On 11 November, when the news of Germany's unconditional surrender reached China, Yanjing, Shanghai, and other places were full of jubilation, and Duan Qirui delivered a warm congratulatory message to China and foreign countries for this purpose, and the entire northern military and political circles and academic circles held a huge victory celebration parade. Yes.

Except for the congratulatory message issued by the China Times, which has become one of the three major newspapers in China, everything is the same as before, with workers in all provinces going to work normally, schools teaching normally, peasants working in the fields, and the construction of six railways across seven provinces officially started.

More than 200 officers and trainees who had quietly returned from Germany successfully evaded the attention of the press and returned to Chongqing on 9 November on the "Changsha," a passenger ship newly purchased by the Yangtze River Shipping Company, and immediately boarded a train and rushed to Chengdu.

The three remaining shareholders of the Yangtze River Shipping Company, formerly known as the China Merchants Steamship Company, controlled by the Sheng family, finally sold their shares to the Nanjing Xingying Economic Development Commission at a premium of 10 percent after difficult negotiations, and all of them withdrew from the shipping business between the Yangtze River basin and the coastal provinces.

Nanjing Xingying immediately began to reorganize and attract investment in a fair and open manner, and accepted the investment plan of the British Swire Shipping China Company, the American Blue Flag International Investment Company, and the Shanghai consortium headed by Yu Qiaqing and Huang Jinrong, and established the new China Yangtze River Shipping Company.

Among them, the British Swire Pacific Company took out 40 of its large and small ships, and 12 wharves along the Yangtze River and coastal provinces, accounting for 30% of the shares; The Shanghai consortium contributed 15 million yuan, accounting for 45% of the shares; Blue Flag Investment Company holds 25 percent of the shares in Shanghai Yangpu Shipyard, four ship repair yards along the Yangtze River and cash injection.

This combination of strength and strength has greatly increased the strength of the newly established China Yangtze River Shipping Company, monopolized the shipping business in China's Yangtze River basin and coastal provinces in one fell swoop, and opened up five international routes, including China to Nanyang, China to San Francisco in the United States, and China to Liverpool in the United Kingdom.

The rigorous and pragmatic attitude and the spirit of open-minded development have been highly praised by Chinese and foreign countries, and they have not only pulled the Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortiums that have lingering fears, but also reassured many frightened national capitalists in China and established a new international image, and also recovered nearly 5 million state-owned assets in this reorganization and reorganization, and then used all the money in the construction of farmland and water conservancy projects in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, and Hubei provinces. As well as carrying out hybrid rice experiments and vigorously promoting excellent rice varieties, it has won the heartfelt support of all walks of life across the country.

Xiao Yimin, whose prestige has increased, did not go north to attend the World War Victory Conference held by the Yanjing Central Political Axe, nor did he greet the old subordinates who returned from Germany and more than 100 students who returned from their studies with great fanfare, but went to Jiangbei to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Xuzhou-Haizhou section of the railway, and then along the coastline from north to south, his footprints covered 11 large-scale salt farms that used advanced imported equipment and increased their output by more than 10 times, as well as promoted the vast areas where a bumper harvest of high-quality rice seeds was about to be planted.

On 15 November, the minister in China and the consul generals in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Jiujiang, and Hankou gathered in Yanjing to lodge a strong protest against Duan Qirui's political axe, protesting against the despicable behavior of Nanjing Xingying in attempting to monopolize China's cotton and linen market, denouncing the Nanjing Xingying Economic Development Committee's support and subsidy policies for the textile industry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, and other provinces, and strongly demanding that one million tons of rice be purchased at low prices in the provinces of the Yangtze River basinIn the end, Tian shamelessly made solemn representations: China has the right to purchase rice from Jiangsu Province for a long time to supplement the grain market, which has been seriously harmed by a series of unequal policies in China.

In the face of the strong pressure of Yue himself, Duan Qirui, who was fighting to the death with Xu Shichang and Feng Guozhang Group, was in pain, but Duan Qirui knew very well in his heart that the center of gravity of his power was in the northern provinces and the northeast region, although his influence in China had been extending to the south uninterruptedly for ten years, but in the suppression of the old colonial empires Britain and France, the progress was extremely slow, and the powerful United States secretly exerted its strength to successfully compete for China's vast southern market with abundant funds and a relatively fair trade policy. As a result, his aggressive strategy of developing southward has suffered a serious setback.

In addition, Xiao Yimin, who had always been disgusted with the capital, wantonly demolished Taiwan, and set up chambers of commerce and associations in various industries in various provinces in the south through various departments and several committees in Nanjing, and gathered a large number of national capitalists and idle funds together in the way of political axe support and policy tilt, and successfully integrated the textile industry in the south by using endless ingenious means.

On the basis of exempting the southern provinces from taxes for two years, the Nanjing camp led by Xiao Yimin joined forces with the provincial government to vigorously promote the planting of excellent varieties of crops, organized provincial officials to visit and study in Sichuan, and used the strong capital of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to continue to promote the development of industry and agriculture in various provinces, thus driving the rapid recovery and rapid development of the economy and national manufacturing industry in southern China, and introducing advanced production equipment with the covert support of the chaebols of Britain and the United States and import and export multinational corporations. Importing a large amount of high-quality cotton to produce high-quality and low-cost textiles, gradually squeezing the textiles out of the southern market, and began to challenge the northern provinces and inland areas occupied by the company.

