"This kind of treasure is also something that you can touch with these mud legs", a male instructor with a weird appearance said in the back, it is true that such a priceless thing is not something that Lao Hu can possess, because there are many officers and soldiers behind him. (This person was the chief of staff of the Guizhou warlord Liu Xianshi at that time, known as Chief Officer Li, Liu Staff Officer)

Liu Xianshi, a warlord of the Guizhou family, the largest warlord leader in Guizhou, the word is like Zhou, the number is Jingshuo, born in 1870, the family is a local gentry, a member of the former Qing Dynasty, in his early years, he participated in the suppression of the uprising against Yuan Shikai's party in Guangxi, and it can be said that he grew up in the suppression of the revolution.

In the year of Xinhai, Sichuan broke out the Baolu Movement, Liu Xianshi was ordered to lead the troops to Sichuan, halfway through Guizhou in response to the Wuchang Uprising to set up the Military Officer's Office, Liu Xianshi then announced his obedience to the leadership of the Military Officer's Office, and Xiong Fanyu, Ren Kecheng, Dai Huan secretly colluded, led the Yunnan Army Tang Jiyao into Guizhou, and subverted the Guizhou Military Office by force.

Liu Xianshi served as the military chief of the governor's office, controlled the army of the whole province, and stood at the peak of Guizhou's power. In 1913, Liu Xianshi was promoted to the military envoy of Guizhou, monopolizing the military power of Guizhou Province, he was based on the patrol battalions of various roads, and the children of Xingyi were the backbone, and hired the official from Yunnan Jiangwutang as the head of the regiment, and formed 6 regiments. Since then, the warlords of Guizhou have been formed.

Yuan Shikai called the emperor, Liu Xianshi expressed his support, was named a viscount, after the death of Yuan Shikai, Liu Xianshi served as the governor of Guizhou, the overseer and the governor, became the largest warlord in Guizhou, self-proclaimed Liu Dashuai, and also became the largest warlord in Guizhou at that time.

Although some of the soldiers were holding guns at Lao Hu, the female commander on the side looked at the expression on Yan Wenbin's face very calmly, and she looked at Yan Wenbin with an expression that she didn't know what it was, especially the smile that flashed on Yan Wenbin's face just now, which made Leng Bingyan unable to understand what Yan Wenbin was thinking.

"Staff Officer Li, is it inappropriate for you to do this, although they can't get their hands on this priceless Weeping Dragon Blood Jade, but you can't either, and at the same time, I can't, this piece of blood jade is not yours and mine, let's let the people above solve it together", Chief Leng looked at Staff Officer Li and had the ambition to occupy the Weeping Dragon Blood Jade, and reminded him.

"What does Director Leng mean, although we can't have the slightest touch with the heart of the weeping dragon's blood jade, but such a priceless thing, Director Leng and Liu Dashuai will hand it over to the president for goodness", an old fox like Staff Officer Li, of course, understood the meaning of the beautiful Director Leng's words.

"But this kind of thing really makes people want to take it for themselves, even if it is to be handed over to the president, they want their marshal Liu Xiancheng to follow Director Leng Bingyan Leng to the Presidential Palace in Guangzhou, and hand it over to the president in person, or else the credit will be let Director Leng Bingyan Leng be swallowed alone, and many of my subordinates have died, and they also need funeral expenses, isn't it" Staff Officer Liu said in a weird manner.

Although the two of them only said a few words, their subordinates pointed guns at each other, and neither of them would budge, and if anyone dared to move, they would definitely be killed on the spot.

In 1915, Yuan Shikai's activities to restore the imperial system were opposed by the Chinese, and on December 25, Cai launched a campaign in Yunnan to defend the country, organized the national defense army, jointly declared the independence of Yunnan with Tang Jiyao and Li Liejun, and led the army to attack the north and east, forming a nationwide anti-Yuan struggle the following year. In June 1916, Yuan Shikai fell ill and died, and the Protector Army was abolished.

The basis of the Yunnan Protector Army was the Yunnan New Army (i.e., the Yunnan Army) in the late Qing Dynasty, and its training was carried out in accordance with the training procedures of the Japanese Army, and experienced the baptism of the Xinhai Revolution in 1911.

To contend with the Dian Army, which has only two divisions and one brigade and a strength of about 20,000 troops, and the Beiyang Army, which has 12 divisions directly under the army, a strength of more than 250,000 troops, and a navy, the military strength is quite different, so the only way is to adopt a policy of alliance forces.

