Chapter 18 South to Xuzhou

Not long after the train left Beijing, it passed through Daxing, Langfang and other key points where the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered Beijing, and drove all the way to Tianjin. In this era, the Beijing-Tianjin Railway was already the backyard of imperialism, and barracks with various foreign flags could be seen from time to time along the way! However, the Beiyang officers in the carriage have long been completely numb to these various foreign barracks (even in Beijing), and no one mentioned these unpleasant things along the way, just chatting about the anecdotes of Beijing City and Tianjin Wei, and time passed quickly.

Xu Shuzheng has never mingled with his subordinates, and this time is no exception, occupying a box alone, except for Chang Ruiqing, who was called in to talk with him, the others were nowhere to be seen. However, those subordinates were also happy not to meet this "Xu Laohu", for fear of picking something wrong and being kicked home to eat old rice!

At this time, it was already late autumn and early winter, outside the car window, the fields were barren and yellow, and there was almost no green thing to see.

“…… The old man has only been gone for a few months! Even if our Beiyang falls apart, a decision to join the war, after nearly three months of tossing, there is no result, and the central government has to ask for the support of the Overseer Army! Yaoru, do you see that our Beiyang gas is almost at the end? Xu Shuzheng's affection is obviously not high, and he is very pessimistic and disappointed in the counter-revolutionary cause.

"Gong Zheng, even if our Beiyang is a little loose, it is a behemoth, and there is really no force in China today that can replace us. Besides, our Beiyang is not united, and Sun Yat-sen is not a monolith. Chang Ruiqing smiled at Xu Shuzheng, and comforted in a low voice: "As long as we can reach an agreement at this meeting of the Overseer Corps, support the joining of the Entente to declare war on Germany, and then train the army to participate in the war, the cohesion of our Beiyang will definitely be able to slowly recover." ”

"I hope so!" Xu Shuzheng smiled bitterly, then reached out and took out an envelope from the briefcase he was carrying, and handed it to Chang Ruiqing: "This is a letter jointly written by Yang Shutang and Lu Zijia to Duan Zhilao, they have already expressed their support for participating in the European competition, but it is not unconditional, do you know what they want?" ”

"Shutang" is the name of Yang Shande, the commander of the Fourth Division of the Army and the envoy of the Songhu Protector, this person is the backbone of the Anhui system, and his fourth division is the pillar of the Anhui system. And that Lu Zijia is Lu Yongxiang, who is now the commander of the 10th Division of the Army, and is also a general of the Anhui Department. Although these two belong to the Anhui family, it seems that they are not unconditionally obedient to Duan Qirui, and they have to talk about conditions when they express a attitude, so it is no wonder that Xu Shuzheng is a little discouraged.

Chang Ruiqing took the envelope and opened it and looked at it, it was written in the letter that it was quite deferential, and he said a lot of good things like Duan Zhi didn't want money, and he didn't mention any conditions. It seems that this letter was taken to Xuzhou by Xu Shuzheng to show Zhang Dashuai of the Braided Army.

"Gong Zheng, presumably Division Commander Yang wants an errand to supervise the army in Zhejiang, and Division Commander Lu wants the Songhu Protector Envoy, right?" Chang Ruiqing stuffed the letter into an envelope and returned it to Xu Shuzheng, and said with a light smile: "Shanghai and Zhejiang are the fattest territories, and Shanghai's commercial tax and big tobacco tax are at least 30 million a year, right?" Zhejiang should not fall below this number...... If you don't let Senior Commander Yang and Senior Commander Lu go to the town in such a territory, and if someone else goes, I'm afraid that Old Zhi won't be able to rest assured, right? ”

"I know how to grab land, but who will protect it here in Beijing?" Xu Shuzheng took the envelope and muttered. It seems that he meant to transfer one of these two divisions to Beijing to defend the center, and at present, there is only one army belonging to the Anhui system near Beijing, which is adapted from the Gongwei Army, and the 8th and 12th divisions are all direct troops. As for the "Infantry Army Commander Yamen," who was in charge of the garrison in Beijing, he did not have the slightest combat effectiveness, and in history he did some work of "opening the door to welcome surrender."

"With the support of Senior Commander Yang and Senior Commander Lu, Zhang Pigtail should be a little looser, right?" Chang Ruiqing didn't know how to answer Xu Shuzheng, so he deliberately diverted the topic.

