The representatives of the provincial government and parliament who had left the Qi Mansion did not disperse and gathered at President Liu's house, where the first thing they discussed at the subsequent meeting was the appointment of generals, and there was no suitable candidate in their minds except for He Feihu. Low-level officers and noncommissioned officers are easy to handle, and they can gain some through high-intensity training, but being able to command thousands or tens of thousands of people requires a lot of actual combat experience.

"Only the conditions of Qi Gong's old ministry are sufficient, but they are not reliable." Jiangxi Doctor Yu is worried that he is spending money to make wedding dresses for others, although the Qing Yuan has formulated a lot of restrictive military laws, hoping to reduce the control of the military head over the army, but if the other party does not abide by it, it is useless to have any system.

"In fact, those gang are also a group of defeated generals, and Duke Qi himself has said that they are not suitable for generals, and the so-called experience is to have suffered one or two defeats."

"But what then?" In addition to the problems of the Qing Yuan, the party problem still exists, and all the parties in the Qing Yuan are unwilling to put forward candidates shirtless, in case of defeat, this will lead to infinite passivity in the party struggle, and it is conceivable that the hostile party will put the responsibility of the defeat and sacrifice on their own heads, so all the parties after weighing the pros and cons, feel that it is best to let Qi Gong arbitrarily choose the official candidate: "The person appointed by Qi Gong has been defeated, he has Qi Gong and his friends to protect him, if the person we push out is defeated, then the proposer will have to be unlucky together." ”

After this layer of window paper was pierced, the people present thought for a while, and felt that it was still necessary to be in the same boat, and to share the responsibility, and finally decided that the governor should be responsible for proposing the leader of the provincial army, and then the secretary of the court approved: "Forget the previous ones, and the future armies must be formed in the province for a period of time before they can be handed over to people to take away." ”

"If only a few generals on Li Shun's side surrendered to us, we wouldn't have to be so distressed." The governor of Fujian suddenly had a whim.

"How?"

"Why not? If we have the upper hand, in fact, the surrender will be more reliable, and we are not qualified to intrigue and can only fight desperately; Moreover, the generals from the north with the soldiers from the south must be honest and will not have any dissenting intentions. ”

Speaking of which, some people can't help but sigh: "It would be good if General Xu surrendered to the Qingyuan, so that we would hand over the army to him." "The feud between Xu Ping and Qi Gong's gang is as deep as the sea, if it is used to defend the Qing Yuan, it must be very useful, and there is no need to worry about the southern officers and soldiers following him to rebel.

"But General Xu will not surrender to us, so there is no need to think about it." In the eyes of the Qing Yuan, these people who followed Xu Ping to fight the world were the most dangerous enemies, loyal to Li Shun and Xu Ping, and would be dissatisfied if Li Shun was defeated. But if it is only a middle-level and high-ranking officer trained by Xu Ping, the 800-year-old secretary does not feel that it is a threat, on the contrary, it may be able to help balance the current forces in the army.

"What I've been thinking about just now is," Dr. Miao, who had not actively participated in the discussion, coldly raised a new topic: "Should we support Qi Gong to completely eliminate Li Shun?" ”

This question did not cause any exclamations, and the question of Dr. Miao actually hit the question that had been swirling in the hearts of many people for a long time.

"Maybe it shouldn't be so fast." Doctor Miao said as if talking to himself: "Before we are sure to save our lives and the Qing Yuan, don't let Li Shun finish too quickly." ”

"Duke Qi doesn't seem to have any deep hatred for Li Shun," the governor of Guangdong echoed in a low voice: "I don't think Duke Qi is very active in eliminating Li Shun, and it is the gang of people under him who are particularly enthusiastic. ”

"yes." These words caused several voices of approval, and immediately everyone relieved themselves of the charge of betrayal, which is always uncomfortable to put in their hearts.

"No matter what Duke Qi thinks now, the Qing Yuan was established to resist Li Shun's threat, to prevent his subordinates from bullying his superiors and subordinates, and to protect the court society; And if Li Shun is finished, the threat is eliminated, and his subordinates will not let the court and society overturn, then what is the need to preserve the court? Doctor Miao said a little unconfidently: "Needless to say, the gang under Qi Gong knows that they think we are just a tool for raising money and salary, in the past, Li Shun let us when he was under pressure, but now that the war is going well, they are very unhappy about the disclosure of the Qing Yuan." is Qi Gong himself, in the future, the world will be peaceful, the country and the people will be safe, will Qi Gong's mind not change? ”

Many of the people present began to feel uneasy, including the officials of the Governor's Palace, all their rights came from the Qing Yuan, except for the Governor of Fujian, the other Governors and the Duke of Qi were far from being familiar, for example, the Governor of Guangdong could almost call out the names of every doctor in the Provincial Governor's Court, but today was the first time he had visited the Duke of Qi, and there were several other governors who were not as good as him.

