Li Hongzhang felt a little envious when he saw Liu Kunyi being so leisurely. He could finally put aside these mundane things and live the life he wanted for a few days.
With this thought in mind, Li Hongzhang stepped into the study and sat down when he was opposite Liu Kun without him having to let him go.
Liu Kun raised his head and looked at Li Hongzhang, smiled and said: "Master Zhongtang, are you here to see the villain's joke?"
Li Hongzhang sat there and looked Liu Kunyi up and down, and saw that his face was calm and energetic, and he did not look like he was forced to lose his official position by his nephew.
"We have been fighting for so many years, and now we finally have a winner?"
Li Hongzhang was also a little happy when he said this. He and Liu Kunyi can be said to be representatives of the Hunan Army and the Huai Army. They have fought hard over the years. The last time Liu Kunyi was dismissed as the Governor of Liangjiang, ostensibly he wanted Liu Kunyi to go home.
Ding You, in fact, it was Li Hongzhang who ordered several impeachments, and the court was able to avoid Liu Kun's desire to steal his love.
When Liu Kun heard this, he also had some emotional fluctuations. He thought for a moment, and then nodded. He had to admit that Li Hongzhang was indeed powerful, and he was still worse than him.
However, Liu Kunyi did not think that the Hunan Army lost to Li Hongzhang's Huai Army.
At present, it seems that the Hunan Army has a successor with Liu Hai, and this Liu Hai still has some abilities. He has revitalized the Hunan Army that was on the verge of decline. The current Hunan Army is no less than Li Hongzhang's Huai Army.
Li Hongzhang is just the opposite. It seems that Beiyang is very prosperous, but in fact he has a big weakness, that is, he has no successor. After Li Hongzhang is gone, Beiyang will probably fall apart.
"After fighting all my life, I am finally going back to my hometown. Will Li Zhongtang accompany me to have a glass of wine?"
Li Hongzhang smiled, took a pair of bowls and chopsticks from the side, and drank a few drinks with Liu Kun.
While drinking, Li Hongzhang suddenly asked: "How could you be so careless and let a young boy get the upper hand? This is not like your style."
After Liu Kun finished listening, his eyes flickered for a moment, and finally a helpless expression appeared on his face.
"My nephew is not a simple man. In just a few years, the Hunan Army has been run like an iron bucket. I can't even get involved. I can only be an empty-bucket governor of Liangjiang."
Liu Kun kept sighing when he said this.
After listening to Liu Kunyi's words, Li Hongzhang sighed for a while, the waves behind the Yangtze River pushed the waves ahead, and the waves in front died on the beach.
Li Hongzhang now felt some sympathy for Liu Kunyi. The nephew he had worked so hard to cultivate had finally brought him down. This was hard for anyone to accept, let alone this famous general of the Hunan Army who once held great power.
Liu Kun then took the wine glass, covered his face slightly, and peeked at Li Hongzhang. When he saw Li Hongzhang, he sighed and sympathized with him, and then he felt relieved.
The two of them drank a few more glasses of wine, and Li Hongzhang left on the pretext of having something to do.
After Li Hongzhang left? Liu Kunyi couldn't help but sneer in his heart: You are like Li Hefei, but I have been at a disadvantage after fighting for my whole life? I can hide it from you this time.
Li Hongzhang left Liu Kunyi's study. He was in a very good mood. Now his opponent finally got down. After fighting for a lifetime, the result finally came to an end.
As a result, he had just returned to his guest room when he suddenly felt that something was wrong. Then he thought about what had happened and suddenly exclaimed: "What a Liu Kunyi, you have hidden the truth from everyone in the world."
It turned out that Li Hongzhang had thought about the cause and effect. He actually found it strange that a man like Liu Kunyi, who had been fighting in the officialdom for his whole life, let Liu Hai enter Nanjing with hundreds of soldiers without any precautions.
At the same time, although the Hunan Army is said to have been controlled by Liu Hai, are there no veterans of the Hunan Army? No one informed Liu Kunyi?
Looking at it this way, is it really weird? Liu Kunyi completely handed over the power of the Liangjiang area to Liu Hai without any resistance.
This is not a forced transfer of power. This is simply a peaceful transfer of the property of the Hunan Army to the next generation of commanders.
When Li Hongzhang thought of this, what he had not understood before suddenly became clear. Why did Liu Hai become a minister and command the two rivers in just a few years?
These were probably the few big bosses left by the Hunan Army. Zeng Guoquan and Liu Kunyi reached a consensus, and then they used all their prestige to cultivate Liu Hai. Only in five or six years did Liu Hai go from a white body to a Liangjiang leader.
Governor, commander of the Hunan Army.
By this time, Li Hongzhang also began to admire these big bosses of the Hunan Army. They were really courageous, and at the same time he was a little envious of them. Although Liu Hai was unruly, he was still somewhat capable, otherwise he would not be able to hold on to them.
He controlled the Nanyang Navy and the Hunan Army.
After Li Hongzhang thought about this, he thought again. Those under his command who could inherit Beiyang were either too old or incompetent. Once he was gone, Beiyang would not fall apart and would be destroyed by the imperial court and the emperor.
Nanyang jointly suppressed them, and in the end they could only lie dormant and wait for the opportunity.
