In the evening of the next day, the troops saw Xinyang City bathed in the setting sun from a distance, and Gao Jinchang ordered the troops to bypass Xinyang City and go straight to Suizhou, which was only 85 kilometers away from Suizhou in a straight line.

Stationed in a township fifteen kilometers from the city of Suizhou in Hubei Province in the evening, his rash advance had already exceeded Sun Xiaolan's expectations, and Sun Xiaolan's intention was to hold military exercises at the junction of Xinyang and Hubei.

Gao Jinchang asked the confidential personnel to send a telegram to the General Staff Headquarters: Our unit has arrived outside Suizhou City, and a military exercise will be held in Suizhou on time tomorrow, and the brigade headquarters will be set up in Suizhou City.

After receiving Gao Jinchang's telegram, Sun Xiaolan slapped the table angrily and shouted: "Gao Jinchang on the dog day, if you are not careful, you will give Lao Tzu a problem. Who gave him the right to cross-border exercises? ”

"Give me the boss's call in Tianxing Town, I want to report to the boss."

Sun Xiaolan sat beside the map without saying a word, and the staff officer reported that Tianxing Town and Longwang Temple could not find the boss.

"You send me a report to the Shanghai spy department, saying that I have something important to find the boss." For the first time, Sun Xiaolan sent the telegram to the spy office on Yatian South Road.

After a while, the spy office called back a telegram signed by Lao Yi, which meant that he could not find Hu Wenkai, but Hu Wenkai left a message that Sun Xiaolan had full authority to handle the matter.

Sun Xiaolan only then carefully recalled that the boss had not appeared for a long time, and combined with the arrangements before and after, he estimated that the boss went to the United States with the delegation.

A staff officer said on the side: "General Sun, in fact, this is nothing, we are all Chinese troops, exercising on our own territory, and we also asked if it is Jiangsu and Hubei." ”

Li Manqiang comforted: "Brother Xiaolan, it's okay for Gao Jinchang to do this, don't hurt Liu Chengen, who does he think he is, and withdraw after he removes the toll." ”

"What are you withdrawing, I'd rather he be tough to the end and take advantage of the situation to eat Hubei." Li Wenjun, who had been silent, came up with a sentence.

Sun Xiaolan analyzed: "You think I don't want to eat Hubei? Eating Hubei is a matter of minutes, but the boss won't allow it. The three provinces here have not yet been rectified, and the rice must be eaten one bite at a time. Who has the most power in the country right now? It's the boss! Eat one more province, and it is estimated that the rest of the provinces will immediately join forces to fight us. ”

"Staff Officer Wang, telegraphed Gao Jinchang to only allow military exercises in Suizhou, and not to provoke incidents, otherwise the military court will see you."

"Alas! I don't know if this sophomore will be obedient, don't fucking beat Wuhan down and be happy. Sun Xiaolan sighed heavily.

Sun Xiaolan instructed: "Help me connect to Xu Liyun." ”

"Hello Xu Liyun, I'm Sun Xiaolan, the manuscript needs to be revised."

"Regarding military exercises, the information we gave you earlier was to hold military exercises in Xinyang, and now there is a temporary change to hold military exercises in Suizhou, Hubei."

"I don't blame me for this, it's a temporary change, please bear with me and try to revise the manuscript in the newspaper."

hung up the phone, and scolded Gao Jinchang uncleanly: "Damn, you know at a glance that he is not a good person, let Lao Tzu wipe his ass." ”

Staff Officer Wang recorded that the flight brigade was ordered to fly over the three towns of Wuhan at a low altitude at 9 a.m. tomorrow in the form of a formation of 10 planes. The 102 destroyer pointed its guns at nine o'clock tomorrow morning at the three towns of Wuhan. The 4th Mixed Brigade conducted a live-fire exercise. ”

Early the next morning, the Far East Radio reported in the morning news headlines that Jiangxi and Henan had withdrawn commodity tolls, which alone could reduce the circulation cost of goods in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui by 5 percent. The second is that the Fourth Mixed Brigade of the Republic of China will hold a large-scale military missile exercise in Suizhou, Hubei, and the Yangtze River Fleet will move to the Wuhan River in order to maintain the safety of Yangtze River transportation.

The newspapers and periodicals were long and exhaustive, introducing Liu Chengen of Hubei Province in violation of the commercial law of the Republic of China by collecting tolls for commodities and profiting from them. In order to safeguard its own interests, the Jiangsu side has already issued an ultimatum to Liu Chengen, and if Liu Chengen insists on going his own way, war will be imminent.

Wu Peifu, who was far away in Luoyang, Henan, was taken aback when he heard the news, Liu Chengen was his friend, but Hu Wenkai was already his backer. This Liu Chengen doesn't want to fight with Hu Wenkai for anything, Hu Wenkai's armament is even afraid of Cao Kun.

Wu Peifu hurriedly sent a report to Liu Chengen, pointing out that it is necessary to be aware of current affairs, that collecting tolls is a wrong act, and that it must be stopped immediately and that there should be no conflict with the Jiangsu side.

Soon after the telegram was sent, Liu Chengen sent a telegram back: Please ask Yushuai to mediate, I have ordered that no tolls be collected. The chariot unit of the Jiangsu side has already entered Suizhou, and this morning the planes circled in Wuhan at a low altitude, and there were four Jiangsu warships on the Wuhan River, and their guns were pointed at the three towns of Wuhan.

Wu Peifu is angry and funny, this Liu Chengen does not cry when he sees the coffin. It's not like nothing to be like Jiangxi earlier.

Liu Chengen was shrouded in constant bad news in the morning, and at nine o'clock ten planes flew over the sky at low altitude, without having to report to his subordinates that he knew it was from Jiangsu. Only Jiangsu has a huge fleet of aircraft, and he is helpless to look at the distant planes in the sky.

