1914 was destined to be an irritable year. In early 1914, the war clouds over Europe had not faded, and the Far East, which had not yet completely walked out of the cold winter, suddenly became full of restlessness, which made people feel particularly uneasy.

The two most anxious things in this season are Li Han, the young inspector of the Ten Southern Provinces, sent a delegation to the United States, and Europe issued huge railway construction bonds. It is rumored that he sold the rights of roads under his control for tens of millions of loans. However, the ten provinces under his control were unmoved. The quiet scene was not affected by the outside world at all. After all, Li Han knew that it was better to be silenced than to be blocked. He posted the railway construction bonds issued in Europe and the United States and planned railway network data on its throat newspaper "Voice of China". Rumors are just wise.

Even though there are people behind it, the development of the western region over the past two years is seen in the eyes of many people. The people's flow of hundreds of millions of people every year, and the information brought out is enough to make many aspiring people in this country believe that the future of the country is Li Han. Therefore, the people mainly insist on optimism and wait-and-see attitude towards the huge railway bonds of hundreds of millions of dollars that Li Han threw out this time, believing that with his ability, he will be able to grasp the situation. At least the only way for railway construction is not like the Qing Dynasty and President Yuan in the previous dynasty, and directly betrayed the state's right to road to foreigners.[]

However, even so, once the railway construction bonds of hundreds of millions of dollars were exposed, it immediately caused a sensation in the political arena of the Republic of China. Local forces may envy or accelerate their approach to it. There were many vicious curses and small actions. The President Yuan, who was in charge of Beijing, was extremely uneasy. He had already regarded Li Han as the largest and strongest opponent in the country, so naturally he did not want to see Li Han obtain huge capital from foreigners. No matter how well he said, the money would definitely be divided into part to arm himself. At that time, Li Han's power would undoubtedly become more difficult. It is precisely because of this fear that almost like Li Han's mind changes, he also had to solve the strongest force in this place before the loan arrived, and then took over the stall he left behind and continued to talk to foreigners about national railway bonds. Perhaps it would really be possible to get hundreds of millions of dollars of public debt. This country really became stronger in his hands.

Railway bonds come and go quickly. Although most citizens are very concerned about this, hundreds of millions of dollars are too far away for this country, almost equivalent to fiscal revenue in the past decade. In addition, another incident suddenly happened, the entire country's attention was attracted.

A mutiny occurred in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Tong Baoxuan launched a mutiny on the evening of February 15. Taking advantage of Zhu Rui's failure to investigate the troops and besiege the general's office, he used the excuse that Zhu Rui lost his virtue.

The village and others forcibly expelled the Zhejiang Governor Zhu Rui and appointed Qu Yingguang as the new Zhejiang Governor. A few days later, the forces dissatisfied with Tong Baoxuan and Qu Yingguang launched a new campaign.

The i Palace forced Qu Yingguang to announce his abdication and give up the wise, and gave up the position of governor of Zhejiang to Lu Gongwang, and Xia Chao also replaced Tong Baoxuan and controlled the military power of the 12th Brigade. After Lu Gongwang came to power, the situation in Zhejiang suddenly became jitters, and after fully mastering the 6th Division of the Zhejiang Army, Lu Gongwang summarized the lessons of the failure in the battle against Yuan, and immediately sent his confidant to imprison a group of Zhu Rui's confidants to control Zhu Rui's direct armed forces. In addition to accelerating the defence of Ye Songqing, who was stationed in Jinhua Road, he also sent troops to clear the forces that disobeyed and pro-Yuan forces in Zhejiang Province. In a short time, various forces in Zhejiang Province fled when they heard the news. After Ye Songqing received Li Han's hint, he turned to Lu Gongwang. Zhejiang Province was basically controlled by Lu Gongwang.

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To talk about this, Lu Gongwang, he implemented the plan proposed by Tong Baoxuan to first sweep Zhejiang Province. The reason why he launched a mutiny to drive out Tong Baoxuan was only for power. On the 22nd, Lu Gongwang, Li Liejun and others sent a telegram across the country, "Generals of all provinces, inspectors, military envoys, commanders, commanders, commanders, commanders, commanders, governors, governors, governors, governors, academics, chambers of commerce, schools, newspapers and offices: Heaven is in trouble with China, the head of state plans to rebel, condemn the "Constitution", resigned oath, reversed public opinion, canceled the parliament, and committed misfortune.

The act of harming the people. Wang (Lu Gongwang) and other wise men were in harmony with the country and could not bear the hardships of the country. From then on, they were afraid of the ropes and the gods were passed down to the throne. The great president was the president of the Republic of China. All officials were guarded by the Republic of China. Since he was a sinner who defied the Republic of China, he naturally lost the qualification of the head of state. He received the kindness of the country and did not follow the thieves. He should keep this belief with the military and civilians, fill the sea with the same aspirations, and do his best to defend the foundation of the Republic of China! Lu Gongwang, Li Liejun, Chen Qimei, Xia Chao, Ye Songqing and all military and political affairs were both together."

