"Smack...... It's too much to deceive people" A telegram was slapped on the table angrily by Duan Qirui, and then Duan Qirui leaned back on the Taishi's chair and didn't speak.

Duan Qirui's cronies Liang Shiyi, Duan Zhigui, Zhang Zongxiang, Lu Zongyu, Xu Shuzheng, Zeng Yujun, and Wang Yitang were also in the study at the moment, and their eyes were all looking at Duan Qirui. Among them, Xu Shuzheng rushed back from the front line in Xuzhou, and he knew Duan Qirui's character very well, so he was the first to speak: "Duan Gong, the southern side does have to make inches, but the current situation, we can't afford to toss it anyway." ”

Duan Qirui sighed lightly, straightened his waist and said, "But if you look at this condition and punish the restorationists, Liang Shiyi will no longer be able to stay in the country." Li Yuanhong will be the president of the north, Xiong Xiling will be the premier of the cabinet, and Liang Qichao will be the chief financial officer. What is even more ridiculous is that there is actually a regional government represented by a national government. So what else can we have? What else is left in the center? ”

Everyone looked at each other and smiled bitterly, Duan Qirui's questioning really didn't know how to answer.

Duan Qirui sighed after venting for a while and said: "Everyone still has to worry about Yuan Gong's funeral, now that we are in Beiyang, it has reached the most dangerous moment, and if we don't work together, then we will have no skills to go back." Go back, all of you, and leave me alone. ”

Everyone knew that in the final analysis, Duan Qirui had to make his own decision, so they all got up and said goodbye, but Xu Shuzheng didn't get up.

After a while, Duan Qirui slowly said to Xu Shuzheng: "Another Zheng, Yuan Gong is dead, Hua Fu is also defeated, I can't count on anyone else, only you can ask, if you are me, how will you deal with this situation now?" ”

Xu Shuzheng stood up at this time, paced a few steps and said, "Zhiquan Gong, we might as well accept all the requests from the south, the current situation is that we need more time than them to regain our strength." If we continue to toss, we will really have no hope in Beiyang. ”

Duan Qirui nodded in agreement: "Then what should I do?" At present, the important fiscal and tax areas are all in the south, even if we blindly delay, we may not be able to turn the tables! ”

Xu Shuzheng thought for a while and said: "Let's just let him Li Yuanhong be the president, and the prime minister of the cabinet will also give him Xiong Xiling, so that the rest is their own trouble." But we must control the Congress, and we are already in contact with the Japanese side, and they promised that if we declare our entry into the war, he will provide us with loans and equipment to help us train our army for war. And once these elite participating armies have been trained, and then they have the opportunity to kill each other, we can go south to clean them up and finally complete the unification. ”

"Japan?" Duan Qirui couldn't help but hesitate, it was just that others didn't know, but he Duan Qirui knew very well that in the matter of Lao Yuan's downfall, the role played by the Japanese was not very glorious. These Oriental dwarfs are bent on dragging Beiyang back and making it impossible to complete the reunification of the country. And now it seems that even if they talked to Xu Shuzheng about the plan to join the war, it is just to speed up the division of China, but who should they find if they don't cooperate with them? The European war has been fought for two years, and the traditional powers have long been unable to interfere in China's internal affairs.

Thinking of this, Duan Qirui could only acquiesce, but he still couldn't help but sigh: "Seeking skin with the tiger, seeking skin with the tiger!" ”

Duan Qirui finally nodded, and the day when Li Yuanhong finally entered Beijing was also set for April 29, which is said to be an auspicious day for the zodiac.

On 18 April, the "Nanjing Armistice Agreement" was formally signed at the Nanjing Military Administration Commission, and it was immediately reported, because this agreement eventually led to the emergence of the situation of division between the north and the south, so the agreement is also called the "agreement between the north and the south" by historians.

Since the big cake of Beiyang is divided, the small cake of the south will be much better next.

Cai's condition is getting more and more serious, but the complicated situation in Sichuan makes it impossible for him to get out for treatment. And Wang Zhenyu didn't know what kind of psychology he had, so he took the initiative to ask for the establishment of a military government for the protection of the country in the southwest, and said that he would never get involved in the southwest territory. Seeing that Wang Zhenyu had such an attitude, Cai Yi naturally thanked him.

On the one hand, Wang Zhenyu began to mobilize four divisions of troops to be stationed in Hangzhou and Chaozhou, threatening Sun Wen and others militarily; On the other hand, he actively contacted Sun Wen and actively expressed his strong desire to form a coalition government.

One faction led by Chen Jiongming, advocating the establishment of a coalition government, and the other faction led by Hu Hanmin opposed it. At this time, Sun Yat-sen had arrived in the Shanghai Concession with his wife Song Qingling, but he didn't know what to do?

On April 18, after the armistice agreement was signed, Wang Zhenyu and his wife Ye Ziwen went to Shanghai, but he did not plan to meet Sun Yat-sen directly, but first to meet another veteran magnate of the League, Huang Xing.

