On December 10th, on the streets of the Bund in Shanghai, a newsboy came running barefoot from afar, and the cold ground in the cold winter seemed to be low and burning on fire, making him run like flying, and his thin and tattered clothes fluttered in the wind like a dance costume.

I saw him running, waving the newspaper in his hand while waving the newspaper in his hand, and shouting in a voice full of joy: "Outside, outside, Beiyang is about to wave south!" ”

The people on the street listened to him shouting constantly, and some people in ordinary clothes still walked their own way with their heads down, even if they didn't even have the mind to look up and listen to a word, but some brightly dressed people slowed down their pace after listening to it, and soon the first middle-aged man in a horse coat stepped forward and took out a few copper dollars: "A newspaper, more rewards for you!" ”

The newsboy grinned, hurriedly handed over the newspaper, and then bowed: "Thank you, master!" ”

After selling the first newspaper of the day, the newsboy's face became even more joyful after winning the reward, and he continued to shout the slogan taught to them by the newspaper office: "Outside, outside, Zhao Dongyun issued a statement that decisive progress has been made in the Tianjin talks!" ”

At this moment, a young man in a suit, shaved the head of the village, like many young people, came up, and the newsboy skillfully handed the newspaper, carefully took the copper dollar, and then trotted to another man called the newspaper.

In this case, it may not take a while to sell all the newspapers, and then I can go back and get another newspaper to sell, so that I can make money that I couldn't have earned in the past three days.

The newsboy was shouting and running on the street, but his mind was already flying, today he wants to buy two steamed buns made of white flour and go back, eat half of them himself, and give half of them to his sister, and leave one to eat tomorrow! No, give my sister one today, and give her another one tomorrow, I'm an adult, just eat coarse noodles and steamed buns.

How good it would be if he fought every day, so that his newspaper would not be sold, and he didn't know who Zhao Dongyun was, why did so many people buy newspapers when they heard his name?

The newsboy was thinking wildly, the newspaper in his backpack was getting less and less, his smile was getting fuller and fuller, and when he sold the last newspaper, he trotted towards the bun shop opposite, he was going to sell white flour steamed buns that he hadn't eaten for a long time!

The distance from the bun shop is getting closer and closer, and the newsboy can even see the steaming steamed buns in the bun shop, and at this moment, there was a sudden commotion around the corner, and the noise was accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves.

By this time the carriage had stopped, and the Indian who was driving had already trotted down in a panic, and then opened the door of the carriage and kept saying sorry in broken English on the opposite side.

Immediately a middle-aged foreigner wearing a tuxedo and a bowler hat came down from the carriage, he looked at the newsboy on the ground, his eyebrows wrinkled slightly, and then he took out a silver dollar from his pocket and flicked it casually, which was still on the newsboy, and then said to the Indian coachman: "What are you waiting for, go!" ”

At this time, a Chinese man in a suit and a top hat quietly walked up, stared at the newsboy several times, and then quickly squatted down and picked up the silver dollar next to the newsboy, and then walked away with his head held high and waved the staff of civilization!

At the same time, Tianjin!

Zhao Dongyun, Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui, and Wang Shizhen sat down together again, and after another nonsense without nutrition, Zhao Dongyun first got down to business: "Yesterday, Brother Shaochen, you talked about this matter in Shanxi, and the Seventh Division here is afraid that it will not be able to handle it, and the Tenth Division will also serve as a heavy guard against Japan and Russia in the Northeast, and it cannot be transferred, do you see if this is okay, let that Wu Fengling go to Shanxi!" ”

"The second division under him is also an old army, so there is no need to worry about combat power, and the situation on the Rehe side is relatively calm now, and it is too wasteful to put the second division, a male division, there!"

As soon as Zhao Dongyun's words came out, several people present were silent again, Wang Yingkai's face changed several times, and he didn't have to think about it, he knew that Wu Fengling must have reached some agreement with Zhao Dongyun, and it may even be completely against Zhao Dongyun. I already made up my mind in my heart: this Wu Fengling is so ignorant, he has not responded to him for so many days, even if this neutrality is forgotten, now he has fallen to Zhao Dongyun's side, if he Wang Yingkai can make him better in the future, he Wang Yingkai will not be Wang Yingkai!

Just when he wanted to open his mouth to object, he suddenly heard Duan Qirui next to him speak: "Lao Wu, this person, he still has the ability, if he goes to Shanxi, the situation can be controlled!" ”

After hearing this, Wang Yingkai's face changed again, but the next moment he heard Wang Shizhen say: "If Lao Wu protects my northwest flank, I will be more relieved to go south to Huguang!" ”

At this time, the anger in Wang Yingkai's heart had already come out directly, but he still endured it, he knew that at the beginning of today, Qirui and Wang Shizhen suddenly supported Zhao Dongyun, and there must be some agreement behind these three people, and this kind of agreement will not be given up because of his opposition.

