461 rushed to take the exam, picked peaches, and begged for tickets, and begged for subscriptions

May 21, 17th year of the Republic of China. That is, the day after the great Soviet Empire announced that it would join the sanctions against Japan, the patriotism of the warlords in northern China suddenly exploded

On this day, Zhang Zuolin, the marshal of the Feng department, held a high-profile press conference in the palace of Shuncheng County in Beijing, announcing that "President Sun sent a telegram to take office as the commander-in-chief of the North China Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and will lead the Feng army of 300,000 tigers to fight the enemy to the death to the end, and invite representatives of the Kuomintang, the Youth Party, the Central G, the National Army, the Jin Army and other factions to discuss the anti-Japanese plan." ”

Almost at the same time, Yan Laoxi issued a telegram in Taiyuan, Shanxi, announcing that he would follow Zhang Dashuai to resist the Japanese to the end. Shanxi will send 30,000 troops, which will be under the unified command of the "North China Anti-Japanese Federation". On the same day, the Nationalist Government and the General Headquarters of the Northwest Xinjiang Youth Army in Wuhan also telegraphed accordingly that the Nationalist Army would send the 18th Division to the north to aid the Nationalist Army, and it would also obey Zhang Dashuai's command. The Youth Army will send troops of 50,000 miles from Xinjiang to Zhili to support Zhang Dashuai. If they really came, it is estimated that the war would have ended many days ago, but this anti-Japanese enthusiasm is still worthy of praise. For a while, a beautiful picture of China's various parties and factions fighting the war and going to the national disaster together was displayed in front of the people of the whole country. The Chinese GCD and the Nationalist Army seem to have been silent.

Beijing, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Welcome Building.

With a snap, Mao ZD threw the handwritten letter from Zhang Zuolin he had just received on the table. Zhang Zuolin's tone on this letter was modest and tight, and a lot of flattering words were thrown out as if he didn't want money. Moreover, he still called Mao ZD "Chairman Mao" and vowed that Feng would support him as chairman of the "coalition government". For this time, the "anti-Japanese coalition forces" were all pushed on the heads of the Kuomintang reactionaries. Feng is just forced by the situation, so he has to deal with the scene and hope that the G princes will understand......

The answer to this letter written by Zhang Zuolin, who was extremely respectful, was a sneer.

"It's a good knife to hit tofu on both sides, no wonder this Zhang Zuolin, who was born in the green forest, can create a good foundation. I'm afraid that I can rely on this set of skills and maneuver between various factions, right? I dare to pack the ticket, and at this time, Commander Muto Nobuyoshi of Tianjin Wei also has such a handwritten letter on hand, right? . ”

"This is a betrayal" Zhang Wtian (Luo Fu) slapped the table and stood up suddenly, a white and pure scholar's face was full of anger: "We want to fight back against this kind of dirty act of holding the banner of anti-Japanese resistance and destroying the anti-Japanese situation, and I propose to organize students, workers and all patriotic people in Beijing to march and protest on the streets." At the same time, our party's "Red Star" and other leftist newspapers should also expose the conspiracy of the Kuomintang reactionaries and make it clear to the people of the whole country who are really resisting Japan and who are only thinking of grabbing land and picking peaches. ”

Zhou Elai also picked up the letterraft, looked at it over and over again, and finally smiled faintly: "Now that the war is about to end, it's time to pick peaches." And our party can be said to have gained a lot this time, and the 34 counties north of the Yellow River in Shandong Province have a Dexian arsenal and a national army of more than 100,000 people. The Kuomintang also gave a batch of second-hand Japanese ordnance, and the Feng and Jin departments also gave guns, ammunition, military salaries, grain and grass, as well as donations from the people of the whole country...... Finally, there is the chairman of such a coalition government. It's understandable that people want to come out and get a piece of the pie, and besides, we can't eat alone now, right? ”

Mao ZD, who was about to become the chairman, didn't seem to be a little happy, but took out a cigarette, lit it and smoked it slowly, his brows tightened more and more. He is not as excited as Zhang Wtian, nor is he as calm as Zhou Elai. Zhou Elai's last sentence "You can't eat alone" made him have a lot of ideas.

