Chapter 375: May Fourth Movement

This thing is not done in an authentic way, and even the British and American countries themselves can't stand it.

The Times of London accused the British government of betraying China, saying: "Although China has made sacrifices for the war, she has been treated like a defeated country." ”

The Boston Record of the United States described the Paris Peace Conference's handling of Shandong as "crude and barbaric plunder"; The New York-based newspaper The Voice described this as the "most despicable act" in the history of imperialist diplomacy; U.S. Minister to China Paul Reinsch angrily resigned in protest against Wilson's betrayal of China.

Paper can't hold fire. Lin Changmin, chief of the Foreign Affairs Committee (the uncle of Lin Huiyin, a talented woman in the Republic of China), who learned of the incident, wrote in the "Morning Post" and "National Gazette": "Shandong is dead, the country will not be a country, and I am willing to join 40,000 people to swear to die." ”

As soon as this news was disseminated, public opinion was greatly aroused. As a result, on the 4th day of the first month of May, students at or above the Beijing Vocational School suspended classes and demanded that Cao Rulin, Lu Zongyu, and Zhang Zongxiang be punished. Poor Cao, Lu, and Zhang inexplicably infamous the Central Government as "traitors".

The results of the "May Fourth Movement" are clear to Zhang Hanqing. When he "learned" that Japan was exerting influence on the Shandong issue, he expressed to the important members of the Feng army the determination to reverse the "Duan" and the great benefits to the Feng faction of the current political opposition to the "Duan." After the Hulunbuir and Middle East Road issues were quickly resolved, the Feng faction, especially the top military and political leaders headed by Zhang Zuolin, had deeply understood that the strength of the Feng faction was no longer what it used to be, and in addition to its inflated ambitions, they all had the heart to take another step outside the Guan.

In fact, even if the Feng Department does not intervene in this foot, the situation is one-sided in favor of patriotic students. However, if the People's Party wants to truly guide the people in public opinion, inspire the people spiritually, and lead the people ideologically, it is the best way to open fire on the government from the beginning. There is no need to worry about any retaliatory actions by the central government, after this trouble, the prestige of the government has been discredited, and it seems that the Anhui system has temporarily withdrawn from the stage of history in the war of Zhiwan in the past year, because it is not accidental, because its popular support has been lost.

Of course, Bong's voice was well prepared. On this issue, it is time to make your voice heard and declare to the world: The Feng system has become the troika that constitutes the Beiyang government of the Republic of China together with the direct line and the Anhui line, and has officially and clearly entered the stage of history.

As a prelude, on May 4, the People's Party, which was the first to learn of the incident, launched a massive protest campaign across the northeast. Zhang Hanqing has been fully preparing for this event for a long time, and has also privately planned a well-organized and disciplined march for nearly a month.

He used the "Fengtian Baobao" as the mouthpiece of the Northeast Autonomous Government, and the "People's Party Daily" under the control of the People's Party as the united voice of workers, peasants, businessmen, soldiers, and intellectuals, and successively published several editorials to the Beijing government: "The country is about to die, and the husband is responsible", "Three names under the pen, the land is lost 100,000", and "The Central Committee has run its day, and the people are not at the end of the night", and opened fire on Duan Qirui's government.

In "The People's Night is Not Yang", Zhang Hanqing even targeted Duan Qirui and telegraphed China and abroad: "The country will die, and there will be demons." Servility is not stubborn, and it is natural. After three years on the stage, the achievements of betraying the country have been so outstanding, and if he is ordered to grow this corpse, my country still has an inch of land? Do my people still have the like? And asked Duan Qirui to resign to apologize.

The government did not respond, obviously not expecting that this signing event from outside the customs would cause such a big momentum, so that Duan Qirui's government convened the shogunate to discuss all night, and could not come up with a complete response plan.

Early the next morning, Zhang Hanqing sent another telegram, reprimanding Duan Qiruining for trying to maintain his position of power because of the damage to national interests: "Laughing and scolding is laughed at by others, and I will do it myself as a good official."

The news spread, and Peking University students first made a student tide in the Guan, and Beijing Normal University and other schools immediately responded. As soon as the news spread, students went on strike and shops went on strike everywhere in Beijing.

At the same time, the people of the three eastern provinces launched a huge campaign against the signing outside the Guanguan, and even larger strikes, school boycotts, and market boycotts were launched in the northeast, and of course, the movement was led by the People's Party organizations among the students, the chamber of commerce, and the trade unions, which totaled more than a million people.

As the leader of the People's Party and the initiator and organizer of the movement, Zhang Hanqing emerged with a patriotic and radical face.

Things are fermenting, but instead of clarifying, the authorities have responded with fierce toughness. The Beijing government dispatched military and police to arrest hundreds of students, which further worsened the situation. Zhang Hanqing first denounced this kind of behavior, and then sent another telegram: "Anyone who uses force to suppress thoughtful patriots will not end well in history." And called on the people of the whole country to unite: "Arm yourself to eliminate such a traitorous government"!

In his article "Old China Is Dead", he listed the various unequal treaties that China had signed since the Opium War, as well as China's deteriorating international status, and passionately published the immortal famous article "Phoenix Nirvana" that would make China "put to death and come back to life", which is also a magnificent battle essay:

"In the air as Chinese New Year's Eve approaches,

A pair of phoenixes flying around,

Singing a song of mourning flies away,

The incense wood with the branches flew in,

Fly on Danxue Mountain. …”

In the noisy school, young Yu Yifan was reading this majestic declaration funeral song and ode in a daze. For the young and handsome "little uncle", the girl's heart is always a little inexplicable, but she knows that it is impossible, but she still can't stop paying attention to his every move, in the newspapers, in the legends...

"Little Uncle" is a very kind and sunny boy, and he has a manly and heroic spirit that ordinary boys do not have, which is intoxicating.

"We are him, and they are me.

I have you in me, and I have me in you.

I am you,

You are me. …”

How I hope that I can be reborn in the fire with my little uncle and open a new chapter in my life.

"Where is the freshness of our youth?

Where is the lusciousness of our youth?

Where is the glory of our youth?

Where is the love of our youth? …”

Yu Yifan deserted recklessly, and she felt an indescribable discomfort all over her body, which made her fidget. When she read "Only Singing", she could no longer hold back the agitation in her heart and cried loudly.

The influence of "Phoenix Nirvana" not only infected Yu Yifan, making her have the belief that she should burn herself in the fire for the first time, but also inspired countless college students, progressives and countless intellectuals.