Chapter 313: Southwest Incident
The wheel of history soon came to September of the fifth year of the Republic of China, and in Nanjing, with the signing of the agreement between China, the United States, Britain and France on the independent tariffs of the national government, the regulations on raising customs tariffs by 20 percent will be formally implemented from the New Year's Day of the sixth year of the Republic of China, which means that the revenue of the customs in the financial revenue of the Nanjing National Government will change from the current 400 million Chinese yuan to 16 billion, and the conservative estimate is about 120 million. Hu Hanmin, president of the Executive Yuan, was naturally in a good mood during this time, and he was smiling when he saw everyone, instead of the tense one who owed him money in the past.
However, the happiness brought by the huge benefits is short-lived, and the national government is now more and more like a government, and the political parties of all factions expressed their heartfelt thanks to Wang Zhenyu for his willingness to delegate power to them, and then forgot about Wang Zhenyu, the source of power. What everyone has to do now is to continuously expand their power and status within the framework of the national government, after all, the cake has been laid out, and how to distribute it is what everyone cares about.
The first to clash were the two major political factions of Zhang Taiyan and Sun Wen, and these two would not be able to pee in a pot before the Qing Dynasty.
The Kuomintang is probably the least like a political party among all political parties in China, in fact, this party should not be called a party, but should be renamed an alliance, and its essence is Wang Zhenyu's National Socialist Party, Sun Wen's Chinese Revolutionary Party, Huang Xing's part of the League is not Sun Wen's department, and Zhang Taiyan headed by the four major political factions of the Guangfu Society jointly formed a political alliance that seems to be quite compact. Compared with the famous cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in history, there is no cross-party cooperation here, all the political parties have been closed, party affairs, personnel and other messes have been merged together, and Sun Wen's three ** Boxers and the National Socialism of the National Socialist Party have been integrated (there is a shortage of other talents in the party, that is, there is no shortage of pens). After Liang Qichao went south to take office as the president of the National Government Examination Institute, this integrated doctrine was named by Liang Qichao as the National Socialism of the Chinese Nation (a bit of Chinese characteristics).
But in essence, the National Socialist Party was still a loose coalition, and the original party was reduced to factionalism, and in the beginning, the contradictions within the party of these different factions were not obvious. However, as the revolutionary situation became better, contradictions began to emerge continuously.
At this time, Huang Xing's body continued to decay at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye. In the current party, although Huang Xing is the weakest, he is Wang Zhenyu's old superior, the veteran of the League, and the father of the Xinhai Revolution. In addition, he himself has a modest and generous personality, and he is an acceptable character in all aspects. The national government can appear in this time and space in a strange way, and it can be said that Huang Xing is the key and the link. And now this key bond is obviously in serious trouble in terms of physical health, and the various parties in the national government, which has been established for less than half a year, have ushered in the opportunity point of the first political reshuffle.
Around the position of the future number one of the national government, the conflict between the parties began to gradually intensify and escalate.
The first to attack was the Guangfu Hui led by Zhang Taiyan, a title that was put forward by people who cared about politics at that time and was widely spread. Similarly, Sun Yat-sen's faction was naturally called the Alliance faction. Then by analogy, Huang Xing's faction should be called the Huaxing faction, but unfortunately I'm sorry, because of Huang Xing's own special status, he was not regarded as the boss of the Weishenme faction, and the people who followed him followed Wang Longzhong after his death, so Huang Xing naturally had no faction.
Due to the relationship between local unification and customs autonomy, the national government became much richer than the central government, which also made the leadership of the national government immediately corrupt when there was a price adjustment. Note that it is corruption and not corruption, villas, cars, lovers soon appear in the homes of revolutionaries. And the treatment and rank of these revolutionaries are not very problematic to enjoy all this, but the decline and depression of the will are inevitable, and the corresponding is the cherishing of the power in the hands.
Zhang Taiyan's Restoration Society is a relatively weak faction among many shili, this is because Tao Chengzhang, the former boss of the Restoration Society, asked Chen Qimei to do it, and then Zhang Taiyan himself is even more miserable than Cai Yi, and he was placed under house arrest by Lao Yuan Yi in Beijing for three or four years, and finally Lao Yuan was able to get out of the house. However, this does not hinder anything, Zhang Taiyan's prestige in the academic world is his own greatest capital, and soon he found a group of like-minded comrades among the directors of various ministries of the Executive Yuan of the National Government, and at the level of senior cadres, Cen Chunxuan, Governor of Guangdong Province, Zhu Rui, Governor of Zhejiang Province, Tang Shaoyi, Minister of Justice, Zhang Jian, Minister of Commerce, Cheng Dequan, Minister of Health, Liang Qichao, President of the National Government Examination Institute, and Cai Yuanpei, Minister of Education, are all the backbone of the Guangfu Society.
With the support of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebol group, the Guangfu Society has developed very rapidly, while the alliance has not been trusted by the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols because of history, so they mainly rely on the support of the Nanyang chaebol.
