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    In addition to the actual position of commander of the Guards Division, Zhang Hanqing only has the new term "Chairman of the People's Party Military Committee" in the military circles, which is a fancy new term in the eyes of Fengtian people, and it is only for the First Division and the Guards Division.  Politically speaking, there is only one position with the highest title, being the Councilor of the Military Governor's Office. The position of "Chairman of the Fengtian Land Reform Committee" is an administrative position with little political effect and no rank.  Likewise, the Chairman of the People's Party cannot influence political decisions in Fengtian.

    Only the general counselor can be considered as entering the core of the Fengtian system. Yang Yuting should leave the position of general counselor of Fengtian to himself.

    Seeing Zhang Hanqing¡¯s happy face, Zhang Zuolin couldn¡¯t help but laugh. This little kid really dares to think!  At his age, holding such an important position, even though he is extremely resourceful, is still a bit shocking.  He is not afraid, Lao Zhang still has to pay attention to the influence. After all, he is his own son, and he will inevitably be gossiped about by others, saying that he is nepotistic and so on.

    It seems that this position is currently unavailable, but this does not affect Xiao Zhang's enthusiasm for giving advice to Lao Zhang.

    After the first plan was slightly successful, Zhang Hanqing tried another one.

    The Anhui clique cannot be careless about Cao Kun.  In fact, Cao Kun also felt that Xu Shuzheng's methods were too vicious, and he had to be wary.  But the Anhui clique quickly cured him of this worry: Xu Shuzheng vowed to ensure that the vice presidential issue would be handled according to the original agreement without any changes.  Xu Shuzheng added: From now on, he is not required to return to Hankou to preside over the military affairs. As long as he does not oppose the fifth phase of the battle plan and lets others fight, the vice president can be sure to get it.  Cao Kun ate this "ecstasy soup" and became undecided again.

    On the 31st, the Governor's Corps held another meeting in Tianjin.  A special feature of this Tianjin meeting was that Zhang Zuolin personally participated in the meeting of the Governor's Corps. Others who participated were: Cao Kun, Zhang Huaizhi, Xu Shuzheng, Ni Sichong, Tian Zhongyu, Long Jiguang, etc.  The Third Governor of the Yangtze River had not yet sent a representative to attend. Ni Sichong arrived on the same day after receiving a secret message from Xu Shuzheng.

    This Tianjin meeting is still discussing the presidential issue and the southern expedition issue.  Zhang Zuolin agreed to elect Xu Shichang as the next president, and suggested that Duan Qirui be elected vice president.  This was the countermeasure that was discussed with Zhang Hanqing and his son.  Because at this moment, although he is the governor of Fengtian and has a huge force of 5 divisions, he is unable to legitimately intervene in the situation in Jilin.  Zhang Hanqing suggested that Zhang Zuolin's goal should be disguised as the vice president of the Beijing regime. Zhang Zuolin also knew that it would be difficult to achieve this goal with his current strength. His real purpose was to "retreat to the next best thing" and become king in the Northeast first.

    Ni Sichong was afraid that the meeting would cause a deadlock, so he suggested not to make a decision on the candidate for vice president for the time being, leaving it to someone with special merits in the war against South Korea.  This suggestion was made by Xu Shuzheng through Ni Sichong, because Xu Shuzheng had already promised Cao Kun and could not break his promise. But now that Zhang Zuolin had entered the customs in person, he wanted to win over Zhang Zuolin and encourage Zhang Zuolin to transfer all Fengjun to the south.  On the other hand, he used the vice president as bait to lure Cao Kun and his direct army to continue fighting against the South.  to undo the stalemate in the South.

