Chapter Ninety-One: Guilty

"He Dashuai!"

"Congratulations for Wen Shuai!"

"Xuzhou was able to survive in the restoration rebellion, all of which are my handsome achievements, and now Duan Zhi and Wang Ping Lao have entrusted me to soothe Xuzhou, which is really a blessing for the people of Xuzhou!"

In the lobby of the supervision office of Zhang Xun, the former commander of the pigtail soldiers in the Xuzhou Daotai Yamen, Zhang Wensheng was smiling with a smile on his face and hugging his fists, welcoming the officers who were congratulating the Dao Cong. He is now just the commander of the Dingwu Army, the official position of the Xuzhou town guard and the superintendent of the Sulu bandits, and he should not be called a marshal as usual. But at present, the hearts of the Dingwu Army and the people of Xuzhou City are still a little fluctuating, everyone knows the matter of a courtier, so everyone is stammering, and the official he called the handsome, and the fleshy simply called him "I am handsome", and there are boxes of congratulatory gifts that are constantly carried in and piled high in the hall.

Zhang Wensheng sat in the room, touching his beard and squinting his eyes and smiling. He had just smoked a few large cigarette bubbles, and he was in full energy at this moment. His mind also spun quickly, and he looked at the expressions of the officers in front of him.

The minds of these officers are clear, and everyone wants to keep their battalion! But at present, the matter of reducing the troops of the military army has to be postponed, except for the ten battalions that are said to be "sold" to Chang Ruiqing, the rest of the battalion heads, and the remaining seventy battalion heads, can all be retained for the time being. Because, there is a splash of wealth that seems to be about to fall on his head!

Just now, his envoy to Xuzhou, Yamen, had just received a "telegram requesting soldiers" in the name of Shi Xu, the minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The content of the telegram made him overjoyed, it turned out that the Red Brigade that kidnapped Pu Yi was the bandits in the area of Yimeng Mountain in Lunan! Moreover, in the name of the lack of troops in the Changrui Youth Brigade and the difficulty of protecting Huang Zhouquan, Shixu also asked Zhang Wensheng, who was also the supervisor of the Sulu bandits, to send troops to assist!

That's a windfall of 250,000 taels of gold! He Zhang Wensheng has survived the "poor life" for most of his life, and this time he is finally going to turn over! How capable are these bandits, known as the "Red Brigade", capable of? His more than 30,000 Dingwu troops are still afraid that they will not be even? As long as this red bandit is exterminated, this gold will fall into his pocket!

At this time, the voice of Dao He had slowed down, and Zhang Wensheng slowly got up. Seeing him get up, the officers below all stood up straight with a loud noise. Zhang Wensheng smiled and spoke lightly.

"There is another thing to discuss with the big guy, the brother is trusted by Duan Zhilao and serves as the commander of the Dingwu Army, the Xuzhou Town Guard and the Sulu Bandit Supervisor. Zhi Lao's trust, brother can't be in vain, and he has to do his errand beautifully! Here on the Sulu border, bandits must not be allowed to run rampant...... If we don't wipe out these heinous bandits, I, Zhang Wensheng, will not be able to become a human being! I want to ask the central government for my life, and personally lead the 40 battalions of soldiers to the north to suppress bandits in Lunan! ”

Before he could finish his sentence, there was an uproar below, and all the officers seemed to have heard the wrong words, and they stayed there with their mouths wide open and could not make a sound. Zhang Wensheng is taking the wrong medicine! Forty battalions were dispatched to Shandong to suppress bandits...... Those bandits didn't provoke our Dingwu army, and did it do any good to kill them? How much can the gentry in southwest Lu help? They don't seem to have any money!

Zhang Wensheng let them bother for a moment, then smiled faintly, took out a telegram from his pocket, but there was a smile in his tone: "What kind of person is I, Zhang Wensheng, everyone understands, how many years have I been a brother, when will I make a loss-making deal?" This time this arrangement, of course, there are great interests in it! This is an urgent telegram sent to me by Shi Xu, the minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who is currently with Changrui Youth Hostel, escorting 250,000 taels of gold to Lunan, ready to go to Yishan to redeem Emperor Xuantong! Brethren, that's two hundred and fifty thousand taels of gold! ”

The bottom exploded all at once.

"The handsome and wise, let's set the military army to turn over!"

