The Republic is so violent

Chapter 25
(1) Jianghu Night Rain Talks about Heroes
After the death of the hero Chen Tianhua, the heroine Qiu Jin returned to China with her classmates Yi Benxi, Yao Hongye and others.

The three of them took the road to Shanghai and planned to set up a school in Shanghai. Soon after they ran out of money, Qiu Jin went to Xunxi Girls' School to teach, while Yi Benxi went to Hunan as a knight-errant, leaving only Yao Hongye in Shanghai. With no food and clothing, living in poverty, asking for borrowing everywhere and having nowhere to go, Yao Hongye committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea in grief and anger.

Yao Hongye, a man of lofty ideals, died just like that, but Yi Benxi met a stranger in Xianghu Lake, which once again set off a violent storm in the Jianghu.

But when Yi Benxifu went to Xianghu Lake, he heard such a thing:

Since Gelaohui and Huaxinghui wanted to make a big move, they were forced to terminate it because of the murder of the old leader Ma Fuxing. However, because many Jianghu gangs participated in the conspiracy, all the bigwigs in these gangs were listed in the imperial court's sea arrest documents. All the brothers had to go far away to avoid the limelight temporarily.

But suddenly one day, a burly man came to the county yamen, beat the drum heavily, and threatened to see the county magistrate.Today I came by myself!

The yamen servant thought this man was a lunatic, so he asked, "Who are you?"Dare to act wild in the lobby of the yamen?
The big man laughed and said: "Even I, Jiang Shoudan, don't know me. It's a shame that you still eat the rice from Gongmen!"

Jiang Shoudan?
After hearing the big man's self-report, all the yamen servants took a closer look, and finally recognized the person who came, they couldn't help being frightened, turned around and fled into the yamen's mansion.

It turned out that the big man was indeed one of the Jianghu gang leaders wanted by the court: Jiang Shoudan, the eldest brother of Hongfuhui.

But Jiang Shoudan is not interested in the republican revolution, what he is interested in is the change of dynasty. The Tartars have been in China for more than 170 years, so it should stop, right?The emperor took turns to do it. When he came to our house this year, Jiang Shoudan took command of the rivers and lakes and green forests, and established the Hongfu Qitian Party.So in recent years, no matter where the brothers started rioting, Jiang Shoudan couldn't wait to rush over with the brothers of the Hongfu Equal Heaven Party.

On the Xianghu side, Huaxing Club contacted Gelaohui, but there was a lot of thunder and rain. After a great deal of excitement, Huaxing Club’s partner disappeared, making Jiang Shoudan unspeakably lonely. He waited, waited, waited, and finally couldn’t wait any longer. , unwilling to be lonely and come out to make trouble.

He came to the county yamen alone, scared away a few yamen servants, and was laughing up to the sky, when he saw more yamen servants rushing out with spears and chains in their hands, putting the chains on his neck without any explanation, Jiang Shoudan did not resist, Just looked up to the sky and laughed.

The county magistrate verified that this burly man who was suspected of being a lunatic was indeed Jiang Shoudan, the eldest brother of the Hongfu Qitian Party. The magistrate hurriedly sent him to prison and put him under strict surveillance. The leader of the party pays tribute...

The memorial was written very late, and the magistrate climbed into bed under the urging of the concubine, and after a while in the hatchback, he fell asleep exhausted.At dawn, Zhixian opened his eyes, and suddenly saw a young monk with delicate features sleeping beside him. Surprised, Zhixian blurted out and yelled.

The pretty monk was startled awake, and she also let out a scream—it turned out to be the concubine's voice. While screaming, she pointed her finger at the magistrate's head.

The magistrate touched his head with his hand, only to find that for some reason, there was no hair on his head.

It turned out that the magistrate and concubine's hair disappeared overnight, isn't this a strange thing?

Crawling out of the bed, the magistrate found that his and his concubine's hair were neatly placed on the table, and besides the hair was a sharp short knife, shining with a frightening cold light.

