Chapter 228 Civil War

The military base camp of the three eastern provinces is located in the 'Army Command of the Three Eastern Provinces' on the edge of Shenyang Jinyinku Hutong. A large number of votes gathered the officials and whispered to each other.

Since Zhao Dongyun took charge of Fengtian, the names of various institutions under him have also been changing. For example, when he only controlled Jinzhou and other Liaoxi, his main institutions were the internal offices of the third town. After he took office as General Shengjing, the internal institutions in the third town were divided into two, such as Li San and The civilian staff in the secretariat and the inspection office have entered the general and offices of the Shengjing General's mansion, while the military officials have successively held the positions of Fengtian Supervision and Training Office.

At that time, Zhao Dongyun's cultural relics officials officially parted ways and went their separate ways!

Immediately after Yuan Shikai was assassinated last year, the Qing court quickly appointed Zhao Dongyun as the governor of the three eastern provinces. At that time, although Zhao Dongyun did not go to the gratitude table or something, in fact, he still accepted this position and rebelled in the name of the governor of the three eastern provinces!

At that time, the government office of General Shengjing became the governor of the three eastern provinces, and the Fengtian Supervision and Training Office was reorganization into the Fengtian Army Command.

A few months later, after the Beiyang generals overthrethrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic, Zhao Dongyun took office as vice president and served as the governor of the governor of the three eastern provinces. Naturally, the governor of the three eastern provinces naturally changed the signboard again and became the patrol envoys of the three eastern provinces. The internal institutions hung the signboard of the 'East Three Provinces Patrol Envoy', and the government of the State Council At present, Zhao Dongyun is the president himself, and there is no vice president for the time being. Basically, Zhao Dongyun still manages the internal bureaus of the State Council.

Compared with the successful restructuring of the State Council last year, the restructuring of Fengtian Army Command has been delayed a lot. It was not until late January that Zhao Dongyun changed the 'Fengtian Army Command' to the 'Army Command of the Three Eastern Provinces', which was under the direct jurisdiction of the Patrol Envoy.

The agencies under the jurisdiction of the headquarters are still the original four major departments of staff, ordnance, munitions, and education, but they have been changed into departments, and then a naval office, general affairs office, and a military office have been set up. So far, the headquarters has a total of four departments and three departments. Zhao Dongyun himself is the commander-in-chief, and there is no deputy commander or general. He vertically manages four departments and three positions such as chief.

In the restructuring, Zhao Dongyun also imitated the Japanese military department, the German staff and other institutions, and highlighted the power of the staff, resulting in the establishment of a series of important departments within the staff to command the training, deployment and combat affairs of the whole army. However, in order to contain the staff, Zhao Dongyun still maintained the Ministry of Education, and still independent the power of recruiting and training new recruits. At the same time, he also separated the Shu Branch from the General Staff and established the Shu Office.

What kind of agency is this office? Unlike the power to award titles only from the military department in the Central Committee of Beijing Normal University, this military department in the three eastern provinces actually has the power to appoint officers. In addition to some important middle-level positions and senior positions arranged by Zhao Dongyun, other middle-level and lower-level appointments are arranged by the military affairs office. In other words, this The organization has personnel rights.

The separate establishment of this institution is also a balanced arrangement for Zhao Dongyun's increasing power in the staff and foreign generals. Of course, the most important thing is that Zhao Dongyun always holds the personnel power in his hands and does not allow others to touch it, even the most direct Soviet generals such as Meng Enyuan and Lin Yongquan.

In fact, the existence of the department and the existence of the Ministry of Education, and even the military salaries are uniformly distributed by the salary office of the Ordnance Department, and are directly distributed to the soldiers' bank accounts in Fengtian Bank, which leads to the high-level generals of the Soviet Union' control over the army far from the north. Several other warlords are so strong.

The above are all measures taken by Zhao Dongyun to collect the military power of the central government and strengthen his control over the army.

With the restructuring of the army headquarters of the three eastern provinces, the military's deployment work was also carried out, such as the transfer of the 9th Division to Harbin and the 5th Mixed Brigade to Andong.

