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Third, establish a strict military financial, equipment, and material management system to minimize various loopholes.

Fourth, promote nationalism and patriotism education throughout the army.Soldiers without a junior high school education must receive a junior high school education during their service, and soldiers with no education must attend literacy classes.

Fifth, Wang Zhenyu also puts great emphasis on the establishment of radio colleges in Army University, Naval University, and Air Force University to train radio talents in various systems.In the field troops, the division headquarters set up a dedicated communications regiment, the brigade headquarters set up a communications battalion, the regiment headquarters set up a communications company, and the battalion headquarters set up a communications squad. We must take the formation of communications troops as a key task.

Sixth, Wang Zhenyu once again reiterated that the non-wartime transfer of non-security forces must be jointly ordered by the General Office of the Military Commission and the General Staff Headquarters, otherwise it will be regarded as a rebellion; First level; the consumption of training ammunition in each unit must be exchanged for the same amount of new ammunition with empty ammunition; officers at the regimental level are exchanged once every two years, officers at the battalion level shall not serve in the same post for more than three years, and officers at the company level shall not exceed four years; recruits All are recruited and trained by the Armed Mobilization Department for a period of four to six months, and the subordinate troops are basically distributed after the geographical chaos.

For the army, Wang Zhenyu has been diligent for a while, who let this be his biggest asset?

And in Nanjing, the first storm of power struggles also began. . .

Chapter 313 Southwest Incident

The wheel of history soon arrived in September of the fifth year of the Republic of China. In Nanjing, with the signing of the National Government’s Independent Tariff Agreement between China, the United States, Britain and France, the 20% increase in customs duties will be officially implemented from New Year’s Day in the sixth year of the Republic of China. This means that the customs revenue of the Nanjing National Government's fiscal revenue will change from the current [-] million Chinese yuan to [-] billion yuan, which is conservatively estimated to be around [-] billion yuan.Hu Hanmin, President of the Executive Yuan, was naturally in a good mood during this time, seeing everyone with a smiling face, instead of the tense look in the past, as if everyone owed him money.

However, the happiness brought by the huge benefits is short-lived. The national government is now more and more like a government. The political forces of various factions express their sincere gratitude to Wang Zhenyu for delegating power to them, and then, then, Wang Zhenyu, the source of power Forgot to go to the side.What everyone has to do now is to continuously expand their power and status within the framework of the national government. After all, the cake has been laid out, and how to distribute it is what everyone cares about.

The two major political factions, Zhang Taiyan and Sun Wen, first clashed. These two could not urinate in the same pot during the Qing Dynasty.

The National Socialist Party is probably the least like a political party among all political parties in China. In fact, this party should not be called a party, but should be called an alliance. Its essence is Wang Zhenyu's National Socialist Party, Sun Wen's Chinese Revolutionary Party, Huang Xing Some of the Tongmenghui represented by the non-Sun Wen faction, and the four major political factions of the Restoration Association headed by Zhang Taiyan form a seemingly compact political alliance.Compared with the famous Kuomintang-Communist cooperation in history, there is no cross-party cooperation here. All political parties have closed down, party affairs, personnel affairs and other messy things have been merged into one, and Sun Wen's Three Revolutions and the National Socialist Party have also been combined. The party's national socialism has been integrated (all other talents in the party are lacking, that is, there is no shortage of pens).After Liang Qichao went south to serve as the president of the National Government Examination Institute, this integrated doctrine was named by Liang Qichao as the National Socialism of the Chinese Nation (something with Chinese characteristics).

But in essence, the National Socialist Party is still a loose alliance. The original political party was just downgraded and turned into a faction. At the beginning, the contradictions within the party formed by these different factions were not obvious.However, as the revolutionary situation improved, contradictions began to emerge continuously.

But at this time, Huang Xing's body continued to decay at a speed visible to the naked eye.In the current party, although Huang Xing is the weakest, he is Wang Zhenyu's old superior, a veteran of the Tongmenghui, and a hero of the [-] Revolution.Coupled with his modest and honest personality, he is a character that can be accepted in all aspects.In the end, the national government was able to appear in this time and space like a flower. It can be said that Huang Xing is the key and the link.But now there is obviously a big problem with this key link in terms of physical health. The various forces in the national government that has been established for less than half a year have ushered in the first opportunity for political reshuffle.

Around the position of the National Government's No. [-] in the future, the conflicts between the parties began to gradually intensify and escalate.

