Chapter 417: Actor (Second Shift)
Although the railway tunnel in Nanling has not been built, after three years of day and night work, the Hanyue Railway has not yet been built except for a few railways with complex terrain such as Nanling, and all other sections have been repaired, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers have been mobilized from Guangdong, Hunan, and other places by rail and road. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This was the largest movement of the rebel army since its formation. But even so, they were ignorant of the outside world - they could not see the march of the army, because most of the time the army was moved by train and steamer, and even the outside world did not know that in less than a month, tens of thousands of troops had gathered around the Jiujiang River.
The movement of troops did not even have the slightest impact on the navigation of the Yangtze River - the steamers of the democracy movement still sailed on the river. Passengers from all over the country still travel by ship to and from the provinces.
"A scene of prosperity! O prosperous scene! ”
When he walked out of the dock, looking at the prosperous Wuchang street outside the dock, Cheng Yuting couldn't help but sigh loudly.
"I only learned today that what Brother Yushan said is true......"
He is no stranger to Wuchang, in fact, a few years ago, Cheng Yuting came to Wuchang, and the lunch at that time was not necessarily much more prosperous than Anqing. And four years ago, the whole city was burned by bandits, and the inside and outside of the city were a red land. And now, the Wuchang he saw was more prosperous than any city he had ever seen, even the capital could not be compared, although it was summer, the air did not smell the stench of the capital, the streets were spacious and clean, and there was not the slightest filth on the ground.
When Cheng Yuting sighed, Zhou Fu, who came to pick him up at the dock, said lightly.
"Tian Yu, you can watch the news every day in Wuchang in the future, did you bring the text?"
Although he has not seen his old friend for several years, at this time Zhou Fu is more concerned about his text, which is a joint text of gentlemen in Huizhou.
"Brought, bringed!"
Cheng Yuting hurriedly said that he was the eldest son of Cheng Meifeng, the general office of the Huizhou regimental strong training, and Cheng Meifeng was the son of Cheng Zuluo, the former governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.
And now, Cheng Yuting and his party of more than 30 Huizhou gentry and virtuous people came to Wuchang together, where this "thief" is, and the reason why they came here was to ask for help. To be precise, it is to ask Han Du to save all the people of the world. Of course, what is more important is for the Cheng family and for the future of Huizhou.
In fact, in the past few years, the gentry of Huizhou have always had some contact with Wuchang, just like Zhou Fu and other Huizhou scholars have no less than Wuchang officials. At first, they, like many people, regarded Wuchang as a rebel. But with the news brought by those scholars, they were shaken by this thought.
In particular, in the tearing up between the bandits and the officials and the army, in which the thieves came to kill the people and the officials came to kill the people, in the face of the reality that millions of people died tragically at the hands of officials and bandits, they envied the people who enjoyed "peace" in Huguang and Guangdong.
When the rebels went north to Henan, not only did they not commit any crimes in the autumn but also used military rations to help the refugees, they even felt that the rebels really deserved to be "benevolent and righteous teachers". In the past almost a year, all kinds of news about the benevolence and righteousness of the righteous army have been transmitted to Huizhou and other places through various channels, even Cheng Meifeng, the son of Cheng Zuluo, the former governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, has secretly pondered the future in his heart, after all, whether it is an official or a thief, he does not regard the people as the people, only the Han Duke of Wuchang regards the people as people!
After a little contact with Wuchang, the two sides immediately got together in private, and now, the reason why the gentry of Huizhou came here was that they were spontaneous, but in fact they were just here to perform a play.
"Yushan, what should I do next?"
Cheng Yuting said a little nervously
Although the Cheng and Wang families in Huizhou are local people, they are confused here, in fact, most of the people who dare to come to Wuchang are small families in Huizhou, such as Zhou Fu is from the local small door. It is precisely because of this that he is a little nervous, after all, how to perform and sing this play must be at the behest of Zhou Fu.
"The play is simple! The key is how to sing! ”
The corners of Zhou Fu's lips lifted slightly, looked at Cheng Yuting and said.
"Tomorrow, tomorrow not only you will go, but there will be other people who will go to the governor's mansion together!"
Then Zhou Fu lowered his voice again, and whispered some details of the problem, now he is no longer a professor of Chinese in the Ministry of Engineering, but a servant in the governor's mansion, although he is a small official, but he is directly responsible for the Han governor, which is equivalent to the close minister of the Son of Heaven.
This night in Wuchang seems to be peaceful, but in fact, there are many people who can't sleep this night, those hundreds of gentry from Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places, tossing and turning in bed, waiting for dawn. What they think about is what they can bring to their hometown by doing this, and more importantly, whether the world will be peaceful.
"The day of the Han Gong's Eastern Crusade is the time when the world is peaceful!"
Reading the words of Zhou Fu and others so silently in his heart, Cheng Yuting was a little worried in his heart. He was afraid, he was afraid that if the news came out, the Cheng family would fall into the hands of officials and thieves and be attacked by them.
