北洋系

Beiyang faction of Northern Warlords

north / (classical) to be defeated

the Qing Dynasty name for the coastal provinces of Liaoning, Hebei, and Shandong

ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin

to connect / to relate to / to tie up / to bind / to be (literary)

system / department / faculty

to tie / to fasten / to button up

to connect / to arrest / to worry