127 under the city (middle and lower)

Outside the misty rain building, the sunshine at noon in early winter seems bright, but no one feels a trace of warmth. After seven days of light snow in 1911, the fragrant ** in the garden also began to wither, covered with yellow and sad beauty. There are still seven days left before the heavy snow. The winter in the Yangtze River Basin has arrived, but everyone feels that the winter of 1911 will be an extremely cold winter.

Ma Rong, who had been tortured and unable to move for a long time, was dragged down and sent to the dock of the Siguan Hall to peel and dig his heart to show the public. A puddle of apricot red blood was left in the place where he had just been ambled. Ma Rong laughed fearlessly and cursed slowly and went away. President Feng Guozhang's generals under the First Army in Beiyang, Wang Zhanyuan, the control of the second town, Wu Fengling, the control of the control of the fourth town, Li Chun, etc. These Feng Guozhang's confidant generals were silent with big eyes. When the lobby was quiet, they could see the other party's eyes. Moved, such a sunny day, but the cold is flowing darkly in the bottom of my heart.

"Your Excellency, it is still not appropriate to make a branch in peace. What's more, the city was set on fire last night, so that those foreigners who were disgusted with the revolutionaries also complained to us. This morning, a foreigner came to the door and made a noise in the newspaper, and the adults were actually returned by complaints. The gold in everyone's mouth is really accumulated and destroyed. They forgot who abolished their concession privileges? Who will restore their concession privileges? Who wants to sacrifice their lives to turn the tide once they become the front of the revolution? Adults work hard for national affairs, do not care about their own reputation, and bear so many curses. It has given so many benefits to foreigners, and it has been buried by them. We don't need to offend the revolutionaries to death. Zhang Lianfen broke his silence and said that he still wanted to secretly dispose of Ma Rong according to the usual practice of the court. In fact, Feng Guozhang would deal with Ma Rong like this. Although it was what Zhang Lianfen expected, he still felt dissatisfied. This not only did not achieve the purpose of humiliating Ma Rong and the popularity of the revolutionary party, but also fulfilled the great name and righteousness of his revolutionary hero, and also stimulated the resistance of the Hankou revolutionaries and the Hankou people and their dissatisfaction with the Beiyang military riots. But he could not directly oppose the order issued by Feng Guozhang, so he could only say so.

"I have already offended the Wuchang Bandit Party, and I'm not afraid to offend them again. Humph! To stabilize the explosion situation in the south, extraordinary measures must be taken. I also know Yuan Gong's thoughts. It is not convenient for Mr. Yuan to do these offending things. If we are subordinates, we have to help share them. Feng Guozhang muttered that he had always insisted that the revolutionary party was a bandit party. At this point, he stopped and didn't go on. Zhang Lianfen did not dare to interrupt. They dared not guess or say anything about Yuan Shikai's thoughts.

At this time, Yuan Shikai has really taken over the military and political power of the north. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Dorgan wrote a history and said, "In the world of the Qing Dynasty, I had to break into the thief, not take it from the Ming Dynasty." Yuan Shikai also uses this technique now. He said to the revolutionary army, "My world is from the Qing Dynasty, not from the revolutionary army." He also said to the Qing Dynasty, "My power today is taken from the Revolutionary Party, not from the Qing Dynasty."

Yuan Shikai, in the name of raising foot diseases in Yuanshang Village, has achieved the purpose of holding the Qing court to suppress the revolutionary army and raising the revolutionary forces to threaten the Qing court. Every revelation of these things will have a great impact on Yuan Shikai's reputation. It should be noted that today's Yuan Shikai's evil deeds have not been shown. In the eyes of the world, he is a great man of a generation. He has the Beiyang Army, a powerful army enough to influence China, the title of the first person sent by foreigners to save China's political situation, and the glorious deeds of national heroes established in the Korean period. Many Chinese people believe that Yuan can't save the overall situation. This has a lot to do with Yuan Shikai's success in stealing the country.

