"This is a letter from the president of my family!" The secret envoy sent by Wang Yingkai handed a letter to Zhao Dongyun at this time.

Zhao Dongyun looked at Shi Guihua, who was acting as Wang Yingkai's secret envoy in front of him, and guessed something in his heart while looking at his expression, but the person who could be appointed by Wang Yingkai as a secret envoy was naturally not simple, I saw that his expression was as plain as water, and he couldn't see anything at all.

Zhao Dongyun also retracted his gaze, and then opened the envelope and looked at it, but after a while, his expression changed slightly, and he muttered in his heart, it seems that Duan Qirui is really making trouble in the south, and it has begun to make Wang Yingkai sleep.

Wang Yingkai didn't say much in the letter, and the first thing was naturally 'Duan Qirui's threat theory', saying that Duan Qirui was now only in charge of Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, and southern Anhui, and he already had 100,000 troops, and if the term of office developed, not only the two rivers, but even Fujian, Zhejiang, and Liangguang would also fall into the hands of Duan Qirui.

To be honest, this is a bit scary, and if you think about it carefully, there is really this possibility, now Duan Qirui is like a fish in water in the land south of the Yangtze River, not only controlling the land of Jiangnan wealth, but also incorporating tens of thousands of Southern Federation troops. The 100,000 troops mentioned in Wang Yingkai's letter refer to the large number of southern surrender troops recruited by Duan Qirui. If Duan Qirui is allowed to develop again, Duan Qirui will 100% continue to go south to occupy southern Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places, relying on the remnants of the Southern Federation in these provinces, it is absolutely impossible to stop Duan Qirui's pace.

Once Duan Qirui is allowed to continue to control the above-mentioned areas, then Duan Qirui will quickly replace Wang Yingkai and Zhao Dongyun and become the largest warlord in Beiyang and even in China, and this situation is unacceptable to Wang Yingkai.

This is also the reason why Wang Yingkai sent someone to Shenyang to contact Zhao Dongyun!

In addition to Duan Qirui's threat theory, the second thing in this letter is that the central government intends to set up a Fujian and Zhejiang patrol envoy and ask Zhao Dongyun to recommend suitable candidates.

In this second incident, there are only more than 30 words about the Fujian and Zhejiang patrol envoys, but Zhao Dongyun knows that this is the condition put forward by Wang Yingkai.

There are many things that need not be said explicitly, everyone knows, if you Wang Yingkai want to suppress Duan Qirui, you must get Zhao Dongyun's approval, otherwise, if you Wang Yingkai sent troops south to seize Shandong, Anhui, and Jiangsu, and Zhao Dongyun, the back foot, sent troops to attack the Beijing Division, you Wang Yingkai can hang himself directly, so Wang Yingkai generously directly threw out a Fujian and Zhejiang patrol to make it, in other words, after destroying Duan Qirui, the two rivers will belong to him Wang Yingkai, and Fujian and Zhejiang will return to Zhao Dongyun.

But these are just Wang Yingkai's wishful thinking, the ancients have a saying: distant friendship and close attack!

Zhao Dongyun doesn't care how much Duan Qirui makes trouble in the south, he will become his biggest opponent in the future, and the key to the problem now is that Duan Qirui did not block the pace of his development, but Wang Yingkai did.

If Zhao Dongyun wants to expand his territory, the only way is to enter the customs and take Zhili, and if Zhao Dongyun wants to take the position, the only way is to kill Wang Yingkai and become president, as for Duan Qirui, it is not his turn for the time being.

For these, many people can understand it, and Duan Qirui naturally understands it, so when he was actively expanding his territory in the south, his envoy in Shenyang also brought a message to Zhao Dongyun.

He was willing to support Zhao Dongyun as president, and claimed that the two provinces of Zhili and Shandong could all belong to Shenyang.

Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai coincidentally sent people to find Zhao Dongyun, with only one purpose, that is, to win over Zhao Dongyun. And the move to win over Zhao Dongyun also indirectly shows that Wang Yingkai and Duan Qirui have completely torn their faces!

