Chapter 139: The Southwest is in trouble

The Yangchan Mountain Road is winding and winding. Looking down at it, it is a cliff that is thousands of feet deep. Looking from the foot of the mountain, the mountains are stacked and continuous, and it seems that there will never be an end.

"Good guy, I thought our Sichuan road was difficult to walk. I realized that it was better than Guizhou than us." On the banks of the Qingshui River in Foding Mountain, a team of more than a dozen people walked along the path. A young man in a Sichuan Chongqing accent, wearing a national defense army uniform and a cotton coat looked at Shenxia and unbuttoned his clothes, and two brand new Minyuan pistols under his clothes were exposed.

"Didn't the old saying say? Nine parts of mountains, rivers and fields, and the ancient road camel team walked to Qianzhou." Qiu Wenbin, who was walking in front, smiled and said, "Wushan Kuimen, Wushan, and the Qinling Shu Road to the north, and Daliangshan Jinsha River in the southwest. However, after entering the river, there is a plain inside, so it is called the Bashu treasure land. But Guizhou is different. No matter how you walk, it is mountains and mountains, and you can't see it."

"Squad leader, it's time to go to Guiyang in the afternoon. Should we tell us about this mission?" The young man from Chongqing squeezed in front and followed Qiu Wenbin to ask.

I set off for almost four or five hours in the morning, and it was a difficult mountain road. I also had to take care of the pack horses. Even if the mountain was cold and steep, Qiu Wenbin was a little hot. He unbuttoned his cotton coat and said, "I know you are restless. I tell you that this time I am not a war, but a discussion on the Hanchuan Railway's entry into the expensive matter."

Qiu Wenbin continued: "Mr. Zhan said that there are many bandits in the Dalou Mountain in Zunyi, and the construction of the railway may be dangerous. I hope that after the construction starts, we can send troops to protect it, so we have to say hello to the military and political affairs of Guizhou."

"It's not a war..." The young man in Chongqing dragged his voice long and glanced at the two railway company clerks in the team. He said dejectedly like a wilted eggplant: "It's enough to send a civil servant to the railway. Besides, we will help Guizhou build the railway, and they should thank the commander."

"Board, do you think it's that simple?" Qiu Wenbin laughed in the Sichuan dialect he learned and said, "The commander is the inspector of the three provinces. The general manager who sent troops to Guizhou must say hello first, otherwise people would think we are going to split, which is thankless."

"Squad leader, you don't know how to learn Sichuan dialect, you're like a girl next door calling someone."

"Ha ha......."

The soldiers burst into laughter, and the young man from Chongqing returned to his activeness and said, "Squad leader, when Chang De came out, he said that the commander was assassinated, and that it was done by Nanjing Zhengfu. Is this true?"

This sentence suddenly made the atmosphere of the team much more serious. Because Zhan Tianyou proposed the idea of ​​starting construction at the same time in four provinces and shortening the construction period, when Yang Qiu went to Shanghai, he sent Qiu Wenbin to take a class to protect the railway company's clerks to transfer to Hunan to Guizhou, preparing to discuss with Guizhou military and political fu about sending troops to protect the construction of the Guizhou section of the Hanchuan Railway. The reason he was sent was because the relationship between the Literary Society and the Autonomous Society was relatively good. Qiu Wenbin himself had a friendship with many people in the Zizhi Society.

But unexpectedly, they heard that Yang Qiu was assassinated in Hankou as soon as they arrived in Changde. At that time, everyone almost wanted to go home. Several railway company clerks were so anxious that they were angry. Without Yang Qiu, there would be no Hanchuan line at all, so they were the most anxious. Fortunately, the news came the next day that Yang Qiu was fine, but when the assassin assassin was yelling that it was sent by Nanjing Zhengfu, which made everyone's hearts shrouded in a layer of haze.

It was not until three government orders were sent to the public, and Changde Mansion was excited and many students went on the street to support them. However, because they were far away from the core area, they didn’t know who did it, so everyone was talking about this along the way. After experiencing the storm before and after the uprising, Qiu Wenbin became much more steady, knowing that many things were not something that could be seen through by his eyes, and said: "It’s good that the commander is fine. The others will wait until Guizhou sends a telegram back to ask Company Commander Lei and the others, and everyone is also worried."

The two railway company clerks were young students studying abroad found by Zhan Tianyou. They disliked the old-fashioned ideas of gentry everywhere and were also very passionate and excited. They cursed: "We don't care who did it. Anyway, the three provinces cannot be without Yang Xunzhang, otherwise the Hanchuan line will always be a piece of cake on paper? So many children cannot read books! Everyone has seen it all the way, and the three provinces have been ruined by the Manchus! So as long as the people can live a good life, we will support the three provinces."

"That's right, let's finish the Guizhou business and go back early. I saw the officials and gentry of the Lijin Bureau who drink the blood of the people all hated the commander's teeth."

"The commander is going to go out to patrol the two provinces. Those old-school members will definitely cause trouble. As I said, speed up and go back to clean up them when I arrive in Guizhou early."

"Yes, leave quickly and go back early after finishing your business."

The soldiers also started yelling and speeded up their pace towards Guizhou with two railway company clerks, but no one expected how big a chain reaction the sudden arrival of the National Defense Forces in Guiyang caused.

