Back to the Republic of China as a commander

Long Tingjiu heard it, and immediately showed admiration: "It turns out to be Commander Wang. I have heard the story of you smashing the bandits in Jingzhou a long time ago. We said at the time that if Guzhang had a hero like you, why would the bandits not come?" Annihilation, the hometown is restless!"

Wang Zhenyu waved his hands and smiled: "It's all about everyone's love. Wang's ability is limited. It all depends on the hard work of his brothers. No, I will ask you to help me now."

Learning literary and martial arts and selling them to the emperor's family, even a fierce man like Long Tingjiu can't escape this historical category. As for his failure to become an official in history, it's just that he didn't find the right person and the time was not right.

But he didn't agree. He also had doubts about becoming an official, so he asked Wang Zhenyu a few questions.

Long Tingjiu: "Master Guardian, if I take refuge in you, and the brothers from these 58 Miao villages are bullied in the future, who will take the lead?"

Wang Zhenyu: "In the future, there will be no officials appointed by the superior in Guzhang. You can choose the county magistrate by yourself. The government office is your own. Why do you bully me? There are really such things, just change the government office."

Long Tingjiu obviously didn't believe it, but he didn't have any hope for it himself, this wasn't what he wanted.

"There are too many miscellaneous taxes on the head of the Miao Village, can the Lord Guardian envoy also exempt them?"

"Haha, Mr. Long still needs to go out more. The counties in Jingzhou Prefecture are exempted from all showdowns except for the [-]% normal tax stipulated, and the land rent cannot exceed [-]%. It will be the same in Guzhang's side sooner or later, but this time Water conservancy is a public welfare undertaking, and in the future, large households will take the lead in contributing money, while small households will participate in contributing people, but it is still necessary."

Long Tingjiu thought for a while, and asked the last question: "Bandits have been causing disasters in western Hunan for hundreds of years. The imperial court has repeatedly levied and suppressed them, but they always retreated into dangerous mountains and mountains, so they always returned without success. Is there any guardian envoy?" Good strategy?"

This question was a bit offensive, Tian Yingquan wanted to yell loudly, but was stopped by Wang Zhenyu with a wave of his hand.

"Wang Mou has a different opinion on the matter of suppressing bandits. The place is not rich, and the banditry is not eliminated. Everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, where do the bandits come from? In addition, Wang Mou protects the commercial roads, builds commercial towns, and distributes the profits to the villages under the jurisdiction of the commercial towns. , everyone works together, the bandits have no way to talk. The government lightly pays and pays less, power belongs to the people, it is harder to be a bandit than a good citizen, where do the bandits come from?"

In fact, Wang Zhenyu knew the bandits in western Hunan very well, why these bandits were never afraid of the army from the provincial capital to attack, but they dared not provoke the armed forces in places like Chen Quzhen.The reason is nothing more than that these foreign troops are not familiar with the terrain, and this kind of attack is of the nature of a gust of wind. They either set up an ambush to eliminate them, or hide in the mountains to avoid the limelight.In this way, it is difficult to see the merits of the campaign, but Chen Quzhen is different. They are local snakes like the bandits.Even if he doesn't go up the mountain to suppress, if he seals off the mountain or cuts off the channels for selling stolen goods, these bandits can only gnaw bark on the mountain.Therefore, under many policies, Wang Zhenyu, who has already determined to be the local leader in Xiangxi, is not worried about these bandits at all.

Seeing Wang Zhenyu's confidence, Long Tingjiu half-kneeled and said, "Long Tingjiu is willing to encourage the Lord."

Chapter 100 Phoenix Walk ([-])

From this point of view, it means that there is less reading, and the words are just jokes. Wang Zhenyu laughed and helped him up: "Mr. Long, you don't need to be too polite. You don't need to call the master or anything in the future. It is okay to call you by your name. You will be our army from now on." The martial arts instructor in the school and my adjutant, the rank of major, will be a family from now on."

