The southwest is turbulent, and changes have also taken place outside the border, first in Heilongjiang and then in Jilin. Bi Guifang, the overseer and governor of Heilongjiang, was originally a banner man, and later changed to Zhili, a diplomat, who served as an attaché of the Qing legation in Russia.

Bi Guifang has two major characteristics, one is that he is afraid of his wife, but he obeys the fate of the Taiza; One is to take care of everything, nicknamed "no matter what". Although he didn't care about everything, he had official luck, and his official luck was prosperous, and he climbed to the position of Heilongjiang governor step by step. When Yuan Shikai died, the Heilongjiang general Zhu Qinglan was expelled by the military assistant, and Duan Qirui was appointed as the governor Bi Guifang to supervise the army.

In June of the 6th year, when the Governors were reading the Force, Xu Lanzhou, the Military Affairs Supervisor of Heilongjiang, also announced that he was not to the Central Committee, but to the Governor of Bi. Bi Guifang negotiated with him and offered to remain as an overseer with the help of the governor. Xu also wanted to supervise the army and bargain, but he made a wish to be the governor and division commander, but when he heard that Bi transferred troops to defend himself, he immediately turned his face and left the province within 24 hours. The Duan cabinet didn't care about the dispute between Bi and Xu, and he had no intention of favoring Bi, but he didn't like to make trouble, so he called Xu to Beijing to talk. Xu replied: "There are two members of the Zongshe Party in Heilongjiang, Bi Guifang and Ba Ying, and they must stay here to extinguish the bandits."

Bi Guifang issued a cold telegram to the field, recommended the agent, Duan Qirui did not accept Bi's recommendation, 6 years 7 said, announced Bao Guiqing as the Heilongjiang overseer, ordered Xu to return to the original assistant office. Xu drove Bi Guifang away, but he couldn't ascend to the throne of Overseer.

Bao Guiqing is a native of Anhui, a fellow villager with Duan Qirui, and the in-laws of Zhang Zuolin, the overseer of Fengtian, and Heilongjiang has since become the territory of the "Fengtian Kingdom".

On October 18, Yanjing Zhengaxe transferred Meng Enyuan, the overseer of Jilin, as the general of Chengwei, and Tian Zhongyu, the commander of the Hardu Army, as the overseer of Jilin, and Zhang Jingyao succeeded Tian Zhongyu as the commander of the Chahar Du. Meng Enyuan Zishu Village, a native of Tianjin, enlisted in the army at a small station, served as the commander of the Jilin Patrol Army in 1904, and drove away Chen Zhaochang, the governor of Jilin in the 2nd year of the Republic of China, and obtained the military and political power of Jilin Province. When the Overseer made trouble, he was promoted to be the leader because he was the oldest, and everyone respected him as Brother Meng. He is also similar to Bi Zhi, he can write a "tiger" character, the affairs of the superintendent, the internal affairs are handed over to his son-in-law Lu Chengwu, and the foreign affairs are handed over to his nephew Gao Shifu, who is the chief of staff of the superintendent's office. The transfer of Brother Meng is related to Zhang Zuolin, who is said to have reported that Meng had accepted the false position of governor of Jilin during the restoration period. In fact, Zhang Zuolin was already the king of Guanwai at this time, and he didn't want Jilin to have this big brother by his side.

Meng Enyuan heard some rumors earlier, and sent his secretary Dai Yizhen to Yanjing Feng Guozhang to inquire about the truth, Feng said that there was no such thing, and persuaded Meng not to listen to the rumors. Soon after, however, the rumors became true, and Meng was furious when he received the order, so he sent a telegram asking the reason for the cabinet transfer, and replied within three days, otherwise Jilin would declare its independence.

Duan Qirui was doing his best to deal with the south, so he hoped that the three eastern provinces would not be in trouble, and he planned to promote Zhang Zuolin to the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces, and he would deal with the Jilin overseer, and Wu Jun, the commander of the 29th Division, would be promoted to the overseer of Heilongjiang.

When the Northeast War was on the verge of Qi Rui sending troops to Hunan, the split between Feng and Duan became superficial. Feng Guozhang is different from Li Yuanhong in that he has a position in the Beiyang military system, has military power, and is backed by the three governors of the Yangtze River.

