Chapter 66: Opportunity
On the 19th, Wang Wenwen said again: "Chengdu groups gathered at the railway company meeting, more than 1,000 people attended, to discuss the contract and the relationship between the survival of the national railway, the cry shook the sky, sat in the latter desk and wept privately, the ministers and the patrol police sent troops to suppress, and the patrol listeners also looked at each other and shed tears. In the past few days, there have been many texts and speeches on the difficulties of railway contracts, and they cannot be forbidden, and it is impossible to prevent them. ”
At the same time, he asked for the crime of deceiving the king and the country, and asked for the punishment of the crime of deceiving the king and misleading the country, and asked to punish himself for the "same crime" and "to thank Sheng Xuanhuai". On the 27th, he also played the original documents of Luo Lun and more than 2,400 other people's endorsements and refutations, as well as the names of all the public applicants, and attached a piece to ask for punishment.
The Qing court issued a strict edict and made the king **.
Wang Wenwen, Bai nationality, Yunnan Dali. Born in the second year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty. In the thirteenth year of Guangxu (1883), he was not a scholar. He has successively served as the governor of Meitan, Guizhu and Kaitai counties in Guizhou, the prefect of Pingle Mansion in Nanning, Guangxi Province, the prefect of Jinzhou Prefecture in Fengcheng, the governor of Wudao in Guiping, Guangxi, the envoy of Guangdong Province and the envoy of Shaanxi.
In 1911, he served as the "acting governor of Sichuan" for a short time as a political envoy.
After the Xinhai Revolution, Wang Wenwen was praised by Wuchang as one of the "Eight Great Heroes" of the Sichuan Revolution. He joined the Chinese Kuomintang in 1912; In April of the same year, he was appointed as a consolation envoy to Sichuan and Yunnan. He was elected to the Senate in 1913. After breaking away from the Kuomintang. After the dissolution of the National Assembly, he left Beijing. The National Assembly reopened, and he entered Beijing, where he remained a member of the Senate. When the Congress was restored for the second time in 1912, he was still a member of the Senate.
In his later years, Wang Wenwen lived a public life and died of illness in Tianjin in 1930.
The new governor of Sichuan, Zhao Erfeng, entraps Pu Dianjun and Luo Lun, vice chairmen of the Advisory Bureau, as well as the heads of the Baolu Comrades Association and the Sichuan Road Shareholders' Association.
That night, Cao Du, revolutionary Zhu Guochen and others cut hundreds of wooden planks, on which were written: "Zhao Erfeng first arrested Puluo, then suppressed Sichuan, and comrades from all over the country quickly rose up to protect themselves and save themselves." Then the planks were coated with tung oil, thrown into the river, and went downstream.
This is the "water telegraph" that is talked about by later generations.
The well-known "Hydrograph" spread the news throughout southern and eastern Sichuan, and further set off a revolutionary situation in which the masses in various localities rose up.
Cao Du, whose name is Shushi, was born in Zigong City, Sichuan Province, and is one of the veterans of the Republic of China.
He successively studied in Ziliujing Bingwen Academy, Fushun Jiangyang Academy, and Luzhou Jingwei School (now Luzhou Vocational and Technical College). In 1907, he joined the China League, determined to oppose the Qing Dynasty and save the country, and presided over the work of the China League in Sichuan Province with Huang Fusheng, Xiong Kewu, and Xie Fengqi on the order of Sun Yat-sen.
He successively participated in the planning of the anti-Qing armed uprisings in Chengdu, Luzhou and Jiang'an, the uprising of the Sichuan Baolu People's Army, and led the preparation for the establishment of the Sichuan branch of the Kuomintang.
During the Anti-Japanese War, he strongly advocated the war against Japan, and led the Sichuan Anti-Enemy Condolence Group to the front line to express his condolences to the anti-Japanese officers and soldiers, and took a clear stand against the civil war.
In his later years, Cao Du gave up politics to practice medicine, served as the director of the Sichuan Provincial Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine, opened a college of traditional Chinese medicine, and cultivated traditional Chinese medicine talents. He died in 1945.
