A week later, the East China Government received a long reply from Coubertin, which sent the telegram alone for more than 8 hours, and the translation into Chinese was nearly 10,000 words, which also showed Coubertin's importance to this matter.

In the article, Coubertin first expressed his support and gratitude to the East China Government for its hope of participating in the 5th Olympics, and then expressed his respect for China. He spent a long time expressing his praise and yearning for Chinese historical civilization. Such an ancient and long-standing civilized country participating in the Olympics will make the Olympics have greater practical significance. Both himself and the Olympic Committee hope to see the wonderful performance of the East China Government at the 5th Olympics. Regarding the questions raised by the East China Government, Coubertin believed that although there were many replies to Coubertin's long article, as long as both sides work together, there could be a way to solve it. At the end, Coubertin said that he would plan to visit Qingdao between May and June this year and negotiate with the East China Government in person for details of participating in the Olympics.

It should be said that Coubertin's long article replies showed considerable sincerity. Therefore, the East China Government also believes that we can start preparing for Coubertin's visit and make plans for participating in the 5th Olympics first. Anyway, the plan will not be implemented for the time being, and it will not take much effort to wait until Coubertin comes.

However, there are more than two months left before Coubertin's visit, and the East China government cannot interrupt other things for the Olympics, so it soon resumed normal work.

This year, the main work of the East China Government was to digest the areas occupied in the past two years. Overall, in Beijing, Shanxi was occupied by the East China Government earlier, and the East China Government also spent a lot of effort to manage it. Therefore, it has basically stabilized so far. Most areas have undergone land reforms and established grassroots administrative management systems. Since the Shaanxi region is the headquarters of the Northwest Military Region, under the deterrence of the strong army, the East China Government not only successfully established a local administrative system, but also carried out land reforms, and did not encounter any trouble.

But the situation in Gansu and Qinghai is very complicated. On the one hand, the two regions are vast, with a total area of ​​more than 1 million square kilometers. Moreover, the ethnic composition of the population is complex, and local forces are even more complicated. During the Qing Dynasty's rule, there were many rebellions. Although the Qing officials in both places basically surrendered like the East China Government, including religious figures like the Seventh-generation Zhangjia Living Buddha, they also surrendered to the East China Government, in Gansu, there are still many local forces in Qinghai who did not express their surrender to the East China Government, but were watching the changes in the current situation.

After collecting Gansu and Qinghai, the East China Government established a local administrative management system on the one hand and arranged military strongholds on the other hand. Therefore, these local forces have not been moved for the time being to avoid external troubles. The two sides have been in peace for the time being. The East China Government occupied the cities and surrounding areas, while the local forces occupied rural or mountainous areas outside the city.

However, this balance is temporary after all. The East China Government will never allow other forces to exist in its own controlled areas. Therefore, after controlling the cities of Gansu and Qinghai and laying out military strongholds, they will naturally develop into rural areas or mountainous areas. The conflicts with local forces will naturally intensify and fights are inevitable. Moreover, according to the report of the intelligence department, some local forces have colluded with Tsarist Russia and intend to work together to fight against the East China Government, so it is time to resolve them.

The local forces in Gansu and Qinghai developed in modern times when the Qing court's weak power and its control over the northwest region declined. They were composed of family as the main backbone and were gathered by their relatives, fellow townsmen, ethnic groups and religions. Moreover, because the Qing court's control over the northwest region declined and its reliance on these local forces was strengthened, they could only turn a blind eye to their behavior of expanding their power, which further encouraged the arrogance of local forces. Some people insisted on not taking local officials of the Qing court in their eyes.

There are three main local forces in the northwest region. The leaders are all surnamed Ma, and they are all from Xixiang, Hezhou (now Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province). They are mainly divided into three groups: Ma Zhan'ao, Ma Qianling and Ma Haiyan. The famous Northwest Sanma warlords in the old time and space, Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin and Ma Bufang were all descendants of their descendants.

However, at this time, the first generation of leaders of the Sanma Group had passed away or retired, and the heads in power were their sons, Ma Anliang, Ma Fuxiang and Ma Qi. Among them, Ma Anliang's forces were mainly in Hezhou (now Linxia Prefecture, Gansu) and Liangzhou (now Wuwei Prefecture, Gansu); Ma Fuxiang's forces were mainly in northwest Gansu, northern Qinghai and Suiyuan Prefecture (now Hohhot, Inner Mongolia). Ma Qi's forces were mainly in the eastern Qinghai and the Hexi Corridor. These three horses each had more than 10,000 troops. The famous northwest Sanma in the old time and space, Ma Hongkui was the son of Ma Fuxiang, Ma Hongbin was the nephew of Ma Fuxiang, and Ma Bufang was the son of Ma Qi.

