Chapter 151: Aftermath (1)

Lu Rongting surrendered, and the news quickly spread throughout the land of Shenzhou like lightning.

Lu Rongting made this decision to humiliate his military career when he was unable to advance or retreat, and his offense and defense were lost. However, before the official surrender, this veteran who has been in the army for more than 40 years proposed that he must meet his enemy Wang Zhenyu.

Wang Zhenyu readily agreed to this request, in fact, Wang Zhenyu was also very happy to see Lu Rongting, a famous warlord of the Republic of China in history.

The meeting place is in Baipeng Town, which is very close to the Line of Actual Control between the two sides, and placing the meeting place here not only reflects Wang Zhenyu's attitude, but also gives Lu Rongting enough face.

As the losing side, Lu Rongting, Mo Rongxin and others arrived at the meeting place half an hour earlier than originally scheduled. The Xiangxi Army was responsible for guarding the venue by Xu Yuanquan's guard company of the 1st Division, and they carefully inspected every participant. According to Wang Zhenyu's instructions, these Gui soldiers can bring pistols into the venue, but they cannot bring bullets, which can be regarded as the greatest respect for the loser. In fact, these Gui soldiers were indeed very grateful for this move, and many years later, Lu Rongting's personal memoirs recorded a very human detail: this is a respect for an old soldier.

Wang Zhenyu arrived at the venue on a white horse wearing a blue lieutenant general's dress issued by the central government of the Republic of China on this day, accompanied by Xu Yuanquan, commander of the First Division, Wan Yaohuang, chief of staff, Li Zongren, commander of the Third Division, and Wang Zhenbang, the fifth brother of the secretary who was inseparable from him.

When the young Wang Zhenyu was the first to stride into the venue, the generals of the old Gui army, including Lu Laoshuai, were deeply shocked by his youth. Especially for Lu Rongting, the general of the defeated army, the actual age of the victor in front of him with a bit of atmosphere is almost the same as his son, seeing him is like seeing himself back then, in the glorious years of serving in the army under Feng Laoshuai, he is really old.

"Wang Dashuai is really young and promising, Lu Mou was not wronged, seeing your younger generation, I knew that we old guys should have retired a long time ago. This is really the Yangtze River back Lang pushing the front Lang, you can't accept the old man. Lu Rongting looked at Wang Zhenyu and couldn't help but sigh.

Wang Zhenyu said with a smile, grabbed Lu Rongting's hand and said, "Lu Shuai, your past, we juniors are all familiar with it. Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, you and all of you have been active in the forefront of the fight against the French colonizers and the defense of the frontier. We have made a great contribution to our country, our nation. Today, although we have conflicts and frictions because of different political views, the historical achievements of you and all of you here cannot be erased. It is an honor for the younger generation to be able to meet an old hero like you today. ”

After a period of greetings, everyone took their seats.

Since it was a surrender, Lu Rongting naturally wanted to speak first: "This battle of Liuzhou was a reckless act by a certain Lu, and the officers and soldiers under his command were just acting on orders. Under the fires of war, it is inevitable to be killed and wounded, and now our army has decided to return to your department, and all faults will be borne by Lu, a sinner, I hope that Wang Dashuai and your generals will not be angry with the officers and soldiers below. ”

Wang Zhenyu smiled after hearing this: "Lu Laoshuai loves his subordinates very much, in fact, this matter, if you don't fight, you don't know each other, you are just implementing Beijing's intentions, and we just hope that the country will develop peacefully." In the final analysis, Xiangshang is the same, but the path is different. As for the officers and soldiers of your department, the soldiers carrying guns and eating food are just obeying orders, and they are not to blame for the past, but I just hope that everyone can continue to cooperate sincerely in the future to jointly build Guangxi and benefit the people. ”……

In the end, the two sides reached an agreement, and more than 20,000 remnants of the Gui army handed over their weapons to the Xiangxi army, and then waited for further arrangements from the Xiangxi army.

As for Lu Rongting, who served as an honorary member of the Guangxi Provincial Assembly for life, according to his personal wishes, he retired on the same day. After handing over the army, the rest of the officials cooperated with the Xiangxi Army to complete the takeover of the existing territory, and then returned to serve as members of the provincial assembly. This is already Wang Zhenyu's acceptable bottom line, he did not kill all these bandit-born leaders, it is already a violation of the traditional rules of political struggle.

When Zuihou was about to say goodbye, Lu Rongting still held Wang Zhenyu's hand with concern and asked: "I am also a person who has gone to the official body, so I will recklessly call Wang Dashuai you virtuous nephew, how do you plan to arrange these armies, Dashuai, if it is dismantled, Lu is afraid that these 100,000 mountains will be full of bandits in the future." Our Guangxi land is barren, the property is insufficient, not afraid of the jokes of the virtuous nephew, when Lu was dismissed, he also went into the mountains as a bandit. So this matter, the virtuous nephew still has to hand it over to Lu. ”

Wang Zhenyu really felt Lu Rongting's sincerity at this moment, and he also replied very humbly: "According to your age and seniority in the army, your virtuous nephew is the blessing of my Wang Zhenyu, and I will respect you as Uncle Lu in the future." Please rest assured Uncle Lu about the army, I have no intention of abolishing these people, they will be incorporated into a new army and will be responsible for the transportation construction of Guangxi in the future. I plan to build a railway from Xiangxi to Liuzhou, come to the guests, and if possible in the future, connect Nanning, and the purpose is to develop industry in Guangxi. ”

