Chapter 126: Annexation of the Twenty-Eighth Division
"Father, I am going to establish the Governor's Office of the Three Eastern Provinces on the basis of the Jilin Provincial Government, and you will assume the position of Governor. Comprehensively handle the government affairs of the three eastern provinces! ”
"What? Let me handle the government affairs of the three eastern provinces? Feng Delin looked at his son in surprise, after all, he was born in the military, and he was not strong in government affairs. It is not easy to deal with the administrative affairs of the entire three eastern provinces.
"Yes Father! The work of the Jilin Provincial Government has always been handled by my Chief of Staff, Li Junlai. Although my chief of staff is very capable, like me, he is also too young and lacks qualifications. So I'm going to ask you to be the governor of the Northeast, and then set up the Executive Yuan below, and let Li Jun serve as the president of the Executive Yuan, and the relationship between all aspects of the Northeast will need my father to bother, and with my father's connections, it won't be too difficult to deal with these things. The specific development plan of the government will be handed over to the Executive Yuan to deal with, and my father only needs to focus on the general direction. "Feng Yong can't help it. It is not suitable for him to be the governor of the Northeast himself, and Li Jun is of course even more inappropriate to come forward to handle the affairs of the Northeast with full authority. But with the great god Feng Delin, all forces dare not underestimate the forces in the Northeast. It is extremely beneficial to the development of the Northeast. Feng Yong sometimes sighs, qualifications are really a good thing, no qualifications, no matter how strong you are, it will give others a feeling of unreliability.
"Since you have a special person to deal with government affairs, then I can rest assured! However, the policy of violent land confiscation that you practiced in Jilin will not work in Mukden. I'm afraid you have that concern for me to come forward as this governor, right? Feng Delin said with a smile.
"Yes, because of the land policy, my reputation in Mukden Province is stinky. So I can only trouble my father. I have already contacted Li Jun, the government will implement a moderate policy in the future, our government is not short of money, let's use the money to buy you, you can't say anything! If we don't cooperate with the money to buy them, then don't blame me for being ruthless! The wealth in the hands of these Manchu relics is all the people's fat and people's ointment looted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and I don't understand my hatred when they are all confiscated! Feng Yong's heart was still inclined to quickly concentrate all the land in Fengtian Province into his own hands. After all, the resources of Fengtian are too abundant, and the resources for the development of heavy industry can basically be found. This is definitely something Feng Yong can't give up. In the whole of China, one of the most suitable for the development of an industrial base is the Shu region of Sichuan, which is surrounded by rich resources from the fertile Chengdu Plain. The population is large and the labor resources are abundant. There is also the Yangtze River waterway communication, although it is not too satisfactory, it is quite good. The other place is the three northeastern provinces. It's just that although the transportation conditions of the three northeastern provinces are good, they belong to the bitter cold land after all, the population is sparse, and the development of industry lacks labor. It was only during this period that there was a flood of domestic refugees, and under the guidance of the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce and the provincial government, the population of the hinterland of the Central Plains was entering the three eastern provinces in a steady stream. Feng Yong believes that if this form continues to develop, within a year, the population of the entire three eastern provinces will be able to compare with the population of the northeast at the time of the 918 incident. At the thought of having a population of 30 million under his rule, Feng Yong was full of hope for the future.
Feng Yong had already sent a report to the provincial government, informing Li Jun of the news of the establishment of the Northeast Governor's Mansion, and asked Li Jun to divide the inner courtyard of the Young Marshal's Mansion into two, half of which would be built into the Governor's Palace. Anyway, the inner courtyard of the Young Marshal's Mansion is large enough, and it is no problem to divide half of it to build the Governor's Palace. Feng Yong also considered establishing the center of his rule in Changchun. After all, Changchun City is located in the hinterland of the three eastern provinces, not far from Mongolia, and is an excellent ruling center. Coupled with the rapid development of Changchun Industrial Zone, Changchun is developing at a rapid pace, although it is not as good as Fengtian City, but Feng Yong believes that it will not be long before Changchun can surpass Fengtian and become the largest city in Northeast China. Another reason why Feng Yong gave up Fengtian City as his headquarters was because of the astonishing number of Manchu relics in Fengtian Province. These people are all wealthy people, and although they have no real power, they are very influential in Mukden Province.
Feng Yong was worried about their infiltration of the provincial government. Moreover, the relationship here is complicated, and it is not suitable for Feng Yong to carry out his work. And the most important point, the Japanese have infiltrated Fengtian Province too much, and the Japanese can be seen everywhere in the entire Fengtian City, and Japanese-funded enterprises are all over the entire Fengtian Province, which is absolutely intolerable to Feng Yong.
