The Republic is so violent

Chapter 108
This information can be found in Fujii San's "Materials on Sun Wen during the Revolution of [-]". In short, what Mr. Sun Wen meant was: the three eastern provinces are given to you Japan, take it away quickly, just give me money and a gun, Let me beat Yuan Shikai hard, everything is easy to discuss.

Mr. Sun Wen's friendly suggestion frightened the Japanese, Manchuria, you will give it to us if you say so?Worried that the big powers would be angry and cause international disputes, Japan urged Mr. Sun Wen to stop making trouble and stop it.However, things couldn't stop. Mr. Sun Wen borrowed from Japan. Although the matter failed, he made Zhuang Yunkuan, the governor of Jiangsu Province, miserable.

Who is this Zhuang Yunkuan?What's the matter with him here?

This important person who has been lost in history, Zhuang Yunkuan, is a prominent Zanying family in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. His family rose in the late Ming Dynasty and was famous in the Qing Dynasty. He controlled an important production factory in the Qing Dynasty at that time... a wealthy family, a scholarly family. , who taught Zhuang Yunkuan to be calm, he is a kind person.He and the wealthy lord Sheng Xuanhuai are relatives with broken bones.As early as Sun Wenfu took office, since there were no coins in the presidential palace, Sun Wen then ordered Zhuang Yunkuan to immediately confiscate Sheng Xuanhuai's private property.At that time, Zhuang Yunkuan thought, although Lao Sheng and I are relatives, but the revolution is such a big event, we can't favoritism, then confiscate it...

Unexpectedly, after Zhuang Yunkuan confiscated the property of his relatives, he received a telegram from Sheng Xuanhuai from Japan, scolding: Zhuang Yunkuan, you are a wolf-hearted thing, Sun Wen and Sun Yat-sen are now entrusting me to be a contact person to borrow money from Japan. But confiscated my property privately, do I have any grudge against you?If you have a grudge, you shouldn't repay it like this, right?Return the money to me immediately, or I will make you look good!

At that time, Zhuang Yunkuan was dumbfounded, oh, this Sun Wen is really resourceful, you forced me to confiscate the property of my relatives on one side, but on the other side, you fought fiercely with my relatives, making people think that I was a despicable and shameless villain. It's too bad... I want to publish it in the newspaper!
There is a division of religion, the relatives are angry, the truth is exposed, everyone has a showdown, and they go their separate ways.Zhuang Yunkuan was so angry that he simply tore off his face and had a showdown with Sun Wen, which was enough to embarrass Sun Wen.Just at this juncture, a person whom Sun Wen didn't want to see the most at this moment came to his door.

Hongmen leader.

Huang Sande.

13 Sad Creditors
It is said that the Hongmen branch was originally a variant of the triad society that opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty. Because of the strong attack of the Qing court, it was exiled in Nanyang and Honolulu. Unfortunately, it encountered Sun Wen and Sun Yat-sen, so Sun Wen joined Hongmen and revised The charter, and kept forcing Huang Sande to pay to support the revolutionary riots.After Huang Sande was squeezed out by Sun Wen, Sun Wen simply sold Hongmen's halls in various places, making Huang Sande want to cry without tears.

However, the Republic of China suddenly appeared on the horizon, making Huang Sande ecstatic. The hard-earned investment for many years is finally expected to pay back the cost.

So Huang Sande rushed to Nanjing to find Sun Wen to share the dividend.

Huang Sande's requirements are very simple, just three:
First: The Nanjing government must repay the revolutionary funds borrowed by Hongmen over the years.

Second: The Nanjing government must fulfill its promise to recognize the Hongmen as a legitimate revolutionary group, and should no longer treat it as a gangster. It must allow the Hongmen to register publicly and open for business.

Third: The Nanjing government must recognize the contributions of those Hongmen disciples who died in the cause of the republic, and at least give them the title of martyr, so that the dead can rest in peace.

It is said that Sun Wen had a cordial meeting with Huang Sande at the Presidential Palace. When he heard these three things, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered: "It's easy to handle. You can go to Hu Hanmin immediately to get the money."

Huang Sande was overjoyed, and immediately went to see Minister of Civil Affairs Hu Hanmin, but Hu Hanmin had returned to Guangdong temporarily, so he had to wait patiently. Soon after Hu Hanmin came back, Huang Sande rushed to him: Hu Hanmin, Sun Wen ordered you to pay back the money!

Money...the Nanjing government doesn't have any coins. What Hu Hanmin fears most is the word money:...what money?

Huang Sande: Your League will borrow funds for the revolution from Hongmen.

Hu Hanmin: ... Is there such a thing?

Huang Sande: Of course, do you still want to renege on your debt?
Hu Hanmin: What account do I rely on?It's not me who borrowed the money, whoever borrowed it from you, who do you ask for it, and what do you want me for?
Huang Sande is angry: Sun Wen ordered you to pay the bill...

Hu Hanmin: Whoever told you, you can go to whomever, I don't have any money here anyway.

Huang Sande was astonished, and went back to look for Sun Wen, but how could he find him?After many days, I finally found it.Sun Wen was overjoyed when he saw him: Brother Sande, the Nanjing government wants to issue revolutionary bonds, does Brother Sande have any intention?

Huang Sande was in a state of desperation: Come on, you have to pay off the old debt first!
Sun Wen was surprised: what old account?
Huang Sande: Why are you pretending to be confused?You borrowed it from Hongmen before, and you still haven't returned it.

Sun Wen: Didn't I ask Hu Hanmin to return it to you?
Huang Sande was on the verge of crying: he refused to return it, and he said whoever borrowed it would ask whoever would take it.