Yuan Shikai did some secret things. Not many people knew it, and those who knew did not dare to talk nonsense.

Previously, when Yuan Shikai came to Xinyang to take the oath, he taught Feng Guozhang to be a cardinal and made four major decisions on the current situation:

(I) Humble to form a cabinet.

(II) To prevent the Qing court from moving the capital.

(3) Stabilize the explosion situation in the south.

(4) Remove the problem of the northern elbow and armpit.

According to these four steps, Yuan Shikai, on the one hand, was secretly contacted by his eldest son, Mr. Yuan, to make friends with the revolutionaries, and secretly sent representatives to continue to meet with the Wuchang revolutionary government for peace talks. On the other hand, Feng Guozhang led the Beiyang First Army to continue to put pressure on the Wuchang Revolutionary Army. As for the north, Wu Luzhen must be eliminated, because Wu's vertical and horizontal talents and the foundation in the Beiyang Army, if he continues to stay, the world in the north will not be Yuan Shikai's. Yuan's political capital is a powerful faction in northern China. If the revolutionary forces grow and develop in the north, it will threaten Yuan's existence. Therefore, he regarded the elimination of the revolutionary forces in the north as more important than the work of the revolutionary army in the south. Therefore, when he was in the village, he secretly discussed with his cronies and took the method of drawing money from the bottom of the pot to murder Wu Luzhen. Yuan Shikai knew very well that Zhang Shao was a compromise person, not as heroic as Wu Luzhen, so as long as Wu Luzhen was solved, the revolutionary mood in the north would be greatly hit. Sure enough, Luanzhou Bingxun and Wu Luzhen were stabbed, which eased the revolutionary activities in northern China and gave Yuan Shikai enough time to reach his personal conspiracy to take the world.

It's just these conspiracies of Yuan Shikai, which are only known by his most confidants, and no one knows all of them in the specific plan, which led to the Zhu Qiqiwulong incident at the beginning.

As soon as Feng Guozhang started, he immediately thought of this many things. He sighed, but changed his words and said, "Yuan Gong organized a responsible cabinet to avoid it. It is not as popular as the trend of the general trend. Although there are sages, it is difficult to do it. The art of redemption is inevitably poor. The more the people are suppressed, the greater its expansion. The past between China and the West can be experienced. This time, the bandit party is very powerful, whether it can't be extinguished. That is to say, the troops from the north and the ocean are now barely destroyed, but the hearts of the people are not dead, and the edest is flammable. I am afraid that the second revolution will come back. In broad daylight today, there were thieves from Hankou who sneaked into Liu Yuan to rescue their party. Looking at Ma Rong's madness just now, these bandits have been seriously damaged in Xiaogan and Hankou, but they still don't give up. To curb the explosion situation in the south, we must use thunderous means to hit the bandit party, learn the story of the founding of the Qing Dynasty and Pingjiang River, and learn the story of Zeng Wenzheng's fair hair. If you beat them and beat them, they will be able to make it, and they are still expected to make peace.

Feng Guozhang got up and walked back and forth in the lobby. The rubber bottom of the leather boots knocked on the white marble floor again and again, matching his slow tone, and each time it seemed to knock on everyone's hearts. Everyone unconsciously sat upright and listened to Feng Guozhang say slowly.

