Chapter Ninety-Seven: Factions
Since these days, Li Yuanhong has been jumping up and down, in this regard, Zhao Bei just watched coldly, whether it was Li Yuanhong, Hu Ying, or even Yuan Shikai, who was in the limelight, was just his pawn, the general trend of history was in front of his eyes, he would never allow these people to grasp this general trend, and they couldn't grasp it at all, which history has proven.
To save the country, you have to rely on him Zhao Bei Zhao Zhenhua, who called him a traverser?
"Ladies and gentlemen, since there is no objection to this outline, I declare this the meeting closed. I hope that all of you will work together to put the province's government affairs on the right track as soon as possible. Now that Hubei Province has not been recovered for a long time, there are thousands of things to do, such as the redivision of administrative divisions, the reduction and evaluation of officials, the cleaning up of finances, the rectification of funds, and the establishment of local self-government associations. ”
Zhao Bei stood up, straightened his military uniform, and loudly announced the end of the meeting.
"By the way, there is another thing, because we are a revolutionary military government, not a feudal dynasty, and the situation in the country has not yet stabilized, and the financial situation has not improved, so from now on, your monthly salary is the same as Zhao's, which is 50 oceans per month, plus 20 yuan for transportation. I said ugly things in front, Zhao is not the Manchu court, I don't rub sand in my eyes, your salary comes from the people, you shouldn't stretch out your dirty hands after taking the people's hard-earned money, if anyone dares to risk the world's disapproval and bend the law for bribes, Zhao will not be polite! ”
Everyone at the bottom is a dignified, Zhao Bei's words are murderous, plus he has the nicknames of "family raider" and "Xiao Zhao Tu", everyone absolutely believes that he does what he says, but the total salary of 70 yuan per month is inevitably a little less, but think about the displaced people and beggars who flocked to the Wuhan area one after another, and then think about the heads of the former Qing officials hanging on the city tower, but everyone did not dare to defy the law.
Everyone got up to say goodbye, now Zhao Bei is forbidden to kneel and salute, so they all bow slightly, Zhao Bei stood at the door of the conference room, shook hands one by one, when it was Hu Ying and Li Yuanhong's turn, he raised his finger and pointed to the hard black Western-style top hat on the head of the two, and said: "The two of them are already officials of the revolutionary military government, and it is better to cut this braid, otherwise, I am afraid that some people will say that the two are speculative revolutionaries, half-hearted, and willing to be braided slaves." Besides, wearing a dress without cutting braids is nondescript and gimmicky. ”
Both of them had hot faces, and hurriedly promised to cut them when they went back. In fact, Li Yuanhong's braid had already been cut, but it was not cut clean, and later he quietly grew a one-foot-long pigtail in the shawl long hair at the back of his head, and someone made a small report to Zhao Bei, but Zhao Bei didn't care, anyway, Li Yuanhong's anti-Qing telegram had been sent at that time, even if the braid was long, it couldn't change his identity as a "traitor".
"Commander-in-Chief, how do I arrange it?"
When everyone else left, Ji Yulin, who had been sitting in the corner, walked up to Zhao Bei and pointed to his nose. When arranging the work just now, everyone else was appointed on the spot, but Ji Yulin never heard Zhao Bei read his name, and when he saw that the meeting was over, he had to ask hard.
"Liangxuan, you also have an arrangement, but not as a civil affairs official, but as an officer."
Zhao Bei shook hands with Ji Yulin, and the two walked out of the cabin.
Zhao Bei said: "I heard that you are from Hubei Jiangben School? The former Chief of Staff of Tianlan recommended Wu Luzhen to me, and when I talked to Wu Luzhen, he mentioned you and said that you were his student. ”
Ji Yulin's hanging heart immediately relaxed, and said: "The vocational department is indeed Wu Shouqing's student. ”
Zhao Bei nodded and said, "Now I will give you two choices, one is to teach in the Officers' Crash School, and the other is to serve as a division commander." Which one do you choose? ”
Ji Yulin hesitated for a moment and said: "It's better for the vocational department to lead the troops, I can't do the teaching and training of the military academy." ”
"Okay, I'll give Lan Tianwei a call, you get off the boat and be led directly by Chief of Staff Lan, and after receiving the letter of appointment, you will be the commander of the second division. The Second Division is based on the original Ninth Town of Jiangsu, and like the First Division, it is the main force of the Republican Army. ”
"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief! The ministry will live up to the trust of the commander-in-chief! ”
Ji Yulin was excited, he really didn't expect Zhao Bei to hand over the second division to him, this is the elite unit of the Republican Army, the most effective and disciplined, compared with the third division and the fourth division, which are purely integrated from the Revolutionary Guards, the second division is the ace division and the model division.
Ji Yulin is a native of Hubei, and it is said that it is most appropriate to bring the first division, because the division was reorganized from the original eighth town in Hubei, but the commander of the first division is now in charge of Zhao Bei himself, and this first division cannot be given to him.
The reason why the second division was handed over to Ji Yulin was mainly because of his identity, he was a member of the Rizhi Society, and there was no other background, neither a member of the Liberation nor a member of the Alliance, and now that the Rizhi Society has been disbanded, it is relatively reassuring for him to be the division commander, and since Yang Wangpeng went north, several senior officers in the ninth town of Jiangsu have demolished each other in order to compete for the position of division commander, which has made the issue of the division commander unresolved for a long time.
Originally, after Yang Wangpeng left, the most qualified person to sit in the position of commander of the second division was Bai Wenwei, a cadre of the Alliance, but because Lin Shuqing also joined the battle for the position of division commander, this struggle became increasingly fierce.
