Crimson Dawn

Zhang Zhenfang, governor of Henan Province, was from Xiangcheng, Henan Province, and was cousin to Yuan Shikai.Unlike Yuan Shikai, who did not obtain any honors, Zhang Zhenfang was admitted to Linsheng in the 1884th year of Guangxu (1), and was awarded Bagong the following year. He was the No. At the age of 1892, he fulfilled his ambition to become an official.

Because he was born in an old bureaucratic family, his family education was quite strict.Therefore, this person is also quite conservative in thinking. During the Gengzi Incident, Cixi fled, and the Beijing officials scattered. Zhang Zhenfang did not catch up with Cixi and his party at first, so he ran back to his hometown to make money, and then continued to chase.He traveled day and night and went through hardships, and he didn't catch up with Luanjia until Tongguan. He was appointed as the secretary of Shaanxi and served the two palaces.This can be regarded as being appreciated by Cixi and became the last governor of Zhili in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Historically, in the 33rd year of Guangxu (1907), Yuan Shikai, as the governor of Zhili and the Minister of Beiyang, also controlled the new army of six towns.The Qing court secretly seized Yuan's military power by promoting Yuan as Minister of Military Affairs and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Ming Dynasty.The governor of Zhili was appointed by Zhang Zhenfang (from Yipin).

After Yuan Shikai seized power, he sent his cousin Zhang Zhenfang to Henan as the governor of Henan.Zhang Zhenfang is far from being a big corrupt official, he just opposes the revolution and is extremely afraid of the People's Party.According to the information collected by the intelligence department of the People's Party, Zhang Zhenfang's evaluation is "it is not a pity to kill".From a military point of view, Zhou Zhentao didn't think highly of the Henan governor Zhang Zhenfang either.Inside the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, it was believed that "2 people can annihilate the Henan Beiyang Army."

The provincial capital of Henan in 1912 was Kaifeng, and Zhengzhou had not reached the time when it could suppress Kaifeng and Luoyang by itself and become the new provincial capital of Henan.Kaifeng, the provincial capital, is less than 100 miles away from the actual control area of ​​the People's Party.The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army once formulated a military plan to surprise Kaifeng.Riding all the way, Zhou Zhentao observed the situation along the road, and couldn't help thinking about the feasibility of this plan in his heart. [

Seeing that Zhou Zhentao was silent, the accompanying officers of the Beiyang Army were also silent.It wasn't until the second time when he took a temporary break at the roadside shop that Zhou Zhentao felt that this person was not annoying, so he asked, "May I ask your surname."

"What's your surname, He Tong." The officer laughed.

"Where is Mr. He from?" Zhou Zhentao exchanged greetings.

"From Zheng County." He Tong said proudly.

Zhou Zhentao didn't quite understand where He Tong's pride came from, and he also smiled, "Zheng County seems to be Chairman Chen's hometown."

Chen Ke claims to be from Zhengzhou, which is well known.Zhengzhou was called Zheng County at this time, and Chen Ke's self-proclaimed name was quite doubtful, because the title did not fit the situation at the time.

Hearing Zhou Zhentao's words, He Tong's proud expression disappeared immediately, and he waved his hands quickly and said, "I dare not highly respect Chairman Chen Ke."

Zhou Zhentao also understood a little at this time, he said with a smile: "Then Mr. He thought he had defected to Beiyang a long time ago, and worked for Yuan Shikai... the great president?"

Only then did He Tong recover some of his spirits, "I joined the army four years ago and served under the President."

At present, the Beiyang Army is still an army mainly based in Shandong and Zhili, Hebei. The soldiers selected by Yuan Shikai are all local wealthy households, or at least good children of self-cultivating farmers.It is quite different from the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which was originally formed by revolutionary youths from all corners of the country, and later implemented the universal military service system, and the troops came from the entire four provinces of the base area.

Zhou Zhentao found that he couldn't help but always compare what he saw and heard with the base area. Thinking that he had chosen to leave the base area, Zhou Zhentao felt melancholy.The interest in speaking that I had just mentioned also faded away.After taking a few sips of tea, Zhou Zhentao proposed to continue on his way.

