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China in 1898 was unpredictable.

Less than two months after the sudden demise of the Manchu Qing court, with Yang Hao's public announcement that he would officially establish the state on April 1, 1900, with the name of the Republic of China, the internal turmoil in the northwest, northwest and southwest provinces of the south of the Yangtze River intensified a hundredfold. In just a few months, as many as 100 revolutionary organizations surged up and openly launched an attack on the former bureaucratic organizations that were trying to hold their ground.

Everyone can see that the general trend of revolution to unify the south with the north is irreversible, and the founding of China will surely come to fruition, and anyone and any force will disappear with it. The rest is to see who can get a piece of the fat cake in this thousand-year-old tide of Dingge.

The large number of revolutionary organizations that suddenly appeared, this party and that party, all brandished Yang Hao's words and thoughts as a pretext, nominally claiming to be the orthodox side of the revolutionary party, but in fact they were still robbing the chaotic party and the mob.

It's just that they obviously misjudged the form, when a large number of people or a hundred and ten people gathered, or only seven or eight ruffian gangs, carrying shoddy flags to attack the government, they were beaten by the local training of the new army!

These people did not know that Yang Hao had sent people to secretly contact the government at all levels early in the morning, and made clear to the people who spoke about the revolutionary military government's position and attitude. Only the two major factions of the Social Democratic Party and the Republican Party have been officially recognized in the whole of China, and the other parties have not been approved by the new government and are illegal organizations.

Moreover. The revolutionary military junta also absolutely does not support the indiscriminate storming of the government by local illegal armed forces. Disrupt civil order. Anyone who does so is a troublemaker to be suppressed and defeated.

With this guarantee, the provincial governments dare to kill them. However, Yang Hao did not block the channels established by other parties, as long as there is a clear ideological line, can firmly safeguard the core of the interests of the Chinese nation, and an enlightened and progressive organization, it can still follow its own political proposition to form a legal group. Two years later, when the state was founded, they could seek their own seats.

Such an attitude made the governors of all parties feel very puzzled. After all, according to their lifelong knowledge, Yang Hao is the most logical emperor. Do you really want to let several parties take turns in power? Like the election game of Westerners? This doesn't seem to be very reliable in China!

Behind the scenes, they speculated that this was still a cover, and the main purpose was to keep public opinion stable to the greatest extent when the revolutionary army came to carry out land reform and complete the Ding Revolution.

So if you guess Yang Hao's purpose, do you want to fight with him, so as to blackmail future interest chips? Obviously, no one dares to think like that, they refer to the practices of Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong. I know that in the new government, there must be no place for these important ministers of the Qing Dynasty.

However, Yang Hao will not be harsh on those who are actively approaching. The two bigwigs went out on patrol as civil envoys, and their fame shocked the world, and this example was set so beautifully that many originally wavering governors had to be moved.

The governors of the provinces, while vigorously suppressing the thugs who were stunned and pretending to be the revolutionary party to make trouble, actively sent their cronies to Tianjin in various directions, in an attempt to give priority to occupy a relatively good opportunity before the revolutionary army moved south. In the future, Zhang Zhidong will be able to push the boat down the river, and he will immediately be able to obtain the status of a civilian envoy with scenery, and his glory and dignity will not be reduced.

At the same time, the more astute young and middle-aged elites are also actively learning the routines of the Social Democratic Party and the Republican Party, gathering common interests in an attempt to create a new party that may be recognized. In the future, when the whole country is united, they can support this party to come to power and act as a spokesman for their interests.

This way, especially the major consortia in Jiangnan, is the most active. The Jiangsu-Zhejiang Business Gang and the Fujian-Guangdong Consortium have a deep cooperative relationship, and this time they took the initiative to unite and publicly recommend several relatively good organizations to the forefront.

Among them, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortium mainly promoted the Guangfu Association composed of Zhang Taiyan, Tao Chengzhang, Xu Xilin and others, and planned to form a "revival party" based on this. Relying on their huge financial resources and connections, they have rapidly expanded their members throughout the two rivers and lakes, setting off a great momentum among the intellectual youth in Jiangnan.

