Beiyang reactionaries

Especially as long as there is a conflict between Japan and the United Kingdom, Duan Xun can only follow Japan.

The relationship between Duan Xun and Britain is not good.

Also hope to use Japan to balance Britain.But Duan Xun just hoped that Japan and Britain could fight each other so that Duan Xun could take advantage.But Japan is not stupid, they will do whatever Duan Xun wants.Duan Xun used Japan, so why didn't Japan use Duan Xun.Using Duan Xun, Japan reached out to the provinces along the Yangtze River.But not satisfied, Japan also hopes to tie Duan Xun to itself, and then expel the United Kingdom to monopolize the interests of the Yangtze River Basin.Duan Xun needs to measure it in a short time.

Measure, can you expel Britain by cooperating with Japan?

It is not in Duan Xun's interest to expel Britain.

Duan Xun doesn't want Britain to have too much influence in the Yangtze River, but Duan Xun also doesn't want the Japanese power that he introduced to the Yangtze River to increase greatly.

cooperate?Still not cooperating?

Duan Xun thought for a while and said, "Mr. Tsuruta, you should know about my marine police force. They are all small gunboats, which I remodeled from some small merchant ships. They can scare people, but they don't have much combat effectiveness."

"Actually, it's nothing. As long as we establish a joint command, the Imperial Navy can protect General Duan's interests in the Yangtze River."

Shit.

Duan Xun, a border supervisor with more than 30 soldiers who controls nine provinces, still needs to accept your Japanese asylum?Damn little Japan, not only wants to draw Duan Xun closer to his chariot, but also doesn't want Duan Xun to have strength.

Outrageous.

So Duan Xun smiled slightly and said, "How can that be? Since I want to cooperate, I can't hold back. Tsuruta-kun, it's also a good idea to set up a joint command, but I hope I can contribute more. .”

"I don't know what General Duan means..."

Tsuruta Tatsuya also understood that Duan Xun was bargaining.

In fact it is.

The cooperation between Duan Xun and Japan is, to put it bluntly, a cooperation of interests.If Japan wants to get what it wants from Duan Xun, of course it has to pay a certain price.Just like Duan Xun wanted to gain benefits from Japan, but also had to pay a price.

We exchange interests.

It's just that Japan is strong, so every time it exchanges interests with China, it will benefit.

"I'd like to add some gunboats to my marine police force."

"General Duan, you should know that this is an 'arms embargo' period. It is not easy for us to break it."

Tsuruta Tatsuya shook his head.

Now there is an arms embargo, even bullets are banned.It is basically impossible for China, especially warlords like Duan Xun, to buy gunboats.Although things like gunboats are not very powerful, they just go around the inland river.

But Japan still cannot sell.

"No, no, no, I don't mean to buy a gunboat. I want to build two gunboats myself, and I want to ask your country to design one for me, and then send some military experts to help me."

Destroyer?cruiser?Battleship?aircraft carrier?

It was too extravagant and too far away for Duan Xun, and Duan Xun didn't even think about it.The current Duan Xun does not have the financial strength and technical ability in this regard.And in a short period of time, Duan Xun will not need any naval troops.But Duan Xun did not want to give up the accumulated technology.

Let's start with the gunboats used in the inland sea.

Duan Xun wants to build gunboats, in addition to wanting technical reserves, it is more for the unification of China in the future.With a gunboat of several thousand tons that can travel in the inland sea, load some heavy guns.Then Jiujiang in Jiangxi, Anqing in Anhui, Nanjing in Jiangsu, these important provinces are all under the threat of Duan Xun.When Duan Xun attacks these provinces in the future, these gunboats will be able to play a big role.

Now Duan Xun's marine police force is too weak.

"This one……"

Tsuruta Tatsuya did not answer immediately.

Some people in Japan are also worried about Duan Xun's current expanding military strength.In particular, Duan Xun currently controls the two largest military factories in China, which can influence the current domestic arms market in China.

This worries some people in Japan.

They are worried, what will happen to Duan Xun, the warlord they have cultivated, if his wings become hard and disobedient in the future?

Fortunately, the Japanese military is still very arrogant.The Chinese army is not very concerned about it. Duan Xun currently has only about [-] troops, and Japan doesn't care.Although Tsuruta Tatsuya also has some worries, but there are really not many such worries.

In Tsuruta Tatsuya's eyes, Duan Xun is nothing more than a Chinese warlord.Among these warlords in China, perhaps the strength is good.But compared with the army and navy of the Great Japanese Empire, it is nothing.

gunboat?

Not even a naval ship.

What Japan is currently ambitious to build is the 88th Fleet.Compared with them, the so-called gunboats are really no threat.Therefore, Tatsuya Tsuruta said: "General Duan, I will discuss it with the navy."

"Tsuruta-kun, that would be great. We can consider the establishment of a joint headquarters."

Duan Xun is also worried about the expansion of Japan's power in the Yangtze River.Fortunately, this is an inland province in China, not Northeast China and Shandong.

No matter how Japan's strength here increases, there is a limit.

"it is good."

257 Contradictions 2

"Damn it, fool Cao (Cao Kun) is going to kill Jin Yunpeng."

1919年10月9日，No.16混成旅旅长冯玉祥、No.15混成旅旅长孙岳、第五师师长郑士琦三个人通电，质问陆军部为什么不发军饷。

Discuss military pay with the Ministry of War.

It was a sensation.

After all, this is the local army directly questioning the Ministry of the Army, not sending a telegram to the Ministry of the Army, but directly questioning the Ministry of the Army by telegram.This nature is completely different.It can be said that these people are completely forcing the palace.

Let the Ministry of the Army retreat irrevocably.

They have already been electrified, and the whole country knows it. It is very inappropriate for the Ministry of the Army not to respond.But how did the Ministry of the Army respond, no money means no money.Even if you call Potian, the money can't be changed.

And before the Ministry of the Army could answer, on October 1919, 10, Wang Huaiqing, Commander of the No.10 Division, and Peng Shouxin, Commander of the No.13 Mixed Brigade, sent messages to question the Ministry of the Army, and even directly named the Cabinet Prime Minister Jin Yunpeng on October 14, [-].

What about money?

The meaning is very simple.

What about money?

As the prime minister of the cabinet, Jin Yunpeng, as the head of the Ministry of War, where did the money go?None of our troops got paid.If you don't give me any more money, all of us will starve to death.

Fairly gentle.

Because Wang Huaiqing belongs to Xu Shichang, he didn't want to make it too much.

可是时间到了1919年10月12日，事情就严重很多。陡然之间大批将领联名质问内阁总理靳云鹏。这里面有目前的直隶督军曹锐、山东督军兼任第三师师长的吴佩孚、绥远都统兼任陆军第一师师长的蔡成勋、察哈尔都统兼任第四混成旅旅长张锡元、第九师师长杨清臣、No.20师师长阎相文、No.20三师师长王承斌、No.20四师师长张福来、No.20五师师长萧耀南、No.20六师师长曹镆、陆军No.14混成旅旅长董政国，基本上目前在直隶、山东、热河、察哈尔地区的部队将军全都联名。