The Anhui Military Advisory Mansion was full of joy, Gu Mazi had successfully recovered Fengtian, and the reinforcements sent by Kuang Haishan had also joined him. On the Beiyang side, Wu Peifu defeated Gongqi's brigade and occupied Huludao and Jinzhou. There is still no saying about this political axe. Gu Mazi sent someone to invite the international investigation team of Xinmin Mansion to Mukden. Whether it was the advance army or the common people of Fengtian, the one who bit to death in unison was the West Gate bombed by the army. The international investigation team only saw the soldiers of the advance army treating the wounded near the West Gate and the common people consoling the soldiers of the advance army, and not a single person mentioned the incident of the advance army shelling the West Gate. Zhang Zuolin and his guards also followed the international investigation team to Mukden, and served these foreign adults as their own fathers along the way, which made the members of the investigation team have a good impression of him.

At this point, the rest of the matter should be resolved by political and diplomatic means, and if it really intends to launch an all-out war against China, then it must first ask the great powers whether they agree or not.

In five days, it will be the day of the general election of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and the move of the Third Division of the Beiyang Army to go out of Shanhaiguan has raised Yuan Shikai's prestige to a higher level, and the momentum of Liang Qichao's Progressive Party has also increased unprecedentedly. And Song Jiaoren's Kuomintang was not to be outdone, and publicized that Chai Dongliang was the vice chairman of the Kuomintang, and the advance army's recovery of Mongolia and Fengtian were all credits to the Kuomintang. The Progressive Party immediately scolded in the newspapers, Chai Dongliang was obviously a director of the party, and the Kuomintang was shameless for its greed for heaven. Li Yuanhong's Republican Party also declared in the press that Chai Dongliang was the acting chairman of the Republican Party, and that the Republican Party had made great contributions to the recovery of Mengjiang and Mukden.

Chai Dongliang didn't take it seriously, he had already been "already" into seven or eight parties, and he didn't bother to argue with them. However, the general opinion of all walks of life still regards him as a member of the Kuomintang, after all, he was once Sun Wen's "special envoy". Out of the foresight of the traverser, Chai Dongliang did not report hope for these parties at all, these did not even have a formal program, and the party members were even more mixed political groups, and they did not have the ability to manage the country at all.

What really worried him was the war in Manchuria. It is said that the Young Zhuang faction of the Kwantung Army and the military headquarters are clamoring for more troops in Manchuria, and the cries of the "Manchurian and Mongolian interest line" are boiling over the sky. In order to win the election, Yuan Shikai changed his foreign compromise policy, and now he is even tougher than Chai Dongliang. The elite of the Beiyang Army gathered in the Xishan camp in Yanjing, and the soldiers and horses were ready to fight with Yue himself at any time.

The two sides are like bulls fighting with red eyes, looking like they are never dying. The clamor of the Kwantung Army is getting louder and louder day by day, several warships of the Kwantung Army have already sailed from Kure Harbor to Lushun, and there are also cruisers of the Japanese Army flaunting their might outside the port of Shanghai.

However, Chai Dongliang knew very well that both sides could no longer fight this war, and the British transferred the destroyer detachment of the Far East Fleet from Singapore to Shanghai, and the British minister urgently met with Minister Lin Quanzhu and asked him not to provoke chaos in the Far East at this time. The U.S. military also carried out emergency mobilization in the Philippines, and 75,000 sailors canceled their vacations and stayed on duty. The Germans, on the other hand, were elated, and they did not encourage the army to expand the scale of the war. He said that if he made too much trouble in Manchuria, then the Russians would certainly not sit idly by. The German pressure, then, would be much less, and it would be enough to pay attention only to the power of Europe, and it would be enough to weaken the power of Britain's ally, which would be too advantageous for Germany.

It was at this time that the international investigative mission dropped a bombshell. According to the investigation report, there is no evidence that the Chinese military was involved in the Xinminfu bombing, and that the Mukden incident was an act of aggression that the military had planned for a long time. The investigation team suggested that China should entrust Manchuria to the international community, and that an army composed of Britain, France, the United States, and Germany should be stationed in Mukden to maintain the stability of Manchuria.

