On the morning of July 1, 6th year of the Republic of China, the police suddenly asked all households to hang the dragon flag, and the residents had no choice but to deal with it by paper flags; Then, Qing Dynasty robes that had not been seen for several years appeared on the street, and one by one the figures seemed to run out of the coffin; The newspaper hall had the news of the restoration, and the price was more expensive than the daily newspaper.

Zhang Xun, Kang Youwei, Qu Hongzhen, Wang Shizhen, Jiang Chaozong, Wu Bingxiang, Chen Guangyuan, Liu Tingchen, Shen Zengzhi, Lao Naixuan, Ruan Zhongshu, Gu Ying, Wan Shenyu and dozens of other people played in unison, and asked Emperor Puyi of the Qing Dynasty to restore the full text:

"The performance is shaken for the country, the people's minds are old, I would like to call on the restoration of the people's minds to the old, and the words call for the restoration of the various reasons, I respectfully fold the Chen, and beg the emperor to give the holy testimony, and the instructions will be implemented. Sincerely. ”

For a time, all parts of Beijing were full of lights, and the business of selling braids and dragon flags everywhere was booming. Such a bizarre scene was staged in the city of Beijing.

For Zhang Xun's perverse actions, Li Yuanhong, who asked Zhang Xun to lead troops into Beijing, naturally regretted it. On the one hand, he asked his henchman Jin Yongyan to go to Shanghai with a telegram begging for thieves to prepare for release. All the telegraph offices in Beijing were under the control of Zhang Xun, and most of the provincial overseers announced their dissolution from the central government.

"Big President, Big President, Liang... Emperor, Chief Wang is here. Ha Hanzhang reported at the door that in the past, he was one of Li Yuanhong's secretaries, although the presidential palace was suppressed by the National Yuan, but he was also the presidential secretary, and his status was not comparable to that of ordinary officials outside. Zhang Xun doesn't know how to make sense.

"In-laws, you are here, and this one next to you, should I call you Chief Wang, or Lord Wang? I wonder why the two of you came? Li Yuanhong looked at Wang Shizhen with some sneer. Regarding Liang Dingfen, Puyi's teacher, Li Yuanhong only called him his in-laws, obviously not admitting Zhang Xun's restoration now.

"Song Qing, I believe you have seen the current situation clearly, Governor Zhang led his troops into Beijing and Kuang restored the Qing room. Before Governor Zhang entered Beijing. It negotiated with the provincial overseers, and the provincial superintendents of the Xuzhou Conference had no objection to the restoration, and signed unanimously to agree to the re-enthronement of the Holy Lord, since the establishment of the Republic of China, the domestic situation is not as stable as the previous dynasty, bandits are everywhere, and the people are not happy. Song Qing, you still return the old things of the first dynasty, and I will help you say a few good words in front of the saint, and it is not difficult to find a career in the imperial court. Liang Dingfen said confidently, now Zhang Xun controls the city defense inside and outside Beijing, and holds the signatures of the provincial overseers, Liang Dingfen and his literati are all in high spirits, and he believes that he is Li Yuanhong's son and daughter's in-law, and Puyi's teacher. Persuading Li Yuanhong should be nine out of ten.

However, Li Yuanhong's reaction was unexpected by Liang Dingfen, and Li Yuanhong was the same as Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng who protested at the beginning. It's like a wooden man sitting there, neither speaking nor signing, letting Liang Dingfen's mouth dry and not making the slightest reaction. At the end, he glanced at Wang Shizhen contemptuously, Wang Shizhen is also a shameful person, and he was told by Zhang Xun that Zhang Xun was going to restore. originally accepted Li Yuanhong's request to serve as the army chief to buffer the relationship between Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui, but instead of thinking about it, he became an accomplice to the restoration, which will be regretted, but Zhang Xun is not a good talker. At this time, Wang Shizhen also had no way to get out, Wang Shizhen had a somewhat sleek temperament, without Duan Qirui's rigidity, and was not the kind of person who would rather bend than bend.

persuasion failed, and Liang Dingfen had no choice but to leave with Wang Shizhen.

"President, Liang Dingfen, they left." Li Yuanhong was still there, and Zhang Guogan came over and whispered.

"Alas, the heavens are evil, but they are evil, and they cannot live. If you want to blame, I can only blame me for not seeing Zhang Xun, a traitor with evil intentions, clearly, which will cause today's disaster. Li Yuanhong sighed, "Now that Zhang Xun has gone against the grain, I have become a sinner in the Republic of China." ”

"The matter has come to this, the president does not have to blame himself, Zhang Xun has been planning for a long time, and the Overseer Army is helping to abuse, and it is beyond his personal ability to stop it..."

