Chapter 4: The Origin of the Red Brigade
Xu Shuzheng waved his hand indifferently and said with a smile: "I just have a little impression of their leader, Chang Ruiqing...... He is a native of Tongshan County, and I am a fellow villager, this person is okay, good-looking, should be able to hold down when he arrives at the top of the team, his eloquence is good, and his writing is okay, if he is lucky, he will always have the future of the division commander and brigade commander in the future. ”
Duan Qirui sneered: "It's not easy to get such an evaluation from you Xu Youzheng, but doesn't this Chang Ruiqing have any shortcomings?" ”
"Downside?" Xu Shuzheng frowned slightly, thought for a while, and suddenly nodded: "I can't talk about any shortcomings, I can't help but think of someone when I see this Chang Ruiqing." ”
"Who?" Duan Qirui asked with interest.
"Feng Huanzhang!" Xu Shuzheng spit out three words with a contemptuous face.
Duan Qirui laughed and nodded: "Then it's really a person who does big things." Again, what kind of errand did you give him? ”
Xu Shuzheng smiled: "Sent to the 13th Division to be a company commander, this errand is not a small task, ordinary military academy graduates can't mix it up without three or five years." ”
Duan Qirui shook his head and said with a smile: "Xiao Xu, Xiao Xu, since you want to use him, why not give him a battalion commander?" If he really looks like Feng Huanzhang, then it is worth your attention. You are from my record office (secretary), and later went to Japan as a non-commissioned officer, and after you came back, you were directly the military staff of the Sixth Town, the general staff of the First Army, and you have never led troops below, which has no foundation! Do you understand? Now I'm still here, and people sell my face to respect you, but that's not your real strength. If the matter of joining the army this time can be settled, I want you to practice...... If this Chang Ruiqing really has the ability of Feng Huanzhang, it will be easy to get a company commander in the local area, so if you want him to remember your kindness, make an exception for a battalion commander! Well, when he arrives in Beijing, you will tell him the news in person. ”
Hearing this, Xu Shuzheng's face couldn't help but show joy, and he said loudly: "Old Zhi, then do you agree to join the war?" ”
Duan Qirui nodded slightly, and smiled bitterly: "Anyway, there is no other way to go now, so let's be a dead horse doctor...... As long as the British are interested in this matter, there is hope, even if they can't train hundreds of thousands of troops to join the war, it is good to have tens of thousands. ”
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"Come on, come on, introspect (Wang Junhao) brother, and Lin (Zhao Zhen) brother, let's get drunk tonight!"
Chang Ruiqing diligently poured a bowl of wine for Wang Junhao and Zhao Zhen, and poured another bowl for himself.
Wang Junhao is a good boy with a face like a crown of jade and eyes like a star, and his family is a tea merchant in Huizhou, and he has some savings. Zhao Zhen was born with smart eyebrows, tall and thin, always with a little smile on his face, which makes people feel like a spring breeze, he is a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, and Li Hongzhang, an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, is a fellow villager, and the family is also a poetry heirloom, and there have been a few Jinshi masters, but it has long been broken in his generation.
These two and Chang Ruiqing were classmates and friends in Nanjing Army Middle School, and they also participated in the student army together in the Xinhai year and fought a few battles with the Northern Army, and later entered the Second Army Preparatory School in Nanhu, Wuchang, and then entered the third phase of the Baoding Military Academy together.
On the night of the "Forest Gathering", Wang Junhao and Zhao Zhen came to Chang Ruiqing's barracks together, and they knew that they had something to say without asking. The three of them left the military academy dormitory together and found a tavern near Nanguan in Baoding, which had not yet closed. I made two pots of turbid wine, a few side dishes, and put on a posture of cooking wine and laughing.
At this time, the cadets of the third phase of their Baoding have all graduated and are waiting for assignment, so the military academy's management of them has been relaxed, and no one will take care of them if they don't return overnight.
And the business of this tavern is also light, just the three of them, and a guy who keeps sleeping, there is no one else.
