Hangzhou Prison holds all political prisoners, war criminals, and economic prisoners in East China's autonomous political axe, among which political prisoners and economic prisoners are the largest.

Most of the political prisoners are corrupt officials, but they are not so corrupt that they want to be shot, but most of the corrupt officials end up being shot. Economic criminals, on the other hand, are businessmen who maliciously disrupt the market, and a large number of them have also been arrested.

The war criminals were Feng Guozhang, Chen Qimei, Huang Xing, and some other Kuomintang elements who responded to the Second Revolution.

All those criminals whose crimes were extremely heinous and did a great deal of harm to society were all taken away and shot.

At this time, these prisoners were looking forward to the victory of the East China Army every day, because they could reduce their sentences if they won the battle, and the last time the East China Army won the battle in Shandong, they reduced their sentences by one-fifth.

The devil knows how much he will lose if he wins the battle next time, but if he wins a big battle, he will definitely reduce his sentence a lot.

The prison is not too sad, the saddest thing is the embezzlers, they are engaged in manual labor all day long, but they are still passable!

If the offence is less serious, there is a lot of time for cultural activities.

In prison, they were given calligraphy classes and other cultural activities, and they had nothing to do in the prison, except to practice calligraphy and painting.

Recently, Feng Guozhang wrote a sub-word, which reads - his life is determined to have food and clothing!

This handwriting is good, and he won a first prize in a calligraphy competition outside, for which Feng Guozhang also won the model award issued by the prison.

The development of these cultural activities has made these prisoners cultivate their surnames well, and now most of them can calm down.

Poetry is also an important part of cultural activities, and some of the most cultured prisoners like to do poetry in prison, so some good poems have emerged, but the content is embarrassing, and many of them are dissatisfied, and they have left it up to them.

Another important recreation in the prison is reading newspapers and listening to the radio.

Judging from these things, the East China Autonomous Political Axe is now living very well, which makes many prisoners lose hope that the East China Autonomous Political Axe will be destroyed.

Like Huang Xing and Chen Qimei, they don't expect Sun Cannon to come to their rescue, and now there is constant strife within the Chinese Revolutionary Party, and the party members have long been scattered, and Sun Cannon has even gone to the United States.

Feng Guozhang, who hopes the most, no longer has any hope for the Beiyang political axe, Feng Guozhang understands that the old man has given him up.

Duan Qirui often wrote to him, and Duan Qirui told him in the letter that now the old man may be the emperor, and if the crown prince is on the throne in the future, his son will be even more unhappy. However, Duan Qirui also said in the letter that he had no hope that the old man would be called emperor.

Now the only hope they can have for commutation is that the East China Army wins, and if it wins a big battle, then it can also be commuted, and maybe there will be an amnesty for the world.

…… In late May, as soon as Liu Xiaoguo's half-moon holiday was over, he immediately went to the military headquarters to report and took up the post of commander of the Xinjiang Provincial Reinforcement Division, and immediately went to Xinjiang Province to preside over military operations.

The commander of a reinforced division, when the news was announced, greatly surprised Liu Xiaoguo.

Before leaving, the chairman told him an eight-character recipe - a tooth for a tooth, and blood for blood!

This is the iron-blooded policy of the East China Autonomous Government in Xinjiang Province, and any unrestful forces that participate in the massacre of Han people will be wiped out in Xinjiang Province.

When Liu Xiaoguo went to Xinjiang Province, he also brought his new wife, who met from a tea party, and then the two got married in a flash, and the other party's parents did not object, the captain of the East China Army! This is a very promising thing to say, even if it is feudal, it will blossom.

The Xinjiang Provincial Reinforced Division was a temporary patchwork division, but the quality of the officers and men was acceptable, and Liu Xiaoguo took the personnel of one division on the train.

The train can go all the way to Gansu, and after arriving in Gansu, you need to rely on the car.

In the past, taking the train was a very risky thing, because there were often robbers staring at the train, and people sighed: "It's hard to walk." ”

But now the railway built by the East China Autonomous Political Axe, which one dares to rob it without opening its eyes? At present, the East China Autonomous Government is cracking down on bandits everywhere, especially along the railway lines, and it is even more important to eliminate them.

The reinforced division arrived in Lanzhou, Gansu Province very smoothly, and after getting off the train, it changed into a car, and the motorized equipment of the reinforced division was also prepared, and a warehouse was built in Lanzhou.

