Add Bookmark | Recommend this book | Back to the book page | My bookshelf | Mobile Reading

Free Web Novel,Novel online - All in hlnovel.com -> Historic -> The Young Marshal s Spring and Autumn Period Through the Republic of China

Chapter 395 Consolidating the Northwest

Previous page        Return to Catalog        Next page

    You can search for "Young Marshal's Spring and Autumn Period Through the Republic of China" on Baidu to find the latest chapters!

    Zhang Hanqing is determined to turn it into an industrial center in the northwest and a complete military-industrial system with the ability to survive independently as a rear base. As the Fengtian faction grows, it is difficult to predict whether it will engage in early military conflict with the Japanese soldiers.

    The distance between the Northeast and the Northwest is long, and the transportation of armaments and strategic materials is inconvenient. China still has several major wars to fight in history. The Northwest Military Supplies has the ability to independently cope with the situation here.

    But if you want to gain a foothold in the northwest, you need great courage.

    While still fighting against the Ma Jiajun, Zhang Hanqing began to inspect the local customs and saw its barrenness.  But when the war calmed down and Zhang Hanqing finally had the opportunity to go deep into the remote countryside, the scenes he saw made people feel desperate.  It turns out that the desolate scenes we saw when we captured cities and market towns before were actually good!

    Eighty percent of the farmers here are in poverty, except for families with more than 50 acres of land who can provide basic food and clothing.  In the absence of significant changes in agricultural inputs and the inability to increase yields per mu, insufficient arable land directly leads to food shortages, which also limits the development of other aspects.

    According to an investigation from a previously organized survey team, in March and April, farmers eat weeds and bark, and they also eat oil residue, bran, etc.

    By May, there is no grass left on the ground.  After harvesting the wheat, farmers threw the flour into the weeds and boiled it with water to make a paste called buntang.  It's something like this. Each of them can't eat more than two taels of flour per meal, sometimes only one meal.  As for rice crumbs, corn crumbs, sweet potato chunks, and Basan beans, they are all in good condition.

    Cotton is produced here, but it is common in the countryside that "only one-half of the people have cotton-padded clothes in winter, and almost all boys and girls aged thirteen or fourteen have no pants."

    Because financial institutions are difficult to enter and the conditions are harsh, ordinary people can only borrow usury from pawnbrokers, banks, landlords, rich farmers, businessmen, etc. during times of debt and disaster. This result is inevitable and accelerates the state of poverty.

    So much so that there is a song that goes like this: "The wind blows, the sun shines and the rain pours, but there is no suffering in the world: the carpenter lives with a broken door, the stonemason has no inscription on the monument, the tailor wears tattered coats and trousers, and the bricklayer has no house to live in. I hope that this year will be good next year."  , I will wear a worn leather jacket next year.¡±

    If the Northwest People's Army wants to gain a foothold here, and if the People's Party wants to gain the support of the people, it needs to make great efforts to improve people's livelihood.  Like the New Deal in Northeast China, the first thing Zhang Hanqing had to do was to carry out land reform to squeeze out the waste of land resources, and then give the redundant labor force a chance to make a living through industrial development.

    Fortunately, now that he has money, he no longer needs to use various means to "default" and can just purchase the land directly. Since he is planning to use this place as a rear base, why is Zhang Hanqing reluctant to invest heavily?

    He vigorously used local people for governance and took advantage of the rich local water resources to gradually develop an industrial system based on electricity, machinery, metallurgy, etc.  With the provincial capital as the center, it is planned to build Liujiaxia, Bapanxia, ??Yanguoxia, and Daxia hydropower stations one after another. Together with other hydropower stations in nearby areas, they will form one of the largest hydropower centers in modern times. Preparations have also begun for the construction of Lanzhou¡ª¡ªTianshui and Pingliang.  , Xining and the highway connecting Suzhou in Longbei.

    As a member of a military family, Zhang Hanqing¡¯s real father in his previous life was a veteran who joined the army in Lanzhou. From his mouth, he knew that Shizuishan, located at the northern end of Ningxia, was the ¡°Coal City Beyond the Great Wall¡±. At the beginning of the founding of the People¡¯s Republic of China, many soldiers were recruited to mine coal here.  As the raw material basis for building industry, the development of such coal mines will not only supply the needs of industry, but also create many jobs.

    History has proven that the more ignorant a place is, the more frequent religious activities are and the easier it is to be incited.  Various ethnic groups in Gansu are mixed, and the people's education level is extremely low. Those who can attend private schools for two or three years are considered educated people.  After Zhang Hanqing entered Gansu, he asked troops, party members, and cadres to respect local customs and "garrisoning troops in mosques is prohibited," and he also put improving education levels on the agenda.

