Chapter 32: A Murder with a Big Blow

Cai Yuanpei, Yang Dusheng and Zhang Shizhao exchanged glances with each other, weighing the pros and cons. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info for a long time before nodding one after another, and Yang Dusheng opened his mouth to speak.

At that time, the imperial Russia forcibly occupied the northeast and constantly put forward unreasonable demands, and all walks of life in Shanghai held anti-Russian conferences and organized anti-Russian volunteers. However, at this time, there was one person who, in defiance of the world's condemnation, put forward the idea of "ceding land and uniting with Russia." This person's name is Wang Zhichun, weak crown Congrong, successively as a subordinate of Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and Peng Yulin, participated in the suppression of the Taiping Rebellion, and successively served as the governor of Shanxi, Anhui, and Guangxi. He has visited Japan, Russia, Germany, and France, and has written to the imperial court many times to strengthen the new policy, and ideologically belongs to the Westernist school.

Because Wang Zhichun contacted the French army to strangle the revolutionaries during his tenure in Guangxi, and transferred Guangxi's more rights of way and mining rights to France at a low price. His traitorous behavior aroused public outrage, and the cries for condemning Wang Zhichun became louder and louder, and a vigorous anti-French movement was launched, and the Qing government was forced to dismiss Wang Zhichun. After that, he moved to Shanghai, but he was still unwilling to be lonely and resumed his plan of "uniting with Russia and rejecting Japan", meeting with Russians every day, and even throwing out the idea of "ceding land and uniting with Russia" at an inopportune time, thus becoming the first target of the revolutionary party's assassination.

"Wang Zhichun has a close friend in Shanghai, Wu Baochu, the son of Wu Changqing, a famous Huaijun artist. We plan to use his name to invite Wang Zhichun to the banquet. Yang Dusheng observed the change in Chen Wenqiang's expression, and said quite confidently: "Familiar with the way, Wang Zhichun naturally has no doubts. We can assassinate him at the place where we go to the feast. If Wang Zhichun is successfully assassinated, it will be another deafening feat after Su's report, and it will directly inspire the revolutionaries' ambition to kill themselves. ”

Chen Wenqiang saw Yang Dusheng looking at him after finishing speaking, he couldn't help but smile slightly, and said: "Brother Yang doesn't have to be polite, if there is anything to Wen Qiang's help, you can say it directly." ”

Yang Dusheng nodded and said, "Everything is ready, only weapons are needed." If you want to ask Brother Chen to buy two pistols, the big thing will be done. ”

Chen Wenqiang pondered for a moment, and happily agreed: "In three days, the pistol will be delivered." ”

"Wen Qiang is not only financially rich, but also a gangster in Shanghai, this little thing should not be a problem." Zhang Shizhao not only praised, but also squeezed Chen Wenqiang to the point where he could not regret it.

Chen Wenqiang knew what he meant, but he didn't care, he smiled and chatted with everyone before parting, but he no longer mentioned that he wanted to take everyone to see what he said.

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Historically, the assassination activities of revolutionaries have indeed received the power of destroying autocracies and intimidating the rulers of autocratic regimes, and as a means of cooperating with armed uprisings or punishing some heinous counterrevolutionary executioners, assassinations have also played a certain role in deterring and disrupting the enemy.

Just as Wu Yue said, the assassination has the effect of "killing one and setting an example for a hundred." Wan Fuhua's assassination of Wang Zhichun was to warn those who "betrayed the country"; Wang Han's assassination of Tie Liang and Li Peiji's assassination of Fengshan were to threaten the reactionary elites of the Qing court; Wu Yue's assassination of the five ministers who went abroad to investigate the constitution was to sabotage the conspiracy of those in power to use the constitution to "deceive"; Wang Jingwei's assassination of the regent was a sign of his determination to overthrow the Qing court.

In the midst of these almost frenzied assassinations, the image of the revolutionaries was established, and the people in power were terrified. The assassination was imitated by the revolutionary youth, and from Guangzhou to Beijing, the sound of gunfire and explosions inadvertently shattered the dreams of a certain official, and even killed him.

The assassination of the revolutionaries not only trapped the Qing Dynasty officials in terror, but also made the powerful chieftains change their color and dare not easily inflict cruel and poisonous hands on the party members. For example, after Xu Xilin assassinated Enming in history, the Qing court officials and nobles said: "The revolution is not enough to fear, but assassination is enough to be afraid!" So he secretly sent people to Tokyo, and the League donated 10,000 taels of silver in order to save his head.

However, Li Zhun, the commander of the Guangdong Navy who was assassinated twice but did not die, voluntarily surrendered to the revolutionaries after the Wuchang uprising, which cannot be said not to be due to the deterrence of assassination. Peng Jiazhen's assassination of Liangbi contributed to the fall of the Qing Dynasty from the most critical point. No wonder Liangbi sighed when he was dying: "Those who kill me are good heroes, and they really know me...... If I die, so will the Qing court! It can be seen that the assassination did have a powerful political shock.

On the other hand, revolutionary assassinations have emerged one after another, but due to the limitations of various conditions, such as the assassins' lack of familiarity with the use of firearms, insufficient or careless preparation for assassination, strict precautions against the targets of assassination, and many accidental factors, the assassination has often failed and the actual results have not been as great as expected.

From Chen Wenqiang's professional point of view, assassination and murder should not be equated under normal circumstances. Assassination is not a suicide attack, it is necessary to kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 yourself. Moreover, if the assassination is just to be killed together, it is of course simple, but it is not what Chen Wenqiang appreciates.

Patiently spy and reconnoitre, carefully plan and prepare, strike like thunder, and retreat skillfully and carefully...... Shouldn't professional assassinations look like this? Shouldn't assassinations be carried out by professionals?

And as far as the spring of the assassination of the traitor king is concerned, there are no bodyguards, not high-ranking officials, just an old man living in Shanghai, only servants and coachmen, which is too commonplace. Not to mention a warrior with a little training, he is a ruffian and hooligan, and it is very possible to complete the task with a dagger and axe.

Mobilizing the people, meticulous planning, tricks and invitations, and gunmen ambushing, dealing with such an ordinary opponent is, in Chen Wenqiang's view, simply a big fuss. Therefore, he bought three days to show the rookies of the assassination team the demeanor of professionals with practical actions, so that the members of the assassination team can see the gap clearly, so that they can understand that assassination is a technical job, and passion and bravery alone cannot be used.

Revolution should be a systematic and comprehensive work, and each person's conditions are different, so they must make the best use of their talents, but it is not necessary for everyone to pick up a bomb to carry out assassinations and make a vigorous scene. It's easy to fight but die; It's hard to create, it's hard. It may be human nature to give up difficulties, but the most important thing is to be more impetuous, less calm analysis and judgment, and less patient perseverance.

Although Chen Wenqiang now has a team, he is a caretaker who protects and strives for his own interests in nature, and he wants to join the torrent of the times, and these people obviously do not have that kind of consciousness. Although Yang Dusheng and others have all kinds of shortcomings, they have considerable advantages in terms of culture and ideology.

Well, join, influence, bootstrap ...... These tasks are tedious and difficult, but Chen Wenqiang has decided to do them. And the assassination of Wang Zhichun is a vote for his name, or a stepping stone to be trusted. To do this, he must not only do it, but also do it beautifully, so that others can see what it means to be a professional.