Total War Predator

Duan Qirui believed that the removal of Cao Kun and Wu Peifu would achieve the goal. There is no need to do things so badly. The dispute should be resolved peacefully and the common people should not suffer from the war again.

The other representatives also didn't want Zhang Zuolin to go to the Lianghu, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. If that was the case, Zhang Zuolin's power would be stronger, and his next target would definitely be himself.They all said that the people have suffered from wars and should resolve disputes peacefully.

On this issue, the two sides launched a heated debate and discussion, and they quarreled until the night without a result.

That night, the various factions contacted each other and exchanged views. Zhang Zuolin and Duan Qirui sat down to discuss Wu Peifu's issue.

Duan Qirui's purpose is very simple, he wants to take back Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but he has no military power in his hands now, and everything he has can be said to be given by Zhang Zuolin.Zhang Zuolin once said to his subordinates that now, my old Zhang is the one who supports people. If I support Duan Qirui, Duan Qirui can go up. If I support Sun Wen, Sun Wen can also go up.

Zhang Zuolin knows that Wu Peifu is a paper tiger now. If Feng Yuxiang's 10,000+ troops were not lingering in Zhili and Henan, he would have gone south to take Jiangsu, Zhejiang and the two lakes.However, after today's meeting, he also found that everyone didn't want him to go south, and he didn't want to be the second direct line, but he was not reconciled to let him give up Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Lianghu.His subordinates, such as Li Jinglin, Zhang Zongchang, and Guo Songling, already have heavy soldiers in their hands, and there is currently no place to place them. He originally planned to take Jiangsu and Zhejiang and arrange them there.

Without the troops of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Lakes, how to arrange them, so he proposed that Duan Qirui give up Shandong in exchange for Jiangsu and Anhui.His reasons are very good. Zhang Zongchang is from Shandong, and Zheng Shiqi, the governor of Shandong, is from Anhui Province.In line with the principle that Lu people ruled Shandong and Anhui people ruled Anhui, Zhang Zongchang was appointed as the governor of Shandong, and the governor of Anhui was handed over to Zheng Shiqi.

Duan Qirui is from Anhui, so he naturally hopes that Anhui will return to his own hands. Zheng Shiqi was originally his subordinate.After the Zhiwan War, the Anhui faction failed, Duan Qirui stepped down, and Zheng Shiqi surrendered to the direct command.

In October 1923, after Cao Kun became president, he reused Zheng Shiqi and appointed him to supervise the aftermath of Shandong's military affairs.

In the second Zhifeng war this time, Cao Kun was imprisoned and Wu Peifu was defeated. Zheng Shiqi couldn't bear the war in Shandong again. At the same time, in order to preserve his strength, he took the initiative to go to Tianjin and return to Duan Qirui's tent.Although Duan Qirui had some grudges against him, this was the only strength he could rely on, so he agreed to Zheng Shiqi's return.

Although Duan Qirui was very moved by Zhang Zuolin's suggestion, he couldn't make the decision. This matter must be discussed with Zheng Shiqi. After sending Zhang Zuolin away, Duan Qirui asked Zheng Shiqi to be summoned.

"Yunqing, you and I have been away from our hometown for decades to work on state affairs. If you really have a home and can't go back, now you have a chance to take back Anhui, what do you think?" Duan Qirui called Zheng Shiqi and asked.

"If Anhui can be recaptured, I would like to do my best for the Prime Minister, but I don't know what opportunity the Prime Minister said?"

"Just now Zhang Zuolin came to tell me that he would exchange Jiangsu and Anhui for Shandong. What do you think?" Duan Qirui asked Zheng Shiqi, staring at him.

Chapter 47 regional system

Zheng Shiqi was stunned when he heard this suggestion. He didn't expect that Zhang Zuolin had this idea. Although he was the governor of Shandong, but his strength was only more than 2, he couldn't take Anhui. He thought for a while and asked.

"The exchange that Zhang Zuolin said meant that he would exchange with us after he won Anhui, or he promised not to interfere in Anhui's affairs and let us fight by ourselves."

"He will fight for us. You and Zhang Zongchang will swap. He is from Shandong, and you are from Anhui. I can rest assured that Anhui will be handed over to you." Duan Qirui knew what Zheng Shiqi meant when he heard it, and he had also considered it. Question, Zhang Zuolin agreed to let Zhang Zongchang take down Anhui and then return to Shandong as the military governor.

