On October 3, Hubei Military Administration. The government held a ceremony to pay homage to the generals at the parade ground. Li Yuanhong appointed Huang Xing, the No. 2 person of the League who came to command the operation, as the commander-in-chief of the operation; The People's Army was greatly encouraged.

Huang Xing immediately set up his headquarters in Hanyang, expanded the army into the Eighth Association, and organized the deployment of defenses and preparations for war.

At this time, there was good news that the people's armies in Shanghai and Guizhou had won the victory and established the army.

The fall of Hankou did not affect the revolutionary enthusiasm of the army and people in Hubei.

The uprising in Shanghai was nothing short of a revolution of merchants.

Before the Xinhai Revolution, some businessmen in Shanghai had already joined the revolution, such as Shen Manyun, Ye Huijun, Wang Yiting, Zhu Baosan, Yu Qiaqing, and Li Zhengwu. Except for Zhu Baosan, all are members of the league. They provided a clandestine place for the revolutionaries to carry out their activities and financed their activities. Yu Qiaqing also handled ordnance for the rebel army, and Li Zhengwu also formed a recovery army.

On October 31, 1911, Chen Qimei, a revolutionary, and representatives of the gentry and businessmen, Li Pingshu, Wang Yiting, Shen Manyun, and Ye Huijun, held a meeting at Li Pingshu's home in Zhenjili, Baike Road (now Fengyang Road), and decided to launch the Shanghai Liberation Uprising on November 3. "At that time, it was determined that the southern city was targeted at the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the Yamen of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Taibing Garrison Road, and the Zhabei was targeted at the Shanghai Patrol Police Bureau (located in Zhabei Gonghe Road)."

At 2 p.m. on 3 November, the Shanghai uprising troops gathered on nine acres of land in Nanshi City to hold a pledge meeting.

Subsequently, the soldiers were divided into two routes, one was Chen Qimei led a death squad to attack the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. On the other hand, Li Xianmo led a merchant group to capture Shanghai Road and the county yamen.

The merchant group attacked and defended in an orderly manner: Feng Shaoshan led the Huxi merchant group to occupy the southern and western cities; Shang Yu, Qing Halal, Yangbu, Yun Huai (Zhuyu Industry), Lingye and other merchant groups led by Yin Cunfu and Feng Runsheng occupied Dongcheng and Beicheng; Liu Shunqing led a group of book merchants to occupy the Sulfur Bureau (** factory). By 4 o'clock in the afternoon, all the city towers were hoisted with big white flags, and the city gates were guarded by merchant groups. By 8 o'clock in the evening, the entire county seat of Shanghai was occupied by business groups, and social order was stable.

On November 6, the Shanghai Military Governor's Office was established, and Chen Qimei was promoted as the Shanghai Military Governor.

Chen Qimei, known as Yingshi, Wuwei, is a native of Wuxing, Huzhou, Zhejiang, a modern Chinese democratic revolutionary and a veteran of the League. During the Xinhai Revolution, he and Huang Xing were Sun Yat-sen's left and right femurs.

Cai Yuanpei said that he could be ranked with the chivalrous warriors of the past dynasties, and praised Chen Qimei as "the first hero of the Republic of China".

In 1906, Chen Qimei went to Japan to study, entered the Tokyo Police Supervision School, and joined the China League in the same year.

During this period, he married Chiang Kai-shek and Huang Yin as the Jinlan brothers.

In 1908, he was sent back to China by Sun Yat-sen, and traveled back and forth between Zhejiang, Shanghai, Beijing and Tianjin to contact the revolutionaries.

In 1909, he founded the "China Gazette" and "Minsheng Cong Bao" to propagate the revolution.

In 1910, together with Song Jiaoren, Tan Renfeng and others, he organized the Central General Association of the China League to promote revolutionary activities in the Yangtze River Valley.

Guizhou's victory is inseparable from the name of one person, Zhang Bailin, a fighter for the democratic revolution.

In 1907, Zhang Bailin organized a political group called the Autonomous Society, and most of the participants were patriotic intellectuals. They raised the banner of "salvation" and demanded reform and strength. The Autonomous Society is actually a branch of the Guizhou League.

Subsequently, under the influence of the revolutionary propaganda of the League, some progressive youths in Guiyang Army Primary School, Public Middle School, and Elite Normal Elective School established a political organization called the "Historical Research Society." Recruit New Army soldiers and members of the Brotherhood to participate, and make contact with the League organizations in Shanghai and Wuhan.

Zhang Bailin's Autonomous Society contacted the New Army, mainly with the help of the "Historical Research Society".

Encouraged by the Wuchang Uprising and the independence of Yunnan, Zhang Bailin, the leader of the Autonomous Society, stepped up his contacts with the local Hui Party and the New Army in Guiyang, waiting for an opportunity to revolt and seize power.

On the one hand, the Autonomous Society was intensively preparing for an armed uprising; On the other hand, it reconciled with the Constitutional Preparatory Committee in an attempt to achieve a "bloodless revolution" and realize the recovery of Guizhou.

On November 2, Zhang Bailin, Yang Changming, Ren Kecheng and others risked their lives to persuade Shen Yuqing, the governor of Guizhou, to surrender to Cheng. Shen not only rejected their request, but instead planned to convene a "self-protection meeting" attended by people from all walks of life on 4 November to lure Zhang Bailin and others into attending and wipe out the backbone of the autonomous society.

On the night of 3 November, the Army Primary School was the first to attack, and Yang Xincheng, the general office of the Army Primary School, was appointed as the commander.

Zhao Deyuan, the commander of the New Army battalion who was ordered to come to suppress it, sympathized with the revolution and did not perform the function of suppression, but became a peacemaker.

