The implementation of the new monetary policy and the establishment of Huaxia UnionPay are of course great things, but these things are not concerned by the ordinary people of China because they are too profound and low-key, and for the Chinese people, especially the people of the Jiangnan government, they have recently paid more attention to the Beiyang Navy and defected to the Jiangnan government and the Beiyang government.

The so-called Beiyang Navy, in fact, was the original Beiyang Naval Division, which was once the most powerful naval force in the late Qing Dynasty. However, after the First Sino-Japanese War, the Beiyang Naval Division was almost completely wiped out, although in 1898 the Qing government decided to rebuild the navy, but the scale and strength of the original Beiyang Naval Division is no longer the same, the largest ship, only two cruisers, namely "Haitian" and "Haiqi".

In 1909, Sa Zhenbing was appointed as the Admiral and Minister of the Navy, after he came to power, merged the North and South Naval Divisions, twisted the original divided naval forces of the Qing Dynasty into a single rope, established a unified command system, strengthened the discipline and training of the officers and men of the Naval Division, and successively purchased warships with Italy, Austria, Britain and Germany, so that the Navy gradually improved, but soon, the Xinhai Revolution ruined all this.

In 1911, Sa Zhenbing originally planned to lead his fleet abroad for a visit, who knew that the Nanjing Uprising broke his original plan, in order to deal with the Nanjing Revolutionary Party, the Qing government in addition to organizing the Beiyang Army to suppress it, also sent the navy, and it was Sa Zhenbing who led the team at that time.

However, although Sa Zhenbing decided to carry out the order, the officers and soldiers of the naval division under his command generally sympathized with the revolution and did not have a good impression of the Qing government. Waiting for negotiations, Sa Zhenbing pushed the boat down the river and decided to stop in Shanghai and wait and see what happened.

The reason why this is so is not only because of Yuan Shikai's letters, but more importantly, because of the military spirit. Sa Zhenbing understands very well. Although he is the admiral of the navy, and he has always been very prestigious in the navy, his subordinates are generally tired of the Qing government, if they are forced to attack, even if they dare not blatantly resist, but there is a good chance that they will shoot shells elsewhere, and even if one is not good, it is possible to rebel against him.

In short, in the days that followed. Sa Zhenbing obediently stopped in Shanghai, and sure enough, the situation after that could only be said to be changing, in just a few months, not only were the revolutionary rebels not exterminated, but they dared to take advantage of the situation to attack, and even Shanghai was captured, in order to avoid accidents. As a result, Sa Zhenbing had no choice but to lead the fleet back to sea and return to Haizhou to assemble and standby.

And then. Yuan Shikai personally forced the palace, causing the originally invincible Qing government to collapse, and as a result, the Manchu Qing perished, and their fleet became a rootless tree.

Fortunately, although the Manchu Qing perished. But the country is still there, Yuan Shikai's people took over Sa Zhenbing's navy, and in this way, the original Qing Dynasty navy became the navy of the Beiyang government, and Sa Zhenbing also became the naval admiral of the Qing Dynasty. He became the Minister of the Navy and Admiral of the Beiyang Government.

The reason why it is said that it is the Beiyang government, not the Republic of China, is because the Republic of China at this time has not yet been officially named, and the name of the Republic of China is more elected at the enlarged Senate meeting of the League, but unfortunately, although the first enlarged Senate election meeting was held in Nanjing, neither the Beiyang government nor the Jiangnan government seems to be interested in this, and none of them recognized the Republic of China, nor did foreign countries recognize it, so it became an embarrassing illegal government.

Therefore, at this time, China has actually been divided into two parts, namely the Beiyang government and the Jiangnan government. In addition to the largest faction, there are also many small warlord governments in other places, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that China has entered an era of warlord secession.

Of course, although this kind of thing is very sad for the warlord secession, but for Sa Zhenbing's navy, they can't do anything, their naval fleet is a special branch of troops, and they are a big money-eater, what they want most is that there is a government that can raise them well, at least let the people under Sa Zhenbing's men eat and drink well, so that the ships have enough coal and supplies, so that they will not lie on their stomachs all day.

However, although Sa Zhenbing's navy has been taken over by Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army, it is a pity that Yuan Shikai is now busy expanding the Beiyang Army, and he needs money everywhere, so he has no time to care about his navy, so although it belongs to the sequence of the Beiyang Army, Ksa Zhenbing's naval fleet has been in a state of no money. The officers and men of the naval division were able to eat and drink with the army, but the ships had no follow-up supplies, and they could only anchor in Haizhou Port all day long, becoming a veritable existing fleet.

