Chapter 1014 Big Guy (II)

Zhao Bei's words were light. But in Li Yuanhong's ears, it was like a thunderbolt, which shocked him, but fortunately, after all, he has been in politics for many years, and he has practiced the kung fu on his cheek, although he was terrified in his heart, but what he said was a truth.

In order to appease the parliamentarians, Mi Seng suggested that I send more troops into Beijing, and use this action to prove to the Congress that the government is able to control the situation, so as not to panic the parliamentarians, and at the same time, it is also to exercise the command ability of the General Staff, after all, the country has been peaceful for a while, and the horses have been put into the South Mountain, and the swords and guns have been put into storage, and they are somewhat slack, so I will use this opportunity to test the mobility and command ability of the troops."

This truth was not said by Li Yuanhong improvised, but it had been discussed with Rao Hanxiang a long time ago, and now that it is said, there is some truth, but Zhao Bei and Lan Tianwei obviously did not take this statement seriously.

Zhao Bei turned his head. glanced at Rao Hanxiang and saw that he nodded again and again, obviously willing to share the responsibility with Li Yuanhong, and his expression of loyalty to the Lord was also very emotional.

In the past, this Rao Hanxiang has always been very low-key, and he is obedient to Zhao Bei, but now it seems that he has changed like Li Yuanhong, becoming a little stranger, and a little estranged.

This can also be understood, Li Yuanhong is now the president, and he has great power, Rao Hanxiang is not only the chief of staff of the president, but also the chief of staff of the president, a hot figure in the presidential palace, and once a person has power, it is difficult and difficult to let him give up this power again, after all, the interests involved are too extensive and too complicated.

Constitutionalism is a good thing, and votes are also good things, but they are only means, and the purpose of using them is to grasp the power to make the rules of the game, that is, to grasp the power.

So, the real good thing is power. Power can bring glory as well as wealth.

Although the possibility of Li Yuanhong participating in the next presidential election and winning re-election is not high, as long as he uses some means, he may not be able to be re-elected, and once Zhao Bei announces his participation in the next presidential election in a high-profile manner, then Li Yuanhong has no hope of winning presidential re-election at all, and it is even impossible to obtain the United Front to be elected as the candidate of his party.

understands this, and understands why there is a gap between Li Yuanhong and Zhao Bei, and Rao Hanxiang is Li Yuanhong's cronies, so Rao Hanxiang's position is easy to understand.

At the end of the day, this is a struggle, and as the next presidential election approaches, it will become 'fierce', and this veteran march has undoubtedly accelerated this struggle.

Li Yuanhong heeded Rao Hanxiang's suggestion and dispatched so many National Defense Force troops from Shanxi, Liaoning, Shandong, Anhui, and other provinces to Beijing to station, ostensibly to appease the members of the National Assembly and maintain order in the Gyeonggi region, but at a deeper level, it was to "take precautions before they happen."

"Prevention is better than prevention", this is a euphemism. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is to prevent Zhao Bei from having any "out-of-line" actions, to be honest, Li Yuanhong is very worried about Zhao Bei's performance in the veterans' army.

There is no way not to worry, Zhao Bei wants prestige and prestige, and he wants the people to have the hearts of the people, coupled with his huge influence in the army, Li Yuanhong can only live the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and keeping the position of president is secondary, and the most important thing is to keep the net worth of President Li Da' Although the mainstream theory is that the Manchu remnants planned the assassination, as the current chairman of the United Front, Li Yuanhong can't help but pay more attention, following Zhao Bei for so many years, Li Yuanhong has a deep understanding of Zhao Bei's decisive style of doing things, and Zhao Bei will not hesitate to clear the obstacles that block his progress, and will not care about the identity and status of the other party.

This is a "madman", and it still takes some courage to go against a madman, Li Yuanhong's courage was not given by Rao Hanxiang, the chief of staff, but by the chaebol, because they are very disgusted with Zhao Bei's proposal on the "inheritance tax bill", many chaebols have now made their position clear, and they are willing to stand on Li Yuanhong's side and fully support his candidacy for the next president of the Republic of China.

With the support of the chaebols, the chances of Li Yuanhong winning the election have increased rapidly, and he can give it a go. But before fighting, he must also take the necessary precautions, after all, power struggles are always accompanied by swords and swords, and be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years.

