The bigger the country, the more troops there are, and with it, the more problems there are, and that's a very simple truth.

From the Northeast to the whole of China, Song Biao has a lot of things to consider, but fortunately, he has laid a very solid foundation in the five years in the Northeast, so that most of the troubles can be solved very well.

According to the territorial scope of the whole country, the ten-year plan of the Imperial Army was to establish 15 integrated divisions, 35 ordinary divisions, and 43 brigades, with a total establishment of 1.35 million men.

The integrated infantry and cavalry divisions are established at the 8 regimental levels, including an attached artillery regiment, a baggage regiment, and an engineer regiment, plus a total of 22,300 men in the division headquarters command regiment, 5 regiments in the ordinary infantry division, and 17,500 people in the three infantry regiments, artillery regiments, and baggage regiments.

The infantry has 11 integrated divisions, 35 ordinary divisions, three integrated divisions in North China, two in the northeast, one integrated division in the Central Plains, Central China, East China, South China, Northwest China, and Southwest China, and an average of one ordinary division in the rest of the provinces, with five integrated mountain divisions and 14 ordinary mountain divisions.

The cavalry is 5 integrated divisions, one each in North China, Northeast China, and Inner Mongolia, and two in the Northwest, with 15 ordinary brigades, and no ordinary divisions.

The artillery is 18 brigades, which are unified into an integrated formation.

The Railway Engineer Corps has 4 brigades, 2 railway artillery brigades, and 3 baggage brigades.

Each province of the National Armed Guard, as well as the Beijing Division, Shanghai, and Tianjin, has set up a corps, and each of the railways, banks, military reclamation, military animal husbandry, and salt industry has a corps, with an average establishment of 15,000 personnel and a total strength of 650,000 people.

In the end, there were 2 million actual army members, 700,000 national defense officers and soldiers, and 1.3 million service soldiers.

In order to maintain this plan and the long-term construction of the army, the General Staff Headquarters has set up eight army noncommissioned officer schools in Shenyang, Baoding, Wuchang, Xuzhou, Xi'an, Nanjing, Guangzhou, and Chengdu, special artillery academies in Nanchang and Taiyuan, the Central Cavalry Academy in Suiyuan, the Far Eastern Army Staff College in Shenyang, and the Central Imperial Army University in Yanjing, which are the highest institutions of learning in the Chinese Army.

At the same time, three naval noncommissioned officer schools were established in Fuzhou, Haizhou, and Qingdao, and Fuzhou cooperated with the British and French navies, Haizhou and the US navy, and Qingdao and the German navy cooperated separately and rapidly for training, and at the same time continued to send a large number of noncommissioned officers to the naval cadets and naval academies in the United States, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

As for the planning and size of the fleet, for the time being, they are generally blank.

Song Biao has no energy, Cheng Biguang and Song Wenhui's ten-year plan for the Imperial Navy has not come out for a long time, and the two sides are said to have a lot of disputes.

At the same time that Song Biao rapidly reorganized the whole army and stabilized Shaanxi, the original twentieth, second, and fourth towns, which had completed the reorganization first, were transferred to Hanzhong, and the imperial army gradually completed the military preparations for pacifying the southwest in mid-November, and at this time there was only one last military order left before waving the army to attack Sichuan.

During this period, in Sichuan Province, various forces were entangled, and the complexity of the situation had already reached an unbelievable level.

At this time, Song Biao finally determined through the intelligence department that the Empress Dowager Longyu and Emperor Xuantong did not take refuge in the British Embassy, but with the help of the Yueben Legation in China, they had already left Yanjing in disguise as Chinese nationals before the Northeast Army attacked Yanjing, and at this time lived in seclusion in Yueben, or Korea.

In negotiations with the British Minister Zhu Erdian, Song Biao agreed to grant Prince Alcohol a pardon and allow him to continue to live in Prince Alcohol's mansion, while the British Legation no longer asylum Zaifeng.

