It's not that Chen Guangshou is willing to be a light bulb, or that he wants to disturb the peace of Yang Rui's Chinese New Year's Eve, but that there is indeed an emergency in the northeast. Not to mention the Northeast Liaodong, the Liaoxi and Dongmeng sides have always been a mixed place. Earlier, when Zhao Erxun was just the general of Shengjing, he reorganized the patrol battalion of the whole province once and used it to suppress bandits everywhere, and the bandits in eastern Liaoning were basically cleaned up by the revival army, that is, there were many bandits in southern and western Liaoning, and he vigorously cleared up a lot of places.

When it was his turn to exterminate the bandits in western Liaoning, but because of Cixi's death and Guangxu's return to power, he was a person in the Yuan lineage, so he had to do nothing for a while, and wanted to wait for the situation to be clear before making plans, but he didn't want to wait for Yuan Shikai to be dismissed, and then Sichuan Governor Xiliang was transferred to Beiyang Governor, he was transferred to Sichuan, and General Sheng Jing was Guangxu's brother-in-law Ningxia Deputy Capital Tongzhi Rui.

Arranging Zhirui in this position is actually a plan on Guangxu's side, Wuxu changed the law during the transition, and the courtiers who were loyal to Guangxu before either died of old age or were demoted, and it was extremely difficult to find a man who was completely loyal to Guangxu in the court after so many years, so after Yuan Shikai was dismissed, the governor of Zhili had to be temporarily appointed by Xiliang, who was considered a neutral faction, and when Zhirui changed from General Shengjing to the governor of the three eastern provinces, then Xiliang could be transferred. In this way, the Northeast has been rectified by Zhirui for a few years, which is regarded as his own territory, and Zhili took over again, plus Cen Chunxuan's side was transferred back to Liangguang in due course, and the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Shengyun, also expressed his loyalty, so that there are only a few governors of Guangxu such as Liangjiang and Huguang.

The background of the court is like this, so what Zhirui wants to do in the Northeast is very clear. The first is to tighten control over the entire Northeast in order to prevent the Northeast from being seized by Tsarist Russia and Japan, and the second is that the Party is the same and the Party is fighting against differences. Replace the governors and generals of the non-imperialist party with those loyal to Guangxu. At some point, the two things can be combined into one, and that is the suppression of bandits. In the name of suppressing bandits, purging the army, and then using the name of suppressing bandits to eliminate different parties, plus Zhirui has been demoted for many years, there is nowhere to use the strategy of stabilizing the country, so as soon as he arrives in the northeast, he makes the momentum of suppressing bandits bigger than Zhao Erxun.

He arrived at the end of October. In November, he reorganized the patrol battalion that had been organized by Zhao Erxun before, and the 40 patrol battalions that had been stationed in eight routes were expanded into 46 battalions by him, and they were divided into five routes according to the defense area. Zhang Zuolin, who worked hard to suppress bandits but had a humble background, was promoted by him and appointed as the commander of the front road patrol battalion, the middle road was Zhirui's own brother Zhigou, and the back road was Wu Junsheng. On the left is Feng Lin Ge. And on the right side is Zhang Rong.

After the five-way governor camp was completed, Zhirui ordered the bandits to be suppressed. At the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the former independent army was disbanded, and it was rumored that more than 10,000 people voted for Han Dengju and lived in Fusong, Dunhua and other places. However, that area is a place outside the world, and these bandits never disturb the people. It's very safe, so it's not the focus of the cleanup for a while. It's Liaoxi's side. There are the remnants of the Menggang Baiyin Dalai and the Revival Society, which should be a problem for the henchmen. However, although there are thousands of them, their whereabouts are often erratic, especially the rebels of the Revival Society, all of whom are veterans of the Russo-Japanese War, skilled in warfare, and not afraid of death. Later, when the third town of Beiyang was cleared, because the commander Duan Qirui had the heart to preserve his strength, and Yuan Shikai in London also hinted at some things, the suppression of bandits was very ineffective.