Huang Xing basically disappeared from this historical record, as if the failure of the Second Revolution made the veteran of the Xinhai Revolution, the giant of the League, see through the red dust from then on. But in fact, Huang Xing participated in the Protectorate War, but this time because of many reasons such as his body, he was not able to fight on the battlefield as always, but he was still silently contributing his liliang, including making money for the Protector Army, and his eldest son Huang Yiou even participated in the operation to cover Cai Yi's escape.

Due to the successive military victories, Huang Xing was also invited back from the United States in advance by Wang Zhenyu. And now to deal with the Chinese Revolutionary Party, it is necessary to rely on the prestige of Huang Xing, although in reality Huang Xing is not a member of the party (he refused to join the party because he was unwilling to take the oath as Sun Yat-sen demanded).

Huang Xing's residence was arranged by Du Yuesheng personally, and he lived directly in the Du Mansion, and the security was also at the highest level, and Du Yuesheng and Wang Yaqiao both sent special personnel to protect him. Although Yuan Shikai died, Wang Zhenyu felt that many assassinations against revolutionaries were not necessarily done by Yuan Shikai, for example, Chen Qimei was done by Wang Yaqiao under his command, but the political needs were blamed on the old Yuan who was almost dying. Hasn't Song Jiaoren's case always been unsolved? Therefore, if you can't keep it, there will be any revolutionary youth who is not open-minded and will solve Huang Xing, a revolutionary veteran, as a traitor, and then say that the Beiyang government did it.

The moment Wang Zhenyu saw Huang Xing, he did not have any arrogant actions, but respectfully gave Huang Xing a standard military salute, and the years seemed to have returned to the Hanyang front line where the artillery was rumbling, and the officer on duty of the first brigade of the Hunan Army was saluting Commander-in-Chief Huang who was reviewing the whole army.

Huang Xing saw that his old subordinate also became excited, and he grabbed Wang Zhenyu's hand and said: "Wenzheng, Wenzheng, good, good, you are giving us Hunan people a long face." ”

Wang Zhenyu said very modestly: "It is also a fluke to be humble, and this time it is Yuan Shikai who has committed suicide and provoked the anger of the heavens." ”

Huang Xing waved his hand and said: "What is a lowly position, I am now a cloth cloth, and you are a handsome party in the six provinces, if you really miss the old feelings, just call me a teacher, and I Huang Keqiang will be ashamed to accept it with a thick skin." If there is anything that needs to be done for you, just ask. ”

Wang Zhenyu nodded and said, "Okay, teacher, I invite you to come this time, mainly in the hope that with your help, peace in the south can be achieved as soon as possible and economic development can be restored." ”

Huang Xing is not a fool, he thought for a while and said: "I have also met Zhantang (Hu Hanmin) and Jingcun (Chen Jiongming) respectively in the past few days, I heard that you intend to form a national government in the south, I don't know if it is true or not?" ”

Wang Zhenyu said with a smile: "Teacher, you know me, I am a real person, how can this matter be fake, not only to form a national government, I even hope to form a united political party to govern." So as to integrate the nine provinces of Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian into one, and seek common development and the future, but it is easier said than done, which is first of all a question of who dominates, and cooperation is by no means a matter of one or two people, and someone needs to match it. It's like getting married, you always have to be introduced by a matchmaker. So I hope that you, the teacher, will serve as the matchmaker to facilitate this marriage, of course, I will not make it difficult for the teacher, and in terms of specific conditions, I can let as much as possible, and there is only one goal, to revive China. ”

"Reviving China?" Huang Xing was moved, and his thinking seemed to return to the days when he had just started to engage in revolution.

Huang Xing stood up, walked back and forth in the living room for a few steps, and said, "Okay, I'll take this matter on my shoulder, I'll go see Sun Wen tomorrow to talk about this matter." But Wenzheng, it's not a trivial matter for the two parties to merge into **, you still have to come up with a specific plan, and see how big the gap is between everyone, so let's talk about it! ”

Wang Zhenyu nodded with a smile and said, "Don't worry, this teacher, I already have a plan, if Mr. Sun has this heart, we can even invite him to the Du Mansion to talk slowly." ”

Huang Xing nodded and said: "That's good, that's good, I've not been in good health recently, I can do something for this country, now I think back to the beginning of the revolution is indeed more destruction and less construction." Now that Yuan Shikai has fallen, it is time for us to build. ”

Wang Zhenyu roughly remembered that Huang Xing, like Sun Yat-sen, died of liver disease, so he also specially instructed Du Yuesheng to arrange a foreign doctor for Huang Xing to examine his body, in order to prolong his life as much as possible. It's just that after the examination, the foreign doctor said that it was difficult to cure it and could only recuperate, and Wang Zhenyu was also very sorry for this.

"Then there is you, Mr. Lao......"