After Chen Xuan was warm with his wife and daughter in Shanghai for two days, Chen Xuan's vacation work was over, Xia Yunru moved the official business accumulated in the past two days to Chen Xuan's study, and Chen Xuan fell into a sea of various official documents.

Chen Xuan's prediction was not wrong, the Baath Party-led maritime migration was indeed successful, and more than 100 large ships and more than 200,000 people arrived in Dandong smoothly in the first phase.

According to Du Yuesheng's intelligence report, the Manchu ** also openly and secretly signaled officials from all over the country to drive these refugees to the northeast, they thought that these refugees were unstable factors, and they might rebel again.

So Zhenhua's ships began to anchor in some ports in the north, and the recruited homeless people filled the ships and then transported them to the northeast, even at the expense of giving some benefits to the local officials, who were worried about these restless homeless, and kept driving the homeless people to the port, and finally it became a win-win situation, and the fleet did not have to go so far to the south to find people, and the speed was much faster.

"Dashuai, there's a telegram from Nanyang!"

Xia Yunru took a telegram and handed it to Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan took a look, it turned out that little Japan was restless again, Japan itself is a small island, and volcanic earthquakes are frequent, and the population density is amazingly large, affected by Chen Xuan's immigration policy, small Japan also began to contact the Dutch East India Company, and also think about the East India Company leasing land to reclaim plantations.

Chen Xuan fell into deep thought, this little Japan seems to be unable to get along with himself, constantly making trouble for himself in the Northeast, and now he also looks at Nanyang, but the current situation is not good to conflict with these Japanese devils, Chen Xuan can only endure it, but it is as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly all the time.

"Call back to Brother Zhongyu, as long as the Japanese do not affect our interests, don't conflict with them for the time being, there will be a chance to compete in the future, we will also resume the immigration policy in Nanyang next month, please Brother Zhongyu and Sun Zhiheng They are ready, and tell Sun Zhiheng that the construction of the army must not be left behind!"

"Yes!"

Xia Yunru turned around and went back.

Chen Xuan began to look at the recent North-South peace talks again.

According to Gu Weijun's report, the political game between the north and the south has become more intense, and both sides are trying to win the support of Western consulate ambassadors in China in order to win the support of these countries.

But it seems that Yuan Shikai is more dominant.

In Du Yuesheng's intelligence report, Yuan Shikai seems to have promised more benefits to Western countries, the balance has gradually tilted to the north, and only Japan, which is blown by the wind on both sides, supports the south.

Yuan also sent a large number of people to the south, and began to make wishes to the powerful factions in the south, and bought them with money, but if they couldn't do it, they made false words and intimidated them, and the local bigwigs of the Baath Party were also within the scope of their wooing, and several bigwigs also made reports.

As a result, the southern regime was in full swing, and the provisional regime itself was a very loose organization, and nominally the northern regime had an inherent advantage, and the still strong constitutionalists also supported the north.

However, the southern regime is not content to be defeated, and is ready to launch a last-ditch effort to save the scattered morale of the military - the election of a provisional president.

In this way, the southern regime will also have an official name to make a wish to the local feudal officials recovered by the revolutionary party, hoping that this will allow the south to gain a firm foothold and continue to compete with the north.

But in Chen Xuan's view, all this is in vain, after all, the revolutionary party is still not as shameless as the northern regime, Yuan has been in the sea for a long time, and he has long been accustomed to the Manchu Qing Dynasty losing money and ceding land, and betraying some national interests, so why bother?

Isn't it just to give foreign devils some mining rights, some railway construction rights and loans to Western bankers, just because I am short of money in Beiyang, and it can also be used to expand the army, why not?

The provisional presidential election in Jiangning was vigorous, but Chen Xuan became more and more urgent, and began to order the transfer of gold, silver and antiques to Shanghai, and at the same time sent telegrams to various places, ready to fight at any time!

Chen Xuan secretly went to visit his teacher Ma Xiangbo, Ma Xiangbo also agreed with Chen Xuan's point of view, and suggested that Chen Xuan would be good if he could keep Zhejiang and Fujian, as for the three eastern provinces, it is also in danger, if not, keep Heilongjiang, after all, this is the first place to develop, and Zhenhua also has the people's heart.

But Chen Xuan was still unwilling to fail, and he secretly sent a telegram to the military bigwigs in various parts of his body, asking them to expand the army as much as possible, run the arsenal at full capacity, and produce as many weapons and equipment as possible to prepare for war.

The situation was such that Chen Xuan did not even have the mind to attend Mr. Zhongshan's interim president, and began to go to various places in the jurisdiction to personally understand the situation and encourage the morale of the army, from Shanghai to Hangzhou, and then to Fujian.