Five days later, Li Jinglin's division of the 27th Division in Beizhen took the lead in setting off for the west, and Zhang Haipeng's division of the 28th Division followed suit to prevent Li Jinglin's accident as he advanced westward. It was not until the troops of the 27th Division entered the Chahar area that Zhang Haipeng's troops went north to Changchun City under Feng Yong's orders. As for the Japanese instructors of the 28th Division, they were consciously left in Beizhen by Feng Yong. It's not Lao Tzu's soldiers, it's none of our business whether we die or live.
At the same time, Feng Delin telegraphed the entire three eastern provinces, established the governor's palace of the three eastern provinces, and served as the governor of the three eastern provinces! With Feng Delin's telegram, all forces expressed their congratulations. After all, Fengtian was not ruled by the "notorious" Feng Shaoshuai, so his land would be guaranteed. For this kind of happy event, what is a congratulatory telegram.
Subsequently, Feng Delin announced the establishment of the Military and Political Department of the Governor's Office, the 28th Division was disbanded and merged into the Public Security Corps, and the Public Security Corps was renamed the Northeast Public Security Army, which was subordinate to the military government. Feng Yong served as deputy governor and minister of military affairs. The Government Council was established and Li Jun, Chairman of the Jilin Provincial Government, was appointed as the first President of the Executive Yuan.
Feng Delin's second order shook all the forces in Fengtian! nnd: What's going on? Isn't von Delin in power? Why does Feng Yong seem to have more authority than Feng Delin? The forces of all parties speculated about the newly established Governor's Palace, but Feng Delin completely died down after sending these two telegrams, waiting for Zhang Zuolin to leave Fengtian City.
On the tenth day, Zhang Zuolin of Fengtian City led his troops to leave the nest he had operated for more than ten years. Feng Yong took the second brigade and the fourth brigade to send Zhang Zuolin out of the country in the name of seeing him off. At the same time, Feng Delin entered Fengtian City as the governor of the Northeast in a high-profile manner.
Zhang Zuolin is also a master who does not see rabbits and eagles, and the army is hoarded at the junction of Chahar and Jilin Province. Zhang Dashuai's meaning is very clear, what about the aid funds that you Feng Shaoshuai promised! One million may not be a big deal for the wealthy Jilin Provincial Government, but it is life-saving money for Zhang Zuolin, who was hollowed out by the war. Of course, Feng Yong would not deduct the money. After all, Zhang Zuolin's foothold in Chahar is also good for him Feng Yong. As for Zhang Zuolin's big thing again, Feng Shaoshuai is not worried at all. Now that he controls the land of the three provinces and has sufficient resources, Zhang Zuolin only has a relatively barren Chahar, how can his development speed surpass his own. And now that there are factional disputes in the country, Chahar is close to the Gyeonggi stronghold, which naturally attracts wide attention from all parties, and with a hero like Zhang Zuolin blocking there, he can also develop his strength with peace of mind. Moreover, there are already clues of factional disputes among the people, and if Zhang Zuolin does not want to be annexed by Beiyang, he must rely on the strength of his three eastern provinces to form a faction in order to protect himself. Therefore, as long as Zhang Zuolin's power is not beyond himself, Feng Yong is not worried that Zhang Zuolin will take action against him. Besides, if he takes the Mongolian steppe, most of Feng Delin's territory will be surrounded by himself. At that time, the strategic initiative was completely in their own hands.
One million silver dollars is not a small amount, fortunately, the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce has the ability to raise it in a short period of time in the distribution of Mukden, otherwise I don't know if Zhang Dashuai will think that he Feng Yong is playing tricks!
When Feng Yong handed over the prisoners, Zhang Dashuai's nose was almost crooked! Although Zhang Zuolin didn't know how many of his own people had been captured by Feng Yong's public security corps. But there are always 20,000 people. But by the time Feng Yong handed over, there were not even 2,000 people. And many of them are officials in Feng Yong's occupation of the county, generals of the security regiment and others. Of course, there are also two big names, Zhang Zuoxiang and Zhang Jinghui. Feng Yong is not interested in these green forest bigwigs, and of course he will not use them to blackmail Zhang Zuolin.
Zhang Zuolin was furious and sent a telegram to Feng Yong to ask for an explanation. Feng Yong's explanation is very simple: "Those soldiers voluntarily withdrew from the battle sequence of the 27th Division, and I have agreed to let them return to the people." Now they are the common people under the rule of the Northeast Governor's Office! There are only captured soldiers in our agreement, they are not soldiers, and there is certainly no need to return them! ”
In the face of Feng Yong's unreasonableness, Zhang Zuolin was angry and had to swallow this mouthful of anger at the same time, and now the form is stronger than people. He had already left Fengtian Province, even if he really fought, he had nothing to threaten Feng Yong, but was completely wiped out by Feng Yong in this unfamiliar place. As a hero, Zhang Zuolin is not a good man and a woman, and of course he will not trust others as bad people. So Zhang Zuolin quickly adjusted his mood and led the army straight to Zhangjiakou, the capital of Chahar Province.
