On Guangzhou City, Huifu East Road, Wu Anping hurriedly walked towards Shamian Street where Lihe Foreign Store in the Concession District was located. Looking at the parade rushing towards the slogans coming, he was very excited and wanted to put down what he had at his hands and immediately join the surging wave of supporting the revolution.

"Down with Chen Jiongming! Defeat the warlords!"

"Long live the revolutionary army!"

"Long live Huangpu!"

At 10 o'clock in the morning on March 29, 1925, countless people raised their slogans and shouted slogans, and flocked from all over the city of Guangzhou to Jixiang Road, Huifu East Road, and Taiping Road. A large number of parades spontaneously formed. The revolutionary slogans that were one after another were deafening and resounding over the city of Guangzhou. Countless people who have been through war, displaced and bullied had no time to consider any gains and losses. They just laughed, cried, and vented their long-standing suppressed anger and desire.

Since the Guangzhou Revolutionary Government's Eastern Expedition on February 1, in less than two months, the Eastern Expedition Alliance, with the Huangpu Student Army as the backbone, defeated more than 30,000 Chen Jiongming's main force. The coalition troops occupied Chaozhou, Meixian and other places. Chen Jiongming's remaining troops were forced to retreat to Jiangxi and southern Fujian.

The Eastern Expedition consisted of the Guangdong Army, the Yunnan Army and the Guangxi Army, and the troops were divided into three groups - Xu Chongzhi of the Guangdong Army was the right-wing army, Yang Xikuo of the Yunnan Army was the left-wing army, and Liu Zhenhuan of the Guangxi Army was the Huizhou siege army, and he led his troops to fight against Chen Jiongming. The student army led by Chiang Kai-shek, the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, including two teaching regiments and the first battalion composed of the second-class students of the military academy and the third-class enlisted students, participated in the battle as the vanguard of the Guangdong Army.

The Eastern Expedition Army, especially the Whampoa student army, all people are sincere in their favor. Because since the Republic, although China has no emperor, the people are still in dire straits. In addition, the warlords are in constant war, and the pain is actually deeper than before. The hope of saving is beyond the ordinary.

On February 5, the Eastern Expedition Army occupied Dongguan, followed by Liangtoutang, Changpingxu and others, and on February 11, the areas along the Guangjiu Road were all clinged. Then, on February 14, the Eastern Expedition Army was approaching Danshui, and then clinged. On the 21st, the 27th, clinged the mountain and recovered Haifeng. On March 7th, Chaoshan was captured, Xingning on the 20th, and attacked Meixian on the 23rd, and then clinged.

This series of news of victory came, not only Guangzhou, but also major cities across the country became a sea of ​​joy. Countless people held high flags and shouted slogans and held a series of parades and demonstrations spontaneously. The grand occasion was no less than when the Qing emperor abdicated and the Republic of China. People hated war, but they longed for the Guangzhou Revolutionary Government to boost their force and sweep away all kinds of warlords and end the pain of chaos. The Whampoa Military Academy is the place where the Chinese people believe that the national force was created, and they were highly expected, and were deeply yearned for by countless students and progressive young people.

Wu Anping is one of these students or progressive young people.

Wu Anping is from Xifeng Town, Qingyang County, Gansu. Judging from his name, his family always seems to have some literary talent, but in fact, he is not. After three generations, he was all illiterate tenants. His ancestral home was originally in Mizhi, Shaanxi. In the year of disaster, his grandfather fled to Xifeng Town, Qingyang to settle down, and he was still a tenant. When his father supported the door, his family improved, and he had dozens of acres of land in a few years, becoming a standard rich peasant.

Most people cannot understand the Wu family's success. The villagers' sayings about the furrow and gold-touching are random speculations. Wu Anping vaguely feels that it has a lot to do with Li Bo, who has been living in the Wu family. Li Bo's name is not obvious, and Wu's father only calls him "San Brother". Most villagers call him "San Uncle" or "San Master" when there is something wrong. Wu Anping is also "San Uncle" and "San Uncle" is also "San Uncle". The "San Uncle" is called randomly. What is the name of this Li Bo? When asked about his father, he could not explain clearly, so he just came down.

The Wu family had no shortage of food and clothing. With such an economic foundation, Wu's father's understanding, he wanted to cultivate a cultural person to get rid of the fate of mud legs. So when Wu Anping was in his teens, he was sent to a new school. Although it was expensive, he had a harvest of dozens of acres of land as the foundation, so he gritted his teeth and persevered.

