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Chapter 240: Political sudden change, Beiyang officials fail

The autumn harvest is coming soon. Like in his later years, the autumn harvest is the busiest stage for the East China government. The transportation department is coordinating transportation capacity, and the Ministry of Agriculture is coordinating the approximate total crop output to formulate the price of agricultural products this year.

The prices of agricultural products are naturally controllable by the government. If there are too many agricultural products, the government can purchase and reserve them, so that the price will rise. If the output is insufficient, the government releases reserves in the warehouse to lower the price.

In general, it is to maintain the price of agricultural products to the extent that producers are profitable, and the profit cannot be too large.

Although some agricultural production in various places has been affected by disasters this year, it has maintained a strong momentum overall. According to a report from the Ministry of Agriculture, this year's cotton production is enough to allow China to defeat any opponent in the international cotton export market. The same is true for sugar production.

At the same time, it has also achieved great results in raw silk production. Japan's raw silk industry has been completely defeated by China's raw silk industry, and China's raw silk industry has become the world's number one.

In terms of breeding, the output value of the breeding industry exceeded 10 billion this year, including seafood breeding.

As September begins, the offshore fishing moratorium has ended, and the coastal fishing ports have begun an annual fishing period. In addition to the fishing of shallow sea fishing grounds, ocean fishing has caught nearly three million tons of fishing this year, a large part of which is fished in the waters of Japan.

The fishing results of shallow sea fishing industry last year were 4 million tons, but this year it was stopped by the Ministry of Fisheries. The Ministry of Fisheries banned a batch of large trawlers and is expected to only catch three million tons of fishing products during this year's fishing period.

The fishing industry is very fragile, so the protection policy of the East China government is very strict, and the focus is on the development of offshore aquaculture. Offshore aquaculture projects have been started in various parts of the coast.

This year, the East China government occupied Indonesia, and Indonesia's vast waters will also become China's fishing range. However, the South China Sea Republic is formulating a fishing moratorium system suitable for Indonesian areas and limiting the number of fishing tons. After these policies are formulated, Chinese fishing boats can go to Indonesia's shallow seas to conduct fishing operations.

China's marine fishing technology is currently the most powerful in the world, so East China Group also invests in marine fishing companies in other countries.

Nowadays, more and more cheap fishery products have been transported back to China, gradually entering the dining tables of thousands of households.

Cod in Newfoundland Fishery is the main product of the East China Group's foreign investment fishing company. Large trawlers are constantly fishing in Newfoundland fishery day after day, without any restrictions.

In this era, because productivity was not so high, countries were not very aware of resource protection, and no one could stop such behavior from the East China Group.

Cod was once the food of poor people in Europe because there was too much cod, but cod was very nutritious. East China Group is currently building a canning factory in Newfoundland, which has received strong support from the local government in Newfoundland.

The canning factory has special cod processing machinery, which can use these processing machinery to slaughter the cod in an assembly line and then fill and transport it back to China.

The military is interested in canned cod and is considering inclusion in the soldiers' food.

The development of planting, breeding, fishing and forestry is all very fast, and the total output value this year is expected to reach more than 40 billion yuan. However, agriculture is a consumable, and agriculture cannot allow a country to improve its war capabilities too much. However, agriculture can improve the quality of life of the people, so Xia Jun focuses on developing. Only when the people have enough food and eat well can they win the hearts of the people.

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Just as the East China government was busy welcoming the autumn harvest, Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui returned to China.

The two of them were enthusiastically persuaded by Xu Yuan, President of the South China Republic, to play in Indonesia for nearly a month. They were so enthusiastic that they refused to let them go. Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui had any solutions, but they did not bring their troops, and Indonesia was filled with East China troops.

As soon as they returned to Beijing, they found that the situation had changed.

A large group of dismissed local officials in Beiyang heard that Duan Qirui was back and rushed to the airport one by one. When Duan Qirui got off the plane from Tanggu, Tianjin to Beijing, a group of officials of all sizes fell to the airport in front of many reporters, and cried to Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui who were walking off the plane.

"President, you have to make the decision for us."

"Why should they remove our posts without a king's law?"

"Prime Minister, you want to seek justice for everyone..."

“Woo woo…”

A group of officials knelt on the side of the road, some even cried so hard that the sky was dark, and some pounced on them, hugging Li Yuanhong's thighs tightly.

Li Yuanhong is a puppet president, with no military power without his bare hands and no military power. He would not hug him on his thighs. As for Duan Qirui, he was not hugging his thighs. He glanced at Li Yuanhong who was constantly twitching his thighs but could not get rid of his entanglement. Duan Qirui looked upright and scolded, "What are you doing? As a Chinese official, he actually kneeled here and cried. What kind of morality is that he is not afraid of embarrassing people, so he gets up and talks to me."

