At the same time, Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai were not idle, and began to drastically rectify the military and government in Fujian.

Zhang Zhen's ministry was reorganized, Chen Guohui's ministry was disbanded (those captives, except for a few who were co-opted, most of them were dragged by Jin Zhao to forced labor reform, build bridges and pave roads, and benefit the township), and Chen Guohui was executed. It was Cai Tingkai and Jiang Guangnai who took advantage of the prestige of the 19th Route Army to rectify Fujian's military and political affairs, which not only effectively eased the contradictions in the rule of the people from all walks of life in Fujian, but also won the welcome and praise of the people and overseas Chinese in southeastern Fujian, and relatively steadily established control over southeastern Fujian, so that southeast Fujian appeased one side and laid a good foundation for Fujian to open up a new situation.

At the same time, Jiang and Cai also took the opportunity to rectify some local miscellaneous troops. Regarding Lin Bingzhou's Second Reading Brigade of the Marine Corps, Cai Tingkai believed that most of the personnel of this unit were old and weak, had bad habits, and had shoddy guns, and it was difficult to assume the responsibility of maintaining the locality. In the end, the brigade was organized, leaving only more than 1,000 people, less than a regiment.

The 3rd Mixed Brigade of Chen Weiyuan and the 4th Mixed Brigade of Qian Yuguang of the Provincial Defense Army were originally reorganized and assembled by the Provincial Security Department in a very short period of time before the 19th Route Army entered Fujian. The two regiments were renamed into road protection teams and highway engineering teams, and were placed under the direct command of the Provincial Construction Department.

As for the Second Brigade of the Provincial Defense Army, because the main leaders of the brigade, Xiao Shuxuan, and Chen Qixuan had certain relations with some high-ranking generals of the 19th Route Army, they were temporarily retained. Xiao Shuxuan was transferred to other uses, and Chen Qixuan was promoted to brigade commander. In this way, the Fujian Provincial Defense Army, which had been formed since Yang Shuzhuang took charge of Fujian, came to an end.

In addition, the 19th Route Army also wanted to control Liu Heding's 56th Division and Zhou Zhiqun's Reading Brigade in northwest Fujian, and Lu Xingbang's newly formed 2nd Division in northwest Fujian, but because they could not find appropriate opportunities and reasons, and because these people were either strong and had too deep roots, or they were stationed on the edge, they had no choice but to maintain the status quo for the time being and wait for the opportunity.

The work of rectifying Fujian's military and political affairs has basically been completed, and the matter of reorganizing Fujian's political axe has been put on the agenda.

But what he didn't expect was that Lao Jiang took the opportunity of this reorganization of the Fujian Provincial Political Axe to provoke the relationship between Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai.

Lao Jiang recruited Cai Tingkai to Wuhan, first praised Cai Tingkai's performance during this period, and then proposed to prepare to promote Cai Tingkai to the director of the Fujian Pacification Office, and Jiang Guangnai served as the chairman of the reorganized Fujian political axe.

The director of the Fujian Pacification Office is in command of the military and political affairs of the whole province, and the Fujian Provincial Political Axe is also within the jurisdiction of the Fujian Provincial Pacification Office. Cai Tingkai was naturally not stupid, and immediately realized that this was Lao Jiang taking the opportunity to sow discord. So he explained to Lao Jiang the reasons why he could not concurrently serve as the director of the Fujian Pacification Office, and asked the central government to send another capable person to take up this post, or Jiang Guangnai to continue to serve as the director, but Lao Jiang immediately said that he could not.

After Cai Tingkai returned to Fujian, he immediately rushed to Fuzhou to meet Jiang Guangnai, and decided to resign from the post of director of the Fujian Pacification Office and ask Jiang Guangnai to take care of it. Unexpectedly, Jiang Guangnai didn't care about this, and persuaded Cai Tingkai to focus on the overall situation.

In fact, Lao Jiang's intention to promote Cai Tingkai is very obvious, that is, to reuse Cai Tingkai's full control of the Nineteenth Route Army, so that it can be separated from the control of Chen Mingshu and Jiang Guangnai, so as to command and slaughter him, or at least create contradictions between Chen Mingshu, Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai, so as to achieve the goal of divide and rule. It was precisely because Lao Jiang's intentions were so obvious that they were easily recognized by Jiang Guangnai, Cai Tingkai and others, so they were doomed to the bankruptcy of Lao Jiang's conspiracy.

Under Jiang Guangnai's repeated persuasion, Cai Tingkai finally agreed to serve as the director of the Fujian Pacification Office. But the main problem now is how to get rid of Fang Shengtao, the current chairman of Fujian's political axe.

Jiang Guangnai patted ** and said, this matter will be handed over to me. Then Jiang Guangnai personally found Fang Shengtao for an interview.

Jiang Guangnai said to Fang Shengtao, "In the half year since the Nineteenth Route Army entered Fujian, half of the middle and lower-level cadres in the army have been changed by Cai Tingkai, if it continues like this for a long time, it won't be long before I will be able to control the Nineteenth Route Army." Speaking of this, Jiang Guangnai stopped, took a puff of cigarette, and observed Fang Shengtao's performance, at this time Fang Shengtao frowned and was thinking hard about the meaning of Jiang Guangnai's words.

Jiang Guangnai then said frankly, "You have to arrange a proper position for Xianchu (Cai Tingkai), but if you give him my appeasement office, you can only give me the provincial political axe." ”

Seeing that Jiang Guangnai had said it so clearly, although Fang Shengtao was unwilling, he could only accept Jiang Guangnai's proposal and expressed his willingness to abdicate and make way for Xian.

Soon after this conversation, Fang Shengtao packed up and left Fujian with his family for Shanghai.

In December 1932, the Nanjing Political Axe issued an order: "The Fujian Provincial Political Axe was reorganized, with Jiang Guangnai as the chairman of the Fujian Provincial Political Axe, and Cai Tingkai as the director of the Fujian Pacification Office." On December 6, Jiang Guangnai announced his assumption of the post of chairman of the Fujian Provincial Political Axe in Fuzhou, and at the same time announced the appointment of the chief officials of various departments after the reorganization of the Fujian Provincial Political Axe.

So far, Jiang Guangnai and Cai Tingkai have completely controlled the military and political power in Fujian, and Jin Zhao in Xianyou, after several months of rectification, has completely eliminated the bandits in the territory and won a very high reputation in the local area.

At this time, Jin Zhao, who was idle, was thinking about his next plan, Jin Zhao first analyzed the military strength in his hands, first of all, his reading brigade now has about 5,000 troops, even if he adds the security regiment of the five counties, it is only more than 8,000 troops, think about his next plan, this point of strength is really insufficient. Moreover, Jin Zhao also has to continue to dispatch elites to support Li Long's troops who went north to resist the war (this will be explained in detail later). Therefore, for the sake of his grand goal, he had to expand the army again, but how to expand the army has become the most difficult problem at present.

If the army is expanded in a blatant manner, not to mention that Lao Jiang will be suspicious of himself, even Jiang Guangnai, Cai Tingkai and others will be suspicious. Jin Zhao didn't want to be targeted by these people too early, so he could only secretly expand his army. But Jin Zhao thought about the specific implementation plan for a long time, but he still had no clue. Although Jin Zhao is constantly strengthening the construction of militia organizations in various places, these militiamen are farmers who have never been on the battlefield after all, and Jin Zhao really does not dare to believe too much in the combat effectiveness of these people. (To be continued.) )