The next day, the events that took place in East China Square that night appeared in the newspapers of various provinces in China.

"The people of Lantian were in pain, and they even committed suicide at that time."

"Wang Zhanyuan made such a depraving act of conscience, which is really a misfortune for the country......"

"Arrest Wang Zhanyuan and take over the Hubei administrative ......"

The newspapers were both radical and conservative, but the mention of the proposal to take over the administration of Hubei immediately aroused an enthusiastic response.

Public opinion in almost all provinces proposed that the East China political axe should take over the administration of Hubei, and of course there was opposition, that is, those newspapers controlled by the Beiyang political axe.

Beiyang Zhengaxe's reaction to this matter was very fast, and he replied on the third day, and Xu Shichang assured the media that Wang Zhanyuan would be severely punished.

At present, Yuan Shikai is sick in bed, and the entire administration of Beiyang is managed by Xu Shichang, he is Yuan Shikai's brother, known as a crystal ball, when Yuan Shikai was ousted from power, he was able to be promoted and made a fortune in the Qing court.

Xu Shichang's sworn appearance made many people not suspicious. Secretly, Xu Shichang discussed with a cadre of officials in Beiyang how to deal with it lightly.

Just when Xu Shichang was in a meeting, suddenly an urgent call came to the conference room.

"What? What did you say! They arrested Wang Zhanyuan? Also announced the takeover of Hubei administration? When Xu Shichang answered the phone, he was like a machine gun, and then hung up the phone fiercely, and yelled angrily: "They are simply blind, ignoring the law of the country." ”

There was silence in the conference room, everyone knew who this 'they' were, and who else would dare to arrest Wang Zhanyuan except for the East China Political Axe?

"Elder Xu Ge, forget it! Forget it! ”

"Yes! Can't fight! Now the momentum is booming! ”

"Elder Xu Ge, as the central government, Shandong has won the battle, and we haven't issued a reward yet!"

A group of Beiyang officials hurriedly persuaded Xu Shichang, now Beiyang's strength is far inferior to East China, and it can't be defeated if it can't be fought, and Wang Zhanyuan's behavior has caused public indignation.

"At this time, if you don't fight, then how many provinces are left in our Beiyang?" Xu Shichang asked loudly: "We now have the three provinces of Hubei, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei and the East left. ”

The three eastern provinces have a low degree of development, and it is difficult for Beiyang Zhengaxe to collect much tax, and it is Henan and Hubei provinces that can really collect a lot of taxes.

At this time, Henan has gradually become the main cotton production area of the Ministry of Agriculture of East China, and Beiyang Zhengax can collect a lot of money from Hebei's agricultural tax every year.

Not to mention Hubei, where the terrain is flat and suitable for large-scale machine farming, although these are not yet widespread, Hubei is a densely populated province and has always been an important grain producing area.

If Hubei is gone, then there is really not much left in Beiyang, although there are many other provinces, most of them have no taxes.

…… The evolution of the incident was so fast that most people imagined, Wang Zhanyuan was arrested by the East China Political Axe on the third day of the incident, and the East China Political Axe arrested Wang Zhanyuan did not send troops, but dispatched special forces, and carried Wang Zhanyuan out of the quilt in the middle of the night to blow the cold wind.

The second time it was said that the Beiyang Army in Hubei was leaderless and was controlled by the East China Army in one fell swoop.

Subsequently, the administrative staff of the East China Political Axe went to Hubei, and with the assistance of the troops, they accepted the local administration of Hubei one by one.

At this time, East China Political Axe already has a reserve of administrative talents, these are qualified and professional administrative personnel, and there will be no chaos when taking over Hubei.

The arrest of Wang Zhanyuan by the East China Political Axe immediately applauded the whole country.

However, the Beiyang political axe began to chirp crookedly, and Xu Shichang repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with the East China political axe in public, so that he did not issue a commendation.

As the nominal central political axe, the Beiyang political axe won the battle in Shandong, so it was natural to promulgate the commendation method, but the Beiyang political axe was delayed again and again.

Drag it until no one pays attention to them!

Xia Jun completely put aside the Beiyang political axe and convened a joint meeting of various provinces in Hangzhou.

The meeting was attended mainly by the warlords of the southwest, including Cai Yi, Tang Jiyao, Lu Rongting, and Liu Shixian, and involved the four provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi.

After the meeting began, the East China Political Axe put forward the demand for joint autonomy, that is, the provinces would be governed by the East China Political Axe's administrative staff. However, the provinces can retain a certain amount of troops, and the military expenses will be paid by the East China political axe, and at the same time, the provinces can form political parties to participate in the internal politics of the East China political axe.

This request was quickly responded to by Cai, because it was made by Cai Ng.

Cai Ye found Xia Jun after the end of the Shandong War and talked to him in detail about his meaning. On the one hand, Cai Yi planned to hand over Sichuan to the management of East China's political axe, and on the other hand, Cai Yi hoped to form a 'unified republican party' that could participate in the internal politics of East China, and at the same time wanted to lead troops.

Xia Jun has met all these demands, and as far as the gradual new political parties are concerned, there is actually nothing, and the participation of these small parties in the East China political axe will not pose any threat to the Baath Party.

In addition, it is not a problem to retain the Sichuan army, Xia Jun even promised Cai Ye that the Sichuan army has an army establishment. The equipment and treatment are the same as those of the East China Army.