"Now that they've turned their backs, that's a great thing for us!" At the latest strategic meeting, Xu Bangjie did not hide his radical views at all: "If you want me to say, now that Duan Qirui has reacted with Wang Yingkai, then it is best for us to unite with Duan Qirui, and then directly wave troops into the customs and take Zhili." ”

However, Lin Yongquan disagreed with his thoughts: "Although Wang Zhanyuan's seventh division went to the cave, but now Wang Yingkai's main force is still in Zhili, and there are more than 40,000 troops in the area of the Beijing Division, how many casualties do we need to pay to take the Beijing Division?" After we desperately win the Beijing Division, how will we deal with Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen, Wang Ruxian, Zhang Huaizhi, and Wu Fengling going north? If you can't stop it at that time, won't you have to retreat to Shanhaiguan? ”

Everyone knows that Feng Jun dreams of entering the customs, but you Zhao Dongyun led the army into the customs on the first day, and the troops of Wang Ruxian, Zhang Huaizhi, and even Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui and others will go north to reinforce Wang Yingkai, and form an anti-Feng coalition army for the second time, if Wang Shizhen and Duan Qirui can watch Zhao Dongyun destroy Wang Yingkai and control Zhili, Shandong and other places without being indifferent, he Lin Yongquan will write his name upside down!

They can tolerate Wang Yingkai's control of Gyeonggi and be a nominal president, because Wang Yingkai's lineage strength can only be said to be very average, and the troops under his command that can fight are actually not much different from Wang Shizhen and Duan Qirui, and a large part of his ability to control Gyeonggi is maintained by prestige.

But if it is replaced by Zhao Dongyun, then the situation will change greatly, if Zhao Dongyun takes Zhili, Shandong and other provinces, he will immediately become the de facto ruler of northern China, the largest warlord in China, and more importantly, the descendants of Zhao Dongyun are far more than any other warlord in the country at present.

Zhao Dongyun's field troops already had three divisions and five brigades last year, and recently it was reported that Zhao Dongyun had successively expanded one division and two brigades, and the field strength was about to reach 100,000. You must know that this 100,000 is not the 100,000 under Duan Qirui's hands, only 40,000 at most can be pulled into the battlefield under the 100,000 miles under Duan Qirui's hands, Wang Shizhen and Wang Yingkai are no better, the army that can fight is basically about 30,000 people, and the rest are basically made up.

And Zhao Dongyun's 100,000 troops are equipped with a large number of light and heavy weapons and well-trained military training, and they cannot be said to be the same as those local troops that were hastily pulled up.

Zhao Dongyun's strong military pressure had already been learned last year, in order to resist Zhao Dongyun's entry troops, several of them had to make a coalition to be able to stop it, otherwise Zhao Dongyun's military boots would have already stepped on the Beijing Division.

So now let the militarily powerful Zhao Dongyun occupy the two provinces of Zhili and Shandong, and then control the center, then they don't have to live, they can hang themselves directly.

The current situation is that Duan Qirui has a lot of power in the south, so Wang Yingkai can win over Zhang Huaizhi to suppress Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen and Wang Ruxian and Wu Fengling They also turn a blind eye to Wang Yingkai's actions.

But on the other hand, if Zhao Dongyun tries to take advantage of this opportunity to enter the customs in a big way, then the warlords in the south will not hesitate to stand on Wang Yingkai's side, and form an anti-Zhao coalition army to shoot Zhao Dongyun back outside the pass, they have already done this kind of thing once, and it is not difficult to come back to the second or third time.

In the hearts of several warlords in Beiyang, especially in the hearts of Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen, Wang Yingkai is certainly an enemy, but Zhao Dongyun is also an enemy!

"Now we still shouldn't act rashly, the central government asked us to mention the candidate for the Fujian and Zhejiang patrol envoys, and we will mention one!" Everyone knows that the topic of candidates for the Fujian and Zhejiang patrol envoys is just a false name, because unlike Zhang Huaizhi who was concurrently the governor of Anhui, Zhang Huaizhi first led the troops to take the northern part of Anhui, and Wang Yingkai appointed him as the governor of Anhui after he actually controlled this area.

