Chapter 227: Nanjing Anti-Bandit Conference
(3rd Update)
It turned out that Feng Ru, a Cantonese man, studied aircraft manufacturing in the United States, and successfully built the Feng Ru No. 1 aircraft, from the wings, rudders, propellers to internal combustion engines and other large and small parts were all self-made, soaring over the city of Auckland for more than 800 meters, landing safely, and opening the first page of China's aviation history. www.biquge.info Its range was more than three times that of the Wright brothers of the United States, the inventors of the airplane, in 1903, which shocked and envied the Western world.
After the success of Feng Ru No. 1, Feng Ru returned to the Qing Dynasty to prepare to serve the country, and Feng Ru made a second aircraft based on Curtis's "Golden Arrow" and the Wright Brothers' "Aviator No. 1", which was named "Feng Ru No. 2".
Feng Ru approached Zhang Mingqi, the governor of Guangdong, and said that he had built an airplane that could carry 400 tons, rise 350 feet (about 120 meters), and have a range of 30 kilometers. Zhang Mingqi was very interested, so he ordered Feng Ru to fly on a certain day.
On the tenth day of the first month of March, April 8, 1911 in the Western calendar, Feng Ru took a test flight in Yantang, tens of thousands of spectators from near and far, men and women wore new clothes to watch the plane, and major newspapers and foreigners in Guangzhou also went to join in the fun regardless of their identity. The Guangzhou general Fu Qi is Rong Lu's nephew, heard the Yantang test flight plane, so he ran from the city of Guangzhou to Yantang in a green sedan chair, only to see the plane rise from the ground, fly higher and higher, suddenly hovering over the heads of everyone, suddenly climbed up, everyone was surprised, and for a while cheers, cheers, talk and laughter made a scene.
Fu Qi was a general in Guangzhou, so it was inconvenient to stay outside the city, so after seeing it, he asked people to carry a sedan chair back to the city. Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at the gate of Guangzhou City, a revolutionary party rushed out from under the bridge, fired several shots at the sedan chair with a pistol, and killed Fu Qi under the city gate. After the assassin was captured, he only said that his name was Wen Shengcai, and he sacrificed his life for the 40,000 Han people, and did not say any nonsense, and was then executed by Zhang Mingqi's order.
Fu Qi's death made the Qing court magnates die of sorrow, so they ordered all parts of the country to strictly investigate the rebellious party, especially in Guangzhou, and it is even more necessary to strictly guard against the rebellious party.
Although Wen Shengcai's righteous act was great, it was a big deal, Huang Xing and others were originally going to plan a big uprising in Guangzhou, and even contacted some officers of the Guangzhou New Army, but they didn't expect to be stirred up by Wen Shengcai, so they had to launch an uprising in advance.
Here Wang Yongan received a martial law order in Yangzhou, he was so strange, the most incapable place in the world for the revolutionary party to launch an uprising is the Jiangbei region, everyone knows that this is the territory of the Wang brothers, not to mention the revolutionary party, even if the six towns of Beiyang come, they also have to weigh their own weight, suppress the bandits for two months, more than 10,000 people died in Jiangbei, and more than 20,000 bandits surrendered, and many of these two people were sent by Wang Yongan to Hefei County, Lujiang Prefecture for labor reform.
The purpose of the transformation is to brainwash, for example, to be loyal to Wang Yongan and never betray Wang Yongan Yunyun, in short, as long as the brainwashing is successful, the bandits will be transferred to the 24th Mixed Association New Barracks to receive the second wave of brainwashing and reform, and then be assigned to the army for the third wave of brainwashing, and then ...... This man is stupid, and he is completely superstitious and loyal to Wang Yongan.
The 24th Mixed Association is Wang Yongtai's on the surface, but in fact it is Wang Yongan's, but Wang Yongtai has a reputation in the officialdom, Wang Yongan has a status in the army, Wang Yongan maintains his power in the name of his brother, and Wang Yongtai maintains his position through Wang Yongan's strength.
Although the revolutionary party would not make trouble in Jiangbei, Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangjiang, was worried about the Liangjiang incident, so he decided to hold an anti-bandit meeting in Nanjing and convene all the military leaders in the Liangjiang area to discuss how to take precautions.
