As the passage from Sichuan to Hubei, Yichang is dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack. ? ? Several groups of people in the Sichuan Army were united but not in harmony, and each fought on its own. They agreed that those who entered Wuchang first would be the leader of Hubei. The inspection teams were the number of thirteen brigades, with a total of four armies. Later, a brigade of Shichuan Xing, Hubei rebelled and surrendered, and the troops increased to 15 brigades and five brigades.

Although the troops were very organized, the attack was not high. Even after the outpost troops saw the banner of the defensive army, the chief officer immediately ordered "Run quickly! Turtle son, run faster, be careful when you slow down. Lu army, Lu army is here!"

The Second Division of the Shandong Provincial Army, who arrived in Yichang by boat from Shandong, although Li Huchen, the division commander of the division was personally sent, due to capacity issues, most of the troops were left behind. The actual force was only one regiment. Although there were eight Shandong Navy gunships and Baoshunlun to assist, the strength of the enemy and us was still very different. After all, there were fifteen brigades on the opposite side, and only three brigades were arrived at the same time. Since the wartime mobilization was not implemented, the third brigade was not satisfied, and the actual force was only one and a half brigades. How to fight a one-to-ten ratio?

He brought a regiment here, rather than guarding Yichang, to say that he was preparing to die. It has become a standard style for the Lu army to fight, and generals and officials dared to die. Besides, Lengwa from Guanzhong has no reason to be afraid of death. He must die, and he cannot let his subordinates die first. However, unexpectedly, the Sichuan Army showed a very gentlemanly manner, and neither interfered with the Lu army's construction of positions nor attacked at night, and fought a quiet war with the Lu army. Until the subsequent troops arrived one after another, and after more than 70% of the infantry and special forces of the Second Division arrived, the Sichuan Army still did not see the Sichuan Army attacking, and they knew that there were some problems here.

Immediately, the information from the Shandong Ice Management Agency was sent, which made Li Huchen understand the whole story and couldn't help but curse: "Damn, I'm fooled by these cowards. It turns out that they are lying!"

Sichuan has a population of 70 million. In the pre-Jin period, it also cooperated with four provinces, and there were several wealthy provinces in the southwest. However, first it was the preparation of the Sichuan-Hankou Railway, and then it caught the rubber stock market crash, which was severely damaged. Then the road protection incident started, and the war was connected. The land of Bashu, and the rebels rose up everywhere. For a moment, you finished singing and I came on the stage, and the city wall changed to the king's flag.

Commanders and generals from all walks of life span like mushrooms after a rain. The universe saves the king, fights the thief army around the world, and sweeps the rebel army in the world. Each army has to send funds, recruit soldiers, and recruit young and middle-aged people into the army for the great cause of human liberation.

For every additional soldier in the army, one less labor is needed in the field. In addition, the unlimited levy has led to the poor people in Sichuan, from the richest province in the southwest to a large number of poor provinces. The farmers were desperate and raised up as bandits, and they were recruited again in a blink of an eye, and the troops became more.

Money will not increase with the increase of troops. The more troops in Sichuan, the more wages the more serious they will be. In order to maintain morale, they have to give a false number and give a high-ranking official. Anyway, they are provincial troops that the 6th Army headquarters do not recognize, and the chaotic number is comparable to the Shaanxi Army, which Li Huchen originally belonged to.

If there are six or seven hundred people, a brigade can be formed, and there are 1,000 guns. Maybe they dare to form a division. Although there are thirteen brigades on the opposite side, the actual force is only more than 10,000. After a brigade in Shixingchuan rebelled, it was immediately upgraded to a division. One brigade was demolished into two brigades. It was still the route with the largest unit force among all the troops.

On the surface, it was a division of the Lu army against fifteen brigades, but the actual strength was almost the same, and the heavy weapons were more than the Lu army. The Sichuan army was divided into different units, including four systems: Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan and Hubei. They were not rescued by each other and their equipment was extremely poor. Most infantry soldiers were equipped with front gold convex guns and machetes, and troops with smoothbore guns were called elites.

Guizhou and Yunnan armies have good equipment, but their troops are limited, and they are not enthusiastic about marching into Hubei. Compared to colonizing Hubei, they are more willing to colonize Sichuan. If Li Huchen did not defend at the beginning, but led the navy to fight counterattacks, it is still unknown who will win.

But now, Zhao Guanhou has come to strictly order "banning the stimulation of the Sichuan Army." Li Huchen can only lead the troops to garrison on the spot, repairing fortifications when there is nothing to do, and shooting two shots to scare the enemy away when there is something to do. Anyway, the food and military pay are provided by Wang Zichun, and I don't care about it for a year.

