The Republic is so violent

Chapter 131: The World of Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies (2)
Huang Youchang, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Council, was an enthusiastic person. After running around, he contacted a Japanese warship and gave the captain 3000 yuan as the ship's fare.But people around Jiang Lingwu opposed this suggestion, because to go to Shanghai by boat, you have to pass through Hubei, but Jiang Lingwu is famous, and Wuchang Sanwu is the same. Who in Hubei doesn't recognize him?

If you go to Hubei, you will be caught by bounty hunters.

The safest thing is to go far away to Guangxi.Firstly, no one in Guangxi recognized him, and secondly, he might find an opportunity to lobby the Guangxi army to revolt.So Hu Hanmin erected a stele for Jiang Lingwu, saying: Gui Chou begged Yuan, and something will happen to Gui.It means that Jiang Lingwu is committed to revolution and is going to Guangxi to move the army.

Hu Hanmin even erected Jiang Lingwu's tombstone, so we knew that Jiang Lingwu was in trouble.

Jiang Lingwu traveled to Tangjiachong, Xing'an County, which belongs to Quanzhou, and was arrested by Qin Buqu, the commander of the garrison. On September 9, he was escorted by Quanzhou to Guilin. Chen Bingkun, the commander of Guijun, immediately reported to Lu Rongting, the governor of Guangxi, to send a telegram to Wuchang and Beijing for instructions on how to deal with it. Li Yuanhong was overjoyed and called Yuan to say:

Cha said that the prisoner claimed to be the emissary of Hubei and Henan, and he secretly closed the defense, and issued an announcement widely. His deeds are obvious. There are many party members in Hunan and Hubei.

Fatty Li really disregarded friendship and was going to kill him.

But it's no wonder that Jiang Lingwu rebelled again and again, unswervingly wanting to get rid of the big fat boy, so it was reasonable for Li Yuanhong to get angry.

Yuan Shikai sent a telegram to Lu Rongting: shoot on the spot.

On September 1913, 9, Jiang Lingwu was shot to death outside the gate of Lize, Guilin. The executor was General Chen Bingkun of the Ministry of Land.

Four days after Jiang Lingwu's death, the party members of the Liuzhou frontier defense battalion rebelled, opened the prison, released criminals, broke down the government office, and plundered money.Lu Rongting, the governor of Guangxi, came here with his troops, and the day was peaceful.

So the "Times" on September 9 released the news:
Lieutenant General Jiang Yiwu, who had repeatedly plotted troubles in Hubei and Hunan, planned to flee to the East from Han and Shanghai after Hunan's independence was abolished. Because of the strict arrests along the way, he fled to Guangxi by land and then fled to Hong Kong. Go abroad.Traveling to Quanzhou, which belongs to Guangxi, he actually mobilized Gui officers to respond to save the siege of Nanjing. He was captured by the Gui army and sent to Nanning (should be Guilin). He was shot immediately.

The death of Jiang Lingwu marked the disillusionment of ideals in the early years of the Republic of China.The earth-shattering Wuchang Sanwu in history, Zhang Zhenwu was killed in Beijing, and the scandal of wives and concubines was exposed after his death.Jiang Lingwu once refused to help his old friend from the literary society, and sat back and watched his friend be killed, but finally because of the second revolution, his bones were buried in a foreign land.

The death of Jiang Lingwu tells us that extreme political ideas are the cause of disasters in human society.A person who disregards other people's way of life and imposes his will on others will inevitably lead to the breakdown of social cooperation and also cause irresolvable resentment between people.And the revolution aimed at destroying life itself is the extreme extreme of human social relations.All revolutionaries firmly believe that they are absolutely correct, and all those who do not agree with themselves are aliens and will be killed.This kind of irresistible killing thought, after turning the good world into a hell of mutual hatred, still shows the lack of humanity in the surviving people.

Once the cause of the crime is attributed to others instead of oneself, the only choice is violence and lies to maintain a revolutionary myth. When the myth is destroyed, it is the time when human nature falls into a daze and seeks the lost way to return to the spiritual home.

07 Occupy the Big Brothel

Jiang Lingwu died, and Hunan became independent first and then abolished independence. Tan Yankai finally gave Sun Wen and Yuan Shikai an explanation.