It was also with the strong support of these chaebols that Li Yuanhong and Rao Hanxiang planned this troop increase, considering Zhao Bei's huge influence in the national defense army, they had to be very cautious in selecting the troops to enter Beijing, and did not dare to form a large force to be dispatched, all of which were small troops dispatched from a certain county or city, a company was transferred here, a battalion was transferred there, and the officers selected to lead the team were basically "trustworthy", many of them were born in the Beiyang family back then, and now they are all lieutenant colonels. Colonel or even brigadier general and the like, so in these new units entering Beijing, it is normal for lieutenant colonels to command companies and brigadier generals to command battalions; after these units enter Beijing, they will be reorganized and then set up new temporary units, which will be organized into "a certain regiment on a provisional basis" or "a certain brigade on a temporary basis." Almost overnight, many new numbers appeared in the units of the National Defense Forces.

In these two days. Lan Tianwei has been paying attention to these new numbers that appear in the sequence of the National Defense Force, and it is he who has reflected this matter to Zhao Bei here through special channels, but before Lan Tianwei's news was conveyed to the mansion, Zhao Bei actually knew the little tricks of Li Yuanhong and Rao Hanxiang, in fact, when the first batch of reinforcements boarded the military column, Zhao Bei had already received reliable information.

It is precisely because of this that when Zhao Bei suddenly asked Lan Tianwei what he was busy with, Lan Tianwei was able to quickly comprehend Zhao Bei's meaning, and expand the topic along with this meaning, forcing Li Yuanhong to stand at the foreground. Faced with direct questioning from the commander-in-chief.

"Chief Rao, your suggestion to increase troops in Gyeonggi is not very clever. Not to mention the local panic, the mere arrival of these troops was enough to make those veterans suspicious. To tell you the truth, yesterday someone came to tell me that the veterans were very hostile to the military trains arriving at the railway station, and they wondered if the government was planning to take further military action to drive the petitioners out of the Gyeonggi area. If this leads to a violent upheaval in the situation that has finally calmed down, who can bear this responsibility? ”

Zhao Bei's questioning made Rao Hanxiang stammer, although he and Li Yuanhong had already discussed the rhetoric, but when Zhao Bei really asked about this topic, Rao Hanxiang suddenly found that the previously discussed rhetoric was useless, because Zhao Bei was pretending to be confused, and those negotiated rhetoric and excuses could only increase his anger, not eliminate his doubts.

Seeing that Rao Hanxiang actually retreated, Li Yuanhong was suddenly a little annoyed, this time, he rushed in front of his subordinates, no one acted as a shield for him, and in front of him was the spear head stabbed by Zhao Bei, and he was about to collide.

Seeing the president of the Republic of China and the president's chief of staff, Lan Tianwei, who was sitting on the side, was secretly amused, in his opinion, Li Yuanhong and Rao Hanxiang's move to increase troops into Beijing was simply extremely stupid, and it could neither weaken the power of Zhao Bei, nor enhance their strength, those from all over the place. In fact, because the officers and men of the troops come from different units and are very unfamiliar with each other, there are some problems in coordination, and more importantly, as long as the Gyeonggi garrison is still in the hands of the General Staff, those non-field troops will not be able to do anything.

It's not that Li Yuanhong didn't think about controlling the General Staff. Li Yuanhong has been president for four years, and he has only installed a few cronies in the General Staff, and he has been deliberately suppressed by Lan Tianwei, Jiang Fangzhen, Zhang Xiaozhun, and others, and has not grasped actual power at all.

The General Staff has always been a loyal follower of Zhao Bei, and the reasons are twofold, on the one hand, the great reputation and prestige that Zhao Bei won during the war, and on the other hand, the strong dissatisfaction of the military bigwigs with Li Yuanhong's political fǔ, and the combination of these two reasons determines the position that the General Staff will take at a critical moment in the situation.

Lan Tianwei, Jiang Fangzhen, Zhang Xiaozhun, Zhou Daogang, Ji Yulin...... These members of the National Defense Army were all pulled up by Zhao Bei back then, and they were able to obtain the current status and power, all of which relied on Zhao Bei's cultivation and promotion, without Zhao Bei, the talent selection mechanism of the National Defense Army would not be so fair, then the current National Defense Army may still be the world of Beiyang, and it is not their turn to come forward with people who have almost no foundation in Beiyang, whether it is love or reason, these people are extremely excited about Zhao Bei, this is' The friendship of more than 20 years cannot be erased in the four-year constitutional era.

