The next day, the "Bingzhou Daily" published another shocking news.

Last night in Datong, someone saw Xu Yongchang, who looked depressed, and took a train to Beiping. It is said that in order to avoid Shanxi being devastated by the war, Xu Yongchang made a special trip to Datong to persuade Yan Xishan to leave Datong and go to sea, but Yan Xishan refused and resolutely refused to leave Shanxi on the grounds that his father was seriously ill.

At the same time, in order to override Xu Yongchang, at the behest of Yan Xishandi, his nephew, Yang Aiyuan, commander of the 34 th Army, announced in Datong last evening the establishment of the Jinsui Military Consolidation Committee, with himself as chairman and Sun Chu from Jinnan as vice chairman, and the two of them were respectively responsible for the military consolidation of Jinnan, northeastern Jin, and Suiyuan.

The commanders of all armies and divisions of the Jin Sui Army are all members of the Consolidation Committee. The committee appointed more than 20 corps, division, and brigade commanders as lieutenant generals and major generals as supervisors and trainers, and sent them to various departments, nominally responsible for the payment of salaries for various units, but in fact to monitor and control the various units of the Jinsui Army. In this way, through the Jinsui Military Consolidation Committee presided over by Yang Aiyuan, Yan Xishan actually firmly controlled the Jinsui Army in his hands as an opposition.

At the end of the article, it was said that Xu Yongchang was taken away by Yan Xishan.

The "Northern Morning Post" brought good news to the public, it published a message saying, "General Feng Yuxiang was afraid that Shanxi would be devastated by another war, and in order to comply with the order of the central political axe, last night, accompanied by General Zhang Zizhong, he got on the bus from Yuci and left Shanxi via Zhengtai Road to study in Mount Tai. In recognition of Feng Yuxiang's love for the people, the central political axe has revoked Feng Yuxiang's arrest. ”

But the next news is a little worrying. The "Northern Morning Post" went on to report that Song Zhewu had sent a telegram to Yan Xishan to make solemn representations to Yan Xishan regarding the Jin Suijun's search of the Fourth Route Army's military station in Datong for no reason, demanding that Yan Xishan immediately return the weapons seized by the personnel of the military station.

He also said that if Yan Xishan really wanted the good of Shanxi and let the people of Shanxi live in a stable and peaceful environment, Yan Xishan should follow the orders of the central government and leave Datong immediately like Feng Yuxiang. Otherwise, Yan Xishan will become a sinner for the Shanxi people, and all the consequences arising from this will be completely responsible for Yan Xishan.

On the second page, a telegram sent by Song Zheyuan to Song Zhewu was also published at the same time.

Song Zheyuan said in a telegram that the Jin Sui Army in southern Jin, under the command of Sun Chu, had gathered its troops and formed an encirclement of the 29th Army in the name of exercises, intending to destroy the 29th Army first. In order to avoid accidents, the 29th Army had no choice but to retreat to Changzhi. In the process of retreating, the 29th Army and the Jin Sui army that attacked them had a fierce battle, and after a bloody battle by the whole army, the 29th Army had driven the Jin Sui army out of Changzhi.

Song Zheyuan also said that the 29th Army would abide by the orders of Chairman Jiang of the Central Political Axe Committee, and would stand firmly with General Song Zhewu to defend the safety of the Taiyuan Administration to the death, and would never allow the wanted criminal Yan Xishan to disrupt the peace in Shanxi.

At the same time, some tabloids also devoted a lot of space to reporting on Yan Xishan's affairs. For a time, all the news media and all the people who were concerned about the safety of the Taiyuan Administration focused their attention on Yan Xishan.

Seeing that a big war was about to arise, people's worries were even heavier, and the whole of Taiyuan was shrouded in a deep anxiety and worry.

In the evening, the "Jinyang Evening News" broke the news again that the reason why Yan Xishan wanted to solve the 29th Army first, in addition to cutting off Song Zhewu's "one arm" first, there was another reason to solve Song Zheyuan first, that was because of the 29th Army, so that the Jin Sui Army could not participate in Shi Yousan's expulsion of Zhang Xueliang, and Yan Xishan's attack on Song Zheyuan's 29th Army this time was to find Song Zheyuan for revenge.

The reason is that Yan Xishan has agreed to act together with Shi Yousan, and Yang Aiyuan, Sun Chu and others are ready to send troops according to Yan Xishan's secret instructions. But at this moment, the Jin Suijun intercepted a telegram from Xiao Zhenying in Nanjing to Song Zheyuan.

Xiao Zhenying's telegram said, 'Chairman Chiang promised to pay Song Zheyuan 2.3 million yuan a month; After the Jin army was dispatched, Song Zheyuan could seize the territory of southern Jin nearby, and after success, the military and political affairs of southern Jin were all in the hands of Song Zheyuan. ’

Because of this telegram, Yang Aiyuan tried his best to suppress the generals of the Jin Sui Army, who were extremely disgusted with Zhang Xueliang, and did not dare to send troops. Because he missed the great opportunity to expel Zhang Xueliang, even including Song Zhewu, and occupy Hebei to restore Shanxi, Yan Xishan hated Song Zheyuan to the core.

This was not enough, the "Jinyang Evening News" also broke the news that after the Central Plains War, Yan Xishan stole a huge sum of six million that originally belonged to the Shanxi Provincial Bank, and went to Dalian, northeast China, which was occupied by Yue himself, to seek refuge from him. took the hard-earned money of the people of Shanxi, squandered it in Dalian, and lived a life of spending and drinking. It is estimated that in the past year, Yan Xishan will spend at least 3 million oceans in Dalian.

