Chapter 242: The Great Tide of Falling Li
Fan Zeng couldn't ask for details, so Li Yuanhong had to invite Liu Xinyuan, another former official of the Qing court, to temporarily act as the chief of civil affairs.
Liu Xinyuan (1848-1915), known as Wenshen, Songyu, Yafu, Bingruo, Youdan, Kuisuo, and Longjiang, was a famous goldsmith, philologist and calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.
On the seventh day of the eighth month of the Qing Daoguang Wushen year (September 4, 1848), Yin Shi was born in Longkou Town, Honghu City (then belonging to Tengyunzhou, Jiayu County) in a scholarly family.
Father Liu Zhengjun, whose name is Fengshan, is a Xiucai in the late Qing Dynasty, and he makes a living by teaching and farming.
Liu Xinyuan lost his father at a young age, and was supported by his eldest brother Dayuan (attached to Gongsheng) to study. In the year of Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty (1873 AD), he was ranked 67th in the Lisheng examination, and in the second year of Guangxu (1876), he was ranked 70th in the Enke examination. Twenty-six first-class students in the re-examination of Baohedian. The thirty-seventh place in the second class of the palace examination, he was born as a jinshi. The sixteenth place in the first class of the court examination, hand-picked Hanlin Academy. A year later, he was awarded the editing of the Hanlin Academy and the co-revision of the National History Museum.
Since then, he has successively served as the same examiner of the Shuntian Township Examination, the same examiner of the General Examination, the Inspector of Jiangnan Province, the Imperial History of Guangdong Province of Jiangxi Province, the Imperial History of Gyeonggi Province, the Deputy Chief Examiner of Henan, the Prefect of Kuizhou and Chengdu in Sichuan, the Governor of Jiangxi Province, the Inspector of Jiangxi, and the Inspector of Guangxi.
On January 10, 1912, he led the Hubei Baolu Movement, and after the success of the Xinhai Shouyi, he was elected as the speaker of the Hubei Assembly and a member of the National Assembly. He has been an official for 40 years, and he is honest and honest.
Civil administration. The government has seven departments: internal affairs, foreign affairs, finance, industry, transportation, justice, and education. The directors of the various divisions began to be mostly from the military and political affairs. In the past, these people were promoted from the meritorious personnel of the uprising, and they were gradually replaced by capable and experienced people who had little ability and experience in management and administration. In their place, of course, were the officials of the former Qing Dynasty.
All reforms are a redistribution of interests, and in this redistribution, some people gain and others lose.
Feudal autocracy has been replaced by a democratic republic, and people are still "old people", and it will take time to turn around. In other words, feudal autocracy has entered history, but feudal ideas and traditional consciousnesses, such as fighting the country and sitting on the country, ranking the merits, are still rooted in the depths of people's minds.
In officialdom, generally speaking, it is always easy for people to go up, but it is difficult to go down, and it is often said that they can go up but not down. Everyone has a weakness, that is, they always overestimate themselves, and self-knowledge requires a high quality. In other words, few people who are out of the game think that they can't do it to get down, and they all feel that they have been treated unfairly.
If losing the official is a matter of one's own, who will stand up to fight this grievance? It's all about dressing up as if you're for everyone, and you always have to find some high-sounding reasons for yourself. It is not that you can't do it, but because of what party you belong to, or simply the liquidation and restoration of the revolutionary party by the old forces, which is the most mobilizing slogan.
When everyone devotes themselves to a certain activity or career, they generally have their own personal goals and personal demands, but many people do not recognize it. It is not surprising that you always have to put on a beautiful coat for yourself in the name of being for others or for everyone.
All in all, because Li Yuanhong practiced the division of military and civilian rule, the contradictions between his and the party at the meeting became more intense. What Li Yuanhong didn't expect was that he would set off wave after wave of reverse Li tide on his one-acre and three-third of land.
