225 confuses the hearts

High-altitude aerial view, the three towns of Hankou, Wuchang and Hanyang stand across the river. The Yangtze River passed through the city without hesitation and rowed Wuchang alone on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

With a long whistle, a train sprayed a string of white steam into Hankou Dazhimen Station.

Tang Shaoyi, the special envoy for peace talks of the Qing court, arrived in Hankou on October 21 of 1911 and got off at Dazhimen Railway Station.

Accompanying Tang, there were dozens of attendants and Morrison, the special commissioner of the London Times in Beijing.

In order to welcome Tang Shaoyi, Feng Guozhang moved the former enemy headquarters barracks from the comfortable Liu Yuan to Dazhimen Station.

Three cannons roared in front of the gate, which shocked the crows nearby and circled in the cold winter sky for a long time. I heard that the ambassador of the imperial envoy and the envoy had arrived. Feng Guozhang led more than a thousand officers and greeted them from the gate. The British consul, the British captain, the British head of the British Civilian, etc. were all welcomed at the station. At this time, the commander of the Qing army was still Feng Guozhang. Although Feng Guozhang was ordered to be transferred back to the north, Duan Qirui, who replaced him, was being dragged by Li Xiang in Xiaogan and had not yet reached Hankou to take office.

Tang Shaoyi was dressed in a hard-neck suit, a doctor's hat, and a pair of clear leather shoes under her feet. She walked in leisurely. She was dressed in a foreign style, elegant and romantic, and did not have any official style. She looked very close and kind, but she was very awkward as an ambassador of the Qing Dynasty.

Since Feng Guozhang's details, Beiyang general Zuo saw Tang Shaoyi, the leftist, all of them looked wonderfully. Even the foreigners Ge Fu and Pan En shook their heads. Although Tang Shaoyi is a comrade-in-arms of Yuan Shikai in the Korean era, they really can't see which one Tang Shaoyi is playing?

"Your Excellency!" Feng Guozhang said, "Ty Feng Guozhang..." Feng Guozhang sang his resume and wanted to kneel down.

"It's not the imperial envoy, or the ambassador of the National Assembly." Tang Shaoyi hurriedly held Feng Guozhang and said with a smile, "You Feng Huafu fired a cannon and opened the middle door, but I dare not do it!"

The two exchanged greetings, and Feng Guozhang introduced the generals in the hall one by one. Tang Shaoyi didn't know any of them, so she had to nod with a smile. When she was introduced to Gefu, the British consul in Hankou, and Pan En, president of the International Chamber of Commerce, her eyes flashed and said with a smile, "Oh! It turned out to be two gentlemen. It's not easy for them to reconcile the North-South peace agreement! Come on, come on, let's sit together!"

The British gentleman Gorford nodded with a reserved nod, and the Chinese-style robe sat down. Although he is a foreigner, he is very unhappy about Tang Shaoyi's foreign dress. If it hadn't been for Pan En's advice to "don't be angry", he wouldn't have come at all. He also saw Feng Guozhang welcoming Tang Shaoyi like a dog's buttocks. In contrast, he was a little less enthusiastic about him, and his heart was even worse. In the North-South peace agreement, Yuan Shikai chose such a person. The future is not good... Ge Fu looked at Pan En on the other seat. Pan En sat quietly, playing with a blue and white porcelain wine glass in his hand, silent.

Tang Shaoyi is such an alert and intelligent person. He has seen it for a long time and only grinned to deal with the crowd.

The banquet is not sumptuous. The generals didn't pay attention to "get tired of eating essence, and never getting tired of fine food" - as long as the wine and meat are good. Feng Guozhang said a few words. The military academy on the first table shouted loudly, and the hall was immediately messy and noisy.

Tang Shaoyi is a returnee from abroad, and the delegation is also a famous family. Like Gefu and other foreign adults, she is not used to this rough environment. She just looks at it coldly and uses a little light dishes, while talking to Feng Guozhang. Unexpectedly, the wine was in a good place. Chen Zisheng picked up a long piece of meat from the plate and asked Li Lianfen, "Lao Li, what kind of thing is this?"

Tang Shaoyi looked at it and almost vomited it on the spot. It turned out to be a dead earthworm!