As soon as the telephone was issued, Zhejiang immediately raised the banner of "defending the parliament" against Yuan, opposed Yuan Shikai's abolishment of the parliament, opposed Yuan Shikai's forcibly increased the term of the president to ten years, and announced Zhejiang **. Lu, Li, Chen, Xia and others delivered speeches at the mobilization meetings from all walks of life in Hangzhou, announcing the significance of **. After the meeting, they shouted slogans, saying, "Swear to live and die with the Republic of China, swear to share life and death with 400 million compatriots, support the democratic republic, and oppose counter-intentions. Long live the Republic of China."

When the news came out, Yuan Shikai was furious and ordered Feng Guozhang to send the Second Division to conquer Zhejiang. At the same time, he ordered Fujian Governor Li Houji to raise his troops out of the province and cooperate with the attack on the luàn troops in Zhejiang Province.

The governor of Fujian was originally Sun Daoren, who was also an old official in the previous dynasty. Last year, the Kuomintang launched a war against Yuan. Representatives from all walks of life in Fuzhou petitioned the Governor's Office to announce the announcement. Sun Daoren was determined to wait and see and hesitate. Xu Chongzhi, who was the commander of the 24th Division of the Republic of China at the time, contacted revolutionaries such as Liu Tong and Huang Guangbi, and coerced Sun Daoren to rebel against Yuan. Sun Daoren had no choice but to send a telegram with Xu Chongzhi to announce Fujian ** and elect Xu Chongzhi as the commander-in-chief of Fujian's anti-Yuan Army. Although Xu Chongzhi prompted Sun Daoren to announce the announcement, Sun Daoren was just a verbal act for Xu Chongzhi to ask for troops to send troops to the north.

He was perfunctory and did not support his actions; the Fuzhou Chamber of Commerce did not raise funds on his behalf. Because there was no military salary, Fujian announced that the Yuan army had never left the province. However, even so, after the fall of Shanghai, Sun Daoren immediately announced the cancellation of the **, and apologized to Yuan Shikai for the wrong and apologized to Xu Chongzhi, and then ordered Li Houji, the commander of Wusong Fortress who had just captured Shanghai, led his troops to Fujian and sent off the Fujian army. Sun Daoren was forced to resign as the governor and entered Beijing to accept Yuan Shikai's investigation. So Li Houji replaced him and became the new governor of Fujian!

Li Houji's first division of Fujian Army quickly captured Fenshui Pass and entered Zhejiang. Ye Songqing was commanded by Li Han remotely and ordered him to lead the main force of the Zhejiang Army's first division to go south to block the Fujian Army's troops. Ye then asked Lu Gongwang for battle. Lu nodded and ordered his commander of the Second Brigade Ying Yunzhi to lead the Second Brigade to block the enemy. However, because he was worried that Li Han would attack Zhejiang from Jiangxi and Anhui, he ordered his first brigade to station in Jinhua Road and be wary of coveting from the west.

On the 24th, the Third Brigade of the Second Division fought with the main force of the Zhejiang Army in Jiahe County (Jiaxing). Lu Gongwang took advantage of Wang Jinjing's eagerness to win and ordered the front army to pretend to be defeated, abandoned more than a dozen towns on the front line, and deliberately used the differences between the Zhejiang Army's weapons and the Beiyang Army, and ordered to deliberately throw a lot of bullets along the "flee". Wang Jinjing was indeed deceived. Because the Second Division had not fought with the Zhejiang Army, he added

He was eager to show his feelings in front of the president, so after surviving the initial suspicion, he defeated the weak and vulnerable Zhejiang Army one after another, and Wang Jinjing became proud and advanced and collided into the main encirclement led by Lu Gongwang. As a result, the two sides fought in Jiahe County, and the Third Brigade was besieged by the Zhejiang Army twice as much as its own. After a fierce battle, he finally paid the price of annihilation of a regiment. Wang Jinjing led two regiments of remnants to force the siege back to Shanghai.

Under Chen Qimei's strong request, Lu Gongwang led his troops north to march directly into Shanghai, and captured Jinshan County in the early morning of the 27th.

Zhejiang was regarded as a fish on his chopping board by Li Han in the morning

After that, how could he miss this good opportunity? As early as the 18th, the Military Forces Department used the disguise of the troops to dispose of the troops and ordered hundreds of tons of military supplies to Shaanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, and other groups respectively. Then on the 22nd, Wuchang issued the second military committee order in 14 years, ordering the 15th Division of Zhang Xiaozhun, who was stationed in Jingzhou, to transfer to Hefen's Second Division to replace Ji Yulin's Second Division for defense, and at the same time ordered the Second Division to transfer to Xuanzhou garrison! This sentence changed the situation of Anhui's Sixth Brigade and broke the military balance line between the Northern Army.

