Regarding the sudden appearance of the Fujian Nationalist Army in Chaozhou, Hu Hanmin of Guangzhou pondered for a long time after seeing the telegram, and then asked while walking towards the map: "Where is the Nationalist Army now?" ”

Someone immediately replied: "According to the telegram from Chaozhou, the Nationalist Army did not continue to advance westward, but was stationed in Chaozhou, under the banner of aiding the Guangdong army!" ”

"Aid to Guangdong? What are you kidding, we need help there! Immediately, a staff officer next to him showed a dissatisfied look and said: "I think he Chen Jingyun is uneasy and kind!" ”

But Hu Hanmin doesn't think so!

The current situation in Guangdong is very complicated, on the surface, it seems that the military and political axe on the Guangzhou side controls the power of the whole province, but this military and political axe is a compromise of many forces, including the people's army, the original defenders of Guangzhou, and the alliance. These three parties initially constituted a military and political axe. But judging from the candidates for the important positions of the military and political axes, it seems that the League has controlled the power, but in fact, the League is the weakest one! The reason is simple, and that is military power. The leaders of the people's army together controlled tens of thousands of bandits and displaced people, and the defenders of Guangzhou were two, one was the sailor commander Li Zhun of the water division, which was not many in number and could not affect the situation in general, and the other was the twenty-fifth town of Long Jiguang.

Speaking of this 25th town is a bit complicated, originally according to the constitution of the Qing court War Department, Guangdong was first organized into the 26th town, but because there were officers and soldiers in the 26th town uprising, they were dismissed by the Qing court, and the remaining small part of the people were organized into the 49th Association, and then the 25th town in Guangxi, which had not yet been organized, was transferred to Guangdong. Before the Xinghai Revolution, there was theoretically a fully staffed 25th town in Guangdong, with the 49th Association, the 50th Association, the 25th Standard Artillery, and other related arms.

However, the two battalions of the 49th Association and the artillery target were both the original Guangdong New Army, and they were infiltrated too badly by the people of the Alliance, and Long Jiguang did not trust these two parts of the men and horses at all, so he scattered the two artillery battalions of the 49th Association and the 49th Association to various parts of Guangdong as early as possible, called the suppression of bandits, which was really a precaution! As a result, these two parts of the new army are still scattered throughout Guangdong, and they have not played their due role in Guangdong's recovery at all.

Therefore, these several forces together form the military and political axe of Guangzhou!

And who was the most depressed in the days after the establishment of the military and political axe? That is Hu Hanmin, the nominal supreme military and political leader of Guangdong!

Since Zhang Mingqi took the initiative to announce the liberation a few days ago, Hu Hanmin was elected as the governor by everyone, but he was very aggrieved when he became the governor! The reason is very simple, that is, the people's army entered the city one after another after the recovery of Guangzhou, but these people's troops are not a regular revolutionary team, but a collection of bandits and outcasts.

In this way, after six or seven people's armies that were not subordinate to each other entered the city one after another, they turned the city of Guangzhou upside down, and the people were not able to make a living, and even women in their forties and fifties in broad daylight did not dare to go out for fear of being violated by the squinting people's army.

Although Long Jiguang had to turn to the revolution at the last moment, he originally had some expectations for the revolution at the time, but he didn't expect these revolutionary parties to turn Guangzhou City upside down in a few days, which made Long Jiguang's original little favor for the revolutionary party completely disappear.

In the past few days, he has seen clearly, this year has been chaotic, the court in the north is not a good thing, but the revolutionary party is not a good bird, it has the power to have soldiers in its own hands, and the rest are bastards who are useless. In order to continue to control the military power in his hands, in order to increase the power in his hands, he turned a blind eye to the rebellious army in the city.

He's waiting!

"He's waiting!" Hu Hanmin's face was full of anger: "Don't think I don't understand what he's thinking, aren't you just waiting for me to beg him!" I knew from the beginning that this man was definitely not a revolutionary, but an opportunist! Such a person should be completely defeated! ”

A few days ago, Hu Hanmin openly publicized in the newspapers that Long Jiguang and Li Zhun were the biggest contributors to Guangdong's recovery!

"But now that there is so much chaos in the city, some merchants and gentry have jointly sent a letter to the military and political axes, asking us to clear the city of the rebellion!" Chen Jiongming, the deputy governor next to him, also looked helpless, he also understood the chaos in the city, and even understood that the reason why Long Jiguang would not move was because at the original meeting of the military and political axe, the alliance members on his side vigorously opposed him to the post of chief of the military affairs department.

Guangzhou's military and political axe system was originally intended to be modeled on Wuhan's side, but later felt that the military and political axe structure in Fujian was more reasonable and simple, so it was modeled on Fujian's political axe structure. At that time, when the military and political axes were formed, there was a lack of senior generals in the Guangzhou League, and no one could hold the important position of military chief, on the one hand, in order to balance Long Jiguang's considerations, so Hu Hanmin decided to concurrently serve as the chief of military affairs as the governor.

