Starting from May 10, the West China Times, which was published every three days, has officially become a daily newspaper published. The first special issue number on the tenth day, published a controversial article by Sichuan Military and Political Deputy Chief Xiao Yimin, titled "Why Our Compatriots Are Always Massacred".

As soon as the special issue was released, it immediately caused a sensation from all walks of life in Sichuan.

Xiao Yimin quoted a large amount of detailed information in his article, describing the dangerous fact that Sichuan caravans and civilians had been killed by rebels for money over the past few months, and the pitiful garrison in the Sichuan-Kang area was repeatedly besieged by several times of the rebels and then brutally massacred, resulting in the loss of important towns such as Kangding. For the first time, he severely criticized the incompetence and inaction of the Sichuan Provincial Government and the Governor's Office, and for the first time he used a sharp mouth to question - what are you doing, all the Sichuan officials who claim to be public servants of the people?

Below Xiao Yimin's article, the title is printed in prominent bold words: "Sichuan Border Army Tai'an Camp held a sworn in the West", which details the news that Major General Qi Luo, the commander of the border army, and two thousand officers and soldiers, had finished the sworn in and immediately went to Kangding to rescue local military and civilians.

The bombshell released by Xiao Yimin triggered a series of responses. Private institutions represented by chambers of commerce in various places in Sichuan quickly responded. In just three days, more than 30 petitions were submitted to local governments and Sichuan Provincial Governments, strongly demanding that the government send troops to quell the chaos, ensure smooth business roads, and protect the lives and property of the people.

The bombshell hit the governor Yin Changheng in a dusty face, which shocked the Sichuan military and political circles. No one expected that for several months, Xiao Yimin, who had been harmless and wandering on the political edge, suddenly became angry at this time when he was deadly. Many people began to watch the political trend.

Governor Yin Changheng was forced to the edge of no choice, and his passion for struggle turned into a sense of powerlessness that was left to fate. He finally knew that no matter how hard he tried, he would not have time to make up for the innate shortcomings after quickly becoming the leader. He could not fight Xiao Yimin, who was rich and cunning in a short period of time.

Regardless of whether Xiao Yimin is ambition or not, it is an indisputable fact that the intensifying rebellion in the Sichuan-Kang area is an indisputable fact. Hundreds of representatives of the Western Sichuan Chamber of Commerce gathered in front of the provincial government gate, holding bloody and tears of clothes and petitions in their hands, begging the government to uphold justice. Every day, it attracts tens of thousands of Chengdu citizens to watch, and countless citizens shed tears of sympathy.

Just when the military and political circles of Sichuan Province were in a hurry, the official newspaper "Minlibao" of the Tongmenghui located in Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan and Guangzhou all supported it. It not only criticized the chaos and numbness of the Sichuan Provincial Government, but also clearly pointed out that the supporters behind the Sichuan-Kang rebels were actually despicable and shameless empires that were trying to erode Chinese territory - Britain.

As if the Minlibao in various places had agreed in advance, they issued prophecies: If the rebellion in the Sichuan-Kan area was not suppressed, it would be the second British colony India.

As soon as the news came out, the domestic political community immediately smelled a faint yin-strike: Tongmenghui is likely to give up the Sichuan Governor Yin Changheng, who was swaying between Nanjing and Beijing.

On May 15, the Beijing government finally responded and formally appointed Sichuan Governor Yin Changheng as the Sichuan Kang General's General Strategy Envoy. Within ten days, the Third Division of the Sichuan New Army and the Sichuan Border Army Brigade expedition to suppress the rebellion. It continued to retain its position as governor of Yin Changheng. During the Western Expedition, Sichuan Army Chief Lieutenant General Hu Jingyi was temporarily acting as governor of Sichuan.

Now Yin Changheng and his confidants were completely stunned.

The Beijing government was the only legal government in China after the peace talks between the north and the south. The Nanjing Provisional Government of the Tongmenghui had long announced its dissolution under the tremendous pressure from all walks of life in China and abroad, and the rest had also been transferred underground to continue to plot rebellion. The governors of various provinces across the country, including Yin Changheng, publicly announced two months ago that they accepted the leadership of the Beijing government and supported Yuan Shikai's policy program and command position.

Therefore, Yin Changheng, the governor of Sichuan who were sitting at both ends of the volcano rat, and his confidants did not dare to disobey the orders issued by the Beijing government. The only thing they could do was to follow the orders.

Just as Yin Changheng and his gang were cursing and preparing their luggage, Xiao Yimin published an article that shocked Bashu and surrounding provinces in the name of the deputy military and political chief of the Sichuan Provincial Government on the front page of the West China Times, the largest newspaper in Sichuan. The title printed in large bold letters was: "What is the Yunnan Army that claims to be a revolutionary?"

Xiao Yimin's article is simple and novel in terms of words and fluent in writing. It has always been praised by the political and cultural circles across the country, especially in Sichuan. In this article, Xiao Yimin showed a more sophisticated and sharp mature style.