Looking at her husband in a good mood, Ye Ziwen suddenly had a strange feeling, is this bad husband, smelly husband, really traveling with her to relax?

After accepting Long Tingjiu, everyone still went to Yongshun to play according to the original plan.This time, because Tian Yingquan arranged it very well, everyone fully experienced the feeling of being unable to cry apes on both sides of the strait, and the light boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains.The scenery on both sides of the Mengdong River and the mysterious cave finally made Miss Ye happy for a while.Ye Ziwen even coquettishly said to Wang Zhenyu in public: "Husband, we will come here when we have holidays, okay?"

Wang Zhenyu thought to himself that you thought I, the guardian envoy, was a student who went to school, and there was still a holiday.But since my wife brought it up, of course it was a good idea to say it casually, but I just forgot it after I followed it. . .

Since ancient times, Sichuan has been a land of abundance, with rich land and a large population.However, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the population of this area was almost extinct due to the impact of war.The first time was the most efficient massacre in the world maintained by the Mongols, and the second time was the result of Zhang Xianzhong's highly revolutionary revolution.

Thanks to Zhang Xianzhong, Sichuan has ten rooms and nine empty rooms, in order to ensure the local economic development.The Qing Dynasty, which had been upgraded from a bandit group with the right to injure illegally to a statistical group with the right to injure legally, had to carry out the historically famous filling of Huguang and Sichuan.This also makes it difficult for some northerners in later generations to distinguish the accents of Sichuan, Hunan, and Hubei. Of course, southerners cannot distinguish the accents of Henan and Anhui, Shandong and Shanxi.

The world is in chaos before Shu is in chaos, and the world is already in peace before Shu!

The former is determined by the regional characteristics of Sichuan people, while the latter is caused by the geographical characteristics of Sichuan.

The so-called regional characteristics of Sichuan people, the first point is that they can endure hardships, and the second point is that they are bloody.

To put it simply, honest people are basically the ones who can endure hardships, and it is the most terrible thing for honest people to get angry.

Only a little more than a year ago, those dignitaries in the Qing Dynasty who felt superior to others finally fooled and crazily provoked the people of Sichuan.As a result, the resulting road protection movement eventually evolved into the [-] Revolution that destroyed the Qing Dynasty.

The honesty of Sichuan people makes people despise, but the bloody behavior of Sichuan people at the end of oppression makes people frightened.Humble, timid, cowardly; brave, fearless, majestic; such contradictory characters are intertwined in the bones of Sichuan people, thus affecting the direction of Chinese history time and time again.

After Huguang filled Sichuan, the Sichuan people in turn exported two things to Huguang.One is a magic soldier, this Wang Zhenyu has already dealt with in Jingzhou, and he almost suffered a big loss, this magic soldier himself is an armed force formed by religious believers to protect themselves and resist bandits.The result is the same as all armed forces in history. When it develops to an extreme, it changes qualitatively, from self-protection to bullying and harming one side.The second is the Gelaohui. When people talk about the gangs in the Republic of China, they always say that there are Hongmen in the south and Qinggang in the north. It seems that these two gangs are the only ones in China.In fact, in Sichuan, Hunan, Shaanxi, and Hubei, the Gelaohui is the one that counts, and the Gelaohui is one of Sichuan's specialties.

The Gelaohui, originated in Sichuan and Chongqing, is a secret association organization active in the Yangtze River Basin in modern China, with great momentum and influence.Among them, the Gelaohui in Sichuan and Chongqing are called Paoge.

Although the revolutionaries repeatedly emphasized that the Gelaohui originated from Hongmen in their propaganda for the needs of the revolution, in fact, the true origin of the Gelaohui should be the Sichuan dialect, which means robber in Sichuan dialect.

It itself is a triad organization composed of refugees. The earliest official record is that it appeared at the end of Yongzheng and the beginning of Qianlong. It is estimated that it has little to do with Hongmen.This organization has neither the great ideal of anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty, nor the ambition to unify the Jianghu.Their greatest pleasure is to occupy a pier and hang around for a lifetime.

