If someone told Yuan Shikai that without expropriating and expropriating violently, Beiyang could earn an extra two million silver dollars every year. Generally speaking, Yuan Shikai would be very happy. However, this time, in the face of the police department and the Bank of Communications, Yuan Shikai's two henchmen, after carefully studying the evaluation report jointly submitted by these two henchmen, Yuan Shikai asked coldly, "How does this look like a notice from the People's Party?" ”

The police chief and the commissioner of the Bank of Communications both looked a little embarrassed. Although the vocabulary of the two assessment reports given to them by the People's Party is novel, it is logical, easy to understand, and simple and straightforward. They also tried to polish it, but the slightest revision would make the assessment obscure and the eloquent persuasiveness diminished. As a last resort, they took the assessment to Yuan Shikai with a try-and-see attitude, but Yuan Shikai saw through it at a glance.

Looking at the embarrassed looks of his subordinates, Yuan Shikai did not continue to investigate, "How much money can the People's Party earn?" ”

If the commissioner of the Bank of Communications was amnesty, he hurriedly said: "At least five million." ”

"I'm asking about pure profit." Yuan Shikai replied coldly.

"Big President, if it's a net profit, they have to be around two million. It won't be less than us. The commissioner replied.

Yuan Shikai frowned and thought for a while before saying, "Then let's do this first." However, I will ask the Ministry of Finance to discuss this matter with you about the licensing of the police department. ”

The police chief and the commissioner of the Bank of Communications knew that Yuan Shikai had recently engaged in an arduous struggle with members of Congress, and it was likely that the matter would be postponed, but they never expected Yuan Shikai to pass the matter so easily. Although I was puzzled, I was really happy. In particular, the Chief of Police, the Pinsuri Police Department can only rely on extortion to make money. And the police system is Yuan Shikai's face, and he governs it quite strictly. So the police station is a poor yamen. The matter of issuing the license is in the hands of the police, and it is a big source of profit. Even if the Ministry of Finance came to rob the police department of this money, the police chief decided that he would not relax in the slightest.

As for the commissioner of the Bank of Communications, he was equally happy. There are too many links that can be operated in the matter of lending, and large-scale lending, or a promising business like a car dealership, is more profitable.

After the two came out, they discussed going to Xu Erba tomorrow to discuss a more detailed cooperation plan. Unexpectedly, the person sent to inform Xu Erba came back to report that Xu Erba would enter the city tomorrow and visit him in person tomorrow night.

Xu Erba did enter the city, the capital first experienced the rebellion of horse thieves, and then Yuan Shikai cleaned up a bunch of clans, everyone in the banner was in danger, and those who could run would have run away a long time ago. There are a lot of houses and land vacated in Beijing. Xu Erba selected more than 30 plots of land in the capital, and bought them one by one in the past few days. After meeting in the evening, he did not hide it, and told him about his large-scale purchase of real estate.

The commissioner and the police chief were puzzled, Xu Erba was a good time to buy real estate like this, but it was a bit too much to buy more than 30 in one go. The commissioner asked, "Brother Xu, what is your mystery here?" ”

"It's not like I'm going to resell the property. This is the overall layout of the industry. Xu Erba said. Honeycomb coal is a daily commodity that is not resistant to bumps, and the closer the transportation distance, the better. Moreover, the car dealership not only rents cars and sells cars, but also provides vehicle parking and maintenance. This requires an overall layout around the capital.

With this, the commissioner and the police chief suddenly realized. The commissioner asked, "But you are so big, you are not afraid of losing money?" ”

"These are all transactions for people's livelihood, only how much money is made, where is there a reason to lose money." Xu Erba said with a smile.

The three of them chatted and ate over the drawings, and after talking for a while, the police chief found a very interesting place, and there were several plots of land that were quite strangely located. and the parking lot is quite close to the location of the honeycomb coal plant. He asked, "Brother Xu, what are these places for?" ”

"This is a house to stay, not only for the brothers of the car dealership to live, but also for rent. It's a good deal. Xu Erba drank a lot, and his voice was much louder when he spoke.

"How many houses can be built on such a small plot? It's just more than 30 courtyard houses, can live for four or five hundred people? I'm afraid that it's not enough to live on my own, and I still rent it? "The police chief was a little unconvinced.

"We'll find out then." Xu Erba was proud. However, no matter how the other two asked, Xu Erba no longer leaked his mouth, but it made the two of them itchy and scratchy.

