In addition to urging the arsenal to process and manufacture bullets day and night, the ordnance department also bought 14,000 rifles from France.

In order to raise salaries, the three leaders of the uprising, Tang Jiyao, Cai Yi, and Li Liejun, sent two telegrams to overseas Chinese, asking for donations to help the righteousness, and the two telegrams were as follows:

First Electricity:

"Overseas Chinese Gongjian: Since the beginning of the year, domestic thieves are all over the place, floods and droughts, and there are many disasters, and those who are the head of state should be afraid of repairing the province and laying the people's livelihood, but they are intoxicated with the emperor's throne, absorbing and absorbing from it, squandering money, indiscriminately using famous weapons, and the cage is going to be knotted, and in the national economy and people's livelihood, it has not tried to draw a long-term strategy, show a good picture, this can still be said to be a person with people's hearts? Jiyao and others were indignant and determined to get rid of the national thieves, but they died and did not retreat.

"It has been briefly estimated that the brigades and regiments of Yunnan Standing and the regiments and battalions of Heqian Province are organized into the first and second armies of the Protectorate. It is planned to drive to the northwest, meet Wuhan, and go straight to Youyan. Jiyao is located in southern Yunnan, Kecheng and Ji sponsor everything, raise transportation needs, and take it as a backing. However, when a righteous teacher arises, he needs a lot of money. In the barren areas of Yunnan and Guizhou, there are few reservoirs.

"In the autumn of people's livelihood, I can't bear to add another burden and burden my people. Su admires my overseas fathers and brothers, cherishes the motherland, and is high and righteous, and is to lead all the people of Yunnan and Guizhou to bow down in the south and beg for assistance. Ziwen's destruction of the family relieved the hardship, and let the people of the past go. The loss of wealth and help the side of the divination style will be more compatible. If you donate money, or at any time to collect the Yunnan wall, or gather in Shanghai and Hong Kong, waiting for the dispatch of personnel to understand. If there is no shortage of resources, the soldiers are full, the compatriots are saved from drowning, and the republic is in danger, then the righteous voice of Guibu will be the epicenter of the ancient and modern times. Sincerely, please take note! Tang Jiyao, Cai Yi, Li Liejun and others led the people of Yunnan Province to knock. Stamp. ”

Second Electricity:

"Overseas Chinese compatriots are inspected: the former telegraph is inspected. Jiyao and others have declared their rebellion against the imperial system and support the republic, but Yuan's tenacious and empty words are ineffective, and they cannot but solve it with strength. Now the first and second armies of the country have been formed, and they have set off one after another, separated from Hunan and Shu, smashed Youyan, broke the cauldron and sunk the boat, and vowed to achieve the goal. However, the demand for money is huge, and there is no plan for it. I look up to my overseas fathers and brothers, cherish the motherland, be noble and righteous, and lead all the people of Yunnan and Guizhou to look south and give assistance. or donate money to replenish the army, or choose weapons to help the urgent need. If favored, that is, begging at any time to go to the government of Yunnan. The government is receiving. Or collect Hong Kong and Shanghai notices and send people to collect them. The reconstitution of the Republic of China and the restoration of the Republic of China will lead to the righteous voice of Guibu, and the epicenter of the ancient and modern times. Tang Jiyao, Cai Yi, and Li Liejun knocked together. Stamp. ”

On January 2, the fifth year of the Republic of China, Cai Yi sent Dai Jian to Guiyang via Bijie to instigate Guizhou to respond to independence, and sent Wang Boqun to Xingyi in southern Guizhou to contact the local Guizhou army.

Dai Jian and Wang Boqun are both from Guizhou, and they have a reputation and popularity in Guizhou, and they are also important core figures of the National Protector Army.

Wang Boqun (1885-1944), a native of Xingyi, Guizhou, was a pioneer of the China League, a pioneer of China's modern democratic revolution, a politician and an educator.

In 1905 (the 31st year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty), after graduating from Xingyi Bishan Academy (now Xingyi Normal College for Nationalities), Xingyi County (now Xingyi City) was selected to study in Japan at public expense, and successively studied in the Department of Political Science and Economics of Hongwen College, Central University, and Academia Sinica. It coincided with Sun Yat-sen's advocacy of revolution in Japan and his joining of the China League. He actively participated in the National Defense Movement, and he also became famous for the National Defense Movement. In 1920, he followed Sun Yat-sen back to Guangdong to resume military administration. In Guangzhou, he served as a senator and military politician of the presidential palace in Guangzhou. Minister of Transport.