And the Fujian and Zhejiang patrol envoys, now the southern part of Zhejiang and Fujian are still under the control of the Southern Federation, and the northern part of Zhejiang is under the control of Duan Qirui, no matter who is sent to be the Fujian and Zhejiang patrol envoys, in fact, they are all puppets with a false name, and the previous appointment of Zhou Fu as the Liangguang patrol envoy, does not have much practical significance, if you don't want to become a puppet, you have to let people take the troops to take office together, but Duan Qirui will agree to let Zhao Dongyun's troops go to Zhejiang? Well, and Wang Yingkai is willing to promise to let Zhao Dongyun send troops south to occupy territory? These are unlikely things!

But although it is meaningless to be a puppet, it can reveal a meaning, that is, Zhao Dongyun's move to recommend the Fujian and Zhejiang patrol envoys expresses Zhao Dongyun's acquiescence to Wang Yingkai's suppression of Duan Qirui.

"Now it's getting more and more chaotic over there, no matter how chaotic the customs are, what we have to do is to cultivate our internal skills diligently, so that we can cope with future changes!" After Zhao Dongyun said that, he did not stop this long military meeting.

A large group of generals discussed for more than two hours, and although various plans were proposed, none of them dared to say that they were sure that they would be able to defeat the possible coalition forces after entering the customs.

"It seems that the problem of entry cannot be solved by force alone!" Zhao Dongyun looked at Zhao Dongping, and then said, "You go to the south to find Duan Qirui to have a good talk!" ”

Zhao Dongping said: "Could it be that we are really going to join forces with Duan Qirui?" ”

Zhao Dongyun nodded: "In this situation, no matter what the price is, we must take down Zhili, otherwise we will be trapped outside the pass, doesn't he Duan Qirui want to occupy the southern provinces, sue him, as long as he agrees to join forces with us, Liangjiang, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Liangguang can be given to him." ”

"Will he?" Zhao Dongping is worried!

Zhao Dongyun was ruthless: "Sue him again, if he doesn't join forces with me, I will join forces with Wang Fatzi!" ”

Looking at Zhao Dongyun's expression, Zhao Dongping also had a stern expression, and immediately said: "Third brother, don't worry, I will leave tomorrow!" ”

In the face of the increasingly complex situation in the country, Zhao Dongyun's mentality is also gradually changing, since it is impossible to rely on the expansion of the army to obtain absolute military superiority, then rely on the political advantage, last year Wang Yingkai can win over Duan Qirui and others to form a coalition army to shoot Zhao Dongyun back outside the Guan, and now he can also win over Duan Qirui and them to form a coalition army to kill Wang Yingkai.

If Duan Qirui doesn't agree, then he doesn't mind putting down his body, and then completely falls to Wang Yingkai, Wang Yingkai wants reunification, and he will give him reunification, and wait for Wang Yingkai to form a military alliance and clean up Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, and the Southern Federation one by one.

After the reunification is truly completed, his prestige may not be much worse than Wang Yingkai's, and he may not be able to compete with Wang Yingkai in politics.

Who will dare to say that he cannot ascend to the presidency and control China at that time?

In fact, the modern political struggle is no longer the ancient model of fighting for hegemony in the fields, and the so-called system of accumulating grain and slowing down the claim to be king will not work, and to become the supreme leader of a country, it is not necessary to train an army of 1.8 million by himself and then sweep through the country, but it can also take a roundabout way. Look at Sun Wen, he has a Mao army under his hands, and he is not the same as being the interim president.

So Zhao Dongyun doesn't plan to farm in the three eastern provinces for decades, and then the enemy is stupidly waiting for you to storm hundreds of thousands of soldiers and then enter the pass, the three northeastern provinces from a strategic point of view if you don't take the Zhili is a dead place, the longer you stay, the more tragic the end, many people will say that the terrain of the western Liaoning corridor is good, and others will not be able to enter the customs if they guard it here, but in the same way, people will block Shanhaiguan, you will play your three eastern provinces for the rest of your life, the great is Zhang Zuolin second, well, maybe it will be Zhang Xueliang second.

And Zhao Dongyun wants to ascend to the top of the presidency, he wants to control Gyeonggi, and he wants to clean up the southern warlords one by one, even if he cooperates with the enemy.