Originally, Beiyang was Beiyang, and Zhirui was Zhirui, but just when the situation in western Liaoning was stable, there was another major incident yesterday, that is, the newly released Mongolian bandit Taoke Taohu killed the Japanese who went to Dongmeng to survey and map. I don't know what Tao Ke Taohu's later generations said about Yang Rui, but now from the information he knows, this person is a man, and the rebellion is the same as Baiyin Dalai because the Mongolian princes wantonly reclaimed Mongolian land in order to make money, which made the grassland shrink day by day, and the herdsmen had nowhere to graze. In fact, in the final analysis, it is the Han Chinese and the Mongols fighting for land. Yang Rui is a Han Chinese, he should naturally speak on the side of the Han people, but he is also a revolutionary party, naturally the enemy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is his friend, and the grassland has become farmland - he has not been to Dongmeng, I don't know if it is suitable for reclamation, but judging from the frequent floods caused by the reclamation of the lake in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, he does not approve of turning the grassland into farmland in his heart. This is not a problem of the Mongols and Han Chinese, but a problem of comprehensive land use. Mongolia is not only Mongolian, but also Chinese, Mongolia's land is actually Chinese land, if it is not suitable for reclamation, then it cannot be reclaimed. As for people dying of starvation, if the ecology is not protected, more people will starve to death in the future.

In Cheng's study, Yang Rui walked back and forth, thinking about things in western Liaoning and Mongolia. The Japanese were killed, which will naturally provoke a new round of banditry, the last time the revival army and Baiyin Dalai feint to attack Fengtian, so that the soldiers sent by Zhirui shrank back, I thought that the Qing army would enter after the New Year's snow, but this time I killed the Japanese, I am afraid that the Qing soldiers are forced by the pressure of Japan, and they will send troops before the New Year. But how to deal with the relationship with Bai Yin Da Lai, these bandits? Or rather, how should Mongolia be laid out in Xinhai? Or in the end, what should the future national policy look like?

In order to establish an enemy for the Han people, the Manchus are considered to be demonized, what should the Mongols, Hui, and Tibetans do in the future? It seems that it is better to return to Tibet, and the Mongolian people are now colluding with the Manchu Qing, if Xinhai is fought from the south to the north, then Mongolia must be as independent as later generations - the Manchu Qing in later generations were peacefully ous, so it is only Mongolian independence, but now Yang Rui wants to use the Northern Expedition by force, and the shock caused to the Northeast and Mongolia will be greater, and there will be a revival army in the Northeast, and Mongolia will be difficult to get. Is it possible to fund Baiyin Dalai to become the Mongol kings of Xinhai and let them destroy the independence of Outer Mongolia of the Russians? But what if these guys become Saddam? And if they don't become Saddam Hussein at that time, will Mongolia also become an autonomous region like later generations?

As far as Yang Rui knows, autonomy will become independent if it is not careful, because the name contains the meaning that when the central government is strong, it is fine, but if it is weakening, then these places will definitely seek substantive independence in the name of autonomy. In his mind, the Chinese autonomous region in the future should not have any of them, and that they could only build some reservations like the Indians. And Xinjiang, the name sounds unlucky. What's new, what's new? It's just that for Qianlong it's Xinjiang, for China. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was the capital of the Western Regions...... The Qing army entered and the bandits asked for help, Yang Rui thought about it and digressed to the national policy.

When Chen Guangshou was tired, Yang Rui replied: "Let Xiang Xiang's cavalry go over to support, and the Mongols will sell outdated guns if they want to sell them, such as the Japanese can sell some of those guns and ammunition to them, let Gongda and the General Staff judge for themselves the specific quantity, and be careful not to raise tigers." There are also the Western Liaoning guerrillas, don't be the same as the Mongols. It is hundreds of miles away, and Liaoxi still has to find a way to take root. ”

"Yes, sir!" Chen Guangshou only memorized Yang Rui's words on paper. However, Yang Rui also had a headache after speaking. Wen Yongyu's side is really difficult to get, the place where he is located is Eastern Mongolia, even if this place finds a base, it is not easy to develop, after all, the Mongols are still Mongols. You may not be able to eat the revival propaganda. For nomads. Greater China and industrialization are more difficult to understand than the farming people. Yang Rui thought of this, waved his hand and let Chen Guangshou go out. Then, while thinking about Mongolia, he drafted a telegram to several other committee members, asking them for advice on the policy of national assimilation.

The telegram from Shanghai was sent to the Northeast General Staff overnight, and after the General Staff discussed it, it was sent to the guerrilla headquarters in Zhangwu Woniu Mountain. On his side, he drove to Bahrain Banner (present-day Linxi County), which is now being reclaimed. It is possible to buy land from the agricultural reclamation company in the past and then expand the Han people, which will be able to establish a large base area.

