The Republic is so violent

Chapter 101
In fact, it was this incident that caused the councilors of the provincial councils across the country to become furious with the Qing government.Not long after, the Wuchang Uprising, the [-] gunshots, members of the councils of the various provinces immediately rose up and declared independence one after another. In an instant, the Qing Empire was completely collapsed.

Seeing that the general situation was over, the Qing government was dumbfounded, and had no choice but to urge Yuan Shikai, who was deposed in Huanshang Village, Henan Province, to hope that he could be stupid for a while and let the Qing Dynasty continue to breathe.

However, Yuan Shikai was not stupid at all.

Far from being stupid, he is the wisest man in the empire.The Qing government asked him to come out to uphold justice, just like a mouse asking a cat for help, it can be regarded as the opposite.

08 Yuan Shikai is the father of the Republic of China
If the hard-won Republic of China is compared to a child, then Yuan Shikai, the leader of Beiyang, is the father of the child, and Zhao Fengchang, the master of Shanghai Xiyin Hall, is the mother of the child.

Let's talk about the child's father first.You know, as early as when the Empress Dowager Cixi was still alive, the imperial court had deliberately planned to take away the military power of the Beiyang Army trained by Yuan Shikai. Obviously, it was too dangerous for the empire to put the military power in the hands of a shrewd man like Yuan Datou. up.So the old lady Cixi transferred Yuan Shikai to the military aircraft department, ascended and descended secretly, and set up a military counselor's office to take the military power of Beiyang from Yuan Shikai and hand it over to Jiangning General Tie Liang.

With Yuan Shikai no longer having military power in his hands, the imperial court breathed a sigh of relief.

But he never thought that Beiyang was trained by Yuan Shikai, and he was loyal to Yuan Shikai. Rao was lured by Tieliang high-ranking officials and confused by fame and fortune, but Beiyang soldiers were unmoved and determined to recognize Yuan Shikai alone.At that time, Tie Liang was in a hurry, so he came up with an unprecedented bad idea:
Add sand!
The students who graduated from the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy were preferred, and they were placed in the army to smash the iron plate of Beiyang.

After careful analysis, Tie Liang's move cannot be said to be a bad idea. Although Sun Wen's alliance has frequent activities in Japan, many Qing students studying in non-commissioned officer schools consciously keep a distance from the Revolutionary Party for the sake of their career prospects. So Tie Liang made good use of these people, and it made sense.

But this is only the truth of Tieliang, but not the truth of the law of social development.

The law of human society is that where there are people, there will be differences, conflicts, games, and disputes.As long as human nature does not change, this law will not change in another 1 years.

It is said that those overseas students who returned from studying in Japan were immediately reused after entering the army.This must have aroused the jealousy and hatred of the native-born Turtles in the army, so intrigues and intrigues, open and secret fights, quietly took place in dark corners that no one knew about.These conflicts and struggles cannot be heard by outsiders, and only the parties involved know best in their hearts—even though they are clear, there are sufferings.

Because these conflicts of human nature are hidden and cannot be put on the table. Speaking out will make people think that you are hypocritical, that you are not capable enough, that you are not good at getting along with your colleagues, and that you cannot integrate into the team.

Specifically, those foreign students who were inserted into the army by Tie Liang'an, although they were all beautiful on the surface, they were always demolished, humiliated and plotted behind the scenes, and they had endless distress.This distress drives them to seek solutions to the problem.

The only solution they can find is revolution!

Damn it, just pick up the gun and kill those bastards who entrapped you behind their backs, hit them all over the place, and see how they can make things difficult for you in the future!
The hidden psychological conflict and the hatred caused by the conflict made the overseas students quickly turn to the revolution, and unexpectedly, they became the main force of the [-] Revolution.

Secret conflicts also constituted the characteristics of the bloody era of the [-] Revolution. According to Mr. Zhang Renmin, an army student in Wuchang who participated in the [-] Revolution and a veteran of the [-] Revolution, he mentioned in his memoir "Reminiscences of My Participation in the Wuchang Uprising of [-]":

... On the night of the 10th, there were vibrations everywhere, and revolutions broke out at multiple points almost naturally.The students cheered thunderously, and immediately went back to the dormitory, picked up their full armor, and assembled in a team.At that time, none of the officers present were senior, most of them were at the company and platoon level.There are about ten groups of students in the whole school, less than a thousand people... When the chaos broke out, most of the Jingzhou Banner students took the opportunity to flee. There was only one named Chonghou, a first-year student, who was dragged out of the school by his classmates and stabbed several times with a sharp knife. Throw the knife under the small river bridge outside the school gate...