Li Hongzhang was filled with emotion when he thought of this. At the same time, he also admired Liu Kunyi for his cunning and cunning.
On the second day, after Li Hongzhang said goodbye to Liu Hai, he left Liangjiang on a cruiser and returned to Tianjin.
Afterwards, Li Hongzhang went to the capital again and reported to the Military Aircraft Department and the Empress Dowager Cixi the results of this southward march, as well as Liu Hai's current attitude.
After the Empress Dowager Cixi and others finished listening, Liu Hai still obeyed the court's orders and there would be no obstacles to the officials appointed by the court, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
The Liangjiang Incident, which caused a sensation throughout the country, came to an end just like this.
The final result was that Liu Hai served as the governor of Liangjiang and controlled all the military power of the two generals. However, as a step back, Liu Hai would still pay taxes to the court and would not interfere with local officials at all levels appointed by the court.
After Liu Hai became the governor of Liangjiang, he brought his family from Shanghai to Nanjing.
After settling down his family, Liu Hai began to gather all the military power in the Liangjiang area.
The current military system in the Liangjiang region is very chaotic. The main combat capability is the 50,000 Hunan Army under Liu Haihui. However, there are also many Green Camps and Eight Banners as supplements.
For these green camps, Liu Hai is the main direction of reform. But for those Eight Banners gentlemen, Liu Hai is not prepared to touch them.
The Green Camp is all Han Chinese. Although their equipment is crude and their combat capabilities are low, as long as they send people to undergo rigorous training and change their equipment, they will be a unit capable of fighting.
As for the Eight Banners gentlemen, although Liu Hai, as the governor of Liangjiang, could not control them, their immediate superior was General Jiangning.
Moreover, Liu Hai also had another idea, which was to let these Eight Banners disciples continue to eat, drink and have fun, so as not to cause chaos to the world when the world turns upside down one day.
Liu Hai issued his first military order as the Governor of Liangjiang at the Governor's Mansion of Liangjiang, that is, the Green Camp in the Liangjiang area was to come in batches for training near Nanjing.
After Liu Hai's order was issued, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces naturally obeyed the order, and soon the green battalions gathered in batches. According to the plan, the first batch of green battalions was already on the way to Nanjing.
However, there was trouble in Jiangsu where Liu Hai was in charge. The current governor of Jiangsu was a Manchu man of fortitude. It could be said that this person was specially sent by the Qing court to the Liangjiang area to monitor the Han people in the south of the Yangtze River.
Liu Hai was so unscrupulous in gathering military power, and the representative of the Qing court in Jiangnan was naturally unhappy.
At that time, he just sent a document to Liu Hai. The content was that the green camps in various places were always under the control of the governor, and the governor of Liangjiang had no right to call them at will.
Liu Hai was so angry after reading this document. What was he trying to do? If he gave up control of Green Camp, his control over the Liangjiang area would be reduced by at least half.
So Liu Hai no longer bothered with the Jiangsu governor Gangyi, and directly issued orders to the green battalions of various ministries in the Liangjiang area to gather them all in the Nanjing area.
Now the leaders of the Green Camp were in a dilemma. Their two immediate superiors issued different orders. What should they do?
However, these people soon saw the situation clearly. Liu Hai was now the most powerful in the Liangjiang area, and the court had to tolerate him. If Liu Hai's orders were not respected, there would be no good consequences.
So the generals from various departments of the Green Camp also gathered with their troops towards Nanjing City.
The governor of Jiangsu Gang Yi was very angry after learning about this situation, and directly reported to the court to impeach Liu Hai for exceeding his authority.
Not to mention, at that time, he sent an order to all the governments in Jiangsu, requiring that this year's tax revenue be delivered directly to the court without passing through the two rivers. This was to break with Liu Hai.
Naturally, Liu Hai could not allow such a person to appear under his command, so he also submitted a memorial saying that the governor of Jiangsu was resolute and acted arbitrarily without respecting orders, and demanded severe punishment for the resolute governor.
After the Qing court received these two impeachment memorials, they finally thought about it and suppressed both memorials. They were now very satisfied with having a troublemaker in the Liangjiang area.
And Liu Hai looked at his impeachment memorial, but there was no reply for so many days, and all the tax revenue from the Jiangsu region was really concentrated in Suzhou, the capital of Jiangsu, and it was about to go straight to Kyoto along the river, and it had nothing to do with him.
Liu Hai likes the Jiangnan region, and a large part of it is because the Jiangnan region has developed finances and taxes. If the finances and taxes here are lost, Liu Hai will have to pay for his troops out of his own pocket. How can Liu Hai accept this?
So Liu Hai ordered his troops, the 2nd Division of the Hunan Army, to march directly into Suzhou, and then blocked all transportation arteries in Suzhou.
Jiangsu prefect Gangyi saw that Liu Hai dared to send troops to besiege Suzhou, and he immediately became furious. He led his officials to the gate of the city.
It seems that the Hunan Army has firmly controlled the city gate, and everyone entering and leaving will be strictly interrogated.
Seeing this situation, Gang Yi took three steps at a time to reach the city gate, and slapped the Hunan soldier who was inspecting a wealthy businessman.
"You are a ungrateful slave. How dare you act so recklessly in Suzhou? Is there still a court or an emperor?"