The Republic is so violent

Chapter 52 It's Wrong to Listen to the Leader (1)
(1) Hope is getting slimmer
The Revolutionary Party made two serious political mistakes that contributed to the ultimate success of the Revolution of [-].

Are you right?Didn't it mean that the Revolutionary Party made a mistake?How can making mistakes lead to success?
That's right, the situation is exactly like this. The law of social development is random, with great chance.However, the Revolutionary Party League does things in a disciplined manner, acting in accordance with established policies and strategies, while social development itself has neither policies nor strategies, so once the Revolutionary Party does not make mistakes, it will not be in line with social development.On the contrary, when the revolutionary party made mistakes, it just catered to the randomness of social development, and the probability of success was greatly improved.

Tracing the source of these two mistakes began when Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing met in Tokyo, Japan, and fought for the seat of the revolutionary leader. In the end, when the Japanese Black Dragon Association supported Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing had to give in. Established Sun Yat-sen's undisputed leadership prestige.

Sun and Huang are both revolutionary leaders, and they have no differences in launching the revolution and killing Aixinjueluo's family.The difference is that Huang Xing proposed to use the Yangtze River Basin as the center to mobilize the party and order the brothers in the rivers and lakes to revolt.Sun Wen hopes to start from Guangdong and Guangxi.It is normal for the two to have such differences. Gein Huang Xing is a native of Changsha, Hunan. The first revolutionary organization he founded: Huaxing Company opened in Changsha, Hunan, and the force he campaigned was the Hunan Gelaohui.And Sun Yat-sen is from Cantonese, and he is familiar with others in the Guangdong area, and the local gangs are all his brothers, so of course the location of the uprising must be chosen in Guangdong.

It sounds like Sun Yat-sen's opinion is more pertinent. Guangdong and Guangxi are adjacent to the frontier. Once the uprising fails, you can flee abroad.And if you choose to be in the Yangtze River Basin, once you miss your hand, you won't even be able to escape, and you can only slaughter them wantonly by the Qing soldiers.

Afterwards, Sun and Huang divided the work. Sun Yat-sen was in charge of being the leader, raising funds, buying guns and cannons, and Huang Xing was in charge of execution. He personally led the team into Guangdong and Guangxi, planning to win a province before leading the Northern Expedition.However, several uprisings were defeated.But just as Sun Yat-sen expected, once the incident failed, Huang Xing could always fly out of the country and keep the revolutionary fire. The only thing that made Huang Xing angry was that once he fled to Vietnam after the Guangxi uprising failed. But he was caught by the Frenchman who was colonizing Vietnam, insisted that he was Japanese, and trafficked him to Singapore without any explanation.

In March of 10,000, the patience of the party members finally ran out. Sun Yat-sen sold the head hall of the Green Gang in Honolulu and collected more than 29 yuan. Lin Dao, so March [-] launched the Guangzhou Uprising.

This is the largest uprising of the Revolutionary Party. It intends to raise ten groups of volunteers at the same time, and take Guangzhou no matter what. For various reasons, he did not participate in the battle.At that time, Huang Xing led more than a hundred party members, armed with bombs, stormed the Guangzhou Governor's Office, killed the guard Guandai Jin Zhenbang, and the governor Zhang Mingqi fled. Most of the elites of the Restoration Society were killed, and Huang Xing fled to Hong Kong with his finger cut off.

After the defeat, Sun Yat-sen sent a telegram from Sanfan City, the full text is as follows:
What about the failure of the news, comrades?How to deal with the aftermath?

This telegram was sent directly to the secret agency in Hong Kong, but there was no recipient's name on it.The reason was that the newspapers at the time said that Huang Xing and others were all killed in battle. Sun Yat-sen didn't know who was alive in the riot. , So Sun Yat-sen did not dare to write names on the telegram.

