According to an insider, the so-called Beijing uprising was planned to be called by the revolutionary party at 10 p.m. on 29 July.

After the cannon fired, the revolutionary party led the masses to attack Zhengyangmen, Chongwenmen, and Xuanwumen. Yuan Shikai ordered the fourth standard of the Praetorian Guard to attack Xihuamen from Xizhimen, and at the same time ordered his eldest son Yuan Keding to lead 3,000 troops to capture Donghuamen.

Previously, Chen Tao, Kuang Mohan, Wang Zhenhan, Yi Xuan and others came to Tianjin from Wuchang and Shenyang. Kuang Mohan and Wang Zhenhan soon moved to Beijing.

Chen Tao, born in 1884, studied in his early years, and later went to Shashi, Hubei, to join the Qing army patrol battalion and join the Republican Association. In 1911, he participated in the Wuchang Uprising, served as the chief of staff of a certain department, and led his troops to fight many fierce battles with the Qing army.

On January 3, 1912, he launched the second Luanzhou Uprising with Wang Jinming and Shi Congyun in Zhili (now Hebei), and served as the former enemy's commander and chief of military staff. Later, it was surrounded by the Qing army, and retreated to Changli after breaking through the siege. Tragically killed in battle.

Kuang Mohan, whose name is Zhenling, was born on October 12 in Huangqiang Village, Liuche Township, Xunwu County, in the tenth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty.

After graduating from high school, he entered the Nanchang Military Police School and was sent to Japan for further study at Waseda University. In Japan, he joined the Chinese Revolutionary League led by Sun Yat-sen.

In the third year of Qing Xuantong (1911), he returned to China and participated in the Wuchang Uprising, and was later sent to Zhili to launch the uprising.

During his stay in Beijing, he was influenced by the October Revolution in Russia, accepted Marxism, and participated in the May Fourth Movement. He joined the Communist Party of China in the 11th year of the Republic of China, based on the education front, and devoted himself to the study and dissemination of Marxism-Leninism.

Sixteen years after the Republic of China, he successively served as a professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Wuhan, director of the Economics Department, chairman of the school affairs committee, chief political instructor of the Central Army Military Academy in Nanjing, director of academic affairs of Beijing Culture University, and vice president of Nanjing Cultural Institute.

He is the author of "Whampoa Series", "Stony Creek Collection" and other books. During his stay in Beijing, he trained Liu Weiyi and Kuang Caicheng, who were studying in Beijing, guided them to devote themselves to the cause of proletarian revolution, and advocated the establishment of a revolutionary journal, Xunwu magazine.

On November 25, 21 years of the Republic of China, while teaching in Beijing, he was poisoned and framed to death at the age of 48.

The rest of them are unknown.

That night, the revolutionaries fulfilled the agreement between Wang Zhaoming and Yuan Shikai, gathered at Zhengyangmen, Chongwenmen, and Xuanwumen on time, and planned to attack Tiananmen, Donghuamen, and Xihuamen in three ways.

At ten o'clock, the cannon rang out on time, and the fourth standard of the Praetorian Guard mentioned by Yuan Shikai and the 3,000 people led by his son Yuan Keding were nowhere to be seen.

However, the military and police had long been waiting to arrest more than 10 people including Li Hanjie of the revolutionary party. Gao Xinhua and Chen Xiong committed suicide because they did not want to be captured.

Many people said sadly and indignantly: "Yuan Shikai and Wang Zhaoming worked together to kill my revolutionary comrades in Beijing. ”

This time it was clearly a conspiracy by Yuan Shikai to play with the revolutionaries.

Whether Wang Jingwei was his accomplice or was deceived is unknown.

But one thing is certain, this matter did not affect the relationship between Wang Jingwei and Yuan Shikai. Since then, Wang Jingwei has still maintained Yuan Shikai wholeheartedly.

Du Huang, a female comrade in charge of the "treasury" of the branch of the Beijing-Tianjin-Bao League, once expressed Wang Jingwei's actions in a report.

She said: "The head of the branch (Wang Jingwei) insisted on overthrowing the Qing emperor by political means, and he was not prepared for the activities of comrades, the liaison between the military and police, and the purchase of guns and ammunition. Due to the age of the pistols and bullets in stock, most of the bullets do not fit the caliber of the pistol, so they cannot be used. ”

Lü Chao, the minister of military affairs of the branch, and Wang Jingwei also had an argument, and Lü opposed "political means" and pointed out that if "servants who served in the Qing Emperor" (referring to Yuan Shikai) took over the military and political power of the Qing Emperor, it would be no different from "the death of the father and the succession of the son, and the succession of the brother to the death", and it would not be a revolution at all.

Lü Chao also formulated a plan for the Gyeonggi Revolution, preparing to contact his army classmates in the various armies of to launch an uprising to overthrow Yuan Shikai.

Due to Wang Jingwei's intervention and opposition, Lü Chao's Gyeonggi Revolutionary Plan could not be implemented.

After the success of the Wuchang uprising, the revolutionaries in the north asked Hubei to send personnel to guide the revolution in the north. Hubei Military Administration. The government responded positively to this and sent Hu Egong and others to go.

Hu Egong (1884-1951), formerly known as Rong Ming, was born in a poor peasant family in the Hu family ancestral hall (originally Jiangling) in Nanwuzhou.

Lost his parents, relied on relatives to raise him, and studied in a private school, and often had to be supported by a teacher. In his early years, he participated in the Hongmen uprisings in Lizhou, Huarong and Gong'an led by his brother Hu Rongqi, and returned to his hometown to work as a farmer after failure.

