It is said that warlords ruin the country, but there are some things that are said to be a bit too far. Among the warlords, there are really a few good ones. The first one is the grassroots heroes who are from the south and the north. I won’t say much about the Zhang young man in the north. He deals with the two powerful countries of Japan and Russia, seeks survival in the cracks, and builds the Northeast with great success without giving up in an inch of land! The bandits in the south are Lu Rongting, and there are also thieves. They are doing business to rob the French, govern Guangxi for ten years, eliminate bandit troubles, and do not interfere in civil affairs. They can basically be honest as officials.

The warlords from the two bandits from the north and the south still have many similarities. They all rely on foreign warfare troops to govern the areas and do not interfere randomly, and to recruit bandits to stabilize the areas and do not shave the land. It is also because of this that after the death of the two, the people under their rule were all thinking about their good deeds. After Zhang Zuolin's death, the Northeast Army was not as loyal to Zhang Xueliang as Zhang Zuolin. After Lu Rongting died, he was buried for a month by the people of Guangxi.

There is another interesting thing between Zhang Zuolin and Lu Rongting. Lu Rongting and Zhang Zuolin are both warlords from the grass-roots background, known as "Northern Lu". Once, Zhang Lu met at the Taihe Hall in Beijing and had a speculation. Suddenly, a bird flew over the hall. Lu pulled his gun and shot it. The bird landed on the ground. Zhang Shi had no guns and there were no birds in the sky. The competition failed. He thought of a move, shouted, shouting, and immediately took off his clothes and pulled his pants and said, "Look at who has the most scars!" The competition resulted in Zhang Ji had more than fifty scars, while Lu had more than eighty scars. Zhang felt ashamed of himself and called Lu as his elder brother. - It can be seen that being a bandit was not easy. After this incident, the two felt more speculative, and they had letters to each other after returning to their respective territory.

Now, no matter what kind of thoughts, Zhang Zuolin recommends Lu Rongting as the commander-in-chief of the railway corps, which shows his affection. Lu Rongting also understood that the Northeast Army did not attack Guangxi but only attacked Guangdong, which was to save him face. However, he did not expect that it was Li Changgeng's idea to not attack Guangxi. Now Guangdong and Guangxi are in a group, and the three southwest provinces are in another group. If Guangxi is in a hurry, it is very likely that Guangxi and Southwest will unite together. These companies will hide their troops into the mountains and fight. Now they have made Guangdong and Guangxi a group, attack Guangdong and drag Guangxi to prevent the Southwest from forming alliances with Guangdong and Guangxi. Guangdong and Guangxi, especially Lu Rongting, are given priority to win over the generals who oppose the revolutionary party.

As for the Zhili and Southwest, let's take a look. The Zhili is now eager to submit a letter of fame to Li Changgeng, so he naturally bought the strength. The warlords of the three southwest provinces also understand that they are different from the Beiyang faction and are different from Guangdong and Guangxi. If they surrender to Li Changgeng, they will not have any good endings. They simply fight for one, but they can't beat them and run overseas. Their own family is also praised enough. Li Changgeng is also happy to see this. The Zhili and the Southwest warlords are exhausted and he can take action to clean up the mess.

After thinking for a day, Lu Rongting issued a telegram to announce that he accepted the appointment of the Civil Affairs Committee and the Commission, took office as commander-in-chief of the Railway Soldier of the Republic of China, resigned from the position of commander-in-chief of the Guangxi Law Guardian Army, and disbanded the Guangxi Parliament. The Guangxi troops were reorganized by the Northeast Army.

On the same day, Zhang Zuolin issued a telegram in Guangzhou to announce that Guangdong would surrender to the leadership of the Standing Committee of the National Congress, and dissolve the Guangdong Provincial Parliament and establish the Guangzhou Provincial National Congress.

Two telegrams from Guangxi, Guangdong, scared the warlords in the southwest. Guangdong, which was blocked by them, disappeared like this. Isn’t Guangxi still not fighting? Lu Rongting, an old bandit, gave up his nest if someone gave him a railway troop commander. This is unscientific!

Let’s not talk about what the warlords in the southwest think of Lu Rongting. Now this old guy is chatting with Zhang Zuolin in Guangzhou. The only two of them are sitting opposite each other and drinking in the house, and all the idle people are rushing outside.

Lu Rongting picked up the wine glass and said to Zhang Zuolin: "Yu Ting, I didn't expect that we could meet each other, and I didn't expect that we could turn swords into jade and silk. Tell me why do you recommend me to be the commander-in-chief of this railway soldier?"