In Guangdong, the Xingzhong Society, headed by Sun Wen and Lu Haodong, had raised several incidents, but all of them were forcefully suppressed by the Liangguang Governors who were loyal to the Qing court. In recent years, with the turbulence of Jiangbei, the environment has been greatly relaxed, and they have become more active. Nowadays, even fewer have received strong support and have become legal groups.

It's just that Sun Cannon's consistent style can't be changed, and in order to get as many people as possible to get funds, he doesn't care what the members come from. So in the past few years, the Xingzhong Association has been full of all kinds of sects, gangsters, robe-gooper leaders, opportunists, and exiled fugitives, which can be described as a dazzling array of things.

As soon as the situation in the south of the Yangtze River changed, the sphere of influence of the Xingzhonghui suddenly expanded several times. As far as they could reach Hongmen in North America, and in China they stretched west to the middle of the river, a super-large organization that spanned tens of thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean. It seems to be quite powerful, but in essence, it is full of mud and sand, and dragons and snakes are mixed.

Just such a group of people also actively formed a political party in accordance with the general trend, and it is said that they have all thought of a name, called the "Alliance Party". However, some people think that this is really not very decent, so some people propose to call it the "National Democratic Party". Abbreviated as KMT.

This side of the party is making a lot of noise for the future political seats, and the momentum is huge, and the feedback to Yang Hao's side only attracts a burst of laughter: "Just form a political party and want to participate in the new government?" Dream on! ”

Outsiders don't know at all that Yang Hao never thought of engaging in the so-called multi-party rotation of power from beginning to end, and even the two parties, which basically occupy the main seats in the government, will definitely not compete with the Americans in the quadrennial donkey-elephant dispute. Because the backstage of these two parties is a secret "Huaxing Society"!

That's right, from beginning to end, "Huaxing Club" has been hiding behind as a BOSS. They don't go to the media, don't do publicity, don't disclose their identities, and always take Yang Hao as the core, silently absorb young backbones, and develop and grow.

The key positions of the two parties in the open are all people from the "Huaxing Society." On the surface, they often tear up x because of the inconsistency of governing ideas. It's really a big deal. There is absolute unity of opinion. Otherwise. How could Yang Hao's order be carried out so lightly?

In Yang Hao's setting, the future government agency will be a superficial multi-party coalition, with the party leader holding the seats of the seventh or ninth elders at the same time and making collective decisions. But in essence, there must be a political core as the commander, and it must be a person from the "Huaxing Society". This is called "democratic centralism".

In this way, on the one hand, it presents to the outside world the image of a democratic and progressive new government. For the people of their own country, there is always a big boss who is as authoritative as the ancient emperors.

As for whether it can be done in the end, Yang Hao has no bottom in his heart, and he has to try it to know. Anyway, the military power is in hand, there is no big mess, and there is enough time to experiment.

All the provinces in the south are making preparations for the "welcome of the revolutionary army," actively cooperating with the southbound railway engineering team to survey the route, and organizing manpower to cooperate in infrastructure construction. Yang Hao was also very unkind, and scattered the army of millions of land reform operations and drove into Hunan, Sichuan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang in batches. vigorously and vigorously promote the great cause of the revolution in an all-round way.

In the northwest, Dong Fuxiang saw that the new government had started the construction of two major railways, the Baolan Line and the Baolan Line. I know that the policy of westward expansion is extremely resolute. It is absolutely impossible for the country to let the northwest hang alone, and he has no idea of cutting off the alleged king.

Therefore, just a few months after the fall of the Manchu Dynasty, he simply expressed his submission to the new government, disbanded his armed forces, and accepted the reorganization.

However, Yang Hao did not accept the situation, but allowed him to continue to lead his troops to continue to march westward and stationed in Western Xinjiang. The task given to him was to thoroughly stabilize the situation in western Xinjiang and never allow a similar incident to happen again. Of course, what is more important is to resist the southern invasion of Tsarist Russia, and make sure that they do not get the slightest attack. Those who attempt to collude and introduce outsiders to invade and harm their own people will be killed!