In 1906, he entered Haoxue Preparatory Middle School to study, when the democratic revolutionary movement was rising, he and his classmates Xiong Deshan, Ning Guokai, Qian Tieru and more than 20 other people formed the Furen Society, served as the president, and propagated the revolution.

In 1909, he was admitted to Baoding Zhili Higher Agricultural School; Initiated the establishment of the Baoding Student Hair Breaking Association; It also organized the Republican Association to develop members in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hubei.

After the outbreak of the first uprising in Wuchang, Xinhai, he returned to Hubei and served as the chief of the senior detective section of the Governor's Office, the commander-in-chief of the Hubei army, and the superintendent of the Dabie Mountain Fortress.

In mid-November 1911, on the orders of Li Yuanhong, he went to Beijing and Tianjin as the plenipotentiary representative of the Hubei army. At the end of the month, Hu Zaijin established the headquarters of the Tianjin army. On December 2, the representative office of the Hubei army was established, with Hu concurrently serving as the commander-in-chief, and the Northern Revolutionary Association was established, and he was elected president.

once planned to assassinate Yuan Shikai.

According to Hu Egong's "Records of the Northern Record of the Xinhai Revolution":

After Wang Jingwei and Yuan Shikai formed a political alliance, Wang provided Yuan Shikai with all the information of the revolutionary party in Beijing, Tianjin, and Bulgaria.

Yuan "threw himself into Li" and said to Wang: "If you can hold on to it, then the development of the group and the organization of assassination can be done by you." ”

It can be seen that Yuan Shikai very much hoped to control the activities of the revolutionary party in the north through Wang Jingwei.

On December 3, Wang Jingwei rushed from Tianjin to Beijing, "The speaker said that Zhaoming's visit to Beijing was at the call of Shikai and was related to the execution of Wang Xipu; There is also a call for Shikai Zhaoming, who has consulted in the discussion and conduct. ”

Before leaving, Wang Jingwei said to Hu Egong: "The negotiations between the two armies of the Qing Dynasty and our army in Hankou have now been armistically negotiated for peace. ”

Wang Jingwei's behavior in the north undoubtedly aroused the suspicion of the party, as the party member Ye Jigao said: "Zhaoming has been cared for by Yuan Shikai. ”

As a matter of fact, Wang Ching-wei has always insisted that during the period of the North-South peace talks, the northern revolutionaries should keep their promises, stop their revolutionary activities, and assist in the smooth progress of the North-South peace talks.

On December 6, Hu Egong went to Beijing and drove to Li Yuying's apartment in Zhenjiang Hutong to meet Wang Jingwei and Li Yuying.

He asked Wang: "How has the political situation changed here?" There are many rumors in Tianjin, saying that the Qing Cabinet is killing each other, and it is not conducive to the revolution? ”

Wang said: "This morning, the regent of the prison country resigned, and the great power of the military and government should be concentrated in the cabinet, and it should be easier to carry out peace negotiations." The armistice may continue to be extended, which is beneficial to the revolution. ”

Hu said: "The Wuchang Uprising lasted more than 50 days, and more than 10 provinces responded to the independence, which is tantamount to my rejection of the response of the non-independent provinces. This is in favor of Shikai, what is there in the revolution? ”

Wang said: "Shikai is now inclined to the republic, and the benefits of Shikai are also the benefits of the revolution. ”

On 21 December, Hu Egong and Zhang Xianpei went to Beijing from Tianjin. Meet Wang Jingwei in Zhenjiang Hutong.

Wang said: "Now when the armistice is negotiating peace, the comrades of our party in Beijing, Tianjin, and Bulgaria should keep their promises and not take any action. However, in the case of assassination, it is still necessary to carry out the ear if necessary. …… Now that the revolutionary armies of the provinces have ceased fighting, our comrades in Beijing, Tianjin, and Bulgaria should stop their operations.

"But those who obstruct the peace talks about this armistice are those who sabotage the revolution. Therefore, if necessary, the assassination must still be carried out. ”

Hu Egong retorted: "Those who sabotage the revolution should be the same as those who assassinate them." However, peace talks are not revolutionary, and it cannot be said that obstructing peace talks is a person who sabotages the revolution. And the scope of the armistice only extends to Hubei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Fengtian provinces, but not Beijing, Tianjin, Baotian and other places. ”

Wang said: "I hope to convey this to my comrades: Xiang Cheng expects that the peace negotiators are very high, and the army is strictly governed, so there should be no such off-track action." ”

Under the domination of this idea, Wang Jingwei intervened and obstructed the armed uprising in the Beijing-Tianjin-Bao area during the period of peace negotiations between the north and the south.

Due to Wang's close contacts with Yuan, many of the activities of the revolutionaries in the north were not known to Wang or participated.

For example, on the morning of 9 December, comrades from Beijing, Tianjin, Bao, Luan, Tong, Shijiazhuang, and Ren Qiu held a meeting at the Baoding Xiguan Zhili Higher Agricultural School.

There were more than 20 people present at the meeting (no Wang), and the meeting decided to raise an uprising in Renqiu, Beijing, Tianjin, Bao, Luan, Tong, and Shijiazhuang on the 28th, so as to contain Yuan Shikai's attack on Shanxi's division.

At the meeting, Zhang Xianpei, Xue Chenghua and others proposed to organize an assassination group to assassinate Yuan Shikai and Zhang Huaizhi in retaliation by removing obstacles to the revolution. The assassination team of Yuan was organized by Zhang Xianpei, and the assassination team of Zhang was organized by Xue Chenghua.

Because Wang's influence on the northern party members was not very good, "since Wang was the head of the Beijing, Tianjin, and Baozhi departments of the China League, he did not want to participate in the League, but he had to make the best use of it." ”