Chapter 318: Change

On November 15, in Chengdu, Gu Pinzhen and Zhao Youxin jointly staged a mutiny and arrested Luo Peijin, the overseer of Sichuan and the commander of the First Army of the Yasukuni Yunnan Army. Then they opened the gate of Chengdu, and the Sichuan army marched into Chengdu.

On November 17, Tang Shengzhi's division of the 9th Division of the Youth Army entered Guizhou, and Liu Xianshi, the overseer of Guiyang, announced that Guiyang would be attached to the Nationalist Government.

On November 18, Tang Jiyao, the overseer of Yunnan, announced his resignation, and was subsequently appointed by Nanjing as a member of the National Military Commission, and his family moved to Wuhan.

On November 24, Huang Xing, chairman of the Nanjing government, issued presidential decrees No. 311 and No. 312 of the fifth year of the Republic of China, appointing Zhang Lan as chairman of Sichuan Province, Li Gengen as chairman of Yunnan Province, and Liu Xianshi as chairman of Guizhou Province. At the same time, it was ordered to quit smoking for a period of three years, and all smoking cessations were first ordered by region.

On November 25, the Military Commission of the Wuhan Nationalist Government issued Decrees Nos. 157, 158 and 159.

Order No. 157: The units of the Sichuan Army, the Yunnan Army, and the Guizhou Army were reorganized into the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Divisions of the National Youth Army. Respectively appointed: Lu Chao, Dan Nugang, Gu Pinzhen, Zhao Youxin, Wang Wenhua, Yuan Zuming six people as division commanders; Zhu Peide, Zhu Jiande (Zhu D), Liu Mingzhao (Liu Bcheng), Yu Peidi, Yang Ximin, and Fan Shisheng served as chiefs of staff.

Order No. 158: Dai Kan was appointed commander of the Sichuan Provincial Military Region, Deng Taizhong was appointed commander of the Sichuan Security Corps, and Yang Sen was appointed commander of the Xikang Garrison District; Liu Cunhou served as the commander of the Yunnan Provincial Military Region, Wang Tianpei served as the commander of the Yunnan Security Corps, and Liu Xiang served as the commander of the Yunnan Security Frontier Corps; Jin Handing was appointed commander of the Guizhou Military Region, and Luo Peijin was appointed commander of the Guizhou Security Corps.

Order No. 159: The first is from now on, the number of officers in the 22 divisions will remain unchanged, and the number of soldiers will be reduced to 60% of the full strength. That is, the total number of people in each division does not exceed 15,000, and a large number of retrenched soldiers are assigned to work in factories or farms under the Ministry of Armaments, and the elite of them are transferred to the security forces to continue to serve. The following adjustments have also been made to the army garrison and recruit base:

