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Chapter 55 One Kind

Yang Rui shouted that he would plant all Westernized elements in sea lotus root. On the cornerstone of the gate of the headquarters of the YMCA, the YMCA was engraved with the "not to serve people, but to serve people." The YMCA was trained. It was originally made of red bricks and built on the third floor but had to be changed to a European-style building on the first floor. A group of people were holding a meeting.

The person speaking in the middle was Xu Baoqian, Director-General of the Beijing Youth Association. He was reminding the precautions for tomorrow's "anti-hunger, anti-war, and anti-persecution". In ****, "anti-persecution" actually refers to the persecution of Christians by the government, Trinity, clans and all sectors of society over the past 20 years, the number of Christians has dropped to the bottom, and the number is only 70,000 to 80,000. Although Catholics have not been deliberately targeted, the number has also dropped to 160,000. Moreover, these believers are either in old parishes that have been more than fifty or hundreds of years old, or only in cities. This means that except for the coastal areas, rural believers across the country have basically disappeared.

In the past, in order not to arouse the disgust of the Chinese people, Christianity did not dare to organize gatherings and activities openly, but now it is our own people in power. I hope that the President of the National Congress, Roosevelt, publicly emphasized the need to ensure the freedom of "believe in God in any way, in any way." Only in this way can they dare to stand up and march and complain.

"...that's all." Xu Baoqian said. After the early Tongmeng member was disappointed with the revolution, he quickly threw himself into the arms of God. Because of his outstanding performance, he won the opportunity to study in the United States and pursue religious education at Columbia University. After saying that, he emphasized: "Remember that the march must be civilized and that the world must know that Christians are not as terrible as some people say."

The meeting lasted half an hour, just to inform the precautions sent by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Yenching University. When Xu Baoqian finished announcing that more than a dozen people were leaving after the meeting ended, Yu Rizhang, who was sitting next to Xu Baoqian, said: "There is another point. Be sure to avoid the Jishui Pond when you march."

Yu Rizhang is an old leader of the YMCA. He is also an executive member of the Pacific International Society. In history, he is also a witness to Soong Mei-ling. His words are much more important than Xu Baoqian. Everyone at the meeting were a little surprised when they heard that Jishuitan was a little surprised. But when they thought of the General Staff of Greater China, the former Qing De Beizi Mansion in the south of Jishuitan, they nodded silently.

After everyone left, Xu Baoqian asked, "Sir, is this... what will happen if something happens?"

"Liu Ji..." Yu Rizhang said, "There have been fewer and fewer church members over the years. If you don't do anything, it won't work. We are not unpatriotic, but we just don't want to love a pro-democratic country. After the new cabinet came to power, the whole country was in a new mood. At this time, we should do something. If we don't do it, we will go back to the old way."

Yu Rizhang said these words lightly, his face full of worries. At this time, he was still thinking about the words of the resting club pastor when he preached in the school church yesterday: "I don't love China, so you are not allowed to interact with other students..., I want you to obey us and love our America like me." [Note 169: "Christianity and Modern and Contemporary Education in China", p116. Many documents record this statement was said by the Mei Pastor of Jiandao School in Wuzhou, Guangxi.] Of course, this statement is much more radical than the former Yan University president Stu Leiden's "I love China, I also love America." But in terms of the current situation, if the progressive power does not suppress the power of autonomy, control, it will definitely be counterattacked by them. Once the war between China and the United States begins, Catholics are fine. Christians, especially the YMCA and the Pacific International Society, will definitely punish corrupt forces, or even massacres.

"May God bless all living beings." Yu Rizhang said this and left the Youth Association headquarters.

The next morning, the "patriotic" students who came from Tianjin again filled the streets and alleys of the capital. No one knew where these students emerged. Only the officials of the Transport Department knew best that in order to transport these students to Beijing overnight, all the railway and highway passenger transport in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang area were stopped. It was still insufficient. The trucks of Kaishen Logistics also pulled the students to go straight to the capital from the highway in the dark, and those traffic police who had already received the order had no choice but to release the trucks.