Li Lianfen's face immediately swelled like a pig's liver, and the muscles on her left cheek twitched violently. This person is not only very cruel, but also very cruel under the usual punishment. He killed the offender in court with just one stick, so he got a nickname called "Li Yibang". Chen Zisheng and he didn't look at each other. Today, he made an ugly appearance in front of Tang Shaoyi, and his face was even more unbearable. He quickly ordered the cook to come and shouted, "Wait with a stick!"

The sound of guessing has stopped. When the military generals saw that Li Yibang was about to kill again, they saw the trembling cook with a dead face bowed his head and came in. Some of them looked unbearable, and some of them picked their teeth to look at the bustle. Tang Shaoyi got up and said, "Brother Li, everyone is happy together today. You have to save face for your brother and forgive him!"

"What Lord Tang said." Feng Guozhang also said in a hurry, "We are all the people who crawl out of the dead. Lord Li has tolerated it. Are we poor and particular? To be honest, I have eaten dead flies and dead crickets..." Li Lianfen calmed down after hearing this, pointed to the cook and laughed and scolded, "Fuck your mother, why don't you kowtow to Lord Tang!"

The matter was already over, but he met a Yang Du who loved pranks. He blushed and said to Feng Guozhang with his eyes and the breath of alcohol, "I don't believe the words of military unification. I'm also an old military business! Don't you love me very much? If you want to eat this earthworm, this horse, brother will give it to you!" With that, he picked up the dead earthworm, which was almost half a foot long, and sent it to Feng Guozhang.

Tang Shaoyi felt that this was really too much. She just said, "The Xizi ate too much wine..." Unexpectedly, Feng Guozhang caught the earthworm and stretched out his neck and swallowed it. At this time, the whole room was full of people, some clapping their hands, some were smiling, some were full of rude words, funny jokes, and some cheered. Tang Shaoyi only felt her head buzzing and couldn't hear a word.

"Feng Juntong is really capable!" Lord Gefu finally couldn't help it. He drank a few cups of wine. Seeing that Feng Guozhang was so flattering the pearl, he was even more angry. He sneered and said, "If you bet on shit, you can swallow it like this?"

Beiyang gradually lost control in Hankou, and foreigners also began to be unscrupulous about him. Tang Shaoyi looked at Feng Guozhang's face with anger, so she put down her chopsticks with a smile and said, "Let me persuade you a few words: I think Mr. Gefu, there is wine. This is just a gamble. How can it be involved in eating shit? People eat shit? Brother Wang, you don't have to mind.

Obviously, it was flirting, but he said it was "dissuasion". The dry firewood had already been burned, and Tang Shaoyi poured a ladle of oil. Tang Shaoyi knows too much about foreigners, so she doesn't have any good impression on them.

Then he heard a "bang". Feng Guozhang was so angry that his facial features were not in place. He punched, and the dishes, bowls, cups, plates, cups, and bottles jumped high. Feng Guozhang came over, grabbed Ge Fu, lit the big nose of Lord Yang and shouted, "Aren't you just a foreigner? If others are afraid of you, I am not afraid! What the hell, I think it's a foreign devil!"

Tang Shaoyi smiled secretly, but pretended to pull Feng Guozhang and said, "What's wrong with you? This wine can't be eaten. Come on, prepare a sedan chair!" Unexpectedly, he went on his own.

Tang Shaoyi and Yang Shiqi took the British Civilian Group in the British Concession as their dormitories and lived in various warehouses.

After Tang Shaoyi arrived in Hankou, she originally hoped to meet Li Yuanhong in the British Concession, but the revolutionary army did not agree, so according to Chinese habits, she visited the guests. At noon, Tang Shaoyi was accompanied by the British Acting Consul General and the British captain, and crossed the river to Wuchang to weave the layout and meet with Li Yuanhong, the nominal leader of Wuchang.

When discussing and deciding to meet with Li Yuanhong, Mr. Tang said, "We have a large number of people, so we don't have to go together."

"Li Yuanhong is just a decoration in Wuchang..."

"What else can I talk to him about?"

Each representative immediately said what they had just heard at the banquet.

Tang Shaoyi nodded and said, "I don't plan to talk to him at all, just have an interview... Are you willing to stay here and wait for the madman Li to come back and talk to him?"

