Chapter 308: The Gathering of Storms (5)
In the words of the poor literati, China in this era did present a scene of the destruction of the world.
What is the death of the world, because the Chinese dynasties have mixed their own courts with the country, so the demise of a dynasty is also called the demise of the country, and similar to the destruction of the Yuan and Song dynasties, the destruction of the Qing and Ming dynasties is not a simple demise of the country, but the demise of the world. As the main ethnic group, the Han nationality became the slaves of foreign invaders, the most serious of which was the Qing Dynasty, and the entire Han nationality was proud to be slaves to the Manchurians.
In the Republic of China, China, which had finally overthrown the Eight Banners system that overthrew the Han nation, once again faced the situation of the world's destruction. The first one was the possibility of destroying China, but it was not Japan, but Soviet Russia.
Throughout the history of shijie, what is more fearful than aggression? It is the interpretation and assessment of anti-aggression and evil. Under the guise of liberating all mankind, revolutions can be exported everywhere, and the original hostile countries can be turned into their own member states. And those who dared to resist were not only not patriots, but also became so-called class enemies, and were exterminated by their own compatriots in the name of revolution without the intervention of Soviet Russia. Soviet-style communism (which had nothing to do with Marx) replaced Islam as the fastest expanding being.
And China is very unlucky, it is actually a neighbor of such a terrorist country, and what is worse is that China itself is still fragmented, and the social contradictions that have accumulated for a long time have erupted collectively in this era, and there is no solution at all. If it weren't for the red east and the sun rising, China might have become part of the many republics of the Soviet Union in our history. And the Soviet Union may not have collapsed in 1989, and the red flag may have really been planted all over the world. However, the Soviet Union still made a great contribution to China's **, the first is to forcibly liberate Outer Mongolia, which had returned to the embrace of the motherland in 1919, in the name of pursuing White Russia, and then shot the Mongolian Living Buddha, the Buddha can only lament this, fortunately, in the cycle of heavenly principles, karma is just behind. The second is to infiltrate into the Xinjiang region, the ruler of the Xinjiang region, Comrade Sheng Shicai, once under pressure and honorably joined the Soviet Union, it is said that the introducer is still our father Joseph Stalin. However, the Soviet Union obviously could not believe Sheng Shicai, a big fool in the northeast, and quietly organized the so-called national autonomous army in Xinjiang. Sure enough, Comrade Sheng Shicai was unwilling to reconcile with the Soviet Union later, and really defected. And the Soviet Union immediately fully supported the Xinjiang Ethnic Autonomous Army to rise up and rebel, oh no, it should be a revolution, but unfortunately then Tao Zhiyue commanded 100,000 national troops into Xinjiang, and in the end Xinjiang could not be called a glorious part of the Soviets. Until many years later, the Xinjiang region was still clamoring for independence, and coincidentally, every time they made trouble, the Russian leaders were always the first to jump out and condemn them, as if these people really had nothing to do with their Russia.
As for how many disgusting things the Soviet Union did to New China later, I will not mention them here. Anyway, in a word, how can China not develop, the Soviet Union will do anything.
And the Soviet Union finally failed to realize the dream of conquering Shijie, because he was beaten hard by another guy who had the same dream, although Zuihou won, but also hurt his muscles and vitality, so Shijie made peace. And the guy who dared to beat the Soviet Union was called Hitler, whose scientific name was the Great Demon King.
The second thing that could have destroyed China was Japan, at least that's what Japan thought at the time. But in fact, Japan's military liliang also bullied the colonial armies of China, Britain and France. Being able to bully China must be based on decades of infighting among the Chinese, at least in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the largest steel plant in Asia was still the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, and China's total economic output was still not comparable to Japan.
In fact, looking at the history of World War II many years later, no matter how you look at it, the Japanese are not able to compete for Shijie hegemony, and their participation in the war is more like committing suicide. But we in China should not be complacent, at least Japan could think about it at that time, but we were not even qualified to think about it.
There were only two winners in the whole of World War II, one was the United States and the other was the Soviet Union. France, the United Kingdom, and China claim to be one of the five major powers, but in fact, no matter how you look at it, it seems to be in name. Britain and France lost the entire empire's colonies at once, and the mainland was directly reduced to a second-rate power. And the worst thing is that China has almost consumed all the fortunes of the country, and at a huge price, it has only dragged down the pace of the Japanese for the whites. Moreover, Zuihou did not even see the war reparations and war dividends, and Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang regime, which had paid a great price in the war against Japan, were driven out of the mainland and became synonymous with passive resistance to war. And it seems that the only soldier Zhang Ga with a slingshot is really in the Anti-Japanese War, this is all a situation? And then what awaits the Chinese nation is naturally decades of happiness.
What Wang Zhenyu needs to do now is to avoid a recurrence of this tragedy.
And this first step is to unify the south, in Wang Zhenyu's thinking, the unification of China is a bit difficult at present.
