9th Cabinet

The morning light is a wisp of red, and it's another foggy morning. The watery snow began to melt on the road, and all the eaves of the whole city were dripping.

The whole city has just woken up, and Li Xiang has already started his breakfast meeting.

The Narcissus changed into a suit of military uniform today, which is another style. The copper buckle was neat and meticulous, and even the top Fengji buckle was tightly buttoned up, but it still exposed a slender and white neck. Her round shoulders and thin waist were tied into unbearable grips by armed belts, then down were semi-tight trousers, and then a pair of slender and straight legs wrapped in knee-high boots that made men dizzy.

Li Xiang's breakfast is very simple, that is, deep-fried dough sticks and soy milk. The simple breakfast is also very fast, keeping the fast pace of soldiers. So the meeting has just begun, and the breakfast has been finished.

The narcissus poured a cup of tea and smiled, "Are you still going to the provincial congress today?"

"What a fart!" Li wanted to take a sip of tea in her hand, and his face became very ugly. "The legislators are more selfish than public, and the parliament is just a place for them to fight. I went there to watch their intrigues, not a waste of my time, a waste of my life?

"It's okay not to go." The narcissus lowered her head and thought for a moment, and said, "How is the progress of the Northern Expedition? If not, it's a waste of time here. Let's just pack it and go home and leave them alone.

"Look again. I think the president still wants to spend his time in the Northern Expedition, forge the Republic by force, and carry out the revolution to the end. Li wanted to frown and said, "I'm afraid that there are many dreams at night. If the president can't withstand the pressure of peace and changes his mind, the Northern Expedition plan will definitely be aborted."

Narcissus raised her beautiful face and looked at Li and said, "I expect that the president will plan the Northern Expedition, and we will definitely become the main force of the Northern Expedition. Don't be soft at that time. Remember to get more benefits.

Li wanted to be okay and nodded and said, "That being said, the Nanjing government is poor. What good things can come?"

The water fairy smiled and was charming. She replied, "My Marshal Li, I know you don't lack anything. You don't look down on the impoverished Nanjing Provisional Government at all, but the Nanjing Provisional Government has two good things, which are exactly what we need."

"Well!" Li wanted to be interested and took a sip of the tea with the lid of the bowl and asked, "Which two?"

"At the beginning, Li Yuanhong instigated Huang Xing and Song Jiaoren to seize power in Hankou, relying on their reputation as revolutionary leaders." Looking at Li Xiang and nodding repeatedly, Narcissus continued with confidence, "At that time, the revolutionary army had just been formed, and your prestige had not been established. You were also afraid that they would use the name of the revolutionary leader to take away your military power, so you simply led the army out of Hankou with revolutionary justice and go north to fight against the Qing army. Of course, after that, successive victories were won, and finally defeated the Beiyang Army. Now the soldiers and civilians of Hubei Province simply regard you as a god, and you have become the soul of this revolutionary army, and you are not afraid that others will seize your power in name, so you can rest assured and boldly hang up Li Yuanhong as a puppet, and you no longer regard fame as important. But have you ever thought that although we actually control Shaanxi, our name is not right? Even if we maintain Zhang Feng Suiyu's puppet government with the Ezhou Covenant Law, Shaanxi is not Hubei, which is aimed at by our people, so this is a hidden danger. But if Nanjing can give us a name to govern Shaanxi, the military and civilians of Shaanxi will no longer think nonsense.

"Okay! I want to be the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Revolutionary Army. Li wanted to hear that he was a little excited and praised him, "Go on!"

"Is this the second one," the narcissus continued, "Although Nanjing is poor and jingling, Manting is doing foreign affairs in Shanghai and Nanjing, leaving many officials and half factories. However, the Manting is corrupt, mismanagement is not good, more, and less profitable. It is caused by the revolution, and it is even more closed one after another. Shut down. But how many gold and silver mountains have been spent on these foreign affairs? Factory machinery, etc. can be used with a little renovation.

This was clear enough, and Li Xiang couldn't help but light up, as if he had seen another golden mountain.

