On October 10, the Shouyi Memorial Hall was set up in the Qianqing Wanshou Palace, and the banquet hall was set up in the Baobing Hall.

Military troops were stationed near both sites, and machine guns were set up next to them to prevent chaos. The number of participants in the meeting was extremely strict, and only two representatives from the administrative offices, bureaus, institutes, schools, and military were allowed to enter the meeting, and nothing else was allowed to enter.

Yuan Shikai issued a presidential decree on this day, conferring the title of Honor Li Yuanhong. Ha Hanzhang was specially sent to attend the commemorative meeting in Wuhan, and brought a Jiahe Medal awarded to Li Yuanhong, as well as a commemorative memorial message.

Li Yuanhong wore this Jiahe medal and delivered a speech at the anniversary of the first uprising, in which he praised the birth of the "Republic of China's republican constitutional form of government," and then blamed the first anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China on the party members who made trouble. Yuan Shikai reciprocated the favor, and did not hesitate to attribute the credit of the Xinhai Revolution to Yuan: "Yuanhong has today, Wuchang has today, and the Republic of China has today. ”

After Li Yuanhong's speech, he hurriedly left the venue for fear that the party members would make extraordinary moves, and did not even dare to attend the National Day banquet.

The anniversary of the first uprising passed under the protection of machine guns and artillery, but the situation was far from calm. At the end of the lunar calendar of 1913, the anti-Lebanese activities of the "Comrades and Beggars' Regiment" took place.

The main force of the gay beggars regiment is the veterans. According to their own accounts, because of "the lack of skills to make a living, the solar eclipse is difficult, and they once wrote to the Li clan to seek a livelihood, but they were ignored". Therefore, led by Hu and others, they united the officers and soldiers of the uprising who were forced to be dismissed and had nothing to live in to form a comrade beggars' group, set up an office, printed and distributed leaflets, and conspired with the beggars to make a living.

Approaching the end of the old calendar year, the group of comrades and beggars asked the rich households for annual loans, so the "great men and giants have tattered clothes and no brown generations" asked for funding.

Li Yuanhong "feared that he would gather a crowd and disturb the government, so he did not plot to conceal it", that is, he sent someone with 12,000 yuan of silver and handed it over to the promoter to be dismissed according to his name. The group of comrades and beggars refused.

When Li Yuanhong learned that the regiment was involved in the activities of the revolutionaries, organized secret organs, and prepared to attack. Li Yuanhong immediately sent military police to arrest him, confiscate the organs, and search for ordnance. Those captured were secretly executed by the Judge Advocate General's Office.

Martial law was declared in the city, and the city gate was closed at 2 p.m. every day, and in addition to the military police and military police, the second battalion of the regular army was stationed in various streets and alleys, and the warship Chucai was sent to patrol Wuhan. The Special Police Department has banned firecrackers, and even shops are not allowed to close trade or hold celebrations.

As a result, the merchants "all complained that the republic was better than the freedom of autocracy."

Hubei wheel and rail intersection, in a pivotal strategic position, the northern army to the south can drive Hunan and Guangdong, eastward can go straight to Jiangxi, Anhui, is the "second revolution" on the eve of the outbreak of Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing strive for the province. They sent people to lobby Li Yuanhong, persuading him to at least remain neutral and "don't be confused by Yuan's talent to determine the overall situation." Unexpectedly, Li held the purpose of "if it is not Yuan, it will be chaos", and expressed that he would "firmly support Xiang Cheng" and "will help President Yuan", standing on Yuan Shikai's side.

On March 20, 1913, the murder of Song Jiaoren occurred in Shanghai that shocked the whole country. On 25 March, Tian Tong, a member of the Hubei Revolutionary, returned to Wuhan from Shanghai with a secret letter from Huang Xingzhi to Ji Yulin, Zhan Dabei, Cai Jimin, Jiang Yiwu, Xiong Bingkun, and Cai Hanqing. If the great sorrow is not removed, it will be regretted. Comrades of our party must brace their spirits and work hard anew."

