Stroking Elano's long hair, Yan Shao's mood was much calmer, as if the fatigue of work had disappeared a lot. But just when Yan Shao hugged Elaline and was about to take a good rest, the phone next to the bed suddenly rang.

"Hell..."Rubbing his somewhat sore head, Yan Shao let go of Elano and got up from the bed. Sooner or later, I'm going to get a new phone ringtone...", Yan Shao said fiercely in his heart, Yan Shao has already begun to think about whether to send a telegram to Li Yin in Wuhu and ask him to get a ringtone or something.

The ringtone of the telephone in this era is too noisy, especially in the middle of the night, and it is really a very torturous thing to suddenly come to such a phone in a daze.

And on the bed, listening to the shrill ringing bell, Eleno also frowned slightly.

To be honest, she doesn't really like this kind of ringtone either.

"Hello?"

After taking the phone, Yan Shao's tone was a little impatient.

There is no way, when I was about to sleep, I was suddenly in such a bad mood, and it was understandable that Yan Shao's tone would become so impatient.

However, after answering the phone and listening for a while, Yan Shao's impatient expression suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by a rare cautiousness. After about a minute, Yan Shao whispered into the microphone. "Okay, just deal with it, remember, be careful, don't get discovered..."

Seeing Yan Shao's cautious face, Elano asked a little strangely. "What's wrong? Something happened..."

"The news just came back from the Special Affairs Bureau, Li Guoyun just sent someone to contact Wang Zhuhuai. He said he wanted to meet him and talk about something..."

Hearing the name, Elaline sat up straight from the bed.

She has also heard of this person, if the number one person in Anhui is Wu Yanggu. If the No. 2 person is Sun Yuyun, then Wang Zhuhuai is the No. 3 person. And according to the information obtained by the Special Affairs Bureau, this person seems to have been sent by the League to specifically contact Li Guoyun and other constitutionalists.

Of course, if it's just like this, forget it, the problem is that Wang Zhuhuai and Li Guoyun haven't seen each other for a long time. Now Li Guoyun suddenly proposed to meet Wang Zhuhuai, obviously something is going to happen...

"That's right." Yan Shao nodded. "It seems that there is indeed something, and I have just ordered the people of the Secret Service to go over and take a look. It would be great if you could get the content of the conversation, and if not, find out what they were talking about..."

Li Guojun is a constitutionalist. Originally, I supported Beiyang, but now I suddenly took the initiative to contact the Alliance, no matter how you look at things, it's a little weird.

And after this incident, whether it is Yan Shao or Elanon. The little tiredness in my heart disappeared without a trace.

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Early the next morning. Li Guoyun wore a very ordinary dress and left the residence through the back door.

It's just that he doesn't know what to do, there have been more than a dozen people waiting outside the door since yesterday, and he has just left his residence and has been followed by a large group of people.

didn't know that there were a lot of people around him, so he deliberately chose a few roads with fewer people, and Li Guojun came to the teahouse in the west of the city.

"This guest..."The teahouse had just opened, and I saw Li Guoyun walking in. Immediately, a little second came up.

It's just that just when Li Guoyun wanted to say that he was waiting for someone, the little second said first. "Mr. Wang has been waiting for you for a long time...", he said and led Li Guoyun inside.

In a room on the second floor of the tea house. Li Guoyun met Wang Zhuhuai, who had been waiting for a long time.

"Deputy Governor, Wang has been waiting for a long time..."

Seeing Li Guoyun coming, Wang Zhuhuai stood up from his seat with a smile, and Li Guoyun hurriedly greeted him. "Brother Wang."

After pulling Li Guoyun to sit down, Wang Zhuhuai nodded towards Xiao Er.

Xiao Er, who got the signal, didn't say much, turned around and left the room directly, and closed the door by the way before leaving.

After Xiao Er left, Wang Zhuhuai said to Li Guoyun with a smile. "This is a secret stronghold of our alliance in Anqing, so there is nothing to worry about, but the deputy governor took the initiative to contact me, I don't know what Lu Dao is for..."

