In February 1912, Han Zheng finally raised the butcher's knife on his own territory and fought a peaceful scene, and for a whole week, the locals were still immersed in the bloody killing of tobacco dealers, and at the same time, Han Zheng ordered the establishment of four smoking cessation centers in the county seat to send opium addicts in.

But although the incident was welcomed by the locals, it quickly caused a series of backlashes, but in February, it was not revealed under the strong suppression of Han Zheng.

In the same February, the formal peace talks between the North and the South ended, and after various exchanges of interests, the two sides slowly reached an agreement on the terms of the armistice, and a consensus on the armistice was formed.

February 11, 1912, was a full forty days later than the history of later generations, but what should have happened in history still happened.

After the end of the peace talks between the north and the south, the two sides withdrew their troops one after another, and Duan Qirui did not stay for a few days after collecting his troops and returning to Hankou, and then received an order from the north to retreat from Hankou to Xiaogan again.

At the same time, on the 14th, Duan Qirui sent his subordinate general counselor Jin Yunpeng from Hankou to Beijing, and the north suddenly became strange, and then Yuan Shikai issued a secret order to his main generals, signaling his subordinates to jointly exert pressure on the imperial court and emphasize the republic.

The matter of the republic was once again in full swing, and the Qing court was in danger.

On 19 February, Duan Qirui, adhering to Yuan Shikai's intentions, sent a joint telegram to 46 senior Beiyang generals for the third time urging the Qing court to abdicate and "establish a republican form of government."

At the same time, Yuan Shikai, Xu Shichang, Feng Guozhang, Wang Shizhen and others ostensibly collectively called Duan Qirui, asking him to advise the generals not to act rashly in order to observe the reaction of the Qing court.

The Qing court was shocked three times a day.

On the 21st, Duan Qirui and eight generals of the First Army at or above the level of co-ordination jointly issued a telegram, and claimed that he would "lead all the officers and men into Beijing," and on the following 25 days, he moved the headquarters from Xiaogan, Hubei Province to the north to Baoding, Hebei Province, and made a gesture of entering Beijing to force the palace, and went directly to Beijing on the 26th.

On February 28, the Empress Dowager Yu of the Qing Dynasty was forced to abdicate the Qing Emperor under pressure from all sides, and the Manchu government ended its history of more than 260 years in China!

"I Qin Feng Longyu Empress Dowager Yi: Since the end of last year, the people's army in the southern provinces has risen, and the rest of the provinces have responded, causing China to suffer and the people's livelihood to hang upside down, so I ordered Yuan Shikai to send personnel to discuss the overall situation of the country with the representatives of the southern people's army, relieve the people's livelihood from the upside down, extinguish the war in China, discuss the National Assembly, and discuss the state of the country."

However, in recent months, the North and the South have held their own views and held responsibility for each other, resulting in difficulties in national affairs and people's livelihood. Now the people are inclined to a republic, and the southern and central provinces have advocated the first; The generals of the north also advocated that the people's hearts should be known, and the destiny of heaven could not bear to cause the fire and water of the people because of the honor and disgrace of one family and one surname. With the general trend of the appearance, the internal review of public opinion, the right to rule is returned to the people, and the country is determined to be a republican constitutional state after consultation by all parties. With the heart of all the people in Angola and the aspirations of the ancestors in China. ”

"At a time when the old and the new are metabolizing, Yuan Shikai has been elected as the prime minister by the Senior Affairs Yuan, in order to proclaim the reunification of the north and the south, realize the republic, organize the republican government with full powers, and negotiate the method of reunification with all the people in the provinces. In the general period, the people will be peaceful, the people's hearts will return to the republic, and the Republic of China will be established, and the emperor will be able to travel for a long time, receive the good gifts of the people, and see the rule of Yu Shun in person, wouldn't it be happy! Chin this. ”

With the issuance of the edict of the Qing Emperor, although it was 16 days later than in history, the word Qing court was still swept away from the garbage heap of history.

