On the evening of the day when the members of the Guangdong Parliament who came from various revolutionary parties were swept away, Lu Rongting went to visit Zhang Mingqi. Both of them were Manchu officials, but they didn't make any mistakes in officialdom. Lu Rongting simply congratulated Zhang Mingqi on his ascension to the position of speaker of the Guangdong Parliament, and then asked about the arrested parliamentarians. "Speaker Zhang, you arrested dozens of councilors in one go, but you don't know how to deal with it next?"

Zhang Mingqi smiled faintly, "Duke Lu, if these people really have something illegal, I can only enforce the law impartially." ”

According to the words of Manchu officialdom, the implicit meaning of impartial law enforcement is to punish severely. Coupled with Zhang Mingqi's cold smile, Lu Rongting already fully understood the meaning of this. He hurriedly said: "Speaker Zhang, don't say anything else, Chen Jingcun is a revolutionary veteran with outstanding merits, can you open up to him?" ”

Zhang Mingqi knew why Lu Rongting was trying to keep Chen Jiongming, and as a potential sympathizer of the "revolutionary party", Lu Rongting was a model of stepping on two boats. In the Zhennanguan Uprising that year, Lu Rongting first supported Sun Yat-sen, and even promised to launch an uprising for a time. It's just that in the process of the uprising, Sun Yat-sen couldn't succeed, and the imperial court strictly ordered Liangguang to suppress the Zhennanguan uprising, and Lu Rongting personally led troops to attack Zhennanguan and drove Sun Yat-sen away. Throughout the whole process, Lu Rongting kept providing information to Sun Yat-sen to ensure that Sun Yat-sen would not be arrested. But he was not merciless when it came to eliminating the rebel army in Zhennanguan. It seems that Lu Rongting wants to use these tricks on Chen Jiongming again.

With a long sigh, Zhang Mingqi said: "Lu Gong, Chen Jiongming is also a local person in Guangdong, and he is quite popular, and I also know that what Chen Jiongming wants is inter-provincial autonomy, and he is still different from those chaotic parties. It's just that Chen Jiongming has always seen the benefits of inter-provincial autonomy, but he has not seen that if the current situation cannot be fully confronted by the People's Party, everyone will be dead. Lu Gong, I don't want Chen Jiongming to do anything, I just want him to continue to protect other chaotic parties in the parliament. ”

"It's nature, it's nature." Lu Rongting already knew Zhang Mingqi's attitude, but at this time, Zhang Mingqi needed to make a clearer statement, "Speaker Zhang, I naturally won't shield the chaotic party, but since the competition is not a chaotic party, I hope that Zhang Gong can be kind to him." ”

"Since Lu Gong speaks, I naturally have to listen." Zhang Mingqi also got Lu Rongting's approval, so naturally he would not be so stupid as not to advance or retreat, he smiled and said, "Lu Gong, if we hand over Chen Jiongming to Lu Gong to take care of you, what do you think?" ”

"That's fine." After getting Chen Jiongming's custody, Lu Rongting determined that Zhang Mingqi had no intention of confronting him. Although I feel that this matter is slightly wrong, but this is not the time to pursue it.

And Zhang Mingqi didn't hide what he wanted to do, he continued: "Lu Gong, if you think there are any other parliamentarians who have extenuating circumstances, you might as well say it directly." Those who don't even speak for Lu Gong, brother, I won't be polite. Two days ago, Zhang Gong and the British both handed over the responsibility of eliminating the chaotic party to their brothers, and it is estimated that what they value is their brothers, and I will never tolerate this in the treatment of the chaotic party. And the elimination of the chaotic party cannot be completed without the support of Lu Gong. ”

Lu Rongting knew that Zhang Mingqi had been extremely hostile to the revolutionary party in the Qing Dynasty before, and if it were not for this, the British would not have supported Zhang Mingqi to be responsible for eliminating the chaotic party, and Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangguang, would not have handed over the parliament to Zhang Mingqi so confidently. Although he knew that Zhang Mingqi would never be soft on the revolutionary party, but the current situation was so critical, if someone else was in charge of purging the party, he would definitely be timid, and there was absolutely no such unassuming means as Zhang Mingqi. At least other people's words would not dare to arrest members of parliament, including Chen Jiongming, so bluntly.