Compared with Tan Yankai in Hunan, Zhu Rui, the governor of Zhejiang, was more careless. He messed around, and in the end he was scolded by both Sun Wen and Yuan Shikai. It is not easy to fail to such an extent.It is said that Sun Wen regarded Zhejiang as the inevitable place where the revolution would erupt, so he sent a key person to Zhejiang to lobby Zhu Rui.

His surname is Ge and his name is Jingen. He is studying at Beijing Army University.But this child is very talented. As early as the Revolution of [-], he participated in the Battle of Nanjing as Zhu Rui's staff officer. He also described the revolutionary situation at that time in detail, and described a revolutionary dog—this dog Always depend on each other for life with Ge Jingen, never leave.

Ge Jingen and Zhu Rui were classmates in elementary school. They have been together since the founding of Zhejiang Army. Even the dog raised by Ge Jingen has the same deep affection for Zhu Rui as Ge Jingen.Moreover, most of the Zhe Jun were members of the Restoration Association and followers of Qiu Jin, the heroine of Jianhu. With such a background, Zhu Rui could hardly find a reason not to participate in the Second Revolution.

But Zhu Rui has reasons not to revolutionize.

First of all, there are many factions in the Zhejiang Army, and there are at least four combinations.For example, Zhu Rui, who graduated from Nanjing Armed Forces Academy, regards himself as orthodox and regards soldiers who graduated from Baoding Army Academy as parallel imports.Officers who graduated from the Zhejiang Armed Forces Academy are called local products.In addition, there are graduates from the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer School, which are called imported products.

In short, in the Zhejiang Army, parallel imports of local goods and imported goods were arguing with the orthodox Zhu Rui every day, so at this time Zhu Rui had no intention of thinking about revolution at all.So at the end of the lobbying, Zhu Rui said to Ge Jingen with all his heart:

Brother, you'd better go, staying here, I'm afraid it will be bad for you, and it won't help you, so go back to school to study.

Zhu Rui has made up his mind that he will never mess with the Revolutionary Party this time, and he will raise troops to settle the Revolutionary Party in Shanghai.

Just as Zhu Rui was making his own calculations, he suddenly saw figures swaying on the surface of the water, but seeing more than five hundred heroes from the rivers and lakes, each using Dengping's unique skills in crossing the water, they rushed into Ningbo without any explanation, and occupied the river with lightning speed. All the hotels and brothels on the front and rear of the North Shore, and officially announced: Ningbo is independent at the unanimous request of the people of Zhejiang.

This unexpected news made Zhu Rui stunned. Who is it, so nonsense?
Speaking of this person, he is really famous.It is said that in the late Qing Dynasty, there lived a chivalrous man in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, surnamed Wang, named Wang Jinfa, young and intelligent, good at riding and shooting, and had amazing martial arts skills.In the early years, he joined the black belt party in Jianghu, and then changed to the Pingyang party.Qiu Jin, the heroine of Houjianhu, closely allied with the Zhongnan Jianghu Society, wanted to make trouble, and Wang Jinfa helped him out of righteousness.Soon after Ms. Qiu Jin was killed, Wang Jinfa fled to Jianghu. During the Revolution of [-], he armed Sun Wen with two guns to protect Sun Wen from becoming the President of Nanjing and took over Shaoxing.

After the success of the revolution, the chivalrous man Wang Jinfa only envied mandarin ducks and not immortals, and had no intention of fame, but hired more than a hundred porters to pick up 40 yuan of treasury silver from the Zhejiang treasury to Shanghai, and then sat on the pile of silver. In the concession, holding the delicate and lovely concubine Hua Baobao, they lived a happy life in the concession.With too much money and a beauty in his arms, Wang Jinfa would wake up laughing even from sleep.

I don't know whether it was because the money was spent, or Wang Daxia was still thinking about it, but one day Wang Jinfa came back out of the rivers and lakes, recruited his old troops, robbed Ningbo, occupied the brothel, and declared independence unexpectedly.

