If the Beiyang political axe is compared to a farce in which you sing and I appear, then its front desk is Yanjing, and Tianjin is its backstage, and the Beiyang drama is arranged in the backstage and then sung at the front desk.

As the backstage of Beiyang, and at the same time the largest commercial city and trade port in northern China, Tianjin is not as prosperous as Shanghai, but it is much stronger than Guangzhou, which is located in the south. On the ship heading north, a few old-timers who had seen the world had nothing to do along the way and talked endlessly to Luo Yaoguo, Lu Xiaobei and several other young people about the prosperity and liveliness of Beijing and Tianjin, scenic spots and special snacks. Let these "soil buns" who have never been to the Chinese capital grow a lot of knowledge. However, when the steamer slowly sailed into the bleak Dagu mouth, Luo Yaoguo knew what it was to hear and hear.

In addition to a few old wooden galleons, there were a few destroyers flying plaster flags, and the only merchant ship in which the delegation was traveling. Not to mention Guangzhou, such a port is not as good as Shantou and Haikou, which are small seaports in Guangdong! Where is it worthy of the first commercial port in the north? However, the wharf area of Tanggu is not small, and it is not worse than Guangzhou. The delegation disembarked from Tanggu and landed on the shore, and then took a car prepared by the Fengjun Zhili Supervision Military Administration and galloped all the way into the downtown area of Tianjin. Tianjin, like Shanghai, is made up of Chinese and foreign concessions. The northwest of Tianjin is the Chinese boundary, and the southeast is the British, French, Yue, Italian, Belgian and other five concessions, there were originally American, German, Austrian, and Russian concessions, and later the American concessions were merged into the British concessions, and the German and Austrian concessions were recovered one after another after World War I, and the Russian concessions were also returned to China in 1924.

At this time, the urban area of Tianjin was under martial law, and the roads in the Chinese border were full of soldiers with loaded guns, and the garrisons of various countries in the concession were also patrolling the streets in full armor. In this extremely tense atmosphere, the Kuomintang delegation to the north officially entered the backstage of this Beiyang political axe and stayed in the famous Six Nations Hotel in Tianjin.

There is a lot of singing and dancing in the Six Nations Hotel, not as depressed as outside. Luo Yaoguo, who had already seen that the situation was wrong, asked Wan Yanhao to inquire about the situation. After a while, the angry intelligence officer returned to Luo Yaoguo's suite with a gloating expression.

"Fugong, the situation has been inquired clearly." Wan Yanhao tilted his head and smiled and said: "Yanjing City is making a revolution during this time, and the workers and students in Tianjin also got up last month to make trouble together, marching and striking together, and as a result, he provoked the veteran Zhang and ordered the military and police to suppress it, and the [***] team in the concession also went out together, arrested a lot of people, and shot them, and since then martial law has begun." ”

"Oh, I see." Veteran Zhang is a reactionary warlord! Naturally, there is no room for revolution among workers and students. Luo Yaoguo thought for a while and asked, "Then why is the port so depressed?" Could it be a dockers' strike? ”

Wan Yanhao nodded and said, "Yes, let you guess, it's been a month since the dock workers' union in Tianjin went on strike. Moreover, some of the territories in Yanjing and Zhili controlled by Feng Yuxiang are now boycotting foreign goods, neither allowing them to be sold nor allowed to cross the border. The goods transported to Tianjin had to be transported by rail to other places, and now the trains passing through Feng Yuxiang's territory had to be inspected by workers' pickets, and foreign goods could not be carried, otherwise they would be confiscated. ”

"Well, I know, the workers are enthusiastic." Luo Yaoguo waved his hand and let Wan Yanhao go to rest. Luo Yaoguo and the delegation were also at a loss for the current situation in Tianjin, they didn't expect Feng Yuxiang's revolutionary enthusiasm to rise to such an extent, everyone thought he was a speculative revolution, but it turned out that this guy was playing for real.

"Report." As soon as Yan Hao left, Cen Biqing's voice came from outside the door again. "Deputy Head Zou, please go once." It turned out that Zou Lu was invited. This Zou Lu is a well-known rightist element of the Kuomintang and an old comrade-in-arms of Sun Yat-sen, and it is estimated that he also knows about the revolutionary actions of Feng Yuxiang and Yanjing.

"The country will not be a country! The country will not be a country! Zou Lu's scolding with a Cantonese accent could be heard in the corridor.

"Zou Gong, is your old man okay?" Luo Yaoguo pushed the door in, and when he saw the thunderous old-timer, he hurriedly went up to say hello.

Seeing Luo Yaoguo coming in, Zou Lu beckoned and said, "Fuwen, come here, this is a telegram to the prime minister, you can sign it." In Zou Lu's eyes, Luo Yaoguo is just a junior, uh, in fact, he is a junior, there are many veterans in the Kuomintang who rely on the old and sell the old, this Zou Lu is the elder, Luo Yaoguo's uncle Luo Yiqun has to be called "Zou Gong Zou Gong" when he sees him.

