Although Zhang Zuolin was born in the green forest, his vision is really powerful, he guessed well, Yuan Shikai really reversed.

On the day after the diplomatic missions of the great powers sent a joint note to the Qing court, threatening the Qing court to appoint a "highly respectable" minister to preside over the political refresh, the third town of the Beiyang New Army stationed in Changchun mutinied, detained Qin Cha Tieliang, and immediately supported Cao Kun to regain military power.

As soon as this telegram came out, the world shook, compared with the "joint telegram" sent by Zhao Bei, commander-in-chief of the Republican Army a few days ago, Cao Kun's telegram was undoubtedly more fatal to the Qing court, and even the Beiyang Army was opposed, what else did the Qing court rely on to exterminate the Southern Revolutionary Army?

Everyone has not yet recovered from Cao Kun's electrification, but in two days, several more energies have come one after another from the north and south of the river:

The First Army, which was commanded by Liangbi and was the main force of the Fourth and Fifth Towns of the Beiyang New Army, stopped advancing westward after arriving at Huangzhou City, Hubei, and immediately Wu Fengling, the commander of the Fourth Town, and Zhang Yongcheng, the commander of the Fifth Town, jointly issued a telegram announcing the disengagement with the Republican Army and a unilateral ceasefire.

Zhao Bei, commander-in-chief of the Republican Army, also sent a telegram in Wuhan the next day, announcing that the front-line troops of the Republican Army had disengaged from the First Army of the Qing Army, and later swore an oath in Hankou to divide the troops into two northern expeditions to the Central Plains, one route to the north of the Han River, and the other route to the north of the Jinghan Road, to subdue the recovered prefectures and counties along the way, and to unify the provincial decrees.

The second town of the Beiyang New Army had been ordered to go south to reinforce and join the "Second Army of Thieves", which was restrained by the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, but after the town arrived in Zhengzhou, Henan by train, the troops did not advance, and occupied the Yellow River Iron Bridge, cutting off the Jinghan railway traffic, because Wang Yingkai, the former commander of the second town, had been reprimanded by the Qing court because of the telegram between Wang Zhanyuan and Lu Yongxiang, Zhang Huaizhi, the current acting commander and the chief military officer of Tianjin Town, sent a telegram in Zhengzhou, responding to the Second Army, urging the Qing court to establish a constitution as soon as possible, and supporting Yuan Shikai as the "regent" and presiding over all government affairs. Then he personally led the infantry to ride north, and "cried" Yuan Shikai out of the mountain to see things.

Ordered to go south to the sixth town of Beiyang in Shandong to Dezhou at the junction of Zhilu and Lu, the troops did not advance, the whole army clamored, drove away the commander, Zhao Guoxian, the chief soldier of Chaozhou Town, Guangdong, and later, Duan Qirui, the general army of Tingzhou in Fujian Province and the general office of the Baoding Military Academy, rode into the camp alone, took over the town without much effort, and then commanded the troops to occupy the Beiyang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau on the outskirts of the city, and the next day he led the army to turn around and return to the north, stopped advancing near the demilitarized zone in Tianjin, and handed over a note to the consuls of various countries in Tianjin, announcing the implementation of "military advice" to the Qing court. Subsequently, a telegram was sent to the British Concession in Tianjin, urging the Qing court to realize the constitutional monarchy, supporting Yuan Shikai as the "Minister Regent", and immediately sending people to the concession to escort Yuan Shikai to the Yamen, the governor of Zhili.

Yuan Shikai was dressed in a plain body, surrounded by his staff, and walked into the governor's yamen, and after denouncing the rebellious behavior of Duan Qirui and others, he knelt on the throne of the Guangxu Emperor and cried for half an hour, and then "helplessly" was coerced by everyone to take the throne, sat in the south, and then sent a telegram to the Qing court urging the constitutional monarchy and realizing the responsible cabinet, officially starting his career as a "regent".

The next day, the "Regent's Office" was set up in the Yamen of the Governor of Tianjin Zhili, and then, Yuan Shikai sent a telegram in the name of "a cloth cloth", calling on the north and south to build a constitution, because this day happened to be January 1, 1909, therefore, the telegram was called "New Year's Electrification" by Westerners.

