The most fundamental reason is that the vast majority of people, like Xiao Yimin, hope to get rid of the political and economic aggression and the ubiquitous plunder and oppression of the foreign powers, especially the Japanese and Russian forces.

There are too many historical debts left behind by the shameless and incompetent Manchu Qing political axe and the revolutionary party that disregarded the interests of the country and the nation for its own selfishness, and the various evil consequences brought about by this have made every Chinese miserable, the country full of holes, and the people ravaged.

Before this, Xiao Yimin and his followers were powerless to change, and could only bear the pain in silence, but now that they have the strength and opportunity to change the status quo, how can they be worthy of their conscience if they don't do something to boost their morale and national spirit?

The actions of Xiao Yimin and Nanjing Xingying brought endless troubles to the central government of Yanjing, making Duan Qirui Group annoyed but unable to vent.

Through the public opinion controlled by Xiao Yimin, the political axe in the north and countless Chinese people gradually woke up, clearly recognized the profound disasters caused by the Manchu political axe to the entire country and nation, saw the true face of how the so-called revolutionary party betrayed the country to seek glory and how it hurt nature and reason, and saw clearly the huge ambitions of Tsarist Russia in the north and the great ambitions of the eastern state against China.

Although there are still some Han and Han compradors and Han forces who are trying their best to defend their masters, wantonly criticizing Xiao Yimin and the Nanjing camp, and even labeling them as "reading talents" and "ignorance," the actions of the Nanjing camp have won the applause and support of all circles throughout the country, and it can be seen that more than 40,000 young students from all over the country have flocked to Nanjing to apply for the "National Nanjing University" and "Nanjing Military Academy."

As a result of Xiao Yimin's continuous and arduous efforts over the past several years, as well as the opportunities brought to China by the changes in the international situation, the conspiracy of the forces to invade southern China and the inland provinces has been effectively curbed, and the thriving Sichuan has not only promoted the development of the entire southwest region in various industries of agriculture and industry, but has also influenced the political orientation of the broad masses of the people in the southwest region and the two lakes region through its prosperous science and culture, a strong and standardized currency, and the enthusiasm of the whole people to participate in and discuss state affairs.

Beginning in 1916, with the rapid rise of the Xiao Yimin clique, the power of the Legion was curbed and weakened to the greatest extent in the inland areas of Chinese mainland, and in addition to retaining the three consulates general of Kunming, Yucheng, and Hankou, all applications for increasing the establishment of consulates were rejected and opposed by the Nanjing Xingying and the provincial political axes, even if the Yanjing Central Political Axe approved it had no effect.

At the same time, the Nanjing Xingying Foreign Affairs Committee also applied to the Central Committee for the establishment of consulates in Yue, and the number reached as many as 30, covering almost all the important port cities and industrial cities in the country. In the midst of the support of the broad masses of the people, they have skillfully shirked their so-called diplomatic responsibilities and more resolutely curbed the infiltration of the local forces into China's deep regions.

Due to the continuous autumn rains, the lower reaches of the Yellow River burst their banks, resulting in flooding in more than 40 counties in Shandong, the collapse of more than 300,000 houses, the complete loss of tens of millions of acres of crops, the death of more than 40,000 people in the floods, and the displacement of more than 2.8 million people who were waiting to be fed, but did not receive any relief and attention from the political axe. At this time, the presidential struggle of the central political axe is becoming more and more intense, and the contradiction between Duan Qirui Group and Xu Shichang Group has reached an irreconcilable white-hot stage.

In the midst of the crisis, it was the Xiao Yimin clique that stepped forward, and in just one week, it requisitioned 50 steamships of various kinds, requisitioned more than 400 wagons of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, and transported more than 20,000 tons of relief grain to the disaster-stricken areas in Shandong.

However, the area affected by the disaster was too large, there were too many people affected, and the cold wave in the north made it even worse, bringing great difficulties to the disaster relief work, and tens of thousands of hungry victims fell in the cold wind one after another.

In response to this situation, the Nanjing camp immediately held an emergency meeting, and the army quietly launched the resettlement operation in the "Blue Light Plan", urgently requisitioned all ships, including the Yangtze River Shipping Company, and sent more than 800,000 victims to Hainan Island with a warm climate in just one month.

The two engineering corps, which had completed a series of projects inside and outside Nanjing, had completed their recuperation and quickly left for Hainan Island to assist the victims in building new homes.

Due to the fact that a large number of disaster relief materials in the rear of Sichuan could not catch up with the increasingly cold weather changes, more than 100,000 officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army stationed in Jiangbei and Jiangnan took the initiative to give up their cotton clothes and pants, handed them over to the Liao Zhen Corps guarding Xuzhou, and sent them to the disaster area in Shandong; In view of the unclaimed situation of homeless orphans in the disaster area, Xiao Yimin gave an order to give priority to sending more than 20,000 helpless orphans under the age of 15 to Nanjing, where they were supported by the Nanjing garrison and the Pukou military training base.

The good deeds of Nanjing Xingying have won praise from all walks of life at home and abroad, and countless hesitant and swaying local forces in the south of the Yangtze River have returned to their hearts because of their admiration, and have completely thrown themselves into the Xiao Yimin group that cares about the country and the people, and Xiao Yimin's tall image of compassion and compassion has once again been displayed in front of the people of the whole country.