"If this is the case, I am willing to protect Anhui for the Prime Minister." Zheng Shiqi also wanted to return to his hometown. Although Shandong is stronger than Anhui, Shandong is too complicated, and they very much reject themselves as the governor of other provinces.

Zhang Zuolin also said the same thing to Zhang Zongchang, the difference is that Zhang Zuolin asked Zhang Zongchang if he would like to trade Shandong with Zheng Shiqi after taking Anhui.Zhang Zongchang is naturally very willing. He has always wanted to go back to Shandong. After all, he is returning home in good clothes. Moreover, he has confidence in his hometown, unlike in the Northeast where he honestly feels uneasy.

So the next day, Zhang Zuolin proposed that the Zhifeng War was completely instigated by the Zhili Clan. Qi Xieyuan, the governor of Jiangsu, took the lead in attacking Zhejiang and ignited the flames of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War.Therefore, he proposed to remove Qi Xieyuan from his position as the Jiangsu Governor, and at the same time agreed to appoint Lu Yongxiang, the former Zhejiang Governor, as Jiangsu Xuanfu Envoy to take office in Nanjing to replace Qi Xieyuan.In addition, Anhui was originally Duan Qirui's territory, and Wu Peifu should also cede Anhui, with Zheng Shiqi as the governor, and Shandong governor Zhang Zongchang from Shandong.

The other representatives knew that this was a deed that the two had already discussed. The governors of Shandong, Anhui, and Jiangsu had nothing to do with them. They loved whoever they were, as long as Zhang Zuolin didn't stretch his hands into his own territory.They all agree with Zhang Zuolin's suggestion, and they prefer the weak Duan Qirui to occupy Jiangsu and Anhui compared to Zhang Zuolin.

As soon as this question was finished, Feng Yuxiang took it up. "After the Beijing coup, Zhang Anle continued to send troops to occupy Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai provinces. Zhang Anle should give up the territories in these three provinces."

Yang Du, the plenipotentiary representative of Zhang Anle, of course disagreed that "Shaanxi and Gansu are both territories of the former direct lineage. Although Beijing succeeded in the coup, Wu Peifu did not surrender, and Shaanxi and Gansu did not declare their support for President Zhang Zuolin and Premier Duan Qirui. We Why can’t the Northwest Army attack them?! According to Commander Feng, shouldn’t the Henan Province you occupied last month also be given up?”

"Absurd? Henan was originally my territory, so what's wrong with me taking it back?" Feng Yuxiang retorted.

"It was originally your territory? If I remember correctly, Henan has always been Wu Peifu's territory, and did you attack Henan before or after the Beijing coup? The direct provinces we captured by the Northwest Army are naturally our Northwest Army's territory. The Northwest Army of the six provinces will not give in! What is the purpose of Commander Feng's repeated attempts to make things difficult for our Northwest Army? Will there be no one in the Northwest Army?!"

The Northwest Army has just been reorganized, and now has 15 troops, plus Zhang Zongchang's 10 troops, even if he does not ally with Zhang Zuolin, Feng Yuxiang's National Army can be taken away.With the backing of more than 20 troops, Yang Du naturally speaks confidently.

Feng Yuxiang was speechless when he heard Yang Du say this. Yang Du looked at him triumphantly and continued, "Speaker, members of parliament, Commander Zhang sent me a telegram to propose a plan last night. Let me speak on behalf of Commander Zhang. I heard that it is feasible. Commander Zhang believes that the main reason for the warlords in various parts of the country is that there are too many warlords and their forces are too scattered. The governors of each province operate independently, and even a land is occupied by multiple forces. The central government is weak and the government orders cannot be reached. The commander's plan is to set up an administrative unit between the province and the central government. This unit is called a large area. Specifically, the country is divided into six large areas: Northeast, Northwest, North China, East China, South China, and Southwest. The Northeast includes: Heilongjiang , Jilin, Fengtian, Rehe four provinces. Northwest includes: Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Mongolia, Suiyuan six provinces, North China includes: Shanxi, Zhili, Chahar, Shandong four provinces. East China includes Jiangsu , Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, and Hubei. South China includes: Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hunan, and Jiangxi. Southwest includes: Sichuan, Xikang, Tibet, Yunnan, and Guizhou. Each region is relatively independent And obey the central government, each district establishes a district government, and each district conducts elections. In principle, the most powerful person is the district chairman, and disputes in each district are resolved through district meetings.

