Cai Ye went to Japan for medical treatment without Yuan Shikai's approval beforehand, which of course made Yuan very angry. But Yuan was happily about to become the emperor at this time, so he didn't care about Cai Yi's affairs, and he didn't think about how serious the matter was.

On the one hand, he sent Gong Xinzhan to act as the supervisor of Cai Yi's Economic and Boundary Bureau, and sent Zhang Yuanji to participate in politics as an agent of the Senate, and at the same time approved "leave" on Cai Yi's submission, hoping that he would recover as soon as possible and return to Beijing as soon as possible to resume his post.

When Yuan Shikai achieved control over the country, Yunnan was always a weak link in Yuan's sphere of influence. He believes that Cai Ye is talented, courageous, and has won the hearts of the people in the south, and summoning Cai Ye into Beijing is undoubtedly to divert the tiger from the mountain.

Before Cai left Yunnan, Yuan Shikai asked Cai to recommend a successor to the governor of Yunnan. In order to appease and envelop Cai E, and also to appease the people of Yunnan, he accepted Cai Yi's recommendation and transferred Tang Jiyao, the governor of Guizhou, to the governor of Yunnan.

From Yuan Shikai's standpoint, this is obviously a major mistake by him. Especially when he put all his attention on Cai Yi, and ignored another person, Tang Jiyao.

Tang Jiyao (August 14, 1883 - May 23, 1927), also known as Rongchang, the word Beigeng. Born in Huize, Yunnan, a landlord family who is not wealthy, but attaches great importance to children's education.

His father Tang Xue was a Zhen student, and his uncle Tang Xuemin was a member of Ding Youke. Tang Jiyao entered a private school at the age of six, and in the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu (1898), when Tang Jiyao was fifteen years old, he should take the boy's examination and show his talent. His old learning is very basic, and he is magnificent and ambitious.

In the thirtieth year of Guangxu (1904), Tang Jiyao went to Kunming, obtained official scholarship to study in Japan, and was able to study in Japan. Studied at Tokyo Zhenwu School, initially planned to study engineering, and later changed to military, and Zhao Hengti, Kong Geng, Yan Xishan and others at the same time.

In August of the following year, Sun Yat-sen organized the China League in Japan, and Tang Jiyao was influenced by the bourgeois revolutionary ideology and soon joined the China League. He also participated in the organization of the Yunnan Magazine, the organ of the Yunnan branch of the League. At the same time, he secretly organized the Army Corps and the Martial Arts Society.

In November, due to the announcement of the rules for banning Chinese students in Japan, Chinese students in Japan protested and prepared to return to China. Tang Jiyao did not approve of the students' protests, but instead called on them to study in peace. In the 32nd year of Guangxu (1906), Tang Jiyao graduated from Zhenwu School with the first place, went to the artillery wing of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army in Kanazawa for training, and after the expiration of one year, he entered the sixth artillery department of the Japanese non-commissioned officer school in the 33rd year of Guangxu (1907).

In the first year of Xuantong (1909), Tang Jiyao returned to China after graduation, traveled all over the Northeast, relied on the battlefield of Japan and Russia, and went to Beijing to watch the autumn exercises in Baoding.

After returning to Yunnan to serve as a supervisor and an instructor at the Yunnan Lecture and Martial Arts Hall, Tang Jiyao joined the New Army and served in the New Army to engage in revolutionary activities.

In the third year of Xuantong (1911), Tang Jiyao served as the first battalion of the 74th standard of the 19th Town of the Army. The seventy-four standard system is Luo Peijin, Tang Jiyao is the first battalion pipe band, Liu Cunhou is the second battalion pipe band, and Lei Biao is the third battalion pipe band.

In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), after the recovery of Yunnan, Cai Yi took office as the governor of Yunnan, sent troops to the Northern Expedition, and sent Lei Biao and Peng Xinmin to escort Li Jingxi, the former governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, from Yunnan. Xie Ruyi and Li Hongxiang were sent to lead their divisions out of Sichuan to force Zhao Erfeng, the governor of Sichuan, to become independent. Luo Peijin and Yu Enyang were sent to lead an army to southern Yunnan, and Li Gengen was sent to lead an army to western Yunnan. At this time, Guizhou also revolted, and the Guizhou gentry Ren Kecheng, Liu Xianshi, Dai Huan and others called on Cai Yi to send Tang Jiyao to lead the army to aid Guizhou and quell the rebellion in Guizhou.

