After the end of the Sino-Chinese War, the East China Political Axe recovered Tibet Province and Outer Mongolia in one fell swoop, and reached administrative and institutional unity with the Beiyang Political Axe, and the situation in China quickly stabilized.

At this time, except for the two southwestern provinces, which are still free from the system of East China's political axe, other provinces have begun to be included in the system of East China's political axe, and there are two political axes, each responsible for the financial budget and expenditure of the provinces under its jurisdiction.

The two southwestern provinces were controlled by the two southwestern warlords Lu Rongting and Liu Shixian at this time, and they were simply the emperors of the soil in these two provinces.

Xia Jun, who recovered Tibet and Mongolia, shifted his attention to the two southwestern provinces and swallowed these two provinces, even if the East China political axe completely controlled southern China, and the Beiyang political axe controlled the northern provinces of China.

"Chairman of the National Committee, we have just recovered Outer Mongolia, and at this time we are using force against the southwest non-stop, will it cause any public opinion that is unfavorable to us?" Tao Chengzhang, as one of Xia Jun's advisers, has some concerns about the immediate use of force against the southwest, and there is nothing to fight abroad, but under the frequent use of force, he targets the warlords in the southwest, and it is very likely that he will be accused of annexing dissidents.

"Our determination to annex the southwest is unstoppable by anyone." Xia Jun said indifferently: "At present, China is nothing more than East China, Beiyang and Southwest, and the Beiyang political axe has become our puppet, and as soon as the southwest warlords are destroyed, China will completely enter our jurisdiction." ”

Zhang Taiyan said with a smile: "The annexation of the southwest is just a gesture, Lu Rongting and Liu Shixian's handles are a lot of hands on our hands, as long as they use the media to build momentum, they will naturally fall." ”

"Go and call Bai Wensheng." Xia Jun nodded and said.

Bai Wensheng, the head of the Military Intelligence Bureau, naturally has a lot of Lu Rongting and Liu Shixian in his hands, these two emperors are powerful in the southwest, and they have done a lot of messy things.

…… Guizhou warlord Liu Shixian, Guangxi warlord Lu Rongting.

These words have been frequently reported in the newspapers, and various scandals about the two have been exposed one after another, and the major media have described the two as warlords who are separatist of their compatriots.

Compared with the previous history, the behavior of these two people can be said to be much more restrained, because the United Gendarmerie exists, and they often do not want to be caught.

But after all, dogs can't change their, even if they don't want to do it, there will always be all kinds of chaos below, which is their essence is a warlord, and they haven't changed.

In the past few years, the East China Political Axe Military Intelligence Bureau has successively recorded nearly 50 scandals of the two men, and they have all been reported in the past few days.

These scandals include Lu Rongting and Liu Shixian's own, as well as the evil deeds of their relatives and confidants, and they can be involved in the two of them anyway.

With the news of various scandals, the whole country was in an uproar, and the eyes of the whole of China were focused on the two southwestern provinces.

Lu Rongting and Liu Shixian suddenly panicked under such public opinion, and there was a trend of black clouds overpowering, even if these scandals were fake, they were difficult to argue at this time, not to mention that this was still true.

On 21 April, Li Yuanhong, president of the Republic of China, issued a decree to dismiss Lu Rongting, the superintendent of Guangxi, and Liu Shixian, a warlord in Guizhou.

Since Li Yuanhong became the president of the Republic of China, Beiyang Political Axe's attitude towards him is not very good, thinking that he is just a puppet, especially Xu Shuzheng, who is known as a geek in the south of the Yangtze River, he is Duan Qirui's chief confidant, and he is very indifferent to Li Yuanhong.

Li Yuanhong asked about the biographies of these people, and Xu Shuzheng said impatiently: "The president doesn't need to ask, the prime minister has already found out, and you can seal it." ”

Xu Shuzheng can be said to have made Li Yuanhong so angry that he blew his beard and glared, he has been an angry daughter-in-law for the old one for four or five years, and now that he is the president, he will continue to be an angry daughter-in-law for the younger one?

The more I think about it, the more angry I become, Li Yuanhong has a staff member named Ding Huai, this person has participated in the Sino-French War, and has experienced miraculous achievements in the Sino-French War.

