Chapter 314 The Southwest Incident (2)
Tang Jiyao, the governor of Yunnan at Wuhua Mountain in Yunnan, was a little annoyed. He was a little sad. When the Yunnan Army was founded, he made the most efforts. After Cai E went north, Tang Jiyao was loyal to the care of Cai E. Later, Cai E came back to launch the National Protection War, and Tang Jiyao also supported it. Although he was shaken for a while in front of Yuan Shikai's title and the money in the middle, he was still in trouble and finally got rid of this temptation.
But unexpectedly, Cai E actually held a grudge for this. He went to Japan to treat the disease. He even reported to abolish the Southwest Military Government. How many brothers of the Yunnan Army were exchanged for blood with one sword and one shot? They were actually given to Cai Songpo with just one word. And it was not enough to give it to the National Government. Didn’t it just look at Wang Zhenyu and him, Cai Songpo are both from Baoqing? It’s really a fat man who doesn’t flow to outsiders’ fields. These Hunanese people know how to hang together.
Thinking of this, Tang Jiyao made up his mind that after passing this level, I must give all the Hunanese people in the team out of the country. Yunnan must be the leader of our Yunnan people.
But what really made Tang Jiyao's headache now is that his control over the Yunnan army is very limited, at least he will not be able to control Luo Peijin. If Cai Songpo is dead now, he will be exhausted in Japan.
Tang Jiyao thought about it and felt that he could not wait for someone to come to him. He immediately sent his confidants to Luo Peijin from Sichuan, Dai Kan, Liu Xianshi from Guizhou, and Ren Kecheng from Guizhou, hoping to be a trinity and make progress and retreat together. At the same time, Tang Jiyao transferred the three divisions of Xie Ruyi, Hu Ruoyu and Li Xuanting's troops to the vicinity of Yunnan, which were loyal to him, and only felt a little relieved.
When Yang Du and his group arrived in Chongqing, the Sichuan army had three armies and twelve divisions.
At this time, after Tang Jiyao's operation, the situation in Sichuan changed a lot. Not to mention Yang Du, even Cai E himself might not be able to control the situation. Luo Peijin, who succeeded Cai E as the commander of the First Army of the Yunnan Army of the Jingguo, had just accepted the appointment of Tang Jiyao as acting governor of Sichuan. Xiong Kewu, who was already suspicious of Tang Jiyao, was transferred to the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Army of the Jingguo and governor of Sichuan Province, which also accelerated Xiong Kewu's determination to surrender to Nanjing. After Luo Peijin became the governor, his thoughts also changed tremendously. He naturally turned a blind eye to Cai E's letter of request for him to support his submission to Nanjing.
Tang Jiyao's appointment was later called a great failure by historians. You should know that at this time, the Yunnan Army in Sichuan had only three divisions, Gu Pinzhen, Zhao Youxin, and three divisions, while the Sichuan Army under Xiong Kewu's name (not necessarily all listened to Xiong Kewu's) had five divisions, Liu Cunhou, Liu Xiang, Yang Sen, and Lu Chao. The Sichuan Army also controlled the entire Sichuan and even the southwest Chongqing, and the more important thing was still behind. Luo Peijin didn't know the overall situation. He always advocated the strong Yunnan and weak Sichuan. The first order he issued after taking office as the governor of Sichuan on September 18 was to rectify Sichuan's finances, so the bad thing happened.
Specifically, Ropekin's reform plan was that the annual military salary of each division of the Yunnan Army was 1.2 million oceans, while the Sichuan Army's division was only 800,000. This time, the conflict between the Sichuan Army and the Yunnan Army was publicly placed on the table, causing the Sichuan Army's division commanders to send telegrams to protest. The five Sichuan Army commanders, who were originally disunited and had old grudges, began to look back and forth, emphasizing that we are all fellow villagers, remember to help each other.
Ropekin's bigger move is still behind. On September 29, Ropekin, who had not even sat firmly in the position of the governor, actually had the idea of abolishing the Sichuan Army. For this reason, he also found three division commanders of the Jingguo Guizhou Army stationed in Sichuan, Dai Kan, Wang Wenhua and Yuan Zuming, who were stationed in Sichuan, to discuss the matter.
After all, the news spread quickly. Now the Sichuan Army's bosses couldn't sit still. Originally, Xiong Kewu and Lu Chao had the intention to surrender to Nanjing. Now local snakes such as Liu Xiang, Liu Cunhou, and Yang Sen have also begun to fall in this direction.
When Gong Peng, the stationmaster of the Southwest General Station of the Military Intelligence Bureau, handed Yang Du a lot of these information to Yang Du, there was a rough idea in his mind to solve the Southwest problem.
"Website Manager Gong, I want to meet Xiong Kewu. Can you arrange this here? In addition, I am confidential when coming to Chongqing. Try not to let outsiders know."
Gong Peng nodded and said there was no problem, and then turned around to make arrangements.
