The governor of Wujin County did not attend the meeting, and the three counties near Zhejiang took the initiative to ask to attend the meeting, and the economy of Changxing, Deqing, and Qiantang counties and Hu Wenkai's company have been tied together, and the governors of the three counties get extra salaries in the company.

Chen Jiaxiang, as the landlord, greeted the governors of the counties at the Tianxing Railway Station, and Wang Hu and Speaker Liu moved into Tianxing Town one day earlier. The speaker and Wang Hu are now grasshoppers on a rope, this is what the speaker took the initiative to explain, and Qi Xieyuan's hand has been stretched into the administrative stall at an accelerated pace. The two of them almost arranged that any appointment must be approved by Qi Xieyuan, but fortunately there is Hu Wenkai as a backhand.

Wang Hu brought a piece of news that Hu Wenkai did not want to hear, Qi Xieyuan's military budget was tight, and he was ready to open his mouth to the Nantong lion before the year, if he was not satisfied, he would arrange for his cronies to serve as the secretary of Nantong.

"What if Nantong refuses his cronies to take office in Qi Xieyuan?"

Speaker Liu shook his head and said, "The brigade stationed in the direction of Yangzhou will raise troops to escort it to its post." ”

"I don't want to meet each other, but we won't sit still, less than 100,000 yuan can be given more than the limit, and it is absolutely impossible. Drag one word first, and then say when you want to speak. ”

Wang Hu nodded: "The speaker and I will help you delay for a while, but it is estimated that you will not be able to pass the New Year." ”

Wang Hu told him the last time node in disguise, and there were some things that he couldn't say too clearly as a governor.

On the first day, Governor Wang Hu and Speaker Liu led the governors to visit Nantong and Haimen, and had dinner in the evening to exchange the experience of visiting the two places.

The next day, Hu Wenkai delivered a speech on "Laying a Good Geography, Affection, and Heart to Promote Regional Economic Complementarity and Common Development".

Hu Wenkai talked about seeking political reconciliation, alleviating contradictions and conflicts, and stabilizing the regional situation, to promoting the reform of the existing political system, eliminating duplicate taxes, removing checkpoints that hinder circulation, implementing trade integration, that is, abolishing restrictions on the flow of goods, and policy integration, that is, achieving unified economic policy coordination within all counties. Factor integration, that is, the implementation of the free flow of factors of production.

He began to analyze the historical data of the five counties in the past two years, and the circulation brought about by Nantong's economy has tripled in one year, the weakest Wujiang County's economic development has also reached 150% in half a year, and Haimen, the strongest industrial city, has an economy that has crossed more than 20 times in one and a half years.

After listening to this, the venue has exploded, in fact, Hu Wenkai's data has shrunk greatly and he did not dare to announce the truth, just Haimen County's economy has grown by a hundred times in more than a year.

He drew a simple diagram on the blackboard and said: "To give you an example, there are five families at an intersection, one is a rich man, one is selling tea to passing merchants, one is farming, one family has seven or eight rooms, and one owner cooks very deliciously. ”

He went on to say: "According to the habits of our countrymen, the richest family of the rich man must look down on the other four households, and it is very likely that they will not get along with each other in old age, and the property guarded by the rich man will eventually fall to the son, who may go to Shanghai with his property and buy a few houses to live as a small citizen, and the other four families will live like this for decades. ”

"Let's suppose, then, that the rich man was a visionary, and he lent money to these four men, and that he had a house that became an inn, and that two restaurants, one who could cook and those who sold tea, and one who farmed with chickens, geese, ducks, birds, and vegetables. With the inn to and from the merchants is very likely to rest here, in the inn stay at night must go to the restaurant to eat, ordering food is indispensable chickens, geese, ducks and birds, such a small economic virtuous circle is established, and eventually the rich man's money will increase in value, here slowly formed a market town. ”

Hu Wenkai stopped to take a sip of water and continued: "Mine in front of me is a small economic cycle, and we are sitting here discussing a regional economic cycle that is magnified by 10,000 times. The rich man is Haimen, the four households are Nantong, Jiading, Shanghai, Wujiang, and now they have entered a virtuous circle, these five counties will invest one million yuan in the regional economic integration of 26 counties, but this fund is not simple to get, you have an agreement in your hand, only in full accordance with the agreement to operate this money at the end of 1922 can be in hand, the first to complete the first share ......and so on. ”

After Hu Wenkai spoke, Dai Jitao and others took the stage to introduce the economic development of their respective counties, and the governors of Changshu, Taicang, Songjiang, and other counties took turns on the stage, some asking questions and some talking about the benefits of developing more unimpeded integration.

On the same day, Xu Liyun organized personnel to write a long report, elaborating on Hu Wenkai's ideas on regional economic integration and writing an editorial on the rational division of labor and coordination among the 26 counties that are united in seeking development, breaking through the boundaries of administrative divisions, promoting the rational division of labor and cooperation in the economy, and promoting the rational allocation of resources.

On the third day, 26 counties witnessed the signing of an economic cooperation infrastructure construction document, the construction plan of three highways from Shanghai to Changshu, Shanghai to Jiangyin, and Changshu to Wuxi.

Hu Wenkai was responsible for the reorganization and training of the militia groups in the 15 counties in private, and the right to use and deploy them belonged to Hu Wenkai. Under the money offensive, it is easy to accept the officials of the Republic of China as long as they do not violate the righteousness and reputation.

Twenty-three agreements were brought back to their respective counties by the governors of their respective counties for study, and then stamped and sent to the 26 County Economic Integration Office, a permanent institution in Shanghai County, for archiving. Three counties in Zhejiang can only verbally indicate their participation.