When the news broke, Ben and Russia immediately expressed their opposition, Britain, the United States, and France immediately expressed their willingness to send troops to Fengtian, while Germany was noncommittal and never made any statement.

Chai Dongliang is very clear about the current situation in the West, the great powers regard each other as tigers and wolves, and China as lambs. For a bite of food, lose your surname, that is absolutely unworthy! Between the great powers, there are many contradictions, it can be said that they hate each other, if it were not for the lack of strength to destroy each other, the sky would have been dark long ago! Italy and France were at loggerheads in North Africa, Russia and Austria-Hungary were fighting in the Balkans, the United States and Austria were fighting in the Far East, and Britain and Germany were testing their power around the world.

Russia and Ben divided the interests of Manchuria and Mongolia through secret treaties and excluded the capital of Britain, the United States, France and other countries, which had already aroused the dissatisfaction of the great powers, but there was no excuse for suffering. Chai Dongliang openly published an article in the newspaper, hoping that the Yanjing Provisional Political Axe would invite Britain, France, the United States, and Germany to jointly organize a force of no more than 1,000 men to maintain stability in Manchuria for three years. This made Britain and the United States overjoyed, although a thousand troops were not much, but being able to garrison troops could bring huge economic benefits. Originally, they thought that China would only ask them to mediate at most, but what they didn't expect was that Chai Dongliang actually called loudly in the newspaper, inviting the foreign powers to send troops to maintain the stability of Manchuria and internationalize the Manchurian issue together with the Chinese [***] team.

After all, Manchurian and Mongolian territories nominally belong to China, and the Chinese political axe certainly has the right to invite any country to station troops on its own soil. After the great powers organized a coalition, it was said that Russia's economic monopoly on Manchu and Mongolia would be self-defeating, and British and American merchants would immediately follow their own troops to Manchuria, and the unequal treaties signed by the Manchu government and Russia would become a piece of waste paper. This condition was unexpectedly superior, and the politicians of the United States, Britain, and France were ecstatic. And the name of this dispatch of troops is very good, peacekeepers! Peacekeeping, what a wonderful excuse that could not be greater!

As for the three-year period, can the Chinese have the final say at that time? It's not like you can stay as long as you want!

Chai Dongliang's remarks were rarely supported by all sides, and the advance army's bloody efforts to recover Mengjiang and Mukden made it impossible for anyone to put Han Jian's hat on his head, but all walks of life thought that he was not only tough but also very politically wise. Forming a good alliance with Britain, France, the United States, Germany, and other European countries against Japan and Russia is very much in line with the diplomatic tradition of long-distance friendship and close attack. In the days leading up to the election, national sentiment across China has gradually eased. Because the general election is imminent, it has attracted more attention from people who care about national affairs.

People of insight believe that the most important thing for China at present is to eliminate the hidden danger of civil war, reduce the country's army, which has become quite large, and develop the people's livelihood and improve the people's livelihood. After China is truly unified and stabilized, it has a certain strength, and then it is not too late for Xu Tu to forge ahead and sweep away the shame of nearly a hundred years since the Opium War.

According to the newspaper, Chinese intellectuals generally agree that Britain, France, the United States, and other countries covet economic interests, and these countries can cooperate, and although this cooperation is not equal, it is also more or less beneficial to both sides. The foreigners ate the meat, and China still has some soup to drink, while the country and Russia want to destroy China and seize the land that the Chinese descendants have produced and multiplied for tens of millions of years. The destruction of one family and one surname is called the destruction of the country, and Russia is said to have completely exterminated the glorious Chinese race and culture, and this is the most intolerable death of the Chinese intellectuals!

In the first year of the first day, the massacre in Lushun and the massacre caused by the Russians in Hailan Pao and Jiangdong 36tun were published in the newspapers one after another, and the barbarism of these two countries also made the Chinese have to be vigilant.