The first attack was the Guangfu Society led by Zhang Taiyan. This title was proposed and widely spread by people who cared about politics at that time.Similarly, Sun Yat-sen's faction was naturally called the Tongmeng faction.So by analogy, Huang Xing's faction should be called the Huaxing Guild. Unfortunately, because of Huang Xing's special status, he was not regarded as the leader of any faction, and the people who followed him were in his favor. After death, they followed Wang Longzhong one after another, so Huang Xing naturally had no sect or affiliation.

Due to the relationship between local unification and customs autonomy, the national government became much richer than the central government, which also made the leadership of the national government corrupt immediately after price adjustment.Note that it is corruption rather than prostitution, villas, cars, and lovers soon appear in the homes of revolutionaries.It is not a big problem for these revolutionaries to enjoy all the treatment and rank, but the decline and depression of will is inevitable, and the corresponding is the cherishing of the power in their hands.

Zhang Taiyan's Guangfu Society is a relatively weak faction among many forces. This is because Tao Chengzhang, the former boss of the Guangfu Society, asked Chen Qimei to do it. Secondly, Zhang Taiyan himself is more miserable than Cai E. He was killed by old Yuan Yi in Beijing. The house arrest lasted for three or four years, and it was Lao Yuan who gave up cooking before he was able to escape.But this does not hinder anything. Zhang Taiyan's prestige in the academic circle is his greatest capital. Soon he found a group of like-minded comrades among the directors of the various ministries of the Executive Yuan of the National Government. Cen Chunxuan, Governor of Zhejiang Province Zhu Rui, Minister of Justice Tang Shaoyi, Minister of Commerce Zhang Jian, Minister of Health Cheng Dequan, Director of the National Government Examination Institute Liang Qichao, and Minister of Education Cai Yuanpei are all the backbone of the Guangfu Association.

The Guangfu Society developed very rapidly with the support of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols, while the Tongmenghui was not trusted by the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols due to historical reasons, so they mainly relied on the support of the Nanyang chaebols.

Sun Wen and the others still know the reason why you have to do things if you get benefits. Hu Hanmin, President of the Executive Yuan, first set up industrial parks and agricultural parks in Guangdong, planning to invest in overseas Chinese from Southeast Asia.But this plan was quickly rejected by Cen Chunxuan, then governor of Guangdong Province, on the grounds that the land was tight and it was inconvenient to compete with the people for land.

Then it became lively. The Executive Yuan and the Guangdong Provincial Government started a wrangling drama, which later turned into mutual attacks. Hu Hanmin even proposed to remove Cen Chunxuan from the post of Governor of Guangdong Province (there was no provincial council at this time, and the provincial The president was nominated by the National Government and appointed by the National Assembly), and Cen Chunxuan, a former Qing bureaucrat, was not to be outdone, and immediately called the National Assembly to remove Hu Hanmin on the grounds of corruption, collusion with profiteers, and competition with the people.

All of a sudden, journalists in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Guangzhou found work and reported this political struggle every day.

Zhang Taiyan, the vice-chairman of the National Government and the speaker of the National Assembly, was naturally one of the planners of the whole incident. He quickly approved the proposal of Guangdong Governor Cen Chunxuan to be included in the agenda, and then manipulated members of the Liberation Council to submit a proposal based on this proposal. A case of no-confidence impeachment against Hu Hanmin, President of the Executive Yuan.All of a sudden, the political circles in South China were aroused, and Sun Wen was very dissatisfied with this. As the chairman of the National Socialist Party, he asked Zhang Taiyan and his family to stop such actions that would damage the prestige of the party, but Zhang Taiyan used the National Assembly to supervise them. The freedom of government is blocked back.

Just when Huang Xing was weak and unable to govern, and factional struggles within the national government continued to intensify.Wang Zhenyu from Wuhan is busy deploying operations in the southwest region. Regarding what happened in Nanjing, he just read the report of the Jiangnan Headquarters of the Party Affairs Investigation Department and gave no instructions.

In Wang Zhenyu's view, as long as the military is not involved in political struggles, any struggle is within a controllable range.

It is better to hurry up and unify the three provinces in the Southwest, otherwise the division will continue. Giving so much money to Cao Kun's direct lineage every month is the next best thing. If Tang Jiyao integrates the Yunnan Army and Sichuan falls into a warlord melee, then his own crime will be big.

