Beiyang reactionaries

Duan Xun can only say that Yang Yongtai is a very qualified politician.In fact, Duan Xun was considering Zhou Zhongyue and wanted him to go to Jiangsu.

"What do you think?"

Dai Kan became more and more afraid of Yang Yongtai.But Dai Kan thought about it, and felt that Yang Yongtai had accurately grasped Duan Xun's thoughts.Therefore also nodded.

"Okay. Before officially appointing the governor of Yunnan, let Lu Zuofu, the mayor of Chongqing, go to Yunnan to serve as the interim governor. As for Chen Heting, some time ago, Chief Yu (Yu Youren) submitted a report from the Ministry of Communications and wanted to improve the current situation across the country. The postal system. Let Chen Heting enter Beijing as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Communications and concurrently the director of the General Post Office. Later, the General Post Office will be separated from the Ministry of Communications and be responsible for postal services, telephones, and telegraphs across the country.”

balance.

Duan Xun can't go too far in many things.

It is also necessary to balance the interests of Dai Kan and Yang Yongtai.Yang Yongtai can't monopolize the benefits, and Duan Xun, as the prime minister of the cabinet, can't monopolize the benefits. Dai Kan and Yang Yongtai need to be appeased.

"Do you have any other comments?"

"I agree."

"agree."

"That's settled then."

359 Strengthening Control

On May 1922, 5, the cabinet formally appointed Zhou Zhongyue, the governor of Yunnan, as the interim governor of Jiangsu, and Lu Zuofu, the former mayor of Chongqing, as the interim governor of Yunnan.

However, although the order is issued, it does not mean that it can be completed in a day or two.Because the appointment was too sudden, no one was prepared.Including Zhou Zhongyue, the governor of Yunnan, as the interim governor of Jiangsu, which is not something that can be taken over in a day or two.

Zhou Zhongyue first had to wait for Lu Zuofu to come to Kunming from Chongqing, and then hand over the work in Yunnan Province to Lu Zuofu, which would take a long time.And don't say anything else, before Zhou Zhongyue went to Nanjing to take over as the governor of Jiangsu, he had to come to Beijing from Yunnan to accept the cabinet's order in person.Because Jiangsu is a new territory, Duan Xun needs to tell Zhou Zhongyue.Afterwards, Zhou Zhongyue was able to go to Jiangsu again, and it took more than a month on the road.Coupled with other messy things, it will take at least two months for Zhou Zhongyue to officially take over the post of Governor of Jiangsu.

Therefore, the cabinet ordered Chen Yi to suspend taking over the position of Minister of Academic Affairs of the Ministry of Army.Continue to serve as Governor of Jiangsu, and wait until Zhou Zhongyue comes to take over the position of Governor of Jiangsu.Then he left Nanjing and came to the Ministry of the Army to report.

In addition to the change of the position of the governor of Jiangsu, the cabinet's reform of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Shanghai is the first to sort out the tax system in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Shanghai.Li Zhanyang, director of the State Administration of Taxation, personally went south to Nanjing to direct the reform of national and local taxes in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Shanghai.

Including the finishing of the police system.

You Min, chief of the police department, Chen Tiaoyuan, deputy director of the police department and director of the police inspectorate, Zhou Shanpei, a cabinet adviser who also serves as an adviser to the police department, and heavyweights from the police department all gathered in Nanjing.

Yan Huiqing, a member of the Standing Committee of the Cabinet and also the Minister of Foreign Affairs, also came to Nanjing to take full charge of the government reform in this area.Similarly, the great powers in this region are too powerful, so Yan Huiqing came to talk to them as the Minister of Foreign Affairs.Let's see how to deal with the aftermath without offending these great powers.

For a while, Nanjing was full of high-ranking officials.

Needless to say, a large number of army generals, these cabinet chiefs also came to Nanjing.

"Is the news accurate?"

"Yes. Governor, this is the news from the police department. The police department has decided to transfer the management of the marine police force to the navy department. The marine police force will be reorganized into the Yangtze River Fleet. And other provinces in the country have police forces. The main reason is that the troops left behind by the bandits will also be separated from the police department. The management rights of these troops, including personnel rights, will be transferred to the Ministry of the Army, and they will be subordinate to the Ministry of the Army in the future. Some troops will become front-line troops under the command of the Ministry of the Army. Some have become local troops, which are under the responsibility of the local warlord. The plan of the police department has been submitted to the cabinet, and it can be implemented after the cabinet approves it."

Hangzhou.

