The Propaganda Department's offensive was very fierce, and in just one week, 34 of the country's more than 100 middle schools were fooled into the three provinces of East China's autonomous region.

These middle schools were relocated en masse, and teachers and students went to East China together.

In the past, they went to the three provinces of East China, first, students will receive subsidies, second, teachers can receive salaries from the Ministry of Education, and third, the Ministry of Education will be responsible for the construction of school hardware. At the same time, the East China Autonomous Government has set up an education industry, which is more in line with their ideals.

When both the material and the ideal are present, the attraction is greatly increased.

Compared with those who did not relocate to the three provinces of East China, at least half of the middle school students and teachers in the school ran away, and all of them were fooled into going to school in the three provinces of East China.

Among those universities, Shanxi University Hall, as well as universities in Yenching Tsinghua University, Tianjin and other places, there are also many students who go to Hangzhou.

To deal with these universities, the Propaganda Department has something more advanced, and that is to show them documentaries.

Most of these documentaries were filmed by the Film Department of East China University at the invitation of the Propaganda Department, and these documentaries recorded the education and industrial development of East China.

Construction sites, schools under construction, motorized units like a torrent of steel, and the air force soaring in the blue sky all made the students' blood boil.

"The travel fee is covered, and there is a subsidy to go, why not go?"

"That's it!"

"Classmates, let's go on the road together!"

"Okay!"

…… The pimping campaign immediately attracted the attention of the major newspapers, and reporters from Hangzhou sent a large number of reporters to various places to interview the teachers, students, and cultural figures.

There is widespread support for this policy of the East China Autonomous Axe among the intellectuals.

At the same time, when interviewing the Ministry of Education, Tao Chengzhang said: "The chairman of the CPPCC National Committee has allocated 50 million yuan to the Ministry of Education beforehand, and the education fund of our East China Autonomous Government will rise to 100 million yuan per year. ”

"Minister Tao, can the finances of the three autonomous provinces in East China afford such a high budget?" The reporter who declared asked.

"The chairman of the committee said that education should also be developed by tightening the belt, and other things can be saved, but education cannot be saved, and in the future, the Ministry of Education will receive more than 30 percent of the financial revenue." Tao Chengzhang replied, "We will strive to achieve universal primary education within three years, secondary education within six years, and university education within 12 years. ”

"Minister Tao, according to this plan, will people be able to go to college in 12 years?" Another reporter asked.

"That's true in terms of development plans, but it's not entirely true. If some students want to continue their studies, they can go to university now, but they can also choose to enter the social workforce. After 12 years, most of them will finish college before entering the workforce. At present, as long as students are willing to study, we at the Ministry of Education are doing our best to provide for them to go to school. ”

Tao Chengzhang's answer shocked many people, and they were shocked by the magnanimity of the axe of East China's autonomous government and the determination to develop education.

Whether it is the "Declaration" and "News" in the south, or the "Ta Kung Pao" in the north, they all give a positive evaluation of the determination of the development and education of the autonomous political axe in East China.

At the same time, many newspapers also affirmed the autonomy of the East China Autonomous Axe for the first time, but there are still many newspapers outside the three provinces of East China that criticize the autonomy of the East China Autonomous Axe.

Both the revolutionaries and the constitutionalists held a faint hostility towards the East China Autonomous Axe, which was clearly expressed in the newspapers.

The constitutionalists accused the East China Autonomous Government of recruiting talented people and plotting against it. The revolutionary party accused Xia Jun of seizing the localities and ignoring the overall situation of the country, so why did he not hand over so much education funds to other provinces for the development of education.

This kind of brain-dead remarks of the revolutionary party amused Xia Jun, and then, not surprisingly, the newspaper was thrown into the trash by him.

And then...... Xia Jun was in a good mood.

The Beiyang political axe and the East China Autonomous political axe showed great support for such a vigorous development of education, and within a few days, Yuan Shikai appointed Xia Jun as the vice minister of education.

For Yuan Shikai, such a situation is what he hopes to see the most.

The development of education is indeed the foundation of a strong country, but it is not so fast to achieve results in a hundred years. In his view, this can drag down the finances of the East China Autonomous Government, lest they invest too much in the military.

If the biggest threat to the Beiyang political axe is, Yuan Shikai will first think of the military power possessed by the autonomous political axe in East China.

The military strength of the three autonomous provinces in East China has been gradually exposed, with advanced weapons and complete equipment, and this army has the best equipment, the highest salary, and the strictest discipline in China.

On the other hand, the East China Autonomous Political Axe is politically close to the Beiyang Political Axe, which makes Yuan Shikai feel that he is being put on the back of a tiger and cannot get up and down.

If you don't trap this tiger, you will eat him in two clicks. But if you trap this tiger, you may be eaten in the future.

So combining the two results, Yuan Shikai is still trying to win over the East China Autonomous Political Axe, after all, the future is still uncertain, isn't it? At least don't be gnawed by this tiger now, and this tiger is stupid, maybe he will be tamed in the future.

Recently, because of the dismissal of the Nanjing and Hubei armies, Yuan Shikai spent almost all the loans in his hands, and then asked for a loan of 10 million yuan from the East China Autonomous Government.