"Why are there so many people?" Prime Minister Weng Wenhao called Yanjing University, the parade command center when he arrived at Wenhua Hall in the morning. Lu Zhiwei was answering the phone, not Hu Shi. "I ask you why there is such a student?" Weng Wenhao said in an atmosphere. But I don't know if it was a phone malfunction or something else, but the phone was disconnected when he spoke again.

With a 'bang', he threw the phone into the landline. He hung his eyebrows and said, "What's going on?! It's said that there are only a few thousand people. Why are there tens of thousands of people coming out now! What does Hu Shizhi want to do? Rebellion!"

"Prime Minister..." Wu Jingchao was dull for a moment, and even the fool could tell that Weng Wenhao was getting angry.

"Prime Minister, no!" Weng Wenhao cursed himself, and he turned to glared at Wu Jingchao, "What the hell are you going to do?!"

The man is a fraternity and the woman is a sisterhood. Although Weng Wenhao knew that the people below were all formed cliques, he had no choice but to do it. He could go to power except for the "Tedacnam Stone Power Generation Scandal" in the Revival Society, all thanks to the support of these people. It's nothing. Everyone is pursuing progress towards peace, but today's mess is obviously unacceptable.

"Prime Minister..." Wu Jingchao thought for a while before saying: "We are now sailing against the current, and if we don't advance, we will retreat. Although the power of the Revival Society has been curbed in the Academy of Scholars, they are still covering the sky in the military. If they cannot be curbed in the military, the war will start sooner or later. Especially now, the United States and Japan are in conflict in the Pacific. Maybe Japan will declare war tomorrow. Once Japan declares war, they will ask you to declare war according to the treaty..."

"But tomorrow isn't it just to pass the proposal and withdraw from the East Asian Alliance?" Weng Wenhao jumped and shouted, it seemed that he was going crazy.

"Prime Minister, but that's not enough." Wu Jingchao looked at Weng Wenhao who was jumping up and down like a monkey, and seemed to be calmer. "Only by replacing the Chief of Staff, peace can be guaranteed."

"You! You!" Weng Wenhao seemed to feel something, and he said, "What are you going to do?"

"Prime Minister, we just want General Xu Jingxi to resign voluntarily." Wu Jingchao finally expressed the real purpose of the parade.

Before he finished speaking, Weng Wenhao's face was ashamed. He shook a few times before saying, "You..., who will we send to take over?"

"General Duan Zhiquan was hospitalized due to stomach disease last year. Wasn't he discharged from the hospital after the operation?" Wu Jingchao said tactfully. He was very clever and did not mention others, but only mentioned Duan Qirui, who was born in Beiyang and became famous in the first battle of the European War in France. "If he comes out to take charge of the overall situation, then no one in the army should be dissatisfied? Besides, if it doesn't work, you can add a word for the title of Chief of Staff to the title of Chief of Staff. It means that when the threat is lifted in a few years, the position of Chief of Staff will still be returned to the Revival Society."

"Why not..." Weng Wenhao was stunned again when he said this. Everyone had discussed Duan Qirui's post to preside over the General Staff. But at that time Duan Qirui was not discharged, so of course it was difficult to mention the matter. Many people said that he might not be able to survive this level, and the Ministry of Rites secretly prepared the state funeral. Now that he was discharged from the hospital, it is difficult to mention the matter of replacing the General Staff. After all, there has never been this convention. If you really want to rashly say that Xu Jingxi was dismissed, maybe a Chinese version of the "May 15th Incident" was formed by the transformation of the Youth Association of the Revival Youth Association, the Greater China Veterans Federation, the Greater China Samurai Association, the Greater East Asia Association... These fanatical militants criticized the policies of the new cabinet very much. So it would be better to let Xu Jingxi resign on his own initiative.

Weng Wenhao thought that the hawkish General Xu Jingxi took the initiative to resign, but Xu Jingxi was reading Zhou Sixu's letter. Zhou Sixu went to Pyongyang, but the copy of the meeting minutes was escorted back by his subordinates, with the purpose of asking him to know the content of the meeting as soon as possible.

