Jagged Warlord

19. Ransom letter

Li Mohan has strict control over guns, usually guns and ammunition are kept separately.And as many bullets as you take, you have to hand in as many empty shells, even if one is missing.

At the beginning of live ammunition shooting, there were always recruits who dared not look straight ahead, turned their heads away or shot with their eyes closed.For this kind of person, Li Mohan is not polite or nonsense, raising his hand is like a whip, "The one who told you to hit is a target, and it's not your mother, why don't you dare to look at it?"

For those who are serious about practicing, Li Mohan directly put the silver dollar into his hand in front of everyone, "Practice hard~ If you want to survive on the battlefield, there is no other way but to practice hard."

If a soldier is injured or sick during drills, Li Mohan will ask the kitchen to make a bowl of delicious noodles, add two eggs, and call it "sick rice", and Li Mohan will make it himself Served in front of you.Add a warm sentence of "heal with peace of mind."

In China, where the concept of hierarchy is deeply rooted, where have these peasant-born soldiers ever seen this, and how have they ever enjoyed such treatment?Everyone was moved to tears, don't say anything, this life is assigned to you.

Under the combination of grace and power, Li Mohan quickly firmly grasped the morale of the army.

Just as Li Mohan was sharpening his sword, the second revolution broke out.Although the main battlefields of the Second Revolution were in Jiangxi and Jiangsu, Henan was also not at ease, because the bandit Bai Lang who was running around in Henan actually connected with the revolutionary party in the south.

In September 1913, according to the requirements of Sun Wen and Huang Xing, Bai Lang led his troops south into Hubei to cooperate with the "Second Revolution".The most traditional saying is that Bai Lang was conscious, "deeply influenced by the progressive ideas of the revolutionaries", "willing to accept the correct proposition of republic and democracy", etc. In short, Bai Lang is no longer a simple bandit, but a People who were deeply influenced by bourgeois revolutionary ideas, and even later generations tried their best to demonstrate how the Bailang Army possessed the nature of bourgeois revolution.

Did Bai Lang accept the ideas of the Revolutionary Party?Maybe some, but maybe just some.The bandits in western Henan have the rule of "touching the pole", that is, small groups of bandits continue to join or attach themselves to large groups of bandits, making the bandits' power grow like a snowball.The "poles" in western Henan have created a very peculiar "Matthew effect": when a big pole is on the rise, the more victories it has won and the greater its reputation, the more "poles" will defect to it. The more "poles" come to defect, the stronger this big pole will be, and this growth will almost double. The development of the number of people to 100 people is likely to happen in a blink of an eye.For example, in the Bailang Rebellion, there were only one or two hundred people at the beginning, but if there were seven or eight "poles" to "touch the pole" within a year, even if each "pole" had only 500 people, after "touching the pole", Bai Lang The team has grown to a thousand people.

But the side effect of this "shareholding system" is also obvious: if there is a major setback or failure, the team of thousands of people may collapse overnight. The characteristics of the "pole" team also determined that Bai Lang's acceptance of the revolutionaries' proposition was the only correct choice.As mentioned earlier, the stronger and more famous Bai Lang's "pole" team is, the more he can attract other "poles" to join him. The more "poles" join him, the stronger the team and the greater his reputation. The development of the "Matthew Effect" determines that Bai Lang's team can only grow bigger, and can't be partial.

In addition, Bai Lang is also a person who can read and write. The republican democracy of the Revolutionary Party is indeed very attractive in modern China. Bai Lang also reads books and newspapers, so it is natural for him to be influenced by it.Bai Lang is also a person who is willing to "do big things". It is reasonable for Bai Lang to yearn for the revolutionary party to do big things in China.

Bai Lang took the opportunity to respond to the call of the Kuomintang in the south and launched a peasant uprising against Yuan Shikai's regime, threatening the safety of the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway.In order to ensure the smooth flow of this main line of communication, Yuan Shikai mobilized the coalition forces of the three provinces of Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi to encircle and suppress Bailang.Unexpectedly, Shaanxi Wang Shengqi's troops in the allied army revolted and joined the Bailang army, which greatly improved the military strength and equipment of the Bailang army.Bai Lang then claimed to be the "Governor of the Republic of China to support the Han Dynasty against Commander Yuan".

That night, Wang Hua, the mayor of Jiaozuo Town who seldom showed up, sent someone to send a post to Li Mohan, inviting him to the town government to discuss matters.

Li Mohan brought Gao Xiang to the town government in a rickshaw. Along the way, he saw the people in the town hurrying, and the doors and windows were closed tightly as soon as they entered the house.Some businesses are also closed, and the guys are busy installing door panels.

As soon as Li Mohan got out of the car, he saw Jiang Rong, Xie Wukui and the town's respectable people entering the town government one after another.When Jiang Rong and Xie Wukui saw Li Mohan, they greeted him from afar.Since Li Mohan closed the casino, he gave up the casino market to the Three Points Club and the Five Lakes Gang. Jiang Rong and Xie Wukui also received his favor, and the relationship between the three is very harmonious.

"Boss Li, you are here too." Jiang Rong cupped his hands

Li Mohan shook hands with Jiang Rong and Xie Wukui, and said with a smile: "I can't help it, the mayor ordered me, do I dare not come?" The three laughed at the door wantonly.

After entering the compound, the mayor Liu Rui greeted everyone very politely. He was wearing a Changshan mandarin jacket and a pair of glasses. Yes, the Bailang bandit army is running around in our Henan Province. Now our Jiaozuo Town is not peaceful~"

As he said that, Mayor Liu took out a letter and said, "This is the bandit Ran Qingping on Yuntai who was nailed to my door last night." Mayor Liu handed over the letter for everyone to circulate.

At this time, Bai Lang was on the rise, so the bandits from all over Henan, no matter whether they had touched Bai Lang or not, all played Bai Lang's banner.There is a group of bandits on Yuntai Mountain in Jiaozuo. The leader is Ran Qingping, who claims to be Bai Lang's subordinate.

Jiang Rong took the letter and looked at it, then shook his head and said, "I've heard of this Ran Qingping, it is said that he is from southern Shanxi, that Bai Lang is active in the west of Henan, and Jiaozuo is in the north of Henan, how could he belong to Bai Lang's gang? ?”

Xie Wukui also read the letter, and said: "This kid has a big appetite. He used to rob a way and charge some insurance premiums. This time it's a good one, and he will pay [-] yuan when he opens his mouth."

Hearing what they said, Li Mohan simply stopped reading the contents of the letter and asked directly: "Then, Mayor Liu, you summoned us this time to ask us to contribute money?"

"This~ the mayor of the town still hopes that everyone will tide over the difficulties together and help each other in the same boat." Mayor Liu said in an official tone with a little embarrassment.

As soon as they heard that they were going to pay, everyone started to mess up.It's hard to do business with ramblings... The world is not good, in short, I just don't want to give money.

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