Zhao Bingjun hurriedly replied: "The handsome body has always been strong, and after a period of time, I will ensure that the horse can be ridden, the wine can be drunk, and the meat can be eaten. My subordinates still want to follow you for another thirty or fifty years, reorganize the sun and the moon, recreate the world, and return me to a Qingming world in China! ”

Yuan Keding said angrily: "My father's health has always been excellent, and the reason why I suddenly vomited blood and fainted today is that I think the biggest root cause of the disease is Sun Yuanqi's dog thing!" On the surface, he was maneuvering with us in the Congress, and he also pretended to be gentle, courteous, and frugal, claiming that he wanted to discuss the issue of the presidential election first, but he did not know that he secretly played a trick in an attempt to annex the whole province of Fujian and form a three-sided encirclement of Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei, and other provinces in Beiyang. is so insidious and cunning, and still claims to be a saint, I really don't know what shame is! ”

Yuan Shikai did not reprimand Yuan Keding this time, but looked at Duan Qirui: "Zhiquan, you are the chief of the army, what do you think of the Zhejiang army's attack on Fujian?" What happens next? ”

Duan Qirui had already received information from Fujian, and replied: "The whereabouts of the various units under Sun Baixi's command are secretive, and the sense of secrecy is quite strong, and we have not yet penetrated into it, resulting in various kinds of information received by the War Department that are complicated and difficult to distinguish between true and false. In the two or three months since the southern rebellion was put down, although the War Department has also received information that Zhu Shaoliang, commander of the Second Brigade of the First Division of the Shaanxi Army, has an unknown whereabouts, that the Zhejiang Independent Brigade stationed in southern Zhejiang is conducting exercises, and that the Guangdong Air Regiment is building an airfield in the Jiaying area of Chaozhou in northern Guangdong, this information is scattered and hidden in countless other sources. It's hard to get any clues from this.

"Moreover, last year's campaign to quell the rebellion in the south lasted for more than two months, and our Beiyang departments were still extremely exhausted. In urgent need of rest, unable to fight again; The Hubei Second Division under Sun Baixi was not long in formation, first rushed straight to Changsha, and then rushed thousands of miles to Guangzhou, thinking that it was the end of the light crossbow. In addition, they have very few troops, and they have to be scattered to garrison and bomb suppression areas, and the War Department judges that it is impossible for them to start another war within half a year. Unexpectedly, Sun Baixi actually transferred the troops of Zhu Zhujie people in Zhejiang, plus the navy and aircraft to besiege Fujian! ”

Yang Shiqi interjected: "Actually, we should have thought that Zhu Jieren would send troops!" First, the reason why Zhu Jieren was able to become the governor of Zhejiang. Most of it was recommended by Tang Yuxian (Tang Shouqian), and Tang Yuxian has always been loyal to Sun Baixi. Second, since the Republic of China, the Zhejiang Provincial Assembly has always been controlled by the New China Party, and its influence is deep-rooted, and Zhu Jieren does not dare to easily brush their tiger whiskers. Third, the gentry in Zhejiang Province and Shanghai are the only ones who look forward to Bloomage Bank. All this, it is reasonable for Zhu Jieren to be ordered by Sun Baixi. What's more, a month ago, Tang Yuxian made a special trip back to Zhejiang to meet Zhu Jieren in the name of visiting relatives? Now that I think about it, Tang Yuxian should have deliberately gone back to say that Zhu Jieren would send troops! ”

Yuan Shikai coughed a few times: "Maybe someone can think of Zhu Jieren sending troops." But no one would have thought that Sun Baixi would dare to risk the world's condemnation at this time and brazenly send troops to Fujian. However, at this point, regret is useless, and the most important thing now is how we should respond! ”

Duan Qirui hurriedly replied: "Back to the marshal, the Fujian army was reorganized into the 14th Division of the Army after the reform of the military system, under the jurisdiction of the 27th and 28th brigades. However, they were not fully staffed, and there were only more than 8,000 officers and soldiers on the register, and Xu Chongzhi was originally the division commander. However, Xu Chongzhi had absconded on suspicion of leading the Fujian rebellion, which caused the post of division commander to be vacant for a long time, and the whole division was discouraged and had no fighting spirit. Now Min Governor Sun Hui'an has changed his flag and defected to Sun Baixi. He wanted to rely on the local army of Fujian to temporarily resist the invasion of the Zhejiang army. I'm afraid there is no hope!

