As the time entered November, the atmosphere between the north and the south had become more and more tense, and the southern provinces had responded to the revolution one after another, either by province or by region, and the rule of the Qing court in the south had fallen into a stage of complete collapse, and even many local officials of the Qing court had simply changed the name of the yamen and devoted themselves to the cause of the republic. Even the north was not calm, and Wu Luzhen, the commander of the sixth town of the Beiyang Army, found a group of high-ranking officers who supported the revolution and launched a military admonition in Luanzhou, and the Qing court was forced to agree to most of the conditions in an emergency.

It's a pity that although Wu Luzhen's group of revolutionaries is in the position of senior officers, they didn't expect that many officers of the Beiyang Army were trained by Beiyang itself, and their identification with the Beiyang system and Yuan Shikai was not something he could imagine! Wu Luzhen and a few other generals were simply unable to control the overall situation.

And the six towns of Beiyang are Yuan Shikai's life's 'root', where can he Wu Luzhen mess around, as a result, just after appeasing Wu Luzhen as the governor of Shanxi, Yuan Shikai sent a telegram to Wu Luzhen's subordinate officers, ordering Wu Luzhen to be killed. The result was obvious, these officers from the Beiyang system did not hesitate to carry out Yuan Shikai's order, and sent several bullets into Wu Luzhen's body in the early morning of the 7th. The rest of the officers who launched the war were either killed or dismissed!

Yuan Shikai once again proved his strong control ability over the Beiyang Army with facts! After Chen Jingyun learned the news, he also admired Lao Yuan very much, such means, such courage, must be a hero.

When Yuan Shikai firmly controlled North China with a strong hand, he was powerless against the situation in South China, and Guangxi, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Hunan, Hubei, Shanxi and other southern provinces were recovered one after another

The outside world is lively, but Chen Jingyun is not in the mood to pay attention, he still focuses on the interior of Fujian, on the one hand, it is to sort out the civil affairs and finances, and on the other hand, it is to always pay attention to the military operations in the direction of Jianning, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other directions.

On November 9th, as soon as Chen Jingyun finished breakfast, Feng Qin walked into the Governor's Mansion with a happy face, and before anyone arrived, he had already shouted: "Governor, Yuan Fang sent a telegram, the Third Brigade attacked Quanzhou at night last night, and it has been conquered, most of Cao Chunfa's troops surrendered, and a small part fled to Zhangzhou!" ”

Hearing this good news, Chen Jingyun also laughed, since the uprising, the military operations of the national army have been relatively smooth, since a tough battle with the 37th standard outside the city, the next basically did not fight a hard battle, most of the Qing army either collapsed with one blow or took the initiative to surrender, according to this, the whole province of Fujian is expected to recover.

Luck continued to favor Chen Jingyun, and the next day Fan Qingsheng, the patrol battalion entrenched in Zhangzhou, and Liu Wei in Tingzhou sent a report announcing the return to the military and political axe, and Chen Jingyun ordered Xu Lishan, the commander of the Fourth Regiment, to send people to accept Tingzhou and order Yuan Fang to send troops to take over all parts of Zhangzhou Prefecture. In this way, at present, except for Jianning Mansion and other northern regions that are still under Xu Jingqing's control, the others are already under the jurisdiction of the military and political axe.

At the same time, seeing that the republic in the southern provinces was a foregone conclusion, Li Yuanhong, who had been forced to be the governor by gun, sent a telegram inviting the representatives of the provincial congresses to the Hubei meeting to prepare for the establishment of a provisional political axe. Huang Xing sent a letter to Yuan Shikai suggesting that he "at the same time use the qualifications of Napoleon and Washington to build the deeds of Napoleon and Washington." Directly smash the Yellow Dragon and destroy this Dynasty Eclipse". He also pledged that the people of the northern and southern provinces would "surrender their hands to orders."

After receiving the telegram, Zheng Zuyin, Lin Wenying and other military and political leaders sat together to discuss the gains and losses of this matter.

"Li Yuanhong's move is nothing more than in the name, as long as the meeting is held in Hubei, his Hubei military and political axe will become orthodox!" Zheng Zuyin said.

"Shall we go or not?" Hong Zitai said: "According to reason, Hubei is the first place of righteousness, and it is reasonable to go to Hubei for a meeting!" ”

Lin Wenying said: "No, now is the time to prepare for the temporary political axe, but if the meeting is held in the three towns of Wuhan, then the future capital is very likely to be built in Wuhan, which is not a good thing!" ”

"I think I'm still waiting, waiting for what they say!" Anwarin's opinion was the most conservative.

Chen Jingyun agreed with Anwarin's opinion, after all, the southern provinces are now a republic, but the struggle for power and profit between the various factions in the provinces has just begun, and the struggle between the revolutionaries and the constitutionalists has just begun.

After deciding to put the meeting on hold in Hubei for the time being, Zheng Zuyin talked about Huang Xing's letter to Yuan Shikai again.

"Huang Xing, they are asking for and!"

Lin Wenying was also very dissatisfied with this: "That is, now that the revolutionary cause is in full swing, how can we sue for peace, according to what I say, we should resolutely fight and fight to Yanjing!" ”

"Wouldn't it be better to overthrow the Manchu court without fighting, now that the whole country is in flames, and the people are displaced, wouldn't it be better to stop the sword soldiers and devote their forces to construction as soon as possible?" Lin Changming disdains Lin Wenying, a revolutionary who only knows how to shout and kill.

