Chapter 12: The Ridiculous War

Just after the New Year, before Zhang Chun could exert his strength, Chen Xiongyuan and Wang Ruxian fought a strange war.

Both sides fired their guns in front of the battle, then confronted each other, staring at each other, and finally the two sides jumped to their feet and cursed each other, scuffling each other. Tired and patting the dust on his buttocks, he withdrew to the battalion.

Continued the next day. provoked the common people to gather onlookers and applaud loudly.

The soldiers who lost the battle wept bitterly, and when they won the battle, they hugged their fists and fought in all directions.

The soldiers of the Independent Division, who were lurking in the shadows, were dumbfounded.

The most powerful thing is that the people of Dark Moon said that Wang Ruxian actually sold the cannon to Wu Peifu who entered Sichuan to fight. Not only Wang Ruxian sold, but Chen Xiongyuan also sold.

Zhang Chun and Liang Qichao couldn't cry or laugh, Liu Ying just sighed. It's not that I'm sad that there was no war, but I'm sad that China's most elite new army has also become like this, how can the country not decline?

The separate divisions did not bother to fight such an army and withdrew on their own.

"The state is not about war, but about governance." This is the conclusion reached by Liang Qichao and Cai Yuanpei. However, Zhang Chun took down the relevant articles in Xinmin Daily. Because during the war, this was a tacit understanding between the Beiyang warlords and the protectors and revolutionary army. You can do it, but you can't say it.

Consciously, Wang Ruxian actually sent someone to find Zhang Chun, saying that the cannon captured by Zhang Chun was useless, so it was better to sell it to him. Wu Peifu didn't pay for it himself, he used Lao Yuan's money, so he didn't have to use it in vain.

Zhang Chun and Liu Ying were unwilling to take care of it and handed it over to Zeng Simin.

Zeng Simin said that Shayang is not short of silver, and if he wants to buy it, he will use gold.

I have to say that Yuan Shikai is ruthless to eat the protection **, and he gave a lot of gold and silver. The business really made Zeng Simin do it.

But can such an army fight?

I don't know how more than 40,000 Beiyang troops and 10,000 guards fought in Sichuan, but it is a fact that a confrontation has formed.

In February, students from all over the country returned to school. The game war between the Revolutionary Army and the Beiyang Army has become a negative teaching material, and it has become the first lesson for educating students.

"It's not ridiculous, it's a shame, a country's army has reached such a point, and it will take a while if it doesn't die."

Zhang Chun rarely slapped the table, and the slap when he gave the first class was still fresh in the memory of many students.

The war has reached this point, and everyone knows that Yuan Shikai is finished.

On March 10, Feng Guozhang and others jointly sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai, forcing him to abdicate and abolish the imperial system.

On March 23, Yuan Shikai abolished the imperial system and sent a telegram to the provinces to discuss the aftermath.

In April, Yuan Shikai decided to appoint Duan Qirui as secretary of state, and Duan Qirui would organize a new cabinet. Zhang Chunthen telegraphed Wang Zhanyuan, and since Yuan Shikai abolished the imperial system, Shayang also canceled independence, and all parties maintained the Line of Actual Control and achieved an armistice. Wang Zhanyuan couldn't ask for it, so he agreed to a truce.

In May, Sun Yat-sen saw that there was a subsidence in various places and issued the "Second Declaration on Yuan". The call asked Liu Ying, Peng Yangguang, and Sun Jing to enter Wuchang. Peng Yangguang telegraphed back that Shayang was the strongest among the armies in central Hubei, that the Shayang Independent Division and Wang Zhanyuan had reached an armistice agreement, that Chen Xiongyuan's troops and Zhang Zhigong's troops were insufficient, and that Hanchuan had stationed tens of thousands of troops. At this point, it was no longer possible to march into the army.

Liu Ying and Sun Jing simply didn't reply.

Shayang, Qianjiang, Jingshan, and Zhongxiang all established provisional military governments to implement wartime military management. The Xinguangfu District is implementing the land treaty law while suppressing bandits. The junta announced that due to the proliferation of counterfeit silver dollars, counterfeit copper coins and jiaozi in the jurisdiction. Circulation is prohibited from now on, and the cooperative bank will issue new silver coins and new copper coins. Anyone can go to the bank to exchange for a new currency. At the same time, if it is a foreign trade, it has also been exchanged back to silver coins or silver ingots in full according to the original exchange amount. New Copper Coins can be converted into Silver Coins and Silver Bars, and are not exchanged for old Copper Coins.

The notice stipulates the time for the exchange of old copper coins. When it expires, the old copper coins are immediately abolished and cannot be exchanged.

