In parallel history, November 7, 1911 (the previous article said that Yangzhou was restored on October 11, was an author's mistake, and is hereby corrected and daoqian. At five o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Youhong, who was originally stationed in the Dingzi Camp of Jinghui Temple in the south of Yangzhou City, surrounded by more than 40 people, surrounded by a young man riding a horse from Nanguan into the country. The soldiers held a white flag with the book "Recover the Great Han" and "Return My Rivers and Mountains" as a precursor, after entering the city, fired a gun to demonstrate, this group of people first rushed into the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Department, opened the warehouse, and ransacked frantically, resulting in ingots, scattered silver all over the ground, and the books were scattered. In addition to some soldiers of the "Dingzi Battalion" headed by Li Zupei, there were also some yamen officials and many lower-class people in the city, such as Yuan Debiao, the fast head of Ganquan County, Mao Kun and Liu Lezi, who sold boxing at Jiaochangkou, Xia Bodhisattva who sculpted Buddha in Xiaodongmen, Xie Dagua who cut bamboo chopsticks in Dongguan, Xia Enpei, who sold plasters, Yin Qixiang, who was in the antique industry, and Chen Changlin, who was a chef. One of them, Huang Shiyan, is an outstanding talent because he can understand the era of the Yellow Emperor. After this rabble had robbed the treasury silver, they scattered as birds and beasts. Seeing that the situation was unstable, the two Huai salt transportation thickened for the sake of safety, so they carried their dependents, carried the seal letter, crossed the back wall in micro-service, and quietly left. Yangzhou prefect Songxun hid in Tianning Temple when he heard the wind, threw the official seal into the Slender West Lake, and later fled to Gaoyou. (Historically, after Xu Baoshan's department was stationed in Yangzhou, Xu Baoshan said in public: "I am from Zhenjiang, Yang and Zhen's family, and I must love my hometown.") Rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, I am in the sun for a day, and I will never take a piece of grass or trees in vain. "Changes have been made here for the sake of the novel. ）

With the rapid collapse of the ruling institutions, the city of Yangzhou soon fell into a state of anarchic chaos! As soon as he walked away, he handed over nearly nine million taels of tax silver in the salt transportation envoy Yamen, along with the entire Yangzhou City, to Sun Tiansheng, a cheap governor from a turtle slave! This is a huge fortune that has made all parties shili dripping. It can attract the big salt lord Xu Baoshan at all costs, and he will attack the salt transportation so that the yamen will also take it as his own treasure. It's going to be in the midst of a monstrous fire. With the huge salt shipment, the yamen was engulfed in flames! Nine million taels of snowflake silver turned into silver in the flames. It slowly flowed down the gate into the street outside. In the fire-filled city of Yangzhou, this silver-white landscape is particularly eye-catching.

Looking at the slowly flowing Milky Way in front of him, Hu Rui's heart was dripping blood! That's nine million taels!

"Report! The chief instructor, Minister Yan, has already been tried, except for those who were killed, the rest are all here! Didn't get away with one! The information we got was accurate! Chief instructor, the brothers of the Yangzhou Station of the Intelligence Department should be the first to take the lead in this battle! I am willing to represent all the officers and men of our Second Mixed Brigade. Light work for the brothers of Yangzhou Station! ”

Before anyone arrived, Fang Zong took the information provided by the Yangzhou Station of the Ministry of Intelligence and conducted a trial of the captured salt owls first. Except for Xu Baoshan, the rest of the big and small leaders were very cooperative under the coercion of bayonets and muzzles, and they poured beans from the bamboo tube to explain everything. After getting the confession and confession, Fang Zong hurriedly saluted, leaned up and reported in a low voice. Hu Rui had already ordered that everything about the Anhui Army Intelligence Department belonged to the category of strict secrecy! It's a covert intelligence channel. Absolutely no exposure!

