Republic of China: I am a great warlord, many children, many blessings

Of course, Shen Hao also disdains to rely on others.

Xu Shichang admired him and said: "He is much stronger than Sun from the Tongmenghui."

Feng Guozhang shook his head and said, "What is Sun from the Tongmenghui?

In order to gain the support of the Japanese, he actually agreed in private to cede Manchuria and Mongolia to Japan.

They say that "Manchuria and Mongolia can be taken by Japan, and the purpose of the Dragon Kingdom revolution is to destroy Manchuria and revive Han people." I cannot agree with this. Was it wrong for Lord Zuo to conquer Xinjiang with his coffin on his shoulders? Are Manchuria, Mongolia and Xinjiang no longer our people? "

Xu Shichang was one of the instigators who forced the Qing Dynasty to step down, and he knew more inside information.

He nodded and said, “This Dr. Sun is indeed competing with President Yuan for the favor of the Japanese government.

After the Song case, Dr. Sun once said: "If Japan helps me, I will win; if Japan helps Yuan, Yuan will win.

At the beginning, on May 1914, 5, Dr. Sun wrote a letter to Japanese Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma.

Zeng said:

We Yanhuang can play a greater role in Japan than India does in Britain. Their behavior is shameful.

Dr. Sun even said: "Britain's three islands are not very large, but everyone knows that its national strength is expanding day by day, because it has the Indian mainland, which is a large market for the motherland, and the world powers cannot compete with it.

Japan's development has reached its limit and there is almost no room for maneuver, while Yanhuang has vast territory and abundant resources, which have yet to be developed.

Today, Japan is like Britain in India. It does not have to spend the effort of setting up troops and garrisons, but it has access to the vast market of China, and the profits are doubled. This is what is called leaping to become the world's leading power. "

In other words, Yanhuang can provide Japan with a cheaper and more profitable role than the colony of India did for Britain.

Sun Baoqi nodded and said, "According to Dr. Sun, domestic affairs, foreign affairs, military affairs, industry, justice, etc. all rely on Japan's help.

Moreover, "we can open our market to benefit Japanese industry and commerce, and Japan will monopolize the benefits of trade... Japanese manufactured goods sold to our country are tax-free, and our mineral resources imported into Japan are also tax-free.

"Even the weapons, ammunition, and weapons used by the Beiyang Navy and the Army should be the same as those used by Japan."

When the navy and the army recruit foreign soldiers, it is advisable to mainly use Japanese soldiers.

In the economic field, from finance, which is related to the lifeline of the economy, to mining, railways, and shipping, Japan will also control it. "It is advisable to establish the Sino-Japanese Bank and its branches in important cities in China and Japan.

If our country needs foreign capital or joint venture to operate mines, railways and coastal routes, we can first negotiate with Japan. If Japan is unable to respond, we can negotiate with other countries.

To be honest, I was shocked.

Today, these twenty-one articles are basically the blueprint for the previous ones.

When I was studying abroad in Europe, Dr. Sun even promised France a large concession in southern my country in order to gain the support of the French.

After the Wuchang Uprising, Dr. Sun even went to London to seek help from the British government.

Our Dr. Sun agreed to act under the advice of the British Government... He promised to give Britain and the United States preferential treatment over all other 063 countries.

He even promised to place our navy under the command of British officers who would obey his personal orders, and that he would act in accordance with British advice on Japan's attitude.

But at that time, because the British government placed its hopes on President Yuan Shikai, it ignored these suggestions.

Furthermore, in March 1910, Dr. Sun met with Americans Homer Leigh and Booth.

Dr. Sun appointed Booth as the 'sole financial representative abroad' of both the Syndicate and the Tongmenghui, and gave him full authority to handle loans, collect debts, and act as agent for the purchase of all army and naval equipment.

The Syndicate reserved its rights to take charge of borrowing for railroad construction and to cede mineral concessions in Manchuria to its American backers.

Compared with President Yuan, he is even worse.

If Dr. Sun had been president, Japan would have occupied Inner Mongolia by now."

Hearing this, Shen Hao also understood the anger of several people.

Everyone has different ideas, and future generations will see this as treason.

But in this era, people's resentment towards the Qing Dynasty was far greater than their hatred towards Japan and European and American powers.