Zhang Zuolin smiled and sipped a sip of wine, picked up a peanut and looked at it for a while before putting it in his mouth and chewing it slowly. After a while, he slowly said: "I recommend that you be the commander-in-chief of the Railway Soldier, it is really not my old Zhang!"

"It's not you?" Lu Rongting put down his wine glass.

"It's my old brother Li Changgeng!"

"Why is it him? He is not familiar with me. Isn't it just that you said for me, brother."

"You, don't underestimate the ability of my old brother. He still has people who don't understand. Let's say that. If you want to know your Lu Rongting today, even what food you ate at noon yesterday, went to the toilet several times, and saw those people saying anything, these things will be placed on his desk tomorrow."

Lu Rongting was stunned for a moment and blurted out: "Can he have this ability?"

Seeing that Lu Rongting didn't believe it, Zhang Zuolin slapped two times, a guard came in at the door, "What are the instructions for Mr. Yu?"

"You go to the General Staff and call any intelligence officer to come over!"

After a while, a young man wearing the uniform of a lieutenant of the Northeast Army entered the house. "Report to the commander-in-chief, and the intelligence officer Li Rong came to report to him. Please give me instructions!"

Zhang Zuolin nodded: "Staff General Li, I'll give you five minutes to check the settlement of General Gan Qing's entourage."

After the staff officer named Li left, Lu Rongting was still confused, "Oh, don't worry, Yuting, you can still be lazy with my subordinates!"

Zhang Zuolin smiled and then said to Lu Rongting: "Let's continue, my old brother said that you did a good job in Guangxi, not greedy for money, not shave the land, and your military discipline is better than other places. Although the people of Guangxi cannot tell how good you are, they have no major problems in your governance. Since the guardians of the past two years, the southwest soldiers entered Guangdong and passed through Guangxi, the people of Guangxi have only thought about your goodness! Brother Lu has also turned his face against the local emperors in the southwest because his military discipline is too bad!"

After hearing Zhang Zuolin bringing up this matter, Lu Rongting also changed his face and said angrily: "Brother, don't talk about it. I'm angry when I mention this matter. Needless to say, the military discipline in the southwest has become chaotic all the way. What's even more annoying is that the Southwest army is all double-gun soldiers, using big smoke as military pay. When these people come, they spend big smoke as money. If the people dare not collect big smoke, they will even rob and smash it. Originally, Guangxi's ban on smoking had already achieved results, but they had to start over if they were to disturb it. Finally, our Guangxi army watched the Southwest army go to Guangdong."

Zhang Zuolin laughed: "Brother Lu, it's because of this that my old brother asked me how I asked you to be the commander-in-chief of the Railway Soldier."

Lu Rongting smiled: "I didn't expect that my incident would alarm your old brother who is as talented as a demon. Brother Yuting asked you something. I agreed to do this commander-in-chief of the railway soldiers, but I don't know what the railway soldiers do."

Zhang Zuolin thought about it and said in a stiff tone: "The railway troop is a special type of troops, mainly composed of professional engineering troops such as buildings, communications, lines, tunnels, bridges, boats and bridges, and is responsible for the support of railway engineering technology. In addition, the railway troop must complete some national defense construction projects such as highways, airports, caves, and some large and large civil engineering projects. It is a national mobile force for flood control, earthquake relief, forest fire extinguishing, and snow clearing. The total number of people is likely to remain at around 400,000."

"How many people do you say?" Lu Rongting asked afterwards.

Zhang Zuolin smiled and said, "The 400,000 people are just preliminary estimates, maybe there may be more."

As soon as Zhang Zuolin finished speaking, a knock on the door interrupted Lu Rongting's questioning. Su Rong came in from outside and saluted Zhang Zuolin, "Report to the commander-in-chief, I have seen General Lu's entourage. Please give me instructions!"

Zhang Zuolin smiled and asked, "Tell me how many people are there in General Lu's escort, their names, their positions, what dishes they eat, and how they sit. How much wine each person drank. After you entered the house, have the host and the guest of honor talked to each person? What did they say?"

"Returning to the commander-in-chief, General Lu had a total of 27 members, including one adjutant, one division commander, and one brigade commander. Twelve guards, four staff officers, one division commander, four businessmen, and three others did not introduce their positions. However, judging from their physical condition, one should be General Lu's personal bodyguard, and one should be a first-level officer of the regiment battalion. The position should not be too high. But it should be highly valued by General Lu. The last one should be a government official.

