Chapter 203 Choice 2

In fact, Zhao Dongyun knows very well why several other companies in Beiyang have united to support Wang Yingkai, which is nothing more than the old way of weakening and strengthening.

In this situation, there are actually only three strong competitors for the leaders of Beiyang, Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui and Zhao Dongyun. However, Duan Qirui is not in tune, his military strength is not as good as Zhao Dongyun, and his prestige is not as Wang Yingkai's, so he is very embarrassed. It is unlikely that he wants to win.

And Zhao Dongyun's words have too many troops. If he became the lord of Beiyang, then he must be Yuan Shikai by his means. It is imperative to unify Beiyang. If you don't accept it, fight!

This is unacceptable to other Beiyang bosses!

In Wang Yingkai's words, his prestige is high enough, but his strength is insufficient. If he is the leader of Beiyang, other bosses can continue to maintain the current detached position, and even talk to Wang Yingkai about conditions.

In the front, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen and Zhang Huaizhi supported Wang Yingkai. If Wang Yingkai did not promise anything, they would not believe it.

Based on these, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen chose to support Wang Yingkai, rather than the most powerful Zhao Dongyun.

After Zhao Dongyun put down these telegrams, he called Li San in: "Can Yang Debiao leave?"

Li San said, "Last night, I arranged for someone to escort him north overnight. I guess it won't be long before he can reach the Rehe River!"

Zhao Dongyun nodded slightly. Some time ago, after many subordinate institutions in the third town and Fengtian Supervision and Training Institute merged into Fengtian Army Command, and at that time, Zhao Dongyun was appointed as the governor of the three eastern provinces. Although Zhao Dongyun did not thank him, it does not mean that he did not accept it.

Anyway, before entering the customs, he had sent several patrol police battalions to Heilongjiang and Jilin to take over the local defense. At the same time, he also changed the General's Mansion of Shengjing into the Governor's Office of the Three Eastern Provinces.

After the General's Mansion was changed to the Governor's Mansion, a series of institutions of the General's Mansion were also naturally relocated to the Governor's Mansion. For example, the General Administration for Industry and Commerce, the General Administration of Agriculture and Forestry, the General Administration of Finance and other bureaus were changed to the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office. At the same time, the camp of the third town was also changed to the secretariat of the Governor's Office of the three eastern provinces. At the same time, new consultants were established. Office, inspection.

The above six general organs and three major departments have formed the administrative organs of the three eastern provinces under Zhao Dongyun. As for the military, it is headed by the "Fengtian Army Command", and Zhao Dongyun also serves as the supervision of the headquarters.

In the current civilian power series of the three eastern provinces, the secretariat has the power to coordinate the implementation of various policies by assisting Zhao Dongyun in handling many daily government affairs, and also has the power to review and summarize various reports and draft recommendations.

After all, there are so many affairs in Fengtian's three provinces. If Zhao Dongyun wants to deal with them all arbitrarily, it is not enough to give him 48 hours a day. Not to mention that Zhao Dongyun focuses on the military and domestic situation now, but he doesn't have much mind to deal with the internal affairs of the three eastern provinces, so unless it is important. Matters, otherwise, the general daily government affairs are given by the secretariat's suggestions. Zhao Dongyun felt that he could approve it and felt that it was impossible to reject the Secretariat to make a new proposal.

And what was this power to view reports and draft recommendations before? In fact, it is 'voting', and what institution does the power of voting belong to? That belongs to the cabinet!

So there are only a few dozen people from the perspective of this secretariat, but in fact, this secretariat is somewhat similar to the Ming Dynasty Cabinet and the Qing Dynasty Military Office, but the Secretariat only has suggestions, but does not have the power to refute it.

So although the first-class and second-class secretaries in the Secretariat sound inconspicuous, their actual status is no less than that of the general offices and conference offices of other general offices.

Yang Debiao has also been following Zhao Dongyun's staff for many years. In the era of the new machine gun camp, he was one of the staff who followed Zhao Dongyun. Now he is also one of the twelve first-class secretaries in the secretariat. In the eyes of outsiders, he is also a staff member who has used for many years and is his direct confidant.

