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    The city of Nanjing is covered with snow.

    There was a huge flow of people in front of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, and the republican system suddenly came to China. Many people still didn¡¯t know what republican democracy was, so people from nearby provinces and counties have been coming to Nanjing for half a month, just to see the difference between the Republic of China and the Qing Dynasty.  Whenever government officials come in or out, you can even see many people kneeling in obeisance.

    It was lively outside but gloomy inside. After the establishment of the new government, the peace talks between the North and the South reached a deadlock. The remnants of Beiyang and Zhang Xun's Jiang Defense Army occupied Xuzhou to intimidate Nanjing. Over in Anhui, Ni Sichong gathered more than 20,000 people to carry out a brutal massacre in northern Anhui.  .  In addition to the disadvantages of the war, finance has become a worry for the provisional government. When he first took office, Chen Qimei only gave Sun Wen a thousand yuan, but he earned tens of millions just from issuing public bonds!  Just to raise money during this period, Huang Keqiang and other ministers also lost a lot of weight. If Zhang Jizhi hadn't used the Lianghuai salt tax as a mortgage to get 2 million as the bottom line, the government would probably have gone bankrupt before it even opened.

    Compared with the huge expenses, this is just a drop in the bucket. The front lines in northern Jiangsu and Anhui are spending money like water. The hundreds of thousands of troops in Nanjing cost hundreds of thousands just for food and drink every day. It took only half a month for the money to bottom out. To the provincial governors  The letters sent for help were returned without exception, so the most important thing now is to end the confrontation as soon as possible and resume production.

    "It's okay if the poor in Guangxi and Yunnan don't lend a hand, but Guangdong and Zhejiang are both big tax-paying provinces! They don't even get a dime, what does that mean?" Song Jiaoren was very angry and glanced at Tang Shouqian and Hu Hanmin: "You two  They are all veterans from Guangdong and Zhejiang, so is it really impossible to raise any money?"

    Hu Hanmin didn't say anything, but Tang Shouqian spread his hands: "It's not like you don't know Dunchu. The government has just been established and taxes have not been paid yet. What's more, it's winter now. Zhejiang mainly pays spring and autumn agricultural taxes. I think it'll be fine until May.  ¡±

    "In May? Then it's better for everyone to disperse and go back to their homes." Jiang Zuobin, deputy minister of the Ministry of War, sighed: "Another telegram came from the front line, requesting an allocation of 200,000 military pay and 400 boxes of ammunition. The Jinling Manufacturing Bureau also asked for 5  What can we do if it only takes 100,000 yuan to operate?"

    "Dial! The frontline is in urgent need, and we must not let the soldiers suffer." President Sun was about to allocate funds with a stroke of his pen. Huang Keqiang quickly covered his pain and said: "President, there are only a dozen yuan in the account now, this." Sun  In fact, Wen also knew that there was no money, but now that he is the president, he cannot face the life and death of frontline soldiers without making a statement.

    Wu Tingfang coughed twice and asked, "Has Yang Qiu replied to the money?"

    Huang Keqiang quickly checked the telegrams replied by each province and found that there was no news from the three upstream provinces. He said, "Maybe it's not here yet. Brother Wen Jue, do you think he will be willing to allocate funds to support us?"

    Wu Tingfang said: "I don't know if it is possible, but I heard from some friends in Shanghai that he made a big deal with the Germans before the war and ordered thousands of machines and equipment. They are now transporting them overnight. This time  In Shanghai, he placed orders worth tens of millions each to Midea, and he was prepared to pay in cash. I think he must have money over there."

    "That's right! I've heard that those machines and equipment combined are more than two Hanyangs."

    "Hubei is rich, Hunan is a land of plenty, Sichuan is a land of abundance, and his side is the first to end the war, I think." Wu Tingfang glanced at Song Jiaoren: "You have a good relationship with him in Dunchu, why don't you send someone there?  If we get some money here, we will really be unable to open the door."