After thinking about the current situation, Lu Rongting finally made up his mind, "I'm afraid that there is something wrong with other people's actions, I just think that Chen Jiong is really not a messy party, so I came out to ask for personal favors." For others, there will be no leniency. ”

Zhang Mingqi couldn't guess Lu Rongting's thoughts, he got up and said: "Lu Gong understands righteousness, and Zhang knows." ”

Lu Rongting was in charge of the military power in Guangdong, and after he finally expressed his position, people from all walks of life in Guangdong no longer cared about it and began to attack with all their might.

Lin Xiaofeng, the captain of the Merchant Guards in Jiangmen, Guangdong, received an order from the Merchant Corps on April 10 to participate in a military operation to eliminate the rebellious party in Guangdong. Lin Xiaofeng was very puzzled by this, and he cautiously asked the president of the Jiangmen Chamber of Commerce, "President, but you haven't heard about the rebellion of the Manchu remnants?" ”

The president of the Jiangmen Chamber of Commerce replied angrily: "What Manchu remnants? This time, it is the rebels who call themselves revolutionaries who want to be killed! ”

"To kill the revolutionary party?" Lin Xiaofeng was stunned.

"Xiaofeng! You are my niece and son-in-law, you must do a good job this time, this is related to our family's family business! The president of the Jiangmen Chamber of Commerce said earnestly. The president of the Chamber of Commerce, like other big Guangdong families in this era, has family branches in Shanghai and Nanyang in addition to those who stayed in Guangdong. And Yue Lianyi, the niece of the president of the Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, married Xiaofeng as his wife.

"President, what's going on?" Lin Xiaofeng felt that President Yue of the Chamber of Commerce must have something to say, but he did not fully explain. Even if you don't kill President Yue of the Revolutionary Party Chamber of Commerce, he is still a local tyrant, and there is no conflict between the Revolutionary Party and President Yue on weekdays.

Chairman Yue was very satisfied with Lin Xiaofeng's acumen, "The Zhou family is a chaotic party, we have to get rid of them." ”

"The Zhou family?" Lin Xiaofeng felt that he understood a little, this Zhou family is also a strong local leader in Jiangmen, and he has never been convinced by the Yue family. If the Zhou family can be eliminated, the Yue family can become the real overlord of Jiangmen.

President Yue stroked his beard and sneered: "I have already contacted the province, the Zhou family is a chaotic party of the Alliance, and they have always puffed up bastards who have equal land rights, and we have to respond to the orders of the province and exterminate them." ”

"The Zhou family's guards also have a lot of guns." Lin Xiaofeng said very implicitly, in fact, if it weren't for the Zhou family's own armed forces, Lin Xiaofeng would have led the merchant group guards to exterminate the Zhou family.

"What's the use of a lot of guns, it's not a cannon fart in the face of the army in the province!" President Yue proudly answered this question.

"Cannon?" Lin Xiaofeng was stunned, he didn't expect that President Yue had already negotiated this matter with the province.

"This time, there are our people among the people in charge of clearing the party, so we put the Zhou family on the list. However, the army has spent a lot of money, and we are afraid that we will not be able to get the floating wealth of the Zhou family this time, but we will decide on the land of the Zhou family. When you lead people to encircle and suppress this time, you must lead the team well for the officers and soldiers! Sighing about the floating wealth of the Zhou family, President Yue showed a look of regret on his face.

Lin Xiaofeng thought for a while before suggesting, "President, don't talk about those silver coins." But it's unlikely that all the Zhou family's goods, officers and soldiers will be transported away, right? Why don't we buy it cheaply? ”

President Yue was noncommittal about this, and he said with a straight face: "You still think too much, fight the battle well." Now hurry up and investigate, don't let the people of the Zhou family escape. ”

On April 16, as President Yue said, the officers and soldiers of the brigade arrived in Jiangmen. Under the leadership of Lin Xiaofeng, the official army went straight to the location of the Zhou family's caravan, and the courtyard of the Zhou family's chamber of commerce was built quite solidly, especially the Zhou family's several people from the alliance, and they "trembled" in Jiangmen. After being surrounded by the official army, the Zhou family was frightened. But the Zhou family obviously had no intention of surrendering. Instead, they began to shout through the wall. "The official and military master outside, our family is a parliamentarian in Jiangmen, and there are also councilors in the province. Is this something wrong? ”

The officer at the head laughed, and he ordered someone to shout to the Zhou family: "Your family's parliamentarians in the province have been taken down, and now the province has issued an order, first of all, we must suppress the chaotic party among these councilors!" Those who know each other will surrender obediently, and our brothers in the province will do it! ”

Hearing this, the courtyard of the Zhou family fell silent. As soon as the backers they rely on fall, there will be no righteousness in the face of the officials and soldiers.

