The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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In just six days, the revival army captured the entire northern Anhui, and captured the entire Anhui and northern Jiangsu regions with lightning speed.

Although the territory occupied by the revival army is large, its momentum is not great.

Because the revival army did not electrify the whole country, but Wuchang had already electrified the whole country, announcing the establishment of the Republic of China, which immediately became the target that the Qing government was eager to destroy.

The only major movement of the revival army was the capture of Shanghai County, where the speed of information transmission was the fastest. As soon as Shanghai was liberated, the Revolutionary Party immediately jumped out to pick peaches.

However, the revival army didn't care at all. Instead, like locusts, they removed the Jiangnan Manufacturing General Bureau, and even the workers of the Jiangnan Manufacturing General Bureau were forcibly sent to the ship and transported to northern Jiangsu. [

However, the news that came out one after another was shocking. After the revival army conquered Anqing, they killed Zhu Jiabao, the governor of Anhui, and news of the fall of Anhui and northern Jiangsu also came out one after another.

The revival army wiped out and captured the new army in a town in Anhui and a new army in a town in northern Jiangsu at an extremely fast speed. In the entire Lianghuai area, there was only one Xie new army that Cheng Dequan could mobilize.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Yu sent a telegram across the country in northern Jiangsu, announcing the independent republic of Anhui and northern Jiangsu. The telegram expressed support for the Wuchang revolutionary government and recognized the establishment of the Republic of China.

Cheng Dequan was shocked, and then he got a letter from northern Jiangsu, which was written by Jiang Yu himself.

At the same time, Zhang Jian also hurried from Nantong to Suzhou. You Xianjia, the chairman of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, also organized Suzhou gentry to propose to Cheng Dequan to support the republic.

Under the instigation of a group of gentry, Cheng Dequan sent an ultimatum to the Qing government, hoping that the Qing government would change its policy immediately, but this telegram was not taken seriously by the Qing government, and Cheng Dequan immediately declared the independence of Jiangsu on October 10.

Cheng Dequan, who announced the independence of Jiangsu, was supported by Jiang Yu. At the subsequent Jiangsu government formation meeting, Jiang Yu strongly supported Cheng Dequan as the governor of the Huaihe River and Huaihe River.

Dudu is just a title with no name, and the most important thing is to truly control the territory.On the one hand, Jiang Yu supported Cheng Dequan to gain a firm foothold in politics, on the other hand, he quickly digested the occupied territory with a sharp knife.

First, dispatch administrative personnel to counties in Anhui and northern Jiangsu to form local governments, courts, police stations, local taxation bureaus, industrial and commercial bureaus, agricultural bureaus, water conservancy bureaus, civil affairs bureaus, and education bureaus.While immediately investing financial resources to expand the army, the scale of this expansion is one division, forming an army force of two divisions.

At the same time, an armed police force is trained, and a battalion of armed police is stationed in each county. Not all of these armed police are stationed in the county, but also in the townships. That is, 100 people are stationed in the county and 30 in the township.

With the addition of the armed police force, the strength of the Renaissance Army will increase to 45, of which the armed police force will account for half. These armed police forces are also temporary and cannot be abolished until the territory is completely digested.When these sites are digested, the scale of the armed police can be reduced, and these armed police can be transferred to new sites to maintain law and order.

Coupled with the establishment of the police, the personnel will exceed 5.

Such a large-scale recruitment has reduced the requirements for recruitment, but the requirements of the regular army have not dropped at all.

At the same time, Jiang Yu sent people to major schools across the country to publicize and openly recruit local administrators.

Running a country is not something that soldiers can do. Soldiers just go home after fighting a war to take care of themselves, and running the country should be left to college students.

The administrative staff that Jiang Yu hired were young, passionate youths who had never been in contact with officialdom, and were not contaminated with official habits. They had ambitions, passion, drive and energy.