It's not just the people on the official face who are itching, but Chang Siye, who has cooperated with the People's Party, is also itching. When he saved up his first money, he relied on working with the BJP, and later saw an opportunity to buy a rickshaw. If you pull a rickshaw for a month, you can pull out fifty or sixty oceans. Especially in winter, if you can charter a car throughout the winter, the income is higher.

As an expert in pulling cars, Chang Siye knew how good the wheels Xu Erba brought this time were as soon as he got started. According to Chang Siye's current physical strength, he can run at least twice as much every day with new wheels. That means doubling or more your income. A set of wheels for an ordinary rickshaw is fifty oceans, and it can be pulled out in a month. The money is nowhere near unacceptable.

The only problem is that the People's Party has actually involved people in the official face this time, and once the official face is involved, the matter will be very difficult to handle. It is about what license is issued, and the tax is paid only once a year. But where is the official thing to say? But if you don't bring people in officially, many things will be very difficult to do.

After thinking about it, Chang Siye decided to take a risk. Since I reaped the benefits of cooperating with the People's Party last time, as long as I start early this time, I am afraid that I will still be able to make a fortune first. After making up his mind, Chang Siye found a few friends from a few flags. These are not those flag men who only know how to walk birds in teahouses, Ping Suri is quite capable and knows how to catch a car. These days, these brothers have been in contact more and more, and they are all trustworthy. They also want to pull rickshaws, but they don't have the opportunity to get a good car.

As soon as a few people met, Chang Siye told a few brothers his thoughts. Hearing this rather bold plan, several people frowned, "Fourth Master Chang, our brothers are not afraid to contribute, and our brothers are also a little bit if they ask for money." Fourth master, you are ready to take the risk on your shoulders, this is looking down on us. ”

"Yes, Fourth Master Chang. A few of us are very convinced of the fourth master. But the fourth master, you can't take the risk alone. Anyway, our brothers have to get the money. We don't have much, we can have less. ”

Seeing that everyone was so real, Chang Siye nodded and responded: "Then the five of us will come out of two by one." Buy the cart and the mule. ”

"Then how do you divide this money?" A brother asked.

Chang Siye replied happily, "The money earned every day is divided into two equal parts, one is used to feed livestock and repair cars." If you can't use it up, divide the rest of the money equally. The other one is divided by whoever gets out of the car. What do you think? ”

No one had any opinions, and everyone agreed to go to Fengtai Daying the next day to have a look and choose a car suitable for everyone.

The next day, several brothers got up early in the morning and rushed to the Fengtai camp. As soon as they arrived at the place, Chang Siye was fine, but the other brothers were shocked by the slippery cart. There was nothing special about this vehicle, but the wheels were really black wheels that had never been seen before. Although the surface is not smooth, it is completely different from a wooden wheel, there is not a rivet on it, there is not a single joint, it is actually one. The hoops are extremely thin, but the spokes are extremely thin. It's painted.

A few people stepped forward and touched the wheels one by one, only to feel that the astringency on the wheels was quite rough, far from the feeling of a good wooden wheel after being painted. Pressing the wheel with his hand, he carried it all out in a hard way, and it turned out to be something that he had never seen before.

"Fourth Master Chang, this ......, is this okay?" A brother asked.

Chang Siye came with his rickshaw, and he didn't explain much, but first chose a wheel with a suitable width. After choosing, Chang Siye asked a few brothers to run a few times first. The brothers are used to pulling the car, although they don't know what Chang Siye is doing, but they don't talk a lot of nonsense. After everyone tried it, Chang Siye put on the new wheel, and asked a few brothers to try to pull it a few times. Now everyone immediately felt the difference. When these wheels are replaced, they are extremely light to the touch, as if you don't feel the weight of the car at all. And there is a slight wobble when running, but there are no hard bumps. The brothers couldn't help but look back at the rickshaw behind them repeatedly. They had the illusion that they were holding only the handlebars in their hands, and the body behind them was missing.

"Good stuff, good stuff. Chang Siye, do you want to buy this wheel? "Several brothers are already full of praise.

Chang Siye took them to the side of the cart, pointed to the big wheels that were nearly half a person tall and more than half a foot wide, and said, "This is what I want to buy!" ”

The rickshaw wheels are ten oceans in a set, and the carts are sold directly to fifty oceans with wheels. However, Chang Siye is an acquaintance, and he was the first to buy the entire car. Xu Erba sold the rubber-soled "liberation shoes" produced by Chang Siye at a conscience price of a pair of oceans. The appearance of these shoes, which imitate the shape of later generations, is "peculiar", but they are extremely slippery to wear.

