"How's Yushuai?" Wang Chengbin asked in a low voice.

The guard's face was sad: "We don't know, Yushuai has locked himself in the room for three days, and we don't dare to go in." ”

"Confused, if Yushuai has three long and two short, can you afford it?"

While speaking, Wang Chengbin rushed directly to Wu Peifu's door with a few people, and just wanted to open the door, but suddenly the door was pushed open, and Wu Peifu, who had a stubble face, walked out of it, his eyes were blood-red, his face was very haggard, and he had lost his former demeanor at all.

"What's wrong with you, the brothers are still waiting for you to give you an idea?"

Wu Peifu shook his head: "Don't call me Dashuai in the future, there will be no more Wu Dashuai, since Cao Shuai has been energized to go to the wilderness, I will do the same." ”

When Wang Chengbin heard that Wu Peifu was going to resign, his eyes immediately widened: "Dashuai, although the current situation is not good, you can't ignore the brothers!" Hundreds of thousands of brothers, if we don't have you as a family, what will we do? ”

Wu Peifu smiled bitterly: "In the past three days, I want to understand a truth, the virtuous people in the world live in it, and the unvirtuous people lose it." Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the common people have also suffered a lot, and it is time to truly reunify. ”

Since the southern province announced the autonomy of the provinces, Wu Peifu has been a liliang that Cao Kun has strongly invited, but Wu Peifu has not gone south for a long time, and his heart is also very anxious. If you sit back and watch the Feng army take Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is equivalent to the richest place in the world, all in the hands of the Feng army, and the general trend of reunification will be irreversible.

According to reason, Wu Peifu must give it a go. However, Wu Peifu also knew that behind this inter-provincial autonomy was the British instigating, and they wanted nothing more than to take the opportunity to divide China. Once he goes south, he will completely become a lackey of the great powers, and he will not be able to get rid of his notoriety in this life.

And Wu Peifu is also an extremely proud person, Feng Jun dares to fight hard with foreigners, but he can only wag his tail and beg for mercy, even if he succeeds, he will be in a safe corner. What's the point of being an emperor?

Moreover, Wu Peifu still has some understanding of the strength of the Feng army, and it is absolutely wishful thinking to imagine that with the support of the British, he can compete with the Feng army. And the facts have also proved Wu Peifu's judgment, and it is true that Feng Jun has not really made a move. Just break the British claws. The southern province has fallen apart.

Seeing this situation, Wu Peifu also knew that the overall situation had been decided, and any struggle would be in vain, he looked at Wang Chengbin, and then said: "Zhang Tinglan is quite generous. Although the requirements are stricter in some aspects, he is also a master who has started a business, and if you follow him, you may have a chance to make a name for yourself. You guys are honest and obedient, and there will be no problem. ”

When Wang Chengbin heard this, his face suddenly became solemn, and he asked with a calm face: "Dashuai, are you really going to let go?" ”

Wu Peifu nodded without hesitation: "I did this, in fact, to leave a way back for the brothers. ”

"Dashuai, if you really think about the brothers, you should sacrifice your life to fight, if you win, it will be a great wealth, you don't even fight, you will give up the world to Zhang Tinglan's hands, this is a coward!"

When Wu Peifu heard Wang Chengbin's words, he also felt a little wrong, and stared at him tightly: "What do you mean, do you want to rebel?" ”

Wang Chengbin sneered: "It's not that we want to rebel, but you Wu Dashuai doesn't want to do it, so we naturally have to change someone else!" ”

Speaking of this, Wang Chengbin waved his hand violently, and more than 20 soldiers with loaded guns rushed over, and among them, there were five or six generals of the direct army, all of whom were Wu Peifu's old subordinates. Seeing that these people had bad intentions, Wu Peifu's eyes were like knives, piercing these people's bodies.

"What do you want to do, do you want to rebel?"

Peng Shouxin, the commander of the first division, stood up and smiled slightly: "Yu Shuai, you also said that before the time of Zuihou, you should not give up lightly, it is true that the army is powerful, but we can't just admit defeat, we must always let go and fight, since you Wu Dashuai is unwilling to lead everyone, then we can only reluctantly make it difficult." ”

Wang Chengbin also said: "Yushuai, please rest assured, we will never harm your life, if you succeed, you are still the leader of the direct army." ”

"Bastard!" Wu Peifu's eyebrows rose after this kind of thing: "You ungrateful rats, do you want to lose all the money of the direct army!" ”

"It's better to be defeated than to be sold." Wang Chengbin sneered and waved his hand, asking people to drag Wu Peifu down and put him under house arrest.

