"In addition, this note even claims to be a declaration to the 'Chinese people' and the 'political axe of China's north and south'! I have only one political axe of the Republic of China! Where did the Southern political axe come from? Duan Qirui had a gloomy face, stood up suddenly, his eyes swept over the people present one by one, and said loudly, "The heart is sinister!" ”

At this time, Duan Qirui, although he was overwhelmed by the Xiyuan loan incident, but at this moment, he couldn't see that he had the slightest intention of retreating.

"Yes! The so-called 'Guangdong Revolutionary Army and Political Axe' established by Sun's anti-party has been completely wiped out, and the Liangguang Patrol Envoy has also been abolished. Xu Shichang also said, "This declaration, on the surface, seems to be bright and cordial, but in fact it has murderous intentions inside, and it has the faint intention of instigating the confrontation between the north and the south of our country, and we must guard against it." ”

"Soviet Russia not only instigated the confrontation between the north and the south of our country, but also proclaimed that it spoke to the 'Chinese people, and even more instigated the opposition between the Chinese people and the political axe." Fu Zengxiang, the director of education, sighed and said, "If the student parade on June 4 had not been deliberately instigated by lawbreakers, with the self-discipline of the young students of our Beijing Normal University, there would never have been such an illegal thing!" ”

"Yes, I still can't figure out the secret of this." Wang Huaiqing, the new commander of the infantry army (Li Changtai was dismissed by Li Yuanhong for his ineffective handling of the student demonstration), also said, "On the third day after the incident, the Metropolitan Police Department has already acquitted all the arrested students, and there are rumors that some students were beaten to death by the military police!" The students still claim that some students surnamed Guo were killed by the military and police, and there are rallies in various places to mourn Guo Sheng. ”

Hearing Wang Huaiqing say this, President Li Yuanhong, who had not spoken, became even more ugly.

"How did this student surnamed Guo die?" Li Yuanhong asked in a deep voice, "Does it have anything to do with the police community?" ”

"This person's name is Guo Qinguang, a preparatory student at Peking University, he himself was suffering from tuberculosis, and his condition worsened due to overwork from participating in the march and burning Cao's house, and he died in the hospital." Wu Bingxiang, director of the Metropolitan Police Department, hurriedly got up and replied, "Later, it was confirmed that it was the Peking University students who were afraid of Minister Zhang's lawsuit with them, so they decided on a strategy, and insisted that Guo Sheng was killed in the Cao family's servant in the Cao family's house. Later, I learned that Minister Zhang not only did not accuse the student of beating him, but asked for the release of the arrested student, so the tone changed again. ”

Wu Bingxiang said, took out a piece of paper, and asked the secretary of the presidential office to hand it to Li Yuanhong.

"This is the eulogy at the memorial service of Guo Shengbei University, which clearly said that he vomited blood to death, and there was no police beating." Wu Bingxiang said.

Li Yuanhong took the copy of the eulogy, and while looking at it, he read it softly, although his voice was not loud, but the participants could still hear it clearly.

“…… In the battle of the fourth day, Guo Jun went first, and when he saw the order issued by the authorities to arrest the students, he mourned angrily and vomited blood. By the time of the French hospital, it was already unstable. From time to time, Zhang Zongxiang was told that he was dead, and he could still laugh to answer. Nai Taixi said: 'The country is endangered, and the political axe is still the power of the lion to fight the rabbit, and the people's morale is suppressed by the line. In the past, it was said that the political axe treated me to study abroad, and I didn't want to see it in the motherland of Shengsi Changsi, and the matter can be known. Because of the benefit of vomiting blood, it was postponed to seven days, and he died suddenly......"

"Now that the truth has been revealed, why do the people still rely on false rumors and ignore the facts?" Duan Qirui listened to Li Yuanhong's chatter, and couldn't help but roar again.

