It was precisely because of this war that the demonstrations in the city were temporarily suspended.

People on either side believe that maintaining stability in the city at this time is the best thing to do for all the people.

It was also at this critical moment that when the army troops were anxious, a sudden news from the sea made Wang Hanzhang's troops, who should have been able to be entangled for a long time and maybe wait for reinforcements from all over the country, quickly retreated.

Because he believed that the back road was absolutely safe, the naval forces at sea, in the most intense situation of the war, issued a national telegram.

The Bohai Fleet, led by Wen Shude, abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, and automatically came under the banner of the new overseer of Shandong.

Together with Zhang Zongchang's troops, he exterminated Wang Hanzhang, who did not obey the command of Zhang Zongchang, the overseer sent by the government.

It was precisely because of the betrayal of the Bohai Fleet that this fairly balanced war quickly collapsed.

Not only did those soldiers who were messing around not want to fight, but even Wang Hanzhang's direct elite retreated at this moment.

They don't want to die, at least they don't want to die in infighting.

A war without the support of righteousness is meaningless to die.

It is precisely in the hearts of such floating people that Wang Hanzhang chose to compromise.

He led all Qingcheng outside the eastern suburbs and joined the current overseer Zhang Zongchang.

This bandit general, who was a gangster in a village a few years ago, has completed the foundation of his overlord in this twisted and strange environment.

It was precisely because of Wang Hanzhang's move that several of his cronies broke away from the original Qingcheng garrison in their own ways after learning the news.

Some went north to join the government of the north, to which they were supposed to belong, and some went south to join the revolutionary army of the South, which they were more optimistic about.

And all this is inconsequential for Zhang Zongchang, who has won the final victory.

Because of this big victory, he also needs to sit down with his allies and do a good job of integration.

Yes, in this campaign, it was the Japanese fleet that played a key role.

When the Japanese ships, which were more elite than the old Bohai Fleet, sailed into the Bohai Harbor, it meant that Wen Shude's breed would definitely compromise.

The other party didn't fire a shot, and he got the result he wanted.

Compared with it, the nearly 1,000 casualties of the army are a bit tragic.

Therefore, when the four parties sitting at the negotiating table talk about the distribution of interests in the future, they are in a completely unequal state.

Zhang Zongchang, who recovered Wang Hanzhang and Wen Shude, finally formed a crushing trend against the entire Shandong warlords.

Even if Zheng Jinsheng is in a league with the idle coalition forces from all walks of life, he can no longer compete with the current Zhang Zongchang in terms of military strength.

If you ask Zheng Jinsheng at this time, why didn't he take the opportunity to go east, attack the back of Zhang Zongchang's department, and attack Wang Hanzhang's department in both directions, even if it can't be completely destroyed, at least it can be severely damaged, right?

This is probably the sorrow of the conservative warlords, because Zheng Jinsheng has been following a seemingly equal policy of governing the army, so that the final result of his military combat conference has been in a state of stalemate.

Even after everyone made the judgment of pursuit, they were slightly weak in terms of the speed of the march and the interception of the Zhang warlords.

In addition, they originally judged that Zhang Zongchang's troops would consume most of their troops in the war with the Qing garrison, and they only needed to form an oppressive trend, waiting for one of the two armies to hold on and finally collapse before they could take a surprise action, which was enough to achieve the final victory with the least casualties......

All the members of Zheng Jinsheng's department are in a state of being more than well guarded and not advancing enough.

When Wen Shude surrendered quickly without warning, they showed even weaker hesitation and retreat in the face of the high-speed collapse battlefield.

When everyone really reflected, the war that they predicted would be at least many days of anxiety ended neatly.

For a time, Zhang Zongchang led the army to be stationed in the barracks where Wang Hanzhang's troops were originally located, and while absorbing and integrating the garrison forces of Qingcheng, they entered the city to join the Japanese army and the two wings of the Bohai Fleet.

