Chapter 463: Winning

Regardless of whether some people wanted it or not, September 1938 still came as scheduled, and since September, the Japanese troops on the Chinese mainland have been withdrawn one after another, and the territory left over after the Japanese withdrawal has also been taken over by the central government one after another.

Judging from the distribution of the map, the Congress Party led by Chairman Chiang has already occupied the areas south of central China, while the Baath Party led by Su Tong has occupied the territory of Hebei and Northeast China, as well as more than 10 provinces, including Chahar, Ningxia, Qinghai, Gansu, Mongolia, and Suiyuan. In terms of area, Chairman Chiang naturally had the upper hand, but in fact this was not the case, and the areas that Chairman Chiang could control were actually only seven or eight provinces, including Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, and Hubei, while Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, and other provinces were in the hands of various local warlords.

Looking at the military strength of each side, according to the data released by the central government, the central government directly controls more than 3 million troops, the Chahar government has 1 million troops, and the SWP has only more than 100,000 troops.

In terms of military strength, the strength of the Chahar government is much smaller than that of the central government led by the chairman, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that according to the strength shown by the two sides in the War of Resistance against Japan, if the battle really starts, Su Tong will be able to enter Nanjing in less than three months.

A total of 297 seats will be elected in this general election, and according to the constitution, only political parties with more than 50 percent of the seats can form a government alone, and if no party has more than half of the seats, then only the party with the second largest number of seats will form a coalition government. In this case, everyone is holding back their energy and preparing to do a big job.

This year's National Congress was not so much held at the insistence of Su Tong as under the threat of guns, and unlike previous National Conventions, this National Congress had two more political parties involved. And these two parties also have their own arms, but they are not those pheasant parties that can only shout slogans, which also means that the political competition in this session is more intense.

On 7 September, the leaders of the Ba'ath Party, the Social Workers' Party, the Congress Party, and other competing parties arrived in Nanjing, including of course, some small parties that they had never heard of, and these people were at best some of the characters who accompanied the prince to study.

By now, the size of the Baath Party has reached nearly one million people, which is not much different from the size of the Congress Party. The Ba'ath Party has a wide range of members, including students, workers, scholars, and peasants, and anyone who is interested in the great cause of China's rejuvenation can join, while the Congress Party has a relatively narrow range of members, most of whom are intellectuals and social elites, while the Social Workers Party is different, and most of its members are poor strata such as peasant workers, and their influence among the lower strata of society is relatively wide.

All parts of the country, all political parties have also exerted all their mighty efforts to solicit votes everywhere, and all parts of China, which have just ended the flames of war, have begun to fight again with invisible gunpowder. And this first election battle, which had just ended the war against Japan, also attracted the attention of many countries around the world

The streets of major cities were filled with crowds of people waving flags and shouting for the parties they supported.

The streets of Guangzhou

Several middle-aged people who looked like scholars were sitting in the teahouse drinking tea, and a middle-aged man with eyes who looked like Si Swen asked his friends next to him: "Ladies and gentlemen, now that the election war has begun, this election is the first grand event after driving out the Japanese, I wonder if you have a plan in mind?" ”

Another emaciated middle-aged man said: "I am more optimistic about the Baath Party, which has just been established, but its program is very advanced." Although they are still inexperienced, they are very energetic, and you can see that the land of Chahar is well governed, and the people's standard of living is the highest in the country, so it would be good if they were allowed to govern. ”

"That's not necessarily, I think the Baath Party's methods of governing are sometimes a little mild, and there is a gap between them and the old people of the Congress Party."

"Hmph, no matter how there is a gap, it will lose most of China than the Congress Party, at least they have recovered Vladivostok and Hailan Bubble, and even put half of Siberia into the country's bag, if it weren't for the Baath Party, maybe even Outer Mongolia would be independent now." The previous middle-aged man retorted.

Even those who did not like Su Tong and the Ba'ath Party had to admit that at least the Baath Party had made great contributions to the territorial integrity of China and the maintenance of national unity, and no one could erase this.

"Alas, General Su is good at everything, but there is a little bit of a bad thing, it would be good if he didn't have three ladies, and now there are many people who are attacking him at that point?"

The middle-aged man was right, when the election was in full swing, there were voices attacking Su Tong in newspapers everywhere, although it was not much at first, but it did attract the attention of some people. They made a fuss about Su Tong's private life, saying that he married three ladies in one go, which was a move that trampled on the dignity of women and insulted the status of women.

At first, the news was only circulated in a few sporadic newspapers, but with the help of some people, the reports on the private life of the chief Su became more and more intense, and some people even made wild remarks during the election as a pretext for attacking the Baath Party.

