Beijing, Fuxue Hutong, Duan Qirui Mansion.

As soon as the telegram led by Sa Zhenbing to deal with the aftermath of Fujian arrived in Beijing, Duan Qirui summoned Xu Shuzheng to his mansion overnight, and the two of them each took a copy of the telegram and looked at it carefully, and they didn't know how long they had been reading. The room was silent, except for the chatter of the papers.

In the end, Duan Qirui's hand shook, threw the newspaper on the table, pressed a pair of wrinkled hands on his temples, and sighed deeply: "What the hell is going on?" What happened to our Beiyang Army? Two mixed brigades, more than 10,000 guns...... In less than a day, he was defeated by a revolutionary party surnamed Jiang with troops, this is too fast, how did Tang Guomo and Yao Jianping lead troops on weekdays! If Beiyang goes on like this, how can it ......?"

Listening to Duan Zhi's tired tone, Xu Shuzheng didn't feel a taste in his heart. During this period, although both the north and the south claimed that they wanted to strike troops and negotiate peace, only on the Hunan battlefield did they truly achieve a cease-fire. In Sichuan and Fujian, there is still a constant exchange of troops between the north and the south. However, the result of this round of north-south exchanges greatly surprised Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng's expectations, and the Beiyang Army, which has always considered itself to be China's strongest army, actually suffered defeats in a row!

In just a few months, Sichuan is almost gone! The armies of Wu Guangxin and Liu Cunhou have been driven to the northern part of Sichuan by the combined forces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and it is time to retreat out of Sichuan. And in Fujian, the situation is now very bad, Li Cunhou was assassinated, Zang Zhiping rebelled, Mo Qingyu, the internal response of the Beiyang Army in Guangdong, was eradicated again, and finally even the elite of the 10th Mixed Brigade was beaten and almost wiped out!

And what's even more chilling. The direct army of President Feng Guozhang's faction has only been watching coldly during this time, as if they are not a Beiyang family at all! Maybe in private, he is still planning to take advantage of the failure of the Anhui system to replace it, right? I am not afraid that the southwest will really become bigger and overturn the whole country of Beiyang.

Now there are traitors (presidential) in this Beiyang. There are strong enemies outside, if it weren't for Fu Liangzuo and Qu Tongfeng, who recovered Mongolia and raised a lot of popularity, this period of Qirui's prime minister, I'm afraid that he won't be able to do it anymore! At present, it seems that the most urgent task is to find a way to restore the unity of the Beiyang and unanimously use troops against the southwest......

Xu Shuzheng took a deep breath, put the copy of the telegram in his hand under Duan Qirui's nose, and gently tapped it with his fingers: "Old Zhi." This Fujian incident may be an opportunity! ”

When Duan Qirui heard this, he looked up in surprise: "You Zheng, what do you mean?" ”

Xu Shuzheng smiled coldly and said, "Old Zhi." The southwest is too deceitful in Fujian! It's our Beiyang group that is bullying! At present, it is the time for the North and the South to negotiate peace, and they openly assassinate our Beiyang overseers, seize our Beiyang territory, and severely damage our two mixed brigades in Beiyang...... In this matter, he Feng Hejian can hold the boat in his belly. Those direct generals can swallow this breath? ”

Duan Qirui's eyes widened, and he just looked at Xu Shuzheng. A smug smile already appeared on Xu Shuzheng's face, and he talked eloquently: "Old Zhi, we can use what the revolutionary party has done in Fujian this time to arouse the common hatred and enemies of the Beiyang family. Why don't we learn from Zhang Shaoxuan. A meeting of the Governors was held in Tianjin, and all the generals of the Beiyang Department were invited to Tianjin for a meeting...... I don't believe it. Those direct generals are all the same as Feng Hejian, they don't have a temper? Do you really ignore the Beiyang group? ”

Duan Qirui shook his head slightly: "This ...... Let's call a meeting of the Overseers. Will people come to the meeting? ”

Xu Shuzheng smiled faintly: "Old Zhi, don't come out, you can ask Zhang Zizhi (Zhang Huaizhi) and Cao Zhongshan (Cao Kun) to come forward, they can be called our first and second honest people in Beiyang!" Moreover, they have deep qualifications, and they each have the strength of a division and the territory of a province. From them, I believe that we will be able to re-twist our Beiyang series into a rope! ”

Duan Qirui hesitated for a moment and muttered: "Zhang Zizhi is okay to say, but Cao Zhongshan is there ......."