In November, Yanjing is getting colder.

In such a season, Zaifeng, who had been secretly sheltering in the British Legation for four months, finally came out and walked in the capital like a walking corpse.

The bloodstains that had permeated the entire capital in the past few months had gradually been washed away, and at a glance, the capital of Beijing, which had once been inhabited by Manchu nobles and Manchu bureaucrats, suddenly became so lonely and deserted, that the inner city of Yanjing seemed to be an empty city, and the bustling merchant bazaar was extremely deserted, and even the Han people mostly fled.

Zaifeng walked like this, wearing the costume of a prince, with a solemn expression and a sad heart.

Although he has been hiding in the legation, he still knows what has happened in the past few months, in Yanjing City, a massacre by the old Beiyang Army has killed all the people, and in the most terrifying day, a British military attache saw thousands of corpses being transported out of the city and burned in a brick kiln outside the city.

The inner city has been blocked, not many people can come in to check, the prisoners of the Beiyang Army are held here, no one knows what happened next, but rumors continue to circulate.

Almost none of the people who were familiar with the past can be found, never seen again.

His Fujin and his two children were still hiding in the church near the legation, and they did not dare to come out now.

He walked all the way back to Prince Alcohol's mansion exhausted and painful, everything in the mansion had been emptied, empty like a ghost garden, and he sat in the corridor, looking at the garden and pond with the same scenery, with indescribable fear and self-reproach in his heart.

During the period when Song Biao had been proclaimed emperor, Zaifeng's soul was tormented, and he lived in fear and regret every day, and he finally knew what he had done.

In Yanjing, Xi'an, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Northeast China and other places, the Manchu people in the city were almost completely killed, and the Manchu city set up by the Manchu people laid a trap for their fate from the beginning, and concentrated residence made it easier for them to be caught.

The period from July to November 1910 was the most chaotic period in the country, with large-scale flooding movements everywhere, mostly premeditated and well-planned collective reprisals, and a few looting, to which the Imperial Provisional Cabinet failed to respond, either because of the strong political and military forces that restricted the political axe's control, and because the chaos of the situation made it impossible for the political axe to govern it.

The Anti-Enclosure Decree approved by the Provisional Political Axe stipulated that all land occupied by the Manchus through enclosures in the early and mid-Qing Dynasty would be confiscated, as well as property seized by other means.

This executive order was quickly abused by the revolutionary armies everywhere.

In Xi'an, a banner woman pleaded with the revolutionary army, pleading: 'I also hate my ancestors because they mistreated the Han Chinese,' while another old woman pleaded: 'What is the use of killing us useless women and children, what do you get, why don't you release us to show your magnanimity.' ’

The soldiers were moved, but they killed them anyway and carried them outside the city with the children's bodies for burial.

Whether it is the Guangfu Society, the League and other revolutionary organizations, or the Hui Party, when inciting soldiers and revolutionaries to revolt, they will inevitably talk about the Ten Massacres of Yangzhou, the Three Massacres of Jiading, the Massacre of Suzhou, the Massacre of Nanchang, the Massacre of Ganzhou, the Massacre of Jiangyin, the Massacre of Kunshan, the Massacre of Jiaxing, the Massacre of Haining, and the Massacre of Jinan...... There is also an even more tragic Sichuan, in this process, such as Zhang Binglin, a master of Chinese culture who serves politics, also played an extremely disgraceful role, and hastily blamed the Manchus for the mass extinction of Sichuan in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

With the support of abundant revolutionary funds, propaganda pamphlets on these histories were widely circulated in various places, especially in the northeast and in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where the Liberation Society was dominant.

The Manchus became the cause of the decay of the country, the reason for the decline of the nation, the Manchus were full of original sin in all the riot propaganda, and became the victims of revolutionary revival, it seems that only by killing the Manchus can China get rid of the past and rejuvenate again, and all the wealth of the Manchus is based on the enslavement of the Han people, and every penny is the product of national oppression.