"Those bandits in Yimeng Mountain are just a rabble, and our forty battalions of soldiers will be able to scare a lot of them to death...... When the gold arrives, let's just go home and eat lying down! ”

"What go home? With such a large amount of money, why don't you expand your strength quickly! I think we can easily occupy the territory of southern Lunan, squeeze Zhang Huaizhi's people away, and then send troops to northern Jiangsu, and plant the banner of our Dingwu army on the side of the Yellow River! ”

Zhang Wensheng's gaze swept over the faces of the officers of the Positioning Army, all of them were overjoyed, and some of them even showed a bit of arrogance, as if they had returned to the time when they were the "No. 1 strongest soldier in the southeast" in the past. However, there were exceptions, and his gaze finally rested on the face of an old man in a robe and horse coat, who was none other than Zhang Wensheng's staff member Ye Quan.

Zhang Wensheng has always trusted this old Mr. Ye very much, and when he saw his sad face, he hurriedly humbly asked for advice: "Mr. Ye, what do you think about this?" ”

Ye Quan shook his head lightly: "Dashuai, we can't eat alone in the martial army!" The matter of Shixu sending us a telegram asking for troops cannot be concealed from Chang Ruiqing, and Xu Shuzheng in Beijing must know it clearly...... So we can't afford to eat this piece of fat alone! Moreover, I suspect that there is some ulterior secret behind this matter. ”

Looking at Ye Quan's solemn expression, Zhang Wensheng also nodded silently: "What Mr. Ye said is very true, it seems that this piece of fat will be divided into half of Zhang Huaizhi, the overseer of Shandong." Mr. Ye, why don't you be my envoy and go to Jinan? ”

Ye Quan still shook his head: "Chang Ruiqing also has a copy there." ”

"Him?" A trace of disdain flashed on Zhang Wensheng's face: "It's just a brigade commander!" ”

"But the gold is in his hands!" Ye Quan smiled faintly: "Unless the marshal sends troops to rob the gold in Chang Ruiqing's hand now, otherwise without his cooperation, it will not be so easy for us to find the Red Brigade...... The things that have a lot of dreams at night, the handsome man must have heard of it, right? ”

Zhang Wensheng was stunned for a moment, thought about it carefully, and felt that it made sense. It's not okay to rob Chang Ruiqing, then he will become the target of everyone! He still knows what it means to be guilty. Moreover, the matter of exterminating the Red Brigade and seizing the gold is also as soon as possible, and if it drags on for a long time, I am afraid that all parties will have to participate, and there will not be too much oil and water in my pocket at that time!

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As soon as the curtain moved, I saw Xu Shuzheng angrily break into Duan Qirui's inner study, and hurriedly put a copy of the telegram in front of Duan Qirui.

"Confused! The world is confused! How could he ask Zhang Wensheng for troops! Isn't this informing the bandits in Yimeng Mountain! In their Dingwu army, there are many people who were recruited by bandits! Chang Ruiqing is also a jerk! Didn't they all tell him to keep it secret, why did they let Shixu leak the secret? ”

Speaking of this, he stomped his foot again: "I'm still confused...... Chang Ruiqing, this kid has no experience in the rivers and lakes, so he shouldn't be allowed to go on this errand! ”

Duan Qirui didn't move, picked up the telegram on the table and looked at it, and sneered: "Isn't it 250,000 taels of gold...... Let Zhang Wensheng, Zhang Huaizhi, Ni Sichong and Zhao Wei make a little bit of it. But in my opinion, this gold is not easy to earn! How can those bandits in Shandong be easy to provoke? Let them go, and give me a good fight for those bandits! ”

"Old Zhi, do you mean ......" Xu Shuzheng vented for a while, his brain calmed down, he thought about it along Duan Qirui's train of thought, and said after consideration: "Zhi Lao wants to come and push the boat down the river, and order the overseers of Henan, Shandong, and Anhui provinces and the Xuzhou town guard to suppress the red bandits in Shandong?" ”

Duan Qirui smiled slightly: "It's not that they can suppress the red bandits, no matter what they say, they are all meritorious to the republic...... Rather, it will suppress bandits! Zhang Wensheng was appointed as the governor of the four provincial capitals, and ordered Henan, Shandong, and Anhui provinces to send troops to cooperate. By the way, let Chang Ruiqing also be temporarily restrained by Zhang Wensheng. The deadline is three months, and it is necessary to exterminate the bandits in the southwest of Luxi! ”

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