204 sugar-coated shell (first shot)

Hankou.

Golf course. Li Chun waved a shot, but he didn't know where the ball flew.

Li Chun threw the club to the caddie and said with a smile, "I really can't play with this foreign thing."

Li Xiang laughed and said, "Come here to play when you have time, and play a few more times."

"Brother, this makes me enthusiastic. I must come." Li Chun couldn't help laughing, but think, "I'll bring the soldiers!", but he said, "Since Cheng Dequan sent a telegram to announce the evidence of the Song case, I immediately called the president and the provinces, euphemistically admonished the provincial governors and civil affairs officers to "be old and seek the country", and advised him to "don't take it lightly" and "don't be agitated. "We are angry with each other"; he also comforted the president and the governors of the provinces with puns: "To calm down and calm down, so as to keep the overall situation fair", emphasizing that "the case of the Song should be handled in detail in detail by the court." The president was quite gratified when he was receiving his brother's telegram. He said to everyone around him, "With calming words, with fairness in the overall situation, I admire it."

"I also received the president's reply." Li wanted to raise his eyebrows and smiled and said, "I'm really flattered."

Li wanted to step on Ruyin turf, draw twice in front of the ball, and push the hole in one shot.

"Good ball!" Li Chun immediately applauded: "The criminal evidence announced by Cheng Dequan and others is a blatant distortion of the truth of the Song case. I am also deeply skeptical, and the whole Beiyang is also deeply skeptical! But now there are only a few people who are willing to stand up and tell the truth, defend the president and defend the government. They are all accusing the president and the government!"

Li wanted to watch Li Chun open his eyes and tell lies. He couldn't wait to slap him to death with a club, but his face was full of smiles and said, "Is the person announced by Cheng Dudu as the main envoy of the government? Is it in response to Gui Xin and Hong Shuzu's speculation to ask for credit and fraud? None of them are known. Those who expose the truth of the Song case are pure black and white. The former declares that the evidence does not come out of the court, but comes out of the military government. The legalists still steal the law. It is that the provincial groups often arbitrarily turn on electricity before the court before the judgment, implicate politics, shake the Bangji, and add people in the name of crime, and first think that they are illegal.

"The president also said that the condemnation of people from all walks of life for the assassination of Song Jiaoren was "intentionally undermining the overall situation", causing the culprit of the chaotic political situation of "people's hearts and rumors". Li Chun said, took the ball out of the hole, put it like Li Xiang, and rolled the ball through the hole.

"I also try my best to comfort those people from all walks of life not to seize the Song case," Li Xiang said in his tone. Today, he wants to carry out shamelessness to the end: "Consolidate the republic and maintain the overall situation. It's better for Song Jun to be martyred to the whole country than to martyrize the whole country."

That is to say, it is better to make Song Jiaoren die unjustly, and we should not break the quiet overall situation by pursuing the unjust death.

"My brother said it was good!" Li Chun walked to the ball, pushed another shot, and finally fell into the hole. It's just that when the people of the whole country are deceived by Sun and Huang Meng and angrily condemn the "crime" of the president, the president is afraid that there will be a rebellion in Wuhan.

"How can it be!" Li wanted to wave the club and hit an "aircraft gun", so he said in surprise, "I have already issued a notice: It is said that the Song case is presided over by the court, and the announcement of borrowing must be solved by the Congress, and there is no need for civilians to gather lawsuits."

"Bandits are rampant, and I should also be careful to deal with it." Li Chunyu said earnestly.

Li Xiang occupies an important position and manipulates the north and the south. The Hubei army was known as 300,000 during the Xinhai period. Although it has been reduced many times and has been stationed in the vast northwest, there are still four divisions in Hubei, more than 60,000 people, well-equipped and well-trained. If the army of more than 60,000 people can unite with the troops of several provinces controlled by the Southern Kuomintang to fight against the Beiyang Army, the result will be unpredictable.

