Chapter 174 In 173, Tang Jiyao fled to Guangzhou

Yunnan Province is the first area where the National Defense Army fought against Yuan, and the main force of the National Defense Army is almost all the Yunnan Army.At that time, the national defense army was divided into three groups: the first army was led out of Sichuan by Cai E; the first army was led by Li Liejun to develop to Hunan and Guangdong and Guangxi via Guizhou; All the military expenses during the war of defending the country against Yuan were spent in Yunnan.Yunnan was originally a co-payment province, and when it was not in use, it had to rely on the central co-payment. During the period of protecting the country, in order to protect the country against the enemy, the military was the first. It was not resolved, and with the death of Cai E, a powerful spokesperson was missing, so the Dian army outside the province became a lone army.Cai E's army left in Sichuan was first led by Luo Peijin, and later by Gu Pinzhen.The generals in Sichuan opposed the Dian army stationing in Sichuan. Therefore, during the five years after protecting the country, the Sichuan army has always adopted a hostile attitude and continued attacks on the Dian army staying in Sichuan.The Dian army has been in Sichuan for a long time, and they also have the heart to return home. Therefore, in the 10th year of the Republic of China, Gu Pinzhen led the army back from Sichuan to Yunnan to capture Tang Jiyao's commander-in-chief.

The Dian army in Sichuan, led by Gu Pinzhen, withdrew from Sichuan. Although the situation was not like that of the Cantonese army returning to Guangdong, they naturally wanted to find a way out.To be honest, Yunnan expanded its army too quickly during the period of protecting the country and defeating Yuan.After Yuan's death, these troops were not properly settled, one stayed in Sichuan and the other stayed in Guangdong.People may think that Tang Jiyao has ambitions and wants to occupy Sichuan. In fact, these troops are outside, and Tang may not be able to control them. However, Mr. Tang hopes that they will develop outside the province and not return to Yunnan, because Yunnan cannot afford so many financially. It is very dangerous for the soldiers who have soldiers and the generals who have soldiers in their hands at the same time to say that they turn their faces.Gu Pinzhen's Yunnan army returned to Yunnan after withdrawing from Sichuan is an example.

When the Dian army withdrew from Sichuan, there was 9 million yuan in military pay that had not been paid. This was the responsibility of Tang Jiyao, the governor of Dian. Tang had asked the Guangzhou government for help, but Sun Yat-sen was also struggling in Guangzhou, so he was powerless to help.Tang then approached Andison, the representative of the American businessman, and allowed the American businessman to organize Mingxing Company to mine in Yunnan.After the news came out, people inside and outside Yunnan unanimously opposed it. American businessmen did not dare to invest for this reason, and Tang Jiyao's plan to raise funds and pay salaries could not be realized.

At that time, there was a latent aversion to Tang Jiyao both inside and outside Yunnan, because Tang Chong trusted his cousin Jiyu. Tang Jiyu's original name was Jiyu, nicknamed Tang San Blind Man.People from Yunnan called him Tang San, and Tang Jiyao obeyed him. He planned to give up the position of governor, but because his subordinates objected, he appointed Secretary-General Zhou Zhongyue as governor, but Tang San still served as the chief of staff of the Yasukuni Allied Forces and the commander of the Kunming garrison. , the power was overwhelming for a while, which made the Yunnan army quite dissatisfied.

Gu Pinzhen, the commander of the Dian Army who had retreated from Sichuan, entered Xuanwei via Bijie. It was rumored that Gu wanted to take Kunming and seize the seal of command.Tang also heard that the morale of the army was not stable, so he sent Governor Zhou Zhongyue to Xuanwei, intending to ask Gu Pinzhen to be the supervisor of the Eastern Defense, draw out the defense line east of Yunnan for Gu, and promised to pay salaries quickly to calm the morale of the army.When Zhou conveyed this opinion to Gu Hou, Gu immediately accepted it, and at the same time sent a telegram to declare that he had no political ambitions, and the so-called marching into Kunming was completely a rumor.

