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Chapter 170 The Jade Hand Points General Record (3)
Therefore, even if Yuan Shikai really issued the assassination secret order, it is absolutely impossible to order a small county magistrate. Does Yuan Shikai think that a small county magistrate is of a higher level than the chief of the general staff of the National Land, Sea and Air Marshal's Office that he appointed by default?

If Yuan Shikai did not issue the assassination order, who would it be?Could it be that Tang Jiyao ordered it, as Mr. Wang Zhonghe said?
This is even more impossible.

If Tang Jiyao issued this order, Cai E would undoubtedly die.Only a small team of personal guards is needed to kill Cai E on the way, and there is absolutely no reason to miss.

The assassination order was neither issued by Yuan Shikai nor Tang Jiyao, so who issued it?
Think about it, in Kunming at this time, before Cai E arrived, who had the final say?Is it Tang Jiyao?If Cai E arrives in Kunming, who is the biggest threat to him?
In Kunming, there is really a group of people who really don't like Cai E's return.

09 Oversupply of military personnel
Once we confirm that the secret assassination order came neither from Yuan Shikai nor from Tang Jiyao, then this period of history becomes clear immediately.

Combining the two theories, things are more likely to be like this.

Cai E's return to Dian was a secret operation. He left someone in Vietnam Old Street, holding his autographed letter, and agreed on a date. He planned to send the letter after he secretly arrived in Kunming.The purpose of doing this is to imitate the story of Liu Bang in the era when Chu and Han were fighting each other, and regain military power with lightning speed.

When Chu and Han were fighting, Liu Bang was defeated by Xiang Yu, so he voted for Han Xin at night.At that time, Han Xin was sleeping soundly, Liu Bang forbade the soldiers to disturb him, entered the big tent, and won the seal. It was not until Liu Bang gave the order that Han Xin crawled out of the bed in a daze.Although Han Xin had no intention of rebelling against Liu Bang at the time, Liu Bang had to assume that he had, because Liu Bang couldn't afford the risk.

At this time, the military in Central Yunnan was just like the relationship between Liu Bang and Han Xin in the Chu and Han Dynasties.As early as the beginning of the Revolution of 37, Cai E was the 74th standard of the [-]th Association of the New Yunnan Army, and Tang Jiyao was the first battalion under Cai E.Tang Jiyao's military talent is not necessarily inferior to that of Cai E, at least he is also a handsome talent. Therefore, after Yunnan responded to the Revolution of [-], he faced a painful situation where the two commanders of Cai and Tang fought side by side.

At that time, there was a surplus of military talents in Yunnan. Besides Cai E and Tang Jiyao, there was another Wang Zhenji.After Yunnan became independent, two students from the martial arts hall shot Wang Zhenji to death.But these two people are powerful and have moral resources, no one dares to pursue them, so the outstanding military talents in Yunnan have entered the stage of confrontation between the two powerful.

At that time, Cai E and Tang Jiyao sat down to discuss: How can this matter be settled?I think that instead of us being strangled, it's better...it's better to go to other places to grab land and take up land.

where else?
Of course it is Guizhou.

So Tang Jiyao led the Dian army into Guizhou, which had declared independence, and captured the governor of Guizhou, while the rest of the Dian army went to rob Sichuan.There is no way, there are too many monks and too little porridge, so it is impossible not to grab them.This massive robbery lasted until the second revolution sponsored by the Japanese Mitsui consortium. Yuan Shikai found that Yunnan was a bit chaotic, so he transferred Cai E to Beijing, leaving Tang Jiyao in charge of Yunnan, and the surrounding areas of Yunnan heaved a sigh of relief.

Afterwards, Tang Jiyao organized and prepared military forces in Yunnan, sharpening his knives. In addition to the elite members trained in the martial arts hall, there were 93 other self-defense forces, and he also trained retired personnel as a preparation for military expansion.At the same time, Yunnan soldiers were running around, spending huge sums of money to buy arms. They first bought 200 million yuan of arms from Germany, but were intercepted halfway.Another 10 yuan was spent to buy it in Japan, and the Yunnan Arsenal worked overtime to produce it day and night, making Yunnan a strong military province.

