The Republic is so violent

Chapter 124: The World Is in Chaos (1)
01 Brain flooded with big oolong

As I said before, the old Xiong Bingkun who fired the first shot in the Revolution of [-], didn’t he come to Jiangxi?Why didn't he come out to show his face when Jiangxi was so noisy?
This is because, when Jiangxi made trouble, Lao Xiong had already arrived in Shanghai.It was Huang Xing who specially sent a telegram to invite Old Xiong to Shanghai.

What are you asking Lao Xiong to do in Shanghai?
Old Xiong really didn't know what he was doing, because when he arrived in Shanghai, Huang Xing was on his way to Nanjing.

When Yuan Shikai sent his confidant general Duan Zhigui to settle Jiangxi, Jiangsu officially declared its independence on July 7.

The Revolutionary Party in Nanjing was ready to take action, but considering that its strength was too weak, it asked Chen Qimei in Shanghai to launch first, and Nanjing responded.Chen Qimei was silent for a long time, explaining that Shanghai's strength is weaker, and it is more appropriate for Nanjing to launch first.Nanjing said that although your Shanghai is weak, it is stronger than our Nanjing, so you should go first.Chen Qimei replied that our power in Shanghai is slightly stronger than yours, but compared with Yuan Shikai's power, it is actually weaker than yours in Nanjing, and you are the first.

In Nanjing and Shanghai, you push me, I let you, and they are unwilling to compete for the first place, and the result is a stalemate of wrangling.

Seeing that Shanghai and Nanjing are so civilized and courteous, Sun Wen was very annoyed.So an envoy named Zhu Zhuowen was sent to break the stalemate with ease.

It is said that when Zhu Zhuowen arrived in Nanjing, he went straight to the Eighth Division. When he got there, he went to the junior officer and battalion commander and company commander, and said to them: You guys, you have been in the army for so long before you become a company commander and battalion commander. He Yue can get ahead?It's so pitiful, I can't stand it anymore, let me tell you a way to get promoted quickly.

After hearing this, the company commanders asked urgently: "What way?"
Zhu Zhuowen said with a smile: Yi Er, Sun Wen is now organizing a campaign against Yuan, but the upper-level officers are stubborn and refuse to make revolution.As long as you take action, kill your officers, and join the Yuan army, wouldn't that be a promotion?

The company commanders were overjoyed and said: Good idea, let's do it!

The company commander and the battalion commander were about to kill the officers, but they frightened the officers above, so there were two brigade commanders, one Wang Xiaozhen and the other Huang Kaiyuan. Formed husband group.The two of them came to Huang Xing in a panic and said: "The matter is urgent, we must act immediately, otherwise we will inevitably be killed by the subordinates who are obsessed with officials."Rather than others killing us to revolutionize, it is better for us to revolutionize ourselves. Mr. Huang was invited to be the commander-in-chief of the Nanjing Uprising.

So Huang Xing went to Nanjing and lived in the home of Chen Zhiji, the son-in-law of Beiyang Feng Guozhang—look at this strange place where Huang Xing lives.

So, how did Huang Xing live in Feng Guozhang's son-in-law's house?

This matter involves a huge mystery in the history of the Republic of China.The person involved in the suspected case was the weird Chen Zhiji. According to Huang Xing's classmate Li Shucheng, Chen Zhiji joined the Tongmenghui during his study in Japan and was the backbone of the husband's group formed by Huang Xing.It seems that there should be no problem with this information. If there is a problem, it is impossible for Huang Xing to live in Chen Zhiji's house and discuss Yuan Daji together.

According to other historical records, when in Japan, Huang Xing said to the members of her husband's group: "Whoever has money in your family, go to the imperial court to buy officials and titles. The bigger the official you buy, the higher the title, it will affect our revolution." more favorable.So Chen Zhiji hurried home, brought out a lot of money, and bought himself an official job.

