The black courtesy car was not parked on the railway station square, Yang Yuanzhao is the controller of the northwest, in the eyes of many people in the northwest, known as the Buddha of the Ten Thousand Families, there are still countless people, the portrait of Yang Yuanzhao is hung at home, he himself, is not a person who likes to break the rules and enjoy privileges, ordinary actions are quite close to the people, only in a few cases, will choose to use privileges.

Now it is one of these few situations, Yuan Shikai's intention is very hasty, he came to Baotou, it is a thing that is enough to affect the situation in the whole of China, the northwest has accumulated enough strength, and it can also rely on this strength to unify China, but the unification brought about by the war, but this kind of thing, the secret is better than the public, Yuan Shikai and Yang Yuanzhao are public figures, and they are the leaders of the two largest forces in the whole of China. It will make careerists wait for an opportunity.

Beiyang is a ripe fruit, even if it is as strong as the northwest, there are many problems considered, there are many concerns, the biggest problem is what Yuan Shikai is going to do, even if Yuan Shikai takes the initiative to surrender, there is another problem, the smooth reception of the entire Beijing, Tianjin and Northeast region, smooth transition, full of receiving, with confrontation reception, full of devastation, since the consequences are different, when the time comes, the northwest territory will be all over the north of China, especially in the northeast.

If the Northwest Army is quickly deployed in the northeast, it will be able to take advantage of the geographical advantages of the northeast to pose a direct threat to Korea, and if Taiwan and Korea, the two major colonial territories, are taken down, it seems that the image and scenery of victory that Japan has gradually established will plummet for thousands of miles, and the blow to Japan will not be small.

Next to the station square. A very hidden road, through almost 800 meters, and then through a gate with a guarded handle, this one looks simple on the surface, but in fact the splendid limousine and the convoy of three buses behind it, together into a lonely railway line. This is already under Baotou Station, after the train comes down from 3 lanes, up to one of the strands, the train will gradually go down, after going forward 1200 meters, it will descend to the position of the 2nd underground floor, which is their mysterious platform, in the entire Baotou Station, there are less than 15 people who know. Even in the northwest, only officials at the ministerial level know that when they go to other places for business, they can board special or special carriages here in advance.

The watch was under the light, flickering with a faint fluorescence, Liu Shu looked at the watch, and said a little relaxed: "There are still 7 minutes!" ”

It's 7:53 p.m. Because of the relationship between the parade road, they came. The time spent was a little bigger, but fortunately, the problem was not big, and the 7 minutes passed in a flash.

Soon. The roar came, and at the corner of more than 1,000 meters ahead, a not too long train suddenly appeared, which could appear here at this time. There is only Yuan Shikai.

The train slowly reduced its speed, as early as when it passed through Baotou Station, the speed was reduced to about 30, in front of the platform, slowly stopped, the trains opened, a person who was not tall, bald, wearing an old-fashioned landlord's uniform, and had a special beard, under the guidance of the conductor, with a large number of strong men, slowly got off the train.

Yuan Shikai! Even if Yang Yuanzhao doesn't need to identify it, he knows that this is the famous Yuan Datou, the name of the currency in the Republic of China, just like the grandfather of later generations, known by the majority of the people and liked by everyone.

Seeing Yuan Shikai, Yang Yuanzhao has a feeling that a historical figure has walked down from the picture, or a sense of the heaviness of history, Yuan Shikai who looks like he is dressed in cross-dressing and is slightly blessed, but his eyes are as thick as a mountain, he is the controller of Beiyang, a rare hero in troubled times.

Coincidentally, when Yang Yuanzhao observed Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai was also observing Yang Yuanzhao, Yuan Shikai was also the first time, recognized Yang Yuanzhao, Yang Yuanzhao's name, as early as many years ago, when the first and Baotou Chamber of Commerce was organized, I heard that the young rising star in the business world, the then governor of Shanxi, even made a recommendation to the Military Aircraft Department for him, which is also the predecessor of the 54 Mixed Editorial Association, the origin of the Baotou militia.

If it weren't for the fact that Yuan Shikai was in competition with the Qing court at that time, it was inconvenient to make a move, and he could have sent a co-ordination to destroy the Shanxi New Army.

This may be the most likely judgment made by Yuan Shikai after his own speculation, at the beginning of the establishment of the Baotou militia group, what the northwest had was only one or two thousand people trained by Feng Yuxiang in the northeast back then, although Feng Yuxiang was good, but at that time, he was only a battalion of the Beiyang Army, and how much strength he had, a standard looked up to him. In all fairness, if he still didn't know the future of the Northwest, but at that time, Yuan Shikai would not have looked at Shanxi at all.