Tang's appeasement policy had no effect, because the arrears of salary were not paid, and the morale of the army was still shaken, so rumors continued to boil. On January 29, 2010, Ye Quan (former commander of the 5th Army of the National Defense Army) belonged to the 8th Army of the Yasukuni Allied Forces. There was a riot in Xundian and Yiliang, Yunnan Province, and they were preparing to attack Kunming. Tang Jiyao sent troops to suppress it. On February 5, the provincial army defeated Yebu and shot the captured rebel officers on the spot.However, because Tang's army was transferred out of Kunming, the city's defenses were empty, allowing Gu Jun in Xuanwei to take advantage of the gap. On February 7, Gu led his army to march towards Kunming and arrived at Yanglin, which was only a hundred miles away from Kunming. Tang Bujue was in a hurry and had no reliable troops to refuse Gu, so he had to send Zhou Zhongyue to Yanglin to welcome Gu Jun into the city.

On the 10th, Tang announced the abolition of the Yasukuni Allied Forces General Headquarters, withdrew 500,000 yuan in cash at Fudian Bank, moved it to the station along with his personal money, and prepared to leave. On February 8, which was New Year's Day in the old calendar, Tang Jiyao left Kunming with a heavy heart. Escorted by his flying army captain Long Yun, he took a train on the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway to Yinan.Long Yun later became Tang Jiyao's successor and ruled Yunnan for 18 years. He was also from Zhaotong County, named Zicheng, later named Zhizhou, and was born in the Yi nationality.Their Yi village is called Jinhe. When he was a teenager, he learned spear and boxing in Yi village, and he was proficient in internal skills. After the Revolution of 1911, he and Lu Han were introduced by Xie Ruyi and entered Yunnan Lecture Hall. , so he was recognized by Tang Jiyao, and he was assigned to serve as the captain of Tang's guard "Kafei Army".Yafei Army is a special name, which originated in the Han Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, Yafei was used as the official name of the military officer. It is said that Yafei was the most famous warrior in ancient times. In the Han Dynasty, he used this as the official name of the military officer. Tang Jiyao compiled his specially selected guards as He flew into the army.After Long Yun became the captain of the flying army, he didn't have any special performance, but one day the opportunity came, and a French quack suddenly appeared in Kunming. He claimed to be extremely powerful, and he set up a ring in Kunming. God, defeated the challenger on stage, proudly said in Pidgin Mandarin that he was invincible.It just so happened that it was a holiday, and both Long Yun and Lu Han went down to Wuhua Mountain. When they heard that the French Hercules were putting on a ring, they went to watch it together.Seeing the supercilious look of the French Hercules, he was very dissatisfied. Long Yun is a bloody man, so he raised his voice, willing to challenge the Hercules, and stepped onto the stage calmly.The Hercules saw that the person who came was not tall, not strong, not outstanding in speech, and not amazing in appearance, so he looked down on him very much.However, Long Yun looked serious, and cupped his hands to say please, asking the other party to punch, the strong man couldn't bear to strike first, but many foreigners are not polite, so after waiting for a while, Long Yun didn't punch, so they aimed at him. With a punch on the bridge of the nose, how did you know that Long Yun had already exercised enough internal strength when he let the punch go? His right leg was already a sweeping kick and swept the Hercules out of the ring.Less than a minute after the two fought each other, Hercules was knocked down.There was applause on and off the stage, and those who watched the battle felt that Long Yun had done something for the Chinese, and applauded enthusiastically. Since then, Long Yun has become a well-known hero in Kunming.Although he was born in the Yi nationality, he was very loyal to Tang Jiyao, and he was willing to read ancient Chinese books, with a high level of comprehension.Slowly he considered himself the defender of China's orthodox Confucian tradition.

Tang Jiyao learned about Long Yun's fight in the ring and knew that his martial arts skills were superb, so he promoted him to be the captain of the Yi Fei Army. The status of the captain is equivalent to today's regiment commander. After Tang Jiyao left Kunming, Gu Pinzhen led his army into Kunming on the 9th to take over as the commander-in-chief of Yunnan.In the past, Deng Taizhong, a general of the Dian Army, sent a telegram to challenge Tang, but Gu Pinzhen did not participate. He was still polite to Tang, so he sent a telegram and said: "Tang Gong and Commander Kuigeng (Tang Jiyu) have joined forces, and I am sorry for not being able to stay. And send a commissioner to Hekou to send off the ancestors to show off."

After Gu Pinzhen entered Kunming, he tried his best to make everything in Kunming the same as Tang Zaishi. Therefore, except Tang Jiyao, Tang Jiyu, Zhang Weihan, Long Yun and others left, nothing changed, and the governor was still Zhou Zhongyue.Zhou Zi Xingfu was born in Heqing, Yunnan.At the earliest time, he was Cai E's secretary. This person was a tumbler in Yunnan. After Cai's death, Tang reused him. Tang went to take care of him and wanted to keep him. Dian, he is still the elder of Yunnan.During the Anti-Japanese War, he represented Yunnan to the central government as Minister of the Interior, and was promoted to Vice President of the Examination Institute. He was amiable, had no political prejudices, and had no enemies, so all parties respected him.

