At the end of April, Baoding had already lost the chill of the previous months, but became hot.

In such a hot weather, a telegram sent by Duan Qirui made Yuan Shikai feel the comfort of midsummer, and he still had a smile on his face and still held Duan Qirui's telegram in his hand: "They did it neatly this time, I thought it would be delayed for a few months, but I didn't expect it to be settled in just a few days!" ”

Wang Yingkai, who was sitting next to him, also responded: "This time we sent thousands of new troops, and Zhao Dongyun led the army to personally Guangzong, so it is natural to pacify the Guangzong people's rebellion." However, it was unexpected to be able to quell the Guangzong civil rebellion so quickly and catch Jing Tingbin! ”

"In this case, we don't have to continue to send to Shunde, can the vanguard and self-improvement army on the Shandong side retreat!" Wang Yingkai said: "There are also foreigners, should they also tell him in time, so as to dispel their idea of sending troops south!" ”

Yuan Shikai said: "The foreigners naturally want to say, I think I paid a big price in order to let them withdraw from the army last year, and I have to pay hundreds of millions of taels in the Xinchou Treaty, but I can't let them send troops south with great fanfare, isn't this a joke for the world to see my Beiyang?" ”

"But now that the rebels in Guangzong have been defeated, the rebel armies in Wei County, Nanhe and other counties are also a scourge, and they must continue to be cleared, so the vanguard and self-improvement team must continue to march!" Yuan Shikai is planning to clean up the southern part of Zhili: "We can't let them come to a civil rebellion every few months, this time we must suppress the civil rebellion in Shunde Mansion!" ”

Wang Yingkai said: "What my lord said is that Shunde Mansion and other surrounding prefectures and counties have been unstable in recent years, and now taking this opportunity to suppress and suppress can also make them feel more at ease!"

"The matter on the Shunde side is only the end, and we don't have to pay too much attention to it, now our focus is still on the standing army!" Yuan Shikai said this first, and then said: "How is the training of the left wing of your standing army, is there any problem?" ”

The reason why Wang Yingkai has a special position in the Beiyang system is that he Wang Yingkai is the wing commander of the left wing of the Beiyang Standing Army, and he was originally co-chaired by Wang Shizhen and Wang Yingkai when he first began to organize and train the standing army last year, but Wang Shizhen has a set of military training, but playing power and profiting is not Wang Yingkai's opponent, and Yuan Shikai himself does not want to see Wang Shizhen control the standing army. Therefore, after the Beiyang Standing Army was officially formed at the beginning of the year, Yuan Shikai ordered Wang Yingkai to serve as the commander of the left wing of the Beiyang Standing Army, and kicked Wang Shizhen out of the Standing Army again.

In fact, Wang Shizhen was very hard around 1902, mainly because he was talented, he was too arrogant, and his popularity was not good, even if he rarely bowed to Yuan Shikai, so among Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Wang Shizhen and several others, he was the latest to be reused by Yuan Shikai.

Of course, Wang Shizhen's bad luck is Wang Yingkai's luck, and now Wang Yingkai is the power of the standing army, which is very majestic in 1902, and the limelight has a tendency to overshadow Duan Qirui.

"Although our army has not all changed its outfits yet, more than 10,000 sergeants have been training for more than half a year, and they can fight for the north and south of the adults at any time!" When Wang Yingkai said this, he was full of pride, the left wing of the Beiyang Standing Army under his command is the elite of the Beiyang system and even the entire Chinese army today!

The establishment and training are following the pace of the latest powers, and even better than the right army of the armed guard, and the backbone officers are almost all old people during the training period of the small station, so it can be said that the left wing of this standing army is not a newly formed unit, but an elite unit condensed by the essence of the Beiyang system.

