As the passage from Sichuan to Hubei, Yichang has a dangerous terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Sichuan army this time several people and horses did not get along, each fighting for their own battles, agreed to enter Wuchang first, as the lord of Hubei. The inspection team has 13 brigades and a total of four armies. Later, the 1st Brigade of Ishikawa Xing in Hubei Province rebelled and returned to Shun, and the strength of the army increased to 15 brigades and 5 armies at once.

Although the number of troops was large, the offensive was not high, and even after the outpost saw the banner of the defending army, the commander immediately ordered "Run!" Turtle son, run faster, slow down and be careful of the braincase. Lu Jun, Lu Jun is coming! ”

The Second Division of the Shandong Provincial Army, which arrived in Yichang by boat from Shandong, although the division commander Li Huchen was there in person, due to the problem of transportation capacity, most of the troops were left behind, and the actual strength of the troops was only one regiment. After all, there were 15 brigades on the opposite side, and there were only three brigades in the whole division of his own division, and because there was no wartime mobilization, the three brigades were all not fully staffed, and the actual strength was only one and a half brigades. How to fight in a ratio of one to ten?

He brought a regiment with him, not so much to guard Yichang, but to prepare for death. The Lu army fights, and the generals dare to die, which has become the standard style. Moreover, Guanzhong Lengwa has no reason to be afraid of death, and where she must die, she can't let her subordinates die first. But unexpectedly, the Sichuan army behaved very gentlemanly, neither interfering with the Lu army's construction of positions, nor attacking at night, and fighting a sit-down war with the Lu army. It wasn't until the follow-up troops arrived one after another, and after more than seventy percent of the infantry and special forces of the Second Division arrived, they still didn't see the Sichuan army attacking, and they knew that there were some problems here.

Immediately, the intelligence of the Shandong intelligence agency sent, so that Li Huchen understood the reason, and couldn't help but scold: "Damn, you fell for these melons." It turned out to be a lie! ”

Sichuan has a population of 70 million, and in the pre-Jin Dynasty, it was a wealthy province in the southwest. But first the preparation of the Sichuan-Han Railway, and then the rubber stock market crash, Sichuan's vitality was greatly damaged. Immediately after the road protection incident, the arms were linked. In the land of Bashu, the rebel army rose in all directions. For a while, you sang and I appeared, and the city changed the king's flag.

Commanders and generals have sprung up. The Universe Salvation King, the Global Thief Army, the World Rebel Army, and other names emerge in an endless stream, and every army must be paid, and all of them must recruit young and middle-aged people into the army for the great cause of human liberation.

For every soldier in the army, there is one less laborer in the field. Coupled with unlimited apportionment, the people of Sichuan were exhausted, from the richest province in the southwest to the poorest province in the world. The farmer was desperate and raised his troops as bandits, and in the blink of an eye, he accepted the recruitment, and the troops became even more.

Money does not increase with the number of troops, and the more troops in Sichuan, the more serious the arrears become. In order to maintain morale, he had to give a false number and promise a high-ranking official. Anyway, they are all provincial armies that are not recognized by the War Department, and the degree of confusion in their numbers is not comparable to the Shaanxi army to which Li Huchen originally belonged.

Six or seven hundred people can form a brigade with a thousand guns, and maybe they dare to form a division. Although there are 13 brigades on the opposite side, the actual strength is only more than 10,000 people. After Shi Xingchuan's brigade mutinied, it was immediately upgraded to a division, and one brigade was split into two brigades, and it was still the road with the largest unit strength among all troops.

On the surface, it was one division of the Lu army against 15 brigades, but the actual strength of the army was almost the same, and the heavy weapons were more than the Lu army. The Sichuan army is divided into different units, and there are roughly four systems of Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Hubei armies, and they cannot save each other when they see each other's death, and their equipment is extremely inferior. Most infantry was armed with former gold arquebuses and machetes, and those with smoothbore guns were called elites.

The Guizhou and Yunnan armies were well equipped, but their strength was limited, and their enthusiasm for marching into Hubei was not high. They preferred to colonize Sichuan rather than colonize Hubei. If Li Huchen did not stick to it at the beginning, but led the navy to fight a counter-assault, it is still unknown who will kill the deer.

But now, Zhao Guanhou has come to strictly order "it is forbidden to stimulate the emotions of the Sichuan army". Li Huchen could only take his troops to garrison in place, repair fortifications when he had nothing to do, and put two shots to scare the enemy away when he had something. Anyway, the food and military salaries are all provided by Wang Zichun, and he doesn't care if he sits for a year.

Wang Zichun in Wuchang City now truly understands what it means to be cocooned and self-bound. Originally, I wanted to leave Lu Jun as a god, but I didn't expect to burn incense to attract ghosts, but now I can't drive it away. Soon after Zhao Guanhou's telegram was sent, two Taixili people arrived together.

