On 21 October, the 17th Army defeated Tian Geyao in one day, and its own number increased by 5,000, which not only boosted the morale of the top and bottom of the 17th Army, but also gave all the people a new understanding of the revolutionary army.

On 22 October, under the bayonet escort of the revolutionary army, the Sichuan Chamber of Commerce headed by the Xie family took over power and established a provisional government with Xie Xinren as the provincial chairman and Luo Guoliang as the chairman of the provincial assembly.

Officials at the provincial and municipal levels at the grass-roots level will be retained, while all middle- and high-ranking officials will be locked up, and the Secret Service will examine them, and if the corruption and perversion of the law are more severe, they will be dealt with.

Xie Niancheng did this to kill two birds with one stone, not only to arrest corrupt officials, try corrupt officials, and shoot corrupt officials to unite people's hearts, but also to confiscate the corrupt officials' family property to supplement military spending.

Huang Yingjie is really talented in this regard, and in just a few days, he has raised 18 million oceans for the revolutionary army, which gives the revolutionary army the ability not to ask ordinary people for military expenses.

On 23 October, representatives of the military, government, and people, Xie Niancheng, Xie Xinren, and Luo Guoliang, met with each other.

This day's meeting was mentioned by Luo Guoliang.

The so-called collusion between officials and businessmen, many of the officials arrested by the revolutionary army are inextricably linked with the gentry, although the revolutionary army has only moved officials now, but the relatives and friends of the officials are also very uneasy, and they all ask Luo Guoliang to find out the situation.

"Brother Xie, your son is terrible."

Luo Wenxuan is now a deputy director of the Political Department of the Third Division of the First Army of the Northern Expedition, which is actually considered a young man, but he can be compared with Xie Niancheng, the army commander. That's too far off.

Xie Xinren has been surrounded by people with heads and faces in Chengdu these days, and he has been eating and taking cards from the Xie family all these years. All of them were doubled.

People are not stupid, this Sichuan is going to become the Xie family. Aren't you in a hurry to resolve your previous grievances, aren't you waiting for death?

Xie Xinren can no longer be described as satisfied with his son.

"Brother Luo, your son is not bad." Xie Xinren began to play haha.

The two chatted about the situation for a while, and someone outside shouted at the top of their voices, "Commander Xie of the Revolutionary Army has arrived!" ”

Luo Guoliang stood up and straightened his clothes.

Xie Xinren just took the tea in his hand and smiled.

Xie Niancheng came in, "Dad." Are you so early? ”

Xie Xinren got up at this time: "Nian Cheng, come, this is Speaker Luo Guoliang Luo." ”

"Speaker Luo, I'm glad to meet you."

Luo Guoliang came over and shook hands with Xie Niancheng.

"Commander Xie, I don't know what your plans are for Sichuan's civil affairs?"

Before Luo Guoliang came, he had many meetings with the gentry of Sichuan, and they understood that there were three major forces in Sichuan, landlords, merchants, and soldiers. Now that the military and business are wearing a pair of trousers, the gentry must not be able to do it right.

Everyone has already negotiated a figure of money and food, and they are ready to send Xie Niancheng away, so that Xie Niancheng can sit in the position of the former warlord overseer.

Xie Niancheng on how to develop Sichuan. The draft has already been typed, but he does not intend to elaborate on Luo Guoliang and Xie Xinren here.

"Speaker Luo, Chairman Xie, I am also from Sichuan. I participated in the revolution and led the troops back to Sichuan. It is not for the sake of me alone, for the selfish interests of my family. ”

"My purpose. It is to let the fathers and villagers of the whole Sichuan live a good life...... I have specific plans, but now is not the time to talk about them. Tian Geyao's army in the north has not yet been reorganized, and there is still Liu Sen's team on the Meishan side. ”

"I am here to ask the two of you to organize the members of the parliament and the chamber of commerce to prepare for a general meeting, at which I will put forward my proposals, and when the time comes, we will discuss what to do."

"Before this meeting, the order of Chengdu and even the whole of Sichuan was maintained by the two of them."

"In addition, I believe that the two of them have friends in Xikang, Chongqing, and southern Sichuan, and I also ask the two of them to send people to contact Yang E, Liu Wuguang, and Deng Donghou, and tell them that if they lay down their weapons before the revolutionary army attacks them, it is easy to say that if they do not lay down their weapons, the revolutionary army will fight over and kill the nine tribes."

Hearing this, Luo Guoliang asked with some doubts: "Commander Xie, you don't like you are sincerely surrendering with such conditions?" ”

Xie Niancheng said with a smile: "Speaker Luo, you wait and see, I'll clean up Liu Sen first, and when Liu Sen surrenders, I want to see who else dares to resist." ”

Listening to Xie Niancheng's tone, cleaning up these warlords was as simple as pinching a few ants to death, Luo Guoliang was a little speechless.

In any case, let's see if the revolutionary army can quickly solve the tens of thousands of Liu Sen's troops in Meishan.

Regardless of the long-term plan, Luo Guoliang raised the gentry's question about whether the revolutionary army would confiscate their property, and said that the gentry were willing to provide money and food for the revolutionary army.

Xie Niancheng replied: "Speaker Luo, please rest assured, my fellow villagers, our revolutionary army will thoroughly investigate corruption and will never affect the innocent...... As for anyone who swallowed up the money and grain by colluding with the government, as long as the stolen money and goods are returned, our revolutionary army will not investigate it. ”

Xie Niancheng's meaning is very simple, the revolutionary army only needs money, not life, and the amount of money asked for will not be so much that the gentry feel pain.

Luo Guoliang naturally understood what Xie Niancheng meant, "Chief Xie is kind-hearted, I thank you on behalf of the Sichuan fathers." ”

Luo Guoliang's words are not hypocritical and polite.