At night, the group finally entered the ancient city of Kaifeng.The architectural styles of Kaifeng City and Xuzhou are very different, which makes Zhou Zhentao quite interested.Bao Longtu was meditating in Kaifeng Mansion, and this line was the same regardless of Shaanxi or Xuzhou.Even though he couldn't see Kaifeng Mansion in the night, Zhou Zhentao was still a little interested.It's just that it's getting late, He Tong has arranged Zhou Zhentao's residence, and his plan to visit Kaifeng mansion can only be the next day.

The next day, Zhang Zhenfang met Zhou Zhentao in person.Zhang Zhenfang is exactly one year younger than 50 this year, and his appearance is quite clear, revealing the kind of self-sufficiency of being born in an official family.Even though Zhou Zhentao was used to shaking hands with Zhang Zhenfang when he met Zhang Zhenfang, Zhang Zhenfang only frowned slightly, but did not show the slightest sign of anger.

For Zhou Zhentao, Zhang Zhenfang, the governor of Henan, is nothing special.The general view among the senior people of the People's Party about the surrounding forces is "fight now, or fight later." In short, it is necessary to fight, so there is no need to maintain too hypocritical etiquette.

After the guests and hosts were seated, Zhang Zhenfang said: "Mr. Zhou, we heard that you don't serve in the People's Party. Are you going back to your hometown?"

People in the People's NKVD are trash!Zhou Zhentao thought to himself, even such a piece of news could be leaked.After secretly scolding the People's Internal Affairs Committee, Zhou Zhentao replied: "I was kicked out, so I can only go back to my hometown to farm."

Zhang Zhenfang said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, the People's Party is now well-known, thanks to Mr. Zhou's talents. Since Mr. Zhou is not working in the People's Party, wouldn't it be buried when he returned to his hometown to farm the land? Our temple in Henan is small, and we cannot tolerate a big man like Mr. Zhou." material. But I would like to be an introduction, Mr. Zhou will go to be jng to work. I don’t know what Mr. Zhou wants?"

Zhou Zhentao pondered for a moment, and then replied: "Thank you, Dudu Zhang, for your kindness. It's just that I left home to study, and it has been nine years now. Although I haven't made a name for myself, I haven't seen my parents for many years, and I miss them very much. It's hard to be an official now. , I really want to go back and serve my parents and be filial."

Seeing Zhou Zhentao's resolute refusal, Zhang Zhenfang was not surprised, "Mr. Zhou, Shaanxi is very chaotic now. There are constant conflicts between the Democratic Party and the local governor. If Mr. Zhou is a talented person who returns to Shaanxi, it will be a quiet tree." But the wind keeps going. Why do you bother yourself? Young and promising people like you will definitely be reused when you arrive at be jng, and the old people will be happy when you take your parents to be jng.”[

"Hehe" Zhou Zhentao smiled naively, "Dudu Zhang, I heard that you were born as a Jinshi and served as the governor of Zhili. You should be able to understand the affairs of the world. When the People's Party raised troops, I also contributed. I If you say something that is insincere, you can see through it. So I will tell the truth. Beiyang and the People's Party both want to dominate the world. Beiyang, at any rate, Beiyang must be able to withstand it. Now in comparison between the two, Beiyang has no advantage. This year the People's Party has recruited 20 troops, and as soon as the source of troops is ready, there will be 60 troops. These 60 people are all formally trained. All the weapons are self-made, and there is no problem with the food and payment. Beiyang has a total of less than 12 people, including the newly formed troops in various places. Weapons and medicines have to be imported. Equipment, training, and logistical supplies are all inferior to the People's Party. In terms of quantity Let’s say, the People’s Party’s army can beat one out of five against Shang Beiyang. Although I don’t follow the People’s Party anymore, I still want to save my life to serve my parents. I hope Governor Zhang can understand.”

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Even though Zhang Zhenfang was well-mannered, she couldn't help but look ugly at this moment.Zhou Zhentao said some things he had never heard of, but he knew most of them.Beiyang was defeated when it outnumbered the People's Party, and now the People's Party outnumbers the Beiyang Army, and even beat the Germans in Qingdao.Hearing Zhou Zhentao list these figures, Zhang Zhenfang was frightened instead.Henan is facing the Huaihai Province of the People's Party directly, and finally there is Beiyang Second Town, plus other troops are full of less than 3 people.There are [-] people in the Huaihai Navy area.Facing the Huaihai Navy District, any disturbance would scare Zhang Zhenfang enough.