Two days later, Ji Yulin came forward to give a banquet to more than 10 officers and political figures above the head level of various units and political figures at Tanhualin in Wuchang, and after the meeting, an improvement group was formed. Led by Ji Yulin, Xiong Bingkun, and Zeng Shangwu, he called for "improving the military and political affairs of Hubei and continuing to work hard to carry out the revolutionary cause". The government is the doctrine", and distributed leaflets and gathered people to make speeches, "Yun Fei overthrew Xiangcheng (Yuan Shikai), Huang Pi (Li Yuanhong) and other bureaucrats, and our people will not be able to enjoy the happiness of the republic in the end."

Ji Yulin, Cai Jimin, Zhan Dabei, and Wu Xinghan were responsible for the arrangement of the military operation to "overthrow Li and oppose Yuan," and Yang Wangpeng and Wen Chuheng were responsible for liaison and general affairs.

Set up secret machines about Hankou Bixiuli and Wuchang Dachao Street, Xundaoling and other places.

The main method of the improved regiment was to invite people to drink and reminisce about old feelings, to contact the party members who held positions in the army, to use the armed forces at their disposal as the basic strength, and at the same time to recruit a wide range of retired and frustrated idle soldiers and party members. In addition, organs were set up in the Jingxiang area, where the party was active, and the organization was developed, and "tens of thousands of people were supported in ten days."

On 20 May, Rong Jingfang, an important member of the Improvement Regiment, was entertaining guests in Rushouli, Hankou, when Li Yuanhong's detectives cracked the case and arrested many brigade and regiment commanders present on the spot. Then he cracked many secret organs of the improvement regiment and arrested dozens of people. Li Yuanhong ordered the secret execution of more than 20 people, and at the same time ordered the arrest of Ji Yulin, Xiong Bingkun, and other ringleaders of the Improvement Regiment.

Ji Yulin, Cai Jimin, Zhan Dabei, Wu Xinghan, Xiong Bingkun and others fled to Shanghai and Hunan successively.

After several suppressions of the Hubei revolutionaries, the party members were almost completely killed, and there was not much left, and it was difficult for them to gain a foothold in Hubei. Therefore, in the subsequent battles of "protecting the country" and "protecting the law", Hubei has never been able to make big waves.

If the League and the Democratic Society attack each other, it is an infighting between the democratic camp. However, Hubei's anti-Li activities and Li Yuanhong's suppression of the anti-Li forces are self-mutilation and cannibalism of the democratic camp. In this vicious battle, although Li Yuanhong was a passive party and was for self-preservation, he must have been guilty of the bloody killing of the party. Since then, in addition to the mud bodhisattva, Li Yuanhong has a new nickname - Li Butcher.

At the beginning, Li Yuanhong was ordered to lead troops to Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, to suppress the riot of bandits pretending to be revolutionaries. Before leaving, because it was unclear whether it was the bandits or the revolutionary party who were rioting, Li Yuanhong held a special meeting for the officers. In particular, he stressed that an important issue in this military operation was to find out whether it was the revolutionary party or the bandits who were rioting, and that the two should be treated differently.

Now standing in front of him were revolutionaries. But he killed indiscriminately. People often say that they are afraid that the revolution will happen to them. Yes, it is a matter of concern to oneself, and when it comes to revolutionizing other people's lives, it can be very detached, but it is different when the revolution comes to oneself. Perhaps, this is the limitation of the individual.

After a brutal crackdown, Li Yuanhong's rule had just been stabilized, and an even greater threat befell him.

Since Zhang Zhenwu's case, Li Yuanhong has been unable to help himself and can only lean on Yuan Shikai.

During the Second Revolution, Li even fell to Yuan, and Yuan Shikai did not live up to Li, and put a high hat on Li Yuanhong. He once wrote the "Pillar Stone of the Republic of China" four big-character plaques to send to Li. After Yuan broke with the Kuomintang, he personally wrote the words "Vice Presidential Palace of the Republic of China", made a long plaque five inches wide and four feet eight inches long, sent a special envoy to Wuchang, and hung it outside the Governor's Mansion.

Although Li Yuanhong spared no effort to follow, Yuan Shikai finally did not regard Li as his own, and he was even more worried about putting this "pillar of the Republic of China" in the position of the governor of Hubei.