When Qiu Wenbin's protection clerk went to Guizhou, Yang Qiu also arrived at Changsha, the first stop of the inspection tour.

The sunny Changsha Prefecture ushered in a rare good weather. The Yingrui cruiser approached the dock with the sound of gongs and drums. The five-color flags and flying tiger flags on the warship complemented each other. The turbid river water slapped the warship's hull and splashed snow-white waves.

On the dock, the soldiers of the Sixth Brigade had already set up a cordon under the leadership of Hang Zhi. Due to the assassination in Hankou and the withdrawal of Lijin, a large number of vested interests were offended. In order to prevent anyone from taking risks, the National Defense Forces made strict arrangements for Yang Qiu's travel. Not only did they bring all the remaining guard companies, but they also took out a company from the first division to supplement them. In addition, they also ordered the garrisons in various places to do a good job in defense.

"Get out of the way, let me go."

"We want to protest! Yes, protest!"

Suddenly, hundreds of gangsters who came out of nowhere rushed over, squeezed out the welcome crowd and suddenly opened several banners, with slogans such as "We want to have a meal", "The Republic is not a family", and "The absurdity of changing taxes".

He brought officials and gentry representatives to welcome Tan Yankai's face suddenly froze when he saw the slogan. Since he ordered the tax reform, people have been marching in Changsha all day long. He knew who was behind these people, but he didn't expect that he would make trouble here and asked angrily: "What's going on? Who did it?!"

The officials and gentry representatives behind him quickly lowered their heads to avoid their eyes. Zuo Xueqian quickly pushed Liu Yutang: "Hurry up, find someone to drive them away. If the trouble starts, it will be bad."

Liu Yutang is now the deputy commander of the Fourth Division. This time Yang Qiu came to Hunan for inspection. He did not come back to Sichuan temporarily to arrange protection tasks because he was familiar with the people. Seeing this, he was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. Isn’t this a life-threatening thing? After the assassination in Hankou, Sun Wu and others were shot directly by Nanjing to comfort him. Who has such a deep background in Hunan now? If something happened in Changsha, they would not be enough for them to be buried with them! So he hurried to find Hang Zhi and was preparing to forcibly drive away these troublemakers.

Hang Zhi naturally saw these people. As soon as he was about to command the soldiers to disperse, Lei Meng, who had got off the boat first, immediately ran over and muttered a few words, and then strengthened his vigilance and stopped his movements, making Tan Yankai and others confused what Yang Qiu meant.

This time, Zhang Taiyan and Song Ziqing, who had just returned from Nanjing, both of them muttered secretly when they saw this scene, but Yang Qiu turned a deaf ear to the protest because he had expected someone to jump out.

"Yan Kai brings all walks of life in Hunan, welcome the patrol envoys to come and inspect." When Tan Yankai saw the army, he didn't understand what Yang Qiu was paying attention to. He gritted his teeth and went up to greet him, pointing at the protesters in the distance, pretending to be angry and scolding: "The patrol envoys don't have to care about these people. After the Lijin was cut off, they would make trouble all day long and could not make waves."

Yang Qiu smiled: "Governor Tan and you all have worked hard. Yang has been busy with it recently. He has been coming so far that he has really neglected you. As for these people, as the Republic... we have to let everyone speak in order to open up the channels of speech and promote the development of the three provinces together."

"The Inspector's Elegantness..." The officials and gentry representatives who had not spoken just now were not angry when they saw Yang Qiu, and they all agreed, secretly wondering if the direction of the wind had changed again?

Yang Qiu took Tan Yankai with his arms intimately. After getting on the carriage, only two people were left, his face suddenly changed and asked coldly: "Governor Tan... weren't they brought by you, right?"

Tan Yankai had a cold sweat. Although Yang Qiu was young, he could see after experiencing so many things. He was definitely a decisive person. He quickly waved his hand and said, "Don't scare me, although Tan is stupid, he still supports things like cutting, restructuring, tax reform, and these are all caused by the Lijin Bureau I ordered the closure a few days ago."

Seeing him so scared that his temples were sweating, Yang Qiu laughed in his heart and said, "Governor Tan, don't panic, Yang is just a joke. If you hadn't stabilized Hunan and bought time for the revolution during this period, then Mr. Zu'an would have made great contributions to the current situation in our three provinces."

Joke? Such jokes will be scary! Tan Yankai said in a dark voice and said humbly: "It's all the patrol leaders who are good at it. Tan is just the icing on the cake. It's not worth mentioning or worth mentioning."

Yang Qiu asked: "Governor Tan just said he supported the new policy. I wonder if he has any experience after completing the work these days?"

Tan Yankai was full of fever and sweating. What's his experience?! Hunan has been in chaos these days, so it's easy to go to school for free, but Lijin cut off the gentry and offended them. There were gentry reports that he was unwilling to obey. Dalian was implicated. If the Third Division had not entered in time, he would have already smelled the smell of mutiny.

Seeing his eyes dodging, Yang Qiu knew that things were not as smooth as expected. In fact, he also knew how powerful the tax reform would touch, but he had to do this! Leng said: "Governor Tan, let it go, I'm here... I can't make a big deal!"

The cold words made Tan Yankai's heart suddenly fall, and he nodded after a while.

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