Beiyang reactionaries

Support yourself now, maybe one day you will not support yourself.

Then let’s talk about some other bigwigs in the Dian Army, Gu Pinzhen, Huang Yucheng, and Zhang Zizhen all had a tense relationship with Tang Jiyao because of the reorganization of the Dian Army, as well as those rising stars of the Dian Army.

In this way, how could Tang Jiyu not have a sense of urgency.

The Dian army is the capital for Tang Jiyao and Tang Jiyu to do great things.But now that there are so many internal conflicts in the Yunnan Army, Tang Jiyu has only one thought.That is to quickly expand the strength and expand the strength of the direct line belonging to the brothers of the Tang family, so as to subdue other disobedient forces in the Dian army.

"Master, are you looking for me?"

"Youxun, you are here. Sit down."

"Yes."

A nearly 30-year-old officer walked in and saluted Tang Jiyu.Although Tang Jiyu was despised by many generals in the army, he believed that he got into the position of commander of the Yunnan Army because of Tang Jiyao.

But after all, Tang Jiyu has been in the police system and the army for many years, and he also has his own officers in the army.The person who came in now was a young officer whom Tang Jiyu trusted very much.

Li Youxun.

He is 29 years old this year and graduated from the Yunnan Lecture Hall. He served as the detachment leader during the National Defense War, and served as the head of Li Youxun's third division after the reorganization of the Yunnan Army.After Li Youxun graduated from Yunnan Lecture Hall, he served as Tang Jiyao's guard officer, and Tang Jyu was in charge of Tang Jiyao's guard at that time.Later, following Tang Jiyu, the speed of promotion was not too slow.Now, as the commander of the Yunnan Army, he is a person Tang Jiyu trusts very much.Although he is only the head of the third division of the Dian army, the unit under his jurisdiction is the most elite unit of the third division, which is equivalent to a brigade and is very powerful.

"Youxun, haven't there been any problems in Guangdong recently?"

"It's all normal."

"That's good. Lu Rongting's army is quite interesting, everyone can make money together."

Tang Jiyu nodded.

Tang Jiyu was talking about the route from Diantu (Yunnan opium) to Guangdong.As one of the leaders of opium dealers in Yunnan, Tang Jiyu is not only the current high-level Yunnan army, but also represents his brother, Tang Jiyao, one of the best figures in the Southwest.So his opium trade was the biggest.

After taking care of Lu Rongting's Gui army, and taking care of all the troops and bandits on the road, the Yunnan people came to Guangdong safely.However, although this kind of thing is an open secret, the person in charge of Tang Jiyu's opium trade is still his most trusted person.After all, if the news spread, or the goods were swallowed up, Tang Jiyu would suffer a great loss.And Li Youxun is Tang Jiyu's direct descendant, responsible for some things in Yunnan.Mainly responsible for contacting Lu Rongting's Guijun officers, paying them tolls, and letting them get out of the way.

"Youxun, I'm going to put you in charge of more important things."

"Teacher, tell me."

"Now you know some things, and some things you don't. We recently got information that Duan Xun has completed his military expansion work in Sichuan. He has more than 9 troops in Sichuan."

Li Youxun almost opened his mouth wide.

9 people?

Although after the Second Revolution, the national army swelled like a balloon.Just as the Beiyang Army had only 10,000+ regular troops before the second revolution, after the second revolution, there were 50 million direct troops of the Beiyang Army, and the troops attached to the Beiyang Army were also counted. There are millions of troops.Look at the speed of this expansion of the troops.

Before the War to Protect the Nation, the Beiyang Army controlled less than 50 regular troops, but after the War to Protect the Nation, the Beiyang Army expanded massively.Now the Beiyang Army has almost 80 million regular troops.

The same goes for other warlords.

Before the War of Protecting the Nation, there were only 4 or 10 people in Rongting, the old continent of Guangxi.However, with the end of the War to Protect the Country, Lu Rongting's army, which began to rule Guangdong and Guangxi, already had a scale of [-].

The same is true for the Yunnan Army.

Before the War to Protect the Nation, the Yunnan Army had only 4 to 8 troops.However, with the end of the War to Protect the Nation, all the troops of the Yunnan Army now total 5 to [-].It's just that about [-] of them are stationed in Guangdong, and some troops are stationed in Guizhou.However, there are more than [-] Dian army troops in Yunnan alone.

However, Li Youxun was very surprised to hear that there were 9 people in Sichuan after the military expansion.Because Lu Rongting has 10 people, it is because Lu Rongting currently controls Guangdong and Guangxi.Especially after entering Guangdong, Lu Rongting made a fortune, so he had money to expand his army.The Dian Army has 8 to 5 people. That is because the Dian Army is still stationed in Guangdong and Guizhou.There are only more than [-] people in the Yunnan Army in Yunnan, and [-] of them are reorganized from bandit forces in southern Yunnan.

Compared with the 9 people in Sichuan, they are all real troops controlled by Duan Xun.If you add some militias and bandit forces on the border of Sichuan that Duan Xun has not had time to control, then the entire Sichuan now has 10,000+ troops.