"President, the representative of the Fengtian Overseer Army, He Zhixiang, asks to see you." Zhang Guogan persuaded him, and the voice of Ha Hanzhang sounded outside the door again.

"Qin Yu?" Li Yuanhong didn't hear the three words of He Zhixiang in the back, but he really heard the words of Fengtian Overseer.

Zhang Guogan and Li Yuanhong glanced at each other, and then slapped their thighs, "By the way, in the previous meetings of the Governor Corps and the Xuzhou Conference, only Qin Yu, the Fengtian Overseer, did not participate, and the Fengtian soldiers are strong and strong, if the Fengtian army can be led into the customs, the situation is still irreparable." ”

"But the first few times I sent the representative to contact Qin Yu, I didn't even meet him." Li Yuanhong hesitated, not believing that Fengtian would help him get out of the quagmire he was in at this time.

"President, now that the situation in Beijing has collapsed to this point, a dead horse can only be a live horse doctor, and it depends on the intentions of the representative of the Feng side." Zhang Guogan said.

Li Yuanhong nodded, and immediately let Ha Hanzhang and He Zhixiang in.

"He Zhixiang has seen the president." He Zhixiang saluted Li Yuanhong.

Hearing He Zhixiang's title Li Yuanhong was in high spirits, and the other party could call him like this, which means that Feng Fang still recognizes him as the president.

"Zhang Xun rebelled into Beijing and turned Beijing upside down, this matter started because of me, where do I still have the face to be this president." Li Yuanhong's face was ashamed.

"The thing that prompted Zhang Xun to enter Beijing was done by many people, freezing three feet, not a day's cold, Zhang Xun has been planning for today's events for a long time. The president does not have to put the blame on one person. He Zhixiang persuaded.

"Now Zhang Shun has a lot of people, sent troops to control the city defense of Beijing, and other government agencies, I have no soldiers and no generals in my hands, and I am completely helpless to take the current situation, I have long heard that Qin Yu, the overseer of Fengtian, has always been loyal and patriotic, and has been guarding Fengtian for several years, and the rights and interests have not spilled over into the hands of Japan and Russia, and his soldiers can fight well, can you send a strong army south to Beijing to expel Zhang Wei?" Li Yuanhong asked with a look of hope.

Ha Hanzhang and Zhang Guogan also had the same look of expectation, the situation at this time. and Zhang Xun's blow to Li Yuanhong when he entered Beijing, which has made them unable to enjoy their usual calm demeanor.

"The pigtail army that Zhang Xun brought into Beijing was only six or seven thousand, although Jiang Chaozong, Chen Guangyuan, Li Jincai and others were under Zhang Xun's control for a while, but all the troops under his command would not be used by Zhang Xun in a short time. Before the humble post, the marshal had confessed that Zhang Xun had acted perversely in a vain attempt to restore the imperial system, and President Yuan had not been able to do anything back then, not to mention that he was a small Yangtze River patrol envoy. He Zhixiang said.

"So Yuchen is willing to send troops to help me exterminate Zhang Xun's fang?" Li Yuanhong and others were overjoyed.

"The situation of the Republic of China is not easy to come by, and it is categorically not allowed for a few careerists to restore the imperial system, and the marshal of my family is willing to send troops to help the president quell the scourge in Beijing." He Xiangzhi said loudly. (Originally, I wanted Qin Yu to directly enter Beijing and form a regime.) However, I received a message reminder that it could only be written in the framework of Beiyang, and it was not allowed to build an independent regime. ）

"Okay, good, the road knows the horsepower, and the people will see the hearts of the people for a long time. When the country rises and falls, he is willing to turn the tide, Yuchen is one, if the republic can be rebuilt this time, Yuchen's work should be recorded in history. "Li Yuanhong. Zhang Guogan could not hide the ecstasy in his heart, the reason why he was suppressed by the State Council led by Duan Qirui in the first place. It is nothing more than Duan Qirui's influence in the Beiyang Group is beyond his reach, he can call on some local overseers, and he can suppress him in terms of actual power. Li Yuanhong has always suffered from the support of local powerful factions, although he used to be the overseer of Hubei, but the current overseer of Hubei Wang Zhanyuan is not controlled by him at all, he is an old Beiyang. The status is not much lower than his. Qin Yu's strength is definitely among the top among all provinces in China, and he is only a foot away from Beijing, if he can fully support him, this year, he will no longer be just a seal machine.

