Beiyang reactionaries

The Second Division of the Shaanxi Army, which could have been compared with Hu Jingyi's troops, was dismembered by Jing Wumu.Only the Fourth Brigade of the Shaanxi Army remained under Guo Jian's direct command.The Fifth Brigade and Sixth Brigade are difficult to command.

After rectifying Guo Jian severely, the entire Shaanxi army is now very honest.Moreover, the Shaanxi Army does not dare to fall out with Duan Xun now.After all, they were still waiting for Duan Xun's weapons, ammunition and military pay.

In a few strokes, Duan Xun has already made the Shaanxi army honest.

And the Shaanxi provincial government is even more so.

As Duan Xun took advantage of investment opportunities in Shaanxi, including building railways, investing in education, building water conservancy, and developing Shaanxi's mining industry.In order to develop these industries, Duan Xun said that he would invest funds.

Therefore, all departments of the Shaanxi provincial government have begun to mobilize.

Turn according to the plan formulated by Duan Xun and the Shaanxi Provincial Government.But the money is in the hands of Duan Xun, and Duan Xun controls everything about the Shaanxi Provincial Government at any time.Once these plans were launched, it was simply impossible to stop them.

Therefore, Duan Xun's voice in the provincial government is getting bigger and bigger.

At the same time, many people in the Shaanxi provincial government have slowly begun to lean towards Duan Xun.Including Guo Xiren, governor of Shaanxi Province, is now openly standing on Duan Xun's side.

Everything is moving in a good direction.

"what happened?"

Duan Xun put down the pen in his hand and asked Yang Yongtai.

"There is news from Paris. It is said that the British government has proposed an arms embargo against China. It believes that China is still in civil war. For the sake of China's domestic peace, arms should not be sold to my country. The United States, France, Italy, and Japan have all agreed and signed They signed an arms embargo agreement. They will soon impose an arms embargo on our country, including gun barrels needed by domestic arsenals. Anyway, they will not allow any military materials to enter our country.”

"Everyone in the country should know about it, right?"

"I think everyone in the country who should know already knows about it. After all, this agreement will have a great impact on the country."

Duan Xun was a little puzzled.

Historically, the arms embargo only appeared after the May [-]th Movement broke out in China.How come it is several months ahead of schedule now.But Duan Xun didn't think too deeply, maybe it was the butterfly effect brought by him.

In fact, it is true.

Duan Xun bombarded the British warship, which made the British lose face.Zhu Erdian believes that this happened because Japan was backing and fanning the flames behind.Without the backing of Japan, how could Duan Xun have the guts to bombard British warships.And Japan can cultivate so many pro-Japanese elements in China because Japan can sell arms to China.

In order to obtain Japanese arms, the warlords in China have a close relationship with Japan, and all of them have become pro-Japanese elements.The expansion of Japan's influence in China has seriously affected the interests of Britain.Therefore, Zhu Erdian proposed to the British government that in order to prevent the unlimited expansion of Japanese power, the arms trade to China should be banned, and Japan should be prohibited from using arms to win more Chinese warlords.

That's why there was an arms embargo several months in advance.

"Good thing."

Duan Xun sneered.

embargo?

An embargo is an embargo, but Duan Xun knows it well.Originally, the Sichuan Arsenal also needed to buy a lot of things from abroad in order to be able to assemble rifles and artillery.But Duan Xun told Han Linchun a few years ago that even if our technology is backward, the quality and power of the guns we manufacture are not good, but we must complete domestic production.

Now comes the benefit.

Let you embargo, embargo casually.Other domestic warlords may be afraid, other arsenals may be afraid, but Duan Xun is not afraid.

"What about Han Linchun's news?"

"He said that he has been buying all kinds of arms in the domestic market during this period, and he has hired hundreds of skilled workers from the Hanyang Arsenal."

"it is good."

Duan Xun was overjoyed.

When Duan Xun told Han Linchun that Europe, America and Japan were going to impose an arms embargo on China, Han Linchun immediately made arrangements.As the head of the equipment department, Han Linchun is not only in charge of the arms supply of Duan Xun's troops, but also the Sichuan arsenal.

And every time Duan Xun bought arms, he couldn't get around Han Linchun.After all, the arms purchased must be registered in the equipment department, so that the equipment department can grasp the situation of the army's arms.Even when Duan Xun purchased arms, most of the time the equipment department personally came forward.

So Han Linchun is quite good in this line of work.After Han Linchun received the allocation from Duan Xun, he began to scan the domestic arms market and purchased a large number of arms that were circulating in the domestic arms market.