How could Li Youxun not be surprised by this situation.

"Look at the reason why Sichuan has so many troops. After all, it is because of money. Once we have a conflict with Sichuan, it will be difficult for us to stop Duan Xun's troops with our current strength. Therefore, we must continue to expand the army. , to increase our strength. But military expansion requires money, so I am going to let you go to this place."

Tang Jiyu came to the map, drew a circle, and said: "After you go here, tell the local government that all the fields here must be planted with poppies. If anyone wants to grow food, the tax will increase by five times, and one-time Increase taxes for three years."

Listening to Tang Jiyu's words, Li Youxun's eyelids kept twitching, and he stammered a little: "Master, I used to be stationed in this area. I remember that there are about 26 mu in this area just registered If you add some hidden land, it will definitely exceed 30 mu. Really, really want to plant, plant..."

In the end, Li Youxun himself was nervous, and his voice trembled a little.

Although there are currently a lot of opium planted in Yunnan, there are already 60 million mu.But to expand planting to 30 mu at once is simply....Li Youxun really did not expect that Tang Jiyu would expand the cultivation of more than 30 mu of opium.

"You Xun, you don't know. Duan Xun has been in Sichuan for less than ten months, but his income is calculated in tens of millions. That's why he has the confidence to expand the army to 200, maybe in a short time He still has the ability to expand the army. We have no other way to deal with him. I recently calculated that if we can plant about 900 million mu of opium poppies in Yunnan, then the annual opium income will be 400 million, or more than [-] million .At that time, the tax revenue alone will be around [-] million, and the income from opium alone will far exceed our current fiscal revenue in Yunnan for a year. At that time, we will not be short of money, and we can do whatever we want. Expand the army."

"Master, the recent public opinion is so serious, will it..."

Li Youxun asked Tang Jiyu in a low voice.

Tang Jiyu waved his hand and said with a sneer: "Public opinion, what is public opinion? The most reliable thing in this world is a gun in your hand. As long as someone has a gun in your hand, that bit of public opinion can be completely ignored."

"Yes."

Li Youxun accepted the order, but still said: "Master, but if I go there alone, the local government may not give face. Could the master write an order for me to take it there?"

"kindness."

Tang Jiyu nodded.

Li Youxun is only a mid-level officer of the Yunnan Army, and it is really not easy to be in charge of such a large area.Therefore, he immediately wrote an order and stamped his own seal.

"Do this thing quickly. If some fields have been planted with other things, I will shovel them all and order them to plant poppies. After finishing this matter quickly, come back early. There are still many things to do here."

"Yes, Master."

After all, the opium trade is a secret matter, and Tang Jiyu wants to hand it over to someone he trusts.Li Youxun was very satisfied with himself, so he asked Li Youxun to finish the work quickly.

"Master, I'm leaving tomorrow morning."

"Go."

Li Youxun saluted, and then walked out of Tang Jiyu's house.As soon as he walked out of Tang Jiyu's gate, Li Youxun's expression became cloudy, and he found that his back was completely soaked.He couldn't help but look back at Tang Jiyu's home, and then looked down at Tang Jiyao's order document in his hand.Standing in front of the door thought for a long time, finally gritted his teeth and left Tang Jiyao's house.

98 County Special Zone

On February 1917, 2, the first month had just passed.

Wan County.

It is already relatively busy.

Although Wanxian has not yet opened a port, and the British have not set up a branch of Chongqing Customs here, the geographical location of Wanxian determines that the trade here is developed.This is the distribution center of Sichuan native products in eastern Sichuan, and many small vendors do business here.Even if it cannot be exported directly in Wanxian, there are still many cargo ships loading here.Because it is not exported, it can also be sold to other provinces in the country, or it can be directly shipped to Hankou or Shanghai, and it can also be exported.So the shipping here is very developed.

Although foreigners have not yet entered Wanxian on a large scale, there are already more than 20 foreign firms of various types in Wanxian.

But Maoxin, Bie Tingfang, and Tian Songyao entered Wan County with more than 40 guards.Because there are many caravans of various kinds in Wan County, Mao Xin and the others did not attract any attention when they entered Wan County.Because of the caravans coming and going, which one is not walking with dozens or hundreds of guards.Otherwise, in this eastern Sichuan area where bandits are everywhere, how can we protect our own safety.

Wanxian Special Zone.

Duan Xun has decided to establish the Wanxian Special Economic Zone to make Wanxian the third economic center in Sichuan besides Chengdu and Chongqing.In order to build this special economic zone, Duan Xun plans to expand the scale on the basis of Wanxian, including all surrounding areas, and establish a Wanxian Special Economic Zone City, but Maoxin is the mayor of this special zone city.Bie Tingfang served as the police chief of the Wanxian Special Zone, Wan Xuancai's Fourth Division of the Southwest Frontier Defense Army was stationed in Fengjie, and the [-]th Regiment of the Fourth Division, that is, Tian Songyao's regiment, was stationed in Wanxian.