Loud military songs sounded in the wilderness, and bright sunshine shone down from the clear sky of Xinjiang. A group of infantrymen came neatly from the newly paved road, apparently having only returned from field training and had not known how many days they had been in the field. Their khaki uniforms had been washed and whitened, and the places where they carried their guns on their shoulders, the cuffs and joints where they often rubbed against the ground were patched. The mud and sweat mixed together, making the military uniform look a little dirty, only the four-color al-Shabaab logo still looked bright and dazzling.

The complexion of the officers and soldiers of this army has turned bronze, and they all look emaciated, but their bodies seem to contain infinite energy. In the eyes of a professional like Luo Yaoguo, who has been in the army for a long time, this army is definitely elite. At least mentally, it is no worse than any division of the National ** Army, but the weapons and equipment are a little rudimentary.

Behind this infantry contingent, which was about a regiment, was a company of heavy machine guns, and six Min-13 heavy machine guns produced by the Ishii Arsenal were disassembled and carried by the soldiers. These six machine guns seemed to be the only heavy weapons of the infantry regiment. This standard is almost the same as that of the Kuomintang army four years ago, and it is incomparable with the regular army of the National ** Army, which now has an infantry regiment attached to a mountain artillery company.

Luo Yaoguo was standing on the wall of Dihua Hancheng at this time, surrounded by the core generals of the Youth Army, many of whom were graduates of the first phase of Huangpu and were his students. Although most of these people are now division commanders and brigade commanders, they are now standing solemnly like elementary school students. The leader of these people, Wang Zizhi, stood side by side with Luo Yaoguo, pointing to what the troops who came in from outside the city were explaining.

"Don't hide it, teacher, our youth army has expanded rapidly in the past two years, and now it has grown from three divisions in one army to twelve divisions and twenty-four brigades, in addition to many security regiments, and the total strength is close to 200,000." Speaking of this, Wang Zizhi's face also showed a hint of pride. Although his development is inseparable from Luo Yaoguo's support, it is indeed necessary to have some real skills to pull out such a huge army in just a few years and be able to control it.

Luo Yaoguo smiled and nodded: "If you don't know the vastness of the northwest if you don't go to the northwest, to protect such a vast piece of land, it is not enough to have 200,000 elite soldiers." It's just that...... The cost and equipment of these 200,000 troops also broke your heart, right? ”

He glanced at Wang Zizhi's faintly gray hair, this warlord, who was a year younger than himself, now looked like a little old man. It seems that he is still right not to be a warlord. This job is far from being as easy and enjoyable as it was written in those novels of later generations, and it is simply not something that ordinary people can do.

Hearing his teacher and Engong ask about the expenses and equipment of the army, Wang Zizhi smiled bitterly and sighed: "Teacher, don't look at this northwest is a large area on the map, but when it comes to taxes, the three provinces (regions) together can't compare to a city in Guangzhou, right?" Is...... There are many bitter ridges in the world that I have caught up, and the teacher has to find a way to help me. ”

Luo Yaoguo just smiled and didn't take the stubble. This time, the purpose of his visit to Xinjiang was actually to seek Wang Zijiu's support for Sun Yat-sen's presidency, and now it seems that as long as the bid is appropriate, there is absolutely no problem. 200,000 soldiers, raising it is a very headache, and it is impossible to do anything without two million a month. It's 24 million a year, and I'm afraid half of the three northwestern provinces (regions) can't be scraped out, right? Moreover, raising troops in the northwest is not just a matter of giving money, and the entire logistics and transportation and material supply are all difficult problems. The current Longhai Railway has just been built to Lingbao County, Henan, and there is not an inch of track further west.

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The streets of Dihua Seoul are a little bustling, but there is no trace of modernity. The car that Luo Yaoguo and Wang Zizheng are sitting in now may be the only one in Dihua, right? Through the car window, I saw a dilapidated and unruly ancient Chinese city. Dihua is now divided into Seoul and the Old Town, and most of the people living in Seoul are Han Chinese who have lived in this land for generations, although some have only recently migrated from Gansu and other places. Most of the Uighurs and other ethnic minorities living in Dihua live in the old city with a strong Islamic style, and the two sides do not seem to have much contact.

