Beiyang reactionaries

The same is to make money, Gu Pinzhen can only ask Zhou Zhongyue and the others for money.But that damn Deng Hanxiang's wrist is many times stronger than Gu Pinzhen's.In central Yunnan, opium merchants were arrested and their property confiscated.Then, under the pretext of supervising the opium trade, they controlled most of the Lijin bureaus and checkpoints in central Yunnan.My waist pocket bulged when I touched it.

Coupled with Duan Xun's support behind him, Deng Hanxiang himself is not short of money.

Deng Hanxiang and Yu Enyang cooperated to poach the former officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Army to join the troops of the Sichuan-Yunnan Anti-smoking Administration.And Li Youxun, who is the director of the Yunnan Smoking Ban Bureau, is even more powerful.

Relying on his connections in Yunnan, he poached an unknown number of people from the army.In the end, it led to the fact that the current Yunnan army has fewer troops than when Gu Pinzhen took over as the governor.

In fact, the current main force of the Yunnan Army only has [-] people.Compared with the peak of the Yunnan Army, it is less than half.And because Gu Pinzhen had no money in his hands, he couldn't help the Dian army unit that entered Guangdong, and that unit was about to sever ties with the Dian army now.It is only in the name of the Dian Army in name, it is already in a semi-independent state, and does not accept the command of the Yunnan Dian Army.

It can be said that the Yunnan army, which was so powerful in the southwest and known as "the elite of the Yunnan army, crowned the whole country", has been torn apart.

With the current tense situation in the southwest, the Yunnan Army is also considering a way out.Tang Jiyao has already sent people to contact Gu Pinzhen, Luo Peijin, and Zhao Youxin, and hopes that everyone will cooperate to respond to the law.Taking this as an opportunity to restore the reputation of the Yunnan Army.

Tang Jiyao's proposal moved Gu Pinzhen and the others a little.

After all, if the law protection war is well utilized, it is very likely to change the current situation of the Yunnan Army.If you don't make some moves, given the current situation of the Dian army, sooner or later it will be annexed by Duan Xun.It's better to fight hard, maybe there is a way out.

"It's okay to respond to the Dharma protector, but joining forces with Tang Jiyao is inappropriate, very inappropriate."

Huang Yucheng shook his head.

"Everyone, since the expulsion of Tang Jiyao, we have been promoting Tang Jiyao in Yunnan as an opium dealer and a man of all crimes. We are in the army, we are in school, and we promote it in newspapers every day. Suddenly we have to cooperate with Tang Jiyao again , How do we explain to our officers, how to explain to our soldiers, and to those students. This will make us passive instead.”

After these people cooperated to drive Tang Jiyao away, for their own legitimacy, they severely criticized Tang Jiyao.It's not just a simple criticism, it almost calls Tang Jiyao the number one bastard in the world.

It is not enough to tell the bad things Tang Jiyao has done, and give Tang Jiyao all the unwarranted charges.Anyway, the current Chinese warlords, if it is true, have a lot of black spots, especially Tang Jiyao.The senior generals of the Yunnan Army ruined Tang Jiyao's reputation in this way, so that now Tang Jiyao is definitely a figure that everyone shouts and beats in Yunnan.At this time, the Dian army cooperated with Tang Jiyao again, how to explain to everyone.

Moreover, Huang Yucheng and Tang Jiyao were at odds. When Tang Jiyao was driven away, Huang Yucheng was the one who made the most noise, and he also let Duan Xun's army go south.He didn't want to give Tang Jiyao a chance to make a comeback.So he immediately expressed his opposition to cooperating with Tang Jiyao.

"That's what I meant too."

Ye Quan said: "We can protect the law accordingly. After all, this is Mr. Sun's idea. However, I am opposed to cooperating with Tang Jiyao. Our Yunnan army finally severed relations with Tang Jiyao, and we should not join forces with him again."

"Correct."

Jiang Meiling spoke.

Even Jiang Meiling smiled wryly and said: "Do you know what the slogan of our young officers in the Yunnan Army is now? The slogan they are shouting now is 'into southern Yunnan and expel Tang Jiyao'. They are all gearing up, thinking that bandits in southern Yunnan are rampant, The opium rampage is a disgrace to our Yunnan army and a disgrace to our Yunnan. We must restore a clean southern Yunnan and a clean Yunnan.”

Compared with others, what Jiang Meiling said made Gu Pinzhen, Luo Peijin and the others listen even more.

Because the so-called public opinion can be changed as long as there is time.But no one can ignore the military spirit.The young officers mentioned by Jiang Meiling are not actually young officers anymore, because most of the graduates of the lecture hall who participated in the Chung Ninth Uprising are now in their 30s.All of them were brigade-level officers, and many of them even had the rank of major general.Among the troops of the Yunnan Army that entered Guangdong, Zhu Peide even became a division commander.

Most of them were concentrated in the First Division of the Yunnan Army under Gu Pinzhen, the Second Division of the Yunnan Army under Luo Peijin, and the Fifth Division under Zhao Youxin.Of course, there are also some people who work in various departments of the Governor's Mansion.It is the core force of the current Yunnan army.

"What about their attitude towards the Dharma protectors?"

Luo Peijin asked Jiang Meiling.