"It's certain to be loose, but it's not easy for him to loosen up and support the war, this Zhang Shaoxuan's brain is very strange! By the way, I heard you mention that you have a brother who works as an errand under Zhang Shaoxuan? Xu Shuzheng didn't know, and suddenly mentioned Chang Ruiqing's cheap brother Chang Ruiyuan.

"Yes, my brother was a messenger under the pigtail handsome, and he also came to Beijing City with the pigtail commander once in the past two months." Chang Ruiqing told Xu Shuzheng about this early in the morning. Xuzhou is now Zhang Xun's territory, and it is not uncommon for Xuzhou's children to eat in the pigtail army. Besides, although this Zhang Pigtail Shuai is a native of Jiangxi, and he has done a lot of good things for Jiangxi villagers over the years, his troops do not need the help of Jiangxi villagers to fight, either the original Jiangsu patrol battalion, or recruited from near Xuzhou.

"Did that brother mention who Zhang Shaoxuan interacts with on weekdays?" Xu Shuzheng asked casually.

Chang Ruiqing smiled bitterly and sighed: "Who else can there be?" Looking at the big braid on the back of this handsome handsome's head, he also knew who he was with on weekdays. I heard that during this time, the Kang Nanhai Kang sage also arrived in Xuzhou, and established a Chinese Confucian Association, and Zhang Pigshuai also became an honorary president. ”

"Hmph, I don't know if he is the Dingwu General of the Republic of China, or the Governor of Liangjiang of the Qing Dynasty, and the Minister of Nanyang? How can we have such a monster in Beiyang? Xu Shuzheng said with disgust on his face.

……

"Ah...... Sneeze! ”

The former Qing Dynasty's Xuzhou Daotai Yamen, now the Dingwu General, Anhui Supervisor Zhang Xun and Zhang Braidshuai's Governor's Office. The mighty braid army commander was sitting comfortably on the Taishi's chair with his legs stretched out, holding a hookah in his hand, and after only taking two puffs, he sneezed for no reason.

"Damn, it must be that little bunny who is talking bad about us behind our backs." Zhang Dashuai scolded casually, and twitched again.

A clear-eyed and handsome little listener smiled and said: "It must be that Sun Cannon, he is the worst in China, and he doesn't dare to come with our big handsome sword, so he can only hide in the Shanghai Concession and live a few words." ”

Zhang Dashuai squinted his eyes and smiled: "Sun Cannon is also the number one person, and he doesn't have such a choreographer." Then he glanced at the little listener who spoke, and sneered: "Besides, it's not just Sun Cannon who hates our handsome people outside, right?" Even in our Beiyang, there are many such people! ”

The little listener was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know how to pick up this stubble for a while. Zhang Xun twisted his eyebrows and said to himself: "I look at that Xiao Xu and I, the leader of the Overseer Legion, don't look at him when he sees me in face, he doesn't know how to arrange me behind his back!" Ruiyuan, don't you say? ”

It turned out that this little errand was Chang Ruiqing's brother Chang Ruiyuan, after breaking up with his eldest brother that day, he had already reported to Zhang Xun 1510 that he had a battalion commander's brother. However, he didn't know that Chang Ruiqing was Xu Shuzheng's person, and Xu Shuzheng was the Xiao Xu in Zhang Xun's mouth, so after listening to Zhang Xun's words, he only echoed it one after another, and he also said bad things about "Xiao Xu" one by one.

Zhang Xun smiled slightly, changed his words, and said, "Ruiyuan, is your brother going back to Xuzhou in the next two days?" ”

"Yes," Chang Ruiyuan grinned: "My eldest brother has been away from home for more than ten years, and now it's easy to become a battalion commander, although it looks quite shabby, but I always have to go home to see my father, right?" Speaking of this, he was suddenly stunned, reached out and touched the back of his head: "Dashuai, how do you know everything?" ”

Zhang Xun sneered and waved his hand: "A mother compatriot, why is this brain so bad?" When your eldest brother arrives at home, you bring him to see me. Okay, let's not talk about that, it's time for us to go and meet the guests, but don't let little Japan wait. ”

Chang Ruiyuan chirped, then hurriedly picked up Zhang Xun and strode in the direction of the living room.

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