Back to the Republic of China as a commander

The conversation ended after Wang Zhenkun and Wang Zhenbang came in, and the family banquet began after everyone arrived.

Everyone toasted and blessed each other, and the lively family banquet was filled with the warmth of family affection.In the middle of the meal, Wang Zhenyu's mother, Wang Chen, suddenly said without thinking: "I don't know how the fourth child and his wife are doing in Europe?"

After hearing this, Wang Longxian lost his face and said: "I told you to eat more and talk less, but you are still talking nonsense here, what is the fourth child, I am not such a rebellious son."

As soon as this remark came out, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became awkward.

For Wang Zhenyu, as a father, Wang Longxian feels very contradictory.On the one hand, the son is promising, he has gained face for himself, and he has honored the Wang family.But on the other hand, with such a powerful son, Wang Longxian's paternity immediately became empty.In terms of marriage alone, apart from the marriage between the eldest and the second child, starting from Wang Zhenyu, his children were able to get a job and get married. Has anyone ever asked me about being a father?

Wang Zhenpeng even skipped the basic procedures for getting married. Because of the support of the third child, he dared to take people to travel to Europe to get married after losing his temper.The more Wang Long thought about it, the angrier he became. After drinking these cups of yellow soup, he naturally took the opportunity to vent his anger.

How could Wang Zhenyu not know what his father was thinking, he had nothing to say, he could only open his mouth and said: "Brother, you start, we brothers toast to father, wish father good luck, prosperity and prolong the year."

Finally, he found some dignity as a father, and Wang Longxian, who gained face, naturally turned his anger into joy, and a turmoil was invisible. . .

The New Year of 1917 was the first New Year after the founding of the Nationalist Government. Wang Longzhong, acting chairman of the Nationalist Government, issued an order to hold grand fireworks displays in Nanjing and Wuhan to celebrate.While Wang Zhenyu and his family ran to the banks of the Yangtze River to watch the fireworks show, they spent an extremely luxurious New Year, and the special products from all over the place piled up the Wenlu.On the first day of the Lunar New Year, many military and political leaders in Nanjing and Wuhan came to visit their homes to pay New Year’s greetings. Experts in the northern military and political circles, and business people from all over the world also sent telegrams to pay New Year’s greetings. You must know that telegrams in this era are very expensive, 40 yuan. One word, just the four words "Happy New Year" is equivalent to a battalion commander's salary for a month, not counting the attributives in front and the inscriptions in the back.

After the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, officers and soldiers of the expeditionary force began to return one after another, and all troops were required to gather in Shanghai and Guangzhou.Although they are full of doubts about the actual combat effectiveness of the Chinese, after receiving the report from the French military training group, the governments of Britain and France expressed great enthusiasm and hope for this expeditionary force.In the case of very tight transportation capacity, they tried every means to collect ships from the colonies to transport this army.Fortunately, according to the plan of the Allied Powers, the weapons of this huge army will be deployed in France. Otherwise, with the current shipping capacity of Britain and France in the Far East, it is impossible to transport 24 expeditionary troops from distant China to France within a month. task.You must know that in addition to the expeditionary force, Britain and France also need a large amount of tung oil, pig temples and rare metals produced in China.

This European war really emptied the wealth that the British had spent centuries accumulating with great difficulty, and used it for not making sufficient preparations for the war before the outbreak of the war. As a result, after the outbreak of the war, the British military operations It becomes a waste of money.In order to win this war, the original world's number one creditor began to march toward the world's number one debtor country.The death of young people in France and the money spent in Britain are the truest portrayal of the cruelty of World War I.

Judging from the final results, the British who defeated the Germans failed to get rid of the fate of falling behind in their hegemony, even because the war accelerated the process.The post-war colonial independence movement intensified, and the face of the British paper tiger became more and more clear.

If the Revolution of [-] changed the direction of Chinese history, then the First World War changed the direction of the entire world history.