Chai Dongliang's request to invite Britain, France, the United States, and Germany to form a peacekeeping force is also considered quite reasonable by China's elites, and the former is obviously much less harmful than the danger of losing some economic interests and destroying the country and the species. Anyway, according to the requirements of the "Xinchou Treaty", the great powers already had the right to garrison troops along the line from Tianjin to Yanjing, and all kinds of foreign soldiers with red eyebrows and green eyes were all over the vicinity of Gyeonggi, and they did not care about the addition of a foreign army of less than 1,000 people in Manchuria.

Chai Dongliang's Guanghua Group was an important partner of the Bethlehem Company, and the two sides also had a "Bethlehem Contract" similar to a secret agreement between countries, and he promised to allow the Harriman family to build a railway in Manchuria once he gained a foothold in Manchuria, completing the ambitious world railway project. U.S. President Taft himself was an advocate of gold-dollar diplomacy and did not have the same surname as Theodore. Roosevelt was so tough that the Bethlehem Company and the Harriman family exerted tremendous pressure on him and the parliament to give the American political axe a strong counterattack to break the economic monopoly of Manchuria and to use force if necessary. Taft, who had ideas about the economic interests of the Far East and could not resist the aggressive offensive of Congress and big business, announced that the United States would send no more than 500 marines into Manchuria to stabilize the situation in China as soon as the Chinese political axe invited him.

Although Britain coveted the economic interests of Manchuria, it did not want to overstimulate himself out of the consideration of balancing Germany. Britain proposed that the matter should be resolved through consultations between China and the People's Republic of China, but it also made it clear that it could send troops to participate in the peacekeeping operation. France also said it could send no more than 200 soldiers if it really necessary, but asked the Chinese political axe to provide the expense. According to the French political axe, sending troops to maintain peace for you, of course, France can't be made to pay for it!

On the one hand, they wanted to see the bad luck of the British and regarded the German Far East Fleet as an imaginary enemy, but at the same time they hoped that China, along with the Russians, would be at the same time hostile to contain their forces in the Far East. Once Germany participates in such an operation, it will further intensify the contradictions between Germany and Russia, which will not be conducive to the needs of the war prepared.

Regardless, Chai Dongliang finally reaped the immense prestige he had been lacking, and the powers began to scrutinize the warlord in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. After all, the army played a great role in the Russian-Russian War, while the advance army wiped out more than 2,000 soldiers in the first battle.

The Jianghuai Army, the parent body of the advance army, was closely watched, and Chai Dongliang's land reform, military training, industry, and education in Anhui and Jiangxi became important materials collected by the intelligence organs of the great powers. Britain and France even dug up his private cooperation with the Americans, who also felt pressure on the expansion of American power in the Pacific.

Although he once again reiterated that "Manchu and Mongolia are the lifeblood of the Empire, and the Empire has undoubted special interests in Manchuria, and the Empire will never accept the motion to internationalize the Manchurian issue, let alone the stationing of troops along the South Manchurian Railway!" ”

Having said that, neither the political axe nor the military department is crazy enough to go against the whole world, and declaring war on the eleven countries of the West is the patent of Cixi Lafayette. Yama Prefecture Youpeng never dreamed that the situation would turn out like this, and he changed his original attitude towards the main battle, and instead asked the political axe to implement the established policy of the Ito Hirobumi era and safeguard the line of Manchurian and Mongolian interests. Although there are still small frictions between the two sides in Manchuria, it is very rare for the two sides to fight in large quantities, and at most they are skirmishes in companies and platoons.

It is said that the Russo-Russian War consumed 2 billion silver dollars and killed 120,000 people, especially the middle and lower-ranking officers who had received military academy education were changed two or three times. The vitality of the book has not yet recovered, and the foreign debt owed during the Russo-Russian war is still overwhelming them. The country was already in turmoil because of the poor harvest of 1912. The opinions of the military department and the political axe are also gradually becoming the same, that is, they can no longer fight in the northeast! The first is that there is no such strength now, and the second is also because of the attitude of various countries! The key now is how to go down the steps with dignity and ensure that Manmeng's rights and interests cannot be lost!

