Chapter 134: The foundation laying (I)

The autumn weather in Sichuan is already very cool. In Wenjiang County next to Chengdu, it was never lively this morning. It was almost over the time to go to the market. However, this time, in this small county town, there were all young and strong men from all over the country. Several streets of the county town were noisy, and the Chengdu dialect, which seemed warm and soft in the Sichuan sound, was ringing everywhere.

"Turt son, don't squeeze, the commander of the division management district has not arrived yet. He squeezed out the yolks!"

"Little baby, how old are you? You are here to eat grain and serve as a soldier? Is there any guarantee? Now you don't pay the imperial grain for farming now, so you're going home to guard your old man farming. What kind of grain should you be here to serve as a grain! A county only needs five hundred pieces of grain, so what kind of army are you here to serve as a soldier!"

"You said that, this is not called grain, but Deng Houzitian's soldiers are called grain! What is this called the National Defense Force? His ancestor Banbantian's soldiers calculate the imperial grain for us until the fifty years of the Republic of China. If this National Defense Force had not come, I would have paid the imperial grain for his great-grained grandson! Fortunately, the world has changed, and there is a new big brown bucket. The National Defense Force brought to eat twelve yuan a month! It is said that when he went home in four years, he drove Tian Dazi away, and I also wanted to be the National Defense Force. Huang's military uniform and leather horse boots were so angry that she was so beautiful that she was not forced to pull her. She still had twenty yuan to settle the family expenses after becoming a soldier. I have never seen such a happy national defense force in my life. I have also been to eat foreign meat for four years!"

Several lower-level officers in the divisional districts were sweating profusely to maintain order at the recruitment site. They were all local people from the hometown, and they were retained from the original Sichuan warlords. They were trying to serve, but they did not expect that recruiting soldiers would be so enthusiastic this time! If the superior officer came and saw this chaos, he would be sure of his reputation of not being able to do things! Those villagers who did not know how to line up and shouted loudly, either sitting or standing everywhere, could not show their usual prestige and even greet them with whips. The superior officer had already given instructions. This was the first time that the compulsory military service system was implemented in some areas. These people who signed up for the army should be enthusiastic and should not scold them before they entered the camp. It really made them feel a dilemma.

The situation in Sichuan is still determined by Wu Peifu's heart-breaking tactics. They were originally troops advancing along the river, and Tang Siling's order was to reach Chongqing. Wu Peifu and Wang Yelu were both brave. When they found that the Sichuan army was weak along the river, they decisively entered western Sichuan and appeared on the western Sichuan plain without even predicting it. At this time, they opened a radio station to contact Tang Siling, who had not yet arrived in Chongqing. Tang Siling was furious for their disobedience to the military order, and then he had no choice but to issue a further order, and swear in his heart. Wang Yelu is a real direct descendant from the teaching group, and he is a little unable to do anything. Wu

Pei Fu, a surrendered general in Beiyang, had to give him a good look afterwards! But Wang Yelu and Wu Peifu were quite successful. They immediately asked Deng, Tian and Liu, who were now in the joint defense of the Third Division in Chengdu in the name of the Central Sichuan investigation and prosecution, to give up Chengdu and retreat to northern Sichuan to wait for the Central Committee's handling opinions. Within a one-day period, no reply was received from the Third Division's joint defense headquarters. Wang and Wu commanded the 10th Division to slowly attack and oppress, forcibly responding. After a brief exchange of fire between the two sides, the three ministries, which had not been unified in their opinion, finally did not dare to resist, and gave up Chengdu to retreat to northern Sichuan. The telegrams from the central government expressed their intention to surrender.

Some stubborn people were ready to continue to fight on Shaanxi. After several telegrams from Yuchen, they pulled each faction to fight the other faction. Some people who were eager to make contributions and prepared to serve the new dynasty became interested in other people who refused to bow their heads. The civil war continued to go on in northern Sichuan throughout the summer. After Yuchen became the president, he continued to draw troops from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River into Sichuan. He was determined to take this province into his basic territory. Now his status and power are great and even his military strength are superior. After a summer, there is no suspense about the ownership of the situation in Sichuan Province. Tian Songyao and Liu Cunhou were desperate to Shaanxi.

