The number of people who were enthroned for the commander this time was five, and the eight people were studied by Wang Sa Jiang Yong Liu Lu Li He, comparing their achievements, contributions, and age. However, Jiang Fangzhen firmly disagrees with his place in the list of marshals. He also said that there was no staff member to be the commander, and then proposed to leave the commander evaluation group. However, Sa Zhenbing smiled privately at Lu Rongting and said: "Don't Jiang Baili want to enthrone the commander in his heart? Logically speaking, his contribution is enough. The reason for proposal to leave the commander evaluation group this time is to avoid it."

Lu Rongting said: "Xiusheng must support him. Look at the time he proposed this time, Xiusheng immediately agreed. He will definitely be the only one on the list of Fengshang."

Sa Zhenbing said: "But I know that Zhang Zuolin and Wu Peifu are in conflict with Jiang Baili, and I wonder if there will be any constraints in this."

"The arm can't twist the thighs." Lu Rongting smiled, "Who will be the general? The final decision is decided by Xiusheng. How can others point fingers? Zhang Zuolin, a bandit, has a smarter head than the southerners. However, Wu Peifu, the Shandong bastard, will be stupid in this matter."

Wang Maoru asked the Fengshen evaluation team to keep the list strictly confidential, but everyone has been speculating. There is no doubt that the target of everyone's speculation is Zhang Zuolin, who arrived in Beijing as deputy commander of national defense, Wu Peifu, who came to report from Mongolia and Ren Yuanxing, who returned from the Western Regions, must be ranked as the marshal.

The rumors of the general's fame are becoming more and more intense. Many officers speculate on the list of marshals, and some even list thirty-six marshals. Because there are folk rumors that Wang Maoru is the reincarnated Emperor Ziwei, the thirty-six Tiangang stars and seventy-two Earthly Evil stars, so there must be thirty-six marshals.

After hearing this, Wang Maoru laughed and said, "Thirty-six Marshals. Marshals are not worth much. Do you still need such a big publicity?"

Later, people from old Beiyang, Sa Zhenbing and others believed that the list of five people was too small, and there were many people in the future where the National Defense Force could be appointed as the general. There were more than five in accordance with qualifications. Especially the list was not Wang Maoru, which everyone felt inappropriate. As the one who created the National Defense Force, Wang Maoru's name of Xiushou was called for a long time, but it has always been unruly. If Wang Maoru did not become the general, wouldn't others put others on the fire? The two old men Sa Zhenbing and Lu Rongting took the lead and asked that Wang Maoru's name must be on the list of the general. If it were not the first one, it would not work. Wang Maoru just smiled and did not comment, as if it was a deep meaning.

When Wang Maoru revealed the list to Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zuolin found that there was no name on Feng Shuaishou's list, and immediately opposed it: "This is not possible. Brother Xiusheng, if you don't become a marshal, what marshal should we be? Aren't you scolded to death by everyone?"

Then Zhang Zuolin, Sa Zhenbing and others persuaded Wang Maoru one after another. One day later, Wu Peifu arrived in Beijing, and Wang Maoru held a welcome ceremony for Wu Peifu. While the two were chatting, Wang Maoru talked about the five people on the list of Fengshuai. Wu Peifu also said: "XiuShuai, there is something wrong with this list, and there is a big problem."

Wang Maoruqi said: "What's the problem?"

Wu Peifu said: "The bandits and I on the list promoted the republican government and stopped the civil war. This was a small personal effort to unify China. Liu Xiang's subordinates recovered Tibet, and he was also one of the heroes to promote the return of the Sichuan army to the Republic. Ren Yuanxing had nothing to say when he was guarding the Western Regions and opening up the territory and cracking the territory. It was just that Jiang Fangzhen... He had never led his troops alone to fight the war, so I'm afraid that the people below would not accept it."

Wang Maoru smiled. He knew in his heart that Wu Peifu had an objection to Jiang Fangzhen. In history, all warlords seemed to have an objection to Jiang Fangzhen. Whether it was Yuan Shikai, Zhang Zuolin, Wu Peifu or Duan Qirui, only Feng Guozhang was better to him. The reason was that Jiang Fangzhen and Cai E were classmates and close friends. When Cai E rebelled against Yuan, Jiang Fangzhen tried his best to help Cai E defeat the Beiyang Army. Although Jiang Fangzhen himself was not a three-people politician, he had taken a step further with Liang Qichao and others' progressive party and was considered a nationalist, but his actions to help Cai E still made the Beiyang warlords distrust. Of course, the Democratic Party government was not very interested in Cai E, and later history did not unanimously admit that Cai E was not a member of the Democratic Party, but a love-san who opposed dictatorship. Although Jiang Fangzhen was a think tank, he was never given power and was just a senior adviser.

