The first governor of Jiangxi Province of the Republic of China

After the Xinhai Revolution, Wang Ruimin was deposed from his post and left at home for maintaining the Qing court and being conservative in his thinking. The student Li Liejun was appointed as the governor of Jiangxi, and repeatedly invited his mentor Wang Ruimin to jiangxi. Remembering the friendship between teachers and students, Wang Ruimin decided to go to Jiangxi to serve as the civil affairs minister (that is, the governor), but he put himself on the cusp of history and almost became a victim of the official struggle.

At that time, the military and political power of the provinces was concentrated in the hands of a single governor. In order to strengthen the central government's centralization of power and establish its prestige, Yuan Shikai proposed the "separation of the military and the people", that is, the central government sent civil administrators to the provinces, and Li Liejun, the governor of Jiangxi, took the lead in opposing the separation of the military and the people and demanding local autonomy. Yuan Shikai is certainly not easy to mess with. On December 10, 1912, Yu Hesong, who had been deprived of his military power by Li Liejun, was instigated by Yuan Shikai to instruct his subordinates to launch a mutiny in Nanchang against Li Liejun. Lee quickly mobilized troops to quell the rebellion, shooting and killing more than 100 people. Li knew the special background of this mutiny, knew that he did not yet have the strength to openly break with Yuan Shikai, hoped to ease the contradictions with the central government, and made concessions, so he blamed Yuan Shikai for the mutiny, and asked Yuan to appoint a civil administrator so that he could concentrate on governing the army. Li thought of a candidate, that is, Wang Ruimin, the former director of the Jiangxi Wubei Academy, who had a life-saving grace for him. At that time, Wang admitted Li, and later recommended Li to study in Japan. After Li returned to China, he engaged in revolutionary activities when he was a pipe belt in the Jiangxi New Army, and the Qing court wanted to arrest him, and Wang Ruimin, who was the commander of the standing army and the commander of the standing army and the head of the taiwan, not only reported to Li, but also funded the travel expenses and helped Li escape, which still makes Li very grateful. Therefore, Li sent someone to contact Wang, and repeatedly urged him, and Wang agreed. At that time, Wang Ruigao's brother Wang Ruigao and fellow villager Yang Shiqi were Yuan Shikai's red people, and after their matchup, Yuan Shikai expressed his approval.

On December 16, only four hours after Li Liejun's telegram inviting Jian to be the civil administrator arrived in Beijing, Yuan Shikai issued an order for Wang Ruimin to be the civil administrator of Jiangxi. What Li did not expect was that his subordinates were opposed to Wang coming to Jiangxi to be the civil administrator, especially Cai Ruiting, the director of water patrol, and his anti-Wang attitude was the most resolute. Cai Yuan, a student of the Jiangxi Wubei Academy, was expelled by Wang for violating school discipline, and he once said fiercely: "You kicked me out of the school today, and I will drive you out of Jiangxi tomorrow!" The Jiangxi Guangrao Association and other groups have issued telegrams expressing strong opposition to Wang's appointment as civil affairs minister and vowing not to recognize it. The Jiangxi branch of the Kuomintang demanded that Yuan take back Jian's appointment as civil administrator on the grounds that "the governor of the province must be elected by the people." Lee was caught in a dilemma. On the 20th, Wang arrived in Nanchang and was warmly welcomed by Republicans and the Western Provincial Assembly. Li also ostensibly expressed his welcome, received him solemnly, and at the council meeting of the Governor's Office, he said that he would implement the division of the military and the people, but after the meeting he repented. Water Patrol Director Cai Ruiting deliberately promoted Wang Ruimin, laughing and threatening in front of Wang. Wang Xingguan's messengers saw the situation and left one after another, forcing Wang to call him sick and close the door to thank guests. On December 29, dozens of people from the military and police circles in Jiangxi held a meeting to reject Wang, chaired by Cai Ruiting, director of the water patrol, Chen Tingxun, the police chief, and senior military generals Ouyang Wu and Liu Shijun, who advocated driving Wang out of the country by force and ordering him to leave the province within two days. In the middle of the night, the "bandits" of Nanchang Guangdong and Huimen rioted, and martial law was imposed on the whole city. Wang felt that his safety was seriously threatened, so he quietly left the pavilion and hid. The next day, he wrote to Li Liejun, claiming that he was going to Shanghai for medical treatment. Li sent a false offer to retain, but was refused. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Wang left Nanchang by ship, passed through Jiujiang and Wuhan, went to Beijing to complain, and called Yuan Shikai first, saying that he was ill and resigned.

Yuan Shikai was very angry, and sent a telegram ordering Wang to take 20 days' sick leave, severely reprimanding Li Liejun, asking him to make quick preparations for the division of military, political, and civil affairs affairs, and urging the civil affairs chief to recover from his illness as soon as possible and take up his post within a time limit. Only then did Li tear off his disguise and openly reject Wang Ruimin's return to office. Yuan ordered the seizure of a batch of arms ordered by Li from Japan, and sent six warships to the Jiujiang River to demonstrate, and then instigated the anti-Li forces in Jiangxi to hold a huge rally to denounce Li's "eighteenth" crime, demanded that Wang take office in Jiangxi, and sent a telegram to advocate the use of force to solve the Jiangxi problem. Li also organized a rally of people to send a telegram opposing Wang's appointment to Jiangxi, and in the name of winter defense, he sent troops to garrison key passes and demanded the return of arms. Vice President Li Yuanhong mediated and put forward the three conditions of "withdrawing troops, welcoming Wang, and punishing the murderers.", but Li openly refused by telegram, and the two sides reached the point of sword-rattling. Yuan Shikai, because he was busy convening the National Assembly and electing a grand president, made concessions, returned the arms seized in Jiangxi, appointed Zhao Congfan as the civil administrator of Jiangxi (also refused), and sent Wang Zhixiang as an "investigation envoy" to go south to investigate the Jiangxi incident and suspend the dispute. Shi called the incident the "Jiangxi Civil Affairs Minister Incident."

On June 9, 1913, Yuan Shikai suddenly ordered that Li Liejun be relieved of his post as the governor of Jiangxi, triggering a "second revolution" that ended in Yuan's overall victory. Yuan again sent Wang Ruimin to Jiangxi as civil administrator. At that time, Li Chun, the executioner who suppressed the second revolution and an active supporter of Emperor Yuan, acted as the governor of Jiangxi, adopted a stern policy to crack down on the Kuomintang, banning Kuomintang organizations at all levels, dissolving provincial assemblies, arresting parliamentarians, strictly prohibiting mass gatherings, and sealing down newspapers. Before Wang Ruimin left, Yang Shiqi, a red man who was then Yuan Shikai, warned his fellow villager Wang Ruimin that he should properly handle his relationship with the warlord Li Chun after he arrived in Jiangxi. Li Chun denounced him for corruption, Wang was dismissed, and in January 1914 he was forced to roll up the covers and leave Jiangxi, taking office for only a few months. Two years later, Wang made a comeback and participated in the government of the Beiyang warlord's Senate.