Chapter 98 The New Base (1)
The Qing court's handling of the Qingzhou incident was of course not satisfied with the East China government. Although the Qing court formally issued an edict to determine that Wenrui rebelled and agreed to send Zhan Tianyou to Shandong to work for the East China government. However, another purpose of the time traveler was to completely abolish the official system of clean government in Shandong. The Qing court not only did not abolish the official system of Shandong, but on the contrary, it still held the appointment and removal of officials in Shandong in its own hands, just promised to grant official positions according to the recommended personnel of the time traveler. Such a resolution certainly could not achieve the purpose of the East China government.
In addition, although the Qing court sent Zhan Tianyou to Shandong, he still used a trick, which was to grant Zhan Tianyou an official position as the governor of the Shandong Railway Bureau. Although neither the Qing court nor the East China government had an organization like the Shandong Railway Bureau, with this official title, Zhan Tianyou was still an official of the Qing court, and theoretically speaking, the Qing court could transfer Zhan Tianyou from Shandong at any time.
Although the political skills of the traverser may not be as good as that of Cixi, they have more than 100 years of historical experience than Cixi. Moreover, in the era before the traverser, various political science and political theories were already very mature. Moreover, in the old time and space, Cixi and the Qing court were not very credible, so it was impossible for the time travelers to believe the promises of Cixi or the Qing court.
However, the Yuechengzhe did not have too much trouble with the Qing court. After all, the Qing court had agreed to the two conditions for the Timer. In addition, the Yuechengzhe did not want to turn against the Qing court immediately. After all, doing so would be more beneficial than disadvantages to the East China government. Moreover, the East China government still has some solutions to deal with local officials sent by the Qing court.
Of course, the East China government did not intend to recommend any list of local officials to the Qing court, because it did not make much sense to do so. The East China government still implemented its own official system and implemented measures to de-cleanishization in Shandong. If the Qing court still wanted to send officials to Shandong, then let him send them. However, the East China government used to undermine the local officials of the Qing court in the past, which was a good way to do so. It can still be used and can be more radical.
It turned out that in order to take care of the emotions of the Qing officials, the East China government was quite polite to the local officials of the Qing court. Although they were emptied, unless officials took the initiative to cause trouble for the East China government, the East China government generally adopted a ignorant attitude towards Shandong local officials, including the officers, and also retained the official residence. Therefore, the Qing court officials could also show their presence. But now it is different. First, we must take the initiative to warn the local officials in Shandong, be honest and do not interfere with the administration of the East China government; and directly occupy the official residence, change it to the office location of the local government or demolish it directly, so that officials can find another place to settle down, and rectify the officers in the service, and completely eliminate them. This will make the local officials in Shandong lose all their presence and have no symbolic meaning.
In fact, after the Qingzhou incident, the Qing court officials regarded working in Shandong as a dangerous path of purgatory for life, and even became a means for Qing court officials to eliminate dissidents and fight against political enemies. The officials sent by the court to Shandong all looked for ways to seek connections and change their positions to other places, or would rather resign than to take office than to Shandong. After all, although officials are easy to be accused, they must save their lives. Therefore, there are only one or two local officials who have taken office in Shandong.
It turned out that the local officials of Shandong in the Qing Dynasty began to plan their own plans and look for their own future. Some worked hard to operate their relationships and hoped to be transferred as soon as possible. Some simply resigned and did not do anything, and they also left this place of right and wrong. Some officials had no way to transfer and were reluctant to resign. So they simply stayed in the official residence without leaving their homes, and didn't care about anything, just waiting for the end of their term of office, and the court would naturally give themselves new arrangements. There were also a few local officials, and most of the officers were optimistic about the prospects of the East China government, so they took the initiative to surrender to the East China government.
On the other hand, after the Qingzhou incident, the local forces and gentry in Shandong completely cut off the hope of the court. Except for a few gentry with conditions who could move to other provinces, the other local forces could only choose to obey the orders of the East China government. Therefore, the land reform work of the East China government in various parts of Shandong was much smoother and there was basically no interference.
Overall, the consequences caused by the Qingzhou incident have basically achieved the expected goals of time travelers.
Two weeks after the Qingzhou incident, the troops sent by the East China government to the Qingzhou area also arrived, the first regiment of the newly formed Second Division. The Second Division is the second A Division organized by the People's Army and is responsible for stationing in Qingdao. The Third Division, which is under construction, will be responsible for stationing in Yanzhou Prefecture in the future.
It turned out that according to the Military Commission's defense zone division, Shandong Province's defense was divided into three aspects. One was the Jinan garrison, which included Jinan Prefecture, Wuding Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture, and Linqing Prefecture, which was mainly responsible for the defense of Shandong and the east and north areas; the other was the Yanzhou garrison, which included Yanzhou Prefecture, Caozhou Prefecture, Yizhou Prefecture, and Jining Prefecture, which was mainly responsible for the defense of Shandong and the territorial waters. The other was the Qingdao garrison, which was mainly responsible for the defense of Shandong's coastal areas and territorial waters.
