After a week of continuous meetings, the Nanjing Camp became even more busy, and various institutions and departments quickly adjusted their work direction.

Zhang, as the military and political liaison director and the special commissioner of the Nanjing Camp, led a military patrol team composed of more than 30 generals and schools to conduct on-site inspections in Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang. However, he did not include Yunnan, which has always been hesitant and has self-respecting troops, on the inspection itinerary. Therefore, Yunnan could not obtain advanced weapons and equipment assigned by the Nanjing Camp, training officers and further study places from the Nanjing Military Academy.

Sun Baoqi is in Shanghai and continues to be responsible for external contacts, Nanjing offices in Shanghai, economic and trade cooperation and foreign investment, etc.

The day after Wang Lingji returned to Nanchang, he issued an order. 80,000 officers and soldiers stationed in Jiangxi immediately stopped training and rushed to their respective areas of responsibility to assist the people in winter water conservancy repair.

Under the leadership of the commander Wang Zanxu and the headquarters' special team, the Guangdong Chaoshan garrison was transferred to the expansion project of the wharf and highway.

Lin Baishui adjusted his publicity plan and launched a massive political propaganda. The China Times issued nationwide and the Beijing Morning News, Tianjin Business Daily, Yangcheng Evening News and Shanghai's three newspapers have been firmly controlled by Lin Baishui, showing increasing vitality and influence.

What is ridiculous is that after the Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Zhengting returned to Beijing, he immediately presented Xiao Yimin's secret letter and the conclusions of the relevant meetings of the Nanjing Camp to Prime Minister Duan Qirui. After three days of repeated consideration, Duan Qirui held two think tank meetings in a row and stuffed three confidants into Wang Zhengting's list of representatives, and ordered Wang Zhengting to be the head of the Chinese government delegation and lead the Chinese delegation to Paris to fight for rights and interests for the country.

But the incompetent central government departments had already squandered all the annual funds. The Ministry of Finance, which was heavily in debt, could not provide the 100,000 yuan of funds for the delegation to Europe. In the end, Duan Qirui, who was furious, squeezed out 100,000 yuan from his private account, which covered up the scandal.

Duan Qirui's life was very difficult. In order to win over the generals of the Beiyang army and effectively maintain the control of Beijing, Tianjin, Rehe, Suiyuan, Shandong and Anhui provinces, Duan Qirui spent more than 80 million yuan in just half a year, of which the military expenditure used in the open was 50 million yuan. In order to expand the military strength of the nine divisions, he spent 12 million yuan to purchase two batches of high-quality and low-cost artillery, heavy machine guns, rifles and other weapons and ammunition from Sichuan. In addition, he secretly paid a number of political purchases and military enlistment, Duan Qirui was already short of money and had to call Nanjing again, asking Xiao Yimin to pay the 80 million yuan tax that the central government should pay in advance by the provinces in Jiangnan.

80 million say more, but not more, the taxes received by the Sichuan Provincial Government exceeded this figure last year, which has not included the huge profits of the two major military-industrial enterprises directly under the Nanjing offices in various parts of Sichuan.

Thanks to the huge investment and rapid development over the past five years, and the official tax collection period for a large number of industrial and commercial enterprises, the Sichuan Provincial Government exceeded the annual tax task in the first ten months of this year. Therefore, Sichuan Province alone can pay 50 million yuan in taxes to Nanjing offices this year, and the rest will be invested again in infrastructure construction in various parts of Sichuan.

However, the two-year tax exemption period for the seven provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui and Henan has not yet passed halfway. Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou are all under the control of local warlords Lu Rongting, Mo Rongxin, Lu Pingshan and Tang Jiyao. Except for Lu Pingshan, the governor and provincial chairman of the Guizhou army who has become an important member of the Xiao Yimin Group, the others cannot pay taxes to anyone. As for the rapidly developing Guizhou Province tax under the rule of Lu Pingshan, there has never been a statistics.