Several people controlled Wu Peifu, but there was still some anxiety on his face, Peng Shouxin patted his chest and said: "Everyone, it is true that the Feng army is strong, but their main forces are on the front line of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Minister Fang Ze has promised that the Japanese side will provide full support, what else is there to fear." ”

Wang Chengbin also said: "That's right, let it go, it's ours to win the world, and it's a big deal to go into exile in Japan if you lose, in short, you can't give up in vain!" ”

……

Zhang Tinglan is not at all clear about the changes in Henan, and all his attention is now focused on the southeast, on Britain and Japan. Killing the British fleet made Zhang Tinglan breathe a sigh of relief, but by the way, the Izumo was also sunk, which made Zhang Tinglan a little happy and a little worried.

I am glad that this notorious warship of later generations has finally sunk, isn't it a ship known as an unsinkable ship, and now that I look at it, it is just that later generations lack effective means of attack, otherwise it would have been sunk long ago.

But after the joy, there was trouble again, just the United Kingdom, Zhang Tinglan was sure that the British could not cross the ocean, so they fought and fought. But the Japanese are so close at hand, and if Britain and Japan join hands, it will not be a good thing for China.

During the First Sino-Japanese War, the British acted as the boss behind the scenes, and the Japanese acted as thugs, and the Beiyang Navy Division was cut off. Zhang Tinglan was not worried about repeating Li Hongzhang's mistakes, but he did not want to rashly start a war with Japan when he was not fully prepared.

Now that the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions have been in hand, if we give ourselves three or five years, China's economic aggregate can at least double, and the industrial output value can also more than double, and then we can be invincible.

Counting on our fingers, in fact, there is only half a year left before the Great Kanto Earthquake, and as long as there is no war in this half year, Japan will have to do its best to save the earthquake damage, and China will be able to obtain a peaceful period of development.

It is better to lose the Japanese fortune in the earthquake than to let the Japanese wealth be consumed on the Chinese battlefield, the former is the life of the Chinese soldiers, and the latter is not lost at all. Zhang Tinglan thought of this, so he called Foreign Minister Gu Weijun over.

These days, Gu Weijun has been negotiating with various countries almost day and night, and he has just finished talking with the Japanese before he hurried over.

"Vice President, the Japanese side demands that we compensate for the damages, punish the perpetrators, and guarantee their right to freedom of navigation along the coast. Japanese Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa also threatened to take further steps if he did not agree! ”

Zhang Tinglan snorted slightly: "We have informed all countries in advance that the Japanese warship trespassed into the warring waters and fired at the Chinese fighter first, and it is completely reasonable for us to sink the Japanese warship." However, in consideration of the friendship between China and Japan, we can give appropriate economic compensation, but we cannot agree to other conditions at all. ”

After Zhang Tinglan finished speaking, he suddenly found that Gu Weijun's expression was a little abnormal, so he asked with a smile: "Shaochuan, what do you have ideas?" ”

Gu Weijun shook his head: "Vice President, this is a bit like your style, why did you promise to compensate the Japanese, they didn't have a good heart, and they deserved to be beaten." ”

"Haha, Shaochuan, you are engaged in diplomacy, why is it more arrogant than me, the head of the army, now you still have to concentrate on dealing with the British, and you have to eat bite by bite. You can tell the Japanese side that if they accept the negotiations, we can properly supply the ore from the Moyama iron mine. ”

Zhang Tinglan very rare threw a incense bait to the Japanese, but this incense bait looks a little awkward, you must know that the Maoshan iron mine was originally in Korea, but the Japanese did not use it, but let the Feng army rob it.

In fact, since knowing that there was a large-scale open-pit iron mine in Maoshan, Japan was boiling over, and some people even clamored for another fight with the Feng army to snatch the iron ore back.

"Vice President, if you can get iron ore, Japan will definitely be honest, but isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

"You mean it's an enemy, right?"

Gu Weijun nodded slightly.

Zhang Tinglan said with a smile: "Countries just take what they need, even if they are real enemies, as long as there is no war, they must use each other, and each takes what he needs." And pinching the supply of iron ore in our hands is equivalent to one more card to contain the Japanese. ”

Since the Feng army sank the British fleet, on the Yangtze River, the warships of the original rampant powers all withdrew from the Yangtze River.

Yang Yuting led the army, crossed the Yangtze River, and occupied Nanjing bloodlessly, and the Caotai team selected by the Southern Province had long since dispersed.

Just after Yang Yuting entered Nanjing, Zhang Tinglan once again went to the Congress to deliver a speech: "China cannot always prostrate at the feet of the great powers, those unequal treaties imposed on China must be revised, Britain, as the first country to pry open the door of China, should start from the British!" ”

"From now on, all unequal treaties signed by the Manchus with Britain will be null and void, and China is willing to re-establish diplomatic relations with Britain on the basis of equality and respect." (To be continued......)