After the construction of the city's drainage system was completed, Wang Yongan felt that the number of 100,000 soldiers and civilians was insufficient, and began to recruit the surrounding Kham and Han people to participate in the construction. Great chaos is great governance, and war brings destruction, but it also leads to new things, especially the land around Kangding City has become terra nullius.

As the supreme governor of the Sichuan Special Region, Wang Yongan could not confiscate other people's land casually, if he hadn't been cut down by the rebels, I am afraid that the Tusi of these lands would have jumped out long ago. When Wang Yongan recruited infrastructure workers, people from Sichuan Province also rushed to Kangding City, some to transport grain, some to transport cattle and sheep, and some to do business.

The large-scale infrastructure construction in Kangding City has made the entire Chuanbian Special District full of vitality, and the construction site is in full swing, with nearly 300,000 people engaged in the construction of the city.

Wang Yongan sighed with emotion - the special labor is too cheap, a construction worker only has food and housing a month, and the monthly salary is two taels of silver, is there anything cheaper than this?

In March, the construction of the main road of Kangding's urban contour was completed, and the five east-west avenues and five north-south avenues divided the entire city into several areas, and the road width of each main road was 20 meters, which can be said to be a rare spacious road in this era - of course, it would be good if you ignored that the streets were all stone roads. In mid-April, after the completion of the construction of the city's basic roads, Wang Yongan applied to the central government to change the Sichuanbian Special Region to Xikang Province, and after thinking about it, Yuan Shikai agreed to withdraw the district and establish the province, naming it Xikang Province, and Wang Yongan served as the superintendent of Xikang Province in recognition of his contribution to quelling the rebellion in the Xikang and Xizang regions. Subsequently, Wang Yongan immediately appointed Luo Yinxian to be promoted to the governor of Xikang Province, Xu Yang to serve as the civil governor of Xikang Province, and Yang Shouzhu to serve as the mayor of Kangding City.

Wang Yongan was in a good mood, because he was busy with the construction of Xikang Province, he had long forgotten everything outside, and even ignored the most important thing at the moment, Sun Yat-sen finally launched the second revolution and led the revolutionary army to fight against Yuan. However, the excuse for the second revolution was not the assassination of Song Jiaoren, but Yuan Shikai's borrowing from the banks of the four countries to develop the country's economy.

In fact, the central government did not have much money, and after allocating the money to Wang Yongan, it acquired a lot of shares in the Zhonghua Industrial Bank, which caused a serious financial deficit of the central government, and Yuan Shikai had to borrow money from outside the country in order for the central government to operate normally, and even had to borrow from the banks of the four countries for military salaries. However, the news of Yuan Shikai's borrowing from the Four Nations Bank spread far and wide, and the governors of the southern provinces immediately opposed it, and Li Liejun, the governor of Jiangxi, Hu Hanmin, the governor of Guangdong, and Bai Wenwei, the governor of Anhui Province, took the lead in sending telegrams opposing the borrowing from the Four Nations Bank.

They don't have a backache when they stand and talk, local taxes are meager, and the central government needs to spend too much on the local government, how can Yuan Shikai borrow money from foreigners if he has money? But how can the government survive without borrowing money? In fact, this is related to the living habits of the Chinese, the Chinese government has always been not accustomed to fiscal deficits, Li Liejun and others see the fiscal deficit and think how the central government is corrupt, but forget that what Yuan Shikai inherited itself is a mess full of holes.

Accused by the local government, President Yuan Shikai was angry and dismissed Li Liejun as the governor of Jiangxi, Hu Hanmin as the governor of Guangdong, and Bai Wenwei as the governor of Anhui Province, and at the same time ordered the Sixth Division of the National Defense Force (formerly the Sixth Division of the Beiyang Army) to garrison Jiangxi. Seeing Yuan Shikai pressing forward step by step, Li Liejun was furious and set up an army to fight against Yuan at Hukou and officially declared the independence of Jiangxi.