The official army's dispatch this time was not reasonable, although the wall of the Zhou family was strong, the officers and soldiers also came prepared. Two cannons were dragged in the team, the first one only made a big hole in the wall, and then two shots hit both sides of the hole directly, and the solid wall collapsed. Officers and soldiers raised their rifles and shouted and rushed towards the collapsed gap.

Lin Xiaofeng didn't dare to compete with the officials and soldiers, so he ordered people to strictly guard the passages everywhere to prevent the people of the Zhou family from escaping. There were not many gunshots in the courtyard, and if they wanted to come to the Zhou family, they didn't dare to really resist. Soon he heard the woman's screams coming from the courtyard, and Lin Xiaofeng was shocked. He knew that it was difficult to get a piece of the pie in his own capacity, but the Zhou family had a concubine who was very handsome, and Lin Xiaofeng had been greedy for a long time. It happened that his wife took the child to Shanghai to save his family, and Lin Xiaofeng only wanted to get the concubine of the Zhou family to be happy for a while. Listening to the screams of the woman in the courtyard, Lin Xiaofeng's heart was as uncomfortable as a cat scratching.

However, the official army seems to be very busy this time, after they broke through the Zhou family, they just plundered the silver money and valuable soft goods, and sold the land and goods to the Yue family at a discount. Lin Xiaofeng got his wish and got the concubine of the Zhou family. It's just that he is still worried that if the Zhou family has a chance to turn over in the future, then things will be difficult to deal with. But when he was drinking with the officers and soldiers, he heard the commander of the officers and troops pretend to be drunk and say: "This time we were ordered to exterminate the chaotic party, saying that we were going to bring the chaotic party back to Guangzhou, but it was too troublesome to take so many chaotic parties away." Kill it here, and I'm afraid that the place will be terrified......"

How could Chairman Yue misunderstand what the official army master meant? He hurriedly said: "This gang of chaotic parties is particularly hateful, and they should be punished in the local area to deter lawlessness." ”

"Deterring lawlessness? What outlaws are left in this? The old man said drunkenly as if he was drunk.

"How could it not be! If you want to know, you can make the following list. President Yue hurriedly said that being able to borrow the hand of the government to completely eradicate the Zhou family was a great thing that President Yue could not hope for. If you can borrow the hand of the government to eradicate the other thorns in the eyes of the Yue family, it will be a special joy.

"Then make a list for me tomorrow." The old man of the official army looked even more drunk.

The next day, Chairman Yue made a long list of these people and wrote in detail the deeds of these people who had colluded with the revolutionary party. Of course, a stack of silver tickets will naturally not be missing. Carefully encapsulated into an envelope, Chairman Yue sent the envelope to the official and military masters. Lin Xiaofeng also read this list, and two of them have nothing to do with the revolutionary party at all. He couldn't help but ask President Qiyue.

"Humph! You know that concubine of the Zhou family! President Yue glared at Lin Xiaofeng with an expression of hatred for iron and steel.

Lin Xiaofeng was shocked, he thought that he had done things quite secretly, but he didn't expect to be discovered by President Yue. Seeing that President Yue had no intention of pursuing the matter, Lin Xiaofeng quickly recovered from the panic. Then he suddenly figured out that the wives of these two people were notoriously handsome.

The officers and soldiers were very efficient, and under the leadership of Lin Xiaofeng and others, the officers and soldiers began to continue to search for the local revolutionary party in Jiangmen. There are local snakes like Master Yue leading the way. All those who were involved with the revolutionary party, and those who were accused by the locals of being a "chaotic party" were quickly arrested.

Before the officers and soldiers left, a big shooting was carried out from outside Jiangmen City. Lin Xiaofeng had never seen such a murderous person, just by the river, rows of "chaotic parties" were tied and dragged over by ropes, and the officers and soldiers shot them in the chest or head at close range. When it hits the chest, the bullet pierces a large hole. Hit on the head, the heavenly spirit cover can fly far away, red and white flying all over the sky.

Although he was scared to death by this scene, a thought unexpectedly popped up in Lin Xiaofeng's mind, "It's easier to clean up by killing people like this by the river." If you kill people so much in the wilderness, who would dare to clean up such a big piece of corpses and a sea of blood! ”

On April 20, 1915, in Jiangmen alone, Guangdong officials and soldiers shot and killed more than 900 people. The revolutionary party in Jiangmen was swept away.

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