Assassination is a trail, and although it is not a means of revolutionary success, it is an auxiliary measure. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Two Guangzhou generals were assassinated one after another, and the Fuxing Society announced that it was responsible, and claimed that Chen Sheng, the number one master in the association, had led the killer team to start a new round of punishment and evil actions, and the Qing court officials who dared to obstruct the revolutionary plan of the Fuxing Society would be the target of the future attack.

Doing what we say has always been the hallmark of the Revival Society. On the day that Jing Li was stabbed, many yamen in Guangzhou received beautifully packaged gift boxes, which read "Worship so-and-so, worship so-and-so", who would have thought that this was a bomb that would kill people?

The sailor's platform was bombed, the governor's yamen was bombed, the patrol police training station was bombed, and the police station was bombed...... Because this round of bomb attacks was used for the first time, the people in the government and yamen were completely defenseless, and the success rate was extremely high. Opening the package, lifting the lid, smoking, exploding, it's that simple, it's so unexpected.

The governor's yamen was bombed, and Jin Zhenbang, the guard band, was killed; The police station was bombed and the commissioner was killed; The patrol training station was bombed, and several officials were either killed or injured; The gatehouse of the sailor's platform was blown up, and many guards were killed and injured......

And just when the Guangzhou government was in a panic, the officials were panicked, and the whole city was in a hurry, the killer team had withdrawn to Hong Kong, and half of the personnel went to Nanyang to protect the safety of the great revolutionary Song Fuhua; Half of the personnel waited and waited for orders.

The ingenious attack, the powerful bomb, the astonishing success rate, and the murderous announcement of the Fuxing Society immediately disrupted the plan that the Guangdong government was planning to kill the "bandits" in Qiongzhou. Three of the five patrol battalions of the Central Road Station, which were originally transferred to Qiongzhou, were transferred to the inside and outside of Guangzhou to strengthen security and protect the safety of officials in the city.

Li Zhun's four-sided attack plan was also unfavorable, and the stronghold of Thanksgiving County on the West Road was attacked by the revolutionary army, the three patrol battalions were defeated and dispersed, and a large number of materials were captured by the revolutionary army. The net was not woven, and the hole was broken, but the fish was more vigorous.

Moreover, this wave of assassinations by the Fuxing Society also made Li Zhun mutter. Bombs and cold guns, well-planned. The action is professional, and it is impossible to prevent it! Besides, if you really have a grudge against revival, whoever can afford to assassinate one after another will end up with no place to be buried.

Li Zhun was frightened, so he began to pay attention to the news about the revival society and study the situation of the revival society.

"Since then, my generation will have no peace." Li Zhun only made his own general judgment, but he expressed in one sentence the general mentality of the Manchu high-ranking officials caused by the terrorist act of assassination.

It's not that Lee Joon is blindly afraid. Rather, he came to the conclusion after analyzing the assassinations of recent years. Wu Yue's assassination of the five ministers who went abroad to investigate, Wang Han's assassination of Tie Liang, and Shi Jianru's assassination of Deshou, the governor of Guangdong, were certainly relatively sensational events, but the results were obviously not as successful as planned. Courage is commendable but skills are not familiar, reckless and bad things or frustration, this is Li Zhun's conclusion.

On the other hand, several assassinations of the Revival Society began with Tieliang. Chengxun and Jingli, two Guangzhou generals, plus a few victims whose reputation is not too big and their official positions are not too high. Not only is the success rate extremely high, but it is also a total retreat. From planning to implementation, from bombs to sniping, they all showed strong professional quality and ruthless style. If we add to this the spiritual will of the revolutionaries in the assassination to see death as if they were at home and kill themselves, it would be simply terrible in the eyes of Li Zhun.

What to do? Lee Joon didn't want to be the target of the revival society, and the assassinations that followed him were terrifying. No one has the psychological endurance to prevent thieves for a thousand days. But Qiongzhou now belongs to Guangdong, and it is his duty to suppress the uprising. Although the three patrol battalions were temporarily unable to increase their troops in Qiongzhou because of the need to strengthen public security in Guangzhou and protect many officials, the situation in Qiongzhou must not deteriorate further, and there will always be a day when he will send troops to fight and complain about the Fuxing Society, right?

"My lord—" The captain of the guard knocked on the door. Interrupting Li Zhun's footsteps wandering indoors, the guard captain's demeanor was a little hesitant, holding a letter in his hand, as if he was about to hand it to Li Zhun, but hesitated.

"What's the matter?" Li Zhun frowned and moved his gaze to the hand of the captain of the guard.

"The porter has received a letter to your lordship—" The captain of the guard paused and muttered, "I dare not read this letter without permission, but there is a foreign object in the envelope......"

"Foreign objects?" Li Zhun frowned even tighter, and said suspiciously: "The envelope is so small, if it is said to be a bomb, this official will not believe it no matter what." ”

"It's not a bomb." The captain of the guard smiled bitterly, pinched the foreign object in the letter with his hand, and said, "I think it should be a bullet. ”

Li Zhun was shocked, the revival will attack him? Wait, it seems that there is still room for warnings, intimidation? If it's really a proposal from the Revival Society, and read it first, see what the Revival will be, and then make a plan!