After a pause, Zhang Zhenfang asked, "Could it be that the People's Party is going to march into Henan?"

Zhou Zhentao suppressed his smile, at least he was not rude.Suppressing his smile, Zhou Zhentao said: "Dudu Zhang, thank you for sending someone to pick me up. I am not working under the People's Party now, so I will answer truthfully. Now that you have taxed Henan like this, the people below will immediately There is no way to survive. Whole villages in the bordering areas of the People's Party defected to the People's Party. The people asked for nothing but not to pay taxes to the Henan government. If it weren't for the fact that the prerequisite for defecting to the People's Party was land reform, If you want to divide the land, I am afraid that even the people outside the city of Kaifeng will defect to it. If you use force against the People's Party, the People's Party will be overjoyed. The party can fight freely. The principle of the people's party army is that it will never fire the first shot first, but it will not let the enemy have the opportunity to fire the second shot."

After listening to Zhou Zhentao's words, Zhang Zhenfang could no longer maintain a calm appearance, and his face turned pale.After finally suppressing the emotions in her heart, Zhang Zhenfang said: "Mr. Zhou, if the People's Party wants to attack Henan, when will it be?"

Zhou Zhentao was suffocated in the People's Party. Seeing Zhang Zhenfang, the governor of Henan, being so frightened, he couldn't help but feel happy. He replied: "It depends on you, Governor Zhang. You don't dare to fight directly now. If you take the path of political settlement, the People's Party will not listen to Beiyang Zhengfu. The problem in Henan is that taxes are too heavy. In the current situation, if the people can't survive, they will defect to the People's Party. The total tax amount in Henan is not Changing, Dudu Zhang, there are fewer and fewer places where you can collect taxes, so you can only increase taxes in other places in Henan. Once taxes are raised in other places in Henan, the people will have a hard time, and the speed of defecting to the People's Party will be faster As long as this tax is not lowered, there will be fewer and fewer places that the Henan government can manage. Dudu Zhang, the People's Party always talks about you, saying that you are the best friend of the People's Party in Henan. One is that I don’t understand it, and the other is that I’m not interested in it. But Dudu Zhang’s tax collection law, the people’s party said a word, the agrarian revolution, everyone is full. The common people can understand it, so they naturally go to the people’s party.”

Having said this, Zhou Zhentao suddenly felt a kind of doubt. This is what Chen Keping told his comrades. Zhou Zhentao always thought that he didn't believe it, or at least he was unwilling to care about it.Then why did he say these words now as if smoothly, and Zhou Zhentao firmly believed that these words were correct.Acknowledging these words is not acknowledging the ideas that Chen Ke instilled in his comrades in different ways?Since all the causes of the People's Party are based on the people, Zhou Zhentao has no reason to think that "revolutionary heroes" should have more privileges.

If revolutionary heroes should have privileges, then what kind of privileges should Chen Ke have?Since Zhou Zhentao believes that he should have privileges, shouldn't Chen Ke, the greatest hero, have the privilege to let all the people's party comrades accept Chen Ke's will?

If Zhang Zhenfang hadn't been intimidated by what Zhou Zhentao said, with his usual rigor and earnestness, Zhang Zhenfang should have been able to see that Zhou Zhentao was confused.However, Zhang Zhenfang was completely in disarray.What Zhou Zhentao narrated completely frightened Zhang Zhenfang.

What Zhou Zhentao said, or what Zhou Zhentao explained about the People's Party's understanding of Zhang Zhenfang, hit the core point.Zhang Zhenfang must collect enough taxes.Zhang Zhenfang is not a corrupt official, at least Zhang Zhenfang thinks he is a relatively clean person, Zhang Zhenfang has never managed taxes for his own self-interest.If Zhang Zhenfang had heard what Chen said, "There are individuals who betray class, but there is no class who betray interests", Zhang Zhenfang might have found a confidant.

