Beiyang reactionaries

324 Corruption

gossip.

Criticize.

There were many criticisms and criticisms, but Duan Xun still attended the signing ceremony in person. On June 1921, 6, after more than four months of negotiations and 7 consultations, China and Japan finally reached an agreement on the Shandong issue.

The "Treaty on Solving the Outstanding Shandong Issue" was formally signed.

Nothing has changed.

The Japanese army left Shandong within three months, and returned the administrative power of the controlled area to China within three months.As for the Jiaoji Railway and the industries along the line, including the wharf and the mine, it will be returned to China at a price of 4000 million yen.However, the Beijing government couldn't provide 4000 million yuan for a while, and Japan even asked Duan Xun not to provide this money even if he had money. The 4000 million yuan needed to be borrowed from Japan.

The monthly interest rate is [-]%.

Six percent monthly interest is very expensive in this era, and it is a real compound interest.With this loan, Japan can justifiably continue to control the Jiaoji Railway and industries along the line as a creditor.Until China can pay off its debts.

Of course, in addition to these main ones, there are a lot of small clauses.

Including allowing Japan to retain some of their former police agencies in order to protect the Jiaoji Railway and industries along the line.But these police agencies can only be along the Jiaoji Railway.

But after these terms were announced, there was a lot of criticism.

But Duan Xun didn't care.Because compared with money and other things at this stage, Duan Xun's main task is to drive away the Japanese army.The Japanese army stayed in Qingdao and the Jiaodong Peninsula, which was too much of a threat to Duan Xun.

The Japanese army continued to stay in Shandong, and Duan Xun would be terrified when he turned against Japan.Relying on the railways in the Shandong area, the Japanese army could threaten the Beijing-Tianjin area in the north, Jiangsu in the south, and the hinterland of Zhili and Anhui in the west.When the time comes to turn against Japan, the Japanese army can threaten Duan Xun's ruling hinterland at any time.

Therefore, as long as the Japanese army is in Shandong, Duan Xun will have trouble sleeping and eating, and he needs to be careful in doing things.

it's good now.

Although the contract was not very satisfactory, the Japanese army finally left, and Japan also transferred the administrative power of the Jiaodong area to China.Now just wait for China to send someone to take over their administrative power in Shandong.

Duan Xun could afford to wait for three months.

"Prime Minister."

"How about it?"

One thing after another.

"In the past four months, I have preliminarily sorted out the finances of the three provinces of Hubei, Jiangxi, and Fujian, and got a rough result. Although it is not completely accurate, there is no problem with the rough data. But I want completely accurate data , I think it is unlikely, because the accounts of their several provinces are very confusing."

"what's the result?"

"Surprised."

Jiang Hongyu came to Beijing specifically for this matter.I just caught up with Duan Xun signing a contract with Japan.But Duan Xun is more happy, and is worried that there is nothing to cover up the current situation.

There are many criticisms about what happened in Shandong this time.

There are also more criticisms.

Although Duan Xun didn't care very much, he was not in a good mood when he was scolded like this.In this negotiation in Shandong, Duan Xun thought he had done his best, worthy of the country and his own conscience.You can't get more benefits any further.Unless it completely turns against Japan.

But that is even more impossible.

Where does China have strength now, or the domestic and international environment does not allow China and Japan to fight.In the absence of war, this is the best result Duan Xun can achieve for China.Even for this contract, Duan Xun gave Japan a lot of benefits in private.If it hadn't reached some agreement with Japan in private, how could Japan give in so easily.However, those scholars and some students criticized Duan Xun at every turn, which made Duan Xun very angry.

But this is their patriotic enthusiasm, and it is impossible for Duan Xun to suppress it.But being scolded like this, Duan Xun would not be happy either.Therefore, Duan Xun hoped to use some things to divert his attention, and it happened that Jiang Hongyu had good news.

