Xuzhou has now become the base camp of the Northern Anhui Army, and Han Zheng was originally preparing to gather the base camp to move south, at least to really control the entire northern Anhui region.

However, in the end, he finally gave up this idea, especially the industrial base of Xuzhou made Han Zheng dare not easily stay away from this place, and to the north is the territory of the Beiyang Army!

Although the south has just been recovered, Han Zheng is more relieved about those armies in the south, after all, the most powerful army in China's era, deserves to be the behemoth of Beiyang, which is Han Zheng's reliance at this time, and it is also the focus of Han Zheng's defense, if he is not careful, he will be swallowed alive!

Fortunately, after the development of the past few years, there are more than 20,000 regular army troops to rely on, and more than 10,000 reserve troops as supplements, but they are also fixed in Xuzhou, and they are also faintly suppressing several places around them.

Even now, the warlords of all sizes in the surrounding places also have a faint hint of looking at Han Zheng's color.

"How's it going?" As soon as Han Zheng came back from outside, he saw Zhou Ming standing next to him honestly, remembering what he had explained, and asked.

"We have contacted the people over there, and the other party is still very interested in our cooperation requirements, if the preliminary negotiations are good, we can send someone to negotiate there in person, but my subordinates really don't understand, let's "Zhou Ming followed Han Zheng into the office, and after closing the door, he responded softly.

"I know what you mean, but we look strong now, but in fact, we are attacked everywhere, once there is a big change, if we don't get it right, we will be attacked by the enemy, and then it will be troublesome, after all, our foundation is too thin, and we need more time." Han Zheng waved his hand and asked the other party to sit down, and then he was a little tired and lay on the chair under him and rubbed his head gently.

This action made Zhou Ming feel a little sad in his heart, the people outside only saw the scenery of the patrol envoy, and the expansion and development of the territory in the past two years, but who would have thought that his young patrol envoy would work late at night every time, it can be said that the development of northern Anhui over the years, the growth of the northern Anhui army over the years almost have the shadow of the other party, and anyone can do without the northern Anhui army, but it can't be missing the young patrol envoy in front of him!

Han Zheng waited for a while and didn't hear the other party's words, then he opened his eyes, but he saw the other party looking at him in a daze, and unconsciously touched his face, thinking that it was the reason why he didn't wash it: "What, I don't have flowers on my face?" ”

When Zhou Ming heard this, he quickly smiled awkwardly, and finally did not persuade the commander to rest more, he knew that even if he persuaded himself, it would be useless, and all he could do was to do his own work to the best.

"Then why don't we cooperate with the North? Anyway, we can be regarded as people over there on the surface. Zhou Ming voiced his doubts.

"You think I don't want to? If it was before Xuzhou, we would definitely not be wrong to think like this, but if you are engaged in intelligence work, you should know that because of Lu Jianzhang's matter and the current occupation of Xuzhou, we are not welcome in the north. Even the north must be taboo against us. Of course, if we take the initiative to give up Xuzhou and listen to the instructions of our President Yuan, maybe we will be able to return to the embrace of Beiyang at that time. ”

Han Zheng thought about the consequences of driving away Lu Jianzhang, although he was suspected of being suspicious by the north on the surface, but why didn't he do it on purpose?!

"How is this possible?! The territory that was finally won, why should it be given up! When Zhou Ming heard this, he didn't do it, and said directly.

"That's it, we have to find another partner, and fighting alone is really not such a pleasant and stable thing." Han Zhengdao.

"This" Zhou Ming was a little speechless for a while, since he went from the dark to the bright, after the Xuzhou incident, he was arranged by the commander as the director of the Civil Affairs Department, Han Zheng himself also handed over this burden to him, thinking about the news from the north during this time, and also knew that Han Zheng was right, but choosing the south is really not reassuring, and his commander has a lot of hatred with the south, the entire northern Anhui region is almost the time for his commander to start a war in the north and south, and he snatched it out of the mouth of the south. And later it occupied the entire territory of northern Anhui.

"Commander, although the south now seems to have the upper hand in the political axe of the north, but after all, there is no strength to back it up, and those so-called rights are empty words, what good can we do if we cooperate with them."

"The benefits are great, don't forget, we are standing at the doorstep of the south here, can the south not worry? And you all know that the strength of the south is insufficient, and they themselves know that these are our weights, and once we secretly negotiate peace conditions with the south, we will have enough time to develop steadily. ”

In the afternoon, Han Zheng and Zhou Ming, the director of the Civil Affairs Department, talked for a long time before it ended, and in the evening, Zhou Ming hurriedly returned to his office in the Civil Affairs Department, and no one knew what the two had talked about.

It was only two days later that Zheng Rong, who had just comforted the group of navy in the south, received a telegram, and then crossed the Yangtze River overnight under the escort of the First Army of Northern Anhui, and arrived at Nanjing, the southern base camp, before getting off the ship and embarking on the journey to Nanjing.