All the evidence of the crime and the old accounts of history became an important reason for the participation of the officers and soldiers and the poor in the uprising, and in order to maintain the justice in their hearts, the massacre became a symbol of national liberation and the success of the revolution.

Such massacres spread throughout the country, even in the fertile Kanto region, and the Anti-Enclosure Order was completely abused.

In the empty palace of Prince Alcohol, a gunshot rang out in the silent night, and the former regent committed suicide to redeem himself, he could not redeem himself, but his death may be the final brush of this tragedy.

The next day, when Song Biao arrived in the office and sat down to deal with today's official business, and was about to formally sign the amnesty decree and the military decree for pacifying the southwest, he saw the latest information on his desk and learned that Zaifeng had committed suicide.

Sitting at his desk, Song Biao was silent for a while.

Zai Feng's death made all the new and old hatreds in his heart disappear.

Song Biao silently wondered in his heart, does this mean that everything is over, and the Hanman dispute seems to be able to come to an end and let the country return to normal.

When the Imperial Cabinet officially established its administrative authority throughout the country, indiscriminate killings had to be curbed, and even if there were many people who hated the Manchurians, as a political axe, they still fulfilled their obligations to curb crime.

He also pondered the problem on the other side of the book.

Regarding the rescue of Xuantong's mother and son by the Legation, he felt not surprised at all at this time, but he had been focusing on the British Legation before, so he would ignore the possible surnames in it.

For Yueben, this mother and son are probably strange goods, and they must feel that there will always be a time when they will come in handy, such as planning Manchurian reading power and the like.

Is it possible?

If there is a glimmer of hope, then let him continue to fantasize like this.

Song Biao thought about it, and didn't plan to entangle this matter with Yueben, the matter has come to this point, let the past go away with the wind, let him be an enlightened monarch, and turn the old hatred of the previous dynasty into a piece of letter paper and historical manuscripts, and then become real history.

He didn't want to go to Yanjing in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, nor did he want to go to the Forbidden City, the prosperity of Kyoto was like a cloud of smoke to him, he liked to make his own history, for this reason, he made Daxing County and Fangshan County as the new capital, renamed the Kyoto Special Zone, where a new political city and the seat of the imperial palace were replanned.

The Imperial Central Political Axe was located in Daxing Prefecture, the new Kyoto East Ward, while the Imperial Palace and Army Headquarters were located in Fangshan County, which was renamed Kyoto West Ward.

The Kyoto Special Administrative Region will become a new landmark of the Chinese Empire, representing the dawn of a new era, where the buildings of this era will be clustered and will exist as a pure political axe city, which is good news for Yenching, which will not have to take on heavy tasks and will continue to be the capital of the empire.

Song Biao doesn't want to design everything from a certain height, he just hopes to have a different historical pace and take a different path to prove his sense of existence.

In the past two days, he has been brewing the details of this matter, and in the same way, he must continue to consider military action against Sichuan and Yunnan-Guizhou, and the split within the League has been unavoidable, and the China Mingzhuo Party prepared by Song Jiaoren was formally established, absorbing a large number of party members from within the League.

As a pilot project, Song Biao agreed in principle that the Ming Boiler Party had a greater probability of local power in Liangguang, and the condition was that the new army of the two towns and two wedges must be ceded, in fact, the League did not really control these armies, the army was purely in the hands of Long Jiguang and Lu Rongting, and the two cooperated and confronted each other, and the League had another Guangdong Revolutionary Army in Guangzhou.

Song Jiaoren wanted to give up the army to the Imperial Army to take over, Long Jiguang and Lu Rongting knew that once they retreated and admitted, they were very likely to completely lose their military power.