This time, the topic of "going to Beijing to take the exam" is the coalition government, and since it is a coalition, it is impossible to eat alone. The north is now only Liao, Ji, Hei, Re, Cha, Zhi, Jin, Sui, and Mongolia, a total of nine provinces and regions, plus northern Shaanxi, Longdong, northern Lubei, and Beijing City. The Communist Party is one-third of the world, and it scores a few points, and all factions have to have a little bit of oil and water, this chairman is really ...... It's not good

"I'm afraid that this Feng's behavior is not just as simple as a piece of the pie, right? They may have wanted to expand their voice in the coalition government by competing for the leadership of the anti-Japanese resistance in North China, and finally achieve the goal of controlling the coalition government. Liu Sqi tapped lightly on the table and began to analyze the true purpose of the Feng Department:

"I'm afraid they have long regarded the territories of Zhili, Beijing, and Tianjin as their own private property, and they don't want us to get involved, right? This time, they came forward to form this 'coalition army' and asked us to participate in it, wasn't it just to restrict our actions in the Zhili Plain? Maybe you're looking for an opportunity to transfer us out, right? None of these warlords can be relied on, and they only think about that little self-interest in their hearts, where is there a country? There is a nation? With regard to such feudal warlords, our party must not be soft when it should be tough, and must fight against them to the end."

Mao ZD nodded lightly and agreed with Liu Sqi's analysis. He also knew in his heart that this time China G mobilized the army around Beijing through the Zhili Anti-Japanese War, which had already frightened the Feng department. That's why there is a move towards the Kuomintang now, but the current Kuomintang and the Feng faction are even more incompatible. Over the years, the Kuomintang has adopted only one means against other warlord forces, that is, if the Feng family defects to the Kuomintang, the end will never be exceptional, and it will inevitably be completely wiped out by the Kuomintang. I'm afraid that this kind of life is something that Zhang Dashuai, who has already tasted power, would rather die than live, right? What's more, there are tens of thousands of affiliated officers and bureaucrats, and the Kuomintang's arrangements for them are only more acceptable, right? And if the Feng Department wants to maintain the situation of separating one side and claiming hegemony, there is only one way to cooperate with China G, so there should be no problem for China G to make an inch at present, but it is just ...... Can China G allow them to continue to dominate like this?

Zhou Elai frowned slightly. This coalition government should seek common ground while reserving differences and understand each other. At present, Zhong G has taken a big advantage, not only getting a large amount of materials and equipment, but also expanding its power to the Zhili Plain. It's also normal for Bong to feel threatened. In such a situation, China and G should properly show their sincerity in maintaining unity and make slight concessions on turf in exchange for a genuine evolution of the coalition government into a single government, rather than a second central government in name only......

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Beijing inherited the royal palace, and the Feng army took the lead in the newly established general headquarters of the "North China Anti-Japanese Allied Army".

The scene here is diametrically opposed to the tense and hectic atmosphere that people imagine when the war is about to happen.

There was peace and tranquility inside and outside the palace, and there were no antennas erected high, nor staff officers shuttling back and forth to convey various information and orders. It's just that at the entrance of the back garden of the palace, there are two guards with short guns standing straight without moving, and no idlers can enter.

In the garden, Zhang Zuolin, the handsome man of the Feng Department, was standing by the lotus pond with his hands behind his back, looking at the spring color in the garden, but he was frowning, and his face was full of gloomy expressions. Standing behind him was the newly appointed general adviser of the Feng Army, Kenji Tohihara, and a Japanese army active Zuozuo actually appeared in the headquarters of the "North China Anti-Japanese Allied Army" in a grand manner, and also stood behind the commander-in-chief Zhang Zuolin, how could this not make Senior General Zhang frown?

The Feng Army, that is, the Northeast Army of another time and space, is of course patriotic and anti-Japanese, and there is no doubt that this has long been closed...... However, the Japanese paid money, guns, and consultants, and even directly sent troops to help the Feng Department fight, which is also an irrefutable historical fact, in another time and space, in order to prevent the traitorous Kuomintang authorities from crusading against the patriotic Feng Department Zhang Dashuai, the Japanese also sent troops to Shandong to directly attack the Kuomintang Northern Expeditionary Army. Is all this the stupidity and ignorance of the Japanese? Is it like this time sending advisers to help the Bong Department resist Japan?

