In the blink of an eye, it was the middle of February 1912, and a great news came from Beijing, the wise and martial Emperor Xuantong officially announced his abdication, and the north and south finally republiced. Hundreds of thousands of people's soldiers and Nanjing citizens have chosen to temporarily forget the recent hardships, and everyone is celebrating this good news from the bottom of their hearts. (It is indeed good news, the emperor has fallen, everyone is not considered a chaotic party, and life is guaranteed)

In the eyes of most people, all the suffering of this country comes from this damn Qing Empire, and now that the emperor has abdicated, it is time for a good life to live. At the station of the Ninth Brigade, Wang Zhenyu was coldly watching his subordinates on the balcony who were carnivaling on the playground. Although he knew that the abdication of the Qing Emperor was not the end of suffering, but the beginning of a new round of suffering, he was not stupid enough to come out at this time to pour cold water on everyone, on the contrary, he just ordered the cooking platoon to add food to everyone tonight to celebrate this huge victory.

Now that the emperor is gone, the Jihua of the Northern Expedition has naturally been canceled, and Wang Zhenyu immediately became idle, and he happily paid attention to the situation in Hunan Province.

Strictly speaking, after becoming the governor of Hunan, Tan Yanmin faced a very complicated situation in Hunan, all kinds of shili are eager to try, and the very fatal point in the mixed situation is that Tan Yanmin himself did not master the force, simply put, it was a lack of reliable force protection.

But it was in such an extremely unfavorable situation that Tan Yanmin's ability to be different from mortals was revealed.

Don't look at Granny Tan is only in her early thirties, the work of her wrists, the depth of the city, and the sea is really rare. He first obtained mutual understanding with the Alliance, and sent people to comfort the families of the two governors of Jiao and Chen, who were killed. At the same time, he thanked Mei Xin, who supported his position, and appointed him as the commander of the Fifth Division of the Hunan Army and the guard of Changbao Town. For the army left by Jiao Dafeng and Chen Zuoxin, Tan Yanmin naturally has a way to deal with it. First of all, in the name of aiding the revolution in Hubei, these troops were successively transferred to the front line in Hubei. Before leaving, he also instructed all ministries to sacrifice bravely for the revolution and not to look back.

In layman's terms, you all died in Hubei, don't come back.

For the dissidents who stayed in the province, Tan Yanmin even used his strength to instruct Mei Xin's department to kill. Through covert deception and open repression, the two-pronged approach quickly leveled down local shili such as the Baoqing Military and Government Branch.

As for Wang Longzhong coming back with men and horses to settle accounts, it would be even better. Tan Yanmin first took advantage of Wang Longzhong's power to scare away Mei Xin, who was entrenched in Changsha and controlled him. Then he appointed Huang Luanming, the former old commander of the 49th Standard, who was not in Changsha at the time of the revolution because of his participation in the autumn exercises, as the military director of the military government. Huang Luanming ran to Wang Longzhong, relying on his former prestige to convene the old ministry for a while, and after saying that everyone did not dare to act rashly, Wang Longzhong finally lost the opportunity to become the governor.

Tan Yanmin took advantage of the relationship between all parties to resolve a big crisis invisibly. Later, Tan Yanmin also brought in the original 49 standard second battalion pipe band, that is, Wang Zhenyu's predecessor Chen Qiang. He was appointed commander of the 8th Brigade of the 4th Division of the Hunan Army and took over half of the troops in Wang Longzhong's hands.

Tan Yanmin is still trying to build relationships and find acquaintances, preparing to form a more reliable army......

These are all letters written by Lu Diping to tell him, Lu Diping is a character, and he told himself very bluntly that he also accepted Tan Yanhong's wooing, and most of the officers under Commander Wang have been co-opted.

Damn, this Granny Tan is really good at pulling relationships! After reading the letter, Wang Zhenyu couldn't help but sigh.

There is a sentence in later generations that is very in line with the national conditions, that is, how high a person's achievements can be has little to do with ability, and the most important thing depends on what level of people you can recognize.

Isn't it just a relationship, Lao Tzu will too.

Wang Zhenyu had this thought, and immediately asked Ma Xicheng and Zhao Dongsheng to send condolences everywhere, and now he is also a major general of the army, and he always has the face to invite people to dinner.

Someone invites someone to eat, and Wang Zhenyu is generous and speaks decently, which makes people happy and liked, and naturally there are more people who support the audience.

There are two people who often come here, and they are very familiar with Wang Zhenyu.

One is Wang Zhixiang, commander of the Third Army, a native of Zhili, in his fifties. Before the revolution, he was a political envoy in Guangxi, and he controlled the six battalions of people in Guilin, and later participated in the revolution through the persuasion of his brother-in-law Liu Renjun, a native of Hunan, and became the deputy governor of Guangxi. However, he was at odds with another deputy governor, Lu Rongting, and had to take his men and horses to Nanjing to prepare for the Northern Expedition, not wanting the Qing Emperor to abdicate, and the Northern Expedition was canceled again. Now that Lu Rongting is back in Guangxi, he will not let him stay in Nanjing, and he will not be able to pay a penny of military salary if he stays in the mansion. Facing the 10,000 mouths under his hand to eat, Wang Zhixiang now feels at a loss, no, he drinks with Wang Zhenyu here every day.

