On the night of the first day of September in the second year of the Republic of China (September 1, 1913), the bathroom on the second floor of Wenlu, the town guard of Xiangxi Town.

Wang Zhenyu is lying very comfortably in the steaming Western-style ceramic bathtub, motionless to experience the beauty of every pore expansion. The sink, flush toilet, and bathtub in the entire bathroom were all sent from Shanghai by his second brother Du Yuesheng.

Since Wang Zhenyu monopolized the foreign trade of tobacco in the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, Du Yuesheng has become the general agent of Shanghai, and it is not an exaggeration to make money every day. In addition to the 15 million huge amount of money that has just arrived, a whole boatload of British furniture, French red wine, kitchen and bathroom supplies was sent to Anjiang by the enthusiastic Du Yuesheng.

Ye Ziwen, who had just given birth to a child and was a little depressed after giving birth, was actually in a good mood when she saw these novelties, and personally instructed the attendant to arrange someone to decorate immediately, this move made Wang Zhenyu have to sigh that women's material desire is really strong, strong enough to cure diseases.

But now, Wang Zhenyu himself also likes to soak in the bathtub, as long as his wife doesn't soak, he will take off his clothes very quickly to grab the position. Of course, it will also be very common to encounter times when my wife suddenly wants to soak, but our brazen Wang Dashuai will generally give up his position and soak with Ye Ziwen with a dead face. The happiest situation is naturally that after Ye Ziwen frowned, she actually agreed, such a mandarin duck bath is naturally inevitable to go up and down, and she is really happy......

Tonight, our Wang Dashuai did not have such a blessing, he was resting his head on a leather cushion, quietly looking at the roof of the bathroom, but thinking about all kinds of news sent by the Military Intelligence Department and the General Staff Office.

On August 11, He Haiming, an officer of the Yuan army in Nanjing, led 2,000 officers and soldiers to launch an uprising and declare independence again. This He Haiming later abandoned martial arts and became an important figure in the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School" of the Republic of China, and the more famous figures in this faction are Zhang Ailing and Qiong Yao. But at this moment, all you can find in this young man in Hengyang, Hunan Province is blood and murderous energy.

On September 1, Zhang Xun led a large army to capture Nanjing, and then slaughtered the city in retaliation.

The wheel of history has not changed, and Sun Yat-sen and others, who hastily provoked the war, were cleaned up by Yuan Datou very easily. In this regard, Wang Zhenyu, who prides himself on being a revolutionary, can only express his deep sorrow and is eager to repay him with death. However, considering that the revolution had not yet succeeded, the sacrifice was slow.

Dafang Xiangshang came to see that Sun Cannon was lost, although he did not raise the flag to participate in the Yuan army. But many bad things that Yuan Jun didn't do were done by himself, such as beating down Changde, who supported the Central Committee and President Yuan Da. Fortunately, this battlefield does not affect the whole, and President Yuan Da doesn't know about it at all, otherwise it will ruin his old man's mood, and it will also be a heinous capital crime, and he will punish the nine clans.

On the Beijing side, Wang Zhenyu still made preparations, and Tian Yingzhao had already taken 500,000 oceans to the event. Of course, the focus of the activity is to find a new backer, after his clan uncle Wang Longzhong went north, he has not had a reliable backer for a long time.

Although his current career is developing smoothly, he does not need much material support from the outside world. However, it is very dangerous to have no political backing, and it is very easy to get shot while lying down. If he can find a backer in Beijing, then for Yuan Shikai, it is a controllable shili. For such a shili, Yuan Shikai will definitely not have time to clean you up before he destroys the uncontrollable shili.

Xiong Xiling is the first choice chosen by Wang Zhenyu, this benevolent brother is currently in Beijing's political circles, but he is also a role with power and no soldiers, so he will naturally need strong support at the local level. And Xiong Xiling is a native of Xiangxi Phoenix, and it is common sense to take care of the township party, and the last time the railway construction right was done by Xiong Lao. It's just that these connections are not enough to worship his disciples......

Annoying, it's better to think about your jihua in Liuzhou.

Wang Zhenyu turned his body and felt that half of his chest was much more comfortable in the warm water. Liu Guxiang of the Liuzhou Military and Government Branch is a veteran member of the League who participated in the Guangzhou Uprising, and it stands to reason that he should be among them, if not the first to respond, to this second revolution. But as of today, even Granny Tan, a pseudo-alliance, has announced that she is going to fight against Yuan for more than a month, and our Comrade Liu Guxiang is still standing still.

In fact, in the Liangguang region, which is regarded as the foundation of the League, the situation is far more complicated than that of Jiangsu and Nanjing.

The first is the existence of two very reactionary armies, the Longjiguang Department in Guangdong and the Lu Rongting Department in Guangxi;

The second is that most of the officers of the revolutionary Chen Jiongming's department have received benefits, and they are unwilling to go north to ask for Yuan.

Liu Guxiang's delay in announcing the fight against Yuan was the first case, and the regular army under his command was only more than 1,000 people, while Lu Rongting held 10,000 elites of the Guangxi New Army. This old boy announced his support for the central government again, and the position is behind Liu Guxiang's buttocks, how do you ask Liu Guxiang to please Yuan?

Wang Zhenyu understands this mentality very well, and now Liu Guxiang is a person who has a family and a job to wear shoes, which is naturally different from the single-minded revolutionaries of the Huanghuagang Uprising.

Although he knew that Liu Guxiang would eventually be betrayed by Shen Hongying, and his head was in a different place, he could have waited until this time to make a big crusade against Shen Hongying, and took the opportunity to seize the territory of Liuzhou and even the entire northern part of Guibei.

