The war is always a continuation of the government, the powers shot twice, especially the second time, sent out the 108 heavy artillery that was strictly controlled, but before it played a role, it was annihilated on the gun position, and now it is basically determined, Baotou has an unknown number of 108 and 155 heavy artillery, before they can not be cashed in, facing Zhangjiakou like a fortress, whether it is Duan Qirui or Yuan Shikai, it is impossible to attack casually, and even Duan Qirui quickly retreated and camped, and the direction of Zhangjiakou was opposed.

The envoys of the great powers led by Zhu Erdian mediated back and forth, but in the absence of Japan and Russia, Britain did not have so much spare strength and sent troops from thousands of miles away.

The Beiyang Army has a considerable reputation among the great powers, although it may not be comparable to the most elite troops of the great powers, but it is already a modern army, and there is no zài After 1840, Britain and France sent a little warships and soldiers, and they could sweep the entire Manchu Qing situation, Baotou's natural geographical location and the status quo of not being near the sea, so that the most powerful navy of the British Empire could not play a role at all, and the army, with the number of 10 divisions shown in Baotou, hundreds of thousands of troops were firmly defended. There is also the possibility of Germany behind it, how many troops Britain will send, 200,000, 300,000, or even 500,000.

500,000 people, which is also a huge number for the tyrannical Britain, think about the thousands of miles of sea borders, the consumption of 500,000 troops, even with the strength of the British, the world hegemon who can win two wars at the same time, the long coastline and the huge capacity and supply pressure, are enough to overwhelm them, Britain is not a madman like Russia. It will be transferred from more than half the world, because there is no land access, once Britain decides to send troops to China, and if it is a huge number, this will not be the next Boer War. Rather, it is a crazy move, the development of modern warfare, so that the generation gap between equipment is not as obvious as in the past, and the possibility of Britain really sending troops has been reduced to almost zero.

That's it. The politics are stagnant, the war is stagnant, and even Yang Yuanzhao and Yuan Shikai, who are the leaders of the war, do not want to continue fighting, under such a mentality and political environment. There is a strange situation in this battle situation, the two sides are facing each other, stationed on both sides less than 10 kilometers, but except for these two directions, there is no fighting anywhere else, and even occasionally, the soldiers of the two armies meet outside the war zone, and they will greet each other very friendly.

This side of Zhangjiakou. After the new army resisted the Beiyang Army, especially the four towns led by Duan Qirui, they were firmly fixed on the front line of Zhangjiakou. One division resisted 4 towns, doing so with less than half the strength, and there were two remaining divisions of the First Army in reserve, and in this case, anyone who was extremely optimistic about Baotou began to understand. Baotou is not a potential stock, but a real one that has risen.

If we talk about the fifth and sixth towns. It was not possible to explain the true strength of the Beiyang Army, Duan Qirui personally went out, and the third town also followed. The Beiyang Army of the whole four towns basically represents the vast majority of the strength of the Beiyang Army, and under such a confrontation, only 1 of the 10 divisions was used to resist most of the strength of the Beiyang Army.

Baotou was already famous for its commerce and industry, and now that the military has made up for its shortcomings, some smart people, or wise men who knew the fate of the Qing court, began to bet on Baotou, and they became more and more decisive.

From Zhangjiakou to Baotou, the whole of Shanxi, began a vigorous transformation, the construction of its own railways and highways, has formed a trunk line, but are in the north of Taiyuan, connecting the direction of Baotou, now, south of Taiyuan has also begun a large-scale layout.

All kinds of highways began to be planned, the whole Shanxi and Mongolia all kinds of resources, as well as household registration also began to be carried out, Baotou concentrated industrial and mining industry, a certain amount of dù above, outward expansion, some suitable for each city of light industry, also a certain amount of dù, to the cities to transfer, feudal and backward Shanxi, began to gradually move towards modernization, and even has a hint of industrial city feeling.

Shanxi, itself has been affected by the whole of Baotou, Baotou is now among the millions of people, of which there are 1 million, all of them are Shanxi people, these people as the foundation, plus the entire Jin merchants, have been attracted to Baotou, a certain amount of resistance, weakened a lot of opposition, Baotou sent administrative personnel, responsible for taking over the power of the whole of Shanxi, did not encounter much resistance, originally prepared to suppress the rebellion of the vested interest class of the new army, there is no chance to do it, almost a smooth completion of the acceptance.

Baotou first based on Mongolia and Shanxi, the establishment of three provincial-level administrative divisions, Mongolia and Shanxi are relatively complete, and the 200 kilometers around Baotou are listed separately, these are centered on Baotou, as well as the surrounding 200 kilometers of industrial cities, become a separate Baotou industrial zone, in the whole government, in the highest position.

