In all the treaties signed by the Manchu Dynasty, no countries were allowed to set up consulates outside the designated treaty ports, and only Yucheng was the treaty port in the "Yantai Treaty" in the whole of Sichuan.

In the wave of anti-Japanese protests throughout the country, people from all walks of life in Sichuan once again launched a huge boycott of the goods tour on October 10. They surrounded the Chengdu branch of the Yucheng Consulate, which had been forcibly set up, denounced the threats made by the Yue army against Sichuan and the bloody cases they had committed in China, and demanded that they immediately get out of Chengdu and get out of Sichuan, and the agitated citizens and students threw five or six tons of stones, broken shoes, dead chickens, rotten vegetable leaves, and other miscellaneous objects into the consulate, and the angry construction workers pulled two truckloads of mixed gravel and concrete and poured them at the entrance of the consulate.

More than 200 policemen who were on duty to guard and maintain the task watched happily until the concrete solidified and hardened. The people who walked were persuaded to leave.

I don't know who in the crowd shouted, "To the provincial government axe, please. I am willing to drive away the said "myself", tens of thousands of people responded violently, and the mighty swim. The team then drove to the Mingyuan Building, where the provincial political axe was located, and surrounded the two exits of the huge imperial city, east and south.

Provincial Governor Zhang Lan and Speaker Kuang Youmin, who were working in the newly completed Zhengax Office Building and the Parliament Building in the Imperial City, complied with the public opinion and quickly met with representatives from all walks of life and received petitions submitted by representatives of the Sichuan Federation of Students, the Sichuan Federation of Industry and Commerce, and the General Union of Construction Workers.

In the evening of the same day, the Sichuan Provincial Government Axe urgently convened a special meeting and quickly formed a resolution: the consulate in Chengdu, which was set up by Britain, Germany, and France on their own, without any legal basis, was revoked within a week!

The next day, the provincial government accepted the application document jointly submitted by the Yucheng government and the Yucheng council, discussed and agreed to "immediately take back the five storage wharves in Yucheng that were forcibly occupied by the four major trading companies and built without any approval and authorization procedures, and instructed the Yucheng political axe and the council to investigate the legal responsibility of the four major trading companies together with the local procuratorate and the local court."

The decision of the Sichuan Provincial Political Axe won the cheers and support of the people of the whole country, but it suffered the political axes and the army at all levels in Sichuan.

The secret negotiations between the British Mission in China and the Sichuan Army Headquarters were interrupted again. Liszt, the British Minister to China, Char Ting-lun, the British Minister to China, and Edward, the new British Consul in Chengdu, strongly protested against Xiao Yimin, the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Army, accusing the resolution of the Sichuan Provincial Political Axe as a barbaric and shameless banditry.

Xiao Yimin, who has always been good-tempered, was furious when he heard this, and immediately pointed to the nose of the loudest envoy Xia Tinglun and scolded:

"You're a fucking robber, your whole family is a robber! Three generations of your family have been despicable and shameless bandits! Your brutal grandfather brutally slaughtered the local people in South Africa, returned to England and showed off bloody South African diamonds everywhere, your father snatched more than ten pieces of national treasure-level ceramics and books from our Old Summer Palace, and last year they were shamelessly exhibited in London, and now it's your turn, Lao Tzu will tell you this hammer today: Don't mess with me, otherwise, one day Lao Tzu will ask you to return it a hundred times! ”

Xiao Yimin turned around and left after scolding, and Edward, who was one of the leaders of the British negotiators and one of Xiao Yimin's friends, hurriedly caught up.

The annoyed Xiao Yimin suppressed his anger and whispered to his good friend: "Billy, it is impossible for this kind of negotiation to continue, I am tired of it!" If you have the time, why not follow the example of the Germans and the Americans, and replace the consulate sign at your gate with a business liaison office; "Again, as a friend, I would like to inform you that in three days' time, we will publicly display a large number of historical materials and photographs of the British in western Sichuan supporting the rebels in robbing and massacring Chinese civilians, merchants, and political axe officials, and we will also pull out the exhibition of the nineteen British [***] spies caught in early July. So be it, I can't use the military money paid by the people to help you feed those nineteen stupid pigs, I want to take them out to tour the exhibition and raise money for them by selling tickets to visit them! Good bye! ”

"No, no! My God, you can't do that......"

Edward screamed in pain, Xiao Yimin had already led four negotiation assistants to stride downstairs and leave the Chengdu Hotel in a car, letting the angry and helpless British roar at him.

Back at the headquarters, the staff officer on duty sent a letter from Genjiro Tsukasa, a wealthy businessman, and the spy who had lived in Chengdu as a businessman for ten years finally relented.

A week ago, the Sichuan Provincial High People's Court sentenced seven Sichuan celebrities who were willing to act as lackeys and harmed the interests of the people to the maximum death penalty and a minimum of 12 years in prison for "murder," "fraud," "bribery," and "robbery." He no longer dared to get involved with Xiao Yimin the three "well-known wealthy businessmen" who had disappeared in Hankou, and could only file a request for reconciliation in his personal name through Motojiro Tsukasa, an army intelligence officer stationed in Chengdu, and asked Xiao Yimin to release him generously The eight tourists who strayed into the military restricted zone were willing to pay a fine of no more than 50,000 silver dollars for their release, and as for the measuring equipment, surveying and mapping maps, and other instruments and materials confiscated by the Sichuan army, Tsukasa did not dare to mention them in the letter.