Hu Hanmin, president of the Executive Yuan, first set up industrial parks and agricultural parks in Guangdong, and Jihua invested in Nanyang overseas Chinese who returned to China. But this jihua was quickly vetoed by Cen Chunxuan, then governor of Guangdong Province, on the grounds that land was scarce and it was inconvenient to compete with the people for land.
Hu Hanmin even proposed to remove Cen Chunxuan from the post of governor of Guangdong Province (there was no provincial council during this period, and the governors of each province were nominated by the national government and appointed by the National Assembly), and Cen Chunxuan, who was an old bureaucrat in the former Qing Dynasty, was not to be outdone, and immediately telegraphed to the National Assembly to remove Hu Hanmin, on the grounds of corruption, collusion with profiteers, and competing with the people for profit.
All of a sudden, the journalists in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Guangzhou found their jobs, and they reported on the political dispute every day.
Zhang Taiyan, who was vice chairman of the Nationalist Government and president of the National Assembly, was naturally one of the masterminds of the whole incident, and he quickly approved the proposal of Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Guangdong Province, on the agenda, and then manipulated the members of the Guangfu Society to submit a motion of impeachment against Hu Hanmin, the president of the Executive Yuan, on the basis of this proposal. Immediately, the political circles of the whole of South China were in a sensation, and Sun Wen was very dissatisfied with this, and in his capacity as chairman of the Kuomintang Socialist Party, he demanded that Zhang Taiyan and his party stop such actions that undermined the prestige of the party, but Zhang Taiyan was blocked by Zhang Taiyan on the grounds that the National Assembly had the freedom to supervise the government.
Just when Huang Xing's body was weak and unable to govern, the factional struggle within the Nationalist Government continued to intensify. Wang Zhenyu of Wuhan was busy planning operations in the southwest, and he only looked at the report of the Jiangnan General Station of the Party Affairs Investigation Department about what happened in Nanjing, and did not give any instructions.
In Wang Zhenyu's view, as long as the military is not involved in political struggles, then the struggle will be within a controllable range.
It's better to seize the time to unify the three southwestern provinces, otherwise it will continue to split, and give Cao Kun so much money to their direct family every month is secondary, if Tang Jiyao integrates the Dian army and let Sichuan fall into a warlord melee, then his own sin will be great.
The issue of the southwest was raised in September, when Cai asked Jiang Baili to draft a telegram to the central government, demanding that the military government in the southwest be abolished and the three provinces under its jurisdiction transferred to the Nationalist Government. The Beiyang government naturally did not do anything about this, but first, they now do not have the strength to wage war with the youth army, and this central government is not something that their Beiyang family can say, President Li Yuanhong actually agreed under Xiong Xiling's repeated persuasion, and also issued a relevant order, ordering the national government to govern Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Tibet and other southwest regions on behalf of the central government on the same day. It would be better to throw Tibet, a hot potato between China and Britain, to the Nationalist Government to deal with. lest in the future, if you fail to handle yourself, the central government, you will have to bear the infamy of betraying the country, and then you will be depressed. As a result, the actions of the southwest region under the leadership of the national government have the so-called legitimacy (Duan Qirui was so angry that his nose was crooked again: Li Fatzi, we Beiyang and you are not finished).
Fortunately, in this era, Xiong Kewu, the boss of Sichuan, has not yet entered the state of feudal warlords, and not only that, but the industrial group and the nine-member group have also temporarily united because of the issue of Sichuan's annexation to the national government. Therefore, among the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, Sichuan is the most active in bringing it under the jurisdiction of the national government. Especially Xiong Kewu, the acting overseer of Sichuan, is now in charge of the national government is his boss Huang Xing, and when he thinks of the entire twelve southern provinces, he doesn't look down on the overseers in Sichuan. And Boss Huang said in the letter that this time he was going to transfer himself to Nanjing, which is now Xiong Kewu, if he was changed a few years later, he would not do it if he was the chairman of the national government.
But Xiong Kewu is willing to be promoted, it doesn't mean that Tang Jiyao is willing, this master has been the emperor of the soil. Now you want to take a minister or deputy position to exchange for his Yunnan overseer, he will agree, so among the three provinces, Tang Jiyao is the most disgusted by Beijing's order. No, it is no longer possible to use disgust, but to oppose it, Tang Jiyao announced that he would not accept this order as soon as possible.
In contrast, Liu Xianshi of Guizhou, who has not had any news so far, is obviously on the sidelines, he does not have the ambition of Tang Jiyao, and he still has a good idea of how much strength Guizhou has. But if he wanted to hand over the army and territory in his hand for no reason and go to Nanjing to eat, he was not ready, and there was even a trace of luck.
Since this is the situation, Yang Du sent a report to Wang Zhenyu, let's clean up Tang Jiyao for the first time, it's a hundred.
The whole southwest is full of wind and clouds!!