Chapter 403 Annexation of Gansu (Sixth)

Yuan Shikai, who had just woken up on October 2, had just used a bowl of ginseng stewed chicken soup. Chen Huan, who had arrived at his mansion early in the morning, came to his mansion as usual, and also brought a few news.

There is only one good news. Liang Qichao, who he invited for several months, finally arrived in Tianjin last night. If the speed was faster, his "old friend" who once wished he could eat his meat would come to the Presidential Palace to pay his respects tomorrow!

Interests are indeed the best weapon in the world. The storm caused by Song Jiaoren's *** made him feel threatened. The local strong vassal who had not said anything for several months finally couldn't help but make a difference in the political arena of the Republic of China! For Yuan Shikai, the young man finally had movement, which was a good thing and a bad thing! The bad thing was because he didn't have the energy to deal with the two forces of the *** and the Republican Party at the same time, and the good thing was that he finally saw Li Han's itch. As long as he was willing to go to a higher level, he would have the confidence to continue to increase the price. If the general chief of the army didn't want it, then the cabinet prime minister. Look, the prime minister of the Republic of China who was less than 30 years old could be kept in history. Isn't this what those young people with high spirits most looking forward to?

If it really doesn't work, isn't there a vice president? As long as he is willing to ask for it and is willing to leave Wuchang and come to Beijing, Yuan Shikai is willing to give him these things!

Why not do it!

Yuan Shikai knew that another young man in the south who was very afraid of him was already difficult to escape from him. He had invited the Yunnan governor Cai E several times before, and even asked someone to see Liang Qichao, asking for his handwritten letter, and sent him the reason that it was not a teacher invitation (Cai E and Liang Qichao were teacher-student relationships). This time, he made so many promises and finally recalled Liang Qichao back to China. Now, it seems that Cai E has any reason to not go north.

I couldn't help but think of the young man lying on the Yangtze River again. He has been busy with the aftermath of the Manchuria and Mongolia for the past few days, neglecting to pay attention to the affairs in Gansu. I don't know what's going on now!

Chen Huan followed him for so long, and his thoughts were already very clear. He read a document and pushed another one he had sorted into Yuan Shikai. The several copies on it were all about Gansu!

"That Ma Anliang is so careless?"

Yuan Shikai opened the first chapter above and looked at it for a while, and snorted, "I spent a lot of effort on him. I thought I could only take Li Yizhi for a while!"

Chen Huan had just read it and said, "I heard that his third son, whom he loved the most, died in the hands of the Gan army, and the grudge between the two sides could no longer be resolved!"

"Hmph, I think Li Yizhi has no intention of resolving it! Just look at his methods in the ***. How many people have been killed by the Western Expedition Army? I heard that there are not ten thousand or eight thousand monks and lamas. A group of arrogant chieftains are almost killed. Li Han is vicious. I can see that he didn't mean to spit out the *** at the beginning. Now, it's good. I heard that the British suffered a loss and more than a thousand people died and retreated in a panic. The central government has to carry this trouble!

While looking at the news coming from Gansu, Yuan Shikai kept muttering. At the end of September, all the British troops who invaded the *** were withdrawing from the ***. Zhu Erdian had no idea how many times he had come to negotiate with him. Now, don’t talk about advances, the loan was stopped again. It was already agreed that the loan he gave him at the end of September had no movement. In a few battles, he offended the Russians, and the British were offended by the Li Han. Because of the secret loss in the Manchu and Mongolia incident some time ago, the Manchu forces secretly supported him were all taken away, and now he didn’t give him a good face. The bank group offended him half, and no one has given him a loan!

The central government has a great family and a great cause. Not only does he have to support the banner of the Central Committee of the Republic of China, but he also has to take into account the two interest groups of Beiyang Group and the old forces. Now the loan has been stopped again. Where can he find money to fill the holes one by one?

"Gansu is over!" Chen Huan sighed, and when he turned around, he saw the servants in the mansion leading Yang Du in, his face changed. Because of the competition for Yuan Shikai's favor, the relationship between the two has always been bad. Yang Du looked down on him as if he was a "slave-like", and he was used to his rebellious appearance.

