The black concierge car did not park on the railway station square. Yang Yuanzhao is the controller of the northwest. In the eyes of many people in the northwest, he is called the Wanjia Buddha. There are still countless people. The portrait of Yang Yuanzhao is hung at home. For him, he is not a person who likes to break the rules and enjoy privileges. His usual behavior is quite suitable for the people. Only in a few cases will he choose to use privileges.

Now it is one of the few situations. Yuan Shikai's intention is very hasty. His arrival in Baotou is a matter that is enough to affect the entire situation in China. The Northwest has accumulated enough strength and can also rely on this strength to unify China. However, the unification brought by war is better than the public. Yuan Shikai and Yang Yuanzhao are public figures and leaders of the two largest forces in China. Such two people, meeting during grand events in the Northwest, will definitely have a negative impact on others and will make ambitious people wait for an opportunity.

Beiyang is a ripe fruit. Even if it is as strong as the Northwest, it has considered many issues and has many concerns. The biggest problem is what Yuan Shikai is preparing to do. Even if Yuan Shikai surrenders voluntarily, there is still another problem. It will successfully accept the problems of the entire Beijing-Tianjin and Northeast regions, be too smooth and take over, and be devastated in the whole process. Since the consequences are different, the northwest territory will be spread throughout northern China, especially in the Northeast.

If the Northwest Army is quickly deployed in the Northeast, it can take advantage of the Northeast's geographical location and pose a direct threat to North Korea. If both Taiwan and North Korea, the two major colonial territories, are taken down, it seems that Japan will gradually establish a victory image and glory, and it will be a huge blow to Japan.

Next to the station square, there was a very secret road that passed by about 800 meters, and then passed through a gate with a guard handle. This one seemed simple on the surface. But in fact, a convoy of thousands of commissars and three buses behind him entered a lonely railway line together, which was already below Baotou Station. After the train got off from 3 roads, the train would gradually descend. After 1,200 meters ahead, it would descend to the second floor underground, which was their mysterious platform. At the entire Baotou Station, there were less than 15 people who knew about it. Even in the northwest, only officials at the Ministry level knew that when they went to other places to work, they could board a special or special carriage here in advance.

The watch was flashing with a faint fluorescence under the light. Liu Shu looked at the watch and said slightly relaxedly: "There are 7 minutes left!"

It's 7:53 pm now. Because they were rushing through the military parade route, the time they took a little bit of a big time when they came. Fortunately, there was no big problem, and 7 minutes passed in a flash.

Soon, a roar came, and a not-too-long train suddenly appeared around the corner more than 1,000 meters ahead. Only Yuan Shikai could appear here at this time.

The train slowly slowed down. As early as when passing Baotou Station, it lowered the speed to about 30. In front of the platform, it slowly stopped. The trains opened. A bald man, wearing an old-fashioned landlord uniform and a pair of special beards, slowly got off the train with a large number of strong men under the guidance of the conductor.

Yuan Shikai! Even if Yang Yuanzhao doesn’t need to be identified, you will know that this is the famous Yuan Datou. The name of the currency during the Republic of China was like the old man in later generations. It was known to the general public and loved by everyone.

When seeing Yuan Shikai, Yang Yuanzhao felt like a historical figure was walking down from the picture, or the feeling of looking straight at the heavyness of history. Yuan Shikai looked dressed in a translator and looked a little fat, but occasionally raised his eyes were as heavy as a mountain. He was the controller of Beiyang and one of the few heroes in troubled times.

Coincidentally, when Yang Yuanzhao was observing Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai was also observing Yang Yuanzhao. Yuan Shikai also recognized Yang Yuanzhao's name as soon as possible. Many years ago, when Baotou organized a chamber of commerce, he heard that the young rising star in the business world, the then governor of Shanxi, even specially recommended him to the Military Affairs Office. This is also the predecessor of the 54 Mixed Editing Association and the origin of the Baotou Migrants.

A local tyrant, perhaps with some money, wanted to train a new army. If Yuan Shikai was not in the competition with the Qing court at that time, it was inconvenient to take action, so he could just send an assistant to destroy the new army in Shanxi.

This may be the most likely judgment that Yuan Shikai made after his own speculation. At the beginning of the establishment of the Baotou militia, the Northwest had only one or two thousand people trained by Feng Yuxiang in the Northeast. Although Feng Yuxiang was good, at that time, he was just a battalion of the Beiyang Army. How strong was he? One of the standards would be higher than that. To be fair, if you still didn't know the future of the Northwest, it was just at that time, Yuan Shikai wouldn't have looked at Shanxi at all.

