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Beijing, it's late at night.

The presidential palace of Iron Lion Hu is brightly lit, and the high-level military conference hosted by Yuan Shikai is still in progress.

Yuan Shikai said with a tired face, "... At present, the first thing that needs to be fully solved is the layoff. The previous revolutionary army was recruited from everywhere, with complex components and mixed. The armed forces in each province are about several million, more than several times the constant, which consumes hugely, and the country's finances on the verge of bankruptcy can't afford it. At this time, when the whole country was unified and the war was over, these redundant soldiers were completely useless and there was no need to continue to keep them.

Yuan Shikai said that he cared about the suffering of the people. In fact, what he wanted was to eliminate the revolutionary army. In President Yuan's heart, he was on the guard against the southern army all the time. If he was laid off one day earlier, he would sleep soundly one day earlier.

On this point, Duan Qirui, the commander-in-chief of the army, said the most explicit. He said, "Since the Wuchang Uprising, all provinces have been summoned, so there are many armies, more than double that of the original ones, and they have suddenly become troops without education. It is difficult to protect the local disaster. At the time when the country's economy is in great economic difficulties, the rates are also necessary. Can't continue. Therefore, local troops must be greatly reduced to restore local order.

Duan Qirui meant that those "well-trained" Beiyang troops could not be reduced, but continued to expand with various excuses.

Tang Shaoyi said, "Southern also promised disarmament, but there is a requirement that all the previous arrears must be borne by the new government... Nanjing wants two or three million, Shanghai needs 500,000 yuan, and Wuchang also needs 1.5 million yuan. They are all reaching out to the cabinet. It is said that he owes military service for a long time, and he really can't push it back.

"Wuchang also asked us for money?"

Ezhou's behavior has always been inexpercacy.

"Madman Li promised to disarmament?"

"Ezhou is poor and crazy now!" Some people guess that they feel good about themselves. It occupies such a rural and remote area in the northwest, and confronts the British and Russian powers. Hubei even has golden mountains and silver mountains, which can't be supported. He is fierce, fierce, and the madman Li dares to challenge the foreign devils.

"This is called barefoot who is not afraid to wear shoes!"

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Yuan Shikai was also a little tired. After all, he was old. He was leaning on the bed and sleeping on the bed. Listening to the people below, he was out of the topic. He sat up and said, "How is Huang Xing's rectification in Nanjing?"

In Yuan Shikai's eyes, the hundreds of thousands of people's army in Nanjing who do nothing is more dangerous than the more than the hundreds of thousands of people's army of Li Madman who is in a tense confrontation with Britain and Russia in the Great Northwest. The madman Li occupies the wilderness of the northwest border. He can't raise many soldiers there, but Nanjing is guarded in the rich land of the south of the Yangtze River. It is not easy to raise hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

After the temporary government moved north, Yuan Shikai agreed to set up a Nanjing left-behind office, with Huang Xing as the left-behind, leading hundreds of thousands of people's troops in Nanjing, and stipulated that the left-behind office be under the direct jurisdiction of Yuan Shikai. On the surface, Yuan always said that he relied on Huang Xing, but in his bones, he wanted to use Huang Xing to demobilise the army.

Tang Shaoyi reluctantly smiled and said, "Brother Keqiang is a loyal person. I saw him do things in Ning, and I tried to get rid of it in practice. There are no radical ideas of some revolutionaries. In my opinion, even if the rectification of the Nanjing People's Army cannot be completed in March, it will probably be inevitable in May..."

Yuan Shikai stared at the light bulb hanging on the beam. After a long time, he nodded and said, "You're right. This matter is supposed to be handled slowly, but I'm afraid that after a long time, Huang Xing will not think about supporting the soldiers?"

Yuan Shikai uses himself to save others. Even today, he still doesn't believe that Sun and Huang are really selfless. As long as Huang Xing learns a little bit of his training at the small station, Nanjing will become a big trouble.

Tang Shaoyi was fully prepared. Once she was clicked out by Yuan Shikai, she was still shocked. Her pale face was stunned and muttered, "Brother Keqiang is generous, and the heart of power is extremely faint."

"What proof do you take?" Duan Qirui asked.

Tang Shaoyi blushed and said, "Nanjing's financial pressure has made it impossible to maintain the food of some troops. Brother Keqiang had to mobilize the army to disband by speaking the revolutionary justice day by day. We are all watching these.

"People's hearts are separated from the belly. Know people, know faces, but don't know hearts. Do you dare to guarantee it?" Duan Qirui asked another forced question.

Tang Shaoyi said slowly, "Brother Keqiang doesn't want to disband the civilian army as soon as possible. He is now a penniless person. What can he take to demobilize those Qiu Ba? Except for mobilizing the army to disband by speaking the revolutionary justice day by day, he can't come up with a faster way.

