"My lord, I don't want to go to Beijing." Park Shou said to Matsushou.

This was at the end of August 1909. Yuan Shikai has already issued a call to all provinces to convene parliamentarians to discuss state affairs. The gentry from all over Fujian were ready to move. Matsushou had to lead a group to Beijing. When asked about the Fujian general Pu Shou, Pu Shou firmly rejected the suggestion.

"Are you still going to stay in Fujian and continue to train the army?" Matsushou asked.

"Exactly, I have to fight sooner or later anyway, so I'll stay in Fujian." Park Shou said very indifferently. From the beginning of 1909, after Yuan Shikai seized the central power, Pu Shou did not know how many times he quarreled with Songshou and asked Songshou to raise troops against Yuan Shikai. Although he was the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Songshou knew that he could not defeat the third town of the new army in Zhejiang. Park Shou is also a man of action, he knows that he can't talk about Songshou, and instead asks Songshou to get weapons and ammunition. Male bannermen over the age of 13 in Fujian were issued with a foreign gun and 300 rounds of ammunition. Drill the army every day. Matsushou knew that Pu Shou was preparing to fight to the death, and it was not easy to stop him.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty has reached such a point, seeing that the country is about to die, as a banner man, if he sees the situation come to this end, it is really unreasonable. Moreover, the morale of the revolutionary parties is now greatly boosted, and they are shouting everywhere that they want to kill all the Manchurians, and the Manchurians themselves are also terrified. Although Songshou didn't think Yuan Shikai would do this, even if it was for an extra bargaining chip, Songshou hoped to have a strong army in his hands.

In the six months after the successful seizure of power from Beiyang, Pu Shou scolded Yuan Shikai for his wolf ambitions in addition to training every day. It wasn't until nearly two months that he slowly stopped. It's not that Park Shou has learned to face reality. As far as Songshou knew, Pu Shou began to promote the radicals among the Manchurians, formed a "Han Killing Regiment", and planned a major purge of Fujian. Or the Holocaust.

Pak Shou, the "Han Killer Regiment," began to probe the location of the revolutionary party, preparing to start suppressing the rebellious party once the troops were trained. It is said that the initial plan of the Han Killing Regiment was to "kill 300,000 Han Chinese and keep Fujian safe." ”

Thinking of this, Songshou said, "General Pushou, don't act rashly. ”

Matsushou hadn't really fought, so he felt that such a crazy plan might be possible. It does not refer to the complete elimination of the revolutionary party, but to the massacre of 300,000 Han Chinese. In order to deny the legitimacy of the Manchus, the revolutionary party went around propagating the "Ten Days of Yangzhou", which was a blow to the image of the Manchus, but in turn, it also made the Manchus gradually have an idea, "Since the country could be captured by massacre in the past, now I am afraid that it can be defended by slaughter." ”

The only problem is that the 10th town of the New Army is still in existence, and this military force is really detached from Germany. The revolutionary party infiltrated it and hyped up the revolution. Song Shou knew Yuan Shikai's method of training soldiers, on the one hand, to ensure the high income of the Beiyang New Army, and at the same time to strictly control military discipline, and anyone who did not obey the orders would be killed openly. A knife in one hand, money in the other. Obey the governance of the Beiyang New Army.

Fujian has no financial resources for Yuan Shikai at all, and there is not enough silver to feed, but it implements harsh military orders, that is, looking for death. Therefore, Matsushou could only build his hope on the Manchurian New Army, which relied on blood.

Pu Shou replied very simply, "There are no more than 10,000 people, and more than 10,000 people are invincible!" Rest assured, as long as the salaries can be raised, this new army will certainly be unstoppable. ”

Seeing that Pu Shou made such a statement, Songshou could only believe it.

"My lord, the meal is ready." The soldier pushed open the door and said.

"Bring it in." Pine life road.

"Do you want to invite someone else?" The pro-soldier continued.

Matsushou wanted to have a meal with the whole family at the end, and wanted to talk, but he saw the small bottle of poisonous wine. His heart trembled. What will we say when we meet again? His family members and other banner family members and many flag family members were in the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Palace, and the women, the old and the young, were all in the hands of a dose of poison. It's one thing to die by yourself, and if you die a hundred, you don't have to be afraid anymore. It's a relief.

