: Hiding the light and hiding the darkness

A few cold raindrops fell on Li Han's face, pulling his thoughts back.

"It's raining?" Zhang Meisheng tightened her clothes. Once the weather caught a cold, it would not be cured for less than ten days or half a month.

It was just after noon, but the already gloomy sky had turned into lead-gray. The dark clouds in the sky were rolling, and the first rain in half a month was pouring. It was also the second after Li Han arrived in Hubei. Compared with the drizzle of cow that day, it has been much more hit.

"Li Jichen is still alive?"

After a long time, he reached out to wipe off the dense layer of rain and dew on his hair, and turned around without any expression on his face.

Behind him, a trace of surprise flashed in Zhang Meisheng's eyes. For a moment, he clearly heard a faint sigh from this heroic person, including grievances, panic, regrets, and a faint feeling of unbearance.

Such a rich emotion seems particularly heavy in this man who rarely sees other emotions except for a smile and frown.

“It’s raining!”

He passed by Zhang Meisheng and said lightly.

But his eyes were high and he looked at the gloomy sky, and no one could guess what he was thinking now.

"Do you know, sir? Rainy days are the day I hate and like the most. They are full of sentimentality and depression, which makes people want to get close to it, but they don't know if I will get wet and get typhoid fever!"

"Master, you"

Li Han waved his hand, stretched out his arms and raised his head high, letting the rain wet his hair and seeped into his eyes.

It was not until the rain that gradually became heavier that he completely wet his coat. He shook his head and reached out to wipe away the rain or something in his eyes. There was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth and nodded to him, "Sir, let's go in."

"good!"

Zhang Meisheng nodded, he knew that the hero-like man was back again.

The two turned around and walked into his office a few steps. Li Donglai was still waiting for him, holding a wrinkled telegram in his hand!

"Can you still contact Wuchang? Now?"

"Yes, sir. When Li Jichen fled, I informed Wuchang to be careful. This time it was exposed because after inquiring about a young man with a very difficult identity, he visited Juzheng, Tan Renfeng, Cai Jimin and other giants of Tongmenghui, as well as Sun Wu, who was the Communist Party of China, were invited to meet at Juzheng's residence. They didn't know where they got the news. It might be that the spies were not conducive to my Hubei. In the past two days, they had almost launched all their relationships in Wuchang, and wanted to know the content of the party they met. As a result."

Li Donglai's face became increasingly ugly, but he couldn't continue to say this!

“What’s the result?”

"I replied to Mr. I found out that this was a conspiracy. I don't know what the young man said to the military government. In short, it made them suspect that we might have spies in Wuchang, and then they used the trick to make the noise. Donglai was incompetent and the subordinates were incapable of not being able to detect the danger, and they ended up being ambushed. The entire army was almost destroyed!"

"Donglai is incompetent, please sir..."

"I'll talk about this later!"

"Please punish me. In the past half month, our Hubei military government has allocated a total of 470,000 yuan in total. The intelligence networks initially built by the central Hubei military government have basically not destroyed this mistake. Therefore, the escaped people have not yet figured out whether the person is Li Jichen. I only found out that the arrested people were sent to the Gaojun Detective Section of the Hubei military government. They are suspected to be the intelligence and anti-intervention organization organized in Wuchang. The section chief is Hu Egong... He once served as the commander-in-chief of the water and land of the Hubei army, but later resigned for unknown reasons!"

"Bang!"

A lightning flashed across the sky, shocking many birds to rush out of the eaves of the dodging.

The wind is getting stronger and stronger, and the drizzle blows on the face.

Soon, the drizzle turned into tears, and the sob fell to the ground.

It's getting darker.

Li Han sighed, "Let Wuchang hide it first and don't do anything for the time being. What's the situation with the arrested people?"

"I haven't received the news yet!"

"They also made important contributions to our military government. They went to the Salt Affairs Department to approve a hundred dan of salt, and told Wuchang that several foreign procurements from our Hubei branch military government disappeared from the Wuchang territory, and asked them to help find it. They went to visit Sun Wu and Li Yuanhong. This operation must be led by the Tongmenghui. Sun Wu has had a hard time during this period, and he can see the importance of it clearly!"