The article begins with the Wuchang New Army riot, briefly and clearly states the political changes and development contexts of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, explains the process of Guizhou's new army responding to the call of the Tongmenghui and going north to support Wuhan's new army riot, and highlights the cruel fact that caused an uproar in the world: after the Wuchang riot, the Yunnan army led by Cai E, under the banner of the northward revolution, took advantage of the fact that the main force of Guizhou's new army was fully launched and its troops were empty, and it suddenly had a despicable act of destroying Guo.

After the right army of the Yunnan Army sent by Cai E arrived in Guiyang, they suddenly surrounded the Guizhou New Army and the Guizhou Provincial Government, who were also under the leadership of the Tongmenghui. After more than 2,000 Guizhou Army and military and political officials who were unable to defend, they were killed by Tang Jiyao, commander of the right army of the Yunnan Army. All the victims included Zhao Dequan, the governor of Guizhou Province, and dozens of military and political officials, including dozens of military and political officials, including Zhao Dequan, the governor of the Guizhou Provincial People's Political Consultative Conference, Zhang Bailin, and dozens of military and political officials.

The bloody massacre has not yet ended. All the banks and shops in Guiyang were looted by the Yunnan army. Hundreds of innocent people were corpses on the streets. The despicable Yunnan army still refused to give up after slaughtering Guiyang. They took the magpie's nest in a noble manner, cleaned up the remaining revolutionary party and affiliated institutions, and launched an extermination and suppression of all the rebels without any shame. They loudly circulated the whole country, reorganized the so-called new Guizhou government, and continued to brutally exploit and plunder the Guizhou people in the name of revolution.

To this day, Tang Jiyao, the executioner whose hands were covered with blood from the people of Guizhou, has become the governor of Guizhou. This is the most amazing thing in the world!

The article pointed out without hesitation: As of today, hundreds of representatives of Guizhou people are still kneeling in front of the former Nanjing Provisional Government and Tongmenghui base camp crying for justice, and thousands of disaster survivors are still rushing to Beijing to seek justice.

At this point, the article suddenly changed its writing and began to accusate more severely: at this time, under the order of the command of the Yunnan Army Cai E. The commander of the Yunnan Army, Xie Ruyi's unit, Li Hongxiang's unit, and Huang Yucheng's unit, were under the banner of "supporting the Sichuan Revolution", and two infantry regiments of Dai Kan's unit, who had transformed into a resignation to the Yunnan Army, still forcibly occupy more than ten counties including Qijiang, Luzhou, Xufu, Nanchuan, Wanshengchang, etc. in Sichuan.

Over the past few months, the Yunnan Army units that forcibly invaded Sichuan under the name of "supporting the revolution" have brutally slaughtered more than 3,700 people in the protection army and innocent people in various counties in southern Sichuan. They also unscrupulously looted Ziliujing and county governments, tax offices, money houses and countless wealthy families.

According to the statistics of the provincial government's well-documented reports reported by various parts of southern Sichuan, no one has ever been robbed of more than 12 million yuan of people from all over Sichuan since the insatiable Yunnan Army entered Sichuan. Thousands of people in southern Sichuan were displaced, and this group of executioners who have committed evil will still shamelessly occupy southern Sichuan. In an attempt to exploit and plunder the Sichuan people even more crazily!

The article then fiercely criticized Zhou Jun's troops of the First Division of the Sichuan Army. They accused them of having no interests in their hearts. The Sichuan people saved money and raised huge amounts of funds to equip the first division, which had been south to expel the Yunnan Army for more than two months. They still stagnate north of the Minjiang River, and waited left and right, causing nearly tens of millions of people in southern Sichuan who were in dire straits.

Finally, Xiao Yimin issued a harsh warning: the Yunnan army must withdraw from Sichuan immediately. It will give tens of millions of Sichuan people a stable living environment. If they insist on doing evil, they will inevitably be strongly hated and ubiquitous resistance from the Sichuan people. Although the Sichuan border defense army, which has been established for less than a year, is weak. However, for the safety of the lives and property of the Sichuan people, even if they are in trouble, they must go out with all their might and fight with all their might, and swear to defend the interests and dignity of the Sichuan people with three thousand young unyielding lives and high heads!

As soon as this article was released, the whole country was in an uproar, and Xiao Yimin's powerful appeal was once again reflected. All walks of life across the country issued statements, strongly condemning the barbaric actions of the Yunnan Army and supporting the just demands of the Sichuan people. Cai E's revolutionary image suddenly became dim, and the reputation of the Yunnan Tongmenghui and the so-called revolutionary army plummeted.

Seeing the overwhelming wave of condemnation, the senior executives of the Tongmenghui had to respond quickly and solemnly declared that the Guizhou general Dai Kan, the Yunnan general Tang Jiyao, Li Hanxiang and others were not members of the Tongmenghui organization. The Tongmenghui was deeply shocked and saddened by the "mistaken behavior" of the Yunnan army and strongly demanded that the Yunnan Tongmenghui organization immediately eliminate speculators who were mixed into the revolutionary ranks, defend the purity of the Tongmenghui, and effectively promote the Yunnan Provincial Government to withdraw from the Sichuan-Yunnan Army as soon as possible.

