As the sun sets, the cold wind gets colder ().

Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, was full of depression, and the lattice shops-like shops hung up signs for closing early, and there were few pedestrians on the streets, and the only thing that could be seen was soldiers with all kinds of armbands and guns wandering back and forth.

In the Song Ji noodle restaurant on the street, after seeing more than a dozen well-drunk Gan soldiers leave, the shopkeeper Song jumped up like a rabbit and beckoned Xiao Er to close the door, he has had enough of these soldiers in the past few days. Originally, he was quite supportive of the revolution, and the Mantar was not a thing anyway, so on the day of liberation, he took out his savings and hung up the big signboard of [Guangfu Noodles], which was celebrated for free for three days, but he didn't expect to lift bricks and hit his own feet. [.123sk]

With more and more soldiers who don't know where they came from, the savings of several years are almost smashed, and it is not easy to hold on until the end of three days, but these soldiers who are used to eating and drinking for nothing are still yelling at five and six to eat and drink for free, and the grumpy one heard that the free is over, so he simply pulled out his gun to deal with it, so scared that he can't think of it for free now, so he has seen the meal and simply closes early.

When the shopkeeper was quickly "plugging" into the door panel, suddenly a black hole muzzle came in through the gap, which frightened the shopkeeper Song and everyone trembling, and opened the door only to see hundreds of dusty and simple soldiers standing in front of the noodle restaurant, led by the officer with a Hokkien accent, shouting: "Where is the shopkeeper?" Is the shopkeeper absent? I heard that you are free here? All right! This is the revolution, hurry up and give the brothers 500 bowls of noodles, remember to add eggs, and get some meat. ”

Shopkeeper Song is about to cry, five hundred?! Add eggs and meat! Isn't this obviously going bankrupt, so he hurriedly laughed and said: "The military master doesn't know, the free of charge of the small shop has ended." ”

"It's over? What do you mean! Lao Tzu took his brothers to travel thousands of miles to support you Jiangsu, and treated the revolutionary soldiers like this? I think you must be a "traitor" who is full of dogs, and deliberately does not let us eat! Coming person one. The officer slapped the table and jumped. When the soldiers heard that they didn't have anything to eat, they jumped up to arrest them, so frightened that the shopkeeper and the guy's faces turned pale, and when they saw that they were about to "mess up", a coquettish voice suddenly sounded outside the door: "Stop! ”

The officers and soldiers turned their heads to look, only to see a handsome woman with a revolver at the door, and several bold ruffians immediately whistled: "Yo, whose aunt is this?" looks very handsome, knowing that my brother has nothing to eat, so he sent his own thin meat, do you want to taste it? ”

"Or right here? The brothers are not particular (). ”

"Haha."

The ruffian's foul language made Miao Luo's eyes almost red, and he pulled out his pistol, and when he saw this, the soldiers also held their guns against each other and scolded: "Stinky girl, do you know who we are? Lao Tzu is a revolutionary army. Fuck you, brothers, strip up the vegetables tonight, try one. ”

"Smack ̈ one."

Before the most fierce soldier finished speaking, a spicy slap flew from behind Miao Luo, and Miao Yuan and Song Jiaoren slowly walked in after the crisp sound, and the officer saw that his men were beaten, and he also pulled out his pistol to arrest him. Miao Yuan snorted coldly: "Mr. Song is here, you dare to be presumptuous?" ”

"Mr. Song? That Mr. Song. After all, now there are more than 100,000 troops gathered in Nanjing, and the high-level party members are also coming, and it is easy to kill a small officer, so he hurriedly beckoned the soldiers to put down their guns.

"In Xia Song Jiaoren, I heard a commotion just now when I was passing by here, so come in and see what happened?" Song Jiaoren was polite, but the anger on his face became heavier and heavier, and reinforcements from all over the country arrived after the recovery of Nanjing. Except for the three upper provinces, where no troops came, reinforcements from the other southern provinces began to arrive one after another. Nearly 20,000 troops from Guangdong and Fujian, plus reinforcements from Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, and other places, armed with the people's armed forces of all kinds and "color," have gathered more than 100,000 troops. These guys didn't come to Nanjing, but now they are all putting on the posture of revolutionary heroes and heroes who have recovered their heroes, causing a miasma in the city of Nanjing. Now he is even more angry when he frames the shopkeeper for the horse for the sake of food.

When the officer heard that this was the famous Song fisherman, he didn't dare to come in chaos, so he put away his gun and said: "Mr. Song doesn't know, we came from southern Fujian to support, and after a big circle, the brothers didn't even drink the hot soup, and they rushed here before it closed."