At this time, the East China political axe began to shift from defending its own territory to recovering the frontier provinces, and needed to establish a defense system in the frontier, so it still had to continue to expand the army in the future, and the scale of an army was not large.

Cai Ye agreed, but other provinces were very hesitant, Tang Jiyao agreed under Cai Yi's persuasion, while Liu Shixian and Lu Rongting categorically refused.

The administrative power is given to the East China political axe, and it will not be swallowed twice!

Although it is said that the army can be retained and a political party can be formed, how can it be compared to the real benefits of scraping? What better place to be in power than an Overseer?

What refuses is nothing more than that the money and power are not enough, but the East China political axe will not increase the weight, this is already the maximum limit of Xia Jun.

Since they don't want this opportunity, they won't get anything in the future.

To rectify them, Xia Jun has many ways, just grab you a handle, you can use these handles to ask the teacher, although it is a big fuss, but it can stand on a firm moral foothold.

Liu Shixian and Lu Rongting's foundations are not very clean.

As soon as the meeting began, Guizhou and Guangxi withdrew, leaving only Sichuan and Yunnan provinces to continue talks.

Tang Jiyao is obviously also a person who can understand the situation, and he knows that after the end of the Sino-Chinese war, the southwest will no longer allow them to exist as warlords.

In particular, this meeting of the East China Political Axe can clearly illustrate this problem, and it is obvious that the East China Political Axe is beginning to clean up the southwest.

Liu Shixian and Lu Rongting did not petition in their hearts, and this price was not their ideal, although they also saw the changes in the overall situation to a certain extent.

Of course, at this time, the Sino-Chinese war was far from over, but the Shandong battlefield was over.

Since the surrender ceremony of the Shandong battlefield was held, the national army took a mighty train to the northeast, and the battle plan for recovering Lushun was put on the table.

The main purpose of the national war army going to the northeast this time is to completely clear the book from the northeast, as for the North Korean side, Xia Jun doesn't care too much, let the book occupy it first! The life or death of those sticks is not in mind for the time being.

If he wants to fight North Korea now, he can do it, but in the future, he will lack a platform to fight with Yue Ben, and when he accumulates strength, he can continue to fight with Yue Ben in North Korea.

It is said that it will be a whetstone in China, and it will also be a cow for Xia Jun.

So you can't rush at this time!

But Ben was in a hurry, their strength in North Korea was only three divisions, and at this time they were far from being able to resist the footsteps of the [***] team, how could they keep North Korea?

The only way is to mediate!

Britain, France, Russia, and other countries even sent a note to the East China Political Axe, but the East China Political Axe did not give any reply, and it was obvious that the East China Political Axe did not want to talk about it.

At this time, the three infantry divisions of the East China Navy and the Marine Corps had been assembled, and at the same time, nine infantry divisions of the D Group Army of the East China Army had also been mobilized to Fujian.

The landing site has been selected - Hsinchu! But it will take some time to prepare.

In domestic affairs, Xia Jun considered the problem of the southwest, and if the problem of the southwest was solved, then the political axe of East China would occupy the entire southern part of China.

If you look at the map, you will find that in the entire traditional Han activity area of China, East China has occupied most of the provinces, leaving only Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, and three provinces. Guanwai, that is, the three northeastern provinces are still under the jurisdiction of Beiyang, but the Beiyang political axe has no garrison, and the East China political axe can take over whenever he wants, just find an excuse.

Of the four southwestern provinces that participated in the joint provincial meeting, only two provinces were finally negotiated.

Immediately on January 4, the East China Political Axe announced that Sichuan and Yunnan would be merged into the East China Political Axe Administrative Region.

In just a few days, East China's political axe swallowed three more provinces!

Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan!

Among them, Hubei and Sichuan are provinces with large agriculture and population, and although Yunnan is an extremely poor province that needs financial subsidies from the central government every year, it is obvious that Yunnan attaches great importance to the political axe in East China.

Yunnan shares borders with most countries on the Indochina Peninsula, and is an important defense frontier and an arrow direction for Xia Jun's future expansion.

If nothing else, at least Vietnam wants to take it back. It was the territory of China in the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and it had a high degree of sinicization.

As for other countries, Xia Jun is more interested in their flat agricultural terrain, which is tropical, and in places like Hainan Province and Taiwan Province near the equator in China, there is not much land to grow many tropical crops.

In the case of Thailand, most of the plains of the Indochina Peninsula are occupied by Thailand. Then there are Vietnam and Cambodia, which occupy the Mekong Delta, where the terrain is also flat.

It was imperative to establish a special unit in Yunnan to deal with jungle warfare, so it was of great significance to subsume the administration of Yunnan into the East China political axe.

The news of the annexation of the three provinces by the East China political axe once again shocked the whole of China, especially the Beiyang political axe.

For the populace, they are uplifting.

However, for Beiyang Political Axe, this is a black cloud overpowering news.

At this time, counting the provinces taken over by the East China political axe, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Guangdong, Shanxi, Shandong, Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan, Sichuan, and the Western Regions have risen to 14 provinces. Among these 14 provinces, only the Western Regions and Yunnan are relatively poor.

The territory of the East China political axe at this time has far exceeded the Beiyang political axe!

Through the course and development of this tragedy, people have found that as long as the Beiyang political axe has any handle in the hands of the East China political axe, they will immediately unilaterally punish it, usually by taking over the administrative ...... of a certain province

(To be continued)