Chapter 243: Calculation
Seeing that Yan Shao's eyes were getting more and more unkind, and his handle seemed to be in the hands of the other party, those people hurriedly rolled out of the governor's mansion with Li Guoyun.
It's just that after getting out of the house, I'm still thinking about what to do next.
Obviously, this matter can't be finished like this, after all, many of the people arrested this time have a deep relationship with them, and they can't help but stand up. So they soon clamored to impeach Yan Shao in the parliament, at least to keep those people alive, but after hearing their words, Li Guojun just shook his head.
On the other side, seeing Li Guoyun and the others leaving in a gloomy manner, Katerina pouted lightly. "I thought you'd just leave them behind..."Katarina naturally referred to those who left with Li Guoyun, no matter from the perspective of the criminal law of any country, these people are guilty of taking bribes, and no one can say anything even if they are all arrested.
Hearing Katarina's words, Yan Shao smiled and said. "I want to, too, but it's not time yet..."
Yan Shao naturally wants to clean up these guys, but the problem is that the military government has only been established for a few months now, and the foundation is unstable, so it is not appropriate to make too much trouble. Moreover, although the scale of the Special Affairs Bureau is much larger than before, it is not so powerful that it can know all the circumstances, at least in the matter of how many people have received money, the Special Affairs Bureau is not very clear.
If you act rashly, you will certainly be able to catch one batch, but you will also startle the snake and cause the other batch to escape. So before the Secret Service has not gotten the all, at least the vast majority of the list. Yan Shao doesn't plan to do it yet...
Either don't move, if you want to move, you can solve it all at once, Yan Shao doesn't plan to leave a little tail for himself.
Katerina also understood what Yan Shao meant. So after hearing her words, he nodded quickly. "Don't worry, I'll figure it out as soon as possible..."
This matter was originally the work of the Special Affairs Bureau, and Katarina, as the director, was naturally duty-bound.
"Well, then it's all up to you..."After speaking, Yan Shao lowered his head and looked at the breakfast on the table again, and only shook his head after half a ring. It's a pity that this breakfast is so much..."Being so troubled by Li Guoyun and them, Yan Shao didn't have the heart to continue eating anyway.
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Coming out of the Governor's Mansion, those who followed Li Guoyun began to chatter endlessly.
Some say they want to be impeached. Some say they want revenge, others say they want to find a way to save those people, and there is no more realistic way to say it...
And listen to the noise coming from behind. Li Guoyun was both annoyed and a little helpless.
Now there are indeed many people in the provincial capital who have collected money, but Li Guoyun confiscated it, which he can pat his chest and guarantee.
It's just that although Li Guoyun didn't collect money, this doesn't mean that he doesn't know about other people's money. It's just that he has been in Anhui for many years. It is inextricably linked to local characters. He knows many people who give money and those who receive money, and this is also a common practice in officialdom, so Li Guoyun turned a blind eye and pretended to be deaf and dumb.
If it weren't for Yan Shao's behavior that offended him more or less this time, he wouldn't want to wade into this troubled water at allββββββ although if he was notified, he would definitely reveal the news to a few people close to him, and the people he notified would probably notify others again, and they would come and go. Yan Shao won't be able to catch a few people...
However, this incident also made him understand one thing, that is, although Yan Shao is regarded by many people as a constitutional. But in fact, he and the constitutionalists were not of the same mind at all, and he was more of a revolutionary party in essence, as can be seen from the fact that he reacted so much to the localities.
Generally speaking, the revolutionary party is mainly composed of young people who are willing to revolution, bureaucrats who are not ideal, unrealistic idealists, and land hooligans, while the constitutionalists are the capitalists of the de facto industry and the local gentry and celebrities.
The problem is that there were too few businessmen engaged in industry in China at this time, and the coastal areas were better, and it was difficult to see large-scale industries in the interior, and cities like Wuhu did not even appear until 1916, two years after the outbreak of the First World Warββββββ the first machine cotton textile factory appeared.
In other words, at least in Anhui, the constitutionalists were mainly composed of local gentry rather than industrialists.