"The closest to Fujian is the headquarters of Li Xiushan (Li Chun) of the Sixth Beiyang Division stationed near Nanchang, Jiangxi, and they should have recovered their combat strength after nearly two months of rest. But Fujian is mountainous everywhere. The mountains are rugged and difficult to walk, and since ancient times, there is a saying that 'the Min Road is more difficult than the Shu Road'. Even if Li Xiushan's department is opened now, it may not be able to reach Fuzhou in a month or two. Even if they rushed to Fuzhou with great difficulty, they were afraid that it would be useless, because one or two months was enough time for the Zhejiang army to settle the whole province of Fujian!

"The navy was originally a sharp weapon to solve the current crisis in Fujian, but now the navy is under the control of Chiang Kai-shek, a large number of naval ships have been transferred to the Haizhou area to participate in military exercises, and a small number of ships of Chiang Zhiqing's line have been sent to Fujian to participate in the shelling of Fuzhou. Therefore, we are afraid that the situation in Fujian is beyond the reach of the whip! ”

Yuan Shikai frowned and said: "According to what Zhiquan said, we are helpless now, we can only sit back and watch Sun Baixi annex Fujian?" ”

Duan Qirui said: "Yes, it is really difficult for us to directly intervene in the situation in Fujian. But if the marshal wants to prevent the Zhejiang army from entering Fujian, it is not impossible to have other ways-"

"Oh? Come and hear it! Seeing that Duan Qirui wanted to speak and stopped, Yuan Shikai hurriedly urged.

"Siege Wei to save Zhao!" Duan Qirui's answer was neat.

"Where?"

"It depends on how big and how long the boss is going to fight!"

"What do you say? What do you say about small? ”

Duan Qirui said: "If the commander is ready to fight a big war, then we can order the direct governor Feng Huafu (Feng Guozhang) to Shanxi, the governor of Henan Zhang Zhipu (Zhang Zhenfang), the governor of Hubei Duan Xiangyan (Duan Zhigui) to western Hubei, the governor of Jiangxi Li Xiushan (Li Chun) to Hunan, and the governor of Jiangsu Jin Yiqing (Jin Yunpeng) to put on a strategic offensive posture against Zhejiang, and if necessary, we can also contact the governor of Guangxi Lu Ganqing (Lu Rongting), the governor of Guizhou Tang Geng (Tang Jiyao), and the governor of Yunnan Cai Songpo (Cai Yi) to force the Zhejiang army to withdraw from Fujian with a thunderous momentum. Then the governor of Fujian Province was replaced. The advantage is to fight the rabbit with the whole lion, which can be done in one battle; The disadvantage is that once Sun Baixi is not coerced, or if there is a misfire, it can easily become a vicious battle between the two sides.

"If the marshal is ready to fight, then he only needs to order Su Governor Jin Yiqing and Anhui Governor Ni Danchen (Ni Sichong) to send troops to Hangzhou to force Zhu Jieren to withdraw his troops. The advantage of this move is that it is small in scale and easy to control; But the shortcomings are also obvious, because the Zhejiang army went south this time was originally based on deterrence, supplemented by a strong attack, and now Sun Hui'an has changed his banner, and the purpose of the Zhejiang army has basically been achieved, Sun Baixi only needs to send a team of men and horses into Fujian to receive, and it doesn't matter whether the army retreats or not. Therefore, forcing Zhu Jieren to withdraw his troops cannot fundamentally solve the Fujian problem, and it needs to be supplemented by other means. Contempt is so, how to ask the marshal to adjudicate! ”

Duan Qirui's answer made Yuan Shikai hesitate: A small fight? Not only is it difficult to vent the anger in his heart, but Sun Yuanqi may not care about it, and it is easy to make a sandwich rice. But if it's really going to make a big fuss, you may not be able to win the battle, and maybe even the current family will lose everything!

