Beiyang reactionaries

When I said this, I was a little dumbfounded.

Li Youxun and the others had discovered the opium smuggling by French businessmen a long time ago, so they sent people to watch them.For a while, the French businessman felt that he was being watched by the Chinese police, but the Yunnan Police Department only stared at people and did not take any action.

The situation in the Yunnan Police Department made the French businessmen more and more courageous, and looked down on the Chinese police more and more.

Moreover, the current domestic opium price is rising in a straight line.Because after Duan Xun entered Shaanxi, he wiped out opium in a large opium province in China.The stronger Duan Xun's efforts to ban smoking, the more and more shortages in the domestic opium market.At present, Fujian is the only province in the south that produces a lot of opium. Therefore, opium is a very tight commodity in China at present, and the price is getting higher and higher.Many foreigners who had stopped doing the opium business also began to join the opium business.

French merchants smuggled opium from French Indochina to Yunnan, where they sold it to Yunnan-Guangxi opium merchants.Each of these opium merchants has a way to smuggle opium.

Duan Xun's troops don't even know about the mountain roads in the Yunnan-Guangxi region, and even the local people have never set foot there.However, these Yunnan and Guangxi merchants insisted on finding out a series of mountain roads, and they could transport things to Guangxi from the inaccessible mountain roads.As long as it is shipped to Guangxi, everything will be easy to handle.Lu Rongting longed for more opium to pass through Guangxi, only in this way could he collect more opium taxes.

"it is good."

Duan Xun thought for a while and said: "Send a telegram to Li Youxun, give me a big move. I will wipe out all the French merchants and opium merchants in the Yunnan and Guangxi regions. Allow him to shoot at those who resist, no matter who the other party is." No matter what nationality the opponent is, he is allowed to shoot. This matter must be done quickly and secretly, and Li Youxun will be responsible for this matter in person. I will send a telegram to Boxiong (Fang Dingying) and ask the Third Army to cooperate Li Youxun's police station."

"I see."

Duan Xun just said what to do, and Yang Wei understood what Duan Xun meant.

Duan Xun is going to use French businessmen to divert the attention of these students.Yang Wei smiled, this is indeed a good idea.So what about the current upsurge in nationalism across the country?But it's all lip service.

Among them are some national capitalists who touted the slogan of rejecting foreign products and buying domestic products for their own business.But that's all.When Duan Xun gives them big news, all the slander against Duan Xun will disappear.The students in the area under Duan Xun's rule will immediately support Duan Xun, and there will be no such thing as forcing Duan Xun now.

It can even be said that it is not difficult for Duan Xun to become a positive figure in public opinion again by virtue of this incident.

"Also, talk to representatives of student organizations in various places. Let them calm down for a while. People's Party organizations in each school must play a guiding role."

The strength of the People's Party in major schools is still very strong.Because after the people's party began to surface, the most hard work was the major schools.There are branches of the People's Party in every school, and there are youth leagues.

So there is still a way to calm down the current high-spirited student movement.

"Leave this to me."

"it is good."

219 Shun Zhi Chang Chang 2

"Brother Yujie (Commander-in-Chief)."

"Brother Youxun (Li Youxun)."

Luxi, Yunnan.

Li Youxun led a few people to the barracks in Luxi quietly, where the No. 19 Brigade (Brigade Commander Wang Kai) of the Third Army (Commander Fang Dingying) of the Southwest Frontier Defense Army (Commander Fang Dingying) and the Ninth Division (Division Commander Ye Quan) were stationed in Luxi.

Li Youxun and Wang Kai (commander-in-chief) of the [-]th Brigade were classmates in the Yunnan Lecture Hall, and the relationship was quite good.The two of them participated in the Revolution of [-] and the Chung Ninth Uprising together, just like other students in the lecture hall.

It's just that the two people took different paths later.

Wang Kai went directly to the grassroots and started leading troops, while Li Youxun joined Tang Jiyao's guard, followed Tang Jiyao's troops into Guizhou, and became Tang Jiyao's direct line officer.However, the speed of promotion of the two people is about the same, and both of them have made meritorious service on the battlefield.

Later, Li Youxun was the first to defect to Duan Xun, which directly contributed to the downfall of Tang Jiyao in Yunnan.Duan Xun used the account books handed over by Li Youxun as an excuse to accuse the Tang brothers of being the umbrella of opium in Yunnan, and sent troops to expel Tang Jiyao.