08 How to play with subordinates
The action of the hero Wang Jinfa made Zhu Rui furious. He had no choice but to move to Cao E and Dongguan to confront the Ningbo Army across the Cao E River.As for the aid to Shanghai, forget about it.

Just because of Wang Jinfa, Zhu Rui was ashamed in front of Yuan Shikai.This incident happened after the Second Revolution subsided, and Yuan Shikai suddenly recruited Zhu Rui to Beijing to discuss state affairs.Zhu Rui went there anxiously, and when he saw Yuan Shikai, he was so nervous that his hands trembled, the soles of his feet were sweaty, and he couldn't even stand firmly.

Zhu Rui's nervousness is understandable.With Yuan Shikai's wisdom and majesty, the ability to create China's first army and unprecedented influence, the deterrent to the soldiers under his command is unparalleled.Not to mention a little Zhu Rui, Yan Xishan, the king of Shanxi who will become famous in the future, had the opportunity to be received by Yuan Shikai. Because he was too frightened, he didn't even dare to lift his head from the beginning to the end. He only saw the tip of Yuan Shikai's boots. Yuan Shikai didn't even dare to look at his face.

Seeing that Zhu Rui was too nervous, Yuan Shikai chatted for a while. After Zhu Rui relaxed, Yuan Shikai asked: Zhu Rui, there is one thing I don't understand. If you oppose me, you should declare independence.If you oppose the enemy party, you should make it clear, but you have made it neutral in Zhejiang, what does that mean?
This... that... ah... Zhu Rui's nose was dripping with sweat, his mouth was tongue-tied, and he couldn't speak.

It's not that Zhu Rui can't speak, but that Yuan Shikai's question is too immoral. In this world, besides opposing one side and supporting one side, there are many more positions - I don't oppose you, and I don't support you either , your business has nothing to do with me at all, is that okay?
But the common people can say this, but Zhu Rui can't say it, because he is the governor of Zhejiang Province.Faced with such a big question of where the country will go, you, the governor of Zhejiang, said that he was not interested and did not express his position. Isn't this nonsense?Why don't you make a statement and be the governor?
In fact, Zhu Rui expressed his support for Yuan Shikai, but Wang Jinfa messed up his statement.But how can such a complicated inside story be explained clearly in a few words?

Fortunately, Yuan Shikai didn't intend to force Zhu Rui to speak clearly, he just patted the back of his hand gently and said: You should go back early, local security is important.

After the interview, Zhu Rui was full of awe and gratitude towards Yuan Shikai in his heart.What a good and approachable leader, Zhu Rui is proud to meet such a leader.

Just as he was proud, Yuan Shikai suddenly summoned him formally. When meeting Yuan Shikai, he was wearing a dazzling gold-rimmed generalissimo uniform and sat tall. Orders are a bounden duty, and they are stern and merciless, scolding Zhu Rui until his soul flies into the sky, and his complexion is ashen.

After scolding enough, Yuan Shikai kicked Zhu Rui out of the house. Every step Zhu Rui took, left a wet footprint on the ground—because he was too scared, Zhu Rui lost control of his urine and peed all over his crotch.

There was a saying at the time that Yuan Shikai loved to play tricks on his subordinates, promising him virtue, and then showing him power.Just taking it in and releasing it like this is enough to make his subordinates fear and respect him, and never dare to think of rebellion again.

09 Patriotism is Love of War

In the late Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan passed on Li Hongzhang, and Li Hongzhang passed on to Yuan Shikai. Confucian culture transformed from pure conception to pragmatism.Yuan Shikai I Xiongjie, a young and impulsive revolutionary party, is by no means his opponent.

But since Sun Wen dared to start a war and start a revolution, he was not without support.At least, there is another Guangdong in the rear, which is being guarded by Chen Jiongming, who has been wronged.The soldiers in Guangdong are well-stocked with food, and if they drive their troops to the north, they will be able to rule the world in just a few days.

In his life, Sun Wen had a great dream, to go northward according to Guangdong, and raise his teacher to question his crimes.As for who to ask and what crime, Sun Wen really didn't care about this matter-a careful study of Sun Wenzhi's life, in the late Qing Dynasty, he called for racial revolution and kept launching uprisings in Guangdong.In his later years, he accepted the aid of the Soviet Union and launched the Northern Expedition in Guangdong. Now he refuses legal means and resorts to military contests on the grounds that Song Jiaoren was murdered.