However, his father never saw Wu Anping's glory of glory to his ancestors. When Wu Anping was seventeen years old, he left the world. His grief and disease invaded him, his mother could not pass the hurdle. His father passed away in less than a month after his death. After handling his parents' funeral, Wu Anping also took a leave of school for a year. Later, under the persuasion of Li Bo, he picked up his studies and was admitted to the Gansu Public Legislative and Political College in Lanzhou the year before yesterday.

Now Wu Anping is 23 years old and should have studied in the third grade of civil law in Lanzhou. However, after the Spring Festival this year, he went to Guangzhou. He was enrolled in the third phase of the Whampoa Military Academy in July. Although he is not mature but still progressive, China is now a China where the great powers are fish and meat, a China where warlords fight and mourn all over the world. It needs to save the nation, cast and rise up. Such a China does not need to maintain the law of power, but also needs to maintain the power and force of the law.

Therefore, Wu Anping yearned for Huangpu, advocated revolutionary violence, and hoped that he could exude his youth and enthusiasm for the country and the nation like countless martyrs who died under the butcher's knife, and could sing for his youth and enthusiasm for the country and the nation, and survive after death.

Before coming to Guangzhou, he told Li Bo about his thoughts. After all, Li Bo is a member of the family, and after his father passed away, he supported the current Wu family in Xifeng Town, Qingyang. Li Bo did not agree or object, but just thought for a while and said, "It's better to go and see it." He tried every means to prepare enough money for Wu Anping and let him come to Guangzhou.

At the beginning of the Eastern Expedition, all teachers and students of Huangpu were involved in it, and normal teaching was in chaos. The third phase of enrollment was postponed to July. It was a bit insufficient for the dozens of oceans that Wu Anping brought. However, fortunately, at that time, the German Lihe Foreign Company was recruiting people in Guangzhou and preparing to expand their business in China. Luo Jiaming, the clerk of Wu Anping, was a fellow villager of Qingyang of Wu Anping. After the unblocking, the manager of the foreign company saw that he was short of staff and Wu Anping had good German and English skills, so he agreed to let him be a temporary clerk. Although his monthly salary was almost half less than that of the official one, the monthly 43 oceans were enough to spend.

Wu Anping is now following Luo Jiaming, but he rented another residence near Huangpu. While preparing for the third enrollment exam, he took into account the responsibilities of foreign companies. After two months, he became very knowledgeable. This morning, manager William arranged for the two to go to the dock to check the goods sent to Guangzhou by Germany. It started at around 6 o'clock and was busy for more than two hours before the two checked and arranged to enter the warehouse. On the way back to the foreign company, he was meeting the parade of Guangzhou citizens celebrating the victory of the Guangzhou Revolutionary Government's Eastern Expedition.

Wu Anping was both excited and envious, and couldn't help but shout to Luo Jiaming in front of him: "Brother Jiaming, this is the real revolution!" Luo Jiaming was not as excited as him, and said with a blank expression: "Maybe." He is a mature young man and has a lot of thoughts. After working in a foreign company for a few years, his knowledge was far beyond ordinary people. However, when Wu Anping met such a grand parade scene, he still looked indifferent and was immediately a little unhappy.

Luo Jiaming noticed that Wu Anping was in a wrong mood, so he slowed down and walked in parallel with it, whispering: "If the revolution really hopes to succeed, how could I be unhappy? I must be more excited than you, but you didn't see that behind the victory of this Eastern Expedition, there are actually many hidden worries. If a bad thing is that the revolutionary government in Guangzhou will have to overturn. How can people be happy?"

Wu Anping was startled: "Brother Jiaming, don't make random guesses and talk nonsense. The situation is obviously very good, why does it have an unpredictable future when you are here?"

Luo Jiaming was a little depressed: "Actually, anyone with a discerning eye can see that. Although the Eastern Expedition was progressing smoothly, and they attacked Chaozhou and Meixian all the way, they were no longer able to advance. After Chen Jiongming's main force was defeated, the remaining troops retreated into Jiangxi and southern Fujian. They should have pursued the enemy and expanded their results, but the various departments were still on the way. Although the Huangpu student army was invincible, they had become a lonely army and had to end the Eastern Expedition in a hurry. How could such a tiger-headed and miserable way not disappoint people?"

Wu Anping had nothing to say. At the beginning of the Eastern Expedition, Yang Xikuo's troops of the Yunnan Army and Liu Zhenhuan's troops of the Gui Army were slow to go, and they made up the idea of ​​preserving their strength. The Guangdong Army led by Xu Chongzhi was better. If these victories were the victory of the coalition, it would be better to say that they were from the Huangpu Student Army. Although they were small in number and only two regiments, they were invincible as vanguards. However, because of this, the student army suffered heavy losses. After Meixian conquered, they had to retreat to Guangzhou for rest.

