Bai Xianming was sentenced to death for embezzlement and bribery and serving as a protective umbrella for underworld forces. Soon after, more than 20 members of Bai Xianming's gang held a public trial meeting at the downtown entrance outside Guangzhou, and more than 20 members were executed at once.

With the sound of banging gunshots, the Wuhan Kuomintang officials of the Guangdong Police Department were cleared, and Huang Ke randomly placed a group of his own people to important posts, and then began to select and hire young police officers with strong ability and integrity.

After cleaning up a number of scum in the Guangzhou police, Huang Ke planned to set up a police academy in Huangpu, outside Guangzhou, reformulated the mechanism for selecting and evaluating the police, and set up a supervision bureau to supervise government departments.

The Lei Luo who impressed Huang Ke has been transferred to the Whampoa Police Academy for training, and when he finishes his studies, he will be transferred to work in the Criminal Investigation Bureau, Huang Ke believes that Lei Luo has not been polluted by officialdom at this time, and with his cleverness, the work of the Investigation Department should be competent.

At the same time, Huang Ke also strongly advocated the replacement of Zhang Xian, the commander of the Guangzhou Garrison. Replacing him was not all for personal purposes, but for professional considerations. This person is too much to see the wind and rudder, and such a soldier, especially a military director, is absolutely unacceptable.

Cui Wu of the old Middle Route Army was the commander, and after the recent defeat of the Nanchang Red Party rebel army, he became even more famous, although Guangzhou and other coastal provinces were not under his jurisdiction, but Cui Wu was still able to influence personnel changes here.

After Huang Ke explained the situation to Cui Wu, Zhang Xian was transferred to the General Staff of the Ministry of National Defense to serve as an idle position soon after, because he did not have a strong relationship above, so he had been mixing in this idle position.

As soon as Zhang Xian left, the commander of the Guangzhou garrison was vacant, which made a vacuum of power here, but all factions of the Kuomintang tacitly agreed not to install anyone over this time, because they all knew that not long ago, some people from the Kuomintang kidnapped Huang Ke's family and tried to condemn Huang Ke through Bai Xianming, which angered him.

As compensation for these reckless acts and Huang Ke's unhindered replacement of the liquidation of the Red Party, Wang Ching-wei and some Kuomintang elders acquiesced to Huang Ke's actions in Guangzhou.

Without the interference of Wuhan, Huang Ke carried out economic development and political reform experiments in Guangdong, and soon after, Lin Zhengda, a young general originally in Shandong, was transferred to Guangzhou to take up the post of commander of the Guangdong garrison.

Wu Zhijiang, the provincial chairman, was originally reluctant to use Huang Ke again, but this person did have a set of construction skills, so he continued to use it.

Huang Ke tried to implement the separation of government, military, and law and the system of supervision by the Anti-Corruption Administration in Guangzhou, to the effect that the chairman of the provincial government, the judicial departments at all levels, and the local garrisons did not interfere with each other, and each of them remained independent, and there was no relationship between their superiors and subordinates, and all were units at the same level.

After a period of dealing with the situation, the corrupt trend of the bureaucracy and organs in Guangzhou was curbed, and then Huang Ke sent a telegram to the Wuhan government, suggesting that these systems be promoted to the whole country.

At the time of the implementation of the political reform pilot, Huang Ke carried out economic reforms, and under Huang Ke's strong leadership, the temporary body of the National Industrial Construction Committee was abolished, and the Ministry of Industrial Construction was established to replace the committee, and Huang Ke was undoubtedly the first Minister of Industry.

After the establishment of the Ministry of Industry was approved, Huang Ke immediately returned to Wuhan to take office. Originally, Huang Ke was furious when he thought that Wang Jingwei, Hu Hanmin and others were secretly stumbling on him, but thinking of taking care of the overall situation, he finally gave up the idea of immediate revenge.

On the day of his inauguration, the Wuhan government held a media conference in the newly completed office building of the Ministry of Industry. Huang Ke was wearing a casual suit and a top hat, coupled with his one-meter-eight figure, strong figure and dark skin, which really fascinated many girls and young women.

He said that he wanted to follow the example of the former premier, and after the success of the revolution, he agreed with Yuan Shikai not to care about politics, but only to develop industry and transportation and revitalize China.

Quoting this allusion, the intention is naturally obvious, because later with the change of the revolutionary situation, Sun Yat-sen still made a comeback. Huang Ke's speech naturally won a round of applause, and in the media under his control, they began to publicize Huang Ke's ideas of industrial construction and economic development, so that many people had high expectations and respect for this blueprint and Huang Ke himself.

However, a group of people in the Wuhan government were surprised. Those who are familiar with Huang Ke know that this person is definitely not a broad-minded person, who led troops to fight Japan when he was stunned, and now the right-wing of the Kuomintang bullied him on the head, and he did not raise a teacher to ask for guilt, nor did he launch any major political action against the right-wing forces of the Kuomintang, which is indeed a bit incredible.

Some people speculated that Huang Ke was forbearing, saying that he was planning for the future; Some people also said that he no longer had the strength to fight, and most of the generals of the Xiguan faction were sent to remote areas, which was far away from the core of the political struggle, so he had no capital in Wuhan, and the military reform after the purging of the party was to be implemented, and most of Huang Ke's subordinates had been emptied......