Liu Xiang, Liu Wenhui, and Yang Sen announced their obedience to the central government. They and Xiong Kewu's army were dismissed. Sichuan re-elected local elections and organized local autonomous institutions. These generals lost the army but immediately turned around. With their strong influence in the local area, they wanted to seize the ruling power of several counties. Yuchen was not unaware that they had returned to the local area and had mastered the local administrative power at the county level, and still wanted to do their power to be arrogant, but now they can only tolerate it temporarily. Let's rectify it slowly after the situation develops. As long as the warlords give up the army, they will take measures to deal with them in the future.

Now from Sichuan Province to Yuchen's basic territories, even those provinces that are still independent, show signs of superficial peace and peace, and rivers and seas. Since Yuchen took office, he has been busy streamlining the relationship between the central and local areas on his own territory. In Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, he is trying out the policy of electing provincial governments by local autonomous units. In five provinces including Hubei, Hunan, Henan, Shandong, Zhili, etc., he still adopts the practice of abolishing the governor and directly appointing civil servants and governors. Provincial institutions are relatively simplified, and the establishment of departments of education, finance, industry and commerce, police, agriculture and forestry, and the main mission is to upload and issue central policies and local responses. In Yuchen's idea, local provincial agencies are relatively simplified.

The organization will eventually be composed of provincial senate elections. In the future, the central government will only have financial, security, judicial, internal security, and police dispatch agencies in the local area to ensure the reflection of the central policy and the central government's fiscal revenue. However, all this cannot be done yet. Now, the elected governor, the central government sent the governor, and even the original governor changed the name of a governor to continue to control the military and political power, which will coexist for a long time in the foreseeable future. Therefore, Yuchen only exerted one force in Sichuan, and the forces such as Shaanxi, the warlords in the southwest, the three governors of the Tongmenghui were not touched at all. The scene of great unity in the Republic of China seemed to be a peaceful atmosphere. But will this situation continue to be maintained?

Because Sichuan was obtained, Sichuan is a very, very important province in Yuchen's future blueprint. Sichuan Province is not only a hub province for the future southwest border defense, but also the best base in China that can face the southwest and northwest directions. This province has very sufficient manpower and financial resources. Yuchen has already planned to raise the Third Division here, and by the way, he began to pilot the compulsory military service system from this province. Infantry service for four years and special forces service for six years, he must have good people from local land and industrial families to choose to serve after they are guaranteed by the county council. In addition to the 10th Division stationed in Sichuan, the numbers of the two new divisions have also been issued, namely the 17th and 19th divisions. These two divisions have also been recorded in history because they were the first batch of compulsory military service divisions in the Republic of China. Therefore, the opening scene appears. The favorable impression of the people of Sichuan Province for this army has made the crowd of people who sign up for the army extremely surging.

What I felt most deeply about Yuchen's actions in Sichuan Province was the Beiyang forces in Shaanxi now. At this time, the autumn sky in Shaanxi was high, and this western province had entered the best season in a year. The remnants of the Beiyang Army, with Yuchen's intentional or unintentional indulgence, basically defeated the local armed forces in Weibei and Weinan in one summer. Zhang Fengxiang had already fled to the border of Shaanxi and Gansu with his name as the governor of Shaanxi Province. The two divisions of the Beiyang Army and other troops divided the defense zones and initially set off in Shaanxi'an.

Home comes. But now the 2nd Division of the Anmeng Army has entered the defense in Shanxi. The southward moves to Sichuan is already in Yuchen's pocket. Could it be that they can only go west and flee to the poor and deserted realm? Or is it the idea that gradually grows in the hearts of some people, surrendering to the young powerful man in the east? This time, advancing into Shaanxi really exhausted the courage of the vast majority of the troops. With Yuchen's appointment, he finally sat in the position where Yuan Shikai had once sat. They had already felt deeply that the world had changed.

The sunshine in Guanzhong shone on Lei Zhenchun, making him feel lazy. He sat on a high place in a hill, and the woman next to him was his family. The two sat side by side, watching the waves of wheat in the fields. Behind him were the adjutant and several guards busy there, busy arranging food to prepare for picnics. No matter from any angle, it was a scene of a couple coming out for a walk. But the couple talked to each other, which was a different scene.

"Guangcan, have you not decided yet?" The person who spoke was Lei Zhenchun's wife. His ex-wife died long ago. Now this wife is in the position of the post of the military supervisor in Tianjin, and she married a female student. Originally, when he was in Henan, his wife did not take up the post, but after he arrived in Shaanxi, she rushed over and carried Jiang Baili's letter and Bai Siwen, who had long been famous in the north. All the words are ultimately the same. Anyway, Yuchen promised him the position of commander of the Central Division. He was not moved by the position of commander of this division, so what if he was a part of it?