As for Zheng Jinsheng's troops, which were stationed more than ten miles outside the city, they were not embarrassed or embarrassed to be hung on the spot.

At this time, the army that had been marching here for a long time could not advance or retreat.

Zheng Jinsheng, who was already a little broken, had to make a final struggle.

When Zhang Zongchang entered the stage of talks between the two sides, Zheng Jinsheng had an invitation to the direct leaders of all the allied forces in Shandong.

Regarding the small actions of the Zheng family's father and son, Zhang Zongchang, who was in the general trend, didn't care at all.

Now he only needs to satisfy the demands of the Japanese and complete the plan of continuous cooperation on his trip, even if he controls the whole of Shandong.

"So, in addition to these demands, you want us to find a way to solve the problem of the workers' strike?"

"It's like this outside the city, and those workers are still making trouble in the city when they are full of food and leisure?"

"I said, Lao Wang, no wonder you lost so quickly, how can you have the kindness of a woman in our business. ”

"You, Tanaka, you just need to give me the latest batch of arms that we have negotiated, and within three days I will make Qingcheng City back to what it should be. ”

"As for you Lao Wen, look at how good you are now, stepping down as the commander of the Bohai Fleet, who has nothing, and retiring early to drink and fish. It's so beautiful. ”

"You are now the president of the Qingcheng City Commercial Port Association, but you are a big man who is even higher than those local celebrities and wealthy businessmen. ”

"Do you think that the strike in Qingdao should be managed by your commercial port?"

"You are like this, when I finish trading with Brother Tanaka, you will work with me to flatten the foreman of this gang of troublemakers!"

After speaking, Zhang Zongchang laughed extremely rampantly with Tanaka on the other side.

The other two defeated generals smiled bitterly at the fictitious positions they were appointed.

It is the greatest luck that the general of the defeated army can save his life, and as for the future, let's talk about it later.

As a result, out of the semi-closed Qingcheng City, because of a series of actions by Zhang Zongchang's department, it became noisy.

Probably because Shao Nian had excavated and negotiated with the workers of these six Japanese textile factories, the workers who had found their next home and began to report to Dahua one after another spontaneously broke away from the group of demonstrations.

In addition, Mayor Wang's serious injuries had not yet recovered, and all the newspapers were denouncing the brutality of the Japanese and promoting Mayor Wang's precipice, which temporarily put the original plan for the power plant and salt factory on hold.

Therefore, those patriotic youths and representatives of all parties who fought for the state-owned rights and interests of the city also dispersed at this sensitive juncture.

Nowadays, the only people left are those textile workers who are used to today's work and do not want to leave their posts.

They still want to take advantage of the strike to fight for their rights.

For this, Su Shuwei and Deng Mingen, who organized all the activities, still stayed.

Because since they were the leaders of the Qingcheng trade unions and initiated and organized a general strike of the textile factory workers, they naturally would not stop until the incident was reasonably resolved.

However, based on the warning given to them when Shao Nian withdrew from Qingcheng, it was necessary for the leaders of the two unions to let the workers of the Japanese textile factory know of the danger of the current overseer, Zhang Zongchang.

"Isn't he? He's the biggest official in Shandong, can he help the Japanese deal with us?"

"There are so many of us, we are not making trouble, we just want to reason with each other. ”

"Besides, if we don't cause trouble to the government, can't we strike at the factory gate instead?"

Retreating to this extent, Deng Mingen and the others thought about it, as if it was nothing, so they agreed, and when the city calmed down, they didn't need to go to the door of the consulate, but only to the gate of each factory.

In this way, the number of people on strike and march has dropped sharply from a few thousand to three or four hundred.

This level has no unnecessary impact on the vast and sparsely populated suburbs and ordinary Qingcheng residents.

Su Shuwei and Deng Mingen have taken Zhang Zongchang's variable into account, and a vigorous fifth general strike in Qingcheng City has begun.

The next morning, hundreds of workers from the Japanese textile factory squatted at the door of the Japanese textile factory, and several foremen with a high reputation in the factory were responsible for entering the field to negotiate with the Japanese investors.