Everyone knows that Jiang Fangzhen is smart, understands military, and has the ability. It is precisely because he has so many advantages that his disciples and former officials are everywhere in the world, and no one dares to hand over power to him. Just imagine, if Jiang Fangzhen was in power during the Democratic Party period, the various clans kept commanding the leaders of the Democratic Party and listened to the teacher's order, where would Chairman Jiang be? Therefore, it is precisely because of his qualifications and intelligence that he could not really take power. However, Jiang Fangzhen was a person who was familiar with national justice. He was not greedy for power. In his childhood, he vowed to fight for China's rise for life, and he spent his whole life achieving his goals instead of fighting for power and profit.

Jiang Fangzhen, a Zhejiang native, spent all his shrewdness on military theory research, rather than personnel struggles and political factions in fighting for power. Sometimes he spoke from national justice and the country, and he could not help offend people. He offended Zhang Zuolin in the Northeast and Wu Peifu after the unification of the National Defense Army.

"Jiang Fangzhen is a man who talks about war on paper, but this person, Zhao Kuo, can only talk about war on paper. If he leads troops alone, it is difficult to win a battle. If he is appointed as the commander, it is an injustice to the veterans who are fighting in blood in front of him." Wu Peifu strongly opposed Jiang Fangzhen's ranking as the marshal.

This time, Zhang Zuolin, who had never been very good at dealing with Wu Peifu, rarely chose to stand on the same front with him this time, and also opposed Jiang Fangzhen's call him the commander.

Wang Maoru actually made a difficult situation. In fact, some of Wu Peifu's words make sense, but Jiang Fangzhen's contribution to the National Defense Force cannot be judged by whether he led the army to fight. For example, when the National Defense Force was unified, Jiang Fangzhen wrote a letter to his students and hoped that his students would abandon the darkness and turn to the light to maintain national unity. Many local officers came not only for the banner of the National Defense Force, but also their teacher and principal Jiang Fangzhen came. Jiang Fangzhen's role was more inconvenient to explain.

After Wang Maoru avoided everyone, he looked at the list and said nothing for a long time. He must not bear the kindness he had to Jiang Fangzhen.

In this way, can only be separated from Liu Xiang or Ren Yuanxing? Liu Xiang has been in Sichuan for a long time. The biggest reason why Wang Maoru asked Liu Xiang to Beijing was to ban the Sichuan Army Group. If he did not take this opportunity to move him to the central government, it would be very difficult to transfer him in the future. Liu Xiang could not be separated from the list. Ren Yuanxing made great contributions, and it was even more impossible to be separated from the list, which forced him to think carefully.

Then He Rufei and Li Delin found Wang Maoru respectively, meaning that Wu Peifu and Zhang Zuolin entered the central government, which would lead to the pollution of the bloodline of the National Defense Forces. The implication was that they were unwilling to accept the management of these two old Beiyangs. Moreover, there were many officers of the National Defense Forces who had the same four items as him. Many officers expressed their disgust towards Wu Peifu and Zhang Zuolin. Wang Maoru comforted and said: "The National Defense Forces are still our National Defense Forces. Let them come to Beijing to be officials, but they are actually promoted and demoted openly and secretly, and the various real power departments are still our leaders. You don't need to worry about the issue of bloodlines, and they will eventually be integrated into us. You National Defense Forces officers who follow me must get along well with the old Beiyang officers and not cause any trouble." Although Li Delin and He Rufei did not like the old Beiyang officers, they could not stop them from entering the Ministry of National Defense, so they had to accept it reluctantly.

Fortunately, after Wu Peifu and Zhang Zuolin came to the Ministry of National Defense, they did not do anything at the first time. Instead, they watched the changes and saw what the Ministry of National Defense could do. The two of them were just their officers. This made many officers relieved that Old Beiyang was not here to fight for power and profit.

After the news of the title of commander-in-chief, Liu Zhe and Wei Dongling and other people from the Guards of the Guards once again joined forces to propose that Wang Maoru be named the Supreme Marshal. This time, they not only joined forces with people from the Baoding Group and the Lu Group, but also joined forces with officers from Beiyang such as Zhang Zuolin, Wu Peifu, Liu Xiang to advise Wang Maoru that Xiu Zheng was not appointed as commander-in-chief, so how dare the rest of the people be appointed as commander-in-chief? Gai Tianjiu, commander of the Eighth Army Commander of the Governors, took the opportunity to get a 100,000-person signature, asking Wang Maoru to be called commander-in-chief before others can be called commander-in-chief, otherwise the generals of the army would not accept it.

At this time, Jiang Fangzhen also saw the thoughts of the entire army and said to Wang Maoru with a wry smile: "Xiusheng Fang is now called the commander, and the time is ripe."

Seeing that Shengqing was difficult to refuse, Wang Maoru decided to increase the list of five to six, and he ranked last, which made Jiang Fangzhen persuade again: "Xiusheng is the last, how dare the rest of the people be ahead?" Sa Zhenbing and Lu Rongting also took the opportunity to persuade him not to make excuses, otherwise everyone would think you are imitating Song Taizu's hypocrisy and unacceptable.

Then the officers jointly asked Wang Maoru to be the commander. If Feng Shuai was the commander, he would be embarrassed to continue to serve as a member of the jury in the commander evaluation group. Wang Maoru took the initiative to announce his withdrawal from the commander evaluation group.
Chapter completed!