readx; Upon arrival at Fuzhou Port, the two gunboats will escort Chen Jingyun to Shanghai with the other main warships of the Fuzhou Fleet to attend a grand ceremony for the commissioning of new warships. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 In the first half of 1913, many warships ordered by the former Qing Dynasty from other countries have returned to China one after another, including the USS Phenom, three small destroyers built by Germany, and one small destroyer built by Italy and Austria-Hungary.

These purchased warships have returned to China one after another, and together with the Changle built by Mawei Shipyard, the two gunboats built by Jiangnan Shipyard have also been outfitted for relevant sea trials. In the near future, the strength of the Chinese Navy has increased greatly, and the navy will obviously not let go of an opportunity to show off such a thing, and has even come up with internal funds to hold a large-scale commissioning ceremony.

Of course, the display of the Navy Department is not simply to satisfy vanity, but the more important purpose is to show the Navy to Chen Jingyun, so that Chen Jingyun will increase his support for the Navy after he is satisfied with the Navy. You must know that although in the distribution of military spending in 1913, the military expenditure of the navy was tight, and it was already difficult to maintain the original fleet size with the original millions of funds, and now so many new warships have been added, and a year later there will be more, larger warships will join the navy, these warships are not just built and put on the table, but also need a lot of military expenditure to maintain. However, the national army's finances are so tight, but the army is the first thing to be satisfied, and the navy is only a secondary role, and if it wants to fight for funds, it must come up with corresponding strength and achievements.

In this way, it is not difficult to understand that those naval generals of the Navy Department staged such a large-scale ceremony for the commissioning of new naval warships, and it is not difficult to understand that Sa Zhenbing personally invited Chen Jingyun to Shanghai to participate in this large-scale commissioning ceremony.

Knowing that the navy was going to hold such an induction ceremony, he would invite himself to Shanghai to preside over it, Chen Jingyun did not object, he originally planned to go to Shanghai and Nanjing in the near future, on the one hand, he wanted to go to southern Jiangsu to inspect it, so many main forces of the national army stayed in southern Jiangsu, and if he did not watch it for a long time, he would be worried. At the same time, he also thought that it was no longer suitable for the headquarters of the Southeast Propaganda and Pacification Envoy to continue to stay in Fuzhou, the territory of the Nationalist Army was getting bigger and bigger, and the center of gravity of the Nationalist Army was already in southern Jiangsu and other areas of the Yangtze River Valley, and it was no longer convenient for Chen Jingyun to continue to stay in Fuzhou, and he was preparing to move the Southeast Propaganda Envoy and the General Headquarters of the Nationalist Army to Nanjing, and this time it was better to do a good job of laying the groundwork and making preparations in the early stage.

The Nationalist Army now needs an important city to increase its influence, and that city would be Nanking at the best of all. Although Nanjing is still on the front line, its political influence is that of Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Shanghai, which are incomparable, and if the Nationalist Army wants to continue to develop and grow and compete for the world in Beiyang, it must give a clear and strong signal to the Chinese people, and this signal is no more obvious than moving the headquarters of the Nationalist Army and the Southeast Xuanfu Embassy to Nanjing. In addition to giving a clear signal to outsiders, it is also a clear signal to the insiders of the national army system, letting them know that Chen Jingyun is going to compete for the world, and the national army wants to replace Beiyang!

With the goal of struggle, those subordinates will work harder, and the name of the founding hero is not something that anyone can refuse.

It's just that this matter is still too important, and Chen Jingyun doesn't want to be in a hurry, after all, the institutions of the Southeast Xuanfu Embassy have become extremely bloated and huge, and the number of various institutions and officials has even been almost the same as the central political axe in Beiyang, and the general headquarters of the National Army is also huge, which does not mean that the relocation can be moved, and it must be arranged before it can be made. For this reason, the Nationalist Army had asked Yuan Fang to send some personnel of the headquarters to Nanjing first to make preliminary preparations for the relocation of the National Army General Headquarters, and at the same time, it also arranged for the administrative personnel of the Southeast Xuanfu Embassy to go to Nanjing to make preliminary preparations for the relocation of the Southeast Xuanfu Mission. When these preliminary preparations were underway, Chen Jingyun also ventilated some important generals and officials below, so that they could be mentally prepared.

As Chen Jingyun expected, Chen Jingyun's preparation made them extremely excited, even though they had some doubts in their hearts, they didn't think too much about it, and they all raised their hands in approval.

The National Army has come step by step to the present, everyone knows that the National Army wants to compete with Beiyang for the world, not only outsiders know, but insiders of the National Army know this, but Chen Jingyun has not put forward clear remarks before, and even during the war in southern Jiangsu, he did not say that it was good to recognize Beiyang, the central political axe, Yuan Shikai, the great president, until now, when the National Army awarded the rank of general to senior generals, and even notified the Beiyang War Department, all the official documents were used to inform the president and the like. On the surface, the Southeast Xuanfu Embassy and the Nationalist Army still obeyed the leadership of Beiyang.

