The "fisherman" in the north holds the male soldiers and waits for the price to sell, and the old fox in the south looks like he is powerless and powerless by the party, but unless the party abolishes him, no one can move, there are Cai Jimin and Wu Zhaolin, and the actual control of the eight towns is still in his hands (). Sun Wu and other party members are in full swing with the great merit of the first righteousness, and occupying the righteousness can at least support the abdication of the Manchu Dynasty.

As for himself, Yang Qiu stood at the window, looking at the slightly messy recruit phalanx in the school field, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a smile, because he was also growing rapidly at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people!

After a night of persuasion, more than 700 of the captives sent back by Wushengguan promised to do the same, and the first batch of 3,000 recruits recruited by the two towns was also completed. In order to maintain the essence of the troops, all the soldiers recruited this time were the children of workers and peasants, and all the party, gangs, and vagrants who were the favorite of the party members, were excluded. Compared with the complex old troops, these undecided young people are the future of this group, they need to be scattered with the soldiers for a month of intensive training from now on, the training plan and program are the new training syllabus compiled by him, in addition to the need to repeatedly receive ideological education, these important things will be arranged by Xiao Anguo himself.

After He Xi grabbed the merit, Yue Peng was not willing to send good news, first stopped the two battalions of the 41st standard that were returning to Wuchang overnight and persuaded most of them to join the right army, and then rushed to Hanchuan non-stop to forcibly absorb the righteous army of the Liang brothers, and after eliminating the restless factor, they and the 41st standard veterans were scattered and reorganized into three battalions, and they have now acted separately from Hu Laosan.

The biggest problem in front of him is not a few Qing army patrol camps in Xiangyang and other places, but Liu Ying in Jingshan! In the parallel world, the Liu Ying brothers grew rapidly in the name of the deputy governor of the Hubei military government, swept across both sides of the Han River, and participated in the second revolution.

Song Ziqing was not so fast, it took four days to reach Chongqing along the river, and it would be the end of the month to catch up with the Sichuan and Hubei troops. Now what worries him the most is the ordnance, guarding Hanyang but not having enough armaments, it may make people laugh when they say it.

Originally, there were about 9,000 Hanyang-made in reserve, but Yue Peng took away 3,000, and nearly 4,000 were also needed in the school yard below. The ammunition is slightly better, and Shen Shukai has temporarily alleviated the problem of material shortage after increasing procurement efforts, and the output of pointed bullets has gradually increased as workers become proficient, and the process and quality have also been improved under Su Hongsheng's personal supervision. After several days of testing, yesterday the grenade began to enter the manufacturing stage. As for artillery, I don't want to, even if Germany can deliver another batch, it won't be able to muster so many artillery.

Now He Xi guards Wusheng Pass, and Xiongguan is supplemented by the screen machine gun, as long as Beiyang continues to work and does not contribute, there is no problem in continuing to guard for half a month. This means that the most needed time has finally been fought for after a continuous, even breathless, deployment.

Make good use of this time, quickly take the area north of the Yangtze River that occupies most of Hubei, it is best to take Chongqing and Guang'an as planned, you have a good base, if the German side can reply and complete the deal as soon as possible, the closed future can reveal a glimmer of light!

But in the end, what kind of path can you take this group on? He wasn't sure about that yet. The north is eyeing the tiger, the old fox is not very elegant, Sun Wu will not be willing to be plucked away, not to mention the big names such as Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren who are coming! But they're probably having a headache for themselves right now, right?

Yang Qiu realized that he could unconsciously pry into the overall situation of the world a little, but he quickly gave up continuing his illusions, put down the curtain and picked up the long-conceived plan for the crash course for non-commissioned officers of the National Defense Army.

The Army's crash course for non-commissioned officers was a very common means of training grassroots officers and technical soldiers in large quantities in the early Republic of China, and the expansion of the army was already unstoppable, and the growing shortage of grassroots officers made him have to speed up the establishment of a crash course.

Fortunately, compared to starting empty-handed, Hubei has too many advantages. The Hubei Armed Forces Academy, which has trained Wu Luzhen and other officers and is very famous throughout the country, is the best resource. Since most of the students in the Wuchang Shouyi School participated in the revolution, the teachers and instructors belonged to the old officer system in the eyes of the party, and all of them lost their livelihood for a while. After he learned about it, he immediately asked Zhang Wenjing to win over most of them with a high salary of 100 oceans per person per month, and at this moment all these people had arrived in Hanyang and were arranged in the newly built Ink Lake Qili Temple station, and now what needs to be decided is to concentrate on those subjects ().

