() First, Liu Fu ordered Liu Xiaofu to mobilize several of his garrisons in Anbei Province to approach the forest farm on the border in the name of military exercises. After all were in place, he took military action to arrest the forest farm director and managers.
, control the external communications of the forest farm, and supervise thousands of employees in the forest farm.
Secondly, the Mountain Division troops controlling the forest farm will cooperate with the three presidential security personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who are already on standby nearby to interrogate the persons involved on the spot, and promptly send the interrogation results in cipher text to the president's personal telegram.
Finally, Liu Fu, through the mountain division's combat command system, ordered the federal Ministry of National Defense to place the three provinces of Anbei, Anzhong and Annan into a state of emergency martial law. The army and navy in these three provinces were all in a state of combat readiness and obeyed the federal
Under the direct command of the President; in addition, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was also telegraphed to dispatch duli investigation teams from Taiwan to quickly station themselves in the Ministry of Internal Affairs departments of various provinces, temporarily take over their work, and prepare for internal verification.
After arranging this set of procedures, Liu Fu stayed in Liu Xiaofu's combat command room, waiting for the development of the situation. In fact, this cigarette trafficking incident was probably a private affair of some Anbei provincial officials.
, but Liu Fu did not dare to take this risk. After this set of advance arrangements, Liu Fu could ensure that even if all three Annan provinces rebelled, he would be safe and sound, and he could control the situation in these three provinces in the short term.
In the middle of the night, the first telegram was translated. There were only 2 words in the telegram. Success!
Seeing these two words, Liu Fu and Liu Xiaofu both understood that this was a successful raid by the Mountain Division on the forest farm, and it was carried out successfully according to the plan. There were no surprises.
Two hours later, another relatively long message was sent back. The message sent several names, their positions, identities and other information, and asked for instructions on whether to take the next step.
"Reply the call and immediately organize an arrest and interrogate on the spot. As long as there are people involved in the case, we will continue to arrest them. They will be temporarily detained by the mountain division, waiting for the investigation team of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to come to take over." Liu Fu rubbed his red eyes after staying up for half the night.
Tell your secretary.
On April 23, 1918, a major incident shocked the entire federal government and governments at all levels.
fu department. In the federal Anbei Province, the Ministry of Internal Affairs uncovered a shocking case. Anbei Province Deputy Governor You Liangxi, Anbei Provincial Forestry Bureau Director Shen Junliang, Anbei Provincial Police Bureau Director Jiang Yanfeng and others used the forestry
The forestry farm under the bureau coerced the Song people in the Anbei area to plant more than 1,000 acres of opium poppies on the pretext of planting precious tree species. They also collaborated with local Chinese businessmen to sell opium to the Republic of China.
Yunnan Province of fu.
According to the system of the South China Sea Federation, the deputy governor and forestry director are nominated by the provincial governor, while the police chief is appointed by the General Police Bureau. Due to such a big scandal under his own rule, the governor of Anbei Province
He could only take the blame and resign, and the director of the General Police also quietly stepped down.
In fact, this matter was completely caused by the collusion of the people below. The provincial governor and the director of the police general bureau are also victims, but someone has to take responsibility for everything. Since the deputy governor and police chief were chosen by you,
If something goes wrong, you deserve the thunder.
In addition to the exposure of the major case of the manufacture and sale of opium cigarettes in Anbuk Province, several newly established provinces in the federation still have many problems of this kind and that. Although these problems are not as dazzling as the manufacture and sale of opium cigarettes, from a long-term perspective
Speaking of which, it is not necessarily any less serious than the problem of smoking. The most serious one is the ethnic issue.
Due to the very rapid expansion of the Federation in recent years, from the lease of Mindanao in 2014 to the occupation of Sumatra and Kalimantan in 2018, the territory of the Federation increased nearly a hundred times in five years, and the total population increased from
The original 7 million people have soared to 38.5 million, and this is still a rough estimate, not counting the increasing number of immigrants and the population of New Guinea in the southeast and many nearby small islands.
The population has more than quintupled, and the number of ethnic groups has reached nearly a hundred. However, the growth rate of the Chinese is much slower in comparison. Therefore, many Chinese, especially those in new provinces, face many ethnic groups that are much larger than their own.
The foreign population in China has involuntarily developed a kind of worry, and along with this worry comes some xenophobic thoughts.
If this kind of thinking only existed among ordinary people, it would not be difficult to deal with it. However, most of the officials in these new provinces, especially the middle and lower-level officials, were selected from Chinese, and they brought this xenophobic thinking to Japan.
In daily work, it is a very unfavorable factor for the federal policy of ethnic integration.
In order to stop and alleviate this ethnic problem, Liu Fu had to sit down with the federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the General Police Office and other relevant departments to discuss together, and finally came up with a
The solution is to amend the previous regulations and strictly stipulate that in the government departments in all regions, at least 35% of non-Chinese positions must be maintained, and this 35% must cover more than 80% of the local ethnic groups.
Moreover, in order to obtain timely information on the governance situation in various places, the Federal Supreme Court will set up a special institution, the circuit court. In the future, this circuit court will be jointly heard by 11 judges of different nationalities, and these 11 judges will be drawn by lot.
Drawn from different courts in different regions, each term lasts for 2 years. Each judge can only serve for one consecutive term. The elected judge will follow the circuit court to the area designated by drawing lots and go to various places in the local area to handle cases for 2 years.
This court is only responsible to the Federal Supreme Court. According to federal law, the president cannot interfere in it. However, Liu Fu left himself a way out, that is, the federal constitution is only in the trial stage. When will it be officially implemented, Liu Fu needs to decide.
Agreed, Liu Fu doesn't want to be trapped by a bunch of laws. Those things are reserved for ordinary people, but he is not an ordinary person, he is a time traveler.
In addition, in order to pave the way for the formal implementation of the federal constitution in the future, Liu Fu ordered that from October 1918, all municipal officials in areas below the municipal level will be elected by the people. In actual work, they, together with the provincial governor,
The federal government no longer has an actual superior-subordinate relationship. The mayor or county chief is only responsible to local voters. Neither the federal nor the provincial government has the power to appoint or remove any elected mayor or county chief.
In addition to popular elections, tax policies will also be reformed. In administrative units at the county and city levels, several types of taxes will be retained for local government expenditures, and the remaining other taxes will all be borne by the federal government.
The government collects taxes. The local government supported by taxes will no longer receive any financial allocations from the federal government and will have to rely on its own efforts.
Some people have said that if this happens, what should we do if the local powerful people control the votes and dominate one party? At this point, the federal government has also figured out a way, that is, all local voting rights will be vested in the federal government.
Zhengfu, that is to say, everything from election operations to election supervision is handled by the federal zhengfu. Let alone local candidates, the government controls the elections. You don't even have the right to ask about them.
When these measures were announced through federal government newspapers, radio broadcasts, and local government announcements, they received mostly favorable reviews from foreign residents in the federal provinces, but mostly negative reviews from Chinese residents in the federation. However, Liu Fu
I just listened to them and didn't take these comments seriously. Those who won praised it and those who lost criticized it. This principle is the same no matter in which country it is, and Liu Fu didn't do anything about it.
At this time, the South China Sea Federation was like a large wooden ship covered with sails, sailing on the rough sea. Among these sails, the Chinese were just one of them, although it may occupy a more important position at present.
But in the long run, if
If you want this big ship to cut through the waves and accelerate forward, you must use all the sails and not let any sail block the wind of other sails. Otherwise, once the big ship is destroyed, no matter whether you are the main sail or the auxiliary sail, you will be
The fate of one falling into the sea and becoming a rag.
