Like overnight, in this Chinese land as dull as the night before dawn, Zhang Shusheng became a household name.

This sudden rise of warlord has become a rising star in domestic politics in the blink of an eye with unprecedented strength, incredible speed of development, and detachment that almost never participates in any domestic political scene.

This powerful Yunnan warlord, from a small eastern defense supervisor in northern Yunnan, first secretly took over Guangxi, which is extremely rich in strategic resources, and then sent troops to Yunnan and Guizhou at an excellent time to defeat Tang Jirao, and included the entire Yunnan Province and Guizhou Province in Tang Jirao's pocket.

In this battle of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou, which surprised everyone, Zhang Shusheng exerted his force from northern Yunnan and Guangxi at the same time at a thunderous speed, destroying the Yunnan army and the Guizhou army. In Guangdong, the Cantonese warlord Chen Jiongming and the Sichuan warlord launched the "Cooperative Attack on the Yunnan Army" from two directions, but he strongly blocked it, putting on a battle of death and not retreating, scaring the warlords from all walks of life who intended to fight the autumn wind back.

The first battle became famous, and the new Yunnan army rose strongly, pacifying the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou within a month at an appalling speed. After the 228 Kunming tragedy, newspapers and periodicals of all sizes not only paid attention to the tragedy, but also carried out a series of reports on Zhang Shusheng's extreme power.

But at this time, almost everyone found that almost everyone knew very little about this Zhang Shusheng. Judging from some official information, this Zhang Shusheng was originally from the militia group, and until now his army is also composed of the militia. Subsequently, he started by suppressing bandits, developed some unknown number of modern industries in the middle, and then set up with the Lu family in Guangxi, defeated the Gui rebel generals on the Guilin battlefield in the "Battle to Save the Land", and included Guangxi, which is extremely rich in strategic resources, into the city in one fell swoop. Subsequently, the incident of Tang Jirao's collaboration with the enemy and betrayal of the country that suddenly broke out happened to be discovered by this small warlord in northern Yunnan. While announcing this shocking scandal to the public, he organized the elite under his command, together with the Gui family, to attack the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou in one fell swoop.

By the time the eyes of the whole country were focused on him, he had already cleared the remnants of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, and the entire Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou Campaign had entered the final stage.

Correspondingly, because Zhang Shusheng's position is very clear, he is not like other warlords and politicians who only shout slogans to deceive the people, but he has done things in a real way and has taken practical actions to prove his people-oriented, education-oriented, and nation-first position!

Many well-known figures in society even jointly suggested in the newspaper that Zhang Shusheng participate in the election of the new political axe, hoping that this warlord star can enter the center of power and radiate his influence from the southwest to the whole country.

“…… I would like to stress a few points in particular: After the new grassroots political axe is formed, the work of compensating the victims of the 228 tragedy, the renovation and construction of existing schools at all levels in the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou, and the work of providing assistance to refugees in the three provinces should be given top priority. It is already April, the seed sales work within the three provinces should also be grasped, the staff should go deep into the field, for seed sales, fertilizer sales, etc., there should be a clear regional surname, technical guidance should also be in place, if the number is really not enough, outstanding students can be selected from intermediate technical schools for surprise training. As for the cost......"

In the face of various voices across the country, Zhang Shusheng was not affected, and his energy was fully devoted to all the work in the newly occupied areas of Yunnan and Guizhou.

The formation of the New Deal Axe was the first to be put on the agenda, and with the plan, all the work was carried out very quickly.

First of all, on the old system of Dongchuan District and the militia group, the three provinces were established to jointly govern the political axe, and Zhang Shusheng served as the chairman of the joint political axe. Under the joint political axe, departments with a clear division of labor at all levels should be established.

In order to prevent the rights of the new areas from being stolen by the old bureaucrats and big landlords. Zhang Shusheng specially ordered that every county occupied should form a temporary military administration and political axe, immediately disband the local political axe, and have the troops transfer political workers to form a temporary grass-roots management organization at the first time, mainly giving priority to government affairs, education, civil affairs, police affairs, propaganda, taxation, and other work.

In principle, the newly occupied areas of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces will select outstanding middle- and low-level cadres from within the Dongchuan district system, pass ultra-strict examinations, and serve as new officials of the two provinces. From Southwest University, students from middle and higher technical schools, high schools, and junior high schools at all levels are selected to enter the grassroots political axes at all levels to serve as political axes at the township level and above.

Of course, even so, after the transfer of a large number of experienced government officials in Dongchuan District, there is still a serious shortage of political axes at all levels. At this time, Zhang Shusheng proposed a new method.

A very small number of political axes at all levels will be selected, and some will be recruited from the public, and those who pass the examination will also be strictly assessed and publicized for a period of one month. Extensive publicity is to be made in the current administrative area, and people are sent on the spot to receive possible reports, and all those who are reported to be unfair, unjust, incorruptible, unkind, unfilial and unrighteous will be thoroughly investigated by the working group.

It is better to have a shortage than an abundance, and never allow those with hidden evil intentions to enter the new deal. Moreover, in this special period of the formation of the new political axe, in addition to the special inspectors sent by the joint political axe of the three provinces, the agents of the special intelligence department of the militia group are also dispatched to strictly guard against possible fraud in the selection of officials.