The only requirement of the political axe and the military department is to ensure the original situation, and absolutely cannot accept the stationing of troops in Manchuria by the European and American powers. China's trade with China accounted for 30% of the country's output, and Chinese businessmen around the world unanimously boycotted the goods, causing the company to suffer huge economic losses and overproduction of goods, but the common people could not afford these things, and a large number of enterprises went bankrupt, and they could not bear the energy.

In December 1912, the long-awaited elections for the Senate and House of Representatives were finally held.

There are 274 senators, 10 from the United States Province, elected by the provincial councils, 27 from Mongolia, 3 from Qinghai, and 10 from Tibetan Province, each elected by the local electoral council, eight from the Central Society, and six from overseas Chinese representatives. The House of Representatives elects a ghostwriter for every 800,000 people according to population. A total of 596 in the country.

Of course, this election is not universal suffrage in the general sense, only men over the age of 21 have the right to vote, and it is required to live in the constituency where they live for more than two years, and it is also required to meet one or more of the following conditions: 1. Annual tax payment of more than 2 yuan including 2 yuan, 2. Possession of real estate worth more than Wu Baiyuan, graduation from three primary schools or equivalent to primary school.

Although women did not have the right to vote, and there were many restrictions on property and education, they were more than the number of voters in the Manchu hierarchy compared to the total of 40 million legal voters.

The election would last more than three months, from December 1912 to March 1913.

Yuan Shikai sent several telegrams almost a day, urging Chai Dongliang to make good on his promise to vote for Liang Qichao's Progressive Party in Anhui and Jiangxi. Yuan Shikai personally ordered all localities to provide convenience to the 1st Division of the Jianghuai Army and assist them in entering Manchuria as soon as possible. Under the banner of Sun Wen, Song Jiaoren also demanded that Chai Dongliang fulfill his obligations as a member of the Kuomintang and vote for all 70 votes for control. Song Jiaoren came to a long letter, Mr. talked about revolutionary feelings, and finally said that for Chai Dongliang's matter, the Kuomintang expelled the veteran Li Liejun, and the matter was very interesting, hoping that Chai Dongliang could repay the favor.

The Senate and the House of Representatives combined had 800 votes, while Chai Dongliang's Jiangxi and Anhui had more than 70, accounting for almost one-tenth.

Chai Dongliang carefully analyzed the situation, if he voted for the Kuomintang, then Soong Jiaoren would inevitably win the election, and if he voted for the Progressive Party, it would be difficult to say the situation, and the success or failure would be five or five.

The Kuomintang has nothing to squeeze anymore, it used to be under their banner, that is, to pull the tiger's skin to make a big banner, and the belly of the province is subject to the enemy, and now there is no military force in the southern family that has the ability to compete with the Jianghuai army, and Chai Dongliang's current reputation is almost comparable to Yuan Shikai and Sun Wen, although these seventy votes have long been promised to Yuan Shikai, but who will say that he will not regret it? Politics is dirtier than a bitch's crotch in itself, not to mention just empty words, even if the signed treaty doesn't count, it doesn't count, who still bites whose egg?

Chai Dongliang brazenly sent a representative to Yanjing, asking Yuan Shikai to appoint Gu Mazi as the governor of Fengtian, as long as the letter of appointment is issued, he guarantees that all the votes will be cast for Liang Qichao, after hearing this, Yuan Shikai's nose is crooked, and almost all the teacups at home are broken. Angry to angry, he still pinched his nose and appointed Gu Nanshan as the governor of Fengtian, and at the same time he appointed his henchman Meng Enyuan as the governor of Jilin and Duan Zhigui as the governor of Heilongjiang to monitor the Jianghuai army in Fengtian.