The incident of the Heroes Club we talked about earlier is actually an incident of this kind, but that time, the contradictions were concentrated on Sun Wu, and Sun Wu filed a bullet for Li Yuanhong.
Zhu Zhiliu, a member of the League, is a native of Jingmen, Hubei, the backbone of the former Literature Society, and a member of the Japanese Knowledge. At the time of the Wuchang Uprising, he served as a representative of the 42nd Standard and made outstanding contributions to the recovery of Hanyang.
When he was dismissed from his position as superintendent of the police academy, he was disgruntled. He secretly contacted members of the alliance, such as Jiang Guangguo and Teng Yagang, to organize a reform political group.
They set up secret organs in an attempt to overthrow the army, overthrow Li Yuanhong, and carry out three revolutions. (The first revolution was the first uprising in Wuchang, and the second revolution was the event of the Heroes' Association)
The sixth class was originally planned to start on July 8, but it was later postponed to the 16th. Because of the heavy rain on this day, it could not be launched.
On the 17th, Li Zhongyi, an insider, went to Li Yuanhong to report the information, and Li Yuanhong immediately sent a guard to suddenly break into the office of the League at the parade ground. Evidence such as documents, notices, documents, rosters, badges, order flags, leaflets, and petitions were found, and Jiang Guangguo and Teng Yagang were immediately arrested and handed over to the Military Justice Bureau for interrogation.
A large number of military and police officers were also dispatched to arrest Zhu Zhiliu at the Dagong Hotel in Hankou. Zhu Zhiliu was escorted across the river, and he was corrected on the spot at the Hanyang Gate in Wuchang. Jiang Guangguo and Teng Yagang were also executed that afternoon.
Li Yuanhong, who has always been regarded as soft-hearted, is not soft at all when he kills people in order to protect himself. It seems that this honest man has been provoked, and it is even more terrible.
Li Yuanhong made public the crimes of rebellion and evidence against Zhu Zhiliu and others, and the League did not dare to admit that it had anything to do with them, and although it was very angry that Zhu Zhengliu and others were killed, it could only suffer a dumb loss.
If the bright ones can't come, they will make the dark energy, in short, the contradiction between Li Yuanhong and the League will be even worse.
Soon, there was an incident in which Li Yuanhong faked the hands of Yuan Shikai and killed Zhang Zhenwu, the founder of the Shouyi. Zhang Zhenwu's killing must have something to do with the three revolutions launched by Zhu Zhiliu and Zhang Zhenwu's heavy army and his talk about continuing the revolution.
If it is said that Li Yuanhong killed Zhu Zhiliu, the contradiction with the alliance is still competing in the dark. But after the killing of Zhang Zhenwu, the contradiction between Li Yuanhong and the revolutionary party became public. The reversal of Lebanon has become the major policy of the revolutionary party and the League in Hubei.
Soon, party members Gu Bin, Gu Kaiwen, Luo Zichang, and Luo Zida, who were engaged in revolutionary activities in Shanghai, set up secret organs in Hubei, called the "Zhenwu Society." The headquarters is located at No. 13, Zazhu Street, Wuchang City, with Gu Kaiwen as the commander and Gu Bin as the officer, and three sub-organs. There were also many small secret agencies with no less than 10 offices to contact revolutionaries who were interested in avenging Zhang Zhenwu.
On the one hand, they denounced the crimes of collusion between Yuan and Li to suppress the Hubei revolutionaries, saying that "if Yuan and Li do not die, they cannot truly enjoy the happiness of the republic"; On the other hand, they actively liaised with the party members in the army, hoping to take advantage of the time to riot.
The second standard of the Nanhu horse team stationed outside the city responded positively, and planned to start on October 10, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising.
Li Yuanhong heard the wind. On 23 September, the gendarmerie seized one party leader in the guest building, and Hankou also won the title of the big boss Huang, and immediately corrected the law.
The Nanhu Horse Team was afraid of a leak and decided to start the incident at 12 o'clock on the night of the 24th.
