Beiyang reactionaries

"Okay, Mr. Yang. I want to go back and continue to work on my business. In fact, I put you here not only to worry about you causing trouble in Sichuan, but also to protect your safety. I am worried that something will happen to you among the chaos. When I take over Sichuan in the future, I still need a great talent like Mr. Yang to help me manage Sichuan well."

Yang Wei sneered after hearing Duan Xun's words.

"General Duan, you are too wishful thinking. Do you think I will assist you?"

"I don't know. Anyway, I am not from Sichuan, and I am a soldier. If no one assists me, then I will govern Sichuan in the way of a soldier. Anyway, I have nothing to do with the life and death of Sichuan people. Mr. Yang, what do you say Woolen cloth?"

"you……"

"Hahaha. Mr. Yang, if I want to govern Sichuan, I must govern Sichuan as the best in the country. Because I still want to use Sichuan as a springboard to become a great president in the future. But if I want to do this, I need a great talent like Mr. Yang .”

Yang Wei looked at Duan Xun's back and was silent for a long time before he sighed.

This kid is bold, capable, and ambitious.But it was so bold that Yang Wei couldn't believe it.A brigade commander of a mixed brigade actually dreamed of his dream of taking control of Sichuan.Sichuan is a large province with nearly 5000 million people, so how can it be so easy to control.

But is it really going to succeed?

Yang Wei couldn't help thinking about it.If Duan Xun really takes over Sichuan, what will he do then?

48 last moments

"This bastard is lawless."

Since coming to Luzhou, Duan Xun's strength has expanded rapidly.

Luzhou is indeed a rich place, and it is not comparable to Western Henan.Duan Xun took over the Sichuan South Branch of the Salt Audit Office in Luzhou for more than a month, and the money was rushed into Duan Xun's pocket, which surprised Duan Xun himself.In just one month, Duan Xunguang earned more than 20 yuan from the salt tax.It is comparable to Duan Xun opening a mine in western Henan, and even easier than Duan Xun opening a mine in western Henan to make money.

amazing.

This year, there are millions of taels, or even two to three million taels of income.

There is also Luzhou as a traffic artery, and countless ships pass through here.It is precisely because of this that a large number of merchants gather here, and it costs money and taxes to eat, drink, and transport.Originally, these were taxes from the Sichuan government, and they were taxes that the Sichuan government attached great importance to, but now they are all being withheld by Duan Xun.You can earn nearly 30 in a month.

It's no wonder that the Yunnan Army, the Qian Army, and the Sichuan Army all stared at this place.Regardless of whether it is the year of [-] or after, they will lead troops into this place and seize it whenever they have the opportunity.It's all because the Zigong salt here brings too much income, which is amazing.As long as any party takes this place, it will have enough military expenses.After Duan Xun had the money, he became bolder.

Incorporate all the government departments such as the police station and finance bureau in Luzhou into their own Luzhou town guard office.These departments are all placed in their own hands, and the people they send are all from their own troops.In just over a month, the entire Luzhou was in the hands of Duan Xun.Then there is the large-scale suppression of bandits.Li Jishen took his own 67th regiment and Yu Xuezhong's cavalry regiment of more than 6000 people to suppress bandits in Luzhou area.Bandits are different from place to place.

Western Henan is poor, so the bandits in western Henan are poor.Luzhou is rich, so the Luzhou bandits are rich.

Because what the Luzhou bandits did was rob salt merchants and salt taxes.It has only been four years since the beginning of Xinhai, but there have been many major cases where these Sichuan bandits robbed tens of thousands of taels of salt merchants’ goods, and there was even a case where Luzhou’s 10,000+ salt tax was robbed on the way to Chengdu. Great case to go.Moreover, there are a lot of rich people here in Luzhou, and if they kidnap a few, they can eat delicious food and drink spicy food.It is precisely because of this that many bandits in the Luzhou area are very rich, and even have good weapons and equipment.Before the Sichuan army turned a blind eye to them, they hadn't seriously encircled and suppressed them.

In other words, many Sichuan troops had a tacit understanding with these bandits before.After these bandits rob money, they will pay protection fees to the Sichuan Army troops.Therefore, the bandits in Luzhou were very rampant.

But Duan Xun is different.

What Duan Xun wants is Sichuan, and he will never allow bandits to exist in the places he controls.A large part of the things that the bandits robbed should have belonged to Duan Xun.So Duan Xun is actively promoting the suppression of bandits.

Li Jishen has rich experience in suppressing bandits.When the bandits were suppressed in Song County, almost all the bandits in Song County for hundreds of years were solved within a few months.Therefore, with more than 6000 people this time, it is even more like cutting melons and vegetables to deal with the bandits here.With Luzhou as the center, all the bandits in a radius of hundreds of miles were wiped out by Li Jishen.

Amazing capture.

In just one month, a large number of weapons and ammunition, as well as a large number of gold bars and silver dollars were seized.

But Duan Xun's actions offended many people.Liu Cunhou was dissatisfied, because this place should have been Liu Cunhou's territory, but Duan Xun directly occupied Luzhou, and he really regarded himself as the master of Luzhou.What surprised Liu Cunhou even more was that Duan Xun took all the money-making projects here into his arms.

Liu Cunhou had been stationed here for a while before, but he only dared to keep some money secretly.Because Liu Cunhou was very afraid of Chen Heng, and was afraid of being caught by Chen Heng.But when Duan Xun came to Luzhou, he swallowed all of these.It was too blatant, it was daring.