The Southwest issue was brought up in September. Cai E entrusted Jiang Baili to draft a telegram to the central government in Japan, requesting that the Southwest military government be abolished and the three provinces under its jurisdiction be included in the national government.Naturally, the Beiyang government will not do anything about it, but for one thing, they do not have the strength to start a war with the youth army, and the central government is not what their Beiyang family can say. After repeated persuasion by Xiong Xiling, President Li Yuanhong, Actually agreed, and also issued a related order, ordering the national government to govern Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Tibet and other southwest regions on behalf of the central government. Tibet, a hot potato between China and Britain, was thrown to the national government for disposal.In case in the future, a central government that can't handle itself well will have to bear the infamy of being a traitor, that would be depressing.Therefore, the action of bringing the Southwest region under the leadership of the Nationalist Government possessed the so-called legitimacy (Duan Qirui was so angry that his nose crooked again: Fatty Li, we Beiyang and you are endless).

Fortunately, Xiong Kewu, the boss of Sichuan in this era, has not yet entered the state of a feudal warlord. Not only that, but the Industrial Group and the Nine-member Group have temporarily united because of the issue of Sichuan's submission to the Nationalist Government.Therefore, among the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, Sichuan was the most active in bringing it under the jurisdiction of the national government.Especially Xiong Kewu, acting governor of Sichuan, whose boss Huang Xing is now in charge of the national government. When he thinks of the entire twelve provinces in the south, he doesn't think much of the governor in Sichuan.Moreover, Boss Huang said in his letter that this time he was going to transfer himself to work in Nanjing. This is the current Xiong Kewu.

But Xiong Kewu's willingness to be promoted does not mean that Tang Jiyao is willing. This man has been the emperor of the land for a long time.Now if you want to replace his Yunnan governor with a minister or deputy, he will agree, so Tang Jiyao is the most disgusted by Beijing's order among the three provinces.No, it is no longer disgusting, but opposing. Tang Jiyao immediately announced that he would not accept this order.

In contrast, Guizhou Liu Xianshi, who has not received any news so far, is obviously on the sidelines. He does not have Tang Jiyao's ambitions, and he still knows how strong Guizhou is.But he was not ready to hand over the army and territory in his hands to make a living in Nanjing for no reason, and he even had a little luck.

Since this is the situation, Yang Du sent a report to Wang Zhenyu, and let's clean up Tang Jiyao at the first time, and it will be settled once and for all.

The entire Southwest is full of storms and clouds! ! !

Chapter 314 Southwest Incident ([-])

In Wuhua Mountain, Yunnan, Tang Jiyao, then the governor of Yunnan, was a little annoyed.Speaking of it, he is a bit melancholy. He contributed the most when the Yunnan Army was established.After Cai E went north, Tang Jiyao was also loyal to look after Cai E's house.Later, when Cai E came back to launch the War to Protect the Country, Tang Jiyao also supported it. Although he was shaken for a little while in front of Yuan Shikai's title and big foreign money, he still got rid of the temptation in the end.

But unexpectedly, Cai E actually held a grudge because of it.If you go to Japan for treatment, you will be treated!They actually reported the abolition of the Southwest Military Government, Ge Laozi, how many brothers in the Yunnan Army paid for it with blood?It was actually sent out by Cai Songpo with such a sentence, and it was not good for anyone, but it was given to the Nationalist Government.Isn't it just because Wang Zhenyu and Cai Songpo are both from Baoqing?It's really good that the fat and water don't flow into the field of outsiders. These Hunanese know how to hold a group.

Thinking of this, Tang Jiyao made up his mind even more. After passing this hurdle, I must send all the Hunan people in the team out of the country, and we Yunnan people have to be in charge of this Yunnan.

But what really troubles Tang Jiyao now is that he has very limited control over the Dian army, at least he can't control Luo Peijin.It would be great if Cai Songpo was dead now, but he still hangs his breath and spends his time in Japan!

After much deliberation, Tang Jiyao felt that he still couldn't wait for someone to come to his door. He immediately sent his cronies to hold letters to Luo Peijin and Dai Kan in Sichuan, and Liu Xianshi and Ren Kecheng in Guizhou, hoping to be a trinity and conspire to advance and retreat.At the same time, Tang Jiyao felt a little more at ease when he transferred the three divisions of Xie Ruyi, Hu Ruoyu, and Li Xuanting, who were loyal to him, to the vicinity of Yunnan.