The pages of mainstream newspapers are full of touching incidents that can be sung and wept and the heroes of disaster relief who have emerged, and the officers and men of the Sichuan Army and the medical team who have been tossing and turning in the disaster areas day and night have created miracles one after another, and the benevolence, righteousness, and might of the "Xiao Family Army" have been widely disseminated among the people.

An armed force that is different from any warlord force and an army that is loyal to the country and the people has finally yielded fruitful results after years of hard work, and has won the unanimous recognition and support of all circles and the broad masses of the people throughout the country.

The disaster relief operation involving the attention of tens of millions of people has not yet ended, post-war Europe has attracted the attention of the whole world, several major alliances [***] dignitaries have gathered in Paris, one by one joint statements affecting the world process and the fate of all countries have come out of nowhere, the soldiers of the warring countries have not completely withdrawn from the war zone, millions of wounded and 30 million displaced people in Europe have not been properly resettled, and the spoils distribution conference chaired by the United States, Britain, and France has been hastily convened.

Xiao Yimin, who was in Nanjing, put the power of attorney signed by Duan Qirui in front of all his confidants, and then Zhang Qun read out more than ten secret telegrams sent back from Paris by Gu Weijun, the Chinese plenipotentiary.

"Think about it, and let each of you express your opinions." Xiao Yimin broke the silence with a smile.

Foreign Minister Wang Zhengting, who rushed back from Yanjing, spoke first: "According to the analysis of the current situation, because the political axe of the United States has instigated several small European countries to lodge a strong protest against the provisional conference of the Central Powers in Paris, the political axe of the United States, Britain, and France does not dare to take the risk of offending many European countries and act on their own.

"Therefore, I think it will be very difficult for the allies to reach an agreement in a short period of time, at least not in a short period of time to reach a more satisfactory plan for the distribution of benefits."

Yang Du nodded: "I agree with this opinion!" Without three or five months, it is impossible for the Allied Conference to make much progress, and the efficiency of foreigners is not necessarily much higher than ours, not to mention that we are facing a world war that has never been seen before, and there are too many and complicated things to consider in all aspects. ”

Sun Baoqi said with a smile: "Huizi is right, if nothing else, let's just say that our neighbor Yuben, in order to obtain greater benefits from the European war, their entire country's newspapers have all been launched, and they have also organized a march of 100,000 people in Tokyo in an attempt to put pressure on European and American countries, and even Yueben's interests in China have been temporarily put aside."

"This shows how urgent it is to carve up the interests of the victorious group of countries in order to get out of the political and economic crisis facing China!"

"Can we take this opportunity to successfully provoke contradictions between the United States, Britain, and other countries?" Wang Lingji looked at Wang Zhengting.

Wang Zhengting did not comment on this, obviously because he lacked confidence in this. Wang Zhengting, who is the head of the Central Foreign Affairs Department, will soon lead the Chinese delegation to Paris to attend the spoils distribution conference, which is thanks to Duan Qirui's efforts to join the Allied camp to declare war on Germany against the public.

Xiao Yimin thought for a moment and turned his head: "Lao Bao, what is your opinion?" ”

Bao Jiqing, who has been sitting in the rear of Sichuan for Xiao Yimin, snuffed out his cigarette butts: "I estimate that it will be difficult for us to gain any substantial benefits in terms of post-war interests...... If the secret agreement reached between the commander and Britain and the United States can be carried out, and in the name of the same victorious powers, and taking advantage of the scruples of the European and American countries that they are afraid of harming their interests in northern China, and succeed in driving the army out of Qingdao and Jiaodong, it will be regarded as the greatest victory. ”

Seeing everyone's different reactions, Xiao Yimin repeated his attitude again: "Driving the Yue army out of Qingdao and the Jiaodong Peninsula is our minimum condition, and this goal must be achieved, which is also the prerequisite that I have repeatedly emphasized to the ministers of Europe and the United States!" ”

In order to smoothly drive out the Japanese army, Xiao Yimin temporarily agreed to the British to gradually settle the territorial disputes on the Kang-Tibet border and the Yunnan-Burma border by peaceful settlement, and held three friendly talks with the French on the Annam issue, and brought the United States and Britain together to jointly operate the giant high-quality coal mines in northern Vietnam in the form of joint development.

In the end, in order to appease the insatiable French, Xiao Yimin preferred to give up the huge expected profits of investment and operation, and promised to buy one million tons of coal every year for steel production in Liangguang and Hainan, in exchange for the support of the French.

As for the United States, the participants all knew that the two sides have been developing closer cooperative relations and a series of cooperation plans, and that the total amount of US investment in China has surged tenfold in the past year, and that the Americans will never risk losing more than half of the Chinese market to think about their own interests in China.

However, Xiao Yimin and his henchmen will never be satisfied with just driving the Yue army out of Qingdao, and the Xiao Yimin clique will not only want to urge the Duan Qirui clique to cede the whole of Shandong and turn Shandong into an iron bucket-like bridgehead for hegemony in the world, but also go all out to fight for China's interests and improve China's political and economic status in the international arena in this distribution of spoils, and then break the alliance between Britain and the Ben, and curb the rapid development of the Ben by unscrupulous means. And then to achieve the ultimate goal of weakening the enemy and strengthening himself.

As for the hostilities with Soviet Russia, it is necessary to take advantage of the rare opportunity of the new red regime, which is constantly in civil strife and has no time to take care of enemies on all sides, to eliminate the potential crisis as soon as possible, to tighten its own fence, and then to prepare for a long struggle by awakening the whole people.

(To be continued)