Some people gallop in the spring breeze, and some people are secretly anxious ().

In the middle of the night, the Yunnan Governor's Mansion was still lit with oil lamps, and under the oil lamps, Cai Yi was wearing a household shirt, holding a magnifying glass and checking on the map over and over again. After the Wehrmacht invested four regiments to attack Xuanwei day and night, the hearts of the people in Yunnan were already fluctuating, which made him very worried, until he suddenly felt something more on his shoulders before turning his head, and it turned out that his wife Liu Xiazhen, who had just arrived from Hunan, put on a coat for him.

Cai Ye has always felt guilty about this original wife, because he has been away all the year round, in order to take care of his mother, he left her in his hometown for a long time, not only rarely get together, but also married the second lady in the first month, so seeing that she didn't sleep so late, he cared: "It's so late, why doesn't Mrs. go to rest, don't be tired." ”

Liu Xiazhen is cowardly by nature, and marrying Cai Ye was purely accidental, because the sister who was destined to be a baby was unwilling to marry this despised little merchant's son, and her father had to send her to a sedan chair to marry her sister on the day of marriage, so she has been cautious after marriage, and most of the time she has been in charge of the family business in her hometown in Hunan to take care of her mother-in-law, and she never dared to ask about her husband's affairs. After coming to Kunming this time, I knew that he had just accepted the second lady, and I was even more afraid that I would take advantage of this to take a break from myself, so I was particularly attentive during this time, and I must be waiting next to him every time I stayed up late.

So I have to be concerned today, and even my eyes are dyed with fog, but I am afraid that it will affect Cai Yi, so I panicked and said: "My sister just gave birth and is inconvenient to serve." I'm afraid you're catching a cold, right? Look at me stupid, I'll be outside when something calls me. ”

Cai Yi sighed in his heart, looked at the originally beautiful face that was increasingly wrinkled due to hard work, grabbed her and said, "It's not a big deal." I just want to ask about your hometown, so let's sit down. ”

Liu Xiazhen pursed her lips. Cheng Cheng only sat on half a stool, seeing that she was still this timid appearance for more than ten years, Cai Yi took pity on her coat and asked, "You just came from your hometown in Hunan." I've heard a lot of changes over there. Tell me about it. ”

"The concubine usually doesn't go out much, I'm afraid it's not good." Liu Xiazhen was afraid of leaving a bad impression on Cai Yi, so she didn't dare to say it at first, until she saw his unhappy face and said cautiously: "Or, let me tell me about the matter of the second uncle's family?" ”

Cai Ye was promoted all the way after returning from studying abroad, but most of her relatives and friends in her hometown were poor, so she nodded and asked her to continue. Liu Xiazhen saw that he was not disgusted, and hurriedly said: "After the accident in Hubei last year, the second uncle's Chunwazi went to Changsha and said that he wanted to defect to the new army. Later, many of the new troops were disbanded, but he was selected to go to Hubei, and now he has gone to Sichuan. When I came, he wrote to my second uncle, saying that he was going to study in a place called the officer class.

The second uncle's family originally had a few acres of dry land, and he still had to rely on us for help, but after Chunwazi became a soldier, her life changed. First, a lot of soldiers came, and they took away the chief (town mayor) and confiscated their land. The soldiers fenced off all the land, built a large yard called a farm, and moved many landless people into it to cultivate (). The children in my hometown don't have to pay for school now, and we have built dozens of new schools in Baoqing alone, and many private school teachers have been invited to teach. There are also many young teachers from Shanghai and Nanjing.

The name of the second uncle went up when the chief of the security was re-elected in the autumn, although it was not selected, but a few people called Chunwazi comrades-in-arms came, lent money to the second uncle to set up a factory, transported the coal ash from Xiangtan by boat, mixed with straw and straw to make something called briquettes (similar to honeycomb coal), and now many big families in Baoqing have begun to use it, and my mother and I came to the second uncle before I also sent a car, burned a few times more than Chai Wang, but came out in a hurry and didn't even send him money. ”

"The government has also signed contracts with many families in the township to purchase pigs and cattle, as long as everyone raises them, the government guarantees that they will receive as much as they want, so." When she said this, she smiled, her eyes flashed as if she had returned to her girlhood, and she said happily: "The streets are full of pigs, and when I came out, the cart was surrounded by a large group of piglets for half an hour." ”

Her words were neither coherent nor clear about the specific changes, but it was a different picture in Cai Ye's ears. The arrest of people who have been rampant in the township is the result of the [Anmin] action, and so is the national farm, as for the second uncle's briquette factory, it must also be the product of Yang Qiu's project to support industrial and commercial small loans, and free education is also slowly being implemented, and in the form of government procurement, it should be Yang Qiu's use to promote the development of animal husbandry in Hunan.