In 1924, Wang Boqun founded Daxia University (now East China Normal University) in Shanghai. Beginning in the thirties of the twentieth century, Wang Boqun gradually faded out of politics and turned to "education to save the country".

In 1928, Cai Yuanpei resigned as president of Jiaotong University due to heavy responsibilities, and recommended Wang Boqun to concurrently serve as the president of Jiaotong University (the predecessor of today's five Jiaotong Universities in Xi'an, Shanghai, Beijing, Southwest and Hsinchu).

On September 1, 1929, the Wusong Merchant Marine School was officially reopened, named "Wusong Merchant Marine College of the Ministry of Communications", Wang Boqun wrote the school motto for the school, and concurrently served as the first president of Wusong Merchant Marine College (now Shanghai Maritime University).

In 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War and the "August 13" incident in Shanghai, the Japanese army invaded, and Daxia University moved to Guizhou. In the winter of 1944, Wang Boqun became ill in the process of leading the relocation of the school. On December 20, 1944, he died in the Chongqing Army Hospital at the age of 60. He is the author of "Transportation Reform Plan", "Three-year Plan for Electric Power Administration Facilities", "Outline of Aviation Administration", "Boqun Anthology" and other works.

Yunnan and Guizhou have a close relationship in terms of topography, and if Guizhou does not respond to the defense of the country and falls into the hands of the Yuan family, Yunnan's independence will be seriously threatened.

When Yunnan rebelled, both Cai Ye and Tang Jiyao telegraphed Liu Xianshi, the envoy of the Guizhou Protectorate, to participate in the national defense action. Liu Xianshi was detached from Yuan's original morality, because in Yuan's new local bureaucracy, there were generals in each province, and only the two provinces of Guizhou and Fujian were set up to protect the army, which in their eyes was an exclusion of them.

However, Liu Xianshi was a serious and conservative person, and he did not dare to immediately participate in the action against Yuan.

When Yuan Shikai was preparing to become emperor, the Guiyang Private Dade School received a notice from the Preparatory Security Association and replied to oppose Yuan Shikai becoming emperor. Among the names are the principal Nie Zhengbang, teachers Huang Qisheng, Ling Yun and other 24 people, which are actually the pioneers of Guizhou's courting for Yuan.

At this time, it was affected by Yunnan. The general mood in Guizhou has tended to please Yuan.

Wang Boqun's brother Wang Wenhua served as the commander of the Qianjun army, and he and another regiment commander, Xiong Qixun, urged Liu Xianshi to join the Protector Army. Due to the small number of ordinary soldiers in Guizhou, the regiment commander is a powerful person.

Wang Wenhua (1888-1921), known as the electric wheel, was the younger brother of Wang Boqun. In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), he was born in Jingjiatun Village, Xingyi City, and graduated from Xingyi Bishan Academy. In 1906, he went to Guiyang with Dou Jianzhi and others, and was admitted to Guizhou Tongsheng Public High School, and then transferred to Guiyang Superior Normal School to study history and geography.

This is a person who made a special contribution to the Guizhou Protectorate Uprising.

After Cai Ye declared independence in Yunnan and raised the banner of Yuan to protect the country, Wang Wenhua responded positively. In the face of the hesitation of the Guizhou authorities, Wang Wenhua and his brother Wang Boqun went to many places to state the righteousness of protecting the country.

Wang Wenhua used the model battalion in his hands to summon the officers of the Guizhou Army to the province to clarify the situation and explain the great significance of the discussion against Yuan Huguo.

The head of the regiment, Wu Chuansheng, made an oath: "This is a good time for us to serve the country, we would rather die on the battlefield, never steal our lives, and let the national thieves be at ease." ”

Through a launch, everyone in the army was excited, and everyone was ready to kill the thief and make meritorious contributions. Wang Wenhua also contacted the 2nd and 3rd regiments stationed in eastern and southern Qiandong to work together to unanimously oppose the imperial system.

When the military and people in Guizhou urgently asked for Yuan, Long Jianzhang, the Guizhou patrol envoy sent by Yuan Shikai, in order to ease the mood of the military and people in Guizhou, on January 7, the fifth year of the Republic of China, he sent a telegram asking Yuan Shikai to convene a separate national assembly to vote on the issue of national system.

