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Chapter 92: North and South

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"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers"

"Front-line war report, the latest news in Hubei, the 22-year-old commander-in-chief telegraphed Yuan Shikai to withdraw from Beiyang" Early in the morning, the first shouts sounded in Wangsheng Street (). Device: No ads, full text, more

Drinking to the beat, the newsboys spread their feet and spread like mercury to the city, and a moment later the same newspaper sales rang out in the concession, and the largest city in the Far East grew to a clamor with the cries of hawkers and the turning of rickshaw wheels.

"Little Red Guy, looking for death" Chen Qimei yawned and a few Qinggang brothers just walked out of the Huaqing Pool Bathhouse, when she was almost bumped into by a newsboy who was running by, and after scolding a few words, she was about to go back to the public concession to contact the matter, and out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly saw several young people surrounding a companion with a newspaper in the middle, with a red face and waving their arms. Looking around at the people holding the newspaper and reading it, it seems that something terrible has happened.

"Did Yuan Gongbao go to Beijing, or did Nanjing and Zhejiang start fighting? It can't be that Sun Cannon came back early, right? Chen Qimei beckoned to the newsboy while thinking, threw out the copper and took the newspaper, and before she could unfold it, her eyes suddenly straightened.

"Brother Ince, what is written on it? Read it out and let's. ”

"Read a fart, and if you don't know how to read, get out of the way." As soon as an illiterate green skin spoke, a man in a police uniform came out next to him, and there were several patrol officers behind him.

Chen Qimei turned her head and looked at it, temporarily putting away her fright, because the person who came was Zeng Quande, the chief of the Nanshi Police Department, who was also in the Qinggang before, and later because her sister married the third aunt of the Zhejiang political envoy, she suddenly became the police chief, and immediately smiled: "Who should I be blocking mén early in the morning, it turned out that Director Zeng was here ()." ”

Don't look at Shanghai, but in fact, this is the world of foreigners, and the Nanshi Police Department is also the only armed force in China. But he didn't dare to underestimate Chen Qimei, after all, he was a serious party, and if he offended anyone in these years, don't offend this gang of outlaws, so the two have always been called brothers, and hurriedly snorted: "Brother Ince, don't make fun of me, director of bullshit, it's all brothers who carry love, and eat and eat." ”

"By the way, why did Ince just look so fascinated?" After Zeng Quande finished asking, he picked up the newspaper and saw that the front page was impressively printed with the news that Yang Qiu was appointed commander-in-chief of the National Defense Force at the age of 22, not only with his photo, but also with a detailed description of the news that he led the people's army to defend Wusheng Pass, ambushed and killed 3,000 Beiyang Jingrui in one fell swoop, and finally even printed a telegram he sent to Yuan Shikai to persuade him to surrender, asking: "Yang Qiu? Why haven't you heard of this person? He is also Ince's brother? It's a hero out of a teenager."

"Brother, I don't know if it's a ku's crotch and didn't clamp the goods that rolled out, don't say that he usurped a right-hand army, and now he has ousted Sun Wu from power and become the commander-in-chief, you see, open your mouth and close your mouth, the whole country thinks you are Sun Cannon?"

Hearing his tone, Zeng Quande was secretly taken aback, and asked, "What does Ince mean that he is not your man?" ”

"No" Chen Qimei snatched the newspaper fiercely, threw it into a pile and threw it on the street corner, and said angrily: "A self-righteous little red guy ruffian, who arrogantly proclaimed himself the right army, and took over the righteousness with one move, what does he want to do?" I just want to earn a good reputation, and now that my reputation has been earned, I will take our party comrades with a backhand, if he waits for his wings to be full, who can move him? Maybe you and I will have to look at his face in the future."

"Ince is overly concerned? One Hubei, one Shanghai, no one can control anyone on the side of heaven and earth. 4∴8065”

How did Yanque know that Honghu Zhi Chen Qimei had a headache, not to mention that Huang Keqiang and Song Jiaoren had been pressing him all these years, and that Sun Cannon overseas was also coming back Now with the independence of various places, Jiao Zuofeng, Yan Xishan, Ju Zheng, Li Junlie, etc., many people began to rise overnight, making him, who has always considered himself an old qualification, begin to feel threatened. Especially this Yang Qiu, who actually brought Sun Wu off the stage and said, "Who said that? He is fighting now, if he wins, he will be a national hero, even if Sun Cannon comes back, he will be given a few thin noodles, Huang Keqiang didn't know if he could get back the military power, if he couldn't get it back, this person would be a big trouble in the future"

Chen Qimei exhaled angrily: "It's all a soft heart, why bother me to move him earlier, as soon as I tie up his second uncle, I don't believe that he won't comply."