The intention of East China's political axe to annex the southwest has been made clear, after all, the southwest is already the backyard of East China's political axe at this time, and Liu Shixian and Lu Rongting are not allowed to separate one side.

At this time, Li Yuanhong revoked the two of them as overseers, and Duan Qirui did not dare to interfere when he saw that it was involving the southwest.

If Li Yuanhong is a puppet, Duan Qirui is a puppet in disguise, Duan Qirui knows that if he does not conform to the will of the chairman, it is very easy to become the fate of the two warlords in the southwest today.

Although he didn't dare to intervene, Duan Qirui was afraid of Li Yuanhong, although he was also a puppet, but at least he had some initiative, if Li Yuanhong actively moved closer to the East China political axe, then he would become very passive.

It's like selling Chinese cabbage, for example, this year's Chinese cabbage itself is not easy to sell, and suddenly the next door also grows Chinese cabbage, and the quality of Chinese cabbage is better than him, and the price is lower than him.

Although Li Yuanhong is a puppet, the president is the president after all, and he is righteous, and if he wants to interfere as a prime minister, sometimes he really has no name.

In response to Li Yuanhong's political activity, the East China Political Axe subsequently reacted, and the East China Military Court and Criminal Court sent summons sheets to Lu Rongting and Liu Shixian, demanding that they come to Hangzhou for trial.

The summons sent by the court frightened the two of them into paleness, and within two days, Lu Rongting and Liu Shixian both took the soft and ran away, both of them ran to Vietnam, Lu Rongting took a boat to Hong Kong in Vietnam, Liu Shixian went directly to the United States, and after Lu Rongting arrived in Hong Kong, he also went to the United States by using Hong Kong's connections.

Within a few days, the news that Liu Shixian and Lu Rongting had absconded with money spread throughout China, and the East China Political Axe Southwest Military Region and the South China Military Region each sent troops into Guizhou and Guangxi to stabilize the situation in the two provinces.

Liu Shixian and Lu Rongting's only correct choice is not to continue to resist, originally they thought that they could unite with the Beiyang political axe to fight against the East China political axe, but later they realized how outrageous it was, the Beiyang political axe was too busy to take care of itself, and would join forces with them to fight against the East China political axe?

The best choice for the catastrophe is to run, who in China can beat the chairman!

After Lu Rongting and Liu Shixian absconded, Guangxi and Guizhou also officially announced that they were included in the administrative jurisdiction of East China.

After the people of the provinces under the rule of the East China United Autonomous Government were also brought under the administration of the two southwestern provinces under the East China Political Axe, many of them talked about China's reunification with joy.

Many people think that China has been reunified, and some people are puzzled and ask, why not destroy Beiyang? Isn't it more unified to destroy Beiyang?

This is also the place where many people can't understand and are confused at present, why do East China political axes still have to be local surnames? Why not replace the Beiyang political axe as the central political axe.

The people's incomprehension has made the national system the most incomprehensible thing for the current Chinese people.

In the future, will East China have the final say, or Beiyang will have the final say? Is Chairman Xia having the final say, or is it President Li Yuanhong who has the final say, or is it also Premier Duan Qirui?

When asked this question, many people gradually knew that between Beiyang and East China, it was East China's political axe that had the final say, and it was the chairman of the National Committee who had the final say.

…… The war in Europe was in full swing, Germany launched the Battle of Verdun at the end of February, in 1916 the German Empire decided to turn the focus of the offensive to the Western Front again, trying to defeat France, the German High Command chose the French fortress of Verdun as the target of the attack, Verdun is the salient of the Entente [***] defense line, which poses a great threat to the German army deep into France and Belgium, and it is a strong stronghold to Paris and the hub of the French front, the Battle of Verdun is a typical positional war and a war of attrition.

In this war, Germany threw in a new type of weapon - the chariot!

When the roaring chariot drove onto the battlefield, it showed a good breakthrough surname, but it also exposed its unstable surname, the Crusher 1 is the lowest-level chariot, and the stable surname is not good.

But Germany, which was the first to put in tanks, successfully broke through the outer defense line of the French army in one fell swoop in the storming of the fortress of Verdun.