Xie Niancheng can rely on force to loot, but he just said that he should return the "stolen money" and "stolen goods", which is worthy of the words "benevolence".

Of course, the gentry, officials, and businessmen in Sichuan were very interested, and in just a few days, they were able to collect more than 9.6 million oceans of "stolen money." This is not to be mentioned for the time being.

Luo Guoliang left first, and Xie Xinren asked, "Nian Cheng, what are your plans in the future, you can tell me now." ”

"Dad, what to do in the future, I made a plan, at Xiaoqiu's place, you are interested in making a phone call, and let Xiaoqiu show you the plan."

"Haha, dad believes in you, you can do whatever you want, our Chamber of Commerce will definitely support you."

"That's great."

"By the way, then Liu Sen has tens of thousands of people, are you really sure to deal with it? I do. Now Chengdu is only temporarily calm, once Liu Sen really fights back. That's going to be a big deal. ”

"Dad, don't worry. Liu Sen couldn't jump for a few days. ”

On the future development of Sichuan, Xie Niancheng cannot be said to be sure, but when it comes to the extermination of Liu Sen, Xie Niancheng has absolute confidence.

The shape of Sichuan was very beneficial to the revolutionary army.

After the news of the First Battle of Deyang reached Chengdu, Yang Yuan, who had taken refuge in Qingcheng Mountain in Guan County, led his troops to surrender, and in the same way as Tian Geyao's troops, the revolutionary army dismissed the officers on the spot and selected strong ones from among the soldiers to be incorporated into the troops.

Yang E, Liu Wuguang, Deng Donghou and others saw that the situation was not good. He was already in contact with Jiang Zhongzheng, who led his troops to attack Jiangxi, and wanted to reorganize into a revolutionary army and keep the territory, but Wang Zhongzheng and Xie Niancheng had already had a tacit understanding, and Wang Zhongzheng's reply to them was to ask them to contact Xie Niancheng about the reorganization.

These warlords have also sent envoys to Chengdu, but whether they need to contact Xie Niancheng to see the results of the battle between the revolutionary army and Liu Sen.

For Xie Niancheng, in addition to defeating Liu Sen, there are many urgent matters to deal with:

First of all. If the army continues to be expanded in this way, the weapons will soon be insufficient, so Xie Niancheng cleaned up all the money and sorted out 20 million oceans. Telegraphed Zhao Ke and asked her to go to Mandrian to buy a batch of arms.

Mandrian was very happy when he heard that Xie Niancheng had won a province, and immediately used his connections. Let Xie Niancheng buy 20 million oceans at the German arsenal at cost price, and this batch of arms is expected to be shipped to Chengdu in two months.

Xie Niancheng sent a telegram to Zhao Ke. She was also asked to give a brief plan for how Sichuan's industry would develop. Although Xie Niancheng himself has an idea, he can listen to one more person's opinion. It's always better. After all, in Sichuan, he couldn't find anyone who could discuss the issue.

The revolutionary army now lacks civilian cadres. In order to solve this problem, Xie Niancheng found Xu Wenchang and asked Xu Wenchang to set up an organization called "Salvation Congress", which will absorb a large number of young scholars.

In Xie Niancheng's plan, in the future, the county-level government in various parts of Sichuan will be headed by a person from the National Salvation Association, and each county will set up a county council, and the members of the council will be composed of local gentry and businessmen.

In addition to providing officials, the National Salvation Association will also be responsible for the propaganda of ideology, and for ideology, Xie Niancheng only put forward the "three-strong concept" of "the country must be strong, the nation must be strong, and the people must be strong".

Xu Wenchang was very satisfied with this appointment, and let him be responsible for the construction of the base and the development of industry, which really made him feel that it was a bit overkill, Xie Niancheng asked him to do these two things, which was equivalent to letting him concurrently serve as the government's Minister of Personnel and Minister of Propaganda, thinking of this, Xu Wenchang was full of energy.

Xie Niancheng also recruited Fan Pengju, Li Xiaohai, and Zhou Shisheng, and asked the three of them to integrate the Huaxing brothers, who had not joined the army, and prepared to set up police stations in various places to be responsible for law and order, and at the same time set up armed forces departments to manage local militia groups, and at the same time establish a reserve system in the villages. In addition, it is necessary to select capable personnel to develop Huaxing in other provinces. After the last three discussed, Zhou Shisheng was in charge of the police station, Li Xiaohai was in charge of the armed forces, and Fan Pengju was in charge of developing Huaxing.

Xie Niancheng found Xie Xinyi again and asked Xie Xinyi to select people from the business community and set up a "statistical bureau", and the statistical bureau will set up branches in each county, and the final director of the statistical bureau is also an old acquaintance: Ye Xiaomei.

This statistical bureau is a key department, and Xie Niancheng can't hand over this department to someone who can't be trusted.

For the two people around him who trust him the most, Ye Xiaoqiu and Yang Yuwei, Xie Niancheng is naturally entrusted with important tasks:

The two are now staying with Xie Niancheng all day long, and Ye Xiaoqiu is responsible for sorting out Xie Niancheng's big plan for Sichuan's future politics and economy, and is ready to announce it at the upcoming "Great Council"; Yang Yuwei was appointed by Xie Niancheng as the "Director of Finance", responsible for managing finances and preparing for the establishment of "Tianfu Bank".

There was really a shortage of people, and even Fang Caiyun was sent by Xie Niancheng to assist Xu Wenchang, and under the direct leadership of Xu Wenchang, he prepared to establish a "News Bureau" to be responsible for reviewing the content of the newspaper.

Militarily, the officers of all units are also 100 percent engaged in their work, and they have digested tens of thousands of recruits in just a few days. (To be continued......)