The extreme opposite of Zhou's personality is also Cai E's friend. He served as Cai's secretary when defending the country and was the revolutionary veteran Ding Shisheng.After Cai's death, he refused to hold a public office and lived in Kunming. On behalf of Sun Yat-sen, he contacted Tang Jiyao, served as the president of the Yunnan Youth Association, and engaged in religious movements.He and Tang Jiyao were also old friends, and both established diplomatic relations in Japan, but he was dissatisfied with Tang's separatist style and persuaded Tang to support Sun Yat-sen and devote himself to revolutionary work.Tang did not pay much attention to Ding's opinion. Tang often said: "Ding Shisheng is not my friend. He is a follower of Sun Yat-sen and Cai Songpo's life-and-death friend." Gu Pinzhen marched into Kunming. Therefore, as soon as he entered Kunming, he ordered his close comrade-in-arms Jin Handing to find Ding, and urged Ding to become the Kunming municipal supervisor (equivalent to the mayor of Kunming today).But Ding resolutely refused. He opposed the style of seizing territory by force. He said bluntly to Gu: "This is the behavior of warlords. In the future, history will not forgive you." He also said: "Songpo never wanted to be a warlord. It means that he neglected the Governor of Xiang and did not do it, and abandoned the Governor of Sichuan as a cover, you are Songpo's robes, and you should make Songpo's last will bright." Both Gu Pinzhen and Jin Handing knew Ding's temper, because they knew that Ding's accusation was not political. When Tang Jiyao was in Yunnan, he also accused Tang of favoritism.

After Gu Pinzhen expelled Tang Jiyao, the Beijing government was very excited, thinking that Gu had always been connected with the Department of Political Science, and since the Department of Political Science had defected to the north, Gu Naturally would also "attach".However, Gu accepted Ding Shisheng's suggestion in this regard and supported Sun Yat-sen in Guangzhou. Before Gu Pinzhen entered Kunming, there was an episode in Kunming. It was when Ye Quan raised troops to defeat Tang. One of them was Lu Han who later succeeded Long Yun as the chairman of Yunnan Province.Lu Han was sent to spy on the movement of the Yunnan army withdrawn from Sichuan, but he did not go there.The other three had completed the spy investigation mission and reported back to Li Yukun, but Lu Han was missing.Someone told Li Yukun that Lu Han was lying at home and was burning cigarettes. Li went to see it in person, and sure enough, he was so annoyed that he immediately reported it to Tang Jiyao.Tang was furious and ordered to hand over the order to the Military Law Office for strict punishment.At that time, Zhang Weihan was the head of the military law department. When he received Tang's warrant, Lu Gang arrived. Zhang did not dare to be negligent, and immediately interrogated him. Lu said that he was lazy and delayed the military plane.Zhang Weihan has always been familiar with Long Yun and Lu Han, and they both served under Tang. Now that Lu is a prisoner, he can't help but sympathize with him, so he told the Lianshuai (everyone called Tang Jiyao the Lianshuai at that time because he was the commander-in-chief of the Yasukuni Allied Forces) on his behalf. Affection.Tang was still furious, and ordered Lu Han to be locked up for a period of time, so Lu Han was sent to a detention center for detention. Only a few days later, Gu Pinzhen's army had arrived in Yanglin. Tang Jiyao couldn't get back because his army was dispatched to attack Ye Quan, so he had to send Governor Zhou Zhongyue to contact Gu Pinzhen. Tang asked Zhou to tell Gu, I am willing to dance high and hand over Kunming to Gu Pinzhen.When Zhou arrived at Banqiao, Gu Pinzhen had already led his army there, and stopped at Banqiao.Zhou Gu talked about the situation in Kunming and Tang's attitude, and Gu decided to enter Kunming on the first day of the first lunar month.Zhou Zhongyue reported all kinds of discussions with Gu Suo to Tang Jiyao by phone, which happened in the afternoon of New Year's Eve.After Tang received Zhou's call, he immediately summoned his cronies and staff, Secretary-General You Kuiju (Yunlong), Secretary Bai Zhihan, Chief of Military Law Zhang Weihan, Tang Jiyu, etc., and announced that they would leave Kunming that night and did not want to see Gu Jun enter Kunming.All the participants were willing to leave with the Lianshuai. Tang's plan at the time was to go to Hong Kong via Haiphong via Yunnan and Vietnam. If the Guangzhou side expressed their welcome, they would go to Guangzhou. At 12:00 midnight that day, Tang led his cronies and family members to leave Kunming on two floats, one for Tang's family members and one for Tang and his staff.Before leaving, Zhang Weihan went to