The sun is scorching, hot and transpiring. In this weather. Whether it's in the house or whatever. It's all the same heat, what kind of clothes you wear, it's all soaked inside and out, it's really sweating.

This is Pukou. Nanjing on the other side of the Yangtze River across the Yangtze River, are under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, and because Pukou is the southern terminus of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, compared with Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, the liveliness of this Pukou is to catch up with Nanjing.

Now the Jinpu Railway has been completed and opened to traffic, although the number of trains is far less busy than the Jinghan Railway, another north-south traffic artery, but at least, there will always be a few passenger and freight cars arriving at the Pukou Railway Station every day, and because the Yangtze River here has no plan to build a bridge across the river, therefore, the goods transfer here also rely on barges, this Pukou Railway Station is next to a large wharf, the boats come and go, the sound of the whistle, plus the black smoke from the smoke of the imitation weaving mill and flour mill nearby, The industrialization atmosphere of Pukou is also getting stronger and stronger.

The so-called "train rings." According to the central government's "four industrial exhibition plan," along the railway is an important area of light and heavy industry exhibition, industrial raw materials and industrial manufactured products are transported by train, supplemented by ship transportation, this Pukou because it is close to the railway and close to the waterway, so it is now the leader of the Jiangsu light industry exhibition, compared with Shanghai, Nantong and other old industrial areas, Pukou faintly has the tendency to catch up.

Now that the weather is hot, the Pukou railway station is more lively than usual, not because the trains that transport cotton and coal have arrived again, but because the Pukou railway station is about to welcome a distinguished guest, who has been sent by the central government and is about to become the new governor of Jiangsu.

The new governor of Jiangsu Province is called Wang Zhaoming, the word Ji Xin, Guangdong Fanliren, once studied at Tokyo University of Political Science and Law in Japan, during which he joined the League, and became the main pen of the League, the pen name "Jingwei" The most famous place for this person is not to participate in the "Chengshen Revolution" of that year, but the sensational "Tao Chengzhang assassination case" It is this person who came out, the "truth" of Tao's assassination case can be revealed to the world, and this Wang Zhaoming is also because of betraying comrades and rising to prominence. From an inconspicuous little man to a senior adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and now, at the age of 29, this Mr. Wang has taken over the post of governor of Jiangsu Province.

Everybody knows it. The reason why Wang's career is so smooth is the result of his betrayal of his comrades, otherwise, how can this young politician be able to kneel in a high position? Although Mr. President is also a young man, after all, people are killed with real knives and real guns, in comparison, this brother

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Of course, if there is no chance, Wang will not be a local magistrate at the age of twenty-nine, this opportunity is given by Xu Baoshan, the overseer of Jiangsu, if it is not for Xu Overseer's domineering, the former governor of Jiangsu will not resign.

The former governor of Jiangsu Province is Zhang Shijie, he was born in Beiyang, since Yuan Shikai's confidant Zhu Jiabao stepped down as acting governor of Jiangsu, Zhang Shisuo has been serving as the governor of Jiangsu, because this person is proficient in foreign affairs and industry, therefore, under his auspices, in the past two years, Jiangsu Province industrial exhibition, in the southeast industry, Zhang Shijie is still very reputable.

The reason why Zhang Shiheng was able to become a "model governor" in the past two years is inseparable from the strong support of Xu Baoshan, the overseer of Jiangsu, but the banquet that is inseparable in the world has intensified with the emergence and intensification of contradictions between the two. The friendly cooperation between the two ended, and was replaced by mutual tilting.