Command, artillery, surveying and mapping, engineering troops, and battlefield medical care are the most urgently needed at present, and there are no instructors for heavy machine guns who want to start classes, let alone chasers and the like.

The communication class will be taught by radio operators from the naval battalion, and the government training class is not for the moment, he doesn't want to be controlled by the constitutionalists for the rest of his life, but this class can't be placed in Hanyang, otherwise Tang Hualong will definitely be able to guess that he is moving to get rid of them. After he signed the preparatory documents for the National Defense Army Non-commissioned Officer Crash Course, Zhang Wenjing happened to come in and saw him, and his brows deepened a little: "Commander, I really don't have any money to toss me like this again!" ”

Zhang Wenjing's hair has been so worried that he can't grow it recently, and he has indeed made a fortune on the night of the first righteousness, but recently he has spent money like running water, doubling his salary, expanding the troops, settling-in expenses for recruits, purchasing urgently needed raw materials and the operating expenses of the Hanyang factory that has just begun, these alone have consumed nearly three million, and if Traun agrees to sell arms, it will be a large sum, and the pressure on him, the logistics chief, will gradually increase the pressure on his logistics chief as the money bag is deflated.

What's more, at the moment, it is completely only input and not output!

The northward advance has just begun, and there is still a battle against the elite Beiyang, and the most optimistic estimate is that the taxes in the control area will not be collected until three or four months later. The customs side also can't collect money for the time being, and the foreigners are now united and say that they can't restart the distribution of customs money until the end of the war, so he has dreamed of digging up a golden doll again these days.

In addition to paying taxes, he now hopes that Song Ziqing can send good news as soon as possible, and then use Chongqing as a base to develop to the western Sichuan Plain, where the essence of the whole Sichuan is. sugar in Zizhong and Neijiang; grain in Luzhou and Yibin; There is also a ziliujing salt area comparable to Yangzhou, and the total military expenditure of the Sichuan warlords in the parallel world in 1916 was only 6 million, but ten years later it reached a terrifying 43.6 million! In ten years, it has increased sevenfold, almost all of which rely on artesian wells. In addition, a big fortune that can be remembered is the 8 million treasury silver in the Chengdu Domain, but these money are difficult to get so far.

It is not known whether Germany will agree, and the artesian well cannot bypass Rong County, which has become independent under the control of the party, and it is still impossible to get around the robe brother and the party members when it enters Chengdu! Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be a little frustrated, why is the road so difficult? Are you too soft-hearted? Is it better to go to war directly with the party? For the sake of the official title that has not been fully obtained until now, is it too aggrieved to try to restrain it?

"Commander, Speaker Tang is here, and he also brought a person named Juzheng."

"Be right! It's finally back. ”

Bingwen knocked on the door and brought the news that Ju Zheng and Tan Renfeng had finally returned from Shanghai. Yang Qiu immediately stuffed the piles of appropriation documents back into the drawer, what would this few League bigwigs who developed in Hubei bring to himself?

When he walked steadily to the meeting room, Ju Zheng also held a teacup and looked curiously at the recruits who were being trained on the colonel's field, and saw that they were lined up in a neat formation, each of them was staggered for a few meters or so, and they were practicing bayonet fighting, and they shouted loudly with each knife, many of them were obviously tired and crumbling, but they were still gritting their teeth and insisting, and the officers supervising the training next to them did not say to rest, but shouted vigorously, "Soldiers should take orders and obedience as their duty", "We are the Wehrmacht", "sweat more in peacetime and shed less blood in wartime" for the people, for the country, hard training to kill the enemy" these words of encouragement.

But this passionate picture did not make him feel excited, but a little dazed. Because he didn't expect that he had just gone to Shanghai but missed the most important moment, a gunshot from the engineering battalion made the whole of China spin quickly, as a senior member of the League, Shouyi can succeed is gratifying, but the unexpected changes in the center of the whirlpool make him at a loss.

One of the biggest changes is the unexpected rise of Yang Qiu, a young man who was slandered all over the world because he became the last "loyal and brave Baturu" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and turned into a revolutionary vanguard! What the hell is going on? In order to figure out this, he didn't care about the fatigue of the journey, and immediately asked Tan Renfeng to see Li Yuanhong to persuade him to officially take over as the governor, and he dragged Tang Hualong, who had a good relationship, to the Hanyang camp, hoping to see Yang Qiu with his own eyes.