    It is Ma Fuxiang who needs to be commended. Although he is a warlord, he understands the principle of rejuvenating the country through education.  Since the seventh year of the Republic of China, 59 Hui primary schools, 10 intermediate and senior primary schools, and 49 junior primary schools have been established in various counties in Ningxia, with 1,230 students enrolled.  In the autumn of the eighth year of the Republic of China, the Mongolian and Hui Normal University was founded. In order to meet the school's funding, he took the lead in donating 1,500 taels of silver. This year, he donated money to establish 5 primary schools in Linxia, ??with a total of more than 500 students.

    Zhang Hanqing knows people well and appoints them well, so he appointed Ma Fuxiang to concurrently serve as director of the Gansu Provincial Education Commission to prepare for the establishment of Lanzhou Industrial School (the predecessor of Lanzhou University).

    In order to run Gansu, follow the Northeast model, mobilize the masses, carry out extensive land reform, and suppress local forces.  The People's Party has successively dispatched a group of cadres to Gansu to actively promote the party's ethnic policies. The Han and Hui people belong to the same family, respect the customs of the Hui people, and create a good situation of ethnic unity.  The expansion of the Northwest People's Army is so smooth, and the People's Party's policy is to winOne of the laws of the heart.

    "Zhang Hanqing is making such a big splash in the northwest, where does the huge expenditure come from?  No one knows, but the barren Gansu Province quickly glowed with new energy, and various infrastructure projects sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

    Without taking a penny from Northeastern Dad, Zhang Hanqing made Lanzhou become a military and economic center and logistics support base in the northwest in a short period of time, and Ningxia quickly restored its glory in the north and south of the Great Wall.  This point makes the uninformed senior people in the Northeast secretly puzzled, but they have nothing to say.

    God knows how Zhang Hanqing felt when he listened to Mi Chunlin reporting that his gold reserves were being lost one ton after another!  In the Republic of China, each ton of gold was equivalent to 9 million pieces of ocean!  But just like that, a new "Silk Road" was created!

    In order to prepare for the upcoming changes in the Zhi-Anhui War, Zhang Hanqing successively made strategic decisions to stabilize Xinjiang in the west, Sichuan in the south, and place the main force in the east to prepare for an eastward advance into Shaanxi and expel Chen Shufan, the governor of Shaanxi and Anhui.  As a response, he needed Fengjun to choose an opportunity to enter the customs and make early arrangements for the political situation of the Houwan Clique. Therefore, he left Han Linchun to act as commander of the Northwest People's Army and returned to Feng to make major plans.

    While Fengjun was stabilizing the northwest, on December 12, 1919, the immediate leader and former president Feng Guozhang died of illness in Beijing at the age of 62.  When he was in danger, he dictated Zhang Yilu's message, hoping that "peace would be realized soon. I regret that I could not see reunification in person."

    The Beijing government ordered that flags be flown at half-mast across the country for three days. Xu Shichang and Duan Qirui both went to Feng's residence to mourn. Duan Qirui thought of military training at the small station and decades of joys and sorrows in front of Feng Guozhang's body, and couldn't help but burst into tears.  Xu Shichang, the current president and a native of the Beiyang superpower, sent 10,000 yuan for Feng's funeral expenses.

    This "dog" among the "Three Heroes of Beiyang" who was at a disadvantage with Duan Qirui in the "Battle of the Houses and Courts" finally failed to defeat the "tiger" Duan Lao, one of the Three Heroes of Beiyang, in his lifetime. He calmly and peacefully  went.  Cao Kun, who was the governor and governor of Zhili, was promoted as the new leader of Zhili.  Unlike Feng Guozhang, who focused on the overall situation of Beiyang and worked hard to restrain the Zhili clique from compromising the Anhui clique.  Cao Kun, who had soldiers, power and generals, was not willing to be manipulated by Duan Qirui.

    On January 17 of the following year, Wu Peifu, Cao Kun's first general, called to request instructions to withdraw from southern Hunan. He then formed the "National Salvation Alliance Army" with the "National Defense Army" in the south, planning to expel Xu Shichang after overthrowing Duan Qirui.  Form a unified government for the north and the south.

    This move made Duan Qirui very nervous, and it was also one of the important reasons why he did not dare to support Zhang Guangjian in the end: it was not cost-effective to offend the powerful Feng clique for Zhang Guangjian.  If the Feng faction is pushed into the camp of the National Salvation Alliance, it will be a huge strategic mistake.

    On the surface, Feng Guozhang is just a paper tiger who was defeated by Duan Qirui, but if Duan knew that Cao Kun had come to power and immediately gave him a fatal blow, would he regret having suppressed Feng Guozhang with all his strength?  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report