Liang Shiyi, Zhao Bingjun and others also quietly waited for the final answer. In such major issues of right and wrong, the cadres at the top must make their own decisions, and no one can overstep their authority. For a moment there was silence in the room, and only the dull sound of a gilded Western clock hanging on the wall outside could be heard.

Before Yuan Shikai could speak, Yuan Keding on the side couldn't hold back: "Is there a difference between big fights and small fights?" Since we can use the method of besieging Hangzhou to relieve the crisis in Fujian, won't Sun Yuanqi use the trick of besieging Jiangxi, Hubei, Hebei and even Zhili and Jingshi to force our Anhui and Jiangsu troops to retreat? Why don't we want to take the lead?

Since the Republic of China, he has successively seized Shanxi, Qinghai, Hunan, Guangdong provinces and half of Hubei, and now he has stretched out his claws to Fujian, which shows his insatiable greed and wolf ambition of not annexing the world! Rather than be cut to death by him attacking a mansion today and occupying a place tomorrow, why don't we concentrate all our efforts on fighting to the death? ”

Yuan Shikai was slightly moved.

Seeing this, Liang Shiyi said: "The eldest young master said very much, Sun Baixi is humble on the surface, but ruthless in his heart, and he is actually a fierce rival in my Beiyang department. If you don't get rid of this fang, it will eventually be a big trouble for my Beiyang henchmen! His subordinates felt that if the president decided to do it, we could secretly dispatch the Third Army Division stationed in Nanyuan into Beijing, and surround the headquarters of the New China Party and the residences of Sun Baixi, Tang Yuxian and others, capture all the important members of the party in one fell swoop, and fundamentally eradicate the root cause of the rebellion.

The other took advantage of the House and Senate meetings to discuss the draft constitution to besiege Congress, cut off food and water, and threatened to leave the House of Representatives without electing a president. As soon as the president is elected, all important members of the New China Party and the Kuomintang will be arrested immediately on charges of plotting rebellion, and the qualifications of the two parties will be banned, so that the National Assembly will never be able to convene because it will not reach the required number of people, and the worries about the future will be completely relieved. I wonder what the president thinks? ”

In real history, Liang Shiyi, together with Yuan Shikai, took advantage of the joint meeting of the members of the two houses in the House of Representatives to send thousands of citizens, composed of soldiers, plainclothes policemen, detectives and hooligans, to surround the meeting hall and completely cut off the food supply, and the parliamentarians were only allowed to enter and leave. Although these members of the civic group were wearing civilian clothes outside, their military trousers, leather boots, short guns, and other signs were clearly visible, and they were still shouting and shouting proudly outside the stadium: "If we don't elect our favorite president today, you won't come up with it!" In this way, from morning to ten o'clock in the evening, Yuan Shikai was reluctantly elected, the president they liked.

Unexpectedly, in another time period, it was still Liang Shiyi who contributed this bad idea!

Yuan Shikai's eyes lit up when he heard this, but Duan Qirui was a little hesitant: "Yan Sun, Sun Baixi's vain sword attack on Fujian should be punished, and Duan Mou also agrees with this." But sending troops to arrest the prime minister, coercing the arrest of parliamentarians, and even dissolving the Diet is too much, right? ”

Liang Shiyi retorted: "What do you mean it's too much? As you said, it was Sun Baixi who was at fault first, and we just gave back to him in his own way, even if there were mistakes between them, it was only overkill. What could be wrong with that? Can we just follow the rules and wait to be killed? Furthermore, if you want to make extraordinary contributions, you must do extraordinary things. Zhiquan, why do you care so much? ”

Yuan Keding praised loudly: "Secretary General Yansun Gao Jian, Yuan admires!" ”

Yuan Shikai did not speak, but looked at Zhao Bingjun, Yang Shiqi and others. Everyone is an old man who has followed Yuan Shikai for many years, how can they not know the meaning, and they all hurriedly replied: "The subordinates think that Yan Sun's proposal is extremely true!" ”

Yuan Shikai nodded with satisfaction: "Since everyone agrees, let's do what Yan Sun said!" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m.qidian. )