The magistrate was stunned for a long time, then suddenly came to his senses, and urgently asked someone to go to the prison to see if Jiang Shoudan, the boss of the Hongfu Qitian Party, was still there?
Not long after the news was reported, the door of Jiang Shoudan's cell had already been opened, and the prisoners were nowhere to be seen, except for a few guards who collapsed to the ground. art...

(2) There are many members of the Revolutionary Party

Jiang Shoudan of the Hongfu Qitian Party entered the prison and flew away, frightening the local officials, and never dared to pursue the brothers in the rivers and lakes too much.

As a result, there is Hong Jianghui making a comeback, colluding with Hong Fuhui and Teacher Wu, and there is a faint hint of trouble again.

However, the Hongjiang Society was originally under the tent of the old leader Ma Fuxing. After Ma Fuxing's death, the Gelaohui was renamed Hongjiang Society in memory of the old leader.The current leader of the meeting is even more mysterious. This person's name is Xie Zaixing, Xie Zuixing, Zhang Nian, Zhang Zhangnian...there are too many names, I guess he can't remember them, so he just changed them to something even more irrelevant. Gong Chuntai became the third old leader of the Gelaohui after Wang Xiufang and Ma Fuxing.

The leader of the Wu Teachers' Association is Liao Shubao, a hero who can be as famous as Jiang Shoudan and Gong Chuntai, it is very rare.This person is proficient in martial arts, he is good at wielding two sabers, he is easily inaccessible to dozens of men.

Together, these three rivers and lakes forces are called the Liulongshan Hongjianghui, which can be regarded as a unified banner to the outside world.

Yi Benxi of the Tongmenghui was lucky enough to catch up with the brothers. Besides him, Liu Daoyi, who persuaded the old leader Ma Fuxing, also came, so the Tongmenghui also counted as a stake in this uprising.

Then there was the Changsha Shuiluzhou Conference, with 38 participants, who decided to start an uprising at the end of the year.

The second secret meeting was in Jiaoyuan, Pingxiang. This meeting was the official opening of the Liulongshan Hongjiang Association. Gong Chuntai, who had the most names, was elected as the eldest brother. According to the tradition of the Gelaohui, the organization is still divided into eight inner halls and eight outer halls.And established the oath:
I swear to abide by the purpose of the Republic of China, obey the orders of my elder brother, work together with one heart and one mind, destroy the Manchus and rejuvenate the Han, and if this alliance is made, the gods and men will die together!
After the oath, all the brothers received a cloth ticket with four sentences written on it:

One inch three to two inch three,

The six dragons get water and encounter strange traitors,
Four or five consecutive inheritances of Han industry,
It all depends on loyalty and filial piety.

The meeting decided that the base camp of the party will be located in Mashi, with 3000 permanent members.

Things should have gone wrong at the third meeting. This meeting was held secretly in July 1906 at Huili Temple in Pingxiang. I was so excited that I couldn't wait to contribute.

In the blink of an eye, it was August [-]th. In order to provide welfare for the brothers, the headquarters of the party invited the theater troupe to pay the gods to perform plays. Among the crowd, the monks of Huili Temple promoted Buddhism among the crowd, declaring: The world is about to be in chaos, and there will be heroes who will eradicate the rich and help the poor... In short, the effect of the revolutionary propaganda work is very obvious, and the ears of the Qing court are full of cocoons. If you don't come and take care of it, it's really unreasonable.

So on October 1906, 10, the Qing army in the three counties of Pingliu and Lili formed a coalition army and "mopped up" Mashi, the headquarters of the Hui Party.

It stands to reason that the brothers are all people in the world, well-informed, and they are engaged in the business of beheading. They should not be ignorant of the joint action of the Qing army in the three counties, but the result of the matter is so unexpected. At that time, the Qing army from the three counties rushed into Mashi aggressively, but Mashi's brothers were crowding under the stage to watch the play and applaud.

