army are his protégés, Chai Dongliang's principal is not in vain, and he often goes to the non-commissioned officer school in person to give a lecture on the international situation and Chinese and foreign cultures, and he knows these contents better than anyone else.

If the senior generals of the Jianghuai Army want to break away from this system, the only way is to purge all the middle and lower-level officers, otherwise when he shows signs of wanting to rebel, he will be killed by his subordinates, cut off his head and sent to Anqing for merit.

The characteristics of the troubled times are all over the place, you Fang Song and I will appear, the first day is still unknown, and the next day the brain is hot, and the gun is fired, maybe it is the governor of a province. Chai Dongliang is tired to death every day, and he is almost out of strength to make love with his wife, but if there is a chance to choose, one is to continue to work so tiringly, and the other is to go to the Shanghai concession to be a free rich man, he will not hesitate to choose the former.

The feeling that a young husband can't be without money for a day, and a big husband can't be without power for a day is really cool

Just imagine, Chai Dongliang has always had a deep vigilance against power, and he is still as difficult to let go as if he smoked a big cigarette, let alone others?

It is definitely not a way to rely on kindness and righteousness to win over the generals like Yuan Shikai, and only a complete system of constraints is the only way to avoid the townization of the Jianghuai military domain.

The group hurriedly whipped up, and finally rushed out of the city gate before seven o'clock, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the winter morning was exceptionally cold, Chai Dongliang and others went out without breakfast, and they felt cold and wanted to shiver.

"Find a place to eat before leaving." Chai Dongliang saw that the stalls selling breakfast on the side of the road had been set up, turned over and jumped off the horse, and threw the reins and horsewhip to a guard of the Military Advisory Office.

Chai Dongliang was in civilian clothes and didn't want to be too ostentatious, so he didn't bring the Gurkha guards led by the old man of the rope plate.

Anhui people are famous for their ability to eat, and Hui cuisine is famous all over the world as one of China's eight major cuisines. Anhui is not only famous for its dishes, but also for its wide variety of snacks.

A small stall was set up outside the city gate, a large pot was set up on the coal stove, edamame grabbed cakes, pansi cakes exuded crispy fragrance, Huizhou white hair stinky tofu, smelled stinky but fragrant and fragrant, the umami of river shrimp noodles was mouth-watering from afar, and the sweetness of the lotus root porridge seemed to be a lover's hand, and every pore of the body was hot and comfortable.

Mo Xiaolian and Wu Meiqi have a soft spot for the scalded hot duck intestines and the spicy duck neck cut into small pieces. Before getting married, the two of them went to school in a church school, and their words and deeds were strictly controlled by their mothers, and they could not take a step beyond Lei Chi, and after marriage, Chai Dongliang was busy with his feet on the ground, and he rarely had the opportunity to accompany them out for a walk, and as the wife of the Jianghuai patrol envoy, it was a little inappropriate to go shopping on the street if they were idle, after all, the Chinese in this era are still quite conservative.

Fortunately, Chai Dongliang had agreed to let the two of them go to the primary school to become teachers, which made the two of them very happy.

The two little fu people are both ten ** years old, who wants to stay in the big yard every day?

Chai Dongliang and the others carried shotguns on their backs, and at first glance they went out of the city to hunt, which was not eye-catching, but the Alhatejin horse named "Fire Dragon" made the eyes of people passing by, especially a few old customers who sold livestock, and their eyes almost fell out. They came to Chai Dongliang's side, handed over cigarette covers to make friends, and tested the master's willingness to make a move.

This horse was sent to Anqing by Gu Mazi from Manchuria thousands of mountains and rivers, how could Chai Dongliang resell it? He politely declined while eating.

The group had breakfast, the sky was already bright, the city gate was lively, a lot of new shops were opened, a vigorous shop attracted Chai Dongliang's attention, this shop sells goods that are very different from the surrounding This is a gun shop, specializing in selling rifles, shotguns and other weapons.

