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Eliminate the basics of Xu Shichang's money line! are all literati, Ruan Zhongshu, Xia Shoutian Biying, Yin Mingshou "Just like Yang Du said just now, these are all a group of scholars, a group of scholars who can only assist the Ming Lord to dominate the world, the "Ming Lord" yellow robe is added, they can ascend to heaven, and the "Ming Lord" is defeated, and they can only change the court. Or simply tree to the point of confusion.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know when we will see each other again, let me salute you with this first glass of wine."

Xu Shichang picked up the wine glass, first toasted everyone, then put down the wine glass, and said: "You don't have to be discouraged, although I go to the wilderness and go into hiding, then you can still continue to serve the republican government." In the morning, Zhao Zhenhua sent me a telegram. The rhetoric is quite earnest, and he also said that the current central cabinet is maintenance-oriented, and each person's position is not moved if he can, and he is not here to smash other people's jobs, as long as he is of one heart and one mind with the center, he is a good official of the republican government. ”

Yang Dumulan asked, "Didn't Zhao Zhenhua keep Xu Xiang?" ”

Xu Shichang smiled bitterly and said: "He is very envious of my retreat to the countryside in the telegram. said that I was a catty, a blessed person, and that I no longer have to worry about state affairs, and suggested that I go to Wuhan and ask me to go there to create a board industry. ”

He wished that Xu Xiang would go quickly. This man doesn't seem to like to be fake. Ruan Zhongshu also smiled bitterly.

"That's his clever means. Before, I was slighting this person and looked away, but now, I punish myself with a drink. Yang Du raised his glass and drank it down.

"Gao Ming is Gao Ming, but how does he deal with the current situation? Beiyang is about to collapse. It is true that the united front can control the Congress and the government, but in the current situation, the country is weak and the people are poor, and the great powers are waiting for them. Not to mention a revolutionary party. By the way, how old is Zhao Bei this year? One asked.

"Twenty-seven." The other replied.

"The twenty-seven-year-old president of the Republic of China. Gee. Terrible. If this is the inheritance inherited from the ancestors, it would be fine, but this person has risen from recklessness. However, in less than a year, he reigned over the world, and this means and opportunities were too good. ”

Hearing that person's emotion, everyone present was panting, indeed, Zhao Bei's rise was too fast, could it be that there were really geniuses in these? Or, Zhao Bei is the legendary "true son"?

"Reigning in the world? Now that I don't go over, the Congress has already been convened, even if it is the president of the Republic of China. It is also to be conditioned. ”

"You can't help but underestimate Zhao Bei's means. Congress is in his hands, but it's just a plaything. ”

"It's a plaything, and there are times when you tie your hands."

Now the British minister is so anxious that he is like an ant on a hot pot, and he is worried that Zhao Bei will form an alliance with Germany, and the Japanese minister is also running around in Dongjiaomin Alley with red eyes, inciting ministers from various countries to join forces against Zhao Bei as president. The current situation is terrifying. ”

"Before, Zhao Bei was not in the center, he could jump up and down on the side, and stumble with the center, now, he is about to enter the center, and the difficult situation that Yuan Xiangcheng and Xu Xiangju dealt with in the past is now his turn to deal with it, I don't know how he will deal with it? In the past, I thought that no matter what he said, he would have to develop his strength for a few years below, but now, he entered the center in such a hurry, but I don't know why. ”

In the words of their revolutionary party, this is called "time is not waiting for me" in the name of the center, and there are advantages and disadvantages depending on how he weighs them. ”

Xu Shichang and the others sat at the wine table, talking about current affairs in a whisper, the rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and the business in the hotel was deserted, and there was only such a table of guests.

Everyone is preoccupied, this stuffy wine can not drink a few glasses, it is already a little drunk, this poetry is gradually rising, is pondering a few poems for Xu Shichang, the door of the hotel figure flickered, a person in military uniform walked into the hotel, straight to Xu Shichang's side, but it was the infantry commander Jiang Chaozong.

Jiang Chaozong's face was dropping water, but he didn't know whether it was rain or sweat.