And what is the gentry? The term gentry appeared later, but it has a broader connotation, mainly referring to the combination of the gentry and the gentry. It is composed of a number of influential figures in the rural society, such as the imperial examination and the first scholar or the first scholar, the local more educated small and medium-sized landlords, the small and medium-sized officials who have retired and returned to their hometowns or have been idle in the countryside for a long time to recuperate, and the clan elders. They are similar to officials and different from officials, similar to the people and above the people, collectively referred to the meaning of the ancient Chinese ruling class, and they can be regarded as local powerful factions, even if they are officials, they must give them some face, after all, many local governments also need their cooperation.
Originally, although the current situation in Anhui was not peaceful, but after all, there was nothing major, plus there was an official government watching (there were revolutions everywhere, and the government was afraid of any uprising), so when the landlords collected rent, as they said before, they were generally five or five open, that is, the so-called "half of the year", and some were "four or six factions", seven or eight percent were very rare, and they were mostly in remote areas, where the government's control was weak...
In history, after 2 or 30 years, don't say 'half of the year', even 'four or six distributions' have become the standard of conscience, and almost every land rent is seventy or eighty percent, and very few even reach ninety percent, which basically belongs to the kind that requires human life.
On the one hand, this situation arises because the situation is chaotic, there are warlords everywhere, and the government has no control over the local area. On the other hand, it is probably because of the local county magistrates and other officials, many of whom are originally local gentry, or simply join forces with officials sent by the government to raid the area.
It turned out that someone supervised it, after all, they were more careful to track it down when it got bigger, but now they are supervising themselves. As long as they pay the taxes and are not willing to delve into it, they have tasted the sweetness of being the emperor of the soil, how can they control themselves.
This is the case in Anhui now. In fact, this is not only the case in Anhui, but also in almost all the provinces in the south that have been recovered. The ruthless looting of the place, as long as the above belongs to their own share, they will also turn a blind eye.
After all, recruiting troops, or maintaining the rule of the military government, requires the support of these local powerful factions. Besides, even if you want to care, you have the strength...
Naturally, not every gentry was like this. But in this world, there are always more good people than bad people, and those good people also prefer to protect themselves wisely, rather than stand up for some people who have nothing to do with them.
However, Yan Shao's current move. Apparently he does not intend to make Anhui like other provinces, become a miasma...
Seriously speaking, in fact, Li Guoyun also agrees with Yan Shao's actions, after all, he is not willing to let Anhui become the same miasma as other provinces. But the consequence of his doing so was to seriously damage the interests of the constitutionalistsββββββ the officials who had been arrested in more than 30 counties and towns. At least half are members of the former constitutionalists. As the leader of the constitutionalist, Li Guoyun also had to make some reactions, because Yan Shao's actions had seriously affected the interests of the constitutionalists...
Coupled with his previous actions, he, who was the deputy governor, didn't even know what to do, and Li Guoyun was naturally very annoyed.
"Perhaps, we have to find a way, but as the fools behind me said, mobilize the power of parliament to impeach him. This is absolutely undesirable, leaving aside how many MPs would approve of it. That surnamed Yan has three divisions of troops in his hands, and even this Anqing City has a brigade and a regiment of troops, so there is nothing you can do about him with his lips..."
Naturally, it is not without success by lip service, such as the original Guizhou Governor Yang Xincheng.
In 1905 (the 31st year of Guangxu), Yang Xincheng graduated with the best first grade, and was selected to study in Japan at the official expense, and studied in Tokyo Zhenwu School and the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School for more than 5 years, with excellent results. After returning to China, he served as the first standard instructor of the Guizhou New Army and the general manager of the Army Primary School.
Don't underestimate the position of the first standard instructor, Guizhou is not rich, so at that time, Guizhou only established a new army. And Yang Xincheng is equivalent to the deputy head of the regiment in this standard.
It is also because of this that after the recovery of Guizhou, Yang Xincheng was elected as the governor of Guizhou.
At first, of course, it was nothing, but it didn't take long for things to change.
