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"Students, classmates, everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. Just last night, the incompetent Prime Minister Qian Nengxun actually sent a secret telegram to the representative of Lu Zhengxiang to sign at the Paris Peace Conference. The manuscript of my telegram, Jiaozhou is dead! Shandong is dead! The country is not the country! The country will never die, and I hope that [-] million people will die for it." Director Lin Changmin made an impassioned speech at the door.

And those who have been waiting at the door are patriotic students from various universities in the capital. When Britain and France decided to hand over China's Shandong Province to Japan, the news that Qian Nengxun secretly ordered the Chinese delegation in Paris to sign it undoubtedly ignited the patriotic students' last hope. bottom line.

Lin Changmin publicly announced the decision of the People's Foreign Affairs Committee:

[-]. On May [-], the National Assembly will be held in the Central Park, and all provinces and organizations will be distributed on the same day;

21. Declares that it does not recognize Article [-] and the secret treaty between Britain, France, Italy, etc. and Japan on the disposal of the Shandong issue;

[-]. If the claim of our country cannot be extended during the peace conference, the government should be asked to withdraw the special envoy;

[-]. State the opinions of the citizens to the embassies of the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Italy.

But what Lin Changmin and others did not expect was that on May [-]th, the next day, the May [-]th Student Movement, which shocked China and the world, broke out.

On the afternoon of May 1919, 5, more than 4 patriotic students from twelve schools in Beijing held demonstrations. The "May 3000th" movement broke out.

In fact, on the evening of May 5, Peking University students held a student conference in the auditorium of Beiheyan University of Science and Technology, and invited representatives of 3 secondary schools in Beijing to participate.The student representatives who participated in the meeting included: President of the Beijing Student Union, President of the Beijing Student Union of Secondary Schools and Above, Duan Xipeng, President of the National Student Union, Luo Jialun, Fang Hao, Luo Zhanglong, Wang Zhizhi, Zhang Guotao, Fu Sinian, Deng Zhongxia, Xu Deyan, Gao Junyu, Luo Longji, Wang Zaoshi, Chen Changtong, He Haoruo, Qu Qiubai, Wen Yiduo, Zheng Zhenduo, Liu Renjing and others, the meeting decided to hold a demonstration on the 13th (Sunday).

At 1919 a.m. on May 5, 4, students from each school held a meeting to agree on a parade route.At 10:1 p.m., more than 3000 Beijing students came from Huihui **, and the blood book "Return me Qingdao" from Peking University students was hung on the scene.The team marched towards the embassy area, but was stopped by patrols. The student representatives asked to meet with the ministers of the four countries. Only the American embassy staff accepted the student's statement, while the British, French, and Italian embassies refused to accept it.When things came to this point, Zhang Zuolin's Marshal's Mansion didn't say anything. It was said that Zhang Yushuai was busy playing mahjong. After all, it was just students making trouble, so mutiny was more dangerous in his opinion.When Yang Yuting reported the matter to him, what Zhang Yushui asked was: "Yuting, let's pay this month's salary, and the brothers below don't make trouble and nothing will happen."

Zhang Zuolin actually has such a mentality, one can imagine how slow Beijing's top management will be in responding to the student movement.

But the students moved quickly. Unlike in history, Cao Rulin went to serve in the Southern Nationalist Government after Duan Qirui collapsed, and strictly speaking, he did not participate much in the Xiyuan loan issue, so he successfully escaped the student movement.However, Liang Shiyi, Lu Zongyu, Zhang Zongxiang and other officials from the transportation department who took refuge in Fengjun were not so lucky. Lin Changmin and the others unceremoniously shifted the responsibility of signing the contract with Japan to them, and the students naturally did not hesitate. Politely ask them to settle accounts.

The funniest thing is that Liang Shiyi moved into the Zhaojialou mansion that Cao Rulin resold after he went south.

So Kuang Husheng, a student from Hunan, took the lead in rushing into the Liang mansion in Zhaojialou, and the situation got out of control in an instant.They failed to catch Liang Shiyi, but they managed to catch Zhang Zongxiang who was a guest at Liang Shiyi's mansion, and a gang fight was inevitable.

In Chinese history, the status of scholars has always been high. There is a saying that "everything is inferior, only reading is high", and scholars are often called "masters of learning".Zhang Ming stated in "Beiyang Fission": In the late Qing Dynasty, soldiers did not dare to easily enter the school to make trouble, even if there was a revolutionary party in the school that needed to be searched.After entering the Republic of China, this kind of situation that the military and police were afraid of students did not disappear.Even with orders from above, the military and police are still timid in front of the students, fearing three things and four things.They respect the students as masters, saying that we are Qiu Ba and you are Qiu Jiu, who are a generation older than us.The military and police not only stopped arresting the students, but tried their best to persuade them not to go out to give speeches, "some even knelt and begged."At that time, the military and police were also very embarrassed. They wanted to maintain order but did not dare to take action. As a result, they could only be cowardly and passively accept the students' attacks.On the day of the May [-]th Movement, the infantry commander Li Changtai persuaded the students gathered in ** to disperse. Some students called him a "traitor". Have you given it to others?" He expressed his willingness to convey his opinions to the students, but he begged the students not to use barbaric methods. When the students replied that they were very civilized, the officer drove away in a car.