But this shopkeeper is so arrogant that he won't give us food, and the brothers have no choice. ”

Looking at these hungry soldiers who came all the way to come, Song Jiaoren also couldn't bear it, and his stomach turned into a sigh of anger, turned his head to the shopkeeper and said: "Shopkeeper, get them some food, write down the account of how much it costs, and go to the governor's mansion tomorrow to report, if someone stops it, it will be said that I Song Jiaoren said it." ”

After sending Song Jiaoren away, he avoided behind the counter to see this group of masters, and the only thing he could do was to pray that the military "government" would not pay the bills tomorrow, otherwise he could only close the door and go back to his hometown in northern Jiangsu.

The matter seemed to be resolved in this way, but Miao Luo was full of anger, turned his head to look at the soldiers who were coaxing in the store, and said angrily: "Mr. Song, why don't you care? ”

Tube, how to manage? Song Jiaoren sighed again. On the day of the recovery of Nanjing City, because the handling was not timely enough, Zhang Xun and Tie Liang took a lot of cash with them when they fled, and only a few hundred thousand yuan were left in the entire Nanjing Domain. At that time, everyone didn't think anything, after all, the silver could still be earned, as long as the city of Nanjing was taken to keep the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, it would definitely be able to deal a heavy blow to the Manchu "government". However, with the continuous arrival of people from all walks of life, coupled with the defection of the people's army and the unemployed from all over Jiangsu and Anhui, more than 100,000 people had to eat and drink, which made it difficult for the military "government" to move forward, so they could only turn a blind eye to this kind of matter of soldiers looking for food by themselves.

To make matters worse, many of these so-called support units from all over the world came empty-handed, with more than 50,000 guns for more than 100,000 troops, a variety of types, and even fewer artillery. The command of the troops was not in line with each other, and there were even several incidents of bloody clashes caused by looting supplies, which gave them a headache.

Miao Yuan doesn't like to talk, he always thinks that his job is to protect Song Jiaoren, so he pulled his sister: "Luo'er, isn't Mr. trying to figure it out?" When a new 'government' is established, these things will naturally stabilize. ”

Miao Luo was still very angry, and didn't understand why he had to wait for the establishment of the new 'government' before he could do it, thinking that when he was in Hubei, Yang Qiu also had tens of thousands of troops, and the number of civilian servants was even larger, and it was not well managed? Qidao: "Why wait? Big brother, don't you see the people who go to the door of the military 'government' every day to complain? At that time, Hankou was not an army of tens of thousands, but Yang Qiu and his one. ()。 ”

"Shut up!" Miao Yuan shouted at his sister, because the name Yang Qiu was almost a taboo for the military government.

It was the first time Miao Luo was scolded, and his eyes were suddenly slightly red, he bit his lip and stopped talking. Song Jiaoren heard the dispute between the two and laughed bitterly, and quickened his pace and walked towards the military "government".

Miao Luo is right, if he doesn't rectify the troops, I'm afraid there will be a big incident, so I can't wait to see Huang Keqiang come up with a solution.

After arriving at the military "government", there was another "chaos" that made people scratch their heads, and the compound was crowded with so-called rebel army officers wearing various military uniforms or wearing white "wool" scarves on their arms, and various dialects came one after another.

"Mr. Song, when will you give us arms?"

"Mr. Song, can you help us talk to Governor Cheng, we have come all the way here, we should solve the problem of food and accommodation first, right?"

"Mr. Hiroshi."

One request was more urgent than the other, which made Song Jiaoren scratch his head, but it was not easy to refuse everyone, after all, they were all revolutionary comrades, and they could only avoid the crowd and enter the Governor's Mansion after saying that they would solve it as soon as possible. When I walked into the conference room and saw that everyone was there, I didn't notice that the atmosphere was a little abnormal, and said directly: "Keqiang, we must come out with a charter as soon as possible, and now there is a 'chaos' outside, if we don't solve so many soldiers, sooner or later something big will happen, you see..." ”

As soon as Song Jiaoren said this, he suddenly felt that someone had pulled him, and after Miao Yuan glanced at him, he found that the atmosphere in the conference room seemed to be a little bad. Huang Keqiang sat sullenly next to him, Cheng Dequan and Zhang Taiyan muttered quietly, Xu Shaozhen led the officer corps to be silent next to him, and Huang Yiou and Lei Fen and several other young people clenched their fists and seemed to be angry. Hurriedly asked, "Keqiang, what's wrong?" ”

Huang Yiou was the most impulsive, grabbed the telegram on the table and was about to speak, when he suddenly saw Miao Luo standing behind him, he quickly swallowed his anger, quietly tidied up his clothes a few times before saying "steadily": "There is a telegram from Shanghai, Mr. Wenjue said that Yang Qiu will release the prisoners of the fourth town of Beiyang at the end of the month, and also said that he will be arranged to serve as a patrol envoy of the three provinces." ”

Song Jiaoren was lightly surprised. Whether it is Wu Tingfang or Cai Yuanpei, they are both people who are stable and do not promise easily, and at this moment, they actually proposed to let Yang Qiu serve as the patrol envoy of the three provinces Such an important position, something must have happened, and he hurriedly looked at the telegram.

