Shao Lizi was appointed chairman of Shaanxi Province, and Bai Yunti was appointed chairman of Gansu Province. Nanjing's appetite is really not small. The Japanese army attacked Shanhaiguan, intending to swallow the Rehe River soon, Nanjing Busi led the army to reinforce the Northeast Army to resist the Japanese invaders, and made small moves to the local area one after another. Jiang Li threw aside the telegram from the central government and said with a sneer, this is not counting, following the betrayal of Yang Hucheng by the Shaanxi Garrison Division last year, Wang Zhiyuan of the First Brigade of the Shaanxi Garrison, which Yang Hucheng had not long since Yang Hucheng was incorporated this year, led two regiments of troops to flee to Sichuan with the 17th Route Army.

"In order to weaken local forces, Nanjing can be said to do everything." Huang Xiansheng also looked resentful, and he was born in the Northeast Army, so he naturally didn't have a good impression of Nanjing. "But what do you think of this appointment in Nanjing?"

"I mean that Chairman Shao will continue to stay in Lanzhou, as long as Chairman Shao doesn't want to leave, can Nanjing still send someone to forcibly take Chairman Shao away?" Jiang Li looked at Shao Lizi and said, "I only look at Chairman Shao's opinion, if you want to leave, I will never leave it difficult, Chairman Shao still wants to stay in Gansu, Nanjing can't be reluctant, from my personal perspective and Gansu, I strongly hope that Chairman Shao will stay." ”

"But what should Nanjing do to investigate it?" Shao Lizi asked worriedly.

Speaking from the heart, Shao Lizi and Jiang Li partnered to deal with Gansu government affairs, and Jiang Li also respected him, the provincial chairman who had no military power. He rarely interfered in government affairs, and in a year's time, the 15th Route Army put down chaos everywhere and cleaned up the large and small local forces in Gansu, compared with the previous situation where the government decree did not leave Lanzhou. No part of Gansu Province now dares to resist the majesty of the provincial government.

Shaanxi is already the territory of Yang Hucheng. Originally, Yang Hucheng concurrently held the post of chairman of Shaanxi Province. Nanjing abruptly withdrew Yang Hucheng's part-time job and let him go, even if Yang Hucheng is generous, he must be angry in his heart, and it is impossible for Gansu to stay comfortably. Not to mention Shaanxi, even the province directly controlled by coastal Nanjing, it is difficult to find someone who can support his political actions like Jiang Li. Now that Gansu is thriving, where does Shao Lizi want to go.

"Changing generals on the spot is a taboo for soldiers. The status of the chairman of this province is not inferior to that of a general of the first army, and if nothing else, Gansu accepted no less than 500,000 refugees from hunger last year, and this year it will rise to at least 800,000. The investment in industrial factories in various places also needs to be dealt with, and now that Chairman Shao has been replaced, Nanjing can guarantee to solve these things for me? Nanjing slapped the skull of the head and changed people, what should I do with these government affairs? The Japanese army attacked Shanhaiguan with the intention of Rehe. The 15th Route Army is going to send troops to resist the war, how to solve the dispatch of materials? If only Nanjing could show the actual results of properly relocating 800,000 disaster victims this year. Able to support the consumption of the 15th Route Army, Gansu will consider replacing the provincial chairman. Jiang Li said to the adjutant next to him, "Send a telegram to Nanjing in the name of the 15th Route Army, and send it like this." ”

"Do you want to think about the wording again?" Although Huang Xiansheng felt relieved, he was still a little hesitant.

"Nanjing is now busy with its own peace, and wants to influence us to resist Japan and disrupt us with Yang Hucheng's 17th Route Army. Do we still have to be kind to each other? Jiang Li said with some unhappiness in his heart.