After looking at Lin Yurong, who was recommended by Zhou Sixu, Xu Jingxi stared at him and asked, "Boy, do you want to get out of the army?"

Lin Yurong was standing upright when Xu Jingxi saw that his horse boots were not cleaned, although he had wiped them twice before coming. "Report to the general, the lower officer just wanted to go to the front line to be a company commander and kill the enemy to defend the country!" he said loudly.

Lin Yurong's resume, Zhou Siyue has already explained in the letter. He graduated from the 30th period of the Infantry Department of the Beijing Non-commissioned Officer School; he graduated from the 28th period of the Infantry Department of the Army University. He had excellent grades and was barely able to be the leader of the regiment, but the problem was that he was a major. He was a professional match in the General Secretary, and it was a bit inappropriate to transfer to the front-line troops to lead troops to fight.

"First go to the Armored Teaching Division 3 School to learn how to be a company commander." Xu Jingxi frowned. He was unwilling to make arrangements, but he thought that Zhou Sixu mentioned in the letter that this person was named by Yang Rui and wanted to join the Armored Instructor, but he had to endure the principle and make an exception. "But if you are not qualified, then go back to the General Secretary!" He warned unwillingly.

"Yes, General!" Lin Yurong heard that he was going to the armored instructor, and he was excited. He almost shouted when he answered, which made all the staff outside the office look over.

"Go out." Xu Jingxi looked at him with a little difference and looked as thin as a monkey. He didn't expect the sound to be so loud.

After sending Lin Yurong, Xu Jingxi opened the meeting minutes of the "June 1st Conference" that was later called by world historians to determine the fate of the world. Without reading two pages, he got up and walked to the North American map to compare. At the same time, he used a pencil to draw the five oil-producing areas in the northeast, the oil-producing areas in the Midwest, the oil-producing areas in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil-producing areas in Texas-Oklahoma-Kansas, and the oil-producing areas in California.

Indeed, as long as the Peng-style long-range bomber can destroy the next three oil-producing areas. The remaining two oil-producing areas with a production of 25 million tons cannot allow the United States to support both the army and the navy, not to mention that domestic industrial and livelihood also requires oil. But this is not enough. Xu Jingxi found a distribution map of the US coal resources from the North American mineral resources map. Like oil, coal also has five major mining areas, and the largest three are east of the Mississippi River.

The Germans have coal-to-oil technology, and China also has the last industrial base. Baotou lacks oil. In order to ensure military supply, in addition to strategic reserves, coal-to-oil is necessary. It is conceivable that when it comes to a crisis, it is impossible for Americans to use coal-to-oil technology to produce oil. Although the aviation fuel performance is poor, military vehicles are qualified for industrial use.

Oil is not as important as the conference said. To fight a land war, with the United States' manpower, even if 12 million blacks and Canada are offset, 12 million soldiers should be able to be recruited. Local operations, calculated based on the proportion of the sixth and the last four, the number of combat troops is about 7.2 million. If the navy gives up, the number of combat troops will definitely exceed 6 million. Not to mention that the number of troops exceeds the number of US troops, it is equivalent. In the last European war, the proportion of trans-ocean operations in the last sixth and the size of the army will reach an astonishing 15 million, or even 20 million.

Although China, Japan and North Korea have a population of 700 million, and the Shanghai Air Force quota is less than 5% of the population, how should such a huge army be managed? And military expenditure, 5 billion is definitely not enough. At least 20 billion is required every year.

Xu Jingxi was thinking about the sudden change and was very serious. He didn't know how much the weapons quotation of military factories could be reduced. If he didn't care about three years of depreciation, and large-scale production of millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of yuan, how much the procurement price could be as low as possible. There is also the most troublesome US Air Force (Airport). For a country with an annual output of five million cars, the production of combat aircraft should be counted at 100,000...

