"From Anhui?" Hearing Bai Wenwei say this, Jiang Zuobin was shocked in his heart, and quickly showed it on his face.

Although he can't compare with Sun Wu in terms of qualifications or merits, which has made many people criticize him behind his back, he is also a smart person after all to sit in the position of deputy commander of the army.

"You mean to say?"

Seeing that Jiang Zuobin had understood what he meant, the corners of Bai Wenwei's mouth curled slightly. "Now you also know the situation in Nanjing, there is not even 1 yuan in the treasury, but there are more than 200,000 civilian troops in the city who cannot pay military salaries, if it were not for my first army and several other military bullets, there would have been a problem in the city a long time ago, but if the problem of money is not solved as soon as possible, this problem will still come out sooner or later..."

"And now in Anhui there is everything we urgently need, as long as we can capture Anhui, even if it is just Dangtu and Wuhu, we can solve the urgent needs of the provisional government..."

Seeing that things were really the same as he thought, Jiang Zuobin shook his head and sighed with his back to Bai Wenwei. "I also know what you said, but if you attack a province without any evidence, the government will not be able to agree to such a big thing, and we will be very passive in public opinion, and if you don't get it right, it may even affect the reputation of the Alliance..."

Because of Tao Chengzhang's killing, the reputation of the Alliance has dropped a lot compared to the beginning, especially after there are rumors that Tao Chengzhang was actually Sun Yat-sen who instructed Chen Qimei to kill.

Now that the Alliance has not even had time to restore its reputation, how can it allow such a truth-telling thing to be done...

"How can it be said that there is no evidence..."walked in front of Jiang Zuobin. Bai Wenwei said with a smile. "You should also know what happened in Anhui some time ago, the arrest of local officials and gentry in more than 30 counties and towns without authorization surnamed Yan has already caused Anhui to complain and the people to boil. At this time, we entered Anhui to expel Yan Shao, which was in line with the will of the people..."

"We all know what is going on in Anhui, how can we conform to the will of the people?" Jiang Zuobin is not a fool, as the deputy commander of the army, if he doesn't even know what happened in Anhui, then he is not qualified to sit in this position at all, and naturally it is impossible to believe Bai Wenwei's nonsense.

"Whether it conforms to the hearts of the people is not what the people think, but something else..."

"Something else?"

"That's right." Bai Wenwei nodded. "I have already sent people to Anhui to contact the comrades there. Let them find some local gentry who oppose Yan Shao, as long as they stand up and support us, then it will naturally become a move for us to lead troops into Anhui to conform to the will of the people..."

The most important thing is as long as things work out. After taking Anhui, even if you give people some truth, what is there.

In fact, Bai Wenwei came to Jiang Zuobin this time and was helpless, entering Anhui, after all, it is impossible to be as simple as said. There is always someone to support it in the Provisional Government to do so. Otherwise, how many people were there in his first army? If things don't work out, let alone the position of the governor of Anhui. I'm afraid he won't even have a chance to make a comeback.

That's why he came over to find Jiang Zuobin, the reason why he didn't look for Huang Xing was because Huang Xing was a little upright, and then Bai Wenwei heard that he got along well with Yan Shao when he was in Anqing, Old Man Huang had the best face, Yan Shao was so happy to hold him in Anqing, he probably wouldn't agree to Bai Wenwei leading troops into Anhui to deal with Yan Shao.

Since Old Man Huang can't count on it, Bai Wenwei can only retreat. Find Jiang Zuobin's side.

Although Jiang Zuobin is only the vice minister of the army, his influence is far from being comparable to Huang Xing. But in any case, since he can sit in the position of deputy commander of the army, he will always have some influence.

Bai Wenwei does not need the provisional government to stand up for him, as long as they acquiesce to his actions. As long as the provisional government acquiesces in its own behavior, Bai Wenwei is sure to pull out tens of thousands of people's troops from Nanjing—————— and now Nanjing is full of soldiers who are in distress because they can't pay their salaries, as long as Bai Wenwei tells them that they are going to Anhui to grab money, no, to be precise, it should be to go to Anhui Province to preside over justice and save the local people, naturally there will be many soldiers willing to go with them, and even mobilization is not needed.