"I have carefully checked the situation in Hubei. Hubei's financial deficit is huge. During the three years when Wang Zhanyuan served as the governor of Hubei, he swallowed 600 million silver dollars. In addition to this, the annual military expenditures given to the Hubei army by the Ministry of the Army , and the military expenditure allocated to the Hubei Army by the Hubei Department of Finance every year, Wang Zhanyuan swallowed more than 700 million yuan in three years. The money that can be found out from the financial system is more than 2000 million yuan. Wang Zhanyuan is like this, and the following channels [-]. The misappropriation of the finances of various counties is also very serious. Within three years, Hubei has a deficit of more than [-] million from the provincial finance to the county finance. Although this is only a preliminary statistic, the money he swallowed is not much. few."

"Things that bring disaster to the country and the people."

Duan Xun couldn't help cursing Wang Zhanyuan.

damn it.

In just three years, one person lost tens of millions of funds.Moreover, the officialdom in Hubei has completely become a corruption base, and so much money has been embezzled.No wonder the army in Hubei mutinied at every turn. If you, Wang Zhanyuan, didn't pay them, how could they not mutiny.He swallowed 700 million military pay in three years, and swallowed 200 million military pay every year.Calculated in this way, [-] to [-]% of the military pay of the Hubei army was swallowed by Wang Zhanyuan.Under such circumstances, how could the Hubei army not mutiny.

More than 1000 million.

How much is the fiscal revenue of Hubei Province for a year?

The total provincial fiscal revenue for three years was only 6000 to 8000 million silver dollars, but Wang Zhanyuan swallowed tens of millions by himself.The sum of all the finances of Hubei Province, including the counties below, is estimated to be about 2000 million in three years.But Wang Zhanyuan started to embezzle more than [-] million from those officials, maybe even more.Hubei Province, a good industrial province, was ruined badly when Wang Zhanyuan was there.

How can China develop with such people as local governors.

"anything else?"

"He also let his relatives wantonly embezzle various properties in the three towns of Wuhan and participate in various factories. Those assets add up to more than [-] million yuan. However, most of the properties have been confiscated by us, but the shares of many factories are still controlled by relatives of Wang Zhanyuan. hands. Wang Zhanyuan still has a lot of properties in Hubei that we haven’t discovered. Only when we made the statistics this time did we discover a lot.”

"kindness."

Duan Xun thought that Wang Zhanyuan only owned properties in Beijing, Tianjin, Qingdao, and Shanghai, but he didn't expect that there were many factories in Hubei that had his shares.The so-called shares owned by his relatives are all owned by Wang Zhanyuan.

"continue."

"The situation in Jiangxi is not too different. However, Chen Guangyuan is not like Wang Zhanyuan, who directly deducted the military salary, which led to a mutiny in the army. Chen Guangyuan was directly on empty salary in Jiangxi, and many troops under his command only had a number and no army. He relied on this for a few years He also ate more than 500 million yuan in military pay."

"It's all bastard stuff."

It is inseparable from these that the Beiyang Army was later beaten by the Northern Expedition Army in cooperation with the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.The warlords of the Beiyang Army are more powerful than the other.No wonder it looks like there are a lot of troops during the war, but there are basically no troops after the war.

All told them to eat empty pay.

"Where's Li Houji?"

"He didn't put much thought into the military pay, and he didn't eat much. His money came from his opium sales. In the past few years, the price of opium in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Guangdong was very high, and it was all produced in Fujian. Every year, Fujian's opium It can be sold for tens of millions, and there are many opium merchants in Fujian who are worth tens of millions. Li Houji also has a lot of money in his hands, most of which come from opium income."

"I see."

Duan Xun nodded.

Jiang Hongyu did a good job.

Duan Xun thought for a while and said, "Wait for a while. After we completely take over Qingdao, I will investigate the property situation of several of them here, and then leak the news to the media. Once we make a move, we can't let them have any counterattack." Opportunity. In two months, at most two months, we will be able to control Qingdao. Before that, I will send people to check their situation in Qingdao, Tianjin, and Shanghai.”

Now Duan Xun has not fully grasped their situation.

Let's check it out.

And the most important thing is, do it after taking back Qingdao.Because including the Clan Socialist Party, including those warlords who have stepped down, they all have a lot of assets in Qingdao.The agreement between Duan Xun and Japan is to exchange everything within three months, but as long as the speed is a little faster, it is possible to control Qingdao within two months.

"I see."

Jiang Hongyu nodded.