Within three days of the meeting, the Nantong County Council filed with the Provincial Assembly to elect Governor Wei Qijun, but the Provincial Council refused to approve and demanded that the Nantong Governor must be appointed by the province. A large march broke out in Nantong to protest against the provincial council's violation of democracy, followed by the county councils in southern Jiangsu following suit to elect governors.

Qi Xieyuan sent a telegram ordering Hu Wenkai to go to Nanjing for a meeting, and Hu Wenkai entrusted Deputy Daoyi to attend despite his illness.

On 24 December, a company commander of the Qingpu garrison returned to the party and led his troops to surround the Shanghai county government and demand that the county pay 10,000 yuan, otherwise he would set up troops and loot the county. The soldiers of this company, except for the company commander, who is the Qingpu garrison, are all soldiers from the Yanyang military camp.

The reporters who declared the report and the reporters of the Far East Radio Station took pictures and recorded the scene on the spot, and Jiang Qiuming had no choice but to hand over 10,000 yuan to the extorted troops.

The next day, all Shanghai newspapers published the incident of arson and robbery, and the radio broadcast a recording of the extortion, which was arranged by the organizer to say that the Qingpu garrison was like bandits, and that Shanghai County and Jiading County had carried out large-scale condolences to the labor army in order to seek peace, but it was not enough to satisfy their appetites, and this was a group of bandits wearing military uniforms, listing all kinds of crimes committed by the Qingpu garrison.

Public opinion was in an uproar, and demonstrations were held in various parts of southern Jiangsu to protest the shameless acts of the Qingpu garrison. Jiang Qiuming said in an interview that this incident was a great shame in China, that the army did not defend the country but preyed on the people, and that this kind of army was bandits, and that banditry should be banned if they ate the people's taxes.

The fifteen counties jointly issued a statement demanding that the Qingpu garrison severely punish the perpetrators and apologize to Shanghai County. Qi Xieyuan made a speech in Nanjing, believing that the Qingpu garrison was a premeditated planting, and the Qingpu garrison would never apologize.

On the night of December 27, more than 1,000 soldiers from the Yanyang military camp, led by ten armored vehicles, suddenly attacked the Qingpu garrison under the cover of night. The armored car drove at full speed and smashed open the gate of the station, and the members of the Restoration Party in the barracks led their men to wrap their arms around white towels and close them together. The brigade headquarters guard company put up a desperate resistance and was vulnerable to the fire of armored vehicles. They were bombarded with grenades and mortars from the soldiers of the Yanyang military camp who followed them. The secret service team had a firm grip on the armory, and soon after the battle ended, it was just one o'clock in the evening when the phone called Hu Wenkai was reported.

Wu Qianmen and horses were eaten by Hu Wenkai in this way, the General Staff Department was responsible for the reorganization, and the posters unanimously applauded that this kind of bandit troops must be annihilated to be responsible for their actions.

Hu Wenkai knew that Qi Xieyuan was furious and could not stop, so he immediately dispatched the remaining troops into the Rugao area to strictly prevent Qi Xieyuan's Yangzhou brigade from going south.

Qi Xieyuan's troops must not be allowed to mess up the good situation in Nantong, he didn't expect that Qi Xieyuan received the Qingpu garrison and wiped out the whole army overnight, and he also thought of sending Yangzhou as a brigade to Nantong.

Hu Wenkai came back to his senses a day later, and the newspapers and radio repeatedly published that Qi Xieyuan was the mastermind behind the Qingpu garrison, and the radio broke the news that Qi Xieyuan went through the back door to apply for the military academy and the murder of Li Chun, the overseer of Jiangsu.

Hu Wenkai issued an order to march to Yangzhou and Nanjing in Tianxing Town, and the whole of Nantong immediately became a military camp. Supplies piled up at the train station, a gun truck unloaded from the train, and a group of soldiers stepped out of the carriage.

Hu Wenkai's order was quick to capture Yangzhou within four days and Zhenjiang within ten days. All the armored vehicles and trucks are running wildly, what is called mechanized synthetic troops is fully reflected in Hu Wenkai's team, trucks, armored vehicles, and artillery trucks arrived under the city of Yangzhou overnight.

The special forces and the Fujin party members in Yangzhou occupied the south gate of Yangzhou overnight, quietly opened the city gate, armored infantry vehicles and trucks continued to enter the city, and Qi Xieyuan's third brigade in Yangzhou had been disarmed before dawn.

The Yangtze River is Hu Wenkai's world, and six 2,000-ton warships and more than a dozen coastal gunboats block the river. By the time Qi Xieyuan came to his senses, Hu Wenkai's troops had already crossed the river from Jiangyin to join up with the Jiangnan troops, shelled the county town of Wujin, planted explosives under the cover of armored vehicles, blew up the city wall of Wujin, and completely annihilated the Sixth Brigade stationed in Wujin.

Qi Xieyuan conceded defeat and sent Wang Hu as a negotiator, and Hu Wenkai, on behalf of the 23 counties in southern Jiangsu, recognized Qi Xieyuan as the overseer of Jiangsu, but the scope was limited to Nanjing and Xuzhou, north of Yangzhou. Taxes from counties in southern Jiangsu are no longer paid to the Nanjing government.

Qi Xieyuan asked for the agreement to be signed privately, and Hu Wenkai agreed to his request.

The company unanimously requested that the New Year's Day party be postponed to the Spring Festival, and a large area south of Nanjing and Yangzhou has been obtained. The large-scale reorganization was carried out in Yangzhou, and all the structures had to be disrupted, and finally the reorganization team of 10,000 people was left, and the remaining Wu Qian people were directly supplemented to Tianfen and Yong'an, as well as the Shanghai County Factory and Deng Jun's construction team.

The reorganization was carried out simultaneously with Wu Hongxia's party branch going deep into the barracks, and the party's role was firmly integrated with the reorganization of the troops.