Yang Du is very aware of the complexity of the northwest issue, of course, including the Qinghai-Tibet region, and now with the smooth progress of the abolition of slavery in Yunnan, Chuanbian has also begun to prepare for the abolition of slavery, and has officially upgraded the Chuanbian Special Zone to Xikang Province, strengthening the administrative team, but from the current situation, the abolition of slavery is definitely not an easy thing, involving the interests of all aspects, the local religious upper class and the aristocracy completely colluded together, forming a very stubborn force, if it is not for the strong force of the central political axe, it can deter Xiaoxiao, The gang had already jumped up.

And the situation in the northwest is worse than that of Qinghai-Tibet, because of Qiao Yu's years of operation, the authority of the political axe can go deeper, and the northwest is completely the kingdom of reading, and those local warlords are also unsightly, crazy and crazy, but now the main force wants to deter the locality, and to aid the outer northeast, there is not enough strength to let these crazy beasts launch, it is another chaos.

What's more important is that now Liu Xiang, Zhang Guangjian and others are all in Xinjiang Province, guarding the newly restored territory, Shaanxi and Gansu and other places are very empty, if something happens at this time, causing the supply of troops in Xinjiang Province to be cut off, it will affect the great cause of recovering the territory, and it is completely worth the loss, so Yang Du does not want Qiao Yu to be hot-headed for a while.

However, Qiao Yu has another consideration, the northwest needs stability, but this stability should be based on the strong control of the political axe, not a compromise, especially the compromise with the national separatist forces like the Ma Jiajun, and because they control Shaanxi and Gansu and other regions, if the [***] team in Xinjiang Province fights with the army of Red Russia, these people are a time bomb and must not stay.

"Mr. Huizi, if you can eradicate these people without too many troops, do you think you should do it?"

Don't need too many people? That's naturally good, but can it be done, the northwest area is so large, and the number of cavalry of those Ma Jiajun is large, if they play guerrilla warfare, it will definitely be the most troublesome thing!

"Prime Minister, can you do it?"

"I am ready to appoint Cao Kun as the Northwest Patrol Envoy and bring the two divisions of Wu Peifu and Feng Yuxiang into the Northwest!"

Yang Du's eyes lit up when he heard this, this is indeed a good way, now the main defense of the garrison in the southwest provinces is these Beiyang generals, among which Wu Peifu, Feng Yuxiang and others are the best among them, if they are transferred away, it is also a good thing for Qiao Yu to speed up the rectification of the whole [***] team.

It's just that there are still some troubles, now the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces has been handed over to Zhang Zuolin, and Outer Mongolia has been handed over to Xu Shuzheng, if the northwest is handed over to Cao Kun, it is equivalent to the entire northern defense line has fallen into the hands of the Beiyang general, whether the old man of the Sichuan system can be satisfied, how to balance interests, and whether Beiyang can be willing This is carefully measured!

"Prime Minister, are you trying to kill someone with a knife? Although it is a good way, but your reform proposal cannot be expected to be completed by Cao Kun and others, if I want to say that I don't need to be too anxious to deal with Beiyang, it can be simmered slowly, and the faction of Beiyang will completely disappear within three or five years! ”

"Hahaha! Mr. Huizi, you guessed wrong this time, I am Ming Xiu plank road, dark Chen Cang, I asked Cao Kun and others to go to the northwest just to create a false impression of borrowing a knife to kill people, let the Ma Jiajun and those people misjudge, and then lead the snake out of the hole, and wipe out all the Ma Jiajun in one fell swoop, their cavalry is not in their eyes, even if they can organize 100,000 cavalry, they can't stop my tank troops! ”

Eliminating the Ma family army is a sure thing, not only to stabilize the northwest, but also to kill the chicken and the monkey in it, Qiao Yu wants to further deter the princes of the world, let these people obediently accept the reorganization of the army, don't try to resist, the Ma family army is the chicken, and the Beiyang general is the monkey that needs to be deterred, now Qiao Yu is thinking about how to use the least investment to get the maximum benefit, Qiao Yu can't send too many people, so he thought of using Beiyang as a disguise!

Although Yang Du was scheming, he didn't know much about the new weapons, and he didn't know much about the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army equipped with the new weapons, so he had a misunderstanding, but when he heard that Qiao Yu was sure that he would annihilate the Ma Jiajun in one fell swoop, he secretly said in his heart that this was the best choice.

"Prime Minister, how many people need to be sent, have you calculated?"

"Naturally, I have to ask an expert!"

Jiang Baili had already rushed to Yanjing to prepare for the training of the National Defense Army, and it was Zhang Xiaohuai who was in charge of the Wuchang General Staff, and after Qiao Yu called him, Zhang Xiaohuai was a little excited when he heard Qiao Yu's introduction.

"Prime Minister, I have fought in Europe for a few years, and now I am a little uncomfortable when I am idle, I will ask you for an order to arrows, and leave the matter of eliminating the Ma Jiajun to me, I calculated it, the elite strength of Ma Fuxiang and others is less than 10,000 cavalry, if you add some peripheral forces, it will not exceed 20,000, as long as you give me a tank brigade and an infantry brigade, it is enough, but I need Cao Kun and others to cooperate, I can annihilate all the Ma Jiajun and ensure that none of them can escape!"

"One or two thousand cavalry is not a small number, and the Ma family army is all local snakes, don't underestimate the enemy!" Yang Du said with a smile.

