Meanwhile Wu Pei-fu is quietly tightening his grip upon the Yangtze. Sun Ch'uan-fang, who was suspected last year of a lasting loyality to Wang Chan-yuan and therefore a likely partisan of Chang Tso-lin, is now one of Wu's most loyal subordinates. He has obtained complete control over Kiangsi, squashed whatever ambitions Ts'ai Cheng-hsun may have had % consolidate his position in that province and has paved the way for, Hsieh Yuan-han, the appointed) Civil Governor, to be the actual ruler of the province. Hsieh Yuan-han, like Pai' Chien-wu, who is Wu's confidential political adviser, has been for many years associated closely with Sun Hung-yi and both he and Pai are always spoken of in political circles as Sun Hung-yi followers. But Sun Hung-yi. is again working for Sun Yat-sen and it was he who arranged the tentative agreement between the Sun Yat-sen faction and the Tsao Kun following, who are Wu Pei-fu's most dangerous enemies,
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