From the province to the locality, under Yang Yuanzhao's Jianyi, the concept of the previous government was abandoned, and it was replaced by the city, a municipality directly under the jurisdiction of the province, based on the key cities and the original prefecture, as the next level of administrative institutions directly under the leadership of the province, and under the city, counties were established.

Although most of the administrative personnel prepared by Baotou only have a certain foundation for Baotou's work, they accepted the power of the provinces and cities in the form of working groups and task forces, and grasped the people's hearts with the help of a large amount of gold yuan and construction, and on the other hand, copied the government agencies in Baotou to make their entire system work.

In a short period of 2 months, after the unification of the government and administrative divisions, with the help of strong troops, the construction of provinces and cities was basically stabilized, and then gradually spread downward, aiming at the grassroots, the government also began the next step of the plan, redeeming the land, forming a large reclamation company, carrying out the initial transformation of the peasants, identifying and classifying the peasants, and distributing them to various factories, as an effective supplement to the industrial population, once this is completed, the transformation of tens of millions of people in the two provinces will be completed. The entire Northwest will be transformed.

The output value of Baotou is already very amazing, millions of people, creating billions of wealth, most of this wealth, and in the hands of Yang Yuanzhao, take out a part, unify the entire planting industry, and then carry out the minimum living security, as well as medical insurance, as well as free admission, the vigorous transformation began, Baotou, once again for the whole of China, recruiting teachers, no matter what it is, as long as literacy can be.

The education sector has always been more radical, before, Baotou for the whole country to recruit, except for a small number of despondent, others, basically, will not come to Baotou, Baotou is a small city, a city that no one has ever heard of, these intellectuals, or choose to support the revolution, overthrow the rule of the Qing government, or choose to return to their hometown, educate the people, and even some speculative, will choose to go to Beijing, even if the Qing court is a broken ship, but it is also the nominal lord of China, they also want to enter the center, It is called a minister similar to Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang.

However, after this war, especially Baotou was clearly electrified and declared independence, Baotou, a small city that no one had ever heard of, put a big satellite, because the Qing court wanted to take back the railway, unequal taxes, and declared independence, the Qing court sent the Beiyang Army to suppress it, but it was not defeated, and now there are four towns of the Beiyang Army, and the soldiers are pressed near Zhangjiakou, not only did not let Baotou succumb, but Baotou began to expand, occupying the entire Shanxi, as well as a large part of Mongolia, This already represents that Baotou has a strong power, and many of Baotou's systems are an opportunity for those who devote themselves to education.

In the following period of time, many educators from all over the country also began to come to Shanxi, to Baotou, to investigate the situation of the entire Baotou, this is just normal, for the nationwide recruitment of teachers, but in a certain way, on behalf of the signal of the rise of Baotou, speculators really understand the power of Baotou, began to rush to Baotou in large numbers, at the beginning, Liu Shu and Yang Yue and others were still very worried, for fear that these careerists would destroy the stability of Baotou.

For this, Yang Yuanzhao put forward a different opinion, Baotou now needs a lot of manpower, and all walks of life need it. Baotou is not the previous grass team, after the completion of the construction of the government last year, has cultivated a large number of qualified government officials, these even small is a foundation, perfect system and strict control of the army, so that many people who want to suddenly rise to a high position, there is no way to directly ascend to the position, as for the future, they are rooted in Baotou, after providing contributions to Baotou, as long as they have the ability and merit, no matter what his purpose is, promotion is inevitable, Baotou formed a system, Enough to curb their different starting points and mindsets.

A large number of people came, almost endlessly, not under the cover, a lot of things in Baotou, really exposed in front of everyone, huge, based on the compulsory education of all people, a breakfast a day, a huge investment in a Chinese meal, as well as a glass of milk a day, the concept of serving the country in a healthy body, this qiē, seems to represent different educational concepts, some education experts who are really rooted in education and famous in history, also because of the different education and large-scale investment shown in Baotou, began to pay attention to Baotou, and even choose to go to Baotou to have a look, these are the real educators, that is, after their arrival, the university construction that has been pending has finally entered the stage that can be manipulated and invested, Baotou began to really lay a solid foundation, not confined to a city or hundreds of kilometers around, but based on the huge land of two provinces, Mongolia and Shanxi provinces, to build a real industrial city, a developed transportation and industrial area, a real area after industrialization, In order to be able to form a deep foundation, I am convinced of this Baotou and Northwest. (To be continued) R655