Beiyang reactionaries

Chen Yi didn't want to betray Lu Yongxiang, after all, Chen Yi still wanted face.But it was not Chen Yi's choice to follow Lu Yongxiang all the way to the dark.Chen Yi is not so foolish and loyal, and Lu Yongxiang is not qualified to be so devoted to Chen Yi.

"Wei Wen, what do you think we should do now?"

"Teacher, from a rational point of view, it is right to choose the winning side. Now Beijing has an obvious advantage, and Jiashuai is hard to resist."

"Of course I do. Just?"

face.

Although Chen Yi was born in the military and went to a lot of military schools, he is more of a literati.It is easy to abandon Lu Yongxiang, and it is also easy to defect to Duan Xun.

But I can't save face.

How will others see you, and what will you say about yourself.Will he regard himself as Lu Bu who is a "family slave with three surnames".

"Master, unification is the general trend. Since the year of [-], how many people have tried to accomplish this, to complete the unification of government and military orders across the country, but they have not succeeded. The current Beijing government is the closest to this goal, and it is the most willing to do this. No one can stop this trend. Jiashuai can't stop it, and we can't stop it."

"Yes, unification is the general trend."

Chen Yi nodded.

After the Xinhai Year, the ideological trend of centralization and local autonomy has been fighting.Whoever takes over the Beijing government will advocate the unification of government orders and military orders, and whoever advocates the unification of the whole country.Whichever one is a local warlord, he will advocate local autonomy to protect his own interests.

But now, unification has become a major trend.Especially when Duan Xun's strength is getting stronger and stronger, and the Beijing government's control is getting stronger and stronger.

How can people stop the trend.

"Tap-tap-"

Just when Chen Yi didn't know what to choose, hurried footsteps sounded from outside.Soon a man in his thirties walked in, wearing a military uniform, very heroic.

"Master, Chief of Staff."

"Zhanhou, what's the matter?"

The person who came was Ge Jingen, who was Chen Yi's adjutant when Chen Yi was the commander of the Fifth Division of the Zhejiang Army a few years ago.That is to say, Ge Jingen, like Chen Yi, has positions in both the army and the Jiangsu provincial government.

Chen Yi attaches great importance to him.

Because he is also Chen Yi's junior at the Japanese Army University.

All are highly educated.

Ge Jingen graduated from the Zhejiang Armed Forces Academy in his early years and was a member of the Tongmenghui. He participated in the Revolution of 1913 and even served as a military representative during the North-South peace talks.After the founding of the Republic of China, he studied at the Beijing Army University in [-], and then studied in Japan to study at the Japanese Army University.Because I am from Zhejiang, I returned to Zhejiang after graduation.

At that time, Chen Yi accepted Lu Yongxiang's order to form the Fifth Division of the Zhejiang Army and recruit a large number of talents.Lin Wei and Ge Jingen are all from Zhejiang, and they are also Chen Yi's juniors at the Japanese Army University. They have become Chen Yi's most important group of people.On Chen Yi's side, she was promoted step by step.

"Master, an order came from Jiashuai (Lu Yongxiang) just now."

"what happened?"

"Jiashuai asked our Jiangsu provincial government to transfer all the funds from the Ministry of Finance to the Bank of Jiangsu designated by Jiashuai."

"what?"

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"what?"

Chen Yi frowned and said, "What's going on."

"Teacher, Jiashuai (Lu Yongxiang) has already issued orders to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, including Shanghai. It is said that in order to complete the order of the State Administration of Taxation, Jiashuai will sort out the financial situation of each province in advance, and finally unify the opening in the Commercial Bank of China. account. Therefore, the provincial finance departments are required to deposit the funds in Jiangsu Bank first.”

"Bullshit."

Lin Wei next to him pouted immediately.

Bullshit reason.

Lin Wei took a step forward and said, "Master, Jia Shuai is just an excuse. Jia Shuai is obviously trying to raise military pay, definitely to raise military pay."

"I know."

Chen Yi had a gloomy face.

Since Congress rejected Lu Yongxiang's proposal, the powers of the Yangtze River Patrol Envoy have been greatly reduced.The Yangtze River patrol has changed from the local princes who originally controlled the military and political affairs of the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui to those who are only in charge of military affairs.The current Lu Yongxiang only has the power to control the troops of the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui.

Speaking of which, the current Lu Yongxiang has no right to order the provincial governments, because the provincial governments are directly responsible to the cabinet and have nothing to do with the Yangtze River patrol envoy.

But Lu Yongxiang still regards himself as a prince back then.

It is completely overstepped to order all the provincial governments to deposit all the money in their hands into the Jiangsu bank account designated by Lu Yongxiang.After the founding of the Republic of China, each province had its own bank.

Because the situation of warlord separatism is very serious, in order to ensure that they can raise funds and ensure the financial order in the areas they control, those warlords established banks controlled by the provincial government.To put it bluntly, it is a bank controlled by various warlords.

For example, Fudian Bank in Yunnan, Zhejiang Bank in Zhejiang, and Jiangsu also has its own Bank of Jiangsu.

But these banks are poorly run.

Because those local warlords regard these banks as their own cash machines, and once they have no money, they will withdraw funds from these banks.What is Lu Yongxiang talking about now? In order to respond to the order of the State Administration of Taxation, he must make preparations in advance and ask everyone to deposit money in Jiangsu Bank.

Totally bullshit.

It is obvious at a glance that it is to raise military pay.We have to deal with the order of the State Administration of Taxation to deposit the money in a Chinese commercial bank, so we will do it in advance.

"Jia Shuai is about to prepare for war."

Chen Yi sighed.

Duan Xun has been aggressive towards Lu Yongxiang since the beginning of the year, slowly taking away most of Lu Yongxiang's power.Although Lu Yongxiang resisted many times, it was of no use.

Because Duan Xun is in control of the Beijing government, he is in charge of righteousness, and he is very skillful in using public opinion, so Lu Yongxiang was defeated steadily.In terms of means in this regard, Lu Yongxiang, who was born as an old warlord, was no match for Duan Xun at all.Lu Yongxiang has always only known to use force, but fists are the most important thing, and Duan Xun is no match for other aspects.

By now, Lu Yongxiang was already very annoyed.

Because there is really no going back.

If he continues to retreat like this, Lu Yongxiang will really lose all his power.Now Lu Yongxiang is obviously going to resist, to make the last resistance.The only way is to resist with the army.

But fighting is so easy.

need money.

That's why Lu Yongxiang used this excuse to raise military pay.

"Teacher, this money must never be handed over. Once the money is handed over to Jiashuai, then we will be completely tied to Jiashuai's side and directly opposed to Beijing. The future choice will become very difficult."

Lin Wei immediately persuaded Chen Yi.