At the beginning, the officers of the Jin Suijun were still only doing some small business, but as Yan Xishan's monitoring of Datong became weaker and weaker, they gradually became bolder, and they used to need to go through the middleman of Jin Shang, and then they began to contact the Datong Party directly, and slowly made a lot of money.

Unconsciously, Yan Xishan's two major dependents, the Jin merchants and the officer corps, were tied to the financial chariot of the Datong Party without knowing it, and even he himself did not have that consciousness, because he himself had made a lot of floating money in this economic trade.

On the surface, the economy of the Jinsui region is thriving, and the upper and lower levels have obtained unimaginable wealth, but once the Datong Party withdraws from it, this prosperous economy will collapse in an instant, and the Jinsui system will be thrown into the abyss.

However, before that, the Datong Party also needed to use the line of the Jinsui system to recruit more workers and talents into the Northwest Soviet District.

In the beginning, the Datong Party also spent money to buy those idle workers from Yan Xishan, and later, when the workers in Shanxi heard that the working conditions and higher income of the Datong Party were better, some of them quietly went to the northwest Soviet area.

Although Yan Xishan was very resentful of this, he also had no choice about the Datong Party, because this was the spontaneous action of the workers, and the Datong Party not only never got in the way, but always spent money to buy people from him.

In addition to the workers, the demand for intellectuals is also increasing day by day, especially the new intellectuals of the two schools of Peking University and Tsinghua University, after the underground intelligence station of the Datong Party was re-established, one of the major tasks of the Beiping station was to send patriotic intellectuals to the northwest Soviet region.

Beiping is thousands of miles away from the northwest Soviet region, and it is inevitable that there will be some omissions and losses when secretly transferring them in the past, but now that the Datong Party has extended its tentacles into Shanxi, it has suddenly shortened the distance for the transfer of patriotic intellectuals, and as long as the Beiping Station finds a way to send personnel into Shanxi, the rest of the journey will be unimpeded.

While the strength of the Northwest Soviet Region was constantly expanding, Yan Xishan was also actively expanding its armaments. On the one hand, it is to deal with the upcoming all-out war between China and Japan, and on the other hand, it is also to guard against the Datong Party.

Just when he thought that his strength was not what it used to be, the news of the merger of the Datong Party and the Northeast Army came, which shocked him for a while.

As one of the neighbors of the Northeast Army, Yan Xishan is also on guard against Zhang Xueliang at all times, and the intelligence department has always been very concerned about the situation of the Northeast Army.

As early as the end of the Battle of Wuqi Town last year, the song "On the Songhua River" completely disrupted the morale of the Northeast Army, and Yan Xishan was so happy that he couldn't help but applaud.

You must know that since the Datong Party was driven out of western Jiangxi, he has been paying attention to the follow-up encirclement and suppression of the Datong Party by the Central Army, and at the same time, he has also noticed that the Central Army has driven the Datong Party everywhere. By the way, the local warlord forces were disintegrated and digested, and the Hunan and Guizhou systems perished in this way.

When the Datong Party was driven to the northwest region, Yan Xishan was afraid that the Datong Party would come to his own territory, and when the time came, the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee would come in to suppress the bandits, and whether he would be allowed to come in or not would be allowed to do so.

But fortunately, after the Datong Party entered Wuqi Town, it was like a phoenix nirvana, and it instantly burst out with new vitality. A beautiful war of annihilation was fought, leaving all forces unclear what was going on.

What's even better is that after the Battle of Wuqi Town, a song "On the Songhua River" was sung, and the means of attacking the heart can be described as ruthless. Just one song completely broke the morale of the Northeast Army and gave them a short break.

After the chaos in the Northeast Army, Yan Xishan was no longer worried that they would enter his territory in the name of suppressing bandits, but he still paid close attention to the situation of the Northeast Army.

And then it turned out to be exactly what he expected. Divisions began to appear within the Northeast Army, and the young Zhuang faction and the veteran faction were full of contradictions, and eventually infighting broke out. Even Wang Yizhe, the commander of the 67th Army, unfortunately died in this conflict.

Seeing that the Northeast Army was about to fall apart, Yan Xishan was planning to annex a part of the Northeast Army later, but unexpectedly, the Datong Party intervened at this time, not only single-handedly reversed the trend of the Northeast falling apart, but also established an alliance with Zhang Xueliang to form a new Chinese anti-Japanese volunteer army, and proudly fought back to the Northeast and expelled the invaders.

In the face of the "Statement to the Compatriots of the Whole Country to Resist Japan" jointly issued by the Datong Party and the Northeast Army, Yan Xishan is now like sitting on pins and needles, because in the statement, in addition to calling on the national forces to stop the civil war and unite with the outside world, the volunteers even borrowed from his Jin Sui army, hoping to use Jin Sui to fight back to the northeast.

Although Yan Xishan had a close relationship with the Datong Party during this time, he only stopped at business cooperation, and he really didn't expect that the Datong Party would want to borrow from him at this time, and there was no sign at all.

Without even thinking about it, Yan Xishan directly felt that this was the Datong Party forcing him to the palace, and the "Declaration to the Compatriots of the Whole Country to Resist Japan" was also a kind of alliance in a sense, calling on everyone to establish an anti-Japanese united front with the Datong Party.