"Xu Xiang, you haven't left yet, this is the best. Duan Zhiquan asked us to look for you everywhere and ask Xu Xiang to return to the War Department to preside over the overall situation. ”

Jiang Chaozong's words were sincere, but his words only met with a sigh from Xu Shichang.

"I have retired, and state affairs have nothing to do with me."

"It's not a state affair."

Jiang Chaozong glanced at everyone present, and then whispered: "This matter is related to the life and death of Beiyang, and Xu Xiang has to go." Xu Xiang goes now, Beiyang may be able to breathe for a few days, Xu Xiang does not go, Beiyang is about to overturn. ”

"What?" Xu Shichang looked at Jiang Chaozong in amazement.

"I just got the news that the United Front's special military court in Zhengzhou has handed down its verdict. Wu Ziyu and Wu Peihu were sentenced to death. And the execution has been carried out in the east of Zhengzhou! ”

"What? Didn't the North-South peace terms say that they would not be held accountable for the war? How dare the United Front go back on its word! It's too much of a deception! ”

Xu Shichang shot the case and was furious. This news really shocked him too much, Wu Peihu, the rising star of the Beiyang Army, was actually shot dead by the United Front, which was simply unexpected.

Since Wu Peihu and other high-ranking generals were captured. The Beiyang Center has been trying to get the United Front to release them, but the United Front has been delaying. Now that Wu Peihu has been blatantly shot, this is simply a slap in the face of Beiyang, isn't the United Front afraid of angering other generals in Beiyang and making them hate the same enemy?

I'm afraid this matter is not as simple as it seems. Xu Shichang quickly thought of this, so he calmed down.

"What is the crime of shooting Wu Ziyu by the United Front?" Xu Shichang asked.

Here's the trouble with "this". Wu Ziyu was shot, and the charge was not a "war crime" but "but" a first-degree murder of Jiang Chaozong.

"First-degree murder? What is this charge? Xu Shichang glanced at Yang Du, who was sitting beside him.

Yang Du was also surprised, and said: "This is a provision in the British criminal law, which is used to try murderers. I just don't know, who did Wu Ziyu kill? ”

"Isn't it the last time I ordered to shoot and disperse the people in Zhengzhou?" The Hunan and Guizhou Incident, together, the group of revolutionaries in Henan incited the people. Petitioned to the Provincial Assembly, and the Provincial Assembly was fenced off, just in time for Wu Ziyu to lead the Ninth Division of the Beiyang Army into Zhengzhou, Wu Ziyu ordered to shoot to disperse the mob, the bullets were not long, and the dead were killed plus trampled to death, a total of more than 40 people died. Now the United Front is using this pretext to charge Wu Ziyu with "first-degree murder" and more than 40 counts in total. Wu Ziyu was sentenced to death by the military court more than 40 times, and I heard that more than 40 guns were shot in the end.

Although Jiang Chaozong knew some information, he was a complete layman like Xu Shichang about the law, so after he finished speaking, he asked Yang Du: "Temporary, you are good at law, but you are, what kind of judgment is this?" One death sentence is not enough, but he was sentenced to death more than 40 times in one breath, what is the reason? ”

Yang Du came back to his senses for a long time, and sighed: "This is called "procedural justice", and foreigners pay the most attention to the law, this is not that there is no one in the eyes of the United Front, they are learning from the British court, and this is also blocking other people's mouths!" Judging from this verdict, the United Front military tribunal is not trying by military law. Instead, it was tried in accordance with the criminal law, and when Wu Ziyu was tried, he was afraid that he was not tried as a soldier, but as an ordinary criminal. Actually, there are no loopholes to be found here, we can look carefully, maybe we can unite the United Front, but this will have to find the transcripts and files of the trial

"For the time being, you don't need to say it, this move by the United Front is by no means a "procedural justice" They are killing chickens and monkeys! ”

Xu Shichang interrupted Yang Du's words and glanced at Jiang Chaozong, but saw that the other party nodded again and again.

"Or Xu Xiang understands the truth here, that's right, this is killing chickens to show monkeys."

