One hundred and forty-six Return to Beijing

When I entered Yanjing City again, the streets of Sijiu City had already resumed its bustle. The soldiers patrolling with rifles were gone, replaced by patrolmen in yellow uniforms, and I don't know how the soldiers managed to get them back in just a few days?

This trip to Yanjing is finally a success, and all aspects can be regarded as foolish. Relations between Soviet Russia and the Kuomintang were still lukewarm, and the Communists with the GCD had risen to a new level, and even the relations with the reactionary warlord Feng were quite acceptable. No, as soon as Luo Yaoguo returned to Yanjing, Zhang Xueliang invited Liao Zhongkai and Luo Yaoguo to tea in Jurentang again.

In the luxurious living room of Jurentang, Liao Zhongkai, Luo Yaoguo, Zhang Xueliang, and Yang Yuting sat down separately, and the servants served the high-quality Longjing, and everyone continued to do behind-the-scenes transactions while drinking tea. The subject of the transaction is still the chair in the Jinluan Palace, Cao Kun and Feng Yuxiang have paid a heavy price for sitting on this chair, and now it is Zhang Zuolin's turn. Zhang Zuolin wants to sit in the first place in China now, the sooner the better, and he can't wait for Duan Qirui to make a transition, so he hopes that the Kuomintang can support it.

After quietly listening to the conditions of the Feng Department, Luo Yaoguo took a sip of tea, smiled and said, "We can support Yu Shuai as the chairman of the United Political Axe." However, we also have conditions, and we hope that you will not set up customs at the land trade ports on the north-south border. ”

Since the establishment of the Tariff Zone in the South, goods from the North have to pay customs duties when entering the South. Therefore, many people in the north have now proposed to impose a tax on southern products entering the northern market. Of course, this was intolerable to the Kuomintang ruling the south, so they sent a telegram to the Kuomintang delegation in Yanjing and asked them to try to stop it.

"That's all?" Yang Yuting was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then smiled: "There is no problem with this, but we have to lose a lot of taxes every year, and now our finances are very tight." "Feng originally thought that the Kuomintang would put forward any conditions such as a congressional election and a constitution, just like he did with Yuan Datou back then, but he didn't expect that these Kuomintang would really fall into the eyes of money now.

"Subsidize you 10 million fiat currency every year, and in the future, you cannot collect tariffs on the goods of the thirteen southern provinces (regions), nor can you interfere with our rule in these regions." Luo Yaoguo didn't bother much, and immediately quoted the price code of the Kuomintang.

Yang Yuting didn't expect the other party to be so cheerful, so he wanted to increase the price again, but before he could speak, the eldest young master Zhang Xueliang responded with a big deal: "Okay, just like that, the two of us will share the world equally in the future." ”

Zhang Xueliang is not at home now, so he naturally doesn't know how difficult the finances of the Feng Department are, and he is naturally very satisfied with the 10 million a year he picked up for nothing.

"Yes, we split the world equally." Luo Yaoguoxin said that you Fengzhang will slowly sit on this stove in Yanjing, and when we finish the heavy industry, we will clean you up again, I hope you will still be there by then.

Zhang Xueliang smiled and looked at Liao Zhongkai: "My father hopes that Mr. Liao can participate in our political axe, which can be regarded as a symbol of our alliance with the Kuomintang, as for whether it is a minister or a vice premier, it depends on Mr. Liao's meaning." ”

"In addition, we can also give the Kuomintang several ministerial posts, which can be regarded as our sincerity to the coalition political axe." Yang Yuting added on the side. Zhang Zuolin knows very well the current strength of the Kuomintang, and he wants to sit firmly in the position of Yanjing, and there are two aspects that cannot be offended, one is the Kuomintang, and the other is himself. Therefore, Zhang Zuolin wants to try his best to win over these two parties and help them.

Liao Zhongkai replied: "Then Liao will be a vice premier, right?" However, Liao is only a shallow learner, that is, he can be an official who eats a corpse vegetarian meal, and when the time comes, don't say that Liao Zhongkai will not work and get a salary for nothing. ”

"There is also the arrangement of Shaanxi Province, and I would like to solicit the opinions of your party." Yang Yuting smiled slightly: "Shaanxi's Liu Zhenhua's rampant conquest and poisoning of the people have long been hated by the Shaanxi people, and our marshal hopes to go to his post and let Zhang Zhijiang serve as the governor of Shaanxi, Liu Yufen as the governor of Shaanxi, Song Zheyuan as the governor of Qingxiang in Shaanxi, Lu Zhonglin as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and Yang Huchen as the guard of southern Shaanxi. ”

"Well, we support this arrangement." Luo Yaoguo did not hesitate to directly support this proposal.

