On September 17, 1916, in the 5th year of the Republic of China, the government of the Republic of China issued an order signed by President Li Yuanhong, revoking Guo Yu's appointment as the superintendent of Jiangsu, and requiring Guo Yu to enter Beijing to wait for the government to investigate the Shanghai Public Concession incident, and to deal with it after it was clarified.

This order was transmitted to Jiangsu in the form of a clear code telegram, and at the same time it was also received by the overseers all over the country, various forces and major newspapers, and the major newspapers hurriedly printed supplements.

For receiving the order to revoke his own supervision, in fact, Guo Yu has expected in his heart, in the form of the eggbag of the Republic of China government, as long as the Japanese government gives a little pressure, it will first do it to its own people, so as to appease the feelings of the Japanese, Guo Yu can only middle finger right, at the same time, he also feels sad in his heart, feeling sad for the people of this era, those who have ideals and ambitions and love this country, living under such a government, the bitterness in their hearts can be imagined, the country is oppressed and the ideal can not be relaxed, The government's inability to defend the interests of its own people is probably the reason why so many demonstrations have erupted.

Wu Erzhu stood beside Guo Yu, watching Guo Yu holding the telegram in a daze, thinking that Guo Yu was depressed and angry, he held back for a long time and said: "Master, we don't have this bird anger, we have a total of nearly 200,000 troops in China and Kalimantan Island's Huafu Army, I'm afraid of what they do, now that the government of the Republic of China has dismissed your official for this little thing, it's not uncommon for us to do it, if it doesn't work, we will go to the island." See what they can do to us. Speaking of this, his face was full of indignation, revealing his youthful character, after all, he was only 21 years old.

Guo Yu was interrupted by Erzhu's contemplation. After listening to his childish words, he showed a smile, stretched out his hand and patted the top of Erzhu's head, and the Erzhu shrank his neck, "You are all the commanders, and you still say these unrelated words, what will we do if we leave, what will we do if Huafu will do, and what will happen to those industries." What about our immigration program. ”

In fact, the second pillar is mainly to reassure Guo Yu, and now he sees that his master is fine. He hurriedly asked: "Master, if he revokes your appointment, let him remove, and you, the overseer, are not obtained by their appointment, and the whole of Jiangsu is under the control of our Huafu army." With the strong combat effectiveness of our Huafu Army, are you still afraid of the government of the Republic of China, as far as their combat effectiveness is concerned, even if the 14 divisions of the Republic of China are all driven over, we are not afraid. ”

At that time, the military establishment of the Republic of China was based on divisions as the largest establishment, and there were only 14 divisions in the entire Republic of China, and of course there were some brigade-level establishments. Some of the warlords' private soldiers and other arms, of course, were not among the soldiers controlled by the southern government.

To say that Guo Yu's 100,000 troops in China are really not a big problem to deal with domestic troops. After all, these armies of the Republic of China are not of one mind, and they are divided into the hands of many warlords, and it is absolutely impossible to let these people deal with Guo Yu together. And Guo Yu never believed that the government of the Republic of China would send troops to fight him because of this matter. There is no need for that, this time I am mainly dealing with the Japanese, the government of the Republic of China is angry in the middle, it is enough for them to make a gesture, it still depends on the competition between the Japanese and themselves.

Guo Yu had already received information from Zhou Wu's intelligence office that Japan was preparing to send a second fleet to China. Nominally, it was to protect Japanese nationals, but in fact it was to show force. Putting pressure on the government of the Republic of China and themselves in order to achieve their goals, it is estimated that this time they will blackmail the government of the Republic of China again.

"We are naturally not afraid of a war, but I don't think it will be able to fight, the government of the Republic of China will never send troops to fight us for this matter, and those politicians are not so stupid. Now it's mainly up to us to compete with the Japanese. Guo Yu said.

"The Japanese army does not have many in the country. And the road is long, I don't think there will be a battle on the army side, but the threat is the greatest at sea, after all, Japan is a military power on the sea. "Wu Erzhu has also learned a lot of knowledge, and now he is also the first to analyze things.

Guo Yu nodded and said: "I received a report from Zhou Wu, saying that the Japanese Admiralty has ordered the Japanese Second Fleet to set off for China, which should be aimed at us, and our Shanghai in Jiangsu and some other areas along the Yangtze River are all within the range of naval artillery." He also frowned a little when he said this.

"Then call our navy in Kalimantan." Wu Erzhu reminded cautiously.

Guo Yu thought about it for a while and said: "Let's send the old fleet over, the new warships are still in the training stage, and it is estimated that it will take some time to form combat effectiveness, so that the fleet can rush to the country in the fastest time and be ready to fight the Japanese fleet at any time." ”

After listening to Guo Yu's words, Wu Erzhu replied excitedly: "Okay, I'll go and inform my brother of them." Then he quickly went out to inform Wu Dazhu.

