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Chapter 525 The movement to overthrow the king

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    After the Zhili-Anhui War, all forces were reshuffled, and Hubei, the home base of the Zhili clique, was still occupied by Wang Zhanyuan.  At this time, he not only served as the governor of Hubei, but also held the title of patrol envoy to the two lakes.

    Wang Zhanyuan is a greedy and domineering warrior. He calls himself the "White Tiger Spirit Reincarnation". He has mediocre talents and is good at plundering. His methods include unlucky copper coins, monopolizing the production of military uniforms, opening a bank account to sell gold, setting up Xincheng Company to sell leather goods, and purchasing military supplies.  After being demobilized and returned to work, he purchased real estate in Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian, Baoding and other places. He rented out 3,000 houses in Tianjin alone. In addition, he also invested in industries, including finance, minerals, textiles, food, electricity, etc. How much wealth does he possess?  , it is difficult to give a detailed estimate, but it was estimated at the time to be as high as 30 million yuan.

    He also held the position of commander of the Second Division. During the Zhi-Anhui War, he detained Wu Guangxin, the commander-in-chief of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River of the Anhui clique, and integrated Wu's army to form two brigades, which were later organized into the 18th Division, with Sun Chuanfang as the division commander.  This move expanded his own strength, so he firmly took the position of governor of Hubei Province.

    After the war, President Xu Shichang, in accordance with the decision of the Tianjin Conference to punish the culprits of Anfu, ordered the removal of He Peirong from the post of governor of Hubei, and Wang Zhanyuan recommended his in-law Sun Zhenjia to take over.  People from all walks of life in Hubei believed that this was Wang Zhanyuan's recruitment of party members and cronies, setting off a "movement to reject Sun", and Sun was therefore unable to take office.  Inspired by self-government, the Hubei people started to govern Hubei. In order to stabilize the situation in Hubei, Xu Shichang appointed Xia Shoukang as the governor of Hubei.

    Xia Shoukang was a native of Wuhan, Hubei Province. He was a son of an aristocratic family and had two generations of Hanlin scholars, his father and his son.  On the second day of the First Uprising of 1911 in Wuchang, I attended the meeting of the Advisory Bureau.  The Hubei Governor's Office was established, and he served as deputy minister of the Political Department and later as an advisor to the Governor's Office.  In July of the following year, he was appointed director of Hubei Civil Affairs and was promoted to director of civil affairs in October.  Xia Shoukang usually did not like to socialize, was taciturn, upright and honest, and won the hearts of the people in Hubei.  In 1913, he was transferred to Beijing and immediately took over the post of political historian. During his tenure, he overthrew Wang Zhixin, who had only one hand to cover the sky.

    Wang Zhixin is known as the "originator of the Chinese police force." He has been in the police force for more than ten years and has an extraordinary relationship with the then Prime Minister Zhao Bingjun. He is a well-known figure in the capital.  At the end of 1913, Wang was promoted to the governor of Jingzhao and became the highest head of the capital.  However, Wang Ben is a reckless and greedy person. His official reputation has never been good, and he still has some restraint in the police circles. Once he moves to another official position, he will open his mouth and let go of greed.  Jingzhao Prefecture had 24 counties under its jurisdiction at that time. Except for one county magistrate who was exempted because he had a big backing, after the king took office, he actually collected bribes from 23 county magistrates. Each of them paid a few thousand in filial piety, and the stolen money amounted to more than 50,000!

    In such a short period of time, under the emperor's feet, such large-scale bribery was rarely heard of even in the more than two hundred years of the Qing Dynasty.  Wang dared to do this, firstly, because of his strong police and judicial background, and he thought he had something to rely on; secondly, because he was a confidant of Yuan's Beiyang elder and Prime Minister Zhao Bingjun, and he thought he had a strong political backing; finally, it is said that Yuan Shikai's  Wang Zhixin paid a lot of expenses for the eldest son Yuan Keding and others with public funds, and Wang had great skills in raising money himself.

