Chapter Ninety-Five: The Professor

In the case of a good revolutionary situation, Sun Wei ushered in his first problem, Sun Wu was discharged from the hospital, and Jiang Yiwu and Zhang Zhenwu came with him, which can be described as a large collection of "three martial arts".

Sun Wu was injured by a bomb on the eve of the revolution, and was rescued by the revolutionary comrades and sent to Tongren Hospital.

Jiang Yiwu and Zhang Zhenwu thought that the revolution was impossible to do after learning that the uprising was leaked and that the governor of Huguang was arresting people everywhere, and fled from Wuchang one after another.

In the original history, Sun Wu was originally the governor of Wuchang appointed by the revolutionary party, because he was absent and the dragons were leaderless, so he elected Li Yuanhong, who had nothing to do with the revolutionary party. However, Sun Wu's name was still a well-known figure in the early days of the Wuchang Uprising. At that time, everyone knew that the leader of the revolutionary party was Sun Wen, and thought that Sun Wu was Sun Wen's brother, which was of great help to the morale of the revolution at that time. Later, he served as the military affairs minister of the military junta, and Jiang Yiwu and Zhang Zhenwu were both vice ministers.

When Li Yuanhong saw that Sun Wei defeated the suppression army of Chunting, he was very annoyed that he refused to be the governor of the Hubei Military Government, and when Sun Wei returned to Wuchang, he specially found Sun Wei and expressed his willingness to contribute to the revolution. In view of the fact that Li Yuanhong has a certain influence in Wuchang and even the whole of Hubei, Sun Wei discussed with Tang Hualong to appoint Li Yuanhong as vice minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and vice speaker of the parliament, but whether he has the right depends on what Tang Hualong does.

Now that Sun Wei had pretended to be the governor of the Hubei Military Government as a revolutionary party, he suddenly heard that the real revolutionary party leader had come to see him, and he had a feeling of being a thief. Sun Wei knew that with his current prestige, even if Sun Yat-sen came in person, he would not dare to expose his fake revolutionary identity, not to mention that Sun Wu did not know whether he was true or false.

is about to meet historical celebrities, Sun Wei is still a little excited. After calming down, Sun Wei personally went out of the Governor's Mansion to greet the "Three Martial Arts". Outside the Governor's Mansion, Sun Wei saw the "Three Heroes of Shouyi" in history, all of whom were very young, the oldest was only in their thirties, and the youngest was only twenty-five or six. The biggest must be Zhang Zhenwu, his face is full of unruliness, no wonder he was killed by Li Yuanhong by Yuan Shikai in history, and at a glance he knew that he was an unpopular lord. The youngest should be Jiang Yiwu, who was killed by Yuan Shikai's faction according to the original history, and was only twenty-eight years old when he died. The last one is Sun Wu, who is the longest-living one of the "Three Martial Arts" and the one with the highest prestige.

When Sun Wei saw the three of them, he immediately hugged his fists and said: "Contemptible Sun Wei, I have admired the three gentlemen for a long time, and it is really a blessing to be able to meet the three gentlemen now." "Sanwu" was very surprised to see Sun Wei so young, Sun Wu said: "Xu Dudu has won the award, what fame can we have, all we heard on the way here is Xu Dudu's great achievements, but it makes me envious." I thought that Du Du was an elegant elder, but I didn't expect Xu Du Du to be so young. Sun Wei hugged his fists and said: "Where, where, it's just a fluke." This is not the place to speak, three gentlemen, please come inside. Sun Wei invited the three of them to sit in the hall of the Governor's Mansion, and the guards went out after serving tea.

After they sat down, Sun Wei said: "At the time of the uprising, many people mentioned the three gentlemen, and Sun Wei learned that the uprising could be so smooth thanks to the work of the three people, but the providence of the people, Mr. Sun was injured at a critical moment, and let the brother who had no merit become the governor of the Hubei military government." The brother wants to abdicate and let Mr. Sun be the governor, but I don't know what Mr. Sun wants. Sun Wei knew that Sun Wu would not dare to be the governor, otherwise he would definitely fall into the infamy of taking merit and being jealous of the virtuous.

Sun Wu hurriedly said: "Xu Dudu thinks that I Sun Wu is what to recognize, Hubei was laid down by Xu Dudu, and Xu Dudu should be the governor of this capital, and I, Sun Wu, came to the governor today just to do something for the revolution." Sun Wei said: "I merged Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou into Wuhan City, why don't you let Mr. Sun be the mayor of Wuhan City?" Sun Wu said: "Since Governor Xu looks up to me Sun Wu, I am the mayor of Wuhan." ”

Sun Wei said again: "Mr. Zhang Zhenwu is the Minister of Justice, and Mr. Jiang Yiwu is the Minister of Staff, how about it?" Zhang Zhenwu and Jiang Yiwu both said: "Thank you Xu Dudu." After sending Sun Wu away, Sun Wei thought that although he was still threatened by the Qing army, there should be no problem in blocking the Qing army from going south with the current military in Hubei, and the main energy now should be to rectify the interior of Hubei.