Cao Du has a bold personality and an open mind, and is praised by the world for his life's legend.
The news of the arrest of Pu Dianjun, Luo Lun and others spread quickly, and the neighborhoods reported that each shop was sitting in a house, regardless of the old ** woman, each with one person, some of them had a note on the Guangxu god position, and some of them held a stick of incense in their hands, and poured into the Governor's Office like a tide to petition, and some people also knelt on the ground and kowtowed and cried, demanding the release of Pu, Luo and others.
In the face of the unarmed petitioners, Zhao Erfeng had already issued an order to "crowd the upper courtyard and shoot to kill". On the one hand, he instructed the Police Office to raise Lu Guangzhong to set fire to the house in Liansheng Lane, near the Governor's Office, with the intention of creating a false pretext to frame the masses for rioting; On the other hand, he ordered the guards to shoot at the crowd, killing thirty-two people on the spot and wounding countless others. Zhao Erfeng also sent patrol troops to sub-station at various street corners and shot at pedestrians and students and children, causing the appalling "Chengdu Bloody Case."
The next day, when the rain was pouring down, the residents outside the city learned of the murder in the city, and everyone wrapped their heads in white cloth and rushed to the city in the rain to express their condolences and petitions. Zhao Erfeng also ordered the officers and soldiers to open fire, killing dozens of people. For the people who were shot dead inside and outside the Supervision Office, Zhao Erfeng actually ordered that the bodies should not be collected for three days.
Zhao Erfeng, whose name is Jihe, is from Liaoyang City, Liaoning, and is the younger brother of Zhao Erxun, the general of Shengjing. His father is Daoguang Jinshi, and his brothers Er Zhen, Er Xun, and Er Cui were all admitted to Jinshi, but Zhao Erfeng failed to do so repeatedly, so he could only pay donations as an official and serve in Guangdong. In 1884, he was appointed as the county governor of Jingle, Shanxi, and in 1888, he was transferred to the county order of Yongji, and was appreciated by Xiliang, the governor of Shanxi, and served in Henan.
In 1903, Xiliang was transferred to the governor of Sichuan, and Zhao followed him into Sichuan, and successively served as the minister of Yongning Province, Jianchang Province, Sichuan-Yunnan Frontier Affairs, and the governor of Sichuan.
In the early morning of December 22, 1911, after the Wuchang Uprising, a public trial meeting was held in Chengdu Huangchengba to try Zhao Erfeng, who denounced his crimes in public and executed Zhao Erfeng on the spot in the "Mingyuan Building" of the imperial city.
Of course, that's an afterthought.
After the bloodshed, Zhao Erfeng issued martial law and closed the city gates. The streets were defended by troops, the merchants were forced to open markets, the post and telecommunications communications were blocked, the arrest of key cadres of the comrades associations and young students continued, the railway companies and railway schools were smashed, and all newspapers and periodicals propagating the struggle to protect the roads were confiscated.
The bloody massacre could not stop the people's resistance, and on the second day of the Chengdu Bloody Incident, comrade armies from all over the country rose up one after another and pounced on Chengdu. The trend of protecting the road then evolved from the civilized struggle of the comrades association to the armed uprising of the comrades army in Sichuan.
The comrade army with peasants as the main body in more than ten prefectures and counties near Chengdu, led by members of the alliance and leaders of the elders' association, Qin Zaigeng, Long Mingjian, Hou Baozhai, Zhang Jiexian, Zhang Dasan, and others, besieged the provincial capital on all sides, and fought fiercely with the Qing army in Hongpailou, Xipu and other places on the outskirts of the city.
In just over 10 days, the comrade armies in the prefectures and counties near Chengdu "all rose up with a call," "several in each county, thousands or tens of thousands in each case," and surrounded Chengdu from all directions.
The total number of these insurrectionary troops was no less than 200,000, and they were collectively known as the Baolu Comrade Army or the National Army. They cut electric poles, blocked traffic, held key roads, fought hundreds of battles with the Qing army, and inflicted heavy losses on the Qing army many times.