Hearing Wang Zhuhuai ask, Li Guojun recalled the lines he had thought of yesterday, and only spoke after half a sound. "I believe that Brother Wang has already known about the incident some time ago, and Yan Shao sent troops to arrest local gentry and officials for no reason, which made the local grievances and the people's grievances boiling..."

Wang Zhuhuai smiled secretly, the Alliance's potential in Anhui is not small. I don't dare to say that there are people from the alliance in every county and town, but it's almost the same, and naturally I know very well what is happening in the local area.

In these years, many people have their own utilitarian intentions, but there are also many idealists. The place suddenly became like this, how could those people like it.

Therefore, although the relationship between the League and the National Socialist Party was a little delicate, and even hostile to each other, after Yan Shao sent troops to clean up those guys, there were still many people in the League who applauded and cheered for Yan Shao's behavior.

However, of course, Wang Zhuhuai couldn't say these to Li Guoyun, so he said straight after laughing secretly. "Naturally, this kind of thing happened in Anhui, and our alliance was also very indignant..."

Li Guoyun didn't notice this, or he didn't care if he noticed it, and after seeing Wang Zhuhuai say this, Li Guoyun hurriedly said. "So our constitutionalists hope to drive Yan Shao and his Kuomintang out of Anhui and return Anhui to a clean place, but we don't have troops in our hands, and Yan Shao has nearly 40,000 troops in his hands, so..."

"So the deputy governor thought of us?"

"That's right." Li Guojun nodded. "There are more than 200,000 civilian troops in Nanjing who are following the orders of the provisional government, and as long as they can divide a part of it, they can completely drive Yan Shao out of Anhui..." Naturally, by that time, Anhui should be headed by the Alliance..."

Anyway, Yuan Shikai meant to introduce the alliance into Anhui. Let the two fight each other, and it's better to lose both, so make some promises now. It couldn't be easier for Li Guoyun...

Hearing Li Guoyun say this, Wang Zhuhuai's heart also moved.

In fact, even if Li Guoyun doesn't come to him, he will come to Li Guoyun. Because there happened to be a person in Nanjing who was aiming for the position of the governor of Anhui, and this person was Bai Wenwei.

Originally, if nothing else happened, it would be difficult for Bai Wenwei to want the position of the governor of Anhui. But who knew that Yan Shao suddenly sent people to arrest the gentry and officials in more than 30 counties and towns in the territory, although these people definitely deserved it. However, there were still many gentry in Anhui who were resistant to Yan Shao's Anhui military government.

This is undoubtedly a great opportunity for Bai Wenwei and the Alliance.

It's just that he also knows that as a general of the Provisional Government. If you lead troops to attack a province without authorization, how much contradiction will arise, especially when Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren and others may not support him, at least they will not stand up to support him. Therefore, Bai Wenwei specially sent a telegram to Wang Zhuhuai from Nanjing, hoping that he could find some influential people in Anhui. Stand up and denounce Yan Shao. In this way, he also had a reason to lead troops into Anhui and overthrow the military government founded by Yan Shao.

And Li Guojun in front of him is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate.

In terms of status, he is the deputy governor of the Anhui Military Government, and his status is only under Yan Shao, and in terms of influence, he is the leader of the Anhui constitutionalists, and he is also only under Yan Shao. With such a person standing up against Yan Shao, Bai Wenwei naturally has a reason to lead troops into Anhui.

Nature. It is impossible to say these things to Li Guoyun, after all, it is just in contact now, and if you say everything, it will be difficult to make an offer later.

So although he wanted to agree, Wang Zhuhuai still said with a look of embarrassment. "Although Yan Shao did make the people's grievances boiling, but he attacked a province in vain, in terms of public opinion..."

"Huh!" Li Guoyun waved his hand. "Don't worry about this, now the constitutionalists in the province are dissatisfied with Yan Shaoduo, as long as your association can call the shots, we are naturally willing to stand up and cheer for your association...... And when the army presses the border, I believe that no one will be so stupid to accompany the funeral with the surname Yan, and then Li is willing to go to the army in person, with a little thin face in the past relationship, and contact the generals in the army for your association..."

