Jagged Warlord

Ma Qian'an introduced Li Mohan to Fangyazi, that is, a real estate agency. The man's name was Jiang Degui, who was in the middle of his forties.

Li Mohan met Jiang Degui in a teahouse, and Li Mohan ordered a pot of tea and some preserved fruit snacks.Jiang Degui made a bow and said, "Adjutant Li is too polite."

Li Mohan smiled and motioned Jiang Degui to sit down. Jiang Degui took out a thick blue booklet and asked, "I wonder what kind of house Lieutenant Li wants to buy?"

Li Mohan replied: "I already have a favorite place, which is the big house in Xinquanfang behind the camp of the Fourteenth Mixed Brigade."

Jiang Degui frowned, then spit on his fingers, and then began to flip through the booklet in his hand. After flipping through about 20 pages, he seemed to have found what he was looking for.After nodding his head, he raised his head and said, "Adjutant Li, it's a coincidence. This property was originally the property of the General Office of Xuzhou Liguo Mining Bureau, and later became the private property of the General Manager Hu Guangguo." After all, Jiang Degui seemed In order to show his professionalism in this field, he introduced Hu Guangguo.

Hu Guangguo's style name is Bicheng, and his nickname is Yuyuan Guansou.A native of Jiangning, Jiangsu.Originally from Wuyuan.His father, Hu Sixie, was a candidate for the prefect of Nanjing.Both father and son belonged to bureaucrats of the Westernization School in the late Qing Dynasty. In 1882, under the order of Zuo Zongtang to mine coal and iron, Xuzhou Taoist Cheng Jingzhi hired British miner Barr brought by Hu Guangguo to investigate and found that "Quanwangtou" and other places were full of coal seedlings, which were of great mining value, so he founded Liguoyi Coal Mine.

By 1893, Hu's father and son had painstakingly managed the coal mine in Qingshanquan for ten years, but "the coal was relatively light and not suitable for charring".Therefore, Zhou Shaoyi, the observation history of the Qing court, was ordered to hire a Western mine master Bai Naifu to use the method of cutting wells to explore ore and test the quality of coal.In the vicinity of Quanwangtou, it took two years to cut through the deep well, and it was proved that "the coal is tough, made of square blocks, and contains less sulfur, which is suitable for charring."

In 1898, Wu Weixiong, a Cantonese businessman who took over the mining rights from Hu Guangguo, moved the mine from Qingshanquan to Jiawang.He also applied to the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Qing government for the record, received a ministry photo, and established the Jiawang Coal Mine Company.A total of 5 earthen kilns were built in the old mine. Due to poor sales and serious losses, Wu Weixiong, who was suffering from fatigue, died of illness in 1906.In the autumn of the following year, the mining rights were returned to Hu Guangguo, and the production and operation gradually flourished in 1908.In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), Hu Guangguo transferred the mining rights to Yuan Shikai's younger brother Yuan Shichuan.

Jiang Degui said: "Master Hu is planning to move to Shanghai, so he asked me to sell this property. The price is not expensive, 150 yuan. Plus 15 yuan, a total of 165 yuan, plus some other expenses, no more than 180 yuan. , this house belongs to you."

Li Mohan thought for a while, then took out 5 yuan from his pocket, placed them on the table, and said, "This is a deposit. After the matter is completed, you can pay it separately, is that okay?"

Jiang Degui stretched out his right hand to cover those oceans, and with a flick of his finger, these oceans went into his sleeve.The technique is extremely sophisticated, he said with a smile: "Don't worry, Lieutenant Li, I will handle this matter properly."

Speaking of which, Jiang Degui stood up, cupped his hands again, and said, "Then Lieutenant Li, I'm going to deal with this matter now, let's take a step first and leave."

Li Mohan also cupped his hands, "Go slowly, I won't see you off." Watching Jiang Degui leave, Li Mohan shouted to the waiter in the shop: "Get settled."

The shop waiter trotted over with a towel on his shoulders, and said with a smile, "A pot of tea, a plate of preserved fruit, and a small ocean in total."

Where does Li Mohan have a corner of Xiaoyang?He took out a silver dollar and threw it to the shop waiter, "You don't need to look for it."

The waiter in the store was overjoyed, and the smile on his face became even brighter, "Adjutant Li, please go, come often~!"

Just a few steps out of the teahouse, a fruit vendor on the street greeted enthusiastically: "Adjutant Li, let me have a pear. I just picked it this morning. It's crunchy, sweet and juicy."

Li Mohan took a look at the peddler, his skin was thick and dark, his hands and feet were grown, and he was dressed like a countryman, but his teeth were so white.