The other is Tian Yingzhao, the brigade commander of the 20th Brigade, Wang Zhenyu's Hunan villager, 35 years old. Speaking of Xiangxi bandits, everyone may know, but in fact, these people were not bandits at the beginning, and there are historical reasons for their formation. He led the team into the Hunan army, and then followed Zuo Zongtang to Xinjiang to fight the Russians. After fighting all the way, the official sat down to the governor of Guizhou. Like Feng Zicai's army, Tian Xingshu had an army under him, and these armies were not disbanded by the imperial court, but continued to exist as volunteers. It then became a local armed group. The later famous Gansu Ma Jiajun (not the track and field team) was also formed in this way. Therefore, the origin of the bandit armament in Xiangxi is not bandits, but the Ganjun volunteers (temporary workers who have not been established) left over from the Qing Dynasty. It's just that after liberation, because they resisted the brutal reorganization of the cadres who went south, they embarked on the "wrong road" of opposing the people's government, and naturally they became bandits who ate human flesh and drank human blood according to their political orientation and propaganda needs. By the way, there was also a great literati named Shen Congwen, but I won't mention it here.

This Tian Yingzhao is the third in line, and he likes to have a mustache, nicknamed Tian Beard. Lao Tzu died a few years after he was born, and his mother spoiled him, and he belonged to a master who didn't learn haode since he was a child. Later, he entered the Hunan Army Academy under the pretext of a relationship, but he was expelled from school for beating a foreign instructor, and he had to go abroad to study in Japan without recruitment, but he was assimilated by the revolutionary party. After returning to China, Tian Yingzhao actually served as Wang Zhenyu's teacher and served as the general office of the army primary school, but Wang Zhenyu didn't remember that he had such a teacher, anyway, now the two have become friends with wine and meat.

When attacking Yuhuatai in Nanjing, Tian Sanshao invited himself to be a death squad and made the first contribution, and for Huang Xing's appreciation, he appointed him as the commander of the 20th Brigade.

Tian Yingzhao likes Wang Zhenyu very much, a generous and cheerful little fellow, and even warmly invited Wang Zhenyu to smoke with him, saying that it is a high-quality Yunnan tobacco, which is rare and tight. Wang Zhenyu was stunned for a while, this revolutionary still takes drugs?

But it's relieved to think about it, just like the second generation of later officials and the rich second generation like to take drugs to seek stimulation, the elite class in the late Qing Dynasty smoked big cigarettes, after all, only powerful people dare to play such a high-consumption thing as drug abuse, and they can afford to play. The more famous is Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, who was a tiger general when he was young, but he was a fan of cigarettes when he was old. During the First Sino-Japanese War, he was ordered to command 60,000 Hunan troops to go to the northeast to fight against little Japan, but he was addicted to cigarettes and drunk all day long, and he was able to sit up and run errands for only a few hours. This is really a lion who used to be a lion and then a pig to lead the Hunan army, and the result can be imagined. With such an old-timer, the Hunan army naturally had no enterprising performance in the Liaodong operation, and the only thing left was to be beaten and beaten again in Naba Barbarian against the offensive of the little devils. Zuihou Liaodong was lost, and the Hunan people could only cry bitterly and regret that the Hunan people had misled the country.

This Third Young Master Tian is left in the next generation, but he is the second generation of the official and the second generation of the army, and it is normal for him to like to take drugs. It's a pity that Wang Zhenyu doesn't want to be Zhang Xueliang, and he doesn't plan to live as long as 105 years old, so he is naturally insensitive to this.

After being a little tired of staying in Nanjing, and handing over the training to his subordinates, Wang Zhenyu, who had nothing to do, thought that since he had come to the Yangtze River Delta, the richest place in China, he had to do something.

If you want to make a name for yourself in the future, talent and money are indispensable.

In Wuhan, he has Ye Zuwen, a comprador himself, and this old boy is also dedicated. But if a person wants to stand firm, he can't rely on one leg alone.

I still have to have a leg, but Ye Zuwen will come to Nanjing soon, maybe he can find another leg for himself!

PS: Profile: Wan Yaohuang (1891-1977), named Wan Qi, the word Wuqiao, Di Qi, in his later years, he called himself the old man of Yanshan. Second-class general of the Kuomintang Army. At the age of 17, he graduated from the Lianghu Normal School, and was admitted to the Hubei Army Primary School, the Army No. 3 Middle School, the Army Officers Academy, and the Army University, where he received a complete new military education. During his studies, he participated in the Japanese Notification Society, the League Association, and the Kuomintang, and participated in the Xinhai Revolution, the Anti-Yuan Movement, and the Jingxiang Independence Campaign. After graduation, he served as the chief of staff of the army stationed in Hunan and Hubei. After 1926, he participated in the Northern Expedition, the Rebellion, and the War of Resistance Against Japan, and was promoted by the deputy division commander, division commander, army commander, and corps commander to the general. During the Anti-Japanese War, he was transferred to the Army University and the Central Military Academy as the chief of education, and after the victory, he became the chairman of the Hubei Provincial Government and the chief of education of the Central Training Corps.