the Military Law Office to give an explanation, ordered the person who stayed behind to act as an agent, and ordered the military judge to go to the detention center to release Lu Han.At this time, there was news in the detention center that Tang Lianshuai had left the field, so the door of the detention center was opened, and the detainees rushed out. Lu Han was the first to walk out of the prison door. Tang's special car arrived at Mengzi on the first day of the lunar new year. Long Yun led his flying army (formed as the 14th regiment) to meet him at the station. Tang Gong counterattacked Kunming. When Tang Jiyao arrived in Mengzi, he was stationed at the Jieshi Division. The local gentry, because Tang Lianshuai came to Mengzi on the first day of the first lunar month, presented a banquet with the famous Mengzi bait.The rest of the entourage were entertained by the local gentry to celebrate the Lunar New Year together. Tang and others received the supreme courteous reception at the first stop of their exile, and they felt a lot of emotion.In the evening, Tang Te convened all the officers and soldiers of the local garrison to give lectures. The officers and soldiers expressed their willingness to go to the ends of the earth with the joint commander. Tang was very moved and told that his party would go to Hong Kong via Vietnam. Disarm, I am half a soldier, and I am in exile today. I don’t want to see my army disarm for foreign soldiers, so I hope that the brothers can unite under the leadership of Captain Long and obey orders. I will never forget my brothers no matter where I am in the future. them. On the second day of the first lunar month, Tang left Mengzi to continue his journey. On the same day, he arrived at Old Street on the border of Vietnam. The French garrison lined up at the station to welcome him with a military salute. Before Tang got off the train, the train left for Hanoi.Tang and his party stayed at the Grand Hotel in Hanoi. The French Governor planned to keep Tang and others to stay in Hanoi for a short period of time. The news that Tang Lianshuai went to Hong Kong was a big news at the time, so it attracted the attention of many parties, and the Guangzhou side also attached great importance to it. As for Tang's own plan, it was his personal consideration.Tang has been a powerful faction in the Southwest since the Revolution of 1911, and his influence extends to Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan. After five years of success in defending the country against Yuan, his career and reputation reached the peak, and his words and deeds can affect the current situation.However, since 6 years, he has suffered setbacks in both Sichuan and Guizhou. The Sichuan soldiers have been concentrating their efforts to expel the Yunnan Army from Sichuan. In fact, the Yunnan Army in Sichuan and Guangdong did not fully obey his orders. Although he served as the Southwest Military Government One of the Big Three (Sun Yat-sen, Cen Chunxuan, and Tang Jiyao) is actually nothing more than a name.From the 6th to the 9th year of the Republic of China, he was just the king of Yunnan, a warlord in one side of the separatist regime. When the Yunnan army in Sichuan withdrew to Yunnan, Tang Jiyao was at a loss for what to do, and was finally driven away by his subordinates, which is really ridiculous.This also shows that Tang Jiyao's situation is limited, because with his prestige and power, after protecting the country, he should have sufficient financial resources in Yunnan, engage in construction, and train the army stronger, because Yunnan is remote and has not been involved in the north and south The great chaos in the past is a great opportunity to retreat and gather lessons, but Tang easily missed this good opportunity.In the end, it was a pity that he ran away in embarrassment on New Year's Eve because he had no military expenses and forced his subordinates to defect. Therefore, Tang's departure this time was the worst blow in his life, and it was also a huge and incomparable lesson. He naturally made extremely careful choices about his future during the journey. His initial goal is Guangzhou. Tang Jiyao has a representative in Shanghai named Li Xiaochuan, who is also from Daguan, Yunnan, who is from the same hometown as Zhang Weihan. He once studied in Japan. Even his students, he also knew Sun Yat-sen.When Cai E was seriously ill in Sichuan, he accompanied Jiang Fangzhen to visit, and then accompanied Cai E to Japan for medical treatment. After Cai's death, he and Jiang Fangzhen helped Cai Bi return to China, and he has been living in Shanghai on behalf of Tang Jiyao ever since. Gu Pinzhen returned to Yunnan, Tang Xiaye left, and Li Xiaochuan happened to be going from Shanghai to Hong Kong. He took the Swire Guangdong Ferry and was on