Master Yuan, start!

"Long live the President!"

As soon as Yuan Xiangcheng, Duan Qirui and others stepped out of the carriage, they heard earth-shaking cheers from people from all walks of life on the platform.

After the establishment of the Republic, at Yuan Shikai's insistence, no one kowtowed to him when they met him, and fewer people knelt down. However, the number of people who shouted "Long live him" when they saw him did not decrease significantly.

The people no longer have an emperor, but thousands of years of thinking have made them yearn for a strong man.

So, seeing the eager eyes of the people on the platform, Yuan Xiangcheng walked forward somewhat helplessly and waved to them.

In front of the people from all walks of life, Yuan Xiangcheng couldn't show his obvious disgust for these formalistic things. He looked at Xu Shichang beside him and asked: "Brother Juren,

With so many people, could it be that Song Qing has called them here again?"

Song Qing was originally the commander of one of the five armies of Jiashen. During the Battle of Shanhaiguan, he led his troops to surrender to the National Defense Army that entered the pass, and then followed them into the capital.

After expelling Cixi, Song Qing officially joined Yuan Shikai's faction and went to Jiaodong with his reorganized team, serving as the governor of Jiaodong in charge of the Yantai bonded area, and was later gradually promoted to the governor of Shandong.

When Yuan Shikai was heading south along the Grand Canal, Song Qing, then the governor of Shandong, organized a scene where the people welcomed him along the way.

Unexpectedly, after being transferred to Tianjin to serve as the deputy envoy for the preparation of the Capital New District, he came up with this set of formalism again.

Song Qing was originally the general of the Qing Dynasty. Since joining the Red Confucian Society and the Social Revolutionary Party, he has never directly commanded the army again. Most of his original troops were handed over to his deputy Jiang Guiti.

Sou Suo: Later, Jiang Guiti bid farewell to his old boss Song Qing, followed the National Revolutionary Army and left Shandong, fighting in the south and the north.

During the Huai River Campaign, Jiang Guiti participated in the Central Plains Military Region's attack on Hunan. He was currently rushing to Guilin from southwestern Hunan, intending to cooperate with Wang Zhanyuan who was heading north from Yulin to quickly capture Li Jingyi in Guilin City.

Although Song and Jiang no longer had any contact on the surface, they both developed very smoothly in the military and political circles.

He was one of the few former Qing bureaucrats who could squeeze into the middle and high levels of the Social Revolutionary Party.

After hearing Yuan Xiangcheng's complaints, Xu Shichang took a half step forward and said with a smile: "Weiting, Song Qing has been an official in the Qing Dynasty for more than 40 years, and he has some of the old officialdom's habit of liking ostentation.

However, his approach is also in line with public opinion!

Could it be that, Weiting, as the President of the Republic and the chief instructor of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, you don't believe in the people's love for you?"

"Believe it, of course I believe it!" Yuan Xiangcheng raised his head and said proudly:

"China can achieve what it has today, and the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the National Revolutionary Army can achieve what they have today. I, Yuan Shikai, have no regrets, I have no regrets, I have no regrets, and I have no regrets."

Over the past decade, with the various changes that have taken place in China, among the 4 million Chinese people, if we had to say who is the happiest, it would be Yuan Shikai.

Only he knows how dark and hopeless the original history is, and how long and tortuous the road ahead is.

Yuan Xiangcheng knew that even if he did not achieve 1898% perfection, he had already won a lot compared to China's 0 or even negative score situation after in the original time and space.

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2. Even if he died suddenly, what he left behind for future generations of China would definitely be considered a "good" situation.

Jiu Yuan Xiangcheng thought he had done a good job because of the tragic situation in the original time and space.

But in fact, even if the people did not know what happened in another parallel time and space, facing the deteriorating situation since the late Qing Dynasty and the Manchu princes and ministers who repeatedly gave in when threatened by foreigners.

Zero and the others will only feel extremely disappointed.

It was Yuan Shikai who gave them hope, and it was Yuan Shikai who stopped the decline of this great country.

Three anti-French, anti-Japanese, abolishing feudal domains and establishing prefectures, conquering Hunan, resisting the Manchus, resisting Russia, conquering Huai

Wu Yi initially used the power of the Qing Dynasty to exert his influence on the local situation, and then took its place naturally after the Qing Dynasty's state apparatus lost its authority.

Whether facing Westerners or Easterners, vassal states or Qing ministers, Yuan Shikai could always give a solution that would satisfy hundreds of millions of people.