Su Tong, who was in Nanjing City, naturally also received the news, at first his subordinates were afraid that these news would affect Su Tong's mood and did not dare to report to Su Tong, but later they had to report the news when they saw that the matter was too big.

In Su Tong's temporary office, looking at the staff of the Investigation Bureau who were trembling, Su Tong couldn't help but smile, "What are you nervous about, are you afraid that I will get angry or that I won't be able to stand these rumors?" Don't worry, I'm not so delicate, you can get out! With that, Su Tong waved his hand and sent the staff out.

At this time, there were quite a few people in Su Tong's office, including Jiang Baili, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Xi Hanqian, and other high-ranking people (Li Zongren had joined the Ba'ath Party last month).

Su Tong opened the newspaper and looked at it, and suddenly he couldn't cry or laugh, it was full of things about the election, among which the three wives of our Chief Su occupied a front page. It reads: Monogamous and three wives, this womanizer too.

When Su Tong passed the newspaper, the people around him burst into laughter. Li Zongren said with a smile: "Jianming, when you got married, I told Jiansheng that the matter of you marrying three wives at once will definitely become your handle in the future, and now it has really come true, right?" ”

Bai Chongxi also smiled: "Well, Duke De did tell me at that time, but I didn't expect Jianming to go so far in politics at that time, so I didn't remind Jianming that now once Jianming competes in the political arena, these people can't wait to shake this matter out." You see, not only the National Daily of the Congress Party, but also the Huaxin Daily of the Social Workers Party have joined in the fun, and it seems that they all regard you as the number one enemy. ”

Su Tong pursed his lips: "The terrible thing about stupid people is not that they are stupid, but that they are smart." Stupid people can't do the stupidest things, and the stupidest things are done by smart people. Do you want to rely on these things to throw sewage at me? Those people are still a little tender! ”

"Oh? Jianming, aren't you afraid that voters will vote for those people? Jiang Baili, who had not spoken, said with a smile.

Su Tong shook his head and smiled, "These people still don't know much about the hearts of the people of our country. Although our country has ended feudal rule for decades, there is still no way to eliminate some things that are imprinted in our bones. The idea of three wives and four concubines still has a large market in my country, and besides, the butts of the Congress Party and the Social Workers Party are not necessarily cleaner than mine. Now that they have made a move, we can't be idle, we will also report to them tomorrow, and it is not a big deal for everyone to expose each other in the general election. It's like our Chairman Chiang, didn't he have a few wives? ”

The chief Su from later generations has really seen too much in this regard, such as the United States, the process of the election is actually a process of mutual abuse and revelation, today you pour dirty water on me, tomorrow I will scold you back, it depends on who scolds fiercely enough......

Sure enough, the next day, the Chahar Daily, the mouthpiece of the Ba'ath Party, took the lead in firing the gun, and the front page of the Chahar Daily was printed with photos of high-ranking officials from all over China when Su Tong got married two years ago, as well as a scene of congratulations from Chairman Chiang and Zhou Tiecheng, a high-ranking member of the Social Workers' Party.

Chahar Daily also published an article detailing the grand occasion of Su Tong's marriage two years ago, as well as the congratulatory speeches written by Chairman Chiang and local bigwigs at that time, and the photos of Chairman Chiang and his wife when they congratulated him, and finally satirized those newspapers, pointing out that those newspapers reported Su Tong's private life on this sensitive day of the general election, and pointed out that the instigators behind these reports really did everything they could to crack down on political opponents. Even a wedding that he personally congratulated a few years ago can now turn his face and say that others are morally corrupt, but he doesn't know that his ass is actually not clean, which can be described as a fifty steps of laughter and a hundred steps.

"Mother Xipi, who made you do this?" In the official residence of the former leader of Nanjing, a familiar national curse came out of the office again.

Chairman Chiang was furious when he looked at a newspaper on his desk, which stated that the attack on Su Tong was not only a good thing done by the Congress Party, but also vaguely pointed out that it was precisely at the behest of Chairman Chiang. The article also pointed out the life narrative of the chairman, and said in a sarcastic tone that the chairman has married no less wives than Su Tong in his life, but he is better than Su Tong in that people can wipe their butts, and every time he divorces his ex-wife and then marries, he is naturally much smarter than Su Tong, who simply married three wives at once.

"Mother Xipi, who made you do this? Bastard! The chairman's saliva was about to spray on Chen Bui's face standing at the table.

Chen Bui lowered his head and didn't dare to look at his boss, the turmoil these days was planned by the first stroke of the Congress Party, he originally wanted to help his boss win the election, but he didn't expect the sycophant to be filmed but slapped on the horse's leg, and he was scolded by his own boss.