Fujian, which has many mountains and few lands, still adopts a policy of seclusion. Since October, Xiao Yimin has been calling on the local government of Fujian to adapt to public opinion and be determined to reform. However, he secretly adopted a plan to encircle Fujian and erode step by step, causing dozens of counties in northern and southern Fujian, including the entire Zhangzhou, to leave the camp of the Fujian Provincial Government and join Xiao Yimin's camp.

Therefore, the Fujian Provincial Government not only did not pay a single tax, but instead begged the central government and all sectors of society to provide relief every few days. However, under the ruthless suppression of Xiao Yimin's group, the collapse of Li Houji and others, and the time for Fujian to join the Nanjing camp in the province is just around the corner.

Originally, the central government had a wealthy tax source in Shanghai. However, since the Nanjing Camp handed over the annual tax of 40 million yuan to the central government's finance six months in advance, the entire Shanghai passed the decision made by the Central Special Session, and it will be officially accepted from January 1, 1919 (--The fastest update for the house.

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) Entered the jurisdiction of the Nanjing Camp, and in the future, Shanghai will only pay 40 million yuan in taxes to the central government through the Nanjing Camp every year. The central government has lost the power to point fingers against Shanghai.

In the end, only the salt taxes of Lianghuai and Zhejiang can be brought to the central government. However, Lianghuai's salt tax has been paid to the central government half a year in advance. Zhejiang's salt industry has just completed industrial rectification. A large number of advanced production equipment purchased and salt fields that have been expanded nearly ten times have been put into production one after another. It is impossible to generate huge profits in the short term. If the Nanjing government can understand the difficulties of the central government and pay Zhejiang's annual tax of 20 million yuan in advance next year, the central government's men will shout Amitabha.

Duan Qirui and his confidants lived a more and more difficult life. In contrast, Xiao Yimin, who nominally basically unified southern China, is now in a glorious and rich manner. Not only is the strong Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and the Blue Banner Bank of the United States, backing it, it also controls 60% of the arms production and 80% of the arms trade in China. Over the past year, powerful consortiums from Britain and the United States have flocked to each other and made huge investments in the provinces in the Yangtze River Basin. The Xiao Yimin Group has obtained no less than tens of millions of derivative tax revenue.

In addition, Xiao Yimin was deeply favored by God. The Yangtze River Basin and the south of the Yangtze River Basin and the region have been in good weather for two consecutive years and have bumper agricultural harvests. This has not only greatly alleviated the survival pressure of more than 200 million people, but also brought great reputation and benefits to Xiao Yimin.

What is even more envious is that Xiao Yimin not only used various means to promote the central government to exempt people from the two-year taxes of the seven provinces, but also built three major grain storage warehouses, Yichang, Nanchang and Pukou, and spent huge amounts of money to purchase surplus grain from farmers in southern provinces, making the Japanese who had to buy hundreds of thousands of tons of cheap rice from Jiangnan provinces every year and transport it back to China, so anxious that they jumped up and down and cursed, emitting war threats to China again and again.

As the end of the year approaches, the situation facing Duan Qirui Group is becoming increasingly serious. Duan Qirui and more than a dozen confidant hard-working merchants have been around for many days, and finally they have to make the decision to extend their help from Xiao Yimin again.

Unexpectedly, the telegram was not prepared, and the personnel who went to Nanjing to seek help had not been selected yet. A large-scale civil war broke out in western Guangdong. Guangdong generals Deng Benyin, Chen Jitang, Li Jishen, Zhang Fakui and others who were unwilling to surrender to the Guangxi warlords joined forces to launch a sudden attack on the various units of the Guangxi army that cruelly exploited the people of Guangdong. The war instantly ignited the land of western Guangdong.

The mediation of Guangdong Governor Cen Chunxuan, who had been undermined, was invalid. In anger, the central government and Prime Minister Duan Qirui resigned. Afterwards, without waiting for the Duan Qirui government to make any decision, he took his little sister to leave Guangzhou and took a British passenger ship back to his apartment in Shanghai.

