The effect of poison gas bombs is actually no different from an ordinary bullet, they are made by humans to kill people, the difference is that the killing range of bullets is smaller, and poison gas bombs are large-area lethality, the effects are completely different, and the damage and pain brought to the enemy are also different, poison gas bombs will make people die in extreme pain, others can not bear it psychologically, and feel very cruel, and a bullet will kill people, and if they die, they will die, there is no pain, this is the difference between ordinary weapons and weapons of mass destruction, It is also the reason why people can tolerate the use of guns in war, but not the use of gas bombs, and it is a mistake to think that it was invented.

After learning that the British and French forces and the German army had caused more than 100,000 casualties in the large-scale use of poison gas bombs on the Western Front, Xiao Zhenlei stood up and pretended to condemn both sides, believing that this was a trampling on human civilization, and that if this horrific terrorist weapon was allowed to be used unscrupulously and in large quantities, and the anger spread to other places, it would cause unimaginable consequences to the earth's environment.

Obviously, no one in the Entente or the Central Powers would buy his account, and he just stood up and brushed up on his feelings, stood on the moral high ground and said a few words to gain some prestige, so why not?

Since the two sides ignore him, he doesn't bother to care about their affairs, it is none of his business for these two parties to fight in Europe, even if the whole of Europe is locked up, he is indifferent, he is now concerned about some domestic problems, and with the economic development of the country, these problems have to be solved as much as possible.

First of all, there is the problem of banditry. This problem is very strict, and bandits in various places have become plagued in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. In the early years of the Republic of China, although a large part of the bandits revolted in the name of overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they joined the revolutionary army. However, there are still a considerable number of bandits who still gather in the mountains and forests, robbing passing merchants, raiding homes and houses as their source of livelihood, especially during the reign of Yuan Shikai for more than a year, not only did the bandit trouble not lessen, but also became more and more strict due to Yuan Shikai's rampant conquest.

In all parts of the country, the most severe problem is Henan, in the reign of Yuan Shikai for more than a year, the governor of Henan is Zhang Zhenfang, this person and Yuan Shikai are the same township. When Yuan Shikai returned to his hometown, the Qing court appointed Zhang Zhenfang to take over the post of acting governor of Zhili, so Zhang Zhenfang was the last governor of Zhili in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

After Yuan Shikai assumed the post of provisional president of the Republic of China, he appointed Zhang Zhenfang as the governor of Henan and the chief of civil affairs, and Zhang Zhenfang was a native of Xiangcheng. When Guangxu was thirty-three years old, he donated 60,000 taels of silver to his hometown and opened the Baizukapu Normal School, which was six years earlier than Henan University. In the first year of Xuantong. Henan was affected by the disaster, and Xiangcheng was low-lying and prone to flooding, and the famine was even more serious. Zhang Zhenfang donated 4,000 yuan in silver for disaster relief, half of which was given to Xiang Cheng. Half to other disaster-stricken areas in Henan Province. He is good to his hometown, but it is different for other places in Henan, after becoming the governor of Henan and the chief of civil affairs. Taxes were not reduced compared to those paid in the Qing court, but increased. The people of Henan are overwhelmed. They fled into the mountains and forests to become bandits, and the leader of the largest group of people was called Bai Lang.

Bai Lang made full use of the victims' disappointment and resentment against the Qing government and the Beiyang government. Actively united with other leaders of the green forest, based on the sow gorge in Wuyang County, under the slogan of robbing the rich and helping the poor, gathered people to resist the officials, the number reached thousands at the most, the Beiyang authorities had sent tens of thousands of people to encircle and suppress, but Bai Lang had contact with the revolutionaries at that time, and was guided by the revolutionaries, and the Bai Lang rebel army fought bravely, with the spirit of moving forward bravely and not afraid of sacrifice. At the same time, it is also relatively flexible in the use of tactics, and can be good at avoiding the real and attacking the weak according to the characteristics of the enemy's outnumbered, and mobile combat: either jumping from the inner line to the outer line, or attacking the enemy who is weakly defended or who is advancing alone. In addition, the rapid march often caused the enemy army to "chase in vain, tired of running for their lives", and the encirclement and interception repeatedly failed. When attacking cities and towns, the rebel army paid attention to relying on the masses and sending people to infiltrate in advance, and the inside and outside should be combined, or they attacked from the east and the west, and attacked the enemy for a long distance, so that the enemy was caught off guard, so as to achieve greater results at a relatively small cost.

Bai Lang emphasized mass discipline and demanded that the troops not infringe on the interests of the working people. However, the internal organization of the army has always been relatively loose, the lack of strict organizational discipline, coupled with the long-term mobile warfare, and the lack of necessary training, have failed to transform it into a regular army. In terms of ideological construction, although the bourgeois revolutionaries carried out some propaganda for the democratic revolution, they were absolutely powerless to change the short-sighted political vision of the peasant small producers, and were unable to overcome their weaknesses such as the sectarian concept, the hometown concept, and the freedom and looseness.