Since the revolutionary party is called a revolution, its purpose is pure and simple, which is an armed insurrection to seize power.However, the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising completely shattered the dreams of the revolutionaries. The donations of overseas Chinese are limited. If you donate once, you will not succeed. If it fails, how many overseas Chinese will continue to donate?And the number of people with lofty ideals who are determined to serve the country and are not afraid of sacrifice is even more limited. Every time there is an incident, there are those who flee greedily and fear death, and sacrifice for the country. Few, the hope of revolution is getting slimmer.

In desperation, the leader Sun Yat-sen turned to Dianhua City in the United States to work, but Huang Xing, who was filled with grief and indignation, turned his attention to the Yangtze River Basin.

(2) Serious political mistakes
According to Feng Ziyou's "Revolutionary History", after the failure of the Guangzhou Uprising, Huang Xing advocated:
With Wuchang as the center, Hunan and Guangdong as the stamina, Ning, Anhui, Shaanxi, and Shu also respond to contain it at the same time, and major events are not difficult to settle at one stroke...

Feng Ziyou, who followed Sun Yat-sen in his teens, was the head of Sun Yat-sen's secret agency in Hong Kong.What he said had two meanings:

First, the success of the Revolution of [-] was due to Huang Xing's far-sighted political layout, so it should be attributed to the Revolutionary Party.

Second, Huang Xing's political layout violated Sun Yat-sen's strategic guiding ideology of taking Guangdong and Guangxi as the center of the revolution. He made a serious political mistake by ignoring Sun Yat-sen's revolution.

In fact, Huang Xing was not the only one who made mistakes.The failure of the Guangzhou Uprising made the Tongmenghui finally realize that Guangdong and Guangxi are not so easy to manipulate. Since Huang Xing said that there is something going on in the Yangtze River Basin, it is better for everyone to go together and try to make a revolution in the Yangtze River Basin.

After this trial, the central branch of the Tongmenghui came out. Song Jiaoren, Tan Renfeng and other old members of the Tongmenghui all went to Shanghai, leaving Feng Ziyou alone in Hong Kong, so lonely.

Huang Xing's mistake was finally on the right track. In Wuchang, Zhang Zhidong had already prepared the sharpest revolutionary weapon for everyone, but Sun Yat-sen insisted on letting the big guy toss around Guangdong and Guangxi like an iron bucket. It's reasonable to not be able to figure it out.

However, the central association of the Tongmenghui was established, but this association is in Shanghai, which is obviously far away from Wuchang. Fortunately, someone in the Tongmenghui made the same serious political mistake before that. Mistake, the center of the revolution was suddenly squeezed to Wuchang.

(3) Mistakes are contagious

Another person who made serious political mistakes is Jiao Dafeng.

Jiao Dafeng, formerly known as Dapeng, styled Jusen, was born in Liuyang.The third old leader of the Hunan Gelaohui, the first was Wang Xiufang, a four-legged pig, who was killed because he participated in the uprising of King Qin of Tang Changcai of the Hunan Self-reliance Army.The second was Ma Fuyi, who conspired with Huang Xing's Huaxing Company and was killed. Huang Xing led all the staff of Huaxing Company to escape to Japan and joined Sun Yat-sen's Tongmenghui.After Jiao Dafeng led the Gelao congregation, he went to Japan to find an organization, joined the Tongmenghui there, and became a loyal supporter of Sun Yat-sen ever since.He found out that Sun Yat-sen had an alias Zhongshanqiao. He thought the name had a good style, and he also gave himself a strange name of Gangtouqiao, and waited happily for the success of the revolution.

Unexpectedly, he waited left and right, until Jiao Dafeng's eyes turned black, seeing one revolt failed and another revolt failed, the revolution refused to succeed.Jiao Dafeng couldn't wait any longer, so he recruited Zhang Baixiang, the veteran of the Sichuan Filial Piety Association, the Triad Association in Guangdong, and the Three Points Association in Guangxi.