After all, now Huizhou is a bandit on one side and an official army on the other, as for Wuchang...... Wuchang is still too far away from there!
"Wouldn't it be a little inconsiderate for my father to do this?"
Cheng Yuting thought so.
But this thought also flashed in his mind, after all, the decision that his father had made this time was also a decision made by the people of Huizhou - Yinghan.
As for why he's here?
It's because Han Gong needs a reason!
We need a reason to convince the people of the world, and what is the reason to convince the people of the world.
In the past few years, it has trained hundreds of engineers and technicians, and in the Ministry of Engineering, except for a few professors of Chinese studies, almost all of the other professors are from abroad, all of them from Britain and France, and it is here that they introduce Western industrial science to China. But it's not all, at least there is a Chinese professor in the Faculty of Engineering - Zou Boqi.
It was under his auspices that the Ministry of Engineering School produced the first batch of cameras, which were a kind of skin cavity camera, which used the wet plate of collodion that had just been invented a few years ago, although its operation was troublesome, but the cost was low, only one-twelfth of the daguerreotype, the exposure was faster than the daguerreotype, the image definition was also high, and the glass negative could print a large number of photos.
Zou Boqi has been researching new photography methods in the past period, and late at night, when he left the office, he was surprised to find that there was no one on the lawn of the road in the college.
"Where have all the people gone?"
Although it is late at night, but at this hour, the students in the engineering school will always conduct experiments in the laboratory or read books in the library, and the engineering school in the middle of the night is the time to study, but today it seems that there is something uneven, and the students reading are missing under the street lamp.
When he arrived at the main building, Zou Boqi found that several professors were talking there, so he walked over and asked, puzzled:
"Guys, why are you here?"
"The students gathered in the lecture hall......"
Li Shanlan, a mathematics professor who is good at mathematics, explained what happened to Zou Boqi with a wry smile and accompanied him to the lecture hall.
At this time, the lecture hall gathered all the students of the Faculty of Engineering. The students automatically gathered in piles by department, and the first-year students gathered by class, and most of them looked very sad and angry, and many of them even had tears in their eyes.
Approaching, Zou Boqi saw a photo displayed at the front desk, those photos were full of pictures of people being killed, although the photos were blurry, but he could also recognize that the people who killed the people were both Taiping soldiers and Manchu soldiers.
This, where did these photos come from?
In Zou Boqi's surprise, a young man stood on the stage, waved his fist and said loudly:
"Ladies and gentlemen, what is the sin of the people? How innocent are the people? How innocent are the people of the world? I am waiting for the protection of Handu, so that I can study here in peace in this troubled time, and completely forget this world! You don't see that thousands of miles of red land in Suzhou, Anhui and thousands of people were slaughtered! Is there any reason for this! The thief came to kill all the shavers, and the officials came to kill the shavers! What a crime the people of the world have been so slaughtered! I am not talented, although I am a scholar, I have no power to fight chickens, but I have a conscience, I Zhang Yiping will write to Han Du tomorrow, and ask Han Du to send troops to save the people of the world. Who would like to go with me and write to Handu? ”
"Brother Nanqi, I should go with you."
"Zhang Nanqi, I'll go with you too!"
……
Suddenly, the responder was in large numbers.
Someone jumped on the stage again and said excitedly.
"Zhang Nanqi is right, heaven and earth are not kind, and all things are used as dogs. Han Du's benevolence, how can he see the people of the world being slaughtered like this. I, Wang Jingshan, am willing to write to the Han Governor, open my eyes for the people of the world, and ask the Han Governor to send troops to crusade against the evil rebellion in Nanjing! Who would like to sign with me? ”
"Jingshan is reasonable, I'm willing to go."
"Yes, we who study should be open to the people of the world."
……
At the same time, some students secretly gathered together and said to each other:
"Although the Duke of Han is the Duke of Han, he has been more or less sealed by the flood thief in name, and if the Han Governor sends troops to Nanjing, it will not be the following offense. We must not act rashly and trap the Han Gong in injustice......"
"Yes, that's true."
As soon as the words on their side fell, someone on the other side immediately retorted.
"Han Du was sealed by the flood thief when he was sealed, but it was just a temporary expedient measure, and he could not be regarded as all!"
The voice of retort rose sharply.
"What's more, the sage has a saying: the king has a way, follow it, be loyal to it; There is no way, abandon it, cut it down. With the behavior of the flood thief, how can he be the king, I waited for the letter to ask the Han Gong to cut down the flood thief, but it is to conform to the principles of heaven, is to save the people of the world, the flood thief has no way, we abandon it, the Han Gong will cut it, and will be trapped in injustice, and after the Han Gong is the emperor, he should save the people of the world, how can he be expedient for a while, and ignore the people of the world? ”
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After such categorical words, some people on the side immediately applauded loudly, and some people even said.
"I'll draft it together, and I'll go to the mansion tomorrow to write to Han Gong!"
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