Beiyang reactionaries

In terms of government departments, the police department is definitely a heavyweight department and the most powerful department.Looking at the current composition of the police departments in various provinces across the country, we can see that the police departments have always been controlled by powerful figures in each province.None of those provincial overseers spared the police.

If Li Youxun is allowed to continue to expand like this, it will be fine.

"I know."

Zhou Zhongyue is also a cook without rice, so he thought for a while and said: "This is not something we can solve now. I already know the matter, and I will negotiate with Deng Hanxiang. Let them restrain themselves and not go too far."

Zhou Zhongyue finally thought about it, and there was only one way.

That is to talk to Deng Hanxiang.

It is precisely because of the support of Sichuan and Deng Hanxiang that Li Youxun blatantly expanded the power of the Yunnan Anti-smoking Bureau and emptied Wang Jiuling.Zhou Zhongyue was even sure that among the staff of Li Youxun's vigorously developing anti-smoking bureau, there must be people sent from Sichuan.

"Governor, General Gu (Gu Pinzhen) has urged me many times. What do you want to do?"

Wang Jiuling's problem is only a small one, and Yuan Jiapu's biggest headache now is military expenses.Gu Pinzhen and the others want to expand their army in order to fight against Duan Xun, but Gu Pinzhen has no money.Now that Deng Hanxiang and Yu Enyang have joined forces to ban smoking, the military expenditure of the Yunnan Army has become even more problematic.

Therefore, Gu Pinzhen could only ask Yuan Jiapu for money.

Even if it is impossible to expand the military, at least the current scale must be maintained.If the military expenditure cannot be guaranteed continuously, then the army under his own hands will be finished sooner or later.Either mutiny, or will leave the army.

Therefore, Gu Pinzhen kept putting pressure on Yuan Jiapu.

"Let them find me. Brother Xue'an (Yuan Jiapu), without my signature, the money in the bank must not be tampered with."

Zhou Zhongyue was dizzy.

No matter how you say it, Wang Jiuling is a member of the provincial government, and he can appease or refuse.But Gu Pinzhen and the others are all members of the army, each of them has heavy soldiers in their hands, so it's not so easy to dismiss them.Once these people have no money, they don't know what they will do.

But you can't use bank money just because of this.

This bank is not a private bank. If the bank's money is used unrestrainedly, the Yunnan currency is likely to become waste paper, and Yunnan's finance will collapse.Therefore, although it was difficult, Zhou Zhongyue still instructed Yuan Jiapu.

"I see."

Yuan Jiapu nodded.

Yuan Jiapu and Tang Jiyao fell out because Tang Jiyao wanted to turn the bank into his own private bank and wanted to withdraw money from the bank without restraint.At that time, Yuan Jiapu objected, so he fell out with Tang Jiyao.

"Go get busy. I'll talk to Deng Hanxiang and General Gu."

109 Yunnan Dilemma 2

Beijing is currently in turmoil. President Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui stationed in Tianjin are constantly condemning each other from a distance. The situation is very tense.Most of the local governors across the country protested against Li Yuanhong, supported Duan Qirui, and even expressed their desire for independence.

But Beijing is too far from the southwest.

Especially Yunnan.

The situation in the province is complicated, and the powerful factions in the province are all consolidating their strength. They don't have the energy to take care of things far away in Beijing.Regardless of whether it is Li Yuanhong or Duan Qirui, it is their business.These powerful factions in Yunnan don't have the energy to take care of those things, and of course they don't have the ability to take care of those things.

I can't be too busy with my own affairs.

Although Kunming is the capital of Yunnan Province, it can be regarded as a big city in the southwest, but at night, except for a few areas, most places are still pitch black, and the whole city is very quiet at night.Because Gu Pinzhen became the governor of Yunnan and Zhou Zhongyue became the governor of Yunnan, it has been more than a month since the curfew was imposed in order to control Kunming as soon as possible.Without a pass at night, it is impossible for ordinary people to move around.

"Tap-tap-"

In the silent night, the sound of horseshoes suddenly sounded, and a dozen soldiers rode towards the center of Kunming city.The cavalry squad didn't stop until they reached the Governor's Mansion in Yunnan.The person in the front jumped off his horse and led two people into the Yunnan Governor's Mansion.

Just entered the governor's mansion, looked at the dark governor's mansion, and immediately frowned.Let the people below him stand outside, and walked in quickly by himself.Entering the meeting hall of the Governor's Mansion, only Yunnan Governor Gu Pinzhen sat alone in the dark room.Gu Pinzhen's guards stood in front of the door, and when they saw someone coming, they let them go.

"Dinghe (Jiang Meiling), how is it?"

Gu Pinzhen immediately stood up when she saw the person coming.The one who came in was Jiang Meiling, who is currently serving as the temporary chief of staff of the Yunnan Governor's Mansion.Because Ye Quan, the chief of staff of the Governor's Mansion, served as the commander-in-chief of the Yunnan Army's Southern Expedition, and is currently leading troops to confront Tang Jiyao and the bandits in southern Yunnan, so Jiang Meiling replaced Ye Quan as the chief of staff of the Governor's Mansion.