Yuan Shikai has already borrowed 22 million yuan from the East China Autonomous Political Axe, and if you add this 10 million yuan, it will be 32 million yuan.

…… Xia Jun looked at the telegram sent by Yuan Shikai and sighed: "I want to take out a loan again, Yuan Datou is really good at spending money!" ”

Saying that, Xia Jun picked up the phone and called the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asking Zhu Xiaocheng to talk to Yuan Shikai again, and his plan could be implemented.

When Zhu Xiaocheng went to Yanjing and met and talked with Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai knew Xia Jun's layout, it turned out that the East China Autonomous Political Axe wanted to and tried to bargain with the Four Nations Bank, if the price code was acceptable, then let the Beiyang Political Axe borrow from the Four Nations Bank, if it was really unacceptable, then borrow from the East China Autonomous Political Axe.

Zhu Xiaocheng complained: "Recently, we have spent a lot of money on education, and the money from the loan has basically been invested in it, if we borrow again, we will not be able to repay this money in the three provinces of East China Autonomous Region for 30 years." Maybe it's going to go bankrupt. ”

"How can the old man see that the three provinces of East China Autonomous Province are bankrupt, and this matter will be handled according to your plan." Yuan Shikai said generously, he naturally hoped that the East China Autonomous Political Axe would go bankrupt, but if he caused it, people would jump over the wall in a hurry, and he would be doomed.

…… On May 26, Yuan Shikai sent Tang Shaoyi to Hangzhou in a high-profile manner to begin loan negotiations with the three autonomous provinces of East China.

At this time, the Bank of Shikoku is wondering!

Isn't Yuan Shikai nervous? Why didn't I look for them at all for months, I thought that Yuan Shikai's Four Nations Bank had reached a compromise with an international consortium composed of Daosheng Bank, Bank of Belgium and other capitals, and the two sides felt that competition would only make both sides lose their interests, so they chose to cooperate.

The banks of the four countries suddenly became the banks of the five countries, including Britain, France, Germany, the United States, and Russia, as well as the Belgian bank, which was on the outside but could also get a piece of the pie.

Subsequently, the banks of these five countries joined forces with the Bank to form the Bank of the Six Nations.

In this way, all Yuan Shikai's ways were blocked, so that Yuan Shikai could only borrow from their banks in the six countries, and could no longer find other borrowers.

This is a kind of monopoly, a cartel monopoly of capital.

The Bank of the Six Nations was waiting for the business to come up, but it didn't come true, and on May 26, news came that the Beiyang political axe would borrow money from the East China Autonomous political axe.

This startled the banks of the six countries and hurriedly convened a meeting to deal with it.

"The Chinese have always been unified, and I am afraid that the East China Autonomous Government will not lend to them." The head of HSBC said at the meeting.

"Yes, in China now, the biggest enemy of the Beiyang political axe is the East China Autonomous Political Axe, and the Chinese have never had any spirit of cooperation, I think even the East China Autonomous Political Axe will not lend to Yuan Shikai."

"Then let's take a look at what's next!"

…… Just when the banks of the six countries generally believed that it was impossible for China's Beiyang political axe and the East China autonomous political axe to come together, the situation was beyond their imagination.

In the loan negotiation between the East China political axe and the Beiyang political axe, Xia Jun appeared outside the venue, and when asked by reporters whether he would lend money to the Beiyang political axe, Xia Jun replied: "China currently needs a strong political axe to further stabilize the political situation and establish a national defense system, our East China Autonomous political axe will fully assist the Beiyang political axe to tide over the difficulties, there is no problem with borrowing, the problem is only the amount, at least within 20 million pounds, we East China Autonomous political axe can afford it." ”

"Chairman Xia, what if the central government doesn't pay back the money?" A reporter deliberately provoked.

"So this is the key to the negotiations, but we will inevitably unify China in the future, and sometimes the central and local governments are not so clear." Xia Jun replied ambiguously.

Xia Jun's remarks immediately caused panic among many forces, and the Six Nations Bank was one of them, and they quickly thought that the East China Autonomous Axe had borrowed about 80 million pounds from them, and another 20 million pounds from other banks.

Sure enough, Xia Jun's conspiracy disgusted the Bank of Four Nations like eating shit.

Another panic was Sun Yat-sen, at this time the revolutionaries had been completely divided, and Huang Xing, a running general, obviously wanted to mix up fame and fortune, and was wantonly dismissing the troops, which was not uncommon in the revolutionary party.

If Yuan Shikai gets a large loan, then the end of the revolutionary party will not be far off, not only will the troops be dismissed, but the strength of the Beiyang Army will also be greatly increased.

At this time, Sun Yat-sen was very helpless at all, he, the leader of the alliance, was already a little uncontrollable, and his discipline and politics were also in a mess.

If Yuan Shikai's power is a few points stronger, then his discipline will not be able to do it, because more people will fall to Yuan Shikai at that time.

In current China, on the contrary, the Baath Party of the Liberation Society and the Beiyang Political Axe have formed two major patterns, while the Revolutionary Party and the Hubei Revolutionary Army are in the second stratum, although they both carry the word revolutionary, and even Li Yuanhong is crowding out the revolutionary party.

The panic has been spreading since the East China Autonomous Political Axe revealed to the outside world that it was willing to borrow money from the Beiyang Political Axe.

(To be continued)