    Song Jiaoren smiled bitterly. It would be great if Yang Qiu was willing to listen to him. Just as he was about to shirk this drudgery, the office door was suddenly knocked open from the outside. He only saw the secretary panting and shouting: "President! Oh no, something big has happened."  ¡±

    Hu Hanmin is the Secretary-General of the Presidential Office. He was a little angry when he saw his subordinates being so unruly. He said in a deep voice: "Why are you so nervous? Did the Beiyang Army attack outside the city?"

    The urgent matter secretary did not care about being rude and shouted: "Oh no! Just now Hankou and Beijing sent telegrams at the same time saying that Yang Qiu was assassinated when he arrived in Hankou this morning! Yuan Shikai in Beijing was also assassinated by a bomb!"

    "Say it again?" Huang Keqiang's eyes widened, Song Jiaoren suddenly stood up, and Wu Tingfang's face suddenly turned extremely ugly!  Even President Sun opened his mouth wide in disbelief.  Yang Qiu was assassinated?  We just discussed borrowing money from him!

    "It's absolutely true! The news was sent by Zhang Binglin and Wang Jingwei. Yang Qiu was attacked as soon as he got off the ship. Those assassins shouted that it was Nanjing's order to kill Yang Qiu! Wang Jingwei in Beijing said that the ones who killed Yuan Shikai were three young men, all of them  They are our comrades!" The secretary placed the two telegrams on Sun Wen's desk,?  ?  When he heard that it was Sun Wu and Zhang Zhenwu who planned the assassination of Yang Qiu, and also forged a Nanjing warrant to spread false news that the central government wanted to kill Yang Qiu, Huang Keqiang suddenly felt like an enraged bull, and his eyes began to burn.

    As a senior diplomat, Wu Tingfang now?Totally dumbfounded.  One is a northern hero and the other is a rising star. They both have bad relations with the provisional government. Outsiders even liken the current situation to that of the Three Kingdoms.  At this time, two people were assassinated at the same time on the same day. Regardless of whether the assassins used the banner of the Provisional Government or not, everyone would think of Nanjing first!  Because the Nanjing Provisional Government will benefit most from the death of these two people!

    "For God's sake, you might as well kill one of them!"  Why kill two of them at the same time on the same day!  Song Jiaoren recovered from the panic first and asked first, "Are Yang Qiu and Yuan Shikai okay?"

    "That's not true." The secretary said quickly: "Yuan Shikai's carriage broke down, three guards died, and he scratched his skin a little. Yang Qiu was fine too. He was protected by guards at the dock, but Mr. Zhang Binglin called  Said that the dock workers and the officials who went to greet them suffered heavy casualties. About twenty people were killed by bombs and bullets, including Minister Xia Shoukang of the Hubei Ministry of Finance. Oh, by the way! There seems to be a woman, listen.  He said he had a close relationship with Yang Qiu, and he was seriously injured and sent to the hospital. His condition is unknown."

    "It's okay as long as it's okay, it's okay as long as it's okay." Wu Tingfang breathed a sigh of relief, but Hu Hanmin said painfully: "It's okay as long as it's okay, it's better to be dead!"

    Huang Keqiang couldn't sit still. No matter whether the two of them were dead or alive, they must immediately clarify their relationship with the Nanjing government at this moment, otherwise there would be no big trouble.  But just as he was about to speak, the door was knocked open again. This time, Xu Shaozhen, the commander of the Jiangsu Revolutionary Army, came in. When he came in, he shouted: "Minister Huang, go and have a look! Yang Qiu's troops have blocked the Jiangfang Fort."  And the dock, they kept clamoring about handing over the culprit, what on earth is going on?"

    Prime culprit!  Wu Tingfang sat down dejectedly, and even Sun Wen slapped his forehead, saying there was nothing he could do.

    On the afternoon of the 16th, after the news of Yang Qiu¡¯s assassination was sent to Nanjing, the vanguard group ordered to cooperate with the Northern Expedition became excited and immediately forcibly took over the Jiangfang fort and dock, demanding that the president clarify the facts and hand over the culprit.