After thinking about it, Li Zhun asked the captain of the guard to open the envelope, and sure enough, a bullet was poured. Li Zhun shook his head slightly, reached out to take the letter, and began to read.

Sure enough, it was a threatening letter sent by the Revival Society, warning Li Zhun not to work for the extremely corrupt regime of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, continue to suppress the Qiongzhou Revolutionary Army, and be a good slave who has been stinking for thousands of years. Otherwise, the Revival will be presented with bombs and bullets, without mercy or death.

Li Zhun's face changed, and he was shocked and angry. The letter was not only sternly worded, but also accompanied by detailed information about his family, including his son Li Guoqing, who had been sent to the United States to study, and marked it with a red line.

The bottom line and principles, this is the creed that Chen Wenqiang has always adhered to. The initiator, what is the aftermath? If you are unscrupulous, the enemy will do anything to deal with you. Who has no family, who has no relatives and friends, in order not to implicate them, Chen Wenqiang's bottom line is not to be connected and not to attack his family.

Although assassination is an unusual form of revolution and a form of terrorism, the purpose of its actions is not to cause direct victims, but to influence more people. or to stir up the people's hearts and give the impression of "one class against another" or "all against all", that is, it was transformed into a war of the people against the Manchu rulers; Or through public opinion propaganda, the assassination becomes a "tool of psychological influence".

Of course, Li Zhun did not know the bottom line and principle of the Fuxing Society's assassination, and the warning letter did not elaborate on it, nor did it say that he would attack his family. However, the attached list and information gave him the impression that the Revival Society had targeted him and his family for assassination, and he had no scruples. Ruthless and ruthless.

In the feudal society at that time, Zhulian was still a very common thing, and Li Zhun did not doubt this, nor did he dare to hope that the revolutionary party would open up to his family under hatred. So, in his own thinking and judgment, this warning letter can be said to have dealt him a heavy blow.

If he can ignore his own safety for the time being. The real threat to his family is a serious problem that he cannot ignore and must face.

"My lord—" Seeing Li Zhun's face change, the captain of the guard couldn't help but open his mouth to call out, and when Li Zhun looked up at him, he said tentatively: "The chaotic party is doing Jing Nie's things, and he is not afraid of death, my lord must not worry." ”

Li Zhun sighed. said slowly: "It's worrying, but we are the officials of the imperial court, and it is within our duty to suppress bandits and quell chaos, so how can we not have grudges with the chaotic party?" If it is connived at and appeased, the court will also condemn it. This dilemma, what can I do? ”

The captain of the guard thought for a while, and suggested euphemistically: "Your Excellency, you still remember the trip to Yazhou, then Lord Chen can spend money to buy peace." Keeping the property from loss, are you—"

Lee Joon fell into deep thought. He waved his hand weakly for a while, and said: "This matter is absolutely not feasible, Lord Chen is also an official and a businessman, and businessmen account for the majority; But the official is responsible, how can he collude with the chaotic party? Well, you step aside. Rong Benguan pondered and pondered. ”

Actually, it's not that Li Zhun doesn't have this idea, but he doesn't want to admit it rashly in front of the captain of the guard. After all, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and the crime of this bandit is not trivial. He had to be cautious and come up with a way that was both safe and confidential.

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It's the same assassination, but it's different.

The action of the Fuxing Society has a deep meaning, intimidating Guangdong officials, disrupting their plans to suppress chaos, and supporting the Qiongzhou Revolutionary Army from the side. At the same time, it also creates a psychological shadow among officials and provides convenient conditions for future work.

Although Wu Yue's plot to assassinate the five foreign ministers was sensational and brave, the mainstream newspapers and periodicals at that time did not have a high evaluation of this assassination incident. On the contrary, most of them believed that the five ministers' overseas inspections were for the purpose of preparing for the constitution-making and that it had a bearing on the future and destiny of the country and the nation, and that those who had the slightest patriotic heart should take matters seriously to congratulate them, so they generally condemned Wu Yue's assassination and terrorist activities.

Not only that, but public opinion is also deeply worried that this bomb incident will affect the minister's overseas inspection, and then affect the implementation of the constitution. As a result, they wrote articles in newspapers urging the Qing court to brave the difficulties and move forward bravely. Most of the people also expressed sympathy for the bombing of the minister who went abroad to investigate, and they sent telegrams of condolences one after another, such as 32 schools in Shanghai, Fudan, Nanyang, and other schools.

This is the difference between inside and outside the system, and the different angles from which we look at the problem naturally lead to different conclusions. At that time, in the era of great transformation, it was natural and normal.

The imperial court wanted to maintain the status quo of the supremacy of the monarchy; The majority of public opinion (to be precise, the will of the people) has leaned towards constitutionalism, which calls for the limitation of the power of the monarchy and the creation of a responsible government; The "bargaining" method of forcing the imperial court to accept public opinion is revolution and assassination—as the old saying goes, "overkill must be overdone", and today's so-called "reform is forced backwards" is exactly what it means.