Dong Fuxiang knew that the revolutionary work of the new government was carried out simultaneously with the advance of the railway, ensuring steady and steady progress, and thoroughly reforming one place after another, so as to leave no future troubles.

He counted his fingers and calculated that it would take two or three years to repair the Lanzhou Railway at the earliest, and then run from Lanzhou to the western Xinjiang, and the more than 2,000 kilometers would probably take ten or eight years to be repaired. This is at least ten years, and he can be a serious king of Western Xinjiang. As long as you don't make a fuss and make sure that there are no problems before the new government fully takes over, the political capital in the second half of your life is enough, but it is far better than being a public servant in the wilderness!

So, the fifty-eight-year-old veteran returned to Yinxia happily and led the troops on the road.

Of course, Yang Hao couldn't let him toss around, and there were thousands of advance teams with the army. In addition to supervising Lao Dong's actions, it is more important for these people to thoroughly understand the situation in western Xinjiang and lay a solid foundation for a comprehensive revolution in the future.

As for why it is so troublesome and so cautious, those who know the situation in China naturally know it.

Outside of domestic affairs, it is a tough response to the outside world. With the collapse of the Manchu government, the British brazenly invaded Kangzang and were completely taken over by the new government.

Yang Hao not only issued a righteous and stern rebuke statement, but also made a stronger statement: "If the British authorities do not immediately stop the invasion and make a formal apology and compensation for all the casualties and losses caused by the brazen invasion, China will take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national dignity and homeland security." ”

If you can say it, you must do it. Not long after the declaration was issued, the main fleet of the Chinese Navy once again displayed its unprecedented strength, led by four "Hebei-class" battleships, and led more than a dozen warships of more than 10,000 tons to cruise the South China Sea all the way to the waters of Malacca.

The British minister to Japan, Sadaoyi, was estimated to be the busiest Far Eastern diplomat in history, and he was running around Asia almost every day with the troubles that Yang Hao had tossed around. Except for India, he went to almost every country and colony in Southeast Asia.

This time, he was unsurprisingly present in Singapore as scheduled. When the Chinese fleet appeared at the end of the sea, he and Sir Mitchell, the current Governor of the Channel Colonies, occupied the highest point of the Siloso Battery.

Sir Mitchell looked gloomy, and he felt that he might as well be the unluckiest Governor of the Channel Colony ever. Since his arrival in 1894, he had scarcely had a few days of comfort. The rapid rise of China in the Far East, especially after the Chinese navy's blatant challenge to the British Royal Navy, made him worry about every day, for fear that one day he would sleep in a daze. Blown to pieces by a cannonball falling from the sky!

The British of this era. Have blind confidence in your own domineering strength. It is believed that no one dares to really provoke the majesty of the British Empire. But Sir Mitchell did not think so, and with his keen intuition, he decided that Yang Hao of China would become the new hegemon of the Far East, and would also challenge British hegemony here.

Unfortunately, he and the Straits Settlements authorities will inevitably be the target of the attack.

After several years of fear, it finally became a reality, and Sir Mitchell's face was dark and his temper was beyond the limits of the battleships of more than 30,000 tons that were rampaging in the distance.

In the face of Sa Daoyi, who is known for his wisdom and shrewdness in the domestic political arena. He sneered very unceremoniously: "Mr. Minister, this is what you promised me, it is absolutely impossible for Chinese warships to invade Malacca?" So please tell me, what the hell are those big guys trying to do after running thousands of miles?! It doesn't mean to see the sights, right? ”

Sa Daoyi also has tens of thousands of grass and mud horses running wild in his heart, and he doesn't know how many times he scolded Yang Hao, and he didn't play cards according to the routine at all! In disputes between the two countries, no matter how big the contradictions, they must always salute before they fight, follow diplomatic inquiries, joint investigations, and reach consensus. Finally, the way to compromise and solve the problem comes. As a great power between the East and the West (he is finally happy to recognize China's status), he cannot afford to mobilize his army for the slightest border conflict. Big fight.

As a result, Yang Hao issued a statement of condemnation, and at the same time sent the fleet out to demonstrate at the door of his home. Is this the meaning of "you dare not agree to Lao Tzu and come hard"?

