Under Yuan Shikai's secret hints, Feng Guozhang was mutined in the capital by the Beiyang generals, the Qing court's rule was crumbling, and the royal family was frightened into the absence of six gods. On February 12, under the persecution of Yuan Shikai and others, Emperor Xuantong, a descendant of the Qing court's Longyu Prince, issued an abdication edict, and the Qing Dynasty was declared extinct, and China's more than 2,000-year-old absolute monarchy system came to an end.

After Emperor Xuantong announced his abdication, Yuan Shikai and Sun Wen had a long discussion by telegram on the final issue of the North-South peace talks, and Sun Wen said that as long as Yuan Shikai supported the republic and abdicated the Qing Emperor, he was willing to support him as president. As for the issue of the capital, Sun Wen thinks that both Nanjing and Beijing are okay, but he prefers Nanjing in his heart. After Yuan Shikai forced the Qing Emperor to abdicate, Sun Wen submitted his resignation according to the agreement and asked Yuan Shikai to replace him, but Sun Wen put forward three conditions to Yuan Shikai, two of which were related to the fixed capital of Nanjing: first, the location of the provisional government was located in Nanjing, and second, the new president took office in Nanjing, WWW.UUXS.CC and wanted to put Yuan Shikai under the supervision and control of the southern revolutionaries. In addition, the influence of the Japanese side on Bun at that time was also an unavoidable issue. At the time of the Xinhai Revolution, the Japanese government and the opposition, which had a special influence on the regimes in both the north and south of China, mostly advocated that China's political center should be placed in Nanjing. The starting point of the Japanese side was very clear: it wanted to take advantage of the southward shift of China's political center to weaken China's defenses in the north and facilitate its aggressive expansion against Manchuria.

When the Senate (mainly League members) discussed this issue, 20 people advocated the establishment of the capital of Beijing, and only 8 people advocated the establishment of the capital of Nanjing, and it was only at the repeated insistence of Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing and others that Nanjing was determined by the Senate during the reconsideration.

However, from Yuan Shikai's side, he was not willing to leave his powerful north and go to the south to be subject to the revolutionaries. And the generals of the Beiyang Group were reluctant to move China's political center south.

Objectively speaking. Xiao Zhenlei thinks that the capital of Beiping is better than Nanjing, in politics. The capital of Beiping is the will of the majority of the delegates in the provinces; In addition, when Japanese imperialism was deliberately trying to annex Tohoku. Maintaining the position of the political center of Beiping was conducive to restraining Japan and Russia, and restrained the forces of restoration, so that the climate did not form in the end. From a military point of view, Nanjing is not conducive to defense, and because it is close to the Yangtze River, imperialist warships can pose a direct threat to Nanjing.

However, Xiao Zhenlei did not express any opinion on the issue of Dingdu, he did not want to be isolated by the revolutionaries, and he could not fall out with the League at this time.

Just when the alliance was fighting with Yuan Shikai on the issue of the fixed capital. Xiao Zhenlei was embarking on the repatriation of the troops stationed outside Nanjing in various provinces, and in order to prevent Yuan Shikai from turning his face and denying people, Xiao Zhenlei thought that it was better to continue to maintain enough troops, so he decided to repatriate most of the troops in Nanjing from various provinces, and leave some elite troops into a division.

But at this time, a major event happened that shocked China and foreign countries. On February 19, overseas Chinese in Surabaya City, Dutch Java Island, took to the streets, held rally, and raised the five-color flag. Firecrackers were set off to celebrate the founding of the Republic of China. The Dutch colonial authorities even sent military and police to intervene by force, shooting and killing three overseas Chinese and wounding more than 10 others. More than 100 people were arrested. Angry overseas Chinese protested by closing the door to boycott the market, and the Dutch colonial authorities then dispatched a large number of military and police to force the market to open, and arrested more than 1,000 people. caused a sensational "Surabaya incident".

Xiao Zhenlei was extremely angry after receiving the news, and immediately sent someone to contact the Dutch minister in the name of the provisional government. He also expressed a solemn protest and demanded that the Dutch colonial authorities immediately release the arrested overseas Chinese and make a public apology and compensation for the dead overseas Chinese. Otherwise, the right to pursue is reserved.

However, the Dutch authorities did not pay attention to it, and ignored Xiao Zhenlei's warning, Xiao Zhenlei waited for a few days and did not see any response, and immediately became annoyed, and he decided to cut it first and then play, on the one hand, he proposed a plan for military intervention to President Sun Wen, on the one hand, he ordered the naval fleet to move south to Macao Port, and at the same time ordered two divisions of the First Army of Zhejiang to march west to Fujian and Guangdong.

At the same time, Xiao Zhenlei held a press conference on behalf of the military, announcing that if the Dutch authorities did not give a satisfactory response within three days, he would order the army to attack Macao and arrest one Dutch citizen in Macao.

The convening of the press conference caused a huge reaction, and Yuan Shikai has not moved for the time being, but the Revolutionary Party of the League held a meeting of the presidential palace on February 26, and asked Xiao Zhenlei to participate, pointing out that he should not bypass the provisional government and contact the Dutch minister without authorization.

