"This? Shouldn't Big Brother consider it carefully?”
Zhang Hanqing's decision to step down so calmly was something that Zhang Xuecheng had not expected.
He had originally thought that Zhang Hanqing would not abdicate no matter what. The relationship between the two brothers might become very strained because of this matter.
But now, Zhang Hanqing had said so clearly that he wanted to give up his position to Zhang Xuecheng, which made Zhang Xuecheng very surprised.
However, he thought about it again.
Zhang Hanqing might have felt the urgency of the situation in the northeast. Outside the northeast, there were two strong neighbors, Mao Xiong and Jiaopeng. Inside, there was Old Jiang's desire to annex the northeast.
In addition to this failure, there were already voices opposing him within the Feng army. If he was still greedy for power, he might not end well in the future.
Now that he had given up the position of the young marshal to him, it could be considered a peaceful change of position within the northeast. He would not give the country and foreign countries a chance to take advantage of him.
After understanding everything that had happened, Zhang Xuecheng heaved a sigh of relief. He smiled at Zhang Hanqing and agreed,"Since big brother has already made up his mind, third brother won't try to persuade him any further and will listen to big brother's arrangements.”
Zhang Xuecheng readily agreed, which made Zhang Hanqing heave a sigh of relief. It was as if a huge rock had been placed on his heart, and his entire body was extremely relaxed.
He smiled at Zhang Xuecheng and said sincerely,""I hope that third brother can lead the northeast to develop and grow in the future. Father's spirit in heaven will definitely be gratified.”
With that, he turned around and led his bodyguards into Fengtian City.
The rest of the generals, led by Zhang Zuoxiang and a few other veterans of the imperial army, walked up to Zhang Xuecheng and said,""Third Young Master, from now on, Fengtian will be in your hands.”
Zhang Xuecheng nodded at him and said seriously,""In the future, I will need all of you to help Xuecheng in all matters of Fengtian. Everyone will work together to develop the three eastern provinces.”
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In the next two days, Zhang Xuecheng stayed in the marshal's manor to learn how to handle the internal and external affairs of the three eastern provinces.
In terms of military affairs, he had already instructed Ding Wei to form the First Army of Fengtian. With the veterans of the First Army as the backbone, he would bring 100,000 Sichuan soldiers into the Fengtian Army system.
There were three armies, nine divisions, and twenty-seven regiments, totaling one hundred and thirty-five thousand men.
Kong Jie would form an armored army and be the commander of the armored army. Fu Chang, the general of the Sichuan army, would be the deputy commander.
In terms of intelligence, Zhang Xuecheng had already changed the Shadow Division to Fengtian Military Intelligence Division, which specialized in collecting intelligence from both inside and outside the country and carrying out assassination and sabotage work.
He had temporarily left the six million yuan that Old Jiang had sent him in Fengtian. He was prepared to wait for three days.
After he successfully took over as the commander of the Fengtian army, he would take out 60% of Fengtian's finances, a total of 50 million yuan, and bring them to the Germanic Empire to buy industrial equipment.
This time, Zhang Xuecheng was prepared to expand the Fengtian Munitions Factory, which was already the number one arsenal in East Asia, by more than ten times.
The number of weapons and equipment produced would have to be increased by at least dozens of times.
As long as the arsenal was fully upgraded and the production of weapons increased, Zhang Xuecheng was ready to use force against the Guandong Army and take back all the rights and interests of the Jiaopenguo in Fengtian.
Because of these rights and interests, the Jiaopeng Kingdom could get about 100 million yuan in profits from the three eastern provinces every year. This much money made Zhang Xuecheng very envious.
In terms of internal affairs, Zhang Xuecheng decided to use Zhang Zuofeng and the other elders of the Feng Army to help deal with the affairs of the three eastern provinces.
Soon, with the help of his uncles, he managed the affairs of the various places in an orderly manner without any trouble.
In terms of foreign affairs, after Mao Xiong's Far East Special Army was destroyed, Big Beardy only appointed Chuikefu as the general of the Far East Army and did not ask about other matters.
There was no reaction to Fengtian monopolizing the railway rights and removing Mao Xiong's privileges.
It was as if the two sides had never fought before. It was strangely quiet.
Zhang Xuecheng knew that what he had predicted had happened. Mao Xiong was busy developing heavy industry and was not in the mood to deal with other things.
This result made the people of Fengtian heave a sigh of relief. They had thought that Mao Xiong would definitely take revenge after suffering such a huge loss.
A new war in the north that was larger in scale and had more soldiers was about to take place.
Who knew that after Mao Xiong suffered such a huge loss, in the end, both sides were fine. Mao Xiong couldn't even be bothered to say anything and directly tacitly agreed that both sides would calm down the flames of war.
When the people of Fengtian heaved a sigh of relief, they admired Zhang Xuecheng even more.
Look, Mao Xiong was such a powerful enemy, but he suffered a defeat in front of Commander Zhang. In the end, he did not dare to take revenge.
What was this? This was power!
Taking back the railway rights would at least increase Fengtian's annual revenue by 40 to 50 million yuan.
Zhang Xuecheng was quite satisfied with this matter. At the very least, under his leadership, the financial income of the northeast was slowly increasing, and the lives of the people were gradually improving.
Not long after, the day when Zhang Hanqing would teleport to the wilderness and the young marshal of the Feng army would peacefully switch places was gradually drawing near.
It was a sunny day and a windy day. It was the most important day of the year, the Spring Festival.
The new year welcomes the new spring, all things are born, get rid of the old atmosphere.
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