In August 1920, Sun Yat-sen instructed the troops stationed in Fujian and Guangdong to return to Guangdong, expelled the Gui warlords, Sun Yat-sen returned to Guangzhou, re-raised the banner of protecting the law, began to contact with Soviet Russians, and took office in Guangzhou as the very big president elected by the extraordinary Congress, and then went to Guangxi to eliminate the forces of the Gui warlord Lu Rongting, and prepared to take the northern expedition based on Guangzhou.

In August 1920, he led the Cantonese army back to Guangdong from Guangxi, defeated the Gui warlords entrenched in Guangdong, and was appointed as the governor of Guangdong Province and the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong army; The chief of the War Department and the chief of the Ministry of the Interior, who advocated "inter-provincial autonomy," was inconsistent with Sun Yat-sen's political program of "great unification," and the two had internal contradictions.

Compared with Sun Yat-sen's unification, Chen Jiongming's advocacy of "inter-provincial autonomy" was more popular with the warlords, Chen Jiongming opposed Sun Yat-sen's Northern Expedition proposal, marched into Guangxi, and after conquering the entire territory of Guangxi, he prevented Sun Yat-sen from setting up the Northern Expedition base camp in Guilin and sabotaging the Northern Expedition.

Because Guizhou is a barren and weak province with a weak economic foundation, it is dependent on it, and in the course of their form and development, the warlords of the Guizhou system often have to rely on the neighboring provinces, such as the Yunnan warlords, and other big forces.

The originator of the Guizhou warlords is called Liu Xianshi. Liu Xianshi, a native of Xingyi County, Guizhou, was born in 1870 in a landlord family. His cousin Liu Xianqian, born in 1865, was also an important leader of the Guizhou warlords.

Liu Xianshi's father, Liu Guanli, was appreciated by the Qing court for holding a regiment to suppress the Muslim uprising, and successively awarded guerrilla and Tongzhi, and later promoted to the prefect with meritorious service, rewarded Hualing, controlled an armed force, and became a tyrant in Xingyi. In the old days, the subordinates were all gentry, and Xingyi Zhixian did not dare to do anything if he was not consulted. Local matters are decided by him in one word, and the Liu family has become a small local court.

In 1902, the Guangxi Huidang rebel army entered Guizhou and captured the city of Xingyifu, Liu Guanli and his son Liu Xianshi and nephew Liu Xianqian took the opportunity to pull up the banner of the regimental defense bureau, and cooperated with the Qing army to recover the city, and was rewarded by the Qing government.

Liu Xianshi was even more insidious than his father, known as the "Smiling Tiger", and the Liu father and son not only bloodily suppressed the uprisings of the people of all ethnic groups, but also arbitrarily annexed land.

Someone wrote a couplet and pasted it on the gate of Liu's League Defense Bureau, which reads: "The gentlemen and gentlemen, the wolf princes, the tiger princes, and the gluttonous princes, work openly, where is the public heart, where the axiom exists, it is nothing more than to seek personal gain by the public." ”

The next link is: "The General Bureau of League Defense, the Dinner Bureau, the Wine Bureau, the Foreign Tobacco Bureau, the Bureau is set up in the Bureau, the insiders are sweet, the outsiders are bitter, and the Bureau is celebrating Shengping." This couplet shows the righteous indignation of the people of Xingyi against the Liu family and his son.

After the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising in October 1911, Shen Yuqing, the governor of Guizhou, was very panicked and urgently telegraphed Liu Xianshi's group defense army to enter the provincial capital and coordinate the suppression of the revolution.

However, while Liu Xianshi was still on the way, Zhang Bailin, the leader of the Guizhou League, Ren Kecheng, the leader of the Guizhou Constitutionalists, as well as Yang Changming, Zhou Peiyi, Huang Zelin, Tan Xigeng, and others, forced Shen Yuqing to recognize Guizhou's independence on November 4.

At the meeting, the factions elected Yang Xincheng, the first standard instructor of the Guizhou New Army and the head of the Wutang Hall, and the general office of the Army Primary School, as the governor of the Guizhou Military Office, Zhao Dequan as the deputy governor, Zhang Bailin as the president of the Privy Council, Ren Kecheng as the vice president, and Zhou Peiyi as the secretary general and chief administrator.

However, after the revolutionaries Zhang Bailin and others seized power, they failed to take effective measures to consolidate and strengthen their position, but instead adopted an attitude of compromise and concession towards the constitutionalists and the old bureaucracy.