Yang Yongtai also shook his head on the side, this method of using the opponent's private life to attack dissidents is really not very clever, even if it succeeds, it will kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800, and it will be cheaper for the Social Workers Party who are eyeing the sidelines.

"Alright, you go down first, and remember not to do such stupid things again." After scolding for a long time, the chairman waved his hand impatiently after scolding.

Chen Bui didn't have time to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead, and hurriedly walked out.

After Chen Bui walked out, Yang Yongtai came over and comforted: "Chairman, this matter can't be blamed entirely on Yanyan, after all, it is the first time that several parties are running for election at the same time in our country, and everyone has little experience. Yan and he were originally well-intentioned, but they didn't expect to mess things up. ”

The chairman also sighed: "Why don't I know? Otherwise, I wouldn't just scold him, I'm also anxious, judging from the information from the newspapers from all over the world, the situation of my party in this election is worrying, you know the situation of our party, there are many drawbacks, ** rampant, it can be said that it has rotted to the bones, and some things I also have more than enough strength to do it! ”

Yang Yongtai was also speechless, and now the Congress Party is indeed very beautiful on the surface, with more than one million party members, as well as a ruling base all over the country and many years of experience in governance. However, among the more than 1 million party members, nearly 60 percent are military officers, and the number of members of the National Congress who actually serve in the government is less than 400,000.

People also lost faith in them, and with the rise of the new Ba'ath Party, people turned their attention to them after seeing a better person to govern, which caused panic throughout the Congress party. There is an old Chinese saying, which is called once a son of heaven and a courtier, if the Baath Party is allowed to come to power, they will definitely change the people in all the key departments of the government, and these vested interest groups will certainly not be willing to lose the power that was originally in their hands, and it is certain that they will make trouble.

Therefore, in this attack on Su Tong, it is not so much that Chen Bui made his own opinion, in fact, he doesn't know how many black hands are behind him to promote this matter, otherwise with Chen Bui's ability, where can he have the ability to let so many newspapers across the country get involved in this turmoil in a few days?

Chairman Jiang let out a long sigh, "Forget it, it's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married." Let them go, I hope they don't go too far, otherwise they will really anger Su Jianming, and when the general election is over, they will have an autumn settlement and no one will be able to protect them. ”

As he spoke, the chairman walked slowly towards the door of the office with his hands behind his back, and his back was stretched long in the setting sun.

On 15 September 1918, the general election, which lasted for half a month, finally came to an end, and according to the results of statistics from various localities, the Baath Party won 161 seats, or 54 percent, out of a total of 298 seats in the country. The Congress Party won 100 seats, or 33.5 percent, the Social Workers Party won 39 seats, or 13 percent, and the rest was occupied by a few smaller parties.

In this way, the Baath Party became the first ruling party in China after the Anti-Japanese War, and the news came out that countries around the world were also shocked, and the British Times commented that a young man under the age of 30 is in charge of a huge country that occupies one-fifth of the world's population, and we do not know whether this is good or bad for this ancient and mysterious country, and all we can do is continue to pay attention to the development of the gaffe.

The Washington Post in the United States published a report by Alice, the chief reporter of Pig Asia, which was full of blessings: "This is a great victory for Chinese democracy, we don't know whether Su Tong can become a competent leader, but he is the leader elected by the Chinese people themselves, no matter where he takes China, it is also the choice of the Chinese people, here we can only wish the Republic of China and the world's youngest leader can go further in the political arena." ”

At this time, Zhangjiakou has become a sea of joy, Zhangjiakou can be said to be Su Tong's nest, since three years ago, Su Tong has poured his efforts into this border city, after three years of hard work, the city has been integrated into Su Tong's too much effort. And the people in this city are also respecting and trusting this young man who has brought vitality and vitality to the whole Chahar from the bottom of their hearts, because they know that without Sutong Chahar, there would not be such a big change, and maybe he would still be under the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders.

Therefore, when the news of the victory of the Baath Party represented by Su Tong in the general election came, people spontaneously organized themselves to carry out activities.

At the same time, our protagonist, Chief Su, locks himself in his room alone after learning the news of his victory. When success came, Su Tong was a little confused, in his opinion, his journey of more than three years was like a dream, he went from a penniless poor worker in another space to the head of a local militia group, and then climbed step by step to the position of the leader of a country, reaching a peak in his life.

Dude is also the leader of a country now? It's incredible!

Can you really govern the country well? Su Tong thought about it for a long time and still didn't come up with an answer, but Su Tong knew that he would work hard in this direction, and this ancient country would definitely make great strides forward......