On the occasion of the Spring Festival in the Sixth Year of the Republic of China…” Generals of the Military and Friends Department gathered at the Chengdu North School General Headquarters to attend the annual summary meeting and group visits held by the Provincial Government, and then secretly held an important meeting to determine the future of 150,000 Sichuan Army soldiers.

Due to the tough attitude of Sichuan Governor Xiao Yimin in handling diplomatic issues, the British and Japanese governments frequently put pressure on Beijing Zhenglu. Britain and Japan not only joined forces with European and American countries to reach a convention on arms embargo against China, but also canceled or suspended all aid plans and simple negotiations with the Beijing government. Di made Beijing Zhenglu severely punish Sichuan military and political authorities to protect the power of Britain, Japan and Europe and the United States in China.

Under the continuous protests and sanctions between Britain and Japan, the Beiyang faction, which had finally reached a consensus, showed signs of division again.[]

President Li Yuanhong, who has always had prejudice against Sichuan, Liang Qichao, head of the National Policy Research Institute, and others jointly proposed a proposal to demand that the newly established parliament hold a special meeting to replace the four generals who never surrender to the central government and repeatedly violate international law, causing huge trouble to the state and local governments.

As soon as this proposal was put out, it was immediately strongly opposed by the new Prime Minister Duan Qirui, and the two major factions had a fierce debate over this.

Zhao Erxun, the director of the National History Department, who was in a semi-retired state, issued an article on the criticism of Sichuan's "tax interception is not the country...", comparing the total fiscal and taxation amounts of Zhejiang provinces in three years, clearly pointing out the key points:

The fundamental reason why Zhejiang Province, with an average annual tax of 50 million yuan, has been depressed and its annual income has been declining year by year. The fundamental reason is that the local government and military personnel at all levels have established clever names and imposed intensive taxes. The average annual tax income of 50 million yuan in Zhejiang Province is only legally levied. There are many other items of levitra income of levitra, which is far higher than the legally levitra tax. If normal taxes and heavy lijin are added together, the total amount of regular taxes and levitra taxes that Zhejiang people need to pay every year is as high as more than 90 million. And 4. Local governments gradually abolished levitra as early as four years ago, and completely abolished all levitra taxes two years ago, which caused the burden on the people of Sichuan to sharply reduce, bringing great vitality to agriculture, industry, commerce and Sichuan industries, and this is why Sichuan has developed and prosperous today.

As soon as Zhao Erxun, a famous figure who served as the three and four provinces in the east, spoke, he immediately let Xiao Yimin, who was at the forefront of the storm and pushed into the political vortex, successfully rescued the siege. The people of provinces across the country were already overwhelmed by the numerous tyrants and miscellaneous taxes. The resentment that had been suppressed for many years erupted. People from all walks of life across the country, who were heavily exploited by local governments and warlords, called on the central and local governments to comply with the public and change their courses, and no longer seized the power of the country and the people like the shameless Qing Dynasty. Xiao Yimin, who was denounced and attacked by Li Yuanhong and Liang Qichao, became a blessing in disguise and was once again supported by the vast majority of the people in the country.

However, Zhao Erxun's articles and boiling public opinion cannot change the nationalist dominance of the four nationalism...", and was still constantly excluded and isolated by the two major political forces in the north and south. The gunboats of Britain and Japan sailed to the Yichang Wharf to strictly lock down the foreign trade of the four provinces. The capital forces and traitors of the various provinces gradually stopped trade with the four provinces under the coercion, temptation and bribery of Britain and Japan, causing significant losses to the foreign economy of Sichuan Province.

In terms of foreign relations, Xiao Yimin and his political ally Duan Qirui gradually had differences.

Regarding the German issue, Duan Qirui, who was forced by Britain and Japan to all-round decree, finally made a public political declaration, and made efforts to promote China to join the Allies and declare war on Germany. Instead, it was the conservative Li Yun. Hong and Xiao Yimin had the same position, insisting on strictly adhering to neutrality and opposing China's joining any alliance. However, under the strong encouragement of Duan Qirui's faction and under the strong agitation of the Southern Caoming Party and Liang Qichao faction, Li Yuanhong had to sign an order to announce the severance of diplomatic relations with Germany. At the same time, he agreed to the request of the British and Japanese ministers to expel Germans and engineering and technical personnel in China, and instructed Sichuan Province to immediately send all German military instructors hired and engineering and technical personnel back to China.

Sichuan military and political circles and local political parties have a headache about this. Not only is the hindered export of bulk local special products, but German engineering and technical personnel, who have become the main technical force of Sichuan's industry, are in a state of turmoil. Many people were angry and submitted their resignation to Xiao Yimin, which caused Xiao Yimin and Governor Zhang Lan to hold three special meetings in a row to explain China's current political situation to German instructors and technicians, sincerely condolences to the injured German friends, affectionately trace their friendship and brotherly feelings, and make strong guarantees for the personal safety and political rights of all German experts and expatriates, so that they could barely keep the hundreds of worried Germans.

Ya, just after the Xiao Festival, the first army of Wang Lingji stationed in Wanxian was operated. Liu Xiang and Yang Sen were two brigades in the name of the bandits to the east to Fengjie and Wushan. "A large number of personnel sent by the Military Intelligence Bureau quietly entered the Enshi and Jingxiang areas of Yichang in their respective identities and names..." The plan for eastward advance, which had been conspiring for a long time, began to be launched.

Deng Xihou, the commander of the Fifth Division guarding Hanzhong, also began to expand under the name of "stop bandits and storm the local area...", and gradually expanded his power to the east and north with the cooperation of local forces.