The main reason for the break between Zhang and Xu was the contradiction of economic interests. Zhang Shisi represents the Southeast Industrial Group, while Xu Baoshan represents a newly rising Northern Jiangsu Salt Owl Group, in the early stage of the economic exhibition, the two groups can achieve peaceful coexistence, and even cooperate with each other, but when the economic exhibition reaches a stage. The friction between the two powerful groups is inevitable, and the fuse is the one led by the British consortium at the beginning, the "Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway Parallel Line Plan," which is also the so-called "Xi-Guangdong Railway Plan,"

The reason why the British wanted to build the Xiyue Railway was not mainly for economic interests, but to fight against the Russian Inner and Outer Mongolia Railway Plan, and also to maintain the face of the British Revolution, so, from the beginning, this. If the situation in Europe is stable, the British have enough strength to complete the construction of this railway, but the problem is that with the outbreak of the Balkan War, the major military powers in Europe have accelerated the pace of armament construction, and Britain is no exception, so the British government has to dig up funds everywhere to develop Britain's naval armaments, "Xiyue Railway Plan," the funds required for the construction have also been misappropriated by the British government, and the financial support of the British government has been lost, and those who participated" The British consortium did not have the strength to complete the railway project alone, but after more than two years of construction, the railway had been half completed, and it was really reluctant to give up, so the British consortium decided to transfer a part of its rights and interests to Chinese businessmen and add Chinese investment on the basis of the original Chinese capital.

Since Jiangsu is not in the central government's "four industrial exhibition plan," heavy industry project area, the financial and industrial circles in Jiangsu cannot be stunned by the central support for heavy industry, and the light industry is also weak due to the problem of overheated investment, so when it was learned that the British intended to transfer part of the interests in the Xiyue Railway. Jiangsu businessmen used their brains to take a stake in the Xiyue Railway in order to absorb the excess capital, and among these financial groups were the Southeast Industrial Group represented by Zhang Shijie and the Yanxiao Group represented by Xu Baoshan.

The equity is limited, and both groups want to swallow it in one bite, since neither side is willing to be humble, so this contradiction quickly intensified, and eventually led to the resignation of Zhang Shisuo.

Zhang Shiqian is a literati, unlike Xu Baoshan, who has a reliable army to support, although the current Jiangsu Provincial Army also nominally belongs to the National Defense Force, but because this army is evolved from Xu Baoshan's salt lord army, therefore, the center and the 6th Army Department cannot directly mobilize the Jiangsu Provincial Army

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When the center transferred Meng Enyuan's troops, it did plan to transfer Xu Baoshan, the head snake, with him, but Xu Baoshan did not eat soft and hard, and refused to leave the Jiangsu territory with a dead face, because the situation in the northeast region was critical at that time, the center did not want the backyard to catch fire, so he finally adopted the attitude of calming things and temporarily letting Xu Baoshan go, so that Xu Baoshan became more and more unpopular. As soon as the Xiyue railway dispute was over, Zhang Shisuo was fiercely attacked, and Zhang Shijie, a veteran of officialdom, was not to be outdone, and immediately counterattacked. The battle between the two sides was quite fierce, and there was a great momentum to turn the whole of Jiangsu upside down.

Although Xu Baoshan is a rough man. But there were a few of them. Think tank, according to the advice of these think tanks, Xu Baoshan gave Zhang Shijie's financial group. He wants to check the accounts. To check the accounts of those financiers and industrialists to see how much national tax they have evaded in the past two years, this trick is quite clever, and it almost messed up the Zhang Shisi group, because these businessmen are not very clean.

However, Zhang Shisuo is experienced in the end, and quickly stabilized his position, and concentrated his firepower on the issue of Xu Baoshan's use of the anti-smuggling team to smuggle foreign goods, this time, Xu Baoshan is also speechless, because the other party's accusation is not slander, Xu Baoshan has been conniving at his subordinates to smuggle foreign goods and illegal salt in the past two years, otherwise, relying on the military salary allocated by the 6th Military Department, he simply cannot afford to raise 20,000 troops, these foreign goods are mainly Japanese imitation fabrics, which directly affects the profits of Jiangsu's imitation weaving industry. This move is also one of the reasons for the anger of Jiangsu Industrial Finance Group.

