No. 3, Tieshizi Hutong in Beijing, Duan Qirui's Prime Minister's Mansion is located here. In the Qing Dynasty, there were three prefectures: Prince He's Mansion in the east, Belefeisu Mansion in the middle, and Prince Hejing's Mansion in the west. The predecessor of Prince He's Mansion was Beiziyun Mansion. In the 19th year of Yongzheng (1733), the fifth son of Emperor Shizong, Hongzhou, was rebuilt into Prince He's Mansion. Beilefeisu Mansion was the mansion of Prince Gong Changying in the early Qing Dynasty. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, all the buildings in the two prefectures were demolished and three groups of brick and wood structures were rebuilt: the main building in the middle was a European classical gray brick building, with one building in the east, west and north. Rockery was set up in the mansion and introduced living water, which was a very livable place.

But now the owner who lives here is unable to fall asleep in such a livable environment. Duan Qirui has suffered from insomnia for several nights in a row. He just asked his secretary to invite the Army Chief Xu Shuzheng, and some things still have to be discussed.

"Yezheng, I'm so upset. No matter how you look, the situation doesn't seem to be heading in a direction that is beneficial to us. Cao Zhongshan, Wu Ziyu, Feng Huanzhang and others are now asking Lu Jianzhang to tinker, and they all gathered their troops in Baoding Prefecture. This battle seems to be an advantage, but I feel very confused when fighting. You know, the Third Division and the 11th Division are both elites in a hundred battles, and they are definitely not something that our newly trained and participated in battle can be easily cleaned up." Duan Qirui, who is usually very cunning, finally spit out the bitterness that had been brewing in his stomach for many days, towards Xu Shuzheng, the confidant.

Xu Shuzheng's brows unconsciously frowned. Speaking of which, it was because of his own poor work. A few days ago, facing the aggressive Zhili, Xu Shuzheng thought about it and thought that he would carry out a beheading operation to suppress his opponents and avoid the Beiyang civil war. Only in this way can he complete the unification of the southward direction. Of course, the head to beheaded is not Cao Kun. Although this old boy is the nominal boss of the Zhili, if the Zhili's idea is taken by this old boy, the Zhili don't have to worry about it. Therefore, the head that Xu Shuzheng really wants to remove is not someone else, but Lu Jianzhang, a tycoon at the Zhili military advisor level.

The operation went very smoothly. Lu Jianzhang was tricked by Xu Shuzheng into the military fund preparation office in Tianjin. According to the plan, he was going to kill him on the spot. However, an accident occurred during the operation. Just as Xu Shuzheng's guard pointed his gun at Lu Jianzhang, a bullet suddenly shot from outside and hit the guard unbiasedly. Then someone threw a grenade in. Xu Shuzheng's other guards hurriedly dragged Xu Shuzheng, and then suddenly a group of people came over the wall and came in with Xu Shuzheng's guard. The soldiers started a melee. In the melee, Lu Jianzhang survived the disaster and rescued these unknown people. Xu Shuzheng was beaten to death and injured nine guards. After Lu Jianzhang escaped from death, he naturally had a determined determination to get along with the Anhui faction. The conflict between Zhi and Anhui also came from. Xu Shuzheng was so angry when he thought of this. However, because he did this matter hidden from Duan Qirui, he did not dare to say it clearly. What he could do now is to comfort Duan Qirui and then cheer him up to overcome the difficulties.

"Old Duan Zhi, don't think too much about this. We must first settle the internal affairs when fighting foreign countries. Since we have reached the point where we cannot be unified without pursuing the straight line, then let's calm down and fight. After the fight, we can feel at ease even if we go south."

Duan Qirui shook his head: "It's not easy to go south. How powerful is the southern army to be? It can actually fight with the Germans? Have you read the telegram at noon today? Our Minister to France, Hu Weide, told us in black and white that the southern expeditionary forces helped the French eliminate more than 300,000 German troops in one go. You must know that the German army is the most powerful in the world. Can our Beiyang really beat the southern armies and unify the whole country?"

Xu Shuzheng gritted his teeth and said, "I don't know the specific situation, but the southern army was obviously armed by Britain and France. If they were really strong enough to destroy hundreds of thousands of powerful troops at will, then we should be destroyed by them during the National Protection War. Mr. Zhi, we can't hesitate anymore. We just want to take advantage of the opportunity of these hundreds of thousands of expeditionary forces in Europe to unify the whole country. After we defeat the National Government of Nanjing, no matter how strong these expeditionary forces come back, they can only accept our adaptation. At that time, not only will they not harm us, but will become part of our national defense force. In the future, we don't have to be afraid of Japanese and Russians."

Duan Qirui's eyes lit up but said sadly: "It's not easy to talk about it. Let's deal with the pig-like idiots like Cao Zhongshan first. It's time for us to not forget our internal strife in Beiyang."

When Xu Shuzheng heard this, he couldn't help but sigh,.

On May 23, in the distant Europe, in Paris, the capital of France, the heads of the Allies gathered together to celebrate the great victory. Chinese ambassador to France Hu Weide was also invited and was placed on the rostrum for the first time. This was the most proud day since Hu Weide served as ambassador to France. Whether it was British Prime Minister Lloyd George or French Prime Minister Crymenceau, they personally came to pull the ambassador to France and walked on the rostrum. This made the Japanese diplomats very dissatisfied and secretly scolded these Westerners for being too practical.

The politicians of these Allied countries are not practical. The wars in the past three years have made everyone exhausted, with millions of casualties and large amounts of materials being consumed, and a huge amount of money spent like flowing water. Not to mention anything else, just this time, the blind cat and dead rats armed hundreds of thousands of Chinese people and transported them to Europe to fight, which cost about 600 million pounds, of which 300 million pounds was still an interest-free loan that would be repaid thirty years later. This is not a loan, it is completely a waste of money.

"Gentlemen, ladies, the good news just received, that the coalition forces under our Marshal Betan personally commanded had just recovered the Principal of Luxembourg and once again severely damaged the damn German man." Prime Minister Crimson's loud voice rang throughout the banquet hall.

Everyone at the scene spontaneously cheered and applauded. Not far from the banquet hall was Champs-Elysia. Hundreds of thousands of excited French people rushed to the streets to celebrate the victory of Verdun's counterattack. From time to time, fireworks rose to the sky and then bloomed. The whole of Paris was immersed in a festive atmosphere.

At Wuhan Wuchang Grand Wharf, Secretary-General of the Government of Nanjing National Government Tang Shaoyi took his son-in-law Gu Weijun's daughter Tang Baoyue off the ship with a bumpy mood. For the world, the political center of South China, which has completed the unification, is in Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. But for senior officials of the National Government like Tang Shaoyi, the political center of South China is definitely in Wuhan. The highest power is not controlled by Sun Wen, the chairman of the National Government, but has been firmly controlled by Wang Zhenyu, a soldier. However, Tang Shaoyi, the Prime Minister of the Beiyang Government, has been appointed as the Prime Minister of the Beiyang Government. What I like is that this Marshal Wang seems to be very open-minded. At least unlike Yuan Shikai, who liked to be dictatorial and power back then, he basically did not interfere with the financial and personnel issues in Nanjing. Generally speaking, as long as the struggles of various factions in Nanjing remain within the scope of coexistence, this person will not take action. However, through Wang Jingwei's affairs, everyone knows that Marshal Wang's temper is, and once he takes action, there will be no room for him. In this way, although the Nanjing National Government does not have much decision-making power on military and diplomatic issues, the government is still relatively independent in other departments.

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