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The tide of revolution swept through Guangdong and was intensifying. Fortunately, only the imperial court, bandits, etc. were unlucky, and most of the commoners, squires and merchants benefited a lot from it. While most of the people were rejoicing in the revolution, rumors spread that the Provisional Government would introduce equal land rights and divide the landlords' land equally among the common people. The rumors were quickly detected by the Investigation Bureau, which traced the source and found that the rumors came from a concentration of Manchurian people.

After the armed uprising in Guangzhou, Lü Liang ordered the army to gather the Manchus and provide them with certain supplies every day, but did not decide what to do with them. Let's talk about the problem of the Manchurians later, first of all, those landlords who are panicked because of rumors, speaking of the biggest landlord in Guangdong is Lu Liang, Medron personally found Lu Liang, crying that he and most of the affiliated families implemented the policy of rent reduction and interest reduction after the revolution, and treated the tenants well, and the provisional government could not unload the mill and kill the donkey! Lu Liang couldn't laugh or cry, it was impossible for him to make a decision on equal land rights, and that would be too damaging to the productive forces.

However, this incident gave Lu Liang a flash of inspiration, and then the provisional government issued a proclamation that the safety of personal life and property was sacrosanct, that the policy of reducing rents and interest rates throughout Guangdong would not change, that the average land rights were nonsense, and that as long as government laws and regulations were abided by, the safety of his person and property would be guaranteed. However, in order to change the situation of rampant banditry in Guangdong, the provisional government issued a "gun license", and only those who have been vetted and obtained a gun license issued by the government can own guns! As soon as this policy came out, the landlords and wealthy businessmen bought gun warrants one after another, but found that the cost was huge, and a gun warrant cost 100 silver dollars! Who in a larger family doesn't have hundreds or thousands of guns? I definitely can't come up with such a large amount of money, let alone those small households and civilians. As a result, a large number of civilian guns were confiscated, and hundreds of violent refusals occurred during this period, all of which were forcefully suppressed.

By the end of 1901, the Provisional Government had confiscated 123,000 guns, countless amounts of ammunition, issued more than 600 warrants to carry guns, and arrested more than 300 disobedient people, 36 of whom were killed on the spot. From this, we can see where the guns and ammunition of the revolutionary parties and guerrillas in the former world came from.

Luliang does not completely prohibit the possession and use of firearms by the people, and hunters in some areas have been issued special gun holding orders, but their guns are registered, and if they are lost or sold, they will be held responsible. The security company he led was also established, providing a wide range of security services, and its members were mostly veterans. In addition, more than 30 shooting clubs have been established, where you can experience the joy of shooting for a small fee - ammunition, gun wear, labor, etc.

At the same time as the guns were confiscated, the problem of full people was also placed on Lu Liang's desk. He could not ignore it, because of the popularity of such periodicals as "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou", "Fierce Return", and "Warning Bell", the hostile attitude towards the Manchus among the people and the revolutionary party was very strong, and this kind of mood that permeated the people even affected the upper echelons of the Qing court. Faced with the cries of "revolutionary Manchus" and the growing revolutionary forces and the growing national crisis, the Manchu rulers began to realize the dangers of the policy of ethnic segregation. In order to prevent the Manchus, who were a minority in the population, from being liquidated and subjected to genocide in the subsequent Manchu Revolution, the Qing government began to consider abandoning Manchu blood and actively integrating into the Han people. At the end of 1901, the Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the abolition of the ancestral system of "no intermarriage between Manchus and Hans", and even turned a blind eye to many people who did not keep braids.

However, the policy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty could not avoid the fate of being liquidated, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in the original world caused the southern Manchus to be massacred, and large-scale massacres occurred in Guangxi, Lianghu, Liangjiang and other provinces. After the Xinhai Revolution, the provinces declared their independence one after another, and there were revolutionary incidents of varying scales to show a complete break with the Qing court.

Lü Liang did not reject the Manchu platoon, he believed that the Manchu people were all soldiers at the beginning, and the slaughter of Han people after the occupation of the Central Plains was no less than when the platoon was full, and all the Manchus were guilty of war crimes. It's just that the thinking of modern people makes him unable to accept the slaughter of all the Manchus, and his opinion is that of course the upper class of the Manchus cannot be let go, and let the middle and lower Manchus atone for their sins through labor, after all, they were just lazy and disgusting before, and they sat and waited for the court to provide for them, and their sins did not lead to death.

At this time, the Manchurian people in Guangdong were concentrated in Guangzhou, with more than 30,000 people. After the armed uprising, they voluntarily sent people to surrender to the provisional government, expressing their willingness to sacrifice their belongings, as long as they saved their lives, and they were willing to leave Guangdong on their own initiative if possible. Of course, Lu Liang would not let them go so easily, he didn't have time to deal with it before, and now he had to make a decision.

In order to solve this matter, Lü Liang specially summoned Zhang Taiyan, Mei Delong, Zhou Shuren, Wu Shimin and other ordinary people representing all walks of life to ask them about their attitude towards the Manchurians. Unexpectedly, even the most rational Zhou Shuren did not object to the elimination of those Manchus, he was still young at this time, and like most people, he put all the blame for the sinking of the country and the nation on the Manchurians.