When he first saw the second daughter, Wang Zichun was quite happy. He has played all over the country of flowers, and he has never tasted Tessie Beauty. was only lonely in front of the crown and handsome army, and called two foreign aunts to stay with him. When he enters Hunan Province, the beauty is lonely in the empty room, and he can take advantage of the situation to enter and taste the taste of the West.

I don't know that the two women are not fuel-efficient lamps, and soon after they arrived in Hubei, they began to make trouble for Wang Zichun. First, Jensen revealed his other identity, the four-country banking group, a debt inspector.

Meng Siyuan built the railroad and borrowed foreign debts from the banks of the four countries, among which the largest loan of 4 million yuan from the Warby Bank was Jensen, as the chairman of the Wallway, and of course had the right to supervise the debts and collateral. Among the collateral for the railway loan was the right of way on Jinghan Road, which Jensen exercised to detain the car at Jinghan Road and control the use of the locomotive.

This has nothing to do with Wang Zichun, but then Hannah is in full swing and sets up a mining company in Wuchang. Prussia and the Republic declared no war, and it was difficult for the Prussians to preserve their property, let alone open a company. But because Hannah married Zhao Guanhou, her nationality was classified as Chinese (Jensen retains Belgian nationality), which is not within the scope of sanctions. What's more, the consul of Wuchang's Albiang also took a stake in it, and the company immediately became a Sino-foreign joint venture, and then it began to operate.

Hannah studied geological exploration, and prospecting is her old profession. But this time, she was not looking for coal mines and iron mines in the usual sense, but gold mines! All the mines under Wang Zichun's name, she came to talk about the acquisition, and paid a price ranging from 10 yuan to 100 yuan to buy the equity owned by Wang Zichun.

It is important to know that relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft the water, Hubei has the largest iron mine in the south, and later co-founded it with the Fusang people in the era of Sheng Xingsun, which has become a major economic support industry in Huguang. After the establishment of the Gonghe, it repurchased the equity from the Fuso people by way of private fund-raising and redemption, and became a fully privately owned company.

When Wang Zichun was the division commander, he took a stake in the iron mine in the form of a hero stock. When he is promoted to Overseer, the proportion of this hero's stock will naturally increase, if anyone wants to refuse...... Wang Doujun regularly cracked down on bandits and shot them on the spot, who knows if they will find out that a certain director is actually a bandit's spies and pull them out to shoot targets?

But this good man stock has always been the strongest, Wang Jueshuai has more guns than businessmen, so he can naturally enter the good man stocks, and now Zhao Guanshuai has more guns than Wang Zichun, and it is natural for the good man stocks to change hands. Although the Xuzhou Conference clearly pointed out that the private property of the Overseers was sacrosanct, Hannah did not forcibly seize but ransome, and Zhao Guanhou also firmly stated that it was okay to invest, but money must be given. If Hannah Bai takes your shares, I won't agree.

The blow that followed came from the little princess Anna. Zhao Guanhou's beloved apprentice, recently increased the habit of shopping, accompanied by the guards, looked at the king-shaped signboard shops on both sides of the road, stretched out his hand, and said with an extremely cute expression: "I want this." I still want that, I still want that and that. "Then, these stores can go through the transfer procedures.

Zhao Guanhou's identity as a patrol envoy of the two lakes played an important role at this time, with his support, the women of his own family can go to the street to see what to take, and what to see. In a short time, the real estate in Wang Zichun's name was reduced by thirty percent. He couldn't sit still, so he went to Zhao Guanhou's mansion to ask for an explanation, but Zhao Guanhou's face sank like water, and he threw away a large stack of documents, "Zichun, you are my old subordinate, and you are the confidant I brought out, but your performance disappoints me too much!" ”

The stacks of papers, without exception, were letters of complaint. from the Hubei Chamber of Commerce, the education sector, and ordinary people. It can be called a sound of blood, and every word is a tear. Cases of forcibly apportioning kings and marshals, indiscriminately issuing money, and even turning other people's wives into their own wives, turning the living into the dead, and so on. and how the soldiers of the royal army made cameo appearances as bandits, kidnapped merchants, and intermittent silver women, etc., the case is detailed and irrefutable.

What is even more worrying is that there are several of them, which are the complaint letters of Wang Zichun's subordinates, directly accusing his own marshal of colluding with the southern army to sell the arms of the Hanyang Arsenal to the southern soldiers for profit.

If the previous accusation can only be regarded as hurting the skin, the final accusation can be fatal. The accusations were accompanied by detailed account records, which were obviously not unfounded, and Zhao Guanhou sent this thing to Beijing, and Wang Zichun was to be handed over to the military court at the least.

His complexion changed several times, and he repeatedly said to him: "This ...... This is all done by the people below, lowly duty, I don't know! ”

"What did the people do below? It's no wonder, it seems that your energy is insufficient, and there are big mistakes in management, so I'll take care of it for you! ”

Zhao Guanhou did what he said, and really took care of Wang Zichun. For example, the only remaining provincial army division was disarmed, and only two regiments were retained. (The two regiment commanders are the whistleblowers of arms theft and trafficking). Immediately, the 1st Infantry Brigade under the 1st Division of the Shandong Provincial Army undertook the task of defending Hubei, and cooperated with the 2nd Division to jointly maintain public order in Hubei and guard against the enemy in the south.

