Chapter 4: Mixed Warlords
Warlords were divided and coerced by foreign powers, and China in the early years of the Republic of China was no different from the late Qing Dynasty.
Warlords have appeared since the founding of the country.
The more famous ones are the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons, and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, and the warlords at this time are called princes. The starting point of their chaos is the princes of the Western Weekend Beacon Theater, drinking and pecking, which can be called heavenly.
In the Han Dynasty, there were warlords, and before the Western Han Dynasty, the emperor was strong and weak, and the local forces and wealthy families were gathered together, and the emperor guarded the mausoleum. The most famous poem is Tang Yin's 'I don't see the tomb of Wuling heroes, and there are no flowers and no wine hoeing fields.' When the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty were all heroes, they could no longer control the local powerful forces. The book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" vividly describes the warlord melee, and Cao Pi, the son of the largest warlord Cao Cao, changed the world and was replaced step by step by the small warlord Sima clan under him.
Subsequently, the Central Plains was in turmoil for three or four hundred years, and it was not until the Sui and Tang dynasties that it was briefly able to recuperate for a few decades.
However, the arrogant Tang people, the system implemented at the beginning, provided conditions for later warlords to secede.
The warlord division of the Tang Dynasty was called the division of feudal towns.
The reason was that the two warlords An Lushan and the small warlord Shi Siming below him wanted to be the emperor and made trouble, and later Zhu Wen was also a warlord and got up.
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms ended, and it was replaced by the Great Song Dynasty.
In order to end this warlord melee, the Song Dynasty finally came up with a policy, money and grain control.
The army has no money, let alone food, and if it wants to fight, it needs to ask the court for money and food. Without this money and food, the war will not be fought. is also because of the endless turnover of money and grain, the Song Dynasty can still support the small war, and the war will be lost. First defeated by the Khitans, and then defeated by the Dangxiang people, the Jurchens in the back were powerful, and took half of the Song Dynasty, and they didn't know how to repent, and the remaining half of the country was taken away by the Mongols.
By the time the Central Plains people established the Ming Dynasty again, the army was transformed again.
The defeat of the Ming Dynasty can probably be summed up in one sentence: supernatural powers are less than days.
Even if the emperor at the end of the Ming Dynasty was wise, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued every year, with a population of more than 100 million, and there was not enough food, so he could only judge who had the right to live through war.
The Jurchens have always liked to fight against the ferocious weather, especially when they killed the people of the Central Plains.
The history of the world of the "Ten Brothers" scroll quietly changed from here,
The hatred of destroying the country can be forgotten, but the resentment of the exterminating the nation cannot be dissipated in the land of the Central Plains.
A song of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom defeated the Eight Banners, the foundation of the Qing Dynasty's rule, and the pigtail army could only rely on the militia to achieve victory.
The old drama of the yellow robe is not necessarily what Zhao Kuangyin instructed, at least in this history, Zeng Bald was unwilling to be the emperor, and when he woke up from a banquet one day, he had an extra yellow dragon robe on his body.
Now it won't work if you don't rebel.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had not disappeared, and the militia groups had become independent.
This, coupled with the fact that the great powers continued to support their own proxies, led to the division of warlords in the modern era for 70 years.
Zhang Xiaofan has lived in Hong Kong for more than a year, and he has long seen through this period of history.
There is no Mr. Sun, and there is no royalist society.
All are fighting for their own interests.
At present, there are seven strongest forces in the Central Plains, namely Hunan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Feng, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jin. The Hunan army relied on the foundation of Zeng Bald, called the boss, and the Jiangxi army absorbed the territory left by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, cleared the influence of the Eight Banners, and achieved all-round development. The Dian army was supported by the British and French powers and captured a lot of territory. After the opening of the Feng ranking, it was mainly fought against the remnants of the Qing court for many years, and lost a lot of financial, civil, and material resources. The Zhejiang army is mainly economically developed, and the army is slightly inferior. The Anhui army is located in the land of four contentions, and after many years of war, the people are struggling to make a living, and it is already the result of many compromises to maintain independence.