Xiao Yimin knew very well that he already hated himself to the core, but thanks to the position in Sichuan thousands of miles deep, and because the power of Sichuan had not yet formed a climate in Sichuan, many profit-seeking businessmen had not been trained by him to become traitors, and a large number of so-called "celebrities" and "cultural pioneers" who had lost their integrity were mostly concentrated in the camp of the revolutionary party, and few dared to return to the "bad situation" in Sichuan.

The families of these people have already received an official letter of investigation issued by the military police of the Military and Political Department of the General Headquarters of the Sichuan Army, re-investigating and prosecuting the deeds and whereabouts of more than 300 Sichuan Kuomintang people during the Baolu Movement, the Chengdu Mutiny, and the recent period.

Another important reason is that the Yanjing political axe, which has been overwhelmed by the anti-Japanese wave, cannot control Sichuan at all, and Yuan Shikai no matter how much he and the British shout and threaten, no matter how much he and the British shout, no matter how much they threaten, they no longer have the energy to manage Sichuan, which is far away from Yanjing, except for sending a few inquiry messages to Sichuan, Yuan Shikai put all his energy on the chaotic Central Plains region and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, vigorously rectifying the chaotic army, and frequently summoning military and political officials from various provinces who are vacillating and defying the law. Every effort was made to stabilize the army, stabilize the important Central Plains region and the southeastern coast.

The civil war in southern Shaanxi and western Henan that began at the end of June has turned into a melee between princes from all walks of life, and the 15th and 16th mixed brigades of the Central Army, which were ordered by Yuan Shikai to suppress the Bailang Peasant Army, marched into the relatively wealthy Hanzhong in the name of suppressing bandits, and the territory of the Chen Shufan Brigade of the Shaanxi Army and the Liu Zhenhua Brigade of the Zhensong Army, which also participated in the encirclement and suppression of the peasant army, suddenly shrank. The 16th Mixed Brigade of Feng Yuxiang, who had fled back to Hanzhong from northern Sichuan, launched a fierce attack, and Xiao Yimin, commander-in-chief of the Sichuan Army, secretly vigorously supported the people of Shaanxi and the Shaanxi army, not only selling more than 300,000 yuan of weapons and ammunition to the Shaanxi Chamber of Commerce, a powerful force behind the Shaanxi army, but also sending a 3,000 militia led by Zhang Yuan, the boss of the robe brother in northern Sichuan, to help in the war.

After half a month of hard fighting, the Shaanxi coalition army severely damaged Jia Deyao and Feng Yuxiang, two mixed brigades, recovered Hanzhong, and the rapidly growing Shaanxi army did not do two things, and launched a pursuit of Jia Deyao and Feng Yuxiang who led the remnants to flee to Xi'an, shouting the slogan of "expelling the rape and returning the government to the people", and soon won the support of the people in Shaanxi. The two brigades of Lu Jianzhang, the overseer of Shaanxi, and the remnants of Jia Deyao and Feng Yuxiang surrounded the city of Xi'an.

Taking advantage of the rare opportunity of the melee between officers and soldiers, the Bailang peasant army resolutely jumped out of the mountainous area at the junction of Henan and Shaanxi, held high the banner of rebellion, and returned to southern Henan and southeastern Henan.

In Fujian and southern Zhejiang, the local armies that were originally under the leadership of the political axe have defected to the revolutionary party one after another and launched an armed revolution again; seven counties in southern Zhejiang and half of Fujian have been in flames of war, and the coastal local forces that have won the support of the local forces have carried the 38 big covers and hung bombs on their waists, bravely attacking the county political axes, and the leaders of the revolutionary party who have been lurking or fleeing have rushed to Fujian and Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions to lead the revolutionary movement, and bomb explosions have frequently occurred in important cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Suzhou. The army loyal to the political axe of Yanjing once again fought to the death against the forces of the revolutionary party.

In the face of the war-torn and chaotic vast China, the European and American powers were helpless, and the usual threat of force and political intimidation gradually lost their effect, and the increasingly prosperous war in Europe involved a lot of energy from the European and American powers, and only the neighboring China, whose aggressive ambitions had been expanding for a hundred years, were at the forefront, but the opponent Xiao Yimin was now facing was extremely difficult, and the Sichuan controlled by Xiao Yimin was thousands of miles away from the ocean over which he had absolute superiority, and was in an extremely favorable continental depth area, with developed agriculture and animal husbandryIn recent years, the industrial base has been continuously strengthened, and the output of steel, coal, grain, cotton yarn and salt has increased rapidly.

Thanks to Xiao Yimin's efforts, the German and American consortiums, which had long coveted western China, rushed into this large western province of China, and shipped advanced technology and advanced equipment into Sichuan, so that Sichuan not only did not have any dependence on the city, but because of the rapid development of local industry and commerce, it seized the vast market in the Yangtze River valley, which had been coveted for a long time, and made the company feel helpless against the weak influence of the west of China.

Now it seems that his temporary compromise is by no means a good thing, and the ambitious, despicable and shameless Yue Ben will definitely launch an all-round attack on Sichuan and Xiao Yimin, and the shameless Yue himself will definitely create one evil surname incident after another in other parts of China to retaliate, and use this to threaten and blackmail the Yanjing political axe and the Kuomintang political axe in exile.

In this regard, Xiao Yimin and his followers have long been mentally prepared, have been working hard for their own interests, and are determined to take this opportunity to severely damage the ambitions of the Sayben and eliminate the forces of the whole of Sichuan and even the surrounding areas to the greatest extent.

(To be continued)