Since the war in Hangzhou, the Nationalist Army has actually controlled Zhejiang, at that time, in order to avoid people's eyes, public opinion accusations and Yuan Shikai's suspicions, Chen Jingyun did not take a completely non-control way to control Zhejiang, but adopted a roundabout way.

First of all, military and financial, these two points are Chen Jingyun's bottom line is that he cannot tolerate concessions, so although there is a military department such as the Ministry of Military Affairs in the Zhejiang Military and Political Axe, which was established again, there is no military force such as the Zhejiang Army, and even the guards of the military and political axe are arranged by the National Army. In addition to the regular field troops, the garrison regiments in the garrison areas are also under the responsibility of the National Army Command, and it can be said that Chen Jingyun completely controls the military power in his hands.

In terms of finance, Chen Jingyun also sent a large number of personnel from the Fujian Finance Department to Zhejiang, and sent Zhuang Nan to serve as the deputy director of the Zhejiang Finance Department, and was actually responsible for Zhejiang's financial work, and carried out large-scale tax reform on this basis, which also encountered a lot of resistance as Fujian's tax reform, but with the support of the bayonets and bullets of the National Army, Zhejiang's tax reform was quite smooth.

The core of this tax reform is to bring the tax power from the local government to the hands of the central government, that is, the Ministry of Finance, and the subordinate local government axe is not allowed to intervene in tax affairs. Financial centralization is a major symbol of centralized power, in the late Qing Dynasty, why the contradiction between the central political axe and the local political axe was so big, and even the absurd thing of mutual protection in the southeast was because when the Qing court suppressed the bandits, the financial power was delegated to the local political axe, resulting in the later period of the local political axe was so powerful that it threatened the central government, and there was a central political axe at the same time as the emergence of the freak of the Beiyang system.

In the process of tax reform advocated by Chen Jingyun, the interests of many people will definitely be violated, such as local officials, such as the original tax collectors, etc., but Chen Jingyun's response to these people's opposition has always been very simple, that is, killing, one against killing one, two against killing two, and one hundred against killing a hundred.

China lacks scientists, families, and skilled workers, but there is no shortage of officials.

In terms of the specific tax system involving ordinary people, the change is not big, what to do is nothing more than to delete some duplication, little role of tax items, or merger, and then add taxes, etc., this is basically a whole process, and does not involve tax reduction, on the contrary, the people in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces are now slightly heavier than the pre-Qing Dynasty, this is also no way, the national army to expand the army, Fuzhou Arsenal to expand production, day and night non-stop work, A huge amount of military spending needs to be paid, and all of this requires a lot of money, although some of it comes from loans, but a considerable part of it comes from taxes.

However, the people of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces are relatively better than the people in other provinces, at least now Chen Jingyun has not directly received the tax from the Republic of China for more than ten years, although the people under the jurisdiction of the people are not well-off and do not worry about food and clothing, but at least there is no large-scale famine and the like, and the people can still maintain a minimum low standard of life.

In the middle of the year, floods occurred in many places in Fujian Province, and the military and political axes also specially allocated hundreds of thousands of yuan for disaster relief.

On the whole, that is, the people of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces are still alive.

The conversation with Jiang Zungui did not last long, and he talked about some trivial matters, including the establishment of Southeast University in Hangzhou, Jiang Zungui said that the Zhejiang military and political axe strongly supported the establishment of Southeast University, and even chose a large area of official wasteland on the outskirts of Hangzhou as the location of the campus.

Early the next morning, Chen Jingyun took a large group of people to inspect the garrison of the Seventh Division, but this time he came in the name of inspection, and he couldn't hide in the headquarters and calculate with a large group of generals how to face the upcoming war, and it was very important for him to appear in public if necessary.

During this inspection, he even brought reporters with him to prepare for the newspapers to publicize his inspection, etc., and such a move was very important to show all strata of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces that he Chen Jingyun was determined and capable of protecting the peace of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and the other thing was to encourage the morale of the national army.

At present, there is a lot of pressure on the Nationalist Army, and ordinary soldiers may not be aware of it, but the officers, especially the middle and high-ranking officers, generally have a worried attitude, and most of them maintain a pessimistic attitude towards the upcoming war, which is not what Chen Jingyun wants to see.

If the situation is not so serious, why should he come to Hangzhou!

When he returned from the garrison of the Seventh Division in the evening, the secretariat said that he had received a telegram from Sun Wen, and when he took it, the telegram was not long, and Sun Wen said that he was going to come to Hangzhou to meet him and discuss the current domestic situation.

Although the message was brief, Chen Jingyun still saw the meaning of Sun Wen's mediation.

"He's coming to mediate? That's an interesting idea! Chen Jingyun didn't understand Sun Wen very well, as far as he knew, Sun Wen was a pure revolutionary idealist, and he should be dissatisfied with the current situation, and he was also against Yuan Shikai. If a war breaks out between himself and Yuan Shikai, Chen Jingyun estimates that this Sun Wen should be on his side, and he should be able to fight side by side with Huang Xing and Li Junlie in Jiangxi at that time.