"Now, the storytists say that the battle between the north and the south is in Manchu, and I say that the battle between the north and the south is not in Manchuria but in Han. From now on, Duke Yuan is also the hub of national settlement. The foreigners in the people's lane in the eastern suburbs are also said that Yuan Gong is the first person to save China's political situation. First of all, when the incident happened in Wuhan, Yuan Gong was used in the court. The commentator suspected that Yuan Gong must have a good bow and a cunning rabbit. He did not accept the order, and he actually obeyed the edict. Naifu took office, and Zhang Shao had intercepted arms. Wu Luzhen's police who plotted to cut off the back road had come one after another. Yuan Gong was in danger, and he began to realize that the general trend had gone, and he could not be saved by one person. Although it is strongly supported on the surface, it has the intention of turning around. The day after day, he returned to the order of the prime minister, and the commentators suspected that he would not come to Beijing, and the news of entering the capital was far and near. Now the monarchy and other Manchurian noble governments have been overthrown, and the Yuan Gong's cabinet has been replaced, and the current situation is circulating, which is not satisfactory. Although, when Yuan Gong enters the cabinet, the republican will solve the problem, and the more difficult it is, why? Yuan Gong's power is all obtained from the protection of today's court. Since it has been sent back, it can't be used to hide the public's eyes. Once you want to do the opposite, there is no reason. And although the Manchu nobles in the court have been avoided, the habit of coercion has not been eliminated. Yuan Gong is in a dilemma and is often blamed. He recruits the suspicion of the Manchurian nobles in the court, the hatred of the party people outside, the pistol bombs, and the danger is still in the rise.

Feng Guozhang's literary words made Yuan Shikai more wronged than the unfortunate little daughter-in-law who had been abused by her aunt, but it entered the hearts of these Beiyang heavy generals who were deeply favored by Yuan Shikai. One sentence: "Now and then, Yuan Gong is also the hub of national settlement. The foreigners in the people's lane in the eastern suburbs are also the first person to save China's political situation. Speaking of Beiyang, all the important generals here are honored, and they only feel that following Yuan Shikai has a broad future. But when he heard it, he remembered that Yuan Shikai did his best for the court and struggled to support the building that the court would fall, but he was full of suspicion. He defended the party in every way, demanded that the court lift the party ban, release Wang Jingwei and other political prisoners, and pardoned the crime of rebellion of the bandit party, which instead attracted the hatred of the party. Feeling the grievances suffered by Yuan Shikai, he couldn't wait to kick over the court and flatten the revolutionaries.

Li Chun took the lead in leaving his seat and stood up and said, "I would like to share my worries for Lord Yuan and Lord Feng."

The rest of the heavy generals immediately got up and appoeded.

"Good." Feng Guozhang stretched out his smile, clapped his hands and said with a smile, "There are always people talking about me behind my back, and I also know... I'm brave and fight fiercely, just to change one more Real Madrid gossip... Unbridled force, taking revenge and killing compatriots as a matter, willing to risk the world, for the public enemy of the people, losing reputation, and laughing for the world. What a joke! In fact, I am also in favor of peace. I hope that the North-South peace agreement will be reached as soon as possible, that the Civil War will end as soon as possible, and that the country can be peaceful. Nowadays, the people in the south are more and more powerful, occupying half of the rivers and mountains, and they are indecisive. The overall situation is rotten, that is, at present. If it is not the north-south fissure and the king, it will become a tragedy of splitting beans. The situation is critical and cannot happen. I only have the power to fight, just to make the explosion and promote peace as soon as possible.

What Feng Guozhang said, everyone here also agreed. The revolutionaries are tenacious, and they have all seen it. They are simply more tenacious than weeds. If you leave their lives and don't conquer them, it will be hard to sleep in the future. The assassination methods of the revolutionaries are crazy. In Beijing, the sentence "revolutionaries are coming" can scare the children who cry at night. In the court of the Qing Dynasty, there were many people who died in the tin foil of the revolutionaries. I'm not afraid of the revolutionaries, but I'm afraid of the assassination of the revolutionaries. These people, day and night defense, always have omissions, and they will always give those desperate revolutionaries a chance to seize the way. Several feudal officials died in Jiangnan, and even the regent of Beijing almost got Wang Jingwei's way? Their guards are far inferior to those feudal officials and regents. In case they are recorded by the revolutionaries and recorded the blacklist of their assassination, who can stand their tin shell duck eggs? But so it's time to go in the footsteps of those feudal officials? One by one, the evil spirit in my heart is surging up. How can it be expressed?