, wasn't he drowned among the officers from Jiangbei and finally lost? All he thought about was that he was guarding Shaanxi. Although he had a place to settle down for a while, he had absolutely no future. Yuchen had wiped out the political foundation of Beiyang, and they were just waiting for the fate of destruction here. Qi Xieyuan, He Zonglian, Yang Shande and the others knew that they had a final crazy attitude in Shaanxi. They desperately collected local financial resources and armed escorted the opium produced in Shaanxi, as if they were preparing to step down as an apartment. But he did not want his future to be an end.

He looked at his wife, and the fair and beautiful ex-female student made him feel a little strange now. When did Yuchen's intelligence system do this? What did even his wife succeed in exercising? This woman who has been very peaceful since marriage traveled for thousands of miles to convey this news, and even kept exercising him around him, even monitoring him? He suddenly felt that the world was a little unfamiliar. It became a little unacceptable. He said lightly: "What decision should I make? Now we are not making independent and separatist, so what is the Beiyang?

The flag of the country. What's wrong with it here? It's still a soldier from the Republic of China. When you come, our family can be reunited. Don't run around and stay there with peace of mind. I think this place is very good, the people are simple, and it's nothing to settle down here. I'm the guard commander of Guanzhong and Tongguan. I can get more than 50,000 yuan a year. I don't have to worry about life problems. I'm a family here. Don't think about those that are there or not." His wife looked at him calmly, just shook her head slowly. The light flashing in her eyes seemed to be described by the words "longing".

"Guangcan, have you read President Yu's inaugural speech?" Lei Zhenchun had indeed read this, and was impressed by Yuchen's speech skills. When it comes to anything else, it is nothing. Yuchen's image in his mind has always been very vague. It seems that he is a comprehensive collection of Yuan Shikai, Sun Yat-sen and Jiang Baili. It is still impossible for him to be sure who he is. A passionate young idealist or a scheming power scheming? Without ideals, he would not get such widespread public support. Without power scheming, he would never be able to sit in this position in such a short time. Her wife was just talking slowly: "Don't think that only you men care about current affairs, and women are the same. After all, I have been reading books for so many years, and although my final destination is still on you, I can only take care of my husband and children at home. But after all, women are also Chinese!

I believe President Yu can do the things in this country well and can regain the luck of our nation. But I am a woman and I don’t have many things to do, so when Mr. Jiang and Mr. Bai come to persuade me, I agreed immediately. Otherwise, they will force me to be a woman. Anyway, this is a good thing for the country and our family. Guangcan, don’t hesitate anymore. Every time you are fighting outside, I am worried that we can’t sleep all night. We are either afraid that our family will disperse, or that we see the corpse and blood that you have led the troops to fight. How much evil will it cause! You are here, the central government will definitely bring troops to fight, and it’s better to die less? As Mr. Jiang said, isn’t it good to leave more vitality for the country? I am not a lobbyist for anyone who persuades my husband, but I just hope you are well. I can’t see any better way out.”

Lei Zhenchun felt a hint of warmth in his heart, and he held his wife's hair splattered by the wind. Yes, when his wife was in school, she was a storm. He advocated feminism in Tianjin and was scolded by those gentry as a monster. She could think so much, it was indeed what she said in her heart. He looked at his wife and seemed to have decided something in his heart. But when he spoke, he only turned into a faint sigh: "Oh... I know it in my heart. It's rare to relax, so let's not talk about these things, okay?"

If you ask Yuchen how he feels sitting in this position now, it is still the same feeling he has been unchanged since he came to this world. He is busy! And it has been doubled. It turns out that only worrying about a piece of land in Jiangbei is already unbreakable, not to mention that the responsibility of the entire country is now added! In the affairs that are overwhelming, he must distinguish the main and secondary things he wants to do now, and what is his highest goal. Although the president and the cabinet have been initially established, the division of power must be

It must be clear! In the final analysis, the president's power must be as large as possible, and the cabinet's power must be as small as possible! For this reason, he would rather take the most resolute measures. For this reason, he would rather leave the matters of a few facts in independent provinces first and leave them to the people below to prepare first. After several disputes with the cabinet, the Kuomintang retreated as he expected. They really didn't want them to break the situation of participating in the power. The institutions under the Presidential Palace were gradually established, all of which were only

The institutions responsible for him. The General Staff of the National Defense Forces, the National Unified Security Committee, the National Industrial and Commercial Development Steering Committee, the National Currency Reform Commission... and other institutions have appeared in the Presidential Palace like mushrooms after a rain. The function of the cabinet has gradually begun to shrink. Many things are handled by the agencies of the Presidential Palace, and then they are filed with the corresponding ministries and commissions of the cabinet. Everyone is mentally prepared for Yuchen to use the position of president to perform a certain degree of dictatorship.

