Although the [Qingdao Secret Treaty] had been signed, the matters that needed to be negotiated between the Qing court and the crossing group were not over, and the first thing was that the crossing group should provide the Qing court with the list of official positions and personnel it needed, so that the Qing court could complete the final step of appeasing the overseas Chinese.

In fact, the crossing group only values the official positions of the Qing court, not the people who are officials, because the crossing group has determined the general policy of controlling Shandong, that is, the two-track parallel, and the officials who can not move the Qing court will try not to move, but use the overhead strategy to establish a set of their own official administrative system in Shandong, which of course also includes the official officials of the Qing court who are appointed by the traverser, and the crossing group just wants to use these official positions to determine the legitimacy of the initial jurisdiction of Shandong, but will not use the power of these official positions to rule Shandong, but to use its own set of official administrative system, and finally reached the goal that the residents of Shandong only recognized the officials of the crossing group and did not recognize the officials of the Qing court. On the one hand, the official system of the Qing court itself was already very backward and far from being able to meet the needs of the social and economic development of this era; on the other hand, while using the Qing court, the crossing group was also trying its best to cut off the Qing court, because the more thoroughly this cutting enemy is, the less ties will be caused after the Qing court is completely torn apart in the future.

However, this does not mean that it is okay to find a cat or a dog to serve as an official of the Qing court, after all, in the early days of the crossing group to govern Shandong, these official positions still have a considerable role, and he is the governor of Shandong, in order to deal with various affairs of the Qing court, and to control the local Qing court officials in Shandong, this is not a job that everyone can compete. In addition, for the Qing court, the main leaders of the crossing group are basically clear that if they find someone to serve as the governor of Shandong, it will be too bad for the Qing court to save face, and for the Qing court, it doesn't matter what you do in secret, but you must be able to get by on face. Therefore, there should be at least five permanent members of the Executive Committee to hold this position, and everyone else should also hold an official position. After all, at this time, there is no need to contradict the Qing court over these unprincipled things.

Among the five permanent executive committee members, Xia Bohai, the current top leader of the Crossing Group, is the governor of Shandong, and he is the candidate who has the most no objections to the Qing court, but Xia Bohai considers that after the establishment of the new government of the Crossing Group, the administrative affairs will definitely be greatly improved, and his main energy will be on the development of the Crossing Group, and I am afraid that he will not have much energy to deal with the social affairs of the Qing court officialdom; moreover, Xia Bohai himself has a good understanding of the rules and routines of the Qing court officialdom. I am not very familiar with the world, and I am afraid that I will not be able to cope with it, so Xia Bohai proposed that it would be best for Qin Zheng to serve as the governor of Shandong.

Qin Zheng is the second person in the crossing group, and his appointment as the governor of Shandong is not a shame for the Qing court, and Qin Zheng is familiar with history, and the previous negotiations between the crossing group and the Qing court were basically paid by Qin Zheng, and some high-ranking officials of the Qing court, such as Li Hongzhang, Prince Qing, and Yuan Shikai, have established a certain personal relationship, and are also familiar with the routines of the Qing court officialdom, so he is indeed the most suitable candidate to serve as the governor of Shandong. After Qin Zheng thought about it, he also thought that he was indeed more suitable than Xia Bohai, so the candidate for the governor of Shandong was determined.

The other four members of the permanent executive committee were Xia Bohai as the governor of Shandong, which was the highest military official in Shandong in terms of name; Xiao Jianjun was appointed as the commander of the Shandong Navy Division, although he was also the commander of the Shandong Navy Division, but if he had two more words as the water division, he would be at the bottom half of the rank; Wang Yunpeng was appointed as the political envoy of Shandong; Xu Jichao was appointed as the Shandong Provincial Governor; both the political envoy and the envoy were subordinate officials of the governor or governor, and the political envoy was commonly known as the feudal platform, and he managed the local civil affairs, finance, land, household registration, The main task of the procurator was to inspect various provinces, evaluate the administration of officials, and be in charge of criminal law, supervision, postal and other affairs, all of which were important posts at the provincial level in the Qing court.

Among the other officials, 12 people, including Zhang Yuming and Jia Zhenzhao, served as the provincial governors of Shandong. Daotai is a unique official position in the Qing Dynasty, also known as the Taoist, is the province (governor, governor) and the government (prefect), between the temporary set of local governors, but the scope of authority of this official position, the grade is very messy, there are special responsibilities and concurrent, there is jurisdiction over a number of governments, there is also the jurisdiction of the whole province, and the scope of management is also very wide, in addition to the local administration often has finance, criminal law, money and grain and other affairs, there are grain roads, rivers, post roads, customs roads, Tuntian roads, tea horse roads, etc., the grades are also from four to two grades. It was not until the middle and late Qing Dynasty that the Daotai was basically fixed as an auxiliary official of the political envoy and the envoy, responsible for the finance, criminal law, money and grain, and military affairs of one or several prefectures. Of course, they sometimes became actual local governors, so the Qing court designated the top officials of the Tianjin Special Economic Zone and the Shanghai Special Economic Zone, which were specially set up for the crossing group, as Taoist officials. Among them, the Taoist of Tianjin Special Economic Zone is, of course, Li Songchen, the chief executive of Tianjin, who crosses the group. In terms of local military positions in Shandong, officers at all levels of the crossing group served as the commander-in-chief of each prefecture.