Chief of Staff Li Hongkui, commander of the First Division: Xia Wei's troops are stationed in Wuhan; The recruits are assigned to the 801 base, and the commander of the second division, Lu Diping, chief of staff: Ye Qi's troops are stationed in Anqing; The recruits are assigned to Zhou Zhengming, commander of the third division of the 802 base, chief of staff: Tao Jun's troops are stationed in Guangzhou; The recruits are assigned to Liao Lei, the commander of the fourth division of the 803 base, Chief of Staff: Hu Zongduo's troops are stationed in Changsha; The recruits are assigned to Yu Zuobai, the commander of the Fifth Division of the 804 Base, Chief of Staff: Yan Daogang's troops are stationed in Nanjing; The recruits are assigned to Dai Yue, commander of the 6th Division of the 805 Base, Chief of Staff: He Chengjun's troops are stationed in Chengdu; The recruits are assigned to Li Pinxian, commander of the 7th Division of the 806 Base, Chief of Staff: Fang Benren's troops are stationed in Guiyang; The recruits are assigned to Chen Yuxin, commander of the 8th Division of the 807 Base: Deng Yulin's troops are stationed in Nanning; The recruits are assigned to Tang Shengzhi, commander of the 9th Division of the 808 Base, Chief of Staff: He Yingqin's troops are stationed in Changde; The recruits are assigned to Liu Zhenhuan, the commander of the 10th Division of the 809 base, chief of staff: Gu Zhenglun's troops are stationed in Hangzhou; The recruits are assigned to Zhang Xuguang, commander of the 11th Division of the 810 base, Chief of Staff: Song Hegeng's troops are stationed in Jiangxia; The recruits are assigned to Song Haomin, commander of the 12th Division of the 811 Base, Chief of Staff: Ye Kaixin's troops are stationed in Ganzhou; The recruits are assigned to Ouyang Wu, commander of the 13th Division of the 812 base: Zhang Zizhong's troops are stationed in Wuzhou; The recruits are assigned to Deng Keng, commander of the 14th Division of the 813 base, Chief of Staff: Wang Kewen's troops are stationed in Kunming; The recruits are assigned to the commander of the 15th Division of the 814 base, Tang Hairong, chief of staff: He Yunqing's troops are stationed in Fuzhou; The recruits are assigned to the commander of the 16th Division of the 815 Base, Lu Chao, Chief of Staff: Zhu Peide's troops are stationed in Jiujiang; The recruits are assigned to the commander of the 17th Division of the 816 Base, but the chief of staff of Dan Nugang: Zhu Jiande's troops are stationed in Hengyang; The recruits are assigned to Gu Pinzhen, commander of the 18th Division of the 817 Base: Liu Mingzhao's troops are stationed in Wuhu; The recruits are assigned to Zhao Youxin, commander of the 19th Division of the 818 Base: Yu Peidi's troops are stationed in Yichang; The recruits are assigned to Wang Wenhua, commander of the 20th Division of the 819 Base, Chief of Staff: Yang Ximin's troops are stationed in Luyang; The recruits are assigned to the 820 base of the 21st Division commander Yuan Zuming Chief of Staff: Fan Shisheng's troops are stationed in Xiangyang; The recruits are assigned to Zhao Dongsheng, commander of the 821 Base Guards Division, Chief of Staff: Huang Shaohong's troops are stationed in Wuhan. The recruits belonged to the 101 base, and the Nationalist Government basically controlled the twelve southern provinces, and this result surprised the Nanjing side, and the entire National Assembly was even more noisy because of it, but the most depressed thing was not these national deputies or parliamentarians who had already prided themselves as the masters of the country. Instead, they used Shanghai's "Declaration" as the media to feel lost points and depressed, and the ** atmosphere in Nanjing these days made them feel that they were already omnipresent. However, a few days ago, Sichuan was still in the Sichuan-Yunnan civil war, and it was arrested by the Nationalist Government in a blink of an eye. Not even the opportunity to predict was left to the media, and the media could only use the headline "Southwest Incident" to express the suddenness of this change. Angry journalists then flocked to the Nationalist government and the Kuomintang headquarters in Nanjing, demanding the truth, to which Nationalist government officials said they were completely unaware and that they needed the truth more than journalists.

The top level of the Nationalist Government was indeed very dissatisfied this time, because the war that the media called the Southwest Incident did not give any notice to the Nanjing side from beginning to end. Although at the beginning of the formation of the Nationalist Government, they promised to hand over the army to the military committee headed by Wang Zhenyu, but it did not mean that Wang Zhenyu could move freely. In everyone's view, this kind of free movement is a blow to the enemy, and at the same time to the prestige of the government.

At present, Zhang Taiyan, Cai Yuanpei, Tang Shaoyi, and Zhang Jian, the main backbones of the Guangfu Society, and Sun Wen, Hu Hanmin, Liao Zhongkai, Zhang Jingjiang, and Wang Jingwei, the main leaders of the League Department, gathered in the No. 1 conference room of the Nationalist Government to hold the first closed-door meeting since the founding of the Nationalist Government on the issue of the army. The No. 1 chairman of the National Government, Huang Xing, is now in intensive care in the hospital because of liver cirrhosis, and he can't manage politics at all. The Nationalist Government had a National Guard under the direct command of the chairman, with a total number of about 600 people, and the commander was Colonel Huang Yiou, Huang Xing's son.