.But I didn't expect it to be so obvious from the beginning. Prime Minister Song Jiaoren of the Cabinet is now a legal and power-aware Prime Minister's Deputy Administration Office. He kept asking about the president's orders that were not legal without a deputy cabinet office. Yuchen was doing well and took back all the president's orders and asked him to sign them with his deputy. If he refused, he would not implement them in the form of the president's orders but in the form of a private order. At this time, he did not care about any procedures, and he just needed his will to be fully reflected!

The war lasted for more than a year. This is the best opportunity for China to enter the international stage in this century! To participate in such an international game, his historical knowledge can make up for the weakness of insufficient strength to a certain extent, but it is even more unimaginable that he has no strength at all! He has the greatest energy to implement the plan of currency reform. The country has a stable single currency to help form a national market, and can concentrate financial resources to hurry up and do something big! The coal-steel military-industrial joint enterprise in Ma'anshan, Anhui is also in full swing. Yuchen has issued a dead order. This enterprise that began to be built in 1912 must be 19.

Partial production was put into production in 2014! The country's first step in commercial law was also under intense discussion and review. Yuchen was also vigorously promoting the development of national commerce. As a central bank that has established its legal status, the Bank of Restoration has placed high hopes for supporting national industry and commerce. In the past few months since he was in office, the number of industrial and commercial loans issued by commercial banks through Restoration Bank guarantees has set a historical record. Jiangbei's basic territory has already been on track, and now the national market has been open to them, and the development of industry and commerce there has been accelerated, but Yuchen feels that all this is still far from enough. He wants more than that.

The army is also starting to reorganize the army, and the navy plans to sort out the plan after the army is reorganized. The plan of the National Defense Force of the 30th Division of the Army has been published. The direct troops from Jiangbei have already published the numbers of five divisions, namely the 17th and 19th Divisions established in Sichuan, the 20th Division established in Shandong, the 21st Division expanded based on the Kulun Infantry Regiment in Suiyuan, and the Central Guard Division established in Nanjing. In addition to Duan Zhigui's full-time governor of Zhili, the central direct troops are now exactly twenty divisions. In addition to the 27th Division, the Northeast also reorganized the Jihei troops into the 28th and 29th Divisions.

The Beiyang Army in the west was further compressed, and the numbers of the 4th and 6th divisions were only retained. Let them fight within themselves. Zhejiang's troops were the 6th Division, Guangdong's 22nd Division, Yunnan 23rd Division, Guangxi 24th Division, Fujian 25th Division, Guangxi 26th Division, Guangxi 26th Division, and former Shaanxi local armed remnants Yuchen also generously gave a number of the 30th Division to encourage them to fight against the Beiyang remnants to the end. The non-direct army was reorganized into ten divisions, at least in name, and it has been unified. How to digest the 10th Division troops in the future will be discussed until Yuchen makes a vacant move.

What worries him was the issue of international recognition. This time, the Western powers finally took action in a unified manner. On the issue of recognizing the New Republic of China, they all agreed on the issue of recognizing the New Republic of China, sorted out debts and ensured repayment periods. Tariffs as repayment mortgages must still be under the control of the British General Taxation Department. If the new government wants to carry out currency reform, it must borrow from the syndicates of the four countries and cannot have relations with a single country. The status of the concession must be promised by the new government and the previous treaties will continue to be valid, so that these Western powers can

The family acknowledged the establishment of the new government. Although the US government expressed great goodwill, it could not jump out alone at this point. They also wanted the Yuchen government to express their commitment to the United States' original interests in China. This is the same as other countries. It is just that after they jointly recognize the new government, the United States can immediately upgrade the relationship between the two countries to the level of ambassador, sign a secret agreement, and provide a separate secret currency reform loan. After President Taft stepped down, although the United States' enthusiasm for Yuchen was still continuity, it was not as high as before.
Chapter completed!