At the same time as the Ministry of Industry held a press conference, Hu Hanmin, president of the Legislative Yuan, the Chen brothers of the Party Affairs Investigation Bureau, and Jiang Zhongzheng of the Ministry of National Defense stood in front of the windows on the fourth floor, overlooking everything that happened in the building of the Ministry of Industry not far away.

Hu Hanmin shook his head and said, "Qingben beauty, how can this be true?" Xinghua should be the mainstay of our party, but he is not far away to participate in party affairs, now it seems that he is willing to engage in industry, but the industrial power has shouted in the past Qingzhang Zhidong, after all, it is still empty. ”

After hearing this, Jiang Zhongzheng and the Chen brothers glanced at each other, but they both had different opinions in their hearts.

"Brother Zhaoming's subordinate is too reckless, we didn't intend to hurt him, but the Qing Party reached an agreement with him, but Bai Xianming, a pig, led troops to detain him, if he killed him, it could be solved, why bother?" Chen Guofu said with a light sigh.

"If you act recklessly, you will miss a big thing after all. Don't look at Huang Yanzi who is quiet now, he can worry about this account in his heart, and Brother Zhaoming will have problems again at that time. ”

Jiang Zhongzheng was worried on the surface and happy in his heart, in fact, he believed that Huang Ke would not give up, but all the accounts had to be counted on Wang Zhaoming's head, so it was actually the most appropriate to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

When several people were talking about Huang Ke, Huang Ke was still smiling and talking to reporters about the recent industrial plan.

He didn't know the various sayings circulating in the market, but he never hit Huang Ke's heart. Huang Ke's most essential idea in his heart is to develop industry as soon as possible, and the country can't afford to toss, because this year is already the 20th year of the Republic of China, that is, 1931.

If the original trajectory of history is followed, a major military incident will occur in the northeast in the near future. At present, although the government army has been stationed in the northeast region, the Zhangjia and the Northeast Army are still the main military forces there, and the troops of Batu and Liu Jian and others are along the line of Rehe and Jinzhou, but they are beyond the reach of the three eastern provinces.

If the central government is resisting, and the Japanese army is attacking in all directions, how should they resist?

A series of questions gave Huang Ke a headache, and he remembered a sentence that the commentator often said when he watched Chinese football games at that time: "There is not much time left for him!" ”

After becoming the first minister of industry, Huang Ke immediately implemented the five-year plan for economic reform and submitted the economic plan development outline to the government affairs yuan, but the government affairs yuan controlled by Sun Ke and his gang was bloated, and there was no progress for several days.

This time, he still focused his reforms on Guangdong. Guangdong is a province with an earlier foreign trade, and the foreign trade here is also relatively developed, and the minds of ordinary people are naturally more open, but due to various reasons, there are not many foreign factories invested and built here.

In order to fully attract foreign capital and expand the commodity economy, Huang Ke set up a commodity trade zone in a small fishing village called Shenzhen in the south of Guangzhou, and attracted investment from foreign manufacturers by exempting tariffs, local taxes and many other preferential treatments.

The industrial construction zone belongs to the construction category of the Ministry of Industry, that is, it does not ask the Ministry of Finance for money, nor does it ask for people from above, as long as it is a small place, it is still in Huang Ke's descendant area, and Wuhan naturally has no reason to object.

After a symbolic telegram, the Wuhan government approved the application for the establishment of a commodity trade zone in the south of Guangzhou. After having the application, Huang Ke immediately mobilized a large number of building materials and machinery from other places to start building factories and repairing roads.

Within a few months, a small and backward fishing village had sprang up with many high-rise buildings, and the British people on the other side of Hong Kong were amazed.

However, after a while, this industrial construction zone was not cared for, and those foreign businessmen did not even look at it much.

Huang Ke wondered very much, was he making a mistake?

Sitting in a newly built office in Shenzhen, he smoked a cigarette and meditated on the ceiling. To be honest, he actually didn't understand anything about professional issues such as economic construction, and the reason why he had invested heavily in the construction of heavy industry and railways before was because national security urgently needed to establish a complete industrial system.

After several years of industrial introduction and construction, China already has a preliminary industrial system. The transportation railway has been almost built, except for the Qinghai-Tibet region, every province in the country has a railway, and the kilometer mileage has also doubled compared with previous years; Heavy industries such as steelmaking, coal, and machine building have also been formalized, and even aircraft manufacturing and tractor factories have been established; The introduction of German workers is not only skilled, but also cultivated a large number of reserve talents, now there are many industrial schools in China, although the proportion of skilled workers is not high, but enough to meet the needs of industrial production.

It's all a joy to have. But Huang Ke knows that this alone is not enough.

Japan is a country with a complete industrial system, and to wage a full-scale war with them, what is needed is a developed industrial system, Huang Ke does not have the luxury of being like the United States, but at least it must reach the level of the Soviet Union, otherwise a unilateral war against Japan will require the cost of countless lives.

Huang Ke lit a cigarette, and the smoke began to fill his head, and his thoughts gradually drifted away with the smoke.