Beiyang reactionaries

"Brother Xinye, you can't wait for the Yunnan army to run out of money? After all, they have been rooted in Yunnan for many years, and some of them have their own way to raise money. I don't know how long it will take until they are short of money and come to join us."

Duan Xun doesn't have much time in his hands, but he has no time to waste in Yunnan.

"The breakthrough point is still opium."

102 Yunnan Raiders 3

"The breakthrough point is still on the opium?"

"opium?"

As long as Duan Xun talks about opium now, he is happy in his heart, even Duan Xun now has an inexplicable intimacy with opium.Because of opium, Duan Xun, a general from the Beiyang Army and a rising star of the Beiyang Army who was not dominant in public opinion, can now stand on the moral high ground and give pointers to Tang Jiyao, who was born as a hero of [-].Being able to criticize the Yunnan Army from a high place and attack the Yunnan Army.And without the slightest burden.

opium?

The help to Duan Xun is really great.Therefore, when I heard Yang Wei say that the breakthrough point was still in Opium, I felt inexplicably kind and excited in my heart.So stare at Yang Wei to see what he has to say.

"Yes, General. We sent troops to Yunnan this time with the slogan of opium and the purpose of banning smoking. In this case, after we enter Yunnan, of course we must actively ban smoking, eradicate the opium grown in Yunnan, thoroughly investigate the opium merchants, and cut off the opium trade. However, although they are all smoking bans, there are many opinions on how to ban smoking. First of all, we signed the "Sichuan-Yunnan Smoking Ban Statement" with Yunnan, and we signed it with Gu Pinzhen in person. This "Sichuan-Yunnan Smoking Ban Statement" contains In order to better ban smoking, the military and police departments of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces cooperated to establish a joint logistics organization to be jointly responsible for the smoking ban in Sichuan and Yunnan. This is the foundation."

"continue."

Seeing Yang Wei talking eloquently, Duan Xun knew that Yang Wei had a plan in mind.I have already thought about what to do next.

"General, with this foundation, many problems will be very easy to deal with. First of all, since it is cooperation, Sichuan and Yunnan will establish a joint logistics mechanism, and then a Sichuan-Yunnan Tobacco Supervision Department will be established. And the Sichuan-Yunnan Tobacco Supervision Department will It can’t be an empty shell department. It needs close cooperation between the army and the police department of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. Both sides must send people to form this department. As far as the military is concerned, Sichuan and Yunnan can each send out a division or a mixed brigade. The troops under the Department of the Anti-smoking Supervision Department. Gu Pinzhen must agree to this point, because it was signed by him at the beginning. And if he wants to secure his position as the Yunnan Governor, and wants to get rid of the current unfavorable public opinion situation of the Yunnan Army, he must If you want to make up your mind to ban smoking, you must make some achievements in Yunnan's smoking ban, so this concession is necessary. As long as such a Sichuan-Yunnan Supervision Department is established, then this institution must accept the Southwest Anti-smoking Supervision, that is, the general's order. At that time, we will have the opportunity to control this army from Yunnan."

Step by step.

Yang Wei is like this.To do anything is to take one step and see three steps, and any decision you make will pave the way for the next thing.When I talked with Gu Pinzhen before, I already thought of the current situation.

The two parties cooperated to establish a joint logistics organization.

Duan Xun is now the rightful supervisor of the Southwest Anti-smoking Administration, so such a joint logistics organization should be named the Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-smoking Administration.After all, it is the anti-smoking department, and this department must be subordinate to Duan Xun, the director of the Southwest Anti-smoking Supervision Office.As long as Duan Xun is in command in name, there are plenty of ways to win over this army.

"Second point, in order to increase the supervision of the opium trade in Yunnan, it is not just the army that needs the cooperation of the police department, and the Yunnan Police Department needs to make some changes. The general can ask the Yunnan Police Department to specialize Set up a department like the Yunnan No-smoking Department. And this department can be formed by us, and the general has enough name to form such a department. In this way, we can have a completely independent department in the Yunnan Police Department, and it has a lot of power Department. The Yunnan Provincial Government, like the Yunnan Army, needs to get rid of the current stigma as soon as possible, so it can only adopt a vigorous smoking ban, so they must accept our proposal.”

