Chapter 83 gap

As Chen Wenyun expected, as soon as Fu Liangzuo's decree was published, it immediately attracted opposition from Hunan and the southwestern provinces.They believe that although Fu Liangzuo is from Hunan, he has been away with his father since he was a child. No matter where he was born in the past or the way he does things now, he can only be classified as a northerner, which does not conform to the principle of "Hunan people governing Hunan". Require. Lu Rongting came forward and sent a telegram to Feng Guozhang, demanding that the order be withdrawn, and advocated that Hunan should be designated as a buffer zone for the North and South Army, and the status quo in Hunan should continue to be maintained.

Since Feng Guozhang had agreed with Duan Qirui to send Fu Liangzuo to supervise Xiang, it was difficult for Feng Guozhang to answer, so he had to give this telegram from Lu Rongting to Duan Qirui.Duan Qirui replied to Lu Rongting in the name of the State Council, saying that the replacement of the governor of Hunan was "choosing people for things", and rejected the other party's request. In late August 1917, Fu Liangzuo bid farewell to Duan Feng and left Beijing to take up his post in Hunan with the gesture of "returning to his hometown". When Duan Qirui announced his appointment, he said that although Fu Liangzuo supervised Hunan, he would not bring the Northern Army into Hunan.But in the face of such strong opposition from all walks of life, Duan Qirui himself was not at ease if Fu Liangzuo was really allowed to enter Hunan as a polished commander. For this reason, he sent two divisions of the Beiyang Army to Hunan when Fu Liangzuo took office.

It's not that Tan Yankai didn't want to resist in his heart, but the Guangxi-Yunnan Army that had promised to assist Hunan hadn't acted yet, and the Northern Army had already overwhelmed the border.As for the Hunan Army, there are only two poorly equipped divisions, and Tan Yankai can only control half of them, so naturally he cannot resist the Northern Army. Under such circumstances, Tan Yankai had no choice but to give up resistance.Someone asked him if he would like to remain governor, Tan Yankai said: "How can I be a daughter-in-law when I am used to being a mother-in-law?"

After Fu Liangzuo arrived in Changsha, Tan Yankai left Changsha for Shanghai on the pretext of returning home to visit his relatives as soon as he completed the handover procedures. Tan Yankai is by no means a commoner. He was once known as the "Three Princes of Huxiang" with Tan Si and others.Before leaving office, while strengthening ties with the southwestern provinces, he sent Wang Yunting, the former envoy of Lingling, to Beijing to welcome Fu Liangzuo, and Liu Jianfan acted for Wang Yunting. On the surface, Tan Yankai's actions seemed to be obedience to the Beijing government, but in fact, there was a hidden advantage-Wang Yunting was an insider Duan Qirui stayed in Hunan, and his removal was a plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain; his successor Liu Jianfan participated in the " The Second Revolution", letting him guard Lingling is tantamount to planting a time bomb against Fu Liangzuo.

Fu Liangzuo also discovered this move made by Tan Yankai on the fourth day of his inauguration, so he ordered Liu Jianfan to be replaced.Liu Jianfan had been prepared for a long time, not only refused to obey, but also telegraphed the whole country to declare independence. When the news reached Changsha, Fu Liangzuo immediately panicked. While declaring martial law in Changsha, he sent troops to crusade.Unexpectedly, the provincial troops sent there were all soft-footed crabs, and they were defeated in a few strokes. Fu Liangzuo then ordered the two Beiyang divisions who followed him to the south to fight.The Beiyang army had been battle-tested for a long time, and the artillery fire was quite fierce, which could not be resisted by the Shonan army commanded by Liu Jianfan and others.At the repeated requests of the Hunan Province, in mid-October, the Southwest organized the Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi coalition forces to launch a counterattack against the Beiyang Army. The Hunan issue quickly evolved into a civil war.

Accompanied by the Civil War, the second battle between the government and courts officially surfaced.Ever since the Fu Liangzuo Duxiang incident, Feng Duan had a estrangement, and it has deepened day by day since then. Duan Feng didn't have many opportunities to meet face-to-face, but now it's even rarer.One rare time, Feng Guozhang suddenly called Duan Qirui and asked him to come to the mansion for a talk.Duan Qirui answered the phone and said, "It must be the fourth brother who wants to play mahjong!" After speaking, he happily rushed to the presidential palace with two hundred yuan in cash.

Duan Qirui likes to play mahjong, but usually at night after get off work.This time he also wants to play mahjong at work, of course not purely for fun, but he hopes to use the opportunity of playing mahjong to re-strengthen the personal relationship between the two and dilute each other's emotional unhappiness. But after Feng Guozhang finished talking about business with him, he didn't talk about playing mahjong.Duan Qirui was also inconvenient to propose, so he had to leave in good spirits and return in disappointment. Feng Guozhang himself doesn't like playing mahjong anymore. He also knows Duan Qirui's hobby, but he just refuses to cater to him and play so many rounds.This also makes Duan Qirui have to suspect that "fourth brother" is putting on his presidential airs.

Another time later, Duan Qirui took the initiative to visit Feng Guozhang.It happened that a wooden bridge in the mansion was broken, and Duan Qirui's car could not pass through.With the embarrassing experience of playing mahjong, Duan Qirui naturally thought that Feng Guozhang was still deliberately putting on a posture and was not going to meet him, so he immediately ordered the driver to turn the car around and drove back home angrily.