For example, Liu Xianshi, who was ordered by Shen Yuqing to lead his troops into the provincial towns to suppress the revolution, was appointed as the head of the military unit of the Privy Council, and at the same time, many members of the Constitutional Preparatory Council were introduced into the Privy Council, which objectively encouraged their desire to seize power.

Ren Kecheng, Liu Xianshi, and the old bureaucrat Guo Chongguang wantonly undermined the revolutionary order and attacked the revolutionary forces, and they forced the governor Yang Xincheng to lead a team to leave the province for the Northern Expedition, and forced the president of the Privy Council, Zhang Bailin, to leave the provincial capital to inspect various places.

At the beginning of February 1912, they also killed Huang Zelin, one of the leaders of the Guizhou League, who held the power of public security patrol in the provincial capital.

Although the revolutionary forces have been greatly weakened, Ren Kecheng, Liu Xianshi, Guo Chongguang and others still feel that their strength is insufficient, and they dare not suddenly launch a coup d'état and seize power in an all-round way.

After Guo Chongguang's advice, they decided to send Dai Jian to Yunnan to find Cai Jie, the governor of Yunnan, and vigorously slandered the Guizhou Military Officers and revolutionaries, and asked Cai Yi to send troops into Guizhou to "settle the rebellion in Guizhou".

After some hesitation, Cai Yi ordered Tang Jiyao, who led the Northern Expedition, to enter Guizhou and solve the Guizhou government, Tang Jiyao was a middle-level officer in the Yunnan army, and he was quite ambitious, and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to enter Guizhou to seek personal development.

At that time, Zhong Changzuo, one of the leaders of the Guizhou League, passed through Kunming on his way back from Nanjing, and after learning the news, he immediately met Cai Ye in person, gave a detailed account of the origin of the political dispute between the two factions in Guizhou Province, and advised Cai Ye not to interfere in the internal affairs of Guizhou Province.

Cai immediately ordered Tang Jiyao to enter Hubei via Sichuan, but Tang Jiyao had already received the promise of the reactionary forces in Guizhou to make him the governor, and reported to Cai that the front team had entered Guizhou and it was difficult to change the route, so he waved his army straight into Guizhou.

Zhong Changzuo chased the Yunnan army, trying to persuade Tang Jiyao to stop entering Guiyang, but was assassinated in Anshun, Tang Jiyao led the Yunnan army into Guiyang, overthrew the military office by force, made himself the governor, brutally slaughtered and persecuted the revolutionaries, and the Guizhou regime fell into the hands of Tang Jiyao, the constitutionalists and the old bureaucrats.

However, at that time, the people of Guizhou, especially the revolutionaries, were extremely resistant to the invasion and barbaric massacre of the Yunnan army, and called it "Dian Kou". Public opinion in various places also condemned it one after another, demanding that Tang Jiyao withdraw from Guizhou

At this time, Yuan Shikai had already grasped the state power, and he also intervened in the name of the central government, but to no avail.

Tang Jiyao served as the governor of Guizhou, and Liu Xianshi was the minister of military affairs, thus forming the joint military rule of Tang Jiyao and Liu Xianshi over Guizhou.

The backbone elements of the Guizhou Unification Party are Liu Xianshi, Ren Kecheng, Dai Huan, He Linshu, Guo Chongguang and others. Tang Jiyao used the Guizhou Unification Party to prevent the development of the revolution in Guizhou Province.

In November 1913, Tang Jiyao was transferred to the governor of Yunnan, due to the small size of Guizhou Province, Yuan Shikai abolished the post of governor and set up a military envoy, Liu Xianshi was appointed, so that Liu Xianshi succeeded Tang Jiyao to rule Guizhou.

In September 1914, Yuan Shikai promoted Liu Xianshi to lieutenant general. In 1915, Liu Xianshi supported Yuan Shikai's restoration of the imperial system, and the Protectorate War broke out.

In June, after Yuan Shikai's death, the Beiyang government appointed Liu Xianshi as the overseer of Guizhou and Dai Jian as the governor of Guizhou. In August, Dai Huan was transferred to the post of governor of Sichuan Province and the Office of the Military Affairs Commission, and Liu Xianshi concurrently held the post of governor of Guizhou.

Since then, Liu Xianshi has integrated the military and political power of Guizhou, implemented military rule internally, and followed Tang Jiyao to expand to Sichuan externally, forming a group of Guizhou warlords headed by Liu Xianshi, and one of the Beiyang warlords at that time.