Feng Guozhang's first capital was Jiangsu overseer Li Chun, after Feng Guozhang became president, he once said that he respected the responsible cabinet system and did not interfere with Duan's decision-making decisions on the administration and decision-making of Duan's employment, and Duan Qirui's attitude towards Feng Guozhang was much better than that of Li Yuanhong. But they are two powerful factions, Feng Guozhang is quite scheming, Duan Qirui is stubborn and self-serving, Feng Guozhang is of course unwilling to be an angry president like Li Yuanhong, and Duan Qirui is never willing to give up the slightest bit of power, so the dispute between the two is as sharp.

The first of the disputes was military power, which has always been the focus of disputes between presidents and prime ministers. Soon after Feng took office, he wanted to restore the "Generalissimo Army and Navy Command Office", but Duan naturally refused to agree. Duan set up a "Mainland Affairs Office" in the State Council to replace the "Command Office" in the Yuan Shikai era.

Feng wanted to ask about national affairs, and did not want to be a big president who was in name only, like a clay sculpture, Duan finally gave in in this regard, and since October 8, 6, he sent an official every day to report to the president on the political situation.

However, the struggle between the president and the prime minister is not superficial, or a little concession on a matter can be eased, so the power struggle has made the rift between these two Beiyang giants bigger and bigger

Yanjing is intrigued, and Guangzhou is also in chaos!

After the establishment of the military and political axe in Guangzhou, Sun Yat-sen once made Deng Yao the director of the Guangdong Pacification Bureau. On December 4, Sun Yat-sen ordered Deng Yao to stop appeasement, and all the personnel sent by the bureau were withdrawn. In order to expand the army of military and political axes, Sun Yat-sen also sent commissioners to various counties in Guangdong Province to recruit civilian troops.

Before November 12, more than 30 commissioners had been dispatched to various places to recruit troops. It is stipulated that the monthly military salary for soldiers who come with guns is 15 yuan, and the monthly military salary for those who do not bring guns is 10 yuan, and at this time 5,000 yuan has been spent on recruitment.

The Gui family was very jealous of this. When Lu Rongting met with Hu Hanmin on 20 November, he strongly opposed this and demanded that the military and political axes stop recruiting troops and that those who had already been recruited should be dismissed. On November 23, Sun Yat-sen issued an order to stop recruiting the people's army: "All the people's armies, except Chaomei, will be stopped, so as to wait for the future." ”

On November 28, Jin Guozhi, the commander of the first detachment of the Chaomei Army organized by the military and political axe to defeat the Chaoshan town guard Mo Qingyu's rebels, was booby-trapped by Shen Hongying, a general of the Gui family, and the troops were disarmed and dismissed. Zou Lu, the commander-in-chief of the Chaomei Army, urgently sent a military political axe to punish Shen Hongying, but under the protection of Qu Wei, the governor of Yue, he couldn't do it. Sun Yat-sen was extremely indignant about this.

As a result, two shelling of the Overseer occurred.

The first bombardment of Guanyin Mountain, the seat of the Overseer's Office, took place on November 15, 1917, with the aim of expelling Chen Bingkun, the governor of Guangdong.

At that time, Sun Yat-sen secretly ordered the naval ships stationed in the province to prepare for battle, and at the same time ordered the land troops under the command of the Generalissimo's Office to respond immediately after hearing the naval fire. In addition to ordering Zhu Zhixin to directly command Li Fulin's troops stationed in Henan, he also ordered Luo Yiqun to secretly contact Huang Mingtang's troops, Wei Bangping's troops, and Lin Hu's Liang Hongkai battalion stationed around Guangzhou, and agreed to launch an attack on Chen Bingkun's military supervision office at the same time. Liang Hongkai said that after hearing the sound of artillery, he was willing to lead the whole battalion to attack the Su Shi'an Artillery Regiment of the Gui Army, and asked Luo Yiqun to lead the artillery trainees to loot the artillery, and drive into the Niuwangmiao position to cover the infantry into the city.