Yuan Shikai secretly made up his mind to wait until Liang Qichao's Progressive Party won the election to get rid of the constraints of the Senate, and then smoothly became the official president, completed the aftermath of the big loan, trained the model regiment, and collected the military power of the Beiyang generals??? Just clean up this damn Chai Dongliang!

However, the premise seems to be more, which makes Yuan Shikai feel heroic shortness of breath. He suddenly envied Chai Dongliang very much, who lived in seclusion in two provinces, had military and financial power in his hands, was not coerced by the central government's political axe at the top, and was not constrained by the local government bureaus at the bottom, and was concentrating on military training and industry, so as to enhance his strength. is not like himself, he is tired and half dead every day, and he wants to coax Beiyang's subordinates, close to the Senate, and praise foreigners??? Either aspect is like tofu falling into the ash heap, blowing can't be beaten, light can't be heavy!

This big president, when he is called a tasteless!

Chai Dongliang is having a good time now, he didn't go to the Military Advisory Office today, but stayed at home comfortably. There was a fire dragon underground, and the house was warm. It was freezing outside, but he was only wearing a thin gown, and he was a little sweaty. Wu Meiqi peeled a piece of Sydney pear and stuffed it into his mouth: "Is it sweet?" Sydney goes to the fire, the house is too dry, and eating some fruit is good for the body. ”

"Sweet!" Chai Dongliang lay on the rattan chair, squinting comfortably.

"Eat an extra piece if it's sweet??? Ah, I hate it, and I touch it again! ”

"I'm touching with focus, definitely not random touching!" Chai Dongliang's dragon claw hand is impartial, and he grasps the right place.

"Hmph, now you are flamboyant, you were so fierce to others last time, you get angry when you think about it, take your hand away, don't touch me!" Wu Meiqi rolled her eyes at him.

Chai Dongliang said proudly: "Manly man, you said that if I take it away, I will take it away, isn't that very shameless?" Just don't let go! ”

Wu Meiqi said coquettishly: "Villain, Laipi! is still a governor, just like a child, he will turn his face when he says it. ”

Chai Dongliang felt the softness in his hand and said with a hippie smile: "Am I wrong?" I made the mistake of putting my panties on. ”

Wu Meiqi covered her mouth and snickered, and stuffed a piece of Sydney pear into Chai Dongliang's mouth: "Eat, plug your mouth." After that, he remembered the scene of course, his expression was a little gloomy, and he poked Chai Dongliang's forehead with his finger and said, "If I don't come to you, will you ignore me for the rest of your life?" You ruthless little thief! ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "I'm not a ruthless thief, I'm a thief who steals my heart??? Actually, I was going to go to your house this morning to apologize to you, and I secretly made up my mind that since I was soft and admitted my mistake, I would listen to you for everything in my life in the future, but you arrived first, which is really unfortunate! ”

"Ah, really?" Wu Meiqi exclaimed, looking at Chai Dongliang's expression, she snorted: "Lie to me again, you conscienceless villain!" ”

Chai Dongliang suddenly dragged her to himself, and then pressed her with his lips.

"What are you going to do?"

"Didn't you say, I'm a bad guy, if the bad guy doesn't do bad things, wouldn't I be very sorry for this glorious title!" Chai Dongliang's Lushan claws began to move up and down, and he saw repeated shuttle patrols in one center and two basic points, which made Wu Meiqi gasp again and again.

Chai Dongliang's heart blossomed, this girl is the kind of natural charm in the legend, she can't withstand the teasing of her beloved man at all, she belongs to the kind that is easy to be stimulated**, and it is easy to satisfy, which will make a man's self-esteem infinitely inflated.

The tent was erected in the long shirt, and Chai Dongliang lowered his head and said to it secretly: "I've been hungry for a long time, right?" Get you ready today! ”

Pray for the compatriots who died in the bullet train! May they rest in peace in heaven!

I finally believe that China's bullet train and high-speed rail must be independent intellectual property rights, if it is plagiarism, it will not be so rubbish!

(To be continued)