In the early morning of September 22, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi's troops rode into Liuzhou City. Unlike the elated Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi was a little depressed.

Li Zongren looked at the welcoming crowd around him, and comforted him softly: "Okay, Jiansheng, it is already a great achievement to be able to take Liuzhou City so easily, don't be depressed and sad about letting Shen Hongying go." ”

Bai Chongxi shook his head: "Big brother, you don't know, I think I have no last resort, but it turns out that this Shen Hongying is really a strange person." The behavior was completely unexpected by me, and instead of going south to Lu Rongting, he ran away from the north gate, which is really the biggest shame in my life. If I don't arrest this Shen Hongying back, I won't be able to get this breath down. ”

Li Zongren knew the temper of this righteous brother, shook his head and stopped talking.

The group went to the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion and visited Liu Guxiang and others who were recuperating from their injuries. According to Bai Chongxi's meaning, directly clean up Liu Guxiang and the others, lest the marshal come, and there will be another entanglement for the rule of the Liuzhou region. Li Zongren saw and heard the tragic situation, and finally couldn't make up his mind and vetoed Bai Chongxi's suggestion.

Fortunately, Liu Guxiang had already learned what had happened from Liu Zhenhuan, and this was also a ** lake, and he immediately guessed what the idea of the Marshal Wang in Xiangxi was to send troops to Guangxi. Therefore, when he saw Li and Bai entering, he expressed his willingness to lead the department (if there is still this unit) to join Wang Dashuai, in order to report Wang Dashuai's life-saving grace. Now, it's really done to convince people with virtue......

The news of the appearance of Xiangxi's troops in Liuzhou spread throughout Guangxi in just three days, and the reason was simple, Bai Chongxi sent a nationwide telegram in the name of Liu Guxiang, inviting the Xiangxi armies to enter northern Guizhou to quell Shen Hongying's rebellion. This action, which seemed redundant at the time, was later praised by Wang Zhenyu, who thought it was perfect.

While sending a telegram to the marshal, Bai Chongxi did not intend to let Shen Hongying go, how could this kind of person who dared to break away from his own calculations let him go free!

Including Li Dachao's company, the officers and men of an entire regiment were used in the pursuit operation, and the officers and men worked day and night during the operation, constantly taking small roads and running shortcuts, and as a result, although a large number of Shen Hongying's subordinates were captured, only none of Shen Hongying's family were caught. After the severe interrogation, Bai Chongxi received a news that made him even more angry, it turned out that after breaking through from the north gate, Shen Hongying played the golden cicada shell again. He asked the guards and cronies to run into the mountains, while he himself took his family around the river and chartered a boat to flee to his in-laws Mo Rongxin in Wuzhou.

When Bai Chongxi got the news, he seemed to hear the mocking voice of Shen Hongying, a guy who had never been masked. For this person who dared to insult his IQ, Bai Chongxi's anger had escalated. If the previous plan was to bring it back to justice, now it is to take it back and torture it again. (Is there a difference in the end result?) On September 26, Wang Zhenyu, who had marched more than 400 miles on horseback, finally arrived in Liuzhou under the escort of the cavalry of the Long Yunfei Division of the Mobile Brigade of the Jingzhou Security Detachment. Almost at the same time, Lu Rongting, in the name of the governor of the Guangxi Military Government, sent a nationwide telegram to Wang Zhenyu, ordering Wang Zhenyu's troops to withdraw from Guangxi within 10 days, otherwise he would raise the whole province's army to defeat Wang's rebel army......

As the situation in the southeast became more and more stable, Wang Zhenyu finally attracted the attention of Yuan Shikai, the president of Beijing.

Zhongnanhai Juren Hall, fat Yuan Shikai was sitting on a big chair listening to the secretary read Lu Rongting's telegram. said a word to Yang Du: "This is called Wang Zhenyu, I seem to have heard it somewhere!" Well, I think about it, it's been more than a year, and I've listened to Keding stand up. ”

Yang Du replied with an amazing memory: "Report to the president, the student just remembers that it was this person who led the troops to attack Yudaimen Station in Hankou the year before last. ”

Yuan Shikai was immediately surprised: "What is the situation in this Xiangxi and Guangxi, can the Information Office have details?" ”

Yang Du said very calmly: "In August, Wang Zhenyu, the commander of Xiangxi, captured Changde, and Wang Zhengya, the commander of Lizhou, went into the wilderness. Because the war in the southeast was tense at that time, and this place was fratricidal and had nothing to do with the war situation, it was not reported in time. ”

Yuan Shikai thought about it and said: "It's okay to be a child, it's a trivial matter, if you want to come to Sun Cannon, you don't have to worry about scabies like Wang Zhenyu." Your mind still has to be focused on the official presidential election next month, and in addition, Cai Ye of Yunnan has already sent troops to Chongqing, and the second revolution of the chaotic party has been pacified by us. You have to come up with a charter for the next personnel arrangement, and the most important point is the candidate for the Hunan overseer, isn't Li Yuanhong the main advocate of Tang Qianming? Then follow his wishes, this time he was able to quell the rebellion of Sun Dacang and others so smoothly, Li Fatzi is meritorious. However, it was not up to him to come, so he drove Cao Zhongshan's third division to Yuezhou for me, and set up there, and sent Shen Jinjian to be his deputy. ”

Yang Du wrote them down one by one, thought for a moment and said: "President, what to do with Tan Yanhong, the former governor of Hunan?" ”

Yuan Shikai waved his hand: "That's the matter of the new governor, I don't care." ”

Yang Du nodded to comply, and asked again: "What about Guangxi?" ”

Yuan Shikai, who was complacent, stood up and said: "It's just a few provinces, let them make trouble, let's clean up the mess." You say, don't you? Skinny? ”

How could Yang Du not know in his heart that he deliberately reminded Lao Yuan of the cannibalism just now, but now he still didn't forget to pretend to be very admired, and then sent out a free sycophant: "The president is wise!" ”

Yuan Shikai smiled and left Jurentang.