What is strange is that when Yan Xishan left Dalian, he actually issued a cashier's check of more than 7 million yuan at the Fuji Bank in Dalian. At the end of the article, a sobering question is raised, "Where did this extra nearly five million dollars come from?" ”

Although this article in the "Jinyang Evening News" did not explicitly say that this was Yan Xishan's own money, everyone in the article understood that the millions of huge sums of money must have something to do with him, and it was likely that he bought or financed Yan Xishan's money.

However, why did he want to use a huge amount of money to fund Yan Xishan?

Immediately afterwards, a tabloid newspaper specializing in anecdotes of the wind and snow also came to add to the trouble, and published an anonymous article in the newspaper explaining the incident.

said that this money was indeed given to Yan Xishan by himself, because he took a fancy to Shanxi's coal. They had the conditions to subsidize Yan Xishan, and once Yan Xishan recaptured Shanxi, all the private and public coal mines in Shanxi would have to be handed over to Yue himself to operate.

People were almost speechless with shock. If it is said that after the Central Plains War, Yan Xishan was wanted by the central political axe, and there were still some people who could understand Yan Xishan, but this crime of colluding with Yan himself made those who understood and even sympathized with Yan Xishan completely change their views on Yan Xishan. After all, the Central Plains War is a family matter, and if you collude with foreigners, it will be a betrayal.

The most fierce reaction is those coal mine owners, this news made the big coal mine owners in Shanxi immediately blow up the nest, Yan Xishan is trying to rob them of their jobs!

The big miners, headed by Liu Gongheng, Feng Qingpu, Liu Zhaowen, Shi Beilan, Kang Jia, Zhang Zizhang and others, collectively published an article in the "Northern Morning News", asking Yan Xishan to clarify the matter.

Except for the Kang family and Zhang Zizhang, whose coal mines are in northern Shanxi, they dare not go too far, and the rest of the people also made it clear that whoever can protect their legitimate interests will support whoever is the master of Shanxi. He also called on the people of Shanxi to resolutely resist the entry of capital into Shanxi.

The students of Northern University were even more radical, not only distributing leaflets on the streets and calling for a boycott of the goods, but also spontaneously organized themselves and rushed to the Jingcheng Coal Mine by train to forcibly drive out the joint venture in the mining area.

Although the Taihang Administration has been abolished, and the Taihang Mountain area has also returned to the jurisdiction of Hebei, Song Zhewu still has control over the area around this section of the railway in the Taihang Mountain area in the name of protecting the safety of Zhengtai Road, and Jing Cheng is under the control of Pang Bingxun's department.

Dozens of people who were forcibly evicted went to the local police station to file a complaint, demanding that the local police protect their interests and personal safety, and quickly help them contact the local consulate in Beiping.

After carefully pacifying these unclothed, and even slightly injured people, the police chief of Jingcheng will be in trouble.

Because the matter involved foreigners and radical students, he, the police chief, did not dare to call the shots.

Foreigners' affairs are not easy to handle, and if they do not do it well, it will cause diplomatic disputes, and this matter is not something that ordinary policemen can handle.

And what makes the Jingcheng police chief even more headache are the students, the police in Shanxi are afraid of the students who make trouble, which is traditional.

In the past, during Yan Xishan's period, he didn't dare to do anything to these students, and even after these students smashed Jia Jingde's home, Yan Xishan only reprimanded the students for a few words. Now their new proprietor, Song Zhewu, attaches more importance to the students, and they eat, wear, live, and study to the end, so these students are not something they can afford to mess with, and if they smash their police station, there is no place to reason. In desperation, he had to report to the Taiyuan Police Department for instructions.

Because of his involvement in foreign affairs, Kong Wei did not dare to make up his mind, and reported to He Qigong, who was actually in charge of the regular work of the Taiyuan Administration and was currently the deputy director of the Political Affairs Committee of the Northern Construction and Development Committee and the deputy director of the Taiyuan Administration.

He Qigong, who has never had a good impression of himself, instructed Kong Wei without consulting Song Zhewu, "The capital in the Jingcheng mining area has never been approved, and it is all an illegal agreement signed by these people in private with some greedy businessmen who disregard the laws of the country, and I was very aware of this matter when I was the mayor of Beiping." Tell the Jingcheng Police Department that those who say that they should ignore them, and that their shares and property in the Jingcheng mining area will be confiscated by the Taiyuan Administrative Bureau. However, their personal safety still needs to be guaranteed, and you can arrange for the Jingcheng Police Station to deport all the people in Jingcheng from the country. ”

The local police station had the above order, and no longer politely communicated with these people, and transferred a stuffy tanker truck and hundreds of policemen, regardless of how the noisy people who threatened to protest again cried and threatened, a burst of batons and leather shoes put these people on the stuffy tanker, locked the door and hung up on the front of the car, and pulled them to Shijiazhuang.

If this matter had been put on a regular basis, it would have become the talk of the people's gleeful discussions, but in the discussions of the people that night, few people mentioned this very happy matter. In addition to the deep worries about the upcoming war, there was also resentment and scolding against Yan Xishan.

The next day, the "Northern Morning Post" reported another shocking news: a major adjutant of Yang Aiyuan's 34th Army had fled to Beiping, and it was said that he was the person the Jin Sui Army was looking for at the Fourth Route Army's Datong military station in Datong.

(To be continued)