"Ma Fuxiang has colluded with the Ganges army? Is this news reliable?" Looking through yesterday, Ma Fuxiang raised an army to capture Haiyuan in Ningxia Town, he slapped the table and cursed. Let's see that the Guyuan Admiral also rebelled. He only knew a little about this confidant of Ma Anliang. The Guyuan Admiral was just to win over the position given to him by Ma Anliang. Unexpectedly, he turned around!

"President, don't be angry. After all, it's just a word "profit". I think it must be that Li Yizhi promised him some benefits that made him moved. In addition, he joined the Gansu army and captured important towns in Gansu. Now he is a little more active and has begun to find a way out for himself!"

Yang Du responded before Chen Huan, which made him even more unhappy. However, Chen Huan was a gloomy person and nodded to him calmly. No one wanted his subordinates to have a quarrel. Although Yuan Shikai was well aware of the art of checks and balances, he did not want his subordinates to be competing for no reason!

"Xizi, you are here!"

Yuan Shikai saw him, and then saw Zhao Bingjun and others who were attracted by him. He nodded, "Let me handle some documents first!"

Naturally, the few people didn't dare to disturb them.

"The advantage must be that he has given him a favor. The internal affairs side has received a resignation from the Ningxia General Chang Lian. He said that he was old and gradually lost the energy to deal with Ningxia affairs! Unfortunately, almost at the same time as his telegram was taken, the Southwest General Li Han also sent a telegram, recommending Ma Fuxiang as the new Ningxia General. Perhaps this is probably the bargaining chip he told Ma Fuxiang to join him?"

Zhao Bingjun came at the right time, and happened to hear this and took it.

Yuan Shikai cursed, "Is this Ma Fuxiang so cheap? A Ningxia general changed his appearance and told him that I not only gave him Ningxia general, but Guyuan also took responsibility for him. Go and ask him to obey my orders!"

Of course he was angry, because it was obvious that the poor place in Gansu fell into Li Han's hands. Even if he wanted to exert force from such a distance, he was a little helpless. I guess his influence would definitely not be able to compete with Li Han!

"President, will the cabinet be appointed?" Zhao Bingjun asked with a careful look. He, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, did a heart-warming job, and he had no right at all. He had to come to Yuan Shikai's presidential palace to report every day. However, it was his duty that made Yuan Shikai very satisfied. As long as the Democratic Party did not make trouble, he, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, could continue to do it.

"Give it, why not!" Yuan Shikai snorted, and said, "He gives it to him if he wants that poor place. Gansu is so chaotic. Didn't Li Yizhi keep trying to make things free? I see how he makes trouble with those back. Humph, Sichuan and Hubei provinces cut taxes, he has 10 million yuan a year, and there is one more Gansu to see how much he can be rich!"

There is no shortage of sour smell in the words.

"Ma Anliang has not made any noise yet."

"Don't worry about him anymore, where is this old bastard Zhao Weixi?"

"I don't know, Lanzhou has been sealed off, and our people can no longer convey the message. I guess he won't be able to make a long time!"

Yuan Shikai frowned, "The cabinet will contact Li Yizhi. Gansu will cancel the governor in the future and only establish the Civil Affairs Chief. Telling him about military affairs will make him more trouble. By the way, tell him that the Sichuan-European strategy is not allowed to be done in Gansu!"

"What!"

Zhao Bingjun was stunned. Yang Du responded the fastest and immediately echoed: "The President is brilliant!"

Yuan Shikai hummed and continued to read the documents. He actually had no other intentions at all. He just wanted to test Li Han's reaction. Seeing that he catered to the cabinet's intentions, or continued to do his tricks without asking. Gansu could not contribute a lot of money a year, and even Sichuan, which was already close to the tax, was helping to pay. After Zhao Weixi supervised Gansu, he did not give a lot of money to the central government.

Duan Qirui was the last one to arrive as usual.

When he came, Yuan Shikai looked up at him, with no expression on his face, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Soon he finished all the documents piled up in front of him, and let the reviewed documents pile on one side first. He got up and stretched his stiff body and moved his shoulders.