At this point, among the six towns of the Beiyang New Army, only the first town was still in the hands of the Qing court, but the town was mixed with a target Han infantry, and the military spirit was unstable, coupled with the troops stationed along the Beijing and Tianjin lines of the foreign powers to block the road, Dagu was also declared a "neutral zone", and the Qing warships anchored in Dagu were monitored and anchored by the fleets of the great powers, so that the Qing army could not go south to attack Tianjin, and could only retreat inside and outside the capital to defend the national capital.

In the dazzling electrification, the whole country was silent for a while, and the stunned subjects realized that a change of dynasty seemed to be imminent.

On January 2, 1909, representatives of the constitutionalists of several southeastern provinces gathered in the Shanghai Public Concession and convened the "National Conference of Gentlemen and Merchants to Promote the Constitution" under the auspices of Zhang Jian, the "champion industrialist".

Seeing that the gentry were ahead of him, the feudal officials of the Great Qing State also hurriedly stated their position:

After Cao Kun led the troops to "visit", Xu Shichang, the governor of the three eastern provinces, and Cao Kun sent a telegram on January 2, announcing that "the territory and the people should be safeguarded", and from that day on, the three provinces of Fengtian, Jilin, and Heilongjiang would no longer directly accept the imperial decrees of the capital, except for the "Regent's Office" in Tianjin, and all imperial decrees would be regarded as invalid without Yuan Shikai's countersignature, and the taxes of the three provinces would be withheld until the Qing court realized the constitution.

Wu Chongxi, the governor of Henan, announced the "autonomy" of Henan under the muzzle of the second town of the Beiyang Army and established the "Autonomous Association", with Yuan Shikai as its president.

Anhui governor Zhu Jiabao has been sitting here after the "recovery" of the provincial wall Anqing, commanding the troops to besiege Luzhou occupied by Xiong Chengji, at this time also announced a unilateral ceasefire, although the siege was not withdrawn, but did not continue the offensive, and persuaded the Yi army commander Jiang Guidi to cease fire together, the two jointly sent a telegram, announcing obedience to all the decrees issued by the "Regent's Office", urging the Qing court to establish a constitution, and imploring the Qing court to abolish the privileges of the bannermen.

Yang Shixiang, the former governor of Zhili, who had been imprisoned, was put out of prison by the Beiyang Army, put on Cen Chunxuan's official robe, and was embraced by the soldiers into the yamen of the governor of Zhili, standing beside Yuan Shikai to announce the "autonomy" of Zhili, establish an "autonomous association", and support Yuan Shikai as the president.

As for Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Zhili appointed by the Qing court, he had already fled in disguise and hid in the British Concession of Tianjin when Duan Qirui led his troops into Tianjin, but was immediately expelled by the concession authorities, so he had to hide in the German and French concessions again, and finally settled down in the Japanese Concession in the name of "state criminal".

Not all feudal officials were disloyal and unrighteous rebellious ministers, and at the same time that the Han officials in various provinces declared "autonomy", the banner officials held high the banner of "King Qin" and began to fight back:

The commander of the "Second Army of the Thieves", the "Minister of Military Affairs", and the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Shengyun, had already issued a document in Xinyang to fight against the thieves, but he had not yet had time to deploy the strategy of attacking Wuhan, and suddenly heard that Yuan Shikai had rebelled, and on the same day he issued a letter in Xinyang to fight against the rebellion, swearing to the king of Qin, trying to return to Zhili, but because the Jinghan Railway was cut off by the second town of Beiyang, the Qing army stopped troops in Xinyang, and lost its advance and retreat, there were strong Beiyang troops in the north, and the advance team of the Northern Expedition of the Republican Army in the south, the grain road was cut off, and the army's heart was shaken. Kill the co-commander Liu Chengen, and besiege the headquarters of the Second Army with the Yi Army Zhao Wei's department, the minister of the Qin Mission, Shengyun, saw that the situation was not good, and fled to Tongguan alone, the second army of the Qing army lost its unified command, and it disintegrated, after the mutineers ransacked the Xinyang military reserve, part of the old army went north to the Beiyang Army, and the new army mostly went south, and got in touch with the advance guerrillas of the Northern Expedition of the Republican Army, and then announced that they would join the revolutionary army and respond to the uprising.