The Jin army was even more congenitally deficient, and there were nine droughts in ten years, and the grain was obtained by the army's robbery.
Zhang Xiaofan calculates that he can now be called a warlord, but the army is not called the Guangdong Army, but the Southeast Army.
The Guangdong army can only operate in the Guangdong area, and the southeast army's vision range is much larger.
Guo Dashuai's hundreds of thousands of military horses only accounted for a dozen cities, relying on the proximity to the seaport and prosperous trade, so he had the money to recruit troops and horses. In fact, if you do the math, Guo Dashuai is just a small warlord.
Each of the seven major warlords has an army of more than 500,000, and Zhang Xiaofan will not be able to compare with it for a while and a half, so he can only settle the people first.
Anyone can do it for recuperation, but how thoroughly it is done depends on whether the official has perseverance.
Relying on the ability of Shunfeng Ear and Clairvoyance, Zhang Xiaofan really has no worries about making money in the mall.
One factory after another was built, and a small self-produced and self-sufficient force was built.
Within a year, the school began to recruit students one after another, and Zhang Xiaofan found more than 100 teachers to compile brainwashing courses, promote the theory of great unification, and the spirit of the supremacy of the Chinese nation.
The effect will not be visible for a while, when the prawn's sister-in-law gives birth to a third normal child, among the many warlords in China, the quality of the Southeast Army is high, and the fighting spirit is strong, it can already be called unique.
If we have the desire to fight, we should keep it, and since it is called the Southeast Army, Guangdong will definitely want to be reunified, Fujian will also want it, and Guangxi will also want it.
The population of the three provinces exceeded 20 million, there were more than 20 petty warlords, and there were countless thieves and bandits.
Zhang Xiaofan relied on 100,000 troops, and he could only unify the southeast step by step.
It took a month to unify Guangdong, and it took a year to resume production.
When the prawn sister-in-law had her first daughter, Zhang Xiaofan telegraphed the nearby forces, and the Fujian gang was too arrogant, and even colluded with several warlords of the Gui family to transport opium and chips to Guangdong, harming the country and the people.
After the declaration of war, Zhang Xiaofan's army used a warlord coalition army in a month, the army was broken and scattered, and the army strength plummeted.
Two months later, Zhang Xiaofan unified the three southeastern provinces.
Zhang Xiaofan, whose name has not changed, is regarded as the eighth hero by other warlords.
Originally, he planned to destroy the Dian army in one go, but he didn't want the British and French powers to go to war with the German and Italian powers, and they continued to pay attention to China, so they had to stop the war and develop the economy in an all-round way.
"Xianggong," the prawn sister-in-law gave birth to four children, and her complexion was slightly less than before. Zhang Xiaofan had to control his thoughts of having a child.
Four children are far from enough, more than 200,000 martial arts values, only 40,000 were spent, too little.
After more than six years of secular life, the ten brothers were still very simple-minded, and they only knew how to cultivate.
Dalisan is now on par with his own combat effectiveness, Tongpi Six is difficult to hurt with guns, and Snakeskin Four can't catch him now.
Ignoring the cement and steel bars underground, you can escape 3,000 miles in one night, and you can walk 1,000 miles with people.
Sitting in Guangzhou, you can check the stock market and futures trading in Hong Kong, and you can't see or listen to the surrounding noise and environment.
Zhang Xiaofan was able to rein in the military in time, and it was only when he heard the Hong Kong governor chatting with a British army commander that the Yunnan army and the British and French coalition forces had a joint action, so they arranged it in advance.
The tears of shouting ten are the most valuable, and any disease can be cured, but they can't collect it themselves.
The damn storage room isn't even usable.
Feitian V is the most useless now, the planes have begun to take off, and Feitian V has no choice but to continue to pretend to be stupid and cute.
Tall Foot Seven can't control his height, and now he lives outside the city, and as soon as he enters the city, he will be entangled in various things and unable to move. The most useless thing is Big Mouth Nine, pestering to eat all kinds of delicacies all day long, which can be called a big stomach, but he can't do anything.
The practice of the Spring and Autumn Five Tyrants, ten years of life and ten years of lessons, finally succeeded.