The dominance of the Manchu and Qing Eight Banners collapsed overnight after the Revolution of [-], and relying on the superiority of the democratic system, the British had to start to decline after the First World War.

The far-sighted British politicians have already seen this, so they all advocated providing [-] million pounds to China in exchange for China's sending troops to consume the Germans.Such a move has two advantages. The first is to prevent the British boy from shedding more blood in France, and the second is to further accelerate the rise of the Nationalist Government in southern China through this loan.Britain's expansion in Asia has reached its limit, and they suddenly found that Japan, an ally they had fostered in the past to deal with Russia, a barbaric and greedy polar bear, seemed to be getting more and more uncontrollable, and more and more courageous, and began to continue Erosion of imperial interests in Asia, especially British interests in China.

Now it only needs to spend 3 million pounds to stop the expansion of these hateful oriental dwarfs in China. For the British, this deal is really a bargain.British politicians were even secretly proud of this for a while, thinking that those yellow-skinned pigs in the East were really easy to deceive.

Zhu Erdian, the British Minister to China who has always advocated weakening China, was reprimanded by the British Whitehall for this. However, Zhu Erdian still insists that compared with Japan, which is currently eager to try, a powerful China is more difficult to control and more likely to threaten the British Empire. Interests in the Asian region.In contrast, although the Japanese gang of dwarfs are arrogant and hateful, there are still many ways to control and suppress them.

Zhu Erdian's report was intercepted by the Telecom Bureau of the Military Commission led by Wang Huaishi, and it was translated word by word and placed on Wang Zhenyu's desk.Wang Zhenyu looked at it hastily, but he was not angry. He even felt that Zhu Erdian was a very respectable opponent.

With the continuation of the division between the North and the South, the probability of war between the North and the South has become lower and lower, and the youth army has also begun a large-scale compression. Although none of the officers has been reduced, this also means that the promotion of the youth army has begun to become more difficult. geometric growth.And young people are always restless, so more and more officers apply to join the European Expeditionary Force.This phenomenon makes Wang Zhenyu very satisfied, at least it shows that in a peaceful environment, his army still maintains enough vigor and enterprising spirit.So an idea of ​​conducting rounds of battles against young army officers and soldiers based on the expeditionary force came out. . .

After the new year, Hu Hanmin took the lead, and the backbones of the Tongmenghui asked for the election of the second official chairman of the Nationalist Government.At the same time, the proposal to reorganize the National Congress, the Nanjing National Government, and the Wuhan National Military Commission was also put on the table for final discussion and voting.If there is no accident, these things will be approved by the last National Assembly along with the "Constitution of the National Government", "Organization Law of the Senate and Legislative Yuan", "Organization Law of the National Government Military Committee", and "National Government Election Law".

In addition to the major controversy over the position of Chairman of the Nationalist Government, the positions of other bigwigs have also made important arrangements that are acceptable to all parties:

Chairman of the National Government: Sun Wen Wang Longzhong, Vice-Chairmen: Sun Wen Wang Longzhong, Wang Zhenyu, Zhang Taiyan.

Speaker of the Senate: Liang Qichao, Speaker of the Legislative Yuan: Hu Hanmin, Premier of the Government Council: Xiong Xiling

Members of the Presidium of the National Government: Sun Wen, Wang Longzhong, Wang Zhenyu, Zhang Taiyan, Liang Qichao, Hu Hanmin, Xiong Xiling.

Departments of the reorganized Government Affairs Council:

Deputy Prime Ministers of the Government Administration Council: Ye Zuwen (in charge of finance, transportation, and commerce), Zhou Zhiyun (in charge of industry, land resources, agriculture and forestry), Cheng Dequan (in charge of labor, education, health), Tan Yankai (in charge of urban construction, public security, and justice) and Tang Shaoyi, secretary-general of the Council of Government Affairs.

