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Chapter 533 440. The Fujian Road is more difficult than the Shu Road

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    "Fujian?" Sun Yuanqi immediately shook his head and said: "In this southern expedition, seizing Guangdong is already an unreasonable idea. How dare we capture Longwang Shu again? Moreover, Fujian is in a corner. We only have Guangdong bordering it. Now the troops entering Guangdong have already traveled a long distance.  The division's veterans are exhausted and unable to move north. What's more, Li Xiushan's (Li Chun's) Beiyang 6th Division is now stationed in Jiangxi, and those nearby are eyeing Fujian?"

    Speaking of Fujian, we have to briefly talk about the current political situation in Fujian.

    The current governor of Fujian, Sun Daoren, is considered a second-generation official.  His father, Sun Kaihua, was from Hunan and came from a poor family. When he was young, he joined Bao Chao's troops in the Hunan Army and participated in the battle to pacify the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He rose to the rank of admiral and was given the title "Batulu for Promote the Brave" by the Qing court.  When the Sino-French War broke out in the ninth year of Guangxu (1883), Sun Kaihua led his troops to Taiwan to take charge of defense. He defeated the French army's covetousness of Taiwan several times and became a famous national hero in modern history.  Sun Daoren can be said to be a "tiger father but no dog son". Before he was twenty, he followed his father to Taiwan to participate in the Sino-French War.  Due to his prominent family background and his considerable talents, he quickly rose to the top of his official career. Over the past twenty years, he was promoted to the rank of Commander-in-Chief of Funing Town in Fujian Province, the Commander-in-Chief of the Tenth Town of the Fujian Temporary Army, and the Admiral of Fujian Land and Water.  Became a powerful figure in the Fujian army.

    Although Sun Daoren was favored by the emperor during his lifetime, he knew very well how to steer the ship according to the wind and to choose the right tree for a good bird to roost in.  After the rise of the Wuchang Revolutionary Army, he saw that the Qing Dynasty was on the verge of collapse. He immediately joined the Tongmenghui under the introduction of Peng Shousong, the president of the Fuzhou branch of the Tongmenghui. Later, he launched an uprising with Xu Chongzhi, the commander of the 20th League of the New Army, and Fuzhou General Pu Shou was captured and shot.  , Song Shou, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, committed suicide after defeat. The Manchus in Fuzhou suffered countless casualties. It is said that "hundreds of flag soldiers and women died by throwing themselves into the river."

    After the liberation of Fuzhou, the Provisional Military Government of Fujian was established, and Sun Daoren was elected as the Governor of Fujian by all walks of life.  Like the military governments in other provinces, the Fujian Governor's Office is also a political hodgepodge, with all kinds of people included, including revolutionary parties, old bureaucrats, constitutionalists, etc. It was originally intended to reconcile conflicts and participate in politics together, but who knows what happened later.  It has turned into a stage where various factions attack each other and compete for power.  In the early years of the Republic of China, the most violent struggle was between Sun Daoren, a powerful faction born in the old bureaucracy, and Peng Shousong, a new warlord born in the revolutionary party.

    It is said that the fathers of Sun Daoren and Peng Shousong were both generals of the Hunan Army. As representatives of the Hunan faction in Fujian politics, they should have worked together to deal with the local faction, but both of them attempted to monopolize the military and political power of the province, resulting in trouble.  It's overwhelming.  Relatively speaking, Peng Shousong is impatient and bold, while Sun Daoren is serious and reserved, and knows how to be patient.  Perhaps it was Sun Daoren's deliberate show of weakness that made Peng Shousong go his own way even more unrestrainedly. Soon his brutal behavior and perverse actions aroused huge public indignation, not only strong opposition from members of the Fujian Tongmenghui, but also to the constitutionalists and old bureaucrats of Fujian Province who were looking for opportunities to seize power.  The Republican Party took advantage of this opportunity.  Song Yuanyuan, chairman of the Fujian Provincial Council, volunteered to travel north to the capital to cry out to Yuan Shikai about Peng Shousong's crimes and demand that Peng Shousong be investigated and prosecuted.

