Chapter 135: A Flash in the Hour

Anhui's independence was a "fake independence" from the very beginning. Although Bai Wenwei was nominally the commander-in-chief of the Anhui Yuan army, the army was actually controlled by the division commander Hu Wantai and the civil affairs chief Sun Duosen. When the Beiyang Army's Ni Sichong and Zhang Zhenfang's troops pressed the border, those who engaged in fake independence in Anhui immediately tore off their veils and announced their support for Yuan.

If Anhui is lost, Nanjing will be opened. The Nanjing side was also defeated by part of the battle against Yuan's army, and Nanjing was lost on 1 September.

With the successive victories of the Beiyang Army, the promotion chart of the Yuan family also followed. Duan Zhigui was still the commander of the First Army, promoted to general, and was actually awarded the Jiangxi Xuanfu Envoy; Zhang Xun was also promoted to general, and Duan Zhigui's right commander Wang Zhanyuan was also the Hunan Protector Envoy.

The Shanghai side was defeated by the defeat of Yuan's army in Nanjing. Yuan Shikai ordered Yang Shande, commander of the Fourth Division, to be the envoy of Songjiang Town, Zheng Ru to be the envoy of Shanghai Town, and Liu Guanxiong, the commander of the Navy, to be the governor of Fujian.

On 27 July, Yuan sent Long Jiguang and the brothers to serve as the chief and deputy envoys of Guangdong, and on 3 August, Long Jiguang was promoted to general to succeed him as governor of Guangdong, and on 5 August Chen Jiongming left. Although Xiong Kewu declared independence on August 9, he was dismissed from his post after only one month.

The situation of Hunan's independence was mainly oppressed by Hubei. After the failure of Guangdong's independence, Tan Yanhong, the governor of Hunan Province, and Zhao Hengti, the commander of the Hunan Army, were even more lonely.

On August 12, Hunan was forced to cancel its independence due to the environment, and on September 17, Yuan ordered Tang Qianming to lead Chu You and other four shallow-water ships to enter Yuezhou with the cooperation of Cao Kun of the Third Division. The government appointed Wu Xiangzhen, commander of the Thirty-Nine Mixed Brigade, as the guard of Yuezhou Town. In this way, Hunan completely fell into Yuan's hands.

Yuan continued to carry out the murder plan with a knife, and ordered Li Yuanhong to lead the governor of Hunan at the same time. Of course, Li will not fall for the trick and resign respectfully. Yuan Nai asked Li to recommend people on his behalf, and Li naturally would not recommend people who had nothing to do with Yuan. He felt that Tang Qianming was Yuan's best friend and a native of Hubei, and Li and Tang's eldest brother Tang Hualong were old friends, so he recommended Tang as the governor of Hunan along the river.

On October 7, Tang Qianming went to Changsha to meet with Tan Yanhong, and on October 24, Yuan issued a personnel order, dismissing Tan, and replacing Tang as governor and Wang Hu as civil governor.

He also ordered Tan Yanmin to enter Beijing on the same day, and at the same time ordered the division commander Zhao Hengti to be sent to Beijing to wait for punishment. Yuan's army entered Changsha on 15 November.

Li Yuanhong and Tan Yanmin have a good relationship with Zhao Hengti. After Tan Yanmin went into the wilderness, Li Yuanhong sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai, trying his best to exonerate Tan Yanhong: "Tan's independence is not voluntary, but forced. ”

Tan Yanmin has an excellent character, is a serious and responsible person, and of course has some bookish spirit. When he saw Lai's telegram of relief for him, he immediately denied it.

He sent a telegram to the effect that "Vice President Lai is loving and trying to forgive, don't I know how to be grateful, but I have not been forced to take medicine." I am the governor, and I give orders to myself as the master, and I want to punish crimes, and I am willing to be a cloud.

After the Second Revolution, the provinces canceled their independence, and there was a scolding of Sun and Huang, but Tan never scolded. The governors of each province often falsely claimed that they were forced to become independent or impersonated, while Tan was solely to blame.

Tan Yanmin (1880-1930), the character group hermitage, the name fearless, Chezhai, Hunan Chaling. Together with Chen Sanli and Tan Si, he is known as the "Three Sons of Huxiang"; Together with Chen Sanli, Xu Renzhu, and Tao Jucun, he is known as the "Four Sons of the Restoration". Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, he was a famous politician during the Republic of China.

