Late at night, September 15, 1900. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Yamen of the Governor of Shandong is still brightly lit, as if it is daytime, and the voices inside and outside the house are also noisy, which is extremely noisy.

As the center of the governor's yamen, the study of Yuan Shikai, the current governor of Shandong, is relatively quiet, but although it is quiet, it is difficult to hide the oppressive atmosphere in the study, and there is only one reason why the governor's yamen is so quiet, that is, the German army is finally here.

Although Yuan Shikai made every effort to suppress the boxers and protect the foreigners after he took office as governor of Shandong, and after Cixi declared war on the Eight Kingdoms, Yuan Shikai also joined the southeast mutual protection and protected the German colony of Qingdao, but the arrival of 30,000 German troops still made Yuan Shikai feel pressure.

"Why did the Germans land in Qingdao, shouldn't they go directly to Tanggu, these damn foreign devils."

In the slightly dull and depressing study, the silence was broken in the end, but I didn't expect that the first person to speak was Feng Guozhang, who is known as "Feng Dog" (some people call it "Feng Leopard"), one of the three heroes of Beiyang, of course, the reason why it is called "Feng Dog" is because of Feng Guozhang's dog head and dog brain, so in such an atmosphere, it is not surprising that such a sentence came out when the boss has not yet spoken.

Who is Feng Guozhang?

Feng Guozhang, whose name is Huafu, was born in the same year (1859) with Yuan Shikai, a native of Hejian, Hebei, and is Yuan Shikai's right-hand man.

After the end of the Yuan Shikai era, due to the "Duan Hu" of the three heroes of Beiyang, Duan Qirui competed to be the boss of Beiyang, although his political skills were slightly inferior, but he also acted as the vice president.

Of course, Feng Guozhang at this time was still a younger brother by Yuan Shikai's side, after all, the boss was also the governor of a province, and he himself had just been promoted to the post prefect because of his "meritorious" suppression of the Boxers.

However, although he is only a supplementary prefect, he is Yuan Shikai's henchman, the real right-hand man, although he is a bit of a dog-headed, but he is at ease, and he is deeply trusted by Lao Yuan, so he often comes up with two dog words, and Lao Yuan generally does not blame.

Back to business.

As soon as "Feng Gou" spoke, "Duan Hu", who was also one of the three heroes of Beiyang, just glanced at it contemptuously, and muttered to himself in his heart, it is really dog meat that can't be served, and this kind of thing can also be said, the German army wants to land from Qingdao, which naturally makes sense, and actually scolds the German army for being foreign devils, which is really a bun.

Who is "Duan Hu"?

"Duan Hu" Duan Qirui, born in 1865, is the youngest of the three heroes of Beiyang, formerly known as Qirui, the word Quanzhi, the old man of the righteous road in the evening, a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, a politician during the Republic of China, the leader of the Anhui warlords, is the first army chief and artillery commander of the modern army in China, known as the "six ignoring the prime minister", after the death of Yuan Shikai, the internal and foreign affairs of the Beiyang government, almost all of which are led by Duan Qirui, has the reputation of "three republics".

Moreover, Duan Qirui's father also used to be a pipe band in the Qing army, and called himself the "son of Jiangmen", after graduating from Beiyang Armament, because of his hometown relationship with Beiyang Minister Li Hongzhang, he was arranged to be gilded at the Berlin Military School in Germany in 1889.

Speaking of the identity of "Duan Hu" as a returnee, we have to mention a habit of "Duan Hu", that is, he worships Germany, almost to the level of superstition, he thinks that everything is good in Germany, and even if he is sick, he will not take German medicine, so at this moment, when he hears "Feng Gou" scolding the German army, he will scoff and look unhappy.

Of course, at this moment, "Duan Hu" is just a cadre under Yuan Shikai, mainly training and commanding troops for Yuan Shikai.

Since the "Feng Dog" and "Duan Hu" of the Beiyang Three Heroes are mentioned, we have to mention the head of the Beiyang Three Heroes "Wang Long".

"Wang Long" Wang Shizhen, born in 1861, the word Pingqing, the number of Confucian, Zhili Zhengding County, known as the "Dragon of the Three Heroes", why is it called the dragon, is because he is a character who appears from time to time, of course, his ability and intelligence, in fact, is far above Duan Hu and Feng Gou, the only pity is that Wang Lung and the Qing Dynasty have too deep relations, and actively participated in Zhang Xun's restoration, of course, with his intelligence, it is easy to get out of that farce, but since then, he has withdrawn from politics, It gives people the feeling that the dragon has no end in sight.