This entanglement is almost exactly the same as the situation in Sichuan, except that Zhao Erfeng and Zhao Erxun established the Southwest Patriotic Association in Sichuan and Yunnan-Guizhou, which was ostensibly a patriotic association, but in fact it was the base camp of the Qing Dynasty relics, so as to continue to control Sichuan and Yunnan-Guizhou by uniting local forces with the new army and Ai[***].

Song Biao could only attack.

Compared with Liangguang, Song Biao obviously wants to attack Sichuan, as long as he enters Sichuan, he can sweep the entire Sichuan and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau with one horse, and he now controls Hunan after all, as long as the troops are properly prepared, he can continue to attack Liangguang at any time.

Long Jiguang, Lu Rongting, Zhao Erxun, and Zhao Erfeng were all willing to recognize the imperial central government, and the condition was to allow them military and political autonomy, and the so-called autonomy was nothing more than that the army would continue to belong to them, and politics would also be controlled by them.

The source of the idea of the warlords of the late Qing Dynasty came from the Hunan and Huai armies, and they refused to let go of the military power in their hands, and even relied on this to blackmail the Beijing division, which has become the first major drawback of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Song Biao took a moment to continue to read the southwest battle plan drawn up by the Army General Staff, although, as Zhao Tingzhu and Jiang Fangzhen said, attacking Sichuan was actually much easier than attacking Liangguang, but the distance was relatively long.

The plan in Song Biao's hand was obviously not very perfect, but Song Biao knew in his heart that it was enough to deal with the Zhao Erxun brothers and the local forces in Sichuan.

Jiang Zhengyuan walked in and reported to Song Biao: "Your Majesty, the British Minister Sir Zhu Erdian is asking to see you in the living room. ”

Song Biao continued to look at the battle plan and replied lightly: "Please let him in." ”

He knew what Zhu Erdian wanted to say, but Zaifeng's death really had nothing to do with him, and after Jiang Zhengyuan left, he called the Secret Service Bureau and asked Wang Yongjiang, who was the director of the Secret Service Bureau at this time, to come over in person to report on Zaifeng.

It didn't take long for Minister Zhu Erdian to walk in with a solemn expression, bowed to Song Biao and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for disturbing you rashly." ”

Song Biao raised his head and glanced at him, then got up and invited Zhu Erdian to sit down with him on a pair of rattan chairs on the west side of the office, near the window and the pool, Song Biao personally poured tea for the minister of the British Empire, and said: "I know why you came, if it is indeed for the sake of carrying Feng, I can only say that it is a pity, in fact, I have sent someone to protect him before." ”

Minister Zhu Erdian sighed and said, "Of course I believe you, Your Majesty, since you signed the amnesty decree, you will definitely no longer hold him accountable. I have only come here to see him with my own eyes, and Prince Zaifeng is a good friend of mine, and I think it is necessary for me to arrange his funeral. ”

Song Biao bowed his head slightly and said, "I also plan to take a look." For me, the past can be passed, we have opened a new door, and it is natural to embark on a new path, and we don't have to live in the past anymore. ”

Minister Zhu Erdian agreed: "Yes, Your Majesty, you are very right. ”

At this time, Wang Yongjiang of the Secret Service Bureau hurriedly entered the office, bowed to Song Biao, and said, "Your Majesty! ”

Song Biao looked at him and asked, "Where were your people when they committed suicide?" ”

Wang Yongjiang cautiously replied: "The bureau sent four people, all outside the palace of Prince Alcohol at the time, after hearing the gunshots, they rushed in to check the situation, and they have already sent people to take pictures, and the police station has also intervened in the matter, confirming that it is a suicide, and the evidence is conclusive." ”

Song Biao said: "Then arrange the itinerary, Minister Zhu Erdian and I are going to take a look." ”

Wang Yongjiang replied "yes" and went out to handle the matter.

Although Song Biao is a very difficult person to deal with, with many means, and is known for his shrewdness and toughness, Minister Zhu Erdian, who has dealt with him for many years, also knows that Song Biao is a very fair person who strictly abides by the law and promises.

