Chapter 458: The Situation in the South
At this time in the south, it seems that the spark of revolution has begun to burn the prairies, revolutions are being carried out everywhere, and the political foundation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been completely severed, but the real grassroots level, it is a chaos, and the revolutionary party does not realize that they are still sparks, although they are still sparks, although they are burning the plains, they are not burning together, and the power gathered into one is only a superficial prosperity. %x.
However, the revolutionary party is still very intoxicated with this glitz, as early as Nanjing fired the first shot of the first uprising, Sun Yat-sen was thinking about the revolution to overthrow the Qing government and establish a democratic republican government.
Although, only part of the city success, but let Sun Yat-sen see hope, with the help of decades of revolutionary righteousness, coupled with the influence of the League, Sun Yat-sen erected the banner of the Republic of China, immediately aroused the popularity of the public, the provincial overseers, also began to contact, towards Nanjing to gather, a huge revolution, this is the real revolutionary wave, all kinds of state-building and governance ideas, have appeared.
Sun Yat-sen's news, from the very beginning, has not been concealed, Nanjing is personally commanded, began a large series of connections, aroused the attention of Yang Yuanzhao and Yuan Shikai, especially the latter, for Sun Yat-sen at the same time vigilant, but also a little disdainful, this is also the fundamental reason for their qiēshun lì, Yuan Shikai needs the revolutionary party to stir up the wind and rain, so that he can have the possibility of recovery.
A group of revolutionaries, relying only on some new army. Most of the officers of these new armies were defeated. And how much combat power can they exert themselves. The strength of the Beiyang Army is far more powerful than that of the ordinary New Army, and after a certain expansion, the Beiyang Army has the ability and confidence to block the attack of at least 10 or more New Army Associations with the strength of one town, and whether there are 30 Associations in the entire south, is it really a problem.
So. Even if the revolutionary party is like a rainbow in the south and seems to have swept the entire south, it is bright on the surface, Yuan Shikai has always been in order, expanding the Beiyang, training soldiers, building high walls, accumulating grain, and digging deep holes. This is not something that only Zhu Yuanzhang, the fake monk, knows.
The reason why Yang Yuanzhao pays attention to Sun Yat-sen is that he laments history, this time and space, because his butterfly wings, are obviously different from the previous life. In history, Shouyi's first shot was directly fanned away by Baotou. With such a thick and big rafter in Baotou outside, who cares about the small profit of the rope head in Sichuan. In particular, the rubber crisis was under Yang Yuanzhao's robbery and intervention. The impact in China was not as great as in previous lives, and of course, those speculative railway construction organizers still suffered losses, but without the Qing government in front, they still covered up.
Without the Sichuan Road Protection Movement, there would be no need for the Hubei New Army to be transferred, and Wuhan in Hubei would not have the prerequisites for an uprising, the first uprising was in Baotou, and then Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing returned to China and revolted in Nanjing, not in Wuhan, and the preparations were better than the original.
In the textbooks of the previous life, the evaluation of Sun Yat-sen is very good, saying that it is the founder of the democratic republic, really placed on history, Sun Yat-sen can not be called this name, he is basically one of the sources of war and chaos in modern China, although the establishment of the Republic of China, so that the spirit of democracy is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Sun Yat-sen did not have a systematic change**, the development of China's plan, he is always opposed, opposed, in short, is opposed, from the National Protection Movement, to the Dharma Protection Movement, to the Northern Expedition, from 1912, every few years to fight, He fought until he died, and his successors followed, fighting opponents, comrades, and warlords, all the way to more than 20 years later, without a complete unified country, wasting China's best development opportunities, and also making China, which has been in turmoil, usher in the most painful history.
Through the integration and investment, Baotou's intelligence has penetrated into most corners of China, the actions of the Beiyang Army, not at all out of his expectations, Yuan Shikai next, what to do, he also knows that the 120,000 army has sharpened its knives, armed to the teeth, is about to be overwhelmed, but the revolutionary party in the south is still in the constant struggle for power, he has some doubts for the first time, whether his strategy can succeed.
However, even if Beiyang extinguishes the revolutionary party and unifies China except for the northwest, it will not have much impact on the northwest, but it is better than the constant war and the change of the king's flag at the head of the city, at least speaking, even if the Beiyang Army wants to unify the whole of China except for the northwest with its current strength, it will take at least 2 years, and then integrate and gain strength, I am afraid it will be 3 years later.