Wearing a Chinese-style robe, Kenji Tohihara stood quietly behind Zhang Zuolin, with a hint of a smile on his face, a pair of rimless glasses on the bridge of his nose, and a gloomy and cold gaze in the eyes behind the lenses. As if looking at a dead person, in the eyes of some people, Zhang Zuolin may be a "patriot", but in the eyes of the Japanese, he is just a puppet but not very obedient, maybe he feels that his wings are stiff and wants to get rid of Japanese control, right? Is there still a need for such a puppet?

"Zhang Dashuai, this unfortunate war is about to pass, and negotiations between the two countries are ongoing. Now that China and G have sent representatives to participate in this peace talks, does the Feng military intend to stay out of the matter all the time? Kenji Dohihara opened his mouth in a very fluent Beijing film, and his tone was calm and gentle.

Zhang Zuolin slowly turned around, looked at Kenji Dohihara, who didn't know when he had changed into a Japanese-style humble smile, and smiled bitterly: "Mr. Tohihara, I don't know what our Fengjun should ask for in the peace talks?" ”

Kenji Dohihara nodded stiffly: "Manchuria is the foundation of the Feng army, and it is absolutely necessary to maintain a fairly high degree of independence, and some special systems should also be maintained." The idea under is ...... Manchuria should exist as a special free trade zone, with low tariffs and low taxes to facilitate the trade of merchants from various countries. Meantime...... The Manchuria region must not allow the existence of the Red Army of China and G, and must take this opportunity to completely expel the Red Front Army of China and G from Manchuria. ”

These two conditions are the bottom line set by the Japanese side after repeated study and consultations. After this almost lost war, Japan's interests in China have once again shrunk dramatically. Needless to say, the Japanese businessmen in the "Kuomintang area" were seized by the Kuomintang military and police during the war, and their property was temporarily frozen...... Although there was no formal declaration of war, after all, a war had started, and these people should be regarded as "enemy overseas Chinese" and should be locked up, and now that the war has been defeated, these "enemy overseas Chinese" have naturally been expelled from the country. The "enemy property" was naturally confiscated, and after the auction, it was used to compensate the commercial enterprises of various friendly countries that had suffered losses in the Battle of Shandong.

Outside the Kuomintang zone, the Soviet zone naturally had no Japanese interests, and there were almost no Japanese merchants and expatriates in the northwest controlled by the Youth Army. However, in Zhili, Shanxi, Chahar, Beijing, and other places, under the shroud of rising anti-Japanese sentiment, there is no trace of Japanese goods for a long time, and a large number of Japanese enterprises either go to empty buildings or have their doors closed, that is, the four provinces and regions of Manchuria are still the world of Japanese goods and Japanese merchants. But it's also very sluggish...... It's not all because of the war, it's because the North Korean banks are now on the verge of collapse because of the failure of their speculation on Shanghai's public bonds. The banknotes it issued were almost waste paper, and a large number of money banks in the Northeast went bankrupt with them, and the financial crisis has not ended until now

Zhang Zuolin nodded and squeezed out a little smile: "I will definitely put forward these two conditions in the negotiations with China G, but ...... They are not necessarily willing to withdraw from Manchuria. ”

Kenji Tuhihara glanced at Zhang Zuolin coldly: "The Feng army can make a little concession in other places, such as Chahar can give Feng Yuxiang's national army." This also solves a problem in the middle of G, presumably they are willing to give in. In addition, the Feng army should firmly control the cash cow of Tianjin, and must not let it fall into the hands of Zhongg. ”

Zhang Zuolin smiled: "That's natural, Tianjin is our territory, of course it can't be controlled by China G." ”

"Including the Tianjin Customs and the forts to be built at Dagukou in the future, they must be in the hands of the Feng army," Kenji Dohihara then put forward a new request.