When Yang Du said this, many people were stunned and began to think about the feasibility of this issue.Now the Northeast is already Zhang Zuolin's territory, the Northwest has been occupied by Zhang Anle, Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi are in the hands of the Guangdong Nationalist Government in the South, and East China is in the hands of Wu Peifu. The Southwest is currently in chaos, but Tang Jiyao needs prestige, prestige, and strength.

"In this way, no one will fight each other for some trivial matters, but all of them will be handed over to the district meeting for negotiation. The situation in each district is easy to stabilize, and it is not easy to cause war. After all districts are stabilized, they will gradually hand over power to the central government. Complete the unification." After Yang Du finished speaking, he sat down.

Zhang Zuolin and Duan Qirui glanced at each other, this idea may be feasible.There are shocking people in each region, so that no one will use force easily.

"This idea and proposal are really good, but we have to go back and consider this issue." Zhang Zuolin said first.

"The President is right. This idea is very unique. We need to seriously consider this plan. Well, it's noon. Let's start the meeting here first. Everyone will think about this issue when we go back. We will continue the discussion at two o'clock in the afternoon, and we will end the meeting." .” As the speaker, Duan Qirui announced the adjournment of the meeting.

After the meeting was over, all the people were not idle. They walked out of the meeting place in twos and threes, and went back to discuss whether the plan was feasible, and if it was feasible, how to obtain the greatest benefit.

Sun Yat-sen, who was planning the National Assembly in Beijing, heard about the regional system proposed by Yang Du and thought about it, but he didn't think it would promote unification.

"The result of this is that the whole country is divided from small warlords to large warlords like Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Anle. The final result is that every four or five provinces are an independent kingdom, and they all have hundreds of thousands of troops. It was the separatist regime of warlords at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. There were Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in the north, Dong Zhuo in the northwest, Liu Biao and Sun Jian in the south, and Liu Zhang in the southwest. Small warlords turned into big warlords are still separatist regimes, so there is no unification.”

"However, at present, this is a relatively good idea. After all, it is impossible to let these people with guns give up their territory. Now there is no force that has the strength to complete the unification. The relative peace is still It is very valuable." Sun Yat-sen has learned for so many years that peaceful reunification is impossible, and that it must be resolved by force.

In the afternoon, Sun Yat-sen and several members of the KMT were invited to participate in the aftermath meeting. The number of people attending the aftermath meeting changed from a legitimate 94 to 105.

Chapter 48 Formal Unity

As we all know, the regional system is a system implemented in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.Regions are above the provinces and below the central government. Each region has relatively independent financial and personnel powers, similar to an autonomous government.Later, because the power of the major regions was too great, the central government abolished the organization of the major regions.

Now it is different, there is no need to worry about the problem of separatism caused by excessive power in the region, because it is now a separatist situation.

The purpose of Sun Yat-sen's participation in the aftermath meeting is naturally to get a piece of the pie, to fight for his own interests, and to win the dominance of South China.

At the afternoon meeting, members of the House of Representatives agreed to the division of regions after discussion, but quarrels started over how to divide them and which provinces belonged to which regions.After arguing and arguing, it was discovered that Zhang Anle's division was actually the best. It not only took into account the spheres of influence of all parties, but also combined with the geographical environment, humanities and society, so the regional system was established.

After determining the spheres of influence of each region, the next step is to discuss the chairmen of each region. The election of a region chairperson is a meeting of representatives of each region to discuss.

The chairmen of the four provinces in the Northeast Region unanimously elected Zhang Xueliang as the chairperson of the Northeast Region, and the representatives of the six Northwest provinces also unanimously elected Zhang Anle as the chairperson of the Northwest Region.

Zhang Zuolin in North China proposed Feng Yuxiang, Feng Yuxiang proposed Yan Xishan, and Yan Xishan proposed Zhang Zuolin.Finally, after a vote, Feng Yuxiang was elected as the chairman of the North China District.The representatives of the three provinces in South China proposed Sun Yat-sen as the chairman of South China, and it was passed unanimously without objection.