Then, the Hanyang Arsenal was completely cleaned up, and the former factory leaders were either fired or imprisoned, and then a team of experts was formed by Jensen to check the accounts. Through the efforts of Jensen and a group of conscientious economists and financial specialists, the Hanyang Arsenal was successfully transformed into a bankrupt enterprise with serious losses and insolvency. Immediately, the Hubei Chamber of Commerce said that in order to save the enterprise, we must privatize it.

With this life-saving elixir, the Hanyang Arsenal immediately soared to Bliss. Since the era of Zhang Xiangtao, it was better to endure the high-cost and low-return loss-making model than to maintain the state-owned Hanyang Arsenal, which finally became privately owned. After the Hubei Chamber of Commerce injected a certain amount of funds, the factory was fully taken over. Then there is the process of throwing burdens, throwing off burdens, cutting non-performing assets, and moving forward rapidly.

After the operation of the excellent merchants of the Gonghe Arsenal, the cumbersome imported equipment and incompetent skilled workers of the Hanyang Arsenal were all loaded onto the train and sent to Shandong, leaving behind the simple, lovely, illiterate, untrained, but extremely low-paid, untreated young workers, plus the new machines that could only undertake the repair of firearms and could not produce brand-new machines for the manufacture of weapons.

As for the future of the Hanyang Arsenal, no one cares, anyway, several businessmen involved have made a windfall, claiming that they will not open for ten years, and they will eat for ten years when they open. After doing all this, you can consider immigrating to Shandong, of course, before that, you have to evaluate Pingliu Iron Mine in the same way......

Wang Zichun sat in the city of sorrow, and even the guard company around him was laid off in the name of reducing expenses, and replaced by a Shandong guard platoon with higher quality and more professional skills. Wang Jueshuai even had to pay cash to clear the building. Because of the white slip stamped with the seal of the marshal, the Hubei Department of Finance has refused to pay on the grounds that the bank group of the four countries has audited the accounts.

The gentry of the Hubei business community naturally support the Lu army, which is a force that benefits the people, compared to Wang Zichun's subordinates, the Lu army, who is fair and does not offend women, is simply a heavenly soldier. Therefore, Hubei people do not reject Shandong people, but regard them as relatives.

It is not difficult for a few unsatisfied troops to recruit soldiers and raise food and salary in Hubei. You must know that if you pay the tax of the Lu army, you don't have to pay the tax of the king and the marshal, the tax of the former is several times lighter than that of the latter, who refuses to pay?

There are more and more companies in the name of Zhao Guanshuai or his wife and concubine, and the rice market grain store, water and land transportation, have all been intervened by him. The cessation of troops has not advanced for a month, and Wang Zichun's income has basically been cut off. At the same time, Lu Jun's enthusiasm for asking for wages has not diminished, and Marshal Wang has to use his private savings to pay Lu Jun's salary.

At this point, Wang Zichun already wanted to hang up the crown and go to the wilderness. How do you know that Zhao Guanhou stopped him instead, "You are going to the field now, doesn't it mean that I am here to take your seal?" This is a serious contradiction to the spirit of our Xuzhou Conference, who will protect my reputation? Do you have any comments to make, I can change what is wrong, but Shimono is absolutely impossible. As long as I, Zhao, am the patrol envoy of the two lakes, you will definitely be the overseer of Hubei, and no one can take away your position! ”

The Lu army's original strategic idea of placing food on the two lakes was realized ahead of schedule, and the situation in Hubei alone was enough for the four divisions and one brigade to eat and drink.

A large amount of money poured in, and the women in the family also had smiles. Even Fengzhi, in the name of the Shandong Wushu Federation, bought a large amount of real estate in Wuchang, sold it, and earned more than 100,000 yuan, smiling from ear to ear. Although Hannah still doesn't like Jenson, she can always have less fighting when she has money to make and a job to do. Moreover, Hannah looked at the life of the Prussian expatriates in Hubei, and then compared it with Shandong, Yu Zhao Guanhou's complaints actually disappeared.

Lu Jun's life in Hubei was comfortable, but Wang Zichun had already committed suicide. The only hope is that the Lu army will start as soon as possible and go to Hunan to fight. Even if some troops remain, they still have some income, which is better than what is in front of them, and they have to pay their own bills even if they play a watch.

But at this moment, a secret telegram from the capital was like a thunderbolt from the sky, scorching the king and the handsome inside. "In order to prevent the Sichuan army from entering Hubei and the division of the defense area is not clear, the Lu army suspended its advance and it is advisable to be stationed in Hubei. The Hunan Defense Area was entrusted to the Seventh Division. ”