    Cao Kun originally thought that he was the only vice presidential candidate, and Xu Shuzheng said at the time that it was enough as long as he did not oppose the war in South Korea, and there was no need for him to actively march south.  Unexpectedly, the front line in Hunan had changed. His general Wu Peifu refused to fight and established an armistice agreement with the Southern Army. However, this time the Tianjin Conference left the vice president to the person who had meritorious service in the Southern Conquest, while Zhang Zuolin watched from the sidelines.  The Tianjin Conference unanimously decided to advise Cao Kun to go south and make meritorious services.  On the one hand, Cao Kun was reluctant to give up his position as vice president, but on the other hand, he received a secret message from Wu Peifu, preventing him from going south, which put him in a real dilemma.

    At this time, Cao Kun deeply felt that he had been deceived, because if he really went south, Zhang Zuolin would definitely take the opportunity to penetrate deeply into the Beijing regime. Zhang Zuolin was his biggest threat, as he had the ambition to become vice president, and he was also the only candidate besides him.  .  So when Duan Qirui sent a float to pick up Cao Kun and go to Beijing for detailed discussions, Cao actually refused.

    After the Zhili clique rebelled, the strength of Duan Qirui¡¯s Beijing government was greatly reduced.  In order to appease Zhang Zuolin and prevent a fire in the backyard, Zhang Zuolin was appointed as the patrol envoy to the three eastern provinces. Of course, Zhang Zuolin's robbery of arms did not allow anyone in the Duan clan to mention it and did not dare to mention it.

    This position is a replica of the post of governor of the three eastern provinces in the former Qing Dynasty. It can take over the military power of the three provinces. In terms of actual power, the power of Zhang Zuolin's patrol officer in the three eastern provinces is far greater than that of the governor of the three eastern provinces.  The appointment of this position gave Zhang Zuolin reasonable and legal control over the three northeastern provinces.

    The direct impact of this incident on Zhang Hanqing is that his title of "Young Marshal" this time is truly worthy of his name: in the early Republic of China, the governor was called "Commander", and the patrolling envoys were called "General". Relatively speaking  , the patrol envoy young master is the real "young commander".

    When discussing the war against South China at the Tianjin Conference, there were different opinions on who should come first and who should come last. Since Zhang Zuolin said "When the "thug" attitude appeared, the warlords in various provinces advocated using Fengjun as the main force in the front line to replace the direct army that stood still on the front line. But Zhang Zuolin certainly refused to do this. He suggested that Fengjun be used as the general reserve force on each front to support the front line at any time.  .

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????This is equivalent to consuming the power of other factions, and then Fengjun can take over. Everyone is not a fool, who is willing to do this?  Therefore, this issue has been postponed and undecided.  During this period, the only thing the provincial warlords agreed on was asking the Beijing government for military pay, and the amount they offered was 15 million yuan.

    Of course you can¡¯t fight without money, so Duan¡¯s cabinet was busy thinking about ¡°money¡±.  Therefore, although Zhang Zuolin personally participated in this Tianjin Conference, there was still no result - but this was the result that Zhang and his son wanted, and it was also the best result.  Although Zhang Zuolin raised the voice of supporting the move south loudly, no one doubted his sincerity.

    Finance Minister Cao Rulin suggested issuing 240 million yuan in gold coin certificates and borrowing 80 million yuan from the Bank of North Korea as one-third of the reserve.  The currency represented by gold coin certificates is one-half of a U.S. dollar. The Currency Bureau was established as the supervisory authority for the issuance of gold coin certificates, and a trading company was set up to handle issuance and international exchange business.  Duan adopted this suggestion and drafted regulations on the issuance of gold coin coupons, and asked Feng Guozhang to announce them for implementation, but Feng once again refused to seal them.

    But President Feng finally convened a meeting on August 9 with the heads of various ministries and the heads of the China Communications Commission and the Central Bank of China to discuss the issue of gold coin coupons.  Cao Rulin reported at the meeting that the issuance of gold coin coupons was a reform of the currency system and a preparatory step for the adoption of the gold standard.  On August 10, Feng announced the formulation of gold coin coupon regulations and the official regulations of the Currency Bureau in the name of the president.