With the mobilization of these troops, Zhao Dongyun also adjusted the command system in time. In mid-January, he abolished the Jinzhou Defense Command and established the Shenyang Defense Command and Harbin Defense Command. Among them, the Harbin Defense Command was concurrently held by Lin Yongquan, the commander of the 9th Division, and the Shenyang Defense Command was appointed by the 10th Division. Xu Bangjie is also in charge.

As a result, the three most powerful generals under Zhao Dongyun's command sat in the position of defense commander, with the rank of lieutenant general, and in addition to these three lieutenant generals in the Soviet system, another is Chen Guangyuan, the new commander of the Third Division.

As for the major generals, there are more brigade commanders of six infantry brigades such as Kong Viewbei, Gu Lanyu and others, brigade commanders of three mixed brigades such as Cao Kung and He Zonglian, and the brigade commanders of the two cavalry brigades, namely Hua Zhenji and Lv Shuanggun, and then Fang Biyong, the staff of the headquarters, Zhao Dongping of the Ordnance Department and Hongpu of the Military Supply Department. Tao and the Ministry of Education promote good ethics.

There are only 20 senior generals in the three eastern provinces or the Soviet system, which is not less. Today, in this small conference room of the headquarters of the three eastern provinces, there are two lieutenant generals and five or six major generals, accounting for a small half of today's senior generals of the Soviet system.

Among them, Xu Bangjie, who wore a senior general's dress and wore the epaulettes, whispered to Meng Enyuan, "Lao Meng, I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with this time. Xiong Xiling, the old man, regardless of his face, submitted his resignation to the general!"

Meng Enyuan also frowned: "I knew that the government would definitely not watch our whole army!"

"Tomorrow, I'm going to see the general. Now Wang Yingkai in the west is preparing for the army and expand two divisions. Yuguan is now under great pressure. If we don't expand the army in time, we will deal with it. When Wang Yingkai's 11th Division and 12th Division become troops, what should we do?" Meng Enyuan showed a fierce face: "We must not let the people in the State Council who only know money ruin my big plan in the three eastern provinces!"

What is the plan of the three eastern provinces? Naturally, he entered the customs and took Zhili, pushed Zhao Dongyun to the throne of the president, and then the civil officials and generals below gathered together to enjoy the meritorious deeds of the founding of the country. Well, maybe when Zhao Dongyun dies, he can also enjoy being a president.

Last year, because of the chaos of the situation in the south, and Wang Yingkai's momentum at that time was indeed a little stronger, they pulled Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen, Wang Ruxian and Zhang Huaizhi's Wang Yingkai to get a so-called coalition, but the strength exceeded that of the Soviet army, which forced the two sides to hold peace talks, and then the Soviet troops returned to Fengtian, but everyone Knowing that this was only temporary, Meng Enyuan, the boss Zhao Dongyun, didn't know what he thought, but he knew that whether it was himself or other high-level military generals, they all dreamed of entering the customs to control Zhili and even the whole of North China.

It can even be said that the full crew plan in the past few months and the current plan to expand an infantry division are prepared for customs entry.

"I think it's a little suspenseful. It's been two days, but the general has been holding it all the time. Maybe he's not sure, just dragging it like this!"

After Xiling handed over his resignation, Zhao Dongyun played a trick of staying. He did not say that he would approve Xiling's resignation, and he was not sure. Anyway, he regarded it as if he had not received his resignation. Xiong Xiling was also a bachelor. After resigning, he did not go to the Finance Bureau to work, but stayed at home waiting for the news.

Although this resignation was provoked by Xiling, the main reason is that the military has oppressed him too much. Although Fengtian's financial situation has been supported by the issuance of national bonds in the past few months, it is still not much better. Xiong Xiling can't get an additional three or four million military expenses for the military. Come on.

In addition, Zhao Dongyun also hinted at him and asked the Finance Bureau to make every effort to meet military expenses, and even misappropriate some administrative and education funds.

Under the pressure of both ends, Xiling simply retreated. I quit. You can find whoever you want to do.

"Do you think we will push the State Council too fast? I don't think they can afford any money either. Why don't we let them take part of it first? Let's practice a brigade step by step, and then gradually expand a teacher? Major General Lin Pingxiong, commander of the 18th Brigade, said, "I heard that there is a lot of wind in the State Council!"