This arrangement of the Feng Department kicked the troops of the First Army of the Nationalist Army loyal to Feng Yuxiang from the side of his couch to Shaanxi. At the same time, he also took out Liu Zhenhua and Wu Xintian, who supported Wu Peifu, and restricted the territory of his direct family to Henan Province. In the end, he also used the southern Shaanxi town guard envoy to form a good alliance with the Kuomintang, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone.

This time, the Kuomintang and the Feng faction formed an alliance and joined forces to oppress the Zhi and Anhui factions that were caught between them. first supported Zhang Zuolin to gain central power, and then took out Liu Zhenhua and Wu Xintian from Wu Peifu. Moreover, it is necessary to let Zhang Zhijiang and other subordinates who took office transit through Wu Peifu's Henan, and this humiliation is probably something that Wu Peifu will never forget in his life, and it seems that the hidden danger of a new round of warlord melee in the north has been buried. But all this is not what Luo Yaoguo and Liao Zhongkai have to think about now.

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Back at the welcome building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Luo Yaoguo still had some things to arrange. The former is a project in cooperation with the Feng Department, with the aim of competing with the Ben for the industrial goods market in the north and relying on them to build a northern intelligence network. The latter was to raise funds for the Kuomintang leftist army, while also providing a channel for the south to access resources and markets on the Mongolian plateau.

The Pacific Trading Company of the two companies was mainly run by personnel from the Military Intelligence Agency, and Luo Yaoguo temporarily assigned Wu Zhong to be in charge of finance. Jin Puxin and Wan Yanhao are in charge of the business, and the company's task is to sell off the property acquired at a low price in order to raise funds. Of course, if you receive the receipt of the receipt issued by Zhang Zuolin, you can't keep it in your hand, and you must exchange it into cash and deposit it in a reliable bank in time.

After consulting with Liao Zhongkai, another Chahar trading company was handed over to the Kuomintang left to be responsible for its establishment and operation, and the intelligence bureau only distributed dividends and provided funds, and the funds were directly transferred from the proceeds from the sale of Yanjing real estate.

It was already the end of March after these trivial tasks, during which time the GCD's army had retreated to Suiyuan, defeated the city of Guihua, and expelled Ma Fuxiang's army. Immediately after arriving in Guihua City, the GCD Central Committee convened a meeting of the Central Executive Committee, dismissed Chen Duxiu, who had committed the mistake of right-leaning capitulationism in the counter-revolutionary coup d'Γ©tat in Yanjing on March 12, from his post as secretary of the Central Bureau, and re-elected Qu Qiubai as secretary of the Central Bureau, and Mao Zd as a member of the Central Bureau by-election. Chen Duxiu was demoted to the secretary of the Southern Bureau of the Central G, and went to take charge of GCD's work in the Kuomintang-ruled areas in the south together with Tan Pingshan, Zhang Shenfu and others.

Succeeding GCD in Chahar was the commander Hu Jingyi, whose 21st Division was the first to enter Zhangjiakou after the Red Army retreated, which can be regarded as a "first achievement". In order to maintain the stability of Chahar, Hu Jingyi, Deng Yanda and others did not change the land ownership relationship formed after the GCD Agrarian Revolution, but retained the fruits of the Agrarian Revolution. At the same time, a large number of cadres left over from the GCD were appointed, or they could also be traitors.

An earth-shattering event also occurred in Yanjing City, that is, the raid of the Soviet Embassy. After the Feng army ended the war with the Red Army and occupied the entire territory of Chahar, he ordered the troops surrounding the Soviet embassy to forcibly break in and arrest a large number of Chinese leaders who had taken refuge in the embassy, including Li Dzhao, a member of the Central Bureau of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union. However, unlike history, Li Dzhao was not killed by Zhang Zuolin in the end, but saved his surname with the efforts of the Kuomintang and Liao Zhongkai, and was sentenced to prison until much later.