Lin Shuqing was originally the camp management belt of the ninth town of Jiangsu, after the Huangnigang uprising, he was ordered to go with Zhang Yukun and others of the Qunzhi Society to instigate the 33rd standard of the Jiangsu New Army to respond to the uprising, although the successful instigation of the uprising, but because the standard returned to his hometown, so he coerced Lin Shuqing, Zhang Yukun and others to Anqing, and Zhao Bei's march direction was just the opposite, and when it came to Anqing, the 33rd standard was immediately received and reorganized by Xiong Chengji, although Lin Shuqing, Zhang Yukun and others were entrusted with the name of "senior staff officer", but in fact they were set aside, and several people felt bored, Got together and thought it was better to go to Hubei, so he quietly left Anqing with Xu Shaozhen, the commander of the ninth town in Jiangsu, detoured to Shanghai, took a foreign steamer to Wuhan, and returned to Zhao Bei.
In the battle for the commander of the second division, the struggle between Bai Wenwei and Lin Shuqing was the most intense, Bai Wenwei was a member of the alliance, with a high prestige, and was also the brigade commander of the second division.
As a result, there was a factional struggle in the second division, and the two sides fought openly and secretly, and this contradiction could not be reconciled even by Zhao Bei and Zhang Jiyang.
The subordinates are divided into several factions to confront each other, generally speaking, this is more beneficial than disadvantageous for the leadership, and it can take the advantage of the fisherman in the middle, and the strategy of balance, but the factional struggle of the second division has gradually escalated, which has threatened the unity of the military order, and this is what Zhao Bei cannot tolerate the most, so, the two factions fought to the end, and Zhao Bei, who couldn't bear it, made a move, and simply separated Lin Shuqing and Bai Wenwei with a paper order, one was transferred to the third division as a brigade commander, and the other was transferred to the first division as a brigade commander. Only then did the senior officers of the Ninth Town of Jiangsu stop, Lan Tianwei also closed his mouth, and everyone once again understood the commander-in-chief's arbitrary nature.
As a result, there was only one brigade commander left in the Second Division, Zhang Yukun, and Zhao Bei immediately promoted Peng Hanyi, a former cadre of the Communist Advancement Association, and Zhang Licheng, a former cadre of the Qunzhi Society, and sent them to the Second Division as a brigade commander, but the position of the division commander was still vacant for a few days.
After weighing it again and again, Zhao Bei still decided to send an "outsider" to the second division, first, to show his fairness, and secondly, to mix sand, so Ji Yulin entered his sight.
However, it is difficult to say whether Ji Yulin can control the troops, one is that he is young and his qualifications are too shallow, and the other is that he has never led troops to fight and his prestige is insufficient, but for the commander-in-chief, this division commander candidate also has advantages, that is, he has no foundation in the army, and he relies on the support of the commander-in-chief, at least for now, he does not have to worry about him forming a gang, and Ji Yulin was born in a regular military school, and his military quality is better than those revolutionary young people who left home halfway.
Originally, after Lan Tianwei recommended Wu Luzhen to Zhao Bei, he also privately suggested that Wu Luzhen should lead the second division, but Zhao Bei thought about it again and again, and decided to observe first, because Wu Luzhen's background is too "deep", this person not only participated in the Xingzhong Association and the Self-Reliance Army, but also a member of the League, is an old qualified revolutionary, older than Song Jiaoren's qualifications, when he taught in Hubei Jiangben School, many officers in the Hubei New Army are his students, and the popularity is too high, and it is too "dangerous".
Now that Zhao Bei has just solved the Qunzhi Society, he doesn't want the alliance to go down the mountain to pick peaches, or it is more cost-effective to let "his own people" take the position, so Wu Luzhen is out, and now he is sent to the Officers' Crash School as the vice principal, and he is also in charge of the military discipline of the whole army, which is not too bad for him.
Solving the problem of the Mass Governance Society is only the first step in controlling the troops, and in the future, the League, the Liberation Society, the Communist Association, and the Constitutionalists will also have to be cleaned up, but they have to eat one bite at a time, and it may not be safe to rush it.
Ji Yulin naturally didn't know the commander-in-chief's thoughts, at this time he was completely immersed in the excitement of Maxima meeting Bole, since the commander-in-chief valued himself, then he also had to show the courage to die as a confidant, no matter what, he couldn't disappoint the commander-in-chief, and immediately patted his chest and assured Zhao Bei that he would definitely train the troops into an ace division.
Standing on the side of the boat, although he was waving goodbye to Master Ji, Zhao Bei was thinking about another thing in his heart.
Now the officer's crash course has been opened, although it has not yet opened, but the preparatory work is nearing the end, other aspects are easy to say, the only headache is the problem of teachers, now there is a lack of qualified military instructors, even if Zhang Zhidong trained those military academy instructors are hired, the teaching force is still stretched, in order to improve the quality of officers as soon as possible, Zhao Bei even hired Wang Zhanyuan and Lu Yongxiang, two Beiyang rebel generals, as vice principals of the school, how many people can understand the painstaking efforts?
Zhao Bei actually prefers to let Ji Yulin go to the military academy as a teacher, but this matter is reluctant, if the instructors can't teach with peace of mind, it is really better to ask them to go down to the army to lead the troops, at least they will not be full of complaints.
However, this military academy must not be sloppy, and it must find ways to expand the teaching force, improve the teaching level, and improve the military quality of the graduating cadets; even if it is not comparable to the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, at least it must be on par with the Baoding Army Crash Course run by the War Department of the Qing Court.
"When will I see my own 'Whampoa Military Academy'?"
Zhao Bei looked up to the sky and sighed.
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