After the appointment arrived, Luo Yiqun took more than 10 artillery cadets and other officers to open a room at the Shahe Xiwhipting Hotel that night, pretending to play mahjong for recreation, and was ready to act when he heard the sound of artillery, but he still didn't hear it until dawn. Luo then took a carriage to the Generalissimo's palace to inquire about the situation. Only then did I learn that Sun Yat-sen did not board the warship last night, but personally went to the mainstay battery to command the artillery, but these cannons were the old cannons cast by Peng Yulin, the minister of coastal defense in Guangdong in the late Qing Dynasty 30 years ago, to resist the French army. Sun Yat-sen, as he was tired, returned to the marshal's mansion to rest, and arranged for the relevant personnel and troops to be rescheduled.

Five days after this incident, on November 20, the governor of Guangdong, Chen Bingkun, left the province. The next day, Mo Rongxin was officially acting as the governor of Guangdong by Lu Rongting's telegram order.

On January 3, 1918, Sun Yat-sen planned to bombard Guanyin Mountain for the second time, with the purpose of "artillery" Mo Rongxin.

During the preparation period, Sun Yat-sen ordered Zhu Zhixin and other troops stationed in Guangzhou to respond to the navy and attack the Gui army, and sent Xu Chongzhi and Deng Keng to urge Chen Jiongming to respond to the action. However, most of the armies stationed in Guangzhou opposed the use of force to solve the problem.

Sun Yat-sen once asked Cheng Biguang to send a navy to crusade, but Cheng Biguang refused.

At the same time, some of the leading figures in the revolutionary party and the army at that time disagreed, believing that the generalissimo's move was too risky. For this reason, Li Liejun, Wu Jinglian, Wang Zhengting and others have persuaded Sun Yat-sen. But Sun Yat-sen was resolute and unmoved. In order to avoid the dissuasion of Li, Wu and others, Sun Yat-sen had to pretend to be sick.

When Fang Shengtao, the commander of the Yunnan Division, heard the news, he also rushed to the Shuaifu and sternly admonished him. Sun Yat-sen was very angry and rebuked him sharply: "I have made up my mind, I don't need to borrow money, I will eliminate harm for the people, and now I will die for the people." Your teacher does not help me, or helps the enemy, only the king chooses himself, and I have no mind. ”

On January 3, Sun Yat-sen sent a letter to Mo Rongxin, demanding that Mo Rongxin recognize the status of the military and political axe and his own status and the command of the military commander, and demanded that the military and political axe appoint Guangdong diplomats. That night, Sun Yat-sen led his cronies and generals Huang Dawei, Ma Bolin and a small number of guards to board the Tong'an ship, and the Yuzhang ship accompanied him. When the two ships sailed to the mainstay battery, Sun Yat-sen commanded the opening of the cannon and bombarded Guanyin Mountain, the headquarters of the Overseer's Office. The two captains did not dare to agree at first, but Sun Yat-sen personally fired the cannons and urged the gunners to fire more than 50 cannons in a row.

After the cannon sounded, guerrilla commander Li Anbang led a small warship to patrol the river according to the agreed plan, and fired machine-gun fire at the garrison organs of the Gui Army on Long Causeway, such as the river defense headquarters. Except for Li Anbang's army, the rest of the army units under the military and political axe did not respond in compliance with the agreement after the navy fired artillery. What's even more bizarre is that the Gui army did not return fire. It turned out that Mo Rongxin had been secretly reported in advance, and Mo Rongxin's chief of staff, Guo Chunsen, strongly advocated calming down and not fighting back!

He believed: "If you fight back, you will be outnumbered, and there will be no chance of victory, and if you don't fight back, people will be in Zhongshan, and they will be even more isolated." ”

Mo Rongxin adopted a policy of ignoring and ordered the lights to be extinguished, to avoid exposing the target, and not to return fire. At the same time, he called the office of the chief of the navy in Haizhu and reported to the chief of the navy, Cheng Biguang, the chief of the navy, about the bombardment of the navy ships and requested urgent mediation.

Cheng Biguang hurriedly sent the Haichen ship to convey the order to "stop the shelling and drive back to the provincial capital".

After the incident, the two ships of Tong'an and Yuzhang did not receive a response from the army, and received an order from the commander and had to return to the provincial capital. Later, Cheng Biguang dismissed the two captains and punished them. Sun Yat-sen's plan to seek Mo failed.

The situation is in chaos, and for a person in Nanning, the opportunity he was waiting for has also arrived!

(To be continued)