These Beiyang tough generals couldn't vent their anger, so some people began to grit their teeth. Wang Zhanyuan said unrelentingly, "When I saw Ma Rong's resentful eyes being dragged down, my heart beat wildly. If I don't kill all these bandits, I really can't sleep well. Even if you don't kill the bandit party, you have to beat them until they are subdued. If you don't die, you can't be surprised. He bombarded Wuchang City, forced the bandit party to negotiate, and signed the alliance under the city. Since ancient times, the alliance under the city has been a great shame. Look at them, can you still look up in front of us?"

At this time, Chen Zisheng, the secretary-general of Feng Guozhang, came in, interrupted Wang Zhanyuan and said, "Your Excellency. The Zhu Qihuang who was caught last time is here again. Please see me if you have anything to do. The lower official said that the adult was discussing. He said that these things had to be reported to Mr. Yuan, but now Mr. Yuan is far away in Beijing. I know that Hubei affairs are all presided over by adults, so please meet them.

Feng Guozhang doesn't have to think about it, and he knows what will happen. The Beiyang generals also knew the wind and wanted to avoid it. Feng Guozhang waved his hand and said, "You don't have to avoid it. Tell him to come in."

Feng Guozhang's words just now have been noisy. What else is there to avoid? Yuan Shikai presided over the cabinet, and the peace agenda has been put on the agenda, and the focus has changed to whether it is a republic or a constitution. Of course, Yuan Shikai has been singing the constitutional monarchy in Beijing and vowing to protect the family of the Qing court.

Seeing Zhu Qihuang cross the threshold, Feng Guozhang asked, "What's the matter with you?"

"Feng Gong, I came here for peace. Although Feng Gong was a great victory in Hankou, there were 13 independent provinces in the south. The North and the South finally broke up, and the war between the North and the South armies became more and more serious. As far as its influence can, both sides are bound to be defeated and die together, which is enough to defeat China. He took a look at the generals of Beiyang, straightened his clothes, and then continued, "I have brought a handwritten letter from Wang Zhaoming. This is a letter written by Wang Jun to the revolutionary comrades of Wuchang. He hopes that the north and the south will reach a peace, jointly demand that the Qing Emperor abdicate, and promote Yuan Shikai as the interim president..."

"This is the wishful thinking of your party." Feng Guozhang immediately interrupted him, "Empt Yuan Shikai as the interim president". The revolutionaries can discuss it on the table without scruples, but it is a forbidden area that can never be discussed in the Beiyang Army. Although they all know it well, they are still nominally the Qing army, and Yuan Shikai is still a Qing minister, which is a great rebellion. After Yuan Gong formed a cabinet, he proposed peace and discussed, which was unbearable for his compatriots to kill each other. There are also the neutrality of the Western powers in the East and the West, and the intervention of the Lord, such as receiving arms, instilling foreign debts, helping to change the party in the concession, occupying the tariff rights, and marching troops in various places one after another in order to have a robbery. It is the bad news of Mongolia and Tibet, and the police of Yunnan and Liao are coming. The Japanese emperor's indignant words about the parliament are particularly unpredictable, and the disaster of the division. At present. This war continues, for fear of the destruction of the country. Yuan Gong thought about the great righteousness of the country and the nation before he agreed to the peace. But he did not agree with the republic and still insisted on the constitutional monarchy. He elected Yuan Gong as the interim president, and don't mention it in front of me in the future.

When the Beiyang generals heard Feng Guozhang's account of Yuan Shikai's righteous spirit of the country and the nation, they all sat up straight and listened respectfully. Zhu Qihuang saw a trace of imperceptible sarcasm in his eyes. Yuan Shikai did not want to insist on the constitutional monarchy, but did not like the word "temporary". But he said, "Yuan Gong is a great man who has attracted a lot of attention from China and foreign countries, but we and other party members sincerely look forward to it. Yuan Gong is in the national righteousness of the country and can come back anyway."

"Less gossip." Feng Guozhang said with a bad face that Zhu Qihuang's words became more and more explicit. Isn't it all his fault to spread out? Feng Guozhang just defeated the revolutionary. It was when he was arrogant and angry that he said rudely to Zhu Qihuang, "Are you crossing the river to Wuchang now? Or wait for the messenger of foreigner mediation to come and go to Wuchang together?