On the way, you can see that the engineering team organized by the Ministry of Construction is stepping up the construction of the railway, and it is about to be repaired to Xinjiang Province.

"It turns out that the railroad has been built so far." Liu Xiaoguo sighed, three years ago, there were not many railways in China! Now it is about to be repaired to Xinjiang Province, and the railway network in the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Province has been basically perfected, and the railways in Lianghu and Sichuan have also been repaired very quickly, but Liu Xiaoguo has no time to see it.

After a few days of bumpy road, he passed a long and narrow road that was the only one built by the East China Army when it entered Xinjiang Province, and finally arrived in the Tianshan area.

Liu Xiaoguo also came with administrative personnel, and the military and political aspects have nothing to do with each other, but the administration is based on force, so it needs the cooperation of the Xinjiang Provincial Reinforcement Division.

The first step to do is to let the administrative department establish the administrative system, and then set up the armed forces department and distribute weapons and equipment to the Han people for self-protection, so that the task of the East China Army will be much easier.

The horse bandits in Xinjiang Province were very rampant, and even the military logistics convoy dared to rob it, but it never succeeded. When Liu Xiaoguo learned of this news, he hurriedly dispatched personnel to strengthen the protection of the logistics troops, and in a few days the 200,000 guns of all kinds would be delivered.

After the Han people of Xinjiang Province learned the news of the increase of troops in Xinjiang Province by the East China Army, they couldn't help but be enthusiastic, since the Xinhai Revolution, they said that they were very worried, not to mention how dangerous it was.

The first thing Liu Xiaoguo rectified was the northern Xinjiang region north of the Tianshan Mountains, which was more suitable for agricultural development and could form a production corps.

The second thing to rectify was the area south of the heavens, but before the rectification, troops were still sent to protect the Han people, but they did not use the sword against those reactionary forces.

The East China Army began to sweep the northern Xinjiang region on a large scale, and because of the large number of troops, the extremely strong mobility, and the Han people as the mass base, the sweep was very fast.

However, the purging of those reactionary forces was only part of Liu Xiaoguo's task, and the other part of the task was to protect the construction of the railway and to set up military facilities in Xinjiang Province to prepare for the next military operation.

Over the years, it has become clear that Xinjiang Province has become very different, and some groups there have plummeted to the point where they are almost impossible to find.

For this reason, the East China Political Axe claimed that it was caused by the mistake of some [***] officials in carrying out the order, and as for which [***] official, the spokesman of the East China Autonomous Political Axe was speechless for a while, and then explained that because too much time had passed, it was difficult to investigate what happened at that time.

However, some people still found that it was not the hands of the administrative department at that time, but the East China Army, and the administrative department just carried the black pot............ After East China sent troops into Xinjiang Province, Xia Jun changed the name of Xinjiang Province to the name of the Tang Dynasty - Western Regions in Hangzhou, and restored the Tang Dynasty's Luntai City in Xinjiang Province, and used Luntai as the administrative center of the Western Regions.

This action of the East China Autonomous Political Axe makes the Beiyang Political Axe not very happy, this is obviously a matter of the central government! Your local political axe has crossed the line again.

It is an indisputable fact that the status of the East China Autonomous Political Axe in the international community surpasses that of the Beiyang Political Axe, and now the two political axes of Beiyang and East China, although nominally unified, but in fact there is a pattern of equal division of the world, and the local and central governments are not very clear now, and how much power is in the hands of the East China Autonomous Political Axe, such as the gendarmerie, supervision, and anti-narcotics...... Moreover, the East China Autonomous Political Axe is now fighting with Yueben, and the good words of the East China Autonomous Political Axe are almost over, and the Beiyang Political Axe is still full of confidence in Yueben.

In addition, Yuan Shikai also wooed Lu Rongting in Guangxi, and if he wanted to deal with the political axe in East China, one south and one north.

At this time, there were basically very few local warlords in China, and Lu Rongting was one of the few.

At the time of the Xinhai Revolution, the whole [***] valve was everywhere, forming a big warlord Xia Jun with Fujian, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang provinces as the territory.

The Kuomintang occupying Jiangsu, Anhui, and Guangdong provinces was dominated by three warlords, Hu Hanmin, Bai Wenwei, and Cheng Quande, and the Kuomintang factional warlords collapsed in the Second Revolution. Jiangsu, Anhui, and Guangdong were all occupied by the East China Autonomous Axe.

