Chapter 117: Civil Strife in Beiyang
"Really!" It was the first time Adjutant Sun had heard this, "Oops! Thankfully, you didn't act rashly! Otherwise, it's an international dispute again! ”
"Fight sneaky foreign robbers in the lake of your own house and also international disputes?" Zhao Yun was speechless about the officials of these old forces, but after hearing about the Wanxian tragedy, he began to understand them.
"Brother, listen to my brother's advice, forget it! Don't worry about it, the armed forces in various places have been fighting since June 1916, Yuan Shikai and Yuan Datou have failed to become emperors, and after they died of grief and indignation in the unanimous opposition of the people of the whole country, the internal fighting has not stopped, who cares about the external troubles! Besides, the British Empire is the most powerful country in the world, who dares to provoke it! Adjutant Sun could see that Zhao Yun still had a smell of anger on his body, in case he made a mistake and was destroyed by someone when it was critical, one-third of Zhejiang's arms supply would be choked.
"Brother! My brain is a mess now, and you know that I came back from abroad, and I know a little bit about foreign countries, what is the situation in China now? Seeing that Adjutant Sun thought about it for a long time and didn't know how to start, he said again, "You can tell us about Jiangsu and Zhejiang!" ”
Adjutant Sun immediately picked up the topic, "This is no problem, I really don't know much if you want to ask me about the whole country, and I am not in charge of the spies around the Overseer, after being transferred from the Overseer's side, I have been busy with my own business recently, and I have rarely learned about the situation in the whole country!" But I still know in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, brother, you are not an outsider, the Overseer has long wanted to pull you into the Anhui Department, but unfortunately the one in Nanjing sent troops to take you away, and the Overseer regretted it later! Okay, okay, what do you want to know? You ask and I answer! ”
"What is the current situation in Beiyang, and what is the situation of all the forces in our Jiangnan? The younger brother is now in the Lushan Mountain, and he doesn't know his true face! Please also ask Brother Sun to solve his doubts, lest the younger brother accidentally offend a nobleman in the future! This is what Zhao Yun wants to know the most, he is not a student of history, and he is really not very clear about modern history, he only knows Lao Jiang, which is still because he and Taizu are working against each other as a negative textbook.
"The current situation in Beiyang!" Adjutant Sun sorted out his thoughts and began to say, "That has to start after the death of Yuan Datou, after Yuan's death, Beiyang gradually split into the direct line headed by Feng Guozhang, the Feng line headed by Zhang Zuolin in the northeast, and the Anhui line headed by our Premier Duan. In December of the previous year, after Feng Guozhang died of illness, his subordinates Cao Kun and Wu Peifu became the new leaders of the direct line. Zhang Zuolin was born in the Northeast with a beard, and once opened a veterinary shop, he likes others to call him Zhang Dashuai. Wu Peifu is a native of Penglai, Shandong, but his ancestral home is Changzhou, Jiangsu, and he once took the lead and led the troops to defeat Zhang Xun's "pigtail army", both of whom were fierce generals. And Premier Duan has only one fierce general in his hands, Yuanwei General Xu Shuzheng. In 1919, he served as the Northwest Frontier Envoy and Commander-in-Chief of the Northwest Frontier Army, and in October of the same year, he led troops into Outer Mongolia, forcing Outer Mongolia to cancel its autonomy in November and return to China. Adjutant Sun said this, picked up the coffee, and took a sip, "Hmm! Not bad, an authentic taste of French Marseille! ”
"Okay, if you want to drink, I'll buy this coffee house and give it to you, tell me what's going on? You haven't even talked about us yet! Zhao Yun listened to it seriously just now, but was suddenly interrupted, and he really adjusted his appetite. Zhao Yun also wants to know about this matter of the Outer Mongolian general, and his biggest camp is now rooted in Outer Mongolia!
"We're here? In May last year, Premier Duan convened a secret military meeting to transfer Xu Shuzheng's Northwest Frontier Army to deploy near Jixian County. In June, the Dingguo Army was established, and the prime minister appointed himself as commander. In July, the direct line supported by Britain and the United States, as well as the Feng line, fought a battle in Zhuozhou, Gaobeidian, and Liulihe on the Beijing-Tianjin Railway and the Jinghan Railway Line on the east and west sides of Jixian County, and as you know, Duan Zhigui, the commander-in-chief of the West Road of the Dingguo Army, was defeated one after another when he commanded the war, and finally was seriously wounded and fled back to Beijing. Since then, there has been no one to command the western road, and the soldiers have no fighting spirit. This is what people call the Zhiwan War. After the war, Wang Zhanyuan, the overseer of Hubei, adhered to the will of his direct leader Cao Kun and detained Wu Guangxin, the commander-in-chief of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Anhui, and replaced him with his subordinate Sun Chuanfang, who reorganized the remnants of the Anhui army. Langxi, Anhui Province, where you were originally located, is now being incorporated by his people, your kid is fortunately quickly taken into account by the Qi Governor Army in Jiangsu, if it falls into the hands of that Sun Chuanfang, unless you notify your backstage in time, he will treat it as if he doesn't know, and swallow you directly. When receiving Anhui, this guy worked together and scraped a layer of ground fiercely. ”
As soon as Adjutant Sun said this, Zhao Yun also remembered that Wang Yougui's cousin, the county magistrate of Langxi, was also a sesame official, this was not to ask people everywhere to find a way, but he spent a lot of unjust money! even asked for the relatively talkative Nanjing Qi Xieyuan.