When he arrived in Fuzhou, it happened to be December 12, 1912, Xuantong announced his abdication, and suddenly the militarism was jubilant, Chen Xuan looked at the celebratory crowd all the way, but his heart was sad.

Entering Fujian, but gave Chen Xuan a different surprise, as a province that is not rich in China, today's Fujian actually gave Chen Xuan a different feeling from other places, it seems that here, more than other places, there is more vitality, yes, vitality! Nowadays, Fujian feels like a big construction site, with few hungry people in groups, either building roads or doing some other project.

Entering the Fuzhou region, this feeling became even more obvious, Chen Xuan even saw that there were merchant flags from Nanyang merchants in the caravan, and it seemed that there were many Nanyang merchants investing here.

Chen Jiageng and Han Sanlin had already led local merchants and officials to greet Chen Xuan from afar, and after not seeing him for a long time, everyone was very happy, Chen Xuan also saw Yan Fu and Wang Xuefu and Huang Zhonghan from Nanyang and other big businessmen in the greeting procession.

After the banquet, according to Chen Jiageng's introduction, Chen Xuan learned that after Chen Jiageng took over Fujian, he was also restrained and silently resisted by local stubborn forces, but Chen Jiageng, who grew up in Java, was not as influenced by the traditional gentry culture as Yu Youren Zhang Jian and others.

After taking office for a week, based on the management system of Phoenix City and backed by Han Sanlin's military strength, a large number of unqualified officials were deposed, and it was not an unreasonable derogation.

Some officials received a lot of benefits in the early work, and even embezzled a lot of public property, but they were also found out by Chen Jiageng without hesitation for public trial and punishment, and publicized it through the "Fujian Official Daily" of the military ** office as soon as possible, and also invited a lot of storytellers and students from Nanyang to explain to the people in the crowded places.

There was no negotiation, no political compromise, Chen Jiageng's behavior of playing cards according to common sense and flipping the table at every turn caught the local traditional forces off guard, and many officials were directly taken down or even imprisoned, and their reputation was directly ruined.

The local strength will naturally not be willing to stop there, first instigated and organized local demonstrations, but Chen Jiageng, who had been prepared, took down the people who were demagogic and instigated as quickly as possible, took them to various schools for public trial, and worked tirelessly to give speeches in various colleges and universities.

The vacated positions after the dismissal of officials were directly replaced by officials who were quickly transferred from Nanyang, and local forces began to gather local ruffians, local gangs, and gangsters from all walks of life to overthrow Tan Kah Kee's rule.

However, Han Sanlin took action with the assistance of Fujian intelligence officers, quickly quelled all kinds of riots with the momentum of the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and confiscated the property of countless local gentry.

Of course, Chen Kah Kee is not blindly strong, after the end of the official exchange, Chen Kah Kee immediately introduced the industrial and commercial plan, reduced the local tax for one year, forced the big landlords to reduce rent and interest, cracked down on usury, and gave various preferential projects to local businessmen who were not affected, and the major industrial projects of the Nanyang Group were also officially launched, and various cash-for-work plans were put into practice.

Suddenly, the local forces disappeared, and the development of major engineering projects also absorbed countless displaced people, and Chen Jiageng and his Fujian army ** also achieved great prestige among the people, and without resistance, the plans of Chen Jiageng's team were successfully implemented.

Therefore, there is also the engineering development that Chen Xuan has seen all the way after entering Fujian.

"Can the military hold up tax reductions and exemptions?"

Chen Xuan couldn't help but ask.

"It's very difficult, but it's not impossible, we can last for a while this time to raid all kinds of local tyrants and inferior gentry, Commander Han can last for a while suppressing bandits in the territory, and we have no reduction or exemption from commercial taxes, as long as our business activities go smoothly, it is not a big problem to survive this year, it is really not good, we should be able to get through it if we think of other ways."

"It's embarrassing for everyone, so let's do it, if it really doesn't work, you tell me, and I'll find a way for you!"

"Yiyang, you are not more worried, although Fujian is not as good as other provinces with large resources, but there are still some, we calculated, and when the economy improves slightly, we will contract out a part of the less important minerals, so that there should be no problem, and we are also ready to build Xiamen into a provincial commercial and financial center, we have a lot of experience in attracting investment, those old friends in Nanyang have also arrived in Fujian, and the activities can be carried out in these days, The shipyard in Mawei Port stopped production a few years ago, and after our engineers went to see it, they bought a lot of equipment from Shanghai and came back to upgrade it, and they can rebuild ships at the beginning of next year. ”