"This shows that we still haven't mistaken people."

Fu Xiaowen nodded quietly.

"By the way, Yao'er is about to graduate, right? A lot of words" Fu Xiaowen suddenly changed his words and asked.

Niu Jingye heard Fu Xiaowen's question, he was slightly stunned, he vaguely guessed something, immediately nodded, and replied respectfully: "Yes, it will be graduation in about a month." I heard that Yao'er's grades have always been good, and she is known as a female doctor in school. ”

"In terms of age, Yao'er should also get married." Fu Xiaowen raised his head, looked at the verdant mountain peaks in the distance, and said softly.

"Yes." At this time, Niu Jingye had fully understood Fu Xiaowen's intentions, and said, "Yao'er is the pearl of your palm, you have to find a good match for Yao'er." ”

"What kind of good people do you need to find, the ready-made ones are right in front of you." Fu Xiaowen smiled, turned his head and said to Niu Jingye.

"You mean Yang Hanzhi?" Niu Jingye knew who Fu Xiaowen was talking about, and asked with a smile.

"It's a pity that Yang Hanzhi already has a wife of Yuanpei, and if Yao'er goes over, I'm afraid that I will be wronged......" Fu Xiaowen said thoughtfully.

"That's not necessarily, with Yang Hanzhi's cleverness, he can understand the stakes here." Niu Jingye said, "In the future, Yao'er's status may be above Mrs. Yang." ”

"That's right." Fu Xiaowen took a deep breath of the air with gunpowder smoke and said, "Then this matter is settled." ”

"I just don't know if Yao'er is willing to make a small ...... for others," Niu Jingye said, "Do you need to ask Yao'er what she means?" ”

"No, I know she'll do it." Fu Xiaowen replied in an unquestioning tone.

"That's good." Niu Jingye nodded and didn't say anything more.

"If there is a happy event next year, it will be a double happiness." Fu Xiaowen said to himself.

Niu Jingye heard the word "double happiness" and understood that Fu Xiaowen was talking about another "political marriage".

Fu Xiaowen's sixth brother, Fu Xiaoxin, who is studying for a degree in natural sciences at St. Vincent's College at Eton College in Oxford, England, has already married the British royal family's Miss Janice Smith? Alfred? Oster? Baben is engaged, and next year will be the time to get married. And this Miss Baben's father, Count Baben, is the descendant of Wu Bingjian, the richest man in the famous Guangdong Xingshang Group, whose Chinese name is Wu Guohua, and his daughter, the Chinese name of Miss Janice, is Wu Jiayuan

Many people are no strangers to the Wu family of the "Thirteen Lines of Guangdong", which was rich in the world. And Wu Guohua is Wu Bingjian's nephew. He served as Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom, and after being made Earl of Papen, he became a liaison between the Wu family and the British royal family.

The Wu family, which has been integrated into the mainstream of Western society, has always maintained close business contacts with the Shiqiao Fu family because of their business relationship, and in order to strengthen the relationship between them, the two families became baby relatives, and the marriage of Fu Xiaoxin and Wu Jiayuan was set in 1910.

For the Fu family, the role can be compared to the marriage of Fu Xiaoxin and Wu Jiayuan, that is, the marriage of Yang Shuoming and Fu Zhuoyao.

"When the time comes, there will be a lot of fun." Looking at the red sun on the horizon, Fu Xiaowen said to himself.

Beijing, War Department.

"Yang Hanzhi and Cai Songpo and Chen Eun all agreed to cooperate with us, which is quite happy, much better than Yang Du's nerd." Duan Qirui put down the telegram in his hand and said to his son Duan Hongye, who had already put on a military uniform, "But he Yang Hanzhi didn't make a bid, so I was a little relieved." ”

"Don't look at the titles that Lao Yuan gave him, but there are not many real things. Take him, the national railway superintendent, for example, it is just an empty yamen, and all localities have only notified it in official documents, and it is gone. He had to pay for everything out of his own pocket, and as a result, the Chuanlu Company didn't buy it at all. The same is true of the later Nanzhili patrol envoy, the princes of the southern provinces, except for his original few people in Jiangxi, the rest do not listen to him, if it were not for his large amount of money to buy warships for the navy, he would be enough to be a patrol envoy of the sea and frontier. Duan Hongye said, "If we want to really hold him this time, I'm afraid we have to give him something tangible." ”…,

"Having said that, if he really gets a province or several provinces of territory, and sits on it, it will still be a ** annoyance for us in the future." Duan Qirui shook his head, got up and said, "Now Jiangxi is basically up to him, Li Chun is simply a decoration, he has now conquered Liangguang and Fujian, if the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan fall into his hands again, he will become the number one warlord in our country." He looked at an all-metal simulation of a Land Cruiser on a table not far away, and then added meaningfully, "And I'm afraid it's the only 'high-tech warlord' in China." ”

"What is my father going to do?" Duan Hongye asked.