After Chang Ruiqing finished pouring the wine, Wang Junhao and Zhao Zhen glanced at each other, and Wang Junhao took the lead in speaking: "Brother Yaoru, this afternoon, what happened to the red revolutionary you talked about in the grove?" How come we've never heard you mention it? It's not just a mouthful......"
"Yes," Zhao Zhen also echoed, "I've heard of the Kuomintang and the League making revolutions, but I've never heard of any red revolutionaries?" What the hell is this? ”
A strange smile slipped across Chang Ruiqing's face, looked at the two suspicious dead friends in front of him, and said with a light smile: "Introspection, Youlin, then you have heard of Carl. Marx, Friedrich. Engels, have you heard of the Second International, and the European Socialist Party, the anarchists? Have you heard of the GCD Manifesto? ”
Suddenly hearing such a large number of strange names, the doubts on Wang Junhao and Zhao Zhen's faces became a little more confused. Chang Ruiqing's remarks may have a general meaning if they were addressed to the big figures in the Kuomintang (a group of Kuomintang leaders, including Sun Yat-sen, who may really be the first Chinese to come into contact with Marxism) or to students returning from Europe. But the two in front of me have come all the way from the army elementary school and the army middle school since childhood...... The League will revolutionize the party's Three People's Principles or something, you may have heard of it, but you really don't know anything about that Marxism so far away!
Chang Ruiqing saw their appearance, the smile on his face became a little thicker, he gently turned the wine glass in his hand, and pondered: "To put it simply, this afternoon, the red revolutionaries I mentioned are not in China at the moment, but there are many in European countries, especially in Russia, and there has been a lot of trouble for a while...... By the way, the Paris Commune and the Russian Revolution of 1905, you must have heard of it, right? ”
"I know the revolution of 1905." Zhao Zhen nodded, thought for a while, and said: "It was the late stage of the Russo-Japanese War, because the Tsar's army was losing and retreating in the war against Japan, and the domestic political situation was unstable, the workers and peasants seemed to be on strike and petition against the Tsar under the instigation of some kind of chaotic party, and finally things got bigger and bigger, and there were armed uprisings in many places!" Could this Russian rebel party be the Red Party? ”
Wang Junhao seemed to have suddenly thought of something at this time, and looked at Chang Ruiqing with glaring eyes: "Brother Yaoru, could it be that we also have signs of a red chaotic party in China?" ”
Chang Ruiqing stopped his wine glass, looked at Wang Junhao and Zhao Zhen with a smile, and replied in a low voice: "That's right! China will soon have Red Party elements! And these Chinese Red Party elements will soon find trouble with those powers...... There is no good way for these powers to take the revolution of the red elements in their country one by one! ”
"There's such a thing!" Wang Junhao and Zhao Zhen exclaimed at the same time, and asked in unison: "Brother Yaoru, do you recognize those red people, uh, red elements?" ”
Chang Ruiqing nodded solemnly and said in a deep voice: "Recognize!" Just recognize three! As he spoke, he stretched out his finger, nodded on the heads of Wang Junhao and Zhao Zhen, and pointed at himself: "China will soon have three red elements, that is, the three of us!" ”
"Brother Yaoru, what do you mean by that?" Wang Junhao and Zhao Zhen looked at Chang Ruiqing dumbfounded. Chang Ruiqing raised his wine glass and drank it all with arrogance, lowered his voice and said: "China's situation is internal and external troubles, and these internal and external troubles are intertwined!" If we want to save China, we must find a way to solve internal and external troubles at the same time! It's unrealistic to want to settle inside first and then go outside, because those external troubles won't give you a chance to settle inside. What the great powers need is a weakened China plagued by internal strife!
However, in order to solve internal and external troubles at the same time, we cannot adopt the usual methods...... Our military strength is inevitably limited by our weak national strength, and there is no way to eliminate external troubles with the army alone! Therefore, we can only take some special fierce medicine to deal with the great powers, and this special fierce medicine is the red revolutionaries! Of course, we don't have to understand the Red Doctrine in Europe, nor do we have to practice the Red Doctrine, we just want to use the name of Red Doctrine to deal with the powers that bully us with the method of violence and violence! Therefore, I plan to set up a secret Red Revolutionary Organization, the Red Brigade. ”
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