Chapter 7: The False Path (1)
Wang Kunjun took advantage of the murder of He Ping to vigorously rectify the officials at all levels of the Beiping Army, although its starting point was to lay a good foundation for the future development of the Beiping Army and the crossing team, and to prevent some people, especially those who have meritorious service, from getting carried away and thinking that they have made a difference. Judging from the final result, on the one hand, the establishment of the Ministry of Discipline Inspection is equivalent to dividing the powers of the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence in a sense, and weakening the shili of this powerful department. On the other hand, dealing with the supervising agents in the hard labor camp dispatched by the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Intelligence is actually a kind of criticism and reproach of Liang Ziyue, who is the head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Intelligence. After all, if something like this happened to his subordinates, Liang Ziyue, the head of the department, also had to bear some leadership responsibilities - even if the supervising agent of the forced labor camp was separated from him by the Beiping Station of the Ministry of Intelligence, the Internal Affairs Department of the Beiping Station, the Forced Labor Supervision Section of the Internal Affairs Department, and so on, it was impossible for Liang Ziyue to spend any effort on a small supervising detective of the forced labor camp.
It stands to reason that as a die-hard supporter of Wang Kunjun, the criticism and reproach of Liang Ziyue and the weakening of the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence, which he is in charge of, are not good for Wang Kunjun personally. Even if Liang Ziyue will not be resentful because of this, it will be a kind of damage to Wang Kunjun's own shili. But in fact, if you think about it carefully, you will find that this is not the case. On the one hand, although the establishment of the Ministry of Discipline Inspection has weakened the functions and powers of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Intelligence, both Zhang Xiaofei, the nominal director of the Ministry of Discipline Inspection, and Zheng Zhiwei, who is in the Beiping Army and actually presides over the work of the Ministry of Discipline Inspection, both bear the label of Wang Kunjun. One of them is Wang Kunjun's wife, and the other is Wang Kunjun's wife's confidant, and their support for Wang Kunjun will not be inferior to Liang Ziyue. In other words, the weakening of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Intelligence and the establishment of the Department of Discipline Inspection are in fact only handing over the corresponding functions and powers from the left hand to the right hand. Although the person in charge of this authority has changed, the strength gathered in the hands of Wang Kunjun has not been weakened in any way.
On the other hand, the establishment of the Discipline Inspection Department has also made the internal supervision of the Beiping Army and the crossing team change from dark to open, and it has become an open work. These newly appointed envoys and inspectors can carry out their work in an open and honest manner, and no longer have to act in secrecy like the agents of the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence in the past. For the problematic officials who are discovered by the visiting envoys or reported by others, especially the members of the crossing team, the inspectors can conduct public investigations in a generous and straightforward manner, instead of secretly and cautiously conducting private investigations like the agents of the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence in the past, for fear that those who are being investigated will see the clues, and even cause unnecessary troubles and affect the in-depth conduct of the investigation. This is tantamount to loosening the constraints on the visiting envoys and the envoys, so that they can free their hands and feet to do a great job and truly play their role.
What's more, it is precisely because of Wang Kunjun's serious and untolerant attitude that everyone really takes this rectification seriously, and will not have perfunctory and prevaricating thoughts - even his own relatives and cronies are merciless, how can others not be seriously dealt with if they make mistakes - this is also the effect that Wang Kunjun hopes to achieve.
Although the work of rectifying officials is important, it stresses long-term and continuous nature, and it is by no means an immediate success if a department is set up and dozens of inspection envoys and inspection envoys are dispatched. Wang Kunjun took advantage of the murder of He Ping to make a move this time, but also to establish a set of rules and regulations for the crossing team and the Beiping Army in the supervision and management of officials, and to provide a strong support for the development of the crossing team and the Beiping Army, and did not expect to solve the problem overnight and once and for all. Therefore, after the establishment of the Discipline Inspection Department was completed and a large number of inspection envoys and inspection envoys were dispatched, Wang Kunjun and the committee's attention returned to the turmoil and changes that might arise in the Wuping (Hunan) secession regime.
