The Northwest Border Envoy, although the position is highly qualified, it is a 100% idle position. In the early years of the Republic, the central government awarded this position a famous person on the propaganda front who made significant contributions to the creation of the republic. The Northwest Border Envoy had a very high reputation. In theory, the generals and civil affairs chiefs of the northwest provinces were his subordinates, so the Zhang family made Yi Yangyang take office.

When he arrived in Jiuquan, Gansu, he said that he had seen the Jiuquan Guardian and the Jiuquan Civil Affairs Chief come to see him, his immediate superior. However, Zhang Choubian waited in the hotel for more than half a month, but he didn't see these two people coming to see him. He was so angry that he went straight to Lanzhou, asking the Gansu general to punish these two supreme guys.

However, the face of the Gansu general was still so cold that he could not even say a word for asking. Only then did Zhang realize that he had no soldiers and power, even if he had the highest reputation, he could only return to Beijing in shame.

In addition, the Northwest border envoy has been repeatedly set up and abandoned. The biggest feature is that it has a false position set up according to the person. However, after Xu Dingzheng took over, he turned this border envoy into a real position.

He first asked the Border Commissioner to refer to Zhang Buyun's inspection and the Rouran Strategic Inspectorate. Not to mention the huge organization, the opening fee and monthly funding were also surprisingly high. This is not counting. Since it is preparing for the Northwest Border Affairs, there must be troops. He originally put his ideas on Liu Jingxiao's Dingbian Army, but Liu Jingxiao was not deceived and firmly demanded to lead his troops south. In the end, he simply decided to start again.

According to his plan, the Northwest Border Envoy Bureau under its jurisdiction, each with two infantry brigades, each with a regiment of cavalry and artillery, and each with a battalion of supplies. With this capital, you can naturally be at ease. Xu Youzheng is Duan Tiemin's soul, and his capital is Duan Tiemin's capital, so Duan Tiemin spared no effort in supporting him.

But such a huge army, not to mention raising funds, it is a very big problem to raise so many strong men. Therefore, Xu Youzheng was determined to train the troops first, so he organized a teaching group. Most of the teaching groups were graduates of Baoding Military Academy, and Xu's plan was to expand it into three divisions based on this teaching group.

The training of the teaching team was very smooth, and it was easy to enjoy the cool under the big tree. It was absolutely right to surrender to Premier Duan and Xu Choubian. Once the troops were expanded, wouldn’t this high-ranking official wait for him?

Seeing that the teaching team was successfully trained, Xu Youzheng became more and more disrespectful to President Feng, so Feng found his original sponsor Xu Juren and complained: "This is all caused by listening to you..."

In the eyes of the court, Duan was a sinister who was terrible and the position of Secretary-General of the Court had to be removed, so Feng asked Premier Duan to discuss Xu's resignation.

When two old friends from decades ago met, they sat on the chair without saying a word. They accompanied Duan Tiemin to the former Secretary-General of the Government Ding Quan felt this kind of fire and could only say a word. Finally, President Feng said: "The government wants to change the Secretary-General of the Council..."

As a result, Duan replied coldly: "As long as I am exempted from my Prime Minister, I can do whatever I want..."

Then Duan bowed to Feng Yi and retreated, and the matter ended in vain.

Since he cannot be dismissed, the government can only retreat and seek second orders, hoping to expand the president's powers, and immediately proposed to Congress to expand the president's powers. There are two main points: First, the president can attend the cabinet meeting, but does not have the right to vote. The president's exercise of powers on state affairs is not interfered with by the government. The new secretary-general of the government Ding Shiyi criticized the Congress: "The system between the government and the court is improper, the president knows nothing about state affairs, and even a record of the cabinet cannot be obtained... The Prime Minister did not see the president.

The Secretary-General of the House, let the President run around and hold official documents and ask the President to stamp the seal... Issue an order but the President does not know the intention, and use one person but the President does not know its origin... Even if the President occasionally asks a question or two, the Secretary-General of the House is responsible for the responsible cabinet, and the President does not need to ask more questions as an answer... Personnel appointments are often sent to the President for stamping without the discussion of the cabinet... Therefore, the President must attend the State Council. If the employer does not have the consent of the cabinet, the President has the right to refuse to stamp the seal..."