Duan Xun nodded.

Names are important.Although Duan Qirui has always wanted to unify China, he will not be too aggressive, worrying about causing too much backlash.If Duan Qirui is really aggressive, then Duan Xun can be appointed as the supervisor of the Southwest Frontier Defense or the Southwest Tour Envoy. This is a truly valuable position.

Regardless of the position of the border defense supervisor or patrol envoy, they can directly govern the military and political affairs of the southwestern provinces, similar to the governor's position in the Qing Dynasty.Such positions are usually assigned to the big bosses of the Beiyang Army when they are asked to supervise several provinces temporarily.But such an appointment is not easy to get down.If Li Yuanhong doesn't say anything, the Congress will oppose it.

Therefore, Duan Qirui only appointed Duan Xun as the supervisor of the Southwest Smoking Ban.For such a position, even if Duan Qirui's appointment is tough, if Li Yuanhong and the Congress do not pass it, the backlash will not be too severe.

The Southwest Anti-smoking Supervision Office only supervises the opium situation in the five southwestern provinces, and is not qualified to intervene in the military affairs of the southwestern provinces, nor is it qualified to intervene in the government affairs of the southwestern provinces.That being the case, even if Duan Xun drives Tang Jiyao away, he is not qualified to intervene in Yunnan's army and Yunnan's government affairs.

But there is always a way.

In the name of opium, there are still many ways.Regardless of whether it is organizing a joint logistics organization, setting up a Sichuan-Yunnan anti-smoking department, or setting up an anti-smoking bureau in the Yunnan Police Department, they are all aboveboard and legitimate things, and they are all for the smoking ban in Yunnan.

Yang Wei is absolutely top-notch in this regard.Brazen poaching, blatantly meddling in other people's military and political affairs, can still make people speechless, and they can't find Duan Xun's excuse.Because everything about Duan Xun is in the name of smoking ban.

"The third point is that it is in southern Yunnan. Among Yunnan opium, there are several production areas, and southern Yunnan is one of them. In the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, southern Yunnan was a three-way zone full of bandits. After the Revolution of [-], Cai Songpo (Cai E) Busy with consolidating central Yunnan and supporting the revolutions in Guizhou and Sichuan, he did not have time to wipe out the bandits in southern Yunnan. By the time Tang Jiyao served as the governor of Yunnan, these bandits in southern Yunnan had already become popular, and some of the bandits had thousands of people armed. Tang Jiyao also I didn’t have the energy to destroy them, so I chose to punish them. After these bandits were ordered by Tang Jiyao and incorporated into the Yunnan Army, they controlled southern Yunnan in a legitimate way. In southern Yunnan, they became even more lawless and became the local tyrants in southern Yunnan.”

Like many treasures.

Yang Wei briefly explained the history of southern Yunnan to Duan Xun, and even pointed out several heavyweight southern Yunnan bandits in it.Then he continued: "When Tang Jiyao ruled Yunnan, he didn't have enough military pay, so he could only buy and sell opium. Not to mention the bandits in southern Yunnan. Their finances are worse than Tang Jiyao's, so opium is also rampant in southern Yunnan. It is one of the important production areas of Yunnan soil (Yunnan opium)."

At this time, everyone present understood Yang Wei's methods.

Minute.

Yang Wei is preparing to split the Yunnan Army.If Duan Xun could really expel Tang Jiyao during this operation, then the Dian army would be greatly damaged first.After all, the Tang Jiyao brothers hold the First Division of the Dian Army and the Third Division of the Dian Army. It is still unclear how Luo Peijin's Dian Army's second division will be selected.To expel Tang Jiyao, at least the First Division of the Dian Army and the Third Division of the Dian Army must be defeated.

Therefore, even if Gu Pinzhen can gather other Yunnan troops, it is completely different from the Yunnan army at its peak.After all, the first and third divisions of the Yunnan Army are the most elite units of the Yunnan Army.However, Yang Wei obviously did not give Gu Pinzhen the opportunity to reorganize the Yunnan Army.

Using several excuses, they split up the Yunnan Army and weakened Gu Pinzhen's strength.