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The words have already been said here, how could Wang Zhuhuai not agree. It's just that he still suppressed the excitement in his heart and told Li Guoyun that he was going to send a telegram to Nanjing, asking what the opinion was, and Li Guoyun also nodded and agreed, willing to wait for a while longer.

After Li Guoyun left the teahouse, I don't know when Wu Yanggu suddenly came out of the room. "It's okay now, the surname Yan is self-defeating, it seems that Anhui can finally return to the hands of our alliance..."

At the beginning, he and the people of the new army were already outside the city, and they had even begun to bombard the city with artillery, but they were picked by Yan Shao at the end, which was almost the biggest shame for Wu Yanggu. Now that there is a turnaround, Wu Yanggu is naturally very happy.

And hearing Wu Yanggu's words, Wang Zhuhuai also smiled and said. "Yes, as long as we grasp this opportunity, Anhui will be ours, but that Yan Shao has done a lot of practical things in Anhui, and even promoted Li Guoyun to be the deputy governor, but I didn't expect Li Guoyun to take the initiative to find us to deal with him this time..."

"It's purely because he doesn't know how to move forward and retreat by himself, so he will kill himself." is also a way that I don't know where the road came from, and Cheng Enpu gloated.

"Okay, anyway, the most important thing now is to contact Nanjing, I believe that General Bai and others are already impatient to wait for news, let's pass the news over earlier..."

"Hmm..."

Nodding their heads, Wu Yanggu and Cheng Enpu looked approving.

On the other hand, due to the relationship between many people outside the teahouse, the meeting between Li Guoyun and Wang Zhuhuai was quickly put on Yan Shao's table. It's just that it doesn't have the conversation content that Yan Shao wants.

"I'm sorry..."Standing in front of Yan Shao, Tang Li said apologetically. That teahouse seems to be one of the strongholds of the Alliance in Anqing, and it is very well guarded, unless it is a forcible attack, otherwise we can't send people to infiltrate it, so..."

"Forget it..."Yan Shao shook his head. I can't blame you for that..."

After all, the technology of this era is still too backward, if it is 2 or 30 years later. Then Tang Li and the others can still work with high-tech tools such as bugs, but now, with the current level of science and technology. can only use some more primitive methods, so Yan Shao can't blame Tang Li for anything.

"By the way, I remember that we also have a lot of people in Nanjing..."Bowing his head and muttering for a moment, Yan Shao looked at Tang Li and asked softly.

"Yes." Tang Li nodded. "Recently, because Nanjing has fallen into an economic crisis, we have taken the opportunity to develop a lot of people there..."

Now Nanjing is already so poor that they can't open the pot, and people have to eat. Now not only is it impossible to solve the problem of military salaries, but even food is almost impossible to eat. At this time, the Special Affairs Bureau used silver bullet tactics, which was naturally invincible. In a short period of time, he bought a lot of people in Nanjing.

"Since this is the case, can you know the content of this conversation through them..."This time, Li Guoyun suddenly took the initiative to contact Wang Zhuhuai, which was a little too weird. Yan Shao had an intuition. This time it must be important.

"This..."Tang Li frowned slightly. The most important thing now is that I don't know who Lu Dao and Wang Zhuhuai are contacting, if you don't know this, I'm afraid it's difficult, but we'll do our best..."

"Then do your best..."

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As for Nanjing, the provisional government could not even pay a little money, so the streets of Nanjing were full of numb soldiers.

Just a few days ago, there had been a number of commotions here, almost all of them caused by revolutionary officers and soldiers who lacked salaries. If it weren't for the fact that a few military bullets in the city of Nanjing were overwhelmed. I'm afraid things have already turned out to be unthinkable.

However, it is also because of this relationship that ordinary people can rarely be seen on the streets of Nanjing. Even if they did, most of them were forced to do so.

