Lying on the bed hugging Caterina and smelling the elegant fragrance on her body, Yan Shao's mood became very quiet.

Subconsciously, he already felt that there was nothing to threaten him.

Beiyang? Beiyang is indeed a trouble, but after more than half a year, Beiyang is just a trouble.

The affairs of Outer Mongolia have already involved too much energy in Beiyang, but Yan Shao is taking advantage of the development of the Outer Mongolia incident to strengthen his strength.

If Yan Shao was still worried about Beiyang's actions before, then after the nine infantry divisions of the National Social Army already had quite strong combat effectiveness, Yan Shao no longer worried about Beiyang's problems...

As for the Kuomintang? When there were still more than 100,000 people's troops in Nanjing, Yan Shao never regarded them as any trouble, let alone now...

In Yan Shao's view, what he needs to do next is just to work hard to develop his strength, and then wait for a suitable opportunity to wave his troops north, solve the troubles of the Kuomintang and Beiyang, and then quietly wait for the outbreak of World War I...

World War I...

A war that changes the pattern of the world, as long as he can take advantage of this war, Yan Shao can take this opportunity to develop China into a power in the true sense of the word...

As for whether the people in Beiyang and the Kuomintang will take the initiative to trouble him? Yan Shao really hadn't thought about it, because he never thought it was a problem...

If everything really went as he thought...

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In front of a mansion somewhere in the Shanghai Concession, the young man who opened the door looked at the two suspicious guys standing in front of him with strange and vigilant eyes.

"It's weird. This is obviously a very hidden place, how did these two guys find the door? ”

It's just that just when he was still wondering in his heart, the ordinary-looking person at the head asked with a smile. "Excuse me. Is this the residence of Mr. Li Guoyun and Mr. Li? ”

Hearing the words of the two people, the young man's face suddenly changed, and his hand immediately stretched out to the door, but before he could close the door, the two people outside had already held the door very tacitly.

"Don't worry, we're not from Anhui, and we have something important to discuss with Mr. Li this time..."

When talking. The man at the head tried to make his smile more kind.

It's a pity that in the eyes of the young man at this time, no matter how kind the smiles on the faces of these two people were, in the eyes of the young man, there was only terror left.

However, as he tried his best to close the door. only to find that the door did not move.

It was at this time that a somewhat hoarse voice came from the courtyard.

"Xiao An, what's the matter..."

As he spoke, a middle-aged man in his 40s walked out of the courtyard.

Li Guoyun. He was the deputy governor of the Anhui Military Government. The vice president of the Innovation Association can also be called a figure above 10,000 people under one person, but now he is just a haggard middle-aged man.

Not only did he face the emaciation, but even the hair on his face turned gray...

Seeing this person, the eyes of the two people outside the door were fixed, because they had already found the person they were looking for this time.

"You're Mr. Feijun, aren't you?" took two steps forward, and the person at the head said very politely.

"Who are you?" Look at these two strangers. Li Guoyun's eyes revealed a hint of vigilance.

And after seeing Li Guoyun like this, the two of them sighed in their hearts.

Not long since. Li Guoyun can also be said to be above 10,000 people under one person, except for Yan Shao in Anhui, almost no one can be higher than him. And because he is the patriarch of the Innovation Society, and he has a considerable reputation in the Anhui territory, even Yan Shao respects him very much...

If the story only ends here, it seems to be relatively perfect...

Although Li Guoyun didn't have any real power when he was in Anhui, after all, he had a very high status, and even those powerful people couldn't give him a face, but who told him to make the wrong choice...

As Li Hongzhang's nephew, although Li Guoyun is from Anhui, he is very inclined to have Yuan Shikai as the president, and he also has a lot of support for Yuan Shikai.

At the beginning, he would support Yan Shao, on the one hand, because Yan Shao did do a lot of practical things in Anhui, and on the other hand, it was also to avoid Anhui falling into the hands of the League—————— the importance of Anhui's geographical location, it goes without saying that if Anhui falls into the hands of the Alliance, it will be a troublesome thing for Yuan Shikai.

At that time, Li Guoyun obviously didn't realize that Yan Shao was far more troublesome than the rabble of the Alliance.

By the time he realized this and discovered Yan Shao's ambitions, Yan Shao had already gained a firm foothold in Anhui, and it was not something that he, the deputy governor with little real power, could shake...

However, he did not give up, plus at this time, Bai Wenwei in Nanjing wanted to recapture Anhui, and Yuan Shikai in the north also wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and then come to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

So under the order of Yuan Shikai, Li Guoyun, as Bai Wenwei's internal response, sent a telegram in Shanghai to condemn Yan Shao and invite Bai Wenwei to Anhui.

