On September 12, 1903, 200,000 troops were sent to the border areas of Henan, Hubei and Anhui, and Shandong and Jiangsu and Anhui. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The other 100,000 troops were stationed in Yangquan, and the 300,000 troops appeared in the border areas of the four provinces, which really made many people sweat.

After the transfer of 300,000 troops, the several provinces controlled by Wang Sirui turned out to be as usual, and there did not seem to be any chaos due to the transfer of a large number of troops.

For a time, there was a fear of kings in the Qing Dynasty, and many people scolded Wang Sirui for taking advantage of this opportunity to expand the army.

But no matter how they scolded, now this has become a fact, and it has been proved that Wang Sirui has at least more than 500,000 troops in his hands.

And Wang Sirui's move has also attracted the attention of Western powers.

As a result, the Western powers, which enjoyed interests in China, sent telegrams to the Qing court, hoping to get a reasonable explanation for this incident, and at the same time hoping that the Qing court would disarm in order to maintain the status quo.

At first, these foreigners did not want to see an incomplete Qing court.

But later, after Wang Sirui split the Qing Kingdom, the foreigners found that the Qing Kingdom after the split did not have any impact on their interests, and even they gained a lot of benefits because of it.

This is mainly because Wang Sirui controlled the imperial court, which caused the dissatisfaction of many local officials, and these local officials did not listen to Wang Sirui.

Wang Sirui was able to make these foreigners suffer, but those local officials did not have such strength, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, and Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang (deceased), because of Zhang Zhidong, although the foreigners had excessive behavior in these two places, they always maintained restraint.

But the distant Liangguang region is not so lucky, although the governor of Liangguang Tao Mo is also a patriotic official, but the Liangguang region is too important, and the imperial court is controlled by Wang Sirui, and it is difficult to implement the decree for a while.

And the foreigners looked there one after another, so although on the surface the Liangguang area was still the Qing court, in fact, almost one-third of the places had obeyed the orders of the foreigners.

The foreigners saw the benefits of the division of the Qing court. Therefore, in this year's time, Wang Sirui will turn a blind eye, as long as the status quo can be maintained.

But no one thought that Wang Sirui couldn't bear it so quickly, and the meat that made the foreigners just eat it was about to be spit out before they could fully swallow it, can the foreigners still sit still?

"Wang, I need to know, what is the purpose of your big fight?" The German Mummer did not have a good time during this time, although Wang Sirui did not stop the interests of the Germans in Shandong, nor did he make trouble for the Germans, and even helped the Germans a lot, so that the Germans had begun to refine steel here three months ago, and it was continuously shipped back to Germany.

However, with the rapid expansion of Wang Sirui's strength, and the fact that the Germans refused to sell Wang Sirui some equipment several times, Mu Mo was afraid of arousing Wang Sirui's dissatisfaction, thus threatening Germany's interests in Shandong.

You must know that the interests of the Germans are completely established in the area under Wang Sirui's control.

To put it mildly, if Wang Sirui is unwilling, he will directly drive the Germans away, and they will not be able to do anything to Wang Sirui.

Workers' discontent? As long as Wang Sirui takes over the steel mill and recruits them according to the original salary, who will object?

The movement of the Han army not only caused tension in Britain, France, the United States and other countries, but also made Germany, an ally in the honeymoon period with Wang Sirui, nervous.

"Of course, for the reunification of the motherland, you know, the British and French have now turned the south of our country into their backyard, and if I sit idly by, God knows what they will do there? For the sake of the reunification of the motherland as soon as possible, and for the sake of the interests of my German friends, this time I must do something. Wang Sirui said with a smile.

"But your troops can't advance there, you don't have that many troops." Although Mu Mo is not a soldier, he still has a certain understanding of military affairs.

When he was in Shandong, he also knew that Wang Sirui recruited a lot of soldiers in Shandong last year, and there are about 200,000 soldiers in Shandong at present, and I heard that Henan is about the same, but these troops are still not enough for him to unify the whole country.

Perhaps in Mu Mo's view, Wang Sirui's move is undoubtedly risky, very imprudent, and not worth it.

And how many troops does Wang Sirui have in his hands? Well, according to the plan, there should actually be 390,000 soldiers, but because Wang Sirui felt that his plan seemed to be a little conservative on the way, and once his plan was learned by foreigners, he would inevitably interfere.

As a result, Wang Sirui recruited another 250,000 soldiers, that is, now Wang Sirui has a total of 640,000 troops.

In addition to the 300,000 troops stationed in various places that cannot be mobilized, Wang Sirui can mobilize a total of 340,000 troops in his hands.