After listening to Bai Wenwei's calculations, Jiang Zuobin's heart was also moved.

To tell the truth, what he, the deputy commander of the army, did was quite boring, and his daily work was to deal with those officers and soldiers who were begging for money, and basically did nothing for the rest. And when the Yuan Shikai cabinet in Beijing is established in the future, it is estimated that there will be nothing to do with him, so it is better to take advantage of this opportunity to have a good fight—————— to be honest, he is now a little envious of Sun Wulai.

At the beginning, Sun Wu came to Nanjing to carry out activities, wanting to get the position of deputy minister of the army, but because of Huang Xing's prejudice against him, his achievements were lost, and the position of deputy minister of the army became Jiang Zuobin, who was inferior to Sun Wu in terms of qualifications and merits, because Jiang Zuobin was still very proud of this matter.

Who knew that the position of the deputy commander of the army was simply a fire pit, and sitting in this position all day long was to deal with the officers and soldiers who came to ask for salary, and he had never done anything else, so that Jiang Zuobin had always regretted why he wanted to sit in such a position for Lu Dao, and if he knew that Lu Dao's position was so troublesome, it would be better to give it to Sun Wu...

It's a pity to lose the position of deputy commander of the army, but at least it won't be as much of a headache as it is now...

However, he didn't rashly agree to Bai Wenwei, not to mention that this kind of thing was not something that he could agree to as a small army deputy commander. So after pondering for a moment, he said to Bai Wenwei. "Can this matter make Jiang think more..."

Originally, he wanted to use a more tactful tone, but he was also afraid of breaking Bai Wenwei's heart. It wouldn't be good if he didn't want to play, so that's all he could do.

He had already made a decision, and after Bai Wenwei left from here, he would immediately go to the presidential palace to see what the presidential palace thought.

"Okay..."Jiang Zuobin's words have been said very clearly, think about it more, in fact, it is to find someone to discuss it well, which is very close to Bai Wenwei's purpose of coming here. So Bai Wenwei didn't ask for more. Just a word of joy on the face. "Then I'll wait for Mr. Jiang's good news..."

As he spoke, he saluted Jiang Zuobin, then turned around and retreated from the office.

After Bai Wenwei left the room, Jiang Zuobin let out a long sigh. "Alas. I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse for Lu Dao to do this, but anyway, it's better than being half-dead like now..."

After speaking, Jiang Zuobin walked to the window, looked downstairs, and after about a minute or so, he saw Bai Wenwei walking out of the main entrance of the War Department building.

After making sure that Bai Wenwei had indeed left, Jiang Zuobin picked up the phone on the table and shook it. Then he spoke into the phone. "Hey, give me the presidential palace..."

Waiting for the phone call from the presidential palace, Jiang Zuobin also knew that there was another key in this matter. That is the gentry and celebrities who are willing to stand up against Yan Shao in Bai Wenwei's mouth. First of all, the number of these gentry should not be too small, otherwise if there are three or two cats, the alliance will not be able to get by in terms of face.

Secondly. It's that these people have to be famous. Otherwise, get a few nameless people out, who knows what they do.

However, in Jiang Zuobin's opinion, since Bai Wenwei dared to take the initiative to contact him this time, it must be that things have been almost prepared, not to mention that as Bai Wenwei said, what Yan Shao did in Anhui harmed the interests of the local gentry, as long as there is an alliance, it will come forward. There will inevitably be many people who will jump out against Yan Shao. In that case, there is naturally nothing to worry about...

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Leave from the Office of the Deputy Minister of the War Department. Bai Wenwei, who boarded the car, also breathed a sigh of relief.

In any case, this time the matter went quite smoothly, as long as Jiang Zuobin's side could do the work of the presidential palace, the rest of the things would be easy to do.