the same boat as Wang Zhaoming and Zhang Ji.At night on the ocean, the three of them chatted on the deck. Zhang Ji suggested that Li Xiaochuan persuade Tang Jiyao to go abroad to "raise hope" instead of going to Guangzhou to be the "empty" president of the military government.He said: "The current military government is only the military government of Guangdong Province. It is urgent to unite the four provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Hunan in order to play a role. Unfortunately, because of Song Yun (Cheng Qian), we have lost Hunan. (Tang Jiyao) Now the relationship with Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou is ruined. If you go to Guangzhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou will definitely leave Mr. (referring to Sun Yat-sen) because of the relationship between Geng and Geng alone. Geng is not good either." Li Xiaochuan disagreed with Zhang Ji's opinion. He said: "If Mr. Zhongshan refuses to cooperate with Tang because of the collapse of Gengeng, he is not Mr. Zhongshan. What's more, Gengeng has not fallen today. He still has potential power. If Mr. Zhongshan He and the Kuomintang can win over Gingeng at this time and support him to regroup, and he will definitely work together for the great cause of revolution under the leadership of Mr. Sun Yat-sen in the future." Wang Zhaoming agreed with Li Xiaochuan's opinion. After they arrived in Hong Kong, they went to Guangzhou to meet Sun Yat-sen together.When Sun Yat-sen saw the three of them, he only asked eagerly about the situation in the Yangtze River area. He forgot that Li Xiaochuan was Tang Jiyao's representative. Li had no choice but to bring the topic to Yunnan, to Tang Jiyao's resignation, and to Hong Kong. Sun Yat-sen asked Sun Yat-sen to express his opinion. Sun Yat-sen He only said lightly: "Geng Geng has never obeyed me. He always disagreed with me when he was powerful and powerful. Will he obey me now?" Li Xiaochuan explained Tang's personality, thinking that Tang was a person with high self-esteem , not disobedience to Sun Yat-sen, and now he has suffered setbacks. It is a good lesson for a person who thinks highly of himself and has never suffered setbacks....When he said this, Sun Yat-sen got impatient, stood up, and said loudly: "Revolutionary work cannot be based on self-righteous soldiers. If the soldiers do not first receive political education, they will not be able to carry out the revolution. I have had enough over the years." Trouble for the soldiers, let me tell you, I am going to the Northern Expedition and I want to elect a president. I have ordered Chen Jiongming to raise two million yuan for the Northern Expedition within one month. If he deliberately delays, I will treat Mo Rongxin the same way To deal with him, if others scold me Dapao Sun, I will use cannons to defeat these soldiers who do not obey orders." Sun Yat-sen seldom felt this kind of excitement. This is because Chen Jiongming had been supporting Chen Jiongming in the past, and Chen Jiongming did not obey orders.So I am extremely angry, and now I am just making use of it.At the same time, Sun Yat-sen felt bitterly that the revolutionary work could not rely on the warlords. In the past, recruiting the warlords to participate in the revolution was just to take advantage of them. Using the name of the revolution to devour the fruits of the revolution was not only not conducive to the revolutionary cause, but also caused great damage.Sun Yat-sen did not reject Tang's poverty, but discussed what kind of people the revolutionary partners needed from the perspective of the revolutionary cause. Li Xiaochuan saw that Sun Yat-sen was very angry, so he waited for Sun Yat-sen to calm down before speaking slowly. He said: "Gengeng is still young. If Mr. can love and train him, he can be a good revolutionary cadre. Although he Go down to the field, but there are still several brigades remaining in Yunnan." So he made an analysis of the situation in Yunnan.It turned out that Gu Pinzhen led the army back to Yunnan this time, mainly because of Li Gengen's instigation.Although Li Yuangen is also from Yunnan, and he once presided over a martial arts lecture hall in Yunnan, and his disciples were all over the Yunnan army, but he has been fighting the world outside the province. He was the governor of Shaanxi and ran a martial arts lecture hall in Shaoguan.Of course he also has ambitions to capture Yunnan.He joined the Department of Political Science and became a giant under Cen Chunxuan, but turned against Tang Jiyao and Li Liejun in order to fight for the leadership of the Yunnan Army in Guangdong.Since Li Genyuan had the ambition to return to Yunnan, he instigated the Yunnan army stationed in Sichuan, sent people to lobby Gu Pinzhen constantly, and envoys came and