The second North-South peace talks were deadlocked from the very beginning.

On a series of major issues, such as the reform of the political system, the reorganization of the political axe, the reorganization of the armed forces, and the reform of the judicial system, there is a gap in awareness between the two sides in almost all aspects.

The so-called five-point premise put forward by the Nanjing side was used as soon as the negotiations began.

'Five prerequisites': proper placement of Kuomintang officials. The land system of the Kuomintang's current sphere of influence remained unchanged for 50 years. The existing Kuomintang army may not be reorganized within five years. The New Deal is modeled after the Western parliamentary system, with the top leaders and chiefs elected by the parliament. The new supreme center of power must be Nanjing.

When Zhang Shusheng got these superficial conditions officially offered by the Kuomintang, he was not too surprised, and with Chairman Chiang's 'grand plan', even if he himself was willing to hand over power easily, the entire Kuomintang system, the big landlord class, the big compradors, and other big bourgeoisie behind the Kuomintang would not easily agree to delegate power.

Although Chairman Chiang was in a high position, he was not a scholar after all, and he was only the general representative of the entire Kuomintang political system. The class he represents relies on precisely the old political system for exploitation. And what Zhang Shusheng wants to transform and defeat happens to be this old society.

What Zhang Shusheng needs is not half of the old China that he inherited from the Kuomintang, but what he will inevitably reform. Judging from the work style of many officials from the top to the grassroots level of Nanjing's national political axe, the problems of [***], dereliction of duty, conservatism, and lack of quality are serious.

If it is taken back by force, Zhang Shusheng will of course push it down and reform it drastically. However, judging from the attitude of the Nanking political axe, although there was no explicit demand that Chiang Kai-shek and other high-level Kuomintang officials be resettled, they generally proposed that the entire Kuomintang officials should be properly resettled.

The subtext of this clause is that the formation of the political axe of New China in the future must involve the Kuomintang as well.

In fact, Zhang Shusheng is not against the residence of capable people, even if he is a Kuomintang official, as long as he has real talent and hard work, and has not committed bad deeds such as destroying criminals, he can also serve in positions at all levels of the New Deal axe through the unified and harsh administrative personnel assessment.

However, he knew very well that the so-called proper placement of Kuomintang officials would inevitably turn into a hodgepodge in the end, just like later generations. Kuomintang officials at all levels finally turned into new political axes at all levels and continued to be their local overlords.

As for the land policy, since a completely new land policy has been implemented in the southwest, land reform is inevitable in order to solve the problem of feeding the peasants in this era and to solve the most urgent problem of food and clothing for the common people at present. The bottom line he can accept is nothing more than a redemption at the right price, not a fifty-year change at all.

After a hard work, is it just for the sake of early reunification, and the bamboo basket is empty?

Parliamentary system, with the election of officials at all levels.

This is even more wishful thinking on the part of the Kuomintang.

Perhaps they were still silent in the sweet dream of the first North-South peace talks, and wanted to emulate the northern regime of that year, and exert all-round pressure on the southwest, which had not yet formed a political party, through the mature political group of the Kuomintang, which eventually led to the formation of the New Deal Axe, which became an enlarged meeting of the Kuomintang.

And the choice of the president and the parliament is not something that Zhang Shusheng can accept.

If in a few decades, let China enter a parliamentary system and carry out comprehensive political reforms, maybe he will try to do it, but now, if he wants China to do this, it is simply watching monkeys sing.

Since the Xinhai Revolution, the so-called parliamentary system has been carried out year after year, and all kinds of scandals during this period have simply been left behind for a hundred years. What coercion and bribery of voters, what thugs blocked the venue, while making people laugh and be generous, they can't help but reflect on whether China in this period has the conditions to implement the parliamentary boiling system?

Even if there is, Zhang Shusheng will not waste his precious time on any council cooking.

The Chinese nation wants to survive, and it must seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for re-emergence, and it must not be disturbed by any parliamentary national system. Zhang Shusheng doesn't have that much energy to cheat and quarrel with bullshit politicians, what he needs to do is to concentrate the strength of the whole nation and carry out the final sprint before World War II.

It is also the autumn of 1932, and although the various industrial construction in the southwest has entered a period of full development, and many basic industries and infrastructure facilities have reached quite high achievements, a huge national industry that can join the world war and achieve absolute superiority requires considerable energy to build.

Even if he concentrates the strength of the whole nation and has a dream machine as his arm, Zhang Shusheng still thinks that the past seven or eight years is too short, how can he waste the precious opportunity to rejuvenate China on arguing with politicians.

In a special period, only the most special political system is suitable, and a comprehensive and efficient political system can promote a nation to become stronger and stronger like a snowball.

With the political tricks of the Kuomintang intrigue, it is estimated that the southwest will eventually be squeezed out, and the rejuvenation of the whole of China will also be aborted, and the rejuvenation forces of the Chinese nation will once again be thrown into internal strife.

Zhang Shusheng thought that he was not the most qualified political figure, nor was he as skilled in political tricks as Chairman Chiang, but he was a strong enough political figure, and he also knew the general historical trend of World War II and had the ideology and consciousness of being several decades ahead of the entire nation.