"We don't care about the bandits, but the smoking ban is the job of the general. Of course, the opium in southern Yunnan needs to be pacified so that the opium in southern Yunnan can be wiped out. Although the bandits in southern Yunnan are average in strength, their weapons and equipment It’s average, but there are tens of thousands of people. And Tang Jiyao may retreat to southern Yunnan and join these bandits. In order to pacify southern Yunnan, the Sichuan and Yunnan armies must continue to fight. Fighting requires money, and fighting requires logistics. "

Duan Xun smiled slightly.

Rather than waiting for the soldiers of the Yunnan Army to have conflicts with the Yunnan Provincial Government over the issue of military pay, it is better to stimulate them by yourself.As long as there is a war, the logistics materials consumed will be several times or ten times the normal amount.

When the time comes, where will the impoverished Yunnan come up with so many logistical materials.Only Duan Xun can get it out.To be honest, Sichuan is also poor, but who makes Sichuan vast and abundant.Even if the average living standard is a little higher than that of Yunnan, the Sichuan provincial government is relatively rich.It can even be said that Chengdu and Chongqing are richer than Yunnan individually.

As long as there are logistics materials and logistics are controlled, there will be a great possibility to reorganize the Yunnan Army.

"good idea."

"However, these are just some peripheral actions. At most, they can win over some sloppy troops. They can't let us really control the Yunnan Army. If we want to completely reorganize the Yunnan Army, these alone are not enough."

"kindness."

Of course Duan Xun knew this.

There is nothing more difficult than reorganizing troops, especially annexing other people's troops is very difficult.In history, Lao Jiang kept annexing those warlord troops, but in the end, these troops who took refuge in him were still self-contained and did not listen to your orders at all.Among Lao Jiang's troops, small warlords formed one after another.

Duan Xun is like this now.

The Yunnan Army is not the Sichuan Army.When Duan Xun annexed the Sichuan Army, the Sichuan Army was already half dead, and it was completely out of proportion to Duan Xun's strength.However, the Yunnan Army is a complete army, and it is very difficult to reorganize their troops.

"To win the Yunnan Army, there are two generals that must be held in the hands. One is the current young generals of the Yunnan Army, especially those students from the Yunnan Lecture Hall who graduated around [-]. This group of students is now To become the mainstay of the Yunnan Army, although their official positions are not very high, their strength should not be underestimated. If you win over this group of young officers, you will have the core strength of the Yunnan Army and the future of the Yunnan Army. And as long as they are inclined As for us, those senior generals of the Yunnan Army can only slowly approach us."

Duan Xun nodded.

After thinking for a while, he said, "The core of the Dian army is them, and wooing them is a drudgery."

"General, for the young generals of the Yunnan Army, we actually already have a lot of foundation. We have achieved considerable results in developing the Youth League in the Yunnan Army. As long as our army enters Yunnan and vigorously develops the People's Party, it is very likely that we will They suck it in."

"kindness."

Duan Xun thought for a while and said, "The party building work in Yunnan must be carried out quickly."

"Another aspect is the Yunnan Lecture Hall. Eighty to ninety percent of the officers of the Yunnan Army come from the Yunnan Lecture Hall, and it will be the same in the future. Therefore, mastering the Yunnan Lecture Hall will be of great benefit to us."

"Yunnan Lecture Hall?"

Duan Xun didn't speak immediately, because the Yunnan Lecture Hall has a lot to do with it.The Yunnan Lecture Hall was famous in the Republic of China, and it was even as famous as the Baoding Military Academy.Mastering such an excellent military academy will be of great benefit to Duan Xun's future.

But how to master this school requires a lot of knowledge.

Yang Wei said a lot, and Duan Xun already understood what he meant.In the end, Duan Xun still needs to make a final decision on how to do it.Duan Xun thought for a while and said: "Ming Jie (Deng Hanxiang), you put down the work of the Governor's Mansion first. Enter Yunnan as the Sichuan Governor and the special envoy of the Southwest Anti-smoking Supervision Office, and talk to the generals of the Yunnan Army about cooperation. Wait until the troops enter Dian, the contact with the Dian Army and the Sichuan Provincial Government is entirely up to you."

"Yes."

103 Public Opinion Rush 2

Duan Xun was preparing to march into Yunnan, but with Duan Qirui's series of condemnation statements and appointments, it aroused public opinion across the country.