Step by step close integration, just like playing a game of nine consecutive rings, although this change is still very inconspicuous, but if it can persist for a long time, the prospect must be very considerable, and Yang Qiu can notice that agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry are not blindly messed up with money industry, which also shows that this person does not only know industry to save the country as the outside world says, but has been walking on two legs, just because rural construction is not so noticeable compared with industries that invest millions of dollars at every turn.

Liu Xiazhen saw Cai Yi frowning and thinking about not speaking, and thought that he had said the wrong thing again, so frightened that he was about to exit the room, just arrived at the door guard captain He Pengxiang walked in, he is Cai Yi's chief guard, 28 years old He is also one of the real henchmen, Liu Xiazhen and Cai Yi's mother were also secretly sneaked back to Hunan to pick up Kunming, so when he saw the eldest lady Lian Shili: "Big lady, Cai Du." ”

"I haven't slept yet." Cai Ye walked out from the inside, there was no secret in front of He Pengxiang, and said to Liu Xiazhen first: "It's late, you go to sleep in the house first." Liu Xiazhen didn't expect to leave her behind, you must know that Cai Ye has never taken the initiative to stay in the room for the night after coming to Kunming for so long, and her face was a little ashamed, so she hurriedly turned around and entered the bedroom.

He Pengxiang went back to his hometown to visit his wife instead of Cai Ye all the year round, and he was also happy to see Cai Ye take the initiative to get close to her, but the telegram in his hand really made him unhappy, and immediately took out two telegrams: "Governor, I just received it, yes." ”

"Guangxi or Wuchang? Or is it Guiyang? Cai Yi glanced at the telegram and said with a smile: "You still think so highly of me, and sent two letters in one go." ”

He Pengxiang shook his head: "The governor guessed a little bit right. This letter was sent from Guangxi, yes. But the person who sent the telegram was Lu Baiyi, who advised the governor to put aside his prejudices and build the southwest together, and said that Yang Qiu had now arrived in Guilin. The Wehrmacht not only took Guilin, but had already begun to march towards Beihai and Wuzhou, except for a few people such as Tang Jiyao and Liu Cunhou. The rest have all been exterminated. ”

He was not surprised that Guilin was lost so quickly, in fact, when he learned that Tang Jiyao suddenly went south to Guilin, he knew that this was Yang Qiu's deliberate doing. But the news of the march into Beihai and Wuzhou was really stunned, and he immediately walked to the map and looked at the appendix-like Leizhou Peninsula and the line of Beihai and Qinzhou Bay, and his eyes suddenly widened and understood: "He wants to go to the sea!" "Definitely. Even if he built a new industrial company in Hubei and Sichuan. He began to build chemical and other factories again, and recently took back Han Yeping, but the problem of access to the sea has always plagued him in the upstream, if it is fully opened to Beiyang, then the Jinpu line can be easily truncated, and the Wehrmacht needs to cross Jiangxi to advance to Shanghai, and the two Huai can reach Shanghai.

What's more serious is that he offended Japan, and he knows best that Han Yeping's relationship with Japan is too big! Japanese steel mills, led by Yawata Steel, produce only about 200,000 tons of steel a year. More than half of the iron ore is provided by Han Yeping, even if it can be made up from other places, but without Han Yeping, Japan's steel production will immediately drop by at least 40%! In addition to the army and navy, Japan is a giant in Asia! Therefore, as long as he develops to the sea and the sailors put on a strong posture, they will definitely be attacked, but if they use Hainan and Leizhou as barriers, they can avoid the Japanese navy, because this is the sphere of influence of Britain and France.

No, it doesn't make sense! As soon as this thought came to his mind, Cai Ye immediately shook his head again. The Gaochang Temple has been taken into his private house and is being renovated on a large scale with the help of the Americans, and I heard that everything is being prepared for the construction of ships of more than 10,000 tons. Therefore, if it is himself, he will definitely not be willing to go far and far, and would rather send troops to forcibly go south to take Shanghai, which has better facilities, than to fight the remote Beihai idea. Unless the Wuchang-Beihai railway can be repaired, it is impossible to make use of this Haikou, because to maintain the navy, it is necessary to build a large shipyard! The construction of the shipyard is not complicated, and the excavation and construction of the dock does not cost much, but the complicated thing is the supporting plant. Guangxi does not have industrial capacity, so it must rely on Hubei and inland support, but such a huge project cannot be completed in four or five years, and the cost is astronomical.