But watching his relatives die together, Matsushou didn't have the courage at all.

"Just leave me a plate of dishes, and order the kitchen to continue cooking and deliver it to everyone." Matsushou finally made up his mind.

"Yes." The soldiers left an elbow for Matsushou and wiped his tears.

The gunfire was a little thinner at this time, and a kind of hope suddenly arose in Songshou's heart, and the rebels had better not be able to fight now. Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard a violent explosion of shells. The landing was already very close to the governor's yamen, and the dust on the beams of the house was shaken and fell a lot.

The cannon hit accurately, and Matsushou trembled and picked up an elbow with a little dust in his hand. I wanted to take a bite, but I couldn't eat anything. But I don't know if this gunner is from the New Army, or from the Liberation Society who rushed to help.

If there is no Liberation Society! If there is no Liberation Society!

Matsushou's heart was full of thoughts, and he didn't even feel angry.

The real fighting had begun ten days earlier, but it had already begun when Matsushou returned to Fujian in January 1909. Fujian's road to forming a parliament was extremely difficult. Especially in the election of parliamentarians, the struggle can be said to be full of fire.

In order to prevent the New Army from making trouble, Songshou specially brought Sun Daoren, the commander of the 10th town of the New Army. This move is really clever but clever and mistaken. After Sun Daoren participated in this Congress, he thoroughly saw through the inevitability of the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Originally, this person was still the head of the rat, and his attitude was uncertain. Since returning from Beijing, Sun Daoren knew that the Qing Dynasty was bound to end, and he acted completely without care.

Wooing the gentry and colluding with the revolutionary party, Sun Daoren no longer cared about it. He participated in this national assembly, and the gentry were naturally willing to believe Sun Daoren's words. I heard Sun Daoren say that Fujian should establish a parliament, and in the future, it will implement inter-provincial autonomy, and the Fujian people will take care of the affairs of the Fujian people. The gentry immediately felt that they had an opportunity and no longer took Manchu in their eyes. Because Sun Daoren said it clearly. "This is the election of parliamentarians according to the population. One member of parliament is elected out of 100,000 people. There are less than 100,000 Manchurians in Fujian, and it is heaven to be able to elect a legislature. ”

With the new army in command, the local gentry naturally had confidence. And the Manchurians were completely opposed to the parliament. Pu Shou's eyes widened at the Manchurian meeting, "My lord, our Qing Dynasty has always been full of nobles and lowly people. The imperial court can tolerate the Han people, and it is also half of the Manchu and Han officials. Isn't this an election, according to the candidate, nonsense? ”

Matsushou was quite surprised that Park Shou could still maintain his sanity, and he was able to propose the ancestral system of "half of the Manchu and Han officials", which shows that Park Shou did not want to completely control the situation. Could it be that Pu Shou, who once vowed to keep the Qing Dynasty, was also cowardly?

"In Fujian, it must be the adults who have the final say. The Manchurian parliamentarians must be half. Park Shou added his attitude.

It would be best if you could do this, but what do the local people in Fujian think? Matsushou wasn't sure. The representative of the People's Party, Shang Yuan, was very firm in his attitude that the Manchus must perish. If the parliament did not pass a resolution declaring the fall of the Manchus, the People's Party would definitely not rest with the other provinces. In fact, Jiangxi Province did not have much protection at all. The People's Party attacked Jiangxi, which directly bordered Fujian, and this was to prepare for the next war.

Song Shou, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, was hesitating, and then heard Pu Shou say: "My lord, since Sun Daoren has already had a different heart, we might as well let him guard the provincial border between Jiangxi and Fujian, and let the People's Party clean up the new army." ”

"No." Song Shou hurriedly said, "Yuan Shikai's experience from the past is still there. ”

Empress Dowager Cixi sent Yuan Shikai to fight against the People's Party, giving Yuan Shikai the opportunity to move freely. As a result, the People's Party and Yuan Shikai sang a double reed, so the People's Party went south and Yuan Shikai went north. The situation in the world has changed dramatically in an instant, and if the 10th town of the new army is allowed to move freely, wouldn't it be self-defeating?