The fortress of Verdun was a matter of success or failure for France, and when the French could barely stop it, a military order came from behind, and those who retreated were all court-martialed, which made the French officers and soldiers barely stand on the front line.

It was a brutal battle, and the Germans mobilized a large number of heavy artillery in order to drain the blood of Britain and France in this war, but the strong resistance of the British and French forces surprised the German army.

After the Germans were unable to capture Verdun in 1914 and shifted the direction of their attack, the French considered the fortress of Verdun to be obsolete, and Xia Fei stopped strengthening the fortress in 1915. At this time, the movement of the German army towards Cimbène made Xia Fei extremely vigilant, and he believed that the German army would attack Chambéni and march to Paris from here. The Germans were continuing to quietly gather forces in the direction of Verdun. As the signs of the assembly became apparent and exposed, the Anglo-French forces finally figured out the true intentions of the German army. Xia Fei panicked and quickly ordered more troops to Verdun. But by February 21, only two divisions had arrived at Verdun. And on this day, the Germans began to attack Verdun. The German artillery regiment bombarded the fortress of Verdun with heavy artillery fire, and then launched a charge. The prelude to the Battle of Verdun began. The 1,000 cannons of the German army bombarded like thunder, and the charges rose higher and higher. The commander of the fortress of Verdun, Pétain, commanded the defenders and the troops that came in to put up a desperate resistance. However, since only two divisions of reinforcements arrived, plus his own two divisions, there were only four divisions in total, and the Germans advanced 8 kilometers on the first day. But he finally stabilized his position.

The Germans failed to take Verdun on the first day of the offensive and had already lost the opportunity for war.

The steady arrival of French reinforcements made the war even more anxious.

Moreover, for the first time, the French army introduced the concept of motorized troops from China, using automobile units to transport supplies to Verdun, so this road for automobiles was called the 'lifeline'.

Germany was unable to attack for a long time, and launched a large-scale poison gas war, and the sales of gas masks produced in China were in short supply for a while, and the factory orders were full.

The Allies and the Central Powers were constantly staging orders to attack, encircle, blast, excavate, attack, shell, bomb, destroy, and destroy again on a small battlefield.

The tank was useless in such a situation, because there were too many artillery pieces and planes on both sides, and with the increase in French artillery, the German artillery could no longer provide effective cover for the tank, plus this was the lowest level of the Crusher1.

Soon France and England also put in the tank, and in terms of the effect of the Smasher 1, both sides evaluated the ability to break through the trenches, but the effect was not ideal.

The Entente even suspected that they had been fooled, and that this weapon of the Chinese may only be used to cheat orders.

However, Germany soon put in a second batch of vehicles, this time not in the Crusher 1, but in the Crusher 2.

Compared with Crusher 1, the surname of Crusher 2 has been greatly improved, first of all, the speed has been nearly doubled, and it no longer seems slow like Crusher 1, and the weapon arrangement is more reasonable, equipped with eight machine guns, and the stability of the surname has also been greatly improved, which is definitely a sharp weapon for suppressing the enemy army in the trench.

The German attack suddenly became sharper, and the appearance of the Grinder 2 made the Allies pay attention to this new weapon again.

Apparently the Chinese did not come up with the most advanced tanks!

It was indeed fooled before, because what China sold to them and Germany were the most rubbish tanks, and the Chinese must have more advanced tanks.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the East China Political Axe to start selling the Smasher 2 to the Entente countries, because the Smasher 1 had been sold out, and the tank factories of this kind of thing were no longer produced, so they began to sell the Smasher 2.

The surnames of Crusher 2 and Crusher 3 are not too surprising, the big difference is in terms of weapons, Smasher 3 is equipped with an anti-tank gun, which is used to counter other vehicles, while Smasher 2 is just a simple infantry cover weapon.

The price of the Smasher 2 is expensive, one car costs 200,000 dollars, and a hundred cars cost 20 million dollars, which is twice the price of the Smasher 1.

And in Germany, the tank factory opened by the East China Political Axe sold the Germans a Grinder 2 for only 100,000 dollars, a difference of double the price.

