The agreement between the six provinces of Shandong and the revolutionary government in the south surfaced, and the position of president was occupied by Qiaofu, and Qiaofu felt that there was no need to make a false deal with the Beiyang warlords, and he simply forgot all about the statement of the Wuchang Revolution and Cao Laosan's eyebrows, and never mentioned the matter of giving up Cao Laosan, saying that it was the development of the revolutionary situation that made Xuantong children afraid of revolution and had to abdicate, and Cao Kun did not play a decisive role in it, so for the sake of the country, it reflected the meaning of the unity of the north and the southIn addition to Qiaofu's fanatical followers, even Hu Chuanru, who has always been loyal, felt that he was suspected of losing his trust in the world, and repeatedly persuaded Qiaofu not to fight for the length of the moment, and he could make Cao Kun the first president, and he assisted Qiaofu to compete for the second president, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds. It is a pity that Hu Chuanru also misjudged Mr. Qiao's fame and fortune, and was criticized by Qiao Fu as revolutionary compromise, although his position in the revolutionary party has not changed, but since then he has stayed away from Qiao Fu's think tank. As for Huang Kedi's visit to the United States for recuperation, it is not surprising that Song Dunchu set up a separate Civic Party.

Although several revolutionary comrades parted ways one after another, Qiao Fu was also depressed for a while, but seeing that his successor Wang Zhaoming was still actively making suggestions, and Chen Qimei, who was originally in the second echelon, also emerged in a series of activities, especially in the fight against the Shandong Chamber of Commerce in Ningbo. Chen Qimei used his connections in the Green Gang to set up a special train to pick up nearly 300 children of the Green Gang and the Hui Dang forces near Nanjing, and drove into the city of Nanjing, and more than a dozen businesses and factories of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce in Nanjing were destroyed, but in addition to the locals, the shopkeepers and men from Shandong had already gathered at the Xiaguan Wharf one night in advance, and an American warship helped them quickly evacuate this place of right and wrong.

Looking at the shop that was smashed and robbed, a local cloth shop shopkeeper in Nanjing shook his head and entered his storefront, and told the guys to close the door and put on the board. In the capital of this revolutionary government, hooligans will be allowed to run rampant on the streets in broad daylight, and the police will not even leak faces, and they are really not as good as the former Qing Dynasty. Ruifuxiang on the other side of the door is also a time-honored brand in the north, originally came to Nanjing to open a store is to rob people to buy and sell, but this group of Shandong people do business is full of righteousness, they will be the northern mechanism cotton cloth and the silk weaving of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce are sold to their own stores at the same price, no price increase, and even if the business is light at the beginning there is no price reduction dumping, people in the rules and regulations in the store, service and garment business efforts, their own shop wants to learn, do not need to send children to go undercover, The other party's shopkeeper let his nephew go to study for half a month, and even gave a complete set of ready-to-wear versions, from wool to wool, cotton cloth, satin, no wonder the opposite business is booming day by day. After all, people get up early and work late, they deliver to their doors again and again, and the valet tailors are even free of charge for a year. The amazing thing is that their own business has not seen a depression, but because the other party has brought customers, even their own business is not worse than when they were only regular customers before, plus the garment business, although they are busy, but they are really surprised by the gross profit of fifty percent, no wonder these Shandong people are so easy to take root in Nanjing, and the business is so benevolent and heroic, even their peers are jealous. Watching these hooligans shouting and carrying cloth and robbing silk, and even the glass mirrors in the store were lifted from the walls and loaded and transported away, such an open-fire robbery actually took place in the bright and clear world of a country's capital. Let them these local merchants can't help but feel sad that the rabbit is dead and the fox is sad, originally thought that the ancient capital of the six dynasties of Jinling, and then do a good district in the country, business will definitely be a little better, but now it seems that this republic is not even as good as the Qing Dynasty, and it is not as good as the previous Liangjiang Governor's Mansion.

What is surprising is that in addition to fighting in the newspapers, the Shandong Chamber of Commerce has not taken any substantive action against the Wuyi New Army, oh, and now the National Defense Force, so that the tens of thousands of reorganized revolutionary new troops secretly transferred to Nanjing are useless, and after camping in the Ming Imperial Palace, the finances of the Republic Government have become even tighter, and within a few days, these guys who lack food and pay have begun to make trouble, and even the Ministry of Finance in Xinjiekou has been fired. The Shandong-led government of the six provinces kept a low profile, doing little other than protests and negotiations, and convinced the revolutionary party that the Wehrmacht had laid down their butcher's knives and switched to vegetarianism. But the hateful thing is that they can't open the pot anymore, and no matter how much the army is reorganized, it is in vain, without materials and salaries, even the current army has to be pulled over. Whoever let those reactionary capitalists have a solid family background and the capital to support their families is also willing to work hard, Wu Chenxuan, the general minister of national defense of this unrepublic, has implemented the "National Defense Forces Military Personnel Organization Law" on his own initiative, although it is full of praise for Qiu Ba, but considering that there are many people from the new army on his side, President Qiao Da can also endure it, but the most unacceptable thing is that he actually implemented the military rank salary system. A soldier who has served in the National Defense Forces for one year can get 11 taels of silver per month plus attendance allowance and miscellaneous subsidies, of course, half of the money issued is the Wuyi Yingyang of the Shandong Mint that blows loudly, and more than 20 silver dollars are heavy in the hand, which is enviable. The other half is a crisp paper * banknote, of course, not called a civil yuan or the like, only issued to soldiers, so it is also called a military ticket, but the value of this military ticket has been double-endorsed by the Shandong Chamber of Commerce and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, that is to say, anyone can use this military ticket to buy materials according to the face value without asking the reason, basically nothing can not be bought. The gap between military tickets and currency is limited, and the soldiers usually let their families take the military tickets to the shops of the Chamber of Commerce to consume, and most of the silver dollars are deposited in the two banks in Shandong.

