The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (267): Cabbage Braised Tofu.
In the early summer of the seventh year of Beiyang, Duan Qirui coaxed and deceived, and finally asked Cao Kun and Zhang Huaizhi to return to the front line of the two lakes, and the fifth battle plan seemed to be expected to be executed, but they did not expect that the two old men were pinning their hopes on enjoying their success, waiting for the rising star Wu Peifu to sell their strength. As a generation of Confucian generals, Wu Ziyu not only had a high degree of education among the Beiyang warlords, but also had high ambitions and did not stain out of the mud. Although Wu Peifu can also be regarded as a scholar leader, a group of rabble-rousers naturally became the name of this Xiucai's handy name when dealing with the miscellaneous army in the Two Lakes region. Just as Duan Qirui was angry about the Southern Expedition, Wu Peifu also had his own long-cherished wish, that is, to seek the unity of the world through a more moderate means. Compared with the old man feng guozhang of the direct warlord Feng Guozhang, the rising star of the direct warlord, he hopes peace, but he is not afraid of fighting.
However, Wu Peifu did not want to fight for a group of Beiyang elders who were vegetarian to eat corpses, the two superiors of the southwest front, Cao Kun had the grace of knowing himself, Wu Xiucai even if he had become "Wu Yushuai", he was still respectful, but Zhang Huaizhi's straw bales really did not enter Wu Peifu's eyes. However, the person who really promoted Wu Peifu's truce on the front line was a fortune teller. This fortune teller is no one else, but Zhang Qiyong, the brother of the former Hunan overseer Tan Yanmin, who is not only good at writing poetry, but also proficient in astrology, which can be seen rightly with Wu Peifu, who loves fortune telling, after all, Wu Peifu also set up a fortune-telling stall outside the Chongwen Gate of the Beijing Division when he fell down, Zhang Qiyong, as Tan Yanmin's lobbyist, after visiting Wu Peifu, the two fortune tellers felt sorry for each other, Zhang Qifu claimed to have studied the study of the Six Nongs for five years, so that there was no teacher to understand himself. Wu Peifu also recalled the years when he was a fortune teller and made a living, and he couldn't help but be red-eyed and hot-hearted, and he had a great sense of seeing each other and hating the evening.
After that, the two could not help but feel like-minded, and more importantly, provided an opportunity for Xiang Jun to talk with Wu Peifu. It is reasonable to say that they were all light on each other, but they did not expect that Wu Peifu and Zhang Qiyong, the two fortune tellers, saw each other at first sight and directly promoted the armistice between the Zhi Army and the Xiang Army on June 25 of that year, and the two sides shook hands and made peace and then there was no war in Shonan. However, the Yue army counterattacked in a big way, the Beiyang army successively lost Longyan, Longxi and other places, as the main general of the Aid Guangdong Beiyang Army, Zhang Huaizhi was still waiting to "borrow Zhao Yun" from Cao Kun, that is, waiting for Wu Peifu to come to charge the front, in the face of the situation at this time, there was only a banner to stop, even if there was the courage to continue to wave the division to "aid Guangdong". Duan Qirui's ambitious fifth combat deployment was declared bankrupt because of the sight of the two fortune tellers. Such a tiger's head and tail really made the stubborn Duan Qirui unwilling, but there was no way, Bi This Beiyang Tiger was a lonely man, without his own concubines.
In the end, in the face of the "museum" of the Beiyang Army on the front line, that is, the various local warlords such as the Zhi Army, the Feng Army, the Lu Army, the Soviet Army, and the Dingwu Army, as well as Zhang Jingyao's Eighth Division and Feng Yuxiang's Sixteenth Mixed Brigade, but those who were willing to work for their loyalty did not, Duan Qirui began to understand that relying only on temple capital would become weaker and weaker, so he was forced to build his own concubines. Because of the opportunity of the First World War, the strategist Xu Shuzheng also had a layout long ago, so Duan Qirui ordered him to train the people belonging to the Anhui warlords in the name of participating in the war, and the specific training site was selected at the small station, the birthplace of the Beiyang Army, the place where the beiyang warlord old man Yuan Xiangcheng became famous, and the three mixed brigades of the participating troops were ready to be organized, and then gradually expanded, the cabbage braised tofu, no one would touch anyone's light, Duan Qirui would have his own consorts. The small station training achieved Yuan Xiangcheng, and Duan Qirui at this time was also looking forward to his own glory.