In fact, there are not many arms flowing in the current domestic arms market. After all, all major domestic warlords need arms, and there will not be a large amount of arms flowing in the domestic arms market.Originally, there were not many ammunition in circulation, but Han Linchun made a strong move and almost wiped out all the ammunition circulating in the domestic arms market.After that, they sent people to poach a large number of workers from the Hanyang Arsenal.

What Han Linchun meant was simple.

It is necessary to cause a rapid shortage of arms in the domestic arms market, so that China's major warlords and some underground forces cannot obtain any arms.Coupled with the news of the arms embargo, it will inevitably cause the price of arms in the domestic arms market to rise rapidly in a short period of time.

More importantly, Han Linchun also attacked Hanyang Arsenal.

Since Liu Qingen and the others left the Hanyang Arsenal, the output of the Hanyang Arsenal has plummeted.With the poaching of a large number of skilled workers, the output of the Hanyang Arsenal must have continued to decline.

At that time, the domestic arms market will be dominated by the Sichuan Arsenal.As long as European, American and Japanese countries embargo weapons, Duan Xun is the only one who can sell arms in the domestic arms market in a short period of time and has arms reserves.

Han Linchun is very smart.

He spent more than 200 million hoarding arms in a few months, and he could double the profit if he sold them after a month or two.In another six months or a year, it will be several times the profit.

"By the way, brother Changqing. I wanted to find you."

"General, what's the matter?"

"Brother Changqing, are you familiar with the people from Chen Jiongming's side?"

"I know quite a few people. General, as you know, I am from Cantonese."

Yang Yongtai nodded.

Yang Yongtai is from Cantonese and has a wide network of contacts in Guangdong.Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming all started in Guangdong, and Yang Yongtai is very familiar with the people under them.During the War to Protect the Nation, Li Liejun treated Yang Yongtai very well and let him be the financial director of his army.

It is to value his connections in Guangdong and use his connections to raise military salaries for the troops.

It is also for this reason that Sun Yat-sen has always valued Yang Yongtai, and he is planning to appoint him as the Director of Finance of the Guangdong Military Government.Yang Yongtai has enough connections in Guangdong.

"General, do you want to contact Chen Jiongming?"

"kindness."

Duan Xun smiled and said, "Brother Changqing, I'm not going to hide it from you. At present, the relationship between the Zhili and Anhui factions of our Beiyang Army is getting worse and worse, especially Cao Kun's strength has expanded rapidly in recent years. His Zhili was originally only There are three mixed brigades, but I heard that Cao Kun recently wants to expand the troops into six mixed brigades. If this continues, the two sides will fight sooner or later. Wu Peifu and the Hunan and Guangdong armies negotiated a peace in Hengyang, and the relationship with Lu Rongting is also very hot. Yes With Wu Peifu's support, Lu Rongting's strength recovered quickly. This is not good for us."

"The general wants Chen Jiongming and Lu Rongting to fight?"

"Well. What do you think?"

Yang Yongtai is a smart person, Duan Xun just briefly introduced the current situation and Yang Yongtai guessed what Duan Xun meant.

Although Lu Rongting was born as a bandit, he has been in Guangxi for many years and is very powerful.Duan Xun has long wanted to deal with Lu Rongting, and then take Guangxi.It's just that Duan Xun is Duan Qirui's direct descendant, and the current situation is that it affects the whole body.As long as Duan Xun moves, public opinion across the country will rise.So Duan Xun has been afraid to do anything, but Duan Xun is eyeing Guangxi.

So you must let them fight first, so that you have a chance.

"Have the opportunity."

After Yang Yongtai thought for a while, he said to Duan Xun: "General, Lu Rongting is still serving as the patrol envoy of Guangdong and Guangxi, controlling Guangxi and Guangdong. He also joined forces with the Guangdong and Yunnan Army to expel Sun Yat-sen and control the Guangdong military government. The army has a deep grudge. Chen Jiongming and the others are the legitimate Guangdong army, but Guangdong is in the hands of Lu Rongting. Guangdong's finances are controlled by Lu Rongting, and the Guangdong army has long been dissatisfied. Guangdong is so rich, and Lu Rongting's troops are also living very well. But Lu Rongting has always been Withholding the payment of the Cantonese army, the conflict between the two sides is almost irreconcilable. If Lu Rongting was not powerful, and Jiangxi Governor Chen Guangyuan and Fujian Governor Li Houji put tremendous pressure on the Cantonese Army, the two sides would have fought a long time ago."