At this time, Premier Duan also had his own heart problems. This problem has a lot to do with Zhang Ke. Zhang Ke was nominally the Four Provinces Bandit Suppression Association, but in fact it became the Four Provinces Bandit Suppression Association. Under his rule, the more bandits were pacified, which was also a big weird phenomenon.

The more bandits there are, the more suffering the people will suffer. Zhang Ke's basic territory is at the junction of southeastern Shandong and Henan. That area was originally a territory where bandits gathered. After his "punishment" like this, his strength became stronger and stronger, but the people were really suffering. Some people were lifted up, and for a time, bandits from Shandong and Henan gathered.

The leader of the largest bandit army called "Heihu". This black tiger was originally a company-level officer of the Fifth Division of the Hubei Division. He was forced to return home because he offended his superiors. He was famous in Nanji, Lu, and his specific real name was no longer known. Instead, the nickname of this black tiger is so famous.

He lifted up and immediately gathered thousands of tribes. Zhang Ke still used the old method of plagiarism. However, this Black Tiger was a character who had seen Water Margin. He knew that he would never be able to play after recruiting. On the surface, he expressed his willingness to surrender, but secretly disarmed the two companies that were on the front line.

Zhang Ke was furious and started a large army to encircle and suppress, but his soldiers were all bandits. Although they were enemies, everything was easy to deal with when they had money. In order to teach the army, Zhang Ke was a good boss who didn't like to pay the troops. Therefore, his subordinates had the reputation of the official and bandit family. He was a strong man in the daytime, and was a first-class person in the night. Therefore, the two sides formed a situation of suppressing but not fighting.

Thanks to them, the Black Tiger's troops had only cold weapons such as sticks at the beginning. As a result, after Zhang Ke's troops suppressed them twice, they all replaced them with a smoothbore gun, and the bandit suppression troops also made great contributions. As soon as they were dispatched, the Black Tiger's bandit army would be gone. They reported that "kill the bandits - people, our army won a great victory..."

If the superior wants a corpse, a head and a captive, it is easy to deal with it. Go to the bandit area to catch some people to make up for it. Anyway, the matter between China has always been a matter of officials and bandits. However, the most profitable thing they do is to sell arms. The Black Tiger Army is doing business without capital, but it has money but no arms, and the bandit suppression troops have arms but no foreign appearance. This is not a mutual benefit for both sides...

Every time the bandit suppression ended, the Black Tiger's troops would carry a full load of foreign troops to exchange arms with the bandit suppression troops. The subsequent battle report was: "Although I won a complete victory this time, I would like to spend bullets, rifles, and bullets... I hope to replenish them quickly!"

Under this severe policy of suppressing bandits, although Zhang Ke claimed that "the bandit army is about to be destroyed..." However, the Black Tiger Army's troops are getting bigger and bigger, with a total of four or five thousand people. In the mountainous areas of southern Shandong, there are no more than two bandit troops like wolves and tigers. Nine out of ten families are empty for a time, and many people fled.

Zhang Ke also knew that this was not a solution, so he immediately led his troops to encircle and suppress the enemy. However, when he arrived at the front line, Zhang Ke found that all the troops under his command had sex with the Black Tiger Army, which was very unreliable. For safety reasons, he quickly transferred a reliable infantry regiment from the rear.

Then Zhang Ke's troops and the Black Tiger Army finally had their first firefight. The Black Tiger Army returned with great defeat... However, this credit cannot be remembered at Zhang Ke at all, but several nearby villages have been robbed by the Black Tiger Army for a long time and have been unable to bear it. They bought dozens of guns and organized the Lianzhuang Club. When they heard the gunshots, they rushed from behind the Black Tiger Army.

It’s not that Zhang Kejun is too capable, but that the Black Tiger Army was really not good at it and lost hundreds of people in an instant. As a result, the Black Tiger Army felt that Lunan was still standing, so it wandered to Henan.