The main force of the 28th Division, the 1st Brigade and 2nd Brigade, entered Changchun City under the order of Feng Yong. Then all the officers above the training level were transferred, including the brigade commanders Zhang Haipeng and Ji Jinchun, and all of them were sent by Feng Yong to the Jilin Army University for half a year of study. Of course, Feng Yong also knew that not all of these people were infiltrated by Japanese. But Feng Yong didn't dare to take this risk, so let them stay in the military academy for a while longer! Feng Yong believes that half a year will also be able to have a deeper understanding of them. By the time they graduated, the Northeast Security Army had long since begun to know what level it had developed.
As for the soldiers, they were also broken up by Feng Yong, mixed into a group of recruits, formed more than a dozen regiments, and then supplemented all these regiments to the Southeast Military Region. The strength of the Southeast Military Region suddenly expanded to more than 80,000 people, officially surpassing the Western Military Region and becoming the largest military region under Feng Yong's rule.
Heading south to Mukden Province, the defense area of the Southeast Military Region was expanded again, and the Japanese army was no longer a brigade, but an entire division. The 1st Division of the Japanese Army, the main ace in the Russo-Japanese War, is well equipped and has strong combat effectiveness. Although Japan has not shown too much hostility towards Feng Yong so far, Feng Yong's wolf ambitions of little Japan are clear. Therefore, no matter how tense the war in other theaters is, Feng Yong will not relax his support for the Southeast Military Region.
Lin Hu led the Second Brigade to the south and performed very well. The combat effectiveness of the Second Brigade was also affirmed by Feng Yong. Lin Hu's command ability can be described as beyond Feng Yong's expectations. Compared with Zhang Xiaoshan, Zhen Zhen, and Liu Hei at the same time, Lin Hu's military ability was the weakest. And the character is not strong enough. It's just that at that time, the public security corps was just starting, and Lin Hu was a literate person, so Feng Yong handed over the second company to him, almost a year, Lin Hu had more and more troops in his hands, and at the same time made a great contribution to Feng Yong's development, but his military ability was not strong has always been his weakness. Feng Yong asked him to garrison the most tense Southeast Military Region because he took a fancy to his more sleek methods. If Feng Yong's troops really started a war with the Japanese, in Feng Yong's heart, Lin Hu was not suitable to serve as this commander.
In fact, Feng Yong didn't notice an important quality of Lin Hu, that is, he was good at learning, Lin Hu's father was a showman, and he taught him to read the Four Books and Five Classics well since he was a child, which made his cultural foundation stronger than others. After becoming the brigade commander of the Second Brigade, Lin Hu knew that he was soft, so during his time in southeast Jidong, in addition to dealing with the affairs of the troops, he studied Chinese and foreign military classics every day. He asked someone to get these military books. And in his capacity as the commander of the second brigade, it is not difficult to find someone to translate. During this period, the situation of the Western war also spread to the East in the form of newspapers, and Lin Hu was also able to analyze the war situation in the West from some newspapers and learn the skills of Western generals in commanding the army. There has been a significant improvement in capacity.
I have to say that Feng Yong's luck is really good, and there is nothing to say. First of all, he had a strong and capable chief of staff to assist him in his work in an all-round way. None of the generals promoted have disappointed him at present. Zhang Xiaoshan was in charge of the Western Military Region and was always ready to attack the Mongolian steppe, while Liu Hei was in charge of the northern border, and this period of time on the northern border was not peaceful. Because of the continuous defeat of the Russian old Maozi in the Western theater, the domestic government finances have become more and more tight, so that the soldiers in the Far East have not seen their salaries for more than half a year. Those aristocratic lords don't look down on the meager military salary by looting the place, but the junior officers and ordinary soldiers can't! So during this time, small groups of soldiers in the Russian army often crossed the border into Heilongjiang to fight the autumn wind. For these small forces, Liu Hei's Northeast Military Region was resolutely eliminated. There were also several skirmishes on both sides for this. Lin Hu is in charge of the Southeast Military Region and has also made great progress. Guo Shanhu, who was born as a bandit, handled the Fourth Brigade properly. Feng Yong intended to have his Southwest Military Region deploy the western part of Mukden to the junction of Rehe and Chahar.
"It's June! My existence has made you an emperor for nine more days. I just don't know if my butterfly wings can continue your life! Feng Yong looked at the direction of Beijing and said quietly. In the original time and space, President Yuan Da came to the end of his life on the 6th of this month. But now Feng Yong didn't dare to guarantee it. After all, the butterfly effect has already occurred, and as for how much impact it will have, Feng Yong can't expect it. After all, the general trend of history has not changed much so far.
(To be continued)