Chapter 173: Guangdong Fangcheng
In such a chaotic situation, a group of people led by Chen Liqing quietly crossed the border between Guizhou and Guangxi and entered Guangxi from Dushan.
Guangxi and Guizhou are adjacent to each other, and Guizhou's reading power has more or less had an impact on the situation in Guangxi, a few days after Shen Yuqing announced Guizhou's reading power, on November 7, Guangxi was also announced by Shen Bingkun, the governor of Guangxi, and the Guangxi military and political axe was established. Governor Shen Bingkun changed his appearance and became the governor of Guangxi's military and political axe, and the original bandit leader Lu Rongting became the No. 3 person in Guangxi by chance, serving as the deputy governor of Guangxi's military and political axe.
However, with the rapid changes in the power of the whole country, especially after Yuan Shikai easily defeated the revolutionary party in Hankou, the transformed governor Shen Bingkun and the political envoy Wang Zhixiang saw that the situation was not right, and found a reason to leave Guangxi quickly.
At this time, although Lu Rongting controlled Guangxi, the situation in Guangxi was the same as that of Guizhou, although the provincial capital Guilin was controlled, the rest of Guangxi was still very chaotic. At this time, for Chen Liqing and them, it was naturally a good time to enter Guangxi.
Guizhou is an inland province, if you want to develop, you can only connect with the outside world, and Guangxi is the only way for Guizhou to go to the outside world.
Lu Rongting, what do you say?
Although he is a ** warlord, he is still different from other warlords. Because he was also a little person born in a poor family since he was a child, after becoming the governor of Guangxi, he did not forget the hardships he suffered when he was a child, so under his governance, the people of Guangxi lived a good life.
He is an honest warlord, but because of his bandit birth, some of his subordinates' habits are not very good.
Although Chen Liqing plans to cooperate with Lu Rongting to build a railway between Guiyang and Guangxi provinces in the future, Chen Liqing actually has no confidence because of this. Therefore, if you want Guizhou to develop, you must have second-hand preparations.
Chen Liqing and his party almost crossed Guangxi directly, and although their group of people along the way also attracted some people's curiosity, after they showed their hands a few times, no one dared to disturb them.
After a week of galloping, they finally reached their destination.
Guangdong Fangcheng.
This is a port city, and later named Fangchenggang.
The later Fangchenggang City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a deep-water port in China; It is one of the 25 major coastal ports in China and the largest port in western China. It is the bridgehead from the east to the west, and the main maritime gateway from the southwest region to the world. It is a logistics platform linking China and ASEAN and serving the western region.
It is located at the southwesternmost end of China's mainland coastline, south of Guangxi, backed by the southwest, facing Southeast Asia, bordering the Beibu Gulf in the south, and bordering Vietnam in the southwest. With a total area of 6,222 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over the port area, Fangcheng District, Shangsi County and Dongxing City, with a population of 932,500, 21 ethnic groups such as Han, Zhuang, Yao and Beijing, a coastline of 580 kilometers and a land border of 100.5 kilometers. As one of the core cities of Guangxi Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, a national key steel energy base and a key development and opening up pilot zone along the border, Fangchenggang City has a special and important strategic position and unique development advantages in the China-ASEAN trade zone and pan-Beibu Gulf regional cooperation.
This is the introduction of Fangchenggang City in later generations, anyway, as the only port city in the southwest provinces, he speaks for itself about the development of several provinces and cities in the southwest.
However, at this time, in this feudal and backward country, Fangcheng still belongs to Guangdong Province, and Fangcheng is just a small county town with tens of thousands of people.
Naturally, Chen Liqing was an accident, and during this period, no one knew better than him the important strategic position of Fangcheng. So long before the Wuchang Uprising, Chen Liqing had already arranged for some people to come to Fangcheng. The purpose was to take over the city, build it, and plan to build it into a large city with maritime transportation, naval bases, and international trade within ten or twenty years.
Otherwise, there would be no merchant ships to stay without ports, and without merchant ships, there would naturally be no need to mention trade. Even if Guizhou develops into a super production base, producing enough primary raw materials, it will be in vain if there is nothing to sell out. Therefore, the control and construction of the defense city is very important.
Fortunately, in this chaotic time, grabbing land is not a crime, and in the face of this chaotic situation in the country, Chen Liqing has every reason to take over the city.
Fangcheng, county government.
Chen Liqing and his entourage met Yu Peilun and Huang Fusheng, who had been waiting here for a long time, safe and sound. These two people can be regarded as a team that Chen Liqing can trust, and it is thanks to these two people that Chen Liqing's plans in all aspects have been implemented normally this year. The recovery of Fangcheng, Chen Liqing naturally handed it over to the two again.
Next to Yu Peilun and Huang Fusheng, there are two very familiar people, Yang Shuzhuang and Cheng Bijun. For the rest, there are some faces that Chen Liqing is not very familiar with, these unfamiliar faces, seeing Yu Peilun receiving Chen Liqing very warmly, their eyes showed curiosity.
"Liqing, it's great that you're finally here."