Yuan Shikai gave Huang Xing the power to maintain and organize the Nanjing People's Army, but did not give corresponding financial support. Yuan Shikai is very cunning. He doesn't want to offend the people's army in Nanjing, but wants to use Huang Xing's hand to abolish it.

Duan Qi Ruige smiled and said, "Shaochuan, the president has thought of what you said. Who made Huang Keqiang the leader of the southern military? This time, I want to give Huang Keqiang a difficult problem to see how capable he is to deal with this situation!"

Tang Shaoyi finally understood it and simply leaned on the sofa and said, " Earlier, the Gan army and part of the Gui army stationed in Nanjing had a mutiny because of the lack of money. The rebels robbed jie around Taiping Bridge and Baimen Bridge in Nanjing, which had a very bad impact. After the mutiny, Brother Keqiang was very anxious. He repeatedly sent telegrams to Beijing to urge the allocation. The situation was really urgent. I used to rely on military money for relief, but now I can only live in a poor city! The food of the Nanjing army has not been distributed for several days, and several military camps have only one porridge a day. Every day, those who ask for pay from the Nanjing left-behind house almost broke the threshold! The dangerous situation has been collapsing day by day. If there is no money to save Ning, there will be chaos!"

In this regard, Yuan Shikai turned a deaf ear. He just wanted to roast Huang Xing on the fire and watch Huang Xing's jokes. Since the people's army rose up in the spirit of revolution, it should disperse with revolutionary righteousness! Don't say that Yuan Shikai really has no money now. Even if he has money, he can't give it to the revolutionary party in the south.

"I have money there now?" Yuan Shikai said, "Shaochuan is the prime minister. Don't you know the background of the government? It's up to you. I'll give you the right to act cheaply. You can find a way to borrow some money from the banks of the four countries.

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In the foreign-style house at No. ward 4, Baochang Road, that is, Sun Yat-sen came to Shanghai for the first time, and the senior officials of the Alliance will gather in Shanghai.

Huang Xing, who was burly and strong, looked haggard and said slowly, "Last night, Yu Yinglu's unit of the Jiangxi army rushed to rob jie in Nanjing because of the lack of salary. Wang Zhixiang, the commander of the Guangxi Army, sent a team to suppress it by very cruel means. Except for the punishment of the confirmed criminals by the Military Law Department, the rest are repatriated.

Huang Xing's face was full of guilt: "Some troops in Nanjing are not only in arrears of military wages, but also extremely meager supply. Some troops don't even have enough to eat. Nanjing has an army of more than 100,000 people, but there is no source of military expenditure. When Xiong Xiling was in Shanghai, he once agreed to transfer military funds to Nanjing after he arrived in Beijing for the position of finance chief, but he did not give any money after his inauguration. Although he was urged by many letters and telegrams, he still ignored it. Li Shucheng once publicly accused him of breach of trust in the name of the general council of the Nanjing Left-behind Office, but he still ignored it. I had no choice but to change the food of the Nanjing army from dry rice to porridge. In the future, even porridge can't be maintained, but the small train in Nanjing City will borrow 200,000 yuan from Japanese merchants in Shanghai to temporarily maintain the status quo. By yesterday, it really couldn't last..."

Li Shucheng said angrily, "On the one hand, Yuan Shikai gave Mr. Huang the power to maintain and sort out the Nanjing People's Army, but on the other hand, he did not allocate financial funds. This is obviously Yuan Shikai's poisonous trick to make Mr. Huang fall into a trap and lose his reputation. I asked Mr. Huang to end the stay-at-home office as soon as possible. Except for the Jiangsu army under the jurisdiction of the governor of Jiangsu, the other troops stationed in Nanjing were transferred back to the original provinces, and the remaining troops were dismissed in Nanjing.

Li Xiang sighed gently, "Didn't I give you a plan for the army to reorganize before? Are you with mud?"

Li Shucheng said, "The previous plan for all the reorganization has now become impractical. Only the excellent officers and sophisticated weapons of the demobilized troops are formed into a division and named the Eighth Division. This division, from the division commander to the battalion company commander, is a member of the alliance who graduated from the Japanese Army non-commissioned officer school and Baoding officer school. The division has two sets of guns, one is to distribute soldiers, and the other is to store warehouses to prepare for military expansion during the war. The payment is paid directly to the Central Army Department.

Division commander Chen Zhiji is a native of Zhili Province, a fifth-time student of the Japanese Army non-commissioned officer, and a member of the husband's regiment in the League. He is loyal and upright, righteous and loyal. He once donated to Langzhong and is also the son-in-law of the Beiyang warlord Feng Guozhang. He was promoted as the commander of the Eighth Division, which was first proposed by Chen Yushi.