After that, he became the son-in-law of the famous Beiyang general Feng Guozhang.Logically speaking, a son-in-law should not argue with his father-in-law, and Chen Zhiji should not make trouble.But I don't know where his wife provoked him. Chen Zhiji, as the commander of the Eighth Division stationed in Nanjing, strongly demanded to fight against Yuan.Cheng Dequan, governor of Jiangsu Province, refused, and Chen Zhiji knelt in front of Cheng Dequan, begging to raise troops.

So, when Chen Zhiji knelt at Cheng Dequan's feet and begged, what would he say?

Would he say: Please, hurry up and raise your troops, rise up and kill my father-in-law, please...

It sounds so unreliable.The unreliable reason is that there is a big BUG here.But this BUG is not due to the historical data, but because the revolutionary party at that time was overwhelmed and confused.

Analyzing it, Chen Zhiji should have never joined the Tongmenghui, nor had he joined the Husband's Group at all.It’s just that when he was studying in Japan, he played with the men from the Tongmenghui’s husband group every day. Over time, as the so-called big waves wash away the sand, many old Tongmenghui quit, and many members of the husband’s group stopped playing, but Chen Zhiji was still determined to play with everyone. How do you say this makes people not regard him as a member of the Husband League of the League?

Afterwards, Chen Zhiji made a special publication in the newspaper, clarifying the misunderstanding of the revolutionaries on this issue.I believe that the Revolutionary Party must have been very depressed after reading this announcement. It turned out to be an Oolong Society party that mistook people outside the Party for a family. How could the Party members feel so bad for such a low-level mistake?
In order to avoid embarrassment, the party members pretended not to have seen Chen Zhiji's announcement.Even the previous materials have been kept in this way, and the result is that this period of history is blurred and chaotic.

02 banknotes of two trains
Chen Zhiji was not a member of the Tongmenghui or a revolutionary party, just because he was in Nanjing and within Sun Wen's sphere of influence.If he didn't support raising troops to challenge Yuan, he would definitely be killed by someone sent by Sun Wen.So he knelt down and begged Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu Province: Let's raise troops, hurry up, and if you don't fight, your brains will be gone...

So Cheng Dequan, the governor of Jiangsu, came to meet with Huang Xing. The historic dialogue between the two was super amusing.

Cheng Dequan said: "Yuan Shikai's lawlessness, the public outrage of the world, how dare Jiangsu be independent?"My intention is to pretend to be invincible first, so as to wait for the enemy to be victorious.Fortunately, the public was very relieved when he suddenly started to do things.

Huang Xing was overjoyed: Xing temporarily ruled the army, and Yu Wei obeyed the order of the governor.

The meaning of this conversation between the two is: Cheng Dequan said, Yuan Shikai is too irritating, if Huang Xing hits him, I firmly support it.Huang Xing said, great, then I will call and you will pay.

Where does Cheng Dequan have money?Immediately he hummed and said: "Yuan Shikai killed so much, I naturally agree to beg Yuan."But sending troops requires payment and weapons, in short, money.But I, Lao Cheng, have no money. If you want to ask me for money, I will die for you.

Huang Xing was about to speak, but Cheng Dequan blocked him quickly: If you want to collect money from the common people, don't even think about it, my old Cheng will never do anything that harms the people.

Huang Xing was furious: Look at you, old Cheng...you wait until I discuss it with Chen Qimei from Shanghai.

So Huang Xing sent a telegram to Chen Qimei: Let's do it in Nanjing first, but you Shanghai must pay for it. Without money, there is no way to change the lives here.

Chen Qimei's call back was extremely scary. The telegram said: Tomorrow, tomorrow at the latest, I will send you two train banknotes. Please sign for receipt after inspection.

At that time, Huang Xing and Cheng Dequan were stunned. This old Chen was so generous, and he sold two trains' worth of banknotes. So we are so rich.

Sure enough, the two trains arrived in Nanjing the next day. Cheng Dequan and Huang Xing opened the door and saw that they almost fainted. It was really full of banknotes for the two trains, and it was not fake at all.Excited Cheng Dequan put his arms around the huge sum of money, cried, and said: Mother Xipi Huang Xing, can you stop cheating?Using this scrapped fake money to pretend to be military pay, do you think I am heartless?When you ask me to send this money down, are you cheating the soldiers or the common people?