Because none of the four people here are his subordinates Wang Yingkai, they are military allies on the surface, but to be honest, their relationship is actually 'competitors'.

If they betray Wang Yingkai for their own interests, they will never frown!

Seeing that the three people present agreed to Wu Fengling's entry into Shanxi, although Wang Yingkai had the intention to oppose something, but he also knew that he could not oppose it, this was a negotiation meeting between four people, and the three agreed with him What else could Wang Yingkai oppose, unless he could shout like Zhao Dongyun: If anyone wants to stay in Shanxi, he must step on my Wang Yingkai's corpse! ”

At the moment of the great enemy in the south, he Wang Yingkai is conceited as the leader of the Beiyang, and he will never destroy the northern military alliance lightly, so he will not be the same as Zhao Dongyun!

Besides, who is Wu Fengling? Judging from his previous series of expressions, this person is a typical wall grass that can no longer be a typical wall, Zhao Dongyun can give him benefits to win him over, Wang Yingkai can also give him benefits to win him over, in the end, who else will Wu Fengling take refuge in!

So Wang Yingkai was just silent for a while, and then agreed to let Wu Fengling stay in Shanxi!

At this time, Zhao Dongyun also breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, he was really afraid that Wang Yingkai would resist and disagree, and he had no good way to tell the truth, he couldn't win over Wang Yingkai like Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen.

In order to win over Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen, Zhao Dongyun sent people over in the early hours of this morning, saying that as long as they supported Wu Fengling to stay in Shanxi, then Zhao Dongyun would be able to sell them a batch of ordnance at a preferential price in the future, 4,000 Fuyuan-made rifles and 1 million rounds of 79-round bullets per person.

Although this batch of ordnance still has to be bought by Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen with real money, but to be honest, this is also a big deal, in the Far East due to the Russo-Japanese War, the Beiyang Civil War and now the North-South Civil War broke out one after another, the price of this ordnance has not fallen since it rose, although there are many international arms dealers, as long as they can get the money, basically any ordnance can be bought.

However, these warlords do not have only a few hundred or thousands of people under their hands, but tens of thousands of big warlords under their hands, so the purchase of ordnance must consider the extremely important issue of cost performance, and at the same time, we must also consider the problem of logistics and the unification of gun models.

At present, there are about three types of ordnance used by many warlords in Beiyang, namely guns and artillery made by Fuyuan, Japanese guns and artillery, and the rest of German-style artillery. Not to mention artillery, basically each family uses whatever they have, Fuyuanzao and Japanese and German-style are available, and the firearms are relatively formal, including Zhao Dongyun's Feng Army, Duan Qirui's First Army, Wang Shizhen's Second Army, Zhang Huaizhi's Fifth Division, Wu Fengling's Second Division, Wang Ruxian's Eighth Division and other troops, all of which use Fuyuan-made rifles.

But there is an exception, that is, the troops represented by the first division and the seventh division under Wang Yingkai, the predecessors of these two troops are the Beiyang Standing Army Zuozhen and the Jingqi Standing Army, they have used Japanese weapons since the beginning of the army, and after Yuan Shikai died, Wang Yingkai bought a large number of second-hand 30-year-old rifles and ammunition from the Japanese, which led to the fact that the two divisions under Wang Yingkai and other auxiliary units such as the mixed association all used Japanese weapons.

Although other Zhao Dongyun and others also purchased ordnance from the Japanese themselves, they mainly focused on those 30-year-old artillery, and the British and German-made Makqin heavy machine guns that were urgently purchased by the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War were also on their purchase list.

These days, among the second-hand ordnance in my hands, the artillery has begun to be fully decommissioned because of the retiring artillery, and those Maxim machine guns, the Japanese have begun to fully imitate and equip the French-style air-cooled Hatch Chase heavy machine guns, so those water-cooled Maxim heavy machine guns that were urgently purchased during the Japanese War became an anomaly, and they were sealed and retired just after the end of the war. With the outbreak of the Chinese Civil War, it was the 30-year-old rifles, 30-year-old field artillery, mountain artillery, etc., which were also retired, that were sold to the Chinese arms market.

Zhao Dongyun also purchased a lot of retired 30-year-old artillery and German-style Makqin heavy machine guns from Japan's hands, in addition, the Russian side also has similar problems, a large number of German-made Makqin heavy machine guns that fired 7.92 mm bullets purchased from Germany and Zhao Dongyun during the war were also forced to be retired and sealed because they were not compatible with Russian-style 7.62 mm heavy machine gun bullets, and then began to be resold to Zhao Dongyun.