After Sun Wen returned to China, the momentum of the southern party was greatly boosted, and the southern representatives in the follow-up peace talks did not even give Tang Shaoyi a good look, and Tang Shaoyi said that he was a serious cabinet minister, and Yuan Shikai's plenipotentiary representative, and the arrogance in his heart was naturally there, and the southern party had a bad attitude, and without saying a few words, he said that Yuan Shikai would immediately be Cao Ying and oust the Qing imperial family, otherwise he would immediately go north to attack Yunyun.

Tang Shaoyi had received a hint from Yuan Shikai before he came, saying that on the one hand, he had to delay time, Beiyang needed time to brew, and he needed time to persuade the Qing royal family to take the initiative to step down, and on the other hand, he had to implement the follow-up position of president with the southern party, otherwise it would be a joke if Yuan Shikai would not be able to get the position of president after Yuan Shikai ousted Pu Yi from power.

As a result, Tang Shaoyi's surname avoided talking about it, and he actually said that he was sick on the important occasion of the north-south peace talks, and the peace talks had to be postponed and postponed!

This seemingly absurd decision shocked Huang Xing and others in the south.

Don't look at Huang Xing in Nanjing now holding high the banner of the Northern Expedition, but Huang Xing knows that even if his command level is not good, the Northern Expedition is not feasible now, and the more than 20,000 Northern Expeditionary troops under his command can maintain the current situation It is already very reluctant, and he is not able to go north along the Jinpu line at all. As for the nearly 70,000 people gathered around Nanjing City, Huang Xing, who was still growing, had no intention of counting on them.

But Huang Xing didn't expect them to fight, these people's troops were counting on the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe to pay them, and they all shouted: Lao Tzu is also a revolutionary hero, and he also killed the Qing army. If you don't pay the army, Lao Tzu will rob himself!

As a result, Nanjing followed in the footsteps of Guangzhou, and almost every day there were civilian troops burning and looting in the city, causing many people to flee Nanjing, on the one hand, to avoid the war, and on the other hand, to avoid these civilian troops.

However, it is good to say that Huang Xing still has more than 20,000 Northern Expeditionary troops on hand, which is no better than the revolutionary party in Guangzhou, which has no military power in its hands and can only let the situation go into chaos. Therefore, although Nanjing was a little chaotic, a few gunshots rang out from time to time, and a few people died, but on the whole it remained stable, and the important areas in the city were still controlled by the Northern Expeditionary Army, and there were no large-scale massacres for the time being, and there were absurd things such as digging hearts in the streets.

Now Huang Xing's side is too busy to take care of himself, although he said that he wants to go on a northern expedition, but he is afraid that the peace talks in Shanghai will collapse, and the Jiang Defense Army and the Fifth Town, which are entrenched in Xuzhou, will go south to Nanjing, and there is little confidence in whether he can stop Huang Xing himself at that time.

Huang Xing's worries were superfluous, although Tang Shaoyi pretended to be sick, it was just delaying time. Yuan Shikai is not full of food and supports the army to go south before the peace talks are completed, if the Beiyang Army really wants to go south, then it will have to wait for Yuan Shikai to become the president, and if he sends troops now, it is purely to serve the Qing court as a wronged leader.

Beiyang not to mention going south, this will even be under the leadership of Duan Qirui, the generals of the Beiyang armies petition the imperial court from time to time, saying that they want a republic and do not want to fight or something, the purpose of which is nothing more than to avoid the Qing royal family from taking the initiative to step down.

After Sun Wen returned to Shanghai, he immediately went to Nanjing, and at the same time the delegates of the provinces in Nanjing had already held a number of meetings on the formation of a provisional political axe, and no one cared about some trivial things, but the dispute over the national system had sparked a great debate. This is the debate between the presidential system and the cabinet system.

A group of people led by Song Jiaoren hoped to form a cabinet system, with the prime minister in charge of the power and unify the country. In this way, whether Sun Wen is the president or Yuan Shikai is the president, they are just puppets, and they will be able to limit the power of Yuan Shikai or Sun Wen to the greatest extent.

If this purely idealistic politician is placed in Western countries, he may still be able to incite many people, but this is China, or China in 1911, whether it is Sun Wen or Yuan Shikai, it is more difficult to make them a puppet president than to ascend to the sky. Huang Xing, who has always supported Sun Wen, openly contradicted Song Jiaoren: "The only way to do this is to implement the presidential system to seize the power of the country and gather the strength of the whole country to carry out the revolution!" ”

Even Yuan Shikai in the north is also very concerned about the dispute between the president and the cabinet in the south, originally this matter has nothing to do with Yuan Shikai on the surface, but the old Yuan has already decided that the future president is settled by himself, if he lets the south make a cabinet system, won't he be a puppet in the future?

However, Yuan Shikai's worries are superfluous, Sun Wen's prestige is not comparable to Song Jiaoren, and the military power in Huang Xing's hands is not comparable to Song Jiaoren's mouth, after the two are united, the representatives of the southern provinces have made the right choice: the presidential system!

On December 29, the controversy over the state system came to an end, and the delegates of the southern provinces elected Sun Wen as the provisional political president.

On the 31st, Sun Wen officially took office as the provisional president of the political axe in Nanjing!

This news was also spread by major newspapers all over the country, and many people cheered and encouraged it, believing that the republic of China had finally ushered in a new chapter in history.