Li Chun went to Wuchang, which was called investigating important matters. In fact, he reconnoited the actions of the two provinces of Jiangxi and Anhui, and monitored Li Xiangxing. Li wanted to be careful everywhere and confessed his feelings again and again.

In order to act realistically, Li Xiang said that he completely devoted himself to Yuan Shikai, "spring his liver and blood", bet his vows, and expressed his loyalty to Yuan Shikai. He said to Li Chun, "Li Xiangwei knows how to obey the central government. In the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, I vow to support the pillar and never pay attention to it. If this alliance is unforgivable, the crime is unforgivable.

"I will convey my brother's loyalty to the president." Li Chun suddenly calmed down and said, "Recently, all walks of life in Shanghai have set up a citizens' meeting to denounce the crimes of the great president. All provinces and counties have set up branches or branches. Although I have just arrived in Wuhan, I have also heard that all walks of life in Wuhan have also held meetings to set up a citizens' congress branch!"

Li Xiang actually knew it for a long time, but he didn't know how to solve these guys who caused him trouble. At this time, he said angrily, "Damn it! They still dare to make trouble under my eyes, looking for death!"

"As far as I know, they widely recruit retired and frustrated idle soldiers, and contact the party people at the same time. There are tens of thousands of people in a day.

"Damn!" Li wanted to scold again and pretended to be difficult and said, "Are there so many people?"

"What's the difficulty, brother? Just say it?" Li Chun looked at Li Xiang nervously.

Li Xiang looked at the blue sky and white clouds with a little embarrassment and rubbed his fingers.

Li Chun suddenly realized and said, "As soon as the cannon rings, there will be ten thousand taels of gold!" Brother, I understand. The emperor did not need hungry soldiers to deal with this group of "bandits", and the president also prepared a military fee for his brother.

Li Chun took out a long-prepared HSBC check of 1 million, and Li wanted to take it rudely.

Yuan Shikai is not afraid that you will receive his money, but he is afraid that you will not accept his money. Those who don't collect money should beware, and those who receive money should be promoted.

......

Guangzhou.

In the Nanyuan Club, Guangdong military officers gathered, and there was a huge check in front of each officer.

Li Jianshan put away the chequebook and smiled and said, "This is a little meaning of the president. If you don't have your men, you will look down on the president."

Li Jianshan is a close accomian of Yuan Shikai's "thug" Liang Shizhao, and the "Nanyuan Club" is the secret organ they set up in Guangzhou, specializing in diving Guangdong officers to betray Chen. At the instigation of Li Jianshan, the General Chamber of Commerce Newspaper, Seventy-two Business Daily, Hua Guo Daily, Pingcheng Daily, etc., attacked Hu Hanmin and made Hu in a very difficult situation.

This bribed under Chen Jiongming's eyes, and naturally got the acquiescence of Chen Jiongming. Yuan Shikai's means in Guangdong is to try his best to elevate Chen Jiongming, push down Hu Hanmin, and create a situation of Hu and Chen Shuihuo, so as to reap profits. Chen Jiongming also has the idea of relying on Yuan Shikai to suppress Hu Hanmin. Liang Shiqi, the secretary of Yuan Shikai's government, is a Cantonese, and Liang is Yuan's confidant, known as a " think tank". Adhering to Yuan Shikai's will, he provoked Hu and Chen's relationship with each other. He repeatedly sent Jiang Kong Yin as a lobbyist and tried his best to persuade Chen Jiongming to support Yuan Shikai. Chen Jiongming also sent his confidant to communicate with Liang.

After the Song case, Liang Shizhi returned to Guangzhou in the name of "his life" and personally deployed the inverted.

Seeing that the generals were not indifferent and almost all waiting for Chen Jiongming's attitude, Liang Shiyi said, "Lao Chen, are you idle? Don't you like it?"

"What does the president mean?" Chen Jiongming said plainly, "Do you want us to take a gun against Hu Hanmin? Although I have political discord with him, I don't have to deal with him with a gun. I also respect Mr. Zhongshan very much. Without Mr. Zhongshan, I can't be today. If I deal with them with a gun, the Cantonese will poke my backbone. I dare not accept this money. You are trapping me and unkind.

