Volume 30000 Ancient Miraculous Skills Chapter 245 Fishing in troubled waters After Xu Shuzheng and Sun Hongyi had a big quarrel, Duan Qirui ran to Li Yuanhong to talk about the dispute between Sun and Xu, Li Yuanhong favored Sun Hongyi (of course his own people were partial), Duan Qirui was angry enough, and said: "Xu Shuzheng is just a member of the State Council, in fact, what is so difficult for the president to dismiss Xu Shuzheng, why bother to find those excuses, that is, to dismiss me Duan Qirui, as long as you have a password." I'm going to write my resignation and not do this, so that everyone is probably satisfied. ”

The conflict between the presidential office and the State Council broke out, and then it was resolved in many ways, although the dispute ended with the dismissal of Sun Hongyi and Xu Shuzheng, but the grievances between the two parties can be deeper and deeper.

Duan Qirui started as a soldier, relying on nothing more than the support of his various overseers, and the reason why he and the presidential palace are so loud and threatening to resign is that the overseers in the northern provinces only listen to him. Duan Qirui then sent a telegram and asked his overseers to form a superintendent corps and force the palace on the president. The meeting of the Overseers was held in Xuzhou, catering to Duan Qirui's total of thirteen overseer representatives from Shandong, Fengtian, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan, Zhili, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Jiangxi, Chahar, Suiyuan, and Rehe. However, the first issue made Heilongjiang representative Niu Delu very difficult, because the first issue was to refuse Tang Shaoyi to serve as foreign minister. This Qirui is also worthy of being a good hand at crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, just after using Tang Shaoyi with the front foot, seeing that Tang Shaoyi's persuasion was useless, Tang Shaoyi, who refused Tang Shaoyi's inauguration tone on the back foot, did not even go to Beijing, and took the train back to Shanghai directly from Tianjin.

That Niu Delu got Wang Maoru's instructions, stopped Tang Shaoyi at Xuzhou Station, and said respectfully: "Your Excellency, the Overseer has a request for you. Then he took out the telegram. It turned out that Wang Maoru invited him to Heilongjiang to be the governor of Heilongjiang to benefit the people of a province.

The governor of Heilongjiang Province is now Bi Guifang. But Bi Guifang is not with him after all, Wang Maoru hopes that Tang Shaoyi will go north. Tang Shaoyi said: "Isn't it just a puppet when I go?" There are two thresholds in his heart, one is that Wang Maoru originally supported the imperial system, and the other is the matter of the little girl Tang Baoqi, that Niu Delu was stalking, and the train started, so he told the others to ask them to ask for leave from Zhang Xun, the "master" of the Governor Legion, and Duan Qirui, the representative, and followed Tang Shaoyi all the way to Shanghai. In Shanghai, Niu Delu persuaded him day by day, and finally Tang Shaoyi agreed to go out of the mountain and follow Niu Delu north to Heilongjiang to serve as the governor of the Black Dragon Society.

Zhang Xun and the others were angry when they learned the news. This Wang Maoru doesn't use bean bags as dry food. Our thirteen overseers had a meeting, and we just expelled Tang Shaoyi, and you invited someone to come over, what does this mean? However, Niu Delu just sent Tang Shaoyi away and returned, and hurriedly apologized, saying that the public is public and private. Cut everything in half and look at it. Old man Tang is the former alliance in public, and now he sympathizes with the people of the Kuomintang, but he also has an identity in private as Wang Maoru's quasi-father-in-law, this time the overseers of the thirteen provinces refused Tang Shaoyi to serve as the chief of foreign affairs, and he has already offended the old man. Only then did everyone let it go, otherwise they would be held accountable.

That Xu Shuzheng sneered, he saw that Niu Delu didn't even speak a lie. And this Niu Delu was originally his secretary, but now he has become the representative of Wang Maoru's overseer, how can he not be angry? It's only been three years, and people have turned into serfs and sung songs, Xu Shuzheng is looking at his nose and not his nose and eyes. Niu Delu also knew the purpose of his visit, fishing in troubled waters. I can't offend the big guy of the Anhui family, so I don't care much about Xu Shuzheng's arrogance.

Zhang Xun was elected as the "Lord" seat of the Governor Army, he was very happy, and he held a feast for three days, plus he also married a fourteen-year-old aunt wife, and let the people of Xuzhou celebrate for seven days...... All the money is owned by the people, and the Spring Festival should be celebrated in advance. Zhang Xun's military discipline was not good, and he harassed the people in Xuzhou, and the people could only swallow their anger and shout congratulations for the commander of the Zhang Governor's army.

The dispute between the government and the court had just stopped under the appeasement of many bigwigs in Beiyang, and Xu Shuzheng instigated Duan Qirui to put forward the idea of declaring war on Germany.

It turned out that Duan Qirui, the general manager, saw the benefits of participating in World War I and hoped to strengthen the army and the country, so he strongly advocated that China participate in World War I and declare war on Germany. Although Germany invaded Qingdao, after the end of the Qing Dynasty, China used the German Army as a model to train new soldiers, so many people still have a little bit of courage towards Germany. Think about it, Qingdao, which was occupied by the Germans, was occupied by the Japanese themselves, and Germany is far away in Europe, so let's make do with it. Therefore, the faction headed by President Le Yuanhong did not support the declaration of war on Germany. The two factions then quarreled over whether to declare war on Germany. Niu Delu, a representative of Heilongjiang Province, received instructions from Wang Maoru that Heilongjiang should not only support Duan Qirui's idea of declaring war on Germany, but also prepare to train the army to go to Europe to participate in the war.

