Chapter 46 Shaanxi: The Story of Six Governors in One Province

During the Revolution of 1911, the heads of governments of the independent provinces were called Dudu.Normally, a province can only have one provincial governor, and if there are too many, it will be troublesome, but there are six in Shaanxi.Revolutionaries are not afraid of death during the revolution, but they are also not afraid of death when they rob the governor after the revolution.The battle for governors took place in Hunan, Jiangxi, and Fujian, but it was lively in Anhui, and the governors were changed like a revolving lantern.But Shaanxi people are smarter. Who said there can only be one governor?Everyone is an official, and they are all governors.There will be no trouble over the robbery of the governor.

Shaanxi was brought down by the Revolutionary Party and the Gelaohui together.Ordinarily, the two of them should be a family.However, the two systems are still different. The leader of the Revolutionary Party is a later brother in the Gelaohui, and the helm of the Gelaohui is also a newcomer to the Revolutionary Party.The forces of the revolutionaries are in the New Army, and the forces of the Gelaohui are in every corner of the province.The 1911 Uprising was launched by the revolutionaries of the New Army. They occupied Xi'an and took Mancheng (that is, the inner city of Xi'an), and the New Army took the first place.However, it is the Gelaohui's credit for lobbying the patrol battalion to stand still and changing flags in various places.The world has been brought down, the revolutionaries pushed their own people, and Zhang Fenghui, an officer of the new army, became the commander, but the elders and elders at the helm had objections.In particular, Zhang Yunshan, the oldest and most popular member of the elder brother's association, has an opinion. He has already proclaimed himself "a first-level senior official, and the commander-in-chief of the world's soldiers and horses" without waiting for the election, which is roughly equal to the emperor.How to do it?The clever Zhang Fenghui had a way, and simply appointed six governors, three principals and three deputy officers. In addition to the six governors, there was also a nondescript imperial envoy who was on the same level as the governor, including Zhang Yunshan.In addition to the two deputy commanders, Shaanxi Province has a total of ten top provincial officials.Zhang Fenghui thought that he was appointed the governor, and that he, as a great commander, should be above the governor.However, I didn't expect that the governors didn't buy it, and they each closed their doors to become kings, and no one took the commander seriously.Those who came from outside were guarded by the chief commander. If they wanted to go out of the city gate, they had to get a warrant from the governor to go through the city gate, otherwise they would not be allowed to go.Every governor feels that he is the unique boss, but he can only command his own troops.

If there are fewer troops, we must develop and expand the army.As a result, each of the governor's subordinates set up a large wharf, set up a large incense hall, and expanded in both the army and the local area.The local county government has the final say, but the wharf has the final say.In the army, what the chief says doesn't count, but the tiller has the final say.All the piers publicly planted a pennant, and wrote a letter to a certain mountain, a certain pier, and the name of the owner of the pier.Gambling, drinking and making troubles are considered side dishes, and they are really in charge.Form a security team to maintain the ground, collect taxes, and set up a court to hear cases.Trial cases are all like Bao Gong in the play. After being charged, the original is interrogated and interrogated first, and the board is hit.Zhang Yunshan, the big helmsman, also installed three guillotines in his official office, the dragon-headed guillotine, the tiger-headed guillotine, and the dog-headed guillotine, which were exactly the same as Bao Gong in the play.When he gave a speech on the stage, he also carried the guillotine up, and kept declaring to people that he would be an upright and selfless Bao Laohei.However, these Baogongs, big and small, know operas but don't understand the law, and they often make messy cases.A came to file a complaint and thought it was reasonable, so A was approved.B, who was sued by A, refused to accept it, and appealed again. The person who decided the case felt that it was reasonable, so he approved B.The case became more and more chaotic.He is more creative at the helm, impatient with Bao Gong's python dragon robe, and likes Wu Song's short dress, a night suit with a big red pompom on his hat, and thick-soled boots.But as long as you go to the yamen, there must be a lot of yamen servants who open the way, and there must be a pair of gongs.

Once idle people wait, they can set up a wharf by themselves, and if they set up a wharf, they can be regarded as the local government, collecting money, managing affairs, and adjudicating cases.As a result, more and more piers stand up, as long as there are idlers who can gather a group of people, they will become the boss of the place in an instant.Although they are all under the command of the boss in the provincial capital, in fact the boss doesn't know what's going on underneath.There are so many piers that in the words of the locals, brother Yunbu, and pier Xingluo.There are too many piers, and the land is tense. In order to grab the land, they will merge themselves.The damage to the local area is also becoming more and more obvious.In places like Shaanxi, the Gelaohui tends to be quite conservative in thinking, and they look down on new schools, Westernization undertakings, and telegraph poles.I don't think so about the church either.After becoming the master of the house, things like cutting electric poles, burning down schools, and beating up churches have also increased.Foreigners were not happy and came to protest one after another.Gradually, even their boss Zhang Yunshan felt shameful, ordered to restrict the development of the wharf, and imposed a limit of 150 wharfs in large counties and 100 wharfs in small counties.Moreover, it is not allowed to expropriate money and food without permission, and it is not allowed to hear cases, and it is not allowed to hit churches or cut electric poles casually.

However, how could the congregation of the Gelaohui, who had just tasted the fruits of victory, spit out the fat goose so easily?The docks resisted one after another, and the county magistrates sent from various places were often unable to take office due to the resistance of the docks.What should they do, what else should they do.Shaanxi is a poor province. It used to need assistance from developed areas, but now the assistance is gone. The various places are under the control of the wharf, and the taxes are not paid. The six governors in Xi'an need to support too many people. How can they do it without money? ?As a result, the Gelaohui from Xi'an, the Gelaohui that had been organized into an army, came down to suppress the Gelaohui that was not organized into an army.The people above had good guns, and there were more cannons, and the pier finally sank.But the Gelaohui at the top also lost the support at the bottom.

According to today's standards, an organization like the Gelaohui is a gangster and an illegal organization.Most of the transactions they do are illegal.The Revolutionary Party used the underworld to overthrow the Qing government, but suffered from it in turn.The revolutionary government in Shaanxi is actually a Gelaohui government.There are six governors in one province and nine bosses, who can't laugh or cry.In the course of the revolution, among the recovery of the provinces, Shaanxi killed the most and destroyed the most.Not only that, after the revolution, the proliferation of Gelaohui made the order unstable for a long time, which brought great disturbance to the gentry and people in Shaanxi, and foreigners always sued.Facts have proved that even if the Gelaohui is in charge, order is also needed. For the sake of order, the gang brothers who went to the city suppressed the brothers in the countryside, but the rule of the Gelaohui has greatly affected the image of the revolution.It is difficult to mend the image of the revolutionary party.