Chen Jingyun said: "They have to make peace!" Although the Hubei side talks about a big victory every day, but the discerning people know that the Beiyang Army has overwhelmed the Hubei People's Army, and the Ninth Town attacked Nanjing a few days ago and was repulsed. ”

After Chen Jingyun said this, everyone also nodded slightly, the war in Hubei and Jiangsu was indeed very unfavorable to the revolutionary party.

"Moreover, I don't think this Yuan Shikai wants to fight with us, otherwise Feng Guozhang would have leveled Hubei a long time ago, and he wouldn't have to wait for Huang Xing to sue for peace!"

"He's not moving?" Zheng Zuyin asked, "Then what does he want to do?" ”

Chen Jingyun took a sip of tea and said, "The position of the president!" ”

Yanjing Yuan Mansion.

Yuan Shikai took Huang Xing's letter and read it for a long time, and then called Xu Shichang and Yang Du, and said while showing them the letter: "What do you think about this matter?" ”

Xu Shichang, who has been friends with Yuan Shikai for decades, naturally understands the thoughts of this old friend, if it was just to go out of the mountains before, then the reason why the Beiyang Army has been standing still on the Hubei front in the past few days is because Yuan Shikai heard a news: the party members in the south said that as long as he agrees with the republic, then he will support him Yuan as the president.

"Huang Xing has a lot of weight in the hearts of those party members, and what he said is as weighty as Song Jiaoren and Sun Wen, since he dares to say this publicly, even if it can't be faked!" Xu Shichang pondered and said: "But I'm afraid that those party members are deliberately delaying time with peace talks because the front line is tight now!" ”

Yang Du also nodded and said: "If the front line is not tight, they will never say anything to sue for peace, maybe they will organize the coalition army to go north!" ”

Yuan Shikai said: "In this way, I'm afraid it's a delaying plan in the south!" ”

However, at this moment, an officer walked in at the door, holding a telegram in his hand: "My lord, Chen Jingyun's just sent a telegram from the south!" ”

"Oh! Chen Jingyun's energization? Yuan Shikai naturally knew that Chen Jingyun was the second person to lead the people to revolt after the Wuchang Uprising, but there has been no news from Fujian in recent times except for the beginning of a recovery telegram, if you don't pay attention, it seems to make people forget that Fujian is the second province to recover.

"What did he say?" Yuan Shikai was a little curious about Chen Jingyun, on the one hand, because Chen Jingyun didn't want to send a telegram every three days like other governors, singing various slogans every day, in the eyes of the outside world, Chen Jingyun was really low-key. On the other hand, he also learned some information about Fuzhou in the near future through the Fuzhou embassy area, and knew that Chen Jingyun was vigorously organizing and training the army, and at the same time he was also reforming the individual tax system. You must know that although the southern provinces are nominally republican, most of them have only taken one provincial capital and important city, and the other vast areas are still in a vacuum, and even many provinces have a number of military and political axes, and no one listens to anyone, for example, the three towns of Wuhan used to have Wuchang military and political axes, Hankou military and political axes, Jiangxi has Jiujiang, Nanchang military and political axes, and there is no one who can really control the whole province in a short period of time like Fujian.

Now that he is silent, he sent a seal and a power?

After taking the telegram, Yuan Shikai showed an obvious smile: "This Chen Jingyun is very good!" ”

Yang Du took the telegram and looked at it, quickly skipped over the useless paragraphs, and finally put his eyes on the bottom of the telegram: "Yun is willing to support Yuan Gong as the president!" ”

When he saw the last sentence, he still didn't believe it, and he was still a little skeptical when he read it from the beginning several times: "This Chen Jingyun, he really intended to support the Lord as president?" ”

After reading it, Xu Shichang also felt that Chen Jingyun's actions were a little incredible: "Didn't the revolutionaries in the south all say that they want to support Sun Wen as the president, why did he Chen Jingyun jump out to support the adult?" ”

Yuan Shikai said: "How can it be so easy, didn't you see it in front, he asked me to abolish the emperor, he is trying to force me to be Cao Ying!" ”

If Huang Xing's letter is just a cover-up that he intended to support Yuan Shikai as the president in the future, then Chen Jingyun made it clear that he wanted to support Yuan Shikai, saying that as long as Yuan Shikai supports the republic, he will support Yuan Shikai as the president.

Of course, there are opposition and support for Huang Xing and Chen Jingyun's persuasion of Yuan Shikai to become president after the abolition of the emperor, and the opposition clearly believes that the revolutionary cause is now at its peak, and the whole should gather the forces of the whole south to march north in one fell swoop and pull Pu Yi off the throne, and it is mostly some radical young people and revolutionary parties who maintain this view, but most of the older people and the constitutional gentry think that if the republic can be achieved in a peaceful way, Then peace talks are feasible even to make Yuan Shikai the president.

Besides, if Yuan Shikai is not allowed to be the president, how can so many northern provinces and Beiyang agree to peace talks! At this time, Yuan Shikai was no longer alone, but represented the entire Beiyang system, in addition to the huge Beiyang army, there were many military and political dignitaries, industrial and commercial people, etc., covering almost the entire political and economic power of North China.

Therefore, if the southern army cannot go north and completely defeat the Beiyang army, then it is impossible for the southern part of the two sides to occupy the initiative in the peace talks.

For a time, the discussion on whether there should be peace talks and whether Yuan Shikai should be the president spread to the whole of China, and with this discussion, Chen Jingyun's name once again made headlines on all pages after the release of the Liberation and Restoration of Power!