In the current Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Shanghai regions, various forces are entangled.

Duan Xun has an absolute advantage, but there are still many local powerful factions in this area.In fact, this is the difference between a complete revolution and no complete revolution.If Duan Xun directly swept these forces with the army, then there would not be so many problems. He would directly sweep away these local powerful factions and deploy everything according to his own ideas.But because Duan Xun only forced Lu Yongxiang to go to the field, he left countless local powerful factions in this area.These people have been in the place for many years, and various relationships are intertwined. It is not easy to clean up these relationships.

So we need to deal with these people slowly, step by step.

Xia Chao held a meeting with his own people in Hangzhou, most of them were from the police system.Among them are Ye Huanhua, the director of the Zhejiang Police Department, Zhang Xie and Zhang Pei, the commanders of the police force, Wang Boping, the director of the Hangzhou Police Station, Wu Jingcai, the director of the Wenzhou Police Station, and Lin Yingqing, the director of the Ningbo Police Station.

They are all Xia Chao's fellow countrymen, classmates, and students.

It was because of these people that Xia Chao gained power in Zhejiang for a while.Because these people control the police system in Zhejiang and control the police force in Zhejiang.

"Governor, I think these actions of the police department are completely aimed at the governor."

Zhang Pei talked to Xia Chao nervously.

Zhang Pei is one of Xia Chao's most valued generals.Many of Xia Chao's subordinates are graduates of Beijing Higher Police Academy, and they all studied police, so they entered the police system logically.But Zhang Pei graduated from Baoding Military Academy, and he is a serious graduate of the military academy.So instead of becoming a policeman, he helped Xia Chao form a police force, so he is currently one of the top generals in the Zhejiang police force.

"Tell me."

But Xia Chao who was sitting on it was calm.

Hearing this news, he was neither angry nor nervous, but listened to everyone's words very calmly.Seeing Zhang Pei talking, Xia Chao asked Zhang Pei with a smile.

Zhang Pei immediately said: "Governor, isn't this obvious? The police department is dealing with the troops under its own hands, and even the marine police force is also dealing with it. Now the country's real large-scale police force is only here with the governor. The police This is how we behave as if Zhejiang is the only special province. This is putting pressure on the governor to give up control of the police force.”

This is so obvious.

There are many troops under the police department.

Due to historical reasons, there are nearly 10 police forces across the country, plus a strong marine police force.Unexpectedly, the police department suddenly wanted to clean up these units, either incorporating them into the frontline units or turning them into local units.

It wasn't a big deal at first.

The police are the police, and the emergence of the so-called police force is the product of a special historical situation.But at this time, the police department suddenly dealt with these troops. From the perspective of Xia Chao's people, it was completely aimed at Xia Chao.The police system across the country has to be changed. What are you going to do with the police force left in Zhejiang?

It is an invisible pressure.

"What do you think?"

"I think so too."

Ye Huanhua answered.

Ye Huanhua is Xia Chao's most trusted person and Xia Chao's right-hand man in the police system.After Xia Chao became the governor of Zhejiang, he left the post of director of the Zhejiang Police Department to Ye Huanhua.Put Ye Huanhua in charge of the Zhejiang police system.

Ye Huanhua is not only an excellent police officer, but also a well-known revolutionary party.During the period of the Law Protection War, Ye Huanhua even went south to serve as the secretary of Marshal Sun Yat-sen's residence.

"Governor, the Ministry of the Army is submitting such a proposal, which is obviously aimed at us. The cabinet is worried that the governor has such a police force of tens of thousands in Zhejiang."

Ye Huanhua is very direct.

Xia Chao nodded.

Looking at the others, many of them were filled with righteous indignation.

Zhang Xie said directly: "Governor, Duan Xun is completely killing the donkey. After using the governor, now he feels that he can control the situation in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Shanghai, so he starts to attack the governor. The police force is the governor who built ten How can the troops of [-] years be given up casually. Governor, you must not agree."

Zhang Xie was also a general in the Zhejiang Police Force.

He is also a graduate of Baoding Military Academy and a graduate of the second phase of the Artillery Department of Baoding Military Academy.It was also under Xia Chao's single-handed promotion that he came to his current position as a senior leader of the Zhejiang police system.

"Rong Sheng (Zhang Xie)."

"Governor."

"How long have you been with me?"

"Governor, I graduated from Baoding Military Academy in the fifth year of the Republic of China (1916), and it has been more than six years since I returned to Zhejiang to follow the governor. If we count from the time when the governor taught us at school, it has been more than ten years. "