Beiyang reactionaries

"What?"

"This man is from Nanyang, and he is well-known in the Wanxi area. He is the owner of Tiger Village in Neixiang. Although this person is just a village owner, he is bold. The villages, towns and villages around Tiger Village listen to him, and even Neixiang The leader of the militia must avoid three points. He governs the inner countryside completely according to his own ideas. Moreover, this person believes in Zhuge Liang's idea of ​​"using heavy codes in troubled times", and he is unselfish in the inner countryside, and will not give anyone's face. No matter it is The poor are still landlords, as long as he violates his regulations, he will be shot and punished. Of course, because of his bad temper, there are many local complaints."

Duan Xun listened to Jiang Hongyu's introduction and nodded.

Tiger Village sounds like a bandit's den, but it's actually a bit different from the bandit's den.This is what Duan Xun didn't know until he came to Henan.In Henan, like in Shaanxi, swordsmen are rampant.

These swordsmen, also known as generals in Henan, are a group of desperadoes to put it bluntly.Some of them participated in the Revolution of [-] with the Revolutionary Party, some continued to live freely, and some were bandits that no one dared to mess with.

It doesn't matter whether they are generals, free and easy swordsmen, or even officials, they have a bad temper and plunder places at every turn.As a result, many villages in Henan began to form villages to protect themselves, and thus came out cottages with various names.

This tiger village should be the place where some villages, towns and villages in Neixiang were established through cooperation.

Suddenly said: "How do you know him?"

"Some time ago we were not going to encircle and suppress Bai Lang's troops. I need to find out about the composition of the local troops in Nanyang and Shanzhou, and maybe I need their help. And I am also afraid that these people will join Bai Lang. I happened to see this person's profile I found that this person was completely different from the village owners and militia commanders in all other places, so I took a closer look at his situation. I found that this person has studied in private schools for ten years, and the person I admire most in my life is Zhuge Liang."

"It's really interesting, really interesting."

Duan Xun slowly smiled.

Not bad.

I need such a person now.Who can do business in western Henan, which one has no strength behind it, and which one is not a local powerful faction.Setting up a checkpoint here by oneself offends these people in itself.

And the situation in western Henan is complicated.

In particular, so many bandits in western Henan have deep ties to local landlords and even poor people.Although Duan Xun suppressed the bandits during this period, he did not touch these people.But without touching them, it is impossible to reorganize Yuxi.

If you want to sort out the west of Henan, you need this kind of iron-fisted person.More importantly, this person is not from Western Henan, but from Nanyang, so it would be easier for him to work here.

"Can he come?"

Judging by Bie Tingfang's appearance, he is completely a tyrant at home, and he doesn't know if he can come to the west of Henan to help him.

"I think there is no problem. He is an ambitious person, an ambitious person. Now he is just a small village owner in a small place, with only a hundred people under him. As long as we promise to protect him Tiger Village, and I heard that one of his brothers is currently imprisoned in the county seat, if we help his brother, I think he has no reason to refuse. Coming to us is the big stage."

"Row."

Duan Xun nodded.

Immediately said: "Then contact him for me. Let him come, and I will let him take charge of the checkpoints in the Luoning area. If I am satisfied, I will let him take charge of the entire checkpoint in Western Henan, and rectify Western Henan."

"kindness."

"The checkpoint is not bad. But it will take some time to control all the checkpoints in western Henan. After all, many checkpoints in western Henan are in the hands of militia groups in various counties in western Henan, and our control is limited. So I think Mining?"

"Mine?"

"kindness."

Duan Xun nodded, and said: "I also checked some information on western Henan recently. I found that our western Henan is still the hometown of gold. There have always been people panning for gold in Song County and Lingbao, which shows that there is gold in this place. It's just that Since then, there are high mountains and dense forests here, too many bandits, and the gold panning is not on a large scale. I am going to completely sweep this place, and then pan for gold."

"I've heard rumors about gold panning in these places many times, but the output has always been low. Is this okay?"

"Of course. In the past, no one paid attention to it. As long as they pay attention, these are not a problem. I want to dig for gold here as military expenses for our army. But before I find the gold, I need to prepare quietly."

"it is good."

"Then talk about the coal mines."

23 money 2

"Aren't there coal mines in Xin'an and Mianchi? I want to bring them under our control."

Make money.

To become a great warlord, you must have money in your hands.It is completely impossible to become a big warlord if only relying on financial appropriations.The current Duan Xun is just a small officer who has just risen.

Where is the opportunity to collect money.

Of course, Duan Xun is different from many other generals of the Beiyang Army.After they occupy a place, they start to search the place and put the money into their own pockets.Just like when Ni Sichong entered Anhui.

They not only put money into their own pockets, but also let their subordinates rob money.

But Duan Xun is different.

Duan Xun's idea is to earn money, and then use that money to expand his army and strengthen his army's strength.It's not that Duan Xun is so honest, so selfless and fearless.

But because Duan Xun knew.

Knowing how chaotic China will be in the future, everything outside the body without strength is imaginary.As long as one's own strength is strong, then those things are still within reach.At present, although many local warlords in China can see this trend, they are not as clear as Duan Xun.After all, the current Yuan Shikai's Beiyang government has a very stable rule, and no local force dares to blatantly oppose the Beiyang government.

But Duan Xun understood that the current stability was only temporary.China will soon enter into a warlord melee.

So Duan Xun knows how to distinguish priorities.

"Dig coal?"

Jiang Hongyu really didn't know what to say now.

Duan Xun wanted to make money, Jiang Hongyu could understand that.After all, Duan Xun is so young, it is understandable to want to climb up.But look at Duan Xun, not only to set up checkpoints to make money, but also to open gold mines.

Now the idea of ​​mining coal began again.

There are indeed coal mines in Xin'an and Mianchi.Although it is not very famous because there is no large-scale mining, there are currently many small-scale coal mining factories in that place.

Unexpectedly, Duan Xun reached into the Mianchi coal mine.

However, Jiang Hongyu immediately stopped him and said, "Degong (Duan Xun) has taken too big a step. Although we are not short of money now, we are not at the point where we can spend it recklessly. It takes a lot to open a coal mine." Money, we are still short of money. You say, we need machines for mining. Even if we mine, we need to pull out the coal, and the money we need to invest is not a star. We don’t have that much money.”

Duan Xun is rich.

That's because the military pay was issued according to the establishment, but Duan Xun's troops were not full at all.So although Duan Xun didn't think about eating empty pay, it turned out to be empty paying.

Now Duan Xun's troops are nearly 2000 short of the establishment.

Therefore, the military salary that is not enough for the number of people is currently put in his small treasury by Duan Xun.And now we are fighting bandits, and we have captured a lot.With the addition of some earthen guns, everything Duan Xun despised was sold on the black market.What's more important is that Duan Xun's position has been rising steadily recently. Many wealthy people in western Henan have given Duan Xun a lot of money in order to cling to Duan Xun.

After this, Duan Xun really has a lot of money in his hands.

But it is not so easy to set up a coal plant for mining coal.The smallest coal mine of this kind has to invest several thousand taels of silver, and whichever one is slightly higher-grade and larger will cost tens of thousands, 10,000+ taels of silver.

So much money is completely astronomical for the current Duan Xun.

"Even if you are short of money, you have to do it, and you have to do it. Everything must be completed within half a year. If it is not enough, you can go to the bank for a loan in my name. No matter what, this coal mine must be opened."

"why?"