"The floods of the Yangtze River, the refugees in the north, the drought in the Central Plains. Nanjing's ability to cook is indeed very limited, and it costs 20 to 30 million yuan a year to settle 800,000 disaster victims, eat, drink, and Lazar. Where would Nanjing come to do this wrong, looking at the entire Republic of China, only the commander is willing to do this kind of seemingly thankless thing. As for the consumption of anti-Japanese war materials to support the 15th Route Army, don't even think about it. Shao Lizi breathed a sigh of relief, but quickly added, "But last year, most of them were busy with the reconstruction of industrial factories that moved from Fengtian, although Gansu tends to be politically calm, and local finances and taxes can also escort the provincial treasury, but the food and housing of 800,000 people in Gansu can not be supported, and the commander has to make another financial resource." ”

"Well, it's already there, even if it's bad, it's not much worse. In the past few years, the battle has been fought, but the construction of the northwest is the most important. According to the current construction progress, 800,000 people can only fill part of the needs, and the iron ore mining area on the side of Jingtieshan alone will cost 40,000 or 50,000 people, and the smelting equipment this time is purchased from Germany, and the steel plant will also consume 10,000 to 20,000 people. The other is to build roads, expand the army, and then part of the tuntian. These people look like a lot, and they can actually digest about it. The days will be hard in the past two years, and it will be better to survive these two years. ”

As part of the continuation of the order for 30,000 tons of steel for guns and artillery from Germany, the steel smelting equipment worth 15.7 million marks can reach a production capacity of more than 260,000 tons. The price is a bit expensive, but in exchange, Jiang Li will buy two more sets of equipment no less than this within three years, in exchange for the German company Rheinmetal's help Northwest to design and manufacture steel smelting equipment on its own. That's how it works. After the Northwest acquired the technology to manufacture steel smelting equipment on its own, it no longer worried about being blocked by Japan in the east during the war, and after all, it was already self-sufficient.

"Which force does the commander plan to send to Rehe this time?" Shao Lizi asked.

"The last time I went to Shanghai, it was too far, and it was a territory directly controlled by Nanjing, so it was inconvenient to send too many troops, so only Jiang Wenhao was mixed into four brigades. This time the action was bigger, I discussed with the commander, and set up a temporary army of the 15th Route Army, with Wang Tiehan as the acting commander, with Zhang Zhibang's 2nd Division, Weng Zhaoyuan's 2nd Brigade, and 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment. As well as three fighter squadrons, one more squadron, one bomber squadron and another squad out of Gan. Feng Zhanhai replied for Jiang Li.

Not only Shao Lizi, but also Tibetan Yi who was present also gasped. "Commander, our 15th Route Army has never been left behind in the previous Anti-Japanese Wars, but will the scale of this dispatch be a little too big?" Tibetan Shiyi said worriedly. The previous mixed four brigades were made into empty shelves, and this year Gansu said that only three divisions had been expanded, and in fact, the rebuilt mixed four brigades had to be counted. If you include the air defense forces, tank troops, and aviation units, the cost is quite terrifying. If it weren't for the spare money that Jiang Li didn't know where to get it, he would definitely not have been able to rely on the money he brought from the Northeast before.

"The Japanese don't remember to eat, I said hello to Zhang Xueliang, and he also agreed to send troops over from my side. Although the Japanese army has sent troops in the past, we have actively called for battle. However, the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance can be relatively late by a year, and the northwest can also make preparations for an extra year. Now it hurts the Japanese army a little bit and drags the Japanese army south. We can also transport more machinery into Gansu. ”

Jiang Li shook his head and said, in addition, only the more famous it is, the stronger the army becomes, the Japanese army goes south, the rich, gentry, and industrialists in Beiping and Tianjin will be more inclined to choose to move to the northwest, after the Kuomintang settled in Nanjing, although the political center moved south, but Pingjin as the richest area of the Republic of China since the late Qing Dynasty, its accumulation is very deep, simply in order to cover some of the schools, the industrial factories moved to the northwest, as long as they can gradually guide the Pingjin area, As a result, the industrial factories in the interior moved westward, and even if this army was wiped out, it would be worth it. There are still a few years left before the Anti-Japanese War, and the army can be trained again when it is exhausted. (To be continued.) )