Zhu Qihuang was not different from Feng Guozhang's domineering attitude and said, "I'll go to Wuchang first. I heard that the representatives of each province who participated in the congress of independent provinces came to Wuchang. At this time, it happened to arrive in the middle of the provincial congress, so that everyone can focus on this issue. It is also a little buffer time for the main party members of Wuchang.

Since Zhuang Yunkuan came to Hubei, the battle between the provisional central governments of Shanghai and Han has begun. Li Yuanhong immediately sent Ju Zheng and Tao Fengji to Shanghai to discuss with the representatives of the provinces, and there was quite a dispute between them. After multiple mediations, a meeting was held on October 4 to decide that provincial representatives would go to Wuchang to organize the interim government. There is still one representative from each province to handle communication in Shanghai.

In early October, the representative's trip to Shanghai reached ten provinces; the three provinces of Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi were first invited to Wuchang. These 13 provinces are in favor of organizing a provisional government to control the whole country. That is, the representatives of the ten provinces will meet in Shanghai and first promote Wuchang as the central military government; and propose that since Wuchang is the central military government, the representatives should go to Wuchang, but there is still a communication organ in Shanghai to contact the opportunity. When the delegation did not all go to Hubei, and the military governments of the provinces still need to go to Hubei as representatives, the diplomatic response could not be delayed. It was sent to Eyuan one after another. Whenever the civilian army occupied the provinces, the governor of Li was promoted as the representative of the central government of the Republic of China, and Hubei Province was the temporary central government of the Republic of China. Anyone who negotiated with all countries and the overall situation of the Republic of China, Governor Li represents everything. At the same time, there are representatives of the provinces that have come to Hubei Province, which is also said. Li Yuanhong wrote to the consuls according to the information and stated: "All the civil army's rights, all the contracts concluded between the Qing government and other countries, as well as the creditor's rights of all loans, are valid. After the Wuchang Yiqi was raised, no matter which country the Manchu Qing government borrowed from and the treaty, it will not be recognized.

At the same time, Governor Li returned to the provinces and said: "The overall situation is rough. The non-organized interim government, and there is no subject in internal affairs and foreign affairs, which is extremely dangerous. The previous telegram invited the meeting, but it was not fully arrived at the time. It is proposed to work out that the administrative chiefs of the ministries of the provinces will first elect and hire those who have won the majority of votes to come to Hubei. With the establishment of the government, the consuls of all countries will be notified, and the ministers of each country will be notified. Please recognize it, and the foundation of the common country can be roughly determined. It is also proposed to temporarily divide the provisional government into seven departments: internal affairs, foreign affairs, education, finance, transportation, military and government, and justice.

After the provinces get the power, they will call each to recommend it. Except for the urgent need to establish a diplomatic seat, Wu Juntingfang is promoted by the provincial government as the chief, and Wen Junzongyao is the deputy minister, and the other ministries will not be implemented for the time being because the representative parliament will be established. The representatives of each province went to Wuchang from Shanghai, that is, in the third year of Xuantong. On the 10th of October, at the Wuchang meeting, all of them agreed to promote the governor of the Hubei army as the governor of the central military government before the establishment of the provisional government.

Unfortunately, Li Yuanhong, the governor of the central military government, has not finished a day, and Yangxia has fallen. Li Yuanhong was in a panic and moved to the "office" of Zhuodaoquan.

Feng Guozhang sent someone to escort Zhu Qihuang across the river. After watching Zhu Qihuang go out, Feng Guozhang's face had become very ferocious and said to a group of subordinates, "Okay, it has been defeated, and he dares to bargain. Fight hard until they ask for peace, until they think of my Beiyang Army in the future, they will be afraid to shiver.

Zhang Lianfen, Feng Guozhang's adjutant, and Chen Zisheng, the secretary-general, two people who knew Feng Guozhang best looked at each other, but did not say anything. Feng Guozhang

Full of tiger power, there are many proud soldiers who are so scared that they even slow down their breathing.