At that time, the xenophobia in China was very serious, and it seemed that Cai Ye was the only one in history who could sit firmly in the position of a person from other provinces.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Guizhou Military Government, it was composed of three parts: the Governor, the Executive Premier, and the Privy Council. Among them, the governor was Yang Xincheng, the former instructor of the first standard of the Guizhou New Army and the head of the lecture hall of the Guizhou New Army during the Northern Expedition of the Guizhou Army, and Yang Xincheng of the general office of the army primary school, Zhao Dequan was the deputy governor, Zhang Bailin, the leader of the Autonomous Society, was the president of the Privy Council, Ren Kecheng of the constitutionalist faction was the vice president, and Zhou Peiyi was the secretary general and chief administrator.
Among them, Ren Kecheng, as the leader of the constitutionalist faction, has always been in opposition to the Autonomous Society in the past, and after the restoration of Guizhou, Ren Kecheng and other constitutionalists and the old bureaucrats even thought that a catastrophe was coming, so they looked everywhere for a place to avoid it.
It stands to reason that at this time Guizhou has already fallen into the hands of the revolutionaries, but I don't know if the revolutionaries have naΓ―ve faults, Zhang Bailin and others after recovering Guizhou, they actually think that Ren Kecheng and other constitutionalists and old bureaucrats should be 'lenient and tolerant of the public', 'regardless of past suspicions', and this is how Ren Kecheng's vice president of the Privy Council was obtained.
Of course, there is nothing about these, and the most important thing is that Liu Xianshi, who was ordered by the governor of Guizhou, Shen Yuqing, to lead his troops into the provincial towns to suppress the revolution as the head of the military unit of the Privy Council, and the fourth standard commander of the Guizhou Army and the commander of the West Road Patrol (Liu Xianshi only has one battalion)...
If it is said that the old factions such as Ren Kecheng are 'lenient and tolerant' and 'regardless of past suspicions', it can still be said in the past. So hand over the gun to others, how to say it, ordinary people can't do such two things, especially this Liu Xianshi is still a person who doesn't have a good reputation...
And facts have also proved that the inclusion of Liu Xianshi in the Guizhou military government system is indeed Zhang Bailin's biggest mistake.
Because after Liu Xianshi entered Guiyang with a battalion originally used to suppress the revolutionary party, he found that the revolutionary party occupying Guiyang was completely a rabble. Therefore, I deeply despise these people in my heart, especially those who are in robes, all of them are tied with scarves. His hair is hung on his ears, he is wearing a crane shirt, and he wears a sword at his waist.
Although some don't understand why Guizhou was taken down by this group of guys, it didn't delay Liu Xianshi from visiting the old Manchu officials, gentry and those constitutionalists...
At the same time, Liu Xianshi was also openly or covertly constantly fighting for various rights, but he had never succeeded, and at this time, the original constitutionalist faction was not willing to accept the power of the old opponent in Guizhou. The two came together and hit it off...
On the other hand, with the recovery of Guizhou, Yang Xincheng has no use value for Zhang Bailin and others.
Yang Xincheng is a native of Sichuan. He will naturally have a lot of opposition voices in the military government, such as Zhang Bailin, who launched the revolution with Yang Xincheng, and Ren Kecheng and others from the constitutionalists.
Because of the exclusion and the fierce fighting in Wuhan. So Yang Xincheng rushed to Hubei with the Qianjun army. It's just that he has just arrived in Changde. The north and the south have already begun to negotiate peace, and after the abdication of the Qing family, the Northern Expedition has no hope...
According to the news that Li Guoyun just got from Nanjing, because the Qing family abdicated and the Northern Expedition was hopeless, Yang Xincheng had already gone to Nanjing alone to meet Sun Yat-sen, and wanted to resign from the position of governor and retire to the field...
For Li Guoyun, this is obviously a good success story...
It's just that there's a little bit of a problem in it. First of all, Yang Xincheng's situation is different from Yan Shao, he is not only a native of another province, but also has an unstable foundation in Guizhou. And what about Yan Shao? Don't say anything else. In Wuhu and Dangtu alone, there are hundreds of thousands of people tied to his interests.
And Yan Shao is not comparable to Yang Xincheng, before he started, Yan Shao had already founded the Yushi Group, known as China's first industrial group, with an annual income of 10 million, and nearly 1,000 guns under his hands, and now he has nearly 40,000 people after becoming the governor, and used a series of new policies to buy people's hearts, and at the same time used cooperative means to tie the interests of many gentry to him.