Zhang Taiyan said very angrily: "This kind of military action is completely naked military **, I think Wang Wen has forgotten that the military committee he led is still hanging in front of the sign of the national government, and he didn't even have a notice in advance." We should not hesitate to take back the military power that should have belonged to the government, so as to ensure the implementation of the first and avoid Wang Zhenyu from going further and further down the wrong path. ”

Sun Wen didn't speak, he wanted to take back the military power from Wang Zhenyu more than Zhang Taiyan, but he knew that it was impossible under the current situation. Let's not say that Wang Zhenyu is willing to hand it over, even if he is willing to hand it over, there are Beiyang tigers watching inside, and foreign powers watching, and to face these problems, it seems that it is really Wang Zhenyu to take charge of the army. Otherwise, just the unconvinced officers below would be enough for everyone to drink a pot, so no matter how tempting the meat of military power is, Sun Wen will not dare to swallow it at the moment. It's better to keep vested interests, and Sun Wen is still very satisfied with the current situation.

Therefore, Sun Wen did not speak, it was Hu Hanmin who spoke, but this guy seemed to be more excited than Zhang Taiyan: "What kind of bullshit military committee is a military ** institution at all, nominally under the leadership of the national government, but in fact, relying on the China Corporation, they control the most wealth in the entire south, and then rely on the army of the descendants to control the situation. ”

As soon as Hu Hanmin finished speaking, Zhang Jingjiang struggled to stand up from his wheelchair and said excitedly: "This is not the most terrifying, do you know about the Joint Reserve Management Committee of the State Bank." Now that the people in Shanghai have agreed to this matter, if it is finally passed, the financial lifeline of our country will be in their own hands. Let's put it this way, they can easily control the entire national government through finance, so I am firmly opposed to the transfer of the power to issue banknotes to a parastatal body such as the Joint Reserve Management Committee, and I insist that the power to issue banknotes should be vested in the government. ”

Zhang Jingjiang is also a rehash of the same old tune, he has been busy with this these days, but there are not many people here in Nanjing who support him. But it's not that everyone doesn't know the harm of setting up this institution, but it's not what it used to be, and no matter which faction it is, it's more or less inextricably linked with the chaebols. For example, the Guangfu department has close contacts with the directors of Shanghai Siming Bank, and the alliance department and the three major families of Nanyang (Chen, Huang, and Lu) are even more fraternal.

However, Zhang Jingjiang is old, and none of these veterans can refute his face, so they can only pretend to be stupid, and the scene suddenly becomes embarrassing.

Or Wang Jingwei is clever: "Mr. Jingjiang, you sit down first, don't get excited, the younger generation has a bold suggestion here, why don't we use this guard to put him under house arrest when Wang Zhenyu enters Beijing, and then rely on Brother Ru Wei (Xu Chongzhi) and Brother Xiehe (Li Liejun) to put the Youth Army in the hands of the government, and this problem will be solved." ”

Hearing this, Sun Wen almost didn't get angry, Wang Zhaoming, Wang Zhaoming, I think you are in a daze in Europe, and you dare to mention such a bad idea, not to mention anything else, Wang Zhenyu's intelligence agency is notoriously powerful, how Chen Qimei died is still a mystery, do you Wang Zhaoming want to be Chen Qimei's second? Besides, even if it was really going to do so, should it be brought up on this occasion? You should be your brother when these people are your own brothers, once it leaks, you can't protect Wang Zhenyu, the offspring, will stew everyone with a spoonful.

But before Sun Wen could speak, Liao Zhongkai stood up: "It's just nonsense, I think you Wang Zhaoming is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, right?" Wang Zhenyu is just unifying the southwest, you have to put people under house arrest, do you want to be the chairman of the Military Commission. ”

Cai Yuanpei also hurriedly got up at this time: "Everyone, I think everyone is thinking too seriously about the problem, even if Chairman Wang behaves at a loss, I'm afraid it can't be confused with the military **, it's not appropriate." My suggestion is that everyone should not mess around, or go through the political process to solve the problem, it is not easy for our country to have today's situation, and everyone should not destroy it on impulse. ”

Wang Jingwei said a little angrily: "Then do we have any more solutions?" I think you're addicted to being an official......"

Tang Shaoyi was furious when he heard this: "Wang Zhaoming, pay attention to your words, everyone here is at the top of the national government, and you can't be allowed to be presumptuous ...... the mayor of Nanjing."

The meeting turned into a quarrel again, but fortunately, everyone was still self-assured, and they didn't stage a full martial arts. At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door, and Huang Yiou rushed in with tears on his face and said, "Everyone, my father may be dying, he wants to see you." ”

The quarrel immediately stopped, and everyone suddenly realized that they were afraid that the sky was really going to change.