Yuan Shikai, who was sitting in Beijing, was overjoyed. How could he miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? He launched all public opinion under control throughout the country overnight, severely pursuing the evil behavior of the Yunnan Army, and strictly ordered Cai E, the governor of Yunnan Province, to immediately withdraw from the Sichuan-Yunnan Army.

Yuan Shikai also made a public statement in the name of the president, requiring all provinces to abandon disputes, understand each other, live in harmony and develop together under the unified leadership of the central government.

In the sixia, Yuan Shikai "electronicated" by the commander of the Sichuan Border Defense Army Xiao Yimin, asking Xiao Yimin to take good care of his mouth and not publish such "shocking" articles. He could not provoke hatred between provinces, nor could he open fire without authorization.

Xiao Yimin's call was very honest, but he repeatedly emphasized that his family was so poor that he could not get rid of the blame, which made Yuan Shikai and a group of confidants laugh and cry, and they laughed and scolded the restless Sichuan boy for becoming more and more slippery.

Compared with the strong reactions from all over the country, Sichuan was shocked, and people from all walks of life who had been patient for a long time and chambers of commerce from all over the country walked to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with the government and boldly shouted out their demands. The people finally saw with joy: Finally someone stood up and spoke for them!

In just a few days, people from all walks of life in Sichuan have launched waves of condemnation one after another. While the shameless Yunnan army was angrily condemned by the Sichuan people, the Sichuan Provincial Government and the Sichuan New Army also became the targets of condemnation by millions of people. Representatives from all over the country flocked to Chengdu, and the calls for "Yin Changheng's step down" were heard one after another, one after another, and one after another, with a series of eye-catching words, one after another and one sentence of suppressed long-lasting voices and shouts, fully demonstrating that the Sichuan people are unable to bear it and are no longer willing to support this ** government and incompetent army.

Xiao Yimin successfully aroused the huge resentment buried in the hearts of the Sichuan people, and mercilessly pushed down the shaking Sichuan Provincial Government, easily driving away the biggest political enemy and enemy Yin Changheng. The pleasure in his heart was speechless.

But in a blink of an eye, the Beijing government's appointment was officially appointed: the acting governor Hu Jingyi was officially appointed as the governor of Sichuan, and the central special envoy was sent to Chengdu today to assist Hu Jingyi in reorganizing the Sichuan Provincial Government.

Xiao Yimin, who had been preparing for a long time and had a sweat, was only given the position of Sichuan Military and Political Minister officially appointed by the Beiyang government. All other benefits were easily taken away by the scheming Yuan Shikai.

Until this time, Xiao Yimin and his aides still did not know that Hu Jingyi, who was regarded as Yin Changheng's classmate and friend and life-and-death brother, had already delivered letters from Yin Changheng's sitong Sun Wen and Huang Xing to Yuan Shikai and expressed allegiance to Yuan Shikai.

Xiao Yimin and his group of think tanks were disappointed and could only hide in the dark and reflect on pain: Why did they end up like this? They had been preparing for a long time and then tried their best to give it a try. In the end, they actually made wedding clothes for others. Everyone's pain can be imagined.

The conclusion drawn from the discussion for several days is that no group can compete with the Beijing government with central status that Yuan Shikai has grasped, and no local force can challenge and fight against the powerful state machine on its own!

Just when Xiao Yimin and a group of think tanks were at a loss, Chief of Staff Bao Jiqing came out. He calmly analyzed the gains and losses of the entire plan from formulation to implementation, deeply reviewed his shortcomings, and finally said firmly: "Although the final goal was not achieved, we successfully forced the Yunnan Army to a desperate situation and successfully obtained the support of the Sichuan people. It not only attacked the Yunnan Army, but also removed the huge stumbling block of Yin Changheng, and established a good image of Commander Xiao and our border army serving the people wholeheartedly. Therefore, I think that the harvest is far greater than the losses. If we make up for it, we will definitely be able to take the initiative back into our own hands!"

Xiao Yimin, Zou Wenhan, Zhang Lan and others were greatly inspired. Xiao Yimin asked anxiously: "What is the chief of staff's trick?"

Bao Jiqing smiled slightly: "It's not a clever plan, but only two suggestions: First, the commander, in the name of the Minister of Military Affairs, jointly with Speaker Zhang, convened a provincial military and political meeting, guiding all public opinion to instructing the Sichuan Army to expel the Yunnan Army with all efforts, and then quickly establish the image of the commander serving the people, thus establishing the commander's position in the military and political circles of Sichuan!

"Secondly, in the name of the Sichuan Border Defense Army Command, a recruitment order was issued immediately, quickly expanding our army into five mixed brigades, a total of 35,000 officers and soldiers, creating a powerful deterrent force. The subordinates have repeatedly calculated that with the current financial resources, we can fully support the five mixed brigades, and we will not be sure if there are more."

Everyone sucked their hands and praised them, and the depressedness swept away, and a raging war ignited in their xiong's mouth.

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