As a soldier, of course, I hope that the combat effectiveness of the troops under his command is as strong as possible, now is not ancient times, now is the era of three-dimensional warfare, it is not enough to pay attention to training, and the upgrading of this weapon is also very realistic, but the problem is that since Li Yuanhong came to power, this central government has been thinking about how to cut out more money from military spending, and then use it in other places, so many arms development projects of the Wehrmacht have been cut mercilessly, and now, the new fighter is still on the drawing board, The new bombers were locked into warehouses after only a few prototypes were manufactured, the aircraft carriers actually had no money to equip fighters and bombers, and could only install a few reconnaissance planes to fill the 'door' surface, and even the more advanced fighters that the army had equipped were actually favored by Li Yuanhongzheng, and under the pretext of the economic crisis and insufficient military spending, many fighter units were canceled, and then those fighters equipped by the unit were sold to Paraguay by the government, and showed their skills in the Chaco War in South America, competing with the American fighters equipped by Bolivia. While condemning the despicable act of the United States in selling arms to 'belligerent' countries in disregard of the League of Nations' arms embargo resolution, the international media circles also gave the Chinese side the same "attention." In the face of public criticism, Li Yuanhongzheng pushed the innocent military to the foreground as a shield, and it was at that time that the military generals faction of the Ministry of National Defense was suppressed, and the control of the Ministry of National Defense fell into the hands of the civilian faction on the surface.

Li Yuanhongzheng's "slamming the 'door'" shown by Li Yuanhongzheng for the cause of national defense made several bigwigs of the General Staff very annoyed, but there was no way, they did not protest, but in exchange for further suppression, even the rocket experimental base under the management of the General Staff was almost empty, if it were not for the fact that Zhao Bei himself raised a sum of money to maintain the personnel salaries and basic research projects of the rocket base, I am afraid that those rocket experts who "wasted their time and 'yin'" would have been sold on the street Chickens' eggs.

In the president's view, the rocket is useless except for being used to play a supporting role in science fiction, so there is no need to spend state funds to study, which is also the unanimous opinion of most of the staff in the presidential office.

Only soldiers can comprehend the huge military potential of such a "thing" as a rocket, so don't expect the General Staff to have any good impression of Li Yuanhong Zhengfǔ and be neutral in the veterans' petition action, which is enough to give Li Yuanhong face.

The veterans' march operation, the General Staff planned to stay out of the matter at the beginning, but soon after, several military bigwigs suddenly found that Commander-in-Chief Zhao actually rushed to the front, so they immediately woke up and felt that this was an opportunity, so several bigwigs discussed and decided to send people to explore Zhao Bei's plans, if Zhao Bei decided to launch a "military admonition", the General Staff will resolutely stand on the side of the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief said to bombard the Congress, then bombard the Congress, the commander-in-chief said to bombard the presidential palace, then bombard the presidential palace.

The military only knows that the military expenses are paid out of the barrel of this gun, and when they followed President Zhao Da, although they suffered from the navy, the life of the army and the air force was quite pleasant, and they wanted new planes and new planes, and they wanted new artillery and new artillery, which is like now, even in military exercises, the shells had to be counted one by one, and even this, the political commissioner was not satisfied, and asked the army to replace the real artillery with fake cannons, as if in their opinion, as long as they could hear the sound, everything would be fine, but they did not take it into account at all. The army is not used to put on a show to frighten its neighbors, it is used to fight.

In any case, this kind of life cannot go on any longer, and if the army is so wronged, I am afraid that the Wehrmacht will not be able to keep even the current 50 army divisions, and now there are rumors that Li Yuanhong Zheng intends to further reduce the army in exchange for the commitment of the United States and Britain to open up the market, and this disarmament figure has reached an astonishing fifteen army divisions.

This time, Lan Tianwei came to the mansion, on the one hand, to pay homage to the commander-in-chief's father-in-law, and on the other hand, to show loyalty to the commander-in-chief, so that the commander-in-chief could lead a group of old subordinates to turn the situation around.

It is precisely because of this that as soon as he sat down in the East Wing, Lan Tianwei cooperated with the commander-in-chief's performance very interestingly, and was very happy with the embarrassing expressions of Li Yuanhong and Rao Hanxiang, his intuition told him that a good show was still to come, and the protagonist of the singing was the commander-in-chief, and the General Staff would play the role of the supporting role.