Although Dr. Sun was somewhat limited by his vision, he was, after all, a member of the revolutionary founding team.

Dr. Sun understood revolution as expelling the Tartars and restoring China. It can be seen that in Dr. Sun’s subconscious, Manchuria and Mongolia did not belong to "China" at all.

Of course, Dr. Sun was not the only one who thought this way. Many people in the Tongmenghui shared this idea.

It is subject to the limitations of the times, because there is no concept of China at all now.

The purpose of their revolution was to destroy the Manchus and revive the Han people, and they believed that the founding of the Chinese nation would be within the Great Wall.

I can only say that in terms of structure, nothing is bigger than a teacher.

After all, he has not read enough books. The so-called doctorate is just like Chiang Ching-kuo, who is just flattering himself. In today's words, it is just a university culture.

However, in Shen Hao's opinion, it was already amazing that a college student could overthrow the Qing Dynasty.

People who stand out are always worthy of admiration.

381. His fourth daughter is so beautiful

Sun Dapao is also a human being, and it is normal for his thoughts to be influenced by Japan in that era.

No one is perfect, and Sun Dapao's merits always outweigh his faults.

But Sun Dapao's narrow national concept was not static. After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, it changed because he went from being a revolutionary to a ruler.

This is also the case of not interfering in matters that are not your responsibility.

The biggest black mark of Sun Yat-sen was probably the cession of Manchuria and Mongolia to Japan.

However, Sun Dapao was just talking and did not really cut it. Of course, maybe it was because Yuan Shikai became president.

In their view, Manchuria, Mongolia and the Republic of China were not the same thing. Even if the Qing Dynasty was driven back to Manchuria, or even if it was occupied by Japan, it was just seizing Manchu territory and there would be no loss of interest.

Sun Dapao founded the Tongmenghui with the support of the Black Dragon Society, whose name came from the intention of seizing Heilongjiang.

Later, after a gunshot in Wuchang, the "Eighteen-Star Flag" was established as the "national flag".

The red background and nine black wheels symbolize the "iron-blooded spirit" and foreshadow the determination to overthrow the Qing Dynasty by force.

These nine wheels represent the nine states recorded in "Yu Gong".

The eighteen small yellow round stars represent the "Eighteen Provinces of Han Area".

The eighteen provinces are the eighteen Han Chinese settlements from Hebei to Yunnan, and from Gansu to Guangdong.

As for the border areas such as Northeast China, Inner and Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet, they were all ruthlessly expelled by Sun Dapao and others.

Zhang Taiyan even proposed in "On the Expulsion of the Manchus" that the expulsion of Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet and other frontier regions would be more conducive to the stability of the Republic of China's rule.

These alliances were all influenced by Japanese ideas.

The literati in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China were deeply influenced by the Japanese.

Japanese gangs sneaked into the country and propagated the idea of ​​establishing a single nation in various provinces. Their goal was to disintegrate the vast Chinese land to facilitate their invasion. This idea influenced a generation of literati in the late Qing Dynasty.

In the words of later generations, they were a group of idiot public intellectuals.

They even believed that the Manchus were all responsible for the country's decline, backwardness and bullying.

It seems that if the border people are abandoned, the border will rise.

For example, Chiang Bai-li's book "On Nationalism" believed that the disintegration of the Qing Dynasty was inevitable, and there was no need for the Han people to inherit the Qing Dynasty's territory.

It was precisely because of these fan clubs that intellectuals promoted the theory that the frontiers were guilty.

The great powers such as Japan and Britain, which had once supported their armed violence against the Qing Dynasty, suddenly turned against them.

They began to support the expulsion of Han people from border areas such as Inner and Outer Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang.

From Kulundo and Kobdo, from Yili to Lhasa, Han merchants were being driven out everywhere.

The Japanese took the opportunity to win over Manchuria, Mongolia and Korea to jointly promote the Altai Community.

Their former anti-Qing comrades suddenly called them the most vicious names.

It was because of the ideas proposed by these literati before, that the border areas such as Outer Mongolia rebelled against Tsarist Russia and Japan.

On November 1911, 11, at the instigation of Russia, Outer Mongolia declared independence and proclaimed itself emperor in the name of Jebtsundamba.