So far, although the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division under the command of Sa Zhenbing have eaten and drank, their salaries are not a little worse than during the Qing government in the past, which makes them very indignant and dissatisfied day by day.

In all fairness, Yuan Shikai did not ignore this naval division, and even attached great importance to it, but it is a pity that Yuan Shikai had a large financial gap at this time, so the salaries of the officers and soldiers of the naval division were compared with the Beiyang Army, but unfortunately the efficiency of the Beiyang government was too low, and it was too serious, especially the Beiyang Army has always looked down on the navy, so when the silver approved by Yuan Shikai was sent to the navy, it was deducted layer by layer, resulting in the actual salary not as good as the army.

Sa Zhenbing also knows a little about the financial situation of the Beiyang government, so although he is also dissatisfied with the current treatment, he still has an understanding attitude, but unfortunately, he himself can understand and be generous, but it does not mean that the people under him also think so.

If there is no other choice, the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division under Nasa Zhenbing may be able to endure it, but in this time and space, in addition to the Beiyang Army, there is another choice, that is, the Jiangnan Army, which is stronger and more financially rich.

Of course, for ordinary officers and soldiers of the naval division, their knowledge is limited, and their knowledge of the Jiangnan Army is mostly based on rumors, but they can't bear to be stirred up everywhere by people with intentions, especially after high-level officials begin to participate, the morale of the army is immediately chaotic.

This high-level person is none other than Sa Zhenbing's chief of staff-Tang Qianming!

Tang Qianming is a native of Qishui, Hubei (now Xishui), and the word is new. He is the second son of the famous local squire Tang Pingxin, who has been smart and studious since he was a child, has great ambitions, has never been interested in the Qing government, and yearns for revolution at a young age.

As early as the 31st year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1905. Tang Qianming got acquainted with Sun Yat-sen in Paris, and was introduced by Sun Yat-sen to join the Xingzhong Society, but unfortunately Tang Qianming knew that Sun Yat-sen had been the leader of the Three Points Association, Tang Qianming thought that the Three Points Society was an underworld organization, so he repented and said: "The revolution is our own revolution, how can we support the leaders of the Three Points Society and the Elders' Association." So Tang Qianming personally went to the Hengshengna Hotel in the eastern suburbs of Paris where Sun Yat-sen lived to take the membership letter and surrendered to Sun Baoqi, the Qing court's minister in Paris.

In short, Tang Qianming is a man who yearns for revolution and opposes many. But he is a person who is very uninterested in the alliance led by Sun Wen, and he himself is very disgusted with Sun Wen's people, thinking that those people are not enough to succeed.

Originally, Tang Qianming was so mixed with the crowd, and secretly had contacts with radical organizations such as the Society and the Communist Association, and later the Nanjing Uprising broke out, and the Qing court sent the navy to exterminate it. He got up and started to connect up and down. It was decided to carry out an uprising when the warships entered Nanjing.

However, Sa Zhenbing was scheming, and after finding that the army's morale was shaken, he decisively stopped in Shanghai, which made them dare not act rashly, and then Li Zhigao led the army to attack Shanghai. Because they didn't know much about Li Zhigao and his army, they obeyed Sa Zhenbing's orders, led the army out of Shanghai, and returned to Haizhou, that is, Lianyungang.

If only that's it. But Tang Qianming also has a big brother, and his eldest brother works in Li Zhigao's Jiangnan government.

Tang Qianming's eldest brother is also a celebrity in history, that is, Tang Hualong, in another time and space, Tang Hualong is also one of the heroes of the Xinhai Revolution, once the chairman of the Hubei Advisory Bureau, and was later assassinated by the Kuomintang Wang Chang in Victoria, Canada, of course, the assassination was a mistake, but later the Kuomintang in order to cover up the mistake, they poured dirty water on Tang Hualong, saying that he was Yuan Shikai's lackey, but ignored the fact that Tang Hualong was a revolutionary hero.

But that's all a matter of another time and space, at this moment, although Tang Hualong is still the chairman of the Hubei Advisory Bureau, he has no chance to form a Hubei military government, because after the Hubei New Army was wiped out under Anqing City, Wuhan was taken over by the Jiangnan Army, and the entire Hubei regime was also included in the Jiangnan government.

