Chapter 158: Hook and Fight

As soon as Wang Hengyue's power came out, the whole Sichuan was in turmoil, and they all asked Chengyu to start peace talks immediately!

Under heavy pressure, the military and political axes of Chengdu and Chongqing finally considered peace talks.

The leaders of the Yucheng League, Yang Shukan, Zhang Peijue, Xiong Kewu, and Zhu Zhihong, agreed to the merger, and the commander-in-chief of southern Sichuan, Dan Maoxin, also agreed. They sent a telegram to Chengdu and decided to send plenipotentiary joint members to Chengdu to discuss "all important matters concerning the military, political, financial, and security areas of the province." The issue of merging the military and political axes of Chengdu and Chongqing was put on the agenda.

Yin Changheng, Luo Lun, Deng Xiaoke and others in Chengdu put forward unification conditions to the Shu military and political axes in Chongqing: Chengdu is the location of the Sichuan military and political axes, and Yucheng is set up as a military town, and the former governors of Chengdu and Yucheng are appointed as the main and deputy governors of the merged Sichuan military and political axes, and the former deputy governors, and the envoys or privy councillors of Yucheng towns and the president of the military senate respectively. Yucheng put forward a counter-proposal: Chengdu should still be the provincial capital, Yucheng should be the residence of the governor of Sichuan, Zhang Peijue, the governor of the Shu military and political axe, should be the governor of Sichuan, Yin Changheng, the governor of Sichuan and Xia Zhishi, the deputy governor of the Shu army, and Wang Hengyue and Luo Lun, the deputy governors of the Sichuan military and political axe, should be the privy councillors, general advisers, or the president of the military senate.

At this time, Wang Wenwen, the former governor of Sichuan, arrived in Yucheng from Chengdu, so there were rumors that if the two sides could not hold each other, Wang Wenwen would be elected as the governor of the Sichuan military and political axe, as a way to get out of the negotiation dilemma. Wang Wenwen was a feudal official of the Qing Dynasty, and his appointment as the governor of Sichuan was really a satire of the revolution, and the Shu military and political axes would certainly not agree.

Therefore, the military and political axes of Yucheng Shu made concessions. The "Chengdu Sichuan Military and Political Axe and Yucheng Shu Military and Political Axe Agreement Merger Treaty" was signed and came into effect after being stamped by the military and political axes of both sides.

The agreement stipulates that Chengdu is the political center, the Sichuan military and political axe is set up, and the governors of Chengdu and Chongqing are appointed as the chief and deputy governors; Yucheng is an important town, and the town is set up. In this way, Sichuan declared reunification, Yin Changheng served as the governor of Sichuan military and political axes, Zhang Peijue served as the deputy governor, and the Fufu of Yucheng Town took Xia Shi as the chief of the town.

Wang Hengyue, who has attracted the attention of the whole Sichuan and the whole country, was elected chairman of the Military Senate.

In the eyes of the people of Sichuan, this is extremely unfair to Wang Hengyue, who has electrified the whole of Sichuan and made all efforts for the reunification of Sichuan, the president of the military senate? Why isn't it the governor or deputy governor that the Sichuan people imagined before?

Under these circumstances, Wang Hengyue telegraphed the whole Sichuan again, saying that he accepted the appointment of the military and political axe and was willing to do his best for the peace of the whole Sichuan in the post of chairman of the military senate.

Wang Hengyue's attitude has once again been unanimously appreciated by the Sichuan people!

Later, the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe recognized the merger of Chengdu and Chongqing.

After the merger of Chengdu and Chongqing, Yin Changheng, who had obtained the position of governor, was not satisfied, but set his sights on seizing all the military power in Sichuan.

He appointed Yuan Shikai's Rehu Jingyi as the commander of the Sichuan Army Corps and the vice chairman of the Military Senate to control the entire Sichuan army. Yin Changheng used to be Hu Jingyi's student and subordinate, and he wanted to use Hu Jingyi's power to seize the military power in Sichuan and strengthen his own strength!

Subsequently, Yin Changheng reorganized the Sichuan Army into six divisions. Zhou Jun, commander of the 1st Division, Peng Guanglie, commander of the 2nd Division, Sun Zhaoluan, commander of the 3rd Division, Liu Cunhou, commander of the 4th Division, Xiong Kewu, commander of the 5th Division, and Wang Hengyue, commander of the Reading Power Mixed Division.