Zhang Xiaofan doesn't think that he can't even compare with Gou Jian, although after the prawn's sister-in-law gave birth to a few children and deformed her figure, she accepted a few more aunts.
It didn't take ten years, and on the fifth birthday of the youngest daughter, Zhang Xiaofan gathered all the generals and informed him of his intention to unify the nine southern provinces.
The three provinces of Guangdong, Guizhou and Fujian are already in their own hands.
There are three major warlords in the six provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Zhejiang, and Guizhou, the Hunan army is the boss, the Yunnan army is not weak, and the economic strength of the Zhejiang army is not inferior to its own Fujian province.
In this way, six provinces, with the power of three provinces, can they be defeated?
"Yes, but we need allies." Chief of Staff is the same as the Taoist.
"In order to rely on the powers, the Dian army looted the people's fat and people's ointment, and the military strength was removed, as long as the land was defeated, it could be stabilized in a month, and then Sichuan and Guizhou could be decided in one fell swoop, and it is estimated that the military strength will use about 80,000 new troops."
"The two armies of Zhejiang and Jiangxi have always had old enmities, and a messenger can be sent to persuade the Jiangxi army to attack the Zhejiang army and ease the military influence of our army. Within a year, our army stabilized the three provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou, and could lend troops to the Jiangxi army and attack the Hunan army. ”
A staff officer shook his head and said, "I'm afraid the Gan army won't be so obedient." ”
"He'll be obedient," Zhang Xiaofan smiled silently.
Half a month later, the Southeast Army stormed the Yunnan Army, and the Jiangxi Army and the Hunan Army agreed on the relationship of interests, and also invaded the sphere of influence of the Zhejiang Army.
Just as Zhang Xiaofan expected, within a month, the Dian army was pacified, leaving a staff group to fight with the British and French forces, and the 50,000 army continued to press on Sichuan and Guizhou.
Half a year later, Chuangui announced that he would belong to the Southeast Army.
At this time, the Zhejiang army was also beaten by the Jiangxi army.
When the 50,000 southeastern army appeared on the Fujian-Zhejiang border, the Zhejiang warlords announced their surrender.
The Hunan Army, the Jiangxi Army, and the Southeast Army announced the joint formation of a new alliance.
At the end of the first year of the alliance, the Hunan army stormed Chudi, and in the second year, the Hunan army also gained the territory of the two provinces.
The warlords of the north trembled for a moment and began to unite.
However, there was a conflict of interest between the Jiangxi army and the Hunan army.
In order to attack the Zhejiang army, the Jiangxi army gave the Hunan army tens of millions of francs, which dragged the Hunan army from attacking itself.
When the Hunan army attacked Chudi, it also promised the benefits to the Jiangxi army, but in the end, it only gave 10,000 loads of grain.
Ganjun is unwilling, take advantage of your unstable heels, one word, fight.
Zhang Xiaofan came forward to mediate and asked the Hunan army to return the francs paid by the Jiangxi army to the Jiangxi army, but the Hunan army refused.
Zhang Xiaofan was annoyed and angry, and borrowed 100,000 new troops to the Gan army.
With 100,000 fresh troops, the Gan army captured the Hunan army's nest in one fell swoop, and a month later, Chu also became the territory of the Gan army.
Quietly, the Hunan army was engulfed.
The head of the Gan army wanted to send the southeastern army out of the country, but found that he did not have enough francs.
Zhang Xiaofan wrote a bill: "The Jiangxi army captured the Zhejiang army and gave the Hunan army about 30 million francs, and owed himself 30 million francs. But Hunan and Chu are both big provinces, and tens of millions of francs can't be bought, not to mention that he has advanced 100,000 new troops to help. ”
In desperation, the Jiangxi army had no choice but to give up the newly defeated Chu land to the Southeast Army, and the two armies held one end each.
Zhang Xiaofan looked at the announcement happily, and with Shunfeng Ear and clairvoyance to inquire about the news, he could always get the opponent's hole cards.
Now just wait for next year's bumper harvest in Chudi, and he will be able to dominate the south.