After Wang Hengyue continuously published a letter to the whole country, the Beiyang political axe finally couldn't sit still!

In particular, students everywhere are even more encouraged.

The students in Yenching decided to launch a wave of speech teams from June 30 onwards to give speeches in a grand manner on Tongqu Street. Prepare for the military police to make an arrest. If all the students were arrested on the first day, twice as many students were used to give speeches on the street on the second day, and twice as many on the third day if all the students were arrested on the second day.

There are 25,000 students above the middle school level in Yanjing, and they unanimously decided to support this action, and everyone followed the example of Tian Heng's 500 righteous people, united as one, and united tightly.

On June 30, the students of Yanjing were divided into more than 50 groups to give speeches according to the predetermined plan. This came as a big surprise to the military and police authorities. Duan Zhigui hurriedly declared martial law, sent a horse team to disperse the lecture students in coordination with the military and police, and arrested 178 students. The detention center of the National Police Agency could not accommodate it, so it had to be sent to the North ** Section for guarding. The arrested students were denied food or drink, and relatives and friends were not allowed to visit them. The military and police authorities also sent a large number of armed military police to occupy Peking University, set up tents, and set up artillery in the surrounding area to prohibit pedestrians from passing.

According to the plan, the students continued to give street speeches on July 1 with double the number of people, and the military and police did not show weakness, and continued to make large-scale arrests, and about 700 people were arrested on the same day.

Not only did the students not evade arrest, but others who were not arrested voluntarily went to the makeshift prison in the law section and demanded to be imprisoned. Thinking they were robbing the prison, the military police, of course, prevented them from entering, so a fight broke out outside the door, resulting in three students being injured.

Witnessing the heroic actions of the students, the Yenching Christian faithful voluntarily stopped their religious propaganda and joined the ranks of the students for patriotic propaganda. In the history of China, there have been no female students marching in the streets, and now female students are also participating.

On July 2, more than 5,000 students set off with their burdens on their backs, and the citizens along the way paid warm tribute, and countless citizens were inspired to participate in the parade on their own. As a result, the students stopped speaking on the streets, they sang songs and shouted slogans and went straight to the North ** department. At this time, the military and police guarding the law department did not dare to take action against them, and the students locked up in the law department climbed up to the windows to look, so the law department echoed inside and outside, and the sound shook the market, one after another, and the military and police looked at each other.

At this most tense and moving time, the political axe suddenly ordered the withdrawal of the military and police of Peking University, and unconditionally released the detained students. However, the students who were imprisoned at Peking University not only refused to be released from prison, but instead organized door guards to replace the withdrawn military police, and detained themselves themselves. Some of the students caught seven faltering police officers and seized two of their tents, which they used as evidence of the political axe's destruction of education and human rights abuse. They sent people to the police department to ask for food, and the police had to obediently send a batch of food to help them.

On July 2, the students finally raised their eyebrows, and they openly stood in front of the police hall or in a crowded place where the military and police were crowded and gave loud speeches, and the military and police were stunned and did not dare to interfere.

On this day, Yanjing sent Fu Yuecai as the deputy minister of education to replace Yuan Xitao, who resigned and retired. When Vice Minister Fu was ordered to be in danger, he accompanied the smiling face and assured the students that in the future, the Ministry of Education would be responsible for dealing with the problem of the student tide, and the military and police would not bother with it again.

On July 3, it was said that the Yanjing political axe sent Hu Renyuan to act as the president of Peking University, but Hu Renyuan did not dare to take up his post because of the opposition of the students.

After the expansion of the Yenching student movement, it spread to Shanghai, where there were the most schools, and the students were patriotic and did not descend, and in order to support Yenching, they immediately convened a meeting and issued a manifesto.

In order to cooperate with the students, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce launched a strike, and on July 3, all the shops in Nan City went on strike, and the merchants in the French Concession were also closed, followed by the Public Concession, and the Yongan and Sincere companies in the British Concession also announced a strike. By the afternoon, all the shops in Shanghai were closed, except for students handing out leaflets and patrolling the streets.

White flags are hung outside the shops with the following words:

"All of us are united in calling for resistance to the Han and awakening the political axe."

Shanghai is the largest city in the country, attracting the attention of China and foreign countries, since Shanghai businessmen initiated a strike, the wave of the strike from Shanghai to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and then to Tianjin, Anqing, Wuhu, Xiamen, Jiujiang, Jinan, Wuhan and other cities.

As the merchants went on strike, the workers also went on strike.

First of all, the workers of the Chinese Tram in Nanshi, Shanghai, followed by the Commercial Press, Jinhua Yarn Factory, Xiangsheng Iron Works, Shanghai-Nanjing, Shanghai-Hangzhou Road, and workers from textile, metal, transportation, and municipal departments responded one after another, and the number of strikers reached as many as 60,000 or 70,000. Later, the railway workers of Jingfeng Road Tangshan, Jinghan Road Changxindian, and the dock workers of the Yangtze River steamship all responded!

As a result, Shanghai established the "Federation of Commercial and Industrial Journals from All Walks of Life", and this patriotic movement spread from Yanjing to Shanghai, with Shanghai as the center, and became a national surname movement.

The center of gravity of the student movement in Shanghai is Fudan University and Soochow University, which, like Peking University in Yenching, are the leading groups that call the shots.

