Originally, the war in Hubei was enough to affect everyone's minds, and the recovery of Fujian completely detonated the powder keg, followed by the recovery of Hunan and Shaanxi almost at the same time, which frightened the Qing court at the same time, but also greatly boosted the confidence of the revolutionaries! At the same time, the gentry in all provinces of the country also considered the way forward, whether to support the imperial court or the revolutionary party, or to maintain the current neutral attitude of strength!

On October 24, after the successful uprising of the Jiujiang New Army, the Jiujiang New Army established a military division and political axe, and pushed Ma Yubao as the governor and Lin Sen as the minister of civil affairs. On the 25th, General Guangzhou was assassinated and killed by the revolutionaries, and the turmoil in Guangdong was imminent, and at the same time, there was also a small-scale riot in Guangxi.

From the Wuchang Uprising to the present, it has only been about half a month, but the situation in the southern provinces has deteriorated to the point of no return.

"Are you really going to bring him back?" Zaifeng looked at the important ministers of cultural relics, and the trace of pain in his words made people feel how difficult it was for him to say this. And the 'he' in his mouth besides Yuan Shikai can anyone else make him so jealous. A few days ago, in order to let the Beiyang Army on the front line fight to kill the enemy, he even promised Yuan Shikai to get Wang Shizhen and other Beiyang generals who had already been vacant or transferred out to Hubei.

"At present, the situation in the southern provinces has deteriorated to the point of no control!" Na Tong, the assistant minister of the cabinet, also sighed after speaking: "If it goes on like this, I'm afraid that the south side will be lost!" ”

Xu Shichang, who is also an associate minister of the cabinet, also nodded and said: "The Hubei front line is deadlocked, and after Fujian, Shaanxi, and Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Guangxi have all heard news of the chaos of the party!" ”

Xu Shichang did not explicitly say that Yuan Shikai had to be in such a situation, but everyone present understood that the relationship between Xu Shichang and Yuan Shikai was not simple, and it was not an exaggeration to say that two people wore a pair of pants.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, the meaning was clear enough, and the cabinet ministers below were silent, and after a while, Pu Lun, the minister of agriculture and industry, said: "Since there is a chaotic party, then resolutely fight!" Feng Guozhang can't do it, then send the Praetorian Guards, I don't believe those chaotic parties can stop it! ”

The Praetorian Guard was also organized and trained in accordance with the new military regulations, and the soldiers were all children of the Eight Banners, which were established in imitation of the Guards Division, mainly to protect the safety of the royal family. However, over the years, the middle and senior officers of the Praetorian Guard have basically been sent out of the Beiyang system, and the middle and lower-level officers have also been trained in Beiyang.

"Hmph, send out the Praetorian Guards, how to protect the safety of Gyeonggi!" At this time, Prince Qing Yixuan spoke: "Without the Praetorian Guard, what should I do about the safety of the emperor and the queen mother!" ”

Seeing Prince Qing Yixuan say this, Pu Lun didn't dare to refute, but secretly said in his heart: "If it goes on like this, even the country can't be saved, so what is the safety to talk about!" Of course, he would never dare to say such a rebellious thing.

"Songsheng, what do foreigners say?" Prince Qing set his sights on Minister of Foreign Affairs Liang Dunyan.

Liang Dunyan did not answer immediately, but pondered for a moment before saying: "Yesterday I went to visit the British Minister Zhu Erdian, and in my words he was very concerned about the situation in our country, and expressed the hope that we can have strong people stand up to end the current turmoil!" ”

Zhu Erdian's thoughts, everyone present could guess that it was nothing more than to push Yuan Shikai out.

Then everyone discussed a few words, the main issue was no longer the chaos in the south, but concentrated on Yuan Shikai, some supported Yuan Shikai out of the mountain, and some opposed, and they couldn't talk about it for a while, Yixuan looked at the people below and sighed: Regent, you have to decide on this important matter! ”

Zaifeng gritted his teeth and looked at the people below, he saw all the discussions just now, and he was almost angry when he saw so many people supporting Yuan Shikai to go out of the mountain, but he still gritted his teeth and listened.

After a long time, he came up with a sentence: "Lord Xu, please take a trip!" Let's just say that I will let him form a cabinet! ”

After saying this, he seemed to have no strength in his body, and his whole body collapsed on the chair and did not move. This country is the country of his son Puyi, and it must not be lost in his own hands.

As soon as the cabinet meeting of the Qing court was over, the Qing court ordered Yuan Shikai to be the minister of the Qin mission, and at the same time recalled Yinchang, and Yuan Shikai immediately sent a telegram to Feng Guozhang as soon as he received the holy decree.

"Since the court uses me, I, Yuan, naturally want to give them sweetness, but I can't let people say that I occupy a position and don't do anything!" Xu Shichang was also there when he said this, and immediately the two of them looked at each other and laughed.

After Feng Guozhang received Yuan Shikai's telegram, he immediately ordered an attack, saying that he wanted to give Yuan a gift for taking office, and the Beiyang Army marched in three ways, and it didn't take much effort to capture Liujiamiao, and was rapidly marching towards Hankou, which was in danger. When the news reached Yanjing, Zaifeng, who had always been uplifted, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"As long as he can clean up the revolutionary party, let him form a cabinet, this world is still the world of the Qing Dynasty, and this country is still my son's country!" Zaifeng was in a good mood, and he was even interested in fighting with Fang Fujin for several rounds that night, sweeping away the depression of half a month.