Zhang Zhenfang doesn't have to forcibly increase or withhold taxes for herself, but Zhang Zhenfang has to collect enough taxes in Henan for the Beiyang Group.Yuan Shikai, who is far away, can ignore it for the time being. The 12000 officers and soldiers in Beiyang Second Town must be paid enough taxes per year.This is 100 million taels of real money.A soldier of the Beiyang Army has at least 120 catties of food a month, and 30 million catties of food must be provided every year.The food and salaries of the troops in other places must also be levied in full, which means that in order to support these "Qiu Ba", Zhang Zhenfang needs to find ways to collect more than 432 million taels of real money and 200 million catties of grain.The total number of officials in all parts of Henan is about 800. For Henan, which has a population of more than 10 million, this number is only one in five percent. These people need to eat and drink.If all their expenses were borne by the Henan provincial government, it would be more than three times the amount of less than 5000 troops.Even with the same salary as these "eighth uncle Qiu", Zhou Zhentao, the governor of Henan, would spend 1000 million taels of silver and 4000 million catties of grain every year.

You know, the annual income of the Qing court is only 1000 million taels, most of which are customs taxes.How can Henan, a province with underdeveloped trade, get [-] million taels of silver to pay for the salaries of the army and officials.As far as the army is concerned, Henan Province has to find ways to make up for it.The income of local officials can only be left to their own devices.

It's not that Zhang Zhenfang is ignorant of the cruelty of local exploitation, but he is only one person, and he doesn't know the magic of money and urine. Where does the money come from?Not to mention the local officials, but the people around Zhang Zhenfang himself, none of them came from seeking official positions, promotions, and various officialdom benefits.Who is really for the benefit of the people?Even for people with such ideals, such ideals were shattered by reality early on.

The People's Party ridiculed Zhang Zhenfang as "the People's Party's best friend in Henan". Zhang Zhenfang felt very wronged. If you want to say who is the People's Party's best friend in Henan, it would be better to say that the current Henan system is the People's Party's best friend.As long as this system is still in place, Zhang Zhenfang will be able to persuade Yuan Shikai to waive Henan's money and food for several years, even if Zhang Zhenfang is like a fairy.The only way to stop this kind of taxation is for these people to know that if they continue to collect it like this, they will surely die.If the tax-collecting officials have this understanding, the result will not be that these people face the threat of the People's Party together.The result must be that these people abandoned the Beiyang government and Zhang Zhenfang, and fled like mice.Only Zhang Zhenfang was left alone to face the end of the law resistance.

As a scholar, Zhang Zhenfang said the word "people's heart" several times, but Zhang Zhenfang found out how far this bureaucratic group is from the word "people's heart". "The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the world's hustle and bustle is for profit."Zhang Zhenfang sent a large number of spies to Huaihai Province and Anhui Province to inquire about intelligence.The news sent back by the spies was different from what Zhou Zhentao said.Compared with the People's Party that is close at hand, Zhang Zhenfang has to admit that the Beiyang he himself represents definitely does not represent the people's will.

When Zhang Zhenfang felt that his heart was tightly squeezed by fear, and it was difficult to keep breathing, he suddenly remembered something.Since the People's Party is so popular, why did Zhou Zhentao, a senior soldier, choose to leave the People's Party?

As if she had caught a life-saving straw, Zhang Zhenfang felt as relaxed as if she had been liberated, and she even recovered from her breathlessness. "Mr. Zhou, why did you leave the People's Party?" Zhang Zhenfang asked.Although not long ago, Zhang Zhenfang knew that she shouldn't ask this question on her own initiative no matter what.

Zhou Zhentao didn't answer right away, because Zhou Zhentao was also wondering why he left the People's Party.It was supposed to be a brief moment to tell Henan governor Zhang Zhenfang some basic actions of the People's Party.and the theoretical support behind these fundamental actions.Zhou Zhentao once had some kind of malice, maybe he wanted to cause some trouble for the People's Party to seize Henan?Maybe he just wanted to find someone with a relatively high status to bully him, so as to dispel the resentment in his heart.But after really frightening the governor of Henan, Zhang Zhenfang, Zhou Zhentao didn't feel the pleasure after venting, and he didn't even feel the pleasure of revenge against the People's Party.Zhou Zhentao just fell into a deep doubt, why did he leave the People's Party?

Now Zhou Zhentao is no longer the teacher of the People's Party, but just an ordinary citizen related to the People's Party.But just relying on the knowledge he learned from the People's Party, he could scare the majestic Henan governor into trembling voices.This is the power of the People's Party, and this is the power of the organization that Zhou Zhentao abandoned.

Zhou Zhentao had to take seriously a fact that he had been unwilling to face for a while, maybe he really made a wrong choice.

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