"Hmph, of course the hard-won information can't be wasted! The distinguished guests we invited are almost here, and we'll use these guys in a while. Sing a big play! Please take credit for the matter first, everything about the Ministry of Intelligence needs to be kept secret now! ”

Hu Rui coldly glanced at Xu Baoshan, who was struggling to kneel and scolding. replied lightly. However, when it comes to asking for credit for the Ministry of Intelligence, although it is because of the need for secrecy. Only vetoed. The corners of Hu Rui's mouth still inadvertently hung a gentle smile, and then the cover of the big-brimmed hat. Secretly looked at the sassy and sassy Yan Nuxia beside her, with her head held high, and her face full of arrogance, her smile became warmer and warmer.

"Of course, the woman I fancy is the best!"

Someone said with a smug heart, and the smile on the corner of his mouth clearly said: "This is inevitable!" "For Hu Dashuai, isn't praising Yan Nuxia just praising him!

Two flowers bloom and one branch each, and then take a look at the large and small salt lords in Yangzhou City.

The people of Yangzhou have a very vague understanding of the revolutionary party, and it has always been rumored in the streets and alleys that the revolutionary party is the revolutionary party, that is, the Hong gang with the purpose of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and the white helmet and white armor are for the Chongzhen Emperor Dai Xiao, saying that the revolution is "the whole people are united (Yangzhou dialect is pronounced as 'revolution') a life". In addition, in the previous uprisings organized by the League, the revolutionaries were not afraid of death, so that the revolutionary party was more or less deified. After the Opium War, due to the opening of the port to trade, sea and railway transportation gradually replaced inland waterway shipping, so that Yangzhou, which was prosperous by canal transportation and salt industry, gradually faded out of people's field of vision. Before Xinhai, Yangzhou had almost become a political vacuum, where not only was the revolution weak, but the rule of the Qing government was also quite fragile. After the Wuchang Uprising, the local ruling apparatus of the Qing government became even more dysfunctional. Under the combination of many reasons, Sun Tiansheng, who was born at the grassroots and did not know a single word, was able to easily seize Yangzhou with a fake tiger.

After Sun Tiansheng sat on the throne of the governor of Yangzhou, his true nature was revealed. He has publicly stated many times: "I make a lot of money, and you make a small profit." "Unable to care about securing the throne of the governor, he spends his days drinking and conniving at a group of rabble under his command to take advantage of it. Subsequently, the prisons of Kaijiangdu and Ganquan counties were opened, and the prisoners in the prison were unstable and good, and they were all released on the spot! The freed prisoners were overjoyed, and the sound of shackles shook the entire Yangzhou City, ready to take the opportunity to earn a vote. In order to prevent these criminal criminals from endangering the place, the gentry and businessmen had to organize their own self-defense groups and organize them to be driven out section by section. After that, the merchants and squires in Yangzhou were completely disappointed. Yangzhou was originally the base camp of salt merchants, and these expensive salt merchants were the first to bear the brunt of the difficulties. While feeling that this cheap governor is unreliable, he also began to worry about his huge foundation. After thinking about it, he planned to support a spokesperson to come to power, so as to ensure the interests of his own one-third of an acre.

After careful consideration, the salt merchants set their sights on the salt barons that crisscrossed the Yangtze River. For hundreds of years, salt merchants and these salt barons who begged for a living in the waves of the river have always been complementary existences. The two are working together openly and secretly. Together, they are selling illicit salt. They know each other well, and the cooked ones are about to rot. Among these salt barons across the river. The largest Shili is Xu Baoshan. This person is a native of Jiangsu Dantu, and the word is Huaili. Because of its bravery, it is called Xu Laohu. Righteousness for others. The temperament is frank and honest, and he is not pretentious. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, its shili has spread all over the north and south of the canal, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the momentum is huge, and there are three or four thousand disciples and followers under him!