"Xiao Huanyu, what do you want to do? Diplomatic matters are the affairs of the Provisional Government, not your military, and it is an act of ultra vires for you to cross the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government without authorization to contact the Dutch Minister, and you are despising our Foreign Ministry and the Provisional Government! ”

Xiao Zhenlei glanced at the man who spoke disdainfully, and sneered contemptuously: "What's wrong with me just despising you and the provisional government?" What can you do with me? ”

Many people's faces changed drastically when they heard this, and the man immediately said to Sun Wen: "President, you look at Xiao Huanyu arrogant and domineering, and you don't take us people in your eyes at all, and you don't take the president in your eyes!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled shamefully, "Okay, don't involve the president, you don't dare to talk to the foreigners, but here I am not counted, if you say that Britain, France, Russia, Germany, the United States, Japan and other powers are the great powers, you dare not provoke, others may not say anything, but a little Holland has scared you guys like this, I think there is no difference between what you officials do and don't do, why waste the people's taxes to feed you silverfish?" Although overseas Chinese are no longer Chinese citizens, we have the same ancestral blood in our blood, and the same ancestry and origin, the president once said that overseas Chinese are the mother of the revolution, and when we are collecting donations for the revolution, it is the overseas Chinese who use their hard-earned hard-earned money to support our revolution. Now that we have overthrown the Manchu Dynasty and established a provisional government, the overseas Chinese have suffered because of the celebration ceremony, and our provisional government does not care, what is this? Turn your face and don't recognize people or cross the river and tear down the bridge? Pathetic! If you go to collect donations in the future, I will see who will take care of you! ”

After Xiao Zhenlei's words fell, there was silence in the conference room, only the smell of cigarettes filled the air, everyone was silent, and no one breathed loudly. Everyone in the conference room knew that what Xiao Zhenlei said was right, and that he could not ignore those overseas Chinese in Surabaya, without their support, the revolution would not have achieved today's achievements.

After a long time, Sun Wen asked, "Huanyu, how sure are you?" Do you really have a way to bring the Dutch to their knees? You must know that this is not child's play, our country is not yet calm, if you provoke foreign enemies, the slightest carelessness will put the whole country in a disadvantageous situation! ”

When Xiao Zhenlei saw Sun Wen asking, he knew that he had been moved, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, President, I have thought it through, now the Western powers are restraining each other, and no one can free up their hands to take care of our affairs, the Dutch used to be a little scary, but now they can't, their military strength in the Far East and South Asia is limited, if it weren't for the mutual containment of the forces of various countries, the Dutch would not be able to keep the Dutch East Indies at all, We threaten to take Macao and announce all the previous treaties signed with the Dutch, not worrying that the Dutch will not bow their heads, although they still have a few broken ships in the Dutch East Indies, but they are all old ships, if they don't care about a few old warships to the Far East, hit our country's current naval strength can completely fight with them, in addition, the few warships we ordered in Britain before can also be delivered, I think we can order Cheng Biguang to quickly lead the fleet back, If the Dutch pour out the fleet of the Dutch East Indies against us, they can order Cheng Biguang to attack the ports of the Dutch East Indies from behind, destroy their lair, and then cooperate with us to flank its fleet in front and rear! If the ministers of other countries come to the president to put pressure on you, you can completely push this matter to me, just say that I am in charge of this matter, let them come to me, deal with foreigners, this is my favorite thing to do! ”

After careful consideration, Sun Wen decided to build Xiao Zhenlei and immediately formally negotiate with the Dutch authorities in the name of the Nanjing Provisional Government. At this meeting, it was decided to settle on four conditions for the Dutch representations: 1. Release the arrested overseas Chinese within three days; 2. Compensation for property losses; 3. Compensation to the victims; Fourth, the restoration of human rights shall be treated equally by overseas Chinese in Europe and overseas in Japan. At the same time, it was pointed out that "if there is no satisfactory answer, the Republic of China will treat it considerably."

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government immediately notified the Dutch Foreign Ministry of these four conditions, and telegraphed the Beiping authorities of the four conditions for negotiations with the Netherlands, but Yuan Shikai still did not come forward.

Soon after, under the auspices of Xiao Zhenlei, the Federation of Overseas Chinese was established, which became the provisional government's right-hand man in liaising with overseas Chinese and handling overseas Chinese affairs, thus further strengthening the ties between overseas Chinese and the people of the motherland.

After the Surabaya massacre, overseas Chinese called the late Qing government in Beijing, the provisional government of the Republic of China in Nanjing, and the Shanghai Federation of Overseas Chinese to ask for protection. The news of the unfair treatment of overseas Chinese in Surabaya spread to China, arousing widespread concern from all walks of life in the government and the opposition in China, and the call for safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese resounded throughout the land of China.

Three days later, the Dutch authorities did not hear back, under Xiao Zhenlei's order, the troops of the two divisions quickly sailed to Guangdong, and the naval fleet began to assemble and march towards the waters of Macao. (To be continued......) R1292