List of members of the Political Committee: Xiong Xiling, Ye Zuwen, Zhou Zhiyun, Cheng Dequan, Tan Yankai, Xu Chongzhi, Hao Bing, Tang Shaoyi, Zhang Jingjiang, Liao Zhongkai, Wang Zhengting, Zhang Jian, Cai Yuanpei.

Department: Zhang Jingjiang, Chairman of the Joint Reserve Management Committee of the Bank of China (Although Zhang Jingjiang has repeatedly opposed the establishment of this institution, Wang Zhenyu still feels that it is safest to let the valuable Zhang Jingjiang manage this institution, so he interviewed Zhang Jingjiang for a week , repeatedly expounded the stakes in it, and finally persuaded Zhang Jingjiang to take up the position on the grounds that not supervising it would be letting its harm be allowed to take over).

Minister of Finance: Liao Zhongkai, Minister of Foreign Affairs: Wang Zhengting, Minister of Defense: Xu Chongzhi,

Minister of Commerce: Zhang Jian, Minister of Justice: Xu Qian, Minister of Public Security: Hao Bing,

Minister of Communications: Zhan Tianyou, Minister of Industry: Tan Kah Kee, Minister of Land and Resources: Tan Yankai

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry: Lin Sen, Minister of Labor: Wang Jingwei, Minister of Health: Xie Chi

Minister of Education: Cai Yuanpei.

Tan Renfeng, Governor of Hunan Province Yang Yongtai, Governor of Hubei Province Wang Zhixiang, Governor of Guangxi Province Sa Zhenbing (concurrently) Governor of Fujian Province

Juzheng, Governor of Jiangsu Province Zhu Rui, Governor of Zhejiang Province Chen Yi, Governor of Anhui Province Cen Chunxuan, Governor of Guangdong Province

Lin Xiumei, Governor of Jiangxi Province, Liu Hongsheng, Mayor of Shanghai, Yu You, Mayor of Nanjing, Wang Zhenbang, Mayor of Wuhan

List of members of the Military Commission of the National Government:

Chairman: Wang Zhenyu Vice Chairman: Sun Wen, Wang Longzhong (Chairman of the National Government), Xu Chongzhi (in charge of the Ministry of National Defense), Wan Yaohuang (in charge of the General Staff), Secretary-General Zhao Hengti

Standing Committee: Wang Zhenyu, Sun Wen, Wang Longzhong, Xu Chongzhi, Wan Yaohuang, Ma Xicheng, Li Zongren, Xu Yuanquan, Zhao Hengti, Xiong Kewu.

First level department:

Minister of Defense: General Xu Chongzhi; Chief of the General Staff: General Wan Yaohuang;

Secondary department

Minister of Armaments: General Ma Xicheng; Minister of Armed Mobilization: General Li Zongren.

Third level department

Minister of the Army: Lieutenant General Li Liejun, Minister of the Navy: Admiral Sa Zhenbing, Minister of the Air Force: Major General Yang Yixian,

Director of Political Guidance Department: Major General Dai Jitao, Commander of Railway Command: Lieutenant General Song Xianfu, Commander of Security Command: Lieutenant General Hao Bing,

Director of the Military Intelligence Bureau: Lieutenant General He Jian, Minister of Military Education: Lieutenant General Zhu Zhixin, Commander of the Gendarmerie Command: Lieutenant General Yang Wangui,

Chief of Combat Training Department: General Xu Yuanquan, Chief of Military Discipline Department: Lieutenant General Cheng Qian, Commander of Engineering Command: Lieutenant General Hu Lichun,

Commander of Artillery Command: Lieutenant General Zeng Jiwu.

In the end, various factions within the National Socialist Party reached a compromise before the votes of the two chambers in early March. Sun Wen was promoted to the throne of the Nationalist Government Chairman, while Wang Longzhong continued to serve as the first vice chairman and chairman of the National Socialist Party.In exchange, this list was finally approved, and Zhang Taiyan served as the president of the newly formed Supervisory Yuan and the chairman of the Civil Affairs Committee of the two houses.The national government finally got on the right track legally. . .