The advance of the Zhenguo army to the banks of the Yangtze River directly threatened the core of Manchu rule, which not only terrified the Manchu upper echelons, but also terrified Yuan Shikai, who was committed to the pursuit of power, for fear that the Zhenguo army would tremble and fight across the Yangtze River to engage the Beiyang army. As a result, the new army of the four towns moved to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the shore fortifications began to be built on a large scale, in addition, Yuan Shikai was still forming more new army towns, and the more than 200,000 powerful army of the Zhenguo Army made Yuan Shikai very insecure.

Fortunately, the Yangtze River is somewhat reassuring, and the victory of the first phase of the Northern Expedition announced by the Zhenguo Army also made Yuan Shikai think that the Zhenguo Army would not cross the Yangtze River for the time being. In addition, Yuan Shikai also sent people to secretly contact the revolutionary government to find out their true intentions, all in order to ensure the stability of his own power.

Of course, the Zhenguo Army will not cross the Yangtze River now, and large-scale and difficult construction activities are waiting for the revolutionary government to deal with them. And the most eye-catching thing is the crackdown on bandits and gangsters that followed after the end of the battle.

The campaign named "Cracking Down on Organized Crime and Eliminating Evil" is not isolated, but is aimed at various cancers that have existed on the land of China for a long time. Pornography, gambling and drugs are evil diseases that poison the country, and most of these things are controlled by local underworld forces. In addition, human trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, etc., are ubiquitous, and they disrupt social order and become the first target to be eradicated.

Needless to say, bandits and thieves exist everywhere, and they are the biggest factor that threatens local law and order. After completing their regular combat tasks, the garrisons in various localities dispersed to various localities to carry out anti-bandit operations, and since the founding of the Zhenguo Army, the anti-bandit operations have been carried out throughout the whole process, and a great deal of combat experience in suppressing bandits has been accumulated. With regular troops as the main force and the security regiment as the auxiliary, the anti-bandit army spread all over Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Lianghu and other provinces, and the unprecedented large-scale operation wiped out the bandits who had endangered society for many years in a short period of time.

The most obvious feature of this crackdown on criminal syndicates and evil forces is that the action has penetrated into all levels of society, and the party and gangs that had been neglected in the past have also been included in the target of the crackdown. Their existence should not be underestimated, and some powerful gangs can even influence the economic development of a place.

In Wuhan, in a cargo hold on the riverbank wharf, more than a dozen fierce men were sitting together, and a fat man named Dahu was the leader of the Tiger Gang. The Tigers control two-thirds of the handling business at the Jiang'an Wharf in Wuhan, as well as the business of flower boats, gambling houses, and tobacco shops, and are the largest underground force in Wuhan. The three King Kongs under the Great Tiger and more than 500 sturdy thugs control more than 3,000 porters who can be converted into thugs at all times.

"Uncle, our business is getting worse and worse, that bullshit revolutionary party won't let you do anything, and the person I sent to contact you was actually put in prison! Do you know how to be an official? Erhu, who controlled the gambling house, complained to the big tiger that a few days ago, the revolutionary government issued an order to completely ban gambling and forcibly closed all gambling houses, and the Tigers were of course the most affected. Erhu tried to bribe government officials, but was unsuccessful.

"Second brother, those who are officials are different from the people in the court, let's not bribe them in vain, and we have broken a lot of brothers in vain, what's the use!" There were thorns in the words of the three tigers, and of course the two tigers could hear it.

"The third brother, talk to the second brother like this! You have the ability, tell me how to deal with the business of the tobacco factory! The second tiger slapped the table and asked the third tiger loudly. The brothers of Dahu do not deal with each other, they quarrel a lot on weekdays, and sometimes they stumble each other's business, but Dahu is happy to see conflicts between several of his subordinates.

As soon as the second tiger said that, the three tigers were suddenly a little deflated, there was a fart method, the three tigers that the two tigers did had not done it, and they were not deflated. The revolutionary government does not enter the oil and salt, and it does not play its cards according to common sense at all. At the beginning, I thought that the insatiable Manchu court was overthrown, and the revolutionary government would talk a little better, but I didn't expect that it would be as good as the imperial court, and now the business that has fallen into decay cannot be done.

"Uncle, second brother, third brother, gambling houses, tobacco shops, and flower boats have no business, and the wharf has lost a lot because of the war some time ago, and now the wharf is a lot more prosperous, but the Cantonese Yankees have set up several transportation companies, and those businessmen don't need our Tiger Gang at all, and those companies have also recruited a lot of strong laborers from our Tiger Gang, and the uncle is worried about this!" It was a bespectacled master who spoke.