The problem of corruption is actually easy to solve. As long as the upper echelons are not bad and there is a sound regulatory system, it is impossible for large-scale corruption to occur.

Jiang Yu all employs young people as administrative staff, that is, they have not been contaminated with official habits, nor have they formed a culture of corruption. Coupled with the formation of a supervisory system, it is impossible for officials to form corrupt parties. As long as officials do not form cliques, they will There is no so-called mutual protection between officials and officials. Once an official is corrupt, he will die at the sight of the light. Even if there is corruption, he can only secretly corrupt it.

The most frightening problem is often that some officials are not punished after blatant corruption, and the consequences will be very serious. Other officials follow suit, thinking that if you can be greedy, you can’t be greedy?As a result, everyone is greedy. Once everyone is greedy, they will immediately join together to form a corrupt group and develop their own power network. The longer the time drags on, the more stubborn the power network will become, and eventually it will be too big. [

In addition to county magistrates, Jiangyu also sent administrative staff to the township level, while the village level implemented a parliamentary system, that is, a village speaker was elected, and a dozen village councilors were elected.

At the same time, a "Government Administration" was established, and Jiang Yu himself served as the director of the administration. As for whether the Administration is legal or not, others have no say, but guns have what counts.

Even if the central government sends officials down, so what?As long as the soldiers can't come in, the officials stationed by the central government can be emptied.When you give them face, you can offer them up, and when you don't, you can just blow them away with sticks.

Once the administrative system of Jiangyu is established, Anhui and northern Jiangsu will be firmly controlled by him.

The deputy director of the General Administration of Administration is actually doing the operation. Jiang Yu doesn't have much time to spend on the specific implementation of the administration. He is only responsible for controlling the direction.

The candidate for the deputy director was quickly determined. Jiang Yu selected a person with the most outstanding ability from among the trained administrators. He was a 25-year-old college student named Zhao Haizhou. Zhao Haizhou's literary talents were not outstanding, but other The administrative concept is very transparent, and the execution ability is very strong, and he quickly emerged in the administrative training class.

"My subordinates believe that the most important thing at present is to win the hearts of ordinary people, and then we can carry out further local reforms. If we move the interests of the landlords without gaining the hearts of the people, then the local government will fall into chaos." Zhao Haizhou suggested to Jiang Yu, Jiang Yu nodded and said, "Yes, what do you think?"

"The first is to rectify taxation. At present, there are more than 100 kinds of taxation in various places. Almost nothing is taxed. The common people complain. The second is to stabilize prices. The most important thing is food prices. Urban residents are most concerned about food prices. But it doesn’t have much to do with the rural people. The third is to reduce the tenant rent, but this will touch the interests of the landlords, and the autumn harvest has already passed, so it can be postponed until next year. But we can first cancel the usury, many rural tenants owe usury The grandson’s life is not finished. The fourth is to suppress bandits and gangsters, especially those bullies who bully the village on weekdays. It can make the people happy. Eliminating bandits can maintain social stability. The fifth is food and clothing. The common people are giving relief, and winter will come soon, so we must prevent people from starving to death or freezing to death in the territory.”

Zhao Haizhou put forward five suggestions in a row, Jiang Yunian nodded, and then came up with a detailed plan.

It is necessary to rectify taxation, but it is also necessary to increase fiscal revenue.Therefore, while all taxes were abolished, Jiang Yu came up with a "tobacco and alcohol monopoly" system. Tobacco and alcohol are not necessities of the common people, and monopoly will not cause any problems.Zhao Haizhou responded: "The Qing court once issued a ban on alcohol, but what was prohibited was long-distance trafficking, so hotels could not help brewing it for their own use. As a result, the common people did not have wine for sacrifices, and later caused the common people to brew their own wine, which led to more serious food consumption. The lack of food is largely due to winemaking, and the Jiangnan area is originally a land of grain, but as a result, a large amount of glutinous rice is grown, which makes it impossible to be self-sufficient in food."