Both sides of the dog eat dog, are a mouthful of hair, in the end I don't know which good thing will be the small report to the center, the center is angry, to send someone to investigate, this time both sides are panicked, and finally had to temporarily reach a compromise, Xu Baoshan no longer pursue the evasion of national taxes, and Zhang Shisuo's faction also fell off the donkey, not only gave up the competition for the equity of the Xiyue Railway, but also Zhang Shijie himself submitted his resignation to the center, resigned from the post of governor of Jiangsu.

In this battle, Zhang Shisi and his financial group were defeated by the hands of the military power, which made them realize the disparity in the balance of power, and. Jiangsu's "military-civilian partition" has also become a joke.

According to the organic law of the government, the governor is recommended by the provincial council, and then appointed by the central government, and subject to the supervision of the provincial council. Murder and arson were a means of begging for a living for him, so the Jiangsu Provincial Assembly finally decided not to recommend a candidate for governor, but to directly call the center and parachute a provincial governor who was not afraid of death over. The parliamentarians' move also meant revenge, many of them were industrialists of Zhang Shi's faction, and they were unwilling to be played by Xu Baoshan, a martial artist.

In fact, the parliamentarians thought very simply, that is, to ask the center to directly send a governor to clean up Xu Baoshan, after all, with the center as a backer, this airborne governor has enough confidence, and will not be like Zhang Shisi, Meng Enyuan will stop eating as soon as he leaves.

The central center was also considerate of Jiangsu's public opinion, so the day after receiving the telegram from the Jiangsu Provincial Assembly, the central center appointed a new governor of Jiangsu.

Although Jiangsu announced the "separation of military and civilian rule" two years ago, in fact. Jiangsu is the same as Yunnan and Fujian, the military force is still very strong, Yunnan is the French sphere of influence, Fujian is the Japanese sphere of influence, for those two provinces, the center can be treated differently, but for Jiangsu, although it is the British sphere of influence, but because this province is a fiscal and tax area, the center is very concerned about the situation here, and now the industry is fast, the center is paying more and more attention to the control of Jiangsu, so in the eyes of the parliamentarians in Jiangsu, the reason why the center transferred Meng Enyuan to Xuzhou is an important step for the center to cut the domain, the next thing the center has to clean up is Xu Baoshan, Wang Zhaoming came to Jiangsu this time, I am afraid that he has a special mission.

This reason, Jiangsu Provincial Councillors understand, Jiangsu Governor Xu Baoshan also understands, so now the people who rushed to Pukou Railway Station to greet Governor Wang are basically Jiangsu Councilors, as for Jiangsu Governor Xu Baoshan, but did not show up, but only sent a representative to the railway station to meet Governor Wang, as for Xu Governor himself, at this moment I am afraid that he is discussing with his cronies in the Overseer's Mansion to deal with it.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Governor Wang's special train entered the station on time, heard the whistle, and greeted the governor on the platform on our behalf, and saw the train entering the station, this hanging heart was put down, because the day before yesterday there were rumors that someone wanted to be unfavorable to Governor Wang, and wanted to kill Governor Wang by blowing up the train, so as not to "destroy the local prosperity" So, everyone has been worried about this, and now that they see the train entering the station, then, everyone will naturally be relieved.

The train was humbled on the platform, Governor Wang and his wife walked out of the carriage with a spring breeze on their faces, shook hands with everyone on the platform and greeted each other, this pro-people gesture was really done, and then, surrounded by everyone, walked out of the train station and walked towards the luxury carriage.

But he hadn't gotten to the carriage yet. At the same time, two crisp gunshots rang out from the east side of the railway station, almost simultaneously, making many people mistakenly think that there was only one shot.

In fact, Governor Wang was shot twice in the body, one in the neck and the other in the right leg, and it is difficult to say which of the two shots was more deadly, because both injured the artery, Governor Wang was not dead at that time, and even explained a few words to his wife. But after being sent to the hospital in a panic by everyone, Governor Wang, who was willing to do a great job, died, and he didn't even enter the governor's office.

This is the well-known "Assassination Case" in history, which seems to be isolated, but in fact it is closely related to the current situation in the whole country.