On the second day, the military and political institutions issued a notice, ordering all localities to speed up the pace of conscription and military training in the name of national defense and military needs. At the same time, the "National Ministry of Defense" which newly established the "National Ministry of Defense" in charge of all military industries under the general management of all military industries, ordering that the Hanyang Arsenal, Chengdu Arsenal and the newly built Chongqing Arsenal can be changed from now on to two shifts in idle production to three shifts, and military takeover will be implemented within 15 miles nearby, allowing all suspicious people who are approaching without permission to be shot. According to the plan of the "National Ministry of Defense", thirteen heavy industrial enterprises including Hanyang Steel, Daye Metallurgy, Chongqing Steel, Pingxiang Coal Mine, Chengdu Tractor Factory, etc. will strengthen military control and produce with full force within half a month.

On the same day, the "State Administration of Price Management" under the Military and Political Bureau issued a notice, which will include salt, cloth, grains, and vegetables on the market.

Forty-seven kinds of materials related to people's lives, such as ow prices, and twenty-three kinds of raw materials related to industrial production, including copper, iron, gold, silver and coal, will be strengthened for three months, and those who are maliciously hoarded and price gouged will be dealt with in accordance with the law!

This is a preparation for a big battle, and no one with discerning eyes can tell!

On the 25th, seeing Wang Jinjing's military operations in Zhejiang were frustrated, Li Han jumped out and seemed to act as the vanguard of the central government, just like before annexing Hunan. On the same day, Li Han issued a telegram to the whole country, and found Lu Gongwang and others that he had declared Zhejiang illegal and suspected of splitting the country and treason. He ordered Anhui and Jiangxi to enter the war to mobilize, and be prepared to march into Zhejiang at any time. Li Han's mobilization hurt the nerves of Feng Guozhang, Jiangsu. Feng immediately ordered Jiangsu troops to enter the front line to defend Anhui, and at the same time, he shot a telegram to Beijing for countermeasures.

Yuan Shikai immediately called Li Han in person and comforted him, expressing his gratitude for his "failing patriotism". At the same time, he decisively refused his request to send troops to Zhejiang and ordered Anhui and Jiangxi troops to be transferred back to his original residence immediately. At the same time, he ordered him to transfer the 15th Division of Zhang Xiaozhun, who had recently been transferred to Anhui, back to Hubei to garrison as soon as possible.

In fact, smart people understand that Lu Gongwang, Zhejiang, can not see that he has won some victory for the time being, but he has no chance of winning the final victory at all, and it is even worse than the Kuomintang’s war against Yuan last year. Because the basic provinces of the party members have been basically swallowed up by major domestic forces, especially Yuan Shikai and Li Han. Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Yunnan and Guizhou have also hunted and killed party members in the past six months. Now, the revolutionary party in China has been basically killed in addition to being hidden, and the revolutionary foundation is not as good as last year. Zhejiang cannot get a response from all over the country, and destruction is only a matter of time. Now the key to truly determining the time for the destruction of Zhejiang party members depends on the game between Yuan Shikai and Li Han!

It is obvious that both giants want to annex Zhejiang. Li Han needs Hangzhou Bay, a natural military port, and the mainland and island coastline of tens of thousands of miles of Zhejiang. Yuan Shikai is jealous of Zhejiang's wealth and is also worried that Li Han will not be able to suppress him even more after annexing Zhejiang. Therefore, it is better to say that not only is watching Zhejiang Lu Gongwang and others performing hard, but it is better to say that all forces are waiting for Li Han and Yuan Shikai's means!

Sensitives even realized that the dispute between Zhejiang is actually an outpost battle between the two strong forces for the throne of the future president.

Obviously Yuan Shikai chose to restrain himself, and he was not sure to take Li Han in one fell swoop, so... he handed the power of choice to Li Han from his hands.

Just as everyone was racking their brains about what choice Li Han should make, a latest military newspaper made most people's hearts rise again.

On February 28, 1914, Ji Yulin led the Second Division of the National Defense Army (the 42nd Division of the Central Army) to Wuyuan County and Ningguo County in Huizhou. The two main brigades rushed directly to Hangzhou, which was empty, and the brigade rushed to Jinhua. Ye Songqing's troops, who were blocked by Lu Gongwang, surrendered. The generals of the Ye army had learned that the division commander had carried Li Han's thick tui. Several generals who disagree with him were also ordered to be placed under house arrest by him. As a result, Ji Yulin did not fire a single shot in the way, leaving no chance for the Zhejiang Army or the Northern Army to react. The main force of the Second Division occupied half of Zhejiang, and the troops headed directly to Hangzhou and the Fujian Army.
Chapter completed!