readx; Chen Jingyun was appointed by the Beiyang Central Political Axe as the Southeast Xuanfu Envoy, and then established a series of actions of the Southeast Xuanfu Envoy that had a great impact in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces as well as on a national scale. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The meaning of this can be roughly understood by people in two aspects, one is that the national army led by Chen Jingyun successfully achieved a matching political status after a series of wars, but Chen Jingyun was appointed as the southeast Xuanfu envoy to manage the military and political affairs of the two provinces, but Chen Jingyun was regarded as a feudal town, a feudal town with the power to read the military and political finances, and it was also the only feudal town with the name given by the central government to govern the two provinces. Other provinces have absolutely no such central name, such as Tang Jiyao, although the Yunnan army is in charge of Yunnan and Guizhou, but nominally he Tang Jiyao is now just a Yunnan military envoy, his authority is only in charge of military affairs in Yunnan Province, and even Yunnan government affairs have no right to govern. Although this is not the case, he Tang Jiyao just lacks a name.

Although Chen Jingyun, who had just taken up his post as the propaganda envoy to the southeast, had publicly announced that Fujian and Zhejiang provinces would pay taxes to the central government normally, and said that the Nationalist Army and the Fuzhou Fleet were the Central Army and were under the management of the Central War Department. But everyone knows that this is just a superficial effort, and no one will believe that if Yuan Shikai sends a general to the national army, he will be able to command the national army. So this still doesn't make people think that Chen Jingyun is the largest feudal town in China today.

However, such a superficial effort made the other warlords extremely passive, and sure enough, the warlords in other provinces successively said that they would pay taxes to the central government, and said that their subordinate armies would obey the dispatch of the Central War Department.

If we only look at such a superficial phenomenon, then it can be said that this stage of China is the most unified stage after Xinhai, the provinces nominally pay taxes to the central government, accept the central government to send officials, the provincial army obeys the dispatch of the Ministry of War, and even some good people have done a so-called all-round reorganization plan, calling for the reorganization of the military forces of the whole country, the reorganization of the national army in the southeast into six integrated divisions, the reorganization of the armies in Anhui and Jiangxi into four integrated divisions, and the reorganization of the Gui army into two integrated divisions. The Dian Army was reorganized into four integrated divisions. After the reorganization of the armies of other provinces is completed, plus more than a dozen divisions of the Beiyang Army, China will have dozens of integrated divisions at that time.

However, this so-called national reorganization plan can only be thought of, even Yuan Shikai himself has not thought about it, even if the army of those warlords in the south is reorganized, it is only nominal, there is really no need for this, and if you want to reorganize, you have to unify China by yourself, so up to now, Yuan Shikai has not even bothered to give those armies in the south a regular number, let alone give them titles.

Not to mention that the Beiyang Army is unwilling, in fact, the warlords are also unwilling, and they don't want to give the name of the Central Army. Because of the development to the present, basically the basic units of each army still maintain the military system of the former New Army, but the establishment of the regiment and above has changed greatly, and each warlord has changed to varying degrees in combination with his own financial and material resources. For example, the number of a division of the Gui Army is only seven or eight thousand, and the heavy weapons attached to it are also very few, and a division is estimated to be enough for a mixed regiment of the Beiyang Army, and if they want to reorganize it to the same standard as the Beiyang Army, I am afraid that the heavy weapons of a division will not be raised, and there are now five or six divisions there. The same is true of the Nationalist Army, the strength of a division is less than 910,000 people, and the artillery regiment under the division is only 36 guns, which is no longer the same as the military system of the Beiyang Army.

The establishment of the warlords is not said to be good, but it can be said that it is suitable for them, and it is pointless to forcibly reorganize.

Although discerning people have seen that the phenomenon of warlord secession in China has become more and more serious, more people prefer to believe that now that all warlords are not fighting, then the next thing is the great peace of the whole country, and any other problems can be resolved through negotiations, especially after the successful formation of the National Assembly, the great unification of the whole country will be fully realized, and then China's reappearance of the Han and Tang dynasties is a matter of waiting for it.

In January 1913, along with these events, the elections for the National Assembly were also slowly proceeding, first in the provinces of the preliminary elections, the election of members of the National Assembly, there is no doubt that the current elections are meaningless, this can be seen by looking at the members of the National Assembly elected in the provinces.

The congressmen in Anhui and Jiangxi were all Kuomintang, then Fujian and Zhejiang were all Kuomintang, Yunnan and Guizhou were all Unified Republicans, and those in Guangxi were all under Lu Rongting, while Jiangsu and Guangdong were divided between the Kuomintang and Lu Rongting and the Kuomintang. As for the northern provinces, most of them are occupied by the Republicans and the Nationalists. Surprisingly, the people under Beiyang did not get much of the share of the parliamentarians, which is inseparable from the fact that Beiyang does not attach importance to the election of congressmen, whether it is Yuan Shikai or Feng Guozhang, most of the Beiyang giants have their eyes on the army, for them the parliament is just a toy, and they don't care at all.

When the parliamentary election was going on, Chen Jingyun actually didn't pay much attention to it, and he didn't plan to rely on any congress to take power, which he and Yuan Shikai saw similarly.

And the one who attaches the most importance to the congressional election is undoubtedly the Kuomintang, especially Song Jiaoren is running around, pulling people into the party, and has made great contributions to the Kuomintang to obtain the majority of the parliamentary seats, and even plans to form a cabinet when the Kuomintang is in place, he will rely on the power of the National Assembly and Yuan Shikai to pull him down, I have to say that his wishes are very beautiful, but the reality is usually very cruel.