"If Li Shun is still here," Dr. Lu said in response to Dr. Miao's train of thought, "then the threat has not been eliminated, and if there is no Qing Yuan, Li Shun may counterattack, so it is unlikely that he will come to trouble the Qing Yuan." ”

"But how strong and weak is this Li Shun?" It has been pointed out that if Li Shun is too strong, then with time and the recovery of the North, it may develop to the point of threatening the survival of the Southern Parliament, and if there is a strong and hostile neighbor in the presence of Li Shun, Li Shun will certainly not give up on unifying the world, then it means that the South will have to maintain high military spending.

"We can't make them the best in the world."

"Drive them across Jiangbei?"

"Of course you have to get Nanjing back, but isn't it still a bit strong?"

"How about crossing the Huai River?"

"The line of the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River is the dividing line between the north and the south, but since ancient times, it seems that this alone is still a threat, and the north will not die, and the country still has to spend money to raise a large number of troops."

"Ladies and gentlemen," Dr. Miao thought for a moment, and felt that he had cleared his mind: "First of all: if the Qing Yuan had an army loyal to him, and could stop the supply of troops that disobeyed the orders of the Qing Yuan at will, or disband the army in the hands of those scheming generals, Li Shun would not need to exist. ”

Everyone admits that Dr. Miao is right.

"But at the moment we can't reach this step, so we expect the enemies of the Qing Yuan not to attack us, under what circumstances will the enemies of the Qing Yuan not attack us?" Dr. Miao asked.

"When attacking the Chambers will bring them to their death with us." As enemies for many years, Dr. Lu and Dr. Miao's thinking became more and more consistent: "So if we want Li Shun to be useful to us, then its strength must not be too bad, and after the people hostile to the Qing Yuan launch infighting, Li Shun must be able to pose a threat to them, so that they will not act rashly." ”

"That's right." Everyone agrees with this analysis: "If there is a short and concise Li Shun, then the Qingyuan is as safe as Mount Tai." ”

In the end, the consensus of the people was that if Li Shun's main force was defeated and then confined to Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, and Liaodong, then for the time being, it would have a deterrent effect and would not reach the point of delusional desire to unify China.

Of course, the Qingyuan still has to work hard to reform the army, and without the strength to resist, Li Shun will not be able to help the Qingyuan, and if the strength is strong enough, Li Shun will not have the need to exist.

The meeting at President Liu's house was five days and four nights, and the next day he went to find several leaders of the Zhejiang Provisional Qing Yuan for a secret talk, and Chen Zizhuang, the leader of the Donglin Party, then joined them - at first, the Donglin Party decided not to get involved in the conspiracy to reach out to military power out of the traditional wisdom cultivated in the Ming Dynasty, and Qi Gong's initial attitude was suspected of "luring the snake out of the hole". After Chen Zizhuang learned about the meeting, he hurriedly joined the secret meeting of the Secretary of State to get a piece of the pie.

Five days later, the six provincial councils and the five provincial governments reached a number of agreements, including a number of internal compromises, the most important of which was the non-partisanization of the military. Neither party can attempt to form an SS, or develop an army into an SS, so as to avoid the final use of force to achieve their goals in the Reichstag.

Focusing on the goal of nationalizing the armed forces, the three major parties have formed a consensus on several laws, such as: the military can ask whether a soldier is loyal to the governor's office or the provincial court, and has the right to make unrestricted personnel transfers based on the other party's answer to this question - for example, the dismissal of a soldier can be based on the single reason that "he does not swear allegiance to the court"; But it is not permissible to ask a soldier what he thinks of his party, not even a general can ask a soldier who he will vote for in an election, much less to justify any personnel transfer. Another example: the command of the army is finally decided to be given to the provincial government instead of the provincial council. Proposals such as these will be put forward and voted on by the provincial secretaries and courts as quickly as possible - since the three major parties have reached an agreement, it should not be a problem to pass them.