Zeng Quande's eyes were cold, and he asked, "His second uncle is in Shanghai?" ”

"I opened a small company in the public concession, and this little red guy was brought up by him ()." Chen Qimei didn't seem to want to say more, so she turned her head and asked, "Brother Quande, you are also an old man in the gang, and now you are the chief of the Nanshi Police Department, what do you say about the incident, brother?" ”

Zeng Quande knew the meaning of this sentence, and waved his hand to let a few of his subordinates lean over and whispered: "Brothers, all ready, just wait for Yingshi's words, just wait for Yingshi's words, but I, the director of the bureau, only have three bullets, and I have to find Brother Shuping to use my brain." ”

Chen Qimei frowned, the most promising people in Shanghai to be the governor were him and Li Shuping, so he regarded him as a stumbling block, but at this moment, he had to stumble with others, after all, Li Shuping had a way to make a manufacturing bureau, so after thinking for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said: "I'll ask him later, he is familiar with Gaochang Temple, and he should be able to bullet out." ”

"I'll be fine here with bullets." Zeng Quande looked around, approached a little and said: "Ince, you know, the brothers have been living a tight life in the past few years, what do you think of what you said last time?" ”

"Nope." Chen Qimei knew what Zeng Quande wanted to say, last time he hit the idea of Gaochang Temple Manufacturing Bureau (Jiangnan Factory), saying that after the uprising, the manufacturing bureau would be assigned to his jurisdiction, but he didn't dare to move this matter, because the influence of Gaochang Temple was too great, and it was worth a lot of money, and he couldn't find a second one in China except Hanyang, and he couldn't swallow it if he moved, so he said: "Don't think about Gaochang's affairs anymore, you and I can't swallow it for the time being, the best way is to leave it in Shanghai, and it won't run away." ”

Chen Qimei glanced at Zeng Quande, who was displeased, and said in her heart that this person still needs to be used, and said with a smile: "It's not impossible to use the banknotes, as soon as you start in a few days, Shanghai will definitely be luàn, anyway, as long as you support me as the governor, I will open my eyes and close my eyes to ()." Besides, if I sit in that seat, Shanghai is not your world? ”

can be the chief of the police department, how could Zeng Quande not understand the sound outside the strings, he immediately smiled, picked up the newspaper and said, "Yang Qiu, it seems to be a character." ”

This sentence aroused Chen Qimei's jealousy again, and said: "What kind of character, a little red guy makes Cao Cào have a headache"

Chen Qimei's living Cao cào is naturally the northern hero Yuan Shikai, this "secluded" for three years of Beiyang palm mén people are indeed a headache, he really didn't expect this time to look away and finally waited for the position of the prime minister he liked, but he ate a stuffy stick in Wusheng Pass, Jing Rui and good at fighting Beiyang was actually beaten by an unknown junior to lose his armor and suffer heavy losses, especially the last "back to the horse gun" is now even more crazy across the country, although the figures advertised in the newspaper are exaggerated, But nearly a thousand corpses still make him faintly angry, what is Beiyang? It is the only capital he has in the world, and if he consumes too much in Hubei, even if he goes out of the mountain, he may not gain more than he loses.

What's more serious is that Yang Qiu actually served as the commander-in-chief of the Hubei army overnight, and mastered all the military power of the original party and Li Yuanhong in the palm of his hand, and with the inauguration telegram sent to all parts of the country, coupled with his "heroic" performance in Wushengguan, he already faintly has the posture of the first young marshal

What the hell should I do now?

Looking at the crisp lotus leaves in the summer, but now the pond is extremely bleak, Yuan Shikai couldn't help frowning, next to Yang Shiqi didn't notice his god, and concentrated on reading: "The Manchu Qing Dynasty is in power, mediocre, Maguan is ashamed, Xin Chou hates my generation as a soldier, and can't bear the loss of China. After several years of hard work, Zhen Jing tried his best, and finally got tens of thousands of soldiers, and the three generals under his command were so strong that the army should have resisted the enemy outside the country, and promoted my Chinese heroism, but first lost the leading army, and then used as cannon fodder

I had no choice but to personally lead the flying tiger Jing Rui to the north, blocked in the bloody battle of Wusheng Pass for several days, although I was lucky, but I saw the corpses of the two armies all over the field, all of them were Han robes, I really can't bear the hardships of the state now, the situation is moving, people with lofty ideals in the world are looking forward to Yuan Gong going out of the mountain to take back the sword and gun Chen Hua Tian as a soldier, knowing the heart of the soldiers, so I hereby swear that Yuan Gong withdrew from Beiyang as he wished, helped **, overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the military and civilians of Hubei will unanimously support Yuan Gong as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses Heaven and earth as evidence, the sun and the moon can be learned"

After he finished reading the telegram sent by Yang Qiu to persuade Yuan Shikai to do it anyway, Yang Du smiled beside him: "The generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, hehe, the palace guard may wish to consider it ()." ”

"Don't make fun of you, what bullshit generalissimo."

