The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (284): Falling flowers intentionally, flowing water is merciless.
In the summer of the ninth year of Beiyang, the Zhiwan War broke out, and the direct warlords who defeated the Anhui warlords and won the center of the Beiyang began to feel the sense of crisis in the back. After Cao Kun was elected president, he made enemies on all sides, and opposition rose everywhere, and in the face of the "anti-orthodox triangle alliance" of the Feng clan, the Anhui clan, and the southern princes, the direct warlords had different opinions on how to resolve it. As the leader of the new warlords, Cao Kun was related to Zhang Zuolin, the head of the Fengzhi warlords, so he advocated starting with "Hefeng", so he sent his brother Cao Rui out of the customs to win Zhang Zuolin over as "vice president". However, the Young Zhuang faction among the warlords of the Feng clan let out a rumor, intending to avenge the arrow of that year, and if Cao Rui went to Fengtian, he would be detained, because Cao Rui did not dare to rush out of the customs. Cao Kun then invited xiaye warlords such as Bao Guiqing, who had a friendship with Zhang Zuolin, to be lobbyists, but Zhang Zuolin remained unmoved.
Later, as Cao Kun's most trusted confidant, Wu Peifu did not want to "hefeng". In Wu Peifu's view, the Fengzhi warlords are the fake Beiyang who was trained by the Green Forest Regiment, and they will only duel males and females again, and there is absolutely no possibility of shaking hands and making peace, but although the Anhui and direct families have once met each other, they still belong to the Beiyang orthodoxy with the same roots, so they advocate adopting the strategy of wooing the Anhui warlords. Qi Xieyuan, the backbone of the warlords of Jiangsu, was worried about the Anhui warlord Lu Yongxiang's control of Zhejiang and Shanghai, and had been preparing to attack Zhejiang and Shanghai, but was stopped by Wu Peifu. Wu Peifu co-opted the Anhui warlords with "Zun Duan" and "Lianlu" as the main content, and Cao Kun and Wu Peifu often sent people to Tianjin to greet Duan Qirui's living quarters, and Duan Qirui was lukewarm and adopted an attitude of leaving. Cao Kun also ordered the arrest of Liang Hongzhi, a backbone of the Anhui warlord Anfu, and others, the surveillance of Qu Tongfeng, a veteran anhui warlord, and the investigation of Zhang Jingyao, who had served as the overseer of Hunan.
However, Wu Peifu wanted to use the opportunity to wish Duan Qirui a happy birthday to win over the Anhui clan, and as a result, Duan Qirui refused to do shou for him, and there was no shortage of direct warlords in various provinces who went to worship him. Wu Peifu also wanted to use Lu Yongxiang as a breakthrough to exchange the position of vice president for Lu Yongxiang's cooperation with the warlords directly under his direct lineage, he Wen then went to Hangzhou to convey this intention, Lu Yongxiang said that although he had a deep relationship with Cao Wu, when Cao Kun was the commander of the Beiyang Army in the third town at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Lu Yongxiang was the co-commander of the Fifth Association, and Wu Peifu was the pipe belt at that time, but Lu Yongxiang still politely refused the invitation.
In the end, Wu Peifu, who ran into walls everywhere, wanted to use Zhang Jingyao as a bridge to "Hewan", but there were jokes in the middle process. Zhang Jingyao, the governor of Hunan, because of his infamous reputation, did not dare to go to Luoyang when Wu Peifu invited him to visit Luoyang, but when he received a telegram, he first sent his brother Zhang Jingshun to invite him to see the truth, and Zhang Jingshun was warmly entertained by Wu Peifu before Zhang Jingyao personally went to Luoyang. Wu Peifu set up a banquet for Zhang Jingyao to pick up the wind and wash the dust, the electric lights suddenly went out during the banquet, Zhang Jingyao was surprised, hurriedly pulled out the pei gun at Wu Peifu to prepare for the fish to die in the net, did not expect Wu Peifu to drink and laugh as before, the electric lights were on, everything was nothing unusual, it turned out that luoyang power supply was insufficient at that time, and the power outage of electric lights was a common phenomenon. Although this matter was rumored to be a joke, the "Hefeng" and "Hewan" plans hoped for by the direct warlords had not succeeded, and it was easy to fight the country and defend the country, and the internal division of the warlords began to crack down because of the uneven division of the seals.