When Yang Du and his party arrived in Chongqing, the army in Sichuan had three armies and twelve divisions.

At this time, after some operations by Tang Jiyao, the situation in Sichuan has undergone great changes. Not to mention Yang Du, even Cai E himself may not be able to control the situation when he comes back.Luo Peijin, who replaced Cai E as the commander of the First Army of the Yasukuni Yunnan Army, had just accepted Tang Jiyao's appointment as the acting governor of Sichuan, and Xiong Kewu, who had been suspected by Tang Jiyao, was transferred to the commander-in-chief of the Yasukuni Sichuan Army and governor of Sichuan Province, which also accelerated Xiong Kewu's return Nanjing's determination.And Luo Peijin's mind has also undergone tremendous changes after he became the warlord, and he naturally turned a blind eye to Cai E's letter asking him to support the surrender to Nanjing.

Tang Jiyao's appointment was later called a big failure by historians. You must know that the Yunnan Army in Sichuan at this time only had Gu Pinzhen, Zhao Youxin, and three divisions, while the Sichuan Army under Xiong Kewu's name (not necessarily all listened to Xiong Kewu) had but Nugang , Liu Cunhou, Liu Xiang, Yang Sen, and Lu Chao five divisions.Moreover, the Sichuan army still controls the entire Sichuan and even Chongqing, the throat of the southwest, and the more important thing is yet to come. Luo Peijin does not know the overall situation. He has always advocated strengthening Yunnan and weakening Sichuan. The first order was to rectify Sichuan's finances, so it was a bad thing.

Specifically, Luo Peijin's reform plan is that the annual military salary of each division of the Yunnan Army is 120 million oceans, while that of the Sichuan Army is only 80 per division.At this moment, the conflict between the Sichuan Army and the Yunnan Army was publicly put on the table, causing the division commanders of the Sichuan Army to send telegrams to protest.The five division commanders of the Sichuan Army who were originally not united and had old grievances began to flirt, emphasizing that we are all fellow villagers, and we must remember to help each other.

Luo Peijin's even bigger tricks are still to come. On September 9, Luo Peijin, who was still in the position of the warlord, had the idea of ​​disbanding the Sichuan Army. The three teachers, Dai Kan, Wang Wenhua, and Yuan Zuming, came to discuss this matter.

After all, it was on the territory of the Sichuan people, and the news spread quickly. Now the big bosses of the Sichuan army couldn’t sit still. Originally, it was only Xiong Kewu and Lu Chao who wanted to join Nanjing, but now Liu Xiang, Liu Cunhou, and Yang Sen These ground snakes also began to fall in this direction.

When Gong Peng, head of the Southwest Central Station of the Military Intelligence Bureau, handed over these materials to Yang Du, Yang Du roughly had a prototype for solving the Southwest problem in his mind.

"Stationmaster Gong, I want to meet Xiong Kewu. Can you arrange it here? Besides, my visit to Chongqing is a secret, try not to let outsiders know."

Gong Peng nodded to indicate that there was no problem, and then turned around to make arrangements.

This time Yang Du did not come empty-handed, except for the 1000 million Huayuan used to buy the heroes in Sichuan, behind Yang Du, Tang Shengzhi's Ninth Division stationed in Changde, Dai Yue's Sixth Division stationed in Yichang, and the Li Pinxian's Seventh Division transferred from Jiujiang, and Deng Keng's No.14 Division stationed in Luyang, a total of 3 troops, mobilized for combat and replenished their troops and supplies. More than [-] working groups composed of cadres of the National Socialist Party and security forces are also being formed intensively, and the local troops and security forces in the three provinces adjacent to the southwest, Hunan, Guangxi, and Hubei, have also fully replenished their combat ammunition and entered combat readiness. state.Wang Zhenyu's meaning is very clear, it's best not to use troops, if you have to do it, you have to be ruthless, so as not to leave any future troubles.

At this time, the first political dispute of the Nanjing government gradually subsided under the mediation of Huang Xing's illness, and Hu Hanmin finally allocated 6000 million yuan from the newly added 4000 million yuan in customs revenue to the local government of Guangdong Province for other purposes. Land acquisition and water and electricity supply.And Zhang Taiyan also saw the power of the alliance in this struggle, and felt that it is better to seek common ground while reserving differences.But just when everyone thought the first political battle was about to end, Wang Zhenyu threw a hot potato at Nanjing, and the fire of political dispute was ignited again, but this time Wang Zhenyu really didn't mean it.