...At this moment in Wuchang City, every house is closed, no pedestrians are on the road, and only soldiers come and go on the street.Moreover, the soldiers randomly searched and killed Manchu people with banner nationality, regardless of age, and their corpses littered the streets.Mr. Baoying, the school's military instructor, also died at this time!It is said that it was killed by Ma XX, a teaching assistant of the school.In short, the situation changed drastically at that time, human nature was violent, and because it was a national revolution, the slogan used was the four characters "Xing Han Mie Man". Therefore, in those three days, there were thousands of innocent people killed inside and outside Wuchang...

Looking at the memories of Mr. Zhang, classmates and classmates killed each other, instructors and assistants killed each other, why is this so?
That's because the national revolution is just an excuse, a reason to open up the evil of human nature, the so-called tyranny of human nature.What drove this tragedy was all due to personality conflicts and disputes in daily interactions, but those conflicts and disputes cannot be put on the stage for discussion, but they can be completely resolved by taking advantage of the opportunity of the national revolution.

09 Liang Qichao is very imaginative
With the sound of gunshots in Wuchang, the court immediately held an emergency meeting.At the meeting, someone proposed to use Yuan Shikai to pacify the situation in Wuchang, but this proposal was rejected by all votes—this Yuan’s big brain drove him away after a lot of difficulty, so how could he be invited back?

However, they never expected that the troops sent by the imperial court to suppress the Wuchang revolution would stop at Xiaogan for no apparent reason, and they were ready to move.Now the imperial court was terrified, and hurriedly went to the British Minister Zhu Erdian to ask the imperialists to uphold justice.

Zhu Erdian said: This matter is simple, you obviously have Yuan Shikai, as long as you let him come out to preside over the work, the problem will definitely be solved.

The imperialists had spoken, and the court had no choice but to issue an edict to let Yuan Shikai, a retired veteran cadre, come out of the mountain.

After receiving the edict, Yuan Shikai immediately called the idlers who were eating at his home to hold a meeting to discuss countermeasures.The participants included: Wang Xitong, Yang Du, Duan Zhigui and Ruan Zhongshu.All the people at the meeting agreed that the Qing court was dead and there was no hope, so this edict must never be followed, so just pretend not to have received it...

What if I didn't receive it?So Yuan Shikai ordered his secretary, Ruan Zhongshu, to immediately write a thank-you note, which was full of ramblings and digressions, neither saying he accepted the imperial edict nor saying he would not accept the imperial edict, which made the Qing court confused and painful. .

Ten days after the Wuchang Uprising, Yuan Shikai's close friend and cabinet member Xu Shichang went to Huanshang Village to discuss secretly with Yuan Shikai behind closed doors.As a result of the deliberations, six requests were made to the imperial court:
Article [-]: Congress next year.

Article [-]: Organize the responsible cabinet.

Article [-]: Tolerate the Wuchang uprising personnel, and do not settle accounts after the fall.

Article [-]: Lift the party ban.

Article [-]: Let Yuan Shikai take over the military power, and give him a lot of military expenses, otherwise he will not be given work.

Article [-]: Call Yuan Shikai's little brothers Wang Shizhen, Feng Guozhang, Zhang Xiluan, Ni Sichong, Duan Zhigui, Yuan Naikan, etc. to go to war together.

The first two of these six articles were repeated petitions by the courtiers and the Advisory Bureau, asking the Qing government to do something.However, the Qing government refused to obey and resolutely refused to do anything. Now that the regime is collapsing, it has no choice but to make concessions.

Yuan Shikai led the Beiyang elite to go out together, and formed a confrontation with Li Yuanhong, the fat boy of Wuchang.From this, there will be three people strategizing, laying out the world, and deciding the Central Plains.

It was Liang Qichao, a master of Chinese studies, who was the first to make a move to lay out the world.

Liang Qichao is not only a master of Chinese studies, but also a master at making up nonsense.As early as when the old lady Cixi had just died, Liang Qichao and his teacher Kang Youwei lit a lamp to cook oil, wrote a memorial to the Qing government, sued Yuan Shikai for a black case, and asked Yuan Shikai to be punished.

There are three accusations fabricated by Kang and Liang masters and apprentices against Yuan Shikai: first, they lied that the failure of the Reform Movement of [-] was all due to Yuan Shikai's mischief.Because Yuan Shikai wanted to encircle the Summer Palace and kill the old lady Cixi, so... Actually, Kang Youwei came up with this idea, but at this time he forced Yuan Shikai's head to be buckled.

The second lie fabricated by Kang Liang and his disciples to Yuan Shikai was that Yuan Shikai was the mastermind behind Yiyi and the Boxers, and that even the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Allied Forces was done by Yuan Shikai.This nonsense is obviously too outrageous, and no one believes it anyway.

The third lie fabricated by Kang and Liang masters and apprentices to Yuan Shikai was that the defeat of the Qing navy in the Sino-Japanese War of Jiawu was all due to Yuan Shikai's mischief. If Yuan Shikai was not killed, the country would have no peace.