"I've told everyone to come here today. Everyone has seen the current situation in the Republic of China. It's internal and external troubles... It's really internal and external troubles. We'll calm the external troubles for the time being, and Outer Mongolia will naturally have a chance to recover in the future. But this internal trouble has become the main factor restricting us. Let's give some ideas today."

Yuan Shikai's voice was not loud, and everyone in the room nodded silently. Zhao Bingjun stood up first, "We understand the President's worries in our hearts. If you want to talk about internal worries, I think domestic worries can be divided into three worries!"

"Speak!"

"The first worry is financial worries. Since the switch is turned on, the economy of our north has become increasingly inferior to the south. The southeast and the south have taken advantage of transportation, making it convenient for foreigners to trade and trade. The taxes paid every year are much more than those in the north. However, a war chaos last year was better. The southern provinces are the key areas of the party's man-made disasters. Now, although our north has begun to recover under the leadership of the president, the wealth of the Republic of China is in the southeast and the wealth of the Republic of China is in the south. The powers of the southern provinces now intercept taxes and do not give them to our government, which has led to the central government being the name of the central government, but there are even more shameless people below to ask for money every day, and the financial pressure is very great!"

Zhao Bingjun took a breath, "There were advances from foreigners and a loan to support them, and the finances were slightly better. But we instigated a war in the northern Xinjiang, which cost more than three million yuan at once, including post-war construction in those rebellious areas, local forces' comfort, soldiers' rewards, etc. Although we still have some money in our hands, if we dare to waste this, we can last for at most four months until the beginning of next year. We must fight for the big loans of foreigners in any case!"

"Yeah, well said!"

Yuan Shikai nodded, "Continue!"

"Yes, the second is the difficulty of the political party. Sun Dapao is now in Beijing. Although we all think he has been born peacefully after looking at his actions recently. However, Song Jiaoren has been jumping up and down recently and has established branches in most provinces across the country. So far, it is said that it has a million people. Although it is a bit exaggerated, Song Jiaoren is coming with great momentum and aims directly at the election of the Senate and House of Representatives at the end of this year. Recently, another force, the Republican Party, cannot be underestimated. The president has not accepted the proposed by Mr. Ji.

After taking office as the leader, he didn't expect that he would go south and invite the young man to take office as the leader. Although the leader of the Republican Party is Tang Hualong, the young man seems to have some ideas about the election at the end of the year! It is urgent to hope that the president can abandon some bad views on the party. After all, if the people in the country are very interested in forming a political party, the president should be quicker and better to form a political party! Avoid the gutter capsize in the end of the year!"

When Yuan Shikai mentioned the political party, he had a headache. He waved his hand and signaled him to continue.

"The third internal worry that the Republic of China needs to face is the disaster of the vassal states! The south has basically fallen into the hands of the party members, and the north has to be out of control, and the top priority is to implement the act of reducing the vassal states as soon as possible, so as to make the best strategy!"

Everyone nodded tacitly, Yuan Shikai knocked on the table and focused his attention on himself.

"I will visit the ministerial group later on the loan side. I have an agreement with Ren Gong on the political party. With his prestige and the support of the central government, I will absorb some small political parties. I believe that I can create a force that is no better than the other two parties before the end of the year. However, I will have to wait until tomorrow when Ren Gong comes. Now we need to talk about the third one, the disaster of the feudal state!"

Although his voice was not loud, everyone in the house had a joyful expression. After more than half a year of rest, four divisions of the Beiyang Six Towns have recovered their combat effectiveness. In addition, there are two newly compiled divisions and three brigades of Dayun. Beiyang is now over the time to continue to show weakness, and it is time to move!

"The situation in Jiangsu has been very chaotic recently. Because Jiangsu Governor Zhuang Yunkuan did not accept the invitation from the ***, the party members in the province were very excluding him. Secondly, Zhang Xun seemed to be a little dissatisfied with being unable to move in Xuzhou. During this period, he has been constantly moving to Suzhong and southern Jiangsu to expand his influence. Jiangsu's army did not recognize Zhuang Yunkuan, and after losing the support of the party members, Zhuang Yunkuan could not command the army. He successively gave in to the conflict with Zhang Xun, and the performance of compromise has made many celebrities in the province more and more alienated him. Now there have been a large-scale voice of overturning the countryside!"