Wang Zichun, who is in Wuchang City, has now truly realized what it means to tie up. He originally wanted to keep the Lu army as a god, but he did not expect to burn incense and attract ghosts, but now he cannot drive it away. Shortly after Zhao Guanhou's telegram was released, two Taixi beauties arrived together.

When he first met the second daughter, Wang Zichun was quite happy. He played all the names of the flowers and had never tasted the beauty of Taixi. He only thought that he was lonely in front of the Guanshuai army, so he called two foreign concubines to accompany him. When he rushed into Hunan, the beauty was lonely in her empty room, so he could take advantage of the opportunity to enter and taste the Western taste.

But neither of the two women were fuel-saving. Soon after arriving in Hubei, they started to cause trouble for Wang Zichun. First, Jane Sen showed off her other identity, the Four-Country Bank Group, and the Debt Inspector.

Meng Siyuan built the railway and borrowed foreign debts from the four countries' banks. Among them, Huabi Bank had the most loans of 4 million yuan. Janeson was the chairman of Huabi, and of course he had the right to supervise the debt and collateral. The mortgaged property of railway loans included Jinghan Road Road. Janeson exercised this power to detain cars on Jinghan Road and control the use of locomotives.

The relationship with Wang Zichun is not very big, but then Hannah started to build a mining company in Wuchang. Prussia and the Communist Party jointly announced without a fight, and it was difficult for the people of the Pu people to preserve their property, let alone start a company. However, because Hannah married Zhao Guanhou, her nationality was classified as China (Jenson retained Belgian nationality), which was not within the scope of sanctions. Moreover, Consul Albion of Wuchang also invested in it, and the company immediately became a joint venture between China and Yang, and then it started to open.

Hannah studied geological exploration, and mineral exploration was her old business. But this time she was not looking for a coal mine, iron ore but gold mine! She came to discuss acquisitions for any mine under Wang Zichun’s name, and paid a price ranging from ten to one hundred yuan to acquire the equity owned by Wang Zichun.

You should know that by relying on the mountains and relying on the water to harvest water, Hubei has the largest iron ore in the south. Later, it was jointly established with the Fusang people during the Shengxingsun era, becoming a major economic support industry in Huguang. After the joint establishment, the equity was repurchased from the Fusang people through private fundraising and redemption, and became a complete private company.

When Wang Zichun was the commander of the division, he occupied a share in the iron mine in the form of a hero stock. When he was promoted to the governor, the proportion of this hero stock naturally increased. If anyone refused... Wang Governor regularly suppressed bandits and shot them on the spot. Who knows if he would find out that a director was actually a spy who was a bandit, took them out to shoot the target?

However, this hero stock has always been a powerful person. Wang Jue Shuai has more guns than merchants, so he can naturally get a hero stock. Now Zhao Guanshuai has more guns than Wang Zichun, so it is natural for hero stocks to change hands. Although the Xuzhou meeting clearly pointed out that the supervisor's private property is sacred and inviolable, Hannah did not rob it but bought it. Zhao Guanhou also firmly stated: Investment is OK, money must be given. If Hannah takes your shares in vain, I will not agree.

The subsequent blow came from the little princess Anna. Zhao Guanhou's beloved disciple has recently increased his shopping habit. Accompanied by the guards, he looked at the sign shops on both sides of the road, stretched out his hand and said with an extremely cute expression: "I want this. I want that, I want that, and that and that." Then, these stores can complete the transfer procedures.

Zhao Guanhou, the identity of the two lakes inspector, played an important role at this time. With him, his own women could take whatever they see and ask for whatever they see. Not long after, the real estate under Wang Zichun's name decreased by 30%. He couldn't sit still and went to Zhao Guanhou's mansion to ask for an explanation, but Zhao Guanhou's face was as deep as water and threw a large stack of documents. "Zichun, you are my old subordinate, and I was the confidant I brought out, but your performance disappointed me so much!"

The stack of documents, without exception, was a complaint. It came from the Hubei Chamber of Commerce, the education community, and ordinary people. It was said that every word was full of blood and tears. It forced Wang Jue Shuai to distribute money, and even turned other people's wives into their own wives, turned living people into dead people, etc. As well as how the soldiers of the Wang army came to play as bandits, kidnapped merchants, and inter-civilian women, the case was detailed and irrefutable.

Some of the more considerate things are complaints from Wang Zichun's subordinates, which directly pointed out that his commander colluded with the Southern Army and sold the arms of the Hanyang Arsenal to the southern soldiers for profit.

If the previous accusations can only be considered as a harm to the surface, the final accusation can be fatal. Those accusations are accompanied by detailed account records, which are obviously not a silence. Zhao Guanhou sent this thing to Beijing. Wang Zichun was at a very least and handed over to the military court at the worst.