Tan Yanmin once served as the overseer of the Liangguang Army, and served as the Hunan Overseer, Provincial Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Hunan Army three times, awarded the rank of general, and generalissimo. He used to be the chairman of the Nanjing National ** and the president of the Executive Yuan. On September 22, 1930, he died of illness in Nanjing. After his death, the Republic of China held a state funeral for him. Tan Yanmin is known as "the master of modern Yanshu", and his author has written "Group Ann Poetry Collection", etc., he is good at food and is the founder of Group Nunnery Hunan cuisine.

Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling got married, and Tan Yanmin was the introducer.

The Beijing War Department sentenced Tan to four years in prison, and Li Zai came out to say that on December 12 he ordered an amnesty, and only stripped him of the rank of army general "as a light punishment."

At the same time, Li interceded on behalf of Zhao Hengti. Zhao was also exempted from the difficulty, and was sentenced to four years in prison and stripped of the rank of major general. Later, Zhao was protected by Cai Yi, and was also pardoned on September 13, the third year of the Republic of China.

On 23 July, Yuan Shih-kai issued an order to revoke Sun Yat-sen's full authority to set up a national railway.

On September 9, the first year of the Republic of China, Sun was appointed to prepare for the national railway, advocating the construction of 200,000 miles of railway. It's a pity that people didn't have the foresight at that time, thinking that the construction of a 200,000-mile railway was simply a myth, so everyone laughed at Sun Yat-sen with "Sun Cannon".

In fact, at that time, the United States already had more than 1 million miles of railroads, and China was larger than the United States, so even if it built 250,000 miles, it was not the same thing at all. And the Chinese people are making such a fuss, which is really too shallow.

Sun Yat-sen planned the national railway plan in a unified manner, and the first step was to build three major routes: the first was to connect the Myanmar Railway from Guangzhou through Guangxi and Yunnan; the second is from Guangzhou to Tibet via Hunan and Sichuan; The third is from the mouth of the Yangtze River through Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Xinjiang to Ili.

The fund-raising method advocates borrowing, "such as the Jingfeng, Jinghan, and Shanghai-Nanjing Zhulu methods, and the conditions are within the scope of not hindering China's sovereignty." The capital is set at 6 billion yuan, the mileage is 200,000 miles, and the term is 10 years.

The plan was drawn up, and due to the Second Revolution and Yuan Shikai's revocation of Sun Yat-sen's full authority to organize the railway, this grand plan was aborted with Sun Zhi's departure.

On July 23, Yuan Shikai issued an order at the same time, calling Huang Xing, Chen Qimei, and Bai Wenwei "traitors", instructing Feng Guozhang and Zhang Xun to arrest Huang Xing, and also issued a reward for arresting Huang Xing with 100,000 yuan and Chen Qimei with 50,000 yuan.

After the successive defeats of Yuan's army in Shanghai and Nanjing, Sun Yat-sen left Shanghai on 2 August on the Delun York. The original intention was to go to Guangdong, but the next day, the military attache of the Japanese Consulate in Fuzhou, Taga Kyoyuki, came to inform him that "the generals stationed in Guangdong, Zhang Yiquan and Su Shenchu, had colluded with Long Jiguang to accept Yuan Shikai's chaotic life", fearing that it would not be safe, Sun Yat-sen decided to go to Taiwan instead.

Before leaving, he summoned his accompanying comrades Mei Guangpei and Li Langru, and ordered Mei and Li to go to Taiwan first, and he went to Taiwan with Hu Hanmin, and handed over all the money of 600 yuan to Mei and Li for backup. Mei and Li refused to accept it, Hu Hanmin persuaded them to accept it, and everyone said goodbye and parted ways.

After Sun Yat-sen and Hu Hanmin arrived in Taiwan, Zhang Ji and Ma Junwu also arrived. At this time, the Yuan armies in various places failed one after another, and Sun Nai went to Japan.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shikai had asked Japan to refuse Sun to go ashore. Fortunately, thanks to the cover of the captain, the arrangement of Ding Huaijin (Shi Monk), the responsible person of the Kuomintang in Japan, and the assistance of Japanese friend Xuanno Nagachi and others, he was able to secretly land in Kobe. At this time, it was Hu Hanmin and Liao Zhongkai who accompanied Sun in Kobe, and Ding Huaijin traveled back and forth between Tokyo and Kobe to contact the outside world.