"Lao Chen, you are so suspicious." Liang Shiyi's eyes flashed and said, "The president doesn't mean that. The president just doesn't want to see the north and south fighting again. He hopes that Chen Du will not follow them to make trouble, engage in independence or the second revolution. This is for the Republic of China, for Guangdong, to avoid a war. Just take it at ease."

"Did the president really say that?" Chen Jiongming's stiff face also softened a little, but he was still a little hesitant.

The generals also breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that Chen Jiongming was still hesitant, Liang Shiyi added another fire: "Lao Chen, if you treat him as a comrade, they may not regard you as a brother. When Sun Da Cannon arrived in Beijing, the president asked him, "How about using Chen to replace Hu?" Sun Cannon immediately objected and proposed to send you to Cullen to deal with the incident of foreign independence, so that you can be transferred from Guangdong, so as to support Hu Hanmin and the king of Guangdong. If the president hadn't agreed, you would have been exiled to the Outer Mongolia!"

When Chen Jiongming heard Liang Shiyi's provocation, he immediately became angry: "What ability does Hu Hanmin have to supervise Guangdong? He is not good at military affairs, has no ability to master the army, is narrow-minded, and he is a scholar rebelling and a scholar in politics. He lacks enough practical struggle experience to cope with the difficulties, and is used to talking about soldiers on paper. His relationship with the provincial council was tense. The provincial council accused him of "military politics, ** legal politics", and the business community and the press were also mocking and scolding Hu Hanmin. Hu Hanmin originally relied on Sun Yat-sen and Sun Yat-sen. Can Hu Hanmin still deal with it?

The more Chen Jiongming said, the more angry he became. He had already stuffed the check into his arms. The generals also put away the checks tacitly.

......

Chen Jiongming and Hu Hanmin attended a secret meeting convened by the provincial council.

Sun Yat-sen's representative Ning Tiaoyuan appealed and said, "The president's practice of mob politics means the law. Happiness and anger are rewards and punishments, and likes and dislikes are virtuous, causing Zhu Lie's head to be cold, and the republic has been destroyed. The provinces of the first uprising in my southeast, it is urgent to work together to deal with it together.

Hu Hanmin said bluntly, "Guangdong Province has a strong military force, its equipment is also smart, and its military heart is solid. Who is the culprit and destroys the republic, and it should be abandoned by the Communist Party."

"Good!" There is indeed a sound of harmony.

Hu Hanmin said impassionedly, "... No matter how difficult the situation is, we still have to follow Mr. Zhongshan and actively plan the anti-Yuan struggle in Guangdong!" We want to connect the whole country and denounce Yuan Shikai for "loaning a big loan after the aftermath". I propose to expand the Guangdong army to meet the needs of Yuan. The Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau rushes to make guns and cannons day and night; buys a large amount of grain into Guangdong and retains it for military grain!"

Hu Hanmin spoke generously and insisted on Yuan, but Chen Jiongming didn't say a word.

Hu Hanmin couldn't help asking him, "My brother keeps his mouth shut like a bottle, and he will be praised outside. Wouldn't it be reasonable for me to sit back and not help each other?"

Chen Jiongming can't answer.

Hu Hanmin didn't care and said, "In order to strengthen Guangdong's military strength and prepare to deal with Yuan Shikai's military attack, the army officially expanded another division with Lin Zhen as the division commander."

"No way!"

He moved Chen Jiongming's power, but he refused to agree.

"Why?"

Chen Jiongming hesitated. He said, "Although Shikai is not guilty, his guilt has not been revealed, and the credit is still there. I'm afraid that the teacher will be nameless."

In fact, this is to give up the preparation for armed against Yuan. The generals of the Guangdong army also bought Yuan Shikai with a lot of money. Chen Jiongming's attitude is also the attitude of the Guangdong army.