Yan Xishan, who occupied Shanxi, was attached to the East China Autonomous Axe like Chen Jiongming in Guangdong, and became the East China faction, which occupied seven provinces.

Li Yuanhong from Hubei was tricked into Yanjing by Yuan Shikai and is under house arrest at this time!

Hunan's Tan Yanmin joined the category of the Second Revolution, and also fell in the Second Revolution, and then took refuge in the concessions of Qingdao and Shanghai.

Sichuan was previously divided into two military and political axes, and later Xiong Kewu served as the governor of Sichuan, and then the Second Revolution had a major war with Hu Jingyi, Yunnan, and Guizhou armies, and Xiong Kewu fell. However, Xiong Kewu still occupies territory in Sichuan and has not faded out of the list of warlords. At the same time, the Beiyang political axe also controls some areas of Sichuan.

After the Beiyang political axe implemented the separation of military and government, the Feng department became the object of killing chickens to monkeys, and the East China and Beiyang coalition forces fought with the Feng army in the Shanhaiguan area, and Zhang Zuolin fell.

At this time, the three northeastern provinces were under the management of Beiyang Zhengaxe, but the garrison was the East China Army, and the Beiyang Army only controlled Shanhaiguan.

After the fall of Zhang Zuolin, the separation of military and government from Beiyang was carried out extremely smoothly, because East China supported Beiyang political axe to carry out military and political separation, and few of the two largest military groups in China could stop the oligarchy that was carried out together.

Later, the Beiyang political axe occupied Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Chahar, Tuyuan, Rehe, Gansu, Ningxia, and Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces, which had no administrative garrison.

After calculation, the Beiyang political axe is fifteen provinces, and there are still southwestern warlords in the three provinces of Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi in the south.

Last year, the Sino-Shandong War broke out, and the East China Autonomous Government occupied Shandong in the name of warfare.

At this time, the territory of the East China Autonomous Political Axe rose to eight provinces, while the territory of the Beiyang Political Axe was reduced to fourteen provinces, and many of the other fourteen provinces were economically backward areas.

If Xinjiang Province is added, the territory of East China's autonomous political axe rises to nine provinces, and the difference between the two sides in terms of provinces alone is only five provinces.

Therefore, at present, in terms of population, the Beiyang political axe does not have an advantage. In terms of military strength, it is even less dominant. From the perspective of economic and financial resources, the territory of the East China Autonomous Political Axe is mostly in the coastal areas, and it is the entire Chinese customs control in the hands, and the economic and financial resources are not comparable at all, and the East China Autonomous Political Axe is much stronger than the Beiyang Political Axe in this regard.

No matter how stupid Yuan Shikai is now, he can see that Xia Jun does not seem to be so good and unambitious on the surface, but has adopted an expansion strategy of step-by-step and gradual encroachment.

However, the relationship between the two sides is quite passable, at least the political leeway is fully reserved, and even if one side destroys the other, there is no concern for personal safety.

And Yuan Shikai is still uncertain about what kind of route he will take in the future, but if he continues to develop with this trend, it is likely to develop into a confederation of China.

However, it is said that Ben and the East China Autonomous Political Axe have started a war, which means that the Beiyang Political Axe may overwhelm the East China Autonomous Political Axe in the future, but Yuan Shikai does not dare to engage in small actions.

Now that all the people are staring at Shandong, if he Yuan Shikai dares to fall behind his back, he will immediately be ruined, so he should be a soy sauce party obediently! By the way, it's okay to wave the flag and shout a few times.

At this time, the power of the East China political axe is developing very fast, and the defeat in Shandong does not mean that the association will invade China on a large scale, so Yuan Shikai is very calm, it is best for them to fight to the death, and he will enjoy the throne.

Yuan Shikai's mentality is very similar to that of the Yankees, and the American political axe is based on commercial interests, hoping that the East China Autonomous Political Axe and the Eastern China Political Axe will be mired in war. Perhaps the United States will not only be able to withdraw the East China Autonomous Government from the market competition, but also pull their arms orders!

At present, it is true that Ben has sent an arms order to the United States and completely withdrawn from the ranks of making war money, but the East China Autonomous Political Axe has still not withdrawn from market competition, but has intensified its competition with the United States.