While he was reading the telegram, Huang Yiou approached Miao Luo affectionately: "Yiou has seen Miss Miao." Did you just come back? Have you had dinner, today many gentry brought food to the military "government", what do you want to eat? I asked people to prepare. ”

Miao Luoxiu's eyebrows twisted, Huang Yiou had been walking around her all day in the past few days, which made her very disgusted, so she didn't move her expression and moved half a step. In fact, the person in front of him is really good-looking, with a square head and big ears, he has the taste of a son of a family, and he is the son of Huang Keqiang, the second leader of the Alliance, I am afraid it will be too late to change to others, but she always feels that there is something less than that person.

Huang Yiou didn't speak when he saw her, just stared at the telegram in Song Jiaoren's hand, thinking that everyone had said that she had a relationship with Yang Qiu before, and he was even more disdainful of Yang Qiu after secretly eating it.

Song Jiaoren and everyone didn't notice the two of them, and after reading the telegram, their faces were already ugly. Speaking from the heart, even if he and Huang Keqiang were defeated in Hubei, he was still quite optimistic about Yang Qiu, this young man has a unique tenacity and courage, he is also very organized, and it is also very suitable to lead the army, at least these young people gathered in Nanjing around him are not as good as him, so he voted for Yang Qiu when he nominated the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition. However, this time, he made the officials public and threatened him with the release of the prisoners, so that the provisional "government" would help him transfer Li Yuanhong, trying to create a contradiction between the constitutionalists and the republicans, which made him very angry.

"Escape at the beginning, Keqiang. It's not that I'm talking nonsense, this Yang Qiu should also be restrained, if we let him make trouble again, I'm afraid we really won't be able to end it. It was his influence that contributed to the almost complete defection of Jiangsu and Zhejiang officials, so his words attracted a lot of approval, especially Lei Fen, these constitutionalists made it clear that they should not be at the mercy of Yang Qiu to transfer Li Yuanhong, in their opinion, if Li Yuanhong left Hubei, then the power of the Hubei constitutionalists would be greatly affected, in case the governors of various places followed suit and expelled the constitutionalists, they would be at a comprehensive disadvantage after the founding of the People's Republic of China in the future.

Zhang Taiyan was more objective and said calmly: "Now it's not a question of whether we give it or not, it's not okay if we don't give it!" Wen Jue and Heqing made it very clear that Yang Du took the car back to the mansion with him that day, and the news of the release of the prisoners came out afterwards, indicating that the two must have reached some agreement. Let's look at this sentence again [Yang Qiuchen saw the American minister, although it was a business, but I think that ordinary business and trade of a country's minister would not be easy to come forward, in the afternoon he left from the German legation to Wusongkou, all the way to be escorted by foreign soldiers, and soon after the departure of more than ten German ships docked in the port and went up the river, it may also be related to him]. ”

After reading it, Zhang Taiyan frowned and analyzed: "It has become a fact that Yang Qiu holds the three provinces, I am afraid that he will get the support of foreigners again. Then we might as well give him what he wants, and win him over, lest he take refuge in the north. ”

"Humph!" Before everyone could come to a conclusion, a cold snort sounded in the corner, and Huang Yiou stood up and straightened his waist and said, "Is Mr. Binglin too angry with Yang Qiu?" How can he make foreigners support? If so, why did you confront Britain before? In my opinion, he is just doing dirty things, learning from the Qing court to betray the country and seek glory! Since we can't move him at the moment, and he is in Shanghai, let's simply send this matter to Hubei so that Li Du and others can see the true face of this fang! Didn't he say that he would listen to the orders of the central government? Well, anyway, we are going on a northern expedition, let him send elite troops over, and when the troops arrive, we will immediately take them in the name of the central government, and see what he does! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Huang Keqiang stood up angrily and reprimanded: "Shut up! Yang Qiu is my revolutionary comrade no matter what. If it weren't for him, the three provinces of Hubei would have been occupied by Beiyang! How can we be in today's good situation? I don't think of gratitude, but I learn such deceitful ways! What a system, get out of here! ”

Huang Yiou didn't dare to contradict his father, so he retreated to the door, and when he looked at the conference room again, he found that a pair of cold beautiful eyes had also "shot" over, and he was even more secretly hateful in his heart.

Cheng Dequan saw something and said, Huang Keqiang didn't scold sooner or later, and then scolded when his son finished speaking, and he still left a knot in his heart when he saw the defeat in Hubei, and said with a smile in his eyes: "Why should Keqiang be sluggish with the child." But then again, what Yiou said this time really makes some sense, since Yang Qiu wants to use the central government to get rid of Li Songqing, then why can't we use the other way to repay the other? ”

Huang Keqiang didn't say anything, turned his head to look at Song Jiaoren, he needed some support...... Clear