The salt merchants, who were worried about their one-third of an acre, were anxious to need a spokesperson, and they urgently needed to support a governor to come to power so as to ensure that their own interests would not be harmed. So under the balance of interests of all parties, the salt merchants secretly contacted and prepared. Xu Baoshan was invited to lead his troops to Yangzhou. Yangzhou is a rich place, and nothing else is the most silver, as long as it can ensure its own interests. There is a way to make money by buying and selling private salt, are you afraid that you won't be able to make money?! Compared with his own foundation and future income, this benefit thrown to Xu Baoshan is nothing!

As early as 1900, Zhang Jian of Nantong was promoted, and after Liu Kun, the governor of Liangjiang, surrendered, Xu Baoshan took his brothers to join the official army and was organized as a private person. Thereafter. Xu Baoshan tried his best to help the Qing government maintain local law and order, and he worked very hard to exterminate Wang Zhengguo, who had robbed salt ships, and Zhu Dashi, a "bandit". On the eve of Xinhai, Xu Baoshan already faintly has a certain climate. It was only a matter of time before he became a warlord on one side of the separatist side. Like all ambitious warlords, he thinks about how to preserve his strength and take the opportunity to expand Shili. Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangjiang, to prevent revolution. Xu Baoshan was specially allocated 100,000 yuan as a recruitment fee, and asked him to recruit 20,000 people to form an army. This invitation from Yangzhou salt merchants. Undoubtedly, he sent a pillow in his sleep, and he hit it crookedly! Under the great joy. Xu Baoshan naturally readily agreed. After promising an important official position, Xu Baoshan relied on his prestige in the rivers and lakes to gather other salt lords from all walks of life on the river, sent troops together, and killed Yangzhou under the banner of revolution!

Xu Baoshan is righteous and extremely shrewd. Knowing that in the future, he will sit in the position of the governor of Yangzhou, and it is indispensable to take pictures with the brothers who ate together on the river in the past. In addition, Yangzhou City has high walls and thick walls, which is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is estimated that there are fewer people who go to the field. So under the balance, he gave up his plan to eat alone, and immediately attracted dozens of salt lord gangs on the river to go to Yangzhou together. These armed groups composed of dozens of salt lord gangs, with a scale of nearly 10,000 people, have no affiliation with each other at all, but are only loosely counted under Xu Baoshan's hands. After entering Yangzhou City, facing the colorful fat powder and prosperous place, the nature of this group of rabble was immediately exposed, and they immediately dispersed in a hurry and began a crazy ransack!

This greatly surprised the salt merchants, who never expected that the situation would be so empty after the salt barons entered the city! However, fortunately, the salt lords in the process are extremely poorly equipped, and many small gangs do not have a decent firearm, and there is no way to talk about siege equipment. The guards and tall walls, organized with heavy money, had little to lose except that they were burned down by a fire. As for the lives and deaths of the people in the city, the merchants naturally didn't care at all. They all gritted their teeth and planned, planning to wait for Xu Baoshan to officially come to power, so that Haode could calculate an account and get the loss back! Jihua can't catch up with the changes, and Jihua hasn't considered maturity yet, and there is news that the Anhui Revolutionary Army is going down by water and land to cross the river to quell the chaos!

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and now all the salt merchants couldn't sit still! This is the tiger and wolf army that easily defeated Nanjing in half a day, and this time it was actually two ways at the same time, and the river was full of more than a dozen warships, large and small! Such a scale and combat effectiveness are not comparable to those salt lords in the city! As the crooked head riot was quelled, everyone's hearts were raised to their throats. Now it's okay, the real lure of the wolf into the house! If Xu Baoshan comes to power, it will be fine, and what he loses can be recovered. But now the Anhui army has entered the city...... Not to mention the loss, I'm afraid I can't even save my life! After all, Xu Baoshan was recruited by them......

"Chief Instructor, look! People were brought! ”

Fang Zong pointed to a team from far and near, sparsely pulling towards this team and reminded in a low voice.

"Get ready, when everyone is ready, the show is about to begin~" (To be continued......)

PS: I was going to do one chapter together, but there was too much content, so after thinking about it, I would like to divide it into two chapters. I'm afraid that everyone will be dazzled, so forgive me, this chapter is just an excessive chapter.