The revolutionaries were keen to assassinate the reformist officials of the system, with the aim of destroying all remedies that might prolong the rule of the Manchus; In this way, they hope that the revolution will come as soon as possible and that the revolution will be "born prematurely". To put it bluntly, they believed that no matter whether the new policies introduced by the Qing court were good or bad, and whether or not the reforms of the Qing court were beneficial to the people and the country, and even the better the policies, the more they should be obstructed and opposed, so as not to win the hearts and minds of the Qing court and make the revolution more difficult.

Zhang Taiyan once said fiercely: "I hope that there are many people and I don't want to see Yao Shun." Manchuria has saints, and the revolution is difficult. It can be said that it broke the mentality of the revolutionaries at that time. As a result, the more Qing court officials advocated the new policy and reform, the more they would become the targets of their assassination.

Obviously, if we look at the thinking of later generations, these revolutionaries have defined revolution too narrowly, and they are still at the stage of being full and full of people. If we look at it in the long run, the various reforms made by the reformist officials of the Qing court (revitalizing schools, training troops, patrolling police, and industrial) are beneficial to the country and the nation.

Even the selection of a large number of students to study abroad, the relaxation of the control of speech, the establishment of provincial advisory bureaus, and the formation and training of new armies in various provinces were all cultivating overthrowers and opponents of the decadent system, and the Qing court did not know it, nor did the revolutionary parties realize it.

This is the misunderstanding of most revolutionaries: when the revolution is prosperous, reform is declining, and vice versa; But the truth is: for every upsurge of revolution, reform also rises, and vice versa. This is because every move of the revolutionary party is the driving force for the reformers in the system to promote reform, and it is the basis for the constitutionalists to rise in popularity.

The assassination of the Revival Society was controlled by Chen Wenqiang, who was relatively calm and rational, and most of the targets were stubborn, corrupt, and vicious Manchu chieftains, as well as those who hindered the actions of the Renaissance Society. In fact, for Chen Wenqiang, this does not require much advanced theory, as long as he knows that the Manchu Qing will fall, it is enough.

This is because the talents cultivated under the reform and the new policy will inevitably have new ideas, and they will inevitably not adapt to the old system, and they will become dissatisfied and become potential saboteurs. When the time comes, it is not surprising that they will turn to the revolution.

At the same time, Chen Wenqiang had already realized how handy and convenient it was to carry out revolution lurking in the system. There is a loose right to speak, which is given to the constitutionalists by the imperial court, in order to morally negate the revolutionary party; It was also the consistent policy of the imperial court to treat the constitutionalists with courtesy, that is, the reformers within the system, and from the economy and politics to the military (merchant groups, people's groups), the constitutionalists were legitimately gaining power.

In this way, a strange phenomenon has emerged, judging from the political propositions of the constitutionalists, it is not much different from that of the revolutionary party, and they all demand that the Aixin Jueluo Emperor unconditionally sell equity and strengthen the country. However, the constitutionalists are within the system, and the revolutionaries are outside the system, although there is no essential difference in everyone's political opinions, but the constitutionalists have done the work of the revolutionaries, which belongs to the category of national constitutionalism and is allowed by the imperial court; The revolutionaries, on the other hand, did the work of the constitutionalists but belonged to the chaotic party and were to be killed.

In contrast, Chen Wenqiang was naturally willing to do revolutionary work as a constitutionalist, and he did it openly, without hindrance, and with great success.

"All you need to do is make a constitution quickly, and the tide will naturally subside. There are many available talents for overseas students, and they should always be hired exceptionally. As for Sun Wen overseas, he has no courage, and he is bluffing on weekdays, and it is all the ministers who disturb each other, so please make a clear decree and grant amnesty to the party members, and no arbitrary connection is allowed. In the future, when there is a disturbance in the locality, it is necessary to recognize the popular unrest and banditry, and it is not allowed to report it to the revolutionary party. ”

"Sending five ministers to go abroad, I don't know what to investigate, just ask if the language is incomprehensible, what can be investigated in a hurry? However, in the future, what is the use of copying a lot of constitutional books and coming back to blame them, and it will be in vain? Now that the constitution is being established day by day, but there is no end in sight, I am afraid that the revolutionary party will be in even more trouble. Now the Japan-France Pact and the Japan-Russia Pact are in danger of a very dangerous situation. Each country determines its policy based on whether China can implement a constitution. It is foolish to think that it is impossible not to make a constitution quickly. ”

As a rookie of the constitutionalists, Chen Wenqiang began to make a big noise in the newspapers, exposing the "face" of the monarchy, and then Zhang Jian, the leader of the constitutionalist faction in Jiangsu Province, Tang Hualong, the leader of the constitutionalist faction in Hubei Province, and Tan Yanhong, the leader of the constitutionalist faction in Hunan, waved their flags and shouted and cheered, thus gradually forming the first constitutional petition movement.

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