    In the evening, Xu Shaozhen transferred a division to guard the situation, which worsened the situation even more. The Northern Expeditionary Regiment of the National Defense Forces, which mistakenly believed that it would be forcibly disarmed, took advantage of the geographical advantages of Jiangfang Fort to set up machine guns and several 120mm guns for Jiangfang Defense.  The shore artillery was aimed at the Jiangsu Army, and the gunboat Chu Qian, which was escorting the fleet along the way, was also ordered to station outside the Yangtze River, ready to support the army brothers on the fort at any time.

    Seeing that the Nanjing government was in danger of falling into civil war only half a month after its establishment, Sun Wen had to personally send a telegram to Yang Qiu to clarify that the matter had nothing to do with the Nanjing government and that the perpetrators would be severely punished to maintain the government's prestige.  But only half an hour after the telegram was sent, the confessions of Sun Wu and Zhang Zhenwu were sent to the Nanjing Government Secretariat. Hu Hanming almost fainted when he saw the words "Huang Yiou funded" on it.

    At eight o'clock in the evening, when the furious Huang Keqiang just arrested his son, the situation did not improve but worsened again.

    First, more than 20 officials implicated in the assassination, including Hubei Civil Affairs Minister Tang Hualong and Yangxia Civil Affairs Director Hu Ruilin, were arrested.  Immediately afterwards, the remaining two regiments of the 1st Division and 1st Brigade of the National Defense Forces who were waiting for the ships to go south in Wuxue suddenly set off to cross the border into Jiangxi. At the same time, news came from Shanghai that two gunboats were moving up the river.  Before it could be digested, the National Defense Forces Headquarters took action again, ordering the 3rd and 4th Divisions to immediately leave for Hunan and Sichuan, and ordered the 6th and 7th brigades that were training to enter a state of combat readiness.  The Second Division also pressed forward step by step towards Wusheng Pass, making preparations to forcibly recapture Wusheng Pass.

    Faced with several questioning telegrams from Nanjing, the National Defense Forces Headquarters only replied with the words "just in case."  in case?  !  Who to guard against?  Naturally, it was the "Nanjing government" who shouted on the dock to kill Yang Qiu.

    While Nanjing was in a hurry, Yang Qiu and the National Defense Forces had already begun to act step by step and as planned.

    Since the rebels in this assassination incident were Comrade Pao Ge from Sichuan and Hubei, the National Defense Forces Staff believed that it would be difficult for the National Defense Forces to free up their hands to carry out the arduous Northern Expedition when the security situation in the three provinces was poor, so it was necessary to  Establish specialized reserve and internal affairs forces.  After final deliberation, the National Defense Force changed the garrison battalion into the National Guard of the three provinces. As a supplement to the regular army, it was expanded to 12 light infantry regiments, with Xiao Anguo and Fan Liangshan as deputy commanders. The missing soldiers were recruited from the countryside of the three provinces young people with innocent family backgrounds.  .

    When a series of news came out from Hubei, the Nanjing government suffered another heavy blow.

    Located in Xuzhou, Beiyang Third Town Shiyibiao cooperated with the remnants of Zhang Xun's Jiang Defense Army to suddenly launch a fierce attack. The Zhenjiang Revolutionary Army led by Lin Shuqing fought to the death all night and was chased to Huaiyin before barely gaining a foothold.  After counting in the morning, we learned that the troops had lost more than 5,000 casualties overnight.  Lin Shuqing, who was unable to obtain arms and had no pay for a full month, was disheartened. After sending a telegram stating that he was in poor health, he simply returned to Zhenjiang by himself, causing a large gap to suddenly appear on the Jinpu line.

    Wait until the morning of the 18th, South ChinaAfter newspapers from all over the country published the news that Yang Qiu and Yuan Shikai were assassinated on the same day, and that Xuzhou suffered a tragic defeat, the whole of China was in an uproar, and everyone had only one thought.

    What are they going to do?  !

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