"Alas, I don't know how long this situation will last..."Sitting in the office building of the War Department, looking at the soldiers outside who didn't know which unit Lu Dao belonged to, Jiang Zuobin sighed deeply.

As the undersecretary of the army, he can now be said to be physically and mentally exhausted.

There is no way, now the War Department has more than a dozen groups of people coming to the door almost every day to ask for military salaries, and the problem is where the War Department can get the money. If it weren't for the fact that the situation in Nanjing had to be maintained, he and Huang Xing wouldn't even plan to go to work at the War Department.

In fact, in addition to him, other officials of the War Department are also the same.

The War Department sounds like it has a lot of power, but the current War Department is probably the most angry place in the whole provisional government, and there is no need to think about power or anything at all.

To tell the truth, if he had known that the Lu Dao War Department was such a guilty place, Jiang Zuobin would never have taken up the position of deputy minister of the army. It's just that it's useless to say anything now, don't you see that Huang Xing's head hurts because of this problem now, and he can only endure it.

Just when Jiang Zuobin was sighing in the office, there was a sudden knock on the door outside, and then he heard his secretary whispering outside. "Mr. Jiang, Commander Bai of the First Army asks to see..."

"Bai Wenwei?" Hearing this name, Jiang Zuobin's expression suddenly became bitter.

It's just that Bai Wenwei is the commander of the First Army, and his status is extraordinary, and he is not comparable to those civilian troops who don't know where he came from, and Jiang Zuobin can't be seen, so although he was very reluctant in his heart, he still raised his voice to the secretary. "Invite him in..."

As he spoke, he tidied up his clothes, and began to think about how he ——————should refuse if Bai Wenwei also came to ask for military salaries, and he thought that Bai Wenwei was here to ask for military salaries.

After a while, Bai Wenwei walked into the office under the guidance of the secretary, and after the secretary closed the door and walked out of the room, Jiang Zuobin asked him to sit down, and complained there intentionally or unintentionally, saying how troublesome his recent work was, how many people came to the door every day to ask for money, and he couldn't get anything at all, Bai Wenwei wanted to laugh.

He finally understood that Jiang Zuobin was afraid that he was also here to ask for military salaries, so he would use these words to gag his mouth first.

So he didn't talk nonsense, and said straightforwardly after interrupting Jiang Zuobin's words.

"Vice Chief Jiang, I'm not here to ask for military salaries this time, on the contrary, I'm actually here to send you money this time..."

"Oh?" Hearing Bai Wenwei's words, Jiang Zuobin was stunned. "Really?"

"Of course..."

"Where's the money?" Jiang Zuobin said with a little excitement.

During this time, he was suffocated to death, Huang Xing's status is about the same as Sun Yat-sen, and he is one of the two giants of the Alliance, no matter how mixed up those Qiu Ba below, few dare to show Huang Xing's face—————— who doesn't know that the old man Huang has the best face? If you really want to show him a look, if you give him a few pairs of small shoes to wear in the future, I am afraid that the end will be similar to that Sun Wu of Hubei.

Therefore, those Qiu Ba in the last place can only vent their temper on Jiang Zuobin, the deputy chief, there is no way, who said that his qualifications and merits are not worthy of the position of deputy minister of the army. Plus Huang Xing can't spray it, so he has to spray him...

Bai Wenwei is also very aware of the current situation in the War Department, so he didn't sell it to the point, and said straightforwardly. "I don't have any money on me now, so I can say that I don't have a penny..."Saying that, looking at Jiang Zuobin's disappointed expression, Bai Wenwei continued with a smile. But it's because I don't have it, so I'm going to pick it up..."

"Where to get it?" Being able to sit in the position of deputy commander of the army, Jiang Zuobin was not a stupid person after all, and he quickly understood what Bai Wenwei meant.

Hearing Jiang Zuobin's words, Bai Wenwei pointed in the direction of Anhui and smiled mysteriously. "Of course, it is taken from Anhui..." (to be continued......)