In addition, another major event done by the government of the Republic of China has also caused a certain amount of misleading to the Western powers, that is, to change the era name, abandon the Western Yuan era, which has been used for more than 20 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and use it as "Republic XX year", on the grounds that China is now so strong that it needs the whole world to accommodate China, not the other way around, so "connecting with the world" has become unnecessary, so why use a legendary birthday of a Western god stick as China's year? As for the weights and measures of the public system, because there is no political and cultural background, and the impact of the changes in weights and measures is too great, so it continues to be used. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, even if it is not as good as weights and measures, the reform of the yuan can by no means be said to be a trivial matter, and the political power of a modern state is deep at the grassroots level, and its influence is even greater. Westerners naturally feel that the possibility of China going to war with a foreign country at this time is not as great as they originally thought, after all, "if you want to fight abroad, you must first settle inside". But they did not expect that 1896 was the first year of the Republic, and the whole year 1900 was the fifth year of the Republic, which was not troublesome to convert, so the impact of this yuan change on Chinese society was much smaller than Westerners thought. And they didn't expect that Li Hui's delay of the founding ceremony to 1896 was premeditated, and Westerners really couldn't compare with the Chinese......

Coupled with the cooperation of other misleading measures, the Entente finally let down their vigilance. Of course, the resurgence of the situation on the Soviet-German battlefield attracted their attention, and it was also an important reason. Another thing is that the Moroccan Kerim has returned to his hometown and raised the banner of resistance to colonial tyranny, and since they are ready to start the final showdown, it is natural that the time has come for such a trump card to be played......

Hundreds of comrades who had also received military education in China and even had military experience in China were returned to the Rif Mountains with Kerim (the original meaning of like-mindedness is taken here), including not only fellow Rif villagers who came to China with Kerim to study, but also Moroccan compatriots from other regions, Berber compatriots who share the same language and blood, and Arabs (in a broad sense, referring to the cultural sphere) who share a common language and culture. Compatriots, and even some other regions, such as the former MSL in Central Asia and Southeast Asia......

These comrades-in-arms either admired and worshiped Krim personally, or had the common ideal of overthrowing Western colonial rule or even reviving Islamic civilization, or simply hoped to realize their personal ambitions, all gathered under the banner of Kerim, so that at the beginning of the uprising, they had a strong cadre team, and rarely, all technical arms were also readily available, laying a solid foundation for the rapid growth of the rebel army in the future.

In the sparsely populated Rif Mountains (with less than 500,000 people in the plains below), the armed forces of a few hundred people are not to be underestimated, not to mention that they have brought back a large number of modern weapons, such as grenades, submachine guns, machine guns, mortars, and even anti-aircraft machine guns and mountain artillery, which are strong enough to easily defeat all the tribal forces in the Rif Mountains. With such a strong strength as a backing, coupled with the fact that Klim's father was originally a very famous "kadi" of the Uriagle tribe, the Uriagle tribe had long been extremely dissatisfied with the oppression of the Spanish colonists, so Kerim successfully turned the nearby mountains into his own solid base without firing a shot, and the rebel army quickly grew to more than 5,000 people.

Then, without waiting for the Spanish Moroccan government to send a large army to conquer the country, Kerim led the army to liberate large swathes of land controlled by the Spanish colonizers, who expelled Spanish officials, merchants, and missionaries, and quickly swept away the Spanish colonial rule in the area like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves.

After hearing the news, the Spanish governor was furious, and almost all the troops he could send were sent out, with a total strength of more than 10,000 troops, which can be said to be unprecedented in the history of Western colonization. You must know that when Western armies and indigenous armed forces are at war, they can generally play a disparity of tens, or even hundreds, and often hundreds, or at most a few thousand colonial troops are enough to conquer a small country, and the Rif region is only a province of the small country of Morocco, and the territory controlled by the Klim rebels is only a small part of the whole province of Rif now, and the total population of the base area is only tens of thousands.

However, the governor of Spanish Morocco naturally had a reason for choosing to kill the chicken, because the terrain of the Rif Mountains was dangerous, the local people were extremely brave, and the special organizational form of Islam that was different from the general religion gave them a strong organizational power far beyond the ordinary natives (Note 1).

Of course, this is also because the Rif Mountains are too barren to be worth the price Spain has to pay. But now that the "empty land" in the world has been carved up by the great powers, there is no other colony to expand, in this situation, no matter how thin Rif is, it is still meat, and in recent years, the people of the Rif Mountains have become more and more active, so that the people in other parts of Spanish Morocco have also begun to move, and the Spanish government can't pay attention to the Rif Mountains.

It was for this reason that the Spanish governor had so many troops at his disposal, and he sent them almost all at once, in the wishful thinking of eliminating the rebels once and for all. But what the Spanish governor did not expect was that the rebel army of Rif was much stronger than he thought......

In fact, although the rebel army of Krim is not very strong, due to the frequent clashes between the Rif mountain people and the Spanish colonial army and its armed diaspora, the soldiers have generally experienced the baptism of war, and because of the proximity to Europe, they are no strangers to Western weapons and tactics, in a sense, they are actually very close to the quality of soldiers in modern armies, and they are also elite veterans! Therefore, after joining the command, as long as a little training can be formed, the combat effectiveness will not be "flooded" even if the army is rapidly expanded, which is too important for Kerim.

Note 1: Although it is still not comparable with the modern army, it has greatly surpassed the ordinary feudal army, which can be seen from the history of the world's anti-colonial struggle, and the highest exchange ratio is almost all religious countries, such as Kerim, Mahdi, Afghanistan......