Chapter 400 What a big game of chess (3)
Almost less than a week after the Fengtian army was defeated by Xuzhou, Tibet, Shaanxi and other places were successively taken down by the National Government, and the 130,000 troops commanded by Wu Peifu also advanced towards Gansu and Xinjiang.
What worried the Russian ministers the most was that they had received exact information from Japan that the Chinese army of the two divisions led by Xu Shuzheng had entered Shaanxi and marched towards Yulin, with the target likely to be the Outer Mongolia regime supported by the Russians.
This made Kudashefu, the Russian Minister to China, furious and scolded the Chinese as bastards, and actually poached the corners of his allies when they were in the most difficult time. Then Kudashefu ran to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Beijing government and was angry at the head of the chief Lu Zongyu: "You Chinese are doing very dangerous things now. You must know that Outer Mongolia has always been our Russian sphere of influence. As allies, you dare to spy on our sphere of influence. This is a very dangerous move. I ask you to stop this rude, rude and uneducated behavior immediately, otherwise all the consequences will be borne by your government."
Even after a lot of threats and intimidation, he left the poor Lu Zongyu and ran to find British Minister Zhu Erdian to preside over justice. Lu Zongyu yelled for a long time but couldn't figure out what was going on.
"What do we give to Russian Russians or ally? Why don't I know when?" Finally, I figured out everything when the Minister Zhuerdian came to find Zhang Zuolin, but Zhang Zuolin's first reaction almost made Zhuerdian fall to death on the ground. Who are these people?
However, the British are worthy of being a natural diplomat. Although Jurden despises Zhang Zuolin's ignorance very much, he sits upright and says: "That's right, your government signed an agreement to join the Allies to fight against Germany in 1916 with our British Empire, Russia, France, the United States and Japan. Therefore, from a legal perspective, your government and the Russian government are indeed allies, which is beyond doubt."
Zhang Zuolin said simply and stopped believing. He was upset recently. He had been smooth sailing before the Battle of Xuzhou, but once the Battle of Xuzhou was defeated, many problems arise. First, it was the problem of Xiyuan loan. Although Zhang Zuolin took half of the money, the other half was spent by Duan Qirui. However, in order to get the final payment, Zhang Zuolin had to agree to the Japanese and inherit all the repayment obligations. At that time, he thought that he could make a fortune by going south, so he didn't care much. However, when Xuzhou was defeated, the south had become a tiger's butt. If you lend him the courage to Zhang Zuolin, he would not touch it halfway. Xiyuan loans naturally turned from a hot commodity to a poison. The second is the Beijing government. It would be fine if he didn't enter Beijing. After entering Beijing, he found that this was a mess. I don't know how Beiyang was in charge. The entire Beijing government was in debt, but the tax was poor, and customs duties were even more 80% used. If Lu Zongyu said that he could have tried to get the great powers to exempt the Boxer indemnity after the war, our Zhang Yushuai would have turned around and returned to the Northeast. If anyone had received this tax of less than 20 million yuan a year, but the administrative expenses would be almost 50 million yuan, the central government would have a headache. The third is Yan Xishan in Shanxi. This bastard is just a jealous wolf. When he first moved into Beijing, he gave gifts and telegrams. As soon as the battle in Xuzhou came out, the kid announced that he had joined the National Socialist Party and immediately became quarrel with the Nanjing government in the south. Zhang Zuolin had not thought about transferring troops to deal with him. It is really that the power of the south is too strong now. People have not fought against Zhili and Shandong now, and Zhang Zuolin was confused. It would be good not to fight, but if he broke the current subtle balance because he went to fight against Shanxi, it would be a big loss.
So Zhang Zuolin has been so annoyed these days that he has been so upset that he has no hair. Now his head has become more open. Even if he is annoyed, the problem still needs to be solved. So Yang Yuting, who had previously presented Wang Zhengting in Shanghai, had to go south again with shame, what to do, negotiate with the National Government, and survey it, and see how much living space they are willing to give the Fengtian army of the Zhang family. As for the northwest and southwest, it doesn't matter. If Wang Zhenyu likes it, it's not impossible to take the title of Beijing as the central government. Although it is a little heartache, it's better than being wiped out by others.
Zhang Zuolin made up his mind. If he was forced to do nothing this time, he would take his army back to the Northeast Army and ask the Japanese for help (although they knew they were not very kind to do), develop industry and economy well, and wait until the strength is enough before leaving the customs and settle the score with Wang Zhenyu.
In Nanjing, on September 21, Wang Zhengting, member of the State Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, looked at Yang Yuting sitting opposite him with a relaxed and comfortable look on his face. More than ten days ago, this bastard made himself move, and suddenly changed from a peaceful reunification to a forceful attack. After returning to Nanjing, he was ridiculed as incompetent by many people. The world was really impermanent. In just half a month, Yang Yuting's butt returned to the negotiating table honestly. Wang Zhengting was proud and secretly envied Wang Zhenyu. At a young age, he actually held the Youth Army, an invincible tiger and wolf army in his hand. The Feng army, who had already scared the whole of China, was actually wilted after just one fight. Now, Yang Yuting, a turtle, can't be honest, and see how he ended this time.