Tang Jiyao worked so hard to manage Yunnan, when suddenly someone came to grab his seat, what do you think would happen?
Precisely because they are brothers of life and death, they should be guarded against.It is understandable for Cai E to pretend to be a night walk.

But we understand, but Cai E can't understand, because the operation is so secret, he still encountered an ambush on the way.Moreover, this ambush was extremely ferocious, and there were casualties on Cai E's side. Since Cai E did not know that a third force had entered Yunnan, Tang Jiyao was naturally blamed for the ambush.

This is also the reason why Tang Jiyao's assassination of Cai E was rumored in the rivers and lakes. They all believed that Tang Jiyao was afraid that Cai E would steal his territory, so he had to assassinate Cai E.But everyone simply ignored that what Tang Jiyao was most afraid of at this time was not Cai E. On the contrary, only by joining forces with Cai E could he have enough strength to fight against a third party.

So when Cai E fled back to Kunming with his wounds and dragged to death on the 19th, he was completely safe.Here, no one dared to touch him.

10 Get rid of insecurities from now on
Cai E arrived in Yunnan on the 19th. After several discussions with Tang Jiyao, the two reached a basic consensus.The consensus is: they can't afford a third party.

Or, their final thought is that they can join forces with a third party and divide their troops into three groups to gain their own territories.We must know that Cai E's principle of governing Yunnan is always to prevent internal strife and seek outward development.The joining of third-party forces will be beneficial to the promotion of Cai E's military thinking, and he has no reason not to do so.

But if you want to join forces with others, they may not have that intention.You know, the third party is notoriously used to eating alone, and doesn't even leave soup to others.

Therefore, in order to promote cooperation, it is necessary to clean up the third-party killer first, let the third party know that they are not easy to mess with, and dispel the idea of ​​indiscriminate relations from then on.

So Cai E participated in the military high-level meeting.At the meeting, Tang Jiyao declared that Cai E was sent back by his younger brother Tang Jiyu, two guard companies and a gendarmerie.The savvy third-party people knew that they were tricked, and complained endlessly, but the stupid people believed what they said, and quickly wrote it down in words, which led to more than two different versions of the specific date of Cai E's arrival in Kunming. .

At the meeting, the three forces embraced warmly, closer than brothers. At this time, the two guard companies and one gendarmerie that Tang Jiyao mentioned had already entered Mengzi and Ah Mi, and arrested Zhou Hang and Zhang Yikun.But these two people even had the guts to kill Cai E, because they had already packed the package and fled on the road in the starry night.

How can I escape?If the assassin escapes, there is no way to deter a third party.After all, Cai and Tang have governed Yunnan for many years, and they know the local social relations well. Zhang Yikun's concubine, Zhang Su'e, was immediately controlled and became a lure, and successfully lured Zhang Yikun back who fled to Vietnam.

Zhang Yikun must be escorted back to Kunming to be shot. The idiom of killing chickens to warn monkeys is most appropriate here.

In short, the assassination of Cai E by Zhou Hang and Zhang Yikun was definitely not Yuan Shikai's order.Having said that, it is impossible for Yuan Shikai to issue secret killing orders to two county-level clerks. Even if Yuan Shikai's brain is really flooded and he does this, it is impossible for Zhou Hang and Zhang Yikun to flee overseas. You should have fled back to Beijing.

In short, this is a secret power struggle, Cai E and Tang Jiyao will not say it, what they want is the tacit effect of the other party.And it is even more impossible for a third party to say it. If everyone doesn't say it, historians can't be fooled when they do research. No wonder the historical materials will be messed up.

In short, various forces in Yunnan have resolved minor frictions and reached a basic consensus.The thing to do in the future is to divide the troops into three groups and go to grab the territory quickly.