Wen Yongyu pondered the telegram for a while, and then explained a few words to the adjutant, and then returned to the big tent to welcome the guests. As soon as Wen Yongyu passed, he stood up, this time selling firearms was actually what Tao Ke Taohu wanted, and Bai Yin Da was just an introduction.

"Sit down." Looking at this young Mongolian man, Wen Yongyu smiled and said, "We can sell some guns to you, but it will take a while," Hearing that the other party would sell guns, Deliger stood up violently again, and only bowed to Wen Yongyu. "The sun on the grassland never sets, and Deliger will always remember the kindness of the leader of the text."

When Wen Yongyu saw that he said good things, he smiled in his heart, and only felt that this Mongolian would still be able to speak if he was sent over, so he warned: "The Japanese army is still in southern Liaoning, and rash killing will only make them angry, and it is better to be careful when you encounter foreigners in the future." ”

Seeing this anti-Russian hero saying that foreigners can't be killed rashly, Deliger was very puzzled, and Wen Yongyu couldn't say in detail when he saw that he was puzzled, and the Revival Society killed the Japanese who spying on them by 'accident', although the Japanese army was aware of it, but there was nothing they could do if they couldn't catch the handle.

"How many of you are there?" Wen Yongyu asked again.

"More than 500 people, all of them are first-class heroes." Speaking of his own numbers, Deliger was a little proud, although there were not as many people as Baiyin Dalai, but after all, it was a team that had just been pulled up.

When Wen Yongyu heard him say that there were more than 500 people, he couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, only to feel that there was another team that disrupted the situation, and praised at the moment: "Good! What a good man. Then we'll sell you 200 guns and 40,000 rounds of ammunition. But don't stay on the grassland all the time, if you want the Manchus not to reclaim the famine, then you have to fight in the city, so that the Manchus will be afraid. ”

Seeing that Wen Yongyu was also against reclamation, Deligerch said: "Chief Wen also disapproves of reclamation? ”

"Of course I don't approve of that. The fertile soil of this grassland is too thin, and the grass may not be able to grow crops, so it is cultivated, and after more than ten years, there will be no food, and it will be cultivated in vain. Wen Yongyu's words were half-truths and half-truths, which only made Deliger feel a burst of joy in his heart. Earlier, he still thought that these Han people would still stand on the side of the Han people, but who knew that he was also not in favor of reclamation.

"We have plans to attack the county seat, so the government will definitely send a large army to come." Seeing that Wen Yongyu was a person who could be confided with, Deliger also expressed his thoughts about his team.

Seeing that the Mongols in front of him really didn't know what they had done, Wen Yongyu wanted to laugh but couldn't, "If you kill the Japanese, the Manchu Qing will send troops out to encircle and suppress it even during the Chinese New Year, not only you, but we also have to be implicated." ”

"But these Japanese are spies, and they are drawing a map of the march, so don't kill them. The army of foreigners was about to march to Mongolia. Deliger didn't think it was a bad thing to kill the Japanese, but he thought it was a great thing to kill them.

Seeing him like this, Wen Yongyu only secretly said in his heart that he would stay away from these Mongols in the future. Otherwise, they will be dragged to death in the future, and they will not say that it is not good for them to kill the Japanese, but just a strong drink. Deliger had drunk a lot before, and now that he heard that something big was going to happen, he drank bitterly. After he had gone to sleep, the adjutant came, "Sir." All ministries have been notified once, when will we withdraw? ”

"Then it depends on the news in Fengtian City, it's the ...... of the New Year" Speaking of this, he thought of Zhirui, who was the new official and the three fires, and Zhang Zuolin, who wanted to be promoted and even betrayed his brothers. "Let's get ready." The Qing soldiers will be back soon. ”

Qing soldiers will indeed come soon, in the flower hall of the Shengjing General's Mansion, with a white face and a short beard, Zhirui, who was in his fifties, looked at Zhang Zuolin, who was kneeling in front of him. Shen Sheng asked, "When can I send troops?" ”

Zhang Zuolin's troops were stationed in Sujiatun. For the commander of the front road of the army, so Zhirui let him come first as soon as he had something, and the other commanders were far away, and they were afraid that it would take more than ten days to get to Shengjing City in the wind and snow of the New Year.