The intelligence work of the Huidang brothers was not done well, but the Qing soldiers were obviously well-informed. The Qing soldiers aimed at Li Jinqi, the Huidang, and pursued them relentlessly. After chasing Li Jinqi, who had nowhere to go to heaven or land, he fled to Baitutan , fell into the water and drowned.

Seeing that the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were coming for real, the Huidang brothers were furious and continued to hold a meeting—a memorial service for Brother Li Jinqi.

Dead people happen frequently, people are inherently mortal, some deaths are heavier than Mount Tai, and some are lighter than a feather... The touching eulogy has not been finished yet, and the Qing army has already captured the party's wharf The adjutant Xu Xuexue killed him, and also copied the Huili Temple, and all the eminent monks in the temple died or fled...

Even the memorial service is not allowed. These Qing soldiers are really inhumane!

Facing the pressing force of the Qing army, the brothers of the Hongjiang Society of Liulongshan made a decision:

—Continue the meeting!
(3) The Tongmenghui attacked the Revolutionary Party

On December 1906, 12, the Hongjiang Association of Liulong Mountain held its third meeting in Gaojiaqiang, Pingxiang.

Speaking of this, a question arises, the three-county coalition forces are chasing and killing the brothers of Liulongshan everywhere, but the big bosses are holding endless meetings, what kind of meetings are they holding?

arms!

Still the same problem, always the same problem.

Although the bosses in the party are all very skilled, there are those who fly over the wall, and there are those who break the prison, but the vast majority of the brothers in the party are mostly cowards with no skills, let the brothers charge against the Qing soldiers with bare hands Go, this... It is estimated that the brothers may not agree.

So you must have a weapon.

However, the brothers of the various families have no weapons, so they can only hold meetings non-stop.

Who wants to have a meeting if the problem can be solved?
The meeting lasted all day, and the big brothers quarreled all day, but they couldn't fight any more. At the end of the meeting, they only made such a decision-to hold a big boss-level enlarged meeting tomorrow, Let more brothers enjoy the benefits of the meeting.

On the second day, as expected, more brothers arrived excitedly with small benches, many who should not have come, but one who should have not.

——Liao Shubao, the head of the Wu Teachers Association.

Where did Lao Liao go?

Everyone was looking around behind the door under the table, when they heard gunshots in the distance, everyone was startled, and they ran out of the door, and when they stepped up to a high place to look intently, they couldn't help crying out.

In the direction of Mashi, Liao Shubao, who was full of anger, led two or 3000 brothers, holding high a white flag, and wrote the word "big man". There are four words "Xinghan Mieman", and they are killing the generals of the three-county coalition forces in Mashi.

Gong Chuntai, the boss of Liulong Mountain, stomped his feet anxiously, and immediately ordered all the firearms that could be found to be searched out and distributed to all the brothers. Let's do it, his grandma, Lao Liao can't bear to do it himself, so let's do it together Let's have a meeting after we're done.

Occupy Gaojiatai first, and then King Kongtou.Then the brothers of the family continued to hold meetings and elected Gong Chuntai as the governor. On December 12, the brothers finally joined forces with the violent Liao Shubao. According to the battle report, the battle was so lively that only four long-legged Qing soldiers escaped.

Attack Liling County and occupy Tongmu.

There were over 3 brothers involved in the riots.

The four townships were cleaned up, and the brothers turned their attention to Liuyang!

Liuyang is good, this county does not even have a wall, it is the most suitable for brothers to vent their anger, and there is still a lot of food in the city, as long as Liuyang is captured, all brothers can go down the Liuwei River Went to Changsha for a meeting...

And in Liuyang's Shangdong and Zhangjiafang areas, a large number of brothers have already gathered, all of whom are heroes of the Hongfu Qitian Party.The reason why the brothers are so impatient is because the brother Wang Youqiu in the meeting was taken into the Liuyang prison at some time, and this brother can neither fly over the wall nor have the extraordinary ability to get acupuncture points, so he can only be honest. He squatted in the prison and waited for his brothers to come and rob him.

