Chen Zikun stared at Mai Zilong's eyes, and his sharp eyes that saw everything made the cunning police boss feel a little frightened.

Mai Zilong didn't come to beg for death, he wanted to live two more years than anyone else, but he also knew Chen Zikun's temper deeply, and he attacked the Governor's Office and killed so many people, this breath will definitely not be swallowed easily by the other party, so he pretended to be pitiful, hoping that Chen Zikun could open the net and spare himself from death.

"I won't kill you, we don't want to do this in the old Beiyang." Chen Zikun said lightly.

Mai Zilong breathed a sigh of relief, and in just ten seconds he felt like half a century had passed.

I made the right bet, Chen Zikun really boasted of being an old Beiyang, the old Beiyang would not kill political opponents, and someone like Xu Shuzheng was an outlier after all. He was relieved and began to consider whether to return to his hometown in the countryside to become a rich man, or to go to the Shanghai Concession to work as an apartment.

"But I can't let you go." Chen Zikun's words changed, and Mai Zilong's heart hung again.

"You have been in power for three months, what will Jiangdong become! The people have no means of making a living! How many people died during the Qing Party, you dare to say that there is not a single innocent one! Chen Zikun's series of questions made Mai Zigentian tremble and speechless.

"The crime you have committed should be tried in court, decided by a jury, judged by a judge, I will not interfere with justice, you go home and pack your things, and prepare to go to prison for a while." Chen Zikun waved his hand and asked the guards to escort Mai Zilong down.

Mai Zilong walked out, while looking at the brand-new walls and floor tiles of the PCPD with regret, the renovated PCPD was originally going to be his official residence, but he didn't think about it or worked for Chen Zikun, the world is impermanent, nothing more than this, he calculated everything, but forgot that Chen Zikun is not only an old Beiyang, but also a new person from the United States, and the matter of meeting and laughing and hating is not feasible for him, it seems that a prison disaster is inevitable.

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Chen Zikun returned to Jiangdong, did not hold a military parade, did not celebrate with fanfare, and acted very low-key, but the people were happy, firecrackers were set off in the streets and alleys, and the people rushed to tell each other, and Chen Dashuai came back.

Chen Dashuai did not disappoint the people, and at the beginning of his tenure, he issued a series of general orders to revoke all kinds of taxes levied by Mai Zilong, arrest the chief evil Mai Zilong's extremely accomplice, dismantle the newly recruited police force, and announced that the Supervision Office would be relinquished to establish the No. 1 Experimental Middle School in Jiangdong Province.

These general orders are different from the past, using the new official title of Chen Zikun, chairman of the Jiangdong Provincial National Government, commander-in-chief of Jiangdong Provincial Security, and commander of the 99th Army of the National Revolutionary Army.

Now Chen Zikun is the provincial chairman and security commander personally appointed by Hu Han ** of the Nanjing government, and he is a member of the Jiangdong Province who is in charge of the military and political affairs.

Liu Cunren really returned to work in the provincial government, still writing for Chairman Chen, those printed notices were all from his handwriting, his position was also upgraded from the original clerk to a senior clerk in the secretariat, the monthly salary increased by 30 yuan, not to mention the pen, ink, paper and inkstone in the pawnshop, not to mention, the family can also have rice, white noodles, wine and meat.

The only regret is that Liu Ting failed to return to the provincial capital, but she is a high-achieving student of Jiang University, but she is not worried about finding a job, and soon found a job as a teaching assistant in the Chinese Department of Jiangdong University, and the salary is not low, and the small life of the Liu family is thriving again.

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Chen Zikun vigorously purged the remnants of Mai Zilong's party, wiped out the wheat system, dismissed all senior police officers from their posts, and replaced them with officers of the First Division and officers of the Marine Police Corps who were loyal to him.

A team of police raided Mai Zilong's mansion, copied out countless gold and silver, more than 100 copies of land deeds, all of which were filled into the treasury, leaving only an empty house, and the police also searched Mai's hometown in the countryside, but unfortunately the wanted criminal Mai Ping got the news in advance and ran away, leaving only a daughter-in-law with a big belly.

The provincial capital has become calm, but the Jiangdong Army is still confronted with Tang Shengzhi's army, and the two armies have had a friction in the process of recovering Jiangdong, and the battle is not won by the Seventh Mixed Brigade, but Chen Qilin's teaching regiment goes into battle, this battle convinces the Jiangdong Army, and finally sees the ferocity of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

The Beiyang Army fights, often the two armies are separated by a few miles of guns, the marshals play mahjong in the concession to determine the victory, the Jiangdong Army is the rising star in the Beiyang Army, and the war really dares to play with life, so the battle is even victorious, and it has played a prestige, and now compared with the Northern Expeditionary Army, it is only then that I know that it is a small thing.

The Northern Expeditionary Army was the first to jump out of the trench and rush forward with a shell gun, the regiment commander rushed to the front, the battalion commander and company commander were embarrassed to retreat, the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment rushed forward in a swarm except for the reserves, the bullets passed by their ears day by day, and their eyes did not blink, and they scolded in Cantonese while rushing: "Lose your mother." That momentum made the bandit-born Jiangdong Army ashamed.