After the student demonstrations broke out, the telegram arrived at all newspapers in Shanghai that night, and the editors all compiled and printed it, but Ye Chuyu, Zhu Zongliang, and Shao Lizi of the "Republic of China Daily" felt that this was a great patriotic movement.

Immediately sent someone to send the original telegram of Yanjing to Fudan University, and the students read the telegram and were full of indignation, so they rang the bell at dawn to gather all the boarding students of the school, read the telegram to the public, and all of them immediately decided to respond to the feat of Yanjing, first strike and then unite with other schools.

The Shanghai Federation of Students is located at No. 51 Jing'an Temple Road, and after its establishment, a Minsheng Girls' School also participated. However, Minsheng Girls' School sent only one representative, and this representative was a teacher, named Wang Yinping, who was a male teacher with six fingers on his right hand, and spoke a lot in the student association, so his name was often published in the newspapers. Because his name resembles a woman and represents a girls' school, the outside world thinks that he is a fair lady, which makes many men reverie, and after receiving many marriage proposals, he is dumbfounded, and has to answer one by one, telling the suitor that he is a man.

Due to the strike of students, merchants, and workers in Shanghai, the military authorities in Shanghai declared martial law and sent police to force the merchants to open the market. The Shanghai Concession authorities forbade citizens to hang flags, distribute leaflets, and march in groups, and persuaded shops in the concession to open for business. However, the citizens also obeyed the law.

Xu Shichang's faction believed that the student uprising should not be too radical and that those students who refused to be released from prison should be persuaded to go out, so as to alleviate the growing discontent of the people throughout the country. On July 8, Xu Shichang sent Zeng Yijin, a senator of the Presidential Office, and the director of the General Department of Education to the Bei** Branch to express condolences to the students who refused to be released from prison. The minister said all the good things, but the students ignored them.

On July 8, people from all walks of life in Yanjing held a national convention in Central Park, proposing conditions such as canceling the secret treaty, punishing state thieves, maintaining education, promoting national products, and promoting peace.

The nationwide protests focused on the issue of "recalling the national thieves," which meant that if the Yanjing political axe did not dismiss Cao Rulin, Zhang Zongxiang, and Lu Zongyu, who were pro-Japanese faction, the situation would inevitably expand. However, in terms of Yanjing's political axe, there is a pain in throwing a rat bogey, because Duan Qirui wants to protect these three people. As for Xu Shichang, it cannot be said that he has nothing to do with these three people at all, and Xu's economic source for being elected president is to rely on the loans of Shunji and Gaoxu.

The issue of "recalling the national thief" could not be solved, and the students of Yanjing middle school and above decided on the 8th, and from the 9th, they directly petitioned the presidential palace in imitation of the story of Shen Baoxu crying Qin Ting. If you don't achieve your goal, you won't give up. Because of this new plan, the Yenching Student Federation changed its strategy and sent people to welcome all the arrested students from prison on the same day so that they could participate in the new tearful petition. The students who were released from the "prison" in the North ** Branch lined up and were warmly welcomed by the citizens along the way.

Lu Yongxiang, the envoy to the Songhu garrison, also sent a telegram requesting Yanjing to remove Cao, Zhang, and Lu Yi'an. Lu Yongxiang is from the Anhui family, and he actually made such remarks, indicating the seriousness of the current situation.

This doesn't matter, and then the Yanjing Chamber of Commerce also announced that if Cao, Zhang, and Lu are not dismissed, then Yanjing will also boycott the market, Yanjing is the location of the political axe, if it really strikes, what will be the system.

Therefore, on the morning of the 9th, the Yanjing political axe approved Cao Rulin's resignation as the chief of transportation, and conveyed this order to the Yanjing Federation of Students and the General Chamber of Commerce, on the one hand, to prevent the students from really surrounding the presidential palace, and on the other hand, to prevent the Chamber of Commerce from boycotting the market. However, all quarters were still dissatisfied with this, so Yanjing had no choice but to issue two additional orders on the afternoon of 9 July, approving the resignation of Minister Zhang Zongxiang and Director of the Bureau of Currency System Lu Zongyu.

Cao Rulin and Lu Zongyu once handed in their resignations, but Zhang Zongxiang never resigned.

In order to alleviate the [***] movement of the national surname, Xu Shichang asked Cao, Zhang, and Lu to step down, but he was embarrassed to order them to be dismissed, so they all resigned according to the method. But Zhang Zongxiang has not handed in his resignation, how can he comply with it? As a last resort, he sent a special person to the hospital to find Zhang Zongxiang and asked him to stamp the written resignation on the sickbed. This time, the people in the Anfu department were very dissatisfied, thinking that Xu Shichang should not "sell friends", forcing his own people to resign, and blaming Xu Shichang for being too not enough friends!

Although Yanjing Zhengaxe expressed concessions, it could not meet the hopes of all parties, first, Yanjing Zhengaxe did not need to be recalled, but was allowed to resign, which obviously intended to be maintained; Second, Cao Rulin, the chief of communications, resigned, but Zeng Yujun, a member of the Anfu department, acted as the minister, which was a change of soup but not a change of medicine.

On the day that the Yanjing political axe approved the resignation of Cao, Zhang, and Lu, the British minister to China, Zhu Erdian, telegraphed the news to the British Consul General in Shanghai, Fareis, and asked him to advise the Chinese merchants in the Shanghai concession to open the market.

(To be continued)