While meditating, a page of files suddenly fell from the North American mineral resources map folder. Xu Jingxi glanced at it, was stunned for a moment and then hesitated to put it back. This is the distribution map of non-ferrous metals in North America. Like the "fatal" oil, most of the non-ferrous metals in North America are distributed in the west, that is, the Rocky Mountains, mainly in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado bordering Mexico, and Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. This is a non-ferrous metal mine belt. If the Army lands in California, long-range bombers can naturally bomb these mines.

But this is not fatal. Although copper, zinc and lead are produced in the world with a production of more than one million tons, although the world's production is necessary for war, there are also these three metals in Canada. Although the output is less than half of that of the United States, who can guarantee that new ores will not be discovered during wartime? There is also manganese, which is necessary to make steel. But it is said that using aluminum can also achieve deoxygenation effect, but the quality of steel will drop significantly. However, chromium is relatively fatal, and it is not necessary to say the military use of chromium. If chromium is lacking, there are no qualified guns, qualified knives, and qualified bearings.

Thinking about the importance of chromium, Xu Jingxi, who was putting the file back into the folder, suddenly swept something, but he realized it after the file was put back. So he pulled out the file again, and then stared at Arkansas above Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico, in a daze. After a while, he found a little busy and found a compass. After measuring three times, he confirmed that this place was only 1,700 kilometers away from Cuba, completely within the bombing radius of the Peng bomber.

Is it really such a coincidence? He couldn't believe it and carefully scanned the entire mineral resource map and confirmed that there was only one mining area in the entire North American continent. Finally, he looked at the date again and found that this was the information updated at the end of last year. Finally, he was excited. The pencil poked heavily in central Arkansas. The Mingmen! The American's Mingmen! It's here!!

On the streets of Deshengmen, countless students held banners and slogans in a vast crowd. A still tender voice shouted, "We want to eat!" Immediately, a group of voices responded: "We want to eat!! We want to be peaceful!" The voice in front said again. Then, more people shouted, "We want to be peaceful!! We want to be free!! We want to be free!!"

"Students, this is the General Staff. We want them to hear... our voice, we must be louder!" The leader shouted. However, his words were too long, and he couldn't catch up in one breath and stopped for a while before he finished shouting. But this was enough. The students who had already arranged all shouted, and a group of doves on the roof were immediately frightened and flew away.

Although the Taiwei Mansion is in the Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City, it is obvious that there cannot be randomly built antennas and holes. So although there is a nominal office there, the General Staff is still in the Beizi Mansion of the Qing Dynasty by Jishui Pond. The new cabinet does not match the taste of Xu Jingxi, so he basically does not go to Wuying Hall except for the third day of every month.

At this time, the parade turned left from Desheng Bridge on Deshengmen Street, walked through Tofu Lane and Gaomiao, and the General Staff was the south of the road. The parade immediately squeezed the General Staff and Jishuitan into a small triangle square, and the front row students even clamped the bayonet of the guards inside the cordon. But the leading student who was injected with chicken blood was not afraid. He turned around and looked at the somewhat confused student, holding the radio and shouted, "Students, this is the base camp of militants. They just want to destroy peace. We must petition! We must protest! Students, shout to me: Fight the war!"

"Fight until war!" There were so many brave people. After the students took the lead, a group of students couldn't help but shout.

"Defend peace!" the leader's voice shouted again.

"Defend peace!" This time the voice became neat, and then the students shouted slogans repeatedly like phonographs.

As everyone shouted, a piece of white cloth more than 30 meters was pulled out by several students. The leading student bit his index finger without saying anything, and started writing blood on the white cloth. Then, the most exciting scene appeared: the student next to him pulled out a dagger, and he took it and cut off his left finger without saying a word.

Holding his fingers and holding his bloody left hand, the leading student shouted with a pale face: "Students, we are going to resign from Xu Jingxi, who is destroying peace!"

"Okay!" Perhaps because of the stimulation of blood, the students were even more excited than before. They bit their index fingers and wanted to go up to write blood books on the white cloth. Even more intensely, they had to learn to cut their fingers with the way they took the lead. For a moment, the scene was in chaos.

