Xiong Kewu, a member of the Kuomintang Party, is now in a somewhat awkward and sensitive position in the Sichuan Army. Even he himself had already faintly felt the rejection of him by the Sichuan military government.

However, Xiong Kewu was not willing to give up military power. At present, the Kuomintang of the southern provinces is actively expanding its armaments, and the Fourth Division of the Sichuan Army under his command has been tempered by many wars, and is much stronger than the new army expanded in the southern provinces, and can play a great role at the critical moment.

Therefore, Xiong Kewu did not back down at all, and said resolutely: "Young marshal, you should understand that even if I promise to give up the military power of the Fourth Division, Mr. Sun will not agree." Therefore, it is impossible for the 4th Division to accept the reorganization of the junta. ”

Hearing Xiong Kewu's words, Peng Guanglie and Sun Zhaoluan couldn't help but move, and they couldn't help but feel a little luck in their hearts. If Wang Mo can't remove Xiong Kewu, who has the support of the Kuomintang behind his back, then will they have an excuse to shirk it?

Wang Mo frowned, thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Since this is the case, then I will give you another choice, Division Commander Xiong, and leave Sichuan with the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division who are willing to follow you." ”

This is to expel Xiong Kewu and the people of the Kuomintang from Sichuan, Xiong Kewu's face was a little ugly, and he asked with an angry temperament: "Young marshal, our Fourth Division also has a great contribution in repelling the Sichuan-Yunnan army, do you have to force us like this?" ”

Wang Mo said unceremoniously: "There is no room for negotiation in this matter, and I absolutely cannot tolerate the existence of armed forces in Sichuan that are not controlled by the junta." You either lead your troops out of Sichuan, or you go to war with me! ”

Wang Mo said it categorically, Xiong Kewu could hear Wang Mo's determination, and knew that it was useless for him to say anything more.

"Our fourth division has left Sichuan!" Xiong Kewu dropped this sentence, snorted coldly, and then turned around and left.

Seeing that Xiong Kewu was forced to lead the Fourth Division out of Sichuan, Peng Guanglie and Sun Zhaoluan knew that they had no chance of being spared, and they were both depressed, so they had no choice but to go back to discuss the reorganization of the Sichuan Army with their henchmen and cronies.

Three days later, Xiong Kewu led the 4th Division of the Sichuan Army to leave Sichuan. went to Jiangxi to join Li Liejun.

Subsequently, the 3rd and 5th Divisions of the Sichuan Army formally accepted the comprehensive reorganization of the Sichuan Military Government. Peng Guanglie and Sun Zhaoluan were quite self-aware and knew that it would be difficult for them to pass the assessment of the military academy, so they chose to serve as the heads of the Chengdu and Chongqing security regiments respectively.

The entire Sichuan Army Corps has undergone a comprehensive reorganization. Downsized to four main field divisions. The commander of the first division was Hao Gang, the commander of the second division was Lu Dayong, the commander of the third division was Zhang Li, the commander of the fourth division was Ge Changchun, and the corps commander was Wang Mo.

Since then. The Sichuan military government completely controlled the entire armed forces of the whole of Sichuan, and the whole of Sichuan truly became a monolith. In another time and space, there is no possibility of the emergence of Sichuan, where there are many warlord factions and endless infighting.

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Chongqing, fertilizer plant.

After completing the reorganization of the Sichuan Army, Wang Mo rushed to the fertilizer factory that he had been extremely concerned about as soon as possible, because Lin Bowen informed him a few days ago that the first batch of fertilizer had been successfully produced.

When he came to the warehouse of the fertilizer factory, looking at the mountains of bags of fertilizer, Wang Mo walked over and opened the bags. grabbed a handful of fertilizer with his hand and looked at it, and asked Lin Bowen next to him, "Uncle, what kind of fertilizer is this?" ”

Lin Bowen replied: "Young marshal, this is phosphate fertilizer. It promotes tillering and early maturation of crops, thereby increasing yield and quality. We are chemical phosphate fertilizers, and it is not easy for people who have not studied chemistry to understand. However, there are also natural phosphate fertilizers, such as seabird droppings, animal bone meal and fish bone meal, which may be easier for you to understand. ”

Sea bird droppings, animal bone meal and fish bone meal turned out to be phosphate fertilizers, so it is much more vivid.

Wang Mo nodded. He also asked: "I heard that chemical fertilizer has certain requirements and differences for soil, has this phosphate fertilizer been tested in all parts of our Sichuan?" When it comes to the eating of our Sichuan people, we have to be cautious. ”

Lin Bowen said with a straight face: "Don't worry, young marshal, these few months." I sent test teams to various parts of Sichuan to carry out corresponding fertilization experiments. According to various statistics, there is absolutely no problem with the use of phosphate fertilizers. ”

Wang Mo patted his hands, wiped off the phosphate fertilizer on his hands, and said: "Since we have passed the fertilization test, let the fertilizer factory go all out to produce phosphate fertilizer." Supply to the whole of Sichuan as soon as possible. ”

"Okay, I will arrange for the fertilizer factory to work in shifts to step up the production of phosphate fertilizer, and we will ensure the supply of phosphate fertilizer in all parts of Sichuan." Lin Bowen was also a little excited, after all, this is likely to be the first large-scale use of chemical fertilizers in China, and it can be regarded as an epoch-making event.

With Lin Bowen's technical support, Wang Mo's financial support, and the military government's policy inclination, the production of the fertilizer plant was naturally extremely smooth, and bags of phosphate fertilizer were continuously produced and shipped to all parts of Sichuan.

