Of course, Zhao Yun did not purchase new ships for the Huaxia Navy, but compared with the more sensitive warships, Zhao Yun only purchased three cargo ships and one cruise ship and sent them to Jinling Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard for refit. From the Battle of Longpan in 22 years to January 23, only 6 or 7 months have passed, and it is completely too late to use these times to build new warships, even if it is too late to order from Europe. So Zhao Yun just changed three freighters into two submarine carriers and a supply ship, and the cruise ship was changed into a hospital ship, these are all combat auxiliary ships, and they are all normal equipment additions for all countries, anyway, as long as Huaxia no longer adds battleships, the various powers will turn a blind eye.

In a flash, it was February, and the situation in Lushun and Dalian was still brewing, and no one could say anything to the Japanese until the last day.

Sometimes things are not as simple as they seem. While Zhao Yun was preparing for war, the first thing he thought of was to fight a war of economic sanctions. However, the "boycott of Japanese goods" that was ordered to go down found that in order to increase the tariffs on the import of Japanese goods, it was necessary to negotiate with Britain, the United States, France, and other countries. The reason is that some tariffs are still collected by these countries, and the China of the 20s is not at all the independent China of the later generations, and many things are restricted.

Therefore, it is clear that within one day, what Zhao Yun can do with one sentence has become that he has to consider the interests of Europe and the United States first, and then review the draft three times, make an appointment with the consuls of European and American countries, discuss it for the first time, discuss it again, and reconsider it...... Well, after a round of official routines, it will be considered fast to have results in a month, and the Japanese will not sit still, they will definitely win over Europe and the United States, so it is good that the bill on economic sanctions can come out within three months.

Preparing with both hands, Zhao Yun was in a hurry and couldn't come, so he could only "cultivate himself to calm the people", and set his eyes on the family again, "I must clean up a bunch of mess in my house before the showdown with the Japanese." Seeing Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang "grinding and chirping", Zhao Yun gave a strict order to the two of them.

Looking at the endless public opinion offensive in Jixian County, Zhao Yun couldn't help but recall a sentence he had heard.

"If you go outside, you must first settle inside!" Although I don't know who said this, but now, Zhao Yun has to settle down first, and then send Wu Peifu, Sun Chuanfang and Zhu Xi's troops to fight for their lives. If these two Beiyang elites are nailed to the country because of the chaos in Sichuan and Liangguang, then Lushun and Dalian will definitely be lost. If this happened when Zhao Yun was incapable, then Zhao Yun's heart could still feel better, and he could always find some excuses, but right now, Zhao Yun was not incapable of doing it, so he had to do it.

In life, sometimes you really don't have a choice. Although Zhao Yun's "depravity" made him not want a civil war, but in the face of Japan's aggressiveness, Zhao Yun had to reach out first to beat these civil rioters to death.

The situation in Sichuan and Guangdong is very complicated, and both sides are in a stalemate.

Compared with Sichuan, which has a mixed landscape and complex terrain, Zhao Yun still picked Guangdong, which has a "leading party", to start first.

Sun's general, Shen Hongying, secretly sent someone to contact Wu Peifu, and on the recommendation of Wu Peifu, on February 2, the Jixian County Government announced Shen as the governor of Guangdong. On February 7, Shen's headquarters moved from Guangzhou to Xinjie. On February 16, Shen Xinjie announced that he had appointed the governor of Guangdong by the Jixian government, and led his troops to attack Guangzhou, with Li Yibiao's troops as the vanguard to attack Guanyin Mountain. Sun commanded the Yunnan army Yang Ximin and the Gui army Liu Zhenhuan to meet the attack, and on February 19 the Shen army was forced to withdraw from Guangzhou. From February 24th to March 8th, the Shen army fought fiercely with the Yunnan and Gui armies in Yinzhan Pass, Pajiang Estuary, and Yingde. Wu Peifu transferred Fang Benren, the guard of Nanxiong, Deng Ruzhuo, and Fan Zhongxiu of the Yu army to aid Shen, but they were all defeated by the Yunnan Gui army commanded by Sun. Shen fled back to Shaoguan by train, near Lidong Station, was secretly dug up by the people, the train derailed and dumped, fortunately fell to the side of the mountain, not to the side of the Beijiang River, so he was not broken. Shen walked out of the carriage and said, "It's dangerous, God bless." Then he led his troops to flee to Longnan and Dingnan, Jiangxi Province. Trying to get the support of Wu Peifu and peek into Guangdong again.