Chen Jingyun has no interest in those congressional elections, and now he is still busy dealing with the internal affairs of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and the Xuanfu Embassy has just been formed, although many departments and personnel are directly transferred from the original provincial military and political axes and headquarters, but there are still many affairs that need to be solved, some of which Chen Jingyun can let go, and some of which need to be handled by himself. In addition to these government affairs, there are also military matters, several units of the Nationalist Army suffered heavy losses during the war in southern Jiangsu, and these are now being supplemented, and the training department of the General Staff Department has vigorously created troops from the areas controlled by the Nationalist Army, and after training, they have been replenished into the troops. Although the replenishment of personnel is troublesome, it is only a matter of time, and it is important that the replenishment of ordnance, especially heavy weapons, is a troublesome matter.

In addition to the loss of personnel in the war in southern Jiangsu, a large number of light and heavy weapons were also lost, and it was not easy to supplement them, especially artillery, the output of the 75-millimeter mountain cannon just finalized by the Fuzhou Arsenal was too small, and it could not be replenished at all, so it could only rely on external purchases, and said that "this aspect has now increased the restrictions on the national army, and the procurement of artillery has been all blocked, and Chen Jingyun can only purchase from Germany and the United States.

"The arsenal still needs to continue to increase its efforts, and the current artillery production is still too small, not only the 75-mm mountain artillery is less, but even the output of mortars needs to continue to increase!" When Chen Jingyun inspected the Fuzhou Arsenal again, he said to Tang Huikang.

This is not the first time Chen Jingyun has inspected the Fuzhou Arsenal, he has brought this many times, and every time he comes, he will see obvious changes in the Fuzhou Arsenal, but this change obviously still cannot meet the needs of the expanding national army. Therefore, Chen Jingyun had to continue to urge Tang Huikang.

Tang Huikang said: "Commander, rest assured, the equipment from the United States has arrived one after another, and the arsenal is already being installed and commissioned. In addition, the first furnace of molten steel has been refined with the assistance of American technicians at the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant, and the artillery steel is also in trial production. In addition, the arsenal has already started the development of a 75-mm field gun! ”

Chen Jingyun nodded and said: "That's good, you should learn more about the technical cooperation between the United States this time, and learn sincerely." Especially on the side of the steel plant, it has been said that the steel plant will be built well! ”

Since the establishment of the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant, the use of equipment ordered from the United States, of course, there is a more important technical license has begun to carry out trial production, but because a large number of equipment installation takes time, workers need to train, even though the whole plant has begun to build for several months, but it will take a while to fully complete, but once completed, the output of this Southeast Iron and Steel Plant will be enough to become the first output in China, and it is not impossible to even surpass the Hachiman Iron Works called 'Ben'.

Chen Jingyun attaches great importance to this steel plant, so after inspecting the Fuzhou Arsenal, he went to the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant to go around, but now the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant is still in the stage of large-scale construction and installation of equipment.

Back in the house, Chen Cai, who had not been seen for several days, walked into Chen Jingyun's study with a report.

"Commander, here's the list you commanded!" Chen Cai handed the report to Chen Jingyun.

After Chen Jingyun took it and looked at it, he was familiar with some of the names on the list, and some of them were unknown, but after taking a look, he saw that the names on the list did not have any important roles, so he said, "Is this all?" ”

Chen Cai said: "The Investigation Bureau has conducted a comprehensive investigation, and there are not many officials who have contacted the Beiyang Army, and there are only a few generals in the army. However, there were quite a few people who came into contact with the Kuomintang in Anhui, and some of them had even joined the Kuomintang. This makes up the bulk of the list, but none of these people are in high positions. ”

This list can be regarded as a hostile list, and after Chen Jingyun returned to Fuzhou, it happened that many people in the military and political axes had contacts with the Kuomintang, which made him have to be vigilant, and he did not want the Kuomintang to develop its influence into Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. But what makes him other than him is that there is no Lin Wenying and a group of high-level leaders of the original alliance on the list here, but after thinking about it, this Lin Wenying used to be from the Restoration Society, and the Restoration Society and the Xingzhong Society led by Sun Wen are mortal enemies, especially after Tao Chengzhang was assassinated.

"Deal with the list vaguely, send it to Han Chenxu in the name of corruption and dereliction of duty, don't leave any heads!" Chen Jingyun does not allow people from external forces to mix in the national army system, it is naturally inappropriate to kill them all, although their status is not high, but there are a lot of people, it is unrealistic to kill them all, if they are handed over to Han Chenxu for processing, they will be charged with dereliction of duty or corruption, and they will all be removed and thrown into prison if they are serious.

After hearing this, Chen Cai said: "My subordinates understand! In addition, the corruption and bribery case confessed by the commander a month ago has also been almost investigated, this is the report! ”

Chen Jingyun took the report and looked at it, this first name made him look a little unsightly: Hong Zitai! Then in the list of officials below, there are many personnel from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, many from the Ministry of Finance, and many other ministries of civil affairs, the Ministry of Supervision, and so on, and they are basically officials in important positions, which makes Chen Jingyun's face darker and darker.

However, after a while, he didn't say anything else, but was silent for a long time: "Keep this matter secret, don't show the news first." It's up to me to make up my mind! ”

It's normal to be corrupt and take bribes, and it's impossible to cut it off, but if the amount is large, don't blame Chen Jingyun for being ruthless. It's just that there are too many people involved in the list, and they are all important officials, if they are all taken down, it is estimated that it will cause a major earthquake in the officialdom of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and a bad mess will make the political axe system collapse. So some people have to be killed, some people have to go to jail, some people have to stay, some people can keep their positions, and it's a difficult question to choose between them.