Taking this Northern Expedition alone as an example, the burden on Chen Jiongming's shoulders is quite heavy.

In order to realize Sun Wen's great dream of the Northern Expedition, Chen Jiongming decided to play with Yuan Shikai. After Li Liejun raised his troops in Jiangxi, Chen Jiongming sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai, saying: Looking at the conflict between the two armies in the North and Jiangxi, the reason is that Commander Chen of Jiujiang called the Northern Army to enter Jiangxi. Auxiliary prevention, but the Jiangxi army misunderstood and caused conflicts...meaning, misunderstandings, misunderstandings, all misunderstandings.

Yuan Shikai was overjoyed when he saw the telegram, and immediately ordered to allocate 300 million yuan to Guangdong to relieve the urgent need.

Then Yuan Shikai sent a telegram to Chen Jiongming, boasting indiscriminately, saying: "I have great expectations and talents, and I have admired them for a long time."When Guangdong Province was restored, riots were suppressed and law and order were maintained to consolidate the foundation of the republic.The merit of the deacon is extremely great... The fathers and children of Guangdong and China especially rely on the deacon as Mount Tai to curb chaos and maintain order.

Chen Jiongming was overjoyed when he saw the telegram. Who said Yuan Shikai was shrewd?Doesn't this show lack of heart?As soon as I lied to him, he sent money immediately, and even sent a telegram to praise me.Such a heartless person, kill him!

So Chen Jiongming immediately convened a meeting of division and brigade commanders and announced that he was going to start an uprising.Zhong Dingji, the commander of the first division, was shocked when he heard the words: Governor, this is not an ordinary matter, we can't talk nonsense.

Chen Jiongming said with a smile: Now I not only want to talk, but also do it, hahaha.

Zhong Dingji was in a hurry: Dudu, if all circles of business and academia in Guangdong and Central China disagree, how can the Dudu deal with himself?

Chen Jiongming said: "Don't worry about it, when I go to the parliament to give a speech, this matter will be settled."

So Chen Jiongming immediately went to the Provincial Assembly to give a speech, expressing his determination to revolt.When the congressmen heard this, they immediately exploded. Is there such a thing?This is an army, a war, you Chen Jiongming fight as soon as you say?Have you asked the elders of Yuezhong?You go out and ask, who is free and has a good life, but what kind of inexplicable battle are you going to fight with?
Just as they were arguing, they heard a slap, and Chen Jiongming slapped the sword on the desk, and said sharply: "Why are you arguing?"What's the fuss about what's already settled?I now ask you to express your opinion immediately, do you love Yuan Shikai or the "Republic of China"?
The multiple-choice question given by Chen Jiongming made it hard for the MPs to die.

If Chen Jiongming asked everyone: Do you want war or peace?Then Chen Jiongming will lose miserably. Everyone loves peace, and no one will support him in launching a war.

But Chen Jiongming subtly changed the concept and asked: Do you love Yuan Shikai or the "Republic of China"?
No one dares to say that they don't love the "Republic of China", but when you sign a patriotic sign, you sign to support Chen Jiongming's rebellion.If you want to be patriotic, you need to go to war—the choice is either one or the other.Most of the councilors were stunned by Lao Chen's hand, and signed in a daze. Only more than 20 councilors were smarter, claiming to go to the bathroom, and took the opportunity to escape.

On that day, all the military circles in Guangdong Province announced that they would unanimously challenge Yuan to the outside world.

10 Learned your unethical ways
According to sources from the Revolutionary Party, since Chen Jiongming declared independence, tens of millions of military expenditures have been raised in less than ten days, and there is no shortage of support from the rear.

The news from Guangdong said that the businessmen and people in Guangdong were unanimously opposed to the war, but they couldn't resist Chen Jiongming's antinomy. If you love the "Republic of China", you have to go to the front to fight. No one can resist this move.But the Cantonese are really smart, and soon found a clever way: write a letter to President Yuan Shikai, accusing Chen Jiongming of blackmail, saying that he is a spoof.