"Zou Gong, this telegram can't be sent." Luo Yaoguo took the draft of the telegram and knew that it could not be sent as soon as he saw it. "Let Feng Yuxiang and GCD make a fuss like this, our country will not die, and if they don't make trouble, will the great powers give in to us?"

"You! Why are you so ignorant, kid? Do you know the situation in Yanjing now? Students go on strike every day, workers don't work hard, strike all day long to raise wages, and now a clerk's salary is almost 100! How many are you a lieutenant general? What's worse, the countryside around Yanjing is now ......" Zou Lu complained crookedly for half an hour, the content of which was nothing more than being frightened by the upsurge revolutionary situation. Actually, what's this? Revolution! There will always be a little bit of excesses.

"Now, except for the Soviet ambassador, the ministers of other countries can't stay in Yanjing, so they all came to Tianjin, and their representatives came to us to protest just now." Dai Jitao's face was also ugly, and it seemed that the Great Powers were frightened by their protests.

"They came to us to protest? Hehe, it seems that these powers are already in a daze, and we are not the central political axe, they should go to Feng Yuxiang to protest. "After the last negotiation of the four countries, Luo Yaoguo has already figured out the details of the powers, just a bunch of paper tigers. Even if it is said that it is unlikely that it will send troops to interfere now, at most it will send tens of thousands of soldiers to put on the clothes of the army to "help".

At this time, Young Master Sun was sitting on the sofa, crossed Erlang's legs, and echoed Luo Yaoguo in a graceful manner, he said: "If they want to send troops, they will send them, and if they don't send them to our territory anyway, let him Feng Yuxiang deal with it." Anyway, we are only responsible for helping him get to the top, and we don't care about the future. "Sun Ke looks a little benzene, but he has great wisdom at critical moments. It would be good for the Kuomintang to be able to manage its own one-third of an acre of land now, but the situation in the north and the central government really can't manage it.

"Duke Zou, Duke Liao is coming from Yanjing today, let Duke Liao have an idea if there is anything." Luo Yaoguo also hurriedly advised.

"Liao Zhongkai doesn't wear the same pants as GCD? Now that Yanjing is making such a fuss, it's too late for him to be happy, how can he object. Zou Lu was angry, but there was no way, he took the telegram draft three times and tore it to pieces, and then went back to the room to sulk.

The Kuomintang is such a noisy and unserious party, especially those veterans are even more lawless, and now that Mr. Zhongshan is still here, they are already like this, if Mr. Zhongshan is gone, who can still stop them? After dealing with Zou Lu, Luo Yaoguo talked to the crown prince Sun Ke for a while. The discussion is still about the situation in Yanjing, although Sun Ke helped Luo Yaoguo to relieve the siege just now, but he is still very worried about the current situation, it seems that the siege just now was ordered by his father in advance, Sun Yat-sen probably expected that there would be quarrels in the northbound delegation, so he asked his son to follow him as a peacemaker.

"Fuwen, I didn't say you, this thing is really inappropriate. How can Feng Yuxiang be the 'center'? Who can be convinced? Sun Ke shook his head. This Feng Huanzhang is too, why is he willing to sit up? My father doesn't dare to sit on this stove in the center now, how many catties does he Feng Yuxiang have? ”

"It is reported that Soviet Russia now has a lot of support for General Huanzhang, giving 40,000 guns and 5 million rounds of ammunition. Now there are 100,000 people in the national army. Luo Yaoguo then analyzed: "Chahar's Red Army is estimated to be no less than 50,000, and the two together have a 150,000 army, although it is slightly less than the Feng Department, but Duan Wan and Luo Wu are probably not their opponents." ”

"100,000! How much does that cost a month? Sun Ke said lightly: "To pay military salaries, vegetable money, and rice and noodles according to the standard market, an army of 100,000 cannot be taken without 1.5 million a month." Feng Yuxiang is doing it like this now, what does he use to pay his military salary? ”

Young Master Sun is often able to find the root of the problem, and it is estimated that this is inherited from the wisdom of the prime minister. Feng Yuxiang now has to spend more than 1 million yuan on the army alone, and there are still a number of Yanjing officials to support, and the expenses of embassies and consulates abroad are also borne by him as usual. It's not okay to have 20 or 30 million this year, but how much can Yanjing collect like this now? What is he doing to maintain the army? And for how long?

"Fuwen, you don't know yet, do you? At present, the banknotes of the two lines are no longer in circulation on our territory. Sun Ke said coldly.

The only Chinese banknotes in legal circulation on the territory of the Kuomintang are fiat currency, the currency issued by the Central Bank of the Kuomintang. At that time, the issuance of paper money was also a method for various warlords to make money, and of course, paper money was often turned into waste paper. At that time, the two banks of China and Communications were banks controlled by the central government of Beiyang, and they also had the business of printing money. Historically, Yuan Datou's funds for becoming emperor came from the Bank of Communications, which resulted in a large deficit, and finally caused the Bank of Communications' paper money to stop paying. Now the Kuomintang has stopped the circulation of banknotes on its ground, which is tantamount to strangling Feng Yuxiang's last financial route.

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