In the original history, the so-called revolutionary success, like the carp crossing the river, the conspiracy party, changed their bodies, and joined the so-called new political axe as soon as the banner was changed, which made Zhang Shusheng deeply hate. Of course, every effort is made to circumvent these mistakes.

In the enlarged meeting of the three provinces, Sun Changqing stepped down from the post of chief of the commercial special investigation section of Shusheng Company, officially entered the political axe, and served as the prime minister of the three provinces.

Zhu Zijian held the post of governor of Yunnan Province, and Lu Yunlun, former deputy director of administrative affairs in Guangxi, was transferred to the post of vice governor of Yunnan Province. Wei Sancai officially assumed the post of governor of Guangxi Province, and Xu Jianming assumed the post of vice governor. Yuan Jiagu, vice president of Southwest University, served as governor of Guizhou Province, and Wei Changfa served as vice governor of Guizhou Province.

It is worth mentioning here that Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, the enlightened politicians of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou, also passed Zhang Shusheng's personal assessment and held certain positions in the new political axe.

In addition to government affairs, education, industry, transportation, and so on, army building was also put on the agenda for the first time. In order to expand his military strength in an orderly and rational manner, Zhang Shusheng decided to expand the existing two integrated divisions into a special guards division and three elite integrated divisions. Local garrisons will also be reorganized.

On the basis of the existing reserves, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces will each form three garrison divisions, and Guizhou will form two garrison divisions. In addition to the Guizhou garrison, which is mainly responsible for deterring localities and guarding central China, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces will also undertake border garrison tasks in addition to the alert mission.

The Yunnan direction directly advanced the border defense line to the side of the Savage Mountain, while the Guangxi direction focused on strengthening the defense in the Vietnamese direction.

In order to rectify the border defense and strengthen the border combat capability, in addition to each garrison division responsible for border defense, there is also a reorganized elite third division stationed at the Yunnan-Guizhou junction to respond.

Because the three provinces moved to Kunming, the Special Guards Division will also be stationed in Kunming, and the elite first division will be stationed in Dongchuan District, Gongwei, the industrial technology and education center with the largest and most advanced scientific and technological level.

These troops seem to be quite numerous, but they are just enough. Zhang Shusheng formulated the elite army route + garrison troops + reserve troops + reserve forces.

In other words, compared to the rudimentary troops of other warlords, in fact, these four troops can go to the battlefield at any time. Zhang Shusheng will also invest more money in the research and development and production of advanced military equipment and the improvement of military science and technology. To make a very simple score, don't look at the militia before the war, there were only more than 100 tanks and dozens of actual combat aircraft, but these two things alone cost tens of millions of dollars. Therefore, although Zhang Shusheng is making a lot of money every day, when he uses money, it is called loading it out in a truck...... It is also in view that the geographical location of Dongchuan District is not particularly suitable for long-term development, Zhang Shusheng decided to move the joint political axe to Kunming, and for a long time in the future, the area of the joint political axe will not be expanded too much, but will consolidate the existing achievements, develop education, train the army, open more factories, reform the land policy, improve the people's living standards, and prepare for the future world war.

After 10 years of ups and downs, Zhang Shusheng understands that the bigger the territory, the better, and the rice must be eaten bite. Tang Jirao's territory is not small, right? I was cleaned up by myself in a month. When you plan and then act, when your ambition is as great as your appetite, you can swallow the entire land of China, or even more.

At this point, Dongchuan District will become a special zone, in accordance with the existing foundation, to seek more and better development, and the energy of the joint political axe will be transferred to the entire three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guizhou, the distribution of industrial and educational resources will be more reasonable, it is expected that a large number of modern industries will be built in the three provinces, and strive to promote the local economy with the industrial economy invested by the political axe, and gradually improve the living standards of the people in the three provinces.

What needs to be said here is that due to the provocation of the Sichuan warlords before, Zhang Shusheng sent troops to take the Panzhihua area, which was later famous as a world-famous steel city, but now it is a large barren area. However, in the economic plan of the joint political axe, a huge steel industry plan will become an important part of the economic take-off of the three provinces, and it is also the top priority of the third five-year plan.

―――――――― "Report! ”

"Come in!"

Mao Yunxian, the confidential secretary of the joint political axe, walked in with a confidential briefcase and handed it to Zhang Shusheng: "Chairman, this is top-secret information that the Special Intelligence Department has just received. ”

After Zhang Shusheng took the information, he opened it and looked at it, only to see that it said "...... There were many student demonstrations, and foreigners in the concession repeatedly provoked and arrested...... Yesterday, there was another incident of killing workers in the Yarn Factory...... It is said that all walks of life in Shanghai are mainly students, and it is suspected that there will be demonstrations ...... super [***]"

Those who should come still have to come, in Shanghai, a place full of foreigners' strength, and even a concession where the army is stationed, it is strange not to make trouble.

Why the trouble? It is very simple to say, whether it is the Ben or Britain and France, they have never regarded the Chinese as human beings, and they have never been soft on life and death.

Zhang Shusheng picked up the pen and wrote on the special order paper: Order all action units, if there is any change, be sure to return fire with thunder and cover the retreat of the students!

(To be continued)