Chapter 142: The Situation of Sichuan Province (1)
Of course it's very close.
Although Liu Lang's father was just a rich country man, his grandfather was the cousin of Liu Wenhui, the current chairman of Sichuan Province, and a direct relative.
If it were just this kind of relationship, it would certainly not be worthy of Liu Wenhui being welcomed out of the house. But if you want to know that Liu Wenhui's success is inseparable from his nephew Liu Xiang and another celebrity, his brother Liu Wencai.
Coupled with the help of Liu Lang's father Liu Shunhe, I am afraid it is taken for granted.
To put it bluntly, if you want to be a grass-roots king in Sichuan where warlords dominate, someone must have a gun. If you don't have money, let alone a gun, you don't even have a pipe.
Liu Wencai, the super-rich landowner described in "Rent Collection Courtyard" in later generations, was Liu Wenhui's most important money bag. However, he could not get enough money to support the expenses of a hundred thousand troops just by farming land and collecting rents, so he was appointed by Liu Wenhui as the director of the Ship Donation Bureau.
Liu Wencai, who is also the director of the 20th Sichuan Tobacco and Liquor Public Sales Bureau, has mastered everything from banks to merchants, from credit lending to disguised loan sharking, from processing workshops to modern industrial enterprises, from pre-collection of land taxes to unified taxes and miscellaneous donations, and has made great profits.
Success. In order to make money, Liu Wencai will do whatever it takes to make money.
It can be said that Liu Wencai was the richest man in Sichuan at that time, and he was also the kind of richest man who could make his own rules. He couldn't blame him for setting him up as the biggest negative example after the founding of the Republic and producing an artistic version of "Rent Collection Courtyard".
However, almost all of his money was donated to his younger brother Liu Wenhui to expand his power.
But Liu Lang's father was also a man of genius. Although he only relied on farming to collect rent, he unexpectedly dug out a good iron ore in his barren mountain. Liu Shunhe, who had read a book, used the profits from the iron ore to open a business.
A small steelmaking plant and a mechanical processing plant. In this era when the industry was just starting out, Liu Shunhe, who followed such a "high-precision" technological stream, was naturally rich in wealth, not to mention that his processing plant hired a German engineer from nowhere.
In the past two years, I have been able to imitate some firearms, bullets, etc., whether it is money or arms, this is what Liu Wenhui needs.
Of course, these are complementary to each other. Without Liu Wenhui's protection, the Liu Lang family's financial resources alone would have been swallowed up by various warlords long ago.
However, Liu Lang’s father is very smart, and it’s good that Liu Wenhui is a relative, but another big boss in Sichuan, Liu Xiang, is also a relative who has not been born in Wufu. As the "two Lius" have a close relationship, they have also supported a lot of firearms, money and food over the years.
.Otherwise, how could Liu Xiang, who dominated eastern Sichuan, put so much effort into helping Liu Lang?
Anyway, Liu Lang's father managed to get along well, and even his only son Liu Lang was also taken seriously.
"Haha, you kid, you finally thought of coming to see me. The colonel of the Central Army is very arrogant." Liu Wenhui laughed and said in his hometown dialect.
"Then, sir, you have wronged me. The new station is very busy. I came to report to you as soon as I finished my work. I haven't even returned home yet." Liu Lang looked innocent.
"Haha, we haven't seen each other for a few days. The wanderer can talk now. Let's go and talk in the room." Liu Wenhui laughed and entered the living room first.
Liu Wenhui was in a good mood because Liu Lang arrived in time.
In fact, Liu Wenhui was waiting for Liu Lang's arrival from the moment Liu Lang set foot in Guangyuan.
Liu Lang will definitely come, but when he will come is a very delicate matter. Because Liu Wenhui has never had a good impression of the central government under the leadership of President Jiang, he has never had any contact with Nanjing. It was not until later that he learned that this grandson of his family could become the official.
The leader of the regiment was made possible by the help of his cousin Liu Xiang, who had always maintained a close relationship with the Chiang government.
