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In spite of this, Sun always referred to the Kwangsi general as “Living Angel Liu” because Liu had suffered wounds in his stomach and shoulder during the fight for the city.

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He first tried to gain control of the province of Shantung, which Japan had finally ceded back to China, but, unfortunately for him, the Kwangsi generals started their campaign before the Japanese evacuated the area, and he was afraid to delay his move any longer.

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Reflecting their growing disillusionment with the generalissimo, however, its members chose General Li Tsung-jen, a former Kwangsi warlord, as vice president.

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His only move for the moment was against one of the Kwangsi generals, Li Chen-shen, who, having received a safe conduct to attend the congress, was arrested as soon as he arrived in Nanking.

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To which Feng replied that considering what had happened to General Lu the Kwangsi leader who was arrested on his arrival in Nanking, he had no intention of coming to the capital and that, in any case, he was too ill to travel.

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Aided by troops from Canton, Yunnan, and Kwangsi, Chiang and his men occupied Tamshui after a day and a half of fighting.

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Chiang hesitated until the Kwangsi Clique, a group from Kwangsi province that opposed Sun, assassinated another of his friends, Chu Ta-fu.

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With that much of the railway secured, the enemy headed down toward Changsha, capital of the province of Hunan and key to 500 miles of railway tracks leading to the airfields located in Kweilin and Liuchow in the coastal province of Kwangsi.

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In exchange for acceptance of his authority, he appointed two of the warlords to government offices, naming General Li Tsung-jen pacification commissioner for Kwangsi and giving General Pai Chung-hsi a place on the Standing Committee of the National Military Council.

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Having proved his authority over Li, Chiang had designated him pacification commissioner for the province of Kwangsi, and under the direction of Li and Pai, Kwangsi had developed local industry, sponsored education, and become relatively crime-free.

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