The gentlemen of the British Empire, arrogant from the bones, were threatened with guns in their heads, and refused to admit their mistakes without taking advantage of reason, but now they simply don't want to have any possibility of negotiating.

Sa Daoyi stiffened his head and gritted his teeth: "Your Excellency the Governor does not need to worry too much, the Chinese dare not and cannot provoke the British Empire." This was different from the battle with the Royal Navy, and the bombardment of Malacca would be seen as a harsh provocation to the Empire. When the time comes, the Empire's thousands of warships will completely sweep them away! ”

Sir Mitchell didn't feel at ease at all, and waved his hand very facelessly: "I have heard these words you say too many times, but the fact is that the Royal Navy has failed miserably again and again!" Now, however, I see increasingly powerful Chinese warships cruising the South China Sea. One day, they might all be on to the Indian Peninsula! Mr. Minister, would you like to give me some practical advice? What exactly must be done to ensure that the Chinese honestly retreat? I don't want to suffer huge losses for no reason because of other people's mistakes. Not at all! ”

The cunning of British politicians is world-class, and shirking responsibility is an introductory skill.

This time the trouble was clearly caused by the ambitious ministers of Sadaoyi and the greedy viceroy of the Indian colonies. Originally, he wanted to take advantage of the chaos to seek to seize China's Kang-Tibet region, but it turned out to be a problem halfway. Now, he was even slapped in the face. This black cauldron, Sir Mitchell will never carry it. Whoever provokes the basket, who cleans up.

Sa Daoyi was angry in his heart, but he couldn't vent to the other party. Everyone must maintain harmony in face, otherwise it will not do him any good to break up.

Clenching his fists to force himself to calm down, Sa Daoyi looked around and said seemingly firmly: "Sir doesn't need to be so pessimistic, don't forget, under our feet is the strongest fort in the Far East!" No matter how powerful the Chinese warships are, it is absolutely impossible to land under the fierce artillery fire here. So, Malacca must be safe. ”

The corners of Sir Mitchell's mouth twitched slightly, and he was finally more kind and did not immediately debunk his big words.

The strongest battery in the Far East? What kind of dream talk are you talking about! On the Singapore battery, the most powerful guns at present are only the two 305mm/40x diameter Armstrong naval guns that have just been deployed. That was still the artillery that had been built by the temporarily terminated "Junquan-class" follow-up warships, and because of the fiasco of the Royal Navy and the toughness of China's Yang Hao, it had to be urgently transferred and deployed.

This bit of firepower is not even comparable to the Krupp guns of China's Lushun Fort and Weihaiwei Fort a few years ago, not to mention the long-barreled rapid-fire guns that are being updated in various countries today.

So, with a 12-inch shore defense gun, can safety be guaranteed? Obviously, it is impossible, Sir Mitchell himself knows, and now the four main battleships of the Chinese Navy are carrying three triple long-barreled rapid-fire 12-inch main guns. Four 36 heavy guns, compared with two backward shore defense guns, as long as they are not afraid of losses and are bombarded, how can they be prevented?

On today's turrets, except for two 40 times 12-inch guns, most of the rest are long-barreled 8-inch guns. It may be able to threaten armored cruisers, but it will definitely not be able to deal with battleships. Once the other party launches a strong attack, it can't be stopped at all!

Sir Mitchell shook his head resolutely, "I will not allow this place to be attacked. Mr. Minister, it's time to play your strengths, no matter what, and you must persuade the Chinese to retreat peacefully. ”

After saying that, the Governor threw up his sleeves very boldly and left, leaving Sa Daoyi alone to stand alone in the wind. Even the tropical wind blowing on the surface of the sea could only make him feel a chill all over his body.

Sa Daoyi knows very well that if he fails to do it again this time, his diplomatic career will definitely leave a huge stain and he will step down. The brilliance of his career in the second half of his life will also come to naught.

Gritting his teeth and cursing in a circle, including Sir Mitchell, who was running away, Sa Daoyi turned around and shouted to the secretary: "Send someone to report to the Chinese side immediately, I want to negotiate with them!" (To be continued......)