As early as Yuan Shikai took over the provisional government of Nanjing. At that time, he issued an order with Li as the chief of staff, and his intention was to exchange this high position with no real power for the position of governor of Hubei. During the Second Revolution, in the process of using troops against the south, Yuan suddenly asked Li to lead the governor of Jiangxi, and suddenly asked Li to lead the governor of Hunan, and his purpose was to transfer Li out of Hubei in a circle.

And what about Li Yuanhong? is not stupid, although he is obedient to Yuan everywhere, but he does not give an inch in this matter, he just refuses to leave his nest and refuses to leave Hubei.

When using troops against the south, Yuan Shikai originally had an intention, which was to send Duan Zhigui to lead troops into Hubei for military reasons, which was a plan to "destroy the enemy by false means". It's just that Li Yuanhong defended him wholeheartedly at this time, so that he couldn't find an excuse to enter Hubei.

After suppressing the Second Revolution, Yuan lured Li Yuanhong north to meet him with sweet words such as "long-admiring and longing" more than once.

Yuan finally couldn't bear it anymore and was determined to solve the problem of Li Yuanhong and Hubei. So on December 8, the second year of the Republic of China, he secretly summoned Li to Beijing, and at the same time sent Duan Qirui to Hankou to persuade him to drive.

Duan Qirui arrived in Hankou on the 8th, and Li Yuanhong of course knew that Duan was Yuan's No. 1 henchman, and it was absolutely difficult to shirk sending such a character to ask for a driver.

Duan urged urgently, asking Li to leave immediately. Li knew that the situation was different this time, and it was impossible not to go north. He invited the left and right, held a secret meeting, and decided to send Jin Yongyan, chief of staff of the Governor's Office, to act as the governor, and decided to go to Beijing with the feeling of entering the tiger's den.

Duan Qirui only had a brief meeting with Li Yuanhong in Hubei, so he prepared a special car for Li to go to Beijing, and urged Li to leave in person on December 9.

On 10 December, while Li Yuanhong was on his way north, Beijing issued a presidential order: Duan Qiruiquan was appointed as the governor of Hubei, and Zhou Ziqi was appointed as the acting army chief.

When Li Yuanhong's carriage arrived in Beijing, Yuan Shikai sent his own gold-lacquered vermilion carriage to meet him at the station, which had been used to greet the revolutionary leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen 14 months earlier.

The warm and grand welcome received by Li was no less than the welcome to Sun Yat-sen.

At the same time, Yuan Shikai issued a warrant stipulating that Vice President Li should pay 10,000 yuan a month and 20,000 yuan for office expenses. This is not much from the monthly salary of 30,000 yuan when Yuan awarded Sun Yat-sen as the national railway superintendent the year before, and it is not too much.

In order to thank President Yuan Da, Li Yuanhong wrote: "Stealing Yuanhong has repeatedly visited Jun Yan, admired the preferential treatment, grace is more than flesh and blood, courtesy is in the guests, the heart is melted in the mountains and snow, and the handshake is the pool of ice." Chi Panic Mocuo, sincere convincing endlessly, Fu Nian Yuan Hong Xi Lie Rong Xing, happy to meet the fortune, belongs to the officials elected by the public, the army and the people support the Yin. Wang Lingzhi led the volunteers, but he did not resign, and Liu Biaozhi lived in an important town, and it was difficult to win. The republic was declared, and the summer of the mixed districts was mixed, and the president of Mongolia was still consistent and truly eliminated. The new system has not been promulgated for a long time, so it has to follow the name and maintain the status quo.

"Yuan Hong also thought that Shenzhou was difficult, the party was chaotic, and he thought about the future of Gua, and Gu Dou couldn't bear it. I want to use the stone of a fist to temporarily fight the tide. The talent of every inch is the right to support the building. Fortunately, he admired the great strategy, begged to help the hero, the wind and waves were not shocked, and the stars were fixed. Protected by the Willing, so as not to be ashamed. The cover is very changing, and it cannot be flattened without vigorous force; There is no vain glory, and the original intention is unexpected. The Forlie Marquis stronghold, the Zhou room is so late; The towns supported the army, and the Tang Sect was abolished. Six dynasties jade step, shed in the meritorious people; Five generations of fighting, the fetus is arrogant. The philosophy of self-preservation is ambiguous, and then the sorrow of misleading the country. The calamity was filled in the gully and turned a deaf ear, and the enemy country entered the palace without mercy. Far away, close to the sea, although the national body is more, the source of chaos is one, not to mourn its stubbornness.