It is also suitable for him to go to Rehe to meet Wu Fengling.

Zhao Dongyun sent someone to meet Wu Fengling in Rehe. The purpose is self-evident, in order to attract Wu Fengling!

Among many contemporary factions in Beiyang, Wu Fengling is a typical neutral faction, or wall grass. It can be seen from the fact that he was unwilling to participate in the competition of all parties before, and he led the army to the Rehe River. He knew that he had no hope of taking office, so he waited for the Beijing division to distinguish the winner, and he would support whoever who won. !

However, Zhao Dongyun is facing the crisis of Wang Yingkai and others joining together to deal with himself. Although it is unlikely to win over Wu Fengling, he still has to have a try. He doesn't seem to be very sincere by telegram or writing letters directly, so he sent Yang Debiao to be a lobbyist, even if he can't persuade him to join. But he should also let him continue to remain neutral and let Wang Yingkai pull over.

"In the second town, the variables are still too big. Now our troops are far from enough!" Zhao Dongyun is well aware of his danger at this moment. He has only one third town and one first cavalry association in Guan. If there is a fight, he can't stop Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen and Zhang Huaizhi's coalition.

Zhao Dongyun stood up and looked at the large map hanging on the wall. Half a day later, he said to Li San beside him, "Remember it!"

After listening to this, Li San knew that Zhao Dongyun had an order to issue, and immediately took out a pen and paper.

"Give a telegram to Jinzhou, ** Wang Zhanyuan, General Office of the Education Department, is the commander of Jinzhou City Defense!" Zhao Dongyun's first sentence was to completely empty Wang Yingkai's backbone Wang Zhanyuan, but this is not over: "Give Lin Yongquan another secret telegram and let him protect Wang Zhanyuan!"

This is obviously to empty and put Wang Zhanyuan under house arrest. Well, Feng Guozhang also treated Cao Kun and He Zonglian of the Su line in the same way before!

The war between himself and Wang Yingkai is imminent. Naturally, it is not appropriate to keep Wang Zhanyuan, but Zhao Dongyun will not let Wang Zhanyuan go. He doesn't want Wang Yingkai to get such a general as Wang Zhanyuan. Since it can't be used for me, then others can't use it. Just put it under house arrest!

Zhao Dongyun continued: "The second town of Fengtian's standing army will be stationed in Tangshan on the same day!"

"The first town of Fengtian's standing army, Fengtian's standing army's first association, together with the town's artillery battalion as the mixed association, will go south to Tangshan on the same day."

Zhao Dongyun said that he was also estimating the troops in his heart. The situation in Guan is critical. A third town and the first cavalry alone can't beat other Beiyang generals. If he has to deploy another town to enter the customs, then not to mention victory, but it should not be a big problem to defend.

If it hadn't been for the fact that Japan and Russia still had heavy troops on the border, he would have vaved all his troops, but not yet. Now there is a second association, the fifth mixed association of Fengtian's first town, and several patrol signs outside the customs, and he can barely continue. Stabilize the situation.

Now Zhao Dongyun just wants to bring the main force back to Guannei and fight with Wang Yingkai first. It's easy to say anything to win. If he loses, he will sneak back to the northeast and close the door to lie down and taste the courage, and then plan to enter the customs.

As for not fighting a battle, he directly bowed his head to Wang Yingkai and then ran back to Fengtian to become the king of the Northeast. Not to mention that Zhao Dongyun was unwilling, a large number of Soviet generals would not be reconciled.

Zhao Dongyun wants to win the position of the lord of Beiyang and enjoy being a president, and his generals also want to be the founder of the country. Many thoughtful people still want to be addicted to the president after Zhao Dongyun dies.

Therefore, from many perspectives, Zhao Dongyun can't show weakness to Wang Yingkai, let alone bow down. As for the so-called set of running back to the northeast to close the door for development, playing a wide range of grain and slowly becoming king is not feasible in modern times.