"You can give him the envoy of the Liangguang Tour!" Xu Shuzheng gritted his teeth and said.

Duan Qirui shook his head: "But what about Lu Zijia?" He has already said that he will give him the Liangguang Tour. ”

Xu Shuzheng thought for a while and said, "Zhejiang overseer Yang Shande has been ill for a long time...... The foreign doctor in Shanghai said that he was suffering from some terminal illness, and it was estimated that there were not many days left to live. It is better to give the Zhejiang overseer to Lu Zijia, and at the same time, the Shanghai Protector also asked him to recommend. ”

"That's settled...... But what about Fujian? Without Lu Zijia's 10th Division, only Chang Ruiqing's 31st Mixed Brigade and Wang Kaishi's 11th Mixed Brigade would be left in Fujian, and the 11th Mixed Brigade was still Xu Chongzhi's old army! It's simply unreliable. ”

Xu Shuzheng also wrinkled his eyebrows, there seems to be a revolutionary party named Jiang Jshi in Fujian who is very powerful, and Beiyang has folded two mixed brigades in his hands in one day!

Therefore, at present, the Fujian overseer and the provincial governor have opened vacancies (Chang Ruiqing and Zang Zhiping's arrangements have not yet been agreed by Beijing), and the division commanders and brigade commanders of the Beiyang First Department do not seem to have seen it, and no one has come to Duan Qirui's house...... probably has the strength to settle Jiang Jshi's position of the Fujian overseer, and the few who look down on the Fujian overseer will be sent to death if they go.

"Why don't the Fujian people rule Fujian, and let Sa Dingming and Chang Ruiqing stabilize Fujian's plate first?" Xu Shuzheng thought about it, but still pointed to the telegram on the table.

"That's to let Chang Ruiqing rule Fujian!" Duan Qirui shook his head: "It's not proper, it's not proper, his qualifications are too shallow, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the public." ”

Xu Shuzheng spread his hands: "Then who will go?" Cai Chengxun, the commander of the First Division, and Zhang Wenzheng, the commander of the Xuzhou Town, are qualified to be overseers, but can their broken army defeat the revolutionary party surnamed Jiang? Speaking of this, he accentuated his tone again: "Besides, if we send someone else to supervise Fujian, those people in the navy, and Chang Ruiqing, can that kid be willing?" Don't make any more fuss about what is wrong with it......"

Duan Qirui was stunned, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that Xu Shuzheng's words made sense, so he had no choice but to pinch his nose and agree to Sa Zhenbing and Chang Ruiqing's arrangement on the political situation in Fujian.

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With a telegram from the Beijing government, Sa Zhenbing, Wang Qi and Chang Ruiqing finally got their wish and became the overseers, governors and military affairs supervisors of Fujian Province!

And inside this freshly baked "Fujian's highest three-person group". The people who really hold the real power are the actual controllers of Fuzhou City and the biggest military commander in Fujian Province, Chang Ruiqing, Lieutenant General Chang Da -- the rank of lieutenant general was issued together with the appointment of the Fujian Military Affairs Supervisor, as for the post of army chief and the like. They are all local in Fujian, and the central government does not pay attention to them.

After Shun lì manipulated the military and political power of a province in Fujian. The first thing Chang Ruiqing had to do was naturally to form his ruling team, including the military and political team and the civil affairs team.

Chang Ruiqing's original group was actually a warlord group, and some newspapers have already referred to them as "Fujian Baoding Department". Therefore, the formation of the military and political team is relatively easy, at least there is no shortage of military cadres. Moreover, Chang Ruiqing's 31st Mixed Brigade is also a newly formed team, and it is still in the time of unity. There is also an organization like the "Iron and Blood Comrades Association" in action, so Chang Ruiqing's control over the troops is still very strong, and there is not much resistance to reorganization.

As for the other mixed brigades in Fujian Province, the 10th Mixed Brigade and the 1st Fujian Mixed Brigade together now do not have 3,000 people. There are still half of the officers and soldiers who are making trouble! Of course, the two brigade commanders and the former superintendent Tang Guomo refused to take money out of their pockets to fill the holes, and they only had a piece of paper to call on electricity, and they went into the field. The department was also swallowed up by Chang Ruiqing as a matter of course.