Xu Jingxi, who was asked to resign, was asking his subordinates to check the distribution map of North American mineral resources just now. He was immersed in the joy of finding the life gate of the Americans and had no idea that a sharp farce was being staged at the door. He only realized when a group of chaotic students restored some order and joined forces with more later students to shout "Xu Jingxi's resignation" together.

"What's going on?" Xu Jingxi held the purple clay teapot in one hand and asked his adjutant.

"General, there are students outside petitioning." The adjutant reported in a very ruthless manner. He had been in for a day, but when he saw Xu Jingxi busy, he did not dare to disturb him, and it was difficult to report the shouting outside.

"Student petition? Come here to petition? Haha." Xu Jingxi was not sure about this, but he was a little funny. If he had any grievances, he should go to the Zhonghua Gate or the Tingwei Mansion, or the Prime Minister's Office of the Jiyi Academy. What are you doing here? You have found the wrong door. He said here, but the shouting outside became more and more intense. Finally, through the half-open window, he finally heard what the group of students were shouting.

"Random!" Xu Jingxi was furious. He called him the title of the founding father, but he said that his official position was not something a group of students could blame. If the students didn't like it, they would have to step down. Wouldn't the world be lawless? "Call the patrol officers and drive them all away!" Xu Jingxi said.

"General, I've beaten..." The adjutant said with some disgrace, "The familiar all sects in the capital patrol hall went to Shanghai for a meeting. The rest of those who were delayed and pushed and stopped, could not make any decisions."

"The Imperial Guard..." After saying a little, Xu Jingxi couldn't continue. At this time, the Imperial Guard commander was not Wu Peifu before, but Wen Yingxing, who graduated from West Point Military Academy. "Send the order and don't let students rush in." Xu Jingxi remembered the incident of attacking the Prime Minister's Office more than ten years ago, and immediately gave orders, and then said: "Close the window when you go out."

China is a country ruled by law. Although the shouts are noisy, calling the police is useless. Xu Jingxi had to close the window and endure it, but the duty officer at the General Staff Department could not remain indifferent. After receiving the internal order, a soldier from a company suddenly moved the horse and refused to enter. The students shouting slogans were shocked when they saw more than 100 soldiers suddenly rushed out of the General Staff Department, but they saw that these big-headed soldiers were just moving horses and setting obstacles, and their courage became stronger, and their shouts became even stronger for a while.

"We want to see Xu Jingxi!" After shouting for half an hour, the student who took the lead pointed to see that everyone was a little tired and had to create some topics. He shouted at the duty officer inside through the barbed wire of the Jumahe River.

The duty officer was a short, glasses-wearing Major. If you walked into the famous brand on his military uniform, you would definitely see the words "Liao Yaoxiang". However, the two sides were separated by the barbed wire of horse-rejecting wire, and the leading students could not see clearly. However, Qiu Ba has always been the object of contempt for those who advocate freedom, and even if he could see clearly, he would not shout.

Liao Gungtong is from Hunan. As in history, he did not want to go to college after graduating from high school, so he applied for the military academy. He ranked 13th out of 200,000 candidates, but during the re-examination, he was transferred from the infantry department to the newly established armored corps. The Hunan stubborn mule, who was unknown, went to the principal's office to ask for questions with the admission notice. The principal Yang Guobi had to show him a handwritten order: 'Liao Yaoxiang was specially evaluated by the Ministry of Personnel and was ready to study in the armored corps. It was finally completed. May 24th.'

Liao Rountong's head was so furious when he saw the final signature. If it were others, he would have thought it was a prank, but Yang Guobi obviously smiled and was not the first student to be assigned like this. After that, Liao Yaoxiang worked hard and only ranked behind Qiu Qingquan when he graduated. This time he returned to Beijing to become the duty officer of the General Staff, which was also a foundation for the future. After all, he had to be familiar with the people of the General Staff before he could get promoted.
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