"Someone must be secretly inciting and creating chaos." Feng Guozhang said in a deep voice, "The events before the fall of Imperial Russia can serve as a lesson for my political axe. ”

"These kinds of tricks can be used, it's really hateful!" Duan Qirui roared, "The political axe should take decisive measures and ban it, otherwise, the world will be in chaos!" ”

Li Yuanhong listened to Duan Qirui's words, and a trace of embarrassment appeared on his face.

"Duan Gong is a little restless, and the matter of banning it must be considered in the long run." Foreign Minister Gu Weijun said, "We must not fall into the conspiracy of Soviet Russia now. ”

"What does Shaochuan mean by the Soviet and Russian conspiracy?"

Duan Qirui reminded Gu Weijun with a word, and immediately realized his gaffe, he took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

"Now that the war in Europe has ended, Germany has announced its surrender. Britain, France, and the United States have expressed their willingness to abolish all unequal treaties as a reward, to re-establish treaties of equality and peace, and to have Germany compensate us for the war expenses. With an estimated amount of tens of millions of pounds, this is a great diplomatic victory for our country, an unprecedented opportunity, and should be celebrated by the whole country. However, at this juncture, this student uprising incident suddenly appeared, which greatly damaged the prestige of our political axe's participation in the war, and the connection between the so-called 'peace declaration' issued by the Soviet Russian political axe last year and this year is self-evident. Gu Weijun said.

After listening to Gu Weijun's words, the conference room suddenly became unusually quiet.

Since the incident on June 4, Duan has met with representatives of the academic press many times, and has agreed to the students' requests and is ready to repay the loan in advance, but the student tide has not subsided. The students marched in the streets, but the content of the petition changed from borrowing money to abolishing all unequal treaties. Gu Weijun continued, "It is necessary to know that the abolition of the treaty has a long way to go, and it is the goal that our political axe has always been committed to, and it is not a one-time achievement. At a time when this is a great success, the students suddenly petitioned for the immediate and complete abolition of the unequal treaties, completely ignoring the efforts made by the political axe and the current situation. ”

"Those who resolutely oppose the abolition of unequal treaties between the West and China are Soviet Russia." Duan Qirui smiled coldly, "What a powerful conspiracy!" ”

"The great thing about the conspiracy of Soviet Russia is that it provokes the people of our country, especially the young students, to oppose the political axe, and it is impossible for the political axe to be ruthless against the students." Gu Weijun said, "If the political axe does not handle the problem of treating students properly, the result will inevitably be disastrous." ”

"What Shaochuan said is very true, for the student tide, the political axe should still be more forbearance," Li Yuanhong said, "otherwise, if you lose the hearts of the people, you will just fall into the trap of Soviet Russia and Yueben." ”

As soon as Li Yuanhong's words ended, the people in the conference hall could already hear the shouts of the students demonstrating outside.

At this time, in an inconspicuous small building not far from Chengtianmen Square, a Russian with deep eyes and a high nose and short curly hair was flipping through some manuscripts, and he also heard the slogans chanted by the student crowd outside, and a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

“…… Socialism may first triumph in a few, or even a single capitalist country. The victorious proletariat of this country, having deprived the capitalists and organised socialist production in its own country, will rise up against the rest of the capitalist world, draw the oppressed classes of other countries to its side, and in these countries launch uprisings against the capitalists and, if necessary, even by force against the exploiting classes and their ......"

"...... is a typical example of 'opposition by force' and what we are doing in Poland. But we can't do the same in all countries. Another way of our struggle is to send special operatives to form local party organizations in foreign countries, through which they can wage armed struggle in the countries where they are located, in order to achieve the goal demanded by Comrade Lenin 'to strive for their complete integration into a unified world Soviet republic'. ”

"After my careful and careful observation of China's domestic situation, I believe that we should implement a 'two-legged approach' in China, and while we mobilize local party organization activities, we should also actively deal with China's legitimate political axe and look for agents with real power. Because no matter what kind of political axe Yanjing is, it is still China's official political axe, so we should strive to establish a normal relationship with it. ”

The Russian put down the manuscript in his hand, took a letter from Moscow in Russian and read it.