Huang Xing was also dumbfounded, no wonder Chen Qimei was so happy this time, it turned out to be waste money that could not be spent.

The abolition of banknotes by these two trains has caused Yuan Shikai misfortune, and Lao Yuan once again has a mouth to say.

Why did this matter get on Yuan Shikai's head again?

The thing is like this. It is said that in the late Qing Dynasty, there was a young boy named Shen and Manyun one day. He became a Christian when he was 12 years old.This banking industry saved the country, and Shen Manyun made money and made countless money.So he first funded Hunan Tang Changcai and the Brothers and Elders Association to revolt, with a sponsorship of 1 yuan.Since then, he has become the main sponsor of the Shanghai Revolutionary Party, scolding Yuan Shikai's newspaper "Minli Daily" every day, which was sponsored by Shen Manyun.

After that, Shen Manyun's family's Xincheng Bank became Chen Qimei's cash machine. After sponsoring the recovery of Shanghai, Shen Manyun also served as the director of the finance department of the Shanghai military government.Chen Qimei took this opportunity to take away all the positions in the bank and send them to the militia for dinner.The people's army hadn't had enough food yet, and Shen Manyun's Xincheng Bank had already been eaten to the point of bankruptcy.

That's how it got poor.

Shen Manyun was very depressed, so he went to Dalian to relax.

Here, Chen Qimei found that there were two trainloads worth of banknotes in Xincheng Bank's warehouse, and they transported them to Nanjing.Analyzing it, Chen Qimei should know that these banknotes cannot be used, and he would have used them himself if they could be used.He clearly knew that it was abolished banknotes, but he deliberately transported these banknotes to Nanjing because...

It's just because the Revolutionary Party can't pay Shen Manyun's debt, and they don't plan to pay it back.

But if you owe so much money to Shen Manyun, how can you not pay it back?
Shen Manyun was assassinated by the Kuomintang in Dalian.The "Minli Daily" funded and sponsored by him expressed condolences and denounced Yuan Shikai as the murderer behind the scenes.So in the end, the scapegoat for the abolition of banknotes on these two trains was finally successfully deducted from Yuan Shikai.Moreover, Chen Qimei was also exempted from repaying this debt that would never be repaid.

As for Shen Manyun, a genius banker, his mistake was that he was tainted with a revolutionary party that had no bottom line.Money was spent and people were killed. This is his tragedy and his unwiseness.

03 A good man who eats soft rice

Cheng Dequan refused to accept the scrapped banknotes, and Chen Qimei from Shanghai sent a telegram, promising that the money would arrive in the account soon: it will be in the account immediately, you should start the incident first, and the money will be in the account as soon as the gun is fired...

Anyway, a very sincere confession.

Huang Xing persuaded Cheng Dequan: "Old Cheng, don't hesitate. Old Chen's words are firm, and it is impossible to fool you."He is a big boss of the Green Gang, you don't doubt the character of the big boss, do you?
Cheng Dequan was taken aback: no doubt, no doubt...who is tired of work, dare to doubt the character of the boss?

Huang Xing was relieved: I knew you wouldn't doubt it, so let's do it!
On July 1913, 7, Huang Xing issued a telegram to discuss his inauguration as Commander-in-Chief of Yuan Jun in Jiangsu, and then issued an oath to discuss Yuan Jun.

After the oath was over, Huang Xingzheng discussed the details of the incident with Bai Wenwei, the governor of Anhui, who had been dismissed by Yuan Shikai.At this time, a man named Chen Taoyi came and said to Huang Xing: "Old Huang, old Cheng Chengde has entrusted me to beg you. He wants to go to Shanghai and reunite with his family. Let's see if it is...

What?At that time, Bai Wenwei became angry when he heard it, and jumped up and said:
It is best to cut the mess quickly with a sharp knife and die, so as to avoid future troubles.Or for the sake of humanitarianism, they should be detained immediately, otherwise great things will be ruined.