These internal information are not reported, and ordinary people cannot know it. However, Wu Anping had many contacts with Huangpu because of preparation for the exam, but he knew that many students were strongly dissatisfied with Yang Xikuo and Liu Zhenhuan in private. However, Huangpu suppressed this dissatisfaction and criticism in order to ensure unity. Ordinary people only saw the harmonious situation of cooperation between the various departments of the coalition forces, but did not know that there were other waves behind them.

Luo Jiaming lowered his voice and said, "These are still second. Judging from the current situation, there will be a big chaos in Guangzhou within three or two months. It is really a bit dangerous whether the revolutionary government can pass this."

Wu Anping said in surprise: "It's not true?" He was not confused about the chaos. The various parts of the coalition forces were becoming more and more disagreements. For some people, this is on the surface. If they were not done well, they would have to fight each other. But if the war broke out in just a few months, no one dared to draw such a conclusion.

Luo Jiaming explained: "A few days ago, I asked William to drink tea. During the chat, William mentioned that on the 17th, Yang Xikuo and Liu Zhenhuan placed an arms order, artillery, guns and other equipment materials to various foreign companies, which combined, and the scale was enough to arm a reorganized division. The two units of the Yunnan-Gui army in the Eastern Expedition have been hooking up with Chen Jiongming, and they have never fought any decent battles. There is no loss at all. Now that they are purchasing so many arms, who do you think they are targeting? The Yunnan-Guizhou confrontation is absolutely impossible. If they fight Xu Chongzhi, it is reasonable, but the possibility is not great. There is only one goal left..."

Excluding other possibilities, the only thing left is the Guangzhou Revolutionary Government. To be clear, it is the Huangpu Student Army. Wu Anping knew a little bit about the internal information of the coalition forces, and knew that this conclusion was 100% correct. He felt a slump in his heart, and he didn't care about the growing wave of parades. He hurriedly asked: "Why are you sure that the chaos will be in three or two months?"

Luo Jiaming sneered: "That batch of arms will arrive in less than two months. If someone leads the troops, be cautious and adapt to the equipment may take a few more months. But Yang Xikuo and Liu Zhenhuan, when did you hear that their troops have really been trained, and guns will definitely provoke war once they get them. Then so many people rushed over, and the elite Huangpu Student Army is limited after all, and it is possible that the two of them will succeed."

Wu Anping was already sweating in a cold sweat and couldn't help saying, "These news is very important, you have to inform Huangpu quickly, and maybe you can help a lot." Luo Jiaming glanced at him and nodded and said, "It should be like this, otherwise why would I say to you?" Wu Anping then realized that although his fellow villager didn't seem to care about the revolutionary situation, his enthusiasm was actually not inferior to him.

The two of them talked about it and quickly turned to Shamian Street.

Shamian is a place where foreign companies are gathered. There are dozens of large and small companies, among which the most famous are Thirteen, also known as Thirteen, which is different from the Thirteen Chinese companies during the Opium War. Among them, the British foreign companies have the largest number, accounting for eight companies, such as Jardinet, Swire, Taiwa, Losley, etc.; there are two companies in Germany. In addition to Lihe, Lulin foreign companies are also here; the remaining three companies are the Shenchang foreign companies in the United States, Mitsui foreign companies in Japan, and one of the Dunna foreign companies, and I don’t know what nationality the founder is.

Guangzhou Lihe Foreign Store is located at No. 62 Shamian Street, facing east. The main building is a three-story brick and wood structure building with a distinct Germanic style. It has a simple and elegant shape, giving people a solemn and sturdy feel. Although the floor is relatively low, it is ventilated and has good lighting, and the space inside the building is used to the maximum extent.

There were a lot of merchants coming in and out at this time, and the two of them went in to check the accounts and made clear delivery, so they became busy again.

Lihe Foreign Company is an agent of Hamburg Shipping Company, Krupp Steel Plant, Zeiss Optical Equipment Factory, and Guterli Automobile Tires in the United States. It is famous for importing German heavy machinery, precision instruments, railways and mining equipment, and arms. However, in addition, famous manufacturers from all over the world, from ships and locomotives to sewing needles, wooden yarn balls, and other small hardware and daily necessities.

Wu Anping was temporarily arranged to receive a Wuhan merchant who purchased precision microscopes. He had a purchase intention of 150 aircraft, worth more than 25,000 US dollars, which was a big business. If it weren't for the lack of staff, it wouldn't be Wu Anping's turn to get started. This must be taken seriously. He can only wait until the evening to contact Huangpu.
Chapter completed!