Temporary workers in the war

With such a big movement, Feng Quan believes that Lao Jiang will know about it sooner or later, what should I do?Get closer to the organization!First of all, I greeted Lao Jiang and expressed his loyalty by the way, so Chiang Kai-shek readily agreed.Then Feng Quan planned to visit the Lord of the Land in Shanxi. Yan Xishan can be said to be the true god here. He pursued the "philosophy of the mean" and ruled Shanxi for 38 years since the Revolution of [-]. It was not until the liberation of the whole country that Shanxi returned to the people. embrace.

Since the two wives were pregnant, Feng Quan took Liangtai Zhu Wen and several guards to Hebian Village, 22 kilometers northeast of Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province.This is the Yan Mansion that Yan Xishan spent 14 years and 140 million taels of silver to build.Money cleared the way, and the guard cheerfully ran to report with Feng Quan's famous post.

Because Yan Xishan made too many enemies in his early years, he was very afraid of being plotted against, so he was very careful in everything. For example, the chef never changed, and the water he drank was brought from home, and he did not drink water from outside.For the convenience of drinking water, during his decades of military service, an adjutant around him specially carried the water bottle for him, and he was very cautious.His philosophy of life pursues the "middle way", that is, the Confucian "middle way", and the "three essentials", that is, "don't join the party, don't ask about foreign affairs, don't use troops for personal rights, obey the orders of the central government, and defend local law and order".Later, he summed it up as "protecting the environment and the people", and asked "to communicate with neighboring provinces so that they will not be troubled by us, or they will be happy and cooperate with neighbors, so that they can be used by us and resist insults on our behalf." . .During the Anti-Japanese War, it was claimed to be able to dance on the three eggs of the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, and the island country.

During his administration, Shanxi experienced relatively stable society and developed production. A large number of disaster victims from neighboring provinces such as Henan, Shandong, and Hebei flocked to Shanxi to seek a place to live and work in peace.Therefore Shanxi won the title of "Model Province".After the Central Plains War and Chiang Kai-shek reconciled, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Yan Xishan as the director of appeasement in Taiyuan on February 1932.

After Yan Xishan’s resurgence, in order to ease the conflict between him and Chiang and eliminate Chiang’s doubts about him, he put forward slogans such as “saving the country by self-strengthening” and “saving the country through production”, and established an economic construction committee to formulate a ten-year construction plan for the Shanxi Provincial Government. Set up the Shanxi People's Public Enterprises Board of Directors, go all out for economic construction, and use more than one-third of the army for road construction to show that they will no longer be militaristic; on the surface, they fully support Chiang Kai-shek's major decisions, and Chiang Kai-shek treats him very well. Also more trustworthy.

Yan Xishan is not too strong in war, but he is very good at managing the economy, and he has completely inherited the fine traditions of Shanxi merchants.He made full use of the peaceful environment he won and relied on self-reliance. Within a few years, he established light and heavy industrial factories and mines including mining, metallurgy, coal mining, power generation, machinery, chemicals, weapons, cement, leather, wool spinning, papermaking, cigarettes, and matches. The Northwest Industrial Company built the 860-kilometer-long Tongpu Railway, established the Shanxi Provincial Business Commune, reorganized the Shanxi Provincial Bank, and established new banks for railways, salt industry, and reclamation, and named it the "Four Bank Accounts". A physical reserve warehouse has been established, and its assets are said to be hundreds of millions of silver dollars, which is richer than the central government.Its scale is large, investment is small, speed is fast, and benefit is high. It ranks among the best in China, and no one can surpass it.

At this moment, Yan Xishan was chatting with his first wife Xu Zhuqing, concubine Xu Lansen, and "fifth girl" Yan Huiqing's study, when he saw a name card sent by the guard, he looked at it with a smile and handed it to the fifth girl.In fact, Yan Huiqing often participated in major military and political affairs and manipulated the political situation in Shanxi behind the scenes. Yan Xishan also obeyed her.

"Fifth Miss, tell me, what is Feng Zigong looking for from my old man?" Yan Xishan took a sip of old Shanxi vinegar, smashed it a few times, looked at Fifth Miss and said, hoping to give advice.

"Tofu in our Shanxi dialect has dropped the price of meat. If you want to pay New Year's greetings, it will not be too late after February [-]. Feng Quan has become a celebrity in the eyes of Lao Jiang, He Yingqin, Chen Cheng, and Dai Li. This Feng Quan has long been When I came to Shanxi, I heard that there was a fortification in Zhongtiao Mountain, and many people were recruited, so I don’t think there is any malicious intent in coming here this time.” Miss Wu guessed for a while, and said cautiously.

"Okay, then I'll meet him, you go out first." Yan Xishan waved to several women to signal them to hide temporarily, and went out to greet them with the guards.

"Hehe, I didn't know that the honored guest came far away, little brother, don't blame the old man!" Yan Xishan cupped his hands from a distance, and opened his mouth with a smile.

"Mr. Yan is too flattering. My son-in-law is too young. I was in Shanghai a while ago, and I didn't find time to visit the pier. Please don't blame Mr. Yan." Feng Quan responded modestly. Cooperation, this is a big bourgeoisie pinch.

"Please come to the humble house for a gathering, and I will arrange for the chef to prepare some dishes later."

"Then it's better to be respectful than obedient, Zigong has disturbed Chief Yan."

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The friends were taken into another room by the butler. Feng Quan and Yan entered the study room. Feng Quan didn't talk nonsense, and directly explained his intention of coming. , and handed over a large yellow croaker.

Yan Xishan didn't refuse either, and agreed after thinking about it for a while.Lao Jiang didn't say anything, so it's hard for him to refuse.The two chatted for a while, and they almost became acquaintances, laughing from time to time.At noon, after eating Longmen carp, fried pork, three shredded shark's fin, hammered chicken cake, astragalus and cypress mutton, roasted chestnuts with green onions, quail and eggplant and other Shanxi famous dishes, and drinking Shanxi famous wine Fenjiu Xinghuacun, Feng Quan was even more addicted.In fact, the vast majority of Shandong people immigrated from Shanxi during the Ming Dynasty, and the tastes of the two places are similar.

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Feng Quan didn't delay too long, and soon returned to the Zhongtiaoshan base.

The construction of the fortifications is nearing completion, and it can be seen that the workers are also lingering.The conditions here are so good, the work is not too heavy, you can only work for eight hours a day, and you can eat well after every meal. The head of the family also gives each person two sets of clothes, and the sick are not only free to watch, but also paid as wages. . .After three months, everyone's complexion was no longer sallow and thin, but full of red light.

At first, Feng Quan felt very troubled when he saw the shabby clothes of these people, so he sent people to spend a lot of money to buy a large amount of cloth from all over the country. Among the 10 people, there are three schools and nine streams, who used to do everything, and set aside 500 who used to be tailors to make work clothes full-time, and soon everyone had new clothes.

Don't worry about food, the production of green pigs, chickens, and eggs in the base is already very large, and thousands of tons of grain have already been stored.

"Boom, boom, boom, we're assembled..." Some 70-year-old old farmers held gongs and knocked and shouted along the construction site that was being finished.

Hundreds of thousands of people stopped their work and lined up in an orderly manner. They all gathered in the large training ground. Everyone was worried, "It's not the big boss who wants to fire us."