"Harmony?"

"Yes, that's what Cai Ye said!"

Wang Hengyue had no expression on his face: "Cai Ye is Tang Jiyao is alerting, I see that Cai Yi is coming forward like this, Tang Jiyao will definitely not act rashly at this time, but in this way, Yunnan will also be prepared." ”

"Anyway, there will be a war in Sichuan and Yunnan sooner or later, and everyone knows this very well." Wang Qinglu didn't care much: "Since that's the case, there's nothing to worry about." ”

"Yes." Wang Hengyue nodded: "Is there anything else?" ”

"The position of Xiangdu has changed again, and it has been replaced by Tan Yanhong."

Wang Hengyue held his chin and didn't make a sound.

The position of the Hunan Overseer is too sensitive.

The original Hunan Governor Tang Qianming was reappointed by Duan Qirui as the Guangdong Investigation Envoy.

Why didn't Duan Qirui maintain Tang Qianming's Hunan overseer and instead sent him as the Guangdong investigation envoy? It turned out that two days before Duan Qirui published the list of governors of various provinces, something big happened in Hunan, and Tang Qianming fled. At the time of Hunan Reading, the Sixth Division of the Beiyang Army was in Xiangxi, and the Ni Yudi Division of the Anwu Army was in Yuezhou, and Tang Qianming directly commanded a mixed brigade of the Beiyang Army, led by the brigade commander Che Zhen, and stationed near Changsha. At this time, part of the Guangxi army had already reached Hengyang and Baoqing. In his capacity as commander-in-chief of the Hunan, Guangdong, and Guizhou forces, Lu Rongting drove from Guangdong to Hunan in early June and stationed in Hengzhou. Inside Hunan, Zhao Hengti and others had already formed two divisions of the Hunan Army, and a part of the people's army in western Hunan had also set up a division near Changsha. This is a tense situation, and Yuan Jun and Hu [***] cannot live in peace, and there may be a conflict at any time.

Tang Qianming's situation was somewhat the same as that of Chen Eun in Chengdu, he could not command the Yuan army stationed in western and northern Hunan provinces, nor could he command the people's army in Hunan and the guest troops in Guizhou and Guangdong. The worst thing was that the Hunan people hated this murderous soup butcher, so the rumors of the siege of Changsha by the various people's armies, and the Kuomintang were going to use pistols and bombs against Tang, spread throughout the city. Late at night on July 4, Tang Qianming left Changsha in embattled.

After Tang Qianming left, the Hunan army had set up three divisions, and the division commanders were Chen Fuchu, Zhao Hengti, and Chen Zhongxun. Zeng Jiwu temporarily served as the governor of Hunan as the commander of the first army of the Hunan army, and Long Zhang temporarily acted as the chief of civil affairs of Hunan. Subsequently, Cheng Qian went from Yunnan to Hunan in the name of the commander-in-chief of Hunan Hu [***], and his unit was also changed to the Fourth Division of the Hunan Army. Tang Qianming's departure did not alleviate the smell of gunpowder in Hunan, so all walks of life in Hunan elected Liu Renxi, who was already in his seventies, as the governor of Hunan. Why push him? Because Liu Renxi had previously worked in the Guangxi Domain, he had a lot of connections with Lu Rongting of the Gui Army, and wanted to obtain the assistance of the Gui Army through Liu Renxi's relationship to reject the Beiyang Army.

Lu Rongting supported Hunan's operation, because the Gui army did not want the Beiyang Army to enter Hunan in a big way. The issue of the Northern Army's Hunan military aroused opposition from the Hunan people and the Dian Army and the Gui Army, while other party figures such as Xiong Xiling and Fan Yuanlian hoped that Cai Yi would be transferred back to Hunan, and the Kuomintang figures hoped that Huang Xing, who had returned from the United States, would take up the post. However, Cai and Huang had no intention of being Xiangdu. Huang Xing recommended Tan Yanmin to replace himself. Tan Yanmin has good popularity in all parties, but his relationship with the Beiyang system is not deep enough.

And Duan Qirui also understands that if the surname is sent to the northern army to Xiang, it will inevitably cause war, and Duan feels that this time is not yet ripe for the use of soldiers. Therefore, on July 16, he reassigned Liu Renxi as the overseer of Hunan, and ordered the 6th Division to be transferred from Xiangxi back to Jiangxi, the 7th Division from Sichuan to Luoyang, and the 3rd Division from Sichuan back to Yuezhou.

Duan Qirui's original plan was to send Cao Kun, the commander of the Third Division, to oversee the Hunan army after Chen Eun, but Duan himself felt that his foundation in Yanjing was not yet stable, and he had to rely on a reliable Beiyang general by his side to strengthen his position, so he chose Cao Kun. Cao Kun has always given people the impression of being an "honest man", so Duan transferred Cao Kun to the direct overseer. At the same time, the 3rd Division, which had returned to Yuezhou in July, was transferred back to the north in batches.

This did not mean that Duan Qirui completely gave up Hunan, because he had another chess piece in Hunan, and he sent his brother-in-law Wu Guangxin to lead the Third Brigade of the Northern Army to take over Yuezhou. This is, of course, an ambush for Wu as a plan for the future governor of Xiang. If the world is like no one knows, unless it has been done. The news that Duan Qirui had appointed Wu Guangxin as the governor of Hunan immediately spread throughout Hunan, and of course aroused fierce opposition from the whole Hunan province, and even openly declared that he was trying to resist the northern army. Do not hesitate to fight.

Duan Qirui understood Hunan's toughness, so on August 3, he ordered Tan Yanmin to be reassigned as the governor of Hunan Province and the acting superintendent of the army.