All three regiments are training and suppressing bandits, helping the localities to set up militia organizations and restoring local law and order as soon as possible.

Because Zhang Zhigong and Chen Xiongyuan had lost their strategic objectives and were unable to resolve the contradiction between the peasants and the landlords, they were not human beings on either side, and their troops were scattered. The landlords armed with money and food began to divide the territory. There is a lot of fire in the territory. Zhang Zhigong and Chen Xiongyuan hid in the county seat to enjoy happiness, and the situation in the jurisdiction quickly deteriorated. A large number of refugees poured into the area controlled by Zhang Chun, and if it were not for Shayang County's early preparations and sufficient food reserves, it is not known how many people would have starved to death.

Zhang Chun had long expected this situation. Liu Ying couldn't see it, and went to Yingcheng in person. But both of them are waiting for the government to seal the general, and as for governance, they think it is a matter for the government of the Republic of China.

Liu Ying came back and told Sun Jing and Peng Yangguang, who was furious, although Peng Yangguang thought that Zhang Chun's policies were too harsh, and that he was suspected of taking people's property and bribing the poor to maintain his "dictatorship". But it's better than no way to govern it.

Sun Jing only said one sentence: "The vertical son doesn't think it's a scheme." ”

In Jingshan County, because the landlords and wealthy merchants hoarded grain and drove up prices, Zhang Yang took a group of students and soldiers to the county seat, and brought a large amount of grain with him.

The price of grain in Jingshan has been hammered down. They were followed by the soldiers of the second group of the 2nd Regiment, all "veterans" with extensive local experience. At the same time, more than 20 patrol officers came. The soldiers and patrol police killed a large number of wealthy businessmen and gangsters on the grounds of rioting public order, trafficking in drugs, trafficking in women and children, and opening ** prostitution parlors. The troops further exterminated the gangsters who had fled to the mountains. killed a lot of people, so that Sun Jing couldn't bear to look at it.

However, Jingshan County was calm, and the peasants in the countryside had hope, and they organized peasant associations to prepare for the division of the land. Although the harvest season has not yet arrived, there is still more than a month to divide the fields.

Zhang Yang began to widen and repair the road leading to Zhong Xiang, Xiannu, Baima and Cao Wu, because there were a large number of displaced people, and it was easy to recruit because the road was built to have enough food.

At the same time, he worked with Sun Jing to formulate the construction plan of Jingshan County. A large cement factory, there is no cement plant in the whole Jingshan County now, the cement plant in Yanmen is very small, and it does not plan to expand again, and the cement plant in Shayang is too far away. Therefore, as soon as the cement factory was proposed, it aroused the interest of the landlords who had lost their land but gained a lot of money, which could be regarded as giving them a way out.

In addition, a large tung oil plant will be built, which will be a processing plant after the process transformation of the original small tung oil processing plant. A rosin factory and a pharmaceutical factory. These are the products of the combination of technology from the Institute of Forestry and the Institute of Chemical Engineering of Xinmin University.

There are a lot of tung trees and pine trees in the Jingshan forest area, but the varieties and yields are not good. The Forestry Institute carried out the selection and improvement of tree species in China. In particular, good results have been achieved in the secondary forest of the improved Eagle Cliff. However, both the Forestry Institute and the Environment Institute have rejected the use of monovarietal cultivation for forestry development. Instead, large areas of mountainous areas are turned into protected areas and special forest farms are formed for planned forest improvement.

Mountains and forests belong to the government and are not allowed to be bought and sold. The fuel problem is solved by the digester, so people are not allowed to cut down trees. The original landlords invested their money in these factories. Guarantee the income of these people. There are many mountainous areas in Jingshan, and after the forest is improved, there will be many similar factories. As long as you have money, you have a place to invest. But don't hit the forest with attention.

Jingshan County is finally on the right track and has the ability to contain the homeless.

In addition to the county seat, Jingshan County is surrounded by very poor areas and is sparsely populated. The real population is in the area of the Caowu Song River, and these two places are completely under complete military control by the Fourth Regiment newly formed by Chen Jizu. The inhabitants of both places also knew that this place was likely to become a war zone, so they moved to the settlements established around the county seat, where land could be allocated anyway.

Zhang Chun is actually using land reform to slowly change the local demographic structure and break up the original family management model. The typical one is Wangjiaji, where there are less than three layers of people with the surname Wang. Peng Yangguang has a lot of opinions on this approach, but Sun Jing is noncommittal. Originally, he came back for Liu Ying, but now, Liu Ying only wants to be a good combat chief, and he only wants to be a good county magistrate. This is also one of Sun Jing's dreams, and even this is his dream: to build a country. It seems to have been confused by slogans and speeches before.