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January 21, 19o9 (the first year of Xuantong), Beijing.

Today is the time of the 30th lunar New Year, but today's bigwigs in Beijing are destined not to have a good mood for the New Year.

"Fujian and Jiangxi have actually lowered the ...... of the Socialist Party in this way" Yuan Shikai looked at the newspaper in his hand, and his face changed several times in a row.

The contents of the newspaper are very simple: The "China Minsheng Party" ruling Jiangxi and the "China Endeavor Party" in Fujian announced yesterday at the same time that they would formally join the Southwest Autonomous Government and transfer political power and military power to the Southwest Autonomous Government on the same day. The CSD also responded immediately. The leaders of the two parties, Li Liejun and Xu Chongzhi, became vice chairmen of the Southwest Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and conferred the rank of major general on the Sixth Army, and after further training, they will serve as commanders of the 21st and 22nd Divisions of the Sixth Army respectively. Wu Jiezhang, Sun Daoren, Lin Zhaomin, Xiao Qibin, and other high-level leaders of the two parties also have made proper arrangements for those who are willing to join politics and those who are willing to join the army.

Yang Shiqi sneered: "Hehe, they can't help it, now that it's down, there is still decency." If I don't surrender again, I'm afraid I'll be tied up and put on a petition......"

Wang Shizhen also said: "Yes, their subordinates are almost gone, if you don't want to go into the wild or go abroad like this, then you have to surrender." The CSD is still more generous to this kind of voluntary surrender. ”

Since the treaty with the Great Powers, more and more people have taken refuge in the CSD. In particular, the revolutionary youths from the neighboring Jiangxi and Fujian provinces went to take refuge in an endless stream. Many of them were officers and men of the new armies of the two provinces, and at first they were only individual actions, but later they took refuge in the formation of a company, and tomorrow they ran a battalion, and by the beginning of this month, the new armies of the two provinces had already stopped three times and stopped more than two. If it weren't for Li Liejun and Xu Chongzhi still having some prestige, I'm afraid they would really be like Yang Shiqi said, being tied up and going to be a voter.

At this time, the high-level leaders of the two provinces had not yet degenerated into warlords, and they still belonged to the enthusiastic revolutionary youth with ideals, and when they saw this situation, they also understood that the general trend had gone, and after discussion, they also decided to go with the river and take refuge in the southwest government. In their opinion, the CSD can tolerate even Qing court officials like Zhao Erfeng, not to mention that we are still revolutionary comrades.

It is true that the Socialist Party did not treat them badly, and at once gave them four major generals, four brigadier generals, two vice chairmen of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, two vice governors, and some school officers, captains, mayors, and county magistrates. Of course, before you can take up any of these positions, you have to attend a refresher course.

"The style of the Science and Technology Socialist Party is that those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish...... I estimate that those in Shaanxi are almost unable to hold on, if they hadn't paid attention to this now, Shaanxi would have won it a long time ago. Wang Shizhen shook her head, very helpless.

Nguyen Zhongshu said: "Yes, it can be seen that the CSD is now focusing on Jiangnan, and they want to integrate all the revolutionary party forces. ”

Everyone here is an old fritter, such an obvious thing, no need for Ruan Zhongshu to say that everyone knows it. But they know what they know, but they have no choice but to watch the CSD continue to encroach on other territories.

I really can't help it, because there are not enough troops. Up to now, the three abandoned or semi-crippled towns of the first, second, and fourth towns have finally been restored, and the newly organized 1st and 6th towns, as well as the Guards, 2nd and 2nd towns, have not yet been organized, the weapons have not yet been put in place, and the personnel have not been trained well. After the £260,000 aid loan from the British arrived, Beiyang planned to build another 1o towns, but for now these troops are still on paper.

After Cixi's death, Datou finally took control of the Qing court as he wished, but the money for training the new army was still not enough.

After the big head grasped the power, the action was still very large. The Qing court's original plan for the new bannerman three towns, now he cut down only one town of the Guards, and the places of 2 towns and 2B towns were taken away by Beiyang, but the scale of the cut is not over. The most important thing is that most of the officers and soldiers of the remaining guard town have been replaced by Han Chinese, and only a very small number of Yuan Shikai's trustworthy bannermen are left to support the façade. The first town, which was originally dominated by flag people, was also concocted in the same way.

Well, that's not all. The next thing is the main event, after Yuan Shikai collected all the military power of the new army, he began to "persuade" those Eight Banners magnates to build an army.

In the original time and space, Yuan Shikai was still very particular about food, he had always been very polite to the nobles of the banner, took good care of them, and had a lot of preferential treatment, even after the Qing court was finished, he did not touch their family property. But this time and space is different, Yuan Shikai was almost killed by the Zongshe Party.

Whoever encounters this kind of thing will not be polite to the other party anymore. The clay people have three points of earthiness, not to mention that Yuan Datou is a hero, and the banner people are going to kill him, so you are still polite to a bird, naturally you are unkind to me, and you still want to be treated preferentially? In the past, the people's fat and people's ointment you scraped were all spit out by Lao Tzu

As a result, in addition to Prince Qing's friendly family, the bannermen in the capital, especially the Manchurian magnates, were unlucky, and they were approached by the Beiyang Army to "raise donations". Since the Zongshe Party tore his face first, Yuan Shikai is completely faceless at this time, and if he doesn't give money, he will go to the prison to count lice.

