On March 12, 1911, the Shanghai North and South Armed Merchant Group held a general meeting in the Xieqiao West Garden, attended by more than 1,000 people from the business community of Shanghai Beach, after discussion and decision to set up the Shanghai Armed Merchant Group, the number was set at 2,400 people, organized into five squadrons, which was 400 more than the previous 2,000 people, the encroachment of the great powers on China made these enlightened progressives see a great crisis, so the people of insight in the business community have generously donated, those who have money to pay, some people to pay people, Some businessmen even sent personnel from their own homes and bodyguards to participate in the armed merchant group, so the Shanghai armed merchant group had just been established, and the total number reached 2,400 people, with Xiao Zhenlei as the head and Cai Wei as the deputy head, because Xiao Zhenlei still had a military position in Suzhou, so Cai Wei was responsible for the specific affairs of the armed merchant group.

After the establishment of the Shanghai Armed Merchant Group, all the merchants in Shanghai felt much safer, after all, this army was built by their efforts, and they contributed money and people.

On the evening of March 14, Xiao Zhenlei was in the study to review the text, and the secretary Xiao Gao walked in and reported: "President, the person we sent to Hong Kong sent a telegram back saying that Mr. Feng Ru and his assistant had arrived in Hong Kong, and brought back two planes developed by them, our people had seen Mr. Feng Ru, but he still refused our invitation, and the Qing court sent a special trip to meet the Baobi warship, and placed the plane and the plane in the suburbs of Guangzhou!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei sighed when he heard this: "If the Qing court invited him, how could he accept our invitation. He couldn't help but give face to the court, and his parents and relatives were all in Guangdong, and they all lived under the control of the Qing court, and no one would care about the attitude of the Qing court towards his relatives. So be it. Let our people stay over there and have regular contact with Mr. Feng. If the Qing court supports him in researching airplanes, it will be fine, if the Qing court does not support him in researching airplanes. and sent people to monitor and even control him, so he had to find a way to rescue him immediately, and he couldn't forget Mr. Feng's parents and other relatives, and even they brought them here to reunite their family! ”

"Got it!" Xiao Gao agreed, and then said: "Section Chief Wang of the Iron and Blood Action Section called, saying that Mr. Chen Qimei from the Alliance had a message, and Mr. Song Jiaoren wanted to meet with you!" ”？

Xiao Zhenlei was shocked and asked, "The Alliance has learned the information of all the high-level leaders of our organization?" ”

Xiao Gao shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be yet, they just said that they want to meet with the supreme head of our organization." Discuss the matter of joint anti-Qing affairs, how do you think you can reply to Section Chief Wang? ”

"They found the Iron and Blood Operations Section first? This shows that there are still capable people among them! ”

Xiao Gao nodded and said, "It should be!" ”

Song Jiaoren can be said to be the third person in the alliance in addition to Sun Wen and Huang Xing, he can definitely be called the leader-level figure in the alliance, and some affairs of the alliance are Song Jiaoren as the specific executor.

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and said: "See, you let Wang Yaqiao arrange it, and arrange for him to meet with me in the near future, if you want to fight against the Qing court and the Beiyang Group, only our own strength is too weak." If we can unite with these revolutionary organizations such as the League and the Liberation Society, then the strength against the Qing court will be much greater! ”

"Okay!"

In 1911, on the night of March 15, secretary Xiao Gao received a call from Wang Yaqiao. The matter of arranging a meeting between Xiao Zhenlei and Song Jiaoren has been arranged, and they will meet on the Suzhou Creek at 8 p.m. on the 16th, and the participants of the alliance will be Song Jiaoren, Tan Renfeng, and Chen Qimei.

Xiao Zhenlei has known Chen Qimei for a long time. It's just that Chen Qimei doesn't know Xiao Zhenlei's true identity yet, and going to meet this time may cause misunderstanding. But maybe it will make the meeting more enjoyable, and where things are going. This depends on Chen Qimei's attitude, and Xiao Zhenlei himself talks with the head of the alliance with sincerity.

On the evening of March 16, the temperature was a little low, Xiao Zhenlei wore a windbreaker and a top hat and got on a small fishing boat, as soon as he sat on the boat, Xiao Zhenlei immediately remembered that his work during this period was only focused on the army, but completely ignored the navy, although after the First Sino-Japanese War, the navy of the Qing court was severely damaged, the Beiyang Fleet was disbanded, and then rebuilt, but the scale can not be compared with before the First Sino-Japanese War.

At this time, although the Qing navy was not as good as before, but the navy was also a force to be reckoned with, if it could win the support of the navy in the event of an uprising, it would undoubtedly increase a huge force, the Qing court had already divided the navy into two parts after the full integration, one was the cruiser fleet, led by Cheng Biguang, and the other was the Yangtze River fleet, led by Shen Shoukun, and Sa Zhenbing was the commander-in-chief of the navy.

