Yan Xishan was very depressed, there were always people who were not at home during the Chinese New Year. Not only did they fly from the sky and scare the people of Taiyuan, but this guy still wanted to see him, and he really didn't know what to do.

It's just that in his selfishness, he feels that this person still needs to be seen. After all, in China now, the people who can fly from the sky are definitely strange people, and they are definitely people who are worth dealing with and even doing business with. Yan Xishan, who has the plot of Jin Shang in his bones, fully understands this.

At this time, Yan Xishan was working hard to run his army in Shanxi. As his hometown, he still cares about Shanxi's political affairs. Although at this time, his policy in Shanxi could not be carried out because his forces in Shanxi had not yet reached full integration.

At this time, Yan Xishan was appointed by Yuan Kai as the "General of Tongwu" and ordered him to supervise the military affairs of Shanxi. Probably out of "gratitude", he first provided 20,000 yuan in silver to the Preparatory Security Council, and then sent a telegram to persuade him, belittleing the Xinhai Revolution as "an expedient procedure in the era of the old and new brothers", believing that "it is absolutely inappropriate to follow the republican system with the feelings of China" and that "it is not enough to strive for strength unless militarism is strictly enforced, and if you want to enforce militarism, you must first follow the constitutional monarchy."

He also demanded that "the republic be abolished and the imperial system should be implemented, and the imperial system should be used to implement constitutional government", and begged Yuan to "take advantage of the great talent, take advantage of the momentum of great promise, and resolutely take it upon himself to save the country and the people, and use his humility to do nothing", and ascend the throne as emperor. Yuan was overjoyed after reading it, and the reply was "quite insightful".

Yuan Shikai proclaimed himself emperor and named Yan Xishan as a first-class marquis on December 21.

All of this became the reason why he was later classified as a reactionary, but in fact he was reactionary or not, but only the people of Shanxi said it.

In 1924, he repeatedly refused to participate in the warlord melee, which maintained peace and stability in Shanxi for several years. Internally, Yan took the promotion of the good and the elimination of the disadvantages as the main point of governance, and issued the "Six Political Declaration" in October 1917, established the "Six Political Assessment Office", and promoted water conservancy, sericulture, tree planting and smoking ban, Tianzu, hair cutting (men cut braids), and later increased cotton planting, afforestation, and animal husbandry, collectively known as the "Six Politics and Three Things".

After April 1918, Yan also promoted the "politics of employing the people" that actively played the role of the people, and advocated the development of people's morality, people's wisdom and people's wealth. Yan believed that the foundation of administration was in the village, and he also promoted "village-based politics".

He reorganized the village system, with 5 households as neighbors and 25 households as the head of the village, and the village head as the acting police officer, and strengthened administrative management; promulgated the "People's Notice" and "Family Notice" to promote feudal ethics and morality with Confucianism as the central content; It also sorted out the village administration, promulgated the "Village Prohibition Covenant", and set up village offices, litigation committees, supervision committees, people's assemblies and other institutions to carry out probation, education and punishment for bad people such as drug trafficking and drug use, harboring prostitution, gambling, stealing, fighting, idleness, disobedience and unfilial piety; A "security regiment" was set up to conduct military training for young and middle-aged people.

As a result of his administration, a situation of relatively stable society and development of production has temporarily emerged in Shanxi, and a large number of disaster victims from Henan, Shandong, Hebei, and other neighboring provinces have poured into Shanxi in search of a place to live and work in peace and contentment. Shanxi once won the title of "model province", and even the wealth of Shanxi at that time was much better than that of Shanxi in the early days after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Therefore, at least in terms of internal affairs, Yan Xishan is definitely a person who is clear-headed and much smarter than the warlords at that time. Especially, he was not very old at this time.

It was such a person who, when Yuan Shikai was in the midst of the turmoil of proclaiming the emperor, lashed out at the troops of the Protector Army in Yunnan and sent a telegram to the State Council in Beijing, claiming that "Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces have set up a government with a small number of local leaders and privately appointed the president, which is really destroying the overall situation and ignoring the country."

When Yuan Shikai consulted with local officials on the opposition of the Protector Army to the imperial system, Yan denounced Tang Jiyao and others as "disloyal, unjust, unkind, and unwise", and implored the emperor to "dethrone Tang Jiyao, Ren Kecheng, Cai Ye and other official positions and declare their crimes."

What do we see based on all this? Seriously, if we put aside historical prejudices, then we will see a typical Jin merchant who was educated by Japanese militarism.

As for whether he is called an emperor or not, he is a matter! In the final analysis, it is just a question of whether there is enough return on an investment. Of course, this also reflects that when he was young, Yan Xishan's grasp of the political pulse and trends were not so mature.

But because of Li Zhicheng's arrival, he has the possibility of doing something else, so, please guess, will he do it?

"Well, please let him in!"

"Hou Ye, he's carrying a weapon!"

Yan Xishan's officers whispered to him that although the weapons held by the three people who came did not know what kind of guns they were holding, they knew the "box cannon" on their legs

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, 33-year-old Yan Xishan, Yuan Shikai, decided to meet Li Zhicheng, but he had a hard time allowing the other party to bring weapons.

"It is said that those who come from heaven should be seen, but what is their intention when they are armed?"

He knew that the name of the thing flying in the sky was airplane, although it had already frightened some of his officers and soldiers, because they did not know it.

Yan Xishan knew that the plane piloted by Feng Ru belonged to Sun Yat-sen's account. Although Feng Ru died in a plane crash in the end, this incident was in Yan Xishan's mind and was awakened by the plane flying today. In his mind, the person who came was misunderstood was someone sent by Sun Yat-sen to persuade him to join the anti-Yuan Protector Army.

"Well, I want them to hand over their weapons, and then meet in the West Flower Hall."

Yan Xishan hesitated, although he didn't believe that Sun Yat-sen would send someone to kill Yuan Shikai because of his reaction to Yuan Shikai after he became emperor, but then he thought about it, what if his subordinates did it?

"As the saying goes, being careful makes a ship of ten thousand years" Shanxi businessmen are very shrewd in other things except for being careless in their credit to people. Of course, he was also constrained by his knowledge, and he did not understand that planes could strafe and drop bombs. Because his teacher, the Japanese, didn't understand this either.

For Li Zhicheng, who hurriedly spent the Chinese New Year's Eve at home and took off the next morning, these are just pediatrics.

Li Zhicheng glanced at the Jin soldiers with rifles around him, and put on a grim smile on his face that he had learned from Tang Yunyang, and the words that came out of his mouth showed his attitude.

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"Hehe, brothers, or maybe I didn't make it clear, please tell the general again, we are Mike from France. The people at Prince are here today to talk about a business. If General Yan is interested, let's talk, otherwise, I won't bother. As for our weapons, we have never been in the habit of handing them over to others! Don't bother with a few brothers! ”

"Weapons are life", although everyone loves Mike. What Lang said - the weapon is an expression like "wife". Then, no matter if you give your life or your wife to others, this matter is somewhat down, so the special forces will never do it.

So what should Yan Xishan do?