The shopkeeper took off the door panel, Chai Dongliang strode into the store, and the walls on the inside of the counter were full of all kinds of guns, single shots, bursts, shotguns, rifles.

Weapons in Anhui and Jiangxi can be bought and sold freely, long guns such as rifles and shotguns can be purchased only by issuing a certificate of no criminal record in the area, and then filing with the police station, and short guns are strictly forbidden to be bought and sold by SI people, and only officers can buy pistols in gun shops with the certification documents of the army.

Those who bring their own guns to shooting clubs for training also have a large amount of financial subsidies, and individuals only need to contribute a small amount of money to receive regular military training.

Anhui and Jiangxi folk have guns quite commonly, but it is no problem to take a gun to a shooting club to shoot a target, hunting is strictly restricted, in addition to hares, pheasants, other wild boars, yellow sheep, wild deer and other large prey are protected by strict quotas, including migratory geese that migrate every year, must buy quotas before they are allowed to kill, once illegal hunting is reported, the punishment is quite severe.

The hall of this gun shop is quite spacious, the ebony counters are glowing with a dark and dull light, and the tung oil has painted the pillars and furniture in a dull black and red sè, which looks dignified and solemn, and it matches the cold and glittering weapons in the gun shop.

"This man, do you buy a gun? Is there a certificate issued by the government? When the shopkeeper saw the customer, he immediately greeted him.

Chai Dongliang shook his head with a smile and said, "I won't buy it today, I just came to see it." ”

The shopkeeper saw Chai Dongliang carrying a shotgun on his back, and he was unwilling to give up any business: "This master, are you going hunting now?" The shop has the best quality bullets, which are dedicated to deer hunting, and it is guaranteed to kill with one shot, and the beast will never be punished. Wuhu Arsenal's goods, the quality of the big factory's things croaking this does not need a government certificate, just need to register your old gun documents, and there are special bullets for hunting wild boars, Shanghai Guanghua Factory's good goods sè, to ensure that a shot into the explosion will be absolutely untouched, absolutely will not penetrate from the wild boar, the bullets of the small factory do not dare to use, if the front goes in and the back comes out, the stray bullet hurts people, then your trouble is big Such a good bullet, don't you try? ”

When Chai Dongliang went out, he casually prepared some shotguns to shoot small animals, but he didn't expect that there was so much attention to hunting bullets.

Seeing that Chai Dongliang was a little tempted, the shopkeeper immediately came to the momentum: "Master, do you have the certificate to fight the bear?" If not, you are always lucky, the small shop still has a quota of three black bears, twenty silver dollars a head, you think, kill a black bear with your own hands, how magnificent the small shop is also charge d'affaires to make bear skin, this lord, think about it, your old man killed the black bear with his own hands, and then peeled the skin, made into a bear skin cushion and spread it on the chair, what kind of heroism is that? This set of bear's clips, you bear's wild honey, the small shop is everything, don't you take a look? ”

The shopkeeper is full of words, and his eloquence is excellent, and people like Chai Dongliang, who is not much interested in hunting, can't help but be a little tempted.

"Master, how many of you go hunting without a dog? There is a dog farm in the backyard of the shop, all kinds of good hunting dogs, and a falcon leading Huang Huang and Qingcang, what kind of style do you think about it? Your old man's tall horse is a rarity of the West at a glance, you ride this jujube red horse, the little guy around you gives you an eagle and a hound, and then there are these two huā-like girls to accompany you, how much virtue your old man has accumulated in his previous life, in order to have such a great blessing."

Chai Dongliang was amused, and said with a smile: "You don't go to Beijing Tianqiao to talk about the book, it's really a loss of materials." ”

A middle-aged woman's voice came from the back hall: "Ershunzi, are you playing poor with the guests again?" ”

Chai Dongliang was stunned, this voice seemed to be a little familiar