On September 6, the Beijing General Procuratorate ordered Yuan Shikai to arrest the chief of the Second Revolution. Huang Xing, Chen Qimei, Niu Yongjian, He Haiming, and Cen Chunxuan were the leaders of the Ninghu rebellion, and the rest of Sun Yat-sen, Zhang Ji, Li Liejun, Bai Wenwei, Tan Renfeng, and Chen Jiongming were also wanted. Soon, Huang Xing, Chen Qimei, Ju Zheng, Dai Chuanxian, Shao Yuanchong, Deng Keng, Tian Tong and others also died in Japan.

The battle of Yuan in the second year of the Republic of China (also known as the Battle of Guichou, the Battle of Ganning, the Battle of Hukou and the Second Revolution) was unfortunately short-lived, and it was the first civil war after the founding of the Republic of China. As a result of this war, the Beiyang Army entered the southern provinces in a steady stream, except for Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Sichuan provinces, the other southern provinces became the conquering places of the Beiyang Army and its affiliated armies, and the Yuan family had covered nine-tenths of the country.

As for why the four provinces of Guizhou, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Sichuan did not allow the Beiyang Army to invade, first, the governors of these four provinces did not belong to the Kuomintang system, and second, the four provinces were remote, and Yuan felt that the whip was beyond the reach of the whip. Due to the expansion of the territory, the Beiyang Army had to suppress the north and occupy the newly captured southern provinces, of course, it felt that the number of troops was not enough, so it expanded on a large scale, and since then the number of the Beiyang Army has become more and more.

The defeat of the second revolution of the Kuomintang had a great impact on the Republic of China. Because Yuan Shikai's victory further inflated his ambition to be a dictator and emperor, the democratic cause of the Republic of China suffered a fatal blow.

The final result of the war was a complete victory for the military and political clique represented by Yuan Shikai, and the Kuomintang forces in Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Anhui provinces were also eliminated one by one. As soon as the "three feudatories" were removed, the bigwigs in other provinces were silent, but Yuan Shikai was killed.

During the Second Revolution of Pacification, Yuan Shikai paid great attention to the division and disintegration of the anti-Yuan faction. He once ordered Liang Shiyi and Zeng Yijin to tell the Yuan faction that "now I can see through that Sun (Zhongshan) and Huang (Xing) have no skills except to make trouble." The left is making trouble, and the right is making trouble, and I am entrusted by 40,000,000 people, and I can't let people make trouble with the property and lives of 40,000,000 people! Confident political and military experience, diplomatic credibility, no less than others. If they could do it for me, I would not be willing, but I dare not give it up today. If they dare to organize another **, I will dare to raise troops to conquer them! The Kuomintang is not all a bad person, but its bad people, my strength is not unequaled! ”

Liang Shiyi asked Yuan Shikai to ask Zeng Yijin to "sue the Kuomintang in his personal capacity", but Yuan Shikai waved his hand to stop him and said: "Just say that I said it Yuan Weiting, and I should be responsible." ”

On 29 May, with the support of Yuan Shikai, the Republican, Democratic, and Unification parties merged to form the Progressive Party, with Li Yuanhong as chairman and Tang Hualong and Liang Qichao in actual charges. The Progressive Party clearly stated that it supported the Yuan Shikai and the "Song Jiaoren case" to be resolved by law.

The governors of the Progressive Party in various places also followed suit, opening their eyes for Yuan Shikai, and even the governors of Shanxi and Shaanxi of the Kuomintang were also listed in the telegram attacking Huang Xing.

In the process of suppressing the "Second Revolution", Yuan Shikai repeatedly reaffirmed his respect for the National Assembly and the Treaty, which also increased the confidence of the Kuomintang legislators in Beijing to fight legally. In the "Second Revolution", only a few parliamentarians decided to go south to seek Yuan, and most of them still sat in the halls of the National Assembly and calmly talked about it.

Yuan Shikai has always reassured the parliament that this war is only to crusade against Huang Xing, Li Liejun and a few other rebels, not to destroy the Kuomintang.