In 3 years, a barren Baotou has developed to this stage, and there is enough foundation and population, what will happen after 3 years Yang Yuanzhao does not know, but in China's position, against Britain, France and Russia, this is absolutely no problem.
Compared with history, Sun Yat-sen was elected to the position of the head of the revolution, the banner of the revolution was still erected, and the alliance that controlled the Jiangsu New Army and part of the New Army in the Yangtze River basin had a certain strength foundation, Sun Yat-sen invited the members of the National League and democrats to discuss state affairs, establish the Republic of China, realize real democracy and prosperity, and let China stand tall in the world again.
Such ideas and plans are tantamount to digging out the ruling foundation of the Qing court from the foundation, and also mark the peak of the operation of the revolutionary party in the whole of China, of course, representing a huge struggle for power, and some short-sighted people have already regarded this as a supreme opportunity, not realizing at all that they have not really unified China, nor have they really overthrown the Qing government, and there are the two mountains of Beiyang and even the northwest ahead.
When the fish are faced with the mellow bait, they will forget the threat of death, and this is the case with these frantically competing revolutionary parties, when the quarrels and compromises, the southern provinces began to formulate the provisional covenant, that is, a few months later, when the New Year of 1912 came, Sun Yat-sen announced his inauguration as the provisional president of the Republic of China according to the provisional covenant, and by the way, began the national general election, so that democracy could truly take a step forward.
The era of historical change has finally arrived, in the past few months, Yuan Shikai's actions were beyond Yang Yuanzhao's expectations, because in addition to expanding the army, he did not move his troops and did not directly kill the south, and the Beiyang Army was stationed in Henan, Shandong, and even Hubei and Anhui did not enter, but after knowing Sun Yat-sen's decision, even the revolutionary parties in the south had a tendency to combine, and began to speed up.
The Beiyang Army, which was heavily pressed, directly stopped Hunan and Anhui, and its own uprising was directly destroyed by the old army, and the political situation in Hubei and Shandong began to slowly stabilize, and the whole of China formed a tripartite force, the Northwest Army, which occupied most of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Mongolia, and formed a confrontation with the Beiyang Army in Zhangjiakou, and the tacit understanding did not cross the Zhangjiakou line.
I couldn't fight it, I couldn't defend it, so I casually lost a battalion of troops, saying that it was defense, just a sentry, and I just used it to see the movements in the northwest.
The Beiyang Army occupied the Northeast, Hebei, Henan, Shandong and Zhili, and the revolutionary party in the south almost unified the entire south, except for not occupying Shanghai, all the 8 provinces were announced, and now, the focus of the contention is not in the East, but in Sichuan.
Sichuan is a basin, has always been relatively closed, but it is a large province, with a large population, relatively wealthy, whether it is the Beiyang Army, or the revolutionary party, they all want to compete for this province, Sichuan's native sect is very rich, after killing the governor, Sichuan also announced that it is not inclined to either direction of the revolutionary party and the Beiyang army, part of the territory is controlled by the alliance, they are only nominally under the command of Sun Yat-sen, but they are not considered to Sun Yat-sen, the other half, is the robe brother, the old warlord, Merchants and others jointly controlled the two forces, one in Chengdu and the other in Chongqing, both seeking to unify the whole of Sichuan, and under the chaos, they became a chaotic province in China.
The whole of China, caught in this inexplicable state, both sides continue to strength, the Beiyang side, is crazy expansion, not only digested the weapons given by Baotou, but also began to buy in Baotou, after occupying the northeast and north, Yuan Shikai has a lot of money in his hands, this is not the early years of the Republic of China in later generations, Tianjin, Zhili, Hebei, are affected by Baotou relatively large, with the help of the Zhengtai line, can be quickly transported, their light industry development is not bad, by the way, Some of the goods exported from Baotou to Tianjin Port have also paid a lot of taxes to the local government, and these places have made Yuan Shikai's hands far more abundant than in historical times.
In just over 2 months, Yuan Shikai made 5 transactions with Baotou, buying a total of 100,000 rifles, 60 million bullets, and 300 Makqin, with a total amount of almost 12 million.
The expansion of military strength, the first batch of six towns has been thoroughly trained, the soldiers began to familiarize themselves with the weapons in their hands, the officers are basically in place, after a few real exercises, except for the recruits have not seen blood, the rest has basically been in place, it is time to let the huge weapons of war move, such a barren place in the north, these months have harvested so much money, the south, has always been a rich land, plus the development of various light industries, it is simply a low-hanging fruit. (To be continued......) R640