"Comrade Lenin and Comrade Dzerzhinsky both believed that the first choice of agents in China was the powerful General Yang Shuoming, because General Yang had taken many measures to help the local peasants and workers after his victory in the south, which showed that he was sympathetic to the peasant and working class. He is a man who plays an important role in Chinese politics. He had an army in his hands, his own financial system, his own transportation department, and most of the southern provinces were now under his control, and he was an important reason for the downfall of Sun Yat-sen's political axe. Now his power is growing even further. The comrades of the Irkutsk Bureau also shared the views of Comrades Lenin and Dzerzhinsky. Comrade Dzerzhinsky also analyzed the data on China's existing powerful parties and their respective spheres of influence, the existing armed forces, and the population of the areas under his rule, and came to the conclusion that General Yang Shuoming currently occupies the most advantageous strategic position and has great influence in the densely populated Yangtze River valley and the coastal provinces of great economic importance. General Yang Shuoming's strength was the strongest compared to the competing factions, and General Yang Shuoming's achievements as a military leader created a very favorable situation for him to expand his influence and strengthen his strength, and the first mission of the comrades working in China was to establish contact with General Yang Shuoming. ”

After reading the letter, the Russian sighed, shook his head, put the letter aside, took a pen and paper, and began to write a reply in Russian.

"The comrades, in accordance with the instructions of Comrade Lenin and Comrade Dzerzhinsky, have made certain contacts with General Yang Shuoming and the important people under him, and we have come to a regrettable conclusion. Unlike Dr. Sun Yat-sen, General Yang Shuoming was not willing to sell China's interests in exchange for our support for him. He unswervingly defended China's sovereignty over Outer Mongolia and the Middle Eastern Railway, and not only supported the position of the Yanjing political axe controlled by Duan Qirui on the Outer Mongolia issue, but he also made public statements on more than one occasion, insisting that Mongolia belongs to China. In the whole uproar of the Mongolian question, Yang Shuoming also raised his voice in the chorus of all the enemies of Russia, showing that he would not please Russia on the Mongolian question. The most important point is that he also played a large role in supporting the military operations of Yanjing Zhengaxe against Mongolia, without his support in terms of weapons, it would be difficult for Yanjing Zhengaxe to make such a quick response. ”

"I believe that our task at this stage is to overthrow Duan Qirui and Yanjing as soon as possible, who are desperately defending China's territorial sovereignty. If we want to have Tangnu Ulianghai and Outer Mongolia forever, there is no hope of dealing with the Beiyang regime, and we can only bring down this political axe that resolutely refuses to give in. But to achieve this goal, it is simply impossible to rely on the Chinese party organization, which has less than 400 members. We should allow chaos and apolitical acuity to spread in this country, so as to prevent China from having a strong political axe that can actively take steps to strengthen its control over Manchuria, Mongolia, and the provinces. ”

After writing the letter, the Russian carefully signed his name underneath, and this name turned out to be a typical Chinese name: Wu Tingkang.

And only a few people know the real name of Ngo Dinh Kham: Gregory? Naumovich? Zarkhin. In addition to Wu Tingkang, he often uses pseudonyms, as well as Wei Jinsky, Wei Qin, and Wei Jin.

At this point, the noise outside the window became louder.

"What a beautiful sound!" Wu Tingkang-Weijinsky sighed and stretched a big lazy waist.

"The storm is coming." He said to himself, as if he were reciting some verse, "Let the storm come more violently!" ”

September 28, 1920, 18:20, Border Governor's Office.

"Down with the Great Powers! Down with imperialism! ”

"Resolutely abolish unequal treaties!"

"Down with the traitor Duan Qirui!"

"Get out of China, imperialists!"

Duan Qirui, who was sitting in the inner hall, listened to the waves of slogans coming from outside, but he was not as angry as he was at the meeting in the presidential palace, he calmly took a sip of tea, picked up the newspaper and read it. His son Duan Hongye stood aside with a guilty face.

