In September, the whole country was in an uproar, and Yuan Shikai seemed to have realized the important surname of the political party, and began to order his subordinates to form a party.

For Yuan Shikai's hand, the newly formed Kuomintang made a lot of sarcasm, and if it could be stopped, it would be stopped, and if it could be demolished, it would be desperately demolished, so Yanjing City staged a farce one after another, and the ministers and vice ministers of the Central Committee resigned in turn, and took turns to take office, which dazzled all walks of life at home and abroad, and they didn't know who to give gifts and congratulations to.

The proposal for the establishment of the National Railway Association put forward by the Kuomintang legislators was passed, and Mr. Sun Wen, who had originally said that he would not hold any position, happily became the president of the Railway Association in the spirit of serving the country and the people, and began to hold frequent press conferences under Yuan Shikai's nose, and delivered exciting speeches again and again. In order to change the face of poverty and backwardness of the country, make unremitting efforts to develop people's livelihood and benefit future generations, and do our best!

People from all walks of life across the country rejoiced at this majestic goal, Yuan Shikai is not a vegetarian, thinking Sun Wen, you show off your power and demagoguery under my nose, I endured it, but you are not a political axe official, why do you ask for foreign capital to build roads and open mines? Why did he go to his embassy and consulate twice in three days and use the mine land under the jurisdiction of the political axe as collateral to borrow money?

As a result, Yuan Shikai's propaganda machine began to rumble and launch, calling on the people today to strengthen moral cultivation education, and tomorrow announcing the launch of friendly consultations with Britain, the United States, Germany, and France, and the two camps once again began a vigorous war of words.

The two provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan, located in the southwest of the motherland, do not seem to be involved in the war of words in the outside world.

After the battle between Sichuan and Yunnan, the Yunnan Provincial Assembly quietly passed a series of trade protection policies, and since August, Yunnan political axes at all levels have doubled taxes on Sichuan merchants, which has once again aroused opposition from all walks of life in Sichuan, and the literati of the two provinces have begun to scold each other in the newspapers, starting a vigorous war of words between the two provinces.

Merchants from all over Sichuan who had suffered huge losses all ran to Chengdu to complain, and the provincial assembly, unable to bear it, soon passed a special tax policy resolution, demanding that Wang Jian's Fourth Division, which was guarding southern Sichuan, give full assistance to the newly formed county administrations in southern Sichuan, set up checkpoints on all major communication routes and land and water wharves leading to Yunnan and Guizhou, and levy heavy taxes on all goods and materials going north from Yunnan, and half of the taxes collected would be transferred to the Fourth Division to subsidize the border food of the officers and men of the Fourth Division.

Wang Jian was hesitant at first, he had grown up in a family that had been in business for generations, and he knew what kind of bad effects this move would bring, so he immediately sent a telegram to Commander Xiao.

Commander Xiao's reply was only one sentence: You have solved next year's military salary by yourself!

Wang Jian and the generals around him were overjoyed after receiving the telegram, isn't this allowing us to levy taxes in a grand manner? Although the Fourth Division had been placed under the jurisdiction of the Provincial Government, in order to solve the chronic problem of the army's interference in government affairs and forced taxation, the Provincial Government had allocated 1 million yuan in food and salary to each of the four divisions of the Sichuan Army to ensure all the expenditures of each division within a year.

But for the Fourth Division, which has been expanded into four infantry regiments and five directly subordinate battalions, this money is far from enough, and the Fourth Division, which has a total of 11,500 officers and soldiers, needs Commander Xiao's strong support in weapons and ammunition. The officers and men of the Fourth Division did not dare to let go of their bellies when they were afraid of eating.

In less than three days, officers and men of the Fourth Division wearing olive-green military uniforms appeared on all the main roads and land wharves leading to Yunnan in the four counties on the southern border of Sichuan; checkpoints were quickly set up, and one after another requisitioned or self-built wooden barracks were erected; all caravans heading north from Yunnan were levied heavy taxes, and all "important strategic materials" such as metal products, steel, copper, and zinc, refined salt, grain and farm tools, cotton gauze, and other "important strategic materials" transported to Yunnan were all seized, and it was clear that they belonged to Sichuan merchants. Pay a fine of 10% to pass, and those who belong to Yunnan merchants will be levied 30% tax, and all will be confiscated and confiscated if they say a few more words.