Wang Hengyue's prestige in Sichuan is extremely high, and his military strength is strong, which makes Yin Changheng very uneasy. If you want to grasp the army of Quanchuan, you must first deal with Wang Hengyue and control his army!

In order to succeed in this, it is necessary to transfer Wang Hengyue from Rongxian, Leshan and other places.

Under this mentality, Yin Changheng gave several orders in a row:

One of the mixed divisions arrived in Chengdu, and the other entered the Hubei territory, and Wang Hengyue served in the Chengdu Military Senate. Dispersing Wang Hengyue's forces in this way, and transferring Wang Hengyue to control him, it will not be so difficult to solve it again.

Subsequently, the Fourth Division Liu Cunhou was transferred to Rongxian, Leshan, and Yibin, controlled several places, and seized Wang Hengyue's territory.

Liu Cunhou was originally the chief of staff of the Yunnan Army to aid Sichuan, and after the reunification of Sichuan, the headquarters was reorganized into the Fourth Division of the Sichuan Army.

But what Yin Changheng didn't expect was that Wang Hengyue ignored this order.

Wang Hengyue repeatedly emphasized his difficulties, it is not impossible to enter Chengdu, and it is not impossible to go to Hubei, but where is the military salary?

At the beginning, he was fighting with the Qing soldiers, and he was confronting the Sichuan army, the silver had long been used up, and now the salary arrears are serious, the army is unstable, and all the departments are making trouble, if you want to transfer, please ask the governor to allocate 10 million taels of military salaries no matter what, in order to solve the urgent need, as soon as the military salary arrives, all the ministries will immediately allocate it in accordance with the instructions of the military and political axe, and will not delay for a moment!

He, the lion, opened his mouth widely, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it was 10 million, where was the military salary, it was simply Yin Changheng's bankruptcy!

Where is Yin Changheng going to get 10 million? Besides, even if Wang Hengyue was really given 10 million, maybe Wang Hengyue would make up some excuses.

Yin Changheng retreated to the next thing, only saying that there is no one in the military Senate to preside over the current situation, and hopes that Speaker Wang can immediately take up his post in Chengdu.

Who would have thought that in just one day, the gentry and merchants of Rongxian, Leshan, Yibin, Ziliujing, and Gongjing flew to Chengdu like snowflakes in telegrams, and they all asked to keep Speaker Wang, and Speaker Wang must not go to Chengdu!

The crowd is surging, the crowd is surging!

Liu Cunhou's Fourth Division also encountered great trouble, the Reading Power Mixed Division in Yibin and other places had already set up machine guns, eyeing the tiger, and those officers of the Reading Power Mixed Division were coaxing everywhere that they only recognized Heng Shuai, and without Heng Shuai's order, who would dare to forcibly occupy their own territory, the Fourth Division had guns, and the Reading Power Mixed Division had artillery!

Wang Hengyue came to his army again, in front of Liu Cunhou, who was ordered to take over, he "knew the righteousness" to his subordinates, and in the end he was almost "crying", to let the brothers obey the orders of Chengdu and resolutely support the command of the governor.

But the officers of those mixed divisions "ignored it", and almost broke out in a "mutiny" later, if it weren't for Wang Hengyue holding the muzzle of his chest to the muzzle of the gun and telling Division Commander Liu to leave quickly, Liu Cunhou would almost not have been able to leave.

Liu Cunhou walked on his front foot, Wang Hengyue flew up and kicked at Xie Shuixiang, who was the most violent: "Dog, did you have a bullet on the gun?" Really pull out the gun? ”

Xie Shuixiang and the brothers were smiling, only thinking that Heng Shuai's play was getting better and better now

There was a lot of trouble, and Liu Cunhou's troops could only be stationed in Luzhou, and they could not advance or retreat.

Yin Changheng is angry and anxious, but now Wang Hengyue's soldiers are strong and strong, and his reputation is very big in Sichuan, and he is reasonable, and he is really afraid that he will suffer if he wants to make something.