Zhao Bingjun reminded him, "After the withdrawal of the left-behind office in Nanjing, Xu Shaozhen, the former governor of Nanjing garrison, had no new arrangements. Some time ago, he expressed his intention to surrender to the president through the hands of Lei Fen!"

"It's time for Jiangsu to move!"

Yuan Shikai's eyes lit up, "Let Jiangsu move recently, it's better to make a big noise recently. Didn't Zhang Xun always want to be the governor of Jiangsu? He is not a member of us. It doesn't matter to Xu Shaozhen if the governor of Jiangsu gives it to Xu Shaozhen, but in the future, you must hold Jiangsu under the control of the central government!"

He said excitedly, while his hands were still waving. Before the "gun" in his hand was repaired, the actions of the South to show weakness during this period had already made the old man who was used to the power of the first person in the Republic of China and was eager to move towards the throne of dictatorship. He suddenly stood up and staggered a little. Everyone realized that Yuan Shikai was much older than when he retreated to Zhangde. Although his eyes were still shining, his declining appearance could no longer be concealed.

Thinking of the rumors that the Yuan family had not lived to be sixty years old, everyone couldn't help but wonder, if this strong man who integrated the Republic of China was gone, what would be the situation in Beiyang? Li Han, who was developing towards the Northwest King, was becoming more and more obvious. Whose family would be in the world of the Republic of China in the future?

These thoughts flashed through the hearts of these central officials, and they all quickly calmed down and focused on watching Yuan Shikai walking around the room.

He suddenly sighed: "I am old, it is really not easy to maintain such a situation in the country... I have never stopped internal and external troubles. Everyone is from Beiyang, so I should think more about our family... The south is now Sun and Huang have finally comforted him, and now Huang Xing is coming to Beijing to die. Our actions in the south must be quick to fight and succeed. Otherwise, there will be people who speak... The situation is not quiet and there are no way to start any sorting measures. Some of the people at the top of the Tongmenghui were finally invited, but the powerful people below them have jumped out one after another... It is really difficult to deal with in this country."

He refers to two major concerns, Song Jiaoren and Henan Tang Shizhi.

Yuan Shikai turned his eyes to Chen Huan, and he smiled and said, "President, don't worry, the first army composed of our Second Division, Third Division, and Eighth Division's main force have all arrived in Zhili for on-site. With the order, we will be able to take Henan immediately."

“Not enough!”

He shook his head, "Henan was a move and the overall situation was chaotic. According to the party members, it was necessary to build Henan into a bridgehead in the north and a sharp knife that penetrated our hearts. Sun Dapao spent such a great price and even pulled down his face to borrow one million and a half million from Guangdong and Shanghai, and then he had been grinding with the people for so long to build an arsenal. They would not give up Henan easily. We need to have a reasonable excuse to send troops!"

"Not necessarily!"

Zhao Bingjun took the voice and frowned.

"There are famines in Henan Province coming from the internal affairs side. Compared with Li Han, who is both civil and military, the party members in Henan gathered together to fight for power and tossed a good force into Luoyang, Kaifeng, Nanyang and Xinyang. Even the famines in the province have not been resolved yet. I heard that if Hubei had not closed its way south, causing hundreds of thousands of hungry people to run away to Hubei, it would have probably started now!"

"explain..."

Yuan Shikai took a few steps and felt a little tired. He returned to his chair and leaned on him and listened to him. Zhao Bingjun has been following him and took care of things that could not be used on the table. Even now, he still let him serve as the internal affairs side. The information reported in the south and various provinces has to be sent to him for summary. Maybe he has received any news!

Famine!

He sighed. Henan was his hometown. Although he was in Xiangcheng, no one dared to make trouble because he was next to his garrison. However, he felt uncomfortable when he heard the famine in his hometown.

This emotion faded away quickly!

In fact, as early as four or five years ago, Yuan Shikai was removed from his post and rushed back to Zhangde to recuperate, he knew that the severe drought in Henan caused famine! Henan’s people were fierce. Once they encountered famine and the Qing government did not provide assistance, various forces would connect them and propose to "nooba" to find a way out! In recent years, especially in western Henan, they have not been born safely, but because the Qing government launched a large number of troops to encircle and suppress, they were unable to enter the national sight.