Wang Mo breathed a sigh of relief after the successful application of chemical fertilizers, at least he felt that solving the problem of food and clothing for the people of Sichuan was much more important than any other problem.

It is believed that after the use of chemical fertilizers, as the food grows, the support of the Sichuan people for the current Sichuan military government will be higher than ever.

Half a month later, Wang Mo couldn't wait for the local governments to count and report on the use of chemical fertilizers, so he personally took Wang Erhu and several guards to the towns and villages in the suburbs of Chongqing to check the use of chemical fertilizers.

When he came to a small village under Shibang, Wang Mo saw the green wheat in the fields and the growth was extremely gratifying, and he was overjoyed, it seemed that most of the chemical fertilizers had played a role.

Just when Wang Mo was about to go to another place to take a look at the situation, he suddenly heard several croppers talking about fertilizer at the edge of the field, which made Wang Mo stop and prick up his ears to listen.

"Old Lu Tou, what's the matter, did your family also buy that phosphate fertilizer?"

"Hey, it's not, I'm afraid the family's money is going to be tight again this year."

"Dad, since the family's money is tight, then it's okay not to buy phosphate fertilizer, and you don't need to buy it anyway."

"Little donkey, you are really a donkey's head, those officials let your family buy it, do you dare not buy it? What can make crops grow better, phosphate fertilizer, hammer, not those who are in charge of the name to scrape money. ”

"No, how could the marshal and the young marshal let these people do this, in case this phosphate fertilizer is really useful?"

"What nonsense are you talking about, can you believe the words of the officials? Who's household is not farm fertilizer, what phosphate fertilizer, I have never heard of a deflated calf thing. ”

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After hearing these words, Wang Mo's face suddenly turned black as the bottom of a pot, he really didn't expect that the people below didn't believe in the role of phosphate fertilizer at all. He went to great lengths to promote phosphate fertilizers, but it was even considered to be scraping.

Without going anywhere else to check, Wang Mo could guess that no one would put phosphate fertilizer on his field at all.

It's no wonder that the people at the bottom, after all, the harvest in the field is related to the rations of their family, and no one will risk using phosphate fertilizer that they have never heard of.

We have to find a way to convince the people that phosphate fertilizer can indeed increase the yield of crops in the field, but what is the best way?

It is definitely not possible to come hard, because it will cause a large-scale conflict, and Wang Mo does not want to be drowned by the saliva of the Sichuan people.

What's the best way to do that?

Until Wang Mo returned home, he didn't come up with any good way to make the people at the bottom believe and take the initiative to use phosphate fertilizer.

At dinner, Wang Mo was still a little absent-minded.

Mrs. Wang, who kept serving Wang Mo's dishes, immediately noticed her son's strange appearance and asked, "Mo'er, what do you want to eat?" ”

Wang Mo was stunned and responded: "Oh, oh, it's nothing." ”

At this time, Wang Haoshan said to Wang Mo: "Mo'er, I heard from the people below that you are busy with those factories these days?" ”

"Hmm." Wang Mo nodded, still absentmindedly pulling the food in the bowl.

Wang Haoshan thought for a while, and then asked: "Mo'er, do you think you can vacate some easier positions in those factories and arrange for those old brothers in our Sichuan Army who are injured and can no longer stay in the army?" ”

"Oh." Wang Mo answered, and suddenly a vague thought crossed his mind, which made him suddenly come back to his senses and ask, "Father, what did you just say?" ”

Wang Haoshan frowned and looked at his absent-minded son, and repeated: "I said, can you free up some not very heavy work in those factories, and arrange some old brothers of the Sichuan army who were injured and left the army." ”

Wang Mo's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed in surprise: "Yes, retired Sichuan soldiers after being injured, they can help!" ”

Hearing his son's answer, Wang Haoshan said with some displeasure: "What do you mean by this, if you can't arrange it, I will let the military government use an administrative order to forcibly arrange it." ”

"Father, that's not what I meant." Wang Mo hurriedly said, "It is not very suitable to arrange some easy jobs in the factory to arrange wounded and retired veterans, and there are not many people." Father, you say, what if we old brothers from the Sichuan Army were allowed to go to the countryside to become village officials? ”

"Village officer? What do you mean? Wang Haoshan asked puzzled.

Wang Mo smiled slightly and explained: "It is to be the village head, responsible for handling disputes in the village, as well as conveying and explaining the orders of the military government to the villagers, and their monthly salary is borne by the local government. For the job of the village chief, even if those old brothers of the Sichuan army have inconvenient legs and feet, they are definitely competent. ”

Wang Haoshan groaned and asked: "In order to accommodate our veterans of the Sichuan Army who were injured and left the army, is it feasible to set up the position of village chief in the following villages?" ”

After more than a year of exploration and study, Wang Haoshan has become a bit of a politician, and understands that no administrative position can be established or abolished at will, which involves complex interests.

As a later generation, how could Wang Mo not understand the role of the village chief, and scattering those wounded and retired veterans of the Sichuan army to serve as village chiefs would definitely greatly strengthen the Sichuan military government's control over the localities.

For example, in the current promotion and application of phosphate fertilizer, if there is a village chief to explain and take the lead in demonstrating in each village, I believe that the people will gradually accept phosphate fertilizer.

"It's decided, send all our wounded and retired Sichuan Army veterans to serve as village heads! The local government below has to accept it if it doesn't accept it, I want to see who dares to come out and jump! Wang Mo's eyes are fierce, if anyone dares to stand up and get in the way, he will definitely not mind cleaning up the local governments in Sichuan. (To be continued.) )