"What to do? Cold. Duan Qirui smiled and said, "When this person first came to Beijing, he took the initiative to relieve himself of his military position to appease the old Yuan's heart. I have already made it clear to him in my letter that after the restoration of the republic, I will never be the president, the prime minister, and I will no longer be in charge of the War Department, but I will learn from his hand against Lao Yuan. Now with me as an example, if he wants to subdue people's hearts, he will definitely not think of becoming a local prince. ”

After listening to his father's explanation, Duan Hongye figured out the key and couldn't help nodding again and again.

"Still, we should guard against his expansion in the south." Duan Hongye said.

"This is natural, I have been prepared, and now I am not afraid of him and us." Duan Qirui picked up the telegrams sent by the provincial generals and looked at them, "Feng Guozhang, Cao Kun, Chen Eun, Tang Jiyao, Fu Xiaoan, Zhang Xiaozhun, Zhang Shaozeng, Zhang Zuolin, Li Chun, Chen Guangyuan, Wang Zhanyuan, Zhang Jingyao, Zhao Hengti and Tang Tianxi are all from our area now, and even Li Yuanhong and Cai Songpo have to obey my orders, and I am not afraid that he Yang Hanzhi will go to the sky." ”

"It's a pity that Lu Rongting has already let him be destroyed, otherwise, Lu Rongting and Tang Jiyao plus us will still be able to contain him." Duan Hongye said.

"It's a pity that he, Lu Rongtingbai, has been in Guangxi for so long, alas. Unexpectedly, he didn't die under Xiao Yang's gun, but folded in the hands of his own subordinates. Duan Qirui sighed and said, "This head is not good, and there will definitely be more and more things in the future to completely eliminate the opponent without leaving any way to live." ”

Listening to his father's somewhat sentimental sigh, Duan Hongye was quite disappreciative in his heart, in his opinion, this kind of thing was actually very normal.

Now Duan Hongye can't realize that his father's worries are justified.

"By the way, did I send all the notes I asked you to send to the embassies of various friendly countries?" Duan Qirui seemed to suddenly remember something, turned his head and asked his son.

"It was sent the day before yesterday, but now there has been no response." Duan Hongye said angrily, "But they didn't even show their heads, it's really too deceitful."

"There's no need to rush," Duan Qirui said confidently, "They will definitely admit us." ”

"How can Father be sure?" Duan Hongye asked.

"Now that the war in Europe is in full swing, the Entente countries are exhausted, Russia has withdrawn because of domestic **, and what they are most afraid of now is that our country has withdrawn." Duan Qirui smiled and said, "As long as we promise to continue to participate in the war, they will definitely come to us." ”

Duan Qirui and his son were talking, and an officer walked in quickly, saluted Duan Qirui and said, "Report to the Commander-in-Chief, Mr. Zhu Erdian, the British Minister for Chief."

Duan Qirui and his son looked at each other and smiled, and said, "Please." ”

On October 10, 1918, Duan Qirui announced in Beijing the abolition of the "Chinese Empire", the abolition of the Hongxian Empire, the restoration of the "Republic of China" national name, and the establishment of a new government of the Republic of China, which was echoed by all provinces across the country. After the "republican republic", former vice president Li Yuanhong was elected president of the Republic of China, Xu Shichang served as premier, Gu Weijun served as minister of foreign affairs, Cai Yi served as minister of army, Liu Guanxiong served as minister of navy, Zhang Xiaozhun served as chief of staff, and Liang Shiyi served as chief of finance. After the formation of the new government of the Republic of China, the Entente group was assured of continued participation in the war, which was soon officially recognized by the Western powers. …,

On October 15, 1918, Guangxi, Nanning, and Guangxi toured the envoys.