Jiao Dafeng established the Gongjin Association in the second half of 1907, and made a political mistake three years earlier than Huang Xing, so Huang Xing, who hadn't made a mistake at that time, rushed to stop it.

Huang Xing questioned Jiao Dafeng: Xiaojiao, you are a member of the Tongmenghui, but you set up a sect at the top of the mountain and set up a separate Gongjinhui, which is obviously a split organization. What do you mean?
Jiao Dafeng said with a smile: "Old Young Master Huang came to scare me. It's not that you don't understand that the League will work too slowly and will wait for people to die."Our Gongjin Association will never do things like the Tongmenghui. Just wait and see.

Huang Xing was extremely angry: Xiaojiao, you split the organization and split the society... If the revolution has two systems, who will be right?
Jiao Dafeng laughed and said: "The soldiers haven't risen yet, so what's the rush?"In the future, the public will be successful, and we will attach the public.I am prosperous, and the public should also attach me.

Huang Xing: You... Xiaojiao... you want to piss me off?
Facing Jiao Dafeng's public provocation, Huang Xing really had no choice.You must know that although the Tongmenghui formed by Sun Wen has many members, it has one important feature—"Everyone talks about revolution, and everyone does not make revolution. There are people everywhere who talk about it, but there are no one who actually does it" (see " The Origin of the Gongjinhui and Its Several Systems").Under such circumstances, even though Huang Xing hoped that Jiao Dafeng would accept his leadership, Jiao Dafeng was not happy, and neither was Huang Xing.

Not only did Huang Xing have nothing to do, but less than three years after Jiao Dafeng split the League, Huang Xing followed Jiao Dafeng and made the same political mistake. Obviously, splitting is also highly contagious.

From the perspective of systematic laws, there is no specific law to follow for the success of a revolution. Revolutionary leaders are not living gods who know 500 years before and 500 years later. Leaders stare at places where they think the revolution will succeed, and they may not actually succeed. , the leader does not pay attention to the corners and corners, and it does not necessarily mean that he will not succeed.Therefore, having an extra Gongjin Association out of thin air, and an extra central headquarters of the Tongmenghui, is equivalent to quadrupling the chances of the success of the revolution.

However, even though the chances of the success of the revolution have doubled in a row, Jiao Dafeng, like Huang Xing, is also from Hunan, and there is still some distance from Wuchang. It is said that it does not matter how many times the chances of success of the revolution, as long as Wuchang cannot be covered, Everything is equal to nothing.But it shouldn't be so, as soon as Jiao Dafeng returned to Changsha, he couldn't wait to do a big job, and in the end he was rushed to Wuchang all at once.

This incident is the major rice robbery case in Changsha.

Jiao Dafeng gathered elders' associations in Changsha, and spent a lot of money to invite boxer martial arts masters from the north. Along the way, he collected hungry people and beggars, flocked to the government office to make noise, and set fire to the government office, causing Hunan governor Ji Chunxuan to abandon his official position job.But if you kill [-] enemies and lose [-], Ling Chunxuan is lost here, but Jiao Dafeng is also facing a huge financial shortfall—no one reimburses him for the operation funds for the rice robbing in Hunan.

It is estimated that this fee is between 2 and 3. Even if the old leader Jiao Dafeng is sold, he will not be able to afford it.

What should I do if I can't afford it?

Jiao Dafeng thought to himself: How about I go to Wuchang, Hubei to hide my debts and continue the revolution along with it...

As soon as this idea came out, the coverage of the revolution finally enveloped Wuchang, and the chances of the revolution's success also jumped rapidly.

(4) The rich and the hillbilly
When Jiao Dafeng came to Wuchang, he found that he came to the right place.

In Wuchang, among the new army in the Eighth Town of Hubei, there was a turbulent undercurrent, and the secret society that advocated revolution was like a crucian carp crossing a river, dazzling people.