"Chenhua is late, I still hope that Mr. Juzheng, Brother Jiwu will forgive me."

Hearing the voice, Ju Zheng hurriedly got up and looked, only to see a young man in his early twenties, with a handsome appearance, a long body, and a straight military uniform, with an officer appeared at the door.

Of course, Tang Hualong wished that Yang Qiu would always be a pure soldier, and said with an affectionate smile: "Chen Hua can still come to see me and others in his busy schedule, so he should say something for my brother." ”

"Brother Jiwu is really good at talking." The corner of Yang Qiu's eyes never left the famous man in front of him, who still held the title of anti-red diehards in the second half of his life, and smiled secretly in his heart when he saw him, this person, like most party members at this moment, had not been baptized by the turbulent politics of the early Republic of China, and was far from being pampered and humiliated.

"When I was in Shanghai, I heard Dunchu mention Chenhua many times, saying that you have excellent skills, but I didn't expect that you are also proficient in the way of military training, which makes Juesheng very envious."

"Mr. Juzheng praised me, brother, I am an authentic red-topped Baturu, and a few days ago, someone assassinated me on the street and hated to eat my flesh." Yang Qiu smiled slightly, and was about to beckon the two of them to sit down, but Ju Zheng suddenly bowed.

Yang Qiu was a little surprised, and just about to reach out to help him, he had already gotten up and said: "First saved the life of the first person in Chengdu, and then rose up in accordance with the righteousness, captured Ruicheng, arrested Zhang Biao, fought Liujiamiao for the first time, flew to block Wusheng Pass, and bought time for consolidating the revolutionary achievements when the dragons in Wuchang were leaderless!" This kind of merit is not to mention a bow, even if you want to kneel three times and bow nine times, it is also deserved. ”

"Mr. Ju Zheng has won the award, I said when I swore an oath in Hankou the day before yesterday, soldiers should obey orders to protect their families and defend the country, but." Yang Qiu secretly felt strange in his heart, what did this Ju Zheng want to do by lifting himself so high? Hurriedly glanced at Tang Hualong: "Although the governor of Wuchang has been electrified to the whole country, he has not ordered it for a long time, and my brother is anxious so I have to take action." ”

"yes." Tang Hualong took the opportunity to say: "Since the first uprising, the soldiers have not practiced, they will not obey orders, some people are still domineering and fighting for power and profit, knowing that the position of the governor has been decided, I am still lucky, if it is not for Chenhua to take the initiative to attack, I am afraid!" Hearing him sigh deliberately, Zhang Wenjing was secretly amused, who didn't know that it was these constitutionalists who wanted to fight for power the most, if it weren't for the fact that Li Yuanhong, the governor, had not yet been completely decided, and the temptation of most of the Hubei civil power at the beginning of the northward advance, I am afraid that he would not have come to support the thigh of the Right Route Army.

Yang Qiu also added fire and continued: "The Manchu Dynasty was rampant with unscrupulous foreigners, Chen Hua was born in Hubei, and he didn't want his hometown to continue to be chaotic, so he conformed to the righteousness and led his brothers to join the revolution, but if he continued like this, the hearts of the soldiers were probably cold." ”

The words of the two of you made Ju Zheng frown secretly. Although he has just come back, it is not that he does not know anything about this side of the matter, Sun Wu and Zhang Zhenwu are very dissatisfied with Li Yuanhong's appointment as the governor, and have been looking for opportunities to replace him, but they have not implemented it because of the lack of prestige, so the words of the two are not so much to spit bitterness, but to warn the governor that it will cause a big change.

Of course, Ju Zheng doesn't want to change Li Yuanhong, no matter what, he is also from Hubei, and he doesn't want to look at the faces of others after the success of the first uprising, not to mention that there is another careful thought in this, that is, whether the alliance will be able to regain the position of leading the heroes!