Where is Shanxi? Going to the west entrance and the east entrance, those with a large population have to go out to explore and even make life with nature to survive. Create a local militia in the name of the new army. This is simply a small thing that cannot be even smaller. It is simply a joke. Only those old hats are rich, but those old hats have only the idea of ​​making money and will not care about Shanxi's affairs at all. In fact, a little later, when Yan Xishan, the king of the northwest, rose in the northwest, also had a new army. At that time, there were only two battalions, and the mixed army was established later. This was the case in Shanxi, let alone Baotou outside the mouth, which was a poor mountain and a bad water. Does anyone set up a new army?

Yuan Shikai was all focused on fighting with the Military Affairs Office at that time. The Qing court saw that it could not solve the Beiyang, and a large number of new troops spread out like a big broom. Not to mention provinces, prefectures, or even counties, as long as there was an application, they could always get a reply, but most of them were silent.

In this way, under the original six towns in Beiyang and the scale of more than 70,000 people, tens of thousands of new troops appeared wildly. These new troops, just like the former green camp, looked beautiful. Some were tools to defraud support and military pay, while others became tools of the revolutionary party. The reason why the Southern Revolutionary Party was able to successfully revolt was that the progressive young people and revolutionary patriots in the new army were the main force, even far above the so-called revolutionary predecessors.

Under countless mud and sand, a real tiger like the Northwest emerged. Next, Yang Yuanzhao's development was completely different from what everyone expected. Then the Qing Dynasty's central attack on Beiyang made its mark and established the 54 Mixed Editing Association.

In the eyes of the Qing court's center, what is this? Isn't it just an ordinary association with only two targets? With the strong push of the center, Beiyang spent more than ten years, and there were only more than 70,000 people. All regions were training new troops. However, except for Beiyang, the others were very average, not to mention a poor and backward Northwest, which was located thousands of miles away from the center.

In most places, there is no sufficient funds. Some even need to establish towns to support the establishment of such an association, but how many of them are really in place? After the center increased its inspection efforts and tightened the allocation, it quickly disappeared. I thought this was the routine of the governor of Shanxi, and after symbolically opening the door of convenience, I would not care about it.

The following changes made everyone beautiful and thought that the Northwest not only did not get empty salary, but also built the 54 mixed editorial association with a small chassis like Baotou. Not only did it have complete personnel configuration and weapons, but it even quietly expanded into one association three standards, each of which exceeded the capacity, almost equivalent to a town association.

This approach, which is different from other people, has allowed Northwest to successfully protect itself in its early stages and relatively weak situations. Around 1908 and 1909, if Beiyang really did his best, Northwest and 54 Mixed Works Association could not resist it at all. Unfortunately, once the previous opportunity is missed, it will be too late to catch up and recover later. They have gone to the last chance.

Yuan Shikai looked ahead, young and pretty, always had tens of millions of words to say, but he didn't say a word. Both parties met and introduced themselves. In fact, as neighbors in the north and were objects of mutual importance, both parties were very familiar with each other and almost recognized each other at first sight.

The three Beiyang heroes, Wu Peifu, Sun Chuanfang, and Cao Kun, these famous Beiyang backbones who are now and later generations are all in Yuan Shikai's team. Yang Yuanzhao couldn't help but sigh slightly that Yuan Shikai was Yuan Shikai. Even at this current level, there was still such a large group of people following him. As a manager, Yang Yuanzhao knew very well that at this time, the one who still refused to leave him must be his iron-core. Now it seems that Yuan Shikai has a high prestige.

In fact, the reason why Yuan Shikai was betrayed by his relatives was because of his later emperor. After all, at the beginning, everyone had achieved considerable results for one goal and one purpose. Everyone was looking forward to a better future and striving for more benefits. When you put aside everyone and go to play alone. It would be fine if there was no Republic of China. Everyone regarded you as the main person. You can be the emperor. With the Republic of China, the president has no lifetime system and has a term.

Everyone wants to sit in the position of the president. Seeing that you have the opportunity, you become the emperor, and you pass the position to your Yuan family. Yuan Shikai's son is not strong and he is immediately injured and has always been following his followers, so he has fallen to the point of being betrayal of his relatives. Now, with the emergence of the northwest, Yuan Shikai's personal desire for rights has not yet expanded to the level of later generations. This is also the reason why he came to the northwest. Otherwise, even if the north of China was destroyed, he would not feel sorry, let alone surrender.

The two of them fought against each other for a long time, and no one said a word. The sight and time seemed to be frozen among the two in an instant. None of the followers behind them said a word, and they stood together clearly. In the end, Yuan Shikai figured it out and took a step towards Yang Yuanzhao first. (~^~)
Chapter completed!