The police in Henan's patrol team were too unsatisfied and actually suffered several defeats to the Black Tiger Army. As a result, the Black Tiger Army brought hundreds of meat tickets to western Henan. The western Henan area was a poor area, with strong people. The generals gathered with the Black Tiger Army, which was similar to the Black Tiger Army. As a result, the Black Tiger Army took the meat tickets to the periphery of Kaifeng, but was repelled by the defenders. Then they turned to Jin, and were defeated by the Jin army and then returned to Henan.

Fortunately, Premier Duan mobilized a large army in Henan for the sake of the southern expedition, and this army was temporarily used to suppress the Black Tiger Army. After a battle, it defeated a unit of the Black Tiger Army, killed and wounded 300 people, captured 700 or 80 people, and rescued dozens of people. The Black Tiger Army immediately rushed back to Shandong, but this time it did not return to southern Shandong, but left Dezhou. Shandong Governor Wang Ziqi rushed to the front line and drove the main force of the Fifth Division to defend.

But it is really difficult to deal with these bandits. It turns out that since modern times, China's largest horse market is in the Luohe area. The Black Tiger Army has robbed many military horses through this area. There are also cavalry figures among the generals in western Henan. This Black Tiger Army has evolved into a cavalry rebel like the Rouran rebels, and most of the official troops are infantry, which cannot be pursued and suppressed for a while.

Their strategy was also very clever. At first, they put forward the banner of "playing the way for the heavens", which was very tempting. However, in Chinese history, the bandit army and the bandit army have always been the same term. Therefore, their actions have become more and more shameless than the official army. They often attacked market towns and villages, and then extorted a large amount of money by threatening villages, and also kidnapped a large number of rich meat tickets. As for the matter of *, they have been repeatedly banned. According to the memories of the official army who rescued the meat tickets at that time, female meat tickets were mostly naked and without any trace. The so-called "playing the way for the heavens" actually evolved into a desire to replace oneself.

In this situation, the Black Tiger Army quickly deteriorated. The biggest reason was the support of Modi, Guangdong. For Modi, the more chaotic the north, the better. The more violent the Black Tiger Army is, the more it can restrain the larger Northern Army from going south. Therefore, the chief of staff of the Black Tiger Army was sent by Modi, and also received a large amount of funds sponsored by Modi.

Now the official name of the Black Tiger Army is "Luyu Eliminates the Violence and Salvation Army". Their propaganda is very impressive and is sweeter than honey. However, what they did after attacking the city was cold. After the Lu County was captured by the Black Tiger Army, hundreds of people were killed and injured, and 300 dead tickets were kidnapped. There were 300 women who committed suicide by jumping into the river. Therefore, the Lu family took this as a warning to build high walls and establish a security force for extreme battles. The whole city was united and would never let the tragedy happen again.

For more than ten years after that, Henan was in constant wars and the county town changed hands repeatedly. Only the Lu family county town was never defeated because of the lessons learned that year. Liu Heiqi's 40,000 bandits attacked the city for half a month. The Lu family members died together on the day when the city was destroyed. As a result, although more than a thousand casualties in the city were killed, Liu Heiqi could only sigh at the city. Later, hundreds of thousands of Fengtian troops went south to Henan, and the whole province of Henan changed hands. Only the Lu family defended hard for three months. The 30,000 elite Fengtian troops left the reputation of being able to siege the city as if they were not tofu, and were forced to retreat north.

However, the hot fire of the Black Tiger Army was getting stronger and stronger in Zhongzhou, and the actions of the two provinces of Zhi and Henan were outrageous. Henan and Shandong were both basic territory of the Hubei system. Duan Tiemin really could not tolerate this bandit army doing whatever it was in his rear.

However, according to Liu Jingxiao's later evaluation, Duan Tiemin's southern expedition, it was a huge mistake to gather the iron of Jiuzhou. Although the Hubei army had many numbers, the troops that could fight were worthless. In order to solve the Shaanxi problem, five or six divisions had been invested in Shaanxi. Now, for the sake of Nanzheng, there were no large number of troops to be dispatched to suppress bandits in the rear.