But what he didn't expect was that people would always change, because different environments and situations would always make different choices. He, Sun Wen, Huang Xing and others were dissatisfied with Yuan Shikai, and they also thought that Chen Jingyun and Yuan Shikai would fight, and in the end, both sides would lose, and then he Sun Wen would have a second revolution and lay the foundation of China's true republic in one fell swoop.

But now if Yuan Shikai and Chen Jingyun have a conflict, then they have to go through Huang Xing in the middle! Whether Beiyang wants to go south or the Nationalist Army wants to go north, Huang Xing, who is entrenched in Nanjing, is an obstacle.

It is impossible for any military commander in his right mind to leave an uncertain force of tens of thousands of troops in the rear and next to an important supply line while he is marching in large numbers. Therefore, if the Beiyang Army wants to go south, it will not be Chen Jingyun first, but Huang Xing.

It sounds hilarious, but reality is sometimes funnier than imagined, and even the most clever novelist can't imagine depicting the absurdity of reality.

Therefore, Huang Xing and Sun Wen did not want the Beiyang Army to go south, and they did not want a large-scale conflict between the Beiyang Army and Chen Jingyun now.

After putting down the telegram, Chen Jingyun thought, come on, if you can quell the war, maybe it will be a good thing, after all, you are not ready, and when the time comes, you will not be sure that you will be able to win, if you can delay it now, you will delay it first, and after you have completely integrated the three southeastern provinces, it is also possible to continue to expand the army on a large scale with the financial support of the three southeastern provinces, and at that time, the national army will completely have the capital to compete with the Beiyang Army to dominate the world, and now, it is still weaker.

"Commander, Chief Feng asks to see you!" As soon as he put down the telegram, Yu Feng from the secretariat walked in.

Chen Jingyun frowned slightly: "Is he still in trouble when he comes so late?" ”

He and Feng Qin went together all day today to inspect the station of the Seventh Division, why did they suddenly have something to say during the day, so they had to wait until the evening. However, since Feng Qin still came to ask for a meeting at this time, there should be an urgent matter, and he immediately said, "Let him come in!" ”

It didn't take long to hear Feng Qin's hurried footsteps coming slowly, and soon, Feng Qin walked in: "Commander!" ”

Chen Jingyun said: "It's so late, what makes you so flustered!" ”

Chen Jingyun could obviously see that Feng Qin's breathing was a little short, and he should have left in a hurry when he came.

Feng Qin stepped forward and said, "The intelligence department just sent information from Yanjing!" After that, he handed over a report, Chen Jingyun took it, there were not many words on it, only a few sentences: "It is reported that the Fifth Division of the Beiyang Army has arrived in Chuzhou, Anhui, the Eighth Division has approached Zhenjiang, and the other has reached the vicinity of Nantong." In addition, Shandong's Beiyang Third Division had already moved south overnight, and did not stop in Xuzhou on the way, and it was very likely that it would go directly to Chuzhou, Anhui. ”

After Chen Jingyun saw this information, he muttered in his mouth: "It seems that he Yuan Shikai is going to play really!" ”

In fact, the Beiyang Army had already begun to make combat preparations a long time ago, when the Nationalist Army took Guangzhou, Feng Guozhang had already ordered the Fifth Division and the Eighth Division to go south, if it wasn't for Yuan Shikai asking Feng Guozhang to be cautious, maybe this would have begun to attack Nanjing, Yuan Shikai asked Feng Guozhang to be cautious, so Feng Guozhang simply asked the Fifth Division to wait in Chuzhou, and wait for the Third Division to come. When Chen Jingyun left for Hangzhou in Fuzhou, Yuan Shikai formally ordered Feng Guozhang to take action. The 3rd Division went to Chuzhou along the Jinpu line, and then the 8th Division also went to Zhenjiang and Nantong, respectively.

The large-scale transfer of the Beiyang Army is generally impossible to hide from outsiders, but outsiders only know that the Beiyang Army has moved, but they don't know anything about where they want to go and what their plans are. It took a great deal of effort for the Military Intelligence Department under the Nationalist Army to inquire about the news from the War Department in Yanjing, and as soon as it received the news, it was transmitted back to the Nationalist Army Headquarters.

Chen Jingyun also received news that the Beiyang Army had a large-scale transfer, but it was not very clear about their specific actions, and it was not until now that the specific movements of the three divisions of the Beiyang Army were truly known.

After pondering for a while, he said, "Bring the map!" ”

Soon, Chen Jingyun stood in front of the map, and then fell into deep thought.

According to Feng Guozhang's transfer, it is obvious that the Beiyang Army took Nanjing as the main combat target in the early stage, and the fifth and third divisions together are nearly 30,000 troops, and these two divisions are the main forces of Beiyang, whether it is the third division or the fifth division, they cannot be underestimated.

Then there is the Eighth Division in the direction of Zhenjiang and Nantong, that Zhang Xun is not a wreck, he blocked the Southern Coalition Army in Nanjing with inferior forces for so many days, although it was so unfavorable at the time, but he still retreated after inflicting heavy casualties on the Southern Coalition Army, it can be seen from this point that this person's military command talent is not in vain.

"How is Huang Xing's current troops arranged?" Chen Jingyun raised his head and asked Feng Qin.