After this turmoil in Guangzhou, there was a lot of infighting, Chen Jiongming approached Guangzhou again, and since Shen Hongying fell to Wu Peifu, Rong Ting, the old mainland of the Gui family, also accepted the appointment of the Jixian County Government Guangxi Provincial Aftermath Office. Although he is not the same as Wu Peifu on the surface, he belongs to the two governments of the north and the south, but he is not willing to fight with Wu Peifu in private.

And Lu fell to the Beiyang Army, and directly guided Zhan Sun's subordinates except for Yang Ximin's troops of the Dian Army, there were almost no soldiers to adjust.

Another province in the southwest, Guizhou, as early as August of the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922), the Beiyang government appointed the Guizhou warlord Yuan Zuming as the governor of Guizhou Province. Yuan Zuming fully relieved his previous suspicions and embraced all factions, with Zhang Pengnian as the general counselor, Ding Yizhong as the secretary general, Zhou Suyuan as the director of the political department, and Chen Yousu as the director of the finance department. In order to prepare for the army, Yuan Zuming also founded a bank, with Chen Tingce as the manager, and issued 1 million yuan in the following year.

In March 1922, Tang Jiyao, a great warlord in the southwest, returned to Kunming and regained control of the military and political power in Yunnan. Tang Jiyao expanded the Yunnan Army under his command into the "Founding Army" and appointed himself as the "Commander-in-Chief of the Founding Allied Army" in the seven provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hubei, Henan, and Shaanxi. In 1922, in the midst of the warlord infighting in Guizhou, the Guizhou warlord Liu Xianshi stepped down and went into exile in Kunming, and Guizhou was effectively free from the control of the Yunnan warlords. At the end of this year, Tang Jiyao regained a firm foothold in Yunnan, he organized the Yunnan and Guizhou coalition forces, appointed himself commander-in-chief, and decided to regain control of Guizhou with Liu Xianshi as deputy commander-in-chief. In March 1923, Tang Jiyao and his brother Tang Jiyu were the southeast Xuanfu envoy and the former commander-in-chief of the Yunnan-Guizhou coalition army, and led the army into Guizhou. On March 12, Guizhou Governor Yuan Zuming led his troops to retreat into Xiushan, Sichuan.

At this time, the internal strife of the Sichuan army was not over, Xiong Kewu and Liu Xiang and Yang Sen started a war, Wu Peifu heard that Yuan Zuming was in Xiushan, Sichuan, so he appointed him as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy to aid Sichuan, in order to control Liu and Yang. At this time, Yuan Zuming could control the coalition forces of the five provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Qin, and Long, and actually governed the strength of several old divisions (more than 100,000 people), so he was called "the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces of the five provinces".

In March, Sun organized the Generalissimo's Mansion in Guangzhou, and the fewer and fewer people he had, so he had no choice but to promote Tang Jiyao to the post of deputy marshal, but Tang Jiyao refused to take office and buried himself in Yunnan and Guizhou as his own warlords. After Tang Jiyu occupied Guizhou, he divided Guizhou into five districts and more than ten sub-districts, set up garrison commanders, and carried out strict control, and Guizhou once again fell into the hands of the Yunnan warlords.