He is now expected to use the joint force association of Henan and Shandong provinces to suppress it, but this proposal was opposed by the Minister of Internal Affairs. Sun Yihong of the Internal Affairs Department was a political detective in Beijing, and he was determined to destroy the relationship between the government and the court, and he is now having a quarrel with Xu Youzheng.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is a very important department, which controls police. In order to indicate that the Duan Cabinet was a cabinet that cooperated with the north and south, Modi stuffed Sun Yihong in. Duan Tiemin also knew that this department could not be handed over to Sun, so he deliberately sent the deputy chief to undermine Sun. However, now Sun Yihong is a major disaster for Duan Nanzheng.

The cause of this incident was at a cabinet meeting. At that time, Xu Youzheng proposed that the capitals of Henan and Shandong provinces suppress the Black Tiger Army. Sun Yihong's position in the south was of course firmly opposed. Moreover, according to regulations, the Secretary-General of the Court had no say in the cabinet meeting. However, Xu Youzheng sent the order without waiting for the cabinet meeting to be approved, which made Sun Yihong so angry that he kept saying that he wanted to resign.

There was another incident after that. At that time, Xiao Diji had great achievements in fighting with the civilian army in southern Fujian. The cabinet rewarded Xiao Diji and invited the Fujian and Jiangxi provinces to jointly suppress the "thief army". However, Sun Hongyi only learned about this matter in the newspaper afterwards. According to procedures, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was the competent department, and the order should be signed by him by his deputy, so he scolded Xu Youzheng for illegally handling it.

Such a character is in the cabinet and will naturally reveal secrets to the south. His best move is to fight the other factions and create divisions in the north. He goes to see Feng Li from time to time, speaks bad things about Duan Tiemin, and tries to raise Feng's value. Duan also knows that if the Nanzheng is to succeed, the direct-European cooperation will have a chance of winning.

However, the legal system of the Republic is very flawed. There are only two ways to get Minister Sun to resign. One is that Sun Yihong himself proposed to resign, but Sun said to everyone: "I will never resign... Let's see what he can do to me!"

The Prime Minister has no way to remove the cabinet members. Only the Congress and the President can get Sun Yihong off the post. However, the Congress is now making a big fuss with the court because of the declaration of war. Sun himself has a small system in the Southwest Congress, so he can only remove the president from his post.

It is because of this reason, coupled with the offensive of the government, Duan finally made a concession and agreed that the secretary-general of the government rather than the president would attend the cabinet meeting, but he had no say. On the other hand, he made many concessions to the government and asked Xu Youzheng to apologize to the government. According to Duan Tiemin and Feng Li, the relationship between the government and the court was "although there was a small conflict, he had reconciled as before..."

But the more they denied it, the more they felt that the conflict between them was irreconcilable. But after the New Year, think about these things, it’s now New Year’s Eve, so it’s better to have this New Year.

New Year's Eve is Liu Jingxiao's own family dinner. The day before, Liu Jingxiao set up two banquets and invited all officers from the battalion commander or above to the division to attend. The guests and hosts were happy, which was also considered to be a win-win situation.

Of course, this Spring Festival, Liu Jingxiao can be said to be a boy who has lost money. He paid more than 200,000 yuan during the Chinese New Year, especially the cadres who took a lot of money, and with the intention of drinking, he patted his chest and expressed his loyalty to Liu Jingxiao loudly.

Who said that everyone has been doing well this year, and they have fought many big and bad battles, which is a life-and-death death. However, the company commander of the Dingbian Army is now the lowest, and Han Xinhai even jumped to the position of regiment commander at once. As for the current ocean, the cadres have also gained enough money for their wife. Of course, Liu Jingxiao stated in advance: Apart from life problems, he can help the cadres solve anything.

However, with a lot of money, marrying a wife is not a big problem. Although you can't hide your beauty like a teacher and marry a few beautiful women with a beautiful appearance, this is the difference between a battalion commander and a division commander. If you continue to work hard with the teacher, you are afraid that you can't take any further advancement.

The only miserable thing is that Company Commander Bai Shiwen. His company commander was still intact. What's more, on New Year's Eve, Xiao Rulang, who was still angry, personally went to his company to conduct marching training. Xiao Rulang rode his horse and shook the whip and urged Bai Shiwen, who was naked, and his officers and soldiers: "Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!"