“…… Since Tang Jiyao was in charge of Yunnan, he has privately cultivated party henchmen, recklessly used military force, extensively searched for people's wealth, built a large number of buildings, was extremely poor and extravagant, and wasted excessively, so that the people's hearts were lost. …… Nowadays, Yunnan province is full of bandits, farmers and workers have dropped out, rice beads are salary, and ten rooms are empty. In order to relieve the upside-down hanging of our Yunnan people, Zhen and others are determined to kill this fang......"

After reading the telegram jointly issued by the generals of the Yunnan Army, Gu Pinzhen, Ye Quan, Jin Handing and Yang Zhen, Yang Shuoming asked the officer of the Yunnan Army standing in front of him: "Your Commander Gu only left guns and ammunition, but returned the salary, is he so sure that Tang Jiyao will be ousted?" ”。

"Absolutely." The Dian officer straightened up and replied in a firm tone.

"I'm afraid that you may not be able to catch him, he Tang Jiyao can't fight, and he still has the ability to run away." Yang Shuoming said, "I admire Commander Gu's ability very much, but I also ask him not to be careless." ”

Zhengse, an officer of the Yunnan army, said: "Please rest assured General Yang, we promise to complete the task"

"You tell Commander Gu for me, in order to prevent the Tang thief from escaping, I will send troops to Liuzhou at that time, thinking that in response, how many guns he still needs, just open his mouth," Yang Shuoming said, "I'm waiting here for his good news." ”

The officer of the Dian army agreed, stood up and saluted, and then turned and walked away. Yang Shuoming watched his figure disappear, and then picked up the letter that Gu Pinzhen wrote to himself again and read it again.

"This Gu Pinzhen is a man," Xu Yuanjin said to Yang Shuoming, "but he refused to accept our military salary, only guns and ammunition." That's a little weird. ”

"He doesn't want to lose his reputation as being bought by us." Yang Shuoming smiled and said, "This person is a good hand at fighting, but his mind is a little inflexible. ”

"It's not practical for them, let's do it ourselves, and we can also break into Yunnan and capture Tang Jiyao." Tang Jiumei, who was standing behind Tang Jing, said loudly.

"Having said that, but we fought all the way from Jiangxi to here, the troops fought continuously, and they were already very tired, Yunnan is the same as Guangxi, the terrain is complex, which is not conducive to the mobile combat of the brigade, we can defeat Yunnan, and the strength will inevitably lose more than half, and it is likely that we will make wedding clothes for others at that time." Tang Jing glared back at his daughter, as if to blame her for not interjecting in such a military meeting.

"That's right," Yang Shuoming nodded, "So, it's worth spending this money on them." ”

"You Xiao Yang has finally figured it out now." Xu Yuanjin laughed and said, "This time, the Nanzhili patrol envoy has become the Liangguang patrol envoy, how do you feel?" ”

Just a few days ago, the newly established government of the Republic of China sent a telegram of change of flag, along with Yang Shuoming's appointment order. In the telegram, the new president, Li Yuanhong, asked the War Department to remove Yang Shuoming from his post as a patrol envoy to the south of the country, and to reap the post of patrol envoy of the two Guangzhous, and concurrently served as the patrol envoy of the sea and Xinjiang and the supervision of the whole country.

"I expected that." Yang Shuoming got up and came to the map, "But it's useless for him Duan Zhiquan to come here, he can't control what I want to do." ”

"Yes, I guess when he knows that Tang Jiyao also let you get it quickly, that face is much longer." Xu Yuanjin said with a smile.

After Duan Qirui published a nationwide telegram on "restoring the republic", Tang Jiyao, who was worried about Yang Shuoming's march into Yunnan, took the lead in sending a telegram in favor of obtaining the protection of Duan Qirui's Beijing government, and in order to pull Tang Jiyao away, Duan Qirui, after reinstating his post as the provincial overseer, formally appointed Tang Jiyao as the overseer of Yunnan and concurrently the governor of Yunnan in the name of the government of the Republic of China, and ordered Yang Shuoming to stop military operations against Yunnan.

