As soon as the Seventh-generation Living Buddha Zhangjia and his party left Qingdao, Shanghai sent the contract signed with Yuan Shikai to Qingdao. Because the Executive Yuan had already confirmed it, there was no trouble when he arrived and immediately arranged someone to prepare the stock.

However, the documents sent by Shanghai are not just this contract, but also a document from Shanghai Mayor Li Songchen, suggesting that the Qingdao Executive Yuan should now establish the Zhejiang Government.

It turned out that when Zhou Fu surrendered to the East China Government, Zhejiang was facing the threat of force from Japan. Therefore, in order to ensure the stability of Zhejiang Province, the East China Government retained all the officials of the original Zhejiang Province, and the Shanghai Municipal Government was responsible for coordinating and supervising Zhejiang's government; it only sent troops to take over the military affairs of Zhejiang Province and reorganized Zhejiang's army. Even the Beiyang Navy was taken over, and all the staff were taken to Shanghai. The warships were repaired and maintained in Shanghai, and soldiers were trained in Shanghai.

Now Japan has already stopped, and the reorganization of Zhejiang's military has basically ended. Li Songchen still has a lot of things on hand and is unwilling to disperse his energy for Zhejiang. In addition, although Shanghai is adjacent to Zhejiang, it belongs to Jiangsu Province in terms of administrative division. This way, long-term coordination and supervision of Zhejiang's government affairs is not good. On the one hand, it is easy to cause regional conflicts; on the other hand, if something happens in Zhejiang, it will become his own responsibility. Therefore, Li Songchen reported to the Executive Yuan, believing that the time is ripe and the Zhejiang government should be established as soon as possible to implement normal management of Zhejiang.

In fact, Qingdao also understands that the sooner the matter in Zhejiang is resolved, the better. It is indeed not a long-term solution to let Shanghai coordinate supervision. However, the situation in Zhejiang is a bit special, so the East China government must not be careless.

Strictly speaking, Zhejiang is the first southern province occupied by the East China Government. Although before that, the East China Government had occupied Shanghai on the south bank of the Yangtze River and Hubei Province spanning both sides of the Yangtze River, Shanghai is just a city after all, with a small place. Hubei is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and most areas are on the north bank of the Yangtze River. Therefore, Zhejiang Province is the first and complete southern province occupied by the East China Government.

The situation in the south is very different from the north. First of all, because the economy in the south is relatively developed, social contradictions and land contradictions are relatively mild and not so intense than those in the north. This is also one of the reasons why Qin Zheng suggested supporting Yuan Shikai and letting the south go to war. Only by fighting a war intensifies the social contradictions in the south, the East China Government can easily collect the southern land when the East China Government sends troops south. This is the case in Zhejiang. Moreover, since Zhejiang has not experienced wars, social contradictions have not intensified, and land contradictions are relatively eased. However, land reform is the main national policy of the East China Government and cannot be carried out in Zhejiang. However, how to implement the land reform in Zhejiang naturally needs to be carefully considered.

Secondly, the gates of China were opened by foreign guns, which severely impacted the domestic natural economy and small peasant economy, and a large number of farmers went bankrupt. However, the commodity economy and national capital had a certain development, and the number of industrial workers increased greatly. Therefore, some farmers who lost their land could transform into industrial workers. This change is very obvious in Zhejiang Province. The natural economy and small peasant economy decreased, national capital developed, and commodity economy increased.

From the perspective of social development, this is naturally a good thing, but because China does not actively open up to welcome globalization and modernization, but is forced to open up by the guns of the great powers, and is forced to join globalization and modernization. Therefore, China's national capital and commodity economy development lack the country's self-protection ability. It has serious innate shortcomings in the competition with foreign capital, which is mainly reflected in China's national capital components, with few industries, more compradors, more speculation, and strong laziness towards foreign capital. Zhejiang Province is also a typical example of this abnormal development. When the Shanghai financial crisis occurred, a considerable number of Zhejiang businessmen participated in Shanghai's speculation. Of course, all Zhejiang businessmen who participated in the speculation basically lost a lot.

The principle of the East China government's economic development is to develop industries, restrict compradors, and to support and protect the development of national capital through tariffs, government subsidies and other means. However, the places occupied by the East China government were basically in the north, and the development of national capital and commodity economy was very weak. It was the East China government that developed step by step from small to large, from weak to strong, but it has never managed a national capital. The commodity economy has developed to a certain extent, but it is mainly comprador capital.