Yang Yuting had no choice. In essence, when winning, everyone competed for the first place. If he lost, he would naturally not be able to avoid it. Otherwise, why did Li Hongzhang, who was the former Qing Dynasty, do not really do it because Li Hongzhang was good at handling Western Affairs, but because the Qing army was always defeated. Therefore, other princes and ministers cherish their feathers. No matter how cowardly the court is, it will not affect his life. Why should he risk being scolded to do Western Affairs?
But the errands always have to be done. Yang Yuting came to Shanghai with a rough and uneasy heart. As soon as he got off the boat, he was told that Minister Wang Zhengting was very busy now and could not come to Shanghai. If he wanted to continue peaceful negotiations, he might have to go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nanjing Government.
There is no way, who made the brothers' skills in fighting? In less than three hours, the five brigades' army was completely cleaned up, which means that they knew what Zhang Zongchang was. Otherwise, Yang Yuting would definitely be considered to be lying about military information by Yang Yuting. If it is true, then the combat effectiveness of the Youth Army would be a bit unreasonable. In history, in Fengtian army without Guo Songling, Zhang Zongchang's army was almost a fighter. Noun, the combat effectiveness of this army was once so strong that even the master was afraid. During the Second Northern Expedition, the Feng army retreated step by step. Zhang Zongchang led 50,000 remaining troops to retreat outside the Northeast Pass, but was rejected by Zhang Xueliang because Zhang Xueliang was very afraid that Zhang Zongchang, a tiger general, would kill the master after he left the pass. The final result was that Zhang Zongchang's Zhilu coalition was surrounded by Bai Chongxi and Gui's army under Shanhaiguan, and he withdrew from the historical stage.
Since it was a tiger beard like Zhang Zongchang who dared not touch it again, then there was no other person in the Fengtian army who dared to jump out and fight with the young army again.
So Yang Yuting obediently took his entourage to Nanjing with his entourage on the National Government's Ninghu Line No. 4 train (there are seven special trains, the No. 1 special train is for the chairman, vice chairman, and president of the parliament, the No. 2 special train is for the Military Commission system, the No. 3 for the Government Council system, the No. 4 for the foreign visitor, the No. 5 for the National Security System, the No. 6 for the Academy of Sciences system, and the No. 7 for the Party Affairs System, which departs once a day, and the number of trailers depends on the number of passengers and level).
After the Battle of Xuzhou, Nanjing returned to its former prosperity again. Yang Yuting was surprised to see the crowds, the flow of people, the variety of shops, and the dazzling array of goods. He had also been here in Nanjing, but it was a surprise that he could become so prosperous in just a few years. Unfortunately, the Feng army was defeated, so these things had nothing to do with them.
Although Wang Zhengting planned to take a walk on Yang Yuting's slippery head, the treatment he should be given was still given. After all, Yang Yuting represented the Central Government's central government. Although the scope of the central government's government's government's actual control scope has been equated with the actual control of the Fengtian Army, Yang Yuting's party was greeted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the National Government at the level of ministers and was treated with a convoy of four Ford vehicles. The escort task was the etiquette cavalry team. This unit was formed from the newly formed He Wenchang Mongolian border defense. He Wenchang, who had been transferred to the security system, was much luckier than Long Yunfei. He was transferred back to the field army and participated in the formation of the first cavalry unit of the Youth Army. This unit was established in Wuhan and planned to be incorporated into the battle sequence of the Mongolian Border Defense Forces after Xu Shuzheng completed the preparations for the Mongolian expedition in Yulin area. The tall horses were allocated to this 50-person etiquette squadron. The horses of the First Cavalry Brigade were all Dian horses. It is estimated that they would change to purebred Mongolian horses when they arrived in Mongolia.
The group soon arrived at the Nanjing National Government. Strictly speaking, after more than a year of development, the former Nanjing Tianwang Mansion and Liangjiang Governor's Office, the left-behind Mansion, is no longer a comprehensive office space. The chairman and vice chairman of the National Government are not working here. They are all in the big palace not far from the road. Members of the two houses of the National Assembly have also moved into the new Capitol Building (a 40 acres of Chinese classical style building, referring to the Shanghai Municipal Government of the Republic of China), and the Kuomintang Party Committee found an excuse to move to Wuhan (this is also Wang Zhenyu's decision to curb the expansion of party power and cover up military power supremacy). Although there are still signs of the National Government here, in fact, only the departments of the National Government's Government Council work here.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is among them. The Red Building No. 1 is the Prime Minister's Building, the Second Building is the Government Affairs Committee Building, the Third Building is the Ministry of Finance Building, the Fourth Building is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Building, and the Five Building is the Ministry of National Defense.
Chapter completed!