sentences:  Among the younger men who had been trained in military schools after the 1911 revolution there was a new appreciation for modern tactics, weapons, and political means.In the confused power struggles following the Yue-Gui Wars, these local military men began to carve out territory in Guangxi and dominate it.In the southwest there were opium trails from Yunnan and Guizhou that ran through Baise and then down the river to Nanning.