Unexpectedly, on the afternoon of the 24th, the headquarters of the city was detected by Li Yuanhong's secret agents, and Li sent a military police battalion to surround No. 13 Zazhu Street that night, arrested Gu Bin, Gu Kaiwen, Luo Zichang, Luo Zida and other eight people, beheaded the two Gu and Luo four people in front of the governor's mansion, and imprisoned the other four for 20 years.
When the second standard of the Nanhu Horse Brigade learned that the organs in the city had been cracked, the first battalion of the management band gathered all the officers and soldiers of the standard, and agitated: "The organs have been broken, so it is better to attack the city at this time." "Claiming that there is a certain standard and a certain battalion in the city that can be answered, it will never fail. The second standard system also echoed the voice, and the officers and men of the whole standard immediately poured out. Attacking the uprising gate first, hoping to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and cut through the pass.
However, Cai Hanqing, the commander of the Fourth Division, had been ordered by Li Yuanhong to ambush at the Uprising Gate in advance. Heavy artillery bombardment of the horse team on the city walls killed dozens of people instantly. The rear of the horse team immediately attacked the Pubao Gate, where the commander of the 1st Division, Li Bentang, guarded it.
Cai Hanqing led the army out of the city to attack, the officers and soldiers of the horse team were attacked by the enemy, the two sides fought fiercely for more than three hours, until dawn, the horse team was defeated and returned to the Nanhu base camp. Along the way, there were many people who died in the water, and there were only more than 400 people left.
Li Bentang and Cai Hanqing led the army to follow the round-up, and the officers and soldiers of the horse team fled. Some of the arrested people were executed on the spot, some were sent to the Governor's Office or Headquarters to be punished, and some were sent to the Parade Ground to be killed.
The next day, Li Yuanhong ordered to inspect all the armies in the city, and if he encountered a person in the second bid of the horse team, he would be killed. He also ordered the military and police to inspect the stragglers, kill them when they were caught, and throw their bodies into the Yangtze River without even announcing their names or charges.
More than 200 officers and men of the horse team died in the battle, dozens of people died in the lake swimming in the water, and dozens of people who were "rectified by the law," a total of more than 300 people. Cai Hanqing led the army to Nanhu, and misunderstood that the artillery team was involved in the uprising, killing dozens of artillery team members.
After the failure of the second bid of the horse team, another revolutionaries of the first bid of the horse team followed up and plotted to do it again, but they were captured and several people were executed. From 25 September to mid-October, more than 10 secret organs of the "Zhenwu Society" were cracked one after another, and dozens of people were executed.
In addition, in the counties around Wuchang: Xianghe, Shayang, there are Zhenwu Association activities, Jingmen, Dangyang and other counties also have Zhenwu Association branch Seven Star Society organization. Soon, these groups were destroyed and many people were killed.
In this hunt, more than 1,000 people should have died. More than 500 prisoners were imprisoned by the Judge Advocate General's Bureau, and the population was overcrowded. The revolutionaries who were killed this time were basically revolutionaries from the original literary society system who participated in the first uprising, and after this killing, there are very few who survived.
Next, Li Yuanhong took a variety of preventive measures:
The Hubei Military Inspection Department was set up to strengthen the secret investigation of revolutionaries.
It is forbidden for military personnel to join political parties and associations, and those who have already joined must leave, especially those who are prohibited from participating in secret societies or meetings.
Heightened vigilance, all armed forces patrolled in shifts according to their areas, issued special slogans every night, set up artillery and machine guns at dangerous locations, and patrolled the streets by the patrol police department and the fire department, and imposed martial law after 9 o'clock in the evening.
After October and May, martial law was issued again.
A few days before the anniversary of the first uprising, the atmosphere in Wuhan was extremely tense, and people were terrified. National Day is regarded as an ominous day, and it must be spent in order to sleep peacefully.