"Then, is that Xu Shuzheng dead?" Zhao Yun is very concerned about this person who has recovered Outer Mongolia, which is related to the recovery of Outer Mongolia in the future!
"It's not dead, the next thing is the inside news, you listen to me and continue, after the war in Anhui, our Anhui family has a very hard time. The Anhui system fell apart with the fall of the Prime Minister, some of them went into the field, and the other part switched to the direct line, leaving only our overseers and Songhu Protectors to make He Fenglin keep the two territories of Zhejiang and Shanghai for the Anhui warlords, and protect themselves! Lord He Fenglin was included in the Anhui system after the death of Yuan Datou, and successively served as the guard envoy of Jiahu Town, Zhejiang, and the commander of the Sixth Mixed Brigade of the Army. It's still possible to believe that he has a close relationship with Lord Overseer. However, Li Houji, the Fujian overseer behind us, is not good, he tries to attach to the direct line, and Jixian eyebrows, the overseer can only be on guard after understanding, you want to know the general Xu Shuzheng who recovered Outer Mongolia, according to the grapevine, he also went to Fuzhou from Jixian County, and is instigating Li Houji's ministry to act as an assistant. Now there is an urgent need to stabilize the rear of Zhejiang. The last time I went to you, the Overseer was busy with this, militarily echoing General Xu Shuzheng in Fujian, so we didn't mobilize enough troops to go to Langxi, if not, we were going to send troops to rescue you. Adjutant Sun said apologetically.
Zhao Yun could only smile at him, and said, it's okay, it's not in the way. I have already scolded in my heart, you all think that Lao Tzu is your private property! They all want to send troops to escort themselves back and keep them under strict guard! There are no doors! If you really want to save me, I'm in Yixing now, not far from you! Why don't you do it! It's not that I think I have a backstage and don't dare to touch me.
Adjutant Sun didn't notice the change in Zhao Yun's heart, and thought that Zhao Yun still wanted to hear it, so he continued: "Now our biggest opponent is Qi Xieyuan in Nanjing, not to mention that Shanghai is the largest commercial port in China, with a dense population, developed industry and commerce, and considerable fiscal and tax revenues.
It is said that in the Zhiwan War, the prime minister ordered the overseers to send troops to attack Qi Xieyuan's predecessor, Li Chun's entrenched Jiangsu. After Qi Xieyuan succeeded as the overseer of Jiangsu, he has been careful to guard against us, and after gaining a firm foothold, when he saw Sun Chuanfang coming, he also wanted to take Shanghai as his own, claiming: "Shanghai is a part of our Jiangsu, and we must take it back." And our current Anhui financial resources are scarce, Shanghai has become the most important economic lifeline of the entire Anhui system, which is naturally resolutely not handed over to the greedy Qi Governor, so Lu Inspector and Qi Inspector sang a duet: "Shanghai is the gateway to Zhejiang, and it must be kept in the hands of our Zhejiang." ”
This is actually equivalent to a declaration of war, everyone knows it in their hearts, but fortunately, this year's Hunan-Hubei War broke out again, Hunan Zhao Hengti and Xia Douyin sent troops to attack southern Hunan, Wang Zhanyuan appointed Sun Chuanfang as the commander of the Xinjia Putong garrison, and led the second division to fight. This Qi Xieyuan's most relied on help in terms of force was transferred away, and he himself was a often defeated general, not to mention that he himself had no confidence in winning Lu Dujun, even his subordinates had no confidence in him, so he made peace with our Zhejiang army. But sooner or later, it will definitely be a bloody battle between the two of us, and now it is only under the double pressure at home and abroad that the pretense of posture has calmed down. Adjutant Sun paused, looked around and whispered, "Brother, where are you coming from?" Can you give my brother a thorough explanation? ”
Zhao Yun was frightened by his jumping thinking, and he was still talking about the market just now! Who does the "foreign forces" refer to in the analysis of the "double pressure at home and abroad"? Why did Adjutant Sun suddenly ask this question again. Before he could think of how to answer, Adjutant Sun spoke again, "Hehe! Excuse me! It's my brother, I'm in a hurry! Hehe! Don't blame my brother, I just see that my brother is good, and I hope that Brother Zhao can pull me when he sees me drinking cold water and plugging my teeth for my brother in the future! Thank you very much! After speaking, he left his seat and bowed deeply to Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun was taken aback by his abnormal appearance tonight, and quickly pulled him up, "Brother Sun, what nonsense are you talking about?" Little brother, I don't understand! You hurry up, I promise to help when the time comes, but maybe it will be Brother Sun, you can help the younger brother! ”
Adjutant Sun got up when he heard Zhao Yun's promise, and said helplessly, "Brother, you don't know, Lord Overseer is too anxious and has done something wrong. In order to make a comeback, the Overseer issued a telegram on June 4, advocating that "each province should set its own provincial constitution and realize local autonomy" and set up a "Provincial Constitution Drafting Committee" in Zhejiang. That is, the provinces are in charge of the affairs of the provinces, and this power was supported and responded to by the local warlords in the south. ”