Chapter 275: Congressional Elections III
readx; Liang Qichao, after the Wushu reform, he didn't share the sky with Yuan Shikai, and hated Yuan Shikai very much to Cixi's side, and completely sent the reform reform launched by Liang Qichao, Kang Youwei and others into the garbage heap, thinking that Yuan Shikai was a villain and a traitor. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info But his determination to protect the emperor is not as good as Kang Youwei, as soon as the Xinhai Revolution broke out, he quietly changed his appearance, and the earlier anti-Yuan, anti-Yuan and the like were not mentioned, and it was useless to mention it, the Guangxu Emperor he was bent on protecting had been hanging for several years, and the Manchu Dynasty was about to collapse.
What, playing politics is basically pinning your head to the crotch of your pants, not that you are not afraid of death, but that you are completely shameless. Seeing that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was no longer working, Liang Qichao, the leader of the royalist party, jumped out to support Yuan Shikai and shouted to unite with Yuan Shikai to suppress the revolution. Although Yuan Shikai did not discuss what to do with Sun Wen, they all had tacit cooperation with each other to send the Manchu Dynasty to the trash can, completely ending China's thousands of years of monarchy. Seeing that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was completely finished, Liang Qichao didn't have time to sigh for a second, and completely threw himself into the arms of Yuan Shikai, intending to use Yuan Shikai as a backer to fight for political capital and living space for the constitutionalists, and to advocate the construction of a big party with the constitutionalists and conservatives as the core, and to confront the southern alliance.
In the past, Yuan Shikai didn't have much heart to pay attention to Liang Qichao, who was defeated in his hands I don't know how many years ago, but today he had to rely on Liang Qichao's prestige to do the formation of a new party, for which he even gritted his teeth and took out 500,000 yuan of party building funds.
After Liang Qichao took the money and got Yuan Shikai's support, he couldn't sleep for several days in excitement, and he also had a smile on his face when he saw people, and he ran around not only to contact the Republican Party. The Democratic Party, the United Party, and even went to meet Cai Yi in Yanjing, and wooed the United Republican Party to join the new party. Not only that, but he even sent people to Fuzhou to think about whether he would also get in touch with Chen Jingyun, and it would be better to win over the Kuomintang as well, in short, to win over all parties except the Kuomintang, and if it succeeded, the newly formed Progressive Party would be able to contend with the Kuomintang in the National Assembly.
But Chen Jingyun had the intention of watching the show, but he didn't want to get involved, he was still waiting for the Kuomintang to attack Yuan Shikai after taking control of the Congress, where he would help Yuan Shikai, and even he thought that if the Kuomintang was not strong enough, he planned to support the Kuomintang with Tang Jiyao and unite to make Yuan Shikai unable to step down in the Congress. But there is no hurry now, he still wants to continue to wait and see for a while.
Since the end of the war in southern Jiangsu, although the overall strategy of the national army is still mainly to confront Beiyang, Chen Jingyun still failed to find a good way to go next.
In order for the national army to develop, there is not much way to go now, either to wage war against the southern provinces or to fight another battle with the Beiyang army. However, both options could put the Nationalist Army in a two-front war, and it was likely that other warlords would unite against the Nationalist Army. So far, Chen Jingyun has not had a good solution to the current dilemma.
In addition, geographically speaking, if the National Army wants to develop further, there is one place that must be taken, and that is Jiangxi. The area now controlled by the Nationalist Army extends from Guangzhou to the north, Fujian, Zhejiang, and southern Jiangsu. It is a straight line along the coast, the distance in the middle is too long, the national army has more than 100,000 troops, but it cannot concentrate too many troops on the same front in a short period of time, even if the national army has a navy and can use sea transportation, but it cannot change the strategic predicament of the national army.
If we say that after taking Jiangxi, then the Nationalist Army will be able to gain a foothold to extend inland, and at the same time, it will be able to ensure the security of Fujian and Zhejiang, and further threaten Hunan, and even Anhui, Hubei, and Guangxi. It can be said that it is a strategic support point to completely enter the hinterland.
However, now that Jiangxi and Anhui are controlled by the revolutionaries, Chen Jingyun could not find any good reason to enter the army, and he did not even dare to rush into the army. After all, the prestige of the revolutionaries is still okay now, and if the Nationalist Army rashly marches into Jiangxi, it will definitely arouse the jealousy of other warlords, especially Lu Rongting and Tang Jiyao.
And how to take Jiangxi, Chen Jingyun has been thinking about this for a long time, and even considered whether to join forces with Yuan Shikai, take Anhui in Beiyang, and take Jiangxi himself.
With so many worries and troubles, Chen Jingyun had to be cautious, so he continued to wait, waiting for what Song Jiaoren could do on the side of the Congress, waiting for the Kuomintang and Beiyang to fall out, and waiting for the next development of the situation. At that time, whether he unites the southern provinces or joins forces with the Beiyang Army will be able to determine it.
Now, Chen Jingyun can only passively wait!
The congressional election was in an uproar, and the Spring Festival of 1913 was also spent in such a noisy state, the New Year's Day, Chen Jingyun stayed in Liuhe Lane as last year, and the Chen Mansion also ushered in many guests, most of these people are relatives of the Chen family, some are relatives, some are in-laws, etc., many people around Chen Yu made Chen Yu smile all day.
These clansmen and relatives have relied on Chen Jingyun for more than a year, and many officials and officers have emerged in a short period of time, with Lin Chengkun, Yu Ruofei and the Chen family brothers, Qian Hanlang and others as the core, forming a family and friend force around Chen Jingyun.