In short, Liang Qichao is very imaginative.

10 Layout of the World Paper Wu

Long before the revolution of [-], the imaginative Liang Qichao drew up the eight-character key to the layout of the world:

Which eight characters?

Heyuan, Weige, Manchu, and Han.

And Yuan, is to win over Yuan Shikai, stop scolding Yuan Shikai, but ask Yuan Shikai to actively participate in the cause of constitutionalism.To comfort the revolution means to comfort the revolutionary party and support the assassination and uprising of the revolutionary party.Manning is to use the violence of the revolutionary party to force the Qing government to submit.Convincing the Han...is to convince the Han people, salty and reforming.

The chess pieces used by Liang Qichao are the three famous non-commissioned officers who graduated from the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy: Wu Luzhen, Zhang Shaozeng and Lan Tianwei.

With the chess pieces laid out, Liang Qichao was full of ambition and returned home from Dalian by sea boat. But before he even set his foot on the ground, he heard that Wu Luzhen, one of the three sergeants, was assassinated by someone around him for no apparent reason; The worst was Zhang Shaozeng, who failed in the uprising and had to flee to Tianjin, where he never left home.Hearing this news, Liang Qichao made a decisive decision. He didn't even get off the boat, so he paid for the fare on the boat, and fled back to Japan.

Liang Qichao, a master of Chinese studies, withdrew, and it was the turn of the second planner: Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Shikai is a classic military layout, using the strength of Beiyang and the southern militia as pawns. Specifically speaking, there are two tricks: one is to capture Hanyang and demonstrate the military power of Beiyang, making the southern revolutionary army terrified; the other is to give up Nanjing and form a The confrontation between the North and the South forced the Qing government to compromise and negotiate.

Liang Qichao was empty-handed, and the layout failed.Yuan Shikai holds military power in his hands, and the layout is easy.However, only Yuan Shikai's military bureau is not enough, and an influential and politically intelligent figure must come out. Otherwise, the current situation of confrontation between the North and the South will not be able to move towards a constitutional government or a republic as desired.

So the third planner came out.

Xiyin Hall, Zhao Fengchang.

So we say: Yuan Shikai is the father of the Republic of China, and Zhao Fengchang is the mother of the Republic of China.Without Yuan Shikai's military bureau, Zhao Fengchang would not have a literary bureau to deploy.But without Zhao Fengchang's literary bureau, Yuan Shikai's military bureau would be meaningless.

So, how did Zhao Fengchang successfully arrange it?

The first step of Zhao Fengchang's layout of the world is to win the number one scholar and industrialist Zhang Jian.

Speaking of the Revolution of 4, it caused huge economic losses to Zhang Jian, the number one scholar.As early as April 27th, 9, Zhang Jian went to Wuchang to stay for [-] days, and made decisive progress in his spinning mill business. The tenancy rights of the No. [-] Silk Factory and the Fourth Silk Factory mean that a lot of money will soon flow into Zhang Jian's family.

At that time, the excited Zhang Jian went to the banquet hosted by Tang Hualong, the director of the Hubei Counseling Bureau, and delivered a passionate speech at the banquet.At the banquet, Zhang Jian, the number one scholar, said: Stability, stability, the most important thing at present is stability.Instability, how can I make money... No, I mean, without stability, there will be no development of China's economy, and there will be no way to talk about the happy life of the people, so we must be stable...

After speaking, Zhang Jian boarded a boat and left Wuchang. He went to Huanshang Village to pay a visit to the retired cadre Yuan Shikai. After staying for a few days, he returned by boat.When returning home, I heard the sound of a cannon. In the direction of Wuchang, the flames were burning, and the gunshots of the Wuchang Uprising had officially started.

Zhang Jian recorded the scene in his diary as follows:

The boat traveled more than [-] miles, and I still saw the flames blazing up to the candle sky...

The hard-won stable situation was destroyed in this way, and the investment of Mr. Zhuangyuan was wiped out.In desperation, Zhang Jian rushed to Nanjing at night, persuading General Tie Liang of Jiangning and Zhang Renjun, governor of Liangjiang, to send troops immediately to kill the rebels in Wuchang.It's really outrageous. Just after they got the contract, there was an uprising on their side. Are they going to let them make money?

Strangely, General Tie Liang of Jiangning and Governor of Liangjiang Zhang Renjun categorically rejected Zhang Jian's suggestion, and Governor of Huguang Rui Li also escaped from Wuchang, and the situation was completely out of control.

In grief and anger, Zhang Jian came to Shanghai to look for Zhao Fengchang, hoping that Zhao Fengchang could help him restore stability and continue to make money.

(End of this chapter)