If you don't know the purchasing power of 11 taels of silver at this time, don't worry, just know that in the era of the gold standard, until 1933, one dollar was worth 1.505 grams of gold, and at the beginning of the 20th century, the international gold-silver ratio was 37.32, which means that one dollar was equal to 56.2 grams of silver. In 1908, the Qing Dynasty's Ministry of Agriculture and Industry and the Degree Branch formulated a unified system of weights and measures, stipulating that the Kuping one tael was 37.301 grams. Therefore, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, one dollar was equivalent to 1.51 taels of flat silver. A pacesetter's monthly income is equivalent to $7.33, and the annual salary is $88, of course, if you count the double salary and condolence money at the end of the year, even if the wife has a peaceful year, she will have an income of $100.

In 1900, 90 percent of Americans were poor. The average salary for Americans is $0.22 per hour. The average worker earned $200-400 a year, which was below the poverty line at that time. Only 6% of people in the United States have graduated from high school, and the average life expectancy is 47 years. 14% of homes have a bathtub. There are only 144 miles of highways and 8,000 cars in the United States. Even by World War I, 80 percent of the income of the average American household was spent on basic needs such as food and clothing. Considering the degree of development in China, especially in the six provinces of Shandong, the price level is far lower than that of the United States, so with this $100 annual income, there is no pressure to feed a family of five, and even one or two children can go to school.

If this is still the case for soldiers, the treatment of non-commissioned officers and officers is even more attractive. The salary of officers is a system of increasing military ranks, and generally the income of the captain and company commander is three times that of the soldier, and the income of the colonel and regiment commander is about six times that of the soldier. Although it is only an honorary share of tens of thousands of silver dollars, and it is impossible to give the principal, the annual income from dividends can be more than twice the income of his military salary, and even a rare Qing official like Duan General Staff can afford to live in a small western-style house, drive a private car, and also hire seven or eight housekeepers and servants, and even Mrs. Wu, who is a lecturer at Shandong Women's University, is picked up by private car, so it can be said that there is basically no need to worry about life.

You say that the National Defense Forces implement the "National Defense Forces Military Personnel Organization Law" and eat meat behind closed doors, but this Wu Zongzuo also publicly published these articles in newspapers and radio stations, and now the military leaders on the north and south sides of the country could not sit still at first, and the Beiyang Army and the Anhui family have long coveted the treatment of the Wuyi New Army. is also eating military rations and working hard, why does a soldier carrying a gun get more than this Baoding martial arts graduate officer? The princes in the Beiyang Army knew their own affairs, and no one was rich, even the direct families who controlled Tianjin Customs and Zhili Shanxi did not have overnight food, if it weren't for Sheng Xuanhuai, Liang Shiyi and others, they wouldn't even be able to support these troops. The Anhui system lost the hinterland of Henan, although it guarded the Tongguan and occupied the Guanzhong, but the people's livelihood withered in the Guanzhong did not produce silver and light out of the horse, and if you want to scrape the ground to raise the army, you don't have to worry about it, plus far away from home, if it is not for the inconvenient transportation, the Anhui system can even run away from the three basic towns.

Beiyang is embarrassed to give silver to raise soldiers, which does not mean that those senior officials of the central government in Nanjing are thin-skinned. Huang Kedi, Li Yuanlong, and others sent a telegram to Wu Chenxuan, demanding the same treatment as the National Defense Forces, and that a large number of new troops in Hubei, Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Liangguang be paid as soon as possible. Wu Chenxuan also simply forwarded him a copy of the original text of the "Law on the Organization of Military Personnel of the National Defense Forces", and drew a black bar under the two sentences: "This law applies to military personnel of the Chinese National Defense Forces." Another sentence reads: "The Chinese National Defense Forces are officially registered by the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China, subordinate to the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China, and undertake to defend China's territorial integrity from aggression and to protect national security and national interests from threat." The implication is that the Revolutionary New Army is still a civilian armed force, and it is not registered with the Ministry of National Defense, and it does not have the ability to defend the country, so the Revolutionary New Army does not have the resources to enjoy this kind of treatment.

Huang Kedi is also a hard bone, although he does not agree with his boss's approach, but he is also indignant at the contempt for the Wuchang Uprising, and even the Southern New Army, which has repeatedly won awards in various anti-Qing revolutionary uprisings, has been treated so unfairly. Huang Kedi openly shouted in the "Declaration" that "Chief Wu uses public weapons for private use, and his descendants are different, ignoring the rights and interests of the anti-Qing rebels." At this time, the national defense army was already the Wu family army, how could we talk about defending the country? ”

However, the Shandong Chamber of Commerce and the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce ignored the threat of the Revolutionary New Army, and all the national defense divisions stationed in the south had already entered a state of combat readiness. Whoever thinks that his life is long and who goes, for the sake of these three oceans of revolutionary salary, it is really impossible to earn it.