"Don't you agree?" Feng Guozhang looked at them silently and asked them incomprehensibility.

Chen Zisheng said, "Your Excellency, we don't need to be in a hurry. After the foreigner and the messenger of mediation came and negotiated a result with Wuchang. If we are satisfied, we will not fight. If we are not satisfied, we will continue to fight. This is the subordinate's personal opinion. Please take a drink when you say it.

Seeing that Feng Guozhang was still black-faced and silent, Zhang Lianfen said with a smile, "Your Excellency, Mr. Yuan entrusted such an important task to the adult, not Mr. Duan, who is filial, which shows Mr. Yuan's trust and importance to the adult. The adults did not live up to Yuan Gong's trust. They waved their troops to the south, recovered Yangxia in one fell swoop, and defeated the main force of the bandit party. Now the bandit party has only one lonely city to support the crisis. With our Beiyang army in Hankou, the situation in Hubei has been settled. Even if we let the bandits and bandits from all over the world leave them alone, we can't turn them upside down.

When Feng Guozhang heard Zhang Lianfen's secret flattery, he felt relieved. But when he thought of Li Xiang's group of bandits who came and went like the wind and couldn't touch the bandits, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "Oh, you don't know that the overall situation now seems to be settled in Hubei. In fact, Shaanxi and Shanxi are independent, and Henan is in chaos again. In fact, we are already under siege and are enemies on all sides."

Chen Zisheng said earnestly, "It's just a mob composed of a group of mud legs and scholars. Even if there are millions of people, they are really vulnerable in front of our Beiyang elite soldiers and generals. No matter how powerful it is, it's not enough for us to make an appetizer.

Feng Guozhang thought about it for a moment, and finally felt that the two confidants were reasonable. He sighed and said, "Okay. I just waited patiently and gave them a little time to breathe, and I was not afraid that these bandits would make waves again. If the Wuchang Bandit Party is really soft and agrees to negotiate, there will be a shortage of soldiers. When Ge Fu and other foreign messengers came, he sent them across the river. Didn't Zhu Qihuang bring a handwritten letter from Wang Jingwei? Think about it, it will always play a role. This morning, Li Yuanhong has sent someone to find Edwin, a reporter from the Mainland News of the Shanghai English newspaper, who participated in his oath ceremony in Wuchang, and announced his "declaration": I am eager to stop the war, contact the republican provinces, and confirm that we can continue the war or negotiate and mediate with constitutional figures. We have always expected to end the situation of killing each other, bleeding and destroying property, so as not to attract the interference of the great powers. To this end, I hereby declare that I am willing to make any concessions to ensure that the killing is stopped. It was thought that the Republicans and the court should declare a truce, so that the representatives of the two sides could negotiate. If the republican provinces decide to continue the war, I am willing to fight to the end. Ha..." Feng Guozhang remembered Li Yuanhong's last words, "I'm willing to risk the stone and fight to the end." Obviously, he had no confidence, and he couldn't help but smile. Li Yuanhong has published a newspaper and asked for peace. No matter how tough the bandit party is, how long can it be strong?

Chen Zisheng nodded repeatedly and agreed, "Your excellency is thoughtful, and it's difficult for me to wait. The bandit party is still dying, but they don't want to be humiliated by the alliance under the city. If you really want to chase and fight fiercely, you will be forced to jump over the wall. The south is full of bandits, and the trouble is long-lasting. It inevitably delayed the peace agreement and Yuan Gong's plan. Now let's hang him first. After the blood of the bandits's death is cooled down, we will know that we will be afraid, and we can't stand it. Then the foreigners mediated from it, gradually disintegrating the resistance of the party people. It should be known that the spy came to report that when Li Yuanhong left this morning, the people of Wuchang were very panicked and immediately crowded out of the city, squeezing many women and children to death, which was unspeakable. When the soldiers saw Li leave, they also fled, which was very likely to disintegrate. Jiang Yiwu and others of Wuchang Hongshan General Headquarters tried their best to support, and it was also at a time when they could not be maintained. The person who sneaked into Liu Yuan to save Ma Rong was at most the remnants of the bandit party that flowed through Hankou.