Everyone is thoughtful, has a beating heart, has a rich inner world, and has a certain conscience to a greater or lesser extent. When a dynasty does not even listen to its own army, how can this rule not be terminally ill?

The Governor's Guard and Patrol Battalion also responded to the Army's primary school incident.

Governor Shen Yuqing heard the news of the urgency and summoned the guards to guard. The guards came in with Peng Erkun's arm wrapped around a strip of white cloth, and Shen Yuqing was even more shocked, because the strip of white cloth was the mark of the revolutionary party.

Peng Erkun said to Governor Shen Yuqing: If it is a bandit, the guards should be treated seriously, but if it is a suppression of the uprising, soldiers and students cannot.

Governor Shen Yuqing saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to write a letter to recognize the independence of Guizhou, send it to the Advisory Bureau, and hand it over to Tan Xigeng and Zhang Bailin.

It also takes courage and wisdom to admit defeat, and sometimes it is a great achievement.

The victory of Guizhou was basically a bloodless revolution

On November 4, the military administration of Guizhou in the Han Dynasty. The government was proclaimed. Yang Xincheng is the governor, and Zhao Dequan is the deputy governor. Zhang Bailin is the Privy Councillor.

That is, Hubei military and political. On the day when the government held a ceremony to pay homage to the generals at the parade ground, Yuan Shikai received a letter from the Qing court to the general manager of the cabinet. The appointment of Li was overjoyed. People sometimes have to keep a low profile and put on a show. Although, since receiving the letter from his old friend Xu Shichang, he has been waiting for this day, but he still called back to thank him.

At the same time, in order to reduce the killing as much as possible, the front-line army had been ordered to stop the offensive and write a letter to persuade the rebel party to surrender.

If there is no definite reply within a few days, the time limit will be set to capture Hanyang.

Zaifeng knew that Yuan Shikai's resignation was just a gesture, and insisted on urging Yuan Shikai to take office as soon as possible and form a cabinet in person. For the war in Hubei, Yuan Shikai was invited to take the camera.

Here, Yuan Shikai saw that Li Yuanhong had not answered, so he asked Liu Chengen to send a reliable person with a letter to meet Li Yuanhong, so as to get a clear answer as soon as possible; Liu Chengen finds detective Wang Hongsheng.

After Wang Hongsheng saw Li Yuanhong, he said: "Lord Yuan intends to make peace between the two sides, so as not to harm the Han people and protect the overall situation, why fight to the death." ”

Li Yuanhong replied: "At this time, don't push the emperor down, just merge casually." In the future, the power will belong to him, and he will be twice as ruthless as before, and we will not end well. ”

Li Yuanhong expressed his attitude, and first put forward the condition of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty. But he still kept alive and said that if Liu Chengen could come, he would come over and talk.

It seems that his actual status in the military has been greatly improved.

Wang Hongsheng returned to Hankou to resume his life.

Yuan Shikai also received a telegram from the imperial court urging him to become the prime minister of the cabinet, and he replied that in accordance with the provisions of Article 19 of the just-promulgated Constitution, the general manager of the cabinet was appointed. The Minister of State needs to be publicly elected by the National Assembly, "so the previous order cannot be decreed".

On 8 November, the Senior Council held a meeting and formally elected Yuan Shikai as the chief cabinet officer. Minister of State. Yuan Shikai received the telegram, and there was no reason to shirk it anymore.

On November 9, Huang Xing, commander-in-chief of the Hubei People's Army, wrote a letter to Yuan Shikai.

First of all, the darkness of the Qing Dynasty's rule was painful, the masses of the people were in dire straits, and the conscientious Chinese could no longer maintain this rule. He pointed out that the Qing court's opening up of the party ban was only a branch and could not solve the fundamental problem. The only way to solve the fundamental problem is to overthrow the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

Next, he treated Yuan Shikaixiao with great righteousness and persuaded him to abandon the darkness and turn to the light as soon as possible and conform to the trend of the times.

In order to impress Yuan Shikai, Huang Xing also put forward the most tempting conditions: "There is a distinction between superior and inferior talents, and there is no difference between the uprisings and the uprising." The talent of the Ming Gong is higher than the Xing and other tens of thousands, with the qualifications of Napoleon and Huashengton, and the deeds of Napoleon and Huashengton, and the work of Napoleon and Huashengton, which is directly smashed by the Yellow Dragon, and the captives are destroyed and eaten, not only the people of Hunan and Hubei Dai Minggong are Napoleon and Huashengton, that is, the northern and southern provinces, and there is no one who does not obey orders. The rain of the people, the group of people look up to the Ming Gong, once in a thousand years, pray not to be lost. ”

Of course, Yuan Shikai understands that Huang Xing is in the position of China's first president. He knew that this was not something for Huang Xing to say alone, although Huang had a prominent position in the revolutionary party.

However, Huang Xing's letter pointed out a bright future and a direction for him to work towards.

A mountain is higher than a mountain, and people's desires are difficult to satisfy, especially for an ambitious person like Yuan Shikai.

This seems to be normal, isn't it just that human beings make progress in the pursuit of dissatisfaction? If our ancestors had been content with cave life, would our humans have the civilization we have today?

The current Yuan Shikai can no longer be satisfied with just a comeback, but also with a high position.

Because, the previous goal has been achieved, and a more brilliant position beckons to him.

He calculated that if he only met the former goal, he would have to exterminate all the revolutionary parties. Otherwise, the world is not peaceful, and your position will not be secure.

And when the world is too peaceful, can you sit firmly in your position? Can these people tolerate themselves?

If he led the Beiyang Army to revolt and join the revolutionary party, the rule of the Manchus would naturally be extinguished. Let's not talk about whether the Beiyang Army can follow itself to revolt, even if this is okay, if the Manchu rule is overthrown, can its goal be achieved?