With the support of public opinion and force, Li Zongwu decisively took action in Xikang and Qinghai, all the nobles in the two places were cleaned up, and the monks and temples were also strictly concerned, and at the same time, with the distribution of pastures and farmland, all the original slaves turned over, obtained valuable means of production, and finally were able to control their own destiny, and the authority of the political axe was completely deeply rooted in the hearts of every common people!

Of course, hundreds of years of traditional power is not so easy to deal with, but now that the political axe has finally achieved the ability to compete with religion, the next step is to see who can win more people's hearts, of course, the political axe as a strong party, there will be more means to use, such as a large number of nobles arrested this time and a larger number of thugs, these people are all regarded as laborers, responsible for building the inland road to the plateau, if nothing else, these people will continue to work until death!

In addition, the power of capital has also begun to enter the plateau, here is a good pasture, originally due to the restrictions of the slave system, the vast majority of the population has no purchasing power, only a few upper classes can enjoy some luxuries, now most people from slaves to farmers and herdsmen, they need all kinds of labor tools, but also to sell their livestock!

In this way, they have been involved in the wave of the capital market, and the social atmosphere has quietly undergone profound changes, or it will not be long before people will understand the outside world better, and will reflect on everything in the past.

The Xikang and Qinghai operations have already yielded significant results, and the next step is the last bastion: Tibetan Province! As long as all the nobles and monks entrenched here are cut off, the entire abolition action can be regarded as a complete success, and Li Zongwu is also very clear that the central political axe is no longer willing to wait slowly, and these garbage of the old era must be swept away to win a good social environment for the next large-scale construction of the country!

Therefore, Li Zongwu also took decisive measures, a total of more than 17,000 capable soldiers, carrying heavy artillery, plus the local militia in Tibetan Province, the number of troops has exceeded 30,000, and more than 1,000 political axe officials with extremely strong ability to do things have joined them, the old administrative system was broken, the nobles were disarmed, the fields and pastures were nationalized, and then they were evenly distributed, and all the slaves were freed!

Of course, this kind of change is not so easy, but there are armed conflicts of all sizes almost every day, and some high-level people also know that there is no way to compete with the central government, and they also try to flee to India to seek refuge from the British, but it is a pity that the British at this time have strictly guarded the border between the two sides, and resolutely do not allow these people to escape to India!

You must know that it was because Britain took in those Tusi who fled to Myanmar that caused the Battle of Northern Burma, and now Britain does not have the confidence to provoke China, if war breaks out between the two sides again, I am afraid that the British colonial order in India will be shaken, although India and Tibetan Province are separated by the Himalayas, the Chinese [***] team absolutely has no ability to climb over the barrier of the mountains, but the Chinese are not stupid, they can march through northern Burma, anyway, here India and Burma are British colonies, fight everywhere the same!

And China is indeed doing this, the army in northern Myanmar is conducting large-scale military exercises, in addition to Guangzhou is also carrying out military exercises, China is engaged in military exercises, the British side is worried, both of which are aimed at the United Kingdom, Yunnan's military exercises are directed at India, Guangdong's military exercises are aimed at Hong Kong, China has made a clear posture, Britain dares to meddle in China's internal affairs, China will definitely take corresponding measures!

Britain now really does not have the courage to fight with China anymore, many times to measure a country can not only look at some hard indicators, but also look at the momentum, look at the overall situation, the current absolute strength of Britain is definitely stronger than the Opium War, the ability to project troops is also more good, but Britain has irreversibly embarked on the road of decline, the spirit of the whole country has completely changed, no longer dare to take risks, more is to hold on to the defects!

It was the fear of angering China that the British took strict measures against the India-Tibet border, resolutely preventing the Tibetan nobles from escaping to India for refuge, so that these nobles could only be trapped in the Tibetan province, either honestly surrender all the power, or fight to the death!

Most people are not stupid, at this time it is better to honestly choose to give in, as long as they can save their lives, everything is easy to say, of course, there are some more crazy, these people are entangled with all the thugs, even their slaves are armed, they want to lose and resist to the death, for this kind of diehards waiting for them is the iron fist of the army, completely crush all these people!

Tibetan Province is undergoing profound changes, but after all, this is only a corner of the southwest, it can only be regarded as an episode, and the real important thing is the Central Plains and other regions, Qiao Yu stayed in Sichuan for a period of time, he immediately went north, returned to Yanjing, and began to deal with several of the most important government affairs!

The first is the issue of the allocation of the navy, the Guangxi and Yucheng have been opened to the port of Tianjin at this time, the warships are open to the citizens, so that these ordinary people can have zero distance contact with the most powerful weapons of this era, usually these warships only exist in pictures and news, now I see the high muzzle, feel the power of the metal, China's domestic support for the construction of the navy is getting higher and higher!