Lu Rongting praised him again and again after hearing this, and Wang Zhenyu continued: "Our Xiangxi Army will not be a regional army from that point of view, and you have also seen it, including the brother Li Delin, the commander of the Third Division, who is from Guilin, Guangxi. Therefore, building Guangxi, developing Guangxi, and benefiting the people of Bagui are also what we must do, but I hope that more young talents in Guangxi can come out and work together with us for this goal. Especially Uncle Lu, your child, I hope to play a leading role, and work hard with me Wang Zhenyu for tomorrow, for the country, and for the nation. Look at this favor, can you help me this virtuous nephew. ”

Lu Rongting has never seen a person with such a big heart as Wang Zhenyu, and those who come here are all intersecting interests, and it is good not to fall into the current situation. According to his own plan, since he has lost power, the whole family will stay in Wuming honestly, and don't do anything that makes the victor unhappy, so as not to cause trouble and be liquidated in the future. But the sincerity contained in Wang Zhenyu's words just now touched him, Lu Rongting is a lot older, but Wang Zhenyu was moved to tears and said: "Okay, good, I, Lu Rongting, will let the children of my family and my relatives come out when I go back, so that they can work for your nephew, and the future of the Lu family will depend on you in the future......

Lu Rongting's matter spread quickly, and even this scourge that launched the crusade was gently let go by Wang Zhenyu, so the rest of the people were naturally not a problem. Under the guidance of this atmosphere, the surrender of the entire Gui army became very smooth.

A few days later, Song Xianfu, the chief captain of the Xiangxi Railway Corps, also rushed to Liuzhou with a large number of officers of the Railway Corps. According to Wang Zhenyu's meaning, Song Xianfu will serve as the commander of the Corps at the headquarters of the Xianggui Railway Construction Corps in Liuzhou City, and there will be three corps under the Corps, namely the Xiangxi Corps, the Guibei Corps and the Guinan Corps. Railway construction projects will also be launched, and there are currently three Jihua:

The first is to build railways from Luyang to Phoenix, Luyang to Yuanzhou and Xuzhou;

the second is to build a railway from the passage to Liuzhou and Laibin;

The third is to build a railway from Nanning to Laibin.

As for the funding gap, Wang Zhenyu already intends to solve it through three aspects:

The first is to rush back to An Jiang as soon as possible and instruct the three major banks to issue currency in their own jurisdictions, so that they can better control the economic development in their own jurisdictions and at the same time solve some of the government's financial difficulties;

The second was to borrow money from Belgians and Luxembourgers, and to use the railroad as collateral to obtain huge loans.

The third and most difficult point is to carry out political and economic reforms in Guangxi and find a way to get money from this Bagui land.

Wang Zhenyu's own analysis showed that he had raised 100 million yuan in Hongjiang at the beginning, and Bagui had no money, so it should still be possible to raise 200 million yuan within a province.

But how should this new plate in Guangxi be operated? In this place where the people's conditions and social conditions are more complicated than those in Xiangxi, what kind of system should I use? Do you continue to follow the model of Xiangxi County governing the county, or simply establish a military ** system here? But no matter how you toss, you won't be able to get out for a while, and An Jiang is also a bunch of things to wait for yourself to implement.

Wang Zhenyu suddenly remembered that he really had a lot of problems that had not been solved, and the most fatal thing was that he had not succeeded in establishing a self-operating management system in the past year, and he still had to rely on his own decision-making on large and small matters within the Xiangxi Military Group, which was a serious problem and must be solved as soon as possible. After dinner, he asked Wang Zhenbang to bring a blank piece of paper, then took out a Parker gold pen and began to write out the problems he needed to solve as soon as possible:

The first thing is to reach a reconciliation with Beijing as soon as possible, because the second revolution has ended, and if he, who is standing in the revolutionary ranks, cannot quickly clear his name, the revolutionary party will come to the door one after another, and then he will be isolated to the end; Second, although he can arm an army of 100,000 at once, it is not enough to defeat the powerful Beiyang Shili, and at the same time, he will consume his foundation over time, and it is not easy to feed 100,000 mouths.

The second thing is how to change and how to carry out Guangxi's political reform. This is a key issue, his initial plan to send troops to Guangxi was just the iron of Liuzhou Luzhai and the coal of the guests, but he tossed it down, sorry, and accidentally took down the eight guis. Except for Shen Hongying, who is still resisting stubbornly, he has basically taken full control of Guangxi, so in this case, the original Jihua will not be able to keep up with the situation.

Third, the army needs to be expanded, and the banks need to issue money, and these myriad problems must be resolved as soon as possible. According to Wang Zhenyu's line of thinking, every time a young man is recruited from Guangxi to join the army, Guangxi's social stability will increase by one point. Therefore, this must be done as soon as possible, to establish an 804 base in Liuzhou, an 805 base in Nanning, and an 806 base in Wuzhou. The existing military departments should also be upgraded and reformed, and they should not take care of all the messy things on their own heads.

As soon as these three things were written, Wang Chenhao, who was newly promoted to adjutant of major, knocked on the door and came in: "Report to the marshal, Li Zongren, the commander of the third division, and Bai Chongxi, the chief of staff, are here with the two Mr. Huang you have named to meet." ”

"Oh, please come soon" Wang Zhenyu suddenly felt that his mind had opened, because the key to governing Guangxi had come.