Yuan Shikai once used to say when he was a teenager: "The three armies cannot win the commandery, if I can master 100,000 elite soldiers, I can run rampant in the world." ”

At this time, Yuan Shikai did reach the peak of his life, and the whole country applauded him, known as "the collapse of saving China from peril, and the inversion of the people's livelihood." ”

For Yuan Shikai, what is really true is "the big wild dragon is stinging, and the Central Plains deer is fat." ”

At this time, the old and young remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty who were still insisting, only Tie Liang and a few others grabbed all the rights they could use in their hands, trying to seize the last corner of the Qing government that had been destroyed.

The generals of the Beiyang armies were beaming with joy all day long, and intuitively felt that their group had become the master of China and the hero of the nation.

Since the armistice and peace talks, the southern government has convened various meetings under the chairmanship of Sun Yat-sen to deal with the purge and retaliation against the southern provinces after Yuan Shikai came to power.

In Sun Yat-sen's heart, not for anything else, but just to leave a visible future for the Republic of China, once Yuan Shikai takes office, the first thing he has to consider is to prevent Yuan Shikai from wantonly trampling on the political system of the Republic of China and acting arbitrarily.

But Sun Yat-sen still made the worst plan, if the north and the south meet each other, it will inevitably lead to warlords everywhere, and the people will not be able to make a living, in order to avoid this kind of thing as much as possible, at this critical time, Sun Yat-sen does not want his hard work to be wasted because of Yuan Shikai.

No matter what the southern provinces thought, for their own interests, they all supported Sun Yat-sen's proposal in the end.

But at this time, this outdated government, which had just been established in the south and had already shown twilight, began to show its proper color, and there was chaos everywhere, and the military spirit was fluctuating.

And various politicians have also begun to seek their own way out, whether to go north or continue to stay in the south, this is no longer a choice question for them, but after all, they must be reserved.

At the beginning of March, the south began to send representatives to the north to invite Yuan Shikai to come to Nanjing to take up his post, and the position of president of the Republic of China was also a small means for the south to limit Yuan Shikai's rights, but Yuan Shikai had already seen through this.

Yuan Shikai continued to shirk it with various reasons and resorted to various means, insisting that he did not want to come to the south to take up a job, but wanted to take up a post in the north.

In the end, the south, which was already powerless, had to tear off the last fig leaf under the intervention of Britain, France, Japan and other powers, and also lost the best opportunity to limit Yuan Shikai, and once again compromised to the north, and all the preparations of Sun Yat-sen in the south were half scrapped for a while.

In 1912, on March 21 (March 10 in history), Yuan Shikai was officially inaugurated as the president of the Republic of China in Beijing, and various foreign powers sent congratulatory messages one after another, officially recognizing Yuan Shikai's legal status in China.

Some people rejoice, and naturally some people are sad.

What no one expected was that the last loyal of the Manchu Qing Dynasty broke out with his last wail before Yuan Shikai took office.

After the Qing government's abdication edict was issued on the 28th, Tie Liang and others wept bitterly and wailed loudly that day, and united Zaixun, Zaitao, Liangbi and others to find the Empress Dowager Fenglongyu, opposing Yuan Shikai, opposing the peace between the north and the south, opposing the abdication of the Qing emperor, and was willing to sacrifice himself to become the last loyal minister of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and help the young lord and the empress dowager to fight out of Beijing and return to the land of the Manchurian dragon in the northeast.

The Empress Dowager Longyu was taken aback when she heard this, she could see that this was already impossible for a woman, how could she, who had already seen it clearly, be willing to take the little emperor to risk her and die?!

But seeing Tie Liang's still insistent face, the Empress Dowager Longyu was forced to come down and could only agree temporarily.

On the evening of February 28, the news leaked, Yuan Shikai was afraid of something wrong at this time, how could he let a few people go? Ordered Lu Jianzhang to lead his soldiers to forcibly capture these last remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

But at this time, although several people learned of the leak at the last moment and fled Beijing, the foundation in Beijing was also completely dispersed, and for three days, the loyal soldiers of the Manchu remnants were all bloodily purged.

Those who escaped lived in Tianjin and other places, and began to look for Japan's "foreign aid", and traveled back and forth to Qingdao, Dalian, Japan and other places, and continued to plan the restoration of the Qing dynasty with Prince Su Shanqi and others.

