On May 8, 1911 (the third year of Xuantong), under the pressure of the constitutional parliamentary petition movement, the Manchu government promulgated the "New Cabinet System" and implemented the so-called "responsible cabinet system".

It was ordered to abolish the old cabinet and the military aircraft department, and set up a new cabinet composed of thirteen state ministers, with Prince Qing Yixuan as the prime minister, Na Tong and Xu Shichang as the assistant ministers, and nine Manchu magnates among the thirteen people, of which seven were from the Manchu imperial family, and only four from the Han bureaucracy...

After the news broke, the constitutionalists and other groups who still had certain expectations for the Manchu government expressed their indignation, and many constitutionalists began to lean towards revolution while being disappointed.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with the common people, and it doesn't matter to them what cabinet they are, but...

On May 9, 1911, under the instigation of Sheng Xuanhuai, the Manchu Qing Dynasty announced the "state-owned policy of the main railway line", forcibly confiscated the Sichuan-Han and Guangdong-Hanzhou railways as "state-owned", and signed a loan contract with the "four-nation banking group" of the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, totaling 6 million pounds, and openly sold the construction rights of the Sichuan-Hanzhou and Guangdong-Hanzhou railways.

After the news came out, the people in the provinces were also indignant, because this time it was the interests of the common people who were harmed.

The first to rise up and rebel were the people of Hunan. On May 14, 1911, a mass rally of 10,000 people was held in Changsha. This was followed by a demonstration by more than 10,000 railway workers from Changsha to Zhuzhou, and called on businessmen to strike the market, students to boycott classes, and refuse to pay taxes in protest.

Led by the people of Hunan, the people of Hubei, Guangdong, and Sichuan also took active action, and the Baolu Movement soon developed into a massive armed uprising...

"I didn't expect the time to come so soon..."Although he had known about this matter for a long time, in front of Song Dinghan, Wang Er and other henchmen, Yan Guang still pretended to be surprised.

Seeing that Yan Guang was obviously pretending to be "I was surprised", although Song Dinghan was full of suspicions, he could only swallow these into his stomach.

After all, although Yan Guang has always been weird, Song Dinghan still didn't believe that Yan Guang could predict the "Imperial Cabinet" and "Railway State-owned" in advance.

"What should we do next?" Tang Wei asked.

Since returning from Yanbian, Tang Wei has become one of Yan Guang's henchmen.

Hearing Tang Wei's question, several other people also looked at Yan Guang, if they thought it would take at least a few years before the "Imperial Cabinet" and "Railway State-owned", then they now felt that there might be a chance of success within the year.

Looking at the eyes of his subordinates, after making a look of careful thought, Yan Guang said slowly. "We'd better stay put."

"Still?"

At this time, Song Dinghan also spoke. "The boss is right, we'd better stay put. Although the "Imperial Cabinet" and the "State-owned Railways" have caused the Manchu government to lose some popular support, especially in Sichuan and several other provinces, they still have time to correct it, and if we expose it before this, we can only kill ourselves, so..."

"So we'd better wait for the right time, and wait until the Manchu political axe is completely dead..."

"That's right." Song Dinghan nodded.

"Alright." Yan Guang clapped his hands, focusing everyone's attention. "I'm sure everyone knows what to do next."

Nodding, a few henchmen packed up their things and left the office.

However, before leaving the office, Song Dinghan and Wang Er glanced at Yan Guang.

"Boss, did you really not know in advance about the "Imperial Cabinet" and the "state-owned railways"? ”

Looking at the sharp eyes of the two number one henchmen, Yan Guang grinned and didn't make a sound...

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Everything was as expected, although Yan Guang did not make any moves, but the people of central Sichuan were extremely indignant and sent out various movements.

As I once said, the Sichuan-Han Railway is not like other railways, and most of the funds raised by the railway are carried out in the form of renting shares, and renting shares is a kind of tax that is apportioned to the people...

It's just that the Sichuan political axe was levied in the form of stocks, so although it may take decades to enjoy the return, at least the people still have a little hope in their hearts, and now the railway is nationalized...

The nationalization of the railways harmed not only the interests of the gentry in Sichuan, but also the interests of the 50 million people in Sichuan.

On June 17, more than 2,000 people from various groups in Chengdu held a meeting in the railway company, established the "Sichuan Baolu Comrades Association", elected Pu Dianjun and Luo Lun as the chairman and vice presidents, put forward the purpose of "breaking the contract and protecting the road", issued the "Declaration of the Baolu Comrades Association" and other proclamations, published the "Sichuan Baolu Comrades Association Report", posted it everywhere, and publicized the Baolu. He also sent members to give speeches and send representatives to Beijing to petition. In response, all parts of Sichuan responded to the news, and the Sichuan Women's Baolu Comrades Association, the Yucheng Baolu Comrades Association, and the Baolu Comrades Branches of various prefectures, counties, townships, towns, streets, and groups were established one after another, with hundreds of thousands of members.

"Boss, this is an invitation sent by Pu Dianjun and Luo Lun..."Wen Jing walked into the office and handed an invitation to Yan Guang, who was reading the newspaper.

Yan Guang opened the invitation card and looked at it, then threw it back on the table. "Have we ever invested money in this Sichuan-Han railway?" Because there are too many things to do, Yan Guang doesn't remember it well.

Wen Jing Wen Yan pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose. "When Zhao Erfeng was still there, he invited us to invest in the Sichuan-Han Railway, but at that time we were building the "Chengqing" highway, so we only invested 100,000 silver dollars in it, and Zhao Erfeng didn't say anything about it. After learning that Yan Guang only invested 100,000 yuan, Zhao Erfeng really didn't say anything, after all, he couldn't let a person who was building a road on his own invest a large amount of money in a railway that was obviously impossible to succeed.

"I see...", Yan Guang said and picked up the invitation again.

Just now he was still wondering why Pu Dianjun said that he had also contributed money, but now it seems that there is indeed such a thing.

"So boss, should we reply?" Wen Jing asked as he stood aside.

"No, you don't." Yan Guang shook his head. "The most important thing now is to hibernate, not to stand up and attract attention, that old man Zhang is a conservative, and he already hates me for engaging in foreign affairs, if I stand up at this time, won't I be asking for trouble?"

"That?"

"You just say I'm inspecting the construction site and don't have time to go..."

"Got it..."

This time, there are indeed a lot of people from the constitutionalist faction, but except for one Zhang Lan, none of them can make Yan Guang see it...

Look at the name on the invitation. "Constitutionalists?" Yan Guang sneered.

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