Speaking of Wang Shizhen, there is also an interesting anecdote, that is, the real name of "Wang Long" is not actually called Wang Shizhen, and the real Wang Shizhen is someone else.

In the early years, Nie Shicheng, the president of the Wuyi Army, transferred officers to the towns of Zhili, and Yang Ruisheng, the chief soldier of Chaoyang Town, opened an insurance policy to send it, including the garrison Wang Shizhen, but this Wang garrison was unwilling to change to another place, and it happened that Yang Ruisheng had a horseman surnamed Wang next to him, who was careful and careful, Yang Ruisheng simply let him replace and transfer the past, this is the later "Wang Long", after "Wang Long" transferred to the Beiyang Armed Forces, he was sent to a small station, and finally became Lao Yuan's general.

This is the three heroes of Beiyang.

The first Jie, Wang Shizhen, has a calm personality, is resourceful and scheming, and after entering politics, he is also hidden from time to time, so he is named "Wang Long", and the other two masters, "Duan Hu" is as irritable as a tiger, and "Feng Dog" has a dog head and a dog brain, which is really a person like his name.

It's back to the point.

Feng Guozhang's words attracted Duan Qirui's eyes, but Wang Shizhen turned a blind eye and listened to it, still standing there with his eyes closed, and Yuan Shikai and Yuan Datou also seemed to be deaf, still staring out the window, it seemed that there was really something outside the window that attracted him, which made Feng Guozhang feel embarrassed, so he simply sat down and poured tea alone.

Feng Guozhang's move finally made the irritable "Duan Hu" Duan Qirui unbearable, after all, everyone is a person with status, and moreover, in front of the boss Yuan Datou, it is really not a big deal, so he glared at Feng Guozhang and muttered: "Sven scum." ”

"Who's scolding, hypocrite."

Feng Guozhang was not easy to mess with, he immediately scolded back, and Duan Qirui just muttered softly, but Feng Guozhang shouted out, if it weren't for Yuan Datou's study, maybe it would be possible to drop the cup directly.

"Both of you, let's stop and stop, I don't see that the adults are worried."

Wang Shizhen smiled and came out to be a peacemaker, the biggest "strength" of "Wang Long" in his life is that he does not make enemies, does not show his edge, and seems to be submissive, and he never speaks harshly, this is "Wang Long" Wang Shizhen.

As soon as Wang Shizhen spoke, Duan Qirui didn't want to give face, of course, the main reason was that he didn't want to deal with Feng Guozhang in front of Yuan Datou, so he arched his hand and said to Yuan Datou: "If you want me to say, adults don't have anything to worry about, Germans, I still know a little, they are not unreasonable people, we Shandong joined the southeast mutual protection, when Lafayette declared war, we were still suppressing the Boxers, Qingdao, but also under our protection, not affected in the slightest, the Germans should not be able to do this kind of thing." ”

"Hehe, that's hard to say, foreign devils have always only valued interests, Shandong is a rich land, especially under the governance of our adults this year, and it has not been affected by the Boxer Rebellion, the German army has searched here, and the designation is stronger than in Zhili, and the Germans have always thought that their leased land Qingdao is too small, if they take advantage of this opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to occupy the entire Dengzhou (now Yantai and Weihai), so that the entire Shandong Peninsula will not become German territory, I think, this possibility is not small." Feng Guozhang also bluntly said that although he and Duan Qirui were a bit-for-tat, what he said was not completely unreasonable.

After Feng Guozhang finished speaking, Yuan Datou's gaze finally shifted from the window to the house, and glanced at Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang, his face was also unhappy or sad, his subordinates were not harmonious, there were good and bad, mainly depending on how he controlled it, shook his head, looked at Wang Shizhen again, and said, "Pingqing, what do you think?" ”

"I think what Huafu and Zhiquan said has its truth."

Wang Shizhen said this, he didn't want to continue, after all, before the incident happened, there was indeed any possibility, if he had to say his own point of view, he would inevitably offend Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui, but when he saw Yuan Datou staring at him, he was obviously waiting for his next step, so he secretly smiled bitterly and said: "Actually, according to my idea, no matter what the German army does, we had better wait and see, and if the German army has no intention of being in Shandong, but just borrowing it, I think, We also need to do a good job of all kinds of support work to prevent the German army from taking the opportunity to make trouble. ”

"What is the reason for this, is it difficult for the moral army to really forcibly occupy Dengzhou, and we will let it go?" Feng Guozhang was a little dissatisfied and said: "Since our small station has been trained, and the elite of the army has reached more than 10,000 people, even if it is not defeated by the German army, do you still dare not fight?" ”

Hearing Feng Guozhang's brainless bastard words, Lao Yuan almost didn't scold, the small station training was a turning point in his old Yuan's life, the small station trained more than 7,000 new troops, that was his old Yuan's capital, and finally got these new troops to Shandong, Feng Gou actually shouted to take it to fight with the German army, in case he fought this little bit of family foundation, what should I do, these years, there are no soldiers and no guns in my hands, what if you are a governor, who birds you?