"If you can't trust the new army, then let me clean up Sun Daoren." Park Shou began to ask for help.

This time Matsushou didn't answer directly, he thought about it. Since Sun Daoren dared to do this, he was afraid that he already had a plan, and the two sides really started it, after all, the new army took longer to form and was better trained. And there are people from the Nanyang Navy in Mawei, and the Nanyang Navy has a good relationship with Yuan Shikai. At this time, there is no need to expect the Nanyang Navy to side with you.

On the contrary, there is Duan Qirui Beiyang Third Town in Zhejiang, and if the two sides fight quickly, it is good to cut through the chaos, and if there is a stalemate, it is guaranteed that Yuan Shikai will intervene in Fujian. At that time, it was the front door that rejected the wolf and the back door came to the tiger. Yuan Shikai will definitely take the opportunity to seize Fujian.

Thinking about it, Songshou, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, couldn't think of a way to ensure that the Manchus had an advantage in Fujian, and to allow Songshou to form a small Fujian court.

"Just wait." Matsushou said helplessly.

This waited for half a year, and by July, the Han killing group formed by Pu Shou had already organized all the Manchurians. During this time, Park Shou spread the news that half of the members of the National Assembly must be full. The Fujian gentry did not say anything more for the time being, but only asked when the election of members would begin. What is the method used in the election of this councillor?

As far as Songshou knew, the Fujian general Pu Shou just told the gentry, "Lord Songshou asked him to choose, and he could choose how he wanted." You come up by name. ”

There were quite a few gentry who signed up. It's all running smoothly. But as soon as we entered August, a rumor suddenly came out. Fujian General Pu Shou is ready to catch all the registered parliamentarians. Things are said in the same way, the Han Killing Group was originally a group of people who were brave enough to do it, no matter what Park Shou said, Song Shou really didn't think that Park Shou really wanted to do any massacre.

But these news spread vividly, including that Pu Shou would first kill Han people without braids, and then kill Han people with braids. We must kill Fujian until it is only full.

Pu Shou did kill Han people without braids, which was in the second anti-encirclement campaign of the People's Party, and all provinces made a fuss, and those without braids were regarded as revolutionary parties. Pu Shou did arrest a lot of people at that time, and he did kill a few people. But that was two years ago, and now Park Shou is also searching for the revolutionary party, but he is only arresting people, and he has not killed people for the time being.

As the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Songshou actually didn't get any accurate information. In fact, he still hasn't figured out how things have escalated to such an extent. Fujian General Pu Shou originally tried to explain, but the explanation only had the opposite effect. In the present situation, the arrest of the revolutionary party will be regarded as the last counterattack of the Manchus. In Park Shou's explanation, he admitted that if he arrested the revolutionary party again, no one would listen to the rest of the party.

From 15 August, as all kinds of rumors became louder and louder, Sun Daoren, the commander of the 10th Town of the New Army, proposed in an official letter that the newly organized Manchu Army should be temporarily placed under the control of the 10th Town of the New Army to avoid the expansion of contradictions.

Matsushou already knew that things were not good. Sun Daoren has become less and less rare to see Songshou in the past six months, since three months ago, no matter how Songshou asked Sun Daoren to discuss official affairs, Sun Daoren refused to participate because of poor health. Now that he suddenly made such a suggestion, he didn't have to think about it at all.

Pu Shou immediately blockaded the city of Fuzhou with the Manchu army, and the Han Killing Regiment went around, and began to capture and kill all the people without braids he could meet. And began to arrest the gentry everywhere. It was already a last resort, and Matsushou knew it was too late. Sun Daoren has been preparing for a long time, and when that rumor began to circulate, Sun Daoren had actually begun to make his own moves.

Matsushou felt that he was too stupid, and when the rumors were spreading, he didn't see through the problem, but called Park Shou for questioning. Pu Shou had blue tendons on his forehead at that time, and tried his best to explain that he had been wronged. Because Song Shou knew about Park Shou's formation of a group to kill Han, he was still suspicious of Park Shou's words. It wasn't until he read Sun Daoren's official letter that Songshou knew that he had fallen into someone else's calculations.