Thinking of this, Sun Wei called Tan Lin and asked Tan Lin to give the officials of all ministries and the commanders above the military management belt to the Governor's Mansion at eight o'clock tomorrow morning for a meeting. After Tan Lin left, Sun Wei returned to his office, preparing to sort out the contents of tomorrow's meeting, the appointments of various departments, and the reorganization of the army.

Early the next morning, the personnel of the various departments who received the notice gathered at the Governor's Mansion and were led to the conference room by the guards. A large group of people in the conference room were obviously divided into three factions, Tang Hualong, Li Yuanhong and other members of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Assembly, Sun Wu and Xiong Bingkun and other revolutionary parties, and Yang Yi and Guo Da. It didn't take long for Sun Wei to lead Wang Hu and Liu Fei into the conference hall, and everyone came over to salute them.

After Sun Wei sat them down, he began to speak: "It has been a while since the establishment of the Hubei Military Government, and there has been no time to establish a standardized administrative system. Sun Wei did not give anyone a chance to speak, and continued: "In terms of administration, the Secretariat, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Agriculture and Mining, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of General Supervision, the Ministry of the Navy, and the Inspection Department will be established. ”

Saying that, he walked up to Yang Yi and said: "This is Yang Yi, the staff of the former Governor of Huguang has always had a lot of money, and now he has abandoned the secret and turned to the revolution, and I now appoint him as the director of the Secretariat." He pointed to Guo Da again and said: "This is Guo Da, when I was chasing the Qing army, he refused to let the Qing army outside the city gate, and when the revolutionary army arrived, he opened the city and surrendered, I see that his words are a talented man, and I now order him to be the minister of finance." ”

Sun Wei returned to his position and sat down and said: "The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the parliament are still in charge of Tang Lao, Mr. Zhang Zhenwu is the Minister of Justice, Mr. Li Yuanhong is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice Speaker of the Parliament, Zhou Dingyuan is the Minister of General Supervision, Ma Mingxi is the Minister of Communications, Han Dong is the Minister of Agriculture and Mining, Zhang Shouyi is the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Tang Qianming is the Minister of the Navy, the appointment takes effect after the fleet arrives in Wuchang, and Wang Hu is the director of the Inspection Department. ”

Sun Wei announced the appointment letter domineeringly, without consulting anyone, and even if others had objections, they could only keep it. He continued: "In the military aspect, the General Staff Department, the Logistics Department, the Local Security Department, and the Police Department were set up, with Mr. Jiang Yiwu as the Chief of the General Staff Department, **** promoted to the Minister of Logistics, Liu Fei as the Minister of the Local Security Department, and Jin Zhaolong as the Director of the Police Department. "Sun Wei's appointment was not satisfactory to Tang Hualong and Li Yuanhong, only the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of the Navy were Tang Hualong's, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was Li Yuanhong's, and the other ministers were all from the revolutionary party like Xiong Bingkun or officers who had sympathized with the revolutionary party like Zhang Shouyi, or Sun Wei's own staff members like Guo Da and Yang Yi.

In the military government, Tang Hualong's power was weakened very much, which made Tang Hualong very unhappy, but there was no way for Sun Wei's strong Tang Hualong, after all, the gun was in Sun Wei's hands, and Sun Wei's prestige was very high. Fortunately, Sun Wei was an outsider, and there was no reliable person in the local area, and Tang Hualong could only recover the losses of the military government in the local area.

But what Tang Hualong didn't expect was that Sun Wei had a staff member of the former governor of Huguang, and he knew the situation of officials in various prefectures and counties in Hubei well, and he already knew the situation of local officials anyway. Great changes were made to Sun Wei, the mayor and county magistrate originally appointed by Tang Hualong, and those officials who did not have the talent to rise to power by bribing Tang Hualong were dismissed, and the officials of the original Chunting who were revolutionary and capable were retained or slightly promoted, and the most important mayor of Wuhan was also given to Sun Wu.

Tang Hualong had a feeling of wanting to vomit blood, some time ago his efforts were all in vain, the previous appointment letters had become waste paper, Sun Wei's previous obedience to Tang Hualong was all pretended, the purpose was to stabilize Tang Hualong, so that his army was trained, and his prestige rose very high, even if he turned his face with Tang Hualong, it would not have much impact at that time. The treacherous and cunning Tang Hualong thought that Sun Wei was just a revolutionary young man who had taken **** luck, but he didn't expect that this revolutionary young man was hiding so deeply and deceived himself, which was a big blow to Tang Hualong.