Feng Guozhang agreed with this and thought that Ma Rong was completely bluffing nonsense. Li Yuanhong no longer has this ability, but Li Xiang doesn't have this mind.

"Why did the part that Duan Qirui helped me attack Hanyang last night suddenly withdraw?" Feng Guozhang suddenly remembered this and asked, and his eyebrows frowned. Did you see me recovering Yangxia's great achievement and want to pull my back legs? Or what happened to Xiaogan? Li wants to live uneasily in the north. What kind of demon moth is really tossed out? Although it is believed that Ma Rong is bluffing nonsense, when it is time to doubt, it is still necessary to doubt.

"Your Excellency," said Chen Zisheng, "the subordinate has found out that a bandit party appeared from there last night, raised a strange movement, and attacked the old camp of Lord Xiaogan Duan at dawn. Lord Feng and the bandit party directly met and concluded that it was Li Xiang's remnants. There are more than a thousand people, all of which are cavalry, coming and going like the wind. That is, the consistent style of Xiangma Liu bandits. Li Xiang has always been good at this, which is really not worth mentioning. Lord Duan was also careless for a moment, so he thought about Li.

This seems to be a trivial matter. For many years, the front of the battlefield rolled over, but Feng Guozhang's almost sense of smell of danger made his heart jump inexplicably, like a bad alarm bell. Don't misread Li Xiang, is it good? If Li wants to make peace with Jinyang Xia's battlefield, although he can't save the collapse of the bandit party, he will definitely spoil the key peace at this time. The Beiyang Army will be deeply trapped in the war quagmire in Hubei.

Feng Guozhang saw that Chen Zisheng's face had changed. Chen Zisheng didn't say anything about such an important thing before. Chen Zisheng's forehead was already sweating, but Chen Zisheng was not surprised. He soon calmed down and smiled faintly and said, "Lord Duan has dealt with this matter properly. Adults are also busy with official business, so I don't want to bother adults with this little thing.

Zhang Lianfen seized the opportunity to attack Chen Zisheng and said coldly, "This is also a small matter. What is a big deal?"

Chen Zisheng sneered and said, "Lord Duan only treats this matter as a trivial matter. Do you still talk about it? Is it going?

Zhang Lianfen blushed when she was asked for a moment. If it was because he made a big deal out of this matter, it was not obvious that he was going to lose Duan Qirui's face. If this spreads to Duan Qirui's ears, even if it is covered by Feng Guozhang, life will not be better in the future.

Chen Zisheng turned to laugh and said, "Since Xiaogan has become a ruin, there is nothing but a lonely ghost. The soldiers refused to enter the city and camped outside the city. Last night was the time to attack Yangxia. Li Xiang's department was far away from the north. Lord Duan did not estimate the enemy's situation. In addition, it was a rainy night and lacked strict vigilance. Before dawn, he gave Li Xiang's bandit army a cavalry unit and took the new rough path and went straight to Xiaogan to attack the reserve camp of my Beiyang Second Army. In the front of the front of Zhengge Longtougang in the northwest of Xiaogan, the bandit army burst into the camp while snoring. They were killed by knives and were caught off guard and suffered considerable losses, killing two or three hundred people. Many other departments did not know where the enemy came from at night, how many people there were, and what the position was, so they blindly resisted, searched, and messed up in the night. The loss of contact between the target, the battalion and the army was a chaotic battle. After dawn, Lord Duan didn't figure out the situation until he first realized it. Lord Duan has been on guard and will never give Li such an advantage.