The comrade army besieged Chengdu for more than 10 days, but because they lacked unified organization, command, and combat experience, and lacked weapons and equipment, they failed to capture Chengdu, so they scattered into local prefectures and counties.
Among the prefectures and counties in Sichuan, Rong County has a relatively good mass base, and Wang Tianjie, a member of the League, is engaged in revolutionary liaison and organization work here, and has organized more than 1,000 militia groups.
On 25 September, Wu Yuzhang, Wang Tianjie, and other members of the League declared the independence of Rong County, which was the first revolutionary regime established by the revolutionaries during the Xinhai Revolution and became the center of the anti-Qing armed struggle in the southeast of Chengdu.
Qing Zheng. When the government learned of the siege of Chengdu and the uprising of the comrades in various parts of Sichuan, it was frightened and hurried. Dispatched Duanfang to bring the new army from Hubei into Sichuan day and night (Duanfang was beheaded by the corresponding Wuchang uprising of the new army when he led the troops to Zizhou, Sichuan), and ordered Cen Chunxuan, who had served as the governor of Sichuan, to go to Sichuan to deal with Zhao Erfeng to deal with the suppression.
Following the uprising of the comrade army in western Sichuan, the masses in eastern Sichuan also responded one after another, occupying Chengkou County and Dazu County. At this time, the Yi people in the Xichang area and the Tibetan and Qiang people in northwest Sichuan also joined the ranks of the comrade army and fought against the Qing army. By early October, the flames of the comrade uprising had burned throughout the whole province of Sichuan.
The Qing court also hurriedly sent troops from Hunan, Guangdong, Shaanxi, Gansu, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces to Sichuan for reinforcements.
The transfer of the Hubei New Army into Sichuan created an emptiness in Wuchang and provided an excellent opportunity for the Wuchang revolutionaries to launch an uprising.
The people of the Yuan family found that their master was particularly excited during this time, and he was particularly concerned about the current situation and the news in all aspects.
I hadn't fished for a few days, and I repeatedly told my family that if there were telegrams and letters, I should give them to him as soon as possible.
Everyone has a hunch that the peaceful life of this family may be broken.
In fact, since the end of last year, there have been continuous calls for the reappointment of Yuan Shikai in the imperial court, especially in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
When Yuan Shikai was in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was very strict with his subordinates, and everyone was very afraid of him and annoyed him, and almost all hoped that he would leave the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as soon as possible.
When he was expelled, although no one dared to say anything, the vast majority of people were happy in their hearts.
But after Yuan Shikai left, the business of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could not be done everywhere, and it was always criticized from all sides, and everyone remembered the days when Yuan Shikai was there.
At that time, I was very tired, and I was very nervous every day, but I was happy to do things! There is also a sense of accomplishment.
After November 1910, Tang Shaoyi, because of repeated diplomatic setbacks, encouraged the ministers of military aircraft to use Yuan Shikai almost every day to deal with the diplomatic crises.
This is a sincere man, he has always been regarded as Yuan Dang, but he is fearless.
In the three eastern provinces, as Japan and Russia are speeding up the pace of aggression, in order to cope with the crisis in the three eastern provinces, more than a dozen important ministers headed by Yi Liang tried their best to ensure that Yuan Shikai was appointed as the governor of the three eastern provinces.
When the responsible cabinet was attacked from all sides, Associate Minister Na Tong was disheartened, and when he submitted his resignation, he openly said that ten people like himself could not withstand one Yuan Shikai.
In order to avoid suspicion, Xu Shichang did not want to mention Yuan Shikai's name directly, but he made several requests and made an exception to use the talent of helping the needy, and anyone could hear that this person who helped the poor was none other than Yuan Shikai.
Even Zaifeng's younger brother, Navy Minister Zaixun and others, also thought that Yuan Shikai should be used.
Some foreign powers also made a big deal about Yuan Shikai's comeback.