Because of the existence of the Jiangnan Army, the signs of Hubei's independence are gone, the so-called Shiyi time shift, Tang Hualong is also very aware of the wind and rudder, after seeing this situation, he began to decisively defect to the Jiangnan government, applied to join the Guangfu Party, became a reserve party member of the Guangfu Party, and was subsequently elected as the vice chairman of the Senate of the Jiangnan government.

During the enlarged meeting of the first Senate election held in Nanjing, as vice chairman, he found that the League had suddenly achieved revolutionary fruits, and after Sun Wen was elected president of the provisional government, he keenly felt that there was a problem here, and felt that Tao Chengzhang, the president of the Executive Yuan at that time, seemed to be making his own opinion, but the matter had come to this point, and Li Zhigao no longer trusted them, the members of the Senate, so they could only continue to stay in Nanjing and continue to be their so-called senators who existed in name only.

For people like Tang Hualong, losing power is a very painful thing, and losing the opportunity to gain power is an even more painful thing, especially for them who have tasted the fruit of power, the taste of getting and losing is even more difficult, so Tang Hualong began to do everything possible to redeem all this, hoping to return to Li Zhigao's inner circle.

Because after going through this, he can be regarded as having understood that any democratic republic is bullshit, whoever has a hard gun and who has more money can become the future master of China, and looking at the whole country, the person who is currently the richest and has the hardest gun is undoubtedly Li Zhigao.

However, Li Zhigao has a general distrust of these senators, so how can he restore his trust and return to the leadership of the core group? At this moment, he remembered his younger brother, Tang Qianming, who was currently serving as the chief of staff in the only remaining navy, maybe this was an opportunity.

In this way, Tang Qianming took the initiative to find the personnel of the Security Bureau and told him what he thought, and Zhou Zhengbin, who was eager to perform, also wanted to seize the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and could not let the people of the Investigation Bureau steal any limelight.

Therefore, both people want to make meritorious contributions, one of the two sides has a relationship, and the other has manpower, so it can be said that each has its own advantages, so it is an instant hit. Soon they cooperated to come up with a plan for internal evolution, and this plan was to persuade the Beiyang Navy, which was still in Haizhou, to let them lead the fleet back, and at the worst of all, they would also bring manpower over. Because Zhou Zhengbin knew that Li Zhigao actually didn't look down on those old coal-burning steam ships, he took a fancy to those naval talents.

Next, the Security Bureau reported the plan to Li Zhigao, who was also interested in it, so he approved the plan and personally named it the Returnee Plan, which ostensibly means the plan for the return of the naval fleet, but in fact only Li Zhigao himself knows. He's just having fun with evil.

After the supreme leader agreed, the Security Bureau sent agents to infiltrate the Beiyang Navy in Haizhou with Tang Hualong's handwritten letter and a digital long-distance variable frequency transmitter, found Tang Qianming, and handed Tang Hualong's letter to Tang Qianming.

In the letter, Tang Hualong first praised the Jiangnan government, praised Li Zhigao, and then talked about his own treatment. In the end, I said that I heard what happened to you, and I was very sympathetic. I hope that you will lead the team to vote, and when the time comes, not only will the salary and benefits be doubled, but also new ships will be added to build the first navy in Asia. In order to enhance the persuasiveness, Tang Hualong also attached a lot of color photos that are not available in this world. These color photos are all training photos of the Yangtze River Naval Division, including Type 62-1 frigates and Type 65 frigates, and the relevant data are also marked.

It's nothing else, but the 62-1 frigate and the 65 frigate deeply moved Tang Qianming, who knows how to do it. Because he saw at once that these two were strong and extraordinary, not to mention that after reading the data, he was even more amazed. Moreover, not to mention the rest, just by relying on the other party's efforts to add new ships to the Yangtze River Naval Division, it can be seen that Li Zhigao attaches great importance to the navy and intends to build a navy, which is what they value the most. Relatively speaking, although the welfare treatment is not bad, but for Tang Qianming at this time, it is not so obvious, in history, he only began to be corrupt and degenerate later, not from the beginning.

