Now the situation is very obvious, the Republic of China government has been forced to retreat in Guangdong, and Yuan Shikai is still in the hospital bed, and the Huaxia government has entered the stage of rectification of the new territory.

Batch after batch of political talents in East China were sent to the provinces to manage government affairs, and the capitalists and farmers in East China also began their expansion, in order to further integrate the resources of the provinces, the Chinese government would intervene in the economy for a period of time, so the Chinese government began to be busy.

Yuan Shikai's illness made many people concerned, Zhang Zuolin in the northeast came to visit Yuan Shikai in person, and even Li Bingying, who was defending Shanxi in Shijiazhuang, also came back with Xu Shichang, Li Bingying is Xu Shichang's first general, and he is only below Xu Shichang in Xu Shichang's family; Wang Qiang, who was in Zhengzhou, was transferred back to Beijing by Yuan Keding and Yang Du to serve as the adjutant of the Beijing garrison during the Beiyang and East China Wars; Chen Kai, who was in Jinan, was also transferred back by Yuan Keding in the name of Yuan Shikai when the East China Army attacked Shandong, and was stationed in the suburbs of Beijing with 10,000 Beiyang troops at this time.

Zhang Zuolin, Xu Shichang and other cadres went to the Presidential Palace to visit Yuan Shikai, in fact, to see Yuan Shikai's views on the Huaxia government.

Zhang Zuolin is now the strongest, and he walks differently, in the form of a villain, while Xu Shichang is very worried about the future of Beiyang, and according to the strength of the national defense force, it will not be long before he will start to attack the Beiyang government in an all-out way.

Outside Yuan Shikai's room, Yuan Keding and Yang Du stopped them, and Yang Du whispered: "The president just fell asleep, what are you doing here?" ”

Zhang Zuolin said loudly: "I'm here to visit the president, since the president is asleep, we will wait outside for the president to wake up and then go in to visit the president." ”

Xu Shichang asked Yuan Keding in a low voice: "Is the president better now?" ”

Yuan Keding replied calmly: "It's a lot better, but your body is still a little weak, why don't you come back from the front line to defend Shanxi?" ”

Xu Shichang: "When the president is sick, we came back to visit him, and now the front line is basically safe, and the national defense forces are absorbing the troops of the provinces, and they don't have the energy to attack us, and Shanxi doesn't have the courage to do so." ”

Zhang Zuolin: "Do you want your approval when I come back to visit the president?" ”

Yuan Keding didn't speak, but his face was very ugly, how to say that he was also Yuan Shikai's eldest son, Zhang Zuolin didn't give him face, Yang Du said at this time: "The president is still sleeping, what are you arguing about?" ”

None of them spoke, just waited quietly outside the room, and Yuan Shikai in the room had already woken up and listened to their conversations, Yuan Shikai was now full of sadness, hundreds of thousands of troops were buried in his hands, Beiyang's family was defeated by himself, and he himself was embarrassed to see these Beiyang generals. But as soon as he heard Zhang Zuolin's words, Yuan Shikai's face darkened, if he didn't have himself, he wouldn't have the glory they have today, and now they are starting to be disobedient.

Yuan Shikai decided to beat them, if he was gone, what would happen to his children, he had to leave a way for his children to live.

Half an hour later, the sound of "cough, cough" came out of Yuan Shikai's room, Xu Shichang and others outside stood up, Yuan Keding and Yang Du took the lead in walking in, and after a while, Yuan Keding came out and asked Xu Shichang and them to go in.

After Xu Shichang entered, he saw Yuan Shikai, who was pale, and hurriedly bowed to Yuan Shikai and said, "What do you think, president, is it better?" ”

"The president doesn't look very good, how does the doctor treat the doctor? President: I have a few foreigner doctors in Shenyang who have very high medical skills, and I will definitely be able to treat the president. ”

Yuan Shikai said with a displeased face: "I think the current doctor is very good, and I have to believe in our country's medical skills." ”

Xu Shichang asked cautiously at this time: "You know the movement in East China, what should we do now, yesterday I received a warning from East China that we should release the five hundred East China soldiers who protect the Forbidden City, otherwise they will launch a full-scale attack on us." After finishing speaking, Xu Shichang secretly wiped a cold sweat, and now he is really looking for death when he says this.

Yuan Shikai looked at Xu Shichang: "Don't let those five hundred soldiers go now, just eat and live for me, you don't have to worry about this now." ”

Zhang Zuolin said tentatively: "The president asked me to bring the soldiers from the northeast into the customs, the current defense of the capital is too weak." ”

How could Yuan Shikai let him bring troops to Beijing: "There are enough garrisons in Beijing now, and you don't need to bring troops into Beijing, you still need to guard against the Japanese in the northeast, and now you can't let the Japanese come in and make trouble." ”

Zhang Zuolin didn't squeak, just thinking about something, and the scene was silent.