11 as pure as an angel
Let's talk about the party member Li Liejun who entered Yunnan at this time.

The reason why Li Liejun didn't go to other places but only came to Yunnan was also a reason.Long before the Revolution of [-], he had been working in the Yunnan Lecture Hall. When he was on a business trip to Beijing to report on his work, he had just left when the gunshots of the Wuchang Uprising rang out.

Li Liejun was delayed in Wuchang for a few days, and went to Beijing again. At this time, there were already gunshots in Yunnan, and Wang Zhenji, an outstanding military talent, was expelled from the rivers and lakes. Cai E carried his teacher Li Jingxi away in a sedan chair and monopolized Yunnan from then on.Moreover, Cai E and Tang Jiyao couldn't stay in the small Yunnan, forcing them to develop outward.For Li Liejun at this time, returning to Yunnan can only add to the chaos, and there is no chance.

After that, Li Liejun wandered in the rivers and lakes, traveling from Jiujiang to Anhui, and finally got a governor of Anhui, but he was asked by the fat boy Li Yuanhong to return it.In the end, Li Liejun succeeded in taking control of Jiangxi and won a real territory for the revolutionary party.

Afterwards, the Japanese Mitsui Foundation sponsored the Second Revolution, and Jiangxi Li Liejun encountered the sixth town of Beiyang fierce soldiers. There is a mysterious supernatural law in this town.At that time, the coach of Beiyang Six Towns was Li Chun. After he drove Li Liejun to Japan, he died of mysterious poisoning.Up to now, no one knows who was the one who poisoned Li Chun because he was full and bored (at that time, everyone suspected that it was Qi Xieyuan who did it, but Qi Xieyuan swore that if he did it, he would be killed by bullets, and later he literally got shot by a bullet).

After this uprising, the Six Beiyang Towns came again, and this time their military leader was Ma Jizeng. This poor guy died violently while the battle was in full swing.

Let’s not talk about Beiyang Six Towns, but continue to talk about Li Liejun. According to the recollection of the revolutionary veteran Ma Chaojun, after Li Liejun fled to Japan, he went to find Sun Wen:
... Li Liejun also went to Japan and visited the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister inquired and said: "Why are you here?"The answer was: I would like to continue to dedicate myself to the revolution.The Prime Minister was reprimanded: I entrusted you with the important task of Jiangxi Province, but you are self-willed and disobedient to orders!I told you to start it, but you didn't do it; if you weren't told to start it, you acted rashly instead, which delayed your military opportunity, and you suffered a crushing defeat. How could you see me?Without saying a word, Lie Jun went to Nanyang in embarrassment, organized a water conservancy promotion society with Chen Jiongming, Bai Wenwei, Xiong Kewu, etc., parted ways with the Prime Minister, and went their own way. ("Ma Chaojun and Fu Bingchang Oral Autobiography")
In short, the situation at that time was that Li Liejun had broken up with Sun Wen and the Chinese Revolutionary Party because he could not accept Sun Wen's demand for allegiance.Not only Li Liejun, but Huang Xing also went to Europe, and was interrogated by the police when he boarded the ship, which was a false alarm.

After a period of time, everyone was busy overseas, arguing with each other while busy, when the news of Yuan Shikai proclaiming emperor came, Huang Xing was shocked immediately.

Huang Xing must have thought this way at the time: I thought that Sun Wen was the harshest person in the world, and he actually forced other hand models to be loyal to him, but compared with Yuan Shikai, Sun Wen can be called a pure angel.Anyway, Sun Wen did not ascend the throne as emperor, forcing you to kneel and kowtow.

Huang Xing did not know that when Yuan Shikai founded the Hongxian Empire, he announced:
There are three things in the new dynasty that are different from the past, namely: the implementation of a constitutional monarchy, the abolition of kneeling and worship, and the abolition of the eunuch system.