"The former Ganshui made troops, Zhongshan stole the throne, the three sides paid the aliens, and the six provinces were set as alliances. Yuan Hong should be the head of the confrontation, and he is still in the same boat. It is a sin that is not accepted, the advice is deaf, and the sorrow is so painstaking, that in the face of war, he has long wanted to return his authority and set an example. Only to start with the soldiers, the selection of the canon has not been carried out, and the suspicion of taking advantage of the crime is temporarily endured, and the plan is to throw the rod and watch the success. Lonely, I dare not tell anyone, the road ahead is boundless, but I can save the country. Today's great powers admit that the government is renewed, the arsenal is washed and the army is destroyed, the garden is open and the religion is opened, and the meeting of the poor and poor in the four seas is still too late; Thinking about the two years of tribulation, thinking back is still palpitating, on the overall situation, we must plan for unification, and on the individual, we are willing to beg for more than a year.

"If you are still pampered and stay for a long time, or you don't get the feelings, the middle stream is a heavy responsibility, how can you bear to be applied to the body that has been lacking for a long time, and it is difficult to expose the mouths of Mu that day, this You Yuanhong is afraid of the ice abyss, and the people who are difficult to sleep are also. President Fu begging was foolish, and when he was free, he dismissed him from the post of governor of Hubei. Yuan Hong followed Junzuo, listened to the teachings for a long time, drew lake water to bathe his heart, and picked up mountains and clouds to refine his nature. Fortunately, this body is alive, all of which are the grace of undressing and eating; If you encounter a side incident, dare to forget the retribution of the armor and the army. Lying on standby, there is no camp. Sincerely, the cause of the same. ”

Yuan Fuli book: "Come to read it, success is not lived, go to the valley of Deruo, things are in line with the past, and sigh from the heart." It can be traced back to the decline of Qingde, the emperor's untie, Wuchang's first righteousness, and Bo Haifeng. The national system is not only more, but also beneficial. The art of mediation has been exhausted again and again, and the words of danger have been exhausted. The disaster of the flood and the beast is a desperate defense. The national discipline and the people Yi will not fall. The rebellion of Ganning, sitting in the upper reaches, is not alarmed, and the command is determined. Lu Liang is both benevolent and rethinks the honor of the Emperor. Yu Yuan Fu Shen, chasing the photos of Yu Ge. Where planned, the movement is safe, the great cause is great, and the world shines. The situation is rough, you have to go to Beijing, Xin Xi holds Tan, and quickly pours his heart into it. Praise the heroic posture, get the view and sit, Comrade Kun, forever for life. Every thought is difficult, and there is a sigh of microtubules.

"Chu Guobao is good, so I saw the Si people. According to the face of the request to be dismissed from the post of governor of Hubei, the words are sincere, out of sincerity, not allowed to be implemented, there is this repetition, the words are serious, the thinking is far-sighted, the will is unmovable, and the intention is against its will, although the patriarch is strong, not to fulfill the purpose of the southern service business, and the sage has served for a long time, and it is not the heart of the national reward. Reluctantly, as invited. The national foundation is initially determined, the warp and weft are endless, and there is success, and I am a good friend. In the future, all the big plans are related, and I hope that when things happen, I will not be able to do anything. In the past, Zhangjiang Ling Hengyan said that I was traveling nine times, two or three a day. Every Sizi language is a respect. The front type is there, and I am willing to encourage it! This is the case. ”

These two letters are all insincere and ridiculously fake.

It is a great irony that Li Yuanhong, who had resigned as the governor of Hubei, was placed in Yingtai, because this place was the place where Cixi was imprisoned in Guangxu.