Of course, the East China Government decided to take action against the Sanma Group at this time because it was sufficiently sure. At this time, the Northwest Military Region had basically been established. The entire military region had 4 field troops, 2 cavalry brigades directly under the military region, 2 artillery brigades, 1 armored regiment, 1 motor vehicle regiment, and more than 300 military trucks, with a total force of about 300,000. In Gansu and Qinghai, sub-military regions were established, more than 30 battalion-level strongholds and more than 100 company-level strongholds. It can be said that the strongholds have been spread throughout Gansu and Qinghai, and military preparations have been basically completed. What is the siege of the controlled areas of the Sanma Group? Just wait for the military region to order, you can take action against the Sanma Group.

In addition, some officials of the Qing court remained in office. The Seventh-generation Zhangjia Living Buddha also returned to Qinghai to help the East China government stabilize the situation in the northwest, and frequently sent messages to the Sanma Group, hoping that the Sanma Group could see the situation clearly, actively surrender to the East China government, and make mistakes. Even if a war broke out, it would be possible to try its best to keep the war on a small scale and not affect it too much.

After the Mongolian power failed and Puwei Group fled to the south, Russia divided the targets of its support into two groups, one was Xinjiang; the other was the Sanma Group, which also gave Sanma Group considerable confidence. Therefore, until now, although Sanma Group has not expressed obedience to the East China government, it also has these reliances.

However, the Sanma Group is still quite jealous of the East China Government. After all, the East China Government's record is there. Even Russia is a defeated general under the East China Government. You can know these situations by just a little inquiry. Therefore, they do not want to fight with the East China Government by force. They only hope to use the Russian power to negotiate with the East China Government to maintain their status of obedience in the famous discussions but in fact independent and transcendent status. However, the conditions offered by the East China Government through former Qing officials were obviously far from the expectations of the Sanma Group, but Sanma still had certain fantasies, believing that the East China Government was just a means of negotiation, so they established military strongholds for the East China Government and slowly contracted. When squeezing the Sanma Group, they did not dare to act rashly, for fear of completely tearing the worries.

Compared with the northwest region, the East China Government can basically only solve the problem by force. In the south of Zhejiang Province, the East China Government tried its best not to use force. After all, the East China Government planned to use Zhejiang Province as a model for the south. Of course, the local forces in Zhejiang do not have the courage to openly fight against the East China Government by force. They adopted roundabout tactics, hoping to reject land reform through public opinion, taking the upper-level route, pretending to be pitiful and other means.

After the new Zhejiang Governor Wang Lezhi took office, the gentry and local gentry in Zhejiang had great expectations, because they had found out that the governor liked calligraphy, and it seemed that he was a elegant man. The gentry and local gentry were very capable of such people, and it was easy to deal with if he had a hobby. The most feared was officials who did not eat soft and hard food and did not get into oil and salt.

But when Wang Lezhi first took office, when he visited the Xileng Seal Society, he mentioned a picture of the character "They have their own fields" in the society. In fact, it also expressed his attitude and disappointed the gentry and the local gentry. However, they were still unwilling to accept it. After all, the new official took office was three times hot, and he had some pretentious appearances when he first came to the scene, and he had seen many such people.

So some gentry and local geniuses tried to ask Wang Lezhi to bring plaques for them, write me, write inscriptions, etc. Of course, this is indispensable. There is a lot of money to pay, and it is legitimate to give it to Wang Lezhi. Some people simply gave Wang Lezhi some famous artists, calligraphy, painting and seals.

Of course, Wang Lezhi tried his best to satisfy his words. After all, it didn't take much effort to write a few words, but he tried his best to refuse the pen fee. The famous calligraphy, painting, seal and other famous people sent were rejected. However, these gentry and local gentry were used to this, so they naturally had some comments. In short, they were all very well-informed and must ask Wang Lezhi to accept it. Wang Lezhi refused but said that he could not accept it, but he could donate it to the Xileng Seal Society, which was also considered to support the national treasures. The gentry and local gentry and local geniuses understood this routine and agreed to it. At the same time, they also wrote down the donation note, thinking that this was just a famous discussion for Wang Lezhi to receive gifts. For hundreds of years, he had never played any routines. So they all returned satisfied.

After Wang Lezhi received the pen fee and calligraphy, painting and seals, he actually gave them all to the Xileng Seal Society, and asked the Xileng Seal Society to publicize the donation documents and published articles in the newspaper, praising these gentry and local gentry for supporting the national treasures. As a result, these gentry and local gentry could only eat yellow lotus in a mute manner, and could not say what they had to do.
Chapter completed!