Feng Quan believed that Chiang Kai-shek would know about such a big news sooner or later. What should he do? Move closer to the organization! He first said hello to Chiang Kai-shek, expressed his loyalty by the way, and asked Chiang Kai-shek to agree happily. Then Feng Quan planned to

Go and worship

The land lord who visited 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 starting from the Revolution of 1911. It was not until the liberation of the country that Shanxi returned to the embrace of the people.

Since both wives were pregnant, Feng Quan took Liangtai Zhu Wen and a few guards to Hebian Village, 22 kilometers northeast of Dingxiang County, Shanxi Province. This is where Yan Xishan spent 14 years and 1.4 million taels of silver to build the village.

After the success of the Yan Mansion, money cleared the way, and the guard happily ran off to report with Feng Quan's name card.

Because Yan Xishan made too many enemies in his early years, he was afraid of being plotted against, so he was very careful about everything. For example, the chef never changed people, and the water he drank was brought from home, and he did not drink water from outside casually. In order to make drinking water convenient, he counted

During his ten-year military career, he had an adjutant beside him who carried a water bottle for him and was very cautious. His philosophy of life adheres to the "middle way", which is the Confucian "gold mean" and the "three no's".

"Two important principles", that is, "not to join the party, not to care about foreign affairs, not to use troops for personal rights, but to obey the orders of the central government and to protect local security." Later he summarized it as "protecting the environment and the people" and required "liaison with neighboring provinces to ensure

"If you can avoid being troubled by me, you may be willing to cooperate with neighboring countries, and then use it for me, and defend me against insults"...During the Anti-Japanese War, they were known to be able to dance on the three eggs of the Kuomintang, the Japanese, and the island countries.

During his administration, Shanxi experienced a relatively stable society and developed production. A large number of disaster victims from Henan, Shandong, Hebei and other neighboring provinces poured into Shanxi, seeking a place to live and work in peace and contentment. Therefore, Shanxi won the title of "Model Province".

After the Central Plains War and reconciliation with Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Yan Xishan as director of Taiyuan appeasement in February 1932.

After Yan Xishan made a comeback, in order to ease the conflict between him and Chiang Kai-shek and eliminate Chiang Kai-shek's doubts about him, he put forward slogans such as "self-strengthening to save the country" and "production to save the country", and established an Economic Construction Committee to formulate a ten-year construction plan for Shanxi Provincial Government.

Form Shanxi

The People's Public Utilities Board went all out to carry out economic construction and used more than one-third of the army to build roads to show that it would no longer resort to militarism. On the surface, it fully supported Chiang Kai-shek's major decisions, and Chiang Kai-shek also treated him relatively well.

trust.

Yan Xishan was not very strong in fighting, but he was good at managing the economy, and he completely inherited the fine traditions of Shanxi merchants. He made full use of the peaceful environment he had won and relied on self-reliance to create a business including mining, metallurgy, and mining within a few years.

Northwest Industrial Company, which houses coal, power generation, machinery, chemicals, weapons, cement, leather, woolen textiles, papermaking, cigarettes, matches and other light and heavy industrial plants, built

The Tongpu Railway, which is more than 860 kilometers long, established the Shanxi Provincial Business Commune, reorganized the Shanxi Provincial Bank, established new railway, salt industry, reclamation industry and other bank accounts, and established a physical reserve warehouse and assets for the "Four Bank Accounts"

It is said that it has hundreds of millions of silver dollars, which is richer than the central government. Its scale is large, its investment is small, its speed is fast, and its efficiency is high. It is among the best in the country and no one can surpass it.

At this moment, Yan Xishan was chatting with his wife Xu Zhuqing, his side wife Xu Lansen, and the "fifth girl" Yan Huiqing in the study. When he saw a guard bringing a name card, he looked at it with a smile and handed it to the fifth girl. In fact, Yan Huiqing often participated in military and political affairs.

, who controls the political situation in Shanxi behind the scenes, and Yan Xishan also obeys her words.

"Fifth girl, tell me, what does Feng Zigong want to do with my old man?" Yan Xishan took a sip of Shanxi mature vinegar, smashed it a few times, looked at the fifth girl and said, hoping to give some advice.

"As the price of tofu in Shanxi dialect has dropped and the price of meat has dropped, it is not too late to celebrate the New Year after February 2nd. Feng Quan has become a popular figure in the eyes of Chiang Kai-shek, He Yingqin, Chen Cheng, and Dai Li. Feng Quan has been a popular person for a long time.

When I came to Shanxi, I heard that some fortifications were built in Zhongtiao Mountain and a lot of people were recruited. I guess there is no harm in coming this time." The fifth girl guessed for a while and said cautiously.

"Okay, then I'll see him, and you guys go out first." Yan Xishan waved to a few women to tell them to stay away for now, and went out with the guards to greet him in person.

"Haha, I didn't know that this distinguished guest is coming from afar, little brother, don't blame me, old man!" Yan Xishan cupped his hands from a distance and spoke first with a smile.

"Mr. Yan is too flattering. Young Master Zigong has nothing to do. I was in Shanghai some time ago and never found time to come to visit the dock. Please don't blame me, Chief Yan." Feng Quan responded humbly. He very much hoped to be with Yan.

Cooperation, this is the big bourgeoisie.

"Please come to the humble house to get together. I will arrange for the chef to prepare some dishes later."

"Then it's better to obey orders than to be respectful. Master Yan is disturbing Chief Yan."

...

The friends were taken into another room by the housekeeper. Feng Quan and Yan entered the study. Feng Quan didn't waste any time and directly explained his purpose of coming. He wanted to set up a security team, one to protect the country and the people, and the other to do business together.

, and handed over a large yellow croaker.

Yan Xishan didn't refuse. He thought about it for a while and then agreed. Chiang Kai-shek didn't say anything, so he couldn't refuse. The two chatted for a while, almost becoming friends since the age of 20, and laughing often. At noon

I ate Longmen carp, oily meat, three-strand shark fin, and hammer

Feng Quan was even more addicted to Shanxi famous dishes such as chicken cakes, astragalus and cypress mutton, roasted chestnuts and green onions, quail and eggplant and other Shanxi famous wines, Fenjiu Xinghuacun. In fact, most Shandong people immigrated from Shanxi during the Ming Dynasty.

, the tastes in the two places are quite similar.

...

Feng Quan didn't wait too long and soon returned to the Zhongtiao Mountain base.

The construction of the fortifications is coming to an end, and it can be seen that the workers are reluctant to leave. The conditions here are so good, the work is not too heavy, they only work eight hours a day, they are well fed, and the boss even gave each person two sets of changes of clothes.

, the sick were not only treated free of charge, but also paid as usual... After three months, everyone's complexion could not be seen to have become sallow and thin, and was all red.

At first, Feng Quan was troubled by the ragged clothes of these people. He sent people to spend a lot of money to buy a large amount of cloth from various places. Of course, he did not buy foreign cloth from the little devils. They were all national brands. Among the 100,000 people, there were all kinds of religions and nine schools. It turned out that they were doing everything.

Allocate 500 to those who had worked as 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 produced in the base is already very large, and thousands of tons of grain have been stored for a long time.

"Boom, boom, boom, let's gather..." Some elderly farmers around 70 years old held gongs and shouted while banging along the construction site where the finishing work was being completed.
Chapter completed!