From the first day of the establishment of the Nanjing National Government, the representatives of the National Assembly have been arguing endlessly about whether to use military training to govern the country or to rule the country according to law.On the surface, it is nothing more than a dispute over regimes, but in essence it is still a matter of power distribution.If it weren't for the fact that Wang Zhenyu's current strength is too strong, it is estimated that the people from the National Assembly and the National Government would have shouted Wang Zhenyu to get out.Who wouldn't want power to be in their own hands?

Wang Zhenyu is also very clear about this, no matter how many concessions he makes, it is impossible to satisfy others, maybe only when he loses everything, others will be satisfied, and they will use pity to sympathize with the poor you.Although Wang Zhenyu didn't intend to become a traitor, he would not allow himself to fall to that point after having tried the taste of power.But at the moment, he is not worried about this at all. He has secured the barrel of the gun through the military committee with one hand, and the money bag with the other hand through the China Development Corporation. Naturally, he is not afraid of any major problems.

What he threw at Nanjing this time was not a bomb, but power, the power of judicial independence.

When the National Government was established in April, it established the Supreme Court. From the very beginning, this institution was positioned not to be responsible to the government, but directly to the National Assembly, and its judges were still lifelong.Although the national government is actually implementing the policy of ruling the party with the military and the government with the party in various places.However, the independence and sanctity of the judiciary have been respected and protected by the junta headed by Wang Zhenyu, and with the implementation of policies such as land reform and urbanization and industrialization, the judicial system has become more and more influential on social life.All factions within the National Socialist Party hope to gain control of the judicial system, and Wang Zhenyu is now throwing this opportunity away.

This power is the right to appoint and remove provincial officials, and Wang Zhenyu was honest with him, so he recommended three people, Qin Zhen, an official from Hunan Province, Shen Hongru, an official from Zhejiang Province, Lin Zhijun, an official from Fujian Province, and the other six provinces. Let the national government appoint itself.

At this time, the political situation in Nanjing, which had already returned to calm, boiled again. The threshold of Wu Tingfang, a lifelong civil servant, was almost broken, and various factions in the party were also active in trying to put people from their own factions in the post of provincial civil servants. Go up, because once you get this position, it means that the power of the judicial system in this province will be in your hands in the next five years. When judiciary independence is emphasized, the courts will have a lot of adjustment and influence on social relations and contradictions. From a perspective, this power seems to be easier to use than the army.

As a result, Huang Xing's face immediately became worthless, and the Alliance and the Restoration Society immediately rolled up their sleeves and went to war. . .

The verbal attacks on each other are still light, and the voices of the two factions advocating assassination to eliminate each other appear from time to time. In the words of the Guangfu Department, isn't our boss Tao Chengzhang killed by them in this way?Fortunately, both Sun Wen and Zhang Taiyan are quite calm-minded, what are you kidding, you little bastards really think that Wuhan is a clay bodhisattva?There is a bottom line in everything. Everyone is playing political debates in Nanjing. I guess that person has no time to answer, but if they are playing assassination coup or something, that person will take action.

Now this kind of happy life of having a house, a car, having the right, money, and mistress does not come easily. How many of the bosses here did not get their happy life in exchange for the first half of their lives? If anyone dares to destroy this stable and harmonious life It's a great situation, no need for Wang Zhenyu to gnaw, and the bosses of the two factions will stand up and shoot him to death very enthusiastically.As a result, although the power struggle in Nanjing seemed intense, it was only described by journalists. The biggest effect was to increase the sales of related newspapers and periodicals. The government itself was not greatly affected.Everyone just bickered, and then threw shoes at each other at the meeting of the National Assembly. The strong ones might even wave their fists or something. The General Assembly is much better.

On October 10, Lieutenant General Li Zongren, who won the limelight for a while by wiping out the main force of the 3+ Beiyang Army after the Southeast Battle, received a separate interview with Wang Zhenyu at Wenlu in Wuhan. . .

Chapter 315 Southwest Incident ([-])

Since the military reform of the Youth Army in August, the military system has been abolished, and the first to bear the brunt are Li Zongren and Tao Zhiyue. Li Zongren was transferred to the General Staff Department as the Deputy Chief of Staff Tao Zhiyue was transferred to the gendarmerie headquarters to serve as Yang Wangui's deputy because of his hesitation at the critical moment in the southeast battle.