At this time, Duan Hongye no longer had the youthful spirit and scolding of Fang Xuan in the past.

"Although you are too self-assertive about borrowing money, it is not a wrong move, and besides, I also nodded and agreed to borrow money. You don't need to look like this. ”

Duan Qirui noticed his son's look of shame, put down the newspaper in his hand, said pleasantly, beckoned to him, and motioned for him to sit down in front of him.

Although he knew that his father didn't blame him, Duan Hongye, who sat down, still looked at his father with uneasy eyes.

"Today, the presidential palace is at a meeting, and you know about the peace declaration sent by Soviet Russia." Duan Qirui pointed outside and said, "Everyone now knows that all this was instigated by Soviet Russia behind the scenes, and the purpose was to take advantage of the student tide to pour dirty water on the political axe, not for me alone. As you have just heard, their slogan has changed, no longer to borrow money, but to abolish all unequal treaties. Even if you don't come up with the loan, they will find it difficult to find other hair, so you don't have to blame yourself. ”

"In that case, does Father just let them go on like this?" A stone in Duan Hongye's heart was finally put down, he thought about it and asked boldly.

"In this situation, if you use strong repression, it will definitely provoke a strong backlash, but it will fall into their trap." Duan Qirui said, "My current method is to respond to all changes with the same, and when they are annoyed, enough is enough, and they can see the true face of Soviet Russia's annihilation, and they will automatically disappear without us doing anything." ”

"I just heard my father order the guards to unload the bullets and put the bayonets in their sheaths, so there won't be any danger, right?" Duan Hongye heard the noise outside getting louder and louder, remembered the impact of the demonstrative students on the Border Supervision Office a few days ago, and asked with some concern.

"Outside, there are a brigade of soldiers and horses sent by the Beijing Garrison Command and plainclothes police officers sent by the Metropolitan Police Department, and they can't get in." Duan Qirui said calmly.

After listening to his father's words, Duan Hongye relaxed slightly.

"Yang Han also sent a telegram a few days ago, asking me to be careful against the secret sabotage of Soviet and Russian spies, and I thought some time ago that he wanted to borrow money to force me to step down, and it seems that he wronged him." Duan Qirui said.

"This person has always put the overall situation first, and this time he happily agreed to hand over the post of the Liangguang patrol envoy to Fengtian and come to Beijing to report on his work, which shows that he is open-minded." Duan Hongye also said, "Now that the north and the south are unified, the rejuvenation of China is just around the corner." ”

Duan Qirui nodded, and was about to speak, but suddenly there were three crisp gunshots outside!

"What's going on?" Duan Qirui's face changed, and he stood up suddenly, "Who shot the pistol?" ”

Duan Hongye, who heard the gunshot, was also startled, and at this time, the noise outside suddenly stopped, followed by the gunshot, accompanied by people's screams of horror and painful screams.

Hearing the gunshots and screams, Duan Qirui was like falling into an ice cellar, his face turned pale in an instant, his body shook, as if he was about to fall, Duan Hongye stepped forward in horror and stretched out his hand to support his father.

"Didn't they get their guns out of their bullets?" Duan Hongye said in a lost voice.

At this time, the door of the governor's mansion was already full of blood.

"Don't shoot! Don't shoot! ”

The angry Luo Fengge covered his bleeding forehead with one hand, brandished the empty pistol without bullets in his hand with the other, and shouted desperately at his subordinates, but no one listened to him. A guard who had been shot in the leg and fell to the ground cursed, took the bullet out of his pocket, loaded it into the magazine of his rifle, and raised his gun to pull the trigger on the crowd in the distance.

Luo Fengge unconsciously looked back and saw a young woman dressed as a student in a white dress and a black skirt fall in response.

Luo Fengge scolded loudly, kicked the rifle in the guard's hand away, and at this moment, a shot suddenly came from the opposite side, hitting the guard's head, the guard looked at Luo Fengge with a distracted gaze, and his body slowly fell to the side.

(To be continued)