Although Tang Shengzhi's team is also known as the Northern Expeditionary Army, it is actually an adaptation of the Hunan Army, and there is no Hunan Army, and the soldiers in Hunan are naturally very effective in combat, but compared with the teaching regiment with the Whampoa Military Academy students as the backbone, it is a scum-like existence, so the battle was fought very neatly, and the Tang Army was expelled from Jiangdong without any casualties, and now the two armies are facing each other on the border between Jiangdong and Hubei.

At the end of July, the Anguo Army took advantage of the internal strife in the Nationalist Army to move south, recapture the front line of Xuzhou, which was empty of troops, and the soldiers were directed at Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist Government.

Just when the Nationalist Government was preparing to counterattack, a major event occurred on 1 August, 20,000 people of Zhang Fakui's department rose up in Nanchang, Jiangxi under the organization of ***, Wuhan's strength was greatly damaged, and it was impossible to crusade against Nanjing. ”

After some greetings, he presented a secret letter signed by Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, inviting Chen Zikun to oppose Chiang and promising to put Shandong Province under the jurisdiction of Chen Zikun after the matter was completed.

Chen Zikun did not reply immediately, but sent someone to entertain the envoy and found the chief of staff Yan Su to discuss countermeasures.

Yan Su said: "Nanjing has been occupied by the Gui family, Jiang Zhongzheng's descendant of the First Army Commander He Yingqin is not small, and Li Bai and others are eyebrows, I found out when I was in Nanjing, Wuhan has always wanted to get rid of Jiang and then quickly, and now the general trend of Jiang has been achieved, and our participation is just icing on the cake, not a major role." ”

Chen Zikun sneered: "The icing on the cake? I think it's just a matter of falling into the ground, whether it is Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, or He Yingqin, Tang Shengzhi, none of these people who hold military power will obey anyone, what will happen after the fall of Jiang? Who's next? Besides, who can raise an astronomical amount of money like Chiang Kai-shek? How can the Northern Expedition be unified? Since these people can't become an atmosphere, they have to invite Chiang Kai-shek out of the mountain, instead of being a bad guy in vain, it is better to send charcoal in the snow and support Lao Chiang. ”

Yan Su nodded and said: "To sort out the situation, Jiang Zhongzheng is indispensable, and see how they have internal friction, let's just guard Jiangdong." ”

After sending the envoy perfunctorily, Li Baihe really made a mistake and coerced Chiang Kai-shek to go into the field on the grounds of unifying the Nationalist Government, only Jiangdong Provincial Chairman Chen Zikun issued a telegram in support of Chiang Kai-shek, but to no avail, under strong internal and external pressure, Chiang Kai-shek resigned from the post of commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army and went into the wilderness.

After Chiang Kai-shek went into the wilderness, the monthly military salary of 2 million for Jiangdong Province was cut off, but fortunately, Chen Zikun's rule was stable, the civil tax increased, and the maintenance of 30,000 troops and government expenditure were sufficient.

The war broke out again, the south was to encircle and intercept the Nanchang rebels, the north was Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang and Zhang Zuolin were fighting, and Sun Chuanfang, the former commander of the five provinces, was not willing to be lonely, waved 50,000 troops to cross the Yangtze River, occupied Longtan between Nanjing and Zhenjiang, Li Baihe resisted with all his might, and the two sides fought a bloody battle for six days and six nights.

At the critical moment, Chen Zikun made a surprise attack to disturb the back of the Sun army, and the war was often won in the last five minutes, and the Sun army, which had been stretched to the limit, was attacked by the enemy on the back and finally returned defeated, and Sun Chuanfang's last chance to regain his strength was shattered.

The Beiyang Army retreated, the external threat was lifted, and the internal strife in the Nationalist Army broke out again, Tang Shengzhi, who had always been ambitious, took advantage of Chiang Kai-shek's downturn to join Sun Chuanfang to take Nanjing.

After the collapse of Huijin Bank, Chen Zikun invested and asked Gong Jiaxiang to come forward to establish a new Jiangdong Industrial Bank, with a reserve of 10 million, and officially issued a Jiangdong ticket printed with a bust of Chen Zikun.

Resolving the financial predicament by financial means was a move that Chen Zikun had no choice but to take, but the effect was very good, because the Jiangdong Industrial Bank was run by the government, relying not only on 10 million reserves, but more importantly, on the strong combat effectiveness of the 30,000 Jiangdong Army.

The court sentenced former police chief Mai Zilong to 10 years in prison and confiscated his family property on charges of embezzlement, bribery, and abuse of power.

After the verdict, Chen Zikun went to the provincial prison to visit Mai Zilong, in just a few months, he became old, although the prison gave preferential treatment, lived in a cell with sunshine, and there was a special person responsible for emptying the toilet and cleaning, but the pain of prison still made the iron-fisted police chief grow old quickly, and a person in his fifties looked like an old man.

"Thank you Chairman Chen for your kindness and saving the old man a life, cough cough ...... "Mai Zilong is not pretending, he did suffer from tuberculosis, this disease is fatal, and sending him home to recuperate is actually waiting for death."

"Don't thank me, the judiciary is independent, I didn't intercede for you." Chen Zikun said, then inspected the prison, also looked at Mai Zilong's medical records, and said to the warden: "The prisoner is seriously ill, should he consider medical parole?" ”

Warden Nuo Nuo said yes, and Mai Zilong was even more grateful to Dade.

When Chen Zikun left, Mai Zilong lay on the narrow bed and coughed, panting and muttering to himself: "Actually, you have to thank me, I helped you do what you want to do but you can't be ruthless." ”