"Congratulations to the commander, it seems that the commander will soon become the governor..."

Sitting in the driver's seat, he looked at Bai Wenwei's face, and the driver congratulated with a smile.

The position of a driver may seem inconspicuous, but there are a lot of things to do, so they are usually confidants in the real sense. Therefore, the driver knew very well what Bai Wenwei wanted to do when he came to the War Department, and now when he saw Bai Wenwei's face, he naturally hurriedly congratulated.

"It's still early..."Glancing at the driver, Bai Wenwei also smiled. It's only the first level, and there are still a few more levels I need to go through..."

Bai Wenwei does have a lot of things to do next, first of all, the Anhui side, just like Jiang Zuobin thought, no matter what, he must contact some influential gentry.

On this point, Bai Wenwei really wants to thank Yan Shao, if he hadn't suddenly sent troops to arrest the gentry and officials in more than 30 counties and towns, I'm afraid that few people might not be willing to stand up against him, after all, the influential gentry in Anhui have been almost encircled by him with the Innovation Association, and later the cooperation in setting up factories has almost wiped them out.

"It's also his own benefit..."

Among the many gentry in Anhui, Bai Wenwei is most interested in Li Guoyun at the moment, because according to what he learned from Wu Yanggu and Wang Zhuhuai and others, Li Guoyun is inclined to Yuan Shikai, and he has long been dissatisfied with Yan Shao.

Li Guoyun was the deputy governor of the military government and the leader of the Anhui constitutionalists, and if he could stand up against Yan Shao, things would naturally go much better.

However, in addition to this matter, there are many things that Bai Wenwei needs to be busy with.

One of the most important is to contact several other troops. Although Bai Wenwei's First Army had a lot of numbers, with a total of three divisions, the first, fourth, and ninth divisions, all of them were less than 10,000 people, and the total number of them was only more than 20,000, while Yan Shao's Anhui Revolutionary Army had almost 40,000 people.

So if you want to take Anhui, at least give help to a few other troops.

Although it takes the help of several troops to Bai Wenwei to be sure of taking Anhui, Bai Wenwei is not worried at all, because now the people's army in Nanjing is about to go crazy. As long as there is a place to go, they will never hesitate.

And what relieved Bai Wenwei the most was that the distance between Nanjing and Dangtu was very close.

As once said, the situation in Nanjing is very troublesome now. The provisional government had no money to pay the people's army at all, and Yuan Shikai was also happy to see Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing have a headache, and he had no intention of helping—————— although even if he wanted to help, he didn't have the ability.

The situation in Beiyang is stronger than in Nanjing. But it's not necessarily that strong...

So at this stage, not to mention that the Nanjing government is at most acquiescing, even if it really stands up for it. I'm afraid I may not be able to come up with so much money to support Bai Wenwei's actions. And if there is no money, ammunition will be counted, and the most important thing in Nanjing now is people and guns and ammunition, but other materials, such as food and medicine, are difficult to say.

However, the distance between Nanjing and Dangtu is only 50 kilometers, and if you force the army, it will be a day's time. Under the management of Yan Shao. The two cities of Dangtu and Wuhu are not to say that they are in Anhui, even if they are quite rich in the whole country, and the Xiangshan Iron Works in Dangtu is famous for being the largest iron factory in the Far East.

According to Bai Wenwei's estimate. At least two or three million in cash were given in the iron works, or even more. As long as you have these cash, you can solve the immediate need, and after seeing the benefits. It can also bring more people involved.

Even if Yan Shao transferred the cash in the iron factory in advance, it didn't matter. As long as the ironworks are in their hands, they can sell the ironworks to those who are willing to take over. Yan Shao's investment in the iron factory is definitely not less than 10 million, and if it is sold out for five or six million, there will definitely be someone willing to take over.

If that's the case, then the only way to do this is —————— to mobilize the local rich and ask them to donate some help...

As long as you can mobilize the local rich people. In a short period of time, there is no need to worry about the military salary of the people's army, and even food and other problems can be solved by taking advantage of the situation.