The other brothers were stunned by Chang Siye's generosity, but this big car was also unprecedentedly brisk, two people could easily pull it, and everyone walked on the street, and immediately became the focus of attention. Chang Siye and his entourage went to the mule and horse market in the south of the city to buy a big mule, these brothers are all good drivers, and they know how fierce this car is when they try it.

Several people have a way, and the big car was immediately put into the coal transportation business, and other cars were seven or eight hundred catties a trip, and this cart pulled fifteen or six hundred catties in one trip. It's much faster than other cars. Others take two trips, and Chang Siye's car has to go three times. In two days, everyone was divided into three oceans.

In the past two days, everyone has contributed a lot, and although they still want to continue to buy and sell on the third day, they are all physically exhausted. At the suggestion of Chang Siye, everyone simply rested for a while and went to Yutai Teahouse to eat rotten meat noodles at noon.

Wang Lifa, the owner of Yutai Teahouse, still has braided hair, and he still has the same kind smile as before, serving customers cautiously. Seeing Fourth Master Chang, Wang Li smiled and said, "Fourth Master Chang, I heard that you bought a big car, which is about to develop." ”

As he was talking, he suddenly saw the newsboy who was selling newspapers in Pingsuli shouting, "Sell newspapers, sell newspapers!" Jiangning flag anti-man! ”

In these years, the flag man is a sensitive word, especially when the flag man is associated with the word rebellion, it is even more sensitive. Chang Siye, their faces have changed. Even Wang Lifa lost a smile on his face.

If the news can be in the newspapers, it means that the matter is completely over.

Nanjing, May 15, 1911.

Yu Chen looked at the dead silence of the banner people settlement with a cold face. The Forces nouvelles have completely locked down the area, and people wearing cotton masks have dragged bodies out of their rooms. The faces and bodies of the corpses were extremely distorted, and the blood from their mouths and noses dried up on their faces. The shape is terrifying.

This was not the result of a massacre by the army, the new army only solved the Banner Man troops, whose families committed suicide by poisoning. Wu Yida, the commander of the new army, no longer looked complacent, he casually looked at the gradually piled up corpses, and only said, "It's all buried." Then he turned around and left the dead place with a group of officers.

As soon as these high-ranking officials left, a dozen young officers surrounded them. "Siko, what should I do?"

"Where are there so many places to bury people, drag them to the side of the mountain and incinerate them." Yu Chen's voice sounded rather bitter, "How many are still alive?" ”

The bitter voices of the young officers were no better than Yu Chen's, although everyone had also shouted that the world was full of people, but in the face of such a tragic situation, no one was happy, and some officers said as if they were defending themselves: "A few hundred." These Manchurians had been preparing for a long time, and they bought all the poisons that could be sold in the city. ”

Yu Chen knew this, and he had made full use of it in the plan. He sent some beggars to privately hire some beggars to beg outside the Manchu settlement, and the Manchus were too busy to take care of themselves, where to go back to give alms to the beggars. As long as there is any reason or excuse, the beggar will scold, "You will not live long, and when the Manchu Qing is finished, you should drink your own poison and die." ”

"On June 6, the dragon raised its head. The city of Tartars does not leave their heads. Such children's songs are also sung in the city of Nanjing.

On the one hand, these psychological preparations were made, and the military justice department personally led by Yu Chen reorganized the troops on the grounds of rectifying the army's arrears on credit. Led by the Judge Advocate General's Office, the vendors were much bolder. Moreover, after all, the Nanjing New Army had the foundation of its predecessor, and the military discipline was acceptable, and the Han troops could easily pay off the arrears.

Over the past year or so, the bannermen have been removed from the various units and have completely formed their own standards. The more isolated they are, the more they are grouped. The more you huddle, the more hopeless you feel. There are more than 30,000 bannermen in Nanjing, and Pingsuri mainly relies on being an official and a soldier. Borrowing money on credit is a common thing. At this time when the Manchu Dynasty fell, the banner people demanded more credit. They just have the mentality that there is no tomorrow today, and they have to pay on credit when they eat grain.

Yu Chen ordered them to pay off their debts, where would the banner people have the money to repay, and the conflict would naturally not be less. At this time, Yu Chen was unrelenting, and he had no intention of calming things down.