However, there are still a few official positions that do not have suitable personnel for the time being, namely the Jinan Prefect, the Jinan General Army, the Jiaoao Daotai, and the Shanghai Special Economic Zone Daoist, because these positions also involve the determination of the military and political officials of the future crossing group in these places.

The prefect of Jinan is the only local official who crosses the group to ask the Qing court, and the person who serves as the prefect of Jinan, that is, the mayor of Jinan who will cross the group in the future, because Jinan is the capital of Shandong and manages the affairs of the whole province of Shandong, but the administrative center of the cross-group is set in Qingdao, so most of the Shandong affairs related to the Qing court need to be handled by the managers of Jinan, so this personnel is also very important. And now the most lacking in the group is the management of this and the big city.

After consultation, everyone believed that Wang Sheng was the most suitable candidate to serve as the prefect of Jinan, that is, the future mayor of Jinan. Wang Sheng was the first administrative staff to come to Qingdao, and later was in charge of the land reform work in Jiaoao, and concurrently served as the administrative official of Jiaozhou, Gaomi, and Jimo counties, and had a good performance in each position, and accumulated a certain amount of local management and administrative experience, and also had a certain contact and exchange with the officials of the Qing court, and also had some understanding of the officialdom operation of the Qing court. These are all important conditions for him to serve as the prefect of Jinan.

In fact, Wang Sheng is very happy to get this appointment, although Jinan is not the administrative center of the group, but whether it is the size of the city or the historical heritage, it will be the most important city in Shandong, so to be able to serve as the mayor of Jinan, not only to be able to take charge of himself, but also to accumulate political achievements, increase experience of a great opportunity, far better than staying in Qingdao to develop earlier.

Seeing that Wang Sheng agreed to accept the position of mayor of Jinan, the executive committee immediately asked Wang Sheng to select people to take up his post with him, and at the same time decided that Zhang Zhengjie, the head of the first regiment, would serve as the chief soldier of Jinan, who was actually the commander of the Jinan Military Region.

The first regiment was originally stationed in Beijing, but after the Menbu Village Incident, it was transferred to Shandong to prepare to fight against Yuan Shikai's Beiyang New Army. Now Yuan Shikai has surrendered without a fight, but it is impossible for a regiment to return to Beijing, so the Military Commission decided to let a regiment be stationed in Jinan, on the one hand, to deter the local forces in Jinan, and on the other hand, to hold the northwest gateway of Shandong.

However, now Wang Sheng is also the director of the Land Reform Commission and the director of Jiaozhou, Gaomi, Now the three counties have special management bodies, and they are all directly managed by Qingdao, so they also took this opportunity to remove this position, but Wang Sheng served as the mayor of Jinan, and the director of the Land Reform Commission must need someone to fill it, and Wang Sheng recommended to the Executive Committee that Gao Jun take over his position, it turned out that Gao Jun was the deputy director of the Land Reform Commission, and now it is logical for the deputy to be corrected, and Gao Jun's work ability is not under Wang Sheng, and he is familiar with the situation of land reformIn addition, Gao Jun's status as a woman also contributed to the policy of emancipating women promoted by the crossing group.

After discussion, the executive committee agreed to Wang Sheng's recommendation and formally appointed Gao Jun as the director of the land reform committee, still in charge of land reform work, but not in charge of local administrative affairs.

The Jiaoao Taoist, that is, the candidate for the mayor of Qingdao who crossed the group, is also a problem, it turned out to be Wang Sheng as a candidate for this position to cultivate, but the plan is not as fast as the change, and now Wang Sheng is going to be the mayor of Jinan, leaving such a big gap. In the end, it could only be decided that Wang Yunpeng, who had been in charge of the overall administrative management in Qingdao for the time being, could take over the role. Xia Bohai proposed that Zeng Dong, the current Ministry of Agriculture, should be appointed deputy mayor and take over as Jiaoao Daoist.

Li Songchen, Wang Sheng, and Zeng Dong were all in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, but these three people have a common characteristic, that is, they are young, and they are not more than 30 years old, and they are also the young generation that the group focuses on cultivating. In fact, the three of them did not know much about agricultural work, and it was only an expedient measure to let them be the heads of the Ministry of Agriculture, firstly, there was really no suitable candidate at that time, and secondly, the work of the Ministry of Agriculture at that time was to restore the stability of the rural areas in Tianjin, redistribute land, and appease and manage the returning refugees, rather than developing and managing agricultural production, but now with the stability of the rule of the Ken Crossing Group, the functions of the Ministry of Agriculture have gradually returned to normal, so it is not appropriate for the three to be in charge of agricultural affairs.

Now that Li Songchen has been appointed as the chief executive of Tianjin, and Wang Sheng will also be the mayor of Jinan, they will both be transferred to work in the local area, and Zeng Dong will also follow in their footsteps, transferring from the central government to the local work, and accumulating work experience, which naturally becomes a natural thing.