Song Shou, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, sent a "rebellion and telegram" in Fuzhou, and counted Yuan Shikai's "murder of the king" and "rebellion" and other great rebellion crimes, and vowed to use Yuan Shikai's head to commemorate the Daxing Emperor, and then raised strong men, called the "Qinwang Army", raised troops in Fujian, and at the same time contacted the consuls of various countries to seek the support of the powers, but they were all refused.

A few days later, the Fujian New Army temporarily organized the 10th Town of the Army in the north of Fuzhou Lotus Mountain Garrison, in the alliance member, Fujian Wubei Academy under the leadership of Xi Xu Chongzhi, gathered to attack the north gate, at the same time, with Fujian members as the backbone of the League of death squad launched an attack in Fuzhou City, besieged the 10th Town Commander located in Huaxiang, soon after the fierce battle, Funing Town Commander, the 10th Town Commander Sun Daoren announced in the town headquarters that it was anyway, and then walked out of the headquarters under the "protection" of the daredevils, and mobilized the new army in the city to attack the Governor's Yamen, The governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Song Shou, was cornered, burned down the governor's yamen, and the whole family was set on fire, in the raging fire, Fujian announced its independence from the rule of the Qing court, and the alliance would elect Sun Daoren as the governor of Fujian, and Xu Chongzhi as the commander-in-chief of the Fujian army.

Zhao Erxun, the governor of Sichuan and the man of the Blue Banner of the Han Army, who was supervising the regimental defense bureaus in northern Sichuan to draw and train the "thief army", heard of the Beiyang military mutiny, hurriedly returned to Chengdu to sit in the town, disarmed the 33rd Mixed Association of the Sichuan New Army, and transferred all of them to the outside of the city, people gave the nickname "Zhao Tu".

When Zhao Erxun wielded a butcher's knife in Sichuan, Xiliang, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, was not idle, in addition to transferring the new army out of the provincial wall like Zhao Erxun, Xiliang also wantonly recruited An Lvlin armed forces, known as the "Qinwang rebel army", claiming to choose the day of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.

Chang Geng, the acting governor of Liangjiang, also sent a telegram, announcing that in response to Xiliang, he would organize the Qinwang army, occupy the Jiangyin fortress, blockade the Yangtze River, and prohibit the passage of Chinese merchant ships.

In addition to these clear-cut officials, there are still some feudal officials who have a cautious wait-and-see attitude:

Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangguang, announced "external neutrality to protect the territory and the people"; Guangxi Governor Zhang Mingqi telegraphed to support Zhang Renjun; Although the governor of Shanxi, Bao Di, was a member of the Mengqi banner, but due to the situation, under the instigation of the Shanxi constitutionalists, he also declared "neutrality", while sending a telegram to condemn Yuan Shikai, he also telegraphed to the Qing court, urging him to conform to the will of the people and establish a constitutional government as soon as possible, but at the same time, he also sent people to the Mongolian steppe, gathered soldiers and horses, and prepared for King Qin; The governor of Xinjiang was out of reach, and he wanted to send troops to help the northeast through Siberia, but Russia refused, and in desperation, he had no choice but to follow the constitution; Although Cen Chunbei, the governor of Hunan, also declared "neutrality", the day after the telegram was issued, Changsha, the provincial wall, was broken by the troops of the Republican Army Wu Zhenhan and the Communist Party, and Cen Chunbei was captured......

At the same time, the nobles of the banner clan who lived in the northeast elected representatives to issue a strong-worded statement in Lushun, the Japanese concession, declaring Yuan Shikai a "national thief" and calling on the banner people of the world to discuss it, and summoned the Qin Wang army, called the "Eight Banners outside the Guan", clamoring to go south on a certain day to destroy the rebels.

It seems that the situation is not chaotic enough, and Kang Youwei, a royalist and celebrity living abroad, also came to join in the fun, and sent a telegram in Tokyo to denounce Yuan Shikai, form a "royalist party", and call on the people of the world to "fight the traitors together" and protect the Qing Dynasty.

In the midst of all the disturbances, Zhao Bei, the commander-in-chief of the Republican Army in Wuhan, sent a telegram again on January 5, echoing Yuan Shikai's move of "peace between the north and the south", and reiterating the idea of the Republican Army, that is, "republic": "When the imperial system ends, it is the day when Yuan Gongshikai becomes the commander of the Republic of China!" ”

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