Those representatives immediately shook their heads like a wave, so they decided that Tang Shaoyi and several representatives crossed the river to see Li Yuanhong.

After Tang Shaoyi went, his Guangdong fellow villager Feng Gengguang went alone to the enemy headquarters in front of Dazhimen Station in Hankou to find Feng Guozhang.

Along the way, I saw that the northern army was dejected after Wang Zhanyuan's department was completely annihilated, and his expression was always accompanied by a trace of panic. There were always three or three taels of Beiyang army soldiers singing a song together, extremely resentful and a deeply sad song...

Outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road...

The tune is full of soldiers' boredom of the journey and missing their relatives in his hometown... "The warrior wants to return..." Feng Gengguang thought like this. At the same time, he was very curious. Who created the lyrics and had such a strong appeal?

Unconsciously, he arrived at Dazhimen Station. Only then did he know that after Feng Guozhang suddenly moved out of Liu Yuan, he set up the headquarters on the train parked at the station, which was very simple.

At the door of the carriage where the headquarters is located, the human feces are piled up more than two feet high, and the stench is coming. Feng Gengguang can't get up. It's really unreasonable!

Feng Gengguang was a person who knew Tang Shaoyi's intentions, so when he saw Feng Guozhang, he didn't have time to talk about these idle things. After a few words, Feng Gengguang asked, "How is the military situation?"

Feng Guozhang said with a smile, "I will send a staff officer to accompany you to the top of the Turtle Mountain in Hanyang to appreciate the situation of Wuchang Snake Mountain. Let's talk about it when we come back. What do you think?"

Feng Gengguang said, "I think it's good."

Feng Gengguang asked him to borrow a horse for himself, with a staff officer and two entourage, and went to the top of the turtle mountain in Hanyang with a telescope to look at Wuchang Snake Mountain.

It is the early winter. In the distance, you can see that the walls in Wuchang City are broken, and the gravel tiles are blocked. In the past, the downtown city has become a ruin. There are no pedestrians on the road, which is obviously empty. Looking around the snake mountain, from the top to the foothills, I saw a few wis of cooking smoke, desolate and silent, and there was no human figure.

A staff officer of Feng Gengguang pointed to and said, "Look at the height and post in front of you. Li Yuanhong's army is hiding under the hillside behind the post. There are not many people and horses, and they don't appear. In terms of red boats, there is no one on the south bank now, and they have been mobilized to the north bank by us."

After looking at it for a long time, they still returned to the headquarters to see Feng Guozhang.

Feng Guozhang said, "Have you seen it? After the retreat of the people's army, they have dispersed upstream. There are few people's troops in Wuchang. Our army has mobilized all the large and small red boats on both sides of the strait to the north bank. The Yangtze River can be crossed at any time, and Wuchang is at your fingertips. If you want to make peace, I think it's better for me to recover Wuchang first. The three towns are in control, and then make peace with their city. Isn't it necessary to win? In this case, I have repeatedly telegramed Gong Bao, but Gong Bao has never agreed to this matter. I really can't figure out what it means. Dude, do you know?

When Feng Gengguang left Beijing, although Yuan Shikai sang "loyalty and patriotism, advocating a constitutional monarchy" and "if the unfortunate situation changes, he will die and report", but they expected that "Yuan Xiangcheng must overthrow the Qingshi", especially after talking with Tang Shaoyi in Cantonese on the train, he was even more determined. This belief.

However, when Feng Guozhang asked him at this time, it was difficult for him to say it directly to Feng Gengguang. He was afraid that he was exposed in front of the army and was responsible for the mistake of "convincing the public". Therefore, Feng Gengguang never dared to understand it, so he had to tell him vaguely: "There are a lot of rumors in Beijing, and we don't have many of them. I'm afraid that Gong Bao also has his mind. The days are getting longer. You will always understand."

Feng Guozhang looked gloomy: "What else is there that you don't understand... The general trend has gone, and the madman Li has gained power. The military supplies of the Beijing-Han Railway cannot be transported to Hubei. It is difficult for the Beiyang Army to support it in Hubei. The withdrawal of the army is a matter of the past few days..."

"Crazy Li! He is the biggest winner..." Feng Gengguang doesn't know what to say...

(Sorry for the late update)