By the end of March 1914, the south bank of the Yangtze River had gradually become greener, and some early-growing flowers had reopened in this troubled land.

Although along the way, the task assigned by Han Zheng was a little urgent, and the large-scale river transportation in northern Anhui was waiting for the results of the negotiations, but after crossing the Yangtze River, Zheng Rong instead put up a shelf, just sent someone to secretly contact the people in the south, and then lived in a hotel steadily, as for the tails that followed behind, he didn't care at all, but went in and out of various streets in Nanjing from time to time, and walked over and over again, as if it was the first time that the hillbilly entered the city, and Grandma Liu first entered the Grand View Garden.

However, he is not in a hurry, naturally someone is in a hurry.

On the afternoon of the third day, Zheng Rong, who was just about to go out, received a reply from the south, saying that he was going to arrange for someone to send Zheng Rong to the master here to discuss important matters.

Zhou Ming was not ambiguous, and responded happily, and then Cao Debiao, who was protecting himself and was also quite familiar with Nanjing, slowly marched into the conference room inside the Nanjing Political Axe Building, which was already outdated.

Obviously, the south still attaches more importance to this meeting, after all, it can get a powerful alliance to join, no matter whether the alliance relationship is stable or not, it can also make Nanjing a place to breathe a sigh of relief, that is, there is an armed conflict with the north, the other side does not join its side, as long as it is blocked at the junction of the north and the south, it is enough to leave room for military buffer on both sides.

They didn't want to directly clash with the group of soldiers and ruffians in the north, and now that the other party had joined, there was no doubt that the two sides hit it off, and they had a tacit understanding to secretly connect each other.

This time secretly linked, Zheng Rong came over as a businessman, and Li Yiru even used his relationship to create an identity certificate for him, and it was absolutely true!

The quartermaster made a cameo as a negotiator, although it was a bit interdish-oriented, but Zheng Rong had no pressure, with 20,000 people behind him, plus the hideous face and scarred officer around him to protect him, which was enough to give him enough courage to think about what Han Zheng had explained in the telegram, so he walked into the president's office two years ago, a place he couldn't think of before.

Today's secrecy seems to be done very well, there are no other people in the whole building, and the guards are even more heavily armed around the conference room.

When Zheng Rong raised his feet and walked into the conference room, he saw a young man standing up, smiling reservedly, and walking towards him this time.

"Presumably this is Director Zheng, right? It has been famous for a long time, and it is really a handsome man from the Northern Anhui Army. The person on the other side smiled three times, invited Zheng Rong to sit down with very decent movements, and then introduced himself: "The contemptible person is called Situ Guo, you can just call me Situ." ”

Zheng Rong thought to himself in his heart, and then remembered that the person in front of him was a returned overseas Chinese brought by Sun Yat-sen from the United States before, and he had prepared these news in advance before coming, although Sun Yat-sen is now in Shanghai and will go abroad from time to time, but the person in front of him asked himself to stay.

The Northern Anhui Army has now developed, and there are also some students who have returned from abroad or some returned overseas Chinese, but they don't know too little about Zheng Rong, and they still admire these patriotic young people, especially when they know that when the Chinese revolution was most difficult, it was these people who supported the backbone of the revolution.

"It turned out to be Mr. Situ, Mr. Situ is also young and promising, I don't know if I have been happy in China in the past few years?" Zheng Rong opened his mouth and said.

Situ smiled bitterly in his heart, he originally wanted to return to China to serve, but who knew that this was the situation in China, and his dream of joining the army was not realized.

However, in this negotiation, after the south knew that the person sent by northern Anhui was only the quartermaster, it directly arranged for him to come over for contact, and then the two sides could negotiate.

Situ Guo also wanted to see what the thief was in the eyes of the south, the rebel in the eyes of the north, and the righteous army in the eyes of the locals, so he took over the job.

At this time, when I heard the other party ask me this, I thought of what happened to me after returning to China, and I couldn't help but smile reluctantly and avoid this topic.

After this meeting, no one knew what was involved, and the Northern Anhui Army and the southern provinces began to enter a stage of tacit development.

In this chaotic matter, as long as there are interests and strength, it will be able to develop better, and Han Zheng recognized this, and then continued to develop in advance, and after he had bargaining chips in his hand, he began to seek another way to obtain benefits.

Han Zheng, who was entrenched in Xuzhou, looked at the sky above his head that began to appear slightly bright, took a deep breath, and chuckled, if the black curtain could pass, he was willing to uncover the corner of the black curtain

(This book seems to be about to be a higher stage here.,Originally, it was written down.,And there's an outline or something.,But some things are at this time.,I know that I can't write it down at all.,Modern history novels,That's it.,It's better a few years ago.,Now it's getting stricter.,Many can't be touched.,In this way,It's inevitable that there are many holes that haven't been filled.,I'm sorry to everyone here.,After this barely finished the book.,I won't write modern history novels in the future.,It's too tiring.。 (To be continued.) )