In Duan Qirui's order, Tan Yanmin was sent as the governor of the province to temporarily act as the overseer, which means that an overseer will be sent in the future, so the telegrams sent to Tan during this period all called Tan Yanmin the governor!

Tan Yanmin is anti-Yuan, and he is very popular in Hunan. After the failure of the Second Revolution, he assumed all the responsibilities of Hunan, and Yuan Shikai transferred him and Zhao Hengti to Beijing. Zhao Hengti was imprisoned, and he was also under house arrest, and this experience made him even more loved in Hunan.

The Hunan people are very sensitive to the position of Hunan governor, this is because Tang Qianming killed too much, and the Hunan people and even the southwest protector [***] are particularly resolute in opposing the re-entry of the Beiyang Army into Hunan, but the Beiyang Army's stay in Yuezhou is a fait accompli, so at that time it was equivalent to a tacit understanding that as long as the Northern Army did not cross Dongting Lake, it seemed that the two sides could coexist peacefully.

And Wang Hengyue has always attached great importance to Hunan.

If everything goes well in the future and goes on according to his own vision, then sooner or later he will have to face the Hunan problem like Duan Qirui.

Wang Qinglu knew what the Overseer was thinking: "Overseer, at the moment, our hands can't reach Hunan, let's settle down the West first." ”

Wang Hengyue nodded: "What about Yanjing?" ”

"Li Yuanhong's position is uncomfortable." Wang Qinglu shook his head when he said this: "He was the father of the Republic of China in a daze during the Wuchang Uprising, and after Yuan Shikai failed to claim the emperor, he inexplicably sat on the presidential throne. After he took over as president, he asked all kinds of questions instead of asking, and asked more questions from asking questions, and he thought that small things could not be asked, but big things must be asked, which was unbearable for Duan Qirui. Duan Qirui was already suffering from the troubles given to him by the Congress, which made him unable to act alone, and Li Yuanhong always grabbed his elbows when he encountered problems, which made him feel very unbearable. He sometimes complained to his cronies that 'I asked him to stamp and sign, not to press him on my head.'"

Wang Hengyue smiled: "The little thing between them has nothing to do with me, but there is one thing between them that is completely on the same position, that is, disarmament and the abolition of the governor!" ”

In the era of Yuan Shikai, he instructed Li Yuanhong to issue a telegram advocating the division of the military and the people in the provinces, and the abolition of the governor and the reduction of troops, Yuan Shikai hoped to test whether it could be done in the provinces, as long as the provinces did not resolutely oppose it, he meant to first separate the two positions of the governor and the civil chief, and then start to reduce the army, the governors of all provinces were abolished, and the armies of all provinces were directly under the central government, so as to turn the situation of warlords in the provinces into a situation of centralized power. Of course, this plan did not have the support of the warlords in the provinces, but it was a positive trend, and the wise people of the whole country supported the plan to abolish the governor and reduce the army. Although this plan was stillborn, Li Yuanhong gained fame because of it.

During the period of the Protectorate of the Yuan Dynasty, due to the war, both the north and the south tried to expand their armies, and no one could count the number of the whole [***] team, because if the number of people surveyed was to achieve the purpose of expansion, it would naturally be exaggerated as much as possible. However, after Yuan Shikai's death, the whole country returned to peace, and the top priority at the moment was demobilization, and reducing the number of military personnel was the first step in demobilization, but this was an extremely difficult problem.

After Yuan Shikai's death, Duan Qirui tried every means to bring the Beiyang forces into the southwest, which caused a more chaotic situation.

Such as in the provinces of Sichuan and Hunan, especially Sichuan!

Sichuan is already very obviously a force that belongs to Wang Hengyue, and it will definitely not work if it is forced, but if it is disarmed and abolished, then if Wang Hengyue puts up tough resistance again, it will also have a great impact on his prestige.

It's just that Duan Qirui, who was born in the military, thinks a little simple, not only Wang Hengyue, but among the overseers who are entrenched in various places, which one is willing to disarm and abolish the governor?

At this point, the big and small warlords have exactly the same attitude as Wang Hengyue, Duan Qirui is simply unable to achieve his goal of disarming and abolishing the governor!

The whole country is only superficially peaceful and unified, but in fact, the southwestern provinces, whether it is Wang Hengyue's Sichuan, Tang Jiyao's Yunnan, or Liu Xianshi's Guizhou, still adopt a detached attitude toward Yanjing, continue to control taxes, and expand the army.

Not only did the provinces refuse to obey the orders of the central government, but even the Progressive Party, which usually uses the pen as a weapon, wants to build up private armed forces in the southwest region, which can be seen in Liang Qichao's letter to his followers:

"I profess to be a modest, and I once had no place to base my size, but I opened my empty fist to shout on behalf of others, so I have no choice but to be hijacked by others, and I am not used by people all the time."

The Progressive Party actually has no organization, but through the relationship between Liang Qichao and Cai Yi, it has some strength in Sichuan and Guizhou, and with the relationship between Cen Chunxuan and Lu Rongting, it has some strength in Liangguang.

Liang Qichao very much wanted to turn Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan into the base areas of the Progressive Party, establish a basis for armed force, and turn the Progressive Party into a party with strength and base areas, so as to win greater power in the central authorities.

It's a pity that these local warlords are willing to let a few pen sticks into their own territory? The "ideals" of Liang Qichao and the Progressive Party can only stay at the ideal stage forever.

"Still, it's not okay." Wang Hengyue groaned: "These pens sometimes have great lethality, even more powerful than cannons and machine guns. ”

"Yes, as far as I know, the Progressive Party in Sichuan has already begun to operate, and there are some articles in the newspapers that are unfavorable to us, and some measures should be taken."

Wang Hengyue sneered: "Then let's also use the newspaper to fight back!" ”

(To be continued)