No matter what the Fujian general Pu Shou is leading now, he can only confirm "the truth of this rumor". No matter how Matsushou explains, he just wants to exterminate the revolutionary party and restore order, and no one will believe it.

But if we do not exterminate the revolutionary party and seize the gentry as hostages, how can we restore the situation to the way it was a year ago? Today's plan is to stabilize Fuzhou City first. Pu Shou must eliminate all opposition forces in Fuzhou as quickly as possible.

Further rumors of fear began to be born, and rumors spread among the Manchus that the Han were going to kill the Manchus of Fujian. And there are rumors among the Han people in Fuzhou that the Manchurians want to kill all the Han people in Fuzhou. In mutual suspicion and fear, the use of violence gradually crossed the line, and it is unknown when Park Shou's subordinates changed from arresting the revolutionary party to arresting suspicious elements. From being caught and questioned to being shot on the spot.

This brutal but orderly approach did not last long, and by the time the looting of shops began under various pretexts, the control of the Manchurian New Army was completely unbalanced. These news are only on the surface, but Matsushou can completely imagine it. In the city of Fuzhou, although the Manchurians are not rich, they are a group of people with stable income. But after Yuan Shikai disbanded the Zongren Mansion and no longer paid money to the bannermen, the life of the Fuzhou bannermen became extremely difficult. Pu Shou was able to gather tens of thousands of horses because Songshou provided food and salary for this army. Banner people over the age of thirteen have a new livelihood.

After these hard days of training, it was finally time to get access to money. In addition, there are rumors among the banner people that the Han people want to kill the banner people. Coupled with the instigation of the "Han Killing Regiment" formed by Pu Shou, where can these bannermen guarantee any military discipline. Once the looting began, it could not be controlled. Fuzhou is the provincial capital of Fujian Province and is home to many shops. In addition to money, there is also food. Every new soldier of the bannermen felt that it was nothing to take a little from their own home. But this is an army of tens of thousands, not just one person.

The Han people were looted, so they naturally had to resist. Resistance leads to conflict, and conflict takes its toll. Casualties become killings of each other.

Ten days earlier, when Sun Daoren, the commander of the 10th Town of the New Army, demanded that Songshou hand over all power in Fujian Province, the city of Fuzhou had become a Shura field. It was also at this time that Park Shou sent a piece of information that in addition to the participation of the 10th Town of the New Army in this "rebellion", the Liberation Society also sent a force to help in the war.

Regarding this news, Matsushou didn't know whether to believe it or not. Anyway, it's already like this, and there is nothing to believe or unbelievable in Fuzhou City, which is full of corpses. The only thing that Songshou, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, can be sure of is that no matter what the first idea was, in the eyes of the outside world, the bannermen of Fuzhou took the lead in the killing. The attack of the 10th town of the Forces nouvelles was not to create chaos, but to restore order.

The only way that can be taken now is to completely defeat the 10th town of the New Army and use military force to suppress the opposition in Fujian. Other than that, Matsuju has no other way.

At the beginning of the battle, Pu Shou's new army of bannermen did not fall behind. Matsushou did his best to weaken the 10th town of the New Army during the year. Not only did they not have any supplies of weapons, but they also deprived the Tenth Town of the Forces nouvelles of weapons and ammunition as much as possible.

The new army of the bannermen was supplied and armed to the maximum extent. The new army attacked the city several times in a row, but it had no effect. It was not until a unit was put into battle that the situation began to change. They did not have military uniforms, only uniform coarse cloth clothes, but their fighting skills and fighting will were by no means comparable to the bannerman army.

Naturally, Matsushou could not go to the front line, and the information that came back was full of optimism at first, but then it became more and more critical. The bannermen ransacked the city of Fuzhou, and the people in the city escaped as much as possible. The pressure of defending the city fell on the banner people, and after several days of fighting, the original vigor of the flag people was also exhausted. Suddenly, such an elite joined the battle, and the banner man was very damaged.

