Master Yuan, start!

"Master Sheng, I advise you to save your energy." The rickshaw driver slowed down, stopped, turned around and said with a smile:

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"Listen, I listen to your mother!" Sheng Xuanhuai didn't waste any words. Seeing that the situation was unclear, he pulled the trigger directly!

However, the revolver did not make the sound expected.

"clatter"

"clatter"

I knocked on the button three times, but still no response.

It was not until then that Sheng Xuanhuai discovered that the gunpowder in the revolver had disappeared long ago.

"Mr. Sheng, can we chat now?" The rickshaw driver took off his wide-brimmed hat and showed a hearty smile.

"No matter who you are, leave immediately. I, Sheng Xuanhuai, will pretend I didn't see anything and will never pursue the matter!

Otherwise... Otherwise..."

Sheng Xuanhuai was still pretending to be tough until this point, but his tone had obviously betrayed him.

"What else can we do?" The rickshaw driver approached Sheng Xuanhuai step by step and said slowly, "I am Lin Sen from the Xiamen Station of the Socialist Revolutionary Party Intelligence Division. I am honored to meet you, Master Sheng."

"You are from Yuan Xiangcheng?"

Hearing this name, for some reason, Sheng Xuanhuai felt relieved. He pretended to be calm and said:

"Yuan Xiangcheng, what does he want to do?"

"Master Sheng, the two Lingnan Bank employees you sent to HSBC in Hong Kong are already guests of honor at our Hong Kong station."

Upon hearing this, Sheng Xuanhuai's face changed drastically.

There were still millions of taels of silver in the Lingnan Bank, but Sheng Xuanhuai used the excuse that this was the bank's necessary working capital and did not provide all of it to Li Hongzhang.

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In fact, he kept the money as a way out, but he didn't expect to be caught by Yuan Shikai's men.

What if Yuan Shikai sent someone to tell Li Hongzhang what I had done?

If you don't do that, your life will be in danger!"

When Sheng Xuanhuai thought of this, his hair stood on end.

"President Yuan... President Yuan, are you interested in the little money in Sheng's hand?" Sheng Xuanhuai, realizing that he was being caught by someone's little pigtail, even changed his address and asked tentatively:

"This is Lin Sen, Brother Lin, can you give me some pointers on the way forward?"

"A clear path?" Lin Sen grinned and said:

3. "Sir Sheng, Manchuria has fallen, the Republic has been established, and now the unification of the country is the most important matter.

The French have been harassing the southwest and have occupied Taiwan and Xiamen to this day. However, Li Hongzhang still wants to use the French to counter the President. Can he still be called a Chinese if he does this?

Lord Wensheng, you decide for yourself what to do next."

After saying that, Lin Sen pulled up the handle of the rickshaw again and slowly took Sheng Xuanhuai back to the city of Xiamen.

At this point, while the front battlefield achieved results, the intelligence work behind enemy lines was also completed excellently!

Chapter 398 Jiang Ning has a royal aura

In Jiangning City, twelve-star yellow sun flags fluttered above the city walls, rustling in the breeze from the Yangtze River.

Ever since the news of the National Revolutionary Army's great victory in Nanchang was announced in the two major newspapers, East Asia Times and Shenbao, this ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, which had been dull for a long time, was once again filled with noise.

"We won, we won! The National Revolutionary Army won!" A middle-aged Confucian scholar from Jiangning cheered in the crowd, holding a small red flag with a yellow sun and twelve stars.

"Do you know that the National Revolutionary Army won a complete victory in the Battle of Nanchang and took the city with almost no losses? What does this mean?"

"What does this mean?" asked the people around who were also celebrating.

"This shows that Jiangning has the aura of a king, everyone!" The scholar, dressed in a light blue round-necked, wide-sleeved shirt of Ming Dynasty style and a Dongpo scarf on his head, said to the curious eyes of the people around him:

"With the President commanding from Jiangning, Nanchang City is easily within his grasp. What else could this be but the aura of a king?"

Hearing this, a young man dressed in "revolutionary attire" on the outskirts of the crowd said disdainfully:

"Humph, it's a republic now, and you're still talking about royal aura? Do you think President Yuan is the kind of villain who only cares about turning the country into his own?

Even if he unified the world, he would not become emperor. Forget about talking about royal aura. Be careful not to hit the horse's legs!"

The so-called revolutionary uniform is a kind of Western-style clothing designed and manufactured by the people in imitation of the uniform of the National Revolutionary Army.

In terms of style, it is quite similar to the historical Zhongshan suit.

After the establishment of the Republic, Yuan Shikai ordered people to design a modified version of Hanfu, called Republican clothing.

However, Yuan Xiangcheng overlooked one point. The Republican uniform was complicated to make and somewhat restrictive to wear. It was not suitable as daily wear and was basically only worn on important occasions.

The "improved shorts" for daily wear are fine in rural areas, but they are not suitable for urban residents who have entered the modern era.

To put it bluntly, shorts are clothing from the agricultural era, while China had entered an industrial society by the end of the 19th century.

The people are in urgent need of clothing that is simple to make and practical.

Revolutionary clothing came into being.

The revolutionary uniform was originally called "pocket clothes" among the people. It was divided into upper and lower parts. The upper part was on the left and right chest and left and right abdomen, and the lower part was on the left and right thighs. It had a total of six lapel pockets, which fully met the people's daily needs for light storage, hence the name.

This kind of clothing, which conforms to the trend of historical development, was invented by a garment factory worker in Incheon. Once it was put on sale, it was in short supply and sold all over the country.

Even half of the cargo on ships from Incheon to Jiangnan was revolutionary cargo.