"Yu Anshuai, you can send troops in five days." Thinking that it was the New Year, Zhang Zuolin said for five days. Zhirui shook his head, and he said again: "In those three days, we will definitely be able to send troops!" Zhirui shook his head again. Zhang Zuolin didn't know how to speak.

Seeing him like this, Zhirui said in a deep voice: "Yuting." Tomorrow we will send troops. ”

Hearing that Zhirui said that tomorrow, Zhang Zuolin was shocked. was about to say no, but when he saw Zhirui's eyes glaring, he had to hurriedly lower his head and said in a sullen voice: "Scum." Tomorrow the army will be dispatched. ”

Seeing Zhang Zuolin's promise, Zhirui was also a little satisfied, in fact, it was not that he wanted to force Zhang Zuolin to be so anxious, but the Japanese consul forced him to be very anxious, if he did not send troops on his side, then the Japanese would send troops, and now according to the Portsmouth Treaty, Japan and Russia were withdrawn in mid-April this year, but there was only two months to go, but such a thing happened, if it was really an excuse for the Japanese not to withdraw their troops, then the Russian side would not withdraw, and if the armies of the two countries did not withdraw, then Manchuria would not be able to stabilize. forced Zhang Zuolin to send troops tomorrow, and Zhirui had no choice.

"Yuting, Zhigou will transfer two more battalions of people to you, and the ammunition and food will also be sufficient, and the troops will be sent tomorrow no matter what. Aren't you going to be promoted to get rich, after you exterminate the bandits, you will definitely be promoted. In order to let Zhang Zuolin fight to the death, Zhirui made another promise.

"Xie Anshuai cultivates, and he will wipe out the bandits in order to repay Anshuai's great kindness." Zhang Zuolin was overjoyed when he heard this, and for a while he forgot the pain of sending troops before.

"Good! Good! But Yuting, you have to remember that it is the emperor's favor and the country's grace that you want to repay, not anyone's personal kindness. When you are a soldier and eat food, after all, you are defending your family and the country. Looking at Zhang Zuolin, an official fan, Zhirui couldn't help but teach him seriously.

"Yes. An Shuai's teachings, Yuting will always remember it. Zhirui usually doesn't talk much, but this time there was such an admonition, which made him both surprised and happy. It's just that after saying this, Zhirui shouted for tea, and when the next person brought the tea, he picked up a shallow piece of tea and sent it off.

Seeing this, Zhang Zuolin had to say goodbye, but outside the debut room, he suddenly saw Zhirui's eldest servant Lu Shun, and greeted him with a smile, "Brother Lu, it's such a cold day, and it's hard to serve An Shuai." With that, he took out a few large silver dollar bills from the Bank of Kanto and sent them over.

It's not the first time that the little man Zhang Zuolin and Lu Shun have dealt with him, and when he saw him like this, he didn't shirk it, he just accepted the money, and then said, "Did the adults let you send troops inside?" ”

"Exactly." Zhang Zuolin smiled bitterly, "For An Shuai's worries, I am very happy brother." ”

Seeing that Zhang Zuolin was wrong, Lu Shun said: "There is no way for adults." The Japanese dwarf named Hagiwara was almost mad at the adults, and said that the adults would do it themselves if they didn't arrest the bandits. This clearly wants to stir up trouble. ”

Lu Shun said that the Japanese consul general in Mukden, Hagiwara Shouichi, was born as a career diplomat, and served as a clerk in European and American consulates earlier, and he was very familiar with how Europe blackmailed Japan.

When Zhang Zuolin heard that this was the case, he was relieved, knowing that this matter was done, not only Zhirui would be blue-eyed, but even the emperor was afraid that he would hear his name, wouldn't this be a good opportunity for promotion. He immediately changed his appearance of being loyal to the country. said: "Since it involves foreigners, it is a big deal, no matter how hard and tired the brother is, he must bring the bandit to justice." ”

Lu Shun saw that he understood this reason. also smiled and said, "Yuting, you can go with peace of mind, as long as you can talk, brother, I will naturally help you speak." ”

Lu Shun is Zhirui's eldest servant and is deeply trusted by Zhirui, and Zhang Zuolin also spent a lot of effort to make friends, and at this time, he saw that he was willing to give him good words. I had nothing to worry about, so I said goodbye and went happily. In the afternoon of the next day, his front patrol battalion and the two battalions in the middle were together. After Shengjing City, go to Xinmintun.