And this army is not fighting to the death, they are fighting very well. When attacking head-on, there must be sneak attacks from the flanks and back, and several attacks almost succeeded. The banner troops relied entirely on the abundance of bullets and forcibly suppressed them with firepower, which could be regarded as ensuring that the city was not lost. After a few days of carrying like this, the bannermen were running out of ammunition, but this army still had a strong will to fight and physical strength.

After a night of harassment, at dawn, the army suddenly launched a fierce assault regardless of casualties. The bannermen were sleepy and lacking, and with insufficient ammunition, they were actually captured and the city gates were opened. The Forces nouvelles then came in. Information of the loss of the position came from all over the place. The banner people knew what they had done, and they knew very well that they were shouting on the other side, "Kill all the Tartars and avenge the Fuzhou fathers!" What exactly does the slogan mean? It was not a blood debt from more than 200 years ago, but a sin committed by Manchurians ten days ago.

The remnants of the Fuzhou people who were originally hiding at home did not contribute when the banner people were persecuted, but at this time they came out to help the new army. They carried supplies and transported the wounded. The bannermen managed to temporarily resist the attack of the new army by relying on the barricades and the terrain. But after the people helped the new army drag the artillery into Fuzhou City, there was no room for recovery from the situation. The barricades were blasted open by artillery, and the Restoration Society led the new army to fight the bannermen. It may be okay for the flag man to release his gun, and hand-to-hand combat is no longer the same as it was more than 200 years ago.

At this time, there was no need to report the situation in an official document, and Matsushou's personal soldiers told Matsushou what they had seen with their own eyes. The troops of the Liberation Society are very good at hand-to-hand combat. In particular, there is a female soldier in the vanguard. They are all with a long knife in one hand and a revolver in the other, and they are slashed and slashed, and the flag man is not an opponent at all. There were no women in the New Army, and these female soldiers must have been members of the Liberation Society. Matsushou was only able to determine this matter at this time.

After the barricades were breached, the battle of the bannermen was not over. They now began their final resistance centered on the Yamen, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang. The families of these bannermen are all in this area, and if they are killed by the Liberation Society and the New Army, the fate of these women and children will not be imagined at all. The looted pharmacies were filled with poison. Arsenic, sulfur, and even square gold bars can be used to commit suicide.

At this time, Matsushou heard the sound of the cannon and paused, but the gunfire that had stopped for a while became intense. And the gunfire is getting closer and closer, and the screams of the flag man after being shot can be heard clearly. At this moment, the soldiers rushed into the house. "My lord......" The soldiers only cried once, but they couldn't continue, just fell to the ground and cried bitterly.

"I see." The governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Song Shou, knew that the last moment had come. He picked up a piece of pork knuckle again, this time without stopping, and Matsushou put the pork knuckle in his mouth. In the end, the cook's skills are still good. The elbow is good, the meat is crispy, and the pigskin is springy.

With a sigh, Matsushou opened the bottle of poisoned wine and drank it all. At some point, tears were already on his face. No matter how much it was, Songshou poured himself another glass of Fenjiu, but smashed the wine jar on the furniture.

"Bring the torches." Matsushou shouted to his soldiers.

"Big ...... My lord! "The soldiers don't know what this means.

"A fire burned me, and the people saved me from cutting off my head for public display." Matsushou laughed miserably.

The pro-soldier understood what Matsushou meant, and he hurriedly ran out crying to find the tinder. Matsushou looked at the back of his own soldiers, raised his wine glass again, and drank the last glass of wine. Just as he was about to shout something, Matsushou felt a pain in his abdomen.

Duan Qirui only got the result of the Battle of Fuzhou five days later. The banner people, women, children, and children all committed suicide by poisoning. And the banner man was killed by the new army. Songshou, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, set himself on fire, but because there were too many corpses in the governor's palace, he was not found in the end.

Flicked the paper, Duan Qirui sneered. This is not only a change in Fujian, the flag people have made such a show in Fujian, and it is difficult to predict how other provinces will view the flag people. And after this incident, more forces will think about how to take advantage of the existence of the banner people?

Beiyang finally has a chance to show his strength in this chaos. Duan Qirui was at least able to determine this matter.