This relationship naturally becomes more subtle. If Liu Lang arrives later, does it mean that his family has tended to side with Liu Xiang in eastern Sichuan? Especially when he and Liu Xiang are close to breaking up.
At this juncture, the tendency of the Liu Lang family, who were rich and capable of making guns and bullets, became extremely important.
Liu Lang is naturally aware of this reason. According to historical records, in the past time and space, in this year, the two most outstanding military generals of the Liu family, who almost dominated the entire Sichuan, completely fell out with each other.
In 1931, Liu Wenhui spent a huge sum of 2 million yuan to purchase weapons and aircraft parts from Britain, Japan and other countries. He set sail from Shanghai and passed through Wanxian Port and was detained by Liu Xiang. Several negotiations failed. Liu Wenhui went to Chongqing to negotiate, and Liu Xiang
Refusal to return. In May 1932, Liu Wenhui went to Chongqing in the name of mourning the death of Liu Xiang's mother, and bribed Liu Xiang's division commanders Fan Shaozeng and Chen Lanting with 300,000 yuan and 150,000 yuan. Fan Shaozeng reported the truth to Liu Xiang, and the bribe money was used by Liu Xiang
It was returned on the spot as a reward. Chen Lanting, who had kept the secret secret, was dismissed by Liu Xiang for investigation and became a prisoner.
Liu Wenhui, who had thrown away 450,000 yuan, remained calm and ordered his elder brother Liu Wencai to send an assassin named Hu Wenpeng, who was probably the most unlucky assassin in history, to Chongqing to assassinate Liu Xiang. Hu Wenpeng sneaked into Liu Xiang's house and hid in a tree for three days.
At night, he never found a chance to make a move. On the fourth day, he fainted from hunger, fell from the tree, and was captured alive.
After the incident was exposed, Liu Wenhui simply refused to do anything and ordered the troops stationed in Jiangjin to cut off Chongqing's food sources. The conflict between the two intensified to the point of irreconcilability, reaching the point where it could only be resolved by force. They were both from the Liu family in Dayi.
Liu Wenhui and Liu Xiang, his disciples, began to fight for total control of Sichuan and launched the last warlord civil war in Sichuan history.
This is also the main reason why Liu Lang rushed to Chengdu at night.
The reason why Liu Lang, who came from a later generation, did not have much resentment towards the two old warlords who launched a war for their own interests was mainly due to the fact that when the Japanese invaders invaded in full force, one of them fell ill and swore to fight in the army, and died of illness without realizing his ambition.
In Hankou, even though he lived in poverty in a corner of Xikang, he still did not forget his duty as an official to his parents and built education in Kangding, Kangba and other places. Even fifty years later, the local classrooms are still in use.
The current situation in Sichuan is extremely critical, and the dispute between the two is about to break out. If the wheel of history is not deviated, the war between the two will completely break out in October this year. Liu Lang knows that he has no ability to change history, even if he persuades
Despite Liu Wenhui, Liu Xiang, who was sitting in Chongqing hundreds of miles away, would never give up this opportunity to unify Sichuan and become the true king of Sichuan.
What he has to do is to make Liu Wenhui give up Guangyuan and put Guangyuan under his command. This is not impossible. In the past, Liu Lang might have been killed in the artillery fire of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, but now Liu Lang
Not only did he survive, but he also brought thousands of elite soldiers with him, and more importantly, he also had a commission from the central government to garrison Guangyuan.
The dispute between the two Lius, coupled with the rise of the Central Army with the label of orthodoxy, requires a person with great wisdom to see the subtleties of it. Liu Lang believed that he, the patriarch of the clan, was known as the "Duobao Taoist"
He must have made the most correct choice, otherwise he would not have been able to sit as the Minister of Forestry of the Republic with the title of old warlord and die at the age of 82.
Sure enough, when the two parties sat down, Liu Wenhui, who was smiling all the time, let Liu Lang know that his trip was not in vain.