(Yesterday's second update)

The Sichuan riots continued for nearly two months, but the situation intensified, with angry workers stealing the railroad tracks and selling them for money, and some even gathering crowds to loot, and sudden incidents came one after another. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On September 7, the cabinet brazenly implemented the policy of nationalizing the railways, and the next day, Ye Kai announced his resignation.

On 11 September, the collective peasants of seven counties in southern Hunan protested against rent, and in order to calm the situation, the government forcibly suppressed it with "disturbing the people and causing trouble", and in the chaos, 27 people were shot and killed.

At the same time, there was news that the remnants of the revolutionary party had made a comeback in the land of Liangguang and planned a second uprising in Guangzhou.

On 19 September, when the Cabinet of Ministers, which had been closed for less than a month, urgently questioned the Cabinet and demanded that it repeal the regulations on the nationalization of railways, a dispute between the Government and the Council arose.

Then, on September 28, in the joint court of the Shanghai "stock boom" case, another heavyweight red-top businessman stepped into the dock.

The nephew of Li Hongzhang, a former university scholar, the second son of Li Hanzhang, the former governor of Liangguang, and the major shareholder of Yishanyuan Qianzhuang, Li Jingchu.

In the 18-page indictment, Li Jingchu was suspected of seven counts, including "embezzlement of public funds" and "abuse of power." At the last arraignment, the Chinese side presented so-called "secret evidence" in court, which shocked everyone at first.

This evidence was pointed directly at the central cabinet, involving a number of imperial nobles and clan ministers in office in the Qing court, and the words "劻" and "ze" appeared more than once, and the audience suddenly exploded, and for a while, newspapers of all sizes in Shanghai reprinted the news one after another.

It is rumored that the reason why the Sichuan-Han Railway Company has evaporated from the world is that the "Ze" clan relatives and nobles have single-handedly covered up and nearly 10 million taels of profits have disappeared, and the Qing court has neither pursued nor relieved the people, but instead forced the nationalization of the railway, the purpose is to cover up the truth of the matter and make the toiling masses pay for their corruption.

The truth of this rumor is unknown, but it has spread more and more widely, and since it broke out in a corner of Shanghai, it has a tendency to spread to the whole country, and at that time, some people called it the "prime minister's corruption case."

As the series of social reactions triggered by the "secret evidence" continued to ferment, a number of newspapers in Shanghai published articles asking the joint court to investigate the cause of the "Ze" clan and the Sichuan-Han Railway incident, but the court refused to conduct an in-depth investigation on the grounds of deviating from the content of the trial.

On 2 October, Liang Qichao, on behalf of the Senior Affairs Yuan, urgently questioned the prime minister about the matter, but Zai Ze refused to go there on the grounds that "it was really nonsense to catch wind and shadows," and ordered the Liangjiang Governor to seal the newspaper hall involved on the grounds that "the case is very treacherous, and it should be investigated strictly to prevent the revolutionary party from confusing the people and taking the opportunity to take action."

The order was transmitted to the Yamen of the Prime Minister of Liangjiang, and Cheng Dequan, who was acting as the governor, took the case and said, "This is an act of unkindness, injustice, kindness, and forgiveness, and I am a parent official, how can I carry out this evil order and harm the people?" Cheng Dequan refused to carry out Zai Ze's order and openly contradicted the central government.

Zai Ze was furious when he inquired, and on the fourth day, Cheng Dequan was dismissed from his post, the government decree was made, and riots in several southeastern provinces.

......

October 8, evening, 22 o'clock, Liangfu.

In Ye Kai's study, there were seventeen senior generals of the forbidden army department, as well as all the important members of the eight departments and one bureau of the military resources government, and the formation was not small.

They discussed it and came to see Ye Kai.

"Dashuai!"

The first to speak was the first assistant commander of the second town of the Praetorian Guard, Yang Yuting, a fierce general under Ye Kai, who was awarded the title of "Viscount of Changyi" by the Qing court because of his courage in the expedition to Mongolia.

"Zaitao, Yulang and the two have been in the Praetorian Guard since they arrived, and the army has been full of miasma, these two people are really the same dog, not only the party is the same as the other, but also in the army to change the law and say bad things about the handsome, the brothers are in their eyes, angry in their hearts, the marshal, we are the soldiers you brought out, why do they treat the brothers so much!?"

Since these two noble ministers parachuted into the Praetorian Guard, they immediately set off a "rectification" movement of "de-goodness", a number of meritorious generals were transferred from their original posts, and as many as 12 officers were verbally reprimanded, plus the two had no military merits, two had no prestige, and three were unpopular, and they all held back their grievances, but because of the identities of the two, they always endured it, and this resentment was held until now, and they couldn't bear it anymore.

As soon as Yang Yuting's words came out, the room suddenly became intense, and everyone condemned Zai Yu and the others in unison, and there was a great tendency to get rid of them.

"I'll ask the handsome to come out of the mountain!"

"Yes, Dashuai, you go out of the mountain! If you don't care, our Praetorian Guard will be scattered! ”

"Dashuai, we are your soldiers, not the dogs and horses of the two of them!"

In the face of everyone's persuasion, Ye Kai never spoke, and it was not until everyone finished expressing that he pressed his hand and slowly spoke.

"You are all soldiers brought out by my good someone, to be honest, it is my good someone's arms and thighs, everyone has a little pain, and my good someone will have three pains!" Ye Kai sighed.

Everyone lowered their heads, the kindness of the marshal to them, of course they knew it, if there was no marshal's support, how could they get to this prominent position now, dozens of titles in the Praetorian Guard, that is all the marshal to the court Ah, the love of the robe is heavier than Mount Tai.

"However, the country has national laws, and the family has family rules, since the regent has given an order, how dare my courtiers not obey it?" Ye Kai sighed, and then said: "Everyone, you and I are both soldiers, we should act according to orders, how can we interfere in politics?" ”

"Dashuai!"

As soon as they heard this, everyone immediately persuaded again.

"Dashuai, with all due respect, the regent favors Zai Ze, Zaitao and others, and is so unkind to Dashuai, such a mediocre master, Dashuai doesn't need to assist!"

"Bastard!" Ye Kai said loudly: "If this word spreads, wouldn't my Liangbi be a chaotic minister and thief!" ”

The crowd was immediately silenced.

"Handsome..."

Everyone was about to open their mouths, but Ye Kai waved his hand and motioned for them to retreat.

The crowd sighed and retreated, but Jiang Zhiqing, Ha Hanzhang, Jiang Yanxing, and Sun Chuanfang did not move.

"You come with me," Ye Kai said.

The name is not right, the words are not good, Ye Kai is not this.

.....

"How's the setup?"

In the quiet study, Ye Kai said first.

"It's all arranged, just listen to the commander's orders." Jiang Zhiqing said, and the other three also nodded.

"Okay, let's hold our ground for now, and wait for the gunfire to start from the south."

Ye Kai said faintly, looking at the night outside the window.

"It's time soon, too."

......

As soon as the bell rang at twelve o'clock, there was a deafening sound of gunfire under the city of Jiangning.

The Ninth Town, and the newly established Thirty-seventh Town, the New Army, suddenly declared an uprising, and almost met with any resistance, and captured the city of Jiangning, and at the same time, Anhui and Jiangxi were also taken successively, and the reason why they were so bloodless was because they were ordered by the governor of Liangjiang.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Cheng Dequan declared the "independence" of the three provinces at the governor's office, and two hours later, Shanghai also declared "autonomy".

The spark of revolution suddenly ignited! (To be continued.) )