Duan Qirui, who knew everything, didn't dare to offend the fierce and despicable creditor, but he didn't dare to offend Xiao Yimin, an ally who was gradually becoming stronger, so he could only explain in every possible way and complain and plead, and throw all the problems on Xiao Yimin's head, the most important and convincing reason is:

The Nanjing camp is the highest military and political leadership body in southern China that was passed by legislation, and the central political axe only has macro leadership and tax collection power over the southern provinces, and cannot directly interfere in the military and political affairs of the southern provinces beyond the Nanjing camp; moreover, Xiao Yimin is not only the leader of the army and the largest political party in southern China, but also the first vice premier of the State Council, and is likely to be elected prime minister at the national congress to be held early next year.

Under such circumstances, as long as the various policies of the Nanjing camp do not violate the Constitution, the central government will not be able to interfere with it, still less can it forcibly dictate it in the form of an administrative order, otherwise the north and the south will inevitably move towards splitting!

I was extremely dissatisfied with Duan Qirui's answer, and I was angry and hateful but helpless, just as the envoys gathered in Yanjing to discuss countermeasures, two shocking news came from Nanjing:

The first news was that the Russian Consul General in Hankow, Anlid, sent a telegram to China and abroad, declaring that Red Soviet Russia was an illegal political axe, that it did not recognize the legitimate surname of Soviet power, that it opposed the envoys sent by the Bolshevi Party of Soviet Russia to Hankow to take over, and that he had prudently renounced the concession and consular rights held by Tsarist Russia in Hankow and returned the Russian concession and its property to the Chinese Central Military and Political Department and Hubei Provincial Government under full management.

One hour after the first news was released, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Nanjing Xingying solemnly announced that it welcomed the statement of the Russian Minister to China, Mr. Anride, and thanked the great Russian political axe and the people for their trust and support for the Chinese political axe.

Out of gratitude to Mr. Anride and the Tsarist political axe, the Nanking camp began to provide assistance to the best of its ability to Russian nationals transiting China and staying in the southern provinces of China, Russian politicians, financiers, educators, artists, and businessmen who had been persecuted by the Bolshevik political axe and were living in China.

On the evening of the same day, following the order of Hubei Provincial Chairman Shi Xingchuan, more than 300 officers and men of Tsarist Russia stationed in the Hankou Concession and the officers and men of the Wuhan Garrison held a handover ceremony.

The following morning, the Soviet Russian regime immediately sent a telegram severely condemning the traitorous behavior of former Tsarist Russian minister Anlide, criticizing China's political axe for violating international law and basic diplomatic principles, and issuing a solemn warning to the Yanjing Central Political Axe, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Nanjing Xingying Foreign Affairs Committee.

To the surprise of the whole world, Britain and the United States have adopted a silent attitude towards this diplomatic incident that shocked the world, and it seems that they all want to see how the central political axe of China and the political axe of Nanjing in the south respond to the strong pressure from the red Soviet Russia, but the public opinion in Europe and the United States is full of praise for this, and it is obvious that the political axe of Britain and the United States and other countries has played a decisive role in the attack and propaganda of the flood beast of [***] for a long time.

In less than a week, Nanjing Xingying and Xiao Yimin were known to people all over the world, and they became freedom fighters and boiled heroes highly praised by most countries and people in the world.

The Soviet Russian envoy in Yanjing, who had just reached a preliminary agreement with Duan Qirui's political axe, was about to replace the Russian political axe in exercising consular rights in China, and went to Duan Qirui's office three times a day to seek explanations, but Duan Qirui had already "gone to Shanhaiguan to inspect the people's situation", so angry that the Soviet Russian envoys were at a loss, and watched the three consulates in Hankou, Nanjing, and Changsha being taken into the pocket by the Chinese local political axe, but he did not have the slightest ability to redeem it.

On November 20, Xiao Yimin finally appeared at a regular press conference held in Nanjing, facing more than 200 Chinese and foreign reporters, and answered relevant key questions:

"So far, the Chinese Central Government has not issued any statements or written documents recognizing Red Soviet Russia, nor has the Nanjing camp received any diplomatic note from the Bolshevik political axe that violently overthrew Russia, let alone any contact with the envoys sent by the new Russian regime. Based on the principles of mutual respect, equality, and mutual benefit, the Nanjing camp maintained friendly relations with the former Russian envoys to the southern provinces of China, and gladly accepted their decisions.

“…… As for the threat issued by the Red Soviet Russia to send troops to China's Xinjiang Province and the northeast region, on behalf of the Chinese [***] team and the people, I would like to express my strong indignation and resolute opposition, as long as the Red Soviet Russia dares to infringe on China's sacred territory and interfere with China's sovereignty and sovereign integrity, we will fight it to the end at all costs! ”

(To be continued)