At this time, Xu Shichang broke the silence: "Do we want to talk to East China, it is good to maintain the current state, at least it is not as miserable as the revolutionary army in the south, now they only have Guangdong and Fujian provinces left, or they will be defeated soon." ”

Yuan Shikai: "Do you think that East China will still have a good talk with us now, obviously not, so we should step up our own strength to fight to the death, only in this way will Beiyang have a way out." ”

Xu Shichang didn't speak, and Zhang Zuolin didn't want to say more, what he was most afraid of now was that when the Wehrmacht attacked Beijing, whether Yuan Shikai would move north, if he moved north, his rights in the Northeast would be divided, and the Northeast would not be his own, so he had to return to the Northeast to make his preparations when the Wehrmacht went north.

Yuan Shikai was thinking about whether to keep Zhang Zuolin and Xu Shichang in Beijing, and finally he decided to keep them all in Beijing, in order to control the rest of the Beiyang Army.

Yuan Shikai looked at the two and said: "Shichang and Yuting will stay in the capital these days to deal with things for me, now I don't have the ability to manage those things at all, Keding is not this material or you will do it, Shichang, behind you is your favorite general Li Bingying, let him replace you to garrison Shanxi, now I appoint Xu Shichang as the prime minister of the Beiyang government, and Yuting as the chief of the army." ”

Xu Shichang and Zhang Zuolin's faces changed after hearing this, and both of them heard that Yuan Shikai wanted to keep them in Beijing and trap them, which was nothing for Xu Shichang, because his favorite general Li Bingying still controlled the army, and Zhang Zuolin was very disgusted, because he didn't want to stay in Beijing at all, this time he just came to see how much money Yuan Shikai still had.

But this order is not easy to resist openly, only how to escape this cage secretly, so Xu Shichang and Zhang Zuolin

They all said that they would obey the arrangement of the president. Soon Xu Shichang and Zhang Zuolin went back, leaving only Yuan Shikai and the three of them in the room, Yang Du: "Yuan Gong wants to keep them in the capital, I'm afraid it will be worth the backfire, after all, Zhang Zuolin, the Northeast tiger, is not so easy to tame." ”

Yuan Shikai: "If you don't stay, you have to stay, otherwise they will go against the sky, I don't know who is the main speaker of Beiyang." ”

Yuan Keding said fiercely: "You have to teach them some lessons and make them arrogant." ”

Yuan Shikai scolded: "Shut up, you are not embarrassed enough, you look at what you do every day, can't you be sensible, make all that mess all day long, and I can't spare you if you mess with the Japanese again." ”

It turned out that Yuan Keding was in contact with the Japanese, and the Japanese also tempted Yuan Keding to engage in a constitutional monarchy, which Yuan Shikai usually saw in his eyes, but at that time he himself had this meaning, but now it is not possible.

"Zihui, you go and ask people to watch Xu Shichang and Zhang Zuolin closely, don't allow them to go out of the capital, and once you find them out of the city, call someone to stop them."

"Will this make them rebel against us?"

Yuan Shikai said with a hideous face: "If they dare to rebel and kill them directly, I, Yuan Shikai, don't think about it if they are not happy, if they want to die, they will die together." ”

Yang Du had no choice but to agree, and after a while, Yang Du went to arrange it first, only Yuan Keding was still there, Yuan Shikai said to Yuan Keding: "You go and prepare, the East China Army will attack here soon, so you try to send the people of the Yuan family to remote places or send them out of the country, leaving the bloodline of our Yuan family." ”

Yuan Keding: "Dad, is there really no way, can't we ask Japan for help?" ”

Yuan Shikai was furious: "You rebel, do you want to trap me in disregard of the national righteousness, do you want me to bear the title of traitor after I die, how can you let the children of the Yuan family have the face to see the people of the country in the future?" Don't talk about this again, I warn you once again not to associate with the Japanese, otherwise you will be expelled from the Yuan family. ”

Yuan Keding was very helpless when he heard this, so he had to do his best to arrange the refuge of the clansmen.

The next day, Zhang Zuolin said that he was seriously ill and wanted to go back to the Northeast for treatment, Yuan Shikai gave him peace of mind to recuperate in Beijing on the grounds that the medical skills of the doctors in the capital were better than those of the foreigners in the Northeast, and Li Bingying was also on the way to Shijiazhuang to take office, and Xu Shichang had been staying at home very quietly.

Another day later, Zhang Zuolin went back to the northeast on the grounds that he went back to hand over the rights to his subordinates, Yuan Shikai did not allow it, and finally Zhang Zuolin found a soldier who looked like himself to play him under the construction of his own soldiers, and he made up and ran away, but he was found out and did not succeed. A few days later, Zhang Zuolin found an opportunity to take the train north again in disguise as a Japanese, but was discovered by the Beiyang Army at the last moment of getting on the train, and saw that Zhang Zuolin was about to get on the train, the Beiyang Army soldiers immediately opened fire, Zhang Zuolin was shot in the right shoulder and escaped.

After learning that Zhang Zuolin fled back to the Northeast, Yuan Shikai was furious and smashed the dishes and dishes at home, and Zhang Zuolin, who returned to the Northeast, immediately erected a banner and sent a telegram to the three eastern provinces to be independent from the Beiyang government, carry out autonomy, and establish the autonomous government of the three northeastern provinces, so that Beiyang was split.