At this time, Duan Qirui Group had no energy to manage Guangdong, which was thousands of miles apart, but could not shirk the responsibilities that the central government should bear, so it had to hurriedly issue a statement to denounce it, strictly ordering the two armies of the Guangxi and Guangdong to obey the central leadership and stop the war. Unexpectedly, it caused continuous conflicts between the two armies of the Guangxi and Guangdong.

Lu Rongting and Mo Rongxin sent a telegram across the country, making great efforts to argue, accusing the central government of completely ignoring the fundamental interests of the people of Guangdong and Guangxi. In the telegram, they called the large-scale war in Guangdong a riot and pointed out that Chen Jiongming, the Guangdong Military Affairs Council, was behind the scenes.

Chen Jiongming not only denied this, but also ruthlessly exposed the Gui army's rebellious actions and the severity of the expedition and levies, pointing the war's spearhead at Guangzhou, where the Gui army was entrenched, and ordered his three divisions to gather on the front line of Dongguan to set up an offensive and ready for battle.

Deng Benyin and Chen Jitang, who had occupied most of the Leizhou Peninsula, Li Jishen and Zhang Fakui from Luoding six counties, returned from Hong Kong to Guangdong to recruit more than 40 Guangdong generals, including Xu Chongzhi and Cai Tingkai, who had returned from Hong Kong to recruit old subordinates, and jointly issued a telegram to expose the ruthless exploitation and cruel plunder of the Guangdong people by the Guangxi warlords, accused the central government of disregarding the interests of the Guangdong people, calling on the military and civilians of the whole province to unite, drive away the brutal Guangxi army, and establish a new Guangdong government that is independent.

Faced with the uncontrollable situation in Guangdong and Guangxi, Duan Qirui's government was helpless. Xiao Yimin's Nanjing camp, in line with the established policies, called on the two armies to cease the war, and urgently mobilized two main divisions in Hunan, the Third Infantry Division in Guizhou, Jiangxi local garrison troops and two direct troops to slowly oppress Guangdong and Guangxi.

This move indeed scared Lu Rongting and Mo Rongxin, the leaders of the Guangxi clique, all the 50,000 troops mobilized urgently stopped their advance eastward, changed direction, rushed to the front line of northern Guangxi to strictly guard the enemy, and prevented the various troops commanded by the Nanjing camp from taking the opportunity to enter Guangxi.

As a result, the situation in Guangdong changed suddenly. The 80,000 Gui troops scattered in Guangzhou and western Guangdong counties were besieged by Guangdong troops several times their own. They died within a week and fled nearly half of them, losing the wealthy six counties in western Guangdong and the entire Qinlian area one after another.

Mo Rongxin led three divisions to guard the Guangzhou to Sanshui line, and suffered a rapid and growing ubiquitous attack from the military and civilians of Guangdong. The 50,000 Guangdong troops commanded by Chen Jiongming and the 20,000 coalition forces commanded by Xu Chongzhi made rapid progress. In just seven days, they broke through the three defense lines set up outside Guangzhou city, and the troops pointed directly at the Guangzhou city where Mo Rongxin was heavily stationed.

At this time, the army led by Deng Lan Benyin, Li Jishen and others had already entered Guangxi, captured Rong County, an important border town, and continued to oppress Wuzhou.

Just when Duan Qirui's central government was ineffective and he was helpless in the civil war between Guangdong and Guangxi, a large-scale battle broke out in Shaanxi. #Deng Xihou and Jing Yuexiu and other Beiyang old generals, 60,000 officers and soldiers led by Jing Yuexiu defeated the Fifth Army of Sichuan Army stationed in the northern and western suburbs of Xi'an by a sudden attack, attracting nearly 100,000 long-dorman remnants of Beiyang and the Green Forest Civil Army. Deng Xihou, who suffered heavy losses and terrifying deaths, could only give up Xi'an and flee to the front line of Hanzhong.

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