Sometimes the name is very important. Why is Cao Kuan, Chen Guangyuan and a large number of young officers loyal to Zhao Dongyun? And almost every day, many young people come from all over the country to defect to him, Zhao Dongyun. What they like is his reputation as a Beiyang boss. What they hope is that Zhao Dongyun can one day govern Beiyang and then rule China. However, on this basis, he implements his various political or rights ambitions.

If you run back to the customs without firing a shot, how can you let others follow you?

In modern politics, the word prestige is very important! Because you want to attract talents, first of all, it depends on your prestige, and then on your real strength. Finally, it depends on your ability. Otherwise, how can Wang Yingkai attract so many talents? They do not rely on the first town, but on the identity of the first echelon of Beiyang, which is second only to Yuan Shikai in the Beiyang system. The prestige.

If Zhao Dongyun doesn't fight like this and returns directly to the customs, it will undoubtedly make many people lose confidence in him and even leave him!

So even if he wants to go back, he has to fight first. Victory is the best, and it's not too late to go back. In this way, those Soviet civilian generals who follow Zhao Dongyun will not leave Zhao Dongyun directly, but most people will lie down with Zhao Dongyun with grief and indignation.

So now Zhao Dongyun has three choices. The first is to turn around and become a shrinking turtle. In this case, not to mention the subsequent hegemony, I guess this decision can't be rebellious immediately. Zhao Dongyun is willing to be a shrinking turtle, but it does not mean that other Soviet generals are also willing, Cao Kuang, Chen Guangyuan, Meng En These people are all arrogant. It's impossible for them to admit defeat without fighting!

And the second is to fight. The most ideal of which is naturally the Feng army under Zhao Dongyun's great power, directly lay down the coalition led by Wang Yingkai, and then Zhao Dongyun as president, and other Soviet generals as the founders. Hello, everyone!

And the third may be to lose, so that Zhao Dongyun can only be forced to retreat outside the customs and then defend the Shanhaiguan!

With the strength and equipment level of the Feng army, he may not be able to beat the coalition forces of other generals in Beiyang, but if he wants to defend a mountain customs, he can't defeat 100,000 people to Wang Yingkai. Finally, everyone began to sit down. Zhao Dongyun has been lying in the northeast for several years or even more than ten or more than 20 years, until the situation in Guannei changed. Then seek to enter the customs.

In fact, Zhao Dongyun also has other options, such as accepting the title of the Qing court and continuing to fight with the Beiyang army under the banner of the Qing court. At that time, it is estimated that Zhang Zhidong, Duanfang and Yingchang will become their allies, but this plan will not only cause irreparable damage to his reputation, but also be risky. Too big, the total number of new troops in the south that are still loyal to the Qing court is not much, and their combat effectiveness is very different from the North Sea. It is rude to say that Zhang Huaizhi's fifth town is enough to block Jiangbei Mixed Association and the eighth town, not to mention that Wang Ruxian's 29th Mixed Association has also joined Wang Yingkai's alliance. Although Jiang Guiti's Jiang Defense Army is not very effective, it is enough to contain the Jiangbei Mixed Association and the Ninth Town in Yanchang.

The above three parts were obviously thrown to Wang Yingkai's direct line and collateral army. It is estimated that it is a little difficult to sweep across the southern provinces, but it is still not a problem to stabilize the situation in the south. Otherwise, Zhang Zhidong would have raised the flag and marched long ago. Why are they still on the edge of Zhili Province now? Get an inch.

So alliance with the Qing court, or with the southern governor, can't bring any benefits to Zhao Dongyun.

Everything depends on yourself. These days, allies are generally used to cheat people!

The news of Zhao Dongyun's transfer of Fengtian's first mixed association and second town has not been concealed. Almost on the same day, Wang Yingkai received a secret message, saying that Jinzhou Fengjun has begun to mobilize, and the purpose is very clear, that is, to get on the train to enter the customs!

"Well, this Zhao Dongyun is really unwilling!" Wang Yingkai snorted coldly, but he was not the previous Wang Shizhen or Feng Guozhang. He did not feel much surprise or fear in the face of Zhao Dongyun's abnormal movements, and even vaguely expected: "As long as he gather the army to defeat the Feng army, who in the world can stop me from ascending?"