These underground secret societies, in order to deceive the public, all have strange and high-sounding names: Science Tutorial School, Rizhi Society, Ethnic Research Society, Literature Research Society, Self-Government Group, Army League Society, Qunzhi Society, Puzzle Society, Wude Autonomous Society , Liuying Poetry Society, Moral Education Society, Mathematics Research Center, Zhenwu Zunxin Society, Yipu Society, Shenzhou Society, Qunying Society, Furen Society, Zhonghan League... There are all kinds of people, Jiao Dafeng's family looked over and found There are two largest secret societies, one is Gongjinhui founded by himself, the main members are Liu Gong, Sun Wu, Ju Zheng, Liu Ying, Peng Chufan, Huang Shenxiang, Deng Yulin, Yang Hongsheng, Zhang Zhenwu, Li Chunxuan, Cai Hanqing and others.Another company whose scale is no less than the Gongjinhui is the Literary Society, whose members mainly include Jiang Yiwu, Zhan Dabei, Zhang Tingfu, Liu Fuji, Hu Ying, Wang Xianzhang, Cao Zhenwu, etc.

With so many good brothers and such a strong revolutionary force, it really should be a big fight.

Jiao Dafeng thought.

So the Gongjinhui and the Literary Society held a joint meeting to discuss the uprising and kill the Manqing.But I didn't want this meeting to start, and the two families immediately became a mess.

The Literary Society and the Gongjinhui are both revolutionary groups, so why should they quarrel?
It is precisely because everyone is revolutionary that there is arguing. If you encounter non-revolutionaries, you are not welcome to drop bombs.

During the discussion at the meeting, Jiang Yiwu, the leader of the Literature Society, thought that although the Literature Society is called Literature, it actually carries guns and drags cannons and fights extremely fiercely. Its influence in the New Army is far-reaching, so the brothers of the two associations should serve as the main body of the Literature Society.

Sun Wu, the head of the Gongjin Association, retorted: Gongjinhui is a branch of the Tongmenghui. Although it is weak, it has branches in all provinces of the country, so the two associations should be headed by the Tongmenghui.

Why are the two competing for the leadership?Revolutionaries don't even have their heads tied to their waistbands, and they don't care about their lives. Do they still care about a false name?

This is because although the Literary Society and the Gongjinhui have the same revolutionary goal, their member organizations are completely different.There are many Jianghu scholars in the Gongjin Association, and most of the literary clubs are from the military and academic circles-the people in the Gongjin Association are mostly the children of the Jianghu, and they are happy to be kind and enmity.In the literary club, most of them are the leading soldiers from poor backgrounds.Each other, look at each other is not pleasing to the eye.

When it comes to family background, there are many rich and powerful families in the Gongjinhui. Sun Wu is the grandson of Wang Yongzhong in the Chuzhou of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with a family fortune of millions.There is also Liu Ying, who is also from a famous family.In addition, most of the members of the Gongjin Association have the experience of studying abroad, so they are well-informed.

In contrast, the Literary Club is quite miserable, and it is clear that Yishui has the appearance of bitterness and deep hatred.The most typical one is Jiang Yiwu, the big leader, who looks like a farmer and looks like a farmer. He is just a standard farmer.Most of the members of the literature club have never been abroad, and the books they read are also ancient books.Let Sun Wu, Liu Gong and others of the Gongjin Association look down on them, and ridiculed them, saying: I am at a loss for the content of the literature club, and their brochures are not revolutionary.

The Gongjinhui looked down on the Literary Club, and the Literary Club also looked at each other weirdly, so the two sides couldn't stop arguing.The trouble with the matter is that in Hubei, the Literary Society has their candidates for the leadership of the future government, and the Gongjin Association also has its own candidates for the leadership of the future government. Liu Gong, the rich man.

Because Liu Gong sponsored a large amount of money for the uprising, which solved the funding problem of the uprising, he was elected as the governor.And Liu Ying, who is also a co-progressor, ranked No. 2 in sponsorship expenses, so he was elected as the deputy governor.If these two people are not willing to give up the governor they have obtained, the alliance between the two parties will be out of the question.