Of course. Not every rich family is willing to help, but at that time, Bai Wenwei will naturally have a way to get them to donate money 'voluntarily'.

(This kind of thing actually happened in history, during the Sichuan Baolu Movement, almost all of the Baolu Army's military salaries were obtained by forcing the local wealthy to donate, and the rich who did not want to donate were ruthlessly 'suppressed' along with the Qing military officials who were unwilling to surrender their arms and surrender to the law, as well as the spies who were extremely hostile to the revolution...... That is, to loot it. ）

Just when Bai Wenwei was thinking in his heart that he should ask those people for help this time, he had just returned to the First Army garrison and soon got a telegram from Anhui.

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Bai Wenwei's car drove into the garrison of the First Army, and when he saw Bai Wenwei's car, the soldiers around him who seemed a little lazy hurriedly stood up straight and saluted Bai Wenwei's car.

After driving some distance, the car stopped in front of Bai Wenwei's residence, and walked out of the car, Bai Wenwei took off his military uniform and handed it to the adjutant standing aside.

"Go, fetch me a basin of water..."

"Yes..."Hearing Bai Wenwei's words, soon a guard ran outside.

But just as Bai Wenwei was about to wash his face, his adjutant suddenly walked in from outside. "Sir, your telegram..."

"Telegram? Where did it come from? Putting the towel down for the time being, Bai Wenwei asked while taking the telegram. And after hearing Bai Wenwei's question, the adjutant also hurriedly replied. "It's from Anqing..."

"Anqing's?!" Hearing that he was from Anqing, Bai Wenwei suddenly felt a lot more energetic, and now he is most concerned about the news from Anqing.

So Bai Wenwei quickly opened the telegram in his hand, and read the telegram inside as fast as possible, and after half a ring, he saw a smile on Bai Wenwei's face. "Good, well done!"

"Sir? What is so happy? ”

"The telegram sent by Wang Zhuhuai, so Li Guoyun took the initiative to contact him, asking me to lead troops into Anhui and drive that Yan Shao out of Anhui..."

In fact, Bai Wenwei and Wang Zhuhuai have long been in contact, after all, Bai Wenwei is the only one who can replace Yan Shao in the position of governor of Anhui in the Alliance. Moreover, Wu Yanggu and they were not willing to be given this position by Yan Shao like this, so the alliance between the two parties became almost inevitable.

Naturally, in the process of union, Bai Wenwei also made promises.

Originally, he just hoped that Wang Zhuhuai and Wu Yanggu could contact Li Guoyun and let him stand up against Yan Shao, but who knew that it was Li Guoyun who took the initiative to contact them, which naturally surprised Bai Wenwei.

There is a big difference between Li Guoyun who Bai Wenwei took the initiative to contact or Bai Wenwei who Li Guoyun took the initiative to contact, especially when it comes to the issue of initiative, because the party who takes the initiative will inevitably suffer some losses afterwards.

Originally, Bai Wenwei was still a little reluctant to take the initiative to contact Li Guoyun, because if he did this, even if Li Guoyun agreed to do so, Bai Wenwei would definitely give up many interests that originally belonged to him. Who knew that Li Guoyun actually took the initiative to contact him, which was really unexpected.

And after hearing this, the adjutant also became happy for Bai Wenwei.

"What should we do now, sir?"

"What to do, naturally is to enlist as much support as possible..."After reading the telegram in his hand twice, Bai Wenwei replied with a smile.

After saying that, he didn't care about washing his face, and after wiping it twice with a towel, Bai Wenwei set off for the garrisons of several other armies.

At this time, he had already made a decision in his heart, even if Sun Yat-sen did not support him, he would continue to do this. Now that things are so good for him, if he doesn't take advantage of the opportunity, he will regret it for the rest of his life...

And as long as there is the support of several other armies, even if Huang Xing and others do not agree, due to the situation, they can only acquiesce to Bai Wenwei's actions in the end. (To be continued......)