When Yuan Shikai received a flood of distress letters, he was both angry and happy—the one who was angry was Chen Jiongming's military expenses for raising troops, or the money he had just paid for by his old Yuan;So the Guangxi Longjiguang Department was sent to Guangdong to expel Chen Jiongming.

Chen Jiongming didn't care so much, and ordered the Northern Expedition.

The order was issued, but the armies are not willing to fight this battle, but if you don't fight, Lao Chen will not be happy.Is there any way to solve this problem?

Now, let's all turn around and beat Lao Chen up!
The rebellion first started on Guanyin Mountain. A tide of rebels rushed towards Chen Jiongming's Dudu's Mansion. Flames were everywhere, and gunpowder smoke filled the sky over the Dudu's Mansion.But the rebels were really careless. They didn't know that Lao Chen was running towards the concession at this time, and he wasn't in the governor's mansion at all.

I fled to the Shamian Concession in one breath, and the French consul greeted me, old friend, I learned your wicked method and cheated a German ship with the ship number "YORK", you can board this ship and escape.

Chen Jiongming said: Frenchman, I warn you not to speak indiscriminately, why am I so wicked?Didn't I just... I didn't care about the nonsense and hurried to board the ship.Not long after the boat sailed, I did not know how to get the news that the new army in Guangzhou fought against the rebels and wanted to welcome Chen Jiongming back.

Old Chen was overjoyed and hurried back, only to find that there was nothing of the sort.On the contrary, Chen Jinghua, the police chief, strongly demanded to run with Lao Chen, and Lao Chen comforted him: Xiao Chen, you don't have to go, you haven't been exposed yet, you should lurk down and do underground work.Chen Jinghua argued urgently: Talking nonsense, where have I not been exposed?Lulu's had been exposed a long time ago...but he was still left behind the enemy's rear.

Not long after, Guangxi Longji Guang drove his troops in. He first caught Chen Jinghua and asked, "You are short-sighted. Why don't you run away when everyone else runs away?"
Chen Jinghua said: I didn't run away because I wasn't exposed.

Long Jiguang said: You think everyone else is stupid, how dare you say you haven't been exposed when you are active so frequently?Hmph, pull it out and shoot it!
Chen Jinghua protested again and again, but to no avail, and was finally shot.

Chen Jiongming was accused by the party, saying that he abducted more than 1000 million yuan and ran away.But in fact, the later Lao Chen was absolutely poor, and the 1000 million was stolen by someone.

1000 million has become a suspicious case, but after Chen Jiongming escaped, he sent someone to report to Sun Wen, who was scolded by Sun Wen:

You have so many troops, why don't you just leave when the rebels fire their cannons?Don't you know how to pull back to Huizhou to hide?Think of a way to counterattack.

But Chen Jiongming knew very well that he had no way to counterattack.There is a way, so I won't run away.

11 Death is not reconciled

Basically, it was almost the same. In all provinces across the country, those who could make trouble were shot a few times, and those who could not make trouble also yelled a few times.At this time, the Beiyang Army had surrounded Nanjing City on all sides, turning He Haiming, the master of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School, into a trapped beast in a cage.

Stray bullets were flying randomly in the air, and artillery fire was close at hand. All the business people in Nanjing cried, saying: We are doing our own business well, why are we so unlucky?Why choose to fight in a place like Nanjing?Can those revolutionary parties be moved to another place?
So the business people went to the British doctor Marin: Hello, pony, the revolutionary army attacked Nanjing during the [-] Revolution.This time I have to trouble you, you are a doctor, regardless of the Revolutionary Party or the Beiyang Army, I have to give you face.

Marin said: Nao, Nao Nao, this time is different from the last time, this time the government forces are outside the city, I am afraid it will be difficult to persuade them to retreat.

Everyone said: If the Beiyang Army does not retreat, let the Revolutionary Party go.Xiao Ma, go find He Haiming and tell them to get out of here.

Marin said: Why don't you go by yourself?
Everyone: ...that revolutionary boy He Haiming, who wrote mandarin duck and butterfly novels, would he listen to us?Come on, pony, you go and tell him that as long as they are willing to go, we will pay as much as they want.

(End of this chapter)