"You know me?" Li Mohan asked

"Who in Xuzhou City doesn't know Lieutenant Li~~ If you didn't bring people from the [-]th mixed brigade to stabilize the market, how could we come out to do business~" The peddler took out the largest pear from the wicker basket, and used a piece of dirty Xixi wiped it with a cloth, and handed it to Li Mohan, "Would you like to try it?"

Everyone has vanity, and Li Mohan is no exception. The peddler's words sounded very pleasant to his ears, so he took the pear and took a bite. It was really crunchy, sweet and juicy, "Well, yes, it's a good pear~" he said Li Mohan took out another silver dollar from his pocket and threw it to the peddler.

"Thank you, Lieutenant Li~~" The peddler caught the silver dollar with both hands, and quickly bowed to Li Mohan. The grandmother who was buying cloth shoes at the side showed an envious look, and muttered: "It's a waste of money to give a piece of money for every pear~ Hey, why did I share it with you?" Isn't it a good thing?"

Li Mohan held a pear in one hand and ate it as he walked, when he saw Ma Qian'an trotting towards him in a hurry.As soon as they met, Ma Qian'an yelled: "Oh, Brother Li, let me find it easily~"

Li Mohan chewed a pear and swallowed it into his mouth, and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry? The braided army is here again?"

Ma Qian'an scolded: "Unload the mill and kill the donkey, we will be dismissed." Ma Qian'an was born in the former Qing Dynasty martial arts hall, not a revolutionary party, but just sympathized with the revolution.I thought I could get a half-job after the uprising, but what I didn't expect was to be dismissed.

"Abolished?" Li Mohan snorted coldly, this is history.

Just after the revolutionary army captured Xuzhou, they planned to continue their attack northward.However, Xuzhou recovered, Megatron Qilu, and pointed directly at Beijing and Tianjin. On February 2, the 12th day of the twelfth lunar month of the Xinhai Year, the Qing government was forced to announce its abdication. The feudal monarchy system that had lasted for thousands of years in China came to an end. ", the revolutionary army stopped going north.The battle of Xuzhou was the last battle of the Revolution of 25. The restoration of Xuzhou contributed to the downfall of the Qing Dynasty and the disintegration of the imperial system.

After the North-South peace agreement was reached, Sun Yat-sen resigned from the post of interim president on April 1912, 4. At the same time, he organized the Nanjing Left-behind Mansion and ordered Huang Xing to be the Nanjing Left-Back. On April 1, the provisional Senate resolved that the provisional government move its capital to Beijing, but left a mess to the left-behind mansion in Nanjing.The biggest problem facing the left-behind mansion was military pay. The provisional government had only been established in Nanjing for three months, and the military, government, and general expenses were huge, with no financial resources, economic embarrassment, and lack of pay.At this time, tens of thousands of troops gathered in Nanjing. The army was disorganized, good and bad were mixed, and discipline was lax, and incidents that disturbed the people sometimes occurred.In addition, the main task of Huang Xing's Nanjing Left-behind Mansion is to disarm, which also caused dissatisfaction among some soldiers.On the eve of April 4, when Huang Xing went to Shanghai to raise military pay and return to Ning, a Jiangxi army mutiny occurred in Nanjing.

After Huang Xing suppressed the mutiny, he knew the danger of having soldiers without pay, so he accelerated the disarmament.By the beginning of June, the number of demobilized troops had reached 6 to 8.The local army under the Xuzhou military government, like Li Mohan's, is naturally on the list of abolition.

"Let's go, let's find a place to chat." Li Mohan and Ma Qian'an found a restaurant and asked for a secluded private room.

Ma Qian'an asked: "Brother Li, if our team is really abolished, what are your plans?"

Li Mohan said: "If you don't keep people here, you have to keep people. After all, Xuzhou is someone else's territory. If we want to be rich, we must have our own territory."

"Own territory?" Ma Qian'an said, "Who are you looking for?"

Li Mohan smiled and said, "Look for it." Li Mohan slapped the pistol on the table, "If you are willing to work with me, we have a pen and a weapon, so why not make a big deal?"

Ma Qian'an cracked his mouth and smiled, and said: "Brother Li's marksmanship skills are called handsome. If you are all called Wen, I will be ashamed of my ability."

Li Mohan asked: "Brother Ma, are you following me?"

"Follow." Ma Qian'an said, "I still want to drag my brothers to follow you."

"Okay." Li Mohan put the gun back into his pocket and said, "Let's go back right away, take away all the guns and bullets that can be used, and smash everything that can't be taken away. Leave nothing to them."

"That's right." Ma Qian'an scolded, "I don't leave a single bit for these white-eyed wolves."

In this way, the vigorous Revolution of [-] came to an end, and a new era officially began.As a member of this great era, Li Mohan's arrival did not immediately cause much disturbance.