"I wonder how many troops Yushuai is willing to send south? Zhang Xun gained the support of some of the local overseers, and also took control of Beijing's city defenses. If enough troops can be mobilized and go down in one drum, it should be able to deter the local Xiaoxiao, if the troops are not enough, give Zhang Xun a chance to breathe, I am afraid that other people who are watching will breed bad thoughts. Ha Hanzhang asked.

"The commander said that two divisions would be transferred south at the initial stage, and if the situation changed, additional troops could be sent at any time, and the outskirts of the Beijing division could be reached in less than a day along the Jingfeng Road, so there was no need to worry about the problem of troops. Zhang Xun has only six or seven thousand people around him, and for my Fengjun, he is tantamount to a chicken and a dog. ”

"Good, good." Li Yuanhong said three good words in a row.

"With the courage and skill of the Feng army, the strength of the two divisions is enough to sweep away Zhang Xun." Zhang Guogan, Ha Hanzhang's face was flushed with excitement, when the Outer Mongolian rebels went south, the momentum was violent, although the armies of the Republic of China fought a lot with it, although they repelled a lot of enemy troops, but when it came to annihilating the rebels, in fact, there were only a few hundred. However, the Feng army was outside the city of Taonan, and in the first battle, it directly wiped out the main force of the rebel East Route Army, and defeated tens of thousands of Jilin troops under Meng Enyuan in the second half a month. After the battle of Xu Lanzhou in Heilongjiang, the city was surrendered, and Ba Ying's forehead became the office of the subordinates. The Feng army's ability to fight and dare to fight has long been famous, and even the Japanese army will not be easily provoked.

In contrast, although Zhang Xun captured the city of Nanjing in the Battle of Kwai Chou, he was only faced with a group of revolutionary troops who were at an absolute disadvantage, and no one was optimistic about Lu's revolutionary army. Compared with Fengjun's achievements, there is nothing to show off. With the same strength, Li Yuanhong, Zhang Guogan and others are more optimistic about the Feng army, not to mention that this time the Feng army used two divisions at one time, and the victory was already quite high.

"Zhang Xun was able to enter the central government this time, and he also made a certain compromise with other local overseers, if other local powerful factions intervened, I am afraid that things will be more complicated than imagined." Ha Hanzhang quickly asked another question.

"When it comes to the restoration of the imperial system, most of the others are still waiting, and there are not many people who really want to send troops to get involved, Zhang Xun is regarded as a gun this time." He Xiangzhi shook his head and said.

"When can Yu Shuai lead his troops south?" Zhang Guogan asked.

"Within five days, we will arrive in Beijing."

"Okay, Zhang Xun's proud days are numbered. When will Yu Shuai release a message begging for thieves? Ha Hanzhang asked.

"Yes, I can use Yuchen as the new army commander, and also serve as the Northeast Patrol Envoy." At this time, Qin Yu was the only straw that could save his life, and of course Li Yuanhong did not hesitate to make a wish.

"The marshal has a word, after getting in touch with the president, the president issued an order that the marshal can lead troops south at any time."

"Okay." Li Yuanhong was overjoyed to hear it. However, he soon said with some embarrassment, "But at present, all the telegraph offices in Beijing are controlled by Zhang Xun, and I originally sent Jin Yongyan to send a telegram to Shanghai, and if Yuchen agrees to send troops, it is necessary to intercept Jin Yongyan's telegram." Otherwise, the orders I issue will be inconsistent. ”

"That's not a problem, as long as there's a warrant from the president. The lowly had the means to send out the telegram. Mukden has its own private radio station in Beijing, and Jin Yongyan went to Shanghai, which is a bit troublesome. He Zhixiang frowned and said, "Report the problem of lowly duties to the marshal first, and see how the marshal handles it." ”

"That's very good."

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"Governor of the three eastern provinces, this Zhang Xun is really generous." Qin Yu pinched the telegram sent by Beijing, the new emperor ascended the throne, and it was inevitable to win over the powerful factions in various places, Cao Kun. Feng Guozhang, Ni Sichong and other giants have many rewards, Yan Xishan, Chen Shufan, Zhang Huaizhi, Li Houji and other people have a slightly inferior status, and they were named governors of various provinces. As for Qin Yu, no one can ignore his position in the Northeast. Although Qin Yu did not attend the previous meetings of the Overseer Army, he swept away Meng Enyuan's Jilin army. Forced Xu Lanzhou, Ba Ying'e and other local powerful factions in Heilongjiang bowed their heads for less than half a month. This strength makes Zhang Xun extremely jealous. Zhang Xun is a real person, and those who have soldiers in their hands can get his attention, even if Duan Qirui was in a high position before, but he has been separated from the army for a long time, and there is no army to be directly dispatched. In fact, Zhang Xun also looked down on him a little.