"not good."

Sitting next to Gu Pinzhen, Jiang Meiling sighed and said, "Yuan Jiapu wants us to wait until the finances are rich before he can give us military expenses. He said that there is no money in the finances that can be handed over to us now."

"What about the bank?"

"Without the signature of Mr. Shengfu (Zhou Zhongyue), no one can borrow money from the bank."

Jiang Meiling was very frustrated.

When Tang Jiyao was the governor of Yunnan, he was majestic, and the military and government of Yunnan caught him.He served as the governor of Yunnan and the governor of Yunnan, and also served as the commander of the First Division of the Yunnan Army.The main leaders of the following Yunnan Army troops are all descendants of Tang Jiyao.

Moreover, he appointed his younger brother Tang Jiyu as the director of the Yunnan Police Department.In the past, when Yuan Jiapu and Tang Jiyao had a good relationship, Yuan Jiapu was also Tang Jiyao's direct descendant, and was in charge of the Yunnan Finance Department and the Yunnan Bank.But when the relationship between Tang Jiyao and Yuan Jiapu broke down, Tang Jiyao planned to exchange his direct line Wang Jiuling for Yuan Jiapu, and continue to control the important position of the Finance Department.It's just that Yuan Jiapu kept this position because he didn't have time later.

It can be said that when Tang Jiyao was in Yunnan, Yunnan's army, Yunnan's police agency, and Yunnan's financial department were all under Tang Jiyao's control.At that time, the issue of military expenditure was directly managed by the Governor's Mansion, and the army's logistics was also directly managed by the Governor's Mansion.Although Yunnan was not rich at the time, the problem of military expenditure for the army was not so difficult.

But now it's different.

Although Gu Pinzhen is the governor of Yunnan, he only controls the governor's mansion, and military expenses and logistics are not under the jurisdiction of the governor's mansion.If you want military expenses, you have to go to the provincial government, and you have to look at the face of the Finance Department.In the current era of warlords whose strength is determined by the barrel of a gun, Gu Pinzhen, the military governor of Yunnan, is probably the most aggrieved among the national military governors.

"Have you talked to Mr. Shengfu?"

"went."

"How did he say?"

Gu Pinzhen was even more anxious.

Although Gu Pinzhen reorganized the Yunnan Army, the Yunnan Army became five divisions again.But the current Dian army is completely incomparable with when Tang Jiyao was there, and the number is less than 3.But even so, Gu Pinzhen couldn't support the Dian army.

Not only is there a lack of military pay, but the Yunnan Army is also extremely short of ammunition.

At present, the Yunnan Army does not lack weapons, even heavy weapons, such as cannons and machine guns.However, the Dian Army fought a war to protect the country and a battle with Duan Xun this year, and the ammunition consumption was very serious.Although Duan Xun is not self-sufficient, at least Duan Xun has a Sichuan arsenal to supplement.And because of the relationship between Duan Xun and Duan Qirui, Duan Xun can still get the allocated arms and military salary from above every year.Although not a lot, it can feed nearly 5000 people.And Duan Xun will also buy a lot of weapons and ammunition from outside, which guarantees the supply of Duan Xun's troops.

But compared to Duan Xun, the Dian army completely needs to raise weapons and ammunition by itself.From the beginning of Li Jingxi in the late Qing Dynasty to the management of Cai E and Tang Jiyao later, the weapons and equipment of the Yunnan army were absolutely not bad, and supplying the current Yunnan army is not a problem at all.But the ammunition is different. The Dian army is very short of ammunition.The Dian army does not have its own arsenal, and all ammunition has to be purchased, but they have no money in hand, so they have not been able to replenish ammunition.

This made Gu Pinzhen feel uneasy all the time.

"Mr. Shengfu said that now he can't even pay the government's salary. When Tang Jiyao left Kunming, he emptied the treasury in Kunming and took all the money away. There was no money left at all. .”

"Damn."

Gu Pinzhen couldn't help standing up.

When I came out of the window and looked at the dark sky, I felt more and more irritable.As Tang Jiyao's classmate and Tang Jiyao's partner for many years, Gu Pinzhen understood Tang Jiyao's power better than anyone else.

Regardless of Tang Jiyao's failure and withdrawal from Kunming, it seems that the political situation in Yunnan has nothing to do with Tang Jiyao in the future.But Gu Pinzhen didn't dare to underestimate Tang Jiyao, or dare to ignore Tang Jiyao.Because Tang Jiyao still had thousands of people in his hands, and he ran to southern Yunnan with a large amount of funds.Once he rectifies the bandits in southern Yunnan with his wrist, he will definitely be another prince.

At that time, Tang Jiyao might have to counterattack and come back.

"No other funds?"

"Originally, there was still some money in various places, especially the money of Yunnan native merchants. Tang Jiyu left in a hurry, and a lot of Yunnan native income could not be fully collected, and we still have a large number of Yunnan native merchants in Yunnan. But Tang Jiyu The Yunnan soil has been confiscated by the Sichuan and Yunnan Anti-smoking Supervision Department, and the properties of many Yunnan soil merchants in central Yunnan have also been confiscated by them. Are we..."