According to the rules of the Hongxian Empire, everyone bowed three times when they met, courtiers bowed three times to the emperor Yuan Shikai, and Yuan Shikai bowed three times to his courtiers—but even if you bow eight times, it’s useless, who let you restore the monarchy?
When Huang Xing was in a hurry, he wanted to mess with Yuan Shikai, but he couldn't do it alone. If he wanted to mess with Yuan Shikai, he had to surrender to Sun Wen.

In late October 1915, Huang Xing sent his son Huang Yiou to present a letter to Sun Wen, stating that Huang Xing was willing to be ordered to serve in the battle against Yuan.

Huang Xing returned, so Chen Jiongming, Li Liejun and other party members also came to Sun Wen one after another, expressing their commitment to serve.So Sun Wen immediately ordered Li Liejun to enter Yunnan, and at the same time sent someone to contact Cai E, asking Cai E to go to Tokyo to discuss major issues.

But in the end, Cai E and Li Liejun successfully joined forces in Yunnan.

12 Most Secretive Power Struggles

It is said that when Li Liejun arrived in Kunming, many students from the lecture hall went to the station to greet him.Staying at Yuantong Street, Tang Jiyao arrived, and the two sides began to discuss state affairs. During the discussion, Tang Jiyao suddenly broke the news that Cai E was on his way to Kunming.

Li Liejun didn't know how to answer, Fang Shengtao, a party member accompanying him, said with a smile:

He first entered Guanzhong Wangzhi, a strong general of Songpo, and a student of Liang Rengong, so he should be united with him.

Fang Shengtao didn’t know how powerful he was, he said this a bit bluntly, meaning: first come, first served, first to eat, first to get fat, we came to Yunnan first, and Yunnan is ours.We will definitely lead Cai E well and let him do his job well... In short, that's what it means.

When Cai E arrived in Kunming, Tang Jiyao held a grand banquet in Wuhuashan Dudufu. The people attending the meeting included Cai E and Dai Kan who came with Cai E. Among the party members were Xiong Kewu, Dan Maoxin and Li Liejun from Sichuan, and the rest were all An important military general in the Yunnan Army.The matter is of great importance, and the dinner has not yet started, and everyone has already quarreled.

What the two sides are arguing about is the question of the leadership of this uprising.But because there were many parties present at the meeting, all of them were wise people, and they all adopted a wonderful method to argue.People who don't know the inside story, even if they attended the meeting, don't know what everyone is arguing about.

At the beginning of the meeting, Cai E showed everyone a secret message.

This secret telegram was taken by Liang Qichao and sent to Cai E, but Liang Qichao didn't have a transmitter at home, so he asked Beiyang Feng Guozhang to send it on his behalf.

Cai E emphasized: This telegram shows Feng Guozhang's support for him.

But in fact, Cai E did not tell the truth, but was fooling everyone.The telegram was indeed sent from Feng Guozhang's house, but Feng Guozhang himself didn't know about it at all.It was Hu Siyuan, Feng Guozhang's secretary, who conspired with Liang Qichao to send out telegrams against Yuan Shikai from Feng Guozhang's house every day without telling Feng Guozhang's knowledge, making the current situation complicated.

In the analysis materials so far, there is no precise analysis that can understand Cai E's words.Everyone simply thought that when Cai E showed this telegram and emphasized Feng Guozhang, he was saying that Feng Guozhang also opposed the imperial system, and Beiyang was not monolithic.In fact, except for the shrewd Li Liejun, the people present at the meeting didn't know Cai E's true meaning at all.

Li Liejun heard it, so the quarrel began.

After showing the telegram, Cai E couldn't talk much because of a throat discomfort, so he asked Dai Kan, who was accompanying him, to take out the telegram drafted by Liang Qichao in advance and read it to everyone.

Everyone listened, and said yes, this power-up is good, Liang Rengong is worthy of being a big hand, with courage... Then this thing is strange, with such a big hand and a bold figure, how can he be embarrassed in front of Yang Du?