In fact, Yang Qiu's words just now were also deliberately stirring up this fire in his heart, in the parallel world, Ju Zheng was fooled by Tang Hualong to get out the "Wuchang Military Government Organization Regulations", this kind of regulations to strengthen the real power of the governor and squeeze out the Communist Association and the Society, in addition to being too politically immature, also wanted to let the Alliance regain its initiative. In fact, he almost succeeded in the end, but unfortunately Huang Xing was not angry, and his defeat was like a mountain, which led to the final alliance having to go to Shanghai and Hubei to compete for the right to speak in the country. So seeing that his face was cloudy, he continued to fanned the wind and said: "It would be good if Mr. Sun was in the country, so that we could raise him as the president, and Li Du would be the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses, and then use Hubei to control the whole country, and call on people with lofty ideals to rise up and completely overthrow the Manchu Dynasty, and save others from always making irresponsible remarks about the wrong name." ”

Ju Zheng's heart was pounding when he heard this, and he pretended to be calm and asked, "Chen Hua wants to nominate Mr. Sun as the president?!" ”

Yang Qiu smiled slightly, this time Wuchang Shouyi almost had nothing to do with the alliance, and now that he threw out such a big sweetness, Ju Zheng should be able to understand it even if he has no experience, and nodded: "Except for Mr. Sun, who else in the world can take on this important responsibility?" If someone wants to usurp it, hum! Deliberately sneered twice: "First of all, I have to ask my brother about the tens of thousands of guns in my hand!" ”

Tens of thousands of guns?! Zhang Wenjing's stomach was about to menstruate next to him, and at this moment, the army on the right was less than 10,000 guns, and when it came to the commander's mouth, it became tens of thousands, which was faster than the planes that were just beginning to prevail in Europe. However, he also really admires Yang Qiu, as long as he can drag Juzheng and tie the big tree of the Alliance, the future problems of the Right Route Army that he is worried about will be solved completely, and if he does it well, he may be able to become an army directly under the Central Committee ()!

Ju Zheng was even more excited, after Huang Huagang, Sun Wen ran away, and Huang Xing was discouraged and avoided living in Hong Kong, which made the power of the League decline and gradually lost the right to speak in the leadership of the group. For example, this time the Wuchang Shouyi is all the credit of the Society and the Communist Association, and now even the military power is controlled by them, who wants to listen to the Alliance after a long time? Originally, the alliance was very dissatisfied with the split, and always thought that the whole country should have one voice, and now Hubei took the lead in the uprising, and also took over all the elite eight towns and 21 mixed associations of the southern army, making the alliance even more absolutely weak, which has a great impact on whether it can take power in the future, so Yang Qiu is now equivalent to throwing a big hydrangea! If Yang Qiu and his National Defense Right Route Army were pulled under the name of the Alliance, wouldn't that be true!

This time, his heart was really a little confused, and he even wanted to immediately introduce him to the club by cutting off the head of the chicken and burning yellow paper with Yang Qiu, and forced the surprise to ask: "Chenhua, I heard that you don't seem to have joined any party, why do you want to promote Mr. Sun as the president?" ”

Yang Qiu put on the posture of the most fanatical fan, got up and waved his hand vigorously and said: "Don't hide it, Mr. Chenhua's greatest admiration in his life is Mr. Sun's perseverance in order to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and revitalize China. ”

"Chen Hua really wants to see Mr. Sun?"

"Of course! Chen Hua still wanted to sit down and listen to Mr. Sun's teachings, but unfortunately the Manchu Qing Dynasty had not been overthrown at this moment, only I Hubei was the first to recover, and I didn't know it! Isn't there a chance? ”

Ju Zheng finally couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and said with a smile: "Chenhua doesn't have to be a pity, Mr. Sun has already set off from the United States, and he is going to visit Britain and France to seek support first, and then he should come back after a while, then." ”

"Is this true? Is Mr. Sun coming back? Yang Qiu pretended to be surprised, and after interrupting, he waved his arms fiercely and said, "Great! As long as Mr. comes back, then we will invite him to Hubei, the thoroughfare of the nine provinces, which is a good place to rule the whole country! With the prosperity of Hubei, as long as Hunan and Sichuan are stabilized, we will definitely be able to take the lead in launching the National Northern Expedition and completely overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty! ”

Tang Hualong listened to the little stars in his eyes, he never thought about competing for the president or anything, but if he could position Wuchang as the capital of the country ()! Doesn't that mean? Hurriedly echoed: "Chen Hua's words are good, since the revolution is over, there should be some new atmosphere!" There are many remnants of the Tartars in the north, which is not suitable for the capital. The thoroughfare of the nine provinces of Wuchang is also a well-known place of wealth in the world, as well as the output of Hanyang ordnance, so why worry about the big thing! ”