Simple exclusion is like driving Yan Shao out of the city, it's just a fool's dream...
"It seems that this matter is still given through external forces..."
Thinking of this, Li Guoyun looked up at the north, and after saying hello to a few people behind him, he walked towards home.
By the way, after arriving in Nanjing, Yang Xincheng asked Sun Yat-sen to resign, but he did not get permission and was officially appointed as the governor of Guizhou. It was only at this time that there was a fierce power struggle between Zhang Bailin and other revolutionaries, Zhao Dequan and other new armies, and Ren Kecheng and other constitutionalists and Liu Xianshi and other old armies.
On February 2, 1911, Liu Xianshi, Ren Kecheng, Guo Chongguang and other constitutional political parties, the Association of the Elders (in the case of Ping Gang, Huang Zelin and others who thought that it should be banned, Zhang Bailin thought that it should be allowed to develop... The forces of the army were divided into three ways and assassinated the main dignitaries of Guizhou...
The first to be assassinated was Huang Zelin, and after the successful assassination of Huang Zelin, Liu Xianshi sent troops to besiege Zhang Bailin's residence, but Zhang Bailin's luck was good, he was not found in the toilet at that time, at this time Chen Shoulian, the commander of the South Road Patrol Division, led the troops to come to the rescue, and finally Zhang Bailin fled from Guizhou to Guangxi, and then transferred to Shanghai to Nanjing to find Sun Yat-sen...
As for the third person to be assassinated, Zhang Zejun's luck was as good as Zhang Bailin's, although all the people in the apartment died, he still let him run away...
Although the important figures of Guizhou's Autonomous Society and Brother Pao had been assassinated at this time, Yang Xincheng and the Guizhou army led by him were still outside, so Liu Xianshi and Ren Kecheng felt that they were not sure to seize Guizhou after pondering the strength at hand, so they sent Dai Jian to Yunnan to blacken the Autonomous Society and other revolutionary groups in front of Cai Yi, and at the same time asked Cai Yi to let the Yunnan army of the Northern Expedition go to Guizhou on the way, and 'set the Guizhou Rebellion' to suppress the 'bandits'...
This bandit, of course, refers to organizations such as the Autonomous Society and Brother Pao...
Cai Ye and Dai Jian have a good relationship, and they don't know the situation in Guizhou, the most important thing is that as an orthodox soldier, Cai Yi has always looked down on Jianghu sects like Brother Pao, so after hesitating for a while, he decided to let Tang Jiyao, who led the Northern Expedition of the Yunnan Army, go to Guizhou by the way...
However, not long after Cai Yi's order was issued, he learned the truth from Zhong Changzuo, one of the leaders of the Guizhou Alliance, and understood that he had made a mistake, and Cai Ye hurriedly issued an order to Tang Jiyao to stop. The problem is that Tang Jiyao is also an ambitious person, and at this time, he has also received promises from Liu Xianshi and Ren Kecheng and others, such as the governor of Guizhou or something, how can things stop when things have come to this point?
So Tang Jiyao told Cai that the Dian army had already stepped into Guizhou, and there was no way to change the route. As for Zhong Changzuo, who was ready to dissuade Tang Jiyao in the past? He was already assassinated when he was in Anshun...
Not long after, Zhang Bailin fled, Zhao Dequan was captured, and in May he was killed in Maolipu, Xiuwen County.
Naturally, these Li Guoyun are not clear, but what he is going to do is similar to this.
On the other hand, in fact, Yan Shao also knew very well that he would definitely offend the constitutionalists and the local gentry by doing so. In this regard, last night, the Special Affairs Bureau had already provided Yan Shao with the information it had collected.
Although most of the people were applauding Yan Shao's move, there were still a considerable number of gentry who were very annoyed by Yan Shao's move, because the people arrested from the more than 30 counties and towns had more or less something to do with them...
However, after doing so, Yan Shao did not regret it.
Since God has allowed him to travel back, then he has to make some changes. If he allows the local scum to oppress the people because of his concerns, and even colludes with those guys, then what will he do when he returns to China? It's better to stay abroad to open factories and run industries, and be a vampire who oppresses workers, which is much more comfortable than returning to China to do revolution...
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Ahhhh (To be continued......)