Seeing that Yuan Shikai was still crooked when he spoke, Yang Du knew what he was thinking, so he changed the topic and smiled: "This Yang Qiu really has some ability, first bomb Wusheng Pass to drag Hua Fu into the pass, turn around and use the excuse to stir up Xiaogan, drive away Sun Wu without using the sword, and monopolize the military power, even Li Songqing can't help him." I also heard that this telegram was sent by him at his own expense, and it seems that he is still a lord of many golds."

Even Yuan Shikai was amused by this last sentence, because the national electricity was sent to more than 1,000 telegraph stations at the same time, and everyone who received it could make it public, so it was a trip to say less than tens of thousands, and it was really a rich master who could afford to play tricks.

Seeing him smile, Yang Shiqi said: "Just now Bu Wu (Xu Shichang) also sent a telegram from Beijing saying that Yang Qiu's appointment as the commander-in-chief of the Hubei People's Army and the telegram of persuasion have caused a stir, and Tie Liang and others have taken the opportunity to ask the imperial court to withdraw their appointments, and transfer the guards to the south to arrest the palace guards just in case, and the other ministers are also worried, I heard that the queen mother and the regent are already thinking about hunting in the north and want to take refuge in Rehe temporarily. ”

Yuan Shikai didn't care about Tie Liang's transfer of the Praetorian Guards to arrest him, but he was a little anxious when he heard that the emperor and the queen mother were preparing to go to the north hunt, if they left, then what was the point of this play, and hurriedly asked: "North hunting?" That idiot's idea? ”

"It's not that Zaitao and those people came up with it, saying that there are still thousands of soldiers of the Eight Banners in Rehe, and when they get there, they can summon the six ancient divisions of Méng, and cooperate with the Praetorian Guard to ensure peace in the north, and no matter how bad it is, they can retreat outside the pass."

Although the "stupid" Yang Du believed that Yuan Shikai was the only person who could stabilize the country, he was very dissatisfied with Qing Zhengfu's request for help from Méng, and scolded: "Méng's heart is obvious, and he has long wanted to put his claws into the northeast in collusion with Russia over the years, and he still wants to transfer troops from there?" I'm not afraid to set myself on fire."

Yuan Shikai knew that he really had no second way to go this time, and if he didn't make a move, he might not be able to stabilize the north, but what should Hubei do? Do you want to keep fighting? Or is it just that consumed? And he always felt that this Yang Qiu would bring him ** annoyance (). For this person, should he be co-opted or should he be strangled in the bud?

Yang Du saw through Yuan Shikai's thoughts, and said: "Gong Bao thinks too much, as the saying goes, the fist is afraid of the young and strong, and the stick is afraid of the old man Yang Qiu relies on the martial arts to win the pass, but the battle is not won by a few breaths, if he can really hold it, I am afraid he will not leave the pass and run back to Xiaogan to defend." Huafu has always been an experienced soldier, and after entering the customs, it is a smooth road, as long as he can grasp the measure, the chance of winning is still very great. As for Yang Qiu. ”

Yang Du pondered for a moment before continuing: "I got the news yesterday, Huang Keqiang will be in Wuchang in the next two days, I know this person's temper, Xing is upright and dedicated to the public, and he will definitely not want to see Yang Qiu take over the military power and exclude them from Hubei a little bit, so it is better to let Liu Chengen go first." ”

Hearing what he said was similar to what he thought, Yuan Shikai was also a little relieved, but the battle couldn't go on like this, what benefit could he get if Hubei was defeated? He really wanted to take tens of thousands of Beiyang to give his life to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so he turned his head and suddenly asked, "Do you remember that Wang Gongzi?" ”

Yang Du Linglong's heart suddenly understood what he meant, and smiled: "Gong Bao don't worry, I'll contact him, if I can, it's better to let Brother Keding go with me to get closer and closer, so that it is better to get on the line with Nanmian first." ”

"Just ask Xingcheng to help me send a telegram to Hua Fu, and ask him to find a way to beat Yang Qiu and Hubei's momentum, so as not to make people think that Beiyang is easy to bully" After Yuan Shikai nodded in agreement, his short and fat body suddenly straightened up, and seemed to have regained the momentum of looking down on the world back then, and continued: "Send another one to Beijing." ”

"Three days later (November 1), I personally went to Wushengguan to supervise the battle"