    At that time, Yuan Shikai, who had just taken office as the interim president less than half a year ago, was full of ambitions and deliberately planning how to extend Beiyang forces into the south and drive a wedge into the Kuomintang's territory.  Hearing the petitions from people in Fujian Province was like falling asleep on a pillow. He successively sent Jiang Shejing, a Fujianese who had served as the prefect of Ningbo, as the Secretary of the Interior of Fujian, Lan Jianshu, the commander of the Navy's First Fleet, who was also a Fujianese, and the upright and upright  Cen Chunxuan, the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was the governor of Fujian and came to Fujian in the name of investigating Peng Shousong.

    Cen Chunxuan's father, Cen Yuying, served as governor of Fujian for about half a year in the seventh year of Guangxu (1881). At that time, Cen Chunxuan also followed the eunuchs to Fujian and was quite familiar with the local customs. This time, he received strong support from the old bureaucrats and constitutionalists of Fujian Province.  The support is quite strong.  Sun Daoren, who had been holding back, suddenly showed his claws and put pressure on Peng Shousong.  Peng Shousong was originally prepared to fight, but seeing that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to him, he had no choice but to resign and leave Fujian in line with the principle of "a good man never suffers immediate losses".

    Cen Chunxuan was also considered a bachelor. After completing the mission of expelling Peng, he led the navy and army to evacuate Fujian in November 1912.  Although this time the suppression of the war eliminated a harm to Fujian Province, it also opened the way for Beiyang forces to enter Fujian.

    In order to further control Fujian, Yuan Shikai soon appointed his crony Zhang Yuanqi, a Fujian native who was formerly the Secretary of Civil Affairs of Fengtian, to serve as the Chief of Civil Affairs in Fujian Province.  Fujian revolutionary Fang Shengtao and others were very angry about this: "The revolutionaries sacrificed and the Beiyang faction became officials, which is intolerable?" They then plotted to assassinate Zhang Yuanqi.  Due to poor planning, only Zhang Yuanqi's bearer and a passerby were killed.

    Although Zhang Yuanqi escaped, he was so frightened that he immediately asked for leave and returned to the north in May 1913, leaving his duties to others.  As soon as Zhang Yuanqi left, Fujian became Sun Daoren's world.

    But Sun Daoren was not free for long. Huang Xing, Bai Wenwei, Li Liejun and others came to meet him.After raising the revolutionary flag and declaring independence against Yuan.  Fujian is sandwiched between Guangdong, Jiangxi and other revolutionary provinces, and is inherently in a dilemma.  Xu Chongzhi, the commander of the 14th Army Division stationed in Fujian, used threats and inducements, and encouraged all walks of life in Fuzhou to send representatives to the Dudu Mansion to petition and demand a declaration of independence. As a former member of the Tongmenghui and now a member of the Kuomintang, Sun Daoren had no choice but to reluctantly agree to jointly electrify the country with Xu Chongzhi.  , declared Fujian's independence.

    Sun Daoren has been in the officialdom for twenty years and has become as slippery as a ghost.  Although they proclaimed the independence of Fujian via telegram, they did not dare to criticize Yuan Shikai and Sun Yuanqi in the message, and did not even mention the Northern Expedition.  Xu Chongzhi requested several times to send troops to the Northern Expedition, and Sun Daoren quickly gave him the title of "Commander-in-Chief of the Fujian Army Against Yuan". However, he used the excuse of lack of food, pay, firearms, and no military expenditure to send troops, and he was perfunctory and evasive about sending troops.  At the end of the second revolution, Fujian's Yuan army did not even leave the province.  Without the support of Shangfeng and no military pay, even though Xu Chongzhi was full of ambitions, he could only send a few telegrams to scold Yuan Shikai and Sun Yuanqi for giving up.

    In late September, the Kuomintang's campaign against Yuan's army suffered military defeats. The northern army successively entered Guangdong and Jiangxi, and Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and others were forced to flee to Japan.  Sun Daoren, whose attitude was unclear before, was even more ambiguous now, which frightened Xu Chongzhi into fleeing Fujian and hiding in the French Concession in Shanghai.  The day after Xu Chongzhi left, Sun Daoren sent a message to cancel the independence. The message not only flattered Yuan Shikai and Sun Yuanqi, but also put all the responsibility for Fujian's independence on Xu Chongzhi.

    At present, Yuan Shikai says nothing about Sun Daoren's admission of guilt. I don't know if they have reached some kind of agreement secretly, or if Yuan Shikai plans to wait until he is free to settle the score later.  Sun Yuanqi never expected that Yang Du would actually target Fujian and prepare to strike first!