went.Although Gu Pinzhen was jointly attacked by Sichuan soldiers in Sichuan, he got along very well with the Sichuan people in his defense area, and the Sichuan people even cast a bronze statue for Gu Xiu.He had no intention of going back to Yunnan to win the commander seal, but he couldn't stand Li Gengen's instigation, so he led the army back to Yunnan.In Li Gengen's opinion, Gu Pinzhen's prestige is not enough. The brigade commanders and regiment leaders under him, such as Jin Handing, Yang Ximin, and Zhu De, all graduated from the Yunnan Lecture Hall and were Li Gengen's students. After they returned to Yunnan, they must have urged him to return to Yunnan. Be an Overseer and Governor.His wishful thinking was in vain. First, the soldiers had already won the world, so who would like to invite a big boss.What's more, at this time, the reputation of the Department of Political Science has plummeted. It is attached to the Guangxi Clan, and the Guangxi Clan is also devastated. After that, he defected to the Beijing government.Since Gu Pinzhen is moving closer to Guangzhou, and Tang is also in Guangzhou, the situation in the southwest can form a powerful chain. The main reason is that Tang still has power to use today.If today the Guangzhou side received Tang with a grand reception, and then asked Tang to transfer the troops he left in Yunnan, Gu Pinzhen would also have a centripetal force towards Guangzhou, and Tang's troops would come from Yunnan and Guizhou, and they would be able to attack Guangxi with the troops from Guangdong. Clear out the last remnants of the Guangxi Clan and truly unify the Southwest, and the Northern Expedition will have strength. Sun Yat-sen fully accepted what Li Xiaochuan said, and immediately expressed his warm welcome to Lianshuai Tang to Guangzhou. On March 4th, Sun Yat-sen, Tang Shaoyi, and Wu Tingfang, the three presidents, jointly signed a telegram to invite "Tang Yushuai to Guangzhou to discuss major plans." Tang Jiyao and his party arrived in Hong Kong by ship from Haiphong. Sun Yat-sen’s representative, Wang Zhaoming, and famous people from Hong Kong met him at Jianggan. After landing, Tang went to the private residence of Fung Fai Terrace, Happy Valley to rest. In the evening, he attended the grand welcome party by Wang Zhaoming and others. Before Tang left for Vietnam, his secretary-general You Kuiju left a private letter, and left Hanoi for Yunnan without waiting for Tang to read it. The reason was that his private affairs needed to be sorted out urgently and he asked for a short vacation, but Tang was on the run. During the journey, his secretary-general gave up and turned back, not without grudges in his heart. On March 9, 2010, Tang Jiyao, the commander-in-chief of the Yasukuni Allied Forces and the governor of Yunnan, took a special float on Guangjiu Road from Hong Kong, accompanied by his entourage Tang Jiyu, Zhang Weihan, Bai Zhihan, etc., and representatives Wang Zhaoming, Zou Lu, and Xu sent by Sun Yat-sen to Hong Kong to welcome them Chongzhi and others went to Guangzhou, and when the car arrived at Guangzhou Station, Tang Shaoyi, Wu Tingfang, Chen Jiongming, Sun Ke, etc., the military and political chiefs of Guangzhou, all came to the station to welcome them, which was unprecedentedly grand.The military government made a special arrangement to vacate the seventh floor of the Asia Hotel in Xihaokou and make it the Xingyuan of the Tang Dynasty.The sixth floor of the Asia Hotel has already been given over to President Tang Shaoyi as a place of residence. It is quite convenient for the two presidents Tang to each occupy the first floor of the hotel. Tang Jiyao had a short rest at the Asia Hotel, and then went to the Yuexiu Building to pay respects to Sun Yat-sen. The two talked behind closed doors for more than an hour. According to Tang's later description of Sun Tang's conversation to his cronies, Sun Yat-sen paid more attention to Tang, and Tang was deeply moved. .Sun Yat-sen analyzed the general trend of the world and the domestic trend, vividly and clearly.Sun emphasized that the warlord separatism in the early years of the Republic of China would not last long. The warlords would conquer each other and fight endlessly, which would eventually lead to the people's livelihood and the country's failure to become a country.The first priority of saving the country today is to overthrow the warlords, unify China, and implement the Three Principles of the People.Finally, Sun Yat-sen said to Tang in a sincere tone: "Shuai, I am older than you. I am a layman in military affairs. You have made great contributions to the country in the past. If we two work together in the future, my ideals and revolutionary theories will be yours." If you cooperate with your military organization capabilities, if you concentrate