When the time comes, it will inevitably pull down the infamy of "the first evil hero who has not succeeded in the revolution" in the minds of the Sichuan people, and it is difficult to say whether the position of governor who has just sat on this Zhang can sit firmly.

Moreover, although the political axe of the Shu army in Yucheng was withdrawn, many of them were dissatisfied with themselves, and they were waiting for their mistakes, and Xiong Kewu, the commander of the fifth division in Yucheng, was Wang Hengyue's brother, and he really wanted to make trouble, but he was afraid that the chaotic situation would evolve again in Sichuan, which would give Yucheng a great opportunity.

After thinking about it, Wang Hengyue was not sure about it now, so he could only swallow this breath for the time being

However, except for one Wang Hengyue, other aspects are still quite beneficial to Yin Changheng.

On March 10, 1912, President Yuan Shikai announced his inauguration in Yanjing.

When he learned the news in Yucheng in the summer, he believed that the situation of China's reunification had been settled, and the corner of eastern Sichuan had been pacified, and it was the time for him to retire after his success, so he submitted to Zhang Peijue in mid-March to resign from the post of chief of the Fufu Mansion in Yucheng and go to study abroad.

Yin Changheng and Zhang Peijue accepted Xia Zhishi's resignation, and appointed Hu Jingyi, the commander of the Sichuan Army Corps, to serve as the chief of Yucheng Town, and gave Xia Zhishi 30,000 taels of silver to help study abroad. Immediately, Xia Zhizhi announced his resignation and temporarily replaced Hu Jingyi before he took office.

Hu Jingyi is Yuan Shikai's man and is extremely ambitious. The people of the Yucheng League have long been wary of it. At that time, Yang Shukan was serving as a temporary political axe in Nanjing, and he was very disturbed when he learned that Hu Jingyi was replacing Xia, and immediately called Yin Changheng to recommend Huang Fusheng and oppose Hu Jingyi. However, Yin and Hu had already colluded to ignore Yang Dian, and instead instructed Hu Jingyi to go to Chongqing at the same time, and allocated the machine gun battalion to Hu's command, so that he could take over Yucheng by force.

In the summer, seeing that Hu Jingyi was not good, he hurriedly appointed Xiong Kewu, a revolutionary, as the commander of the Fufu division in Yucheng Town. The division of Fufu in Yucheng City was a direct subordinate unit under the command of the commander-in-chief, and Xia Zhishi and others wanted to use Xiong Kewu to restrain Hu Jingyi. This action very clearly expressed the attitude of the people of the Chongqing League that Hu Jingyi was not welcome to come to Chongqing.

After Zhang Peijue arrived in Chengdu, he took it as his mission to quell the Sichuan rebellion and stabilize the overall situation. In addition, he was surrounded by Yin, Hu and others, so he tried to alleviate the contradictions between Chengdu and Chongqing with the compromise of Yucheng, so he, Dong Hongci, and Dan Maoxin jointly sent a telegram to Xia Zhishi, Huang Sufang, Xiong Kewu and others, who were members of the alliance in Yucheng, asking them to accept Hu Jingyi as the governor of Yucheng Fufu.

Thanks to Zhang Peijue's appearance, Hu Jingyi was able to arrive in Chongqing smoothly on April 11, and on April 12, he issued a telegram on the post of chief of the Fufu Prefecture in Chongqing Town.

Hu Jingyi is not coming. The compromise and concession of the people of the Yucheng League could not dampen their ambition to seize power at all, but aroused their selfish desire to abolish the Yucheng Fufu as soon as possible and seize the military and political power in Sichuan. On 18 May, just one month after taking office, he convened a meeting of officers of all standard battalions, representatives of various corporations, and newspaper reporters in the Zhenfu Prefecture, and suddenly proposed the abolition of the Fufu Prefecture in Chongqing.

Since it had only been more than a month since the establishment of the Fufu Mansion in Yucheng Town, Hu Jingyi made a surprise attack and proposed to revoke it, but the delegates attending the meeting were unprepared and had a rash attitude, so that after Xie Zhi finished speaking, no one spoke for a few minutes.

On June 10, 1912, Hu Jingyi reported to Yuan Shikai and issued a general order to the whole country, and the Fufu of Yucheng Town was abolished.

Yin Changheng, through various means, finally became the first "unifier" in Sichuan!

(To be continued)