Beiyang reactionaries

Beijing's response was quick.

On May 1920, 5, the Beijing government agreed to Ni Sichong's resignation report and appointed Ma Lianjia, commander of the Anqing garrison, as the governor of Anhui.He blamed Lu Tiaoyuan, governor of Anhui Province, but did not remove Lu Tiaoyuan from the post of governor.

What happened in Anhui made Lu Yongxiang, the governor of Zhejiang, feel tremendous pressure instantly.

Because Lu Yongxiang is currently actively preparing to fight Jiangsu.Originally, Jiangxi, a province in the southwest of his own country, was the territory of the direct warlord Chen Guangyuan, but now that Anhui suddenly defected, of course Lu Yongxiang was very afraid.

Of course, to be honest, Lu Yongxiang looked down on the combat effectiveness of the Anhui Army.

Originally, Ni Sichong owned the Anwu Army (Ni Sichong's direct descendant troops), Dingwu Army (the troops left by Zhang Xun), and his own expanded troops in Anhui at his peak.At that time, Ni Sichong supported [-] to [-] regular troops in Anhui, and he was relatively powerful among the Anhui warlords.However, as Duan Qirui controlled the Beijing government in the past few years, the Anhui faction was the most powerful, causing Ni Sichong to pay less and less attention to the army.In addition, Ni Sichong's health is getting worse and worse, and he is getting older. Like Feng Guozhang's three governors of the Yangtze River, he is becoming more and more obsessed with accumulating property.The originally powerful Anhui Army is getting worse and worse.If it weren't for this, how could Ni Sichong choose to step down if a Ma Lianjia defected.

It's really because the Anhui army is in dire straits now. Although there are many designations, it is not bad to have 3 to [-] people.

But even if you look down on the Anhui Army, the Anhui Army still has 3 or [-] people, which still puts pressure on Lu Yongxiang.Under such circumstances, Lu Yongxiang heard a very bad news again.

"Did you ask Wuchang?"

When Lu Yongxiang heard that Chen Yi said it was absolutely true, he was furious.Because in the past two days, Lu Yongxiang heard a piece of news that made him very angry.Duan Xun, the supervisor of the border defense, even sold weapons to Li Chun, the governor of Jiangsu.

This made Lu Yongxiang unable to sit still.

In the past year and a half, Lu Yongxiang's strength has increased greatly.It relied on Guan Yu's income and the weapons and equipment that Duan Xun sold to him for more than seven mixed brigades.Without so many weapons and equipment, how could Lu Yongxiang expand his army so quickly.

But how could Duan Xun also sell weapons to Li Chun?

Doesn't Duan Xun know that Li Chun is directly related?Didn't Duan Xun know that such incidents happened one after another in Anhui and Gansu because the Zhili wanted to attack them in Anhui?At this time, it should be necessary to continuously strengthen the strength of the Anhui troops. How can they sell weapons to the direct troops.

Especially Li Chun.

That was his deadly enemy.

Damn.

"I asked. The answer they gave me was very simple. They said that Li Chun had paid twice the current market price for this batch of weapons, and they had no reason to refuse. Wuchang even said that if the general also paid twice the price , they will also sell it to the commander-in-chief."

"Twice? Damn."

It's not that Lu Yongxiang doesn't want to continue to expand the army, it's not that he doesn't want to continue to buy weapons.However, Lu Yongxiang currently supports eight infantry divisions, the Shanghai Fleet, and some other garrison troops. This is Lu Yongxiang's limit.The army continued to expand, but Lu Yongxiang didn't have that much money to support them.

For these eight divisions, the military salary already accounts for 70.00% of Lu Yongxiang's fiscal revenue.Thanks to Guan Yu's income, otherwise Lu Yongxiang's finances would have collapsed long ago with so much military expansion.

Now where does Lu Yongxiang have the money to continue to buy weapons and continue to expand the army.

"Yes. According to my recent investigation, Li Chun deposited a huge sum of 3000 million in the Southwest Commercial Bank last month."

"He's crazy?"

Lu Yongxiang was dumbfounded.

How could Li Chun, a bastard who only knows how to make money, suddenly become so generous.That's not 30, it's not 300 million, it's 3000 million.Li Chun is rich, after all, he is the governor of Jiangsu.Occupying the developed province of Jiangsu, the annual fiscal revenue is very large.

But even if Jiangsu has a lot of income, it is impossible to spend so much money.

"Marshal, Li Chun has issued public bonds in Jiangsu and asked all merchants in Jiangsu to buy them. A total of 2000 million public bonds have been issued. Many merchants have quietly left Jiangsu."

"Hmph, I'm in a hurry now."

Lu Yongxiang sneered.