No way, the Germans don't have money, they have to fight again.

The Entente countries had money, so naturally they had to draw their blood well.

For the Crusher 2, an assault equipment with good combat capabilities, the Entente still gritted its teeth and ordered 300 units.

The tanks that the Germans threw into the battlefield posed a great threat to the Allied defenses, and the French army had nothing to do with this steel monster on the front line, and it was difficult for other attacks to have much impact on this kind of thing except to call in artillery support and air support.

The Germans, on the other hand, were armed with anti-tank machine guns and anti-tank mines, and the soldiers still had some means of dealing with the French tanks.

At the beginning of the bloody and brutal Battle of Verdun, the war in Africa was also in full swing.

With his excellent command ability, Falbeck once again defeated the British army at the beginning of the year, but with the increase of British investment in Africa, the British army gradually recovered its decline in South Africa.

At this time, Falbeck turned from a harassing offensive to a guerrilla war, taking advantage of the geography of Africa to fight the British army.

The British chased after the Germans' butts and often encountered harsh conditions, and many British troops were knocked down by the harsh conditions when supplies were inconvenient.

Forbeck relied on guerrilla warfare to get supplies, while the British army was often left without supplies.

The war between the two sides has left the African people with a burning homeland, as well as a large number of widows and orphans.

The lucrative profit in this war is naturally the East China political axe, and Xia Jun made a lot of war money in this war.

Britain, France and Russia are placing orders with China, and the number of orders has exceeded the amount of orders they have placed with the United States this year.

In addition, the East China political axe is still doing German business, so that China can make much more money in war money than the United States.

After the Sino-Chinese War, he also received some orders, and he attached great importance to the economic development at this stage, and worked hard to produce with the strength of the whole country, and strived to recover his vitality as soon as possible.

During this period, East China began to actively expand outward, and the commercial side continued to receive overseas assets sold by Britain and France.

In order to start a war, Britain and France sold their overseas assets in addition to raising tax rates at home, issuing war bonds, and using gold reserves.

Among them, the United Kingdom has the most overseas assets, and these overseas assets are still very cheap in terms of selling price at this time, and East China Zhengax is happy to accept these assets.

The number of Chinese people moving overseas has also increased greatly, especially the number of Chinese businessmen who went abroad to do business overseas has increased considerably after the Sino-Chinese War.

At this time, China's international status was improved, and the danger of Chinese doing business overseas was greatly reduced.

In the past, Chinese people mainly relied on three knives to make a living overseas, namely kitchen knives, sharp knives, and razors, and were engaged in cooks, tailors, barbers and other trades.

In these three aspects, no country in China can compete with the Chinese.

This is also a basis for the Chinese to amass a large amount of wealth in Nanyang, and with this foundation, the Chinese know how to do business, which has amassed a large amount of wealth.

At present, there are many industries that Chinese people can engage in when they go abroad to make a living.

In the traditional livelihood industry, the Chinese have opened restaurants overseas, have specially trained chefs in China, and there are specially trained barbers in the barbers, and the barbers use the most advanced haircutting tools in the world.

A large number of apprentices go directly to overseas restaurants and barbershops after being trained in technical schools.

After many Chinese go abroad, they are engaged in agricultural investment, and they have the support of political axes behind them, and they can buy high-yield and high-quality crop varieties, as well as advanced agricultural machinery.

Under such conditions, many Chinese farmers and plantation owners were born.

There are also many small businessmen who are dumping things abroad, and at this time China has been able to produce a lot of advanced goods, so they have something to dump.

Like some small businessmen who have no capital, they even take those plastic buckets and other things to the South Seas and the countryside of India to exchange raw materials or something.

After completing the initial accumulation of funds, they put the funds into higher-level operations, such as opening a store in a Chinese market in a certain area, specializing in selling certain domestic goods, and so on.

Many coastal people want to rely on business to eat, but they have no capital, so they can only go abroad and go around to complete the primitive accumulation.

Some businessmen return to China to invest after completing capital accumulation, and they do not like to stay abroad because of different cultures, and they have no sense of identity overseas.

It is often heard that so-and-so went abroad to make money, and so-and-so went abroad to make money.

(To be continued)