on training the army and carry out the Northern Expedition, China will definitely be determined. The future will be long, I hope you will not be the number one in Yunnan or Southwest China, but be the number one in China.” Sun Tang's conversation made Tang Jiyao very excited. For many years, he had been watching the sky from the well, and he only claimed to be the first person in the southwest. Now he is running away for his life. In another new world, a brilliant outline was drawn, allowing him to see the vision of revolution.How could he not be very excited. After the secret talks between Sun and Tang, Sun Yat-sen and Tang went to the grand welcome party held by the military government in the same car, and only the voices of the battalion commanders were heard at the venue.Everyone welcomed Don with great warmth and kindness. Tang was first invited to give a speech at the welcome meeting. Most of the attendees were Cantonese who could not understand his Yunnan Zhaotong Mandarin, but they all understood his meaning.He said that he left Yunnan this time because he didn't want to fight with the same family. He used war to defend his position and corrupt his hometown. He didn't leave because of a military failure. Everyone should try his ambitions, so he would rather give up Yunnan, which he has governed for 8 years, than use war to solve the problem.His words won warm applause, and then Sun Yat-sen delivered a speech. Sun said: "Tang Yushuai's withdrawal from Yunnan is not only a failure, but a success. Wisdom and ability to make greater contributions. What is most needed in China today is to be able to sacrifice the ego and not corrupt the local spirit of tolerance. Tang Yushuai did not regard Yunnan as his private property. If his subordinates wanted to try, let them try it. Going so far can set an example for China. Let’s raise our glasses to pay tribute to Marshal Tang. Please cheers.” So everyone toasted with warm applause, and Tang drank it with the happiest mood. On March 10th, the second day after Tang Jiyao arrived in Guangzhou, early in the morning Tang Xingyuan was full of guests, all kinds of people.During breakfast, Tang Shaoyi ran from the sixth floor to the seventh floor to visit Tang Jiyao, and the two presidents also had a closed-door conversation. Tang Shaoyi asked about Tang Jiyao's plan to go to Guangzhou and his impressions of Guangzhou. Tang Jiyao said that he was excited and satisfied with the trip.He also said that he would like to contribute to the revolutionary government for the rest of his life, follow Sun to unify the Southwest, and carry out the Northern Expedition. Tang Shaoyi listened quietly to Tang Jiyao's words, but finally said coldly: "Brother Gingeng, you have worked with Zhongshan for a long time, and I have worked with him for a long time. He is too idealistic, thinks a lot, talks a lot, and does little. There is more empty talk than reality, so I advise you to keep it a little bit." Tang Shaoyi's bucket of cold water made Tang Jiyao a little confused, he was on the verge of exuberance, thinking that he had entered a new world, but he didn't know that this new world was also full of thorns.He didn't know how to answer, so he had to end the conversation with oh and thank you. Tang Shaoyi was a product of the Beiyang era, an intermediary between Manchu officials and Yuan Shikai. Although he was very talented, he was not a revolutionary figure.Between him and Sun Yat-sen, it represents two different backgrounds, different eras, and different ideas.The cooperation between them is only out of opposition to the Beijing government, and they are both from Guangdong, so of course he holds the opposite view of Sun's actions. Perhaps this day was very unpleasant for Tang Jiyao, because around noon, Chen Jiongming also came to visit Tang Jiyao, a powerful figure in Guangdong, the arrival of the No. 1 soldier, naturally it was also a closed-door discussion. Chen Jiongming was even more fierce than Tang Shaoyi. He said straight to the point: "Shuai, I disagree with your high-level actions. This is an era of power, and political career requires power. What is power? It is the army and territory. Since the Republic of China, Who has the right to speak if you lose your army and territory? You rebuilt the Republic of China in the battle to protect the country, but you don’t have territory and force today, and your past achievements are useless. Xiaozhai (Gu Pinzhen’s word Xiaozhai) is you His subordinates, if you stay in Yunnan, he will never dare to keep you in trouble. Your power has not collapsed, why did you step down so easily? You said that you can’t bear to ruin the place, and everyone can do things in the country. If you have the opportunity, let your subordinates try. Give it a try, but you won’t gain anything except