This bastard Li Chun, including Wang Zhanyuan and Chen Guangyuan, are all good at making money.One is better than the other in making money. Although the warlords under Duan Qirui also love money, they are definitely not as good as these people.Only after Ni Sichong was old and in poor health did he begin to ferociously search for local money.Although other warlords also love money and eat nothing, they still attach great importance to their direct troops.It has never been said that even the troops of his own lineage are paid for nothing.

But Feng Guozhang's subordinates, who oversaw the army, were all wonderful.He even swallowed the military pay of his own troops.The shortage of troops is very serious.

"But how many weapons does he want to buy?"

Although the current price of arms is a bit outrageous, 3000 million is still not a small amount.It is impossible to purchase armament for only one mixed brigade.

"I inquired. The news from Wuchang is that Li Chun wants to buy the weapons and equipment of two reorganization divisions from Duan Xun. But Duan Xun seems to have not agreed. Duan Xun has a new agreement with Li Chun. , Duan Xun wants to sell to Li Chun the weapons and equipment of three mixed brigades. The first batch of weapons and equipment for one mixed brigade just arrived in Nanjing. The next batch is another mixed brigade's equipment, which will be provided to Li Chun in mid-May. Chun. After receiving the second batch of equipment, Li Chun will deposit another 500 million in the Southwest Commercial Bank. In this way, the third batch of weapons and equipment will be handed over to Li Chun in early June."

"That is to say, within a month and a half at most, Li Chun will accept the weapons and equipment of the two mixed brigades?"

"Yes."

"Damn it. Duan Xun, a brat, has no bottom line for earning money. Can this kind of money be earned? The equipment of three mixed brigades, damn it, if Li Chun has the equipment of three mixed brigades, and expands the army to three mixed brigades, that's true." ...."

Lu Yongxiang cursed Duan Xun in his mouth.

Damn asshole thing.

Selling the weapon for 3000 million yuan is really a bastard who sees money.As long as Duan Xun controls the weapons, then Lu Yongxiang is confident enough to defeat Li Chun.But how can you sell weapons to Li Chun.

Three mixed brigades?

This is tens of thousands of people.

No.

Lu Yongxiang thought for a while and said, "This won't work. After Li Chun accepts these weapons, it will be very disadvantageous for us to expand the army to three mixed brigades. Who knows if Li Chun will continue to buy Duan Xun's weapons? Li Chun has no shortage of money You must send troops to defeat him before he builds three mixed brigades. Think about it for me and see under what name I send troops.”

If possible, Lu Yongxiang would have sent troops to attack Jiangsu.

But at his level, it doesn't mean that I can fight if I want to.You have to have a valid excuse, otherwise it is easy to be attacked by the crowd.For a long time, businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been helping Li Chun and Lu Yongxiang to resolve their conflicts.

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are very developed places in China. Businessmen here have a lot of money in their hands. What they are most worried about is that Jiangsu and Zhejiang will fight and affect their business.

In addition, after the Zhiwan War, although there were small conflicts among the Zhili, Wanli, and Fengshi, they had not yet developed to the point where they needed to meet each other.At least for now, everyone is just using small tricks, and they haven't said they want to fight big.And public opinion has been calling for peace.With the general environment like this, Lu Yongxiang can't just fight a war just because he said it.

So Lu Yongxiang has been unable to find an excuse to attack Li Chun.

Now Lu Yongxiang has used the equipment of the seven mixed brigades sold to him by Duan Xun to build eight infantry divisions, which can be described as strong and strong.Lu Yongxiang really thinks about Jiangsu every year, every month, every day, and wants to take Jiangsu into his arms.

Recently, I can't wait to kill him quickly.

But there is no excuse.

Now that Li Chun also wants to buy weapons to expand the army, Lu Yongxiang can't sit still.Lu Yongxiang can't watch Li Chun getting stronger and stronger.It is definitely not a good thing for Lu Yongxiang when Li Chun receives weapons, trains recruits, and greatly increases his strength.

"Marshal, the only way is to break face with the Beijing government and Cao Kun."

"Hmph. In the Zhiwan War last year, both of us were fighting each other. What's the matter of tearing our skins apart? Both of us are gearing up now. We won't give up until we knock down the other side."

Torn skin?

The Zhili and Anhui wars have completely opposed the Zhili and Anhui.

At this time, are you still afraid of tearing your face?Both sides now understand one thing, that is, neither side will sleep well unless the opponent is knocked down.

"Then we have to stand up and accuse the Beijing government and Cao Kun of deliberately inciting civil strife in Anhui and Gansu, accuse Wang Chonghui of not being qualified to be the prime minister of the cabinet, and accuse Cao Kun of influencing the Beijing government as a patrol envoy to Zhilu and Henan. In fact, Duan Xun, the border supervisor This aspect has already started. His border supervision agency has been accusing someone of inciting civil strife in Gansu these days, and will never allow civil strife in Gansu. In fact, it is aimed at Cao Kun. We will follow, so that we will have enough The excuse to send troops."