This was basically the case when Shanghai came to Shanghai. It was just that Shanghai was small and Shanghai was an important city for the Westernization Movement. The Westernization faction established many industrial enterprises and factories in Shanghai, and there were also industrialists like Sheng Xuanhuai and Zhang Jian, so it was easier to transform. Although Shanghai's experience can be learned from, one province and one city are different after all, and it is not necessary to force Shanghai's experience. It needs to be determined based on the overall situation of Zhejiang Province.

Finally, there is another point. Due to the great impact from foreign countries and the economy of Zhejiang Province is developing relatively, many young people have received new ideas and new education in Zhejiang, and have even had the enthusiasm and bloodiness of saving the country and seeking death. The East China Government attaches great importance to such young people and has made many trips to Zhejiang to recruit such young people to study and work in the East China Government.

However, when these young people were studying, they encountered a new problem, that is, they had many complaints about the land policy of the East China Government. Because they could take on new ideas, new education, and even study abroad, of course, they would not be from poor people. Most of them came from businessmen and landlord families. The land policy of the East China Government directly harmed the interests of their families, so they naturally would not agree. Although after education by the East China Government, a considerable part of them understood and accepted the reasons why the East China Government insisted on carrying out land policies.

But there are still many people who still cannot accept it. After all, it is okay to revolutionize others. It is their turn, not everyone can understand it. This group of people is divided into two groups, and one group simply leaves the East China Government and completely parted ways. Another group still stays in the East China Government. After all, China's hope is in the East China Government at this time, and the East China Government has not occupied Zhejiang yet! At the same time, this group of people still have an idea, which is to make some contributions to the East China Government, and when the East China Government occupy Zhejiang in the future, they can be able to share their families with each other.

Now that the East China government has occupied Zhejiang Province, these contradictions cannot be avoided, but how to deal with these contradictions will minimize the adverse impact on the East China government. Moreover, if these contradictions are handled well, they can provide sufficient valuable experience for the East China government to resolve the contradictions in other southern provinces in the future. Naturally, we must be treated very carefully.

This is why the East China Government has always maintained the status quo of Zhejiang Province and did not immediately establish a new administrative system or system in Zhejiang Province. Of course, although the East China Government did not immediately establish a new administrative system or system in Zhejiang Province, it did nothing. During this period, in addition to reorganizing the local army in Zhejiang Province, it mainly did two things. On the one hand, it worked hard to collect various relevant information from Zhejiang Province to prepare for the transformation of Zhejiang Province; on the other hand, it was also selecting local officials from Zhejiang Province.

According to the selection system of local officials in the newly occupied areas of the East China Government, it is still a method of senators to register for competition. Of course, after the implementation of these years, this system is now becoming more and more perfect. The entire process is divided into two stages: primary election and re-elect. The primary election is free registration for veterans and submit a report on their election positions, which explains their attitude, plans, arrangements and other matters towards the competitive position. The Senate House organizes a special review team to review and score the qualifications, work experience, political achievements, reports and other aspects of registered veterans, and select 2-3 candidates to be selected for the re-elect.

The election is mainly caused by the provincial evaluation team to ask questions to candidates, the candidates answer, and the reply report is submitted. Of course, the questions of all candidates are the same, and since the candidates are likely to be in other places, in order not to affect the candidate's work, the reply report is submitted to the Senate in writing, and the review team will review and score the responses of each candidate, and finally select the last elected person.

Moreover, in order to show fairness, all the primary and the election process is transparent throughout. The election report, reply report, and the evaluation team ratings of the primary and the election must be made public after the primary and the election are completed.

The most important position in Zhejiang Province is naturally the governor. According to regulations, only veterans who have served as provincial capital city for three years or have served as vice governor for two years are eligible to run for election. In the end, five veterans signed up to participate in the competition. After the primary election, two candidates were determined to enter the re-election, namely Tianjin Mayor Wang Lezhi and Henan Vice Governor Fang Jiaxun.

The review team asked five questions each to the two candidates, basically covering the difficulties faced by the East China government in Zhejiang Province. At this time, the reply reports of the two candidates had been passed to Qingdao and the review team reviewed and scored.

After Li Songchen's report was delivered to Qingdao, Xia Bohai and others also realized that the situation in Zhejiang had reached a point where they had to face it. Of course, Zhejiang's defense is now taken over by the People's Army and the Guards, and even if something happens, there will be no trouble. Therefore, we are waiting for the candidate for the governor to be confirmed.

Three days later, the review team also reported the review results. Tianjin Mayor Wang Lezhi had a higher score and was determined to be elected as the governor of Zhejiang.

However, when he heard that Wang Lezhi was elected as the governor of Zhejiang, most of the Executive Yuan laughed, and Wang Jun said, "It was him who was elected, it was not because his handwriting was well written!"
Chapter completed!