sacrificing yourself.” Then Chen Jiongming said: “Mr. , if he does something, the world will not be handed over to Yuan Xiangcheng in the first year of the Republic of China. Therefore, I suggest that the best and only good strategy is to regroup and return to Yunnan. Only with a base can he have the right to speak and have influence. As for how When you go back to Yunnan, you must have a comprehensive plan. If you need me, I will try my best to support you, whether it is food, money, weapons or ammunition, I will do my best." Chen Jiongming's persuasion to Tang had his standpoint. He was the No. 1 soldier in Guangdong at that time, and Tang Jiyao was superior to him in every respect.If Tang stayed in Guangdong, he could not do whatever he wanted, so he hoped that Tang Jiyao would leave Guangdong, and he could listen to Tang Jiyao's persuasion to return to Yunnan. The words of Tang Shaoyi and Chen Jiongming influenced Tang Jiyao both tangible and intangible. In fact, Tang himself did not understand how powerful he was.While he was still on the way to Guangzhou, his powerful brigade sent a telegram in Zhaotong, announcing its resignation and supporting Tang Lianshuai. This was the fifth mixed brigade led by brigade commander Hu Ruoyu.This brigade is well-equipped and is the basic military force of the Tang Dynasty. It was originally stationed in Syria. When Gu Pinzhen led his army back to Yunnan, the Hu brigade was ordered by Tang to withdraw to Zhaotong, that is, to garrison Zhaotong. The original intention of the Tang Dynasty was to prepare for emergency use. Unexpectedly, Gu Jun rushed forward suddenly, and the Hu brigade had no time to cover up the attack, so Gu Jun rushed into the suburbs of Kunming.After the death of Tang Jiyaolun, the Hu Department only got to know the news in Zhaotong, and learned that Tang had passed Mengzi to Vietnam, so he issued a telegram, declaring that the whole brigade still supported Tang Lianshuai, and at the same time called himself the Jingnan Army, and Hu Ruoyu took the commander-in-chief of the Jingnan Army issue orders.Soldiers in the early years of the Republic of China liked to set up their own names. I don’t know the origin of this "Jingnan". It may be that King Yan of the Ming Dynasty attacked the Ming capital at that time from Yanjing. , There is no difficulty to calm down, Hu Ruoyu's support of Tang Fan has the meaning of calming down. The Hu tribe voluntarily withdrew from Zhaotong soon, and moved radially to the border of Guangxi. They marched smoothly through Guizhou. Guizhou neither welcomed nor stopped them, allowing them to cross the border calmly.After Hu's departure, Li Youxun's brigade in southern Yunnan also advanced to Guangxi via Baise. This brigade was based on Longyun's regiment. As the two brigades of Hu Ruoyu and Li Youxun moved to Guangxi respectively, they both held high the banner of supporting the Tang Dynasty. There were more than 5,000 people in these two brigades, and they were both extremely combative. This made Tang Jiyao even more famous in Guangzhou, because he was no longer empty. The two-handed dignitaries in exile are now partners with strength and capital. On March 31, Tang Jiyao attended the political commissar meeting of the military government for the first time. Now there are four presidents of the Guangzhou military government, namely Sun Yat-sen, Tang Shaoyi, Wu Tingfang, and Tang Jiyao.Among the four presidents, Tang Jiyao is the only one with force. The meeting passed the appointment of Gu Pinzhen as the commander-in-chief of Yunnan and Lu Tao as the commander-in-chief of Guizhou. The Chinese Kuomintang decided to set up an office in Guangzhou as early as February, appointing Zhang Ji as the secretary-general, and Tian Tong and Zhou Lulin as the officers. In March, the party affairs were officially launched. At the same time, Sun Ke was appointed mayor of Guangzhou on February 15. From all perspectives, except for Chen Jiongming's secret refusal to obey orders, Sun Yat-sen was quite handy in Guangzhou at this time, especially after Tang Jiyao arrived in Guangzhou. of change.Therefore, Sun Jiu has already advocated the formalization of the military government in Guangzhou. The official way is to elect the president and change the four different presidential systems.In the past, Tang Jiyao disapproved when he was in Yunnan, and now he has changed from an opponent to a supporter. Therefore, out of the seven presidents, four presidents are now on the same front, and Sun's idea of ​​electing the president can be easily realized. Tang Jiyao was in Guangzhou and his heart was in Yunnan, especially Tang Shaoyi's discouragement and Chen Jiongming's encouragement, so he secretly deployed in Guangzhou how to organize his old ministry and arrange a plan to return to Yunnan.