Throughout modern history, China has been in a state of hostility for most of the time! However, during the period from the Xinhai year to the First World War, Sino-Chinese relations were in an extremely complicated period of peace.

The most fundamental reason for this period of peace is that the economy, diplomacy, and politics of Yuben are still sinking into the shadow dilemma of the Russian-Japanese War, and China is in a state of actual surname splitting, and the latter's actual surname splitting also has a lot to do with Yuben. Because although the Western powers are all at odds with warlords of all stripes, the only one who can really come up with money and ordnance to aid warlords of all stripes is the one who can do so.

The reason why Ben did this is simply to keep China in chaos.

"Your Excellency, Sato-kun said yesterday that he had been in contact with Chen Jingyun in Fujian, and according to the telegram he fed back, Chen Jingyun has accepted Sato-kun's proposal!" The man who spoke respectfully handed over a heavy report.

After receiving the report, the public of Xiyuan Temple began to look through it roughly, and said as he read it: "Very good! Very good, Uehara-kun, you still have to work hard! ”

The report was very thick, but the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang didn't read it all, but after flipping through it slightly, he asked, "What is this person's impression of the empire!" ”

Uehara Kondo said respectfully: "According to Sato-kun's return, this person has not made any remarks in recent years. After the uprising, the leaders did not take any excesses against our nationals. Moreover, this person graduated from the Imperial Lu Shi, and most of the generals in the Fujian National Army are also students! ”

"Oh, according to you, this man should be worth supporting?" Saionji raised his head and looked at Kondo Uehara.

However, before Uehara Kondo could answer, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang waved his hand and said: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs handles this matter well, well, we must pay attention to secrecy, and don't let Britain and the United States and other countries find out!" ”

Saying that, he continued: "And Yuan Shikai, Sun Wen should also hurry up and get in touch!" ”

"Humble duty understands!"

With the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang spoke, the side moved very quickly, and the next day it began formal talks with the Fujian side, and it took only one day to negotiate the specific details, and on the third day, the two sides had already signed a secret loan treaty.

The specific treaty can be roughly divided into three points: the first point is that the Fujian Military and Political Axe will use the Bank of Fuzhou to issue a five-year bond of 15 million yuan, and the bonds will be purchased by a consortium of several banks, and at the same time, the salt administration of Fujian Province will be used as collateral for repayment, and at the same time, one-third of the loan amount must be used to purchase the ordnance. The second point is that Chen Jingyun will hire economic, political, and military advisers in his personal capacity, and the Fuzhou Military Academy will also hire a considerable number of retired military officers to serve as instructors. The third point is the arms purchase case.

In the arms purchase case, it was said that the present side proposed to provide equipment for three divisions, but Chen Jingyun considered that he had already ordered a large amount of ordnance from the Germans and planned to make rifles and other light weapons himself, so he rejected the plan of the three divisions and instead purchased artillery and corresponding artillery shells.

As a result, Fujian purchased 110 75-mm field guns, 55 75-mm mountain artillery, and 18 105-mm howitzers, and then each gun was equipped with hundreds of shells.

In such an arms purchase case, Chen Jingyun's plan was to organize three artillery regiments and the 105th howitzer battalion.

Chen Jingyun had already experienced the expensive ordnance, and the high price of the three regiments of artillery he had purchased this time made Chen Jingyun want to make all the munitions himself.

After the contract was signed, the two sides held a small drinking party, and there were only a dozen people present, and these dozen people were also involved in the details of the talks.

"General, I wish your country a republic as soon as possible!" Ryosuke Sato still had a smile with his professional surname, but Chen Jingyun could see that he should be in a pretty good mood.

Ryosuke Sato is indeed in a good mood now, since the empire decided on its policy toward China, the empire has sent so many diplomats and contacts to China, but so far it is only himself who has really achieved results. While the others were still bargaining with other Chinese forces, he had already let Yuben's military instructors and advisers enter Fujian, and if it went well, he could completely pull Fujian into Yuben's chariot.

Chen Jingyun also raised his glass: "I hope that the friendship between China and the two countries will last forever!" ”

Chen Jingyun felt a little sick to his stomach when he said this, without him, he just felt that what he said was too fake, so fake that no one would believe it.

It's just that although this interview is fake, everyone is smiling when they hear it!

Anwarin on the side even raised his glass: "I wish China and China the friendship between the two countries to last forever!" ”

Everyone also raised their wine glasses and shouted: "I wish China and the friendship between the two countries will last forever!" ”

At this time, Chen Jingyun couldn't hold back any longer, the nausea in his heart became stronger and stronger, and then he reluctantly said a few words to Sato and the others before retreating.

Just went out not far away, the feeling in my stomach became stronger and stronger, and then I vomited, and I looked at several guard soldiers next to me and hurriedly walked over to help.

Chen Jingyun reluctantly stood up, and said while taking a deep breath: "Go home!" ”

That night, after returning home, Chen Jingyun vomited twice, and after inviting a doctor to see him, he said that it might be a stomach discomfort caused by careless eating and drinking before, which frightened Luo Li, and his eyes were red and tearful.

"It's okay, I'm not fine!" Chen Jingyun felt that this girl loved to cry a little.