Tang Jiyao led the Yunnan army to occupy Guiyang, and was promoted to the governor of Guizhou.

In the autumn of the second year of the Republic of China, Tang Jiyao succeeded Cai Ye as the governor of Yunnan. In November, Tang Jiyao officially succeeded Cai Ye as the governor of Yunnan and the civil governor of Yunnan.

At the end of that year, Tang Jiyao succeeded Cai Yi to supervise Yunnan, which coincided with the time when the provisional president Yuan Shikai put down the second revolution of the Kuomintang by force and erased the word "temporary" to become the official president, Yuan Shikai's army advanced to the southern provinces, and the only remaining provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guizhou, and Guangdong.

Yuan Shikai used his title money to win over Long Jiguang, the governor of Guangdong, which constituted a containment of Guangxi, and used Chen Mi to supervise Sichuan, which had the potential to further clean up Yungui.

In February of the third year of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai ordered the suspension of local autonomy and further reduced the power of the military governor with the chief civil officer. Tang Jiyao, as the governor of the military governor, could only reluctantly recommend and accept Yuan Shikai's appointment of Ren Kecheng as the Yunnan Governor in charge of civil affairs.

In the autumn of the third year of the Republic of China, when Ren Kecheng was about to go to Beijing at the invitation of Cai Jie, Tang Jiyao secretly asked him to tell Cai Jie: "Since Pingning and Jianghou (referring to the Second Revolution), the Yuan family has given Zhi Zixiong, ravaged the Congress, disdained the law, stopped self-government, and extinguished the Kuomintang. If you look at his actions, you will not be able to live in the president, and there will be a day when you will steal the country. When Cai Gong is in Beijing, he would rather be able to be a servant and bow down to him, and he will be jealous of Yuan in the future and will be in danger. It's better to get out of the south and come to the big things together."

After Yuan Shikai revealed his ambition to be emperor, Tang Jiyao secretly prepared to oppose Yuan in Yunnan. In February of the fourth year of the Republic of China, Tang Jiyao sent secret telegrams to the generals and envoys of the six provinces, including Guangdong, Hunan, Guangxi, and Sichuan, clearly expressing his opposition to the "21 Articles" and suggesting that the southwestern provinces "be vigorous and prepared."

"Internally, the personnel of the province will be adjusted", secretly sheltering and enabling Ye Quan, Huang Yucheng, Zhao Fuxiang and others who had participated in the second revolution in Jiangxi and were hostile to Yuan Shikai; summoned Luo Peijin and Gu Pinzhen, who were idle at home because of their opposition to Yuan Shikai's claim to be emperor, to make a comeback; Use "Liu Yunfeng, Li Yanbin, Lu Zhiyi, Li Yueyuan, Li Zonghuang, etc.

Outside, he communicated closely with comrades from all sides and sent people to invite, such as Cai Yi, Li Liejun, Cheng Qian, Chen Qiang, Dai Huan, Fang Shengtao, Xiong Kewu, Han Fenglou, Dan Maoxin, Wang Boqun and other princes, all of whom had a tacit understanding for a long time and came to Yunnan for the first time.

All military, political, salary, propaganda, lobbying, liaison, etc., before and after the uprising, all rely on the division and cooperation of internal and external colleagues, which is the effect of gathering talents and talents."

In terms of army reorganization, the Yunnan Provincial Army had only two divisions at that time, and once something was insufficient to deal with, in addition to reorganizing and training the existing troops, it organized two regiments of guards, with Tang Jiyu and Zhao Shiming as the commanders. In the name of supplementation, retired and newly recruited soldiers were recruited to be reorganized. The officers and surveying class students were re-selected and ordered to tutor in the lecture hall to prepare for the appointment. And in the name of law and order, he secretly ordered the counties to reorganize the local teams to wait for the opportunity.

After Tang Jiyao took office as the governor of Yunnan, the whole army was martial, and he was able to enjoy the right time, place, and people. At that time, the second revolution of the Kuomintang failed, and the Kuomintang people in all provinces, except for those who went abroad, all entered Yunnan one after another, and Tang Jiyao took them in one by one and properly resettled.

At that time, there were only two divisions of the army in Yunnan Province, the first division commander Li Hongxiang and the second division commander Xie Ruyi. Because the two of them had the action of refusing Tang to return to Yunnan, Tang Huidian soon took over the first division with Wang Du, Gu Pinzhen took over the second division, and soon Zhang Zizhen was the first division commander and Liu Zuwu was the second division commander. On the one hand, it stepped up training, and at the same time secretly expanded the army.