So even if he wins this outlet to the sea, he won't be able to use it in five years, and if he really wants to fight in the north, he can't wait for five years, so his eyes continue to go south, and a bold idea that even startles himself rises, he wants to open up the passage from the inland to the South Sea?! Nanyang is a fertile land, but it takes thousands of miles to go through the traditional Shanghai and Taiwan, and if a railway can be built from Wuchang to Beihai, the distance will be shortened by more than 1,000 kilometers.

But is it possible? Isn't it ridiculous that a big warlord who is less than 23 years old should have the strategic vision to strengthen the country and talent?

Seeing Cai Yi staring at the map, his face was bright and cloudy, He Pengxiang pinched another telegram and was secretly in a daze, not knowing whether to say it immediately and waiting, and only after about a cup of tea saw that his face had calmed down before he continued: "Governor, this letter is from Nanjing, Beiyang Yu." He looked at his watch and it was past midnight: "Yesterday at noon, I suddenly invaded Xiangyang from Xinye. ”

Cai Ye understood that he hadn't come out of the assumption just now, so that his head was a little dizzy, and after a while, he straightened up in surprise: "Beiyang cough, how many people are there?" What about Wushengguan? ”

He Pengxiang said: "It's not clear, the news was sent by Wuchang first, and they have now telegraphed the whole country to say that Beiyang first deliberately provoked a conflict between the north and the south, and Nanjing was also extremely shaken, and I heard that Song Jiaoren had held a Kuomintang meeting in Shanghai to appeal to Yuan Shikai. ”

A series of news made Cai Ye sit down slowly, Beiyang's move this time was obviously too unexpected, and this is not like Yuan Shikai's style. It is not wise to provoke a war between the north and the south at a sensitive moment when the general election is imminent, although everyone knows that he and Yang Qiu will have a battle, but at least wait until the election is over, and do it now! Isn't it a chance for the KMT to build momentum?

He Pengxiang thought about it and said, "Dudu, there is one more thing you have to be careful of!" In the past few days I have found that Han Jianduo and some officers are moving around frequently, and they seem to be very dissatisfied that you don't go to Guangxi to support, if the news of Tang Jiyao and them comes out tomorrow morning, I'm afraid. Han Jianduo and others were dissatisfied and thought that they should take the initiative to attack, Huang Yuying and other party loyalists were also dissatisfied, thinking that the three southwestern provinces should join forces to contain Yang Qiu and continue to grow, and the purpose behind it was to keep the KMT's sphere of influence in the south, and you must know that Yang Qiu was not friendly to the KMT.

Once the three southwestern provinces are lost, half of the southern part of the country will fall to the National Socialist Party, and a quarter of the country's parliamentary seats will fall into his hands, and the Kuomintang party's dominance advantage is likely to collapse! And he has a strong army and the last shield, although the southeast is rich, but when it comes to fighting, it is really not powerful, although the Guangdong army and the Jiangxi army are good, but one is too far away, the other is close, every move is monitored, and it is difficult to play a role, so the future situation in the south is actually very clear.

That's why the southwest will attract so many eyeballs this time, and it will even be decisive for the future domestic political situation! Therefore, many people do not want Yunnan to be attached to Yang Qiu, and the Wehrmacht is unprecedentedly tough on drugs, bandits and gentry, and ruthlessly disperses the old army in various places, so it is normal to cause worry and chaos. But He Pengxiang felt that there was something faintly abnormal this time, and said: "The governor of the army is strict, but what Tang Jiyao and others have done in Guangxi has made our Yunnan army a thousand people, and now many people in the whole country say that they want us to completely disband the army, and everyone is holding their breath in their hearts." In peacetime, these remarks are not enough to worry about, but at the moment, the war on the front line is not going well, Guangxi has been lost, and the people's hearts are very unstable, you see if it is. ”

Cai Yi waved his hand to stop He Pengxiang from continuing, looking at the circled lines on the map when he looked at the first telegram, and then thinking of the words of his wife just now, he seemed to have made a decision after half a ring, and immediately wrote a letter and handed it to him: "Send someone to send the letter to Xie Ruji of Xuanwei immediately, and let Lei Biao bring a standard back from Qujing, in addition." He glanced at the inner room and said worriedly: "From now on, strengthen the protection of Mrs. and my mother, as long as they don't make too much trouble, how can Cai Yi care about the position of the governor of the district, but unfortunately they don't understand, the Southwest Union is no longer unstoppable!" ”