Outside the newspaper office, two ordinary-looking young people were standing on the corner of the street. After seeing Zhang Taiyan and several other people walking in turn to declare, a trace of joy suddenly appeared on his face.

"Looks like they've taken the bait, and then we can go back and reply..."

"Well, let's just see what they do..."

Looking at each other and smiling, the two left Wangping Street.

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In the barracks outside Anqing City, more than a dozen soldiers were standing in a row, aiming and shooting at a target a hundred meters away, while Yan Shao, Fu Xiuming and others were standing not far away watching this scene.

"It looks good..."After listening to the results reported back, Yan Shao nodded and looked at Fu Xiuming who was standing aside. Two months of training...... Is it available? ”

The training of recruits was supposed to be 3 months, at least in Yan Shao's time, but the current situation is complicated, and there is not so much time to train recruits. Therefore, after some discussion with Fu Xiuming and them, the military government decided to reduce the training time of recruits from 3 months to 2 months.

Not long ago, two months have passed, and the recruits recruited at the beginning have also finished their training and officially become a member of the Anhui Revolutionary Army.

"Is this, Du Du..."Touching his chin, Fu Xiuming said honestly. It depends on who the opponent is, if it is an ordinary civilian army, there is basically no problem, after all, the soldiers in the army have received systematic training. It is far stronger than the ordinary field road, and it is well-armed, but if it is the Beiyang Army or the new army of the southern provinces. I'm afraid it's..."

After all, it was only two months, and those recruits only received some ordinary training when they were in the boot camp, and the tactical training had just been carried out, even if the equipment was much stronger than that of the new army, it was impossible for them to really be the opponent of the new army.

At present, in the Anhui Revolutionary Army, the only ones who can confront the new army, and even overwhelm the other side, are only part of the 31st Central Plains Mixed Association of the First Division and the veterans of Yan Shao's Guards Regiment.

This part can be regarded as the elite of the Anhui Revolutionary Army, and there is basically no problem in dealing with ordinary enemies. Even against the Beiyang Army or the new armies of the provinces, with excellent equipment, they can overwhelm the other party, but. After all, their number is too small, and the sum of the two is only more than 5,000 people, which cannot be compared with Beiyang at all.

"That's..."Yan Shao nodded, he also knew that Fu Xiuming was telling the truth. And it doesn't feel like a fledgling army. It can be compared with an elite like Beiyang in a short period of time, so I didn't feel disappointed. "Then hurry up training, there shouldn't be any major war in Anhui at present, at least there is still plenty of time..."

"Yes!"

Nodding, Fu Xiuming said.

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After the shooting drill, the soldiers began other tactical drills.

It was only in the middle of the process that Wu Qianqiu suddenly walked over from a distance.

"Governor, Deputy Director Tang said that he has something important to see you..." Wu Qianqiu said softly.

"Deputy Director Tang?" Yan Shao was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly said. "It's Tang Li? Let her in! ”

Not surprising either. After all, this is a military camp, the land of the Ministry of Military Affairs. It stands to reason that although the status of the Special Affairs Bureau is not much worse than that of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and Tang Li, the deputy director, is even more comparable to Zhang Ying, the barracks is an important place after all, and it is impossible for anyone who wants to come in to get in, so it is natural to report it first.

And after getting Yan Shao's permission, it didn't take long to see Tang Li walking over from outside.

"Governor, Minister Fu..."

After saying hello to the two, Tang Li walked quickly to Yan Shao's side. "Governor, there is news about the matter in Shanghai, and the director hopes that you can go back to the Governor's Mansion as soon as possible..."

"So fast?" Yan Shao was stunned for a moment, but quickly nodded. "Alright, I'll go back."

After speaking, Yan Shao glanced at Fu Xiuming. "You guys are busy first, I still have some urgent matters here, so I'll go back first..."

said hello to everyone, and left the barracks with Tang Li.

It's not that Yan Shao doesn't trust them, it's just that the fewer people who know about the affairs in Shanghai, the better, after all, this action is specifically aimed at the Alliance. If there are many people who know the Dao, no one knows whether the Alliance will also know the Dao.