At that time, Nanjing was full of hungry militia soldiers, for them to have food more important than anything else, at this time someone was willing to take them into Anhui to eat meat, they naturally had no possibility of opposition, so under the call of Bai Wenwei, soon there were eighty or ninety thousand militia marching in the direction of Dangtu.

Compared with Bai Wenwei's eighty or ninety thousand people's army, Yan Shao's troops on that side seemed a little pitiful.

In the eyes of everyone at that time, Yan Shao's defeat was predictable, even those who supported Yan Shao in public opinion, after all, the difference between the strength of the two sides was too big, and Yan Shao's soldiers were also some recruits who had just enlisted in the army, unlike Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army, which was all elite training...

It's just the result of the battle of Cihu River, but it is a big surprise.

First, a brigade of Liu Guangyuan defeated one of Bai Wenwei's divisions, and then broke Bai Wenwei's army at the Cihu River.

Most of the people who begged Yan Jun wanted to eat meat with them, but now that the meat was not eaten, several teeth were knocked out, and the Cihu River, which was not very wide, did not seem to be as easy to pass as imagined.

Doubting whether the Anhui Revolutionary Army could be defeated, the military spirit of the Yan Army began to waver.

And taking advantage of this opportunity, the people of the Special Affairs Bureau took the opportunity to bribe many high-ranking officers in the Yan Army, and made them turn against Bai Wenwei in the final decisive battle.

In the end, Bai Wenwei died in the chaos, Xu Baoshan also fled back to Yangzhou with the only remaining soldiers and horses, and united with Li Xiehe in Shanghai in order to protect himself, and Nanjing, in order to calm the pressure of public opinion, also launched Jiang Zuobin and several other scapegoats...

As for Li Guoyun...

Originally, according to his agreement with Yuan Shikai, he would become the governor of Anhui, and according to his agreement with Bai Wenwei, he would continue to be his deputy governor and make up for a fat shortage of ministers, instead of just having a false name as in the past.

Who would have thought that when Li Guoyun planned to set off from Shanghai, to celebrate Bai Wenwei's achievements and receive his reward by the way, Bai Wenwei failed.

Bai Wenwei failed, and the things he originally promised Li Guoyun were naturally gone.

As for the Alliance, this time the Alliance has lost so much, and it is already good that they didn't settle accounts with Li Guoyun, what reward can they give him? Anyway, both sides are just using each other, and they don't feel the need to take any responsibility for Bai Wenwei...

And Yuan Shikai, on his side, also felt that Li Guoyun was useless, so he abandoned him—————— of course, Yuan Shikai was still a little humane, at least bought him a set of courtyards in Shanghai, and gave him some money, so that he could at least 'spend his old age in Shanghai'.

However, for Li Guoyun, as the original deputy governor of Anhui, he has now become like this, and the mental blow can be imagined.

What's more, to the League and Yuan Shikai, he is just a useless prop, but to Yan Shao and the rest of the National Socialist Party, he is a traitor...

After being wanted by the Anhui military government, his property in Anhui was also confiscated, the only thing that made him glad was that his relatives in Anhui were not harassed, but in addition to a few of his closest relatives, in order to be able to live a better life in Anhui, those relatives still drew a line with him...

Another blow...

At this time, there was news from Anhui that the Special Affairs Bureau planned to arrest him back to Anhui for trial, and even directly assassinated him, and Li Guoyun had to hide carefully in the concession. Now, not to mention the concession, even this mansion has rarely taken a step out of the way...

In this environment, Li Guoyun can be said to be living like a year, and he was originally a high-spirited person, but now he is also tortured and haggard.

If it goes on like this, even if Yan Shao doesn't send someone to clean him up, I'm afraid he will collapse first.

Therefore, when he saw those two people, although Li Guoyun was a little vigilant, his heart relaxed, and he felt a sense of relief that he was finally here.

Just looking at Li Guoyun's decadent appearance, the two people kept sighing, because they didn't know if the person in front of them could still play a role as they thought.

If you can't...

Then they ran for nothing this time...

But I don't dare to say anything, they always have to talk about it in person, after all, some things can only be concluded after they have been discussed.

So after bowing his head and muttering for a while, the person in charge asked with a smile. "What, Mr. Feijun, don't you want us to go and sit down first?"

Seeing the appearance of the two people, Li Guoyun, who was a little relieved, nodded, and the person also looked like he was still in Anhui. "That's right, it's really not hospitality, in that case, please come in with me," he said and said to the young man after the two of them came in. Xiao An, remember to close the door..."

"Yes, sir..." (To be continued......)