Among the current generals, Gu Pinzhen, Ye Quan, and Jiang Meiling have a better relationship with the batch of lecture hall graduates who rose up in the year of [-].However, during this period of time, Gu Pinzhen had just served as the governor of Yunnan, so she was extremely busy and had no time to take care of those things.Ye Quan, on the other hand, led the troops on the front line, and didn't have much contact with this group of people.Only Jiang Meiling served as the temporary chief of staff of the Governor's Mansion and had frequent contact with these officers.

"There is not much enthusiasm. It is completely different from the attitude when protecting the country two years ago."

"How could this be?"

Luo Peijin frowned, somewhat disbelieving.These young officers of the Dian Army are full of enthusiasm.Like during the War to Protect the Country, they were more active than anyone else, and they all came out to put pressure on Tang Jiyao.Even when fighting, these officers took the lead one by one.The Dian Army's reputation has a lot to do with the fact that this group of officers are not afraid of death.

The same was true of the later opium problem.

They knew that the biggest opium merchant in Yunnan was Tang Jiyao's younger brother Tang Jyu, but they didn't care at all. Instead, they opposed Tang Jiyao and demanded a smoking ban.Now that Sun Yat-sen called for the guardians, why did they not move much?

"I don't know the details, but I guess it was influenced by the People's Party."

"People's Party?"

Gu Pinzhen frowned.

Before, he always thought that the People's Party was formed by Sun Yat-sen sending people to the southwestern provinces.However, Sun Yat-sen has called for the protection of the law for so long, and there are not many voices of the protection of the law in the southwestern provinces, which is very strange.With the organization of the People's Party, if it was an organization supported by Sun Yat-sen, it should have been active long ago and responded to Sun Yat-sen's protection of the law.But there has been no response so far, which can only show that this organization is not supported by Sun Yat-sen.Or even if they were supported by Sun Yat-sen in the past, they have parted ways now.Otherwise, it would not be so quiet.

"There is also the People's Party in Yunnan?"

"Yes."

Jiang Meiling sighed: "For more than half a year, everyone has been busy with military affairs, so they don't know much. Now the People's Party is rampant in our Yunnan, schools, newspapers and even the army are very active. People's Party books are in our Yunnan It has been widely circulated. Go to the school and see, those students spread the books of the People’s Party just like the articles of our Revolutionary Party were circulated in the late Qing Dynasty.”

"Then why not stop it?"

"This one……"

Jiang Meiling paused and said, "Because many of the People's Party's articles come from Prime Minister (Sun Yat-sen)'s Three People's Principles, and many of them are reinterpreting and expanding the Three People's Principles. We have no reason to arrest people. What reason do we have to prohibit the dissemination of these articles? And they are very well-organized. I sent someone to find out a little bit. Those who are active outside are all peripheral organizations called the Youth League of the People's Party. Few are true members of the People's Party. The bigger problem is that we Many young officers in the army read these books and participate in their activities in their spare time. If we deal with the People’s Party issue toughly, there may be a backlash, which is difficult to deal with.”

"Humph."

Gu Pinzhen snorted coldly, and said: "I have always suspected this so-called People's Party. Now it seems that he organized it by the Sichuan side and used this method to infiltrate our troops."

"Hard to say."

Ropekin shook his head.

Then he sighed: "Actually, I have read several books of the People's Party that are currently circulating in Yunnan. To be honest, the person who wrote this book is definitely a theorist, not even an ordinary person. If it can really develop according to this step, China will still It is really possible to be saved. If it is Sichuan, there are such powerful people in Sichuan, who can write such a strategy for governing the country? There are no theory masters in Sichuan, and theories from the revolutionary party. We are not familiar with it, but we never knew that there is such a Kind of people."

"Hey, don't talk about that."

Gu Pinzhen waved his hand and said, "If this is the case, then it will be more difficult for us to respond to the Dharma protectors."

"Yes."

Jiang Meiling said with certainty: "Our young officers are more interested in southern Yunnan. They hope that we will expel Tang Jiyao, suppress the bandits in southern Yunnan, and prohibit the opium trade in southern Yunnan. Moreover, the relationship between our young officers and the officers of the Sichuan army It was handled very well, and the fight was fierce. It will take time to convince them to turn their guns to fight the Sichuan army. But we don’t have much time, and we can’t guarantee that the news will not leak out.”

"Damn."

Gu Pinzhen frowned.

I was busy with other things during this period of time, I didn't expect that these officers under my command would contact the officers in Sichuan frequently during this period.But yes, the Dian Army troops, Duan Xun's [-]th Mixed Brigade, and the Armed Police Force are all stationed in Central Dian.They are not very far from each other, and some contact is very common.

"The officers in Sichuan? Who are they?"

"Zhang Zizhong, Li Hong, and Wang Tianpei from the former Fourth Mixed Brigade, and Lu Zhonglin and Pan Wenhua from the former Sichuan Armed Police Force. They usually communicate very closely, and there are usually some exercises between the troops."

"that's it?"

"Usually it seems that they mainly discuss some military training issues, and the two sides discuss each other. But they not only meet on the training ground, but also have regular gatherings."

"Hey--"

Gu Pinzhen didn't know what to say.

That bastard Duan Xun originally came up with this idea.This is not to draw salary from the bottom of the Yunnan army.If the Yunnan Army did not have this group of important officers, it would be falling apart.After all, the Yunnan Army is formed by batch after batch of students from the Yunnan Lecture Hall.