His expression changed a lot, and he begged repeatedly: "This... is all done by the people below. I don't know!"

"What the people below do? No wonder, it seems that you are not energetic and have major management mistakes. I'll take care of you!"

Zhao Guanhou did what he said, and he really took charge of Wang Zichun. For example, he disarmed the only remaining provincial military advisor and only retained two regiments. (The two regiment commanders were the reporters of theft and selling arms). Then the First Infantry Brigade of the Shandong Provincial Army First Division was responsible for the task of defending Hubei, and cooperated with the Second Division to jointly maintain Hubei's public security and prevent the enemy in the south.

Then, a comprehensive cleanup and rectification of the Hanyang Arsenal was carried out. The former factory manager was either dismissed or imprisoned. Then, Jane Sen formed an expert group to check the accounts. Through the efforts of Jane Sen and a group of conscientious economists and financial specialists, the Hanyang Arsenal was successfully transformed into a bankrupt enterprise with serious losses and insolvency. Immediately, the Hubei Chamber of Commerce stated that in order to save this enterprise, we must privatize it.

With this life-saving magic medicine, the Hanyang Arsenal immediately ascended to the Pure Land. Since Zhang Xiangtao's era, it would rather endure the high-cost, low-yield loss model than maintain the state-owned Hanyang Arsenal, and finally became a private business owner. After the Hubei Chamber of Commerce injected a certain amount of funds, it implemented a comprehensive takeover of the factory. Then it was a drastic process of throwing burdens, throwing burdens, cutting off non-performing assets, and flying forward.

After joining the operation of outstanding merchants, the Hanyang Arsenal's bulky imported equipment and incompetent technical workers were loaded on the train to Shandong, leaving behind young workers who were simple, cute, illiterate, untrained, but with extremely low salary and no treatment. In addition, they could only undertake gun repairs and could not produce new machines that could manufacture weapons.

As for the future of Hanyang Arsenal, no one cares. Anyway, several businessmen involved have made money, claiming that they will not open for ten years, and they will spend ten years on opening. After doing all this, you can consider immigrating to Shandong. Of course, before that, you have to evaluate Pingliu Iron Mine in this way...

Wang Zichun was sitting in a distressed city, and even the guards around him were cut off in the name of reducing expenses and replaced them with Shandong guard platoons with higher quality and more professional skills. Wang Jueshuai even had to pay cash when going to the Qing Building. Because the white strips of Jueshuai's seal were covered, the Hubei Finance Department had refused to repay, the reason was: the four-country bank group checked the accounts.

The gentry of the Hubei business community naturally supported the Lu army, which was a force that favored the people. Compared with Wang Zichun's subordinates, the Lu army, who traded fairly and did not offend women, was simply a heavenly soldier and general. Therefore, Hubei people did not exclude Shandong people, but regarded them as relatives.

It is not difficult for several unsatisfied troops to recruit troops in Hubei and raise food and money. You should know that if you pay the tax from the Lu army, you don’t have to pay the tax from Wang Jue Shuai. The former’s tax is several times lighter than the latter. Who would not pay it?

There were more and more companies in the name of Zhao Guanshuai or his wives and concubines, and he had to use his private savings to pay for the Lu army.

At this point, Wang Zichun had already wanted to leave and powered to step down the field. However, Zhao Guanhou stopped him and said, "You step down now, doesn't it mean that I will take your seal? This is seriously inconsistent with the spirit of our Xuzhou Conference. Who will maintain my reputation? Do you have any opinions? I can change something wrong, but I can't get out of the field. As long as I, Zhao, is the inspector of the Two Lakes, you will definitely be the governor of Hubei, and no one can take your position!"

The strategic idea of ​​the Lu army that originally had to be fed to the two lakes was realized in advance. The situation in Hubei alone was enough to allow the Fourth Division and the First Brigade to have enough food and drink.

A large amount of money poured in, and the women at home also smiled. Even Feng Zhi bought a large amount of real estate in Wuchang in the name of Shandong Wushu Association, sold it in Wuchang, making more than 100,000 yuan, and was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling. Although Hannah still disliked Jason, she had money and work to do, and she could always have less struggles. Furthermore, Hannah looked at the lives of Prussian expatriates in Hubei, and compared with Shandong, Yu Zhao Guanhou's complaints actually disappeared.

The Lu army lived a comfortable life in Hubei, but Wang Zichun had already had the desire to commit suicide. The only hope was that the Lu army would set out early and go to Hunan to fight. Even if some troops stayed, they would still have some income, which was better than before. They even had to pay the bills themselves if they played a coupon.
Chapter completed!