"Why don't we give him the title of Chief of Military Affairs first, and let him send troops to clear the city first!" Chen Jiongming said worriedly: "A few days ago, when we attacked the city, the civilian army had a total of more than 40,000 people, and now it has increased to at least 100,000 in just a few days. ”

Hu Hanmin said coldly: "He Long Jiguang wants military power and wants to seize the fruits of the victory of the revolution, I, Hu Hanmin, will never allow him to do this!" ”

Then he looked at the map of Guangdong again: "How is the Forty-Nine Association in the past few days, when will they all be gathered!" ”

Chen Jiongming said: "It's very difficult, the 49th Association has been dispersed and disrupted, and now it is a team, or even a platoon, scattered all over the place, and it will take at least half a month to assemble, if it is transferred to Guangzhou after the assembly, I am afraid it will be a month later!" And ......"

Seeing that Chen Jiongming was hesitant, Hu Hanmin hurriedly asked, "What else?" ”

"We have received news that most of the troops of the 49th Association did not follow the order to concentrate on Guangzhou, but continued to circle in various places! In addition, there is news that some of them have been in contact with Longjiguang! Chen Jiongming continued: "After all, Long Jiguang is the commander of the twenty-fifth town, and we can't say anything if he wants to convene the old department!" ”

In fact, even if he could say anything, it didn't work, Long Jiguang hadn't seen anyone in the past few days, and while concentrating on military training, he summoned all the departments of the 49th Association in an attempt to restore the 25th town system.

Hu Hanmin gritted his teeth: "He Long Jiguang is too pressing!" ”

After saying this, Hu Hanmin and his eyes fell on Chaozhou, and then his eyes slowly moved up and fell on the direction of Fuzhou! After pondering for a long time, he said: "Contact Fuzhou Chen Jingyun!" ”

When Chen Jiongming heard this, his face changed slightly: "Looking for Fujian?" That's not good! ”

"Chen Jingyun from Fujian is from our alliance, and his third brigade happens to be in Chaozhou, and it is only a few days to come to Guangzhou. When they arrived in Guangzhou, I saw what Long Jiguang would dare to say! ”

Chen Jiongming said: "I'm afraid this matter is inappropriate!" Originally, the Fujian army had already invaded the border of our province when they were entrenched in Chaozhou, and they did not consider driving them back, but wanted to invite them to Guangzhou, and how to protect the autonomy of our province in the future! ”

When Hu Hanmin heard this, he glanced at Chen Jiongming, and slowly remembered some of Chen Jiongming's remarks in his heart! It is true that this Chen Jiongming is a revolutionary party, but he believes in the autonomy of the United Provinces, and his mind is full of the United States, and he does not want to think that 'Wang Xiang will have a kind of Hou Ning' and 'the idea of great unification' have been deeply imprinted in the bone marrow of every Chinese.

Anyone who advocates the autonomy of the provinces and holds the military power in their hands basically has the mind that reading power is king, well, there are two words that can be better expressed: rebellion!

In Hu Hanmin's view, rebellion and revolution are two different things! Some of the princes of the League are rich sons from well-off families, some are newly married husbands, some are teenagers who have not yet received the crown ceremony, and some are fathers of children, but they all threw themselves into the revolutionary cause without hesitation, sacrificed for it, shed blood for it, and for what? For the whole country and nation.

Rebellion, on the other hand, is simply a matter of personal rights.

However, Hu Hanmin did not think that Chen Jiongming wanted to rebel, he knew that this person was also a revolutionary, but some political beliefs were different from himself and others, and he only thought of simple American-style inter-provincial autonomy. I didn't think it was anything before, but today it sounds harsh.

Immediately, he raised his hand: "The revolution has not been completed, how can we talk about provincial governance!" ”

He was reluctant to talk too much about the political views of both sides with Chen Jiongming, because he knew that it was impossible to reach an agreement. It's better not to talk about this!

"If you don't invite the Fujian army to come to Guangzhou, then there is a way to solve the more than 100,000 rebellious troops in Guangzhou?" Hu Hanmin did not directly insist on looking for reinforcements, but asked Chen Jiongming how to solve the current predicament.

But Chen Jiongming is just a scholar, and when it comes to inter-provincial autonomy, it is a set, but when it comes to military affairs, it will be difficult for him to find a way to solve the current predicament in Guangzhou! Others are not stupid, so they naturally understand the meaning of Hu Hanmin's move, and immediately their faces turned red, and after holding it for a long time, they exhaled deeply: "If Zhantang has made up his mind, Mingzi will not object!" ”

"Okay, in that case, we will immediately send a telegram to Fuzhou to discuss with Chen Jingyun about borrowing troops!" Hu Hanmin had expected Chen Jiongming's reaction, and after showing joy on his face, he stretched out his hand and grabbed Chen Jiongming: "Let's go, I'll let the kitchen cook a few dishes, and we'll consider it while eating!" ”

But Chen Jiongming felt uncomfortable, he was in the mood there, and immediately said goodbye to Hu Hanmin.

After leaving the Governor's Mansion, the more Chen Jiongming thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became, and he had a feeling that he had been betrayed by Hu Hanmin and even the entire alliance. Halfway through, he happened to see a person riding a tall horse in front of him slowly under the escort of a group of guards, and Chen Jiongming only recognized him as Long Jiguang after walking a little.

Then he gritted his teeth and said secretly in his heart: "For the autonomy of Guangdong, why should you be obsessed with the Alliance!" ”

Immediately, he led people and walked quickly towards Long Jiguang!