Amidst the applause, someone said: No, this power-on needs to be changed.

Who is this speaker?

There is no record in the historical materials, but it is definitely not Tang Jiyao's generals. On this occasion, it is not their turn to speak.

Only Cai E, Tang Jiyao, Li Liejun and party members are qualified to speak.

Using the method of exclusion, Cai E and Tang Jiyao would not change Liang Qichao's manuscript, and only party members could suggest revisions.

So, why did Cai E show the Liang Qichao telegram that Feng Guozhang forwarded to him?Why did the party members have to revise Liang Qichao's manuscript?

As I said, everyone is vying for the leadership of the uprising.

Cai E showed the telegram sent by Feng Guozhang. On the surface, he said that he and Feng Guozhang had a good relationship, but actually implied that he and Liang Qichao had a strong influence on the master-student combination, and even Beiyang gave them three points of face.And once Liang Qichao's appeal to Yuan was approved, Liang Qichao would actually become the leader of this challenge.For Liang Qichao, his career has reached its peak here.

He Liang Qichao has reached the peak of his life and career, so how can the party members mess around?The party members have been revolutionizing all their lives, and most of the time they competed with Liang Qichao, the Jun Xian faction. At the end of the contest, Liang Qichao flickered and turned to lead the party members' revolution.

So the party members must change Liang Qichao's manuscript, even if only one word is changed, this can prove that the party members are leading Liang Qichao.

The party members insisted on changing it, but Dai Kan insisted not to be fooled by saying that it was not a personnel change, but only changed a few terms.At the end of the argument, Li Liejun spoke.

He said: Mr. Ren Kecheng present here is a big writer. If you ask him to change a few words, Mr. Ren will not be dissatisfied, right?
It was his words that won power for the party members and obtained the qualification to be on an equal footing with Cai E and Tang Jiyao.

13 Yunnan is ours
The meeting continued, and the next step was to give up seats for heroes. Tang Jiyao proposed to give up the governor of Yunnan to Cai E.How can Cai E agree?So the two quarreled and demanded that the governor be given to each other.

What Cai E and Tang Jiyao played was a bit too ruthless, and it was unkind.The two of them back and forth, nothing more than to let Li Liejun see: Look at you, look at Lao Li, this Yunnan belongs to the two of us, what are you going to do, Lao Li?
What can Lao Li do?Can only pretend not to see.

There are different teachings: Heroes in the world know heroes, and there are endless ways to take off your robes and give way.Before the storm started, the gunshots fell silent, and finally Liang Rengong was defeated.At this point in the meeting, Cai, Tang, and Li each showed off their IQs, and they could be said to be equal to each other, so things will be easy to handle.

The power of the three parties was balanced, but Tang Jiyao took advantage of the landlord and was the boss.So a god tablet was invited from Guandi Temple, red candles were burned high, and cigarettes were lingering. In a solemn atmosphere, Tang Jiyao and Cai E read the oaths in sequence.The oath said:

Supporting the republic is the responsibility of our generation; initiating an uprising, vowing to destroy the country's thieves; forming a scatter blunt, and sharing weal and woe; all suffering and hardships, giving up one's life; all my colleagues, persist in determination; with this alliance, the gods will die together!
The next procedure is for everyone to sign their names, then wrap their thumbs with silk threads, pierce them with a needle, drop the blood into a jade 罇, pour it into spirits, divide it into small cups, and then drink it up in one gulp. .By the way, this jade was later carried by the children of Tang Jiyao's family and carried to Taiwan, and it is now well preserved.

Among the group of people drinking, only one person was depressed.This person was Ren Kecheng who was recommended by Li Liejun to revise Liang Qichao's telegram.To say that Li Liejun is ruthless, Cai E would not agree to recommending others to revise the manuscript, but this Ren Kecheng made Cai E unhappy in his heart, but he couldn't object in his mouth.

why?

(End of this chapter)