When the students broke into the Zhao family building and set fire to the house, the armed police were unmoved.Zhang Zongxiang was brutally beaten by students and injured more than 50 places all over his body. The dozens of armed police officers present were helpless. Someone around him called for help from the police, and the policeman replied, "We dare not beat (students) without orders from our superiors. "

At that time, Li Changtai caught a few left-behind students to deal with the errands. When they needed to testify, none of the military police present was willing to testify.Even the military police who were injured by the students were reluctant to testify against the students. They claimed that there were thousands of students at the time.

It should be said that compared with later generations, the Beijing military and police in this era are still a group of people with a conscience, a group of people with a conscience.

However, the burning of Zhao’s House clearly exceeded the expectations of the military and police. If they did not arrest people, they might not be able to explain them. So on May 30th, the Beijing military and police arrested more than [-] students.That night, President Xu Shichang rejected the request made by Lin Changmin and others to release the arrested students, and the subsequent situation became out of control.

On May 1919, 5, all colleges and universities in Beijing went on strike.

On the same day, Sun Wen, Chairman of the National Government, called Xu Shichang, President of the Central Government, in the name of the National Government: "I have recently heard that the Beijing Normal University is an act of patriotism to preserve sovereignty. However, it is unwise for the government to go too far and arrest many students. I hope it will be released and returned as soon as possible, and it is appropriate to dispose of it properly."

Xu Shichang vomited blood angrily when he saw Sun Wen's telegram. This central government president is really not a human being.

In Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai, large-scale demonstrations broke out in solidarity with the patriotic students in Beijing.Wang Zhenyu did not order a ban on the parade, but in order to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to cause trouble, he still ordered all members of the military police and security forces to be on standby.At the same time, the Nationalist Government ordered all colleges and universities under its jurisdiction to strictly prohibit students from joining together, allowing them to go north to support the patriotic student movement, but it is strictly forbidden to organize school strikes and market strikes within the Nationalist Government's jurisdiction to disrupt the normal order of social life.For this reason, Xiong Xiling, Prime Minister of the Government Administration Council, delivered a speech at the newly established Nanjing Radio Station. On the Shandong issue, the national government will remain consistent with the patriotic students in Beijing.

At the same time, Wang Zhenyu called meetings of senior generals from this day onwards, and ordered the newly expanded youth army to enter a state of mobilization. With Xuzhou and Zhengzhou as assembly points, a large number of youth army troops and military supplies began to move.

At the same time, Dai Li served as the head of the Shandong Station of the National Security Bureau, and a large number of special agents entered the Shandong area to conduct secondary collection and sorting of the local situation.

The Japanese side also expressed close attention to the riots that broke out in Beijing, and began to put pressure on Zhang Zuolin frequently.

But Zhang Zuolin was obviously unlucky, and lost a lot of money, so he was in a bad mood. If his subordinates hadn't stopped him, he might have ordered all the students caught to be shot.He wasn't some kind of Qiu Ba, he was born as a bandit, and in the eyes of the bandits, intellectuals were worthless stinky old nine.

Yang Yuting was the one who persuaded Zhang Zuolin: "Shuai Yu, those students must not be killed. Once you do it, the popularity we created by taking back the Middle East Road will be lost immediately. We can't sit firmly in Beijing with the support of the Japanese alone." , Look at how the South has expressed its position these two days, and it is consistent with the students in Beijing. If you kill these students, all the popularity will be given to them."

Zhang Zuolin was so angry: "Then according to what you say, I can't help it. Qingdao is there. If those southerners want to be really patriotic, they will go there themselves. Fuck, who wouldn't sit there and shout patriotism? This shit The central government doesn’t pay much in taxes, and keeps asking Lao Tzu to subsidize the money. The most terrible thing is this shitty sovereignty. Whatever the big powers spare is all on my Lao Zhang’s head. If I had known this is the situation today, Back then, it would have been better to just stay in the Northeast and let *** Sun Wen and Wang Zhenyu sit on the throne in Beijing, now it's up to them to burn their butts..."

After cursing for a while, Zhang Zuolin looked at his subordinates and sighed, "Then you all figure it out, what should I do now? How can I deal with this situation?"

Yang Yuting thought for a while, and came up with an unsolvable solution: "Yu Shuai, for the present plan, we can only release those students first, calm down the situation, and then let people come forward to mediate with the Japanese government, see Can the situation be eased, and at the same time, the Paris Peace Conference will fight for it again, the actions of Britain and France are really forcing us into a pit of fire."

Qian Nengxun, who has already been infamous as a traitor prime minister, said with a wry smile: "Brother Lin Ge is joking, Britain, France and Japan are so easy to get along with each other, among other things, this Shandong problem, when Yu Shuai came to Beijing, that The Nishihara loan was taken over in its entirety, and the loan came with Shandong conditions attached. Now that I’m quitting, can the Japanese agree?”

This time Zhang Zuolin thought of such a thing, slapped his forehead and shouted: "Oh, my mother, I'm in the way of little Japan..."