    However, he met Xia Shoukang, and after hearing about Wang Zhixin's corrupt behavior, Xia conducted a secret investigation, verified the evidence, and reported it to the president.  However, Yuan Shikai's order was extremely fast. Within three days, from the presidential approval to the trial, sentencing and execution in Dali Temple, Wang Zhixin was dead.  This incident gave Xia Shoukang an excellent reputation in the political circles of the Republic of China, and he later served as Secretary-General of the Presidential Office of President Li Yuanhong.

    Wang Zhanyuan was very dissatisfied with Xia Shoukang's entry into Hubei. On the 27th, he sent a telegram to Beijing claiming to be sick and asked for leave, secretly launching a rebellion against Xia. Xia Shoukang was unarmed and did not dare to move to Wuchang for a long time.  The Hubei people were outraged by the fact that such an official governor with a good reputation was treated like this, and they strongly demanded that Wang Zhanyuan be expelled.

    At the beginning of the year, Wang Zhanyuan was awarded the title of "Zhuangwei General" by the Jin Dynasty after he eliminated the oppression of the Sichuan army and retreated from Kui Wu's Lan Tianwei, Li Caicai, Wu Xinghan and other troops in western Hubei.  On March 1, Wang Zhanyuan, the governor of Hubei, convened a meeting of representatives from Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan, and Jiangxi provinces to establish a "joint defense treaty", which was then rumored to be a seven-province alliance. During his tenure, he imposed excessive taxes and withheld military pay. Mutinies occurred continuously in Hubei, and Hubei "overthrew the king."  Movement" surged rapidly.

    On April 23, Wang Zhanyuan was invited to go north to attend the "Big Four Meeting" of Cao Kun and Zhang Zuolin in Tianjin, led by Prime Minister Jin Yunpeng. On April 27, he participated in a telegram to oppose Guangzhou's election of Sun Yat-sen as the very president.  At the end of the meeting on May 4, matters such as cabinet reorganization, land allocation, and finance were discussed, and it was determined that the Yangtze River Basin and Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou would be returned to Wang Zhanyuan. Wang Zhanyuan boasted at the meeting that "Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan will not be attached to the north."

    At this time, the Beijing government encountered an unprecedented financial crisis.  Originally, since the beginning of 1921, a wave of "poverty" had surged across the country.  Military expenditures had been in arrears for eight or nine months, and warlords in various provinces sent telegrams to demand military pay.  Because wages could not be paid on time (the Feng faction's strategy will be described in detail later), mutinies occurred from time to time, with soldiers turning in groups, burning, killing, and looting.  Because the warlords in various provinces had no way of collecting money, they openly withheld local national taxes, even withheld funds from the Beijing-Hankou Road, issued provincial treasury bonds indiscriminately, and issued local public bonds without authorization.

    Only the Feng system?? support.

    After the "Hunan people governing Hunan" broke out in Hunan, Wang Zhanyuan, a Shandong native who was in charge of the government in Hubei, attracted even more attention from people in Hubei Province because he used many of his fellow villagers.  Hubei people imitated Hunan's example and also shouted the slogan that Hubei people govern Hubei.

    According to official history, in order to expel Wang Zhanyuan, the Hubei people persuaded Zhao Hengti to send troops north to help expel Wang Zhanyuan, and promised many benefits: after the Hunan army sent troops to help Hubei expel the king, they could garrison two divisions in southern Hubei, and their military salaries would be provided by Hubei.  The Hunan Army can also control the Hanyang Arsenal to ensure reliable supply of arms.

    But time has reversed, and the situation is completely different from history.  After Zhang Hanqing's Northwest People's Army stabilized the northwest, it caused quite a sensation in the hearts of Hubei people in neighboring provinces: the People's Army does not disturb the people, the People's Army believes in "three dishes cooking righteousness", and the People's Military and Government |  The collusion between government and businessmen and their commitment to economic development make the province of Shouyi seem to have seen the grandeur of the revolutionary army again.

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