Proposals from various provinces in the Southwest were mixed, but in the end Tang Jiyao had a higher prestige and was successfully elected as the chairman of the Southwest District.The representatives of the East China District did not know who to choose. Finally, after Zhang Zuolin's proposal and Duan Qirui's second proposal, Wu Peifu became the chairman of the East China District.

After confirming these, the representatives began to discuss the rights and regulations of each region, and other issues. This meeting has been going on for nearly a month.

On December 1924, 12, when the new year was about to enter, Zhang Zuolin announced that the autonomous governments of the three northeastern provinces would cancel their autonomy and accept the leadership of the Central and Northeast Regions.Sun Yat-sen also announced the abolition of self-government. Suddenly, the former self-government governments all over the country abolished self-government to express their support for the central government and accept the leadership of the central government and large regions.In this way, the Republic of China once again completed the unification in form.

On New Year's Day in 1925, the General Assembly officially ended. Sun Yat-sen was elected as the President of the Republic of China and Zhang Zuolin as the Vice President.Sun Yat-sen was elected president with one vote short of a full vote. The winner of that vote was Zhang Zuolin, and none other than Sun Yat-sen voted for Zhang Zuolin.After knowing the result, Sun Yat-sen was extremely excited. He never thought that all the other people would vote for him. When the counting of votes was over, all the councilors got up and gave Sun Yat-sen applause for several minutes.

The reason why everyone voted for Sun Yat-sen so happily was that apart from his high personal prestige and indelible contributions to the Republic of China, the most important thing was that his health was about to die.

In the middle of the aftermath meeting, that is, on December 12, Sun Yat-sen felt that his condition was getting worse. On December 17, Sun Yat-sen was unable to eat, and his family rushed him to Peking Union Medical College Hospital, where he was finally diagnosed with liver cancer.

Sun Yat-sen insisted on holding a post-completion meeting, but the news that he had liver cancer was already known to everyone.Cancer is an incurable disease even now, not to mention that at that time, everyone wanted to give him the status of a great president before he died, in recognition of his contribution to this country.

Sun Yat-sen authorized Duan Qirui to form a cabinet.After many discussions, Duan Qirui's cabinet finally decided as follows: Chief of Finance: Wang Kemin, Chief of Communications: Zhang Zhitan, Chief of Education: Cai Yuanpei, Chief of Internal Affairs: Cheng Ke, Chief of Foreign Affairs: Gu Weijun, Chief of the Army: Zhang Zuolin, Chief of the Navy: Yang Shuzhuang, Justice Chief: Wang Zhengting, Chief of Agriculture and Commerce: Yang Wenkai.

The Chief of the Navy initially chose Zhang Anle, but Zhang Anle couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the news.My buddy is a cannon shooter, you asked me to be the chief of the navy, isn't this a joke?So he resigned from the aftermath council, and everyone had to appoint Yang Shuzhuang, the deputy minister, as the chief minister.Chen Shaokuan, commander of the Second Fleet, served as the deputy chief, and Zhang Anle was again appointed as the deputy chief of the army.

January 1925, 1.Sun Yat-sen, Duan Qirui and other cabinet members were sworn in.

Sun Yat-sen, who became president for only three weeks, underwent surgery at Union Hospital on January 1, the third day of the Lunar New Year after the Spring Festival.The doctor opened his abdominal cavity and found that the liver cancer was already at an advanced stage and he could not be operated on.

It was also on this day that Zhang Anle left Mongolia and rushed to Xi'an, because a meeting of representatives from all walks of life in the Northwest Region would be held in Xi'an on February 2.The purpose of holding this meeting is to unify understanding with all walks of life and discuss the construction and development of Northwest China.

In the past two months, the military training camps built in Xi'an and Ningxia have also been completed, and the second and third divisions have entered the training camps for reorganization and training.

With the assistance of Soviet experts, the Mongolian arsenal has successfully produced the M1903 rifle and the 0.30-06 rifle ammunition.Not only that, the Mongolian arsenal also produced the first 75mm light artillery and supporting shells. Zhang Anle was very happy to receive the first gun presented by the director of the Mongolian arsenal. The Northwest Army's guns were finally self-sufficient.