After looking at the scenery on the side of the road for a while, Luo Yaoguo closed the curtain of the car and sighed: "Jun Hao, I didn't expect Xinjiang to be backward and become like this." Governance of this territory...... It's hard for you. ”

Wang Zizhi nodded and said with a smile: "Here is now 'Don't ask about the Central Plains' and 'Don't ask about the affairs of the Central Plains', 'Troubled and long-term for the ancient people'." ”

"This is the new strategy of the former overseer Yang Zengxin, right?"

Wang Zizi sighed: "Compared with Mr. Yang Dingchen, what is the difficulty of the students? Now the students have an elite soldier in their hands who is enough to subdue the heroes of the northwest, and they have the full support of the national government. Yang Dinggong has nothing to rely on, and he is maintaining Xinjiang on his own, and he has finally kept this treasure land for the country."

Luo Yaoguo just smiled: "Then what is Jun Hao's strategy for governing Xinjiang?" ”

Wang Zizheng said with a wry smile: "Xinjiang has been the object of aggression between Britain and Russia since the end of the Qing Dynasty, but fortunately, Yang Dinggong's methods are flexible, reasonable and restrained. Moreover, it is a good time to encounter a world war and Russia, so that Xinjiang can be kept from losing. But for now...... Britain's power has been severely weakened, and it can no longer take care of Xinjiang. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, was thriving, and although they suffered setbacks in the Middle East Road War and the Second Russo-Japanese War, the situation in Xinjiang was even more severe. ”

"We have two major weaknesses in Xinjiang, one is transportation; The second is the nation. At present, although our youth army maintains a 100,000-strong army in Xinjiang, it seems to be a lot. However, the army's logistical supply, weaponry, and training level are all worrisome. Teacher, don't look at the mental outlook of these young men, but if you really want to fight, you can't solve the problem by relying on spirit alone. At present, Xinjiang does not have any industry, there is not an inch of railroad tracks, and even roads are very rare. Such a transportation situation is simply impossible to support an army of 100,000 to fight a real war, and even the daily attrition of the army is unsustainable...... So much so that we are planning to build tuntian in Xinjiang, hoping to alleviate it for the time being. However, in the end, there is only one way to solve the problem, and if the Nationalist Government can build the railway to Dihua, this Xinjiang will be preserved in our generation."

"In the time of our generation?" Luo Yaoguo thought about it for a while, and knew that the other party was going to talk about national issues.

Wang Zijiu really sighed, and began to pour another bucket of bitter water: "In Xinjiang, we Han people are a minority, and in the past, we have always relied on Yang Dingchen's methods of various ethnic groups and factions to contain each other to maintain the situation. However, as soon as our 100,000 troops arrived, this situation was naturally broken. In less than a year, all parts of Xinjiang have been in flames...... Naturally, our wrists are also a little more iron-blooded. There is no way to do this, the tribes of the Western Regions have always worshiped the strong, and they will not regard our forbearance as kindness, but only as weakness."

Having said this, Wang Zizi's body was already full of a thick murderous aura, if he stuck to his mustache again......

"Yang Dingchen is Huairou to contain and keep all parties balanced. And since our arrival has broken the balance, we can naturally no longer be gentle, and can only use thunder means to make all alien races who have no distinction feel afraid, this policy is called white, I am afraid it is not an exaggeration, I hope the teacher does not mind, this Western Regions has been like this for thousands of years, only the iron-blooded strong can become the final winner"