After a hundred years of development, relying on the Yangtze River shipping, Gelaohui has gone out of Sichuan.Those who stayed in Sichuan called themselves Hanliu, while those who left the Yangtze River came into contact with the Qing Gang. After friction and confrontation, they called themselves the Red Gang to distinguish them.

In this way, the Gelaohui, together with the Green Gang and the Hongmen, became one of the three major gangs in modern Chinese history.

As for the famous people who were born in Gelaohuipao, I won't list them here one by one. It's not uncommon for the warlords to have been there.

But right now Wang Zhenyu is very worried about this organization, because on his own territory, the Gelaohui not only exists, but is also very prosperous.

In the battle of Jingzhou, Wang Zhenyu had a good time. The bandits and magic soldiers in this period were not strong enough to challenge the government.If the War to Protect the Country broke out in 1916 and the Northern Army suffered a disastrous defeat, it would not be about suppressing bandits, but how not to be suppressed by bandits.

When the Northern Army suffered a disastrous defeat, they were very wicked and threw their weapons in western Hunan. It doesn't matter how they threw them.The important thing is that with the guns and cannons, the bandits and magic soldiers in Xiangxi swelled up like blowing up balloons. The 600-year Xiangxi banditry has reached its climax in history, but it is a pity that there is no such thing as history.

Wang Zhenyu was very lucky, relying on the 4000 guns of the Tiger Brigade, he wiped out the inexhaustible bandits and magic soldiers who had dominated the western Hunan area for 600 years.Moreover, it was someone who came to ask to clean up, and Wang Zhenyu felt embarrassed if he didn't clean up.In this operation, the bandits were the worst, and those who survived either became coolies or changed their careers to do good.And the god soldiers are not much better, they lost the qualification to organize armed forces, otherwise Wang Zhenyu, the demon king, would not mind killing Taoism and Buddhism, anyway, he has a score with the bull head and horse face, and going to Abi Hell is not for him What a horror.

Under the absolute threat of force, most people choose the former between survival and wealth.And those who still wanted to continue the latter were all eliminated by Wang Zhenyu without hesitation. Wang Zhenyu's attitude was very clear, wealth and honor can only be given to me.

The political reforms of the Xiangxi Development Company and the county government have turned the merchant group into their hard-core allies and staunchest supporters.

But after Fenghuang's encounter, the Gan army based on the garrison army suddenly became his subordinates.Looking at the whole of Xiangxi, there are almost no opponents, except Gelaohui.

Long Tingjiu has been in Xiangxi for a long time, and he has dealt with people from the Gelaohui, so he is considered an authority in this regard.Therefore, Wang Zhenyu also humbly asked him for advice on related matters. Long Tingjiu was a newcomer, so he naturally knew everything.

After listening to Long Tingjiu's introduction, Wang Zhenyu, who had always been worried about the influence of the Gelaohui, was relieved. It turned out that the Gelaohui was not monolithic in Xiangxi, but divided into many forces, and most of them lived by the pier.Among them, there are two well-known ones in western Hunan, both in Sangzhi County, one is the He family and the other is the Gu family.In fact, it is a family, because the eldest daughter of the He family married the Gu family as the daughter-in-law.

He family?Is that the marshal's family in later generations?Wang Zhenyu immediately became interested, and calculated that the marshal is estimated to be only fourteen or fifteen years old now.Shen Congwen mentioned in his book that this marshal was once a groom under Wang Zhenya, the guardian envoy of Changde, but in fact, this man's background is very extraordinary.

The head of the He family is He Shidao, and the head of the Gu family is He Shidao's nephew Gu Hu. Gu Hu is married to He Ying, the eldest daughter of He Shidao, so the two families are actually one family.