(5) Grand Marshal
On September 1911, 9 (July 14 in the lunar calendar), high-level figures from the Gongjin Association and the Literature Club secretly gathered at the home of the rich man Liu Gong at No. 22 Xiongchulou, Wuchang. Except for being unable to attend the meeting, all other important figures were present.

Liu Gong, the chairman of the meeting, recorded Cai Dafu, and Sun Wu, the leader of the meeting, made a report on the situation.

Sun Wu said: The problem now is that the Gongjinhui and the Literature Society have fought and quarreled, but they still have to cooperate in the end.What if we don't cooperate?If you don't cooperate, you can't overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty. You can't have one family revolt while the other one stands by and watches the hot spots, right?Seeing that the last two are finished.So, at this critical juncture, what should be done, let's talk about it.

Liu Fuji said: In the current situation, without the Gongjinhui, the Literary Society would not be able to accomplish anything.Leaving the Literary Club, there is no mantra in the Co-Progression Association. The two families are dependent on each other for life and death, and they will never leave.So my attitude is: from now on, if you really want to overthrow the Manchu Qing, then you are not allowed to mention the two names of Gongjinhui and Literary Society. Fighting to the death, brothers who clearly share life and death on the battlefield, why are they divided into a literary club?Do you think this is the reason?
Liu Fuji was the oldest party member present, and his words were authoritative.What's more, what he said is very popular and understandable, so everyone nodded and looked at Liu Gong together.

Why look at Mr. Liu?

Because Liu Gong is the major shareholder of this uprising, and he has already been appointed as the governor, so everyone should listen to how he expresses his position.

Liu Gong was very angry in his heart. He paid for the revolution, and he even put his own life in it. Who would care about a big governor?

So Mr. Liu stood up and stated: I fully agree with Brother Liu's point of view, put aside the dispute between the Gongjin Association and the Literature Society, and work together for the revolution.Although I was elected as the governor before, but now I officially announce that I will give up the position of governor.However, there is also Liu Ying, a deputy governor. My chief governor can give up. As for Liu Ying's own opinion, I respect his choice.

The members of the Gongjin Association feel grief and indignation, oh, we donate money, people, and even a false name to the Gongjin Association, why?So Yang Yuru of the Gongjinhui stepped forward to add chaos to the meeting.

Yang Yuru said: I completely agree with everyone's opinions and express my support unconditionally.However, the revolution is a major event, and we must not fall into a situation where the dragons have no leader.So what I mean is, everyone might as well recommend a generalissimo, so that when there is an incident, he can be in the middle of the dispatch.

If Yang Yuru interfered like this, the speeches of the previous people would be in vain. Although Liu Gong gave up the governor, but here he still wants to elect a marshal. Isn't this obviously embarrassing for everyone?

In the end, this Generalissimo couldn't be nominated—the major shareholder even gave up the Governor, so who else is qualified to be this Generalissimo?

Obviously, this meeting can't go on.Fortunately, Dang Renju was thinking of a good way.He said: I am also in favor of the election of the generalissimo, but no matter who is elected, there will always be some people present who are not convinced.So I suggest that we immediately get in touch with the people from the Tongmenghui, and invite Huang Xing to come, or invite Song Jiaoren to come. If it doesn’t work, Tan Renfeng can come along. Anyway, no matter who comes, everyone will definitely act according to his orders. Should be right?
Sun Wu was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: What Ju Zheng said is very true, very true.Mr. Liu, the rich man, shook his head: That's right, that's right, but I would like to make a second suggestion. The League is a secret organization, and what it does is a brainless business. It is definitely not something that can be invited with just a piece of paper.So I suggest that you send a representative to Shanghai to welcome you.Well, at the same time, the representative can also bring a sum of money to Shanghai and buy a batch of pistols back with him.

(End of this chapter)