4. Even the local landlords who had become most disgusted with Yuan Shikai and the Social Revolutionary Party because of various "land distribution" policies, admitted that only Yuan Shikai could safeguard China's interests.

Of course, they had to admit it.

Because the old Manchu bureaucrats who protected their interests have been swept into the garbage dump of history by Yuan Shikai.

Faced with the National Revolutionary Army coming in full force from all over the country, all they could do was cooperate, or lead their servants to rebel without knowing their own limitations, and thus bring about their own death.

By the time the new year of Wuxu arrived, Yuan Xiangcheng had become the undisputed number one person on this land.

Whether passively or actively, intentionally or unintentionally, almost all the citizens and all members of the Social Revolutionary Party acquiesced to this situation of one person being in charge.

Yuan Xiangcheng walked out of the platform and came to the center of the large open space in front of the train station, where he was greeted by the people who followed closely behind him.

At some point, crystal snowflakes suddenly floated in the sky and fell between Yuan Xiangcheng's eyebrows.

"Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest," Yuan Xiangcheng murmured.

Then, he tightened his republican uniform and shouted to the crowd of people in front of him, their hair flying in the cold wind and their faces red from the cold:

"Personally, there's no reason for me to live forever. For me, long live the National Revolutionary Army, long live the Republic of China, and long live the Chinese people. That's the truth!"

Chapter 423: Ma's Army Advances Westward (Part )

Early March of the Western calendar in 1898, the seventh day of the Lunar New Year of the Wuxu year.

The vast desert, coupled with the cold current from Siberia, has covered the weather outside the Great Wall with a cold and desolate coat.

Looking around, everything is dim, and only the river rushing northward on the Ningxia Plain at the eastern foot of the Helan Mountains can bring a hint of life.

This big river is called the Yellow River.

However, here, the yellow color of the Yellow River is somewhat unworthy of its name.

The Yellow River east of the Helan Mountains has not yet flowed through the "J" bend, nor has it passed through the Loess Plateau area at the junction of Shaanxi and Shanxi.

Therefore, even though it has flowed for hundreds of kilometers, the meltwater from ice and snow rushing down from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is still crystal clear when it reaches the shores of the Helan Mountains.

While the river water adds lush green vitality to the Ningxia plain, it also provides sufficient irrigation water to feed the people of all ethnic groups in the northwest.

The southern country has been swept away by the whirlwind. Whether it is the three provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi in central and southern China, the two provinces of Sichuan and Guizhou, or the three provinces of Guangxi, Vietnam and Fujian in southern China, they are all in the hands of the National Revolutionary Army.

Only the lonely Yunnan is left, unable to make any big waves.

However, in the originally relatively peaceful northwest region, after hearing the news of the National Revolutionary Army's successive victories in the south, undercurrents began to surge beneath the surface of tranquility.

As the National Revolutionary Army grew in strength, and Yang Changjun, the leader of the Chu clique stationed in Lanzhou, was not a tough person, the Gansu Army, the local power in Ningxia, became less and less obedient to his orders as the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu.

If we want to trace the true origins of the infamous Three Horses of the Northwest and the Four Horses of the Northwest in later generations, it was precisely this mixed Han and Hui Gansu Army in Ningxia City.

The leader of the Gansu Army was named Dong Fuxiang, a Han Chinese who rebelled in Gansu during the Hui Rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu during the Tongzhi period.

After the Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion, Zuo Zongtang was ordered to enter Shaanxi to quell the rebellion. He bribed Dong Fuxiang and changed his militia into the "Dong Camp", which was the prototype of the Gansu Army.

The Dongzi Camp followed the Chu army in its campaigns, and during this period it accepted the Hui army led by Ma Zhan'ao, the Grand Imam of Hezhou, Gansu, who surrendered.

From then on, the Dong Camp transformed from a purely Han armed force into a mixed Hui and Han army, and the Gansu Army was thus formed.

The Ma family army, which was famous during the Republic of China period, was derived from the Gansu army, which was a mixed group of Hui and Han people.

In the original time and space, when the Eight-Nation Alliance was chasing Empress Dowager Cixi in the late Qing Dynasty, the leader of the Gansu Army, Dong Fuxiang, was ordered to stop the Eight-Nation Alliance, but his entire army was defeated.