Tang Hualong wanted to stand up and scold Sun Wei for being shameless, but he didn't dare, he had already passed that impulsive age, and now the situation was stronger than people, so he had to endure the word, after all, the nominal second-in-command of the military government was still him Tang Hualong.

After making appointments to various departments, Sun Wei revised the establishment of the army, abolished the original Qing government's establishment of towns, associations, standards, battalions, teams, platoons, and purposes, and changed it to the most popular establishment of armies, divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, and squads in Europe.

The first standard of the Hubei Revolutionary Army was added to the First Brigade of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, the second standard of the Hubei Revolutionary Army was added to the Second Brigade of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, the first battalion of the artillery of the Hubei Revolutionary Army was added to the First Artillery Regiment of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, the first battalion of the Hubei Revolutionary Army was added to the First Regiment of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, and the first battalion of the Hubei Revolutionary Army Engineering was added to the First Regiment of the Hubei Revolutionary Army.

The more than 10,000 people recruited earlier had gained a certain degree of military quality due to a week of training, but Sun Wei did not break them up, and selected brigade-level and regimental-level officers from the guard brigade, and selected outstanding soldiers and officers from the teaching brigade to serve as officers at the battalion, company, and platoon levels, and selected squad officers and a small number of platoon-level officers from among the newly recruited soldiers, and the army was changed into the Third Brigade of the Hubei Revolutionary Army and the Fourth Brigade of the Hubei Revolutionary Army.

Xiong Bingkun is the commander of the First Brigade, Cai Jimin is the commander of the Second Brigade, Tan Feng is the commander of the Third Brigade, Liu Lei (former captain of the Second Brigade of the Guard Battalion) is the commander of the Fourth Brigade, Xu Wannian is the commander of the First Artillery Regiment, Zhang Bin is the commander of the First Baggage Regiment, and Cheng Zhengying is the commander of the First Engineering Regiment.

After the meeting, Sun Wei recruited Xiong Bingkun, Tan Feng and Xu Wannian to his office, and Sun Wei said to them: "Now Yuan Shikai has increased his troops to Xinyang, in order to protect Hubei, I am ready to organize the first brigade, the third brigade, and the first artillery regiment into the first division of the Hubei Revolutionary Army, with Brother Xiong as the division commander, stationed in Yingshan County (now Guangshui City) in De'an, to guard this gateway to northern Hubei Province. Xiong Bingkun, Tan Feng and Xu Wannian said together: "We will definitely live up to the trust of the governor." ”

Sun Wei said again: "This is a big battle, if the war is urgent, I will definitely increase your troops." The military literacy of the six towns of Beiyang is very high, and the equipment is also excellent, we can't beat the field battle, you must defend the city, don't underestimate the enemy. You can also bring the cannon you used last time in Hukou, but you must collect it well, don't be learned by others, this is our sharp weapon, although the range is very close, but it can be used as a heavy artillery in defending the city. ”

They all said, "Obey the orders of the governor." Sun Wei said: "Tan Feng's Third Brigade will leave tomorrow, and Brother Xiong and Wannian's troops will make up for the soldiers to rest for two days before leaving." ”

The three of them took the command and went out.

Not to mention that Xiong Bingkun and others were ordered to garrison Yingshan County, and Sun Wei began his recruitment and training again. Sun Wei sent people to set up recruitment offices in various parts of Hubei, preparing to recruit two more divisions to deal with the pressure of the Beiyang Army.

Sun Wei also asked Wang Hu to select a battalion of literate and hyphenated recruits from among the newly recruited soldiers, and let them train them individually to prepare for use as military police. For these gendarmes, Sun Wei plans to participate in the training himself, mainly to train their sense of discipline and on-the-spot judgment ability, so that they can quickly detect soldiers who violate discipline and make correct treatments.

Sun Wei's energy to participate in the training of the military police was mainly due to his good secretary Yang Yi, who was worthy of being the master of the former governor of Huguang for many years, and had a strong ability to handle political affairs, properly sorted out the documents sent from various ministries, and separated the priority documents very well, saving Sun Wei a lot of trouble.

Moreover, Yang Yi also recommended many of his classmates and friends to Sun Wei, and gave important responsibilities to those capable Sun Wei. Without the fetters of political affairs, Sun Wei devoted himself to the military.

Sun Wei's guard battalion has long been dilapidated because of the repeated transfer of manpower, and the original guard battalion of more than 1,000 people now has less than 500 people left, but it has become a real guard battalion, and it only has the ability to protect Sun Wei's safety.

Sun Wei took out the remaining 240 people to form two pistol companies, mainly to protect Sun Wei's travel. In this era, not to mention automatic rifles, even semi-automatic rifles have just been invented and have not yet become popular, and the army's largest weapon of destruction is only heavy machine guns. (To be continued.) )