That night, Chen Jingyun fell asleep quickly under Luo Li's careful service, and when he got up the next day, he was fine, but Luo Li still held a bowl of porridge and said: "The doctor said that you can't eat hot things now, it's better to eat lighter!" ”

Seeing that Luo Li's expression was a little haggard, Chen Jingyun took the bowl of porridge, put it down and stretched out his hand to caress her face: "I'm fine, you can eat some yourself, and then go get a good night's sleep!" ”

Seeing Luo Li pouting and wanting to refute, Chen Jingyun continued: "Sleep to nourish your beauty, so girls should sleep more!" ”

Hearing Chen Jingyun say this, Luo Li stopped talking.

After breakfast, Chen Jingyun was not idle, and immediately called Tang Huikang from the arsenal over.

"I've made a sum of money in the past few days, and the expansion of the arsenal that I said some time ago can also be officially put on the agenda!"

When Tang Huikang heard this, he was immediately stunned, not many people knew about the secret agreement signed between Chen Jingyun and Sato, and what was announced on the surface was that the Bank of Fuzhou issued a large number of bonds, and as for who bought these bonds, it is not for ordinary people to know. However, Tang Huikang didn't understand these secret things and didn't care much about them, he only knew that Chen Jingyun now had money on hand, and there was a lot of it.

Immediately, he said excitedly: "Dudu, the list I said last time may still be missing, do you want me to go back and change it." ”

Tang Huikang's thoughts Chen Jingyun is very clear, he just wants money. But even though there is this batch of money for emergency purposes, it is useless to use thousands of dollars, and Chen Jingyun is still counting on this batch of funds to pay military salaries and support people. There isn't much money that can be given to expand the arsenal.

So Chen Jingyun hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Come on, you don't need to say much, just organize the purchase of machinery and equipment according to the last order." The amount is limited to two million. ”

Tang Huikang knew that what he said just now was just a statement, and when he heard Chen Jingyun's current words, he also said with a smile on his face: "With these two million, you can do a lot of things!" ”

Chen Jingyun said: "But the ugly words are ahead, I gave you this money, if the output can't be increased at that time, I will kill people if I can't make a gun!" ”

Tang Huikang heard the word murder at the end of Chen Jingyun's words, and his heart trembled. He knew that Chen Jingyun was not a kind person, but a warlord who held military power, and he was ruthless when he killed people.

Don't look at the Fuzhou uprising, it seems that nothing major has happened after the incident, but anyone who cares can inquire that there are not a few original Manchu magnates in Fuzhou who were destroyed and destroyed, and then the implementation of the tax reform also killed many people, including many high-ranking officials and local officials in the military and political axe.

After exiting the Governor's Mansion with apprehension, Tang Huikang immediately rushed back to the arsenal, and within half a day, he dismissed seven or eight ineffective personnel, and then recruited several backbone management personnel of the arsenal to discuss a set of reform methods. Then he began to prepare for the purchase of machinery and equipment, and even in order to avoid corruption by the people below, he did not delegate the authority to let the people below do it, but went into battle in person.

While Tang Huikang was busy with Chen Jingyun's money and amulets, the situation between the north and the south was also changing day by day.

On November 16, Yuan Shikai formally formed a cabinet, and on the 17th, Yuan Shikai was transferred to Duan Qirui as the governor of Huguang, and the Beiyang Army continued to create pressure in the direction of Hanyang, Hubei.

On the 20th, after several meetings, the representatives of the southern provinces who arrived in Shanghai passed a resolution: Wuchang was the central military and political axe, and Li Yuanhong was appointed as the military and political axe, and then it was agreed that the representatives of the provinces would go to Wuchang to continue the meeting.

Li Yuanhong and other people in Hubei demanded that a conference be held in Hubei, and at the same time, because the southern coalition forces had not taken Nanjing for the time being, and Shanghai was leased to hold the National Founding Conference. It was only as a last resort that Hubei's request was complied with. For this reason, not only Chen Qimei was dissatisfied, but even Sun Wen, who was far away, sent a telegram to express his concern for the Hubei front.

Chen Jingyun had no opinion on this matter, in his opinion, it did not make much difference to him whether he was in Wuchang or Nanjing or Shanghai, and he did not expect or be interested in serving in the temporary political axe in preparation. His mind is now focused on expanding the army and finances, and as for the bad things in Shanghai, he handed them over to Lin Changming and Zheng Zuyin to deal with.

On the other hand, he also wanted to avoid further conflicts with Zheng Zuyin and others.

Since the loan was issued, the voices of people within the military and political axe who are dissatisfied with Chen Jingyun have become louder and louder, and there have been more and more contradictions among all parties within the military and political axe. First of all, Zheng Zuyin gradually broke away from the alliance and began to enter with the gentry within the military and political axe. There is one word that can be used to describe them in general, and that is constitutionalism, in short, a mixture of wealthy merchants and gentry. And Lin Wenying and others found that their power was gradually disappearing, from military power to internal military and political axes.

In the current Fujian, the League still calls the name of the League, but it has already divided three parts of the city. One is the military forces headed by Chen Jingyun, or simply the fake revolutionary party. One is the wealthy merchant gentry led by Zheng Zuyin, who also sincerely devoted themselves to the revolution before, but after they succeeded, their minds changed a little and began to move towards the road of fighting for power and profit. The rest is that allies like Lin Wenying will be die-hard.

And the current situation of the Fujian League is also the status quo of the League in other parts of the provinces! The League, as a loose political union, is not far from complete collapse.