Wang Yongan likes the Sichuan army very much, he very much wants to take the Sichuan army as his own, especially in Sichuan and Chongqing, the population in the late Qing Dynasty has been close to 100 million, this is a huge advantage, you must know that the total population of Xikang is only one million, and the neighboring Sichuan population can provide him with a great productivity. With such a huge resource in front of Wang Yongan, how could he not be tempted. The reason why he racked his brains to deal with the Sichuan warlords was to take Sichuan for himself, and although Li Shirui was not the most suitable candidate, he was the only candidate at this moment.

As the most capable general of the Jiangbei Army, Li Shirui, known as the Jiangbei Tiger, will inevitably form a guard regiment with the most capable army. Li Shirui understands that in any way he can't refuse this "big gift", first, accepting this big gift means that he is still a member of the Jiangbei department, and he can enjoy all aspects of the Jiangbei department's care, second, he needs these 3,000 descendants to protect his life, and third, if he refuses to accept this big gift, it will let the Sichuan army see that he is helpless, and even he went to Sichuan only to become a showman.

Li Shirui accepted the 3,000 troops very gratefully, and the head of the guard regiment was Li Shirui's confidant Duan Changhu, who also came out recently, and Duan Changhu was a native of Xuzhou, studied at the Jiangbei Army Non-commissioned Officer School for two years, and belonged to the Jiangbei generals who were rooted in Miao Hong. One of the most heroic things this monarch did was to lead a company of 100 men to chase the British Indian soldiers all the way to the northeastern Indian gang adjacent to Zangnan, and saw a group of Naga people who looked very much like Chinese. After seeing that the other party looked exactly like themselves, the Naga immediately turned their guns and attacked the Indians, destroying the Indian army all the time. After Duan Changhu gave all the weapons and ammunition of India to the Naga, he led the army to withdraw, and made the corpses of the Indians along the national border into road signs, and wrote "If you commit a strong man, you will be punished even if you are far away".

Afterwards, Li Shirui couldn't help but laugh and say that you don't know how to teach in the Jiangbei Army Non-commissioned Officer School, you can't write any words, Duan Changhu explained that the Army Non-commissioned Officer School does not teach literacy, but only teaches command and marching combat skills. The Jiangbei Army Non-commissioned Officer School is divided into two departments, one is the non-commissioned officer department, and the other is the officer department. However, the Jiangbei Army Non-commissioned Officer School is not a primary school, and the students recruited must be literate, Duan Changhu is not very literate, but his score in military skills is very high, and he was admitted to the school exceptionally, and graduated from the non-commissioned officer department with the first place in the military.

With Duan Changhu helping Li Shirui, it also made Li Shirui feel a lot more at ease. The next day, Li Shirui took 3,000 Jiangbei soldiers to bid farewell to his comrades-in-arms and embarked on the road to Chengdu, while Wang Yongan continued to bury himself in the construction of Xikang.

However, just one day later, Wang Yongan suddenly received an urgent distress telegram from Yu Yadong, the prime minister of San Lucaste, in which the new Mexican President Huerta strongly demanded that the San Lucaste district immediately hand over its weapons, ban autonomy, and demand that the United States not use San Lucas as a springboard to provide arms sales to the Americas.

After receiving the telegram, Wang Yongan was frightened into a cold sweat, unlike the previous telegram he received, this time the Mexican government made it clear that it was going to take action against San Lucas.

The status and role of St. Lucas are self-evident, that is Wang Yongan's last hole card, now lost Jiangbei, shrinking in such a barren place as Xikang and Xizang, if St. Lucas loses again, Wang Yongan will return to zero starting point for so many years.

He could hardly believe that a good political leader would solve the problem with such a tough attitude, but considering Huerta's consistent attitude, it is not difficult to imagine that this person is not unable to do this, because this year, he will do two horrific things, the first is the public execution of former Mexican Vice President Pino, and the second is because Huerta shut down and nationalized the companies of the American consortium in Mexico, and the US government and the Mexican government officially went to war.

Huerta dares to go to war with the United States, let alone a little St. Lucas, Wang Yongan is not worried that he is an old fox, after all, the old fox can still be reasonable, and both sides use their own schemes, but Huerta is different, he is a madman, a madman, he can do things that others can't do, and he can think of things that others can't think of.

The public execution of Pino, who is the vice president of Mexico but whose identity is an American, is a crazy thing he did. Because Mexico recognizes dual citizenship, and Pino is a person with dual citizenship of the United States and Mexico, it is precisely because of Pino's American identity that Madero, who overthrew the pro-American Díaz, was not directly killed by the Americans. Although Madero is also a nationalist, he skillfully uses Pino's relationship with the U.S. government to win over the U.S. government, so although this Pino is vice president, he has only one role, that is, to be the link between the U.S. government and the Mexican government.