What kind of place is Shanxi, go to the west exit, go to the east exit, and those with a large population have to go out, and even fight with nature to survive, and form a local militia in the name of the new army, this is simply a small thing, it is just a joke, and those old hats have money, but those old hats, the idea in their hearts is just to make money, and they will not care about Shanxi's affairs at all. In fact, a little later, when Yan Xishan, the later king of the northwest, rose in the northwest, it was also a new army, and there were only two battalions at that time, and the mixed organization association was established later. Shanxi is still like this, not to mention Baotou outside the mouth, it is a poor mountain and bad water, does anyone run a new army?

Yuan Shikai was putting all his mind on fighting with the military aircraft at that time, and the Manchu court couldn't solve Beiyang, so a large number of new troops were scattered like a broom, not to mention provinces, prefectures, and even counties, as long as there was an application, they could always get a reply, but most of them were silent.

In this way, under the scale of more than 70,000 people in the original six towns of Beiyang, more than 100,000 new troops frantically appeared, and these new troops, just like the former green battalion, looked beautiful, some were tools to defraud support and military salaries, and some were reduced to tools of the revolutionary party.

Under the countless mud and sand, such a real tiger in the northwest emerged, and then, Yang Yuanzhao's development was completely different from what everyone expected, and the Qing Dynasty center's kung fu to attack Beiyang came to the fore and established the 54 Mixed Editorial Association.

In the eyes of the center of the Qing court, what is this, isn't it just an ordinary association with only two targets, Beiyang under the vigorous promotion of the center, it took more than ten years, and it is only more than 70,000 people, and all places are training new armies, but except for Beiyang, the others are very average in strength, not to mention a poor and backward northwest located thousands of miles away from the center.

In most places, there are simply not enough funds. Support the establishment of such an association, and some even want to set up a town, but how many are really in place, after the center intensifies inspections and tightens appropriations, it quickly disappears, I thought this was the routine of the governor of Shanxi, and after symbolically opening the door of convenience, I didn't care about it.

The next change made everyone feel beautiful and think that the Northwest not only did not eat empty salaries, but built the 54 mixed association with such a small chassis as Baotou, which not only has complete staffing and weapons, but even quietly expanded into a federation and three standards, each standard is overstaffed, almost equivalent to a town's association.

In 1908 and 1909, if Beiyang really went all out, the Northwest or the 54 Mixed Editorial Association could not resist at all, but unfortunately, once the opportunity in front was missed, it would be too late to catch up and recover, and they went to the last chance.

Yuan Shikai looked ahead, young and delicate, always had thousands of words to say, but did not say a word, the two sides met, introduced themselves to each other, in fact, as a close neighbor in the north, and the object of mutual attention, the two sides were very familiar with each other, and almost recognized each other at first sight.

Beiyang Sanjie, Wu Peifu, Sun Chuanfang, Cao Kun, these current and future generations, the famous Beiyang backbone, are all in Yuan Shikai's team, Yang Yuanzhao couldn't help but sigh slightly, Yuan Shikai is Yuan Shikai, even now, at such an unfavorable level, there is still such a large group of people to follow, also as a manager, Yang Yuanzhao knows very well that at this time, it must be the iron core under his command, now it seems that Yuan Shikai's prestige is very high.

After all, at the beginning, everyone for a goal, for a purpose, has achieved considerable results, everyone is looking forward to a better future, strive for more interests, you put aside everyone, go to play alone, if there is no Republic of China, everyone is the master, you can be the emperor, with the Republic of China, the president has no lifelong system, there is a term of office, the position of the president everyone wants to sit, Seeing that there is a chance, you are the emperor, pass the position to your Yuan family, Yuan Shikai's son is not angry, and suddenly hurt those followers who have been following him, so he fell into a rebellion, and now, with the emergence of the northwest, Yuan Shikai's personal desire for power has not swelled to the extent of later generations, which is also the reason why he came to the northwest, otherwise, even if the north of China is broken, he will not feel distressed, let alone raise his hands to surrender.

The two of them fought against each other for a long time, no one said a word, the sight and time seemed to be frozen in an instant, and none of the followers behind them said a word, just stood together so clearly, in the end, it was Yuan Shikai who figured it out and took a step towards Yang Yuanzhao first. (To be continued......)