Their slogan is very simple, and the demand for a wage increase or reduction is not excessive, but it is just that the Japanese factory directors will raise their wages to the standard monthly wage of Qingcheng workers.

But such a seemingly simple message is an unbearable evil deed to the Japanese.

How could the Japanese factory owners, who had long been accustomed to yelling at the workers and squeezing them at will, pay so much profit to pay wages that they did not have to pay?

The arrival of Zhang Zongchang was already angry that everything would be different.

They slapped the phone at the Qingcheng Provisional Military Management Office, which was already under the control of Zhang Zongchang, and strongly condemned China's inaction.

And as a collaborator, he called Captain Tanaka of the military department, and asked him to become a pillar for their Japanese businessmen to gain a firm foothold in Qingcheng by taking this opportunity.

Tanaka naturally had no objections to the demands of the Japanese factory owners.

What did their army do when they threatened to the vicinity of Qingcheng?

Isn't it a gradual infiltration and occupation of China's vast and resource-rich land?

Now they had an excellent opportunity to use their Chinese army against the workers who were trying to resist, so that the contradictions would be directed directly into certain groups within them.

The people of Qingcheng will have less evil towards the Japanese, which will not only be conducive to the follow-up plan of the future Japanese Empire and the joint construction of the Co-Prosperity Sphere, but also will make Zhang Zongchang's reputation in Shandong fall to the lowest point, so that they have to rely more on their Japanese support.

Thinking of this, Captain Tanaka made another phone call to Zhang Zongchang's department, and after understanding the reason with the other party, Zhang Zongchang, who felt that he had to do something for his Japanese friend, ordered his troops and horses and went straight to the outskirts of the city.

In Zhang Zongchang's heart, the workers who left their hometown and came to Qingcheng to earn a living were just like the gangsters in his village at the beginning, and they were unwilling to provoke the government and big forces.

They didn't even dare to offend the landlord in the village, if they saw him go with an army with real guns, wouldn't they be running away in an instant?

But who would have thought that when Zhang Zongchang drove the carriage and turned his gun on this group of unarmed workers, Deng Mingen, who organized everyone to sit in meditation at the factory gate, stood up.

As soon as he shook off the pull of his companion Su Shuwei, he stood at the front of the line, and roared loudly towards the location of Zhang Zongchang's department with the strength of his thin literati.

"Inspector Zhang, you are an upright overseer appointed by our Chinese government. ”

"The duty of a provincial overseer, to surround the safety of the common people in the province, to stand up in the face of foreign invasion, to defend the land for the country, for the new government of the country that is in turmoil. ”

"The area under your rule is the huge Shandong, and the people you protect also include these poor workers who just want to get equality!"

"Now, our own Overseers, the only powerful force in the land we can rely on to seek protection, have turned their guns on the breasts of us innocent civilians......

"Let me ask, where is justice, and where is the reason of heaven!!

"We have never complained about misery, we have never given up hope, we have not even gone to our own government to help us get the rights we deserve, we are just using our smallest and only strength to obtain the right to live for ourselves......"

"That's it, it's wrong!!"

"If this is wrong, please answer me! How should we live on this land!!

When Deng Mingen shouted these words, he was full of pathos.

A deep sense of sorrow came out of the words.

His eyes were red and tears were pouring down.

But even so, Deng Mingen did not see any sympathy for them in the collapsed new Overseer at the station opposite.

This dog meat general, who is also from the bottom, has no empathy for the workers who are squatting opposite.

In his Zhang Zongchang's eyes, as long as anyone dares to stop in front of him, they are all his enemies.

And the Japanese who allowed him to sit smoothly in Shandong and relieved him of his embarrassment in Shandong are his true friends.

None of his fellow villagers, the squires and wealthy merchants of Shandong, and the warlords from all walks of life in the territory were his friends, and they were all from Shandong, but they wanted him to die.

So why do such Shandong people come to recognize it?