Zhang Shusheng will not play those political tricks of deceit, but will continue to implement his personal will with actions to clear the obstacles to the rejuvenation of the entire nation.

Originally, he still had a glimmer of hope for the negotiations, hoping that the Kuomintang would see the situation clearly and show enough sincerity to form a new political axe. However, the results proved that history is always moving forward in constant repetition, and the Kuomintang has not escaped this vicious circle.

This is like saying to Chairman Chiang in person: We want to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

He will only think that it is a fart, because their energy is still on how to eliminate dissidents, how to hold more power in their hands, how to achieve greater personal authority, how to maintain their rule.

And Zhang Shusheng is completely opposite to him, a brand-new political group, everything is based on regulations and systems, the stick of the legal system does not let go of anyone, and the perfect political system allows him to concentrate on thinking about what other politicians don't have the energy to think about, let alone the energy to do.

In this way, the negotiations have been repeated in the quarrel, and there has been no progress in the quarrels, even if the southwest has repeatedly made concessions, the result is that the Nanjing national political axe has seen hope, thinking that as long as they insist a little more and be a little harsh, the southwest, an upstart who does not even have a political party, will definitely compromise.

At the same time, under the operation of some people, some voices slandering the southwest began to spread in the dust, and a large number of people of unknown origin even appeared in front of the Nanjing Political Axe Gate, and finally they were kindly asked to leave by the police. Nanjing, Shanghai and other places also broke out in the Qing Gang's attack on the southwest office.

Originally, some old Kuomintang veterans who were about to go to the ground crawled out at this time, as if they were unwilling to sleep in a coffin, and raised their voices to denounce the drawbacks of the peace talks and the political axe in the southwest.

The big landlords, the big bourgeoisie, the demagogic masses, the party and government officials, the political axe officials, and even the army and the police...... There seems to be an invisible hand behind pushing it all back.

However, the negotiators of the Nanjing Nationalist Political Axe threw out this attitude: The current situation is quite unfavorable for the peace talks, and it is advisable to have a result as soon as possible...... In addition to a bunch of messy things, on the military front, the Kuomintang is also actively preparing.

It seems that in order to have a favorable impact on the peace talks, military deployments were launched almost simultaneously in the direction of Guiguang and Guangzhou, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Chengdu-Chongqing, and northwest. Units that have been reorganized have begun to gather in these key defensive directions, and even some second-class divisions have been drawn out and have begun to gather in key areas.

And the ten elite divisions and more reorganized main divisions also began to spread out like a net, and the result of years of retraining the army was that Nanjing Zhengaxe finally had a hole card to speak.

Because the number of troops in the southwest was far less than that of the Nanjing Nationalist Axe, in some places, such as the southwest, there was a regiment garrison, and the Kuomintang transferred a division to defend on the opposite side.

After all, there are still tens of thousands of elites in Tianjin in the southwest, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of [***].

Zhang Shusheng occasionally sighed, it was really boiling beans and burning beans, fortunately, after the hard war, the troops were counter-surrounded. However, it is difficult to say whether it is right or wrong, after all, if it had not participated in the War of Resistance at the beginning, Jinjing and even the entire north of North China would have been lost.

…… A month passed quickly, and there was no progress in the negotiations, and often even the things that had been negotiated in the front were followed by accidents, and the southwest's endurance had reached its limit.

October 9, 1932, Southwest, the highest combat conference room of the Southwest Army.

Sun Changqing, premier of the Southwest Joint Political Axe, Jiang Baili, chief of the general staff of the Southwest People's Army, Wu Tiejun, minister of the Southwest Army, Li Zongren, minister of foreign affairs, Deng Haoqian, minister of the Navy, and General Fan Siran, minister of the Air Force, stood in the conference room, looking at Zhang Shusheng, who was standing in the chairman's position with his hands behind his back and looking at the night scene outside the window.

In the chairman's place, there is an open document and a pen.

No one spoke, everyone stood, even Sun Changqing stood there solemnly, as if waiting for Zhang Shu to give birth to some kind of decision.

At this point, everyone has no opinions or suggestions, all they need to do is wait for Zhang Shusheng's final decision.

"Shu Sheng..."

It wasn't until a long time that Zhang Shusheng turned around, and Sun Changqing was closest to him and nodded to him encouragingly. He did not address the Chief, nor did he address him as President, but in a more peaceful manner, with an encouraging look, to tell him that we trust you and that whatever decision you make, we will carry it out.

Zhang Shusheng nodded, pondered for a long time, he had figured out everything, the matter of national rejuvenation, it was impossible to fake others, since he wanted to do it, he had to choose to sacrifice something.

Without any hesitation, he picked up the pen, signed his name on the document neatly, and put down the pen as if he had completed an important thing, and then left the conference room accompanied by Mao Yunxian and Lu Yunyan.

Sun Changqing walked over and picked up the document, although this document has been seen by him many times, but now after seeing Zhang Shusheng personally signing, he still has some emotion, and he sees that the title on it is particularly eye-catching.

"Northern Expedition Mobilization Order!"

(To be continued)