The Narcissus continued, "Isn't the Nanjing government short of money? Let's pay some money and make it cheap. In fact, we all know that there is nothing wrong with the foreign affairs handled by the Qing Dynasty. Why can every foreign affairs be spent on money without profit? The country is not rich and strong, but weak. The root cause is the mistakes caused by this decadent feudal dictatorship system. The implementation of this mistake is the corrupt officials in this system, so foreign affairs are more and more, the country The weaker the family, the poorer the people. Therefore, the official foreign affairs rectification you carried out in Wuhan is just a little rectification, and these foreign affairs will immediately turn losses into profits. The same means have the same effect here.

"So in your opinion, is there any way for us to take down the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau?" Li wanted to put his hands on his knees and leaned over to ask.

The Narcissus stared at him and said, "Shandi, you really dare to think about it. The General Administration of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is located in Gaochang Temple in the south of Shanghai, the branch is located in Longhua, and the gunpowder depot is located in Pudong and Jiangyin. Every year, the gun factory can make 3,000 rifles and 10 million rounds of all kinds of bullets. The performance of rifles is better than that of Hanyang Arsenal, and they are all newly purchased machines. The Mauser rifle, which is modeled after the 1898 derivative 1907 Chinese contract, has a grip groove on both sides, a horizontal bolt on the body, a 39.3mm barrel length, a 44.2mm stock length, and a caliber of 6.8mm. It is named "Shanghai 68 Rifle". The steel mill can produce 1,500,600 tons of wool steel, with a total of more than 5,000 engineers, engineers, craftsmen and apprentices. I heard that such an important military factory has long been transferred to the army headquarters that has not yet been established. I don't think the Duke of Nanjing is stupid enough to buy it for you.

Li Xiang scratched his head shyly and said, "Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has no hope, but the docks, ships, boilers and other factories separated from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau a few years ago have become civil shipyards, called Jiangnan Shipyards, and the losses are also quite large. The speed of shipbuilding in Jiangnan Shipyard is not fast, and the overall production cost and fuel consumption are high. As a result, it is not as good as buying directly from foreign countries. With the money to build a ship, you can buy two ships from the United Kingdom. Moreover, the civilian ship has been transformed for a long time. Since it is not for military use, Nanjing can't get anything except losing money. If I buy it, Nanjing should be happy.

"You have said that the cost of ships built by such a shipyard is high and the performance is poor. It's better to buy it directly from abroad. Why do you buy such a waste shipyard?" Narcissus smiled and said, "Besides, such a large shipyard must not be a small amount to buy. This is not a light industry that can simply turn losses into profits. Shipbuilding belongs to heavy industry, and some will burn money in the future!"

"No!" Lixiang has excitedly sketched the blueprint of a maritime power in his mind and said, "Jiangnan Shipyard uses its ability to independently manufacture iron armored warships. It is not assembled by imported parts from foreign countries, but from boiler power to steel armored ships. China's dream of becoming a powerful country at sea has been going on for so many years, and I must make it come true.

The water fairy smiled and said, "China's dream of a maritime power?"

Li Xiang nodded and got up again and said, "Okay, I have a headache thinking about things. Go out for a walk." Today, I want to accompany Narcissus to travel to Jinling, so I added, "Don't call me Song Que. My kung fu is no worse than him."

The Narcissus got up and followed happily. The two of them went out, but saw Lv Zhongqiu rushing back. Seeing that Li Xiang and the fairy were going out, he greeted him with a smile and asked, "Where is the general going? At least give us a letter and a place to find."

The narcissus blushed and smiled a little shyly and said, "Go out with the marshal and take a look at the customs of the ancient capitals of the Six Dynasties."

Lv Zhongqiu's dark eyes rolled around, and said to the narcissus who also came out of the broken temple of the Liu family, "Are you alone with the commander-in-chief?"

"That's what I mean. I just want to be casual and don't bring a guard." Li wanted to stare at him with bulging eyes, which made Lv Zhongqiu slightly stunned.

Lv Zhongqiu immediately turned his tone and smiled, "After all, Nanjing is not very peaceful. Why don't you take Song Que with you?"

