Jagged Warlord

During this period, Li Mohan also did two things. The first thing was to change the SS uniform from khaki to black.Li Mohan also found a group of tailors to design military uniforms together, requiring only one, after wearing this military uniform, even beggars have to look like the crown prince.The purpose of doing so is to enhance the self-esteem and self-confidence of soldiers.The second is to change people's prejudice that "a good man should not be a soldier, and a good iron should not be nailed".

The second thing was to literate the SS.Although Li Mohan's troops want an army that is loyal to them, they don't want them to be illiterate, so they specially recruited a group of teachers to educate the entire army.However, Li Mohan only asked them to teach the soldiers how to read and write, but they were not allowed to teach other things.

Things like ideology and doctrine can only be instilled by Li Mohan.The set of ideas that Li Mohan instilled in the SS is called nationalism in later generations.Nationalism believes that the justice of the country is unquestionable, and takes national interests as the sacred standard. It advocates that all citizens, under the guidance of the belief of national supremacy, restrain and abandon selfishness, and work together for the independence, sovereignty, prosperity and strength of the country. .

Nationalism advocates the interests of the whole people.In principle, statism is not against professional bureaucrats governing state affairs, but statism is against that bad corrupt bureaucratic rule.

Nationalism recognizes capitalism and even safeguards the interests of capital, but nationalism advocates restricting the bourgeoisie and suppressing the bourgeoisie's crazy pursuit of private profits and crazy consumption regardless of the interests of the whole people.

Nationalism advocates the use of state power to curb the monopoly and monopoly of the bourgeoisie from both moral and legal aspects, and requires ensuring the independence and neutrality of the state system in the market economy.

Nationalism requires the state to regulate and govern the national economy in two ways: the market regulation of the economy and the state's planned management.Because the so-called national economy must be a private economy that should benefit all the people, not a private economy that simply benefits a minority of a class of the bourgeoisie.

Nationalism advocates that the state should never allow the bourgeoisie to control any state apparatus and buy bureaucrats with money power.

Nationalism advocates that the dominant position of the state-owned economy in the national economy must be retained, the state controls important economic resources, and formulates social employment plans in a planned manner by the state to absorb and improve the imminent mass unemployment problem year by year.

Nationalism firmly opposes letting the market and capital forces control the education and health systems.It believes that the state has a serious responsibility to host national education, and advocates that the state has an unshirkable responsibility to maintain a national medical and health system in which everyone can receive treatment for illness.

Nationalism advocates using the full power of the country's politics and economy to participate in domestic and international economic activities, rather than completely withdrawing from the national economy, and resolutely opposes entrusting the people's livelihood economy to greedy and unscrupulous private capital and market forces.

Nationalism advocates that the state should pay special attention to the weak in society, and should not let the poor and helpless wait hopelessly for the hypocritical charity of leftovers from the rich.

Nationalism advocates that the state compensates all those who are harmed in the current economy and the interests of the poor, preventing them from taking risks.

Although the members of the SS Army are still unable to fully understand Li Mohan's theory due to the limitations of history and their own knowledge level, but Li Mohan believes that they will slowly digest and absorb these things in real life.

In the blink of an eye, it has been more than three months since the SS became an army, and there was still no news from Xinyang to Li Mohan. Li Mohan was anxious, and sent a telegram to Xinyang Xingyuan to inquire.

It turned out that during this period of time, Bai Lang made a lot of noise.Bai Lang conquered the two county towns of Tang County and Yu County, knocking down nearly a regiment of defenders, and at the same time they divided their troops to attack the Beijing-Han Railway, stopping the train and effectively restraining Yuan Shikai's army from going south.Just as the "Min Li Bao" sponsored by the Kuomintang at that time said, "White Wolf has cooperated with the militia, and the army is very strong and disciplined."

After the failure of the "Second Revolution", some revolutionaries and young students in Henan and neighboring areas who did not want to wait for the massacre came to Bai Lang's army one after another. Bai Lang was also willing to obtain the cooperation and support of the revolutionaries, so he called himself "Discussing Yuan Jun" and sent his army to march eastward in late December.

Although Duan Qirui dispatched troops to encircle him, Bai Lang could always find a way to see where the needles were needed and use his sword to deviate, not only jumping out of the encirclement, but also repeatedly injuring the officers and soldiers.What's worse, whenever Bai Lang went, he burned churches, kidnapped foreigners, and even pushed foreign hostages to the front of the battle to use as shields, which made the officers and soldiers wary.

Burning churches and kidnapping missionaries made the Beiyang government lose face internationally. "Burning churches, killing priests, leading to negotiations" is the last thing the Beiyang government wants to see, but Bai Lang insists on forcing it to see these least-wanted scenarios: Great powers or strong protests, or telegrams to Beiyang The government quickly sent troops to protect its nationals, or demanded compensation for losses, or continued to "suggest to suppress bandits", or sent personnel to Henan to "watch the battle."The ministers of various countries stationed in Beijing even "planned to send a number of troops to the governments of their own countries to help and suppress them, hoping to clear them up as soon as possible."

Because of this, the embassies of various countries in Beijing, the Beiyang Congress, and Chinese and foreign public opinion all criticized the incompetence of Zhang Zhenfang, the governor of Henan who presided over the suppression of bandits, forcing Yuan Shikai to reassign Duan Qirui, the chief of the army, as the governor of Henan to command the elite of the Beiyang Army. The troops were surrounded on all sides and "tightly blocked".

However, with Bai Lang's army moving from east to west, and Ma Mingzhe from all walks of life defending himself, Duan Qirui was also somewhat powerless.Yuan Shikai lamented in his telegram to Duan Qirui: The White Bandits have not been brought down for a long time, newspapers from various countries claim that the government is weak and not enough to ensure law and order, and the rebellious party (referring to the Kuomintang) is advocating it, which greatly damages the prestige.As a result, China's bonds fell to 12.00%. Three, the more difficult it is to continue borrowing.

Regarding this, Duan Qirui admitted with shame in his reply, that he was so ashamed to work hard for his teachers, making people laugh at home and abroad.These helpless words show that the Bailang army has indeed brought great "trouble" to the Beiyang government.

Seeing that his confidant and beloved general suffered such great grievances, Yuan Shikai was a little bit reluctant, so he changed his generals again, reassigned Tian Wenlie as the governor of Henan, and sent additional divisions such as Lu Jianzhang, Zhao Ti, Zhang Jingyao to supervise the suppression, and even shot the abandoned city to make an example. The "dereliction of duty" county magistrate who fled.