At the end of April, when the Sixth Division of the National Defense Force had not yet arrived in Jiangxi, Li Liejun led his army into southern Jiangsu and announced his support for Sun Yat-sen as the president, and Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu, as the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army. However, Cheng Dequan knew that it would not be possible to fight against Yuan's army, and now that the national defense force that merged the Jiangbei Army and the Beiyang Army was strong, who could stop him, he immediately expressed his resoluteness not to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, and fled back to the Shanghai concession, resolutely not serving Yuan's army.

However, Cheng Dequan was unwilling to take office, but some people were willing to take office, and the former governor of Anhui Province, Bai Wenwei, the governor of Shanghai, Chen Qimei, the governor of Hunan Province, Tan Yanhong, the governor of Hunan Province, Xu Chongzhi, the governor of Fujian, and Xiong Kewu of Sichuan, immediately declared independence and joined the Yuan army.

The Republic of China, which had just been unified for less than a year, immediately fell into division.

At this time, Wang Yongan, who was immersed in the construction of Xikang Province, received a telegram from Sun Yat-sen, who persuaded him to join the Yuan army to avenge Song Jiaoren and destroy the dictator.

Wang Yongan couldn't help laughing, and took Sun Yat-sen's telegram and said to his subordinates: "Sun Tiedao is crazy, what reason does he have to crusade against Yuan Shikai, I think their group of revolutionary parties are angry when they see that they have not received benefits, and we must not support it." ”

"So what do we do now?" Feng Heng hurriedly asked.

Wang Yongan said: "Support the central government, electrify, and crusade against separatists." By the way, Liu Tong, give you three days to build the Xikang Provincial Grand Court, and convict Li Liejun, Bai Wenwei, Chen Qimei and others of treason and sentence them to life imprisonment. ”

Liu Tong hurriedly said: "The court is easy to build, but who will be the judge?" ”

Wang Yongan thought for a while and said: "Wei Daofeng, Wei Daofeng will serve as the judge of the Xikang Provincial Grand Court. ”

The next day, Liu Tong, deputy governor of the Xikang Provincial Governor's Office, issued a telegram with Xikang Province on behalf of the Zhenbian Army, saying that Xikang Province resolutely opposes separatism and supports national reunification, and accuses some people of separatizing the country under various pretexts regardless of national interests and trying to be the emperor of the soil and the sinners of the Chinese nation through the ages.

Three days later, Wei Daofeng, chief judge of the Xikang Provincial Grand Court, issued a telegram to the public, in which the Xikang Provincial Grand Court ruled that 27 people, including Governor Bai Wenwei, Shanghai Governor Chen Qimei, Hunan Provincial Governor Tan Yanhong, Fujian Governor Xu Chongzhi, and Sichuan Xiong Kewu, had committed the crime of separatism and would be sentenced to life imprisonment.

It can be said that Wang Yongan's support gave Yuan Shikai a lot of confidence, and what he was most worried about was that the Jiangbei army also joined the Yuan army, although he had the ability to quell all rebellions, but Wang Yongan's Jiangbei army was famous and had the nickname of the Changsheng army, and he was not willing to fight with the Jiangbei army. At this time, Wang Yongan clearly supported Yuan Shikai against the Second Revolution, let him relax, and immediately ordered all departments of the National Defense Force to launch an attack on Yuan's army.

After learning of Wang Yongan's telegram, the various departments of Yuan Jun were immediately frightened enough, especially Chen Qimei immediately sent a telegram to Wang Yongan, begging him not to participate in this matter. But Wang Yongan said to Chen Qimei: "You and I have a very close personal relationship, but you and I should make a clear distinction between public and private, and the second revolution is not a revolution, but a move to split the country." If Brother Ince admits his mistake, I may ask the central government to pardon him. ”

After receiving the telegram, Chen Qimei was furious, threw the telegram on the ground and shouted: "Lao Tzu doesn't believe it, without you Zhang Butcher, I still have to eat pigs with hair?" Fight with Yuan Shikai, see if I win the world, what does he Wang Jingyun say. ”