Regarding Duan Qirui's telegram, Yang Shuoming certainly understood what it meant. …,

At this time, the Jiangxi-Guangdong coalition army had basically pacified the entire territory of Guangxi, due to the exhaustion of the continuous battle, the consumption of weapons and ammunition was very large, and the troops also had certain casualties, and the Jiangxi army was far away from the homeland, many officers and soldiers were difficult to adapt to the local water and soil, and it had become quite difficult to march into Yunnan, Yang Shuoming decisively decided to give up the military action against Yunnan, and Duan Qirui's telegram order also gave him the opportunity to stop the army.

It is true that Yunnan will not be attacked, but this does not prevent Yang Shuoming from using other methods to take Yunnan.

According to Yang Shuoming's understanding, because Tang Jiyao's perverse behavior in Yunnan has caused dissatisfaction among many people in the Yunnan army, Gu Pinzhen, the commander of the First Army of the Yunnan Army, is planning to overthrow Tang.

Because Yang Shuoming's anti-Japanese exploits in Qingdao are famous all over the world, and after marching into Liangguang, he not only never disturbed the people, but also tried every means to reduce the scope of the war as much as possible, so that the local people could avoid the catastrophe of the war. made Gu Pinzhen and other generals of the Yunnan army respectful, and after Yang Shuoming asked them for "cooperation", they quickly got their response.

In order to allow Gu Pinzhen to start as soon as possible, Yang Shuoming sent a large number of weapons to Gu Pinzhen, but Gu Pinzhen only accepted guns and ammunition, but returned the salary.

After the preparations, Gu Pinzhen led the army to revolt with the support of Ye Quan, Jin Handing and Yang Zhen and others, and went straight to Kunming, Tang Jiyao was caught off guard for a while, and now the troops on both sides have started a fierce battle, and the Tang army has been defeated and retreated after taking over the battle, and many troops have fallen to Gu Pinzhen, and Tang Jiyao's "King of Yunnan" days can be said to have come to an end.

Gu Pinzhen's anti-Tang action made Duan Qirui's attempt to use Tang Jiyao and other warlords to contain Yang Shuoming's wishes all come to naught, and at this time Duan Qirui did not understand why Gu Pinzhen chose to overthrow Tang at this time.

"Yunnan is in chaos, and he has to send us to clean up this mess." Tang Jing said, "I estimate that it won't be long before he will be able to send a telegram." ”

"Don't wait for his telegram, follow the power in a hurry, and then play it first." Xu Yuanjin smiled, looked at Yang Shuoming and said, "Gu Pinzhen is a good person, it's better to find a way to collect it for your own use." ”

"yes." Tang Jing also laughed, "Whichever province you Xiao Yang goes to, there will be people from that province to be your subordinates." ”

Second General Xu Tang's words reminded Yang Shuoming of something, he smiled, and instead of continuing their words, he asked an officer, "Is Miss Liu back?" ”

"Not yet." The officer replied, "The stockade where Miss Liu went is deep in the woods, and even if it is fast, it will have to be rushed back tomorrow." ”

"Oh." Yang Shuoming frowned unconsciously, didn't say anything more, and his gaze returned to the map.

Tang Jing saw Yang Shuoming's expression and seemed to sense something, he turned his head and whispered a few words to Tang Jiumei, Tang Jiumei smiled slightly, turned around and ran away like a deer.

"Don't worry, Miss Liu is a holy hand of medicine, and the local Buzhuang local officials are revered as god-like figures, no matter where they go, they will be fine." Xu Yuanjin also saw the concern on Yang Shuoming's face, and said with a smile, "I only understand now why you brought so many medicines and medical teams over." ”

"Lu Rongting has been in Guangxi for so many years, and he has taken no measures to build the local people's livelihood, which is very hateful." Yang Shuoming understood that Xu Yuanjin was making fun of himself for buying the hearts of the local people by giving free medicine to see a doctor, and replied with a smile, "The medical and health conditions here are very poor, and there are many miasma and poisons, so we can't help but be vigilant." The main reason why I brought so many medical personnel here was that I was afraid that the wounded of our army would not be effectively treated. ”

"That's 'unintentionally planting willows into the shade'." Tang Jing also laughed, "The Buzhuang people here are very brave, especially good at jungle and mountain warfare, you Xiao Yang should not come in vain this time." ”

"Since he asked me to be the patrol envoy of the two Guangzhous, I don't make any achievements, and I'm too sorry for him." Yang Shuoming said with a smile......,