The names and positions of personnel are Tan Haoming, the commander of the Second Division of the Guangxi Army, accompanied by General Zhang Zuoxiang, Huang Bangbiao, commander of the Guangxi Mixed Brigade, commander Liu Zhenyu, marching staff of the Guangxi Army General Staff, Sun Guanghao, marching staff of the Guangxi Army General Staff, Yu Ye Qian, confidential staff of the Guangxi Army General Staff..., the dishes they ate were twelve dishes per table, namely the main dishes, braised pomfret, braised lamb.... A total of three jars of white wine were opened, and

According to the remaining drinks, there should have been ten kilograms of white wine at that time. Commander Liu Zhenyu drank a little more, which should be about half a kilogram. The rest of the people drank almost the same, and they should be between two or three taels of wine. After I entered the house, the host was talking to the guest of the host, and the host said that the mortar used by our Northeast Army had a caliber of 60mm, 80mm, 120mm, and a small number of 150mm guns... The report was completed!"

Zhang Zuolin nodded and said, "The answer is very good, go down!"

After Li Rong bowed and walked out of the room, Lu Rongting stretched out his big hunk and said, "I didn't expect that your Northeast Army would have such a capable man!"

Zhang Zuolin smiled faintly and replied: "If I tell you this is just a compulsory course for our Northeast Army intelligence consultant, the intelligence consultant with the same ability as Su Rong can pull up no less than two thousand people. I don't know very well about the specific number of secret personnel who have undergone such special training."

This really shocked Lu Rongting. It was not that smart people had never seen them, but suddenly they heard that there were thousands of such smart people, which was really scary. Zhang Zuolin saw that he had received the effect he wanted, picked up the wine glass and smiled: "Brother Lu, let's drink. I told you that I was also shocked by the ability of these staff members at that time. Later, my old brother took me to the intelligence staff training school. After reading it, I understood what was going on. They all practiced such skills after a period of special training. Of course, it is necessary to have a certain talent to do this to Li Rong. That is, we ordinary people can't compare with their specialized talents after a period of memory training, but they can also be simple and unforgettable. Come on, don't think about it, let's drink!"

After taking a sip of wine, Lu Rongting understood why Li Changgeng called Li Rong in and let him show his memory ability. It turned out that he was telling himself that there were such people around him. If he said something bad about Li Changgeng or did something unfavorable to him, he would definitely not be able to escape the spy he placed beside him. He could be the position of Guangdong and Guangxi Inspection Commissioner, and naturally, a smart person, Lu Rongting realized that Zhang Zuolin retreated and told himself to be careful in his words and doing things in the future.

Lu Rongting's mind returned to the position of commander-in-chief of the railway corps, "Brother Yuting, I will leave the 400,000 troops to my control. You commander-in-chief will rest assured. In a person, you will not take all the Guangxi troops under my command to build the railway, right?"

Seeing his thoughts, Lu Rongting realized it, he was also secretly happy. In Li Changgeng's words, he was not afraid of a god-like opponent. He was afraid of teammates like pigs, who were both smart and smart, and who were twice as good as stupid. "Brother Lu, you, you look down on my old brother's thoughts and mind too much. He said that the best source of troops in Southern China is Guangxi and Hunan. He wants to form two standing divisions in Guangxi, one mountain division. The basic military framework of Guangxi has not changed, but the officers under your command will go back to the military academy. This is for the stability of the reorganization of the Guangxi troops, and the second is for the more scientific and reasonable formation of the adapted army. The old military command can no longer be adapted.

As for the position of using you as the commander-in-chief of the railway corps, one is to trust your ability, and the other is to trust your character. Isn’t it 400,000 people? You are not stressed and afraid that you can’t lead the soldiers well. Second, don’t be afraid that your unit is a second-line army and does not pay attention to it. Third, don’t be afraid that you will have little power. After the national military service system reform, soldiers will be conscripts. After the railway corps is demobilized, the government is responsible for arranging to be a worker, earning wages for the rest of your life, and having a pension to get when you are old! Tell you that in the future, you will be a delicious bun in the future. Now my old brother is good at being a good man, so you must not hit the gun."

Lu Rongting knew that Zhang Zuolin could tell him these things to win him over, but he was still very grateful to Zhang for his suggestions. If it weren't for what Zhang Zuolin said to him today, as an old fox who had been ups and downs in the officialdom for decades, Lu Rongting would have known the darkness of the officialdom. He did not understand some things, and in the future people would be afraid that he would not know where he was wrong. Lu Rongting picked up the wine glass and toasted Zhang Zuolin with a glass and said solemnly: "According to the previous Qing Dynasty, we brothers will be ministers in the same dynasty in the future. Today we can hear Brother Yuting say these to our brothers today, which shows our brotherhood. I won't say much about thanks. Let's see what we do in the future!"