Among them, the cruiser fleet has the "Haiqi" as the main ship with a displacement of 4,300 tons, the "Haichou", "Haichen" and "Hairong" have a displacement of 2,950 tons, with a total of 15 ships with a total displacement of 18,000 tons, and the Yangtze River Fleet has 17 ships with a total tonnage of 14,000 tons. Although its overall combat and patrol capabilities are not as good as those of the former Beiyang Navy, these are the seeds of the Chinese Navy, and if the Chinese Navy wants to develop, it must be carried out on the basis of these ships and naval officers and men. Thinking of this, Xiao Zhenlei decided to specialize in the rebellion of the navy after the end of this meeting with Song Jiaoren and others.

There was a big fishing boat in Jiangxin, and when Xiao Zhenlei's small fishing boat arrived, there was already a small fishing boat moored next to the big fishing boat, and he knew that Song Jiaoren and others must have arrived here first.

After getting on the boat, an agent of the Iron and Blood Operations Section took the cable and tied it to the big boat, and stretched out his hand to pull Xiao Zhenlei and Song Shijie onto the big fish boat, and said in a low voice: "Secretary-General, they have arrived first, and the section chief is inside to compensate each other!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei nodded and walked into the cabin, Song Shijie then followed in, and several agents on the deck stood guard on the corner and side of the ship.

Chen Qimei was taken aback when she saw Xiao Zhenlei walk in first, and stood up involuntarily: "Brother Huanyu, why are you ??????? ”

In addition to Chen Qimei and Wang Yaqiao, there were two other people in the cabin, one of them was twenty-eight or nineteen years old, with a short beard on his lips, a little thin face, not tall, seven points of head, his hair was well groomed, and he looked very gentlemanly in a black suit, accompanied by a white shirt and black bow tie.

The man next to him was about fifty years old, with a thick white beard on his lips and chin, and he was wearing a blue robe, which was quite a scribe.

The two of them saw someone coming in, and after Chen Qimei stood up, Wang Yaqiao immediately got up and introduced: "Mr. Song, Mr. Tang, Mr. Chen, this is Mr. Xiao Zhenlei, the top leader and secretary general of our society!" ”

"What, you, Xiao Huanyu, you, okay, I didn't expect you to be the secretary general of the Iron and Blood National Salvation Society, you hide it from me so hard!" Chen Qimei pointed her finger at Xiao Zhenlei and said tremblingly, obviously extremely angry that Xiao Zhenlei was hiding him from him.

Xiao Zhenlei bowed and said: "Brother Yingshi, I am the secretary general of the Iron and Blood National Salvation Society, it is really helpless to conceal you for so long, the secret agents of the Qing court are too powerful, they are simply pervasive, of course I believe in your character Chen Yingshi, but I dare not rest assured that the people around you or under you, for the power of the secret agents of the Qing court, I believe that Brother Yingshi should have a deep understanding, presumably Brother Yingshi should forgive me for concealing my true identity, right?" ”

Chen Qimei thought that Xiao Zhenlei was indeed right, but he just felt uncomfortable, thinking that he had wanted to pull Xiao Zhenlei into the alliance before, didn't this add to the joke? Thinking of this, he was furious, and the breath in his heart could never be eliminated, but now that Song Jiaoren was in charge, it was inconvenient for him to be angry with Xiao Zhenlei, and he twisted his head to the side angrily.

The young man in the suit was Song Jiaoren, he looked at Xiao Zhenlei for a moment, stretched out his hand with a smile and said: "It turns out that you are the Huanyu brother that Ince often tells me, hello, I am Song Jiaoren, I didn't expect you to be the secretary general of the Iron and Blood National Salvation Society, your Iron and Blood National Salvation Society's secrecy work is indeed very good, about this, we have to learn from your Iron and Blood National Salvation Society!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled: "Haha, we learn from each other and make progress together!" By the way, this gentleman is??????? He asked, pointing to a middle-aged man in his fifties with a long beard beside him.

Song Jiaoren hurriedly introduced: "Oh, by the way, this is Tan Shishi, whose name is Shiping, and is now in charge of the conference affairs and military liaison work in the central and central parts of our alliance!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei shook hands with Tan Shi and said: "Tan Lao is a revolutionary senior, and I have admired your name for a long time!" ”

Tan Renfeng said with a smile: "You are still young and energetic, you Xiao Huanyu set up the world-famous iron-blooded National Salvation Society at a young age, and in the process of disaster relief and epidemic prevention and plague prevention, the people of the country know that there is an iron-blooded National Salvation Society that is dedicated to the people, amazing, amazing!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei said modestly: "Where and where, saving the country and saving the people is the purpose of our society, the goal of our society is to build China into a brand-new country, let it stand in the east of the world, let the people here live happily and healthily, let this nation among the world's powers, let them be proud of being citizens of this country, instead of nodding their heads and feeling inferior when they see foreigners!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei's words made Song Jiaoren and Tan Renfeng's eyes light up when they heard it, this is indeed a very novel and very good political program and goal, but both of them are people with firm beliefs, although they appreciate this political goal, they still insist on the belief in their hearts.

"The ideas and goals of your society are very grand, but these must first overthrow the Qing court before they can have a chance to be realized, I am very happy to meet Mr. Xiao today, and I am also happy that the Iron and Blood National Salvation Society has such a young leader, so Mr. Xiao, will we have a meeting to unite against the control and oppression of the Qing court?"

Xiao Zhenlei stretched out his hand and said, "Of course, please take a seat!" (To be continued......) R1292