Seeing that President Yuan was walking away, Yang Du also pulled the sleeves of his suit, and then walked out of Jurentang step by step.

This Zhongnanhai used to be the south garden of the imperial palace, to be precise, it is also a part of the imperial palace, more than ten years ago the failure of the Wuxu reform, the Guangxu Emperor was under house arrest in this Zhongnanhai Yingtai. Now that it is the Republic of China, Emperor Guangxu is no longer there, and the once-powerful Lafayette has also returned to the West.

In fact, Yang Du has a public identity, a disciple of the Wang Sect, but in Beijing political circles, this point has been ignored intentionally or unintentionally.

But Chen Shao, who was under Wang Zhenyu, would not, almost every half month, a letter and a bill of exchange of 10,000 yuan would be handed over to Yang Du through a secret channel (Beijing Station of the Military Intelligence Department).

This is also the reason why Weishenme Yang Du had to bother in front of Yuan Shikai and diverted his attention to Xiangxi.

In fact, not only the relationship between the students of the Wang Sect and the sponsorship fee of 10,000 oceans per month, but also some factors of Yang Du's personal factors also play a role.

Yang Du is a very talented and ambitious person, he only defected to Yuan Shikai, and learned literary and martial arts with traditional intellectuals, and sold the same ideas as the emperor's family. He worked hard to obtain the weight of natural acquisition and then entered the cabinet as a minister, and in the future, he will leave a name in history and bless his descendants.

But Yuan Shikai, the great president, uses his talents instead of his ambitions: on the one hand, he will find himself for reference in important affairs, large and small, and he completely adopts many of his own ideas; But on the other hand, he has never promoted and reused himself, and has always given himself just an empty title of senior minister in the presidential office.

Yang Du has little interest in being called a Shaoxing master-like staff, so he is also quite complaining about it.

In fact, he still agrees with Yuan Shikai's personality, and the treatment he gives himself is not low, and he is usually courteous. And in terms of private life, it is not like the outside world rumored, what to stay in the palace overnight, ** palace maid.

Although this Zhongnanhai was a part of the former imperial palace, it is now the office area of the central government of the Republic of China, and the small court of the last emperor Puyi has long been compressed into the Forbidden City next door.

As for the ** palace maid, it is even more unreliable, this palace maid Yang Du was so curious that she had seen it, and basically there was no one who looked haode, all crooked melons and cracked dates. Come to think of it, this palace maid has no future, not to mention, it is difficult to find a marriage match when she is released at the age of twenty-five. Therefore, most of the people who have a beautiful girl in the family are in a hurry to marry at the age of thirteen or fourteen, saving the pain of entering the palace. In this regard, Yang Du could only express his silence to the concubines in the palace.

As for Lao Yuan, he has more than a dozen aunts and wives, no matter how hungry he is, he won't come to that point.

It is estimated that they are also those children of the Eight Banners who do not learn and have no skills, and they have also read Ben Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" since they were young, but all traitors have used the mold of Dong Zhuo to set them.

Although Yuan Shikai is better than Sun Yat-sen, who can only shout revolutionary slogans in the south, Yang Du always feels that something is wrong with the president, and he doesn't feel good.

And after seeing Chen Shao's letter, Yang Du knew that something was wrong with the president, and summed it up in two words: twilight.

In the final analysis, President Yuan represents the original ruling order, and this set is destined to be unworkable. Under such circumstances, even if reunification is finally achieved by force, the future of the country will still go down the old path.

On the contrary, if what Chen Shaoxin said is true, then what this Xiangxi town guard named Wang Zhenyu is doing now is something that is very energetic and has a bright future.

The local government of the county and the people of the county are administering the county, which is something that China has never dared to think of for thousands of years. At the central level, there is a high degree of centralization, and what is more solid than Yuan Shikai is that this Wang Zhenyu completely relies on the system to control the army. Although it is also a conscription system, from the most basic soldiers to officers at all levels, they are uniformly deployed by the General Staff Office, which greatly avoids the emergence of private soldiers and warlords. The most important point is that although the central government is in power at the core level, it limits the role of local governments at the economic level, and it is actually through a Xiangxi Development Company to coordinate economic projects.

Yang Du can even conclude that ordinary officials would never dare to blackmail such a company that wants policies and policies, and has a background by the background. And once the local economy is not destroyed by the government, the speed of development must be very amazing......

It is not difficult to think of a solution, but it is difficult to implement. Obviously, Wang Zhenyu not only thought of it, but also did it......

Yang Du was a little excited and then regained his composure, the words of the junior brother were inevitably exaggerated, but the check for 10,000 oceans a month was true. Since he can't get mixed up with President Yuan, it is also necessary to leave a way back for himself......