The Northern Expedition of the Southern People's Political Axe was carried out vigorously, but in the face of the crisis, Beiyang was not united, but still fought for the right in the open and secret!

Directly related to Feng Guozhang's death, Cao Kun was the chief, and the three governors of the Yangtze River were only Cao Ma's first look, and the reason why Cao Kun was able to sit firmly in Diaoyutai was due to his favorite general, Wu Peifu, a rising star in Beiyang.

Although Wu Peifu is only a division commander, his every gesture and every word and deed have attracted the attention of the whole country. He was in Hunan, and he was invincible at the beginning. He was able to grasp the center of the situation, make good use of it, and win the sympathy and support of the broad masses of the people. Because he can do and sing, the soldiers in the north and south are impressed by him, and Cao Kun is his relative commander, so that the tide rises and he becomes a leader who deserves to be in the name of the direct line.

Duan Qirui could have become Yuan Shikai's heir, the leader of the entire Beiyang faction, but because he was too rigid to tolerate things, and trusted Xu Shuzheng, he lost the support of most people, so he had to consolidate the Anhui line to gain self-respect. Xu Shuzheng is of course a character, but unfortunately he is too domineering and too sharp, he has contributed the most to Duan and has the greatest influence on Duan. As for Fu Liangzuo, Wu Guangxin, and Zhang Jingyao, they are all Duan Qirui's burden, neither talents nor generals.

The rise of the Feng faction, of course, occupies a geographical advantage, and when Duan Qirui was fighting with Feng Guozhang in the open and secret battles, Xu Shuzheng proposed to pull Zhang Zuolin and Feng Jun to deal with the direct line, which gave the Feng faction a chance to grow. In the process of using each other, Zhang Zuolin and the Anhui Department took a great advantage, so his ambition also grew. This is a combination of interests and harms, when he feels that his strength can go it alone, he is unwilling to be at the mercy of the Anhui system, and even wants to liquidate Xu Shuzheng.

After that, Duan Qirui's participating army was renamed the Frontier Army, and later developed into three divisions and four mixed brigades. After the withdrawal of Outer Mongolia, Xu Shuzheng seemed to be the "King of the Northwest", and wanted to fight against the "King of the Northeast" Zhang Zuolin, which forced Zhang Zuolin to unite the direct line, Zhang Zuolin and Cao Kun were originally two male and female, but now in order to deal with Xu Shuzheng, they actually joined forces, because Xu Shuzheng's past record is too terrible, he has killed Lu Jianzhang, the direct behind-the-scenes military advisor, has won over Zhang's subordinate Sun Liechen, and has also deliberately colluded with Cao's love general Wu Peifu, in Zhang Zuolin and Cao Kun's mind:

"This person must not be ambitious, if this person is ambitious, our generation will have no such thing."

Yu Cao and Zhang united under the common premise of opposing Xu Shuzheng, so the four provinces of Zhili, Jiangsu, Hubei, Jiangxi, and the three eastern provinces formed an anti-Anhui alliance.

The seven-province alliance received spiritual support and encouragement from Xu Shichang. When Xu Shichang was alive, he decided that Xu Shuzheng was a terrible person, and the two families had never gotten along.

The Seven Provinces Alliance did not oppose Duan Qirui at the beginning, their slogan was "Qingjun side", that is, against Xu Shuzheng beside Duan Qirui. They hope that Duan Qirui can be close to the virtuous and far from the villain. This so-called villain refers to Xu Shuzheng.

What about Duan Qirui? He can't get rid of Xu Shuzheng because of external pressure, political union is sometimes very fragile, sometimes very hard, Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng are inseparable, because Duan Qirui's new "border guards" were established by Xu Shuzheng, and at the same time in Xu Shuzheng's hands, and the Anfu Congress was controlled by Xu Shuzheng, if Xu Shuzheng was removed, it would be disarmed, which was equivalent to "self-destruction of the Great Wall".

Since Duan Qirui could not accept the request of the Seven Provinces Alliance to "clear the monarch's side", the situation deteriorated to the point of being out of control, because the purpose of the Seven Provinces Alliance could not be achieved, so he had to go to extremes.

Unfortunately, the Anhui general Anhui overseer Ni Sichong was sick and dying, and he seemed to be a bit of a bad omen. When dealing with Feng Guozhang back then, the Governor Army was headed by Ni Sichong, who succeeded Zhang Xun as the governor of Anhui, and also received Zhang Xun's troops. Now that the day is uncertain, Duan Qirui is like losing his left and right hands. Because of Ni's critical illness, Ni's subordinate Ma Lianjia also wanted to win the handsome seal, Duan Qirui ordered Ma to help handle Anhui military affairs, and wanted to send Duan Zhigui to succeed him as the overseer of Anhui, while Xu Shichang advocated the use of Jiang Gui, a veteran of the Huai Army. Xu Duan's opinions were not unanimous, so Xu Shichang decided that Ni Sichong would not die for a day, so he would not open vacancies for a day and would not make up for people.

The vanguard of the Seven Provinces Alliance fell on Wu Peifu's head again, and Wu Peifu repeatedly called for the withdrawal of the defense and return to the north, but Yanjing ignored it.

While they were competing with each other, all forces had their eyes on Shanghai.

Because Shanghai is an international city, it has always occupied a special position, so the Songhu Protector has also become a target for the Beiyang warlords!

In particular, the two departments of Zhiwan have not given up the competition for this position.

When Yuan Shikai was brewing to be the emperor, in order to contain Feng Guozhang, he sent Yang Shande, the commander of the fourth division, to garrison Shanghai, and concurrently served as the envoy of the Songhu Protector.