"Mr. Huizi, the Ma Jiajun is extremely poorly equipped and seriously undertrained, and only with a bloody courage can't stop bullets and shells, besides, we still have tanks, armored vehicles, and planes in the sky, as long as they dare to do it, there will be absolutely no return, you can rest assured!"

"Runnon, since you are so sure, I will transfer a brigade of Lu Han to you, and then a mountain brigade, you must annihilate the Ma family army in one fell swoop, and deter the Quartet!"

Zhang Xiaohuai received the order and hurriedly went to transfer troops and send generals, Qiao Yu gave an order to Cao Kun again, Feng Guozhang was on the verge of dying, Cao Kun was already a direct leader, but now is not the era of Beiyang, the aura of this direct leader not only can not bring any benefits to Cao Kun, but also turned him into a big target, especially after Shi Yi led the army into Zhili, Cao Kun's situation became more and more difficult.

Here is the threat of the soldiers, there is Jiang Baili to reorganize the army, Cao Kun is not a fool, the whole army is to exclude dissidents in other words, he must bear the brunt, and he doesn't know what kind of position he can give himself, when Cao Kun was anxious, Qiao Yu's order was conveyed, and he was appointed as the northwest patrol envoy, although the northwest was barren, but he was also a feudal official, and he was able to leave the circle of right and wrong in Zhili, Cao Kun was still very happy, and he had a telegram with his confidant Wu Peifu.

Wu Peifu also received an order to transfer his subordinates to the northwest at this time, Wu Peifu thought more than Cao Kun, and now most of the old people in Beiyang have been sent to the border areas, obviously marginalized, Wu Peifu is not reconciled, but seeing that others have the opportunity to make contributions, Wu Peifu is not convinced, and there is no capital to resist the central government, so Wu Peifu also chose to agree.

Cao Kun led a large army to the northwest, while Zhang Xiaohuai's movements seemed much more secretive, and the army was also assembling to the north of Sichuan.

In addition to rectifying various forces in the country, Qiao Yu has also been secretly paying attention to one person, that is, Kolchak, he served as the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet during World War I, he fled after the February Revolution in Russia, and later supported the Provisional Political Axe, returned to Russia, and after the October Revolution, he led the Russian White Army to fight against the Red Army led by the Soviet Union [***]. He was recognized by the Allies as the head of the Russian Provisional Axe, and was later captured and executed by the majority.

Qiao Yu didn't care about the life or death of a Russian [***] official, what made Qiao Yu pay attention was the gold in his hand, in this era of the gold standard, gold is not just a currency, but also the cornerstone of a country's financial and monetary security, but China is not a gold-producing country, and it has been frequently plundered in modern times, so there is not much gold and silver reserves at all.

In the middle of World War I, Qiao Yu accumulated the first batch of gold for the southwest through an arms deal with the tsar, and the misty Kolchak gold naturally fell into Qiao Yu's eyes, and he must get this gold at all costs.

After the start of the Russian Civil War, Kolchak began to buy weapons everywhere, hoping to defeat the majority, and after the news of Kolchak's large amount of gold spread, the Entente began to blackmail Kolchak fiercely, forcing him to pay three or five times the price to buy weapons.

Among all the countries, only the arms dealers from China seem to be ill-informed, and still sell arms at the original price, these sincere Chinese businessmen were immediately favored by Kolchak, and began to purchase Chinese equipment in large quantities, but Kolchak did not know that most of these Chinese businessmen were disguised by the Investigation Bureau and the gendarmerie, and they quickly determined through the transaction that Kolchak did have a surprising amount of gold in his hands, and in addition to gold, there were also a lot of jewelry, This is all plundered and looted by the Tsar family for hundreds of years.

There must have been a loot of the Tsar from China, and once the situation was clarified, a wide net was quietly unfolded, and Kolchak was defeated by the majority party forces in November 1919, and Kolchak led his followers and even more tempting gold had to leave Omsk and flee to the Far East.

It took more than a year for Chinese intelligence officers to finally figure out Kolchak's handling of this batch of treasures, which were divided into three parts, a part of the gold was transported to Chita in advance, and a large number of jewels and agate artifacts were transported to Topolsk, and the most important gold of about 500 tons was personally escorted by Kolchak, and this huge amount of money has become the basis of Kolchak's dream of restoring the country.

After getting the exact information, the Chinese side estimated the total value of this treasure at more than 700 million US dollars, and it was all dry goods, which was too tempting.

Qiao Yu also knew that a good opportunity would never be missed, so he sent his confidant Wu Fenglou to personally command the operation, Wang Tianhe was responsible for providing intelligence support, and after agreeing, they decided to wipe out all the treasures and never leave any for the Russians, so when Kolchak fled eastward, a special operations team led by Luo Ying had already gone deep into Topolsk to get the jewelry and cultural relics first.

Then mobilize elite soldiers to get the gold in Kolchak's hands, and finally the part of the gold in Chita, Luo Ying received this task, but also shocked and inexplicable, although he is no longer a hot-blooded boy, but the stimulation of robbing the Tsar's treasures still makes his blood boil, now Russia is full of bandits, stragglers, the whole country has lost order, this chaos just gave Luo Ying their golden opportunity, Luo Ying and his more than 20 people came to Topolsk smoothly, The treasure is already beckoning to them!

(To be continued)