In addition to the actual position of commander of the Guards Division, Zhang Hanqing only has the chairmanship of the People's Party's Military Committee, a new term in the eyes of the people of Fengtian, in the military circles, and it is only for the First Division and the Guards Division. Politically, there is only one Senate of the Overseer that is the most nominal position, and the position of "Chairman of the Fengtian Land Reform Committee" is an administrative position with little political role and no rank. Similarly, the chairman of the People's Party has no influence on Mukden's political decision-making.

Only the General Senate can be regarded as the core of the Fengtian Department, and Yang Yuting's position as the General Senator of Fengtian should be left to himself.

Seeing Zhang Hanqing's happy face, Zhang Zuolin couldn't help but laugh, this little sixth son really dares to think about it! At his age, holding such an important position, even if he is very wise, is still a bit shocking. He is not afraid, Lao Zhang still has to pay attention to the influence, after all, he is a son, and he will inevitably be gossiped about by others, saying that he is nepotistic or something.

It seems that this position is currently unavailable, but this has not affected Xiao Zhang's enthusiasm for giving Lao Zhang ideas.

A plan is a little successful, and Zhang Hanqing has another plan.

The Anhui system can't be without worries about Cao Kun. In fact, Cao Kun also felt that Xu Shuzheng's methods were too vicious, and he couldn't help but be wary. However, the Anhui department quickly cured him of this heart disease: Xu Shuzheng swore that the issue of vice president would be handled according to the original agreement and would never be changed. Xu Shuzheng also said: In the future, he will not be required to go to Hankou to preside over the military, and as long as he does not oppose the fifth phase of the battle plan and let others fight, the vice president will be able to get his hands on it steadily. Cao Kun ate this "ecstasy soup" and swayed again.

On the 31st, the Overseer held another meeting in Tianjin. One of the characteristics of this Tianjin conference was that Zhang Zuolin personally attended the meeting of the Governors' Corps, and the others were: Cao Kun, Zhang Huaizhi, Xu Shuzheng, Ni Sichong, Tian Zhongyu, Long Jiguang, and so on. The three governors of the Yangtze River still did not send representatives to attend, and Ni Sichong arrived on the same day after receiving a secret telegram from Xu Shuzheng.

The Tianjin meeting was still to discuss the issue of the president and the issue of the southern expedition. Zhang Zuolin was in favor of electing Xu Shichang as the next president, and suggested that Duan Qirui be elected vice president. This is the countermeasure discussed with Zhang Hanqing and his son. Because although he is the Fengtian Overseer at the moment, with a huge strength of 5 divisions, he cannot properly intervene in the situation in Jilin. Zhang Hanqing suggested that Zhang Zuolin's goal should be under the guise of the vice president of the Beijing regime, and Zhang Zuolin also knew that with his current strength, it would be difficult to achieve this goal, and his real goal was to "retreat to the second" and claim the throne in the northeast first.

Ni Sichong was afraid that the meeting would cause a deadlock, so he suggested that the choice of vice president should not be decided for the time being, and that it should be reserved for those who had made special contributions to the war against Yugoslavia. This suggestion was put forward by Xu Shuzheng through Ni Sichong's mouth, because Xu Shuzheng had promised Cao Kun that it was inconvenient to break his promise, but now that Zhang Zuolin had entered the customs in person, he wanted to entrap Zhang Zuolin with this son, so as to encourage Zhang Zuolin to transfer all the Feng troops to fight in the south, and on the other hand, he used the vice president as a bait to lure Cao Kun and his direct army to continue the war against the south. to salvage the impasse in the South.

Cao Kun thought that he was the only vice presidential candidate, and Xu Shuzheng's statement at that time was that as long as he did not oppose the war against the south, it was enough, and he did not need to actively march south. How did he know that the Hunan front had changed, but his general Wu Peifu refused to fight, and established an armistice agreement with the Southern Army, but this Tianjin Conference left the vice president to those who had meritorious service in the southern conquest, and Zhang Zuolin was watching and delaying. The Tianjin Conference unanimously resolved to advise Cao Kun to go south to make meritorious contributions. On the one hand, Cao Kun was reluctant to give up the vice presidential position, and on the other hand, he received a secret telegram from Wu Peifu to prevent him from going south, which made him really in a dilemma.

At this time, Cao Kun deeply felt that he had been deceived, because if he really went south, Zhang Zuolin would definitely take the opportunity to go deep into the Beijing regime, Zhang Zuolin was his biggest threat, with the ambition of becoming vice president, and he was also the only candidate other than him. So when Duan Qirui sent a float to pick up Cao Kun to Beijing for a detailed discussion, Cao actually refused.

After the direct boss turned against him, Duan Qirui's strength in Beijing was greatly damaged. In order to appease Zhang Zuolin and prevent a fire in the backyard, Zhang Zuolin was appointed as the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces.

This position is equivalent to a replica of the post of governor of the three eastern provinces in the former Qing Dynasty, and can oversee the power of the three provinces, and in terms of actual power, Zhang Zuolin's patrol of the three eastern provinces makes the power far above the governor of the three eastern provinces. The appointment of this post gave Zhang Zuolin reasonable and legal control over the three eastern provinces.

The direct impact of this incident on Zhang Hanqing is that his name of "young marshal" this time is truly worthy of the name: at the beginning of the Republic of China, the overseers were called "handsome", and the patrol envoys were called "big marshals", relatively speaking, the patrol envoys were the real "young marshals".

Since Zhang Zuolin appeared as a "thug," the warlords of the provinces advocated that the Feng army should be the main force at the front, in order to replace the direct army that stood still on the front line. But Zhang Zuolin, of course, refused to do this, and he suggested that the Feng army should be regarded as the general reserve force of all fronts, ready to support the front.