There was such a historical moment in Nanjing, but in Fuzhou it seemed somewhat calmer, although there was a lot of discussion in the newspapers, and the people began to talk about republican revolutions and other things, but Fuzhou has been calm for so long that the people do not care much about it.

Even the military and political axe did not react much to a series of major events that happened in Nanjing, Zheng Zuyin and the others only stared at the inside of the Fujian military and political axe, and tried hard to compete with Chen Jingyun and Lin Wenying, the matter that Nanjing was so far away could not be compared with them for the time being, although Lin Wenying and a few others wanted to support a few words, they could only post comments in the newspaper, as for how many people watched, I don't know.

And Chen Jingyun didn't care, he already knew that Sun Wen was going to be the president, nothing unexpected happened, everything was expected by Chen Jingyun. On the same day, he sent a congratulatory telegram, and Chen Jingyun himself took Luo Li home to accompany Chen Yu's family for a whole day.

The next day, that is, on January 1, 1912, when Sun Wen in Nanjing held a large-scale cocktail party, banqueted ministers and other military and political dignitaries of various countries, and delivered an hour-long speech at the reception.

At the same time, Chen Jingyun came to the Fuzhou Arsenal with a group of high-ranking officials, and a large group of people accompanying him included the three commanders of the headquarters: Feng Qin, chief of the General Staff Department, Ouyang Tian, chief of the Armament Department, Sun Guangliang, chief of the Logistics Department, Lin Chengkun, the chief officer of the Guard Brigade, Chen Kui and Chen Weihua of the Fourth Brigade, and Yuan Fang, who had just returned from Chaozhou to report on his work. Such a large group is full of the heads and brains of the national army, and if they are served in one pot, the national army will collapse by half, to say the least.

Chen Jingyun took such a large group of people not to wander around, but to take them to try out the newly made rifles and mortars.

Since getting the loan from himself, Chen Jingyun transferred 2 million yuan to the arsenal for the purchase of extreme equipment, and Tang Huikang, the general office of the arsenal at that time, was forced by Chen Jingyun to make a military order, saying that if he couldn't make a gun at that time, Chen Jingyun would want his head.

Although Tang Huikang didn't know whether what Chen Jingyun said was true or false, he still didn't dare to take the risk and personally took charge of the procurement of extreme machinery and equipment, but in order to make a gun as soon as possible, he also purchased the inventory of various foreign banks nearby, and even purchased a batch from himself.

As soon as they arrived at the arsenal, a stick raised the turtles in the territory, and the vast factory area was dumbfounded, and Sun Guangliang, the chief of the logistics department, said: "Now I finally know why this arsenal spends so much money!" Look at this scale, I'm afraid it's not much worse than the factory in Hanyang! ”

Tang Huikang and other senior managers of several arsenals who accompanied him replied: "Now the scale is still incomparable with Hanyang, and the output of our factory is about half of that in Hanyang!" ”

The person who spoke was dressed in a bright tuxedo, and his face was a little familiar, Sun Guangliang thought about it carefully before remembering that this person should be the governor's cousin Chen Jingsheng, who had seen him in the governor's mansion some time ago, but he didn't expect this person to be able to manage the arsenal? At this time, he had already secretly said in his heart: This person doesn't want to be a straw bag like Chen Jing'an before! A cousin's greed for ink has already affected Chen Jingyun's reputation, if another cousin is greedy for ink or something, and it is related to the important land of the arsenal, I am afraid that the generals in the army will have opinions on the governor.

Sun Guangliang naturally wouldn't say these words, and he didn't know that Chen Jingyun sent Chen Jingsheng to the Fuzhou Arsenal not to participate in specific management work, but to supervise property. Although the management and main technical work are still dominated by the old team of Tang Huikang, the Chen Mansion can rest assured, after all, it is nearly half of the assets of the Chen Mansion of more than two million, and even Chen Yu's family asked to send someone to participate in the management, so that Chen Jingyun let Chen Jingsheng, a cousin who has rich business experience and was originally a comprador of Jardine Matheson, go to the arsenal as the financial director.

"Haven't the machines and equipment arrived yet?" Chen Jingyun saw that the factory building in front of him was empty, and couldn't help asking.

Tang Huikang, who was talking with him, replied: "Yes, there are still some of them that have not arrived, and when ordering the equipment, all the stocks in the foreign bank have arrived first, and some of the other lacking ones have to be ordered separately from their country, and they will arrive next month!" ”

Chen Jingyun said: "Will this affect the production of ordnance?" ”

Tang Huikang said: "There are some impacts, but it won't be great!" After all, we are still in trial production, we dare not have too much of it, and when the process is familiar, then the equipment should come back! ”

"That's good!" Chen Jingyun still appreciates Tang Huikang's ability to do things, and in just a few months, he has expanded the scale of a machine bureau that has almost stopped production several times, and the output has reached as much as half of the Hanyang factory. If someone else were to do it, I'm afraid that if the money was invested, it would be wasted, and I wouldn't even be able to hear the sound.

After visiting the factory and some large equipment, Tang Huikang took Chen Jingyun and others to a small shooting range, and a group of technicians were already waiting there on the command platform of the shooting range, even if it was a little far away, but Chen Jingyun could see at a glance that there were already five or six guns placed there.

That's the point of today's trip!