And Chen Heng was also dissatisfied.

suffocated.

Too frustrated.

This little bastard Duan Xun is really too flamboyant.It actually cut off one of the most important fiscal revenues of the provincial government.If it weren't for the face of Duan Xun sitting in Luzhou alone, suppressing Zhou Jun's First Division of the Sichuan Army and Liu Cunhou's Second Division of the Sichuan Army, and because Duan Qirui was behind Duan Xun, Chen Heng would have endured it.Otherwise, Chen Heng would have taken Duan Xun's top hat long ago and told him to get out of Sichuan.

Speaking of which, Chen Heng only discovered Duan Xun's actions recently.

Duan Xun set off from western Henan in June and arrived in Chongqing in mid-July.I spent more than half a month in Chongqing, and then set off from Chongqing to Luzhou.Duan Xun really set up camp in Luzhou, and everything was ready, and it was the end of August.

More than a month has passed, and it is now the beginning of October.

Chen Heng asked because the taxes for September were confiscated.But there was no news at all, Chen Heng sent people to Luzhou to check and found out that the place had been directly taken over by Duan Xun.So Chen Heng immediately sent Duan Xun a questioning message, but Duan Xun turned out to be the one who talked about him.

Not only was he ambiguous, but he even cried poorly to himself.

He said that his subordinates are all from Zhili, Shandong, Henan and other places. They are very unaccustomed to Sichuan at present, and the morale of the army is fluctuating.I hope Chen Heng can allocate some money to appease his army.

What Chen Heng wanted was very simple.

Spit out the money.

Chen Heng didn't even think about asking Duan Xun to spit out what he had swallowed before.Although the sum of the money is estimated to be three to four million, but since Duan Xun has swallowed it, Chen Heng also knows that it will be difficult for him to spit it out.But even if he didn't spit out what he swallowed, now he has discovered that Duan Xun should hand over the salt tax to the Sichuan provincial government again.As long as this is the case, Chen Heng will not pursue the money that Duan Xun swallowed before.

But Duan Xun acted as if he didn't hear it, so he just talked with you.

This arguing, the time has entered the end of October, and the two sides have been arguing, and it has been almost a month.Duan Xun also swallowed the October money.In desperation, Chen Heng sent someone to take over the southern Sichuan branch of the Yanwu Audit Office, but it didn't work at all, Duan Xun's army lived there directly.Chen Heng was angry and wanted to give Duan Xun some color.But in November, Yuan Shikai was busy enthroning, and it was the last time.At this time, Chen Heng, the local general, was busy flattering, so he had no time to care about Duan Xun.

With such a blot, time slowly passed, entering December.Yuan Shikai's enthronement also reached the last moment.

Duan Xun continued to strengthen his strength in Luzhou.

During this period of time, Jiang Hongyu still sent Duan Xun a steady stream of various logistics supplies, including a large number of weapons and ammunition.Including Duan Yong personally brought nearly 3000 recruits into Sichuan in the name of delivering supplies and came to Luzhou.

The officers have finished teaching the brigade and assigning them to the various units.By this time, Duan Xun already had 7000 troops in his hands.Duan Xun reorganized his troops.

The 29th mixed brigade, the original establishment has 67 regiments, 68 regiments, 69 regiments, [-] regiments, four regiments, and an artillery regiment.Therefore, Duan Xun completely divided the organization for the first time.

Li Jishen was the head of the 67th Regiment, Shang Zhen was the head of the 68th Regiment, Wan Xuancai was the head of the 69th Regiment, Liu Xiang was the head of the 3000th Regiment, Fang Dingying was the head of the Artillery Regiment, and Yu Xuezhong was the head of the Cavalry Regiment.The 29 people brought by Duan Yong were reorganized into the Luzhou Garrison Regiment, and Duan Yong served as the head of the garrison regiment.Xu Yongchang, the director of the combat department, also serves as the head of the [-]th Brigade Guard Regiment.

Liu Xiang's original Third Regiment of the First Division of the Sichuan Army had less than a thousand people in total.This is the case with the Sichuan Army, or most of the local troops.

A regiment is not enough to make up.Duan Xun directly dismantled the regiment and stuffed it into the 68th and 69th regiments respectively.

But Liu Xiang was not angry.

Because Liu Xiang became the head of the 600th Regiment, the [-]th Regiment had three infantry battalions under its jurisdiction, and Duan Xun assigned Tang Shengzhi's machine gun battalion to the [-]th Regiment.Let the [-]th regiment have more than [-] people, which is twice the number of his previous troops.

Of course, the most powerful is Li Jishen's 67th Regiment, with 500 troops, which is completely a standard mixed brigade.Shang Zhen's 68th Regiment and Wan Xuancai's 69th Regiment both had 3000 people.

In addition to these four main regiments and an artillery regiment, Duan Xun also has Yu Xuezhong's cavalry regiment in his hands.The cavalry regiment has more than 900 horses, more than 800 combat soldiers, more than 600 orderlies, and more than 400 backup soldiers, a total of more than 800 people.

And Xu Yongchang's concurrent guard regiment has 600 soldiers.So far, Duan Xun has 7000 troops in Luzhou.

Strong soldiers.

It was Duan Xun at this time.

Duan Xun's current strength can even be compared with some ordinary two divisions of the Beiyang Army in terms of numbers.In terms of strength, whether it is weapons and equipment, troop training, or combat effectiveness, even facing Cao Kun's third division, Duan Xun is not afraid.