After handing over to the army that took over Qingzhou, Luo Yue led his troops to leave Qingzhou and go to Jinan to meet with the division headquarters. The families of bannermen who died in the Qingzhou Rebellion were accompanied by more than 2,500 households and more than 7,000 people. They were all placed in Jinan to settle down, which was actually serving. Although there were few young and middle-aged men in this group of people, for the East China government, young and middle-aged women were also laborers, not to mention that young and middle-aged women had other uses. There were also a large number of single soldiers in the People's Army.
After more than 10 days of march, Luo Yue and his party arrived in Jinan and met with the division headquarters. At this time, the first division had been stationed in Jinan for almost a month. The People's Army's barracks chose to be in Luokou Town, northwest of Jinan, and the construction of barracks was underway. The army could only live in tents for the time being. Fortunately, it was June at this time, and the climate was hot, so it was not cold to live in tents. The captives were arranged to work in the military region.
The division commander Zhang Zhengjie met Luo Yue and introduced the situation over the past period of time. It turned out that just over a month ago, Yuan Shikai had led the Qing army to launch an attack on the remaining Boxer Regiments in Zhili, Henan and Shandong.
At this time, Jing Binting, Zhao Sanduo, Li Zhuangyong and others had a great momentum. At this time, they had captured Daming Prefecture, Junde Prefecture and Guangping Prefecture, with a total of 18 county towns, with a population of nearly 2 million and an army of more than 80,000.
This time, Yuan Shikai sent troops, only more than 15,000 troops, divided into two attacks, one led by Wang Shizhen and more than 5,000 troops, Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi, and attacked Zhengde Prefecture; the other was led by Yuan Shikai, with a total of more than 7,000 troops, Baoding Prefecture, and attacked Daming Prefecture, and the two routes clamped and attacked together. Feng Guozhang led more than 3,000 artillery troops and then responded.
In fact, although there are many people in the Boxer Rebellion, there is no unified command. Jing Binting is just the leader of the famous party. In fact, the uprising army is divided into more than 10 relatively independent armed forces. However, when there is a battle, it is combined according to the voluntary nature of each Wusha force. However, among them, Jing Binting, Zhao Sanduo, Li Zhuangyong, Xia Simin and others have the largest number of people, and the most military achievements are also the most, but there are only more than 10,000 people, controlling Daming Prefecture and the five nearby counties. The population under its jurisdiction is about 600,000, which is also the strongest among the Wu Pei forces.
In fact, with the population controlled by Jing Binting's troops, the size of the army can be expanded a little further, but Li Zhuangyong has always been accustomed to losing troops to them that the essence is not expensive. Jing Binting and others also followed Li Zhuangyong's advice. The expansion of troops is basically only young and middle-aged men, and the elderly are not only used to be sick and young.
At this time, Li Zhuangyong's subordinates expanded to more than 800 people, and were divided into two parts. One part was a musket team, with more than 200 muskets of various muskets, and the other part still used cold weapons. Li Zhuangyong had relatively strict choices to pick people, and his training level was much higher than other teams. He usually paid attention to collecting weapons, armor and other equipment. Therefore, although his team was not large, the army with the best assembly and the strongest combat power in the uprising army was actively engaged and never passively avoided war to preserve its strength. It can be said that half of the achievements of Jing Binting and Zhao Sanduo were defeated by Li Zhuangyong.
Xia Simin was quite interested in Li Zhuangyong's military training method, so he often talked to him and found that Li Zhuangyong still had a certain understanding of the overseas world and the powerful countries. He was very surprised that Li Zhuangyong did not hide it, and told Xia Simin that this knowledge was learned by himself in the People's Army.
When they learned that the Qing court would send troops to attack him, Jing Binting, Zhao Sanduo, Li Zhuangyong, Xia Simin and others discussed and decided to take the initiative to attack and seize Shunde Prefecture first, so that a barrier could be set up before Daming Prefecture, Junde Prefecture, and Guangping Prefecture. They also invited other armed forces to send troops together, but many armed forces refused to save their strength. In the end, only six armed forces were willing to fight with Jing Binting and others, with a total of about 25,000 troops.
However, after Yuan Shikai learned that the rebel army planned to capture Shunde Mansion first, he did not dare to be careless. He ordered Duan Qirui to lead 1,000 troops first, set off lightly, and rushed to Zhangde Mansion day and night to guard. At the same time, he urged Wang Shizhen to advance from Shanxi as soon as possible and attack the rebel army.
As a result, Duan Qirui led his army to move forward one day, finally rushed to Shunde Prefecture, and set up positions outside the city. The rebel army attacked the positions of the Beiyang New Army for three consecutive days, but in the face of the fierce firepower of the Beiyang New Army, more than 1,500 soldiers were lost, but none of them could break through the defense line of the Beiyang New Army. At this time, Wang Shizhen broke into Henan Province, and defeated three rebels in a row in a row, captured Cizhou and Handan, which not only cut off the connection between Zhangde Prefecture and Shunde Prefecture, but also approached Guangping Prefecture.
Chapter completed!