In this way, Tang Qianming, who was already dissatisfied because of the poor treatment, suddenly had a new choice, and then after talking directly with the Jiangnan government through the transmitter, especially with the eldest brother, he admired the advanced transmitter at the same time, but also trusted the Jiangnan government more, so he was determined to rebel and lead the entire fleet to defect to Li Zhigao.

Since Tang Qianming is a chief of staff, he is definitely not an impulsive person who does it with a slap of his head, although his decisiveness is insufficient, but the kung fu of planning the tandem is still quite in place, and there is general dissatisfaction in the navy at this time, so he was quickly succeeded in tandem and won the trust of many people.

After the people below agreed to leave, he began to look for Sa Zhenbing, but he didn't expect Sa Zhenbing to disagree, but he didn't stop their actions, just said that he would turn a blind eye when the time came.

In the end, seeing that the persuasion could not be achieved, and Tang Qianming also had his own careful thoughts, so he did not continue to persuade Sa Zhenbing, but decided to lead the fleet to anchor on the night of May 1 and defect to the Jiangnan government.

However, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang government was not a fuel-efficient lamp, they sent their eyes into this navy early, and after discovering the abnormality, they decisively took measures to send troops to each ship.

In the end, Tang Qianming saw that the matter was exposed, so he simply forcibly revolted, leading the "Haitian" dome cruiser, the "Hairong" cruiser, the "Flying Eagle" fish gunboat, and the "Sea Dragon" destroyer, which had been prepared for a long time, to forcibly break through, and the other ships were still stranded in Haizhou Port because they were not ready, especially the coal had not yet been burned.

In this way, Tang Qianming led four warships to Shanghai, and after being received in Shanghai, he came to Taiping New Port, that is, Ma'anshan Port, and anchored.

For this matter, Yuan Shikai was naturally furious, and deliberately asked the envoy Yang Du to question Li Zhigao, but unfortunately, at this time, the fledgling Li Zhigao didn't want to pay attention to Yuan Shikai, and just avoided it, and handed over all external theories to Liu Runsheng to be responsible.

"Protest, our serious protest!" Facing Liu Runsheng, Yang Du's temper was not so good, "You are violating the agreement, you are provoking!" ”

Liu Runsheng didn't have anything to say about Yang Du's protest, but he just said that they were all one country, and they were all divided into each other, and at the same time emphasized that Tang Qianming led the team to vote because the treatment here was better and the value of these heroic naval officers and soldiers could be brought into play.

"How do you know that our President Yuan doesn't pay attention to it?" Yang Du was quite dissatisfied with Liu Runsheng's perfunctory, "At the beginning, our two families agreed to do so, how can you go back on your word?" Do you still have credit? Is it still reasonable? Do you want to lose your trust in the world? ”

"The non-aggression agreement we signed at the beginning only said that we would not send troops to attack each other for three years, but it didn't mean that people from the other side might come to take refuge." Liu Runsheng smiled, "It's like this matter, there are people within your Beiyang Navy who are dissatisfied and want to come to our side by themselves, since we are here, we can't refuse people thousands of miles away." ”

"Anyway, you have to give us an explanation for this." Yang Du said with a cold face, "At the very least, we must hand over Tang Qianming and the others, and return the four ships such as Haitian to us!" ”

"Can't do it!" Liu Runsheng said simply.

"You!" Seeing Liu Runsheng's appearance, Yang Du, who originally felt that the other party was inferior to himself, was even more angry, "Liu Runsheng! Do you know the consequences of your words? You are destroying the peace between the two families, you know? ”

"Yes." Liu Runsheng shrugged with a smile, "Let you say it, anyway, I just won't give it, what can you do with me?" ”

"You!" Yang Du's face was flushed, and he finally gritted his teeth, and finally yelled, "Protest, serious protest, you are shameless bandits!" Do you still have this Republic of China in your eyes? And our president? ”

"The Republic of China? The Great President? Hehe. Liu Runsheng shook his head with a smile, "If you don't say it, I almost forgot, now we are the Republic of China, and there is also a President Yuan." However, the Republic of China is just that, as for the president, we recognize this thing, he is the president, if we don't approve it, he is nothing. If you are really capable, if you feel unwilling, you can bring troops to seek justice, why are you arguing with me here? You're not tired, I'm still annoying! ”

Speaking of this, Liu Runsheng didn't wait for Yang Du to speak again, and simply picked up the teacup: "Okay, that's it, don't follow me with this ink, this matter is like this, come on, send off!" (To be continued......)