But after all, the tide of history will not be repeated because of the resistance of a few people, and in this February, it is still mighty.

Yuan Shikai became the president of the Republic of China, which brought a lot of benefits to Han Zheng, a lone soldier who was hung under the name of Beiyang, but was ignored, and no one cared about it and no one asked. One of them is a reward for all the soldiers of the Beiyang Army, although there are only less than 2,000 oceans in Han Zheng's hands, but it is very useful for Han Zheng, who is in urgent need of money, and his own power in Anhui has also made other parties around him fearful.

Now all the silver money on Han Zheng's account has a total of 38,000 yuan, which does not include the benefits of Huaiyan in the upcoming money.

At the end of February, Zheng Rong had already led the boat back, just like Han Zheng said, Huaiyan's official salt farm was not like giving up this place, so there was no intention of embarrassing the people sent by Han Zheng, all the formalities went smoothly, of course, Han Zheng didn't spend less money in it, but compared to the benefits of Huaiyan's monopoly, it was worth everything.

When Zheng Rong came back, thousands of kilograms of salt were transported, although for northern Anhui, there were still some shortcomings, but the subsequent transportation also came one after another, so that the lack of salt in the north was greatly alleviated.

So far, nearly 5,000 kilograms of salt have been sold, and the income obtained has been enough to support the consumption of the army, which has greatly improved the confidence of Han Zheng's development.

Now there are four ships, one of which is still a small steamer that burns coal, which allows Han Zheng to not only transport salt, but also more things in and out.

Li Ying also left by boat when the ship went to buy Huai salt and some commodities for the second time, and before leaving, Li Ying finally mustered up her courage, put aside all the reserves in her heart and all the worries of her family, and boldly said her thoughts to Han Zheng when she got on the ship.

Han Zheng couldn't promise the other party, so he could only tell the other party that after the other party graduated in two years, if the other party could still like him and he was recognized by the other party's family, he would marry the other party.

Li Ying was overjoyed in her heart, and finally got Han Zheng's promise, although she was reluctant to leave the other party, she was also satisfied. Although communication is inconvenient after leaving, every half a month, I always receive a letter from Li Ying, in which she tells her parents about her shortcomings, and tells Han Zheng not to reply to himself, just do his own thing, Han Zheng was moved by the other party's understanding, but he still replied every once in a while.

During this period, Li Ying's father, Li Yiru, somehow learned about the matter between them, the other party was also an intellectual and national capitalist, and had his own private bank in Shanghai, and he did not object to the two of them, nor did he agree.

But no matter out of gratitude to Han Zheng for saving his daughter or a test for Han Zheng, it helped a lot in the development of Han Zheng during this time.

Han Zheng used his identity and the help of Li Ying's father to establish a small flour mill and textile factory on both sides of the vortex river in a short period of time.

Therefore, Han Zheng is not worried about the population and labor, but the grain and raw materials can only be transported from Boxian and other places before the local harvest to supplement consumption, and Han Zheng is not worried about sales, directly transported to Shanghai or coastal places, and digested in the army, so he does not have to worry about not being able to sell them.

Most of the money for the establishment of flour mills and textile factories was taken out of the battalion and hung on the name of Han Zheng, but most of the proceeds were put in the battalion for the welfare of the soldiers and the expansion of production.

It seems that everything in Han Zheng has entered a period of great development, but Han Zheng has not relaxed, because he knows that after Yuan Shikai ascended to the position of president of the Republic of China, his days of stable development are numbered, and compared to the future situation, his strength at this time is still too small to make a difference.

Therefore, Han Zheng decided that before the north and south fought again, he would also take action against the surrounding areas in advance, at least to take Fuyang and Bozhou as his own development place, so that he could be regarded as a local small warlord.

And it is easy to take the two places, but there must be a valid reason, and the most important thing is that you must have the strength to make no one around you dare to speak, then you can only rely on the force of your subordinates.

Therefore, Han Zheng decided to start a planned recruitment at the time of development, and now it is the time of agricultural slack, and there are still a few months before the autumn harvest, which is enough for him to train the available soldiers and enough time to take these two places to develop himself.