"It's great that Brother Lu said. Even if we can understand this wine today, you just need to remember to be loyal to the Chairman! My old brother just sent me a telegram. I asked you to go to the northeast first, meet him in Xi'an, and give you the opportunity to be the commander-in-chief of the Railway Soldier in person!"

Lu Rongting asked afterwards: "What are you going to avoid when you meet the Chairman?"

Zhang Zuolin smiled. Lu Rongting asked this question. It was because he was scared by the intelligence consultant just now. "The chairman really has nothing to do with him. He just likes to listen to the truth. Don't report good news or bad news to him. If you raise more difficulties with him, he might come up with a good solution for you. He also likes to talk about practical things. The more specific things he likes to talk about. If you go to the Northeast, you should observe more and keep more ideas and ideas. You may get unexpected results when you talk to him!"

The fact that Zhang Zuolin won over Lu Rongting was actually due to Li Changgeng's instruction. Cen Chunxuan's influence in Guangdong and Guangxi cannot be underestimated. Now using Cen Chunxuan as the governor of Guangxi is also a means used by Li Changgen to stabilize Guangdong and Guangxi. However, Cen Chunxuan is a very ambitious person and is an old fox in the officialdom. He threatened that Guangxi people govern Guangxi. Without a person with equal strength in Guangdong and Guangxi to check and balance, he would not be relieved! Lu Rongting is a relatively suitable candidate. The main task of the railway corps in the future is the Southwest Railway Network. In this way, hundreds of thousands of troops are on the side, Cen Chunxuan will not be able to make any waves.

As Li Changgeng expected, Cen Chunxuan was indeed not an honest person. He had been in Chang'an for a few days and had just returned to China, and attracted a group of people touting the new policies of the National Congress and Chairman Li Changgeng in newspapers all day long.

As the group of people started to hug them, some officials also began to move closer to the small group. After Li Changgeng discovered this sign, he planned to take advantage of the situation to play with them, so he sent an invitation to Liang Qichao and asked him and Cen Chunxuan to chat with him.

After receiving the invitation from Li Changgeng, Liang Qichao and Cen Chunxuan were very happy. It seemed that they had not praised Li Changgeng for vain during this period. The two old foxes came to see Li Changgeng happily.

The meeting place was in the official hall where Li Changgeng met Cen Chunxuan last time. The last time Li Changgeng met Liang Qichao with Cai E a few years ago. At that time, Li Changgeng was still thinking about beside Liang Qichao's thighs, holding the rituals of juniors. Now that time has passed, Li Changgeng has become the most powerful person in China. Naturally, he will not be holding the rituals of juniors to Liang Qichao, and even Li Changgeng has not even given up the position of the main position.

As the saying goes, living in a state of revitalizing body and replenishing energy, Li Changgeng sat there calmly, and his official power increased. Seeing Liang, Cen and his two men came in, they just stood up to greet him, and then sat back on the chair. It was not until the servants served tea that Li Changgeng began indifferently: "I heard that Ren Gong has been back to China for some time. Geng is plagued by mundane affairs and is not allowed to visit Ren Gong in his spare time. He dares to work Ren Gong and his party. He also hopes that Ren Gong will forgive the crime of rudeness."

Li Changgeng shouted in the commons one by one. Not only did Liang Qichao feel intimate, but he was suppressed by Li Changgeng's indifferent tone and official power. Although Liang Qichao is very famous in China, he did not really hold up as a great official, nor did he really hold power. But his ambition and desire for power is not small at all. Now he is so dedicated to praising Li Changgeng and the National Congress, he may not be without the intention of seeking an official. Although Liang Qichao was uncomfortable with Li Changgeng's tone, he still said enthusiastically: "Hahaha, the Chairman can remember that I am old, I am old and prosperous, so why would I be rude? When I was abroad, I heard that the Chairman led the Northeast Army to defeat the Soviet Empire and expanded the border for thousands of miles. It was really exciting. Your slogan that China is the world is still lingering in my ears."

When Cen Chunxuan heard Liang Qichao's humble tone to Li Changgeng, his nose was almost pissed. What kind of integrity did this old guy tell him before coming, but when he saw that he was so arrogant, he wouldn't be so honest, even his bones were soft, which made him look bad for a long time. Even if you are shameless, we can compare with each other! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m. Read.)

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