The East China Autonomous Political Axe is even busier at this time, Xia Jun swallowed most of Jiangsu and Anhui, Jiangsu's area is 102,600 square kilometers, which will allow Xia Jun to earn more than 20 million points, Anhui's area is nearly 140,000 square kilometers, although Xia Jun does not completely occupy Anhui, but the territory south of the Huai River is also nearly 100,000 square kilometers.

The points income on the territory of the two provinces exceeded 40 million.

Of course, this is not Xia Jun's happiest place, what makes him happiest is the population, arable land, resources, etc., swallowing these two provinces, the population under Xia Jun's rule has reached 100 million.

With hundreds of millions of people, if you manage it well, you will have 600 million points of income a month. However, the average sentiment index has now been reduced to 3.6.

In terms of agriculture, Jiangsu's cultivated land area is 71,457,000 mu, that is, more than 70 million mu, Anhui's cultivated land area is 85,953,000, that is, 85 million mu, and the area occupied by Xia Jun should be about 50 million mu.

How to say it! The cultivated land area of these two provinces is almost as good as the total cultivated land of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi provinces, and the cultivated land area of Anhui Province exceeds the total cultivated land of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi provinces.

Swallowing these two provinces, the total agricultural output value of the East China Autonomous Axe will skyrocket.

The total cultivated land area under the rule of the East China Autonomous Government will reach 200 million mu, and 200 million mu of cultivated land will support 100 million people.

At the same time, in terms of mineral resources, Jiangsu Province straddles the two major geological structural units of North China and Yangtze Zhuntai, and non-ferrous metals, clays, building materials, rare metals, and special non-metallic minerals are the characteristics and advantages of Jiangsu's mineral resources.

In reality on the resource map, there are 133 kinds of mineral products in Jiangsu, and 65 kinds of proven reserves, of which 34 kinds of single ore reserves such as building materials and clay rank among the top ten in the country, and 8 kinds of mineral reserves such as niobium-tantalum, calcite, marl, attapulgite clay, carbon dioxide gas rank first in the country, and Donghai County, Lianyungang City is known as "China's crystal capital".

There are more minerals in Anhui, and there are 7 kinds of energy minerals, including coal, stone coal, oil, natural gas, geothermal, uranium, thorium, etc. There are three types of industrial reserves on the resource map: coal, stone coal, and oil. Among them, coal is particularly abundant, with reserves of 24.6 billion tons, ranking 7th in the country and 1st in East China.

There are five kinds of ferrous metal minerals: iron, vanadium, titanium, manganese, and chromium. Among them, the iron ore reserves are 3 billion tons, ranking fifth in the country.

Non-ferrous metal minerals include copper, zinc, molybdenum, cobalt, antimony, aluminum, nickel, tin, magnesium, etc., among which the reserves of copper rank fifth in the country.

Precious metal minerals have been discovered gold, silver, platinum group (platinum, palladium, osmium, nails, rhodium, iridium), etc., gold reserves of 150 tons (including associated gold), ranking 10th in the country.

Although Ni Sichong occupies northern Anhui, Xia Jun can also go to northern Anhui to open mines, if the Beiyang political axe does not let him open it, Xia Jun does not mind rectifying Yuan Shikai.

As far as energy is concerned, the coal supply is not too big a problem if Anhui is occupied, but the railway to Shanxi still needs to be repaired.

Anhui is a large agricultural province, and groundwater should be protected, as far as coal digging is concerned, it is better to dig in China than abroad, and it is better to dig in Shanxi than to dig in China.

As soon as the territory is expanded, the various departments are very busy, among which the Ministry of Agriculture is the busiest, at this time the spring sowing has begun, they have to send high-yield seeds to the people of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, and the sooner the better, to strive for more land.

Time is money!

Especially cotton, the yield of high-yield cotton is two to three times that of ordinary cotton, and the planting area is not limited.

Those textile technologies are inferior, the price of raw materials has been reduced, the price of cotton cloth can really be reduced, as long as there is enough cheap cotton supply, China's textiles can dominate the international market.

The Administration Department is also sending administrative personnel to Jiangsu and Anhui, and after a year of rectification and training, the Administration Department has reserved a lot of administrative personnel, but there is no shortage of personnel.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs was also very busy, and they mobilized a large number of relief materials to buy people's hearts, and at the same time they had to take the throne and register to straighten out the population.

The work of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is progressing relatively smoothly, and since the people under the rule of the East China Autonomous Government can receive free salt and other benefits by virtue of their household registration, those black households basically do not exist.

The reason why there are black households in the private sector is mostly caused by avoiding taxes.

Now that the East China Autonomous Government does not collect taxes according to capitation, and there are benefits distributed every year, then naturally no one wants to be a black household, and only fools can be black households.

The Ministry of Education also held an emergency meeting, squeezing toothpaste like a group of teachers into Anhui, anyway, the school is to be built, there is no money to build a shed first.

There are not enough teachers, so they teach first, and the most important thing is to let those children have access to nutritious school meals, which is the most important thing.

For this reason, the Ministry of Education's funds became strapped suddenly, Xia Jun encouraged Tao Chengzhang to say that although the money should be spent, the money on nutritious meals cannot be reduced, and the Ministry of Finance will allocate funds to the Ministry of Education again if there is no money.