The boss, Jiang Shoudan, was eager to rescue his brother, so he ordered people to move towards Liuyang early on, but the Qing army refused to give way, and the two sides started a fierce exchange of fire in Zhanjialing. Unable to move forward.

Together to attack Liuyang, Gong Chuntai erected the banner of "The Vanguard of the Southern Army of the Chinese National Army", and strongly urged the Jiang Shoudan brothers to immediately change their flag and submit to the Chinese National Army.

Jiang Shoudan replied: "Brother, I listen to the tune and not the announcement, so don't pull this hammer with me."So he erected a large banner and wrote: "The Southern Uprising and Restoration Army of the Great New Chinese Empire".

It turns out that Boss Jiang is a little anxious, and he wants to ascend the throne...

But the wicked Qing court insisted on making things difficult for Boss Jiang, and even sent soldiers from the four provinces of Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Jiangsu, including:

Left Army of Jiangxi Patrol Battalion.

The second battalion of the first standard of the Jiangxi Standing Army.

Five of the six battalions of the Hunan Standing Army.

Hubei 29 Infantry Battalion 40rd, Artillery [-]nd Battalion, and No.[-] [-]nd Battalion.

Originally stationed in Jiangsu No.30 four standard full standard.

... The soldiers and horses of the four provinces, full of murderous aura, closed on all sides.

Among the four groups of people, there are three people with extremely special identities-Xu Shaozhen, the commander of the ninth town of Jiangsu No.30 Four Standards, and his two capable subordinates:
Ni Yingdian!
Zhao Sheng!

The former Ni Yingdian and the former Xu Shaozhen are both members of the Tongmenghui.The latter, Zhao Sheng, is an iron-blooded man of the northern assassination group, and he returned to the country with Wu Yue to bomb the five ministers.

Now here they are.

(4) People like pillows

Brothers from the Hui Party here rebelled, and the League of Legends and the assassination group came to suppress it. It stands to reason that my brothers should have joined forces in victory.

But the bad thing is, none of the brothers knew anyone, on Liu Daoyi and Gong Chuntai's side, they might not even have heard of the names of Ni Yingdian and Zhao Sheng.And on Ni Yingdian and Zhao Sheng's side, they don't know what is going on in this mess, so there is no hope for this victory meeting.

If this uprising was dispatched by a higher-level figure—for example, Sun Wen, the situation must be different. However, Sun Wen is a elusive person. I sent someone to find Sun Wen, but it has been a full hundred years, and where Sun Wen was at that time is still a mystery now.

Don't say you can't find Sun Wen, even if you find it, according to Lao Sun's temper, this uprising will have to be moved to Guangdong and Guangxi... In short, it doesn't matter whether it is the Tongmenghui, the assassination group, or Liulongshan, Hong Fuqi Regardless of the Heavenly Party, brothers can only take care of themselves, give each other two shots first and then talk!
The four Qing armies fought simultaneously, and all the brothers were defeated.

The Jiang Shoudan brothers were defeated first in Liuyang and then in Jianchong.

The eldest brother Gong Chuntai was defeated first in Liuyang and then in Nanshi Street, and had to retreat to Niu Shiling.

Gong Chuntai retreated to Niu Shiling, raised the banner of the governor, and a remnant army of the Hui Party that had been defeated by the Qing soldiers in Shangli City hurried over. At this juncture, the Qing soldiers were so wicked that they shot a stray bullet. Coincidentally, it hit the gunpowder storage place of the Huidang, and there was a bang. When the earth was shaken, dozens of heroes were blown to pieces, and the rest of the brothers were terrified, and immediately screamed and ran wildly. , Gong Chuntai's troops were in chaos.

Ni Yingdian and Zhao Sheng of the Tongmenghui followed the trend, while Gong Chuntai, Liao Shubao and many older brothers fled.