Just after the night festival, West China Times and Sichuan Daily published joint advertisements from the Provincial Government Investment Promotion Bureau and the Logistics Office of the Sichuan Army General Command in a prominent position on the front page. Within a week, more than 300 owners from smelting, casting, machining, dyeing and weaving industries in Sichuan and Yunnan Province gathered in Daxia, the Provincial Deer Council, to attend a large-scale bidding meeting of the Logistics Office of the Sichuan Army General Command, and strived to produce nearly 100 military supplies from the three million parks issued by the Sichuan Army General Command.

At the warm bidding meeting, in addition to the orders for military quilts, military uniforms, leather goods, shoes and hats, and auxiliary tools that various manufacturers are keen on, the Sichuan Army Logistics Department brought out more than 30 weapon parts drawings and ordering plans, which caused a huge sensation.

This investment is the first to be a trend. The weapons and parts produced by the military commissioned merchants with certain strength are not only provided by the Sichuan Army Logistics Department, but also each item is a long-term contract with a large number of profits, with far more profits than agricultural machinery and ordinary machinery products.

After a day and a half of heated discussion and bidding, 37 parts orders were successfully recruited. More than 40 processing enterprises in Chengdu, Chongqing, Ya'an and southeastern Yunnan signed commissioned processing contracts with Sichuan Army, and 160 technicians selected from West China Industry and Ya'an Arsenal met with each manufacturer and reached technical guidance agreements.

Immediately afterwards, cooperation between merchants and Yunnan-Guizhou merchants was strengthened. The accumulated exported local specialty products such as pig bristles, tung oil, tea oil, etc. in Sichuan Province were transported in batches in Bijie, Guizhou and Qujing, Yunnan, were soon purchased by the United States and French foreign companies. The local specialty products trade immediately regained vitality and vitality. Britain and Japan blocked the Yangtze River waterway, and trade sanctions on Sichuan were subsequently broken. Sichuan lost only 50% of its profits.

As the conflict between the north and the south intensified, the calls for the Southern Revolutionary Party to launch a "law protection revolution" became increasingly high. In addition, the war between warlords in most areas of the north intensified. China, which was under arms embargo, saw a wave of weapons purchases. The imitation Mauser rifle, which had originally risen to 80 oceans, reached a new high. Driven by huge profits, the fire merchants from Japan and Europe and the United States began to quietly smuggle weapons and ammunition to China. The arms embargo convention that had signed for more than two months was blatantly violated.

Four that have already seen the right time..." Under the instruction of the military-industrial enterprise, under the instruction of the general army Xiao Yimin, issued news to the whole country through various channels, selling large quantities of various weapons and ammunition. The imitation Mauser rifle produced by the Sichuan Arsenal was accompanied by 100 rounds of ammunition, and only sold 80 oceans of the "Leopard" series rifles, pistols, ammunition, grenades, ~t, and imitation German-made PPS-occupation water-cooled heavy machine guns were produced. Through long-established sales channels, batch after batch to Shaanxi, Henan, Lianghu and Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. Even Guangdong, Guangxi and Liangjiang areas also saw a hot sale situation where "Leopard" weapons were hard to get a shot.

In late March, four blast furnaces of the Sino-US joint venture Zhengjiang Iron and Steel Plant were put into production, reaching a monthly production plan of 4,000 tons of cast iron and 800 tons of steel. The alloy smelting branch in the second phase of the construction project of Zhuijiang Iron and Steel Plant, the Tehe Steel Plant, is progressing smoothly with the strong cooperation of American investors. It is expected that in half a year, the steel output of Qijiang Steel Plant will reach the design requirement of 10,000 tons per month. Fourth, the industry will usher in a qualitative leap.

On March 5th, the provincial government issued an incentive policy for industrial development, promising that from the date of the announcement, new enterprises investing in and building factories in Sichuan with capital of more than 50,000 yuan will enjoy a two-year preferential policy. Zhenglu Holdings' Sichuan Bank will actively renew equipment and expand production scale to provide low-interest loans for three to five years.

On March 10, the Sichuan Provincial Government publicly expanded the bidding project for the construction of three large highway bridges in Xufu, Luzhou and Chongqing to major newspapers across the country, causing a sensation across the country. More than ten European and American construction companies called to participate in the bidding.

On March 20, the provincial government announced again that the provincial government’s special meeting of the provincial government reviewed and passed the Sichuan Railway Construction Plan, starting this year, starting from this year, three million special funds were allocated from fiscal revenue to build a state-owned standard railway from Chongqing, and strive to complete and open to traffic within four years.

The series of measures taken by the Sichuan Provincial Government and the military caused a sensation across the country. European and American consortiums and multinational corporations in China rushed to Chengdu to contact the provincial government. Major newspapers in Sichuan sang hymns tirelessly. Soon, four more news came about that the private capital of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China actively participated in shares.

4. The Civil Affairs Department immediately issued an announcement explaining in detail that the funds for railway construction and highway bridge construction are completely financed and investments from local banks. They will never levy more penalties for this. They will face all the people in all aspects such as land occupation, engineering construction along the way, gravel and gravel procurement, and truly allow the people to gain benefits from the large-scale transportation construction, thus completely dispelling the people's concerns and injecting great vitality into the economic development of the four-year ":

Seeing the positive news that has been constantly feedback and the changing attitudes of China and foreign countries, Xiao Yimin, who has been hiding behind the scenes and paying close attention, finally felt relieved.

The big money spent in order to break through the blockade, although it costs a lot, it has far from harming the four..." The development of the province and the interests of the people, the so-called fiscal investment and local bank equity participation are completely a nominal cover, the real huge investment comes from the increasingly large opium trade and the multiplier arms sales profits

In order to achieve the ultimate goal, Xiao Yimin would rather devote himself to his life, not to mention that what he has invested now is just the mere wealth that he does not bring in life or death. (To be continued)
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