"That's good." Feng Guozhang was a little relieved, "He Duan Qirui is also a person who has experienced a big battle, and his reputation in the Beiyang Army is not covered, and he will not be dragged down by Li Xiang's three or two efforts. But we also need to urge him to transport the military supplies we need quickly. Recently, he has always made excuses, saying that Li wanted to harass the railway transportation line like crazy, and the supplies could not be transported. He is bullshit! How many people are there in Lixiang? I think he watched me make contributions. He was jealous and deliberately pinched my neck on the supplies. The more Feng Guozhang said, the more he felt that he was thinking about reason. He and Duan Qirui have always been in the same eye, and this is all right. Perhaps Duan Qirui is exaggerating the wind and rain that Li wants to make in the north. A trace of vigilance that had just been mentioned was all thrown out of the sky.

"What time is it now?" Feng Guozhang suddenly asked.

Chen Zisheng quickly took out his Western pocket watch and said, "It's been three quarters at noon, and Ge Fu's consul is almost there."

Feng Guozhang was thinking about this. All the consuls of Hankou Eleven, who were expelled by Li Xiang, will come back to Hankou today. The concessions of the five countries have all been returned to the five countries intact. This is a minimum condition for Yuan Shikai's invitation to Zhu Erdian to mediation, and foreigners to support Yuan Shikai. Feng Guozhang was also a little reluctant to do this, but the situation was stronger than others, and Feng Guozhang had to carry it out. After all, in the year of Gengzi, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, and he was also a person who experienced it. The horror of foreigners has been imprinted in his bones, and he really doesn't have the courage to fight with foreigners. Yuan Shikai can strive for such a result and avoid an eight-nation coalition invasion of China, which has to be said to be a blessing. He also believes that the Beiyang tough generals under him can't have the courage to fight with foreigners as crazy as Li Xiang. In this matter, Feng Guozhang also has to admire Li Xiang. The newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

Feng Guozhang got up and smiled and said, "Since the foreign consuls are about to arrive, we should also go out to welcome them. After all, Yuan Gong has high expectations for peace, and he has to rely on them more. I guess I can take a look at the scene of Ma Rong being skinned and dug out of his heart when he rushes to the wharf of the Fourth Official Hall now.

"Yes." Li Chun and other Beiyang generals stood up and answered.

Feng Guozhang took a saber and strode out of the Yanyu building. The Beiyang officer followed him. Zhang Lianfen was guarding outside the lobby of the small Yanyu building. A group of Goshha under the eaves wink, and a group of people followed.

Although the sunny sky is fine, in broad daylight, the cool breeze hits, like a trace of gloomy air covering the city of Hankou. Are they killing too much? Or are there too many people dead in Hankou?

Feng Guozhang rushed to the streets. The former prosperous Xinsheng Street was deserted and had nothing but a gray cement road. Feng Guozhang felt the sun shining on his body, as cold as the moonlight. Walking like this, Feng Guozhang felt a little cold.

Ma Rong suddenly laughed wildly and said, "People are not afraid of death, but how can they be afraid of death?"

Ma Rong shouted a sentence in the Yanyu Building, and suddenly remembered it in Feng Guozhang's ear, and he was suddenly shocked. In front of him, he saw a T-shaped street in the distance, and several Goshha opened the way in front of him. Looking up and looking around, there were suddenly many strange people on this cold street, wandering there in twos and threes. When I looked at it again, I couldn't see anything strange.

The wharf of the Fourth Official Hall has arrived. I saw several Beiyang soldiers walking back and forth on a flagpole, driving a crowd of waves of people. There were more than a dozen people's skins stuffed with grass hanging on the flagpole, which couldn't help rolling by the river wind on the river.

In the distance, I saw a Beiyang Army officer guarding the dock greeted him with ten Ben from flying. As soon as the officer of the Beiyang Army saw Feng Guozhang, he immediately got off his horse and fell to the ground. He gasped and said, "I welcome you respectfully."

This Lord really made Feng Guozhang feel comfortable all over. Seeing more than a dozen human skins hanging on the flagpole, he turned around and smiled at Zhang Lianfen and others, "Let's still come a step late. I can't imagine how fast their movements are, and the fur bags are hung up."