In addition to these relatives and friends, Chen Jingyun also hosted a banquet for many high-level generals in the Xuanfu Embassy's mansion, talking about the bright future of next year or something.
After a banquet, Chen Jingyun, who was not very good at drinking, was also a little dazed, and when he returned to the backyard, he lay down, and Luo Li personally served him to change clothes, freshen up, etc., this toss down and tired Luo Li enough, but Chen Jingyun's drinking spirit dissipated a lot, and after he got up, he fought with Luo Li in the middle of the night and killed Luo Li, who had not been happy for several days, but there is only one loser in this matter between men and women, and that is men. Even in a half-dizzy state, Luo Li still turned defeat into victory, and beat Chen Jingyun to lose his armor, so that he finally fell asleep with a sore back.
The next time, Chen Jingyun got up again and didn't go to the front yard to work in the morning, but only sat in the study, ready to deal with a few official duties.
After Yu Shifeng came in, he took out various documents and reports as always, and when Chen Jingyun was almost done, he took out a letter.
"Commander, this is a letter to you!" After Yu Shifeng finished speaking, he added: "I sent it from the United States!" ”
When Chen Jingyun heard this, he took the envelope with a little doubt. In these days, there are no long-distance calls, emails and the like, long-distance contact can only rely on telegrams, but telegrams are too expensive, can only be sent by the number of words, it is okay to talk about important things, but if you want to say more detail, you still need to rely on traditional letters. However, Chen Jingyun has rarely received letters since he came back from the fight, and it is not that no one has contacted him, but the means of communication used by the people who contacted him are very special, either by electricity or by secret message, but this letter has not been sent to him by few people, let alone from abroad.
Looking at the words on the envelope, it was a few lines of beautiful English, sent from Los Angeles, and the sender was the Lina who hadn't seen her in a while? Granther.
She said that she would write a letter to herself, Chen Jingyun hadn't opened the letter yet, but she was already recalling the aristocratic girl, the city that felt Shanghai was as dull and lifeless as London, with a beautiful blonde hair, well, she also had a mother who didn't let her demeanor...... Countess.
With the memories of the past, Chen Jingyun opened the letter, the letter paper was obviously carefully prepared, and it was sprayed with a faint perfume, it smelled a faint fragrance of roses, unfolded the letter, and what caught in his eyes was a delicate women's style, Chen Jingyun looked at Meiyu and gradually praised it, this girl is a little interesting.
The letter was full of trivial things, such as what she saw when she was crossing the Pacific Ocean, such as the unfortunate man who was in the same boat with her because he was fascinated by watching her mother, and then he fell overboard because he couldn't stand on his feet, but fortunately a sailor rescued him. Another example is that there are a lot of high-rise buildings in Los Angeles, but there is noise and noise everywhere, which makes her very uncomfortable.
Although it was all about the trivial things around her, Chen Jingyun still knew that she didn't like that place and didn't like those people, it seems that the United States didn't give this homesick blonde girl much freshness.
The letter also greeted Chen Jingyun whether she was okay or not, and finally attached a reply address saying that she must reply to her. The reply address is not Los Angeles, but New York.
Putting down the letter, Chen Jingyun pondered for a while, and then was about to pick up the pen and reply to the letter, but he didn't know what to write when he just put down the pen, it was obvious that those so-called national events, the situation in China and the like were not what Lina didn't care about, and there didn't seem to be many trivial matters, could it be that he wrote that he had a good time with Lin Yun and Luo Li after returning to Fuzhou?
After sighing, Chen Jingyun put down the pen, then looked up, and saw that Yu Shifeng didn't know when he had gone out, and immediately called for him to come in.
Yu Shifeng guessed that his young master might have taken a fancy to the earl's daughter during the Christmas Eve fireworks party, and from his experience, it was obvious that Miss Lina also had a good impression of her own commander. No, although Miss Nalena has traveled thousands of miles away to the United States, she has not written the same letter, although I don't know what the letter says, but after all, I can't get rid of love and love and so on.
Yu Shifeng saw that Chen Jingyun had a smile on the corner of his mouth when he read the letter, so he was even more sure of his guess, so he didn't bother Chen Jingyun and quickly retreated.
This will be called in by Chen Jingyun again, and as soon as he came in, Chen Jingyun said: "Is the new ship over there in Mawei Shipyard going to be launched?" ”
Yu Shifeng thought that Chen Jingyun was going to talk about Linna or the United States, but he didn't expect him to ask this, so he was immediately stunned and said: "Yes, Mawei Shipyard has completed the preliminary construction work, and it will be launched and outfitted tomorrow!" The Navy Department said it was going to have a launching ceremony. ”
Chen Jingyun nodded: "Oh, when is the launching ceremony?" ”
Yu Shifeng said: "It's the day after tomorrow!" If the commander goes, the secretariat will arrange it! ”
Chen Jingyun said: "The launching ceremony is naturally going to go, after all, this is the first warship we have built!" You go and arrange the arrangements, and I'll preside over the ceremony myself! ”
Yu Shifeng said: "I understand my humble duties! ”
After finishing speaking, seeing that Chen Jingyun stopped talking, Yu Shifeng hesitated and said, "What about the reply from the United States?" ”
Chen Jingyun looked up, and then said in a deep voice: "Just do your own thing, don't learn from Chen Cai in everything!" ”
When Yu Shifeng heard this, he also secretly said that he had just been abrupt, this Chen Jingyun's private affairs were not so easy to meddle in, so he immediately withdrew!
After Shifeng went out, Chen Jingyun took out the letter and read it again, and only after a while did he pick up the pen again and start replying!