In fact, after establishing the strategy of first the south and then the north, and taking advantage of the Wuping (Hunan) rebellion to take Wuping (Hunan) and Nanping (Jingnan) in one fell swoop, the committee began to make preparations.
First of all, in order to grasp the movements of Wuping (Hunan) and Nanping (Jingnan) as soon as possible, the Foreign Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence sent a large number of agents to the Langzhou Branch and Jingzhou Branch, which were originally weak in Liliang. Second, in order to ensure that the dispatch of troops to Wuping (Hunan) was foolproof, on the one hand, the committee took advantage of the political power of the Later Zhou Dynasty in its hands, and in accordance with the way the vanguard of the "Jingnan Army" went south to Kaifeng, it mobilized a large amount of grain, grass and baggage in advance, and stored them at several points on the road that the army had to pass through in the territory of Wuping (Hunan), so as to reduce the number of military servants and speed up the march. On the other hand, it adopted the same strategy of "killing chickens with a knife" as quelling Li Chongjin's rebellion, and prepared to send a powerful army and horses mainly composed of the "Flying Dragon Army" to "complete the work in one battle," so as to shorten the time for dispatching troops to a minimum and reduce the consumption of manpower, material, and financial resources to a minimum. Therefore, when the newly formed Fourth Composite Infantry Division of the "Flying Dragon Army" completed its training in the middle of September of the ninth lunar calendar of the ninth year of Xiande and officially became an army, the committee immediately sent Zeng Zhilin north to Beiping Mansion to accept this new army, and stationed in the camp outside Kaifeng on the 25th day of the ninth lunar calendar of the ninth year of Xiande.
Just one month after Zeng Zhilin led the Fourth Synthetic Infantry Division of the "Flying Dragon Army" to Kaifeng, on the 25th day of October of the lunar calendar of the ninth year of Xiande, the "Dark Feather" Langzhou Branch came with news that Zhou Xingfeng, the military governor of Langzhou, the military section of Wuping, and the military contemporaries of Wujingjiang died of illness on October 18 of the lunar calendar of the ninth year of Xiande, and his son Zhou Baoquan succeeded to his throne with the assistance of a group of ministers. Along with this news, there was also a report that the branch agent had found out what Zhou Xing had said when he was seriously ill and explained the aftermath to the ministers.
According to the report, Zhou Xingfeng, as recorded in the history books of his previous life, after confirming Zhou Baoquan's status as the heir to the ministers of Tuogu, said that he was born poor and had trained soldiers for the regiment. Most of the ten brothers who fought the world together have been killed, and only Zhang Wenbiao, the assassin of Hengzhou, is left. Because Zhang Wenbiao had complained about not being able to be a marching Sima before, it was because after his death, Zhang Wenbiao would rebel, and everyone could ask Yang Shifan to lead the army to conscript. If the rebellion is unfavorable, you must not defend the city, and when the clan returns to the court, don't let everyone fall into the mouth of the tiger.
A few days later, the envoys of Wuping (Hunan) also arrived in Kaifeng, on the one hand, to report to the Later Zhou court about Zhou's death, and on the other hand, to ask the Later Zhou court to give the successor Zhou Baoquan a formal canonization, establishing the legitimacy of his ruling Wuping (Hunan) and consolidating his position. Since this is the proper meaning of the question, not to mention that the crossing team was originally full of expectations for Wuping (Hunan) to fall into a suspicious situation in the main country and chaos as soon as possible. Therefore, on the fifth day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar in the ninth year of Xiande, the Later Zhou court issued an order to posthumously crown Zhou Xingfeng as the king of Runan County, and crowned Zhou Baoquan as the commander of the school, the governor of Langzhou, and the envoy of the Wuping army, and recognized his dominance over Wuping (Hunan).