The trade war between the two provinces began since then, and in less than two months, each province raised the tax rate from 30 percent to 50 percent, and trade exchanges have been hit hard, and Yunnan, which is more dependent on complementary goods and materials, has suffered unspeakably.

Xiao Yimin has no interest in the war of words between the two provinces, and he has no time or obligation to attend various meetings of civil officials; anyway, the tax power of Sichuan Province except for the Yucheng area is already in the hands of the provincial political axe, and the political axe at all levels has set up a relatively complete tax administration and police force, which has effectively ensured the implementation, summarization, and unified allocation of the province's tax revenue, and has implemented more reasonable agricultural taxes and industrial and commercial taxes, and has abolished the gold and taxes left over from the Manchu Qing political axe, and the majority of the people in Sichuan are deeply satisfied. Xiao Yimin's task has been completed.

Although he did not take part in the war of words, Xiao Yimin was not idle; together with Bao Jiqing, chief of staff, Wang Lingji, commander of the 1st Frontier Division, and other generals, he secretly met with Lu Pingzhou, a general of the Guizhou Army, and his party who had come to ask for help.

Lu Pingzhou was originally the commander of the infantry regiment of the Guizhou New Army, nicknamed Lu Mangzi, a student of the first phase of the Guizhou Lecture Wutang, with a brave style and a good way to lead the troops.

Lu Pingzhou saw that the situation was not right, and quietly led his troops back to Guizhou to fight the Yunnan army, who knew that as soon as he arrived in Zunyi, he was ambushed by Liu Xianqian, the commander of the Guizhou army who defected to the Yunnan army, Lu Pingzhou led the remnants to break out of the encirclement and fled to Yucheng, and Xiong Kewu, the commander of the Shu army, who was short of major generals, generously took him in, incorporated him into his command, and continued to let him serve as the head of the regiment.

In the first battle of Sichuan and Yunnan, the powerful Yunnan army was defeated by the Sichuan army led by Xiao Yimin, and more than ten generals such as Xie Ruyi, Li Hongxiang, Huang Yucheng and Dai Huan of the Yunnan army either fled or were captured, until the end of the negotiations, the negotiators of the Yunnan army quietly paid a ransom of hundreds of thousands of oceans in the name of the families of the captured generals, and only then ransomed 17 captured generals such as Dai Huan, and there are still more than 3,700 Yunnan officers and soldiers who are unwilling to pay war reparations because of the Yunnan political axe, and they cannot pay a huge ransom. It was seized by the Sichuan border army and used as a coolie to build roads.

During the Sichuan-Yunnan war, Xiong Kewu, who was entrenched in Chongqing, was stunned from beginning to end, and originally planned to take advantage of the time when the two armies of Sichuan and Yunnan were divided into winners and losers, and then quickly attacked, striking at the defeated side, and getting a piece of the pie, but the battle commanded by Xiao Yimin ended in only three days, Xiong Kewu and all the generals and colonels of the Shu army in Yucheng were dumbfounded, and never dared to mention the slogan of "fighting back to Chengdu" for more than half a year.

Xiao Yimin's army also shocked Lu Pingzhou under the fence, think about his miserable situation, and then compare Xiao Yimin, who is brave and brave, with Xiong Kewu, who wants to be opportunistic everywhere, the twenty-eight-year-old Lu Pingzhou can't sleep, he has a huge hatred for the Yunnan army, and he dreams of going back to his hometown to avenge the shame, but he is weak and powerless, and now he sees Xiao Yimin's wisdom and courage and is afraid of Xiao Yimin's generosity, and finally made a decision to find Liu Bingxian, the deputy minister of the Shu army Yucheng political axe, Quietly contacted Xiao Yimin and passed on his wishes, but he didn't expect that in only three days, he waited for Xiao Yimin's response, Lu Pingzhou immediately asked Xiong Kewu for leave on the grounds of recruiting the old department, and quickly rushed to Chengdu to ask to see Xiao Yimin.