As the head of the most important military forces in Jiangbei, Wang Yongtai was naturally invited, but Wang Yongtai was inconvenient, so Wang Yongan, deputy co-ordinator, attended the meeting on his behalf.
When Wang Yongan received the notice of the meeting, he reported to Wang Yongtai, and Wang Yongtai said: "Although our 24th Mixed Association is under the direct jurisdiction of the War Department, the Governor of Liangjiang can mobilize our army in an emergency, so we must attend this meeting. I suspect that Governor Zhang wants you to teach the others how to guard against the chaos of the party (revolutionary party) and pass on some experience. ”
Wang Yongan smiled: "Just one word, kill." ”
Wang Yongtai shook his head and smiled bitterly: "How can they be killed simply, they have not been killed, and they are not stupid." ”
Wang Yongan said: "Killing is not the same as killing, some people always want to be a man and leave a line to see each other in the future, because they are just officials and are different from our brothers." As officials, our brothers have to guard against the court and the chaotic party, so let's kill people not only for the court but also for the chaotic party. Don't say anything else, let's just say that Zhang Renjun, how many chaotic parties has he killed? He was afraid that he would kill the rebels, and that he would no longer be a governor in his later years, and that he would be assassinated by the rebels. What are our brothers afraid of, if we don't kill the chaotic party, the chaotic party will not be afraid of me, and the court will have an excuse to kill us, so our killing is to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, to kill cruelly and ruthlessly, and to kill to stop killing. On the one hand, it is for work, and on the other hand, it is for survival, those revolutionary parties are not stupid after all, and they know that they will no longer make trouble in Jiangbei, otherwise they will ......"
Wang Yongtai shook his head and smiled bitterly: "You kid, you can always say crooked reasoning into truth." ”
After some preparations, Wang Yongan led more than 100 soldiers of the Guards Battalion and Li Yao to go down the river by boat, first arrived at Zhenjiang, and the water battalion of Zhenjiang and the generals of the patrol battalion met and drank and made friends, especially Xu Baoshan, who is known as the Jiangdong Tiger, his sailor battalion has only more than 1,000 people, but the location of Zhenjiang is very important, in later generations it is the military base of the navy, the submarine force and the Marine Corps are stationed here, the front can support Shanghi, and then can return to Nanjing, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Yangtze River intersect, it can be said that Zhenjiang is the throat of the south of the Yangtze River. Xu Baoshan has always had dealings with Wang Yongan's China Shipping Group, and the shipping company had to send some filial piety to Xu Baoshan.
Xu Baoshan likes speculation, so not only did he not dare to blackmail the China Shipping Group, but escorted him, Wang Yongtai was very satisfied with him, but Wang Yongan knew that this Xu Baoshan was a famous historical speculator, and because of opportunism in the Xinhai Revolution, he became a rare big warlord in Jiangbei - but it is a pity that this person wandered between Yuan Shikai and the revolutionary party, and was finally killed by the revolutionaries with a bomb.
The only thing Wang Yongan appreciates him is precisely this Xu Baoshan's tricky eyes, he likes to take advantage of the chaos to attack during the war, and once beat Zhang Xun's pigtailed army from Nanjing to Xuzhou after the Xinhai Revolution, if it were not for the fifth town of the Beiyang Army from Shandong Province to the south to support, I am afraid that Zhang Xun's life would have been lost, and there would have been no later farce of Zhang Xun's restoration.
Wang Yongan's arrival made Xu Baoshan very happy, and after two days of warm hospitality, after Li Jingcheng, the commander of the patrol battalion stationed in Danyang, Zhenjiang, arrived, the three of them went to Nanjing by boat to attend the anti-bandit meeting. Xu Baoshan and Li Jingcheng were puzzled by Wang Yongan with more than 100 soldiers, and said with a smile that there is no danger for you to go to Nanjing, and it is useless to say that there are more than 100 people in danger, Wang Yongan replied with a smile: "My soldiers have never been to Nanjing, and taking them there this time is also an eye-opener, so as not to be stupid as a soldier." The crowd laughed and said that if you have more money, you will take them with you, and you will spend your own money left and right.