This time, Wang Sirui transferred most of the troops in Henan and Shandong to the southern border in one go, and transferred two divisions of 36,000 people from Shengjing, plus three divisions in the Zhili area and one division in Beijing, a total of six divisions of 108,000 troops were deployed on the Yangquan front.

Although Yangquan belongs to Shanxi, how can others sleep peacefully on the side of the couch? Wang Sirui received Yangquan into his hands last year.

And Qiao Zhiyong, plus the power of the Wang family has also formed a large scale in Shanxi, they have basically persuaded almost all the Jin merchants, so that the Jin merchants will support Wang Sirui to enter Shanxi, and even Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Shanxi, has been almost bought by Wang Sirui.

The Qing court has been basically destroyed, and Shanxi is surrounded by enemies on both sides, coupled with the backlash of the internal Jin merchants, Cen Chunxuan feels a little difficult to move in Shanxi.

Therefore, this time Wang Sirui's main purpose is Shanxi, Hubei, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces.

And these four provinces basically will not have any major resistance, as for where they will go in the future, this depends on the specific progress of the task and the reaction of the foreigners.

"There is no correlation between the number and the number of troops, sincerity is spiritual!" Wang Sirui said ethereally.

There was no need for him to explain too much to Mu Mo, and he also knew Mu Mo's intentions, "Don't worry, my friend, even if there is a war with Britain and France, I will still protect the interests of my German friends as agreed, you can rest assured." ”

"I hope so!" Mu Mo said a little uneasy, but Wang Sirui had already said it here, and Mu Mo couldn't say anything more, so he could only pray secretly in his heart, hoping that Wang Sirui would be able to speak his mind, and also hoped that his ambitions would not be too big, at least not to cause dissatisfaction with Britain and France in the short term.

After sending off Mumo, the Americans came to Wang Sirui again, and compared with the cautiousness of the Germans, the Americans were much more open.

As soon as the American Rou Keyi entered the house, he took the initiative to ask Wang Sirui if he had decided to recover the whole country. However, Wang Sirui did not answer Rou Keyi, but took the initiative to propose to Rou Keyi that they could start preparing to build the railway.

The Belgians undertook the construction of the Pinghan Railway, but the Belgians were outright liars, not only lowering the specifications of the project, but also cutting corners everywhere.

If it weren't for Wang Sirui, who had long known the virtues of the Belgians and finally forcibly intervened, I am afraid that the current Yellow River Railway Bridge would be the same as in the previous life, the trains can only pass in batches, and they can only maintain a speed of ten kilometers.

Because of Wang Sirui's interference, the Belgians cut corners in this life to a lesser extent than in the previous life, and the steel used was provided by Wang Sirui, so although the train still needs to slow down when passing through the Yellow River Railway Bridge, it does not need to pass in sections, and it can maintain a speed of 20 kilometers.

The Americans, who had been assured, left Wang Sirui's house happily, but Rou Keyi forgot that Wang Sirui had never mentioned money to him.

And the Americans don't seem to care about this, they value business opportunities more, and they also believe that Wang Sirui will not pay his debts.

Later, there were protests from Britain and France, but for these two countries, Wang Sirui did not go to see them, and directly informed them, and Wang Sirui sent them away when he was no longer in the camp.

On September 13, the Qing court telegraphed the whole country and appointed Wang Sirui as the commander of the three armed forces to control the national army. As for which of the three armies were, no one asked, and although they couldn't figure it out, most people still mistakenly thought that they were the forbidden army, the Han army, and the armies under the other governors and governors of the country, collectively referred to as the three armies.

And this telegram made those governors scold, which was equivalent to directly confiscating the military power in their hands, that is, from now on, they can only govern the locality, and have no right to interfere with the army.

Things have developed to this point, and even a fool can see that Wang Sirui is planning to do something to them.

Many people packed up their soft and planned to run away, but before Wang Sirui called, they would not be willing to give up, who can guarantee that Wang Sirui was not bluffing them?

Besides, an order will scare them into fleeing in all directions, if this is said, where will these officials and gentlemen put their faces?

Wang Sirui didn't care about the words and deeds of those governors, Ma Sanru kept an eye on him, as long as those people showed signs of escaping, the hidden soldiers who were ambushed near them would start to act, and they didn't dare to say that they couldn't run away, but at least the people above the governor of the nine cities couldn't escape.

At present, the troops that Wang Sirui can directly control include the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 41st divisions, a total of 26 divisions, and 10 reserve divisions, with a total of 640,000 troops in 36 divisions. (To be continued.) )