At noon the next day, the plenary session of the Xikang Provincial Military Conference was held in the Xikang Governor's Mansion, and Wang Yongan once again praised Li Shirui's contribution in quelling the Xizang rebellion, and asked Li Shirui to give a brief introduction. Li Shirui walked onto the rostrum and talked eloquently, the three-month campaign made him dark and thin, but his eyes were bright and full of ambition, watching him talk and laugh on the rostrum, Su Lansheng was worried again.

Li Shirui finished speaking for half an hour, Wang Yongan took the lead in applauding, and then proceeded to the second agenda of the conference, and Luo Yinxian, governor of Xikang Province, introduced the current development of Xikang Province. Xikang Province covers an area of 450,000 square kilometers and has six districts under its jurisdiction, namely Kangding District, Qamdo District, Liangshan District, Ya'an District, Aba District and Luoyu District. Since Li Shirui's army fought all the way to Zangnan and crossed the Himalayas, the Luoyu area included the entire 92,000 square kilometers of Zangnan. Since Britain had not yet focused on the confrontation between Europe and Germany at this time, the British were temporarily unable to react to the Chinese army's recovery of Zangnan, so Wang Yongan successfully recovered Zangnan and annexed it to Luoyu District of Xikang Province.

In Xikang Province, where there are many ethnic minorities, regional autonomy is inseparable, and the Han people's rash appointment of officials to manage the province will inevitably cause revolt from the ethnic minorities, so except for the reconquest of Kangding District and Ya'an District near Sichuan, the heads of the other four districts are all ethnic leaders or religious leaders. Because the government of the Republic of China recognized the regional princes and nobles, and supported the minority to continue their serfdom and princely system, so in the early years of the Republic of China, the border ethnic minorities and religion were concerned with the center, Wang Yongan did not rashly adopt any emancipation of serfs, what to bring down the aristocracy and other systems, and even he adopted the harmony to win over the ethnic minorities, and Liu Tong was secretly responsible for the harmony system, and took pictures of the alternative Tusi daughter for him, which was chosen by him - it can't be too ugly.

The total population of Xikang Province today is 1.1 million, of which the Han population is 390,000, and the Tusi prince has more than 300 people, which shows how stubborn the old customs are here, which is one of the reasons why Wang Yongan did not dare to abolish the serfdom system.

In terms of economic development, Luo Yinxian really didn't have much to do, and Wang Yongan proposed that Aba District and Liangshan District contained a large amount of gold mines, but so far the expedition team they sent had not found the location of the gold mines. Expeditions have found a large number of coal mines and iron mines in Yanbian County, Liangshan District, but transportation has become a big problem, if the railway is not built, the iron mine and coal mine are useless, but the construction of the railway will cost a lot of money, and may not be able to return to the cost.

"Repair, we must repair, but we may not transport the iron ore back, just build an iron factory in Yanbian County, and only bring back iron ingots and coal mines." Wang Yongan said, "The railway is repaired from Yanbian County to Ya'an in the north, and then from Ya'an to the west to Kangding, to the east to Chengdu, and Yanbian County to the north to Kunming. ”

Feng Heng said with a smile: "Since it has been repaired to Kunming, why not extend it to Guizhou?" ”

Wang Yongan said: "Guizhou is mountainous and forested, and the cost of building a railway in Guizhou is too expensive. ”

Everyone nodded, but in fact, the cost of building a railway in the southwest region is far higher than that of Jiangbei, which will bring great economic pressure to the Xikang provincial government. Although the economy of Jiangbei has not been as developed as that of Jiangnan, the people of Jiangbei are much stronger than the people of Xikang Province in terms of economic construction.

At the end of the meeting, everyone was a little tired, and the next meeting involved the military aspect, Wang Yongan announced that the government officials could adjourn the meeting, and Luo Yinxian and others left the venue.

There were a lot of vacant venues, Wang Yongan smiled and said that he would take a fifteen-minute break, and everyone would sit together in a while, so as not to look at space. After the break, Wang Yongan then put forward the concept of peacetime and wartime establishment of the Zhenbian army, the number of soldiers in peacetime should be two-fifths less than that in wartime, and all armies should be reduced. The total number of troops was reduced from 27,000 to 15,000, of which the 10th Division was stationed in Ya'an, the 8th Division was stationed in Kangding, the 17th Brigade of the 9th Division was stationed in Tibet and the area west of Kangding City, and the 18th Brigade of the 9th Division was stationed in Liangshan District.

Li Shirui, the commander of the Ninth Division, had an unsettling expression, he didn't want his army to be scattered, especially since the two brigades were placed in Kangxi and Kangnan respectively, separated by Daliang Mountain, and it was almost impossible to contact, which was equivalent to reducing his power by half, which could not make him reconcile. On the other hand, reducing the number of troops means that the Zhenbian army has no intention of developing in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou in the past two years. Now the border army of the town plays the role of Kangzang and the two provinces, it is a good time to take the opportunity to take Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, if you miss the opportunity, everyone will be trapped here for the rest of your life.

So Li Shirui immediately got up and said, "Dashuai, are you allowed to have different voices. ”

"Allowed." Wang Yongan said with a smile.

Li Shirui then said: "We are reducing the army now, which means that we will always stay in the Kangzang area, but everyone knows that this place is difficult and not a place to stay for a long time. The people of Kangzang are only one million people, thinking that there were 30 million people in Jiangbei at the beginning, and it is difficult for us to directly obtain the Beijing Division, can we rely on these million people to win the world? ”

"And what are your plans?" Wang Yongan asked lightly.

Li Shirui said: "We can take Chengdu in one go and truly control the southwest." Marshal, I have a complete operational map of the five southwestern provinces in my hand, and I believe that with the strength of my town's border army, it will be effortless to occupy the five southwestern provinces. ”

Su Lansheng suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, his heart was finished, I can't pull you back, you hammer, how can you say such things at this time, even if you want to object, it's okay to find a handsome man in private, what are you, coercing the master?

Feng Heng asked, "Why?" What is the reason for attacking the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and you can't attack the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou for no reason, right? ”

Li Shirui said disdainfully: "You can find a reason anywhere, such as Hu Jingyi's treason and collusion with foreign separatist forces, such as Hu Jingyi's participation in the fight against Yuan Jun, etc., we have to act, what are we afraid of if there is no reason?" Dashuai, at the moment Xiong Kewu rebelled in Chongqing, Hu Jingyi sent an army to attack Chongqing, it is the best time for us to take Chengdu directly, if we occupy Chengdu, the five southwestern provinces are just around the corner, just around the corner. ”

Feng Heng waved his hand and said, "No one will believe this reason." ”

"They don't need to believe it." Li Shirui's words were full of confidence, indeed, they don't need to believe that there is no reason for the strong to bully the weak.