Chapter 223: The chaos begins to appear (Part 2)

Afterwards, Chen Deshang asked to go to Honolulu to meet Sun Yixian, and gave an explanation, and also donated a large amount of aid from the Revolutionary Army, but the losses of the Revolutionary Army in the south could not be recovered. For this reason, Chen Deshang, who felt guilty, sent someone back to the Chen family to catch up and asked Xu Changqing how the Revolutionary Army should restore the decline. However, Xu Changqing did not see the person coming on the grounds that he was no longer the owner of the charity house, but entrusted all the matter to Huang Juan.

What Huang Juan learned now is beyond Xu Changqing's knowledge. He had nothing to teach Huang Juan. The only thing he could do was to hand over the secular power and military strategies of the Nine-Level Lineage. With Huang Juan's ability to lose all the heavenly eyes and the knowledge she had, she was able to be competent for the identity of the owner of Yi Manor. Shortly after seeing the people sent by Chen Deshang, she called out a divination to find out the luck of the Revolutionary Army and gave some suggestions.

Perhaps because of her distrust of Huang Juan, the Revolutionary Army did not fully follow her suggestions to move the development focus to Yunnan, Guizhou, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and north of the Yangtze River, and still focused most of their energy on Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. In the end, they lost a large number of patriots in an uprising that was still in the womb. Then they woke up and gradually began to spread their thoughts to all directions according to Huang Juan's suggestions.

This change soon made the revolutionary army taste the sweetness. Nearly 90% of the non-commissioned officers in the Yunnan Army Martial Arts Hall, the most important military general in Yunnan and Guizhou, became underground members of the Revolutionary Army. The Yunnan and Guizhou military, led by General Cai E, the 37th Associate General of the 19th Town of the New Army, also voluntarily joined the Tongmenghui. It can be said that the Yunnan and Guizhou land is completely in the hands of the Tongmenghui, and the Revolutionary Army, which has been wandering outside, has a real territory.

In addition, the Revolutionary Army's grasp of the cities in the Yangtze River Basin was also in an orderly manner, among which Wuhan, the largest military city, was the most prominent. First, it established two revolutionary organizations, the Literary Society and the Gongzheng Association, and then vigorously developed the revolutionary ideas into the Wuhan New Army. Soon, a large number of new army generals responded, and gradually, the baggage team, artillery battalion, engineering team and other military organizations joined the Revolutionary Army one after another. However, the governor of Huguang Ruicheng knew nothing about the activities of the Revolutionary Army. Now he was busy fighting for military power with Zhang Xun, who was ordered to guard Wuchang. Zhang Xun was a very thorough royalist, while Ruicheng was a member of Prince Qing Yikuang. The two were in the same power, so naturally they had no time to do it.

In the Liangjiang area centered on Nanjing, although Zhang Renjun, a capable official from the royal sect, he did not know that he was just a subversive governor of the Liangjiang. The one who really held real power was Hu Yueniang, the leader of the Heretics Alliance. In this prosperous place in Jiangnan, nearly 70% of the officials and military generals were secular disciples of the Heretics Alliance, and even the most beloved concubine around Zhang Renjun was a prostitute. Hu Yueniang knew how powerful the calculation of the Nine-Rankan's Heavenly Dao was, so after establishing the Heretics Alliance, he followed Xu Changqing's guidance to the Chen family and made friends with the Beiyang Army and the Tongmenghui. Secular disciples continued to join the two organizations, and gradually formed two factions in the Heretics Alliance. At the same time, the Tongmenghui also gained a firm foothold in Jiangnan.

Just as the Tongmenghui continued to expand to the north, the Qing court took it lightly because it destroyed the important base of the revolutionary army in Guangdong and Guangxi, and began endless internal struggles. After the Beiyang faction and the veteran faction joined forces, the Regent Zaifeng became weaker day by day. Without the consent of these two factions, he would definitely not be able to leave the 300 miles around the capital. Zaifeng's ambition when he ascended the Regent was gradually exhausted because of these elbows, and gradually became addicted to antiques, calligraphy and paintings and could not extricate himself. Except for the most loyal royalists, the rest of his forces were divided up by the other two factions.

Zaifeng gradually faded out of the court power struggle, but unexpectedly caused a crack in the Beiyang faction and the senate faction, which had been in constant cooperation. First, due to the appointment of the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, the senate faction suddenly changed its face in the court, causing the candidates originally appointed by the Beiyang faction to fail to take office. The Beiyang faction was not outdone, and all the funds originally planned to expand the first town were used to expand Duan Qirui's sixth town. After that, the two factions began to fight endlessly in the court. The senate faction controlled the Qing government's finances. They secretly used bad things and cut off the Beiyang army's military pay, hoping to arouse the Beiyang army's dissatisfaction with Xu Shichang and others. Xu Shichang and others were not willing to be outdone, so they simply blocked all the passages to the capital and detained the senate goods as military pay on the grounds of clearing out the revolutionary party.

The two sides were evenly matched. Although the fight inside was fierce, it seemed harmonious outside, and no one was willing to tear the window paper. In this way, Long Jinbao, the largest third-party force around the capital, had a place to use his skills. According to Xu Changqing's wishes, no one offended anyone before things were clear, and they would get a lot of benefits from it. In just over a year, he went from a simple barracks general to the governor of Zhili, the head of nine chief officials, and his men also expanded to 20,000, which was almost comparable to the sixth town of the Beiyang Army.

Compared with the sixth town in Nanjing and the third town outside the pass, Long Jinbao's Zhili army was obviously more able to influence the situation in the capital, which made the two major factions in the capital increasingly win over him. Long Jinbao was not a fool. He knew very well that although he was in a very glorious place now, he was actually walking on the edge of the blade and could no longer deal with the two factions as before. So he changed his strategy and secretly moved closer to the Beiyang faction, but on the surface he turned to the veteran faction. In order to make Yikuang believe that he had surrendered to him, he even staged a good show in the court with Xu Shichang, and finally dispelled Yikuang's doubts as he wished.

Although the two factions of troops in the court fought endlessly, they did not give up their surveillance of the Revolutionary Army. In February of the third year of Xuantong, Zhang Renjun, Governor of Liangjiang, Ruicheng, Governor of Huguang, and Zhao Erfeng, Governor of Sichuan, reported that the Tongmenghui was frequently active in Liangjiang, Sichuan. After learning the news, the two factions of troops in the court changed their previous tit-for-tat, and quickly issued an edict, ordering Zhang Renjun, Ruicheng and Zhao Erfeng to be fully responsible for the removal of the revolutionary army in the three places, which could be done cheaply. After this edict was issued, the battle between the Qing court and the revolutionary army began to become fierce.
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