"When the new emperor ascends the throne, of course, he must reward the world." Lan Tianwei sneered, "Zhang Xun died by himself this time. ”

"I'm afraid that I haven't seen it, although Zhang Xun was tricked, I heard about the Xuzhou meeting. Several overseers and representatives present have signed, and in order to avoid being implicated, even if Zhang Xun is defeated, I am afraid that the last person will not be punished, and the punishment will not be held accountable. Qin Yu threw the telegram aside, "Zhang Xun continues to mess around like this in Beijing, and he is angry, I am afraid that he will have a better life in a few days." ”

"What is the Marshal going to do with this?" Lan Tianwei asked.

"What else can be done, Duan Qirui forced Yuan Shikai to step down and gained a lot of prestige, although the strength of the Northeast is strong, but it has been free from the Guan, as if it is independent of the Beiyang system, and now there is such a good opportunity to expand power in the central government, so it is natural to grasp it." Qin Yu said, "He Zhixiang got in touch with the president, and I took the 1st and 9th divisions to Beijing." Tomorrow will be the departure day. ”

"The marshal personally led the 2nd division, and it is not difficult to eliminate Zhang Xun, but this time I went to Beijing, and the name of rebuilding the republic fell on the marshal, and the president appointed the marshal as the chief of the army, after going to Beijing, will the marshal return to Fengtian, or will he take root directly in Beijing?" Lan Tianwei frowned again and asked, if it is because of Beijing, the development of the northeast is limited, it is not very worthwhile.

"The Northeast is where my foundation is, naturally it is impossible to lose, the vacant post in Beijing, where can I hold the power in the Northeast, but it is also necessary to expand the voice of the Northeast in the center, with the signboard of the central government, it is relatively convenient to do things in the future." Qin Yu shook his head and smiled, "The construction of the Northeast can't be left behind, the plan of the Benxi Arsenal is almost out, I can't take care of it when I go to Beijing for a while, Brother Ji Hao is here to keep an eye on it, say a thousand, say ten thousand, what restricts our Northeast Army is nothing more than weapons, if the weapons can be self-sufficient, it will be easy to expand the army." After making its own guns, plus airplanes, steel, and gunpowder, it can also be self-sufficient, and the defense industry can almost put the shelves in order. With the arsenal, there is real confidence. ”

"I still think that the arsenal is too far in front of Benxi, and if there is a conflict with Japan in the future, it will be easily affected by the war, so that production will be affected, and the situation will be much better if the arsenal is located in Mukden." Lan Tianwei had some objections with Qin Yu on the issue of the location of the arsenal.

"Yuhai, make a call to Zhao Yunpeng from the Aviation Department and ask him to come to me." Qin Yu walked to the door and shouted to Wang Yuhai in the room next to him, and then came back to continue the topic just now.

"I'm not worried about the Japanese Army, the only thing I'm worried about is the threat from the air." Qin Yu also has the same worries, but the Benxi Heavy Industry Zone has taken shape, and it will be a key city that Fengtian must defend in the future, and one more arsenal is nothing. "The Benxi Arsenal is just a step to test the water, first to solve the problem of making guns and cannons, as for the scale, after solving the problem of making guns and artillery, and then plan a larger arsenal, and the site selection problem is arranged in Fengtian City or more inland Changchun and other places."

Lan Tianwei nodded, and then suggested, "According to the lowly job's understanding of foreign arsenals, there is a tendency for the division of labor to become more and more detailed and the production is concentrated. There is no shortage of rifles on the Feng side for the time being, but the number of artillery is not large, and if the local armies in the Guannai are regarded as imaginary enemies, the firepower at present is sufficient. However, the future enemy in the northeast is Japan and Russia, and the establishment of artillery regiments is still somewhat small, so it is better to arrange the production of artillery in Benxi first. ”

"Well, you have to think about it reasonably, and then consult the relevant technicians before making a decision." Qin Yu almost agreed with Lan Tianwei's suggestion,

"Report!" Zhao Yunpeng's voice sounded outside.

"Come in."

"Marshal, Chief of Staff!" Zhao Yunpeng said hello to each other.

"I plan to build an arsenal in Benxi, with the current scale of construction in Mukden City, the Japanese army wants to take Benxi City, it is not possible to achieve it overnight, the staff headquarters has already considered the threat of the Japanese ground forces. However, in the face of the future threat of the Japanese army in the air, the chief of staff and I both believed that we had to guard against it. The Aviation Department has also been discussing how to defend against the threat of Japanese bombers for some time. Qin Yu asked, at this time, the Japanese army still had not yet formed an air force, so the aviation department set itself up as an imaginary enemy and conducted some air exercises. (To be continued......)