As soon as they saw Chen Liqing's group, Huang Fusheng and Yu Peilun immediately rushed over and gave Chen Liqing a bear hug.
"And Master Huo, you have come all the way, you have worked hard, the big guy hasn't eaten yet, come, go, I have arranged things for everyone in the county office, come, let's talk while eating." Seeing Huo Yuanjia and Chen Liqing, Yu Peilun and Huang Fusheng were obviously very happy.
However, Cheng Bijun and Yang Shuzhuang next to him were a little hesitant, and Yang Shuzhuang swept Chen Liqing and their group: "Liqing, why didn't your teacher follow?" ”
Because the situation in Guizhou was still very tense, Chen Liqing did not bring anyone else, only Huo Yuanjia, Yuan Baoyi, and then ten dark eagles. When Yang Shuzhuang and Zhang Xianmo were in Shanghai before, they went to Germany together to buy battleships, and the two were familiar with each other, and Yang Shuzhuang waited for Zhang Xianmo here for a certain amount of time, so when he saw that Zhang Xianmo did not come, he couldn't help but ask.
"Yes, Liqing, and Sister Yuxiu, why hasn't Sister Yuxiu come yet?" Cheng Bijun also asked questions.
Chen Liqing stood still, looked at the two of them, and then glanced at the rest of the people.
"My teacher still has important things to do in Guiyang, so he asked us to come over first." Chen Liqing replied that the reaction of Yang Shuzhuang and Cheng Bijun was expected by Chen Liqing. This time he came by himself, and the trusted Zhang Xianmo did not follow, which would definitely make everyone wonder, but there was no way, Zhang Xianmo in Guizhou couldn't leave, and Chen Liqing could only come here by himself.
"That's right." Yang Shuzhuang and Cheng Bijun's eyes obviously flashed with disappointment, and Zhang Xianmo obviously had a sense of security for them. However, the two didn't say much, quickly put away their disappointment, and entered the county office with Yu Peilun and their group.
During the banquet, although Yang Shuzhuang, Cheng Bijun and others were still disappointed that Zhang Xianmo did not come, when they heard that Chen Liqing had some methods taught to him by Zhang Xianmo, they decisively became interested again.
Of course, after everyone was interested, Chen Liqing also learned about the specific situation of Fangcheng during the conversation.
Although Fangcheng now belongs to Guangdong, in Guangdong's view, Fangcheng is very remote and has no revolutionary value, so some famous revolutionaries are not in Fangcheng. Of course, there are also local revolutionaries in Fangcheng, but as early as a year ago, Chen Liqing made arrangements for Fangcheng and called people to come and slowly infiltrate.
Therefore, almost after the announcement of reading power in Guangdong, Fangcheng was quickly recovered under the planning of Yu Peilun, Yang Shuzhuang, Cheng Bijun and others, and was in their hands. Moreover, after more than ten days of iron-blooded policy, there was no other opposition in the defense city, and all kinds of landlord armies, as well as the rest of the disobedient Qing government axe officials, were also killed by them.
It's just that when Yu Peilun said that he had borrowed the help of many revolutionary comrades and brothers, Chen Liqing was a little uncomfortable.
The layout of Fangcheng was controlled by Chen Liqing remotely, although his purpose was to control Fangcheng, but the final result was not satisfactory. Fangcheng still participated in many revolutionaries of the original alliance, and these members of the alliance were brought by Cheng Bijun.
This was no problem, but this group of members of the League came directly from Malaysia, and Sun Yat-sen planned the Guangzhou Uprising in Southeast Asia a few months ago, and after the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, some of them ran to Fangcheng. Therefore, in participating in the recovery of Fangcheng, in addition to Yu Peilun, Huang Fusheng, Yangshuzhuang and a few people who Chen Liqing is more trustworthy to participate, there are also some members of the alliance that Chen Liqing does not trust very much, these members of the alliance through simple conversations, Chen Liqing learned that these people are the embraces of Sun Cannon, and he admires Sun Yat-sen very much between words.
This made Chen Liqing uncomfortable.
The defense he wants is pure, controlled by his own people, not double-minded. But now, in addition to Yu Peilun and their own people, there are actually more than half of the people in Fangcheng who are original members of the Alliance, most of these members are very loyal to Sun Yat-sen, and after the successful recovery these days, they have not done anything else, so they want to organize the army to go to Hubei to aid the revolutionary army all day long.
In this regard, Yang Shuzhuang and the others had no other opinions, and Cheng Bijun couldn't even wait to rush to Tianjin with Yang Shuzhuang in the new warship they bought from Germany. If it weren't for Yu Peilun and Huang Fusheng remembering Chen Liqing's instructions and blocking these people one by one, I am afraid that by the time Chen Liqing and them came, Cheng Bijun and Yang Shuzhuang had already been fooled by some other people from the Alliance to take the new warship to Hubei and Tianjin.
Damn, how can this work!
When he learned of these people's plans, Chen Liqing secretly scolded in his heart on the spot. (To be continued.) )