Tao Chengzhang, who received the promise, was very calm, and at the same time looked forward to the central bank issuing banknotes, but the central bank obviously would not issue banknotes again in the short term.

Hui businessmen have a lot of opinions on the expansion of the East China Autonomous Political Axe, why are they all hitting Anhui but not the river? Why did you leave northern Anhui to Ni Sichong?

In this regard, some Hui merchants in northern Anhui were quite complaining, and frequently wrote letters to the East China Autonomous Political Axe, strongly urging the East China Autonomous Political Axe to send troops to occupy northern Anhui.

However, Xia Jun's relationship with Yuan Shikai was a little tense at this time, so he did not continue to expand, so he did not continue to expand, but northern Anhui is the first area to expand his territory in the next step.

While digesting the new territory, Xia Jun clashed with Yuan Shikai about the talks.

He set the venue for the meeting in Xuzhou.

Half a month has passed, and Xia Jun has promised the provinces to negotiate with the central government within a month on the issue of salt tax collection.

Yuan Shikai didn't buy it after receiving the telegram, and called back and said: "The old man is in poor health and can't go to the appointment, and the matter of salt tax will be discussed next month." ”

Obviously, Yuan Shikai was unhappy and wanted to embarrass Xia Jun.

Xia Jun smiled after reading the telegram: "Since he doesn't want to talk about it, then call back and tell him, then don't talk about the salt tax, and our fourteen provinces alliance will solve the salt tax problem by ourselves." ”

When the telegram was sent to Yanjing, Yuan Shikai became even more angry, and the threat in the telegram was very obvious, clearly threatening the central government if the salt tax was not solved, and the East China Autonomous Government would unilaterally solve the problem.

"Okay, then let's talk in Xuzhou in five days."

Yuan Shikai quickly replied, but the two sides set a time for talks, that is, to hold talks on the issue of salt tax in Xuzhou in five days.

…… Sun Cannon once again ran to Yuben, and the situation in China disappointed Yuben Zhengaxe, and the civil war instigated by Sun Dacang was stopped by force so quickly. What disappointed him even more was that the East China Autonomous Axe had profited handsomely from this civil war, which made him worried.

The East China Autonomous Axe is a force that knows how to develop very well, and if their territory has more than doubled at the moment, it will be even more difficult to deal with in the future.

Hell-bent on invading China, they naturally did not want to see the rise of a strong political system in China, and they were even despicable enough to use drugs to destroy China, but at this time, drugs had no room to survive under the rule of the East China Autonomous Axe.

Moreover, what I did not expect was that their other drug markets in China were about to be destroyed by the East China Autonomous Axe.

On May 8, Xia Jun took a dozen people to Xuzhou under the protection of 3,000 SS soldiers.

Yuan Shikai also took the train south, got off at Xuzhou Station, Yuan Shikai also brought 3,000 guards, and appeared in Xuzhou City very prominently.

However, Yuan Shikai's battle is small compared to Xia Jun.

Xia Jun's SS was a motorized unit, and that battle was naturally popular. The motorcycles opened the road in front, Xia Jun sat in the rebound car, and behind was a group of trucks carrying soldiers.

The soldiers were even cooler in their clothes, their weapons were even tougher, with a machine gun on each of the truck and a motorcycle, and a gun towed in the back of the truck.

In contrast, the heavy equipment of Yuan Shikai's guards was very small, only a few heavy equipment such as the Makqin heavy machine gun, and there was a substantial gap between the rifle and the rifle of the East China Army.

Looking at the mental outlook of the soldiers, Xia Jun's SS troops were all full of energy, and none of them seemed to be malnourished due to frequent starvation.

Yuan Shikai saw that Xia Jun's guards were so strong, and compared with his own guards, his guards were like a group of turtles.

The two sides held talks in Xuzhou for five days.

The main focus of the talks was to discuss the abolition of the salt tax, as well as the issue of the central government's finances.

Yuan Shikai wants to collect a salt tax, which is naturally forced by the central government, and if the central financial problem is solved, Yuan Shikai can also cancel the salt tax.

Of course, if Xia Jun forcibly asked Yuan Shikai to cancel the salt tax, it would be okay with his current force, but Xia Jun did not take forcible measures, but communicated with Beiyang Zhengaxe, and the two sides found a way to get the best of both worlds.

Xia Jun's strategy in the face of the Beiyang political axe is like this, if you want them to cooperate, you must first put your posture low, so as not to cause a backlash, which is more in line with your own interests.

If we blindly insist on tough confrontation, we will only make many things worse.

Xia Jun saw Yuan Shikai, and saw that he was really a thick and fat old man, but he was in good spirits, Xia Jun, who had just gotten out of the car, took off his sunglasses and smiled at Yuan Shikai: "The president seems to be in good health!" What's wrong? ”

"It's just a small problem, it's not a big deal, hehe!" Yuan Shikai smiled very kindly, "It's really envious to see you young people!" Old, old! ”

"The president laughed, I think the president will be fine for another ten years." Xia Jun laughed, the train was running, and Yuan Shikai nodded and said, "The old man has this intention." ”

Yuan Shikai's words reminded Xia Jun that this guy didn't want to amend the bill soon and change the presidential extension to ten years!

(To be continued)