"Yangzhou Ten Days, Jiading Three Massacres, if it weren't for the Manchu country, why wouldn't it be here! During my stay in Guangzhou, the deepest idea of the Zhenguo Party was to use violence to overthrow the old society and bring down all inequality! Aren't the Manchus and Manchu rulers the roots? If the revolution cannot purge the Manchurians, how can it be successful? Zhang Taiyan's attitude was the most intense, and the Reform Movement a few years ago completely disappointed him, and he embarked on a different path from Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao.

Everyone was gossiping, and the opinion was basically the same, that is, the Manchurians must be eliminated, otherwise the revolution would not be complete. Lu Liang understands these people's views very well, the Han people have been oppressed for too long, and most of them are insensitive, but once they awaken, they will behave very violently.

"Yes, the country is backward, the nation is sinking, and the Manchu rulers have an unshirkable responsibility, but is that all? I think the backwardness of the state is the backwardness of the whole and not just because of the rulers. From the beginning of the Age of Discovery, to the bourgeois revolution, to the steam revolution, we have been completely backward in terms of hardware and culture. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese and Spaniards had already ruled the sea, and the Netherlands and Britain had taken the stage to compete for colonies on the sea. Our nation has been left behind by history, and there is no sign of the rise of the country during the reign of the Han people, otherwise how could it have been defeated and ruled by the tiny Manchus for hundreds of years? Our revolution is to find the root causes of backwardness and to catch up according to these reasons, not simply to take revenge and slaughter. Of course, the Manchu sins were too great to simply let go, so I suggested that the upper rulers be tried, and the lower Manchus should work under the supervision of the army to atone for their sins, and the outcome of the trial and the time limit and intensity of atonement can be decided through negotiation. "Lü Liang did not allow large-scale national retaliation to turn into uncontrolled massacres, the Manchus were also part of the Chinese nation, he accepted the concept of the Chinese nation, the rise of the state requires the efforts of all citizens, and this country is not just a country of Han Chinese. He was a nationalist through and through, and the education of later generations made him think that nationalism should be the doctrine of the Chinese nation, not Han nationality, and that narrow nationalism would only plunge the country into turmoil and make the enemy country secretly happy. In the original world, Lu Liang once read a report that the writer Lao She was a Manchu, and he had to hide his ethnic composition for a long time, can you say that Lao She is also an enemy of the country? As for hostile nations and peoples, such as the Indonesian monkeys, he does not treat them as human beings, and the revenge will be a hundred times more cruel than the Pai Man movement.

Lü Liang's words succeeded in convincing those people, and they were compiled into a draft and made public through newspapers and radio. In fact, there is another reason why Lu Liang did not say it, that is, he wanted to use these Manchus to blackmail the imperial court and make it a rat trap, and he would take care of the lives of tens of thousands of Manchus and buy time for the development of Guangdong.

Sure enough, after the news of the imprisonment of a large number of Manchus, the military mobilization of the Manchus was stalled, and no one dared to act on their own until this sensitive issue was resolved, and if the military attack caused the death of those Manchus, it would be more than worth the loss. The upper echelons of the court also quarreled over the matter, and the Han ministers, including Li Hongzhang, all remained silent in order to avoid suspicion, and both sides of the dispute were Manchu magnates. Some were furious and demanded that the imperial court immediately send troops; Some advocated negotiating with the revolutionary party, with the preservation of Manchu lives as the first priority. At this time, the treaty between the imperial court and the foreigners was signed, and the coalition forces had withdrawn from Tianjin one after another, leaving a mess full of holes, and there were huge indemnities to be repaid. Such a request is undoubtedly difficult for a strong man, but it is just another decision made by a leader in disregard of reality.

As more and more news came out, the details of the battle between the rebel party and the Baonian army were also known to the imperial court, and the 50,000 army, and the 50,000 army with advanced equipment, was completely annihilated by the rebel party! Could it be that the army of the rebel party is stronger than the army of the foreigners? The armies everywhere are a make-up nature, and a blind attack is likely to lead to a larger-scale fiasco, and the southern governors who are about to move immediately stopped, and no one has the courage to send their troops to death, which is the capital of the governors to settle down and bargain with the court, and they must not be careless.

Under this special situation, the Guangdong Revolutionary Army was able to avoid facing military attacks from the imperial court for a long time, and provided sufficient time for the army training of the three armies. Inspired by the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the imperial court realized that the old army was not of great use, and began to order the formation and training of a new army in preparation for a duel with Guangdong.

All the Manchus in the city of Guangzhou were deprived of their original privileges and all their possessions, and the young and middle-aged people were divided into various construction sites to work, and they did the most dangerous and heaviest work, and their living conditions were so bad that most of them died on the construction sites without surviving the government's amnesty. The Manchus, the elderly, the young, and the women, and children were forced to fend for themselves, and most of them became beggars and prostitutes because they lost their source of subsistence from the imperial court. Most of the government-licensed brothels near Guangzhou are from Qiren.