Information in this regard...... Luo Yaoguo naturally mastered it through the eyes of the Intelligence Bureau in Xinjiang. However, since he was able to "have a good conversation" with Hitler, he would not be interested in this kind of iron-blooded policy. Yang Zengxin has no strength, so there is no problem for him to compromise with those unscrupulous princes and nobles, and people will only treat Yang Zengxin as weak. And Wang Zizheng entered Xinjiang with 100,000 male soldiers, if he was weak, people would be easy to bully as Han people

Seeing Luo Yaoguo's calm expression, Wang Zijiu sighed lightly and continued to preach his racism: "Teacher, if we want to keep Xinjiang forever and turn it into the homeland of our children and grandchildren, we must make the Han people here the majority, or even an absolute majority, and there are only two ways to do this: one is to learn from Turkey; The second is to learn from Japan. I don't know...... What does the teacher want me to do? ”

Luo Yaoguo knew what Wang meant by self-reflection. Learning from Turkey refers to Turkey's genocidal policy towards the Armenian nation. Remove this people from the peninsula of Asia Minor and turn the land into a Turkish pre-occupation...... Although future generations have been condemned, there are no other consequences. Japan has now succeeded in turning the Ezo people into the Yamato nation, and the Korean nation and Taiwan, China, have almost been integrated by Japan, in this regard, Luo Yaoguo's previous life is a lie that he has deeply realized is the truth that if all schools in Xinjiang only teach Chinese, and instill in students every day that they are Han and Chinese, the reason why they look a little different is because their ancestors intermarried with Western ethnic groups...... Well, to put it this way, every day, insisting on the custody of the last few decades or even hundreds of years can solve the problem, in fact, Sun Yat-sen's "nationalism" also means the same.

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In the hall of the Xinjiang Supervision Office, a banquet was at its most lively. The table is full of treasures, and there is a roasted whole sheep with the characteristics of the Western Regions, which is shiny and looks very fat. At this time, Luo Yaoguo and Wang Zizheng have long lost the solemnity they had when they were in the car, and the pair of teachers and students who are almost the same age are frequently raising their glasses and drinking and talking. In addition to Luo Yaoguo and Wang Zizhi, there were also Sheng Shicai and Natalie, who arrived in Xinjiang with Luo Yaoguo, the nominal boss of the Northwest and Yang Sen, the Northwest Frontier Governor; Wang Zizi's elder brother, Wang Zizhi, who is also the governor of Xinjiang; Tang Sitong, Zhao Boran, Ma Buqing and others, senior officers of the Youth Army, were also accompanied.

I don't know how many tricks Wang Zizheng has used in the past few years, Yang Sen seems to have been completely hollowed out. Some of the old brothers brought out from Sichuan have completely defected to the Youth Party, some have been "transferred" to the central government to sit on the cold bench, and some have disappeared without knowing each other. At the moment, this Yang Sen looks like I am obedient and obedient, sitting at the banquet and just eating and drinking, without saying a word

Tang Sitong and Zhao Boran looked like loyal little brothers, and they didn't have much ability and ambition. Following Wang Zijiu, he has become a division commander, where is there anything dissatisfied? It is not surprising that these two men were taken by Wang Zijiu for his own use.

It's just that there is another person in the banquet that makes Luo Yaoguo very interested, this person is the Ma Buqing who looks like a talent, he is the eldest son of the Ma family army who dominates the northwest. It should be a thorn in the head, but now he is obediently like a primary school student, sitting next to Wang Zijiu, shouting one big brother after another...... However, Luo Yaoguo could still see a lingering fear in his eyes

What makes Luo Yaoguo feel even more amazing is that Ma Buqing is actually ...... now The Han people still take a bite of "we Han people" at the banquet, as if they are afraid that others will not hear it, and when they eat vegetables, they also pick up the parts of the pig, and never touch the roasted roasted whole sheep with oil and shiny

Looking back at Wang Zijiu, his current official official positions are Chief of Staff of the Youth Army, Director of the Internal Affairs Committee of the Youth Army, and Supervisor of the Xinjiang Army. The second of these, the Al-Shabaab Internal Affairs Committee, is said to be a fascist organization dedicated to fighting dissent and eliminating dissidents. Most of the members were the children of Han civilians in the bitter ridges of the northwest, who accepted the demagoguery of the statist theory that had been reformed by Wang Zizhi, and used extreme methods to maintain Wang Zizhi's authority in the northwest. It seems that it is this organization that makes Yang Sen and Ma Buqing feel so frightened, right?