Fengjun pulled out the camp, and the telegram from Shengjing's side immediately transmitted the news to Wen Yongyu, a guerrilla in western Liaoning, and Wen Yongyu was surprised when he got the telegram. It's only the third day of the Lunar New Year. The patrol battalion had only run out in a year, and he had imagined that the third town would come first, and it would take at least five or six days for these nest soldiers to pull out the camp, who would have thought that they would run out so soon.

"Pack up your baggage immediately, step up your guard today, and evacuate here early tomorrow morning." Wen Yongyu made a silent calculation and said to the adjutant. "Also, the chiefs of the ministries called over for a meeting."

Since the Russo-Japanese War. The guerrillas in western Liaoning cannot be described as guerrillas, but should be called guerrillas to be exact. In fact, when the second captain Zhong Mei was in his hands. The number of guerrillas was five or six hundred, and by the time of the third Wen Yongyu, the number had increased to more than 1,800, and the number of them had completely exceeded 2,000 when the logistical baggage was added. In fact, Wen Yongyu doesn't want to accept more people, the more people there are, the bigger the target, which is not in line with the purpose of fishing in troubled waters, but since he is a bandit, there will naturally be heroes to defect and beg for food.

So knowing that it was not good to overcharge people, Wen Yongyu still got a new barracks, claiming that the new recruits would train for three months first, and if they couldn't pass the pass, they would be given a sum of money to leave. But Northeast and East Mongolia are all reckless men, the most unbearable is to provoke the general and be despised, the stricter the requirements of his new barracks, the more people vote, regardless of the Han people, Mongolians, Hui people, Manchus all come to the camp, so that Wen Yongyu has no way, while raising the assessment requirements, it is also the political trial is added in a grand manner. Again, those who do not agree with each other will not join the gang. But even so, not many people were stopped, and they would join the bandits, except for those 'heroes' who couldn't live the life of ordinary people, but more because of the bandits who had to die because of their crimes.

At present, the guerrillas are still organized according to the old independent army, that is, a group of three, three groups of ten overtime leaders in a squad, a platoon of 40 people, three platoons plus logistics, communications, guards, sundries, etc., a company of 200 people, a battalion of more than 700 people, so a total of three battalions and nine companies, before the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered and suppressed the troops, they set up cards to collect taxes in the area of Horqin Banner (now Liaoyuan), and later the Manchu Qing Dynasty came to suppress them, and then went south to the vicinity of Zhangwu and Tumut Banner. However, it is too close to Shengjing, and it is difficult to stay for a long time.

After receiving the captain's order, the three battalion commanders came in a hurry, the first battalion commander occupied the Central Plains, and followed the giant bandit Yanzi on the Heilongjiang side earlier, and then Gengzi Yanzi was hanged by the Russian army, so he became an independent group. Occupy the Central Plains is his newspaper number, and his real name and origin are only known to Zhong Mei, Wen Yongyu and the political commissar. He defected to Zhong Mei during the Russo-Japanese War, he was an old man of the guerrillas, brave and resourceful, and before joining the team, he attacked the Russian military station, and was chased by the Cossack cavalry for three days and three nights unscathed;

The second battalion commander is Wang Xiaozhen, a native of Fuzhou, Fujian, originally graduated from Fujian Martial Arts Academy, and then was admitted to study abroad at public expense, and went to Japan to study Japanese to prepare for Zhenwu School, in history he was the fifth graduation of Lu Shi, but when the Russo-Japanese War began, he saw the diary of the Fuxing Society, and he came to the Northeast alone from Japan under the blood boiling, and the guerrillas who were found after several inquiries asked to join the gang, when Zhong Mei saw him speak Fujianese, he thought it was a Japanese spy - a Japanese detective in the Northeast, because of the language barrier, Many of them pretended to be Fujian monks, and Wang Xiaoshen anxiously recited Zou Rong's revolutionary army and Chen Tianhua's fierce head, plus Fujian also did a review, which determined the identity of this person. He started as a petty soldier and was later promoted to the position of battalion commander.

The last three battalion commanders are Wen Yongyu's own people, graduated from the third phase of the South African Military Academy, Yu Peiming, a native of Fengyang, Anhui. (To be continued......)