After finishing speaking, he looked at Yuan Shikai's good face, and immediately said: "Now the standing army has all the infantry and artillery riders, but there is a lack of machine gun battalions, and the humble and courageous construction of a machine gun battalion is added!" ”

"Machine gun battalion!" As soon as Yuan Shikai heard this word, he remembered Zhao Dongyun's young man again, he didn't answer Wang Yingkai's words immediately, but said: "It costs a lot to run a machine gun battalion, and it is even more difficult to find the military support needed, and now the machine gun battalion under Zhao Dongyun has not been completely completed, so this matter is not in a hurry!" ”

Wang Yingkai's mind is not only in the machine gun battalion, he also wants the machine gun battalion, but people also want: "Zhao Dongyun is a young man, he has talent, but he has been letting him stay on the side of the Wuwei Right Army, I am afraid that he is a little condescending, is it not for him to bring the machine gun battalion to my standing army, so that he can contribute to the establishment of my Beiyang standing army!" ”

Wang Yingkai's words are not nonsense, although the Wuwei Right Army is still the main force of Beiyang, but everyone knows that the Beiyang Standing Army is the future, don't you see that countless people want to squeeze into the Standing Army for development, as for the Wuwei Right Army, maybe it can still be in the limelight in the past two years, but according to the current process of Beiyang army expansion, it is estimated that it will not take a few years to dismantle and use it to form a standing army.

And if Zhao Dongyun continues to stay in the standing army, it will obviously be detrimental to his development.

Wang Yingkai is optimistic about Zhao Dongyun, if he can bring Zhao Dongyun closer to his camp, it is estimated that he can add a lot of blockage to Duan Qirui.

It's just that Wang Yingkai's idea is not a secret, Yuan Shikai can see it at a glance, although Yuan Shikai acquiesces to his subordinates to make trouble, but he doesn't want to make too much noise, he doesn't want Duan Qirui and Wang Yingkai to completely tear their faces, so whether it is Zhao Dongyun or his machine gun battalion, they can't be transferred to Wang Yingkai or Duan Qirui lightly.

Moreover, as a superior, Yuan Shikai still hopes that his subordinates can develop more factions, for example, he supports Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen, and he can't only have Wang Yingkai or Duan Qirui under him, if he can, he hopes to let Zhao Dongyun maintain his independence, so as to better play his talents for the expansion of the Beiyang army.

Let's not mention the failure of Wang Yingkai's attempt to secretly dig into Duan Qirui's corner again, but said that Zhao Dongyun is in Guangzong County, and since he ended the farce-like war in the village, he really has no interest in the next bandits.

At the beginning, he actively went south to suppress bandits, what he wanted was to make meritorious contributions, of course, in addition to meritorious service, he also hoped to increase his horizons and live a war addiction, but it was obvious that Jing Tingbin did not give him this opportunity, and this suppression of bandits now seems to be completely just a child playing at home, just a farce.

In this regard, Zhao Dongyun, who had already made meritorious contributions, became a little lazy, and after returning to Guangzong County from Piece Village, Zhao Dongyun only sent a lot of troops to the surrounding area to clean up the Lianzhuang Society and the boxers, and he himself was no longer personally leading troops to clean up the boxers.

It's just that after the first battle of the village, the bandits in Guangzong County were arrested thousands of people, and the rest did not know where to flee, and it is estimated that they would not dare to show their faces for a while and a half, so the troops sent out a lot, but not many people were caught, and the results were far less obvious than some time ago.

After sending the troops out, Zhao Dongyun became a little idle, and on this day, he and Zhao E ate and drank in broad daylight.

Although Zhao E is a little old, and he looks like a pedantic civil official, but after more contact with Zhao Dongyun, he found that this person is actually quite interesting, although he doesn't know much about those new things, but when it comes to the wind and snow, he doesn't look like a pedantic official at all, after drinking too much flower wine, Zhao E and Zhao Dongyun called him brother and brother, then Zhao E said: "Guangzong is a small place, there are no outstanding prostitutes, and when Guangzong is done, he will invite Zhao Dongyun to go to the eight alleys of Jingshi for sightseeing." ”

Zhao Dongyun responded: "I haven't seen the woman of the Jingshi either, if I have the opportunity, I will definitely see one or two!" ”

After drinking two more glasses, Zhao E said: "I have always wanted to see the scenery under the skirt of the Taixi woman, but unfortunately I have not been able to do it!" ”

Zhao Dongyun said with a smile: "Next time you go to Shanghai, just take a look, Shanghai is the Paris of the Far East, and there can be no blond and blue-eyed women on the party." ”

Zhao E said yes repeatedly, and agreed with Zhao Dongyun that he must go to Shanghai for a trip to Yunyun on a certain day!