When Yuan Shikai saw that the Zhongshan suit was re-launched with a new name, he decided to name it "revolutionary suit" and use it as daily wear.

Under this trend, revolutionary clothing soon became one of the two major clothing styles of the People's Republic of China, along with republican clothing. The former was more of a casual dress, while the latter was more of a formal dress.

Among the people, revolutionary costumes are more popular among young students, who do not like to wear Hanfu with wide robes and big sleeves.

Therefore, when the young students saw this middle-aged scholar dressed as a Ming Dynasty Confucian scholar boasting about the royal power, they were quite disdainful.

In his opinion, President Yuan was a selfless person who only appeared once in 500 years. The term "emperor" was a disgrace to the three words "Yuan Xiangcheng".

"My dear brother, that's not right. The kingly aura I'm talking about isn't the aura of a person, but the aura of a city." The middle-aged scholar saw that the young student was a little angry and quickly explained:

"Fifty years ago, Jiangning City was the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to be the capital of the Republic again!"

"Jiangning, turn it into the capital." The young student whispered, "It seems not impossible. Beijing is the Tartars' lair, and Jiangning is the Nanjing of us Han people. President Yuan is Han Chinese, so the capital should be moved to Nanjing."

The young student was also from Jiangning. Once the middle-aged Confucian scholar changed the subject, he immediately forgot about the previous dispute and focused on the issue of moving the capital.

After all, who doesn’t want to be a Beijinger?

While ordinary people were whispering about this victory, some Anhui people who made a living in Jiangning City, especially those from Hefei, had a slight sense of doubt in their hearts.

Nanjing is the Hui capital, and this phenomenon actually began to emerge in the late Qing Dynasty. At the end of the 19th century, there were also a large number of Anhui people in Jiangning City.

And hometown sentiment and fellow villagers are very powerful organizations in this era.

Although Anhui has been incorporated into the rule of the republican government, the people of Hefei are still more inclined to support Li Hongzhang's Lingnan Huai Army.

They believed that the Lingnan Huai Army was also one of the top new armies in the country. Even if they could not defeat the National Revolutionary Army, it should not be difficult for them to hold on, right?

Therefore, when the news of the great victory in Nanchang reached Jiangning, the first thought of these people was disbelief.

Why is it that the city of Nanchang is like paper and breaks easily?

Could it be that Yuan Xiangcheng was fabricating the news and was just using it to appease the people?

"We won already? So quickly?"

Amidst the cheers of the whole city and the doubts of a small number of people, a group of Chinese and foreign reporters from Shanghai walked down from the train station outside Jiangning City, as well as many European and American diplomats who wanted to meet Yuan Shikai or senior officials of the Republican government.

After arriving, the team, led by members of the local Social Revolutionary Party, entered the city from the east gate of Jiangning City, and walked along the east-west main road. Surrounded by the people of Jiangning along the street, they marched into the command headquarters of the Huai River Campaign.

It was not until this time that those who had doubts in their hearts finally began to believe that the news of Nanchang's big 0 wins was true.

The command center was located in the former Governor-General's Office of Liangjiang. Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen and other members of the Central Military Commission of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the General Staff of the National Revolutionary Army stood next to a giant map of South China, their eyes full of joy.

Yuan Xiangcheng spoke first with a smile on his face: "A few days ago, I received news that a mixed brigade reorganized from the Hubei New Army crossed the Yangtze River and captured Huarong County in Hunan.

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I'm still considering whether we should make a breakthrough from Hunan first.

But I didn't expect the Nanchang defenders to be so generous and give us an intact city."

Yuan Xiangcheng continued, "In my opinion, we should commend Chen Huan, the commander of the mixed brigade reorganized from the Hubei New Army;

To commend Li Chun, the artillery commander who captured Wang Xiaoqi alive and bombarded Nanchang City;

Give credit to Professor Niu Shangzhou Niu, who invented the radio!"

Duan Qirui nodded in agreement, saying, "As for the commendation of merit, there's no need to elaborate, but the actions of Lingnan are a bit too bizarre."

He shook his head and sighed, "I thought Li Jingfang's assassination of the Sichuan governor was foolish enough, but I didn't expect someone to be even more foolish than Li Jingfang, abandoning Nanchang. Whose general is this Wei Rugui?"

Wang Shizhen turned his eyes away from the map and said loudly, "It doesn't matter whose general it is. The key is that his escape has created a huge space for maneuver for our army on the eastern front.

Chief Instructor, after taking over most of Jiangxi, we can either continue to attack Ganzhou to the south, or go west across Wugong Mountain and Luoxiao Mountain to encircle the enemy troops in Changsha Prefecture.

When the red flag with the twelve yellow sun stars is planted on the top of Luoxiao Mountain, the initiative will be completely in the hands of our army! "

"Luoxiao Mountain?"

When Yuan Xiangcheng heard the name, he was a little dazed for a moment. Decades later, it had a more famous name, Jinggangshan.

“I never thought that in a different time and space, Jinggangshan would still see the day when the red flag was unfurled.”

When he thought of this, Yuan Xiangcheng felt a sense of heroism filling his whole body. He wished he could immediately rescue China from the dire straits, stand proudly among the nations of the world, and compete with Europe and the United States!

Just when Yuan Xiangcheng was overwhelmed with emotions and unable to control himself, a shout came from outside the door, bringing Yuan Xiangcheng back to reality.

"Reporting to the President, British Minister Claude MacDonald requests an audience!"

"The British are coming?"

Upon hearing this, Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen both showed expressions as if they had finally waited for something.

The arrival of the British at this time was not unexpected by the top leaders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

But, do they bring support or warnings?

Chapter 399: How to Conduct Diplomacy in Colonies 4