Qiao Yu naturally also had to conform to public opinion and began to formulate China's naval plan, planning to build two battleships of more than 30,000 tons in the next five years, and to build a number of auxiliary ships, making the scale of China's navy second only to Yueben and second in Asia!

Although the outside world is not optimistic about China's ship-building strength, although China has built 10,000-ton ships in World War I, but they are cargo ships, and now the two warships in hand are also old goods from Germany, and China also lacks the technology of large-caliber artillery, and cannot produce steel for warships!

Although there are countless difficulties, no one can ignore this attitude of China, after all, China's industrialization has begun, and the news of some kind of cooperation between China and Germany has also come out, after all, some things cannot be completely hidden, but the great powers do not know how far the development between Germany and China has come!

If the great powers knew that the German military industry was using China to play the trick of borrowing the dead to resurrect the soul, they would have gone crazy with anger, and China's demand for redeveloping its navy would be a huge stimulus to the already crazy and lively naval arms race in the world.

Of course, Qiao Yu will not give up the pursuit of the navy because of the international reaction, but building a battleship is indeed not a good choice, Qiao Yu is just releasing such a signal, but also to let the powers go further and further on the wrong path, and China is going to embark on another path!

In addition, Qiao Yu ordered the formulation of the Natural Resources Protection Law, requiring reasonable planning in the process of developing resources, and not blind action!

Of course, the most important task is to arrange the land reform of the Central Plains and the Yellow River governance problem, especially the Yellow River, this is a super project, China's main experts from all walks of life all gathered in Yanjing, jointly make suggestions, Qiao Yu knows very well that this kind of big project must have a core leader, otherwise it will only be a mess of porridge, thinking about it, Qiao Yu handed over this task to Wang Yongjiang, and Wang Yongjiang was originally responsible for the Northeast immigration work to Yu Peilun!

Qiao Yu deliberately set up the Immigration and Water Conservancy Committee, Liang Qichao served as the director of the committee, responsible for the main coordination work, Wang Yongjiang served as the executive deputy director, focusing on specific work, Wu Tongju was also transferred over, as the leader of the Yellow Control Working Group, and a large number of cadres for land reform work were mobilized from the southwest, and some immigration officials were also transferred from the northeast to build up the main team!

In addition, the provinces along the Yellow River, the main resettlement provinces in the Northeast have also been included in the entire committee, immigration is a complex project, the Yellow River is even more so, the two are combined together, the complexity increases exponentially, but Wang Yongjiang is worthy of being an outstanding figure, and soon sorted out the intricate things, first determined the Yellow River control plan, and then determined the main resettlement areas according to the plan, while mobilizing the people to the northeast, on the other hand, began to start comprehensive construction, In the Loess Plateau region, the political axe recruited a large number of ordinary people and let them participate in the action of planting trees and grass!

In this action of controlling water and soil, the main planting plant is sea buckthorn, sea buckthorn is a dwarf shrub of more than one meter, has a large distribution in China, this magical plant is cold-resistant, salt-alkali resistant, resistant to wind and sand, the root system is developed, it is a natural sand control plant, and sea buckthorn also has a very amazing medicinal value, the fruit has cough and phlegm, stomach and appetite, blood circulation and stasis, and later generations also found that sea buckthorn fruit can lower cholesterol, relieve angina, prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, It is a medicinal plant with great potential!

There is no doubt that sea buckthorn is the key to changing the Loess Plateau, the Loess Plateau has a lot of people have migrated to the northeast, and the remaining labor force has participated in the ranks of planting sea buckthorn.

Time flies, after all these tasks have been implemented, the time has come to 1921, and the United States has also issued a formal invitation to China, hoping that China can participate in the Washington Conference to discuss the issue of peace in the Far East.

However, in the end, Britain made a compromise first, in fact, after the First World War, the relationship between Britain and the United States changed rapidly, Britain believes that the United States has become the first power, has a strong economic strength, is Britain's biggest enemy in the future, and the United States at this time holds a lot of bonds in its hands, if Britain defaults, the United States will also lose all its money, based on this understanding the United States and Britain began a naval arms race, Britain wants to keep the position of the boss, the United States wants to use force to ensure the safety of bonds!

Although the great powers realized that if this continued, it would only lead to another war, but they were gritting their teeth, hoping that the other party would not be able to hold on to the initiative to compromise, and the United States also showed its madness as the first industrial power, as long as by 1924, the United States could reach 38 capital ships, completely overpowering the British!

At this time, the British had to choose to retreat, they really could not fight any longer, the British cabinet immediately sent a note to the United States, promising the United States to enjoy the same sea power as Britain, in other words, to have the same powerful fleet, Britain's compromise cleared the main obstacle for the Washington Conference, this international conference can finally be put on the agenda, and China will also take the most important step to recover national power!

(To be continued)