This difficulty is not to say how capable the Beiyang Army or the Feng Army in the north is, but the Beiyang Army that can fight has become history in this Patriotic War, and the shadow of these people can be seen in the labor camps secretly set up by the Youth Army and the newly recruited army. As for the Fengjun, it is estimated that these Northeast soldiers are much more powerful than their hands and feet, and in this era, Zhang Zuolin has not even become the overseer of Fengtian.
The real reason why Wang Zhenyu is reluctant to raise troops to the north is because China is too weak, and the lack of sufficient military industry as a foundation to support the national defense liliang is virtual and unreliable. At this time, it is not difficult to defeat the Beiyang Army in the north, but not to mention the opposition of the great powers, just one Japanese army is enough for Wang Zhenyu to drink a pot. The propaganda slogan of the invincibility of the youth army is that the officers and soldiers of the middle and lower classes are immune to Wang Zhenyu himself.
Therefore, Wang Zhenyu thought about it again and again, and still felt that it was better not to engage in the Northern Expedition, and it was better not to take the liberty of stimulating the powers led by the Japanese when this liliang was insufficient. Moreover, at this time, the appetite of the Japanese was not as great as it was later, and their government was still a group of normal people in power, so they were also content to run rampant and hegemonic in the north of China to obtain benefits. As for the South, it was not originally within the scope of the Great Japanese Empire's strength.
In such an external environment, Wang Zhenyu Jihua first developed the economy and industry in the south, and then talked about other things. In his opinion, Japan is not as big as Hunan, and if he can unify the resources of the whole of South China, then the next step is to integrate the resources of the whole of South China, and it may not be impossible to fight with Japan. You must know that Chiang Kai-shek in history only integrated the resources of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and he could defeat Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang to the north, and Chen Jitang and Li Zongren to the south. It's over, relying on Sichuan Province to still be able to fight with the Japanese for so long. How powerful would it be if he were to integrate the whole of South China into one, Wang Zhenyu thought maliciously?
Since Lao Jiang didn't do it, he Wang Zhenyu naturally might as well do it, no, Wang Zhenyu summoned his two major strategists, Yang Du and Yang Yongtai, to his side, and the three of them closed the door to discuss the solution.
"Commission, I think that it is indeed a very good time to unify the southwest now, especially the letters of General Cai Yi are of great use to us." Yang Yongtai is now basically the nominal governor of Hubei Province, and the government affairs of Hubei Province are now presided over by the director of the Provincial Government Affairs Bureau, and Tang Qianming, the former Hunan overseer. After resigning from the Hunan Army, he immediately applied to join the Kuomintang Socialist Party, and rushed to Wuhan overnight to see Wang Zhenyu to express his surrender. And Wang Zhenyu happened to lack a person with social reputation like Tang Qianming, so he naturally hit it off and appointed the director of the Hubei Provincial Government Affairs Bureau. At present, the setting of the provincial government is also different from that of the Beiyang government, following the old system of Xiangxi, and setting up three offices, the Government Affairs Department, the Finance Department and the Law Administration Department. The Government Affairs Bureau is in charge of various departments, so that even if Yang Yongtai, the governor, does not care about anything, the Hubei provincial government will continue to operate as usual. It doesn't matter if you can't find the governor's signature, the provincial council can also implement the bill, but you still have to wait for the governor to sign before it can be officially put into effect.
"What Brother Changqing said is very true, but it is commissioned, then Tang Jiyao and others are absolutely good, even with the support of Cai Yi's descendants, if we want to take the three southwestern provinces without blood, I am afraid it will take some time, it is not difficult to set up a province in Xikang, then it is difficult to be in Tibet. And the biggest problem is also to ask the commission to take a clear look, the great powers are now busy with the European war can not be counted, then Duan Qirui in Beijing has been eyeing us, if we move, I am afraid that he will also move. Although Yang Du has no official status now, Li Yuanhong's amnesty order has been issued, and Yang Du's wanted notice has been cancelled, and it is estimated that in a year and a half, Yang Du will be released, which is what he has been looking forward to, so he will naturally spare no effort to make suggestions now.
Wang Zhenyu nodded and said: "This Duan Qirui is indeed a trouble, we will not only unify the southwest next, but also send hundreds of thousands of troops to expedition to Europe, it is not okay to have such a vicious wolf behind us." ”
Yang Du smiled when he heard this: "But I have a way here, their direct line is not a special one, and Beijing is not the world of his Duan Qirui family, as long as we make good use of Li Yuanhong's righteous name, and look for elders like Cao Kun to fight with Duan Qirui in this Beiyang, it is estimated that he will have no energy if he wants to go south." ”
Wang Zhenyu was overjoyed and said: "Mr. Huizi, I am really like a tiger with wings!" ”
After a while, Wang Zhenyu said: "It's just that it's not appropriate for you to go to Mr. Huizi, the old generals of Beiyang have attributed the responsibility of Lao Yuan's restoration to Mr., and I think it is most appropriate for Changqing to go to this matter." As for you, Mr. Huizi, I would like to leave the affairs of the southwest to you, and I will now order that Mr. be appointed as the director of the southwest camp of the Military Commission to coordinate the affairs of the southwest. ”
Yang Du was overjoyed when he heard this: "I am willing to pacify the southwest for the commission." ”