"This ......," Zhang Zuolin nodded noncommittally. In the past two days, Yang Yuting has been negotiating with China and G on the formation of a coalition government. The control of customs and the construction of a coastal defense fortress at the mouth of Dagu in Tianjin also seem to be the interests that China and G are trying to achieve. However, Zhang Zuolin is interested in real territory, so in this regard, he has decided to make concessions. As long as Zhong G can withdraw the main force from Zhili, the management of the customs can be handed over to Zhong G, and the senior members of Zhong G can get a little oil and water from it...... Those big officials all looked like poor eggs.

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At a time when China and Japan were engaged in a fierce confrontation on the battlefield in Shandong, Mongolia also had a "referendum" that had already been doomed. The question of this "referendum" is whether Mongolia will remain within the territory of the Republic of China, and all 380,000 Mongolian residents who have reached the age of 18 and are not mentally ill or have been deprived of their citizenship because of legal violations have the right to decide the ownership of this 1.58 million square kilometers of land with their own sacred vote

This matter sounds like a suspense, but all Chinese, including The President of the Republic of China Sun Yat-sen, did not have the slightest worry about the outcome of this "referendum". As for Stalin, who was far away in the Soviet Union, he had no illusions about the Mongolian referendum, in fact, if there had been no "brutal rule" of the Soviets and the Mongolian People's Party for several years. The Mongolian compatriots on this plateau may really have the idea of independence. It's just that in the past few years of "independence", life has been really miserable...... Even being a lama to eat fasting and reciting Buddha is actually a sin in prison, you must know that in the history of another time and space, the Mongols really launched a riot in 1928 to try to return to China, and the unpopularity of the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Party at that time can be seen.

In addition to the negative teaching materials of the USSR and the People's Party, there were two decisive factors that made this referendum a no-brainer.

The first factor, of course, was the Battle of Shandong from the end of March to mid-April, in which 100,000 Japanese troops were annihilated. When the remaining 30,000 men of the second, fifth, and sixth divisions of the Japanese army, wearing tattered military uniforms and dragging broken guns and artillery, walked into the city of Tianjin in despair, photos were sent to the Kremlin. Stalin crossed his fingers and calculated that the most important disadvantage that interfered with the Mongolian referendum was completely eliminated......

The second factor is also very crucial, that is, the little Tibetan boy who is playing and frolicking with the fat and tender little Zhengtai Luo Qingyang in Luo Yao Country at this time. His name is Lobsang Chokyi, and he is also from a great Tibetan aristocratic family, and he is a cousin of the Tibetan student Maggie Dorjee who graduated from the first phase of Whampoa. But at the moment, this naughty little guy has another name - the supreme saint in the hearts of the people of Jebtsundamba Outer Mongolia, the supreme religious leader and spiritual leader, almost equivalent to the status of Allah Allahu in the Muslim country Now such a supreme existence, living in Luo Yaoguo's Beilu, playing with Xiao Qingyang, and possibly growing up together, do the Mongolian people still have a choice?

Luo Yaoguo stood on the balcony on the second floor of Beilu, looking at Xiaobei's mother and son playing on the lawn, and ...... Behind him, the little guy who was theoretically a fairy stood respectfully two men dressed in traditional Tibetan costumes, one of whom was Maggie Dorjee, a good student of Luo Yaoguo. Another short, chubby, but graceful middle-aged man is Maggie Dorjee's aristocratic father, Maggie Renji.

"This kid is very cute, I like it very much, let him be my adopted son." Luo Yaoguo commanded.

"Then I'll thank the assistant for my sister." Mai Qi Renji bent down slightly, and said with a smile on his face: "Wait until the next D Lai Lama is elected, and let him be your adopted son." ”

Luo Yaoguo smiled and nodded: "Second Brother Ren, I heard that the Thirteenth D Lai Ke is a heroic figure, are you sure you can deal with it?" Or just wait a few more years, and maybe he'll die on his own? ”

Maggie Dorjee shook his head and sighed: "When we left Lhasa, the Buddha was already sick. There are no good doctors in Tibet, just witch doctors and gods, and minor illnesses can be cured into major diseases. It's just that...... Once the Lai Lama dies, the power will immediately pass into the hands of the regent of the Living Buddha of Rezhenlin. Our trouble will only be greater, so it is better to take advantage of the opportunity of the Buddha's long-term illness and inability to take care of the government......"