"Lao Tzu led the team to level those bullshit companies!" The four tigers are a thug, the most short-tempered, hearing this, he couldn't hold it back for a long time, he stood up suddenly, waved the machete in his hand and said loudly.

"Fourth, sit down!" The big tiger, who had been silent, spoke, and the four tigers sat down obediently, and the big tiger played with the steel bullet in his hand and said: "The revolutionary party will not give us a way to live, brothers, let's think about how happy we were before the revolutionary party came, whoever dares to provoke us will be hacked to death!" A lot of money is earned, women play casually, they can do whatever they want, and even those dignitaries in the court look at us differently. But now, you don't know a lot of things, my informant told me that the new government will soon issue a gun ban, a smoking ban, a gambling ban, a transport company has a lot of gun-armed security guards, and there are gun-wielding soldiers and vigilantes everywhere on the docks, which is not giving us a way to live! ”

After pondering for a while, Dahu continued: "We can't fight hard, people have an army, a machine barrel, a cannon, and we don't do anything like hitting a stone with an egg." I think it's time to bleach. ”

"Uncle, we also have guns in our hands, didn't we steal more than 300 spears from the arsenal when the Qing soldiers retreated, and more than 50 spears accumulated on weekdays, and we are afraid that we will not be able to fight the world?" The words of the four tigers made the big tiger very helpless, this brother has no brains at all, and even the imperial court was beaten away by the revolutionary party, what can you do with so many guns?

"I've decided, let's hand over all the spears in our hands, and we won't do the business of gambling houses, tobacco shops, and flower boats, and we will also set up a transportation company for the business on the dock. Also, I decided to open a few factories, and I heard that the newly established Wuhan Municipal Government promulgated a Wuhan construction plan to build roads, reservoirs, dams, railways, and factories. Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places are full of factories, a lot of money is earned, and there is no need to fight desperately, whoever doesn't do such a business is a fool! "The revolutionary party had been in control of Wuhan for several months, and during this time the big tiger was thinking hard about the future of the Tiger Gang, and when he received a big businessman from Guangdong, he suddenly found that there was a brighter road waiting for him, that businessman was his old man, and this time he wanted to open a cement factory and a flour mill in Wuhan, and wanted to ask him to recruit people and find a venue. The big tiger learned a lot of things from that person's mouth, and then consciously ordered someone to collect information in that regard, but he didn't expect that the truth was better than what the old name said!

The prestige of the Great Tiger is unmatched, and after making the decision, the LTTE immediately began the process of whitewashing, not only handing over all the guns, but also stopping all illegal business. The LTTE's conscious action saved their lives, and the anti-gang action group, which was preparing to take the LTTE under attack, suspended its operation.

A few days later, the Tiger Group was founded, and the Tiger Gang had accumulated over the years with millions of taels of silver, all of which were converted into Chinese dollars, and the construction of the Tiger Cement Factory began with the assistance of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce (renamed the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Ziqiang). Local advantages, coupled with abundant capital, make the construction of the factory very fast.

Dahu was quite bold, not only started the construction of a cement factory, but also started the construction of a bicycle factory, an auto parts factory, and a printing and dyeing factory, three factories of no small scale, and suddenly changed from a big brother of the underworld to a big entrepreneur in civilized Wuhan. In order to encourage the construction of new factories, the Wuhan municipal government has set the Tiger Group as a model, providing a lot of help and tax incentives, including land, manpower, etc., and putting it on the list of government procurement.

The modern enterprise system was then established in the Tiger Group, and professional managers from Guangdong and other places were hired by the Tiger Group, and the big tigers and the three King Kongs became directors of the company. Not to mention that these people are all human beings, but they are very self-aware, rarely interfere in the operation of enterprises, but only firmly hold the financial power, and the other is to find the direction of enterprise development, or to study in government-run enterprise training courses and adult night schools.

The huge profits are by no means a lie, or they would not have made such a big change to these people, compared to the previous small dock business, these factories have not stopped production since the start of construction, a large number of products are procured by the government, bicycles and other goods are in short supply in Wuhan. By the middle of 1904, these enterprises had recovered their investment, and after discussing with several people, Dahu decided to continue to invest funds to expand the scale of production, which was the suggestion of professional managers, and was adopted by Dahu from the good.

Tiger Group became the first group in Wuhan, and even Hubei, its leading role is very huge, after the Tiger Group, Wuhan in just a few months appeared hundreds of new enterprise factories, Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway for the development of Hubei economy injected a strong impetus, which is incomparable to other new provinces. With the advantages of both water transportation and railway, Wuhan has the momentum of catching up with and surpassing Guangzhou.

On January 1, 1904, the Chinese Revolutionary Government moved its administrative center to Wuhan, which was considered more suitable as the current administrative center.