Of course, there are some things that Yuan Datou is not easy to say, after all, what Feng Gou said, he is still very national, retreat without a fight, and directly give up the territory, if this word spreads, then the future of Lao Yuan is estimated to stop here, so Yuan Datou can only pretend not to hear, of course, his eyes fell on Wang Shizhen.

Wang Shizhen naturally understood Lao Yuan's eyes, so he explained to Feng Guozhang: "Lao Feng, you can't say that, our main forces are stationed in the junction of Zhili and Shandong, and there are no troops in Dengzhou. ”

If it weren't for the appearance of the Black Dragon Army out of thin air, let Tsarist Russia take the lead, and make the countries cease fire in advance, then the scope of the "crusade team" of various countries will definitely continue to expand outward, and Shandong Jinan Mansion and Zhili can have many places at the junction, in order to prevent the armies of various countries from being injured by mistake, Yuan Shikai naturally wants to deploy the main forces to the handover area of Zhili Shandong.

Therefore, on the Dengzhou side, there are indeed not many troops, besides, even if you pull your main force over, you will be able to work hard with the main force of 30,000 German troops, don't forget, the instructors of the small station training are all invited by Germany, students beat teachers, who do you think you are, you must know that the German army is almost recognized as the world's first in this era.

As soon as Wang Shizhen explained this, and then looked at Yuan Datou's reaction, Feng Guozhang knew that he might be a little mistaken, and the boss definitely didn't want to fight, but Feng Guozhang has always been a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, even if he is wrong, he will not admit it easily, so he continued: "Wang Shizhen, let's not talk about this, then what you said is that if the German army is borrowed to Shandong, we must do a good job of security, you mean, let us prepare food and clothing for the German army along the way, and maintain order for them, If we really want to do this, aren't you afraid that we will be poked in the backbone by someone after the fact? ”

Feng Guozhang had to say this, Wang Shizhen was really hard to justify, at this time Yuan Shikai coughed lightly, directly changed the topic, looked at Duan Qirui, and said: "I remember, Zhiquan is a high-achieving student who graduated from the Berlin Military Academy in Germany, presumably there should be many old friends in the German army, Zhiquan, can you get in touch with it, walk around, if you can meet the commander of the German army, Marshal Wadsey, it would be really good." ”

Hearing Yuan Shikai say this, Duan Qirui was really helpless, Duan Qirui has always felt superior to others for going to Germany to gild, turtles, but if you really want to say that you have any friendship with the generals in the German army, it is really difficult, the students sent out by the Qing Dynasty in these years are even more discriminated against than later generations, you really want to make a few promising classmates, how difficult it is, not to mention the high-flying Marshal Wadsey.

However, Yuan Dafa spoke, and Duan Hu couldn't admit it, whether he succeeded or not, but he should definitely come down first, so he arched his hand and said: "My lord, the humble duty will do its best to maneuver, if there is no special order, then the humble post will go back and prepare now, and then set off for Qingdao immediately." ”

"Haha, it's still Shibakumi who is efficient." Yuan Shikai smiled and said: "However, there is no need to be in such a hurry, you can wait and see, if my guess is right, how the German army will behave, we should be able to see tomorrow." ”

"Your Excellency is wise." Duan Qirui responded.

"Yes." Yuan Datou nodded, then looked at Wang Shizhen, and said: "Pingqing, just follow what you said, pass the order, and order the people in Dengzhou Mansion not to be too nervous, if the German army really wants to enter Dengzhou, let them try to be restrained." ”

"Wow." Wang Shizhen responded.

"Also, if the German army is ready to go to Zhili by the road, I think they should take the Jiaoji line directly to Jinan Prefecture, as far as I know, there are still a few places on the Jiaoji line that have not been able to penetrate, especially the Gaomi place, you send an order, let the government be prepared to prevent bandits from sabotaging the railway, don't make any trouble for me at this time." Yuan Shikai then commanded.

"Wow." Wang Shizhen received the order again.

After Yuan Shikai finished speaking, he glared at Feng Guozhang, and then said: "Although the night is late, in the past two days, several of you have given me a warning, especially you Feng Guozhang." ”

"Wow."

…… (To be continued.) )