That's right, now Anhui is indeed at peace with the Alliance, but that's just because the Alliance has no excuse, if they have an excuse, or if they are given an excuse, Yan Shao doesn't think they will let Anhui fall into his own hands.

At least Yan Shao knew that there were many members of Anhui nationality in the alliance who had been looking at their position with hot eyes. Therefore, when Yan Shao was acting, he naturally became much more cautious.

On the other side, seeing that the military exercise had just begun, Yan Shao ran back to the city, and a kind of officers, including Fu Xiuming, were all inexplicable for a while, and one of them even came up and said. "Minister, this ...... Is there anything dissatisfying about him? ”

Fu Xiuming's surname is Fu, if he is called directly, it is Minister Fu...

Fu and Deputy have the same sound, and Minister Fu naturally became the Deputy Minister.

So basically, when everyone calls Fu Xiuming, they are called ministers, and they don't call all names.

"It shouldn't be like this..."Shaking his head, Fu Xiuming lowered his head and pondered for a moment. The deputy director of the Special Affairs Bureau who came to the governor just now, which means that this matter has a lot to do with the Special Affairs Bureau, I think...... I'm afraid something big is wrong..."

It's just that the strangest thing about Fu Xiuming is that something happened that made Yan Shao so anxious that he rushed back to the Governor's Mansion without even watching the military exercise.

"What the hell is going on..."

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Fu Xiuming was strange over there, but Yan Shao had already left the barracks with Tang Li in a car, and went straight back to the Governor's Mansion.

In the Governor's Palace, Caterina and Elaline had been waiting for a long time. Seeing that Yan Shao was back, he hurriedly greeted him and said. "The news that has just come back from Shanghai has been done, and most of the people, including Zhang Taiyan, have already gone to the newspaper with evidence. Or those influential friends of mine who plan to make this matter public, and at present, those newspapers and corresponding people have also agreed to help, and I believe that the results will be available tomorrow..."

"Mostly?" Yan Shao thought for a moment. "Who's standing still?"

"There are a few—" Elaline chuckled at this. One of the most well-known is your old acquaintance Zhang Jian..."

"It turned out to be that old man..."Hearing that it was Zhang Jian, Yan Shao nodded as a matter of course. It is not surprising that most of his industry was located near Shanghai, and he himself served as the Minister of Industry of the Provisional Government. Now Chen Qimei has killed someone. Naturally, it is impossible for him to stand up for justice and offend the people of the League..."

After all, his industries are all in Nantong, if he offends Chen Qimei. Chen Qimei is naturally the best, but if he can't be knocked down after the worst, then the most unlucky one is Zhang Jian.

What's more, even if Chen Qimei is brought down after the most reluctance, don't forget that he is a high-level member of the Alliance. Sun Yat-sen's right-hand man. Even if he really deserved it, would the people of the League be happy if he was brought down? At that time, what if Zhang Jian was given a few pairs of small shoes to wear?

So it's better to pretend to be deaf and dumb, just don't see it, and see how other people are doing...

"Anyway, with the people who are there now, what do you think we should do next?"

"How to do it, of course, is to add fuel to the fire..."Touching the stubble on his chin, Yan Shao's face showed a sneer. Anyway. Chen Qimei, the governor of the Shanghai army, don't want to do it..."After speaking, Yan Shao looked at Katarina. "By the way, is Li Xiehe still in Nanjing?"

"It's still there." Caterina nodded. "A while ago, Li Xiehe just took over the appointment of 'Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Expedition of the Liberation Army'. Originally, he was going north to fight the Qing army, but because of Tao Chengzhang's killing, he hasn't left for the time being..."

It is not surprising that as a revolutionary, Li Xiehe initially joined Huang Xing's Huaxing Society, and later passed through Shanghai on the way to escape in 1906, and met Tao Chengzhang, a famous revolutionary in Zhejiang at that time.