The situation is more complicated in the 11th Mixed Brigade, which is the old unit of Fujian Governor Wang Qi. However, Wang Qi's control over the troops is not strong, and there are still many Xu Chongzhi's cronies in the troops...... But fortunately, the strength of this mixed brigade is relatively weak. In the past few years, Li Houji has been constantly weakened under various pretexts, even the artillery of the artillery battalion has been "borrowed", and the cavalry battalion has no horses, and the whole is an "infantry brigade". It's not "mixed" at all.

For this force, Chang Ruiqing's method of dealing with it is to "gather and disperse". If he was willing to go to Zhangzhou and Xiamen to join the revolutionary party, he Chang Ruiqing would not stop him. The road fee is also upside down! If you want to stay and join the Fujian Army, you have to obey Chang Ruiqing's assignment. What kind of official he used to be, he may not be able to stay in office after the reorganization of the army! However, Chang Ruiqing's Army Bureau will also send a generous "compensation", and if you really don't want to do it, there is also a "retirement payment" to get!

Therefore, the 11th Mixed Brigade was finally disintegrated by Chang Rui Qingshun, one of the regiments went to Xiamen under the leadership of the regiment commander Shen Ke, and the remaining troops were integrated into the newly built Fujian Army...... And their old brigade commander Wang Qi, the warlord Changda naturally prepared a generous gift to settle down.

After dealing with these three mixed brigades, Chang Ruiqing convened a meeting of officers above the regimental level of the 31st Mixed Brigade, discussed them for two days, and finally came up with a plan for the construction of the Fujian Army.

According to this plan, both roads of the 31st Mixed Brigade were to be expanded into divisions in one step. Among them, the original Bai Chongxi's first road was expanded into the first division of the Fujian Army, and the division commander was Wang Junhao. It turned out that Wang Junhao's second road was expanded into the second division of Fujian, but the division commander was Bai Chongxi. With such an expansion, Chang Ruiqing rotated the two generals with the heaviest military power! However, the two of them didn't have much time to become the teacher commander with Chang Ruiqing, so they were naturally satisfied and didn't care about these small things.

The two newly expanded divisions are two brigades and four regiments, plus one regiment of artillery, engineers, baggage, and cavalry, with an establishment of more than 13,000 people, and each division is equipped with 24 Japanese mountain guns of 75mm caliber, and the guns and ammunition are also fully equipped, which can be regarded as the pillar of Chang Ruiqing's armed forces to rule Fujian.

There is also a number of the 3rd Division of the Fujian Army that has also been built. The division commander of this division was Chang Ruiqing's deputy Wu Shi, and the deputy division commander was Long Qingxiang, the brigade commander of the Northwest Fujian Autonomous Brigade. This division is specially used to incorporate all kinds of people's armies in Fujian, and there are many numbers under the division headquarters, including three brigades and nine regiments! In addition, there is an independent regiment and a supplementary regiment, but there are no auxiliary arms such as artillery, engineering, baggage, and cavalry. In fact, it is the nature of a yamen and local security regiment that is used to rank seats and level the level...... These guys are not successful enough, and the guys who are more than defeated have to raise them first. Fortunately, at present, Fujian has not gone through a great chaos as in history, so the strength of these people's army leaders has not expanded much, and the number of men and horses on the books of the entire Fujian Third Division is only about 20,000, and the annual expenditure of more than 3 million can support them.

In addition to these three divisions, there are four garrison headquarters in western Fujian, northern Fujian, eastern Fujian, and Fuzhou. Under each garrison command there was an independent regiment of 2,000 men. It is used to appease the place. However, these garrison commanders are not the original town guards, and the local civil affairs are absolutely not allowed to intervene!

On top of the three divisions and the four garrison commands, there are five bureaus: the army, the staff department, the logistics department, the military industry, and the military police. Among them, the most powerful Army Bureau is concurrently served by Chang Ruiqing, and the chief of staff is Lu Yixuan, the chief of staff of the original 31st Mixed Brigade. The director of the logistics bureau is also Chang Ruiqing's henchman Yan Hao, and the director of the military police is Ren Yijiang, the head of the Fuxing Society, and only the post of director of the military industry Chang Ruiqing did not use his henchmen, but retained Liu Shiyuan, the former general office of the Fujian Manufacturing Bureau.