The banner general in Nanjing is General Jiangning, whose full name is the general of Jiangning and other places, and is the supreme commander of the Eight Banners garrisoned in Jiangnan in the Qing Dynasty. The current Jiangning general Chengxun has already seen that something is wrong, but at this time, Wang Youhong, the governor of Jiangsu who can speak, has already arrived in Beijing.

On May 5, Yu Chen reprimanded 20 banner soldiers who refused to repay their debts at the gate of the banner camp. Chengxun saw that Yu Chen was "persecuted too much" and had to come forward to stop the matter in person, but was scolded by Yu Chen in person: "The matter of military discipline is effective from the top to the bottom." As a general of Jiang Ning, you can't restrain the bannermen and soldiers, but you harm the people, what crime should you be guilty of? ”

The rank of military judge is only a deputy standard, seven or eight levels behind General Jiang Ning. was so angrily reprimanded by Yu Chen, the 63-year-old Chengxun's first reaction was to be at a loss, and then to be furious. He served as the governor of Jiangsu and Anhui. Where can you be bullied by such a junior. Chengxun's personal soldiers just wanted to make a move, but Yu Chen's subordinates were already prepared, and they pulled out their guns and killed all Chengxun's personal soldiers.

"Chengxun, what crime should you be guilty of conniving at your subordinates to rebel?" Yu Chen calmly asked the once powerful high-ranking official in front of him.

It was only at this time that Chengxun realized that all this was premeditated, and the old man immediately scolded.

Yu Chen was not angry, but ordered someone to drag Chengxun out of the flag camp, and the other troops of the new army had already surrounded the flag camp tightly.

"Where is Wu Yida, the dog thief? Let him come out and see me! The old man Chengxun shouted repeatedly.

Wu Yida naturally didn't come out to see Chengxun. At this time, it was already the time for the poor dagger to see each other, and the extermination of the flag camp was a plan set by Wang Youhong before he left. If Wu Yida can do a good job, he will naturally be able to soar, what is the use of being really good with Chengxun, an old man.

Yu Chen ordered someone to take off Chengxun's only pants, and then tied him with ropes and tied to the prisoner car and began to parade through the streets. In front of the procession, more than a dozen soldiers with loud voices loudly announced Chengxun's charge, "Conniving at the subordinates of the banner camp to extort and extort traders, and when the Military Justice Department demanded the arrears for the Nanjing traders, Chengxun intended to murder the officers of the Military Justice Department." ”

The banner people had a bad reputation, and everyone knew that the Manchu Qing was about to end. At this time, the bare-backed Manchu general could be seen parading through the streets, and the crowd was first surprised, and then thundered with joy. Some of the vendors who were owed a lot of credit by the banner people also threw Chengxun with vegetable leaves and stones. It's really a fun parade.

Chengxun scolded Yu Chen for being a thief at the beginning, and he was smashed by the crowd below, and he couldn't help but scold the people below for being a thief. Yu Chen didn't have to fight back for the sake of decency, but the people didn't care so much. "You're the thief!" Some people shouted.

"Kill the thief Seongxun!"

"Kill the flag man Chengxun!"

"Kill the Bannerman!"

The slogans are getting louder and louder, and they are becoming more and more tendentious!

The emotions of the people in Nanjing were stirred up. After the parade was completed, Chengxun hanged the topless Chengxun in public at the entrance of the Wangfu Garden, where the banner people lived. As Seung-hoon's and urine tumbled down his pants after he lost his breath. The crowd of onlookers shouted even more excitedly the slogan of killing the flag bearer.

Seung-hoon did not end up with a whole corpse, his head was cut off after his death and hung at the Taiping Gate, and the notice next to him listed Seung-hoon's many crimes. On May 8, the National Assembly established the state as a republic, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty was legally terminated.

Wu Yida demanded that the officers and men of the banner battalion, who had been besieged for several days, lay down their arms and surrender. However, the execution of Chengxun has left the bannermen with no way to retreat, and the battle has broken out. Wu Yida had already arranged it, and the flag camp had no ammunition at all. The new army first shelled the flag camp, and then fought all the way in. Up and down was killed.

Hearing the sound of gunfire, the desperate Nanjing Banner people thought that the massacre of the Han people was about to befall them, and these people took out the prepared poison and committed suicide one after another.

According to statistics, on May 15, 1911, there were nearly 40,000 bannermen in Nanjing, and less than 300 remained.