Therefore, when the new government was established, the government abolished most of the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and also vigorously supported the peasants and tenants, which made Bai Lang's gang have no mass base, and the bandits under the said have secretly gone down the mountain to become farmers again, unwilling to stay in the mountains as bandits anymore, although Bai Lang hated the old feudal regime to the core, and could not jump out of the barrier of being called the emperor and king. When there were only more than 1,000 bandits left and the government issued a notice for the bandits on the mountain to lay down their weapons and go down the mountain to undergo reform, Bai Lang was still unwilling to disband the bandits and go down the mountain to undergo reform, but continued to claim hegemony on the mountain, and often secretly contacted some people in the KMT.

In addition to Bai Lang's gang of bandits, there were many other bandits and secret societies in Henan, and there was an area before Yongning and Miyang, where the mountains were undulating, and the Bears Ears Mountains and the Funiu Mountains stood in between, and most of the local residents lived by growing grain, and there was little surplus to sell. Arable land is scarce, productivity levels are low, and there is almost no commerce and handicrafts. Most of the trade took place in the bazaars in the mountains, and Henan bandits and secret societies were located in this area. Banditry became a common reaction of the poor to poverty, attacking and plundering those who were richer than themselves, while secret societies such as the Red Gun Society were dominated by the more reliable wealthy classes to protect the wealth that represented their power, thus becoming a tool against banditry.

Between the government armed forces and the bandits, there is also an armed organization, that is, the landlord armed forces, and the landlord class has a certain amount of armed forces to protect the safety of their lives and property, and organizations such as the Red Gun Society belong to the landlord armed forces. In addition to the armed forces controlled by the landlords such as the Red Gun Society, the landlords' armed forces also have other forces, such as the township regiments, the militia groups, as well as the private armed forces of the landlords, and the direct forces of protecting the family and the courtyard.

The bandits occupy the mountains and forests without a source of life, and the only way is to plunder, which is unavoidable, even after the establishment of the new government, the government has formulated various measures to make the bandits gradually lose the soil for survival, although the situation has been improved to a certain extent, but it still exists. Moreover, because the new government has been focusing on other aspects in the past two years, it has generally treated the bandits until they are pacified, and rarely uses force to encircle and suppress them, which is why these bandits have been able to survive for so long.

During this period, Xiao Zhenlei saw from the reports submitted by the Internal Affairs Investigation Bureau that the damage caused by bandits to the public order environment and the safety of people's lives and property, as well as economic development, has become more and more serious, and it seems that this problem has reached the point where it has to be solved.

On March 20, Xiao Zhenlei saw another investigation report, Bai Lang's gang of bandits actually occupied Woniu Mountain, and many merchants in surrounding counties and cities were plundered by this gang of bandits.

Xiao Zhenlei then decided to take advantage of this time to sweep away the unstable factors in the country, and then concentrate on joining the First World War, and he asked his secretary Xiao Gao to notify all the staff and staff of the president's office to hold a meeting.

After the meeting began, he said: "For two consecutive months, I have seen the investigation reports of bandits in various places sent by the Internal Affairs Investigation Department, and the situation is getting stricter and stricter, and according to the investigation of the Internal Affairs Investigation Bureau, the reason for the increasingly strict banditry is related to the people in the Kuomintang. Speaking of the KMT, I really don't want to do that kind of fratricidal thing, I have the same roots, so why be in a hurry to fry each other? But if they are allowed to make such trouble, the consequences will be unimaginable, and is this what a political party should do to instigate, plan and direct bandits to harm the people for their own selfish interests? Therefore, I have gathered you for a meeting today to ask you what kind of attitude should we adopt towards the KMT and this matter? Let's talk about the bandits first. ”

After hearing this, everyone did not rush to publish their own suggestions, but thought about their own countermeasures. At this time, Yang Du said: "President, I think the easiest way to deal with bandits is to recruit An, and Zhao'an does not need to send troops to encircle and suppress, and it does not need to cost a lot!" ”

"No!" As soon as Yang Du finished speaking, Liang Qichao stood up and raised his voice to object, and he bowed his hand to Xiao Zhenlei: "President, the new government is different from the Manchu Qing court and the Beiyang government, our new government has only been established for more than a year, if you want to recruit those bandits, it is necessary to arrange official or military positions for the leaders among them, not to mention whether they can do a good job in that position with their bandit nature, just say that this official position is given if it is given?" This is not to say that official positions are not worth anything at all, and anyone can sit on them if they want to, and this situation has occurred just one year after the establishment of the new government, so will there be a phenomenon of buying and selling official positions in the future? If that happens, then our new government is not far from perishing! I think there can be absolutely no compromise on those bandits! ”

Xiao Zhenlei nodded when he heard this, and said to Yang Du: "Mr. Yang's method is good, but it is not suitable for the present, nor is it suitable for our new government, even if we are thinking about ourselves, we can't pull bandits into the officialdom!" (To be continued......) R1292