However, the development of the situation made Wang Zhenyu a little impatient, more than 15,000 officers and soldiers of the first division led by Xu Yuanquan personally had already completed the assembly in Jingzhou, and Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi's troops went out to the territory of Tongxian County, basically preparing for the war.

It is worth mentioning that the railway from Jingzhou to the passage has been opened to traffic, and the railway from Anjiang to Qiancheng has also been opened to traffic.

Belgian engineer Fellaini and Chinese engineer Ding Wenjiang and others have already surveyed the terrain in Xuzhou and Yuanzhou, and with the capture of Changde, the Belgians proposed to build a railway from Qiancheng to Changde through Luyang and Yuanzhou.

Although the total length of this railway is 320 kilometers, which is longer than the Antong railway, but because it is built along the Yuanjiang River, the construction cost and construction difficulty are mostly lower, and the Belgians estimate the cost of 11 million yuan (including 3 cross-river bridges). The construction period is expected to be three and a half years, but if the construction continues in stages, it will be two and a half years, and if the construction can be started by the end of this year, it will be completed around June 1916.

The steel plant project in Anjiang has shrunk again and again, and finally shrunk from a terrifying annual output of 1 million tons to 200,000 tons, and Wang Zhenyu can only nod in agreement. There is no way, the raw materials are all supplied by the Hanyang Iron Works and the Pingxiang Coal Mine, and if you want to produce one million tons per year, it is indeed a big leap. Although Wang Zhenyu has been a bit self-inflated recently, he has not yet reached the point where he can ignore the laws of nature at will.

However, with the scale of 200,000 tons, the Luxembourg engineers of the Anjiang Iron and Steel Plant also expected that the steel production would not be officially produced until January 1914.

The thing that Wang Zhenyu is most afraid of now is that his finances are about to go bankrupt, and the 100 million silver that he set up the Xiangxi Development Company to flicker from Hong Shang has basically used up seventy percent. The 10 million pounds borrowed from the Belgians could not be moved, otherwise what would the three major banks use to issue banknotes, or do they use rifles?

Wang Zhenyu knew in his heart that almost half of the 70 million spent was spent on the army. Although his own military factory has increased its output, the cost has also risen, and sometimes the money spent on making guns and buying guns is actually the same, which is a thing that makes Wang Zhenyu very unhappy. But there is no way, if you don't run a military factory, Zuihou will end up being ruthlessly eliminated by history.

And it's not all bad news, at least the benefits of winning Changde are obvious.

First, the Hong merchants, who were originally worried about losing their money, saw the hope of making a profit, and now they have become our Wang Dashuai's most loyal friends.

Second, the acquisition of Changde means that there are more goods, more haode docks, more taxes, not to mention anything else, just the opium tax, Wang Zhenyu's annual income has changed from 20 million to 40 million. Business taxes are even more impressive.

Third, Wang Zhengya's 8 million at the bottom of the box was cheaper than Wang Zhenyu.

Fourth, Du Yuesheng will completely monopolize the tobacco soil in Yunnan-Guichuan now, unless they go to Guangxi, otherwise these tobacco will eventually enter Boss Du's pocket. Du Yuesheng expects that he will have to pay a total of 20 million yuan in tobacco taxes to the concession and Chinese authorities every year. And his own annual income will not be less than 50 million, in addition to the necessary expenses and his own share, he promises to pay 40 million yuan of difference profits to Wang Zhenyu every year to make up for military expenses.

Thinking of this, Wang Zhenyu couldn't help but shake his head with a wry smile, many years later, he may be like Cai Yi, leaving a good reputation as an opium dealer in history.

There are gains and losses, and in today's China, it is impossible for you to make money by taking the right path, unless you wait until the outbreak of the first Shijie war......

Thinking about it, he felt a little uncomfortable, and he turned to the side again. There is another thing that comes to mind in my mind, that is, the role played by the Military Intelligence Department in the Battle of Changde.

In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that without the Military Intelligence Department, this battle of Changde would not have been so smooth at all.

It was the agents of the Military Intelligence Department who figured out the enemy's situation, and it was they who turned against Qing Heng, it can be said that it was their series of meticulous work that made this operation a trip, of course, for Bai Chongxi, the process of this trip was very unpleasant. However, the next road to Guangxi may be more difficult than Zhangjiajie.

To get back to the point, what He Jian showed in leading the Military Intelligence Department already made Wang Zhenyu feel a little jealous. These things are good if they are against one's own enemies, but what if they are against oneself? Can you rely on the hidden strength of Zhou Wei and Ma Xicheng?

After being suspicious, Wang Zhenyu sat up from the bathtub, but the door was pushed open. Wang Zhenyu looked back, and Ye Ziwen, who was wrapped in a bath towel, walked in lightly. She glanced at herself and frowned slightly: "Brother Yu, you use my bathtub again, and the bathtub is all stinky from you." ”

Looking at his wife, who was slightly exposed, Wang Zhenyu suddenly became interested, stretched out his big hand, and took Ye Meimei into the bathtub amid Ye Ziwen's screams. Then he put his arm around Ye Ziwen's neck, and sighed into the pink ears and said, "Sister Wen, don't you think our Jingsheng is actually very lonely?" ”

Ye Ziwen didn't understand the meaning of this: "He has just been full moon, so young, and his grandparents coax him every day, where does he come from to be lonely?" ”

Wang Zhenyu smiled, flicked Ye Ziwen's ruin tip with his hand and said: "I'm not talking about this loneliness, it's loneliness without younger brothers and sisters, you little fool." ”

Ye Ziwen understood everything now, and reprimanded in a coquettish voice: "I know that you don't have a good heart, I'll bite you to death......"

The bathroom was full of spring colors......