It was something that the American political axe never expected, is it because the pressure is not strong enough? Moreover, the volume of arms exports is even greater than that of the United States, and according to intelligence, the East China political axe not only sells the fire of the Entente, but also sells the fire of the Alliance, which is really incomprehensible.

This made the US political axe begin to question how stupid it was to provide political aid to the East China autonomous political axe in the first place, and Totav became the scapegoat.

But in fact, Totaugh did not give much aid to the East China Autonomous Axe, but Wilson provided a political loan. Totav was more of a political aid, but it was also to confront the United States against the original intention.

Now that the original intention has been achieved, the United States has also withdrawn from the contradiction between the United States and the United States, and it has to ask the United States, but the competition with the East China Autonomous Political Axe has appeared again, which is nothing more than turning the two sides upside down, although the competition between the East China Autonomous Political Axe and the United States is purely commercial, but this is more unhappy than the competition between the United States and the United States, and it is all money!

Moreover, in terms of mutual investment between the two sides, it seems that the East China Autonomous Government has the upper hand, and many enterprises in the East China Autonomous Government have made good profits from their investments in the United States, while the American enterprises in China seem to be immortal.

After changing the name of Xinjiang Province, Xia Jun announced that the Western Regions would be incorporated into the autonomous scope of the East China Autonomous Political Axe, plus the Western Regions would be eight provinces, and there was also a takeover of Shandong, which was nominally eight provinces, but in fact nine provinces.

Although the size and area of the nine provinces are not as large as those of the central government, they actually have an overwhelming advantage over the central government in every aspect.

Xia Jun's encroachment policy has initially reached a certain scale, and Xia Jun no longer needs to worry about anything, and the future encroachment plan will be simpler.

To this end, the East China Autonomous Government formulated a plan to unify the whole country within three years, and the key to the plan was to win the war against Shandong.

In Xia Jun's view, Yuan Shikai currently wants to be the emperor, and it is only a matter of time before he falls.

…… In mid-June, the Yanjing Council presented a letter of advice to Yuan Shikai, asking Yuan Shikai to conform to the will of the people, ascend to the imperial throne, and rule the world with the palm of the artifact...... Yuan Shikai repeatedly postponed, and the parliament repeatedly admonished.

On June 23, Yuan Shikai sent a telegram, and what was in the message: "At the request of the people, I am giving an artifact...... Although I was terrified...... However, the will of the people must not be violated...... The enthronement ceremony of the thirteenth line of July is scheduled for ......"

Xia Jun received the telegram and wondered, why was it July 13th?

Wasn't that the day he was born?

And according to the original history, Yuan Shikai should have ascended the throne in December, so much earlier, which naturally surprised Xia Jun.

When Zhang Taiyan learned the news, he immediately came to see Xia Jun, and when he saw Xia Jun, he said to him: "Chairman of the Committee, Yuan Thief has sinister intentions, and he set the enthronement ceremony as July 13, but he wants to suppress my luck in East China. ”

"Uh......" Xia Jun was a little stunned, and asked in disbelief: "Isn't it a coincidence?" ”

"Naturally not, although outsiders don't know the specific date of birth of the chairman, but it is still clear on which day, how can it be so coincidental?" Zhang Taiyan explained to Xia Jun.

"Huh! Let him go! Xia Jun was happy, and said indifferently, "If he really wants to suppress me, it will probably be thankless!" ”

"What the chairman said is good, this time Yuan is just asking for his own hardships." Zhang Taiyan said calmly, in his opinion, Xia Jun is the real hidden dragon, he Yuan Shikai is just a pseudo-dragon, and with a rush of luck, he Yuan Shikai must be asking for hardship.

From the perspective of Zhang Taiyan's traditional Chinese studies, at this time, the hearts of the people in East China have gathered, the people have returned to their hearts, and the strength of the minds of tens of millions of people and the fierceness of karma have never been seen in ancient times.

This karma is good karma, not bad karma. In Western terms, it is a matter of faith, and the core theory involved is that thinking can generate energy, and that wishes come true are completely existent, and according to some surveys of Westerners, most of those who are extremely successful are people with strong faith.

When the thoughts of countless people in a country are developing in a good direction, then the country's luck is no longer something that ordinary things can stop.

At the same time, this is also the reason why morale has been so emphasized in various wars in ancient and modern China and foreign countries, although these things cannot determine everything, and full of self-confidence can easily lead people down the wrong path and become a prelude to destruction, but it is also a force to be reckoned with.

(To be continued)