    Western countries have expressed opposition to this measure of the Beijing government.  They believe that China should first discuss its reform of the currency system with the five-nation banking group and should not act alone. This is against the common interests of the West, so they jointly protested against China.  At this time, as the European War was coming to an end, the great powers began to pay attention to China again. They were not as relaxed as they were during the emergency period of the European War. Therefore, they could not tolerate the various collusions between the Japanese government and the Duan Qirui government, and still wanted to use  The five-nation banking consortium controlled China, which also prevented Japan from having a monopoly on borrowing money from China.

    In view of the strong pressure from Western countries, the Japanese government did not want to excessively incur the ill will of Western countries. Therefore, it recalled Nishihara, the Prime Minister's personal representative who stayed in China, and did not consider the gold coin loan for the time being.

    Without money, naturally you can¡¯t fight, because soldiers need to be paid.  The princes from all walks of life have created a mess for the distribution of interests, but they have not made any decision to go south. They can only follow the clique and get the equipment that is crucial in the warlords' melee with nothing, and take advantage of it.

    In order to eliminate the direct doubts caused by Lu Jianzhang's death at the Fengjun headquarters in Tianjin, Zhang Zuoxiang, who served as the leader of the investigation team, also lost no time in announcing the investigation results of the entire incident: "It was Xu Shuzheng and Yang Yuting who pretended to receive Fengjun military pay.  They colluded with each other on the matter, and then took advantage of Yang's gullibility to assassinate Lu Jianzhang at the Fengjun headquarters, with the intention of shifting the trouble eastward to Fengtian. Not only Zhang Zuolin, who was far away in the northeast, was unaware of the whole incident, but his accomplice Yang Yuting was also kept in the dark.  . Although Xu Shuzheng is nominally the deputy commander-in-chief of Fengjun, Zhang Zuolin, the commander-in-chief, cannot restrain him." The implication is naturally to distance Fengjun from this matter.

    At the same time, Zhang Zuolin was also quickly investigating the bomb thrown by Zhang Hanqing. This made Zhang Hanqing's "Intelligence Bureau" famous in the Northeast, and also established the status of this department in Zhang Zuolin's heart.  This was exactly the news that made Zhang Zuolin furious at the beginning: Xu Shuzheng pretended to receive military war funds to enrich his own pockets, and conspired with Yang Yuting to establish another mountain.

    It turns out that since Duan Qirui formed the cabinet for the third time on March 25, Xu Shuzheng has received a total of 5.5 million yuan in military expenses from Fengjun, but Fengjun only actually received more than 1.8 million yuan, a difference of 3.7 million yuan!  He further inquired and found that Xu Shuzheng, in order to expand his strength, conspired with Fengjun Chief of Staff Yang Yuting to use the name of Fengjun to fraudulently receive 3.7 million yuan in military funds from the Ministry of War, and established 4 brigades in Luoyang, Xinyang and other places.  army.  Yang Yuting also planned to appoint his close associates Yu Zhen and Ding Chao, graduates of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and officers Song Ziyang and Chu Qixiang of the Anhui clique as brigade commanders.  All the money was used to train the war troops and organize the election of the new Congress. It turned out that Xu actually used "fake reimbursements"!

    Since Zhang Zuolin entered the customs, in his contacts with all parties, all he heard was how domineering and rampant Xu Shuzheng was, and how he used Duan Qirui to bully the Beiyang armies, so he was already dissatisfied with Xu Shuzheng.  How could he not be angry after learning that he had diverted military expenditures for other purposes and bullied others to his own head?  Just because getting rid of Lu Jianzhang's matter is the top priority, this news has been suppressed again and again. Now is the time to let it go.

    Therefore, without waiting for consultation with the Beijing government, he immediately ordered Xu Shuzheng to be dismissed from his position as deputy commander of the Fengjun Army, and he wanted to settle the score with Xu.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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