After being scolded by Duan Qirui, the Beiyang officials who were kneeling around stopped crying and stood up one by one.

"What's going on with you?" Li Yuanhong was hugged for a long time and couldn't help but blew his beard so angry that he shouted at a group of officials.

"Reporting to the President, the East China government is simply too bullying. During your trip to the country, the East China government manipulated the parliament and replaced local administrative personnel, with a total of more than 800 people." Henan Governor Chen Yunti rebuked with grief and anger: "Now China is no longer a country, no law..."

Li Yuanhong was shocked when he heard this. As soon as he and Duan Qirui went abroad, the East China government removed more than 800 Beiyang officials from their positions? This is too...too...unrestrained.

"Okay, I understand, let's all go." Duan Qirui waved his hand expressionlessly, and the police on both sides immediately leaned forward and pulled the Beiyang officials away. Duan Qirui raised his legs and left.

Li Yuanhong snorted and left the airport. He didn't care. This president was not the real president. However, although he was a false reputation, he felt good. As for the experience of the Beiyang government, he sneered in his heart.

The reporters present used their cameras to record the farce at the Beijing Airport throughout the process. The next day, major newspapers reported on the matter.

Some newspapers called this incident - the "Beiyang Officials Failure Incident". This term was soon widely adopted, and people began to call this incident - the "Beiyang Officials Failure Incident".

After the incident, there was a fierce discussion in China's public opinion.

Major newspapers in the East China faction were a bit gloating about the matter. They did not mention that the East China government violated the law, but implicitly mocked the Beiyang officials and listed the various behaviors of Beiyang officials in the local area.

The newspapers in the Beiyang faction angrily accused the East China government of being unpredictable and openly trampled on the Chinese constitution. Their words were so fierce that they almost criticized Xia Jun for his ambitions.

However, they are still a little rational, knowing that they can launch personal attacks on Xia Jun no matter what, otherwise they will be drowned in the anger of the people.

The debate between the two sides quickly turned into a verbal war, and saliva was splashing everywhere. People in various provinces under East China rule read the verbal war in the newspaper and were very calm.

Anyway, it was not the East China government that suffered the loss, so I was very happy. According to the newspaper, the East China government has replaced the Beiyang government's administrative personnel and has initially completed the unified government orders in administrative terms.

Unified, this is a great joy

Many businesses even set off firecrackers and set up banners - "Celebrating the unification of China's entire venue xx discount..."

The two sides' verbal war was at a disadvantage since the beginning of Beiyang because their influence was not large. Unlike the major newspapers of the East China government, the distribution channels cover the entire China, and some of them are even distributed overseas.

Moreover, when both sides criticize each other, there are so many things that the East China faction can criticize the Beiyang government, and the only thing that the Beiyang faction can criticize the East China government is only procedural and legal behavior violations.

Soon, the reactions of the people in various provinces under the rule of East China appeared on paper.

The newspaper industry in East China claimed: "Replacing Beiyang administrative personnel is highly supported by the people. At present, the people of China are eagerly looking forward to an environment where government orders are unified."

Then, the East China News Agency investigated the people under the Beiyang government.

Most of the people in various provinces under the former Beiyang rule expressed their support for this result, and their living conditions in East China have improved greatly after the arrival of administrative personnel.

The East China News Agency also conducted a large number of investigations and interviews, and soon gained their general voice from the people of those provinces.

People in all provinces do not want Beiyang officials to go back. They firmly support the administrative staff in East China and believe that they are the real parents.

The people's hearts are lost

This is the final evaluation of the Beiyang government by the East China News Agency.

Liang Qichao, a great writer from the Republic of China, published his views on the failure of Beiyang officials in the newspaper for the first time.

"The behavior of the East China government is indeed illegal, but public opinion is like this, so it should not be violated. Moreover, the unity of Chinese government orders is the top priority at present, and it is the right thing to consider the country and the nation. The East China government has achieved great achievements, and we do not need to fight again, and the existence of the Beiyang is no longer necessary."

Liang Qichao's remarks immediately caused greater turmoil, because whether public opinion was illegal became necessary for the Beiyang government to exist.

Li Yuanhong, who had been silent, publicly announced on September 26 that in order to conform to public opinion, he recognized the legitimacy of the proposal submitted by the East China government to the parliament before, and handed over the three provinces of Henan, Shaanxi and Gansu to the East China government for full management.

Li Yuanhong's decision has seriously damaged the interests of the Beiyang Group, but strangely Duan Qirui did not react to this, but instead allowed Li Yuanhong's behavior.

Duan Qirui knew that it would be useless for him to object. What else can he do if he has done it? It’s just a nominal question now.

Liang Qichao approached Duan Qirui that day and said to Duan Qirui: "The Prime Minister should follow the general trend of the world and disband Beiyang to push East China to the forefront."

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