Guo Yu thought about it and called Mu Sheng and instructed: "Inform the major newspapers that I will hold a press conference tomorrow." ”

"Leader, do you need us to prepare a speech, and are we allowed to ask questions?" Mu Sheng asked.

"You don't need to prepare a manuscript, and reporters can ask questions." Guo Yu commanded.

Mu Sheng took the order and announced Guo Yu's decision to hold a press conference in Suzhou, and for a while reporters from all walks of life rushed to Suzhou as quickly as possible, for fear of missing this press conference that might affect the entire country.

On the morning of the next day, a large number of reporters poured into the campus of Soochow University, which was later known as Soochow University.

Among these reporters, there are many foreign reporters, of course, the most reporters from the Republic of China, and many acquaintances among the reporters gather in groups to chat and wait.

"Brother Chen, we have a meeting." A reporter saw his acquaintance and stepped forward to say hello.

"Brother Su is really a coincidence, did your newspaper send you over this time, we met last time when we interviewed Mei Lanfang in Shanghai." Lao Chen shook hands with his colleague, and then the two sat together.

"Brother Chen, you are the reporter who declared, did you have any inside information when the Shanghai Concession incident happened this time?" Xiao Su asked.

"This matter has been spread in the newspapers, how can there be any inside information, everything that can be dug has been dug up, I see that there are many tabloid reports that are directly made up, there is really no industry ethics." Lao Chen said.

"Then you said that Guo Yu supervised the army's press conference this time, did he admit his mistake or be tough to the end?" Xiao Su asked according to the gossip nature of a reporter.

Lao Chen was also willing to show off in front of his junior, and after a little thought, he said, "With my understanding of Guo Dujun's style, I will probably deal with this matter with a tough attitude, otherwise he would not have sent troops into the public concession, and dared to forcibly search the Japanese concession." ”

"Then how to solve it on the Japanese side, you must know that the Japanese have always been arrogant and domineering, bullying our Republic of China, I think this matter is not easy to solve, I am afraid that in the end Guo Overseer will not end well, I don't see that our Republic of China government is frightened and directly revoked Guo Yu's position as Jiangsu Overseer." Xiao Su said.

"Look at it, maybe our huge Republic of China is really going to produce a hero." Lao Chen said thoughtfully.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning, nearly 100 reporters from dozens of newspapers across the country had gathered in the lecture hall.

The door of the classroom was opened again, and a group of neat Huafu soldiers walked into the classroom, and one of the young officers with the rank of lieutenant colonel shouted, "Guo Yu has arrived." I saw Guo Yu wearing a high-brimmed military hat and a straight military uniform, walking into the big classroom with his head held high, walking steadily to the podium of the big classroom and standing up, and said to the nearly 100 reporters who were doing it: "Good morning, fellow journalists, thank you for coming all the way to participate in this press conference. ”

Guo Yu looked at the crowd in the audience, nodded and continued to speak in a relaxed tone: "A lot of things happened in Suzhou and Shanghai in the early hours of yesterday morning, and there were many reports in yesterday's newspapers. ”

At this time, some of the reporters in the audience laughed softly, many of them participated in reporting on yesterday's concession incident, and many of them tried their best to find out the news as Guo Yu said, and it was not comprehensive.

"After briefing on the whole process of the incident, I will answer questions from reporters. Okay, now I'm going to tell you about the course of events. Then Guo Yu started talking about the factory being destroyed by the Japanese and killing a number of guards, and continued to talk about the incident of catching the escaped bandits in the Japanese concession.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is how the whole thing happened, if you have any questions, you can ask them now." After Guo Yu finished speaking, he looked at the many reporters in the audience.

The reporters in the audience began to ask in a hurry, for a while there was a lot of noise in the classroom, everyone couldn't hear what was said, Guo Yu hurriedly pressed down his hand, and it took a while for the crowd to calm down, Guo Yu said: "I can't ask anyone in such a mess, many of you are senior reporters, and you naturally know the rules of the press conference. Guo Yu pointed to the middle-aged reporter and said.

"Guo Dujun, I am the reporter who declared, I want to ask you, yesterday the Republic of China government issued an order to revoke your Jiangsu overseer, what do you think of this matter." The reporter who declared stood up and asked.

"Retreat is not the way out, when a person or even a country has become accustomed to retreating in everything, then what future does this person or country have, a few threatening words from others, a telegram will be frightened to deal with their own people, how can they convince the public. I, Guo Yu, will stand here today and ask, who dares to be the overseer of Jiangsu. Although Guo Yu's tone was calm, it exuded a sense of firmness. (To be continued) R655