He rubbed his sore temples, "But the Information Department will probably be exposed this time, and the information in Wuchang will not be so easy to get!"

"Yes, let's do it now!"

Zhang Meisheng had some thoughts on his face: "The Grand Marshal is preparing"

"We in Hubei cannot continue to fight against the Hubei military government, which is occupying the general trend. Even if only a few of us understand it, it is not enough. Our strength and influence are far from each other. It is better to hide our strength in a short period of time. Therefore, we must stand up clearly to support Sun Wu. To be precise, we support Sun Wu on the surface, but in fact we are planning to cooperate with Li Yuanhong to burn the fire to Wuchang, so that they have no energy to fight this acre of three-point land in Hubei again.

The idea. Sun Wu was unpopular. He had offended people all over the past half month, especially Xiong Bingkun, Wu Zhaolin, Wu Xinghan, Cai Jimin and other heroes. Even if Tongmenghui was in action, he was the actual controller of the military government during this period. Therefore, many heroes must have hated him in their hearts. Even if Tongmenghui played any wrong chess in the future, it would not be his turn to take over the military government again. Li Yuanhong should not be underestimated!"

Zhang Meisheng had long been very curious about why the general was so afraid of Li Songqing, even more afraid than Sun Wu and the Tongmenghui.

"Li Yuanhong's power has been formed, but now both Tongmenghui and Sun Wu are constantly cutting flesh from each other and feeding him, helping him continue to grow!"

He was indeed afraid of it because the Ezhou Constitution that Tang Hualong wanted to revise was about to be issued. Once the Ezhou Constitution was issued, both Tongmenghui and Sun Wu would be stunned. The military government's great governor gathered great power and stipulated that the governor was elected by the people and represented the Ezhou government to take charge of government affairs. He had the right to declare war, make peace, amnesty, and amnesty, formulate official rules, appoint officials, command the naval and army, and declare martial law.

What's more, he was originally ill-intentioned, not only expanded the Ministry of Political Affairs into a huge institution that included the main functions of the government. The regulations stipulated that the Ministry of Political Affairs had seven bureaus, including external affairs, internal affairs, finance, judicial, transportation, documents, and organization, and implemented "division of military and civilians" to get rid of the constraints of the revolutionaries. It also adopted the parliamentary system to win over a large number of constitutionalists and former Qing officials into the military government, strengthening Li Yuanhong's strength, making him surpass the Tongmenghui in one fell swoop, joining the two factions together, and becoming the well-deserved first.

It is a pity that at that time, the boss of the Tongmenghui, who was determined to clarify the separation of three powers through the "Ezhou Constitution", was stunned. This led to the "Europe and Shanghai dispute" that made the Jiangsu and Zhejiang factions free to be vacant. The Provisional Government of the Republic of China announced the establishment of its capital in Nanjing.

"Not mentioning these, go and send someone to visit Li Yuanhong and Sun Wu immediately, especially Sun Wu's side, and tell him that Hubei Zhong welcomes Wuchang to send troops to garrison. Wuchang also needs us to guard Hubei Zhong for him and block Xinyang's army from going south. This time, it must be the Tongmenghui to take revenge on the last action. After I, Hubei Zhong, said that they would understand what to do!"

Li Donglai's face changed and he quickly said, "Sir, this must not be done. Once Wuchang sends people, it will be difficult to drive them away in the future. It would be better not to mention it!"

"This proposal is very good!"

Unlike Li Donglai who was nervous on the side, Zhang Meisheng's eyes flashed and he spoke to support his proposal.

"If Liujiamiao loses, Hankou will be in danger, and Hankou will be in danger. I believe that Wuchang is willing to send troops in at this time, but he is powerless. Finally, at most, some staff officers and officers are sent to restrain the command of the general! What's more, even if he sends troops, so what if he dares to seize power directly? If he doesn't dare, I will fight with Xinyang, and I can order him as a vanguard and let him go and consume it!"

Li Han nodded, and Zhang Meisheng basically understood what he meant.

"This matter is determined. Come on Donglai and inform Wuchang to lurk for the time being... don't do anything more!"
Chapter completed!