Even if Song Biao had repeatedly negotiated with the British Legation in the name of arresting war criminals, demanding that Zaifeng be arrested and brought back for trial, since the amnesty was finally approved, he would basically not pursue it again.

The new Chinese emperor was certainly not a despicable and untrustworthy man.

Minister Zhu Erdian is still very sure of this.

At this time when the Secret Service was preparing the car, Minister Zhu Erdian took this time and Song Biao and said: "Your Majesty, out of understanding of you, I believe that you will inevitably crack down on the autonomous forces in the south, as well as the republican organizations such as the League of Nations. On the issue of China, China will only recognize the legitimate surname and authority of the Central Political Axe of the Chinese Empire, and use this as the basis for the continued expansion of cooperation between China and Britain, but considering the prestige of Mr. Sun in the international civilized world, I personally suggest that you have a personal negotiation with him to coordinate the interests and relations between the two sides, and I think this is also conducive to the internal stability of your country. ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said, "When the time is right, I will have a meeting with him, and it is not suitable for the time being." In fact, your country and you still don't understand the actual situation, whether it is Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, or Liangguang, the alliance and the republican faction still occupy not much power, but other forces are superficially attached to this, the real problem is still a large number of local armed forces left over from the Qing political axe period, these armed forces exist in the name of the security team, the sports club, the security group, the regimental training, the Xiangyong, the Shangwu regiment, etc., among which there are many party and underworld organizations, and even the armed forces of mysterious religions, such as the White Lotus Sect, the Boxer Rebellion, etc., when we engaged in revolution, They also became revolutionary armed forces in one fell swoop, plus the old army and new army during the Qing political axe period, which filled the provinces, just like after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty in our country, armed forces rose up in various places, in fact, they were all fantasies about being emperors. China's problems, especially the current problems, are in a nutshell, there are too many people who want to be emperors, even if they don't say it, deep down they are so eager to do so. ”

After a pause at this point, he continued: "So, don't overestimate the so-called republicans, their spirit and ideals are good, but ideals always have to face reality, and their problem is to ignore this cruel reality. ”

Minister Zhu Erdian thought for a moment and said, "You mean that even if you don't crack down on them severely, they will definitely fail, right?" ”

Song Biao sighed and did not continue to answer Zhu Erdian.

He quickly changed the subject and said to Zhu Erdian: "As for the question of Yuben, your legation is willing to provide political asylum to Zaifeng, generally out of humanitarian considerations, and I can understand this, while Yuben secretly sheltered Emperor Xuantong and his adoptive mother, Empress Dowager Longyu, in order to use it as a bargaining chip in his hand and bargain with me. I don't want to say anything about this, and I don't want to negotiate with them, lest they think that they really have a pair of trump cards, and you can tell them for me that others have a bright and bright dealing, I will have a righteous and bright dealing, others and conspiracies, I will have conspiracies and tricks, in the words of our Chinese, I have always been a black and white bandit. ”

Minister Zhu Erdian smiled and said: "Your Majesty, your words are really full of black humor and irony, in view of your status as the Emperor, I obviously cannot tell them the exact words, but I will properly remind Mr. Minister Ben, please do not always anger you." ”

Song Biao laughed, he didn't mean to let Minister Zhu Erdian convey these words, because these words were just to tell Minister Zhu Erdian that he was full of hatred and disgust for the book, and he definitely didn't use the tone of the Yingyu Alliance to deal with him.

Britain can go to China to have a good meal, and if you want to take this little brother to eat in China, I am afraid that you will not even have the opportunity to eat a boxed lunch.

As a veteran senior diplomat, Minister Zhu Erdian naturally understood what Song Biao meant, and he quietly refused to say it, and he was also pondering in his heart about the various disputes that might arise between the two countries in the future.

After the secret service prepared the car, Song Biao personally accompanied Minister Zhu Erdian to the palace of Prince Alcohol to inspect the scene in his private capacity.