    Yang Du was not in a hurry, and explained slowly: "Bai Xi, you think that if we seek Fujian now, we have to look at Shu, but in Yang's opinion, 'people who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries'! Why do you say this? First of all, although Fujian is located in  Haiyu, but it is connected to Zhejiang to the north and Guangdong to the south, which is crucial to our future development. The original governor of Zhejiang was Tang Zheweng, and Zhejiang was the fundamental place of our New China Party in Jiangsu and Zhejiang; later Zheweng went north to take office in the Central Committee,  Zhu Jieren (Zhu Rui) took over the post of governor of Zhejiang. Zhu Jieren had a close relationship with Tang Zheweng, but he had not had a close relationship with Baixi before. At present, he has no plans to have a close relationship. It seems that he is planning to establish a relationship between you and Yuan Xiangcheng.  He wavered and wanted to have both sides. Precisely because of Zhu Jieren's ambiguous attitude, the situation in Zhejiang Province also changed slightly, at least it was not as stable as before.

    "After this war, three of the four provinces bordering Zhejiang (Jiangsu, Anhui, and Jiangxi) have been occupied by Yuan Xiangcheng. Only Fujian in the south has unclear intentions. If we leave it alone, Fujian will be absorbed by Yuan Xiangcheng.  , Zhejiang will be completely isolated and surrounded by enemies. Zhu Jieren's position is already wavering. Under this situation, as long as Yuan Xiangcheng exerts a little pressure, he will completely fall to the Beiyang side. In this way, we will lose everything in East China  Advantage!

    "What if we get Fujian? Then we can connect Guangdong, Zhejiang and even Shanghai and northern Jiangsu into a front line, consolidating our existing advantages in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, thus ensuring that Zhu Jieren does not dare to completely fall to Yuan Xiangcheng's side in the short term. And Hunan  The four provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang can form an encirclement around Jiangxi and limit Yuan Xiangcheng's coveting of South and Southwest China to the greatest extent possible. With the pros and cons, Baixi, you will understand that Fujian is the winner after the two sides compete in the middle game.  !¡±

    After what Yang Du said, Sun Yuanqi also felt that Fujian played a huge role in maintaining stability in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but he was still not optimistic: "As the saying goes, 'a thousand birds in the forest is worse than a bird in the hand', no matter how good Fujian is, it will still be up to us.  You can only get it if you have the ability, otherwise it will be nothing but a mirror. Xizi, why do you think we can invade Fujian and defeat Sun Tui'an (Sun Daoren) now? How can we deal with the Beiyang Sixth Division, which is close to Fujian?"

    "It is true that Li Xiushan (Li Chun)'s Sixth Beiyang Division is near Fujian, but it is nothing to worry about!" Yang Du seemed to have a plan in mind, "The Sixth Beiyang Division is heading from Hubei to Jiangxi this time. It once fought with Guizhou in the Shahe area of ??Jiujiang.  The army of Lin Yinqing (Lin Hu) launched a fierce battle. The Gui army was well-trained and fearless, and Lin Yinqing was born in the army. He once defeated Li Xiushan's army. Baixi, think about it, the Hubei army traveled thousands of miles from Hubei to attack Guangzhou, and there were  Railways and waterways can be relied upon, and the journey is smooth. The real battle is just the battle between Deng Jinkang's regiment and the Ji army under the city of Guangzhou. Even the veterans of the division are too tired to go north, let alone the Beiyang Sixth Division that suffered a fierce battle and was defeated?

    "Even if the 6th Beiyang Division has regained its strength now and is good at walking, and can travel hundreds of miles a day, I am afraid that the journey to Fujian will still be considered daunting! Because Fujian is full of mountains and high mountains. Starting from Nanchang, it is a long way.  The road through Fuzhou is rugged and dangerous. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the Fujian Road is more difficult than the Shu Road." Li Xiushan's army may not be able to reach Fuzhou in one or two months, but one or two months is enough for us to attack without any effort.  Take Fujian lightly even if it's far away!"

    Sun Yuanqi became a little curious: "What is Xizi's clever plan?" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)A few months is enough time for us to conquer Fujian without having to travel far!  "

    Sun Yuanqi became a little curious: "What is Xizi's clever plan?" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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