After that, Li Xiehe continued to travel east to Japan and re-established contact with Huang Xing and others who had gone to Japan earlier. At this time, the China League had been established in Tokyo, and under the introduction of Huang Xing, Li Xiehe joined the League again. At that time, there were many revolutionaries who had joined the two revolutionary groups, but there were few who "joined the three associations" like Li Xiehe.

After joining the League, Li Xiehe's activities were mainly in Nanyang, and with his efforts, more than 30 branches of the League were developed in Nanyang within a few years. In 1910, Tao Chengzhang became dissatisfied with Sun Yat-sen and the Nanyang branch of the League for fundraising, so he parted ways with the League and rebuilt the headquarters of the Liberation Society in Tokyo. Tao hoped that Li Xiehe would work with him to revive the Restoration Society and put him in charge of the Nanyang headquarters, so Li Xiehe returned to the Restoration Society and became the de facto leader of the Society, second only to Tao Chengzhang. After that, Li Xiehe changed the name of the organization of the League that had developed in Nanyang to the branch of the Guangfuhui, and Li Xiehe himself mainly engaged in revolutionary activities in the name of the Guangfuhui.

Now that Tao Chengzhang is dead, in a sense, Li Xiehe has become the de facto leader of the Restoration Society.

"Send someone to contact him and make him ready to replace Chen Qimei..."

There are not many people in Shanghai who are qualified to be the governor of the Shanghai army, but Li Xiehe is undoubtedly the most qualified one, and he is definitely more qualified than Chen Qimei.

After Caterina nodded to show that she knew the truth, Yan Shao said with a smile. "If we drive Chen Qimei down, but change to someone from the Alliance, wouldn't we have worked in vain..."

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The next day, when most of the people had just gotten up from bed with sleepy eyes, a piece of news spread all over Shanghai and caused a sensation across the country in a very short period of time.

The murderer of Tao Chengzhang was found...

On January 20, 1912, the truth about Tao Chengzhang's murder was published on the pages of more than a dozen newspapers, including the Declaration and the Great Republic Daily, which listed a large amount of evidence to prove that Tao Chengzhang was instigated by Chen Qimei to be committed by a young man named Jiang Zhiqing and a traitor to the Restoration Society named Wang Zhuqing, and pointed out that the young man named Jiang Zhiqing was now hiding in the Shanghai military camp.

As soon as the news broke, it spread. It immediately caused a sensation in Shanghai.

And Chen Qimei was also shocked when she learned the news, because many of the evidence published in the newspaper was genuine, and there was even the time and place when she had a secret conversation with Jiang Zhiqing.

Inside the Shanghai Military Governor's Palace. Looking at the dozen or so newspapers on the table, Chen Qimei shouted loudly with a distorted expression.

"Quick, shut up these newspapers right now!"

Glancing at Chen Qimei, who was almost crazy, a member of the Alliance frowned. "I'm afraid this is not easy to do, those newspapers are all in Wangping Street, and Wangping Street is in the public concession, if we really do anything. I'm afraid the foreigners are there—" said the man. "And the ...... on this It's all a lie, so why should the governor take it seriously..."

That being said, but neither he nor anyone else. In fact, they have already believed the words of the newspaper. Because they all knew the Jiang Zhiqing mentioned in the newspaper, it was clear that the young man named Jiang Zhiqing had been in close contact with the governor, and it was only recently that he suddenly disappeared, and if you judge by time. It's a little too much of a match.

"This—" grabbed his hair with his hand. Chen Qimei didn't know what to say.

Although almost everyone in Shanghai knows that he Chen Qimei did it, this kind of thing is better than being able to really say it.

On the other hand, the high-ranking of the League murdered the leaders of the Restoration Society? Such news is too sensational, so just when Chen Qimei didn't know what to do, the news had spread all over the country like wings, and finally reached the ears of Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Shikai is naturally happy to watch this kind of thing, but Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing can't ignore it, especially Li Xiehe, the commander-in-chief of the Liberation Army, and I don't know what Lu Dao thinks. suddenly changed his original attitude, and returned to Shanghai with the Guangfu Army to ask Chen Qimei to explain clearly...