This person was a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, who had worked as an errand by Li Hongzhang's side in his early years, was well versed in foreign affairs and good at management, and managed the Fujian Manufacturing Bureau and the Silver Dollar Bureau in an orderly manner for Li Houji. After Chang Ruiqing entered Fuzhou. Liu Shiyuan also expressed his willingness to stay in office, and Chang Ruiqing was happy to appoint him as the director of the Fujian Army Ordnance Industry Bureau. In addition, Wu Shi has a brother named Wu Cuicheng, who works as an engineer in the Fuzhou Manufacturing Bureau, and is regarded as his own person. So he was entrusted with the errand of the Fujian Manufacturing Bureau to assist Liu Shiyuan in managing the production of the arsenal and the silver dollar bureau.

In the system of the Fujian Army, in addition to the three divisions, the fifth bureau and the four garrison headquarters, there is also an extremely important organization, that is, the Fujian Army Lecture Hall!

The head of the lecture hall is Jin Yongyan, Chang Ruiqing's chief staff. This "expert" in the history of the Republic of China can also be regarded as an "expert" in military education, not only served as the principal of the Military Academy of the Nanjing Provisional Government, the principal of the Wuchang Army Preparatory School of the Beiyang Government, and later served as the head of Lu Rongting's Guangxi Army Martial Arts Hall. This time, Chang Ruiqing entrusted him with the task of educating and training junior officers in the Fujian Army.

The Fujian Army Lecture Hall requisitioned the site of the former Fuzhou Army Primary School. It's right next to the Fujian Manufacturing Bureau. After Jin Yongyan took office, he recruited a group of frustrated soldiers who had studied in Japan as non-commissioned officers as instructors, including Jiang Jshi's brother Wang Bailing! In addition, Lu Yixuan, an officer of the Baoding Department and chief of staff of the Fujian Army, would also take turns to attend classes in the lecture hall.

Jin Yongyan set up two crash training classes for non-commissioned officers and officers in the Jiangwu Hall. Junior officers and non-commissioned officers who had not attended regular military academies were drawn from the three divisions of the Fujian Army to take turns for training. Among them, the self-taught civilian army officers in the third division are the focus of rotation training, and even a senior officer of Long Qingxiang's level has been transferred to the officer crash course in the lecture hall to participate in the training!

Other than that. Jin Yongyan also set up a regular class with a duration of two and a half years in the lecture hall, recruiting young students from all over the country who are interested in joining the army, and the provincial nationality is not limited to Fujian, but there are not too many young people from other provinces who come to apply for the examination, and basically they are mainly local young people in Fujian.

At the same time as the reorganization and expansion of the armed forces, the training and training of officers, and the gradual establishment of a military system, there are also large-scale and systematic military training and exercises for soldiers. Under the leadership of Lu Yixuan, the Fujian Army General Staff Bureau referred to the German Army's training drills and formulated training plans for the four brigades, eight infantry regiments of the First and Second Divisions of the Fujian Army, as well as a large number of units directly under the Fujian Army. A large-scale military exercise was also planned for the beginning of 1918.

And this qiē is to lay a solid foundation for realizing Chang Ruiqing's ideal of "unifying China and seizing power" in the next few years! Of course, such ambitions are now known only to a few core members of the Iron and Blood Comrades......

Chang Ruiqing was sitting in the office of the Office of the Superintendent in Fuzhou City at this time, dealing with official documents, and he had been busy for more than a month, and there were still mountains of official documents for him to deal with, which really made him feel a little unbearable. Now that the Fujian Army's stalls have been spread out, and Fujian's civil affairs have not yet completely taken over, there are already too many things to deal with. When I take over the plate of civil affairs, I don't know what will happen to it!

However, what worries Changda Supervisor the most is not that there are too many things, but that there are too few civil affairs talents in his own pocket, and he can't manage a large Fujian Province at all!

And he actually has his own set of ideas about how to manage the place. He was simply dismissive of the most popular local autonomy in the Republic of China during this period...... This is nothing more than a signboard raised by local warlords and local tycoons in order to protect their own interests! What China needs now is a strong government, a strong regime that can mobilize the country's financial, material and people's resources to the greatest extent! Only in this way can we unify China before Japan, China's "friendly neighbor," turns to militarism in an all-round way, so that China can have the strength to protect itself, and even have the strength to go out and get a piece of the pie in World War II!

Of course, Chang Ruiqing did not expect the Beiyang government to become such a strong regime...... His current vision is to use the Kuomintang and Sun Yat-sen's plate to transform the country. But before that, he has to sum up a model for transforming China, right?

And it's the kind of road that can't be smashed and can make the country look new, and I don't know where the road is?

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