Sun Wen: ...Why is this Hu Hanmin like this? It's really outrageous. If you go to him again, just say that my president, Sun Wen, said that he must pay back the money...

Sun Wen pushed Huang Sande out again. It took Huang Sande a lot of time to catch Hu Hanmin. Hu Hanmin still said the same thing: whoever borrows it will ask for it, and I have no money!Huang Sande came back to look for Sun Wen, and Sun Wen pushed Huang Sande to Hu Hanmin, and Hu Hanmin pushed him back again... The poor leader of the Hong family was pushed back and forth like a spinning top by Sun Wen and Hu Hanmin, playing with him. It was such a joy.

Pushing back and forth, Huang Sande was finally pushed to the point of collapse, and he roared: Sun Wen, you are unkind, don't blame me for being unrighteous, I... I, I, I, I want to expose the true face of you, a big liar.Don't forget, when you were in Honolulu, you gave a secret order to kill Kang Youwei, but I flatly refused...

In a fit of rage, Huang Sande really boiled oil with a candle, and wrote a "History of the Hongmen Revolution", which revealed a lot of Sun Wen's privacy. Of course, he also detailed that Sun Wen secretly ordered him to assassinate Kang Youwei process of rejection.Just added a sentence at the end: Later, the house caught fire, the letters were burned, and the evidence was lost... It is no longer possible to determine whether what he said is true or not.

Huang Sande is just one of many creditors. If there are too many lice, he will not bite, and if he has too many debts, he will not worry. Sun Wen doesn't mind.But Wu Tingfang broke the news that he broke the contract, and Zhuang Yunkuan revealed that he gave the land to the Japanese. These two things are the real troubles.Sun Wen saw that things were getting more and more troublesome, so he said: I am a free people today... So I rode horses with Hu Hanmin and other party members, and went out of the city to hunt.

This power cannot be handed over.

14 The logic of revolution
After Sun Wen handed over power, huge troubles came one after another.

The first person to run into trouble was Song Jiaoren who was always arguing with Sun Wen in the Tongmenghui.

Song Jiaoren was in trouble because he wasn't crazy enough.As early as he went to Beijing with the nine-member group to welcome Yuan Shikai, but had to give up because of the mutiny, the Nanjing League immediately exploded.When Cai Yuanpei and Song Jiaoren returned from Beijing, the Nanjing League held a meeting. The meeting decided: let’s do it, send Huang Xing, the army chief of the Nanjing government, to lead the Southern Revolutionary Army to set off, and in the name of welcoming Yuan Shikai, we will destroy everything. Kill all the Beiyang soldiers in the north...

In all fairness, this is definitely not an idea that a normal person can come up with.With the strength of the Southern Revolutionary Army, they didn't even get their salaries, and they were facing the possibility of a large-scale mutiny. Someone actually thought of letting this army attack Beiyang, which Yuan Shikai had painstakingly managed for many years. How could this be possible?

So Song Jiaoren thought it was absolutely impossible. The so-called commanding troops to go north is purely a dream. If Beiyang doesn't beat you all over the place, it will be considered cheap for you... Moreover, if the army is raised at this time, China will inevitably split, and the League may not be able to bear it. take this historical responsibility.

But before Song Jiaoren could finish his words, Ma Junwu, who was present at the meeting, was already furious, and shot up, pointing at Song Jiaoren's nose and yelling:
Shut up, you Yuan Shikai's lobbyist, you speculator who betrayed the revolutionary cause of Nanjing!
Before the scolding stopped, Ma Junwu had already pounced on him, slapping Song Jiaoren's face violently.

Song and Ma had been at odds for a long time, Song Jiaoren always fought against Sun Wen, and Ma Junwu hated Song Jiaoren the most, so he was furious.And Song Jiaoren is the one who suffers?Immediately, they rushed forward, held down Ma Junwu and beat them violently, and everyone rushed forward to separate the two, only to find that Song Jiaoren was the one who attacked later, and he really suffered a big loss, his eyeballs were already bruised from Ma Junwu's beating.

Song Jiaoren was injured and hospitalized.

The conflict between Song Jiaoren and the party members marked the disintegration of the Tongmenghui.You must know that Sun Wen founded the Tongmenghui with the goal of expelling the Tartars and restoring China. Now that the Qing Dynasty has abdicated, the Republic of China has been established, and the historical mission of the Tongmenghui has been completed.At this time, the people in the League will fall into the daze brought about by success. Half of the people behave at a loss, don't know what to do, and lose their life goals from then on; They have always wanted to devote themselves to the cause.

The former, like Ma Junwu, was originally a poet and a strong-willed Junxian faction, but because Kang Youwei's disciple pretended to be a woman, he fell in love, and after begging for a long time, he found out that the other party was a boy. The party is completely broken-he is out of love for revolution, if there is no revolution, love will have nothing to do.Therefore, he had to find an excuse to carry the revolution to the end. Although Qing Shi abdicated, he promptly listed Yuan Shikai as the next revolutionary target. This was Yuan Shikai's tragedy.

For the latter, like Song Jiaoren, for him, revolution is only a means, not the ultimate goal—how can there be endless reasons for revolution?People in your alliance rely on donations from others and take revolution as their career, but the common people have to grow food and vegetables, and find a way to survive, right?The ultimate goal of the revolution is construction, which destined to create an insurmountable gap between Song Jiaoren, Ma Junwu and others.

So it also created the inevitable tragedy of Song Jiaoren—since he no longer revolutionized, sooner or later he would be deposed by others.The logic of revolution is as simple as that.

(End of this chapter)