Of course, this was opposed by other warlords, which is equivalent to consuming the strength of other factions, and then the Feng army went to receive it, everyone is not stupid, who is willing to do this? Therefore, this issue is delayed, and you push me. During this period, the only unanimous thing for the warlords in the provinces was to ask the Beijing government for military salaries, and the amount they offered was 15 million yuan.

Of course, you can't fight without money, so the Duan cabinet was busy using his brains on "money". Therefore, although Zhang Zuolin personally participated in this Tianjin meeting, there was still no result---- but this was the result that Zhang's father and son wanted, and it was also the best result. Although Zhang Zuolin shouted loudly in support of going south, no one doubted the sincerity of this old man on the surface.

Finance Minister Cho Rulin proposed to issue 240 million yuan in gold coin bonds and borrow 80 million yuan from the Bank of North Korea as a one-third reserve. The currency represented by gold coin bills is one-half of the US dollar, and the Bureau of Currency was established as the supervisory authority for the issuance of gold coin coupons, and a trading company was set up to operate the issuance and international exchange business. Duan adopted this suggestion and asked Fung Kwok-cheung to promulgate the regulations on the issuance of gold coin coupons, but Fung again refused to seal them.

However, President Feng finally convened a meeting of the heads of various ministries and the heads of the two banks at the public office on August 9 to discuss the issue of issuing gold coin bonds. Cao Rulin reported at the meeting that the issuance of gold coin bills was a reform of the currency system and a preparatory step for the adoption of the gold standard. On August 10, in the name of the President, Feng promulgated the regulations for the enactment of gold coins and coupons, as well as the official regulations of the Currency Bureau.

Western countries have expressed opposition to this measure taken by the Beijing government. They believe that China's reform of the currency system should first consult with the banking groups of the five countries, and should not act alone, which is contrary to the common interests of the West, so they jointly protest against China. At this time, because the European war was coming to an end, the great powers began to pay attention to China again, and they were not as relaxed as during the emergency period of the European war, so they could not tolerate all kinds of collusion between the Japanese government and the Duan Qirui government, and still wanted to control China through the banking group of the five countries, which also prevented Japan's monopoly on borrowing from China.

In view of the strong pressure from Western countries, the Japanese government did not want to incur too much disgust from Western countries, so it recalled Nishihara, the prime minister's personal representative who remained in China, and at the same time did not consider the matter of borrowing gold coins for the time being.

If you don't have money, you can't fight, because soldiers are paid. The princes of all walks of life made a miasma for the distribution of interests, but they did not have any resolution to go south, only the Feng Department, empty-handed, and got the equipment that was crucial in the warlord melee, taking a big advantage.

In order to dispel the suspicions of the immediate family members caused by Lu Jianzhang's death at the Fengjun Headquarters in Tianjin, Zhang Zuoxiang, who served as the head of the investigation team, also lost no time in announcing the results of the investigation of the entire incident: "It was Xu Shuzheng who first colluded with Yang Yuting on the matter of fraudulently receiving Fengjun's military salary, and then took advantage of Yang's credulity to assassinate Lu Jianzhang at the Fengjun Headquarters, intending to move the disaster eastward to the Fengjun Headquarters. The whole incident, not only Zhang Zuolin, who was far away in the northeast, did not know, but also Yang Yuting, who was an accomplice, was also kept in the dark. Although Xu Shuzheng is nominally the deputy commander-in-chief of the Fengjun, Zhang Zuolin, the commander-in-chief, cannot restrain him. The implication is naturally to clear up the relationship between Fengjun and this matter.

At the same time, Zhang Zuolin was also quickly investigating the bomb thrown by Zhang Hanqing, which made Zhang Hanqing's "Fengqing Bureau" begin to be famous in the Northeast, and also established the status of this department in Zhang Zuolin's heart. This is exactly the news that made Zhang Zuolin angry at the beginning: Xu Shuzheng took the Fengjun war money to fill his own pockets, and conspired with Yang Yuting to set up another mountain.

It turned out that since Duan Qirui formed a cabinet for the third time on March 25, Xu Shuzheng received a total of 5.5 million yuan in military expenses from Fengjun, but Fengjun only received more than 180 yuan, a difference of 3.7 million yuan! He further inquired and found that in order to expand his strength, Xu Shuzheng, together with Yang Yuting, chief of staff of the Feng Army, conspired to use the name of the Feng Army to fraudulently receive 3.7 million yuan of military funds from the Ministry of War and set up four brigades in Luoyang, Xinyang, and other places. Yang Yuting also planned to appoint his cronies Yu Zhen and Ding Chao, graduates of the Japanese Army Noncommissioned Officer School, and Anhui officers Song Ziyang and Chu Qixiang as brigade commanders. All this money was used to train the army and organize the election of the new Congress, and it turned out that Xu actually played with "fake reimbursement"!

Since Zhang Zuolin entered the customs, in contact with all parties, all he heard was how Xu Shuzheng was domineering, how rampant, and coerced Duan Qirui to bully the Beiyang army, so he was already dissatisfied with Xu Shuzheng in his heart. After learning that he had diverted the military funds of the Fengjun army for other purposes and deceived others to his own head, how could he not be dishonored? It's just that the matter of getting rid of Lu Jianzhang with a fake hand is the first priority, and this news has been withheld again and again, and now it's time to let it go.

Therefore, he did not wait for consultation with the Beijing government, and immediately ordered Xu Shuzheng to be dismissed from the post of deputy commander of the Fengjun, and wanted to settle accounts with Xu.