But protest is protest, and Yanjing is unwilling to include Shanghai in Jiangsu. Later, the Zhejiang overseer was vacant, Yang Shande led the troops into Hangzhou, and obtained the Zhejiang overseer, which was a matter of November in the 6th year of the Republic of China, Feng Guozhang took the opportunity to bring the Songhu Military Region into the jurisdiction of the Jiangsu overseer, but this was only Feng's unilateral action, Yanjing political axe did not admit it, Duan Qirui sent another strong general in the Anhui department, Lu Yongxiang, the commander of the tenth division, succeeded as the Songhu protector, Feng Duan's early misunderstanding, the Songhu battle was a major key, because Lu Yongxiang succeeded the Songhu protector envoy, so that Feng's hope was disappointed again.

Later, Yang Shande, the overseer of Zhejiang, died of illness, and Yanjing Zhengaxe gave Yang 10,000 yuan for funeral expenses. In the Beiyang era, the emphasis on martial arts and light on literature can be proved by the funeral expenses, the funeral expenses of the martial artists are 10,000 yuan, and the funeral expenses of the literati are 2,000 yuan, which has almost become a rule.

At this time, Li Chun, the overseer of Jiangsu, took the opportunity to put forward a request to take back the Songhu Military Region, and Qi Xieyuan, the commander of the Sixth Division of the Three Governors of the Yangtze River, succeeded him as the envoy of the Songhu Protector. But how could the Anhui family give up such an important territory in their hands?

Therefore, Lu Yongxiang sent an urgent telegram to Yanjing Zhengaxe to protect He Fenglin, commander of the Eighth Brigade of the Fourth Division, to succeed him as the envoy of Songhu. At the same time, the Fourth Division left by Yang Shande was expanded into one division and one mixed brigade, and the commander of the Eighth Brigade of the Fourth Division, He Fenglin, was promoted to the commander of the Songhu Protector and concurrently served as the commander of the mixed brigade, and Chen Leshan, the commander of the Seventh Brigade of the Fourth Division, was promoted to the commander of the Fourth Division. Lu's descendants were stationed in Hangzhou and the 1st Brigade of the 10th Division in Shanghai.

This arrangement made the immediate family very angry, but the immediate family could not oppose it head-on, but put forward their opinion, believing that the Songhu Protector was of a very high status and could not be succeeded by a brigade commander with very low qualifications. The direct family reacted this opinion to Yanjing, and asked Yanjing to carefully consider the selection of the Songhu military envoy.

Of course, Lu Yongxiang will not let go of the territory that has been obtained, his attitude is very resolute, he said to Yanjing Zhengaxe: If he does not accept his opinion, he will not be the supervisor of Zhejiang, and would rather return to Songhu to protect the army. In fact, this is just a gesture, just a demonstration to the direct family.

Later, Lu Yongxiang actually returned to Shanghai from Hangzhou, as if he really wanted to return to Songhu to serve as the military envoy, which made Yanjing Zhengaxe feel very embarrassed.

In order to alleviate the dispute between Li Chun and Lu Yongxiang, Yanjing Zhengaxe adopted a compromise method and explicitly ordered the publication of three cases: 1. Lu Yongxiang was specially appointed as the overseer of Zhejiang. 2. Abolish the Songhu Protector Envoys. The Songhu town guard was re-established. 3. Make He Fenglin the envoy of Songhu Town.

In Yanjing's view, this is a two-pronged approach, but the Zhejiang side is quite dissatisfied, because Songhu is under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu, and the military envoys can not be controlled by the overseers, but the town guards must be controlled by the overseers. Not only is the official position completely different, but this time it still achieved Li Chun's goal of devouring Songhu.

As all the officers of the Fourth Division and the 10th Division sent a telegram to Yanjing, they called on them to revoke the order to dismiss the Songhu Protector and appoint He Fenglin as the Protector Envoy.

He Fenglin suspected that Li Chun had done a trick, that is, he telegraphed Li Chunyou: "Untie the bell and tie the bell, all in my division", and jointly with Wu Song Garrison Commander Rong Daoyi to call Li Chunyou: "The same people and other groups criticize each other, have no words to deal with it, selfish speculation, and it is difficult to understand, not the central government bullies my teacher, that is, my teacher bullies students".

It turned out that He Fenglin and Rong Daoyi were both students of Li Chun. Li Chunnai replied to the telegram and expressed his heart: "The central government orders that if the elder brother instructs him, the elder brother will have no shame to see his brother and no one to see anyone." However, the Zhejiang side still did not understand, so the two sides were tense and divided their troops. The gentry of Jiangsu combined various groups to call for peace, and Li Chunping always called for peace, and he was unwilling to go overboard in the face of the dispute between Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

At this time, Jiangsu's political tide abrupt and became more complicated.

It turned out that the governor of Jiangsu Province, Qi Yaolin and Li Chunzheng, disagreed, and petitioned to resign, Li Chun pushed the boat down the river, and recommended Wang Kemin as the governor of Yanjing Zhengaxe.

On Li Chun's sponsorship submission, Wang Kemin was accompanied by a Wang Hu, who had been Jing Zhaoyin and Shangfu people's popularity.

Therefore, Yanjing not only had to accept public opinion, but also took care of Li Chun's face, so Wang Hu was appointed as the governor of Jiangsu.

After the governor issue was resolved, the issue of the director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance arose. Li Chun recommended Zhang Wengong as the director of finance, and the Su people thought that Zhang Wengong was incompetent and flattering, so how could he take charge of the finances of a province, so he opposed it in a big way. So he criticized Zhang Wengong and Li Chun, and the telegrams arrived in Yanjing one after another.

In the face of the vigorous and large-scale Northern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Political Axe in the south, the provinces not only could not work as one, but each had a ghost in their hearts, which was equivalent to giving President Wang Hengyue a great opportunity.

Take advantage of each other's contradictions, and break them one by one!

(To be continued)