However, although he controlled Guizhou, Tang Jiyao and his main force were also contained in the barren province of Guizhou, and it was difficult to expand outward. In order to get rid of this situation, Tang Jiyao had to compromise with Yuan Zuming of the Qianjun army. recognized this "commander-in-chief of the coalition forces of the five provinces" and joined forces to clean up the disobedient Xiong Kewu, and Xiong Kewu saw that the wind around him was not in the right direction, and he immediately turned on the electricity to go to the wilderness, through Guò Hubei, and ran to Shanghai. Originally, Zhao Yun, who wanted to clean up Guangdong first, but before he pacified Guangdong, the little brothers under his command forced all their opponents to surrender. Although Zhao Yun's face was gloomy, it could be regarded as completing the original goal of basically ending the civil war in China before March 27. What the? Guangzhou hasn't been taken yet? That Yunnan army Yang Ximin is really a character, after Chen Jiongming betrayed his grandson, he was stationed in Guangzhou, Dongjiang, Xijiang and other places with heavy troops, and his strength was strong. In order to paralyze the enemy, Yang Ximin sent Fan Shisheng and Jiang Gongliang to Guangzhou to meet with Chen, saying that the Yunnan army was determined to return to Yunnan, and asked for funding for military salaries and clothing. Chen Zheng wanted to take advantage of the Yunnan army to divide the revolutionary forces, so he gave Guangdong Haoyang 100,000 yuan, 10,000 sets of clothing, several boats of dried vegetables, and also presented brandy wine to the officers of the Yunnan army.

When the gift given by Chen Jiongming was transported to the Mengjiang River, and the return ship had not yet returned to the defense area, Yang Ximin immediately held a pledge meeting, led his division down the east of the river, and surrounded Tengxian and Wuzhou in one fell swoop. The defenders of Tengxian County raised a white flag, and the defenders of Wuzhou revolted. After entering Wuzhou, morale was greatly boosted. Yang Ximin took office as the commander-in-chief of the Yunnan Army, held high the banner of revolution, and set off for Guangzhou. Along the way, he received the support of the people, repelled Lin Hu, the commander-in-chief of the Xijiang River, in Fengchuan, and defeated Yang Kunru in Sanshui. On January 16, 1923, the Yunnan and Guizhou armies entered Guangzhou, and the Guangdong and Hunan armies also joined in Guangzhou. The remnants of Chen Jiongming retreated to the Dongjiang River and held on to Huizhou in order to make another move.

But these are the previous war history, when Yang entered Guangzhou, Sun Zeng angrily reprimanded Yang Ximin to his face, saying: "I have summoned you to listen to my words and listen to my orders." You are guilty of wearing my hat, waving my banner, ruining my hometown, and eating a drop of water in Guangdong. ”

So after Tang Jiyao compromised, they also immediately compromised, lost the last team, and Sun could only go to Hong Kong again. And finally cleaned up these guys who were making trouble in the nest, Zhao Yun's headaches were not less, but more.

It's March, and the situation in Japan is finally clear. It's not that the Japanese don't want peace talks, it's not that they want peace talks. Rather, the Japanese Army wanted to gain the support of China and continue to expand its interests in the Far East, so it said that it could sit down with the Chinese people and talk about the issue of "Luda", of course, don't think about taking it back, just continue to sign an agreement in a "high-sounding" way, not 99 years, but 50 or 60 years, it is also possible to talk about it. And the Japanese Navy refused, nonsense, now the "brigade" is used by the Japanese Navy, and it is not the group of arrogant and brainless army forces that are using it, why should they point fingers. Therefore, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs was caught in the middle, and for a while, it did not want to offend any party, so it tacitly did not take a stand. As for offending Huaxia, do they have the right to decide? Even economic sanctions have to be discussed with Europe and the United States, as long as Europe and the United States do not express their stance, it will not be a matter for the "Luda".

Zhao Yun, who got the news, was so angry that he started a war with Japan on the spot, and at this moment, Zhao Yun finally understood why Cixi would go to war with "the other country", but the international community did not take Huaxia seriously. It seems that there is still a long way to go to change the world's perception!

The so-called misfortune is not a single line, and the blessing is incomparable. Externally, Zhao Yun was almost blind for a while, and internally, there was also a trace of abnormality. The time has come to March, but the spring rain that came as scheduled in previous years did not come, this is not a local place, but more than ten provinces in China. When it rains, it's flooding. And no rain is not a good thing, at this time Huaxia is still an agricultural country that depends on the sky to eat, there is no spring rain, it indicates that this year's harvest will be greatly discounted, in case there is no rain in summer, then the problem is even more serious.

Zhao Yun knew the consequences of the lack of food, he had done a "hamster operation" in Russia, and once there was no food, it was estimated that the warlord melee that had just been suppressed would break out again.