On January 1912, 1, the Zasaktu Khan of Uliastai declared independence.

Hulunbuir League declared independence under the instigation of Russia, and Wutai, the prince of Jirim League, also actively prepared for rebellion;

Under the instigation of Japanese ronin Kawashima Naniwa and others, Kharchin King Gongsang Norbu and other Mongolian princes accepted Japanese loans and planned to launch a rebellion.

Sun Dapao sent a special telegram to comfort the Kharchin King Gongsang Norbu and other Mongolian princes who were planning a rebellion, and even said something like "Han and Mongolian are originally of the same race."

However, the words "expel the Tartars" and "kill the Tartars on the 15th of August" are still fresh in our minds. How can a declaration and a few telegrams resolve the rift that has formed over the years?

Not only the Manchu, Mongolian and other ethnic minorities, but even many Han people in the north did not understand the revolution and were at a loss as to what to do.

Yuan Datou has many faults, but one thing is that he is far-sighted.

Yuan Shikai's negotiations with Tsarist Russia directly indicated that the Republic of China must inherit all the territories of the Qing Dynasty.

Yuan Shikai always attached great importance to the Mongolian issue:

He appointed Gongsang Norbu as the president of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Bureau of the Republic of China and promoted him to prince;

A large number of titles were also conferred on other Mongolian upper-class figures, causing the number of princes and nobles in Inner Mongolia to "increase several times compared to the number during the Qing Dynasty."

As time went by, the princes and nobles of Inner Mongolia gave up their separatist plots, and many Mongolian princes and nobles who had fled to Outer Mongolia also returned to Inner Mongolia one after another.

This is the first credit.

The interesting thing is that he was the only one who strongly opposed the peace talks between the North and the South at that time.

These were Japanese people who had close ties with the revolutionaries and came to China to participate in the revolution, such as Toyama Mitsuru, Inukai Tsuyoshi, Uchida Ryohei, and Kita Ikki.

This shows the difference between scholars and warriors.

Most men of letters only seek comfort, while men of war are keen on hard work and struggle.

It was obvious that several of them still had some complaints about those people in the Tongmenghui.

Xu Shichang said: "If many officials had not joined the revolution, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, Northeast China and other places would have become independent."

Shen Hao said: "The limitations of the times, the revolutionaries at the beginning had never been in power, so of course they didn't understand some things."

Xu Shichang said: "Now President Yuan is obsessed with becoming emperor, I am afraid that the country will fall into chaos again.

"Ambitious countries like Tsarist Russia, Japan, Britain, and the United States will once again show their fangs."

Shen Hao nodded and said: "This will definitely fluctuate.

Fortunately, the European war is getting more and more intense, which will attract the attention of all countries and they will have no time to take care of us. "

"I hope so"

Shen Hao looked at the time and said with a smile: "It's noon now, we can't go out to eat, I will welcome you two."

"How can that be so embarrassing?"

“This is what should happen”

At Shen Hao's invitation, several people came to the restaurant.

Looking at the table full of dishes, it is very sumptuous.

Xu Shichang said: "General Shen is really thoughtful."

Shen Hao laughed and said, "Haha, don't be polite. I can still afford to treat you to a meal. The other two would rather resign in order to prevent Yuan Datou from ascending the throne. I admire their courage.

Not everyone can give up this right.”

"General Shen, you are too polite. We are just powerless," Xu Shichang waved his hand.

After the maids poured the wine, Shen Hao raised his glass and said, "You all are truly men today because you are able to come to my mansion together.

I propose a toast."

"Okay, cheers."

The white wine tastes very spicy when it goes down your throat.

After finishing one glass, Shen Hao raised his glass again and said, "We have never had the chance to get together, so this time we have the chance, we must have a good drink together."

Hearing this, Xu Shichang, Sun Baoqi and Feng Guozhang all turned pale.

Of course they had heard the rumors about Shen Hao's alcoholism. Feng Guozhang had drunk with him a few times and knew Shen Hao's alcohol tolerance better.

Feng Guozhang said: "Brother Shen, forget about drinking. Everyone knows that you can drink a lot."

Sun Baoqi shook his head and said, "I can't drink this old bone of mine. I came here for another matter."

Shen Hao said: "Oh, Director Sun, please go ahead."