This time, Yang Du did not come empty-handed. In addition to 10 million yuan spent on Huayuan in Sichuan, behind Yang Du, Tang Shengzhi's Ninth Division stationed in Changde, Dai Yue's Sixth Division stationed in Yichang, Li Pinxian's Seventh Division transferred from Jiujiang, and Deng Keng's 14th Division stationed in Luyang, a total of 100,000 troops were mobilized to replenish troops and supplies. More than 30,000 working groups composed of party cadres and security forces of the Kuomintang and society were also under intense formation. The security forces of the local troops of Hunan, Guangxi and Hubei provinces adjacent to the southwest also fully supplemented combat ammunition and entered a state of combat readiness. Wang Zhenyu's meaning was very clear. It would be best if he could not move troops. If he had to do it, he would have to be ruthless and not leave any future troubles.
At this time, the first political struggle of the Nanjing government gradually subsided under Huang Xing's illness. Hu Hanmin finally allocated 40 million yuan from the newly added customs income of 60 million yuan to the local government of Guangdong Province for land acquisition and water and electricity. Zhang Taiyan also saw the power of the Tongmenghui Group in this struggle and thought it would be better to seek common ground while reserving differences. But just when everyone thought the first political struggle was about to end, Wang Zhenyu threw a hot potato at Nanjing, and the fire of the political struggle was ignited again, but this time Wang Zhenyu really didn't mean it.
Since the first day of the establishment of the Nanjing National Government, the deputies of the National Congress have been arguing about the issue of military training or the rule of law. On the surface, it is just a dispute over the political system, but in fact it is still a matter of distribution of power. If it weren't for Wang Zhenyu's current strength being too strong, the people of the National Congress and the National Government would probably shout Wang Zhenyu to get out. Who wouldn't want to take power into their own hands?
Wang Zhenyu also knew this clearly. No matter how many concessions he made, he would not be able to satisfy others. Perhaps only if he lost everything, others would be satisfied and would sympathize with the pitiful you with pity. Although Wang Zhenyu did not intend to become a dictator, he would not allow himself to fall to that point, but he was not worried about this at the moment. He grabbed the gun through the Military Commission and held his wallet tightly through the China Development Corporation. Naturally, he was not afraid of any major problems.
What he threw to Nanjing this time was actually not a bomb, but a power and the power of judicial independence.
When the National Government was established in April, the Supreme Court was established. The institution was originally positioned as not responsible to the government, but directly to the National Assembly, and his justices were still for life. Although the National Government currently implements the policy of governing the party by the military and governing the party in various places, the independence and sacredness of the judicial system have been respected and protected by the military group headed by Wang Zhenyu. Moreover, with the implementation of policies such as land reform and urbanization and industrialization, the impact of the judicial system on social life has become increasingly greater. All factions within the Kuomintang party hope to control the judicial system, and Wang Zhenyu threw out this opportunity now.
This power is the appointment and removal power of justices of various provinces. Wang Zhenyu really recommended three people, including Hunan Provincial Justice Qin Zhen, Zhejiang Provincial Justice Chen Hongru, Fujian Provincial Justice Lin Zhijun, and the other six provinces were thrown to the National Government for appointment by themselves.
Now, the political situation in Nanjing, which had already calmed down, was boiling again. Wu Tingfang, the threshold for life-long justice, was almost broken, and all factions in the party were also working to put their own factions into office as provincial justices, because once they got this position, it means that the power of the judicial system in the province will be in their own hands in the next five years. When emphasizing judicial independence, the court has a lot of adjustments and influence on social relations and contradictions. No matter from that perspective, this power seems to be more useful than the army.
So Huang Xing's face immediately became worthless, and the Tongmenghui Group and the Restoration Group immediately rolled up their sleeves and started a war,.
The verbal attacks are still light. The voices of the two factions that advocated assassination to eliminate each other's opponents from time to time appearing. In the words of the Restoration Department, wasn't our boss Tao Chengzhang killed by them? Fortunately, both Sun Wen and Zhang Taiyan were calm in mind. What a joke, you little bastards really think that Wuhan is a clay Buddha, and everything has a bottom line. Everyone is playing democratic debate in Nanjing. I guess that one has no time to deal with it, but if they play assassination coup, that one will take action.
Nowadays, this kind of happy life with a house, a car, a power, a wealth, and a mistress comes from hardships. There are a few of the bosses here who have not been wandering for the first half of their lives to get a happy life today. If anyone dares to destroy this peaceful and harmonious situation, there is no need for Wang Zhenyu to slap him. The big bosses of both factions will stand up and beat him to death. Therefore, although the power struggle in Nanjing seems fierce, it is only stuck in the writings of journalists. The biggest role is to increase the sales of related newspapers and magazines. The government itself has not been affected too much. Everyone is just fighting and quarrels, and then throw shoes at each other at the National Assembly meeting. Those who are strong may even wave their fists. In short, the atmosphere of democracy is very good, at least much better than the successful conference of united and successful sleeping in later meetings.
On October 3, after the Southeast Battle, Lieutenant General Lie Zongren, who was in the limelight for the time being by annihilated more than 100,000 main forces of the Beiyang Army, was received by Wang Zhenyu alone, Wenlu, Wuhan.
Chapter completed!