After Zhao Dongyun returned to his temporary residence, he saw a shadow flashing behind the door as soon as he entered the door, and when he looked at it, he seemed to know it, but it seemed that he didn't know it.

After walking in and looking at it with wide eyes and shaking his head a little dizzy, he smiled and said, "It turned out to be Miss Fang, why did I say it was so familiar!" ”

Fang Ruolian, who was wearing a nun's robe, wanted to argue that you can't call me Miss Fang, you should call me a nun, but when she saw Zhao Dongyun's body full of alcohol, she knew that it was useless to tell him, so she didn't say it when it came to her mouth.

Zhao Dongyun looked at the beautiful woman in front of him with half-open eyes, and suddenly felt that the nun's gray robe that had been an eyesore before was not so annoying, so he took two steps forward with a smile and said: "You look different today, you have become more beautiful than before!" ”

Fang Ruolian looked at Zhao Dongyun and stepped forward directly, the distance between the two of them was less than one meter at this time, this distance could make her smell the strong wine smell emanating from Zhao Dongyun's body, she frowned lightly and said, "Lord Zhao, you are drunk, rest early!" ”

Drunk people never say that they are drunk, and Zhao Dongyun is the same: "It's just a few small drinks, and it's far from the time to get drunk!" ”

At this time, Zhao Dongyun suddenly felt that he had smelled a trace of fragrance, and this aroma seemed to emanate from the woman opposite, very fragrant!

If there is no aroma under the stimulation of alcohol, it becomes like an aphrodisiac fragrance, which makes Zhao Dongyun feel a little hot and unbearable, and wants to unbutton the neckline to make breathing easier, but the button is not unbuttoned, but because a person who can't stand on his feet is about to fall.

Fang Ruolian saw it, she didn't have time to think about it, she subconsciously stretched out her hand to help!

So, in the next moment, Zhao Dongyun fell into Fang Ruolian's arms, and hugged him with both hands!

Fang Ruolian was stunned for this moment, should I let him fall to the ground, or should I hold him?

But it was okay to hold him, but how could he still hold himself, and that hand didn't seem to be honest, groping her back, and at this moment, she couldn't even tell if he was intentional or really drunk!

Fang Ruolian struggled slightly, wanting to hold Zhao Dongyun back on, but although Zhao Dongyun was not an eight-foot strong man with a tall ox and a horse, his years of military career also made him extremely strong, and his weight was as heavy as half of Fang Ruolian. Fang Ruolian, a weak woman, was completely unable to stand on her feet, and it was very difficult to prevent Zhao Dongyun from falling.

If you want to use it to let Zhao Dongyun stand on his own, the difficulty is not ordinary!

He did it on purpose, absolutely on purpose! Why don't you fall early, don't fall late, but fall when you stand in front of yourself.

Fang Ruolian felt that she was the most wronged nun in the world! I wanted to call someone to help hold him up, but I looked left and right and saw no one, and no one came after shouting twice. Besides, she doesn't really want people to see a man hugging her, even if it's a nun, she will be shy!

Fang Ruolian, who thought about it, felt that she couldn't let him hold him like this anymore, so she immediately took Zhao Dongyun's hand away, then held him up, and whispered in her mouth: "My lord, wake up quickly, stand up, don't fall!" ”

At this time, Zhao Dongyun, who was already drunk, could hear what he was saying, but he just hummed meaninglessly, and then the moment Fang Ruolian let go of her hand, her body was about to fall forward in a flash.

Fang Ruolian saw 'ah', and had no choice but to stretch out her hands again and hug Zhao Dongyun, she was about to cry at this time, she hurriedly looked at the room behind her, and then bit her red lip lightly to help Zhao Dongyun and walk into the room.

So she muttered that God would forgive me, and dragged Zhao Dongyun into her room!