Of course Duan Xun's return is enough.

Li Youxun is now the director of the Yunnan Police Department, and he is a high-ranking official in Yunnan.The status of the Yunnan government is gradually improving.

But Wang Kai is different.

I have been serving in the Yunnan Army, step by step I got to this position with military merit.After the Dian army was reorganized, there were six brigade commanders, known as the six brigade commanders of the Dian army.Wang Kai was one of the brigade commanders.

"Brother Yujie, have you received the order?"

"En. Let's go in and talk."

After Wang Kai arranged guards to guard the outside, the two walked in.

"The military department gave me an order directly, you have enough face."

Wang Kai poured a cup of boiling water for Li Youxun, after all, it was a military camp, so it could only serve boiling water.Not long ago, Wang Kai received an order from the military department, and it was Fang Dingying, commander of the Third Army, and Ye Quan, commander of the Ninth Division, who jointly sent a telegram to Wang Kai.Let him cooperate with Li Youxun to complete the task.

Although the identities of the two people are completely different now, one is the director of the Provincial Police Department, and the other is a senior general of the army.But because the two are classmates and have known each other for more than ten years, Wang Kai was very casual and teased Li Youxun a bit.

"It's not that I'm losing face, it's that this matter is important."

"Tell me what you want me to do for you."

"Do you know that there are some hidden mountain roads in Yunnan and Guangxi. At present, many opium merchants in Yunnan and Guangxi use these mountain roads to smuggle opium."

"Of course I know."

Wang Kai's expression immediately became serious.

He said directly: "My side is not the border line, and I don't have such power, so I haven't encountered it. But Koizumi (Fan Shisheng) happened to be stationed on the border of Yunnan and Guangxi, but he caught a lot of opium smugglers. But you also know that there are many small roads on the Yunnan-Guangxi border, and many of them are even unknown to the local people. And we are the army, this should be the business of your police station, it is not within our scope of responsibility. It is just you in the border area The strength of the police station is weak, and sometimes the army is invited to help, so Koizumi's troops participated in some actions to encircle and suppress opium dealers. But I heard that this kind of smuggling is still rampant."

"Then do you know where the opium they smuggled came from?"

"How do I know that?"

"I am here today because of this matter. Although I have tried my best to crack down on the cultivation of opium, these people dare not do anything for the sake of money. In some places, opium fields are still quietly reclaimed, planted and sold to these Yunnan and Guangxi businessmen .”

Wang Kai nodded.

As long as there is interest, as long as it can make money, people will do the business of beheading. This has been the case since ancient times.Now that the price of opium is so high, it is more profitable than growing grain.Some opium dealers can earn tens of thousands of silver dollars by quietly selling a cart of opium.Such a high profit, of course, many bold people are willing to do it.Therefore, it is normal to grow opium quietly.

But also very puzzled.

Although the power of local clans and local gentry is relatively strong at present, they cannot resist the power of the government.Especially after Duan Xun entered the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, he directly extended his hands to the towns and villages.

Originally, since ancient times, China has been a county where imperial power does not come down, and things below the county level basically belong to local self-government.The local gentry managed the place, and the county town was almost a situation where the county lord and the local gentry were governed together.As well as many local clans, they don't care about the laws of the country at all, and the patriarchal clan is above the law.

But Duan Xun insisted on relying on military power to establish taxation and police departments in the township government.Not only that, Duan Xun directly announced that once the so-called patriarchal clan conflicts with the law, then the patriarchal clan is invalid.

Therefore, Duan Xun's ability to control the grassroots has increased unprecedentedly.

To deal with a few opium growers, the police force can attack.If it is really disobedient, the local clan dares to resist, and it is not like Duan Xun has never killed someone.In the three provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, apart from some students who graduated from police colleges, a large number of them came from the army.

These people are all armed and carry rifles.Dealing with some opium farmers was no easy task.There is no need for troops to take action, so how could they come to find themselves.

"But this is only part of it. After all, we have a strict smoking ban, and those who grow opium are found to be directly shot, so there are still relatively few people who grow them. More of them enter Yunnan from other places, and then sell them to those opium merchants in Yunnan."

"other places?"

Wang Kai frowned.

The provinces around Yunnan are all under the control of Duan Xun.Duan Xun is so strict in banning smoking, how can he get opium from other places.

"South."