Huang Xing couldn't do anything about it. Speaking of Lao Cheng, he was really too careless.Cheng Dequan married his wife Qin Shi at the age of 18, and the whole family was supported by his wife.Later, he finally became an official, but he was taken to the Northeast by the bureaucracy. In order to support the family, Mrs. Qin was exhausted to death.Then Cheng Dequan married a new wife, Liu Shi, so the responsibility of raising Cheng's family fell on Liu Shi's shoulders.

The former wife Qin's way of supporting Cheng Dequan's family was mainly to wear stars and moons, and go to the fields to plant crops. This was pure hard work, so Qin's life was exhausted.The second wife, Mrs. Liu, is a smart financial professional lady. She is best at buying wasteland with very little money, and then selling it at a high price after the appreciation, so the Cheng family is getting richer and richer, and Mrs. Liu has also avoided the exhaustion of her predecessor. Tragic fate.

But Cheng Dequan was not short of money, so his father secretly saved 1 taels of silver and gave it to his son to buy land.But as soon as Cheng Dequan went out, he gave all the money to the poor.This incident caused a great sensation in the local area. After the sensation, more people stayed outside Lao Cheng's house every day, waiting for money from the fool Lao Cheng.Just imagine Lao Cheng's style, if it wasn't for the smartness of his second wife, would he have a chance to become rich?

Cheng Dequan, governor of Jiangsu Province, whose family relies on two wives to support his family, is the most well-known story in the history of the Republic of China-I don't understand how such a strange and careless incident has become a good story.

Huang Xing didn't have the courage to let Huang Xing openly kill Cheng Dequan who was supported by his wife.

We can only send lobbyists, but we must keep Cheng Dequan.If he is here, it means that Yuan Shikai has lost all hearts; if he is gone, it means the opposite.Therefore, Lao Cheng cannot be let go.

The lobbyists were mighty, foaming at the mouth, and full of tongues, forming a group to fool Cheng Dequan.

Cheng Dequan replied: If you want to maintain the overall situation, why not discuss it with your ministers beforehand?You use me to issue notices and send telegrams, and all you have used is exhausted.My family members are gone now, so those who leave my son here, let them take my dead ear.I must go, or I would rather drink and die.

Listen to this, Lao Cheng knows Huang Xing's methods very well.He sent his wife away first, leaving only one son to collect his body here. With this posture, how can Huang Xing make a move?

There is no way to start.

Cheng Dequan can only be allowed to leave.

So Cheng Dequan went to Shanghai, and immediately sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai when he arrived in Shanghai. The telegram said:
On the 15th of this month, the officers of the Eighth Division stationed in Ningxia and other officers demanded independence.Dequan has been suffering for two days, and his old illness has been recurring, and it is hard for him to lean on it. Today he came to Shanghai for treatment.

After explaining the process of Nanjing's independence to Yuan Shikai clearly, Cheng Dequan breathed a sigh of relief.Now, he declared the independence of Nanjing, showed his loyalty to the revolutionaries, and then sent a telegram to tell Yuan Shikai what had happened, and made an account of the duties entrusted to him by the government.From now on, Cheng De has nothing to owe in his heart, and he will wholeheartedly continue to enjoy the happy time of letting his wife take care of him.

04 mysterious strange child

Cheng Dequan was thinking about both loyalty and righteousness, but Huang Xing was furious when he saw Cheng Dequan's telegram to Yuan Shikai, so he called Zhang Shizhao over and ordered:

Cheng Xuelou escaped from the besieged city and turned on the electricity by himself. Although the interests are different, how can there be any friendship?Why don't you take responsibility for it and ban it?
So Zhang Shizhao flew to Shanghai to tell Lao Cheng to shut up.