Wang Maoru sent troops to Europe to participate in the war? Is he crazy or are we crazy? It's a fantasy to hear it.

Duan Qirui was not a fool, and the other overseers were not fools, so they immediately shouted that this Wang Maoru was not kind, and he also organized an army to participate in the war, which was nothing more than wanting to take the opportunity to expand the army. This period of Qirui's declaration of war on Germany has no more than two advantages, one is that the unequal treaty with Germany and Austria can be abolished by declaring war diplomatically, and Britain and France were trying to win over more countries to join the alliance in order to gain momentum, and Duan Qirui hoped that Britain and the United States would make concessions to China on issues such as treaty revision and foreign debt.

At the same time, the Beiyang government's finances are stretched, Europe and the United States are busy with the war, and China can only survive with large loans from Japan. Japan supports China's accession to the Entente and hopes to consolidate its influence in Shandong, Manchuria and the whole of China in the fields of military training, police inspection, and mining. Second, in terms of internal affairs, declaring war can obtain a loan from Japan, and Xu Shuzheng can use this to organize and train the army to participate in the war can strengthen the power of the Anhui line, form an advantage over the direct line and the Feng line, and also accumulate strength for the unification of the south.

Therefore, Duan Qirui categorically would not accept Wang Maoru's request to participate in the war, but the overseers did not agree on whether to support the war, Xu Shuzheng had to visit them one by one, if it was the overseer boss of the Anhui faction, it would be fine, those direct and other factions, Xu Shuzheng was difficult to open...... Thirteen overseers, and in the end, Xu Shuzheng found that only Wang Mao, who was in the far north, was clamoring to join the war every day and send troops to Europe to fight, and the others were just watching from the sidelines.

In order to win over the overseers, Duan Qirui promised to tell them that the participation of China in the war is only one or more participation in the war, and it is nothing more than sending laborers to Europe to do work for the British and French forces, and will not send your army to send troops.

Yu Guifang, a representative of Jilin, said: "Since General Shangwu wants to lead troops to Europe, why is he not allowed to go?" Let's allow it, it is also to win glory for the country, for thousands of years, no one in China has ever gone abroad to fight, and General Shangwu, the god of war in the north, can be regarded as a meritorious achievement through the ages. "Yu Guifang represents Meng Enyuan, the overseer of Jilin, and their meaning is obvious, that is, since Wang Maoru is going to Europe to participate in the war, then let's let him go, hurry up, send him to Europe, let him taste the European cannons, and it is best not to ransom the army in the north. If Wang Maoru led troops to Europe, Meng Enyuan's pressure would be much less. Other Overseer representatives also demanded that Wang Maoru be allowed to lead his troops to fight in Europe.

After Duan Qirui discussed with Xu Shuzheng and the Anhui staff, he thought that he was forced by the form, except for Wang Maoru, the others hesitated and flickered, if Wang Maoru made a good start, it would be difficult for others to disagree, so he privately allowed him to train the strength of the three army divisions.

Xu Shuzheng's abacus is, don't you want to go to war? Okay, I'll give you the establishment of three army divisions to participate in the war, and the establishment of three divisions will see if you can eat it, I can't support you and me. Nowadays, all provinces raise their own military expenses, and the establishment of three army divisions, a military division costs 400,000 oceans a year, and 400,000 oceans a year to equip weapons.

Three army divisions will lose 3.6 million oceans in a year, and this is only basic consumption, if you fight a war, you will have to pay 4 million to 5 million oceans a year.

Aren't you Wang Maoru very rich? Don't you have a bank? You can raise as many troops as you have, and see if the army will make you poor. Xu Shuzheng's analysis was the head of the road, and determined that Wang Maoru would definitely not be able to feed the three army divisions plus the ten brigades under him, and when his finances collapsed, the central government took back the military control of Heilongjiang in one fell swoop and let him go into the field.

Unexpectedly, Wang Maoru was very happy after receiving the appointment, and took the opportunity to propose to Duan Qirui, the convener of the Supervision Corps, that he expand three more army divisions to participate in the war, and he planned to train six army divisions to participate in the war, and gave Duan Qirui enough face, withdrew the request for the name of the border guards, and changed his soldiers from 10 frontier brigades to 1 to 10 brigades of the Heilongjiang Provincial Army.

After Xu Shuzheng and Duan Qirui received this request telegram, they looked at each other and laughed, Xu Shuzheng sneered: "This person really doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, six army divisions? It is really a big joke that he actually wants to train six army divisions, and he actually wants to train six army divisions in Heilongjiang Province. His Huaxing Group, I checked with the Guò people, and the annual income is only 600,000 oceans, and the annual income of the Chinese Bank is only 3 million oceans, but the six army divisions cost 7 million oceans, what will he take to train the troops? He added: "Doesn't he worship President Yuan very much?" Do you want to imitate President Yuan Da's military training station and establish the six towns of Xiaobeiyang? But that is the financial supply of the entire three provinces of Zhili, Shandong and Fengtian, and he is a Heilongjiang Province, how can he supply it? ”

Duan Qirui also thinks that the blind expansion of the army is too absurd, doesn't this Wang Maoru have to redeem his troops and make the people of Heilongjiang Province unhappy before he stops? was about to stop Wang Maoru, but Xu Shuzheng waved his hand and said: "General, the more Wang Maoru is like this, the more we should support it." ”

"Why?" Duan Qirui asked. (To be continued.)