The adjutant trotted all the way over to report on the four warships of the Yangtze River Fleet on the river, and aimed his guns at the three towns of Wuhan. The shops on the street have begun to close their doors, and there is already a surge of people in the direction of the concession.

He said that his subordinates had reported that the Fourth Mixed Brigade from Jiangsu had entered Suizhou, saying that it was going to hold a large-scale live-fire exercise in Suizhou.

He looked at the map and his back was soaked with cold sweat, which was also too poisonous, hundreds of chariots were stuck in his back, there were gunboats on the river, planes in the sky, and chariots on the ground. That is, in less than three days, Jiangsu directly put a knife against his neck.

Now he does not have the courage to want to fight, how can he, an old man who is almost 60 years old, have the courage to confront the Jiangsu army with planes, ships, and chariots, and he regrets why he did not learn from the Jiangxi side and directly abolished the tolls to show goodwill to the Jiangsu side. I naively thought that I could resist Jiangsu's statement.

On the one hand, he kept exchanging views with Wu Peifu and asked Wu Peifu to mediate, and on the other hand, he expressed to Liang Qichao that he accepted Jiangsu's proposal to abolish all commodity tolls immediately, and ordered his subordinates to prepare thousands of oceans to go to Suizhou to work in the army.

It didn't take long for what happened in Hubei to spread all over the country, and Fujian Province hurriedly issued a decree to abolish the repeated taxation collected, and it was really afraid that the Jiangsu army would kill it silently, so it was better to cancel it as soon as possible, and don't wait until the soldiers came to the city like Liu Chengen to panic and be laughed at.

The businessmen of the three provinces and one city have never been so confident in their hearts, Hu Wenkai is really powerful, he dares to collect tolls, and he directly uses the army to solve it. Wang Xiuguo said loudly in the courtyard of the Nantong Chamber of Commerce: "Since I followed the boss, I have never been afraid of anyone. These bunnies dare to collect our taxes, and now let's coax it, where the boss's gun is pointed, our goods will be dumped. ”

The newspaper published an editorial saying that since the Xinhai Revolution, the trade routes in the Yangtze River region have never been as smooth as they are today, and that the Jiangsu side has wholeheartedly sought development for the people in the Yangtze River region, and listed the changes in Jiangsu and Anhui and the improvement of the people's lives.

The whole public opinion was one-sided, and the warlords of several provinces were bombarded with all their firepower for violating the commercial law of the Republic of China to collect ill-gotten gains, disrupting normal commercial activities, and unanimously held that the Jiangsu side was defending the real and effective implementation of the commercial law of the Republic of China, and this move would bring about the great development and prosperity of the seven provinces and one city and benefit the people.

Not only was Liang Qichao surprised, but Sun Xiaolan took military action to deter Liu Chengen by force, but there was not a single voice of dissent in the newspapers and periodicals, but a one-sided applause, and the newspapers and periodicals were full of eulogies against the Fujin Party. Even Wang Hu, who was busy preparing to build the bridge in Nanjing, wondered how these literati who liked to pick thorns supported the Fujin Party and Hu Wenkai so much.

How did they know that Xu Liyun's propaganda department orally issued a propaganda outline, and the newspapers and periodicals did not dare not implement it, but they also had selfish intentions, and after the trade route was opened, newspapers and magazines would follow closely behind, and they could quickly distribute it in several surrounding provinces.

Some time ago, several newspapers turned a deaf ear to Xu Liyun's instructions from the Propaganda Department, and the next day they received a call from the printing house that they could not complete the printing of newspapers and periodicals on time because electricity could not be guaranteed. Not long after, the editor also had an accident, and was detained by the police station on suspicion of molesting women on the street. As long as the newspaper editors who went against the will of the Propaganda Department were either this or something, they were brought to the police.

The Propaganda Department called it a preliminary cleansing operation, which first rectified the newspapers and periodicals and targeted the literati who were on key precautions. Xu Liyun arranged for the radio station to spend half an hour at noon every day to broadcast Hu Wenkai's theoretical articles, and to arrange theoretical interpretation at 8 o'clock in the evening.

With a stroke of the pen, Wu Hongxia arranged for each student of the party school to complete an article on Hu Wenkai's theory. Let Xu Liyun select excellent articles from them and send them to radio and newspapers.

The Restoration Party, which had the tools of propaganda at its disposal, enjoyed the strong support of the broad masses of the people, and the ills of obstructing the circulation of commodities were continuously published on the radio and in the press, and the imposition of taxes on commodities caused the prices of commodities to be higher than their actual value, which for a long time increased the costs of factories and merchants, and made it impossible to accumulate funds for industrial upgrading. hinder the development of domestic industry, so that corrupt officials can easily collect large amounts of money.

Several days of continuous reporting actually prompted Wuhan citizens to march on the streets to demand Liu Chengen's resignation, and citizens took to the streets holding banners calling for the abolition of exorbitant taxes and the punishment of corrupt officials. Liu Chengen didn't expect things to develop to this point, and he couldn't afford to lie in bed in a fit of anger.

Xu Liyun said to Wu Hongxia in Hu Wenkai's office in Tianxing Town: "Principal Wu, I really didn't expect the use of public opinion tools like this, the boss is really godly. ”

"The boss has a lot of ideas, you just have to do what he says, you hurry up and set up the cultural association, the key to choosing a good president must be your own person, you must pay attention to whether this person can be controlled by us."

"Well, President Wu can't be in a hurry, candidates must be found slowly, first of all, they must be able to convince the public, and they must also be members of the Returning Party. Finally, the preparation for the establishment of this association also required the initiative of many newspapers and literati. Xu Liyun said one set of things.