Jiang Chaozong wiped the raindrops on his forehead, paused, and said: "This verdict, the first to applaud is Wang Zhanyuan, the governor of Shandong, and Lu Yongxiang, the envoy of Heilongjiang Town, these two are Beiyang rebel generals, and they are nothing, Duan Zhiquan They are worried that there are these two rebel generals to perform." We Beiyang are afraid that it will fall apart in a blink of an eye. Moreover, although Wu Ziyu was shot, but the other captured Beiyang generals were released, and that Wu Fengling also shamelessly slapped the telegram, saying that he was very courteous to the United Front during his capture, isn't this obviously to coerce and lure us Beiyang? Acquaintance gives a way to live. If you don't know each other, you will be killed and pulled down. ”

This analysis made most of the people present immediately understand Duan Qirui's worries.

The strategy of the United Front is very clear, and in simple terms, it is eight words: those who go along with me will prosper, and those who oppose me will perish.

Xu Shichang is right, Wu Peihu is the chicken. Other high-ranking Beiyang generals are monkeys, and the United Front is killing chickens and arrogant monkeys.

Now, the chicken feathers are killed, and it's up to the monkeys to choose.

Indeed, this matter cannot be regarded as a state affair, but it is a Beiyang affair.

Xu Shichang is quite hesitant, although he has resigned from the post of president of the Republic of China, but he is still nominally the head of the Beiyang Group, before Duan Qirui's gang elected a new head of Beiyang, he Xu Shichang is still a member of Beiyang, theoretically speaking, if Beiyang encounters a crisis, he can not stand idly by.

But on the other hand, as a politician who has been discouraged about the future of politics, Xu Shichang is physically and mentally exhausted, he has decided not to meddle in political affairs, and he also asked himself that he did not have the means to turn the tide and help the building to collapse.

Therefore, when Jiang Chaozong conveyed Duan Qirui's invitation to go to the War Department to preside over the overall situation, Xu Shichang hesitated, and he couldn't make up his mind to go. I can't make up my mind to cut off with Beiyang like this.

However, soon someone helped Xu Shichang make up his mind, and this person was Meng Enyuan.

Just when Xu Shichang was sitting at the wine table and hesitating to see whether he would go to the War Department or not, an adjutant hurriedly rushed into the hotel and handed over a document to Jiang Chaozong.

Jiang Chaozong glanced at the document twice, his face turned pale, and handed the document to Xu Shichang.

"Xu Xiang, I just received a telegram from Meng Enyuan, he has announced in Nanjing that he has joined the United Front, and the United Front has immediately given him a hat to wear, "General Affairs Committee, now, the First Army of Beiyang Southward has been under the command of the United Front!" ”

"Boom!"

Someone broke the wine glass in his hand, and then there was a deathly silence in the hotel.

After a long time, Xu Shichang put down the document, turned his head to look at the autumn rain outside the hotel, and said lightly: "I won't go to the War Department, I can't do anything about this mess, and there is no one in Beiyang who has this ability." Jiang Commander. Please go back and tell Chief Duan, I advise them a few words, don't waste your efforts in vain, or seriously consider Zhao Zhenhua's suggestion, the Beiyang Army as a whole accepts the reorganization, merges with the troops of the United Front into the National Defense Force, and is unified under the command of the state. Beiyang is afraid that even a piece of broken tiles will not be left. ”

After speaking, Xu Shichang stood up and bowed his hand to everyone present.

"Everyone, Xu will say goodbye, if he has leisure in the future, you may wish to come and have a few drinks with Xu, let's visit Mingyuan, it is better than intrigue in the officialdom."

After saying goodbye to everyone, Xu Shichang left the hotel with his entourage and drifted away.

The others looked at each other, and they could only understand Xu Shichang's choice.

Beiyang, it's really over, Xu Shichang can't save Beiyang, Duan Qirui can't save Beiyang, because this Beiyang has fallen apart, in the face of Zhao Bei's "Shunchang rebellion", those who resist to the end only have death, and those who don't want to die must leave Beiyang.

So, Meng Enyuan left Beiyang, and perhaps, it won't be long before more people leave

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This is the general trend of history, and this is even more the case of those who know the times as the heroes, and in the process of alternating the old and new forces, only smart people can protect their own interests.