If you have an army, you need to replenish your ammunition. Soon after Tang returned to Yunnan, Zeng Mi ordered more than 2 million ordnance from Germany, but unfortunately due to the European war, only some of them were shipped to China, and they were intercepted by Yuan Shikai.

In the spring and summer of the fourth year of the Republic of China, Yuan Keding organized a model regiment, and Tang Jiyao defrauded Tang Zaili, deputy chief of staff in Beijing, of a number of weapons and ammunition in the name of running a model regiment in Yunnan.

In early September of that year, in the name of preparing for the autumn exercises, Miao Jiashou, chief of the quartermaster department, and Zhao Shen, director of the arsenal, were sent to Japan to purchase munitions, which were shipped to Yunnan in mid-December.

He also sent Lu Zhiyi to various ports in Nanyang to express condolences to overseas Chinese: to raise funds.

Yuan said that the emperor was in full swing, and Tang Jiyao thought that it was necessary to understand the truth of all parties, so he sent Liu Yunfeng and others to Zhejiang; Wu Qingtian and others went to Liangguang; Li Zhisheng and others went to Sichuan; Yang Xiuling and others went to Hunan; Li Yanbin and others returned to Guizhou.

On 11 September, Tang Jiyao convened a meeting of the stalwarts of the military circles at the headquarters of the mixed regiment in Kunming, and at that time everyone believed that the conspiracy of Yuan Chengdi had been revealed, and decided to take three measures to deal with the situation: (1) Actively promote the patriotic spirit of his subordinates; (2) Organizing armed operations; (3) Strictly keep secrets.

On 7 October, when the imperial activities became more and more actionable, and the pseudo-telegrams in favor of the imperial system from the nineteen provinces arrived in Yunnan one after another, Tang Jiyao once again convened a meeting of military figures, and at that time drew up four principles and steps: (1) The time for the uprising against Yuan was best when one of the central provinces was expected to respond; (2) When one of the three provinces of Guizhou, Guizhou and Sichuan is expected to respond; (3) When overseas Chinese or the Kuomintang receive alms; (West) If none of the above three items are realized, Yunnan is willing to make a desperate gamble and declare independence in order to compete for the national personality.

Since the news of instability in Yunnan, the Yuan Party paid great attention to Yunnan, and Tang Jiyao pretended to be obedient in order to reduce unnecessary resistance; secretly prepared weapons and ordered Deng Taizhong and Yang Zhen to move to the Sichuan border.

At this time, Li Liejun arrived, Li Liejun and Cai Yi and Tang Jiyao had always had a relationship, Tang Jiyao heard that Li Liejun had arrived, so he sent his brother Tang Jiyu to ** to negotiate.

I also heard that Cai Ye had left Tianjin to cross to the east, so he sent Deng Taizhong to ** to greet him. Kuomintang figures in Tokyo also sent Fang Shengtao to Yunnan to stay at Huang Yucheng's house, and Sun Yat-sen's representative Ding Huaijin also absconded to Kunming.

In Beijing, Yuan Shikai's secret service paid close attention to the situation in Yunnan, and once sent a secret telegram to Kunming, urging Tang Jiyao to appoint "party leaders" Lu Zhiyi, Ding Huaijin, and Li Gengen.

In mid-December, Li Liejun entered Yunnan, and on the 18th, Yuan Shikai's command office in Beijing sent a telegram to Tang Jiyao, Dianyun:

"Urgent. General of the Tang Dynasty of Yunnan, Huami. On the instructions of the Generalissimo: According to reports, there are disruptive party dignitaries entering Yunnan, and the incitement is quite obvious. General Tang is loyal to the country, wise and brave, and excellent, he will be able to suppress and eliminate, if there is a chaotic party to Yunnan, or sudden disturbance, Tang Jiyao will be allowed to deal with it cheaply, no matter who it is, but there is a rebellion, it will be put in the law, and it will be reported afterwards, and there is no need to ask for instructions in advance. All investigators are allowed to apply for awards in an exceptional manner, and they must ensure local law and order, so as not to cause misery to the lives of the people, and have high hopes. and so on. Place. Skillful. Stamp. ”

On the 19th, the command office telegraphed Tang Jiyu again, Dianyun:

“…… Cai Ye and Dai Huan joined the rebellious party to enter Yunnan to plot rebellion, and they should be asked to closely investigate and prevent ......"