Now that Chen Jingyun said that he would move the Southeast Xuanfu Embassy and the General Headquarters of the Nationalist Army to Nanjing, then it is a clear signal that the Southeast Xuanfu Envoy and the Nationalist Army are already going to openly confront Beiyang. You must know that the jurisdiction of the southeastern Xuanfu envoy is now limited to Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and there is no legal jurisdiction over southern Jiangsu and eastern Guangdong, and even the newly occupied Jiangxi and southern Anhui regions. Now Chen Jingyun wants to move the southeast Xuanfu embassy out of Nanjing, which is outside the two provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the meaning of this is already very obvious, and Chen Jingyun is not ready to care about Beiyang's feelings.

Chen Jingyun released such an obvious signal, which naturally greatly boosted the confidence of civil and military officials in the national army system.

At the time of the Battle of Anhui and Jiangxi, the Nationalist Army was already preparing for the relocation to Nanjing, and had already moved some institutions and departments, and most of the departments had also prepared personnel and office locations in Nanjing. Just waiting for a large-scale relocation.

Now Chen Jingyun is going this time, he is not going to go back to Fuzhou in the short term, first go to Shanghai to preside over the warship commissioning ceremony, and then stay in Shanghai for a period of time to inspect the troops in southern Jiangsu, and then he plans to go to Wuhu to inspect it, so if you go around this circle, it will be almost a month, and after this time, the southeast propaganda envoy and the general headquarters of the national army will almost all move to Nanjing, and then he will directly live and work in Nanjing. If you want to come back to Fuzhou, I'm afraid it will be a long time later.

For this reason, he not only prepared to go alone, but also brought a large number of military and political dignitaries, and the scale of the personnel was even larger than the last time he went to southern Jiangsu. The navy ensured the safety of the transportation of so many personnel, and at the same time, in order to give Chen Jingyun a good impression, the Haiqi and several other main warships of the Fuzhou fleet were transferred to Fuzhou to prepare for escort missions, and at the same time, there were not only the natural warships of the Fuzhou fleet, but also other [***] ships accompanying them, and the United States temporarily arranged for two cruisers to join the fleet in the name of training, and said, "This side also sent a cruiser, and in addition to these two countries, even Britain arranged a destroyer to join the fleet." The gradual growth of the Nationalist Army also had to make Britain reconsider its Far East policy, although they hoped that Yuan Shikai would win, but there were exceptions to everything, in case Yuan Shikai lost, then Britain would have to face the fact that Chen Jingyun ruled China, although this may be surnamed Zhu Erdian does not think it is big, but in order to avoid future troubles, it is still necessary to make some preliminary preparations. Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to understand that Britain arranged for a destroyer to join the fleet to escort Chen Jingyun.

In addition to the military and political dignitaries, Chen Jingyun also brought his family, this time he went to Nanjing and didn't know when he would be able to come back to Fuzhou, it was not suitable to leave Lin Yun and Luo Li's two daughters in Fuzhou, plus Lin Yun's pregnancy reaction was not big, and he also said that he would not be seasick, so it would not be a problem to take a boat to Shanghai. However, Chen Yu's family did not go to Nanjing, although Chen Jingyun personally went to invite him twice, but Chen Yu's family still did not want to go to Nanjing, saying that she lived in the ancestral house of Liuhe Lane, and she didn't want to run around when she was old.

On 23 May, after careful preparations, Chen Jingyun led a large number of military and political dignitaries of the Nationalist Army system, and even the families of these military and political dignitaries, to board the fleet, accompanied by a regiment of the guard division, all of which totaled several thousand, and in addition to more than 20 warships of various sizes, there were dozens of transport ships in the fleet.

Sa Zhenbing personally served as the commander-in-chief of the fleet to command the fleet, and then headed straight for Shanghai.

The news that the Nationalist Army was going to relocate to Nanjing was not concealed, and outsiders were even able to learn the details of the incident through the newspapers under the control of the Nationalist Army, which also aroused the concern and attention of many people.

"To whom is this ambition to be shown?" Yuan Shikai scolded in a sullen voice: "His wolf ambition doesn't need to be so obvious, people know it!" ”

Chen Jingyun's ambition is basically no secret, although Chen Jingyun has never publicly stated that he wants to replace Beiyang to rule China, but judging from the step-by-step development momentum of the Nationalist Army, it is definitely moving towards this goal, and there is no low-key meaning at all. But in the past, no matter what it said, the Nationalist Army still maintained the necessary reserve, and on the surface it still obeyed the leadership of the central political axe, but now it didn't even greet Yuan Shikai, and directly relocated the Southeast Xuanfu Embassy and the General Headquarters of the Nationalist Army to Nanjing, which was obviously to slap Beiyang in the face and slap him Yuan Shikai's face, how could this make Yuan Shikai not angry.

Tang Jiyao also looked dull: "This Chen Jingyun has no scruples!" ”

"Alas, now that the National Army is so strong, it is not surprising that these things have been done!" A general of the Dian Army beside him also looked depressed.

The Nationalist Army, the Dian Army and even the Gui Army are also warlords, but why is there such a big gap between the warlords? I think that the Nationalist Army was not as good as the Dian Army at the beginning, and the Dian Army could still be compared with the Nationalist Army last year, but as time slowly passed, the Nationalist Army has grown into a force that can openly confront Beiyang, and although the Dian Army has also grown and grown, the distance between the two is getting bigger and bigger, which makes Tang Jiyao puzzled and even more unwilling!