The reason for Huerta's execution of Pinault was that the U.S. government refused to accept the Mexican government's plan to buy the U.S. consortium's petroleum, chemical, steel, agricultural and other enterprises in Mexico, after all, Huerta paid 5% of the market price and paid in Mexican pesos, which made the U.S. government acceptable. In order to warn the U.S. government, Huerta decided to execute Pinault, and it was a public execution, as a warning to the U.S. government to accept his offer.

However, there is a fork in the road here, and that is that the appearance of San Lucas has not focused Huerta entirely on the United States, and for him, the answer to the question of which is more likely to get the fanatical Mexicans to support him, the acquisition of the American consortium or the recovery of San Lucas. Nothing compares to the glory of recovering the territory, and it is not that Huerta does not want to confiscate American companies, and if these companies are confiscated, Huerta will be able to get at least a billion dollars in assets, so for Huerta, the confiscation of American companies is imperative. It is estimated that the total assets of St. Lucas have also reached $100 million, especially the role of the St. Lucas Arsenal as an agent processor for the overseas sales of US military enterprises, and this role cannot be replaced for the time being.

At this time, European countries launched an unprecedented arms race, and Britain, Germany, France, and Italy focused their main efforts on the naval arms race, so the development and investment in the army was correspondingly much reduced. Although the Americans are constrained by the isolation policy and cannot sell to the outside world, through the springboard of St. Lucas, the US military industrial complex can maintain the current level of production. In fact, there is no one who wants war in Europe more than the Americans, and once there is a war in Europe, the US government will lift the ban on the sale of American military enterprises.

Wang Yongan did not doubt that Huerta would be able to make this decision, so he was very uneasy, and this uneasiness made him almost lose his head overnight, whether to do his best to save San Lucas. Once San Lucas is fully rescued, it will inevitably delay the development of Jiangbei in Xikang.

Wang Yongan's heart is full of contradictions, he can't help but save St. Lucas, but to what extent, can his rescue work, if he puts everything into rescuing St. Lucas, but in the end he can't save St. Lucas, then can he afford this failure?

But if it is not saved, then St. Lucas may really become a history, a tragic history like the Republic of Lanfang, and the vast majority of Chinese in St. Lucas today have immigrated because of their own role. In four years, five million people from Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhili crossed the ocean with their own support and established the San Lucaste district on a barren land. Where is the conscience?

The question now is whether to keep your capital and power at home, or to keep San Lucas and the five million immigrants there.

If he stays in China, Wang Yongan feels that he can change China's history, maybe save China with a population of 400 million, maybe change China. If you go all out to save San Lucas, you may be able to save five million Chinese now, but you may also have all your wealth and nothing.

"It's hard to choose, it's hard to choose, I'm not a fucking virgin, but I'm not a selfish person." Wang Yongan sat on a chair in the attic of the Overseer's Mansion, his head full of thoughts. He would even guess a question, once he left Xikang, wouldn't this Xikang be someone else's? He would even think that once he couldn't return to China in three or two years, Xikang must keep someone who could hold the situation to replace him.

"It would be nice if Zhang Jian was here...... Wang Yongan smiled bitterly, but it is impossible to think about it, Zhang Jian was at least the governor of Liangjiang in the former Qing Dynasty, how could he be a Xikang overseer. Wang Yongan looked around and now only had two people under his command who were suitable to be the new overseers, Luo Yinxian and Feng Heng, but Luo Yinxian's military ability was far weaker than his internal affairs ability, and Feng Heng did not understand production and construction at all.

"Neither of these two people are suitable." Wang Yongan said to himself, "What about the others, Li Yao doesn't understand military affairs at all, and this person is not willing to take on too many heavy responsibilities, no, no." This Lee Jo-sik ...... Huh? Lee Jo-sik! Wang Yongan patted his thigh, how could he forget Li Zuzhi, Li Zuzhi was alone in Xuzhou for two years, not only did not let Beiyang take any advantage militarily, but also made his contribution to the development of Xuzhou. Although Li Zuzhi did not participate in the development and construction of Xuzhou as the commander of the Xuzhou garrison because he required officers not to interfere in politics at that time, Li Zuzhi also used his ability to influence the construction of Xuzhou, making Xuzhou a railway hub and fortress, especially his army did not affect the economic construction of Xuzhou, which is really valuable.

"It's Li Zuzhi." Wang Yongan booked the candidate, and his mood was much more comfortable, and Suo Ling'er, the life secretary behind him, pushed open the door, smelled a smell of smoke, and said in surprise: "Fourth son, don't you smoke?" ”