It is said that Zhang Shizhao has a very peculiar relationship with the Revolutionary Party.Like Feng Guozhang's son-in-law Chen Zhiji, he was not originally a revolutionary party, and he always refused to join the revolutionary party, but he played with the revolutionary party every day, which made him even more revolutionary than the revolutionary party.In fact, Zhang Shizhao and Yuan Shikai are closer. His father was Yuan Shikai's referrer in his official career, so he had dinner with Yuan Shikai when he arrived in Beijing, and had dinner with Huang Xing when he arrived in Nanjing. Both families thought he was from their own family—— He belongs to no one, whoever belongs to him.

But when Zhang Shizhao arrived in Shanghai and found Cheng Dequan, Cheng Dequan really stopped talking—he had already said everything he needed to say, and there was no need to say anything else.

Cheng Dequan's wife, Mrs. Liu, kept buying wasteland and selling it again and again, earning a lot of money.Cheng Dequan saw that the job was easy, so he pushed his wife away and did it himself. As a result, all the wasteland he bought fell into his hands, and his wife gave him a big nest.But Lao Cheng finally understood that making money is more difficult to make a living than making a living, and since then he has been determined and no longer cares about family management.

Huang Xing, on the other hand, ordered in Nanjing: to kill all the pro-Yuan officers in the Eighth Division.

There was a lot of gunfire, killing people and standing up.The revolutionary party rushed into the barracks, chasing those pro-Yuan officers running around, unable to escape, and killing them all.After clearing out the pro-Yuan officers in the army, Zhang Xun of the Beiyang Army rushed there. On July 1913, 7, the Nanjing Army and the Beiyang Army launched a fierce battle in Xuzhou.

The key to the victory or defeat of the Xuzhou Battle depends on an important person.

Speaking of this person, it is very awkward.It is said that in the early years, Shandong Laiden was rich in juicy Laizhou pears, rich products, beautiful scenery, and raised an outrageous girl.The girl, named Hou Shuanni, is 180 centimeters tall and 40 yards long on each foot. She can lift a 150-kilogram sack with one arm. Because she is uneducated and speaks rudely, she has become a gossip among foolish women in the countryside.

One year, a frail man named Zhang Xifu was exiled to Zhujia Village because his family was poor and unable to do farm work.There is a tradition in Zhujiazhuang that Zhang and Zhu don't distinguish each other, so they take very good care of Zhang Xifu, so someone agreed and married the big-footed girl Hou Shuanni to Zhang Xifu as his wife.

Hou Shuanni gave birth to a son less than a year after she got married, but this was an even more wicked and strange child. Ever since she was a baby, this little thing had danced and danced with joy when she heard the sound of silk and bamboo.When he was a little older, he revealed an extraordinary musical talent. For example, if he puts holes in his mouth and blows them, he can play beautiful music.

The arrival of this strange child caused Zhang's family to fall into a strange state. The husband in the family couldn't do any work, but the son bragged about whatever he caught. a home.I had to let the child herd cattle for a landlord’s family, but never thought that the child was only playing the flute and lost a cow. As a result, the landlord’s family beat the child to a bloody mangled body, and he crawled back home bloody all the way.

Seeing her son being beaten like this, mother Hou Shuanni burst into tears, found her husband and asked him to go out to seek justice for her son, but the cowardly Zhang Xifu did not dare to say a word——several years later, this unlucky child was appointed to Zhilu The commander of the coalition forces, who commanded an army of 30, even made a special trip back to his hometown to find the landlord who beat him up and repay the lost cattle money. This was later.

But at that time, the 9-year-old child was bullied by others, and the child's father was extremely cowardly.In grief and indignation, when the child was 9 years old, Hou Shuanni ran away from home with the child and broke up with her husband Zhang Xifu ever since.

On the day Hou Shuanni took her children away from home, it was windy, snowy and freezing. Hou Shuanni was hungry and hungry. Walking on the road, she passed out from the cold.The poor child hugged his mother and cried loudly. At this time, a man surnamed Jia came. He couldn't bear to see the situation, so he took Hou Shuanni mother and child home and fed them with water and food.Hou Shuanni was so grateful that she agreed with her body to remarry Mr. Jia.

(End of this chapter)