At present, the North and the South are negotiating peace. The infighting between the revolutionaries would only cheapen Yuan Shikai, so in order to avoid the matter from getting into trouble, Huang Xing returned to Shanghai by boat overnight and asked Chen Qimei if the things in the newspaper were true.

At this time, how could Chen Qimei admit that she did the thing by herself? Naturally, it is a categorical denial. However, Huang Xing knew his temperament very well, and the evidence published in the newspaper was conclusive, Huang Xing probably believed it in his heart...

After all, if he admits it, the reputation of the League will be ruined—————— revolutionary parties will kill each other? Even if you think about it with your knees, you can know how big a blow this kind of thing will hit the Alliance.

It's just that before Huang Xing could come up with a way, Li Xiehe's Guangfu Army had already driven outside Shanghai. On the other hand, I don't know who instigated it, and the Shanghai industrial and commercial circles also jumped out and demanded that Chen Qimei be dealt with.

Under the leadership of Wuhan, representatives of various provinces wrote to the Presidential Palace, demanding a thorough investigation of the matter and the dismissal of Chen Qimei from his post as governor of the Shanghai army.

Forget about anything else, but Chen Qimei worked hard to get it, so naturally it was impossible to obediently give up the position of governor of Shanghai. Therefore, while arranging for Jiang Zhiqing to cross to Japan, Chen Qimei summoned Shanghai officers and soldiers to confront the Guangfu Army outside the city.

It's just that at this time, almost everyone believed that Tao Chengzhang was killed by Chen Qimei, and the Shanghai army could be said to have no fighting spirit, and those little brothers of the Green Gang under him? If the people of the Green Gang had lived on it, it would have been unlikely that Chen Qimei would have been tied up next to the toilet by the people of the Manufacturing Bureau.

Seeing that Shanghai was about to go wrong, a mysterious letter was also sent to Chen Qimei.

Chen Qimei, who was about to use a gun to keep the position of governor, after reading this letter, although she was very reluctant, resigned from the post of governor of the Shanghai army, and took her cronies and a lot of money to Japan overnight.

After Chen Qimei resigned from his post, he had temporarily handed over the position of governor of the Shanghai army to Huang Xing. It's just that at the moment when Chen Qimei left Shanghai, Li Xiehe, who was outside Shanghai, didn't know how Lu Dao got the news, and entered Shanghai with soldiers and horses overnight, and immediately announced that he would take over the post of governor of the Shanghai army...

The Guangfu Army was already strong and strong, but Huang Xing couldn't even call the names of the officers under him.

Coupled with Tao Chengzhang's matter, Huang Xing always felt ashamed of the Restoration Society, so although Chen Qimei had temporarily handed over the position of governor to Huang Xing before leaving, Huang Xing pinched his nose and admitted it to Li Xie and himself appointing himself as the governor of the Shanghai army...

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Before the matter was investigated, Chen Qimei went east to Japan, so it is quite clear who the real culprit is behind the scenes.

It's just that after Chen Qimei crossed east to Japan and Li Xiehe took over as the governor of Shanghai, the matter did not end.

Not long after Li Xiehe took over as the governor of the Shanghai army, the Hubei deputies took the lead in attacking and demanded that the League hand over Chen Qimei and give justice to the dead Tao Chengzhang. Immediately afterwards, more rumors came out that Chen Qimei would kill Tao Chengzhang, but it was actually instigated by Sun Yat-sen, in other words, Chen Qimei was actually the black pot that Sun Yat-sen carried...

Let's not mention whether this matter was really instigated by Sun Yat-sen, but the deep contradiction between Sun Yat-sen and Tao Chengzhang is a well-known thing, so although it is just a rumor, many people are willing to believe him, and because of this incident, the prestige of the alliance was suddenly hit hard.

I believe that for a long time, the League will not be thinking about the Northern Expedition, but how to eliminate the impact of this incident.

However, on the other hand, after learning that all the evidence against Chen Qimei was sent to the homes of Zhang Taiyan and others by a mysterious person, not only did his reputation be damaged, but he also hated this mysterious person when he lost the Shanghai Alliance, especially Chen Qimei, who had arrived in Tokyo. (To be continued......)