However, Meng Enyuan frowned: "Wang Yingkai and others got two divisions, and it's enough for us to get one division. If we take our time, it is estimated that we won't be able to form an army next year. At that time, I'm afraid Wang Yingkai's two divisions have already been trained. In that case, do you still want Tangshan or Chengde?"

This small meeting did not change anything. It can only be regarded as a collective complaint meeting of military officials. The next day, Meng Enyuan, who came back to Shenyang to report his duties, met Zhao Dongyun. The two talked in Zhao Dongyun's study for more than half an hour. After coming out, Meng Enyuan's face was not very good, which made the Secretariat see a few The secretary also kept guessing in his heart that this war between the military and the State Council was not simple.

Fang Biyong of the former staff and Xu Bangjie, the defense commander of Shenyang, just pushed forward the expansion plan, and Meng Enyuan returned to Shenyang to meet Zhao Dongyun.

When the secretariat guessed, Zhao Dongyun also sighed in his study. It's not easy to be the boss!

Now he has realized the feeling when Yuan Shikai faced Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai and others fighting with each other. Although this balance is a good thing, it is not a matter to watch them play infighting every day.

The development of the struggle between the military and the State Council this time can be said to be unexpected. When he divided the culture and martial arts, he did not expect that it would cause such a large competition in the civil and military system.

But he also understands that the main and most direct reason for this incident is the money problem.

It's not that there is no money on the financial bureau. It can still squeeze out three or five million, but they can't give it, because these money are all follow-up administrative and education funds from the three eastern provinces. What are administrative funds? To put it bluntly, it is the salary of officials!

Because Zhao Dongyun plays a * system similar to that of the pre-Qing Dynasty, simply means that all kinds of bad regulations and cheap silver in the pre-Qing era are uniformly collected by the central government, and then changed them into salaries and bonuses. A county magistrate's annual salary is at least thousands of taels of silver, more Seven or eighty thousand or even tens of thousands. For example, when Xiong Xiling served as a member of the Huludao Industrial Zone, the annual salary and bonus combined annual income reached more than 20,000 taels of silver, which was higher than Zhao Dongyun's salary...

This income level actually far exceeds that of ordinary businessmen and landlords, but the salaries of officials are generally high, which is not a small amount of money needed to pay so many officials in the three eastern provinces.

Now that the military has put its hands into the administrative funds, isn't it to directly take away other people's jobs? Everyone has a family. How can you let the government support their families without salary this month?

Not every government official is worth millions of people like Zhao Dongyun. Although many people have a lot of industries, their salary income is still a big one. For most middle and senior officials, even if they still accept bribes and have other ways to make money, but one year Tens of thousands of taels of silver are still their main income.

At least on the surface, those officials will never admit that they can support their families without a salary!

In addition to salary, there are also education funds, which are not much, and they have to maintain the educational development of the whole eastern three provinces. Official international students sent out every year also need a lot of money. Not to mention, in order to arrange more than 20 graduates of Fengtian Wubei School to go to Germany to study military at the beginning of the year. And arranging more than a dozen students from Fengtian Middle School, Jinzhou Middle School and other schools to study in several universities in the UK cost nearly 10,000 pounds of funds from the Education Bureau.

The funds required for sending official international students, and large-scale dispatch of international students, are extremely high. The minimum cost of an international student is more than 300 pounds, and more than 30 people are nearly 10,000 pounds.

In addition, the three eastern provinces are still running primary schools and teacher education on a large scale, which also requires a lot of money. The education funds are already tight, and the military actually intends to reach out, naturally because of the many dissatisfaction of the State Council.

Although Xiong Xiling's resignation was a personal act, it represented the collective will of the civil service group of the State Council, so Zhao Dongyun could not deal with it hastily, which is why he has been pressing Xiong Xiling's resignation letter and did not respond.

He has to find a balance point to properly deal with the contradictions between the State Council and the military, and he can't be involved in it himself. When he is the boss, he has to be the boss. The people below fight with each other. What you have to do is to be a good referee, not put on armor and fight in person!