At the beginning, the officers of the Shanxi Sui army were just doing some small business. As Yan Xishan's monitoring of Datong became weaker, they gradually became bolder. In the past, they needed to go through the Shanxi merchants as intermediaries, but later they started to contact the Datong party directly and slowly made a fortune.

Before he knew it, Yan Xishan's two major reliances, the Shanxi merchants and the officers' regiment were tied to the Datong Party's financial chariot without knowing it. Even he himself did not have that awareness, because he himself made a lot of money in this economic and trade.

On the surface, the economy of the Jinsui region is booming and both have unimaginable wealth. However, once the Datong Party withdraws from it, this prosperous economy will collapse instantly and push the Jinsui system into a deep abyss.

However, before that, the Datong Party still needs to use the Jinsui Group line to attract more workers and talents to enter the Northwest Soviet Area.

At the beginning, the Datong Party spent money to buy idle workers from Yan Xishan. Later, when workers in Shanxi heard that the Datong Party had a better working environment and higher income, some people quietly ran to the Northwest Soviet Area.

Although Yan Xishan was very angry about this, he had no choice but to deal with the Dalian Party because it was a spontaneous action by the workers. The Dalian Party not only never interfered with it, but instead kept spending money to buy people from him.

In addition to workers, the demand for intellectuals is also increasing day by day, especially the new intellectuals from the two schools of Peking University and Tsinghua University. After the re-establishment of the Datong Party’s underground intelligence station, one of the major tasks of the Peking Station was to transport patriotic intellectuals to the Northwest Soviet Area.

Beiping is thousands of miles away from the Northwest Soviet Area. When secret transfers are carried out, some omissions and losses will inevitably occur. Now, after the Datong Party extends its tentacles into Shanxi, it has immediately shortened the transfer distance of patriotic intellectuals. As long as the Beiping Station finds ways to send personnel to Shanxi, the remaining distance will be unobstructed.

While the strength of the Northwest Soviet Area is constantly expanding, Yan Xishan is also actively expanding his army to prepare for war. On the one hand, it is to deal with the upcoming Sino-Japanese War, and on the other hand, it is to guard against the Datong Party.

Just when he thought his strength was different now, news of the merger of the Datong Party and the Northeast Army came, which made him feel anxious for a moment.

As one of the neighbors of the Northeast Army, Yan Xishan is always on guard against Zhang Xueliang, and the intelligence department has always been very concerned about the situation of the Northeast Army.

As early as the end of the Wuqi Town Battle last year, the song "On the Songhua River" completely disrupted the morale of the Northeast Army. At that time, Yan Xishan was so happy that he couldn't help but applaud.

You should know that after the ego Datong Party was driven out of western Jiangxi, he had been paying attention to the subsequent encirclement and suppression of the Datong Party by the Central Army. At the same time, he also noticed that the Central Army drove the Datong Party around and ran around. By the way, he also disintegrated and digested the local warlord forces. This was how the Hunan-Guizhou Party was destroyed.

When the Datong Party was driven to the northwest region, Yan Xishan was afraid that the Datong Party would rush to his territory. At that time, the Chairman would come in to suppress the bandits. Should he allow him to come in or not? This is a troublesome thing.

Fortunately, after entering Wuqi Town, the Datong Party instantly burst out with new vitality like a phoenix rebirth. It fought a beautiful annihilation battle, making all forces unable to figure out what was going on.

What's even better is that after the Battle of Wuqi Town, a song "On the Songhua River" was sung, and the attack methods were ruthless. Just one song completely disintegrated the morale of the Northeast Army and gave them a short interval.

After the chaos in the Northeast Army, Yan Xishan no longer worried that they would enter their territory under the name of suppressing bandits, but he still closely monitored the situation of the Northeast Army.

As he expected, the Northeast Army began to split, and the young and strong factions and the veteran factions were full of conflicts, and finally there was an internal strife. Even the commander of the Sixty-Seventh Army Wang Yizhe unfortunately died in this conflict.

Seeing that the Northeast Army was about to fall apart, Yan Xishan was planning to annex part of the Northeast Army troops later. Unexpectedly, the Datong Party intervened at this time, not only reversed the trend of the Northeast's collapse, but also established an alliance with Zhang Xueliang to form a new Chinese anti-Japanese volunteer army, and boldly fought back to the Northeast and expel the invaders.

Faced with the "Declaration on Anti-Japanese War of Compatriots across the country" jointly issued by the Datong Party and the Northeast Army, Yan Xishan is now feeling uncomfortable, because in the statement, in addition to calling on the national forces to stop the civil war and unanimously, the Volunteer Army actually borrowed the route from his Jinsui army, hoping to use the route from Jinsui to fight back to the Northeast.

Although Yan Xishan was very close to the Datong Party during this period, he only stopped in business cooperation. He did not expect that the Datong Party would actually want to borrow from him at this time, without any signs in the previous situation.

Without thinking, Yan Xishan directly felt that the Datong Party was forcing him to palace. The "Declaration on Anti-Japanese War for Compatriots across the country" was also a letter of alliance to form an alliance, calling on everyone to establish an anti-Japanese united front with the Datong Party.