Chen Yushi is a resourceful and strategic person. At that time, he brought an army from Guangxi and was integrated into the Eighth Division as a brigade. He was also promoted to a brigade commander of the Eighth Division. He believes that Chen Zhiji is Feng Guozhang's son-in-law. He has a backer in the north and will not be suppressed by Yuan Shikai. He can make great progress in the future. Everyone agreed with his opinion and elected Chen Zhiji as the teacher. At the same time, it is presumed that in addition to Chen Yushi, the other brigade commander is Zhao Hengti, the commander who brought an army from Guilin, Guangxi. Wang Xiaozhen, Huang Kaiyuan, He Sui, Tao Deyao, Liu Jianfan, Zhang Huafu, Zhang Houwan and others were successively commanders, Wu Hexuan was the commander of the engineering battalion, and Yuan Hua was elected as the chief of staff.

After that, Chen Yushi resigned, and Zhao Hengti was also transferred to Hunan. Wang Xiaozhen and Huang Kaiyuan also served as brigade commanders. At that time, we just wanted to organize the Eighth Division firmly and soundly as a central fortress of the revolutionary army. The rest of the army that should be laid off tried to urge it to be quickly laid off in order to end the stay-at-home office as soon as possible. I saw that some divisions and brigade commanders were not good at demobilizing the army, so they set up a time limit for laying off and paying the package, that is, the full payment for one month will be handed over to the division and brigade commander, and the payment will no longer be paid when it expires; if the soldiers are dismissed early, the remaining payment will not be paid. In this way, the divisions will not need to be urged, but will send the soldiers first, so as to save the balance for the travel expenses of the officers to go home.

Just as the divisions were making great efforts to lay off their troops, the comrades of the Eighth Division hurriedly selected the elites from the soldiers in his division to supplement their own team. After the matter was discovered by the divisions, they came to stay in the house to complain, indicating that the commander of the Eighth Division, He Sui, had recruited soldiers who had been demobilized but had not yet left the city and asked to deal with it. The left-behind house knew that it had laid off each division and only kept one eighth division. This matter has long been dissatisfied by each division. Now each division has come to the house to accuse the fact that the eighth division has been recruited in violation of the order. If it is not handled well, it may hinder the smooth progress of the layoffs. I endured the pain and dismissed Comrade He Sui to temporarily calm the attack of each division and prepare for the reinstatement of He after the event.

"Book business!" Li can't help saying that they are not willing to bear this responsibility. What kind of revolution is that? He was so angry that he put the teacup on the table, and the tea splashed a piece of his sleeve.

Li Shucheng said coldly, "Li Shuai is standing and talking without back pain. You should know that despite this, the opposition attacked in violation of the well. They falsely accused Nanjing of being left behind to hinder unification and accused Mr. Huang of having the ambition to divide the southeast. Chen Eunuch once threatened that the left-behind organs will be abolished, and the Republic of China will be known as unification.

"If the alliance does not even keep this little force well," Li thought, "What can we do to restrain Yuan Shikai? Can the "Provisional Treaty" and the parliament and cabinet restrain Yuan Shikai? You believe it. Anyway, I don't believe it. I only believe that guns come out of power!"

"Li Shuai's words make sense." Chen Qimei coughed. Although it was very unreliable to persuade him to go to Beijing before, he spoke very well today.

Although some people in the alliance have regarded the post as a means to preserve strength, Huang Xing himself has been planning to retire. Although he is indignant at Yuan Shikai's various means of excluding, attacking and dividing the alliance, he lacks the idea of rectifying the army and preparing for war. Especially after the mutiny, Huang Xing lost more interest in power.

Huang Xing did not agree with Li Xiang's violent theory of "a gun out of the regime", because he said, "I don't want China to have another bloody conflict to compete for the regime by force, but I am willing to change it into a peaceful political competition. What's more, China can no longer stand the shock of destruction. If it is destroyed again, the fate of Poland and Egypt today is the portrayal of our tomorrow... I want to be clear-minded and formally resign.

Sun Yat-sen agreed: "There is still something more important than politics. With the founding of the Republic of China, both national and civil rights have been achieved, but the people's livelihood doctrine has not yet been started. People's livelihood is also a social revolution. Without a social revolution, the people cannot be fully happy. Only a few capitalists enjoy happiness, and most of the workers suffer. Therefore, now that the political revolution has come to an end, we will launch a greater social revolution by peaceful means.

Li Xiangxin said that it was indeed a pair of natural mallets, all of which were childish and unclear. But it is also sickly lovely and respectable. This selfless spirit has won countless respect and love behind him.

Li Xiang didn't care about the name behind him. He said without scruples, "These soldiers, since you don't want them, I'll take them!" I will call the office in Nanjing tomorrow to recruit demobilised soldiers who have not yet left the city. Whoever wants to say anything, let him say it.