Although Xiao Rulang was riding a horse, Bai Siwen didn't dare to show his dissatisfaction at all. He could only say: "Captain... I'll follow up immediately..."

This is a lesson from blood and tears. On the first day of strengthening training, Bai Siwen was dissatisfied with Xiao Rulang riding a horse and they marched on foot, so he said strange words: "The regiment commander...the treatment of the officers and soldiers must be unified..."

It’s not that I want to treat the same treatment. The next day, Xiao Rulang really dismounted and ran with the officers and soldiers. As a result, Bai Siwen was so tired that he was dizzy. He had countless foot bubbles. He felt so painful as soon as he stepped on the ground. It turned out that Xiao Rulang was young and had just the right physical strength, so he looked for some of the most difficult mountain paths to run. Bai Siwen was a little older and his physical strength was far less than Xiao Rulang, so he didn’t even have to endure it.

But Bai Siwen still insisted on it because if he didn't do this, his company commander's hat would fly.

It is no wonder that Xiao Rulang was so angry. During the previous marching exercise, Xiao Rulang felt that the brigade commander's position was right in front of him. His team arrived at his goal before Chen Ce, but in the final evaluation, Chen Ce's delegation actually won a small victory.

The reason is that Bai Siwen's company performed so well. He didn't say that he was late and violated military disciplines and forced to sell forcing him. Liu Jingxiao's final evaluation face turned into three black lines, and it was about to happen if he was short. In the end, he gave Xiao Rulang face, making Chen Ce's regiment just a "small victory", and the brigade commander's position was still represented by Liu Jingxiao.

You kid dare to drag the whole group down! Xiao Rulang was so angry that he gritted his teeth and immediately announced that Bai Siwen would not have a holiday during the Spring Festival, and the entire company carried out strengthening training - in order to ensure the training effect, he personally went to the company to supervise.

It's no wonder that the position of the regiment commander and the brigade commander was much different. Seeing that his old friend Li Heyi had already been appointed as the rank of major general, he had two teams of troops under his command. Han Xinhai, the young company commander, is now the commander of his own level, how could he not make Xiao Rulang get angry?

Of course, under this hell-style exercise, Bai Siwen immediately reported his sick leave. As a result, his old friend Wang Lie told him that Xiao Rulang was going to be allowed to leave immediately as soon as he received his sick leave order and immediately sent someone to act as a company commander... Of course, this agent is not a matter of one year or two, but a lifelong matter. Even if Bai Siwen returns to the company, he can only appoint a deputy company commander.

Let yourself become the deputy company commander? This is absolutely impossible. Bai Siwen tore up the sick leave report as soon as possible. Although he complained during the training period, his overall performance was pretty good. Especially under this intensity of training, he consolidated the troops very well. In the end, the position of the company commander was finally saved.

However, Bai Siwen was the company commander from the 71st year of the Republic. He fought from south to north for 17 years. His troops were not lost and his official positions were not promoted. This was also a big and small anomaly in the Dingbian Army.

However, Liu Jingxiao didn't care about these things. Today is New Year's Eve, and he just wanted to be with the people closest to him. The only people who attended the banquet today, besides Wanyan Yuzhuo, Chen Xianqiao, and Xu Rubing, were Dingyin and Guo Junqing.

Since it was a family dinner, I cooked it myself. Unfortunately, Chen Xianqiao is a young lady and has never been in the kitchen and can only help. Xu Rubing and Wanyan Yuzhuo are both beautiful women with good wives and mothers. They can make good dishes with both colors, fragrance and flavor in the kitchen. Since Guo Junqing is a soldier, she will naturally do some housework when she is picnicking and sleeping in the open, but she seems to focus on speed rather than quality. What is even more surprising to the girls is that Liu Jingxiao, who has never been in the kitchen, can also cook good dishes, and her cooking skills are not worse than Xu Ruyang and Wanyan Yuzhuo.

It was cold and all the girls were wearing thick coats. Liu Jingxiao was helping in the kitchen while taking the time to appreciate the appearance of all the girls.
Chapter completed!