After the defeat, Dong Wufuxiang was singled out for punishment by seven foreigners, and the Qing government was forced to dismiss him from his post. The Han leaders in the Gansu-Sichuan army gradually lost their power.

After the Gansu Army retreated to the northwest, due to its location in Ningxia, Hezhou and other Hui Muslim-populated areas, the army recruited more and more Christians. This led to the Gansu Army completely becoming the Ma Family Army during the Republic of China period.

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In Ningxia City, Ma Anliang hurried to a dome-shaped building. After pushing open the wooden doors and windows carved with Arabic patterns, he walked into the house and asked about the latest situation.

"Did President Yuan really reject Mr. Dong's proposal to send troops?"

After the news of the National Revolutionary Army's capture of Guangzhou spread, the Gansu Army stationed in Ningxia knew that there was no way to stop the change in the world situation.

After some discussion, the Hui and Han commanders in the Gansu Army decided to completely ignore the transfer order from Lanzhou and stay in Ningxia as if they were a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.

The purpose of the Gansu Army's separation from the Chu faction was very simple, which was to climb up the ladder and further expand its territory.

From the initial Dongzi Third Battalion with only a few thousand people, to the current 20th Battalion of the Gansu Army with a scale of over ten thousand people, the Gansu Army has expanded to a very large scale.

However, after the Qing Dynasty split into north and south, they were oppressed by the Chu Army, which came from behind. They had to obey the Chu Army's orders in name, but in fact they were forced to hide in the narrow Ningxia Plain, and their development was hindered.

As the domestic situation continued to change, the Chu army's loss of power became very obvious, so the Gan army decided to break away from the Chu army and become independent.

Of course, they are not so arrogant as to be insolent.

After deciding to break away from the jurisdiction of the Chu Army, the Gansu Army urgently needed to find a new backer.

So during the Chinese New Year, when Yuan Shikai returned to Tianjin, they also sent people to Tianjin, intending to surrender to Yuan Shikai and the Republican government.

He claimed that he would go south to fight the Huai Army in order to seek a position in the Republican government.

However, the overall situation in the South was already determined. In view of the special composition of this army, Yuan Shikai did not immediately agree to their request to send troops. Instead, he turned the tables and demanded that the Gansu Army accept reorganization.

So today, some Muslim armed leaders among the Gansu Army who received the news gathered in Ningxia City to seek a solution.

In 1898, the "Four Horses of the Northwest" in later history were either still little kids or had not yet been born.

At this time, the Ma family army was still taking shelter in the Gansu army, and the fathers of the four Ma brothers had not become commanders.

The person in power in the Ma family army was Ma Anliang, the son of the great imam Ma Zhan'ao, who led his troops to surrender to Zuo Zongtang during the Hui Rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu.

After hearing Ma Anliang's question, Ma Qi, Ma Buqing, and Fang's father lowered their heads and replied, "It's not that they refused, they just said they wanted to accept some kind of reorganization and send people to train the Gansu Army.

They also said that the influence of Islam must be eliminated in the military and that no more imams should be sent to accompany the troops.

"Guilin city has been captured by the National Revolutionary Army, the war in the south has ended, and we are too late!" Ma Anliang sighed, not knowing whether he was blaming himself or Dong Fuxiang for negotiating such poor surrender conditions.

According to what Dong Fuxiang reported back, some political instructor would replace the imam in the future.

This is absolutely unacceptable. Without the imam, can the believers still be believers?

"These Han people didn't even think of leaving us alive!" Ma Qi looked at Ma Anliang and whispered, "Why don't we rebel? No matter what Chu army or Yuan army they are, none of them can be trusted.

Maybe this so-called republican government is just like the Qing Dynasty, which only responds to hardship and not softness. If we don’t teach them a lesson, they will think that our Christian believers in the northwest are easy to control!

"opposite?"

Ma Anliang looked at Ma Qi with an expression that looked like an idiot: "You are just a bunch of useless soldiers in the National Revolutionary Army. What can you use to rebel?"

What Ma Anliang is most worried about right now is the future of the Gansu Army. The National Revolutionary Army doesn't want them, and the Chu Army can't go back.

The Han people in the Gansu Army are fine. At worst, they can transform themselves into the National Revolutionary Army.

4 But what about the Christians in the army?

3The world is so big, where should we go?

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Just as Ma Anliang was hesitating, footsteps were heard outside the door, and a personal soldier walked quickly into the house with a freshly-made telegram.

"Master Ma, this is the latest telegram from Master Dong from Tianjin!"