The Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (282): The phoenix that falls into the water is not as good as the chicken.
In June of the eighth year of beiyang, the northern land was full of war clouds. The strength of the two major warlords, Feng and Feng, has surged, and the contradictions have gradually intensified, and the Anhui warlords have long been in vain. Duan Qirui above the temple, the once-stubborn "Tiger of beiyang" has become a paper tiger who dares to pick up the tiger's whiskers. In the face of the small movements of the two warlords under the eyes of Feng and Feng, they could only stare dryly. When Ni Sichong was in charge of Anhui, anhui had always been the back garden of the Anhui warlords by virtue of his locality and friendship, where Ni Sichong had led the army to intercept Feng Guozhang, the leader of the warlords who led the guards south to avoid danger. Nowadays, the "Caotou King" of Anhui is already Ni Sichong's nephew Ni Daoxiu, who not only squeezed out Wang Yitang, who was inserted by Duan Qirui and intercepted the taxation of the whole province, but also openly led the "Ni Family Army" to call the center. Although Wu Bingxiang, the new overseer sent by Duan Qirui to Anhui, did not dare to openly refuse by force, he always complained, and the warlords of the Feng clan had always been eyeing Anhui territory, and Wu Bingxiang supervised the military affairs of Anhui in name only.
This was followed by the territory of Shaanxi, and Sun Yue, the descendant of the Beiyang warlords, went so far as to openly lead the army into Shaanxi in the name of "suppressing bandits." In response to the rebuke of Duan Qirui's predecessors, he directly resigned in anger, but privately continued to command troops to seize northern Shaanxi, and with the Shaanxi army in Shaanxi, under the situation of internal and external cooperation, the Anhui warlord Wu Xintian, in addition to flying electricity to Duan Qirui, was unable to resist, and the result could only be the negative corner of southern Shaanxi. After Fengjun entered the customs, he had been coveting Jiangsu territory, and the direct warlord Rookie Sun Chuanfang was naturally unwilling to let go, the lips of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces were cold, songhu was also affected, and the Anhui warlord Lu Yongxiang, who was then the protector of Songhu and the military governor of Jiangsu, was forced to resign voluntarily, so as not to be expelled from the disgrace, and Duan Qirui also understood the bitterness of this Anhui warlord.
However, with Lu Yongxiang's resignation, in order to satisfy the ambitions of the major warlords who could not be defeated, Duan Qirui had to adopt the strategy of cutting meat and feeding tigers. He first appointed Zhang Zuolin's secretary Zheng Qian as the military governor of Jiangsu, and then succeeded him by Yang Yuting, who was known as "Little Zhuge Ge" among the warlords. Jiang Dengxuan, one of the "Five Tiger Generals" under the Fengjun account, was also caught by the Anhui Military Affairs Supervisor, and the Feng warlords were able to infiltrate Su Wan. As for the Feng warlords who were able to concurrently serve as the military governor of Gansu, Sun Yue also sat firmly in the position of military governor of Shaanxi as he wished. The appetites of the two major warlords, Feng and Feng, were satisfied, and Duan Qirui's subordinates, Wu Bingxiang, Wu Xintian, Lu Yongxiang, and other backbone warlords of the Anhui clan, all helplessly became victims of currying favor with their opponents.
In the end, although Duan Qirui had repeatedly expressed his willingness to bid farewell to the temple and go to the wilderness, he would not accept the unreasonable demands of the Governor of Suzhou, Anhui, Shaanxi and other provinces, and his strong and uninhibited personality was also called "Duan Ligong" by people at the time. However, with the threat to his own authority and the difficulty of preservation, his determination and courage have long been thrown out of the clouds. At this point, the former Duan Ligong also became the Duan Aigong, as the leader of the Anhui warlords, it really made a bunch of old subordinates chill. However, cutting meat and feeding tigers is only a temporary measure, the ambitions of the warlords are endless, and when they can gain benefits by means of threats, they will become more intense, so the trick will be repeated, continue to seek profits, and Duan Qirui, who is in a dilemma, must make another plan. The arrogance of the Warlords of the Feng clan also gave birth to the division of the Seven Provinces and the Nine Provinces Alliance of the warlords of the northern provinces, and the hot war against the Central Plains was about to come.