Yuan Shikai didn't understand Long Jianzhang's distress and was particularly disgusted by his call. On the one hand, he instructed the Senate to call back to refute it, and on the other hand, on the other hand, he ordered him to leave his post and go north.

At this time, in order to win over Liu Xianshi, Yuan Shikai promoted his brother Liu Xianqian to act as the Guizhou Governor.

Long Jianzhang, who was not flattering on both sides, fled in disguise on January 16.

Wang Wenhua and Liu Xianshi have a kinship relationship, and they also have Liu Xianshi's trust.

On this day, he worked hard to do Liu Xianshi's work. It is pointed out that the Yuan thief wants to be the emperor and overthrow the republic, this is a national thief, and it is difficult to be compatible, Yunnan has already sent troops to fight against Yuan, and Guizhou is no exception.

Wang Wenhua saw that his uncle Liu Xianshi was still hesitating, knowing what he was worried about, and said firmly: "You can urgently call Yuan Shikai and send Wang Wenhua to lead troops to resist the Yunnan army. In the future, it will be done, and it will be attributed to you, and if it fails, it will destroy my royal family. ”

Of course, Liu Xianshi would not do this, but he couldn't help but be shocked by Wang Wenhua's sincerity.

However, Wang Wenhua's words also reminded him. Guizhou is a poor province, and it also needs money to start an uprising, so he immediately telegraphed Yuan Shikai to quickly receive military salaries to stabilize the morale of the army.

On January 25, 1916, Liu Xianshi presided over a military conference, and although most of the people attending the meeting were disgusted with Yuan Shikai's proclamation of emperor, most of them still had a negative attitude towards courting Yuan by force. The meeting formed two factions, the main battle and the anti-war, and after the meeting began, the two sides engaged in fierce exchanges.

Guo Chongguang, an anti-war faction, said: "Yuan Shikai has been training for decades, and he has a large number of generals, and he has unified the whole country. We must not act rashly and invite the disaster of annihilation. Everything is not a good policy, only self-protection is the best policy. ”

After hearing this, Wang Wenhua couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and pulled out his pistol and struck it on the table and scolded: "Yuan Shikai broke the covenant, betrayed the Republic of China, and claimed to be the emperor in vain. Those who are discussing today can only send troops to fight the thief's ear, and those who dare to rebel will be the first to strike!"

As soon as these words came out, the conference hall fell silent, and the anti-war faction looked at each other, not daring to disagree. In the end, the meeting decided to announce the dispatch of troops to Yuan on the same day.

On January 26, 1916, Yuan Shikai remitted 300,000 yuan of military salary, and Liu Xianshi waited for this.

Guizhou immediately held a mass meeting at the former site of the provincial assembly to announce Yuan Shikai's treason. At the meeting, the crowd was indignant and unanimously demanded to declare independence, send troops to the Northern Expedition, capture Yuan's traitors, and eliminate traitors for the country and the people.

On January 27, Guizhou declared independence, and Liu Xianshi became the governor of Guizhou.

Liu Xianshi, Tang Jiyao, Ren Kecheng, Cai Yi and others jointly issued a message: "The governor of Pontus can't bear to fall into the hands of traitors in the hands of countless heads of heroes from all over the world...... Yuan's second and third eagle dogs, falsifying public opinion, the imperial system is self-contained, Chinese and foreign countries are ashamed, heaven and man ......are indignant, obedience and disobedience are divided, victory and defeat can be decided...... and the righteous teachers of various provinces are united to punish the only husband and consolidate the Republic of China".

Guizhou declared its independence, Guiyang was boiling, and the shops and residents of the whole city pasted the four big characters "Consolidate the Republic" on the door with a big red paper letter, and hung the five-color national flag all over, and the people cheered and thundered, showing the true intention of the people.

At the time of Yuan's defense of the country, Guizhou's army had six regiments and a guard battalion. After discussion by Liu Xianshi, Wang Wenhua, Xiong Qixun, and others, they believed that the province was quiet, and the strength of a guard battalion was responsible for the security of the whole province, although it was somewhat weak, but it could still be dealt with. He used all the soldiers of the six regiments to fight against Yuan to protect the country, and obeyed the dispatch of Cai Yi and Li Liejun.

When Yuan Shikai saw Guizhou Protector begging for Yuan's telegram, he trembled with fright, holding the telegram in his hand like a sieve, unable to speak.