Those members of the Zongshe Party who were cut down naturally had their family property confiscated. Those guys who usually don't like the eyes of the big heads were also charged with "banditry", "embezzlement" and other crimes, and were killed and robbed of their homes, these people are not only Manchurian nobles, but also include the group of people from the original imperial party and the Qingliu represented by Cen Chunxuan.

For a while, the city of Beijing was full of people, it was really a happy enmity, and the new hatred and old hatred were eliminated together, and by the way, it was also rich.

Duan Qirui's henchman Xu Shuzheng also came up with a very insidious idea, directly borrowing the "torture" method used by Li Zicheng in the late Ming Dynasty to deal with those Manchurian magnates who refused to pay the money well. Of course, Xu Shuzheng is a Sven person, and the torture is the most unskilled. Xiao Xu's hunger and fatigue tactics, he invited these powerful people to "listen to the play". As soon as the person arrived, he was locked up in his room, with only tea and no food, and he was not allowed to sleep, and most importantly, he was not allowed to enjoy opium.

These powerful people are all pampered, where have they ever suffered this kind of hardship. In this insidious method, Baylor, the strongest one, only persisted for two days and two nights before kneeling and honestly "donating".

Yuan Shikai used this method to obtain a large amount of property from the magnates in Beijing, in addition to the real estate and calligraphy and painting antiques that were difficult to realize, all kinds of gold bricks and silver ingots, foreign currency, passbooks and other hard currencies equivalent to more than 400 million silver dollars, and all kinds of easily realizable gold and silver ware, jewelry, and ornaments were also equivalent to more than 100 million silver dollars.

Seeing such a large amount of money, Yuan Datou was both happy and hateful, happy that he had a big fortune, and that he had the money to build the army. hates these guys more than one another, but one of them is more upright than a gentleman in face. Like that "Qingliu" leader Cen Chunxuan, the gold and silver treasures knocked out from this guy are worth nearly 360,000 yuan, and your sister's Qingliu is a little regretful that he started late.

After such a toss, the current big boss has completely controlled the Qing court, purged all the opposition, and the Zongshe Party has completely swept the streets. Relying on the "dedication" of the Eight Banners magnates and the opposition, Beiyang is no longer short of money, and what he lacks most is people, qualified officers.

At present, at least 70 percent of the country's young officers have gone to the southwest government, and 20 percent of the remaining 30 percent are eager to do so. Now there are very few international students who have returned to China who are willing to come to Beiyang, and all of them are running to the southwest. After all, young people have a lot of enthusiasm, and who doesn't want the country to be strong and the people to be rich? Who doesn't want to make meritorious contributions?

And in this respect, Beiyang is completely unable to compete with the CSD. So now the Beiyang bigwigs are depressed, and they are actually in an embarrassing situation of "having money and nowhere to go".

Yes, there are no weapons to buy, there are not enough soldiers to recruit, but qualified officers are not easy to find. Although there are now 18 town plans, there are not that many officers at all.

"Damn, why do they have so many officers?6 divisions, 1o mixed brigades, 4 heavy artillery brigades. There are also more than 50,000 troops called armed police. The total is almost 60,000 people, these troops need at least 10,000 officers, where did they come from?" Duan Qirui said indignantly.

"Wen Desi has money, of course there is no shortage of people. Feng Guozhang said lightly.

Duan Qirui was the same as him: "Hmph, we are not short of money now, you have the ability to change some people......"

Wang Shizhen hurriedly played a round and said: "I have money now, but I didn't have it before, and this officer is not a leek, how can he be so fast?"

Duan Qirui scolded angrily: "Jiang Baili is really a waste, look at the Baoding Military Academy he is in charge of, he can't even look at those teachers and students." Riding horses, we have worked hard for several years, and we have all helped Wen Desi cultivate talents."

Not long ago, a group of progressive teachers and students of the Baoding Military Academy took the opportunity of going to Shandong for training and with the assistance of the intelligence department of the Science and Technology Socialist Party. They first ran to the nearest Qingdao, the Germans were fighting with the southwest government at this time, this kind of small favor was of course willing to help, so this group of teachers and students swaggered into the German concession, and then took the German ** ship to Guangzhou.

This guy has reduced the teachers and students of Baoding Military Academy by more than two-thirds, which really makes the Beiyang bigwigs half angry.

Seeing the commotion among his subordinates, Yuan Datou was also very weak, and he couldn't think of any good way.

"Hey, if it really doesn't work, I have to let those officers of the patrol battalion and the old army go up first......"

Just as he was having a headache, suddenly another guard brought an urgent call.

"Gong Bao, it's not good, the bandits have entered Xi'an, and the Northern Shaanxi Yiqi is the Northern Shaanxi Yizhi" The guards held the telegram and ran in.

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