When the nervous reckless son and his two assistants saw Xiao Yimin with a smile on his face, they were panicked and excited, and they didn't know whether it was better to salute or hug their fists to greet him.

Xiao Yimin didn't care about trivial etiquette, and warmly invited Lu Pingzhou and the three of them to enter the headquarters to sit and watch tea, and politely asked how the journey was and whether they had dinner? Then he listened attentively to the confessions and demands of the three reckless sons, and asked them about their current strength and future plans.

Three hours passed, and Lu Pingzhou and the three of them were full of gratitude and excitement, leaving Chengdu and rushing back to Yucheng.

Five days later, Lu Pingzhou's adjutant Lu Pingshan quietly led 20 Guizhou officers and soldiers with a cultural background to return to Chengdu, handed them over to the border army headquarters for training, and then secretly discussed with Xiao Yimin's chief of staff Bao Jiqing for an afternoon, and returned to Yucheng with a thick plan and a secret order.

On the evening of 25 September, 800 soldiers led by Lu Pingzhou successfully passed through the defense area of the First Division of the Sichuan Army and arrived at the barracks of the Fourth Division of the Sichuan Army in the eastern suburbs of Syria.

A 15-member detachment dispatched by Lu Pingzhou quietly crossed the border into Guizhou and carried out liaison and undercover operations as planned. A month later, the Luping Mountain Division, which has completed the special training, will return to his homeland and begin the desperate struggle to take revenge and rebuild his homeland.

Throughout late September, Xiao Yimin and his generals have been busy.

35,000 German Mauser rifles, 100 MG08 water-cooled heavy machine guns, 50 ZF09 quadruple civilian shotgun scopes produced by Zeiss, 150 six-fold military telescopes and artillery telescopes, 500 compasses, various steel materials for the production of guns, 12 sets of mechanical processing equipment and other materials were delivered one after another.

The first batch of German weapons came to Chengdu along with eight retired German officers with the rank of major and above, military academy instructors and their families, as well as a batch of German school textbooks given free of charge by the German side.

Together with Xiao Yimin and the border army generals, these eight instructors will jointly establish the professional setting of the Sichuan Army Military Academy, select military teaching materials for each specialty, formulate teaching plans and enrollment plans, and serve as instructors in various disciplines of the military academy for a long time.

Among them, fifty-eight-year-old Karl Brown, who retired from the German General Staff three years ago. Feng. Colonel Kleist, who was deeply respected and respected by Xiao Yimin, who had served in the Prussian Army and achieved outstanding military exploits, served as the chief lecturer of tactics at the Berlin Military Academy, and finally retired from the Operations Department of the German General Staff, on the third day after arriving in Chengdu, he impressed Xiao Yimin with his rigorous style and profound knowledge, and was immediately appointed by Xiao Yimin as the chief instructor of the military academy.

On 1 October, the "West China Times" and "Sichuan Daily" respectively published special articles in important positions on the front page, detailing in detail the various situations of the Sichuan Army Military Academy, which was run by the Sichuan Frontier Army and open to the whole province to recruit students.

Brief introduction:

A total of 500 students will be enrolled in the first phase of the Sichuan Army Military Academy's six majors, and the examination will be held on October 18 and 19. Among them, 250 cadets will be recruited from the society and selected for admission, and the other 250 cadets will be selected and recommended by various departments of the Sichuan Army from among the servicemen on active duty, according to the actual needs of the Sichuan Army, and with reference to the German education system, two academic systems will be set up respectively, and outstanding graduates will be sent to German military colleges and universities for further study.

As soon as the newspaper was published, it immediately caused a sensation in all directions, and the huge investment and luxurious camp area of the new camp located outside the new west gate had been the topic of conversation among the people of Sichuan for several months, and now eight senior German military instructors and more than 20 well-known generals and schools from various provinces in China have come one after another to jointly teach at the high-standard Sichuan Army Military Academy.

What makes the officers and men of the army and countless young students yearn for is that Commander Xiao Yimin Xiao personally served as the principal of the Sichuan Army Officer Military Academy!

(To be continued)