Yang Qiu smiled secretly in his heart, if Beiyang is not removed, how can he come to the center? But now he really wants a big backer, so he also said excitedly: "Brother Jiwu is really insightful! Since the revolution has begun, there should be a new atmosphere, and since Mr. Sun is coming back, then I think it is necessary to immediately electrify the whole country, and make Li Du temporarily the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses of the world, to control the revolutionary forces of the whole country, and to make overall plans to achieve the goal of the first uprising to promote the whole country, and finally overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty. ”

Seeing Ju Zheng nodding vigorously, Tang Hualong immediately took out the "Wuchang Military Government Organization Regulations" that he asked Huang Zhongkai to draft, Yang Qiu was slightly cold after reading it, if this regulation is passed, it will indicate that the old fox in the south has officially turned over! However, he could not hesitate now, so in addition to proposing to join the Yangxia Military Government and the National Defense Right Route Army, he also proposed to change the name to the "Regulations on the Organization of the Hubei Military Government of the Republic of China," which would be more justifiable.

Ju Zheng was naturally willing to change this name, the regional concept of Chinese literati was deeply rooted, not to mention that he also wanted to seize the good opportunity of Yang Qiu and his right army to let the League regain the right to speak in the country.

After the three of them finished talking, Ju Zheng thought for a while and said: "Chenhua, it's really not a way for the Right Route Army and Wuchang to communicate with each other, tomorrow Li Du will hold a ceremony to worship the heavens to tell the world and restore the Han Dynasty, you must come to attend." ”

Yang Qiu smiled and glanced at Zhang Wenjing, who was sitting with him, who immediately handed over a confession: "Mr. Juzheng, Speaker, you are all the pillars of the junta, this matter has to be decided by our commander, if you can't guarantee the safety of the commander, the right army will never pass the river!" ”

Tang Hualong took it first, and after reading it, he was even more overjoyed, this is simply a great gift! So deliberately slammed the table: "Nonsense!" It's nonsense! What is the difference between such a despicable act and the bandit Qingpi! ”

Ju Zheng also frowned secretly after reading it, he didn't expect that there were so many things here, Jiang Yiwu and Zhang Zhenwu were also wrong, how could they appoint a scoundrel like Jin Leprosy? If it was because of this incident that Yang Qiu was also estranged from the Alliance, wouldn't the previous discussion be in vain? So he also said: "Chenhua rest assured, the affairs of Sichuan have already been told to me at the beginning of that day, and my alliance will definitely return you a clean and fair ()." ”

Yang Qiu smiled slightly: "Mr. De, I can finally throw away the hat of the Manchu dog thief, brother." It's just that this golden leprosy wantonly slaughtered the people of Hankou and destroyed more than 1,000 merchants in the name of revolution, which is really an unforgivable crime! A gang gangster dares to be so blatant, and there are explosives available! I wonder who gave him the guts and the armament? ”

Ju Zheng and Tang Hualong understood what he meant, this confession was a big gift, as long as Sun Wu and Zhang Zhenwu and others were blocked by this matter, then it would be no difficult for this regulation to pass, so they immediately promised: "Chen Hua rest assured, you can cross the river, and Jiwu and I can guarantee that there will be no more such incidents." ”

"That brother is here waiting for news from the two of you." After Yang Qiu picked up the cup and toasted again, the corners of his mouth suddenly hooked and asked: "By the way, there is still one more thing to trouble the two of you, now my right army is in short supply of weapons, I don't know." ”

"Chen Hua can send someone to Chuwangtai tomorrow to get the guns and ordnance he needs, if anyone stops him, then don't blame me for being unkind!" Ju Zheng had already thought about it before this matter came, and after he finished speaking, he acted as a problem: "It's just that I also know that Hankou is the main battlefield, but Wuchang always has to give Li Du a face, Chenhua, can you reduce it appropriately?" ”

"Mr. said so, how can Yang Qiu not follow the reason." After speaking, he turned his head and said solemnly: "Wenjing, you will send someone to take 10,000 Hanyang, 1.5 million bullets, 30 cannons, shells, gunpowder and some military supplies." Yang Qiu pretended to suddenly remember to pat his forehead and looked at Tang Hualong: "I almost forgot, there are still 300,000 military assets and a hundred skilled artillerymen!" ”

"Huh."

Tang Hualong almost sprayed Ju Zheng in the face with a sip of tea, but he needed Yang Qiu now, so in the end, he could only grit his teeth and promise to allocate funds as soon as the military government was completely decided