Chapter 529: National Support
The people in Yangzhou City were a little flustered, but under the scheduling arrangements of Zhang Jian and Chen Zhaotang, they evacuated to northern Jiangsu in an orderly manner, in fact, they preferred to go to southern Jiangsu, but now southern Jiangsu is the territory of the revolutionary party, and the revolutionary party has not yet expressed whether it is willing to accept these "refugees". Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Sun Yat-sen originally wanted to make great efforts to rectify those "revolutionaries" who harassed the people, but first, he did not have an army himself, and secondly, he wanted to deal with those who were traitors, but he couldn't come up with a reason.
The traitor threatened, when you Lao Tzu and I fought hard to drive the Manchu Qing away, your grandson cannon was still holding the Japanese little ladies around the United States to cheat money, you are now the interim president, you want to kick Lao Tzu away, you dream about you! If you want Lao Tzu and me to be honest and not make trouble, you must at least fill the stomachs of Lao Tzu and Lao Tzu's men, Lao Tzu can't overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and then starve to death in Nanjing, right?
The lack of money became the biggest difficulty of the Provisional Revolutionary Government in the South, so Sun Yat-sen was forced to borrow money from the Bank of Japan, but it was not understood. With the support of Huang Xing, Sun Yat-sen suppressed the mutiny, and because of the bad impact of the mutiny, Sun Yat-sen finally reluctantly borrowed from Japan and borrowed Wu Bai million yen from the Japanese for the dismissal of soldiers and government expenses, which allowed the Southern Provisional Revolutionary Government to spend a few months peacefully.
However, Sun Yat-sen had just divided the money borrowed from the Japanese to his subordinates, but he didn't expect the Jiangbei Army to fight with the Japanese army over there.
Sun Yat-sen and the other Southern Revolutionary Party were very embarrassed, and although Sun Yat-sen supported the Jiangbei side in his heart, he could not make it clear, otherwise he would offend the Japanese, and once the loan was recovered, the Southern Revolutionary Government would not be able to come forward. However, as a revolutionary leader, it was even more impossible for him to support the Japanese side at this time, although Japan asked him to support the Japanese army, but Sun Yat-sen still wisely refused to express his support for Japan, so this Sino-Japanese conflict, Sun Yat-sen and the southern revolutionary government were very embarrassed.
At this time, many revolutionary veterans telegraphed in their personal names to support the Jiangbei government, but as a revolutionary government in the south, the attitude of the official media has always been very cautious. A newspaper interviewed Sun Yat-sen, who cautiously said to the media: "China and Japan are separated by a strip of water, and they have been friendly for generations, and I don't want the war to continue." I am willing to act as a mediator between the two sides to mediate the war between the two sides, and I hope that China and Japan will live in peace. ”
Although Sun Yat-sen and the muddy practice was wise to protect himself, it was not accepted by the people, because the revolutionaries were originally the kind of hot-blooded and impulsive people, especially many revolutionary youths were patriots and fanatics, and although some people who sought benefits for themselves under the banner of revolution existed, they were not the mainstream, so Sun Yat-sen's speech not only made many people despise him, but even more gradually, set off a storm of rebellion against Sun in the Nanjing government.
Song Jiaoren openly expressed his support for the Jiangbei government, and he openly said that Jiangbei is the Jiangbei of China, and Japan is the country of tigers and wolves, and it is ambitious, and China must not back down. Song Jiaoren's speech made Sun Yat-sen even more embarrassed, and also made many revolutionary young people worship this ambitious revolutionary pioneer even more.
Although the official attitude of the southern revolutionary government is ambiguous, it is not that they do not support the Jiangbei side, and even in order to support Jiangbei, the southern revolutionary government has made many concessions in the North-South peace talks. It is only that the efforts made by the revolutionary government in the south are privately supported, and they are not superficial at all, which makes many revolutionary youth mistakenly think that they are weak and incompetent.
As for the young people who went to Jiangbei to support the anti-Japanese resistance, the revolutionary government in the south did not stop them, and many revolutionary leaders and pioneers even secretly transported their money or ammunition to the past through private consignment.
On May 5, the Jiangbei government unexpectedly obtained a batch of military supplies, and Yuan Shikai, through Duan Qirui's hand, sent 100 tons of grain from Xuzhou in the name of the people to support the anti-Japanese patriots in the north. And when the grain was unloaded, the Jiangbei side unexpectedly found that there were weapons and ammunition in each bag of grain, Yuan Shikai through this secret way, actually transported three million rifle bullets and one million machine gun bullets, although the number is not much, but now at this time the whole world is sanctioning the Jiangbei Army, they have nowhere to buy ammunition, Yuan Shikai's support is like a sweet spring in the desert makes Wang Yongan and a group of Jiangbei officials feel the warm sun in their hearts.
Although Wang Yongan personally doesn't like Duan Qirui very much, and Duan Qirui doesn't like him very much, both sides can't wait to kill each other. But this time Wang Yongan had to give Duan Qirui a thumbs up, because Yuan Shikai did not make specific requirements when he assigned the task to Duan Qirui, but in order to support them, Duan Qirui actually sat in the railway station hall without sleep for two days and two nights, staring at his subordinates working overnight, and finally the ammunition and food were personally escorted by Xu Shuzheng.
After Xu Shuzheng delivered the weapons and ammunition, he also made a special visit to the situation of the Jiangbei army, and found that along the Jinpu Railway, each soldier only had an average of three bullets, and this discovery surprised him. If the Beiyang Army moves south in a big way at this time, along the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, it will be able to conquer Jiangbei in less than ten days. But Xu Shuzheng finally shook his head and reported to Duan Qirui: "Jiangbei is united to fight against Japan, and we should do our best to help." Duan Qirui called back and said: "The dispute in Jiangbei is a dispute between brothers, and you must not be insulted by others at this time." ”
The secret telegram between Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng was discovered decades later, this pair of master and apprentice has been committed to eliminating the Jiangbei forces, but what is unexpected is that they support Jiangbei at this critical moment, which really makes people admire the integrity of this Anhui general.
The batch of ammunition and food donated by Yuan Shikai was too timely, the Jiangbei side was the army lacked ammunition, and the people lacked food, Wang Yongan ordered the grain to be distributed to those people who fled the famine, and sent Wei Daofeng to personally supervise the distribution of grain. Wei Daofeng will kill and execute anyone who takes the opportunity to extort the fleeing people and embezzle, and for those who take the opportunity to raise prices and forcibly buy and sell and bully the fleeing people, he will even be punished by Ling Chi to death or the body of five horses, and confiscate their family property, so as to curb the unhealthy tendencies of some people.
At this time, someone set up a road card to ask for tolls, and the background was very powerful, but after Wei Daofeng learned about it, he used a heavy code in the troubled times, not only put this person to death, but even hanged this person with a backing mountain, and marked the trees along the road, which greatly shocked all parts of Jiangbei. Compared with some people in Mao County, Sichuan Province who later demanded tolls from disaster relief military vehicles and made wild remarks, the Jiangbei government's crackdown and methods are simply terrifying.