Finally, there is the issue of sending observers to the military, which can help the Secretary of State understand the dynamics of the military, but the Secretary Yuan is also worried about partisanship. For example, if He Feihu is found to be inclined to the Kuomintang, observers from the Labor Party and the Donglin Party may be inclined to belittle him, while observers from the Kuomintang may turn a blind eye to this. It may be fair to exclude one group, but there are many parties in the court, and in some provinces there are even more than a dozen parties, so the question of who is selected will become very troublesome. Needless to say, it is obvious that the 150-strong Secretary of State could not have sent an observation group of more than a dozen parliamentarians for a general.

……

One day when he arrived in Jiangxi to take office, He Feihu met a doctor from the Jiangxi Qing Academy.

"General He, contemptible Ren Hongcheng, a member of the Jiangxi Provincial Academy." Now almost no one in the doctor in the court is still using the number, and even the word is gone, which is first of all out of the need to be close to the people, after all, the vast majority of voters do not have a font size, and it is easier to narrow the distance with the voters if they refuse to use the font size; Secondly, the font size is easy to confuse the voters, after all, the name is written on the ballot, and if the voter clearly wants to vote for you but remembers the wrong name, it will be a big loss.

"Doctor Ren." He Feihu still didn't know very well what the other party was going to do in his army.

Ren Hongcheng told He Feihu that his work in the Qing Yuan had been suspended, and that he would observe He Feihu's work in the army for some time to come. At the same time, Ren Hongcheng also informed He Feihu that he might accompany the 11th Division when it went on expedition in the future, after all, the volunteers from Jiangxi Province of this division had an absolute advantage, and the military expenditure was also allocated by Jiangxi Province, and the Jiangxi Provincial Secretary Yuan and the Governor's Office naturally believed that they had the ownership of this division.

"Jin Yiwei!" After listening to the other party's self-introduction and explanation of the nature of the work, these three words immediately popped up in He Feihu's mind.

"If you want to use an analogy, the contemptible people are probably equivalent to the previous prison army, but the contemptible people are not Jinyi guards," Ren Hongcheng said to He Feihu with a smile: "The contemptible people will never interfere with any command of the general, and the contemptible people have no right to cancel or issue any orders." ”

This right does sound much lower than that of the prison army, and the vigilance in He Feihu's heart is omitted.

One of the most important compromises reached by the parties in the Jiangxi Qingyuan is that the observers do not have any military power, but are only the eyes of the Qingyuan in the military.

If the observers do not have any influence over the military, it is more reassuring to be appointed even if they are not members of their own party.

In addition to the actual rights, there is also the right to report, in the past, the generals have always been flattering the supervising army, and the Qing Yuan believes that in addition to the power in their hands, more importantly, the generals do not know what the supervising army has written, and this unknown gives the supervising army a great position advantage.

"The contemptible people will make a small report to the Qing Yuan, but they will definitely not make a small report," Ren Hongcheng further explained: "The Qing Yuan clearly ordered the contemptible people that all reports to the Qing Yuan must be handed over to General He in advance, including any dissatisfaction I have with General He, can only be reported to the Qing Yuan after you have seen it." ”

"Oh?" He Feihu obviously didn't understand this very well.

"The order given by the Qing Yuan to the contemptible people is to observe the army, but the contemptible people are not soldiers, many things may be misunderstood, and they don't know why, so the Qing Yuan requires that my report be handed over to General He in advance, and only if General He signs and confirms that he has read the report, the Qing Yuan will accept it, and General He can attach your modifications to the contemptible report. Some things may be misunderstood, and General He can further explain them to the Qing Yuan, so that the Qing Yuan can better understand the situation of the 11th Division. Ren Hongcheng handed over a specific instruction manual to He Feihu, in which the Qing Yuan informed him in detail of the authority of the observer it sent: "If General He thinks that the contemptible person is derelict in his duties, he can ask for the observer to be replaced, and the Qing Yuan will send someone down to investigate." ”

"Finally, there is another one," Ren Hongcheng opened a letter from the Jiangxi Qingyuan to He Feihu, and read it aloud: "Ren Hongcheng is the doctor of the Donglin Party of the Jiangxi Qingyuan, and the Jiangxi Qingyuan suggested that General He should take the most sarcastic and sarcastic measures against the Kuomintang, the Labor Party and other parties even if he is extremely disgusted with the Donglin Party in his heart, and in turn singing the praises of the great achievements of the Donglin Party will be extremely conducive to Ren Hongcheng's report attitude." ”

"What is this?" He Feihu and the second monk couldn't figure it out.

"This is a letter from the Qing Yuan to the general, ordering it to be read to you," Ren Hongcheng smiled, "But it is not so much written to the general, but it is better to be written by the Qing Yuan to remind me." ”

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