"If I say I don't need it, I don't have to." Li wanted to have a handsome face, turned his eyes and thought about it, and said with a smile, "You came here in a hurry to talk about these things with me?"

Lv Zhongqiu was stunned again. He almost forgot his business and replied with a smile, "Today, the parliament finally agreed on the result."

"Is it so fast?" Li asked in disbelief.

Lv Zhongqiu smiled and said, "Sun Yat-sen came to the representative meeting as the temporary president to discuss the "Organizations and Permissions of the Central Administrative Departments" he proposed."

Li Xiang asked in surprise, "What's the result?"

Lv Zhongqiu grinned and said, "The provincial representative elected Li Yuanhong as the interim vice president of the Republic of China. The provincial representatives are appointed by the ministers of the interim government through the appointment of Sun Yat-sen. The lists adopted at the official meeting of the representative meeting are: Huang Xing, Chief of the Army, Huang Zhongying, Chief of the Navy, Wang Chonghui, Chief of Foreign Affairs, Cheng Dequan, Chief of Internal Affairs, Chen Jintao, Chief of Finance, Wu Tingfang, Chief Justice, Tang Shouqian, Chief of Transportation, Cai Yuanpei, Chief of Education, and Zhang Jian, Chief of Industry. After the approval of the chiefs of each ministry, Sun Yat-sen appointed Hu Hanmin as the secretary-general of the presidential palace, Huang Xing and chief of staff, Jiang Zuobin as the under-chief of the army, Tang Qianming as the under-chief of the navy, Wei Chen group as the under-chief of foreign affairs, Ju Zheng as the under-chief of internal affairs, Wang Hongyou as the under-chief of finance, Lv Zhiyi as the under-chief of justice, Yu You as the under-chief of transportation, and Jing Yaoyue as the education. Deputy Chief, Ma Junwu is the under-in- chief of industry, and Niu Yongjian is the deputy chief of staff. The notice has been posted all over the street.

Although Cheng Dequan is still a new figure among the bureaucrats in the former Qing Dynasty, the 'general manager of internal affairs' of this government is Song Jiaoren or Cheng Dequan, and its nature is completely different. For Song Jiaoren, it is obviously a revolutionary government; for Cheng Dequan, it is obviously a 'pray' of old and new miscellaneous groups. This platter, together with the industrial chief of Zhang Jizhi, the top prince of the late Qing Dynasty of the constitutional faction, and the traffic chief of Tang Jinshi Shouqian, it will become a platter. Zhang and Tang are the backbone of the 'constitutional faction' in the former Qing Dynasty. Before the restoration, Zhang and Tang served as the presidents of the "Consultation Bureau" of the most influential Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in Southeast China, and Tang was the mastermind of the killing of Qiu Jin, a female revolutionary martyr.

Li Xiang panicked: "Choose a constitutional government, and the president will agree!"

The water fairy looked at his pale face and smiled, "You don't have to be so scared!"

Lv Zhongqiu smiled unhurriedly and said, "Although only the army, foreign affairs and education departments are members of the alliance, and the other departments are constitutionalists. However, the second chief is almost all comrades. However, Zhang Jian, the president of the Ministry of Industry, and Tang Shouqian, the president of the Ministry of Communications, all lived in Shanghai. Cheng Dequan, the president of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, slept in the sick concession. Chen Jintao, the governor of the Ministry of Finance, negotiated loans in Shanghai. Wu Tingfang, the president of the Ministry of Justice, did not return to Ning because he presided over the peace conference in Shanghai. Therefore, the Nanjing government at this time, the actual chiefs responsible were only three revolutions. The party members are Huang Xing, the chief of the Army Department, Wang Chonghui, the chief of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Cai Yuanpei, the chief of the Ministry of Education. The remaining five ministries are represented by the undersecretary. I also heard the internal legend of the League that the election this time is actually the undersecretary cabinet: the president takes his name, and the second chief takes the fact.

Li wanted to hesitate and say nothing, which was also a smart move, but when the central government did not determine the absolute authority, this was not a hidden danger.