If the Datong Party had put forward such an alliance slogan, everyone would only think it was a joke, because the Datong Party was too weak, so weak that almost no warlord could appreciate it. It would be a dream to lead the anti-Japanese united front with such a weak attitude.

But now, the Datong Party has become different from the past. It has occupied the four northwestern provinces in less than a year. It has hundreds of thousands of troops in its hands, all of which are veterans of a hundred battles. Its combat effectiveness is second to none. It has shown the world its absolute overwhelming strength in the Northwest encirclement and suppression campaign.

The current Datong Party not only has the military strength that ranks first in the country, but also has a great economic foundation. Yan Xishan has a deep understanding of this. Since the Datong Party entered Jinsui, the economy of Jinsui has grown rapidly, and he envied all the surrounding forces.

There are rich people and organizations. Faced with such a behemoth, Yan Xishan's pressure is much greater than that of Chang Kaishen, who is far away in Jiangnan.

Although Yan Xishan's military strength has more than doubled during this period, he still lacks much confidence when facing the newly formed Chinese anti-Japanese volunteers. The more he understands the current strength of the Datong Party, the less he wants to confront the Datong Party head-on.

But some conflicts were not something he could avoid just because he wanted to avoid. Now the Datong Party bluntly said that it was borrowing from him, and in the name of anti-Japanese war, should he borrow or not to borrow this path?

Instinctively, Yan Xishan didn't want to borrow the truth. The fool also knew that this was Liu Bei borrowing Jingzhou and borrowing it but not returning it. The troops of the Datong Party entered Shanxi and did not want to drive them out in the future. He knew very well about the Datong Party's ability to take root.

But if he refused, he didn't know whether the Datong Party would take other actions against him, just like dealing with the Northeast Army.

Although the Datong Party is now holding high the banner of anti-Japanese war, as if it is China's only conscience, from its own perspective, Yan Xishan does not believe that there is nothing ulterior motives about the merger of the Northeast Army into the Datong Party.

You should know that "On the Songhua River", which initially disrupted the morale of the Northeast Army, came from the Datong Party. A song could be sung so quickly. Without the intentional person to operate it secretly, he would not believe it if he was beaten to death.

Since the source of the chaos in the Northeast Army came from the Datong Party, is the culprit who eventually led to the almost disintegration of the Northeast Army? Yan Xishan believes that the possibility is very high.

Looking at the events before and after the Northeast Army was incorporated into the Datong Party, the Datong Party can basically be found. Yan Xishan does not believe that the merger of the two armies will be as harmonious as the surface phenomenon. The truth of the fact should be that the Datong Party recruited the Northeast Army, rather than the two armies establishing an alliance.

Considering this, Yan Xishan was even more afraid to borrow from the Datong Party. The Jinsui Army was a family business he had worked hard for decades to build, so how could he be willing to give up people?

So when facing the "Anti-Japanese Statement to Compatriots across the country" issued by the Datong Party, Yan Xishan chose to remain silent like most people. What surprised him was that the Datong Party, which had always actively persuaded him to join the anti-Japanese united front, did not send anyone to ask why he remained silent. Such an abnormal situation made him worry whether the Datong Party was preparing for any conspiracy.

Just after the release of the "Declaration", underground parties across the country organized anti-Japanese marches, both large and small, and further expanded after the "Double Tenth Tragedy", sweeping almost half of China.

Faced with such high anti-Japanese sentiment from the people, Yan Xishan couldn't help but feel fear. If these students and workers were completely in trouble, the warlords would have a hard time.

But what surprised him was that when anti-Japanese parades were being conducted across the country, only his Shanxi and Suizhou provinces were so calm that there was no storm at all.

Logically speaking, the Datong Party is everywhere in the Jinsui area, so it should be the most terrifying thing, but now it is as calm as if nothing is happening, which makes Yan Xishan even more uneasy and always feels like he has been plotted against.

At this time, he couldn't just go directly to Xi Zhongxun, the head of the Datong Party in Taiyuan. This Datong Party member is now becoming more and more like a businessman. He not only wears gold and silver like a nouveau riche, but also understands jade, antique calligraphy and paintings more and more. Those who don't know think it was a rich man who came out of the place, and no one believed it at all.

In addition to daily work, Xi Zhongxun visited everywhere, like a country celebrity, often contacting Shanxi merchants.

At first, Yan Xishan sent someone to monitor for a while, and later he found out that Xi Zhongxun was just talking about some business dealings and wind and snowy nights, and almost no political issues were involved. He was temporarily relieved, but he still paid attention to Xi Zhongxun's interactions with Shanxi merchants from time to time.

Before the "Declaration" was released, Yan Xishan also liked to contact his fellow villager and explore the words of the Datong Party. However, after he remained silent, he did not take the initiative to meet Xi Zhongxun, mainly because he was afraid that Xi Zhongxun would ask why he remained silent.

Originally, he thought that after choosing silence, Xi Zhongxun would come to him on behalf of the Datong Party, but he didn't expect that the Datong Party would also play silence like him. If you don't come to me, I won't go to you. Let's see who can't calm down in the end. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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