On December 12, Jiang Shoudan, the eldest brother of the Hongfu Qitian Party, was wounded in the battle, and led 30 remnants of his troops to retreat to Yining Prefecture, Jiangxi Province. Not long after, Ni Yingdian from the Tongmenghui and Zhao Sheng from the Restoration Society chased after them. The brothers dispersed, and Jiang Shoudan didn't know what happened He was caught by Ni Yingdian, or by Zhao Sheng, but he didn't run away.

Gong Chuntai, Jiang Shoudan, and Liu Daoyi were all captured by the Qing officials, and they were generous and benevolent. All the brothers died in battle and were arrested and killed by the Qing soldiers, more than [-] of them.

But the Huidang brothers said that Gong Chuntai and Jiang Shoudan had already escaped, and at best they could only be considered missing.Afterwards, in the Gelaohui, another stranger, Gangtouqiao, came across the sea and became the master of the Gelaohui, which once again set off a huge turmoil in the world. This is a later story.

At this time, there were three brothers from Guangdong, Yang Zhuohui, Liao Zhongfan and Li Fagen. These three sneaked into Shanghai and planned to cooperate with Gong Chuntai's Six Dragons to win Nanjing. Brothers Xiao Liang and Liu Yan came and invited the three of them to Yangzhou for a meeting...there were many meetings of the Revolutionary Party, so the three brothers rushed there excitedly without any suspicion. When they arrived in Yangzhou, they were sent to prison.

Sun Wen saw this vigorous feat of the Gelaohui brothers while reading a newspaper. Sun Wen said:

When the Pingli Revolutionary Army fought bitterly with the Qing soldiers, the members in Tokyo were all impassioned and furious, eager to fly across the inland, face the former enemy, and fight the captives desperately.There are a lot of people who go to the government department every day to ask for orders to join the army. If they are slowed down a little, they cry and cry, thinking that they can't get it if they want to die.His ambition is righteous and indignant, and his feet are worthy of honor...

Because he was too excited, Sun Wen, who wrote less poetry, wrote a special poem in memory of Liu Daoyi, a member of the alliance who died in the Battle of Pingliliu:

There are three Chuxiongs in the southeast of the half wall, and Liu Lang dies in Tyranny.

The remaining sins are very difficult, who is generous with the Sri Lankan people?
The autumn wind mourns the war horses, and the sunset of Shenzhou weeps and mourns.

When will you drink Huanglong wine to your heart's content?

Sun Wen was excited, but the Chinese people at that time were almost to the point of excitement.

It's just that the excitement of the Chinese people has nothing to do with the Brothers and Brothers who fly into the sky. What makes the common people excited is a woman, a peerless actress who is extremely beautiful:

Yang Cuixi!
Partisans like fists, but common people like pillows. This cannot be helped.

(5) Those who can make money are good cadres
The peerless famous actress Yang Cuixi entered history, forming a unique landscape of the times. The cause was the corruption case of Yuan Shikai.

Regarding Yuan Shikai's corruption, this is a firm matter. You see, this guy is bouncing up and down in the hall every day, and he is the only one in the world. If it is not for making money, why is he building railways? Is it a factory?Unless he's crazy!
In order to make money, this guy even has the Yanzheng in his hands. There is no one else in the Qing Dynasty. Such a big idiot, one person actually runs nine big fat jobs concurrently. No wonder the Qing Dynasty always fails. good……

There was a lot of discussion among the masses, and the newspapers often revealed some inside information, telling everyone implicitly how much Yuan Shikai had made recently...

Recently, it has been the salt government, and I heard that this time Lao Yuan has made a lot of money.

Report letters flew to the court like a snowflake, and the Empress Dowager Cixi was a little bit impatient.Although it is said that being an official for thousands of miles is only for money, but Yuan Shikai, you can't go too far, can you?

check!
No matter what, Yuan Shikai has to be taught a lesson.

The imperial court sent officials to start to investigate Yuan Shikai's salt administration. This investigation was terrible, and found out a big problem with Yuan Shikai!

This problem is really too big - there is not a penny short in the account, but a few thousand taels of silver have been added.

What is going on here?
(End of this chapter)