Yanjing and Hubei are all chaotic, every move is the world's attention, relatively speaking, the movement in Fujian is much smaller, except for the 21st day of the recovery of electricity, there is no other major news came.

At this moment, Fuzhou seems to be very calm, the war has long ended, Fuzhou has returned to normal, although from time to time you can see a group of bareheaded national troops patrolling the streets, but after all, it has returned to the same quiet as before, all walks of life have already been opened, and the restaurant has also recovered a lot of popularity.

When Hubei and Yanjing were fighting, Chen Jingyun was not idle, on the one hand, he had to deal with civil affairs, and on the other hand, he had to deal with military affairs.

Zheng Zuyin is in charge of civil affairs, and the time is relatively calm, because the initial creation of the military and political axe has not carried out too many government innovations except for some bad habits, according to everyone's discussion, the stability that the military and political axe needs most in a short period of time. As long as the situation is stabilized, nothing else can be discussed.

In this aspect of the military, Chen Jingyun takes it very seriously and grasps it very tightly! In order to grasp the military power in his hands, he reorganized the headquarters of the Fujian National Army, and set up three major departments: the General Staff Department, the Equipment Department, and the Logistics Department. Feng Qin was appointed chief of the General Staff Department, Xia Xinggang, the former deputy quartermaster of the 38th Standard, was appointed as the chief of the Logistics Department, and Ouyang Tian, the former deputy ordnance officer of the 38th Standard, was appointed as the chief of the Equipment Department. Without Chen Jingyun's nod, it would not be possible to mobilize the army or ordnance and food.

As for the military affairs department of the military and political axe, Chen Jingyun did not give any real power, in the past few days, Lin Wenying seems to have noticed that his military affairs department seems to be able to manage everything, but he can't manage anything, he has come to Chen Jingyun several times, Chen Jingyun does not explain thoroughly, just perfunctory, can drag on for a day, and after a period of time, he can completely control the national army, and then these people in the alliance will not be able to turn the tables.

"Report to the Governor, the First Brigade has been assembled!" Ma Cheng was wearing a brand-new military uniform at this time, stepping on long riding boots, and saluted Chen Jingyun energetically.

Chen Jingyun walked up with a smile, stretched out his hand and pressed it to signal Ma Cheng to relax: "The troops are assembled, how is the situation!" ”

"Back to the Governor, everything is fine! At present, the two regiments of our 1st Brigade are fully equipped and ready to fight at any time! Ma Cheng said loudly, and he seemed to have a lot of confidence, but everyone present knew that there was a lot of moisture in Ma Cheng's words.

According to the previous plan, the first brigade consisted of two regiments and six battalions of infantry, one company of artillery and two platoons of Makqin heavy machine guns, and according to the full establishment, there would be about 4,500 men. Well, it's a hybrid in the usual sense. The backbone veterans of the First Brigade are about 1,500 people, who are the second battalion of the original 38th standard and most of them are surrendered to the Qing soldiers, and the remaining 3,000 people are all recruits urgently recruited these days.

The first brigade, which is known as Chen Jingyun's elite, is like this, and the remaining second brigade and third brigade are no better. The 2nd Brigade consisted of the 3rd and 4th Regiments, as well as an artillery company and a heavy machine gun platoon, and was the same as the 1st Brigade. Among them, there are about 1,500 veterans, mainly composed of Li Jimin's troops and the first and third battalions of the 37th standard that surrendered, and the second brigade was formed after mixing about 3,000 recruits.

Although the combat effectiveness of these two brigades is relatively poor, they both have about 1,500 veteran backbones, and if they train a little more, they will be able to go to the battlefield after a few trainings. The rest of the third brigade, the backbone is the gendarmerie battalion and Yuan Fang's 37th standard second battalion, there are nearly 1,000 veterans, in addition to fewer veterans, the equipment is also the same as the first brigade and the second brigade of Hanyang, there is an artillery company, but there is no heavy machine gun platoon. The reason is that Chen Jingyun only has a total of six heavy machine guns in his hands, and the first brigade and the second brigade ask for two respectively, and the remaining two Chen Jingyun are arranged to be assigned to the guard regiment to guard Fuzhou. Except for this heavy machine gun, it was not much different from the 1st and 2nd brigades.

In order to make up these three full-fledged brigades, Chen Jingyun worked hard to recruit troops, and gave 20 yuan for settling-in allowance and 8 yuan for the monthly ring, and made it clear that now that he was in the revolutionary period, he would not deduct the expenses for food, lodging and miscellaneous expenses, and would pay the full amount. In addition to setting up recruitment points in the city, Chen Jingyun also arranged for people to go to the countryside outside the city to recruit troops, and after seven or eight days, although they were not as fierce as Jiao Dafeng in Hunan, they also recruited tens of thousands of people.

But there are the 1st Brigade, the 2nd Brigade, the 3rd Brigade, the Guard Regiment, and the newly formed 4th Brigade all waiting for new recruits to enter the camp, and these people are still not enough, so there is no way, so they can only be fully staffed with these three brigades first, and the subsequent Fourth Brigade will wait for a few more days.