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Chapter 223: The Beginning of Chaos (Part II)

Afterwards, Chen Deshang invited himself to Honolulu to meet Sun Yat-sen, gave an explanation, and also gave the revolutionary army a large amount of aid funds, but the losses of the revolutionary army in the south were still irreparable. For this reason, Chen Deshang, who felt guilty, specially sent someone back to Chen Jiachong to ask Xu Changqing how the revolutionary army could recover its decline. However, Xu Changqing did not see anyone on the grounds that he was no longer the owner of Yizhuang, but entrusted everything to Huang Juan.

What Huang Juan has learned now is beyond the scope of Xu Changqing's knowledge, and he has nothing to teach Huang Juan anymore, the only thing he can do is to hand over to her the worldly strategy and the way of military strategy. With Huang Juan's ability to leak the eye of the sky, coupled with the knowledge she has mastered, she is already qualified for the identity of the owner of Yizhuang. Soon after meeting the people sent by Chen Deshang, she found out the luck of the revolutionary army and gave some advice.

Perhaps because of its distrust of Huang Juan, the revolutionary army did not fully follow her plan to shift its focus to Yunnan-Guizhou, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the north of the Yangtze River, and still focused most of its efforts on Liangguang, Fujian, and other places. In the end, they lost a large number of people in a stillborn uprising, and then they came to their senses and gradually began to spread their thoughts in all directions according to Huang Juan's advice.

Nearly ninety percent of the non-commissioned officers and cadets of the Yunnan Sixth Army's Lecture Hall, the most important military general in Yunnan and Guizhou, became underground members of the revolutionary army, and most of the Yunnan-Guizhou military, headed by General Cai Yi, the 37th co-commander of the 19th town of the New Army, also voluntarily joined the League. It can be said that the land of Yungui has been completely in the hands of the Alliance, and the revolutionary army, which has been wandering outside, also has a real territory.

In addition, the revolutionary army's control of the major cities in the Yangtze River valley is also proceeding in an orderly manner, among which Wuhan, the largest military industrial city, is the most prominent. First, two revolutionary organizations, the Literary Society and the Communist Advancement Association, were established, and then the revolutionary ideas were vigorously displayed in the Wuhan New Army, and soon a large number of generals of the New Army responded, and gradually military organizations such as the baggage brigade, the artillery battalion, and the engineering team joined the revolutionary army one after another. However, Rui Cheng, the governor of Huguang, knew nothing about the activities of the revolutionary army, and now he was busy competing for military power with Zhang Xun, who was ordered to guard Wuchang.

In the land of Liangjiang with Nanjing as the center, although Zhang Renjun, a capable official of the royalist faction, was stationed, he did not know that he was just a hollowed out governor of Liangjiang, and the real power was Hu Yueniang, the leader of the Foreign Dao League. In this rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, nearly seventy percent of the officials and army generals are secular disciples of the Waidao League, and even the most favored concubine around Zhang Renjun is also a prostitute. Hu Yueniang knew very well how powerful the Heavenly Dao Calculation of the Nine Streams and One Vein was, so after establishing the Outer Dao Alliance, she followed Xu Changqing's guidance to the Chen family, and befriended the Beiyang Army and the Alliance respectively, and there were constantly secular disciples to join the organizations of the two, and gradually formed two factions in the Outer Dao Alliance, and at the same time, the Alliance also gained a firm foothold in Jiangnan.

While the League continued to expand to the north, the Qing court took the destruction of the revolutionary army's important bases in Liangguang and began endless infighting. After the regent Zaifeng joined forces with the Beiyang faction and the patriarchal faction, he became weaker and weaker, and without the consent of the people of these two factions, the daily decree would definitely not be able to go out of the capital for 300 miles. Zaifeng's ambitions when he ascended to the throne of regent were gradually exhausted by these constraints, and he gradually became obsessed with antiques and calligraphy and painting, and all but the most loyal royalists under his command were divided among the other two factions.

Zaifeng gradually faded out of the power struggle in the court, but unexpectedly caused a rift between the Beiyang faction and the patriarchal faction, which had been closely cooperating. First of all, because of the appointment of the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, the patriarchal faction suddenly changed its face in the court, so that the original candidates set by the Beiyang faction could not take office, and the Beiyang faction did not show weakness, so that all the funds originally planned to expand the first town were used to expand Duan Qirui's sixth town. After that, the two factions began to fight endlessly in the court, and the patriarchal faction controlled the finances of the Qing court, and they secretly made a bad decision, cutting off the military salary of the Beiyang Army, and wanted to arouse the dissatisfaction of the Beiyang Army with Xu Shichang and others. Not to be outdone, Xu Shichang and others simply blocked all the passages to the capital, and detained the goods of the veteran faction as military salaries on the pretext of purging the revolutionary party.

The two sides were evenly matched, and although the fight was fierce inside, it seemed to be harmonious outside, and no one was willing to tear this layer of window paper. In this way, Long Jinbao, the largest third-party force around the capital, has a place to play. He followed Xu Changqing's intentions, and before the matter was clear, no one should be offended, and he would reap the benefits from it. In just over a year, he has gone from a simple barracks general to the governor of Zhili of the nine feudal officials, and his men have expanded to 20,000, which can almost be compared with the sixth town, the most elite of the Beiyang Army.

Compared with the people of the Sixth Town in Nanjing and the people of the Third Town outside the Guan, Long Jinbao's Zhili army was obviously more able to influence the situation in the capital, which made the two major factions in the capital more and more attracted to him. Long Jinbao is not a stupid person, he knows very well that although he is now beautiful, he is actually walking on the blade, and he can no longer deal with the two factions as before. So he changed his strategy, secretly moved closer to the Beiyang faction, but on the surface, he turned to the patriarchal faction, and even in order to make Yi Kuang believe that he had taken refuge in him, he and Xu Shichang staged a good show in the court, and finally dispelled Yi Kuang's doubts as he wished.

Although the two factions above the court fought endlessly, they did not give up their monitoring of the revolutionary army. In February of the third year of Xuantong, Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangjiang, Ruicheng, the governor of Huguang, and Zhao Erfeng, the governor of Sichuan, successively reported that the League was active in the Liangjiang and Sichuan areas. After this edict was issued, the struggle between the Qing court and the revolutionary army began to heat up.

"It looks like the situation is going to be messed up. Xu Changqing put the newspaper he had just finished reading on the stone table, picked up the teapot on the side and filled himself with a cup, and after taking a sip gently, he said to Zheng Xuan on the side: "Senior brother, have you felt that something is wrong there when you have been practicing recently?"