If the Datong Party had put forward such an alliance slogan, everyone would have regarded him as a joke, because the Datong Party was so weak, so weak that almost no warlord could afford it, and it would be a fool's dream to lead the anti-Japanese united front with such a weak attitude.

However, now the Datong Party has occupied the four northwestern provinces in less than a year, and has hundreds of thousands of troops in its hands, all of whom are veterans of a hundred battles, and its combat effectiveness is second to none, and it has demonstrated to the world its absolute overwhelming strength in the northwest encirclement and suppression campaign.

The current Datong Party not only has the No. 1 military strength in the country, but also has an economic foundation that is so good that it is not good, and Yan Xishan is even more deeply aware of this, since the Datong Party entered Jinsui, Jinsui's economy has almost grown rapidly, and he is envious of all the surrounding forces.

There are rich people and organizations, and in the face of such a behemoth, Yan Xishan's pressure is much greater than that of Chang Kaishen, who is far away in Jiangnan.

Although Yan Xishan's military strength had more than doubled during this period, he still did not have much confidence in the face of the newly formed Chinese Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, and the more he understood the current strength of the Datong Party, the more he did not want to clash head-on with the Datong Party.

However, there are some conflicts that he can avoid if he wants to, and now the Datong Party has bluntly borrowed the road from him, and in the name of resisting Japan, he will borrow this road or not.

Instinctively, Yan Xishan didn't want to borrow the way, and the fool also knew that Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou to borrow or not, and the troops of the Datong Party entered Shanxi, so he didn't want to drive them out in the future, and he knew very well about the ability of the Datong Party to take root.

But if he refused, he didn't know if the Datong Party would take other actions against him, just like it did against the Northeast Army.

Although the Datong Party is now holding high the banner of resistance against Japan, as if it is China's only conscience, from his own point of view, Yan Xishan does not believe that there is any ulterior motive in the merger of the Northeast Army into the Datong Party.

You must know that "On the Songhua River", which originally disturbed the hearts of the Northeast Army, came from the Datong Party, and a song could be sung so quickly, and no one had a heart to operate it in secret, and he didn't believe it if he was killed.

Since the source of the chaos in the Northeast Army came from the Datong Party, is it possible that the culprit who eventually caused the Northeast Army to almost fall apart could be the Datong Party, Yan Xishan believes that it is extremely likely.

Looking at the events before and after the Northeast Army was merged into the Datong Party, the figure of the Datong Party can basically be found, Yan Xishan does not believe that the merger of the two armies will be as harmonious as it appears on the surface, and the truth of the fact should be that the Datong Party incorporated the Northeast Army, not the two armies to establish an alliance.

Considering this, Yan Xishan didn't dare to borrow from the Datong Party, Jin Suijun was a family business that he had worked hard for decades, how could he be willing to give it up.

Therefore, when faced with the "Declaration to the Compatriots of the Whole Country to Resist Japan" issued by the Datong Party, Yan Xishan chose to remain silent like most people, and what made him strange was that the Datong Party, which had always actively persuaded him to join the anti-Japanese united front, did not send anyone to ask him why he remained silent this time, and such an abnormal situation made him worry about whether the Datong Party was preparing any conspiracy.

Just after the issuance of the "Declaration", underground parties across the country organized anti-Japanese demonstrations of large or small sizes, which continued to expand after the "Double Tenth Massacre", almost sweeping most of China.

In the face of such high anti-Japanese sentiment among the masses, Yan Xishan could not help but feel a sense of fear: If these students and workers were allowed to make a complete disturbance, their life as warlords would not be easy.

However, what made him strange was that when anti-Japanese demonstrations were being carried out all over the country, only his two provinces of Jinsui were calm and there was no turmoil at all.

It stands to reason that the Jinsui area is full of Datong Party, and it should be the most ferocious, but now it is calm as if nothing has happened, which makes Yan Xishan even more uneasy in his heart, and he always has a feeling that he has been calculated.

At this time, it is not good for him to go directly to the person in charge of the Datong Party in Taiyuan, Xi Zhongxun, this Datong Party member is now more and more like a businessman, not only wearing gold and silver like a nouveau riche, but also more and more understanding of jade, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc., I don't know where to think it is the rich man who came out, saying that no one believes the Datong Party.

In addition to his daily work, Xi Zhongxun visited everywhere, like a country celebrity, and often contacted Jin merchants.

At the beginning, Yan Xishan also sent people to monitor for a period of time, and later found that Xi Zhongxun was only talking about some business dealings and snowy nights, and almost did not involve any political issues, so he was temporarily relieved, but he still paid attention to the contacts between Xi Zhongxun and the Jin merchants from time to time.

Before the "Statement" came out, Yan Xishan also liked to contact his fellow countryman for affection, and by the way, he explored the tone of the Datong Party, but after remaining silent, he did not take the initiative to meet Xi Zhongxun, mainly because he was afraid that Xi Zhongxun would ask him why he was silent.

Originally, he thought that after choosing to be silent, Xi Zhongxun would come to him on behalf of the Datong Party, but he didn't expect that the Datong Party would also play silence like him, if you don't come to me, I won't go to you, see who can't hold his breath in the end. (To be continued......)

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