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, I saw that the atmosphere on the banquet was almost there. Luo Yaoguo smiled at Wang Zijiu and made clear the intention of this time: "Jun Hao, in order to solve the current crisis facing Xinjiang, it is necessary to concentrate the strength of the whole country to support the development of Xinjiang and the northwest. And to do this, the premise is to have a unified central government, so that all factions in the country can no longer fight each other internally, but unite as one to the outside world. At present, the meeting of the various factions in Beijing is aimed at solving this problem. I have come to Xinjiang this time to solicit your views on the meeting of the various factions and industry associations, and I hope that you will lead the three northwestern provinces (regions) to send a telegram to support Premier Sun's appointment as China's new president. ”

Without waiting for Wang Zijiu to answer, Luo Yaoguo immediately brought out the election beef: "As long as Premier Sun is elected president, our national government is ready to invest in the construction of a railway to Xinjiang." Among them, the railway connecting Lingbao and Yumen Pass in Henan Province can start construction within this year, and it will be completed within three years. The railway from Yumen Pass to Dihua can start preliminary preparation and engineering design within the year, and the construction can start after the railway to Yumen Pass is completed. ”

“…… The Nationalist Government will also resume providing subsidies to the youth army, which can subsidize you with 20 million legal dollars per year, and your weapons and ammunition will also be supplied by us...... In addition, we can also set up a special committee to study the development and utilization of resources in the Northwest. For example, the newly discovered oil fields near Yumen Pass, the non-ferrous metal mines, gold and silver mines in the northwest, and so on, we can set up joint ventures to develop these resources, so that the financial revenue of the Northwest Youth Military Government can be greatly increased...... Finally, if you need it, our Central Military Academy, Aviation Academy, and Army University can also train officers for you. At present, the military academy of our national ** army cooperates with Germany, and a large number of German instructors teach there, and the level of education has been greatly improved. ”

Although these requirements had long been expected by Wang Zizheng and others, when he really heard the series of conditions proposed by Luo Yaoguo, Wang Zizhi's face still unconsciously slipped a trace of surprise. The other side seems to be genuinely willing to help the youth army dominate the northwest, and is not only willing to provide a large amount of money, but also agrees to fund the construction of railways and jointly develop resources.

One of the most surprising things for Wang Zijiu was the construction of the railway, and his rule in Xinjiang was constantly threatened by the Soviet Union. If there is a war, the logistics support of this 100,000-strong army will be enough to kill him, and fighting a war is really a logistical battle, and if there is no continuous supply of materials from the interior, it is pure wishful thinking to defeat the Soviet Union in Xinjiang.

At present, if we want to keep Xinjiang and our own foundation, we cannot rely on Zeng Qi's empty words, but we must really support this support that only the Kuomintang that controls most of China can get. 20 million plus 200,000 weapons and ammunition per year, this cost is unrealistic to rely on the Feng system, relying on GCD, who can get it without the cornucopia of South China? Not to mention the railway line that is thousands of kilometers long, the total investment is probably hundreds of millions, right? Even if you sell all the money of the Feng family, you can't get so much money.

Thinking of this, Wang Zizheng did not drag his feet, no longer considering the instructions of the Central Committee of the Youth Party, but stood up respectfully and gave a military salute to Luo Yaoguo: "Since the national government and teachers support the development of our youth army so much, I, Wang Zijiu, am not a person who does not know what to do. As soon as the banquet here is over, I will go to draft a telegram that only Mr. Sun Yat-sen will be the leader of the 200,000 soldiers of our youth army, and he will resolutely support Mr. Sun as the president of the Republic of China."

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