For this Gu Hu, Long Ting has known the details for a long time. This person is tall, easy to make friends, keeps promises, and shows loyalty. He is the leading brother of the "Singles Club".His friends are everywhere in the mountains, streets and wharves on the border of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou, and they are very influential in western Hunan.

"Bachelor Party? This name is really bachelor!" Wang Zhenyu teased.

After thinking for a while, Wang Zhenyu asked again: "What is the main business of these gangs?"

"On the surface, they are all buying coolies, tea, salt, opium, tung oil and other messy goods. They are responsible for shipping." Long Tingjiu also paused for a while, and continued: "In fact, their main business is selling illegal salt. "

Wang Zhenyu nodded. In fact, the problem of private salt has existed in all dynasties. Until later generations, salt has been monopolized by the state.Even in order to maximize profits, the relevant departments did not hesitate to concoct a shocking lie that if you don't eat iodized official salt, you will get a big neck.Although the lies cannot withstand scrutiny (how did the Chinese avoid the big neck disease in the thousands of years before the new China?), but the lovely people actually believe it and pay for it. What is the final result?Iodine excess and some people's pours.

As for salt and tobacco, Wang Zhenyu's initial plan was to specialize in them. After all, these two items are usually not obvious, but once they are franchised, the profits will be very high.Especially salt, even though you can't eat much in a month, everyone has to eat it. Once the territory expands, the profit will be hundreds of millions.The most proof is the current taxation in China. The annual salt tax has reached a staggering 4000 million yuan, which is the same as the customs tariff (this shows that the customs tariff is low), accounting for [-]% of the total tax revenue.

Knowing this, Wang Zhenyu did not hand over the management rights of salt and tobacco to Hongshang when he distributed the business of Xiangxi Development Company, but kept it in his own hands.As for opium, you have to pay it, because Liu Qishan is already the biggest opium dealer in Xiangxi, if you don't continue to use him, you can only kill him and start a new one. The cost of doing this is too high, and you will be offended by it Hong Shang is not cost-effective.

The profits of tobacco are not obvious yet, but the benefits of salt are visible right now.

He Shidao, what Gu Hu and others do, even if Long Ting doesn't say it for a long time, Wang Zhenyu is clear about it.Because the story of two kitchen knives making a revolution has long existed in his childhood memory.A marshal has followed his father and brother-in-law to traffic in smuggled salt since he was 11 years old, and the revolution that developed in the end may not be class-conscious, and was attacked by the government's salt department.After careful analysis, the government did not have the strength of its own, so it became a riot.Decades later, out of the need to serve politics, a group of literati called the anti-government campaign of private salt dealers a revolution.

Wang Zhenyu made up his mind, if the He family and the Gu family can follow him, and at the same time have the ability to control the entire Gelaohui in Xiangxi.In return, Wang Zhenyu will hand over the salt franchise to these two companies.No one can resist such a big temptation.

Thinking of this, Wang Zhenyu asked Long Tingjiu to take his invitation card to invite these two to dinner, by the way, bring a Ganjun company over there, if he refuses to come, he will forcefully invite them. . .

Chapter 100 Phoenix Walk ([-])

From this point of view, it means that there is less reading, and the words are just jokes. Wang Zhenyu laughed and helped him up: "Mr. Long, you don't need to be too polite. You don't need to call the master or anything in the future. It is okay to call you by your name. You will be our army from now on." The martial arts instructor in the school and my adjutant, the rank of major, will be a family from now on."

Looking at her husband in a good mood, Ye Ziwen suddenly had a strange feeling, is this bad husband, smelly husband, really traveling with her to relax?

After accepting Long Tingjiu, everyone still went to Yongshun to play according to the original plan.This time, because Tian Yingquan arranged it very well, everyone fully experienced the feeling of being unable to cry apes on both sides of the strait, and the light boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains.The scenery on both sides of the Mengdong River and the mysterious cave finally made Miss Ye happy for a while.Ye Ziwen even coquettishly said to Wang Zhenyu in public: "Husband, we will come here when we have holidays, okay?"