This is the first time Song Biao went to Yanjing City, and the security situation in Yanjing City is definitely problematic, no one dares to be careless, for this trip, the secret service bureau has been preparing for a very long time, Wang Yongjiang contacted the police station, the intelligence bureau and the guard battalion, together responsible for the security work, in advance on the road to be passed through the deployment of police forces.

Song Biao rode a specially customized black Zhonghua brand sedan and slowly drove through the streets of Yanjing City, which was indeed his first close observation of this ancient capital, the large-scale street battles after breaking through the city walls, and the large-scale chaos after signing the "Anti-Enclosure Order", making this thousand-year-old capital seem to have become a ruined land in just a few months.

Most of the buildings, shops and private gardens are still there, but people are gradually disappearing.

The violent movement was not only concentrated in the inner city, but also in some of the alleys of the outer city, where the Manchus were more concentrated, and in Xi'an, as in history, the city of Manchu was slaughtered, and even children and women were spared.

Such a situation made even Song Biao feel cruel.

It's part of history.

It's bound to happen, only this time it's more brutal.

Even if the Imperial Cabinet takes up the matter and wants to maintain social stability, this will continue to spread for decades to come.

This is like an official who has eaten and drunk for nothing for too long, and after suddenly losing his official position, he will inevitably be beaten up a few times.

True hatred always needs to be vented before it can be calmed.

Just as we have not been able to make the price pay, we will never be at peace.

After arriving at Prince Alcohol's Mansion, Song Biao got off the bus with Minister Zhu Erdian, and the secret service bureau sealed it off last night, and the police station also sent dozens of police officers to be in charge of martial law.

When he entered the palace, he looked at the empty gardens and rooms, and the various homes that had been destroyed during the raid, and Minister Zhu Erdian, who had been in and out of this place many times and was once very familiar with it, seemed to be a little heavy, and it was difficult for him to explain his inner feelings, in short, it was very complicated, there was sympathy, there were luck, and there was confusion.

After the Northeast Army entered the city, especially in the inner city of Yanjing, almost all the families of the Manchu royal family were confiscated, and the property of these families in the ticket numbers of each money bank was also confiscated, with a total of 8.96 million taels of silver and 34,400 taels of gold, and all kinds of jewelry, real estate and antiques were sealed in the secret service bureau and were not dealt with for the time being.

There were 3.35 million taels of silver seized in Prince Qing's home alone, which were stored in six Shanxi ticket numbers, and the silver seized by the Manchu Qing Internal Affairs Office was about 1.73 million taels, but the silver deposit in the treasury of the Qing Ministry of Finance (Household Department) was less than 1 million taels.

This is roughly what the so-called family and country in the world means, corrupt officials are more powerful than the royal family, the royal family is more powerful than the political axe, and the poverty of most Manchus at the end of the Qing Dynasty can also be seen.

If we take into account the fact that there was a certain degree of confusion in the seizure process, the actual number of assets preserved by the Manchu magnates would have been much higher.

The enormous wealth accumulated over several generations of the Prince's Mansion disappeared in this way, and became the main stock of the cabinet axe at present, which was used for the government axe and the expenditure of the provinces, especially the sharp increase in military spending.

The last generation of Prince Alcohol died in the middle hall of the palace, he used a Luger pistol to pierce his right temple, the flame in the chamber of the gun burned his right cheek in a small area, he was originally sitting on a Taishi chair, the power of the bullet pushed him down, the whole person fell to the ground, blood flowed out of the muzzle, the blood has gradually dried, and he seemed to lie in a pool of blood.

The police station took a number of photos here, and they checked all around, and they were convinced that it was a suicide.

In fact, even if it is a well-planned murder, it no longer matters at this time, who cares whether such a person lives or dies?

Song Biao glanced at it a few times, turned around indifferently and left the room, as if he had one thing in his heart.

(To be continued)