"This is a big problem. Then prohibit hotels from making wine, and we will open several large wineries to improve the production efficiency of wine." Jiang Yu decided. His words made those hotels lose a traditional profit-making project. But it has no impact on the lives of ordinary people.

In addition to the monopoly of tobacco and alcohol, Jiang Yu also intends to let Huadong Group monopolize production.Monopoly can concentrate the use of wealth and reduce the production of a few rich people. When there are too many rich people (that is, the kind of money that is not too much money, but the amount is everywhere), they will inevitably compete with ordinary people for social shortages. resources, resulting in severe social conflicts.

Tobacco and alcohol itself do not need any innovation, and they can suppress private capital businessmen to the extent they can.

Regarding the issue of food prices, Jiang Yu decided to let the East China Group be involved in food sales. As the saying goes, whoever controls food controls the people, and whoever controls oil will occupy the mainland.

Of course, it is not enough to control the sales of grain, but also to control the production, processing, and supply of grain. Of course, the food must be eaten bite by bite.

Therefore, Jiang Yu decided to invest 1000 million yuan in imported grain to ensure the food supply in Anhui and northern Jiangsu first, so as to avoid the problem of insufficient food supply.

At the same time, rice processing factories, flour processing factories, and breeding farms will be set up in various places. This is also a project that Huadong Group will be involved in on a large scale.

In addition to food, in order to win people's hearts and cooperate with the work of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Jiang Yu decided to distribute salt to the people for free, that is, to register with the Civil Affairs Bureau, they can receive salt according to the population.It is tantamount to abandoning the traditional tax item of salt tax.

Salt is a necessity in people's lives, but many times the common people are forced to be unable to afford salt, so they can only eat lightly, or even nitrate salt.

The production cost of table salt can be said to be very low. Huaiyin’s rock salt mining cost is lower than that of sea salt. It doesn’t cost much to distribute a little table salt for free, but it will definitely achieve good results and benefit the rural people.

In addition, the problem of usury should be rectified, which must be severely cracked down. Therefore, the General Administration of Administration issued the "Lending Regulations", abolishing all usury with an interest rate higher than 23%, and the principal can not be repaid.In later generations, more than 30% was defined as usury, while Jiang Yu defined more than 23% as usury.

There is also the issue of relief. Jiang Yu has come up with two plans. One is to set up a shelter, where the homeless people, the elderly and children supported by others will be settled in the shelter first, and beggars must be taken in forcibly. [

After entering the shelter, those who are healthy and able to work will be arranged to work in the factory, and those who are not able to work will be supported by the government. Orphans will be arranged to work as child labor in the factory and receive education in the factory's school.

At the same time, Jiang Yu immediately mobilized 3 million silver dollars to invest in the construction of infrastructure for the construction of roads, railways, and water conservancy in Anhui and northern Jiangsu.In this way, ordinary people can go to work on the construction site, so that ordinary people can have something to eat, they will not starve to death, and they can continue to operate their own factories.

Of course, it is the government that invests in water conservancy projects that do not make any profit. The money used by the government is currently only 500 million silver dollars in the General Administration, and it has to borrow money from the Huadong Group.

Railways and highways are built by Huadong Group. Controlling railways and highways is an important part of the monopoly, because highways have toll stations and railways also have freight charges.It is also a kind of commodity, and the commodity of Huadong Group can be sold to the market at a very favorable transportation price, while competitors have to pay more expensive transportation costs.

Of course, some private shares can also be absorbed, but it is necessary to ensure that Huadong Group has absolute control.

As for suppressing bandits and cracking down on gangsters, that is a decision. The captured bandits and bullies can be used for mining, which is a free demographic bonus.

There are also those serious criminals who have violated the law. It is not cost-effective to shoot them, but they can create benefits by pulling them into mining.

At this time, Jiang Yu is like a local rich man, carefully planning and budgeting to increase revenue, but has not made any achievements in reducing expenditure for the time being.

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