However, in 1911, it was another year of great wasteland. In addition, Tang Shengzhi's Northern Expedition fought with the Qing army in Henan Province, which led to more famines. This year after the founding of the Republic of China, Henan encountered famines again. The central government did not allocate funds to rescue them, and Tang Shengzhi had no money to rescue them. As a result, many disaster victims who could not survive in western Henan hugged each other and established their own armed forces to rob counties, towns, and rich people. Henan had been doing this for the past few years because of the past few years.

The famine was so poor that they encountered such a fuss. As a result, the rich people who did not want to be robbed of the rich to help the poor would either flee to Luoyang or Kaifeng. Or to Nanyang, Xinyang, and county towns stationed in many troops would hide, but more would flee to southern Shaanxi, south Hubei, or north Zhili. Although Tang Xizhi didn't know much about civil affairs, he also knew that once all the rich people in Henan Province were scared away, Henan would not expect to develop.

Therefore, after this autumn harvest, we began to rectify the western Henan side. However, after several contacts with the victims, the Henan Supervisor Wang Tianzong, who was also from the martial arts world, ordered the assassination of several leaders. In the end, the disaster victims in western Henan were also from the underworld. The disaster victims had been struggling for several months. I heard that the victims had once captured and occupied several county towns. Tang Xi Branch and the party people in Henan Province were almost tortured to death for this matter!

Zhao Bingjun told him in detail the information sent by the spies from Henan. Yuan Shikai's eyes flashed and he had an idea!

"Henan should slow down first. If the Ministry of Finance receives the request for payment from Henan again, it will not be allowed to pay attention. Let the party members of Henan do whatever they want!"

Soon he thought of the best way to deal with it!

"Is the President preparing to let the party members lose their face?" Yang Du and Chen Huan, who had been playing with pens for many years, reacted first, and even had a knowing smile on their faces at the same time!

"Not bad!" Yuan Shikai coughed, and saw several people's concerned eyes waved and signaled that he was fine. "These sub-party members are too good at tossing. If they don't take the lead, they don't know that the firewood and rice are expensive. They think that Yuan Shikai likes to borrow loans from foreigners, but they like to give in to foreigners? Let them have a headache? If the famine in Henan Province is really like what I found out there, when winter comes..."

There was a silence in the house. When winter came, in order not to freeze to death, they could only rob and resist even more desperately!

"That time is the time for us to move. Let's take Zhang Xun and Jiangsu first. Zhang Xun has been making trouble in Xuzhou recently. Humph, he really thinks I don't know where the money he's expanding comes from? Those Aisin Gioro...."

The sound was getting smaller and smaller, because the continuous coughing made him unable to continue talking!

He waved his hand to signal his staff to leave, and then he sighed exhaustedly. Naturally, a servant came to help him massage his back and feet. His two Korean concubines also brought the ginseng tea. He took a sip and ordered tiredly: "Prepare the carriage and horses, I will also visit the Minister Juerdian."

His fatigue and retreating are not completely fake. As the presidential throne for several months, he not only has to fight with a group of people in the country, but also has to play with foreigners. These battles have consumed too much of his health and energy!

Originally, his identity as an important official in the Qing Dynasty, the resources and connections left by the Qing Dynasty could be widely used. However, those members of the Qing Dynasty's Zonggui were uneasy recently and seemed to have determined that they were the culprits of their loss of power. Now the old people in the Qing Dynasty had no orders. Zhang Xun was said to have received a large sum of money to arm himself. Where did they come from? The former Qing princes and princes were transferred to nothing, and the support of these big investors in Beijing was lacking in the support of the market, and the money base was extremely tight, and it was extremely difficult to raise funds. Many banks and banks in Beijing had collapsed.

Yuan Shikai looked half-awake in the car. He had grown up to several generations and had not one of them who lived past sixty years, like a nightmare. He was now fifty-seven or eight years old. He suddenly cheered up and gritted his teeth in the darkness and said, "I haven't reached the highest throne of this country yet. I want me to admit defeat? It's not that easy!"
Chapter completed!