July 28, Jinan, Shandong Army Headquarters.

Chen Shu has been anxious for many days. I have not heard from my husband for at least two months, and in the last 20 days, there have been very few messages from Guangdong.

There was a suffocating unease in the air.

After her father's political envoy to Shandong was dismissed by order of the imperial court, she knew that the time for a showdown with the imperial court was approaching.

My father, who was dismissed from his official position, seems to be busier, and since taking over the mobilization of the Shandong army, he sometimes does not return home for several days in a row. Although she knew that her father was in the building in the front yard most of the time, it was a long way away.

Is rebellion just a matter for men? She often asked her mother, her sister, and herself.

Chen Xian was also in extreme anxiety. Ye Yanbing, who was the commander of the Sixth Division of the Shandong Army, made a trip back to Jinan more than 10 days ago, held an afternoon meeting in the headquarters building, and went back to the backyard before leaving for the headquarters of the Sixth Division in Texas overnight, and visited his wife and children, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law. Chen Shu found that her brother-in-law, who has always attached great importance to dressing up, was described as haggard and had not shaved for at least three days. When Chen Xian pointed out this, Ye Yanbing touched his chin and smiled bitterly, "Where can I take care of it." The Sixth Division is the main force in Shandong, the Seventh Division has not yet been formed, and the Beiyang attack has to rely on me to resist, and Northern Shandong is a flat river, and Jinan must not give up......"

He only ate a bowl of porridge and left, and he didn't even have time to kiss his newborn daughter.

Of course, Jinan can't give up! Chen Shu is very clear. If Jinan is lost, the source of arms for the Shandong army will be cut off. It's been a few months, and Huayuan's military factories have never rested. Even Chen Zhi and some of the college students who were at home during the holidays were recruited to work in the factory! At the request of her mother, Chen Shu went to the factory to visit Chen Zhi who lived in the factory once, and her younger brother lost weight, but he was in good spirits, "Sister, don't worry, I'm fine." The classmates are looking forward to fighting with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but you haven't seen it, like a mountain of shells, produced in batches, packed and shipped away. The raw materials in Yizhou are almost out of supply......"

Since then. My brother never came home.

Let's just play it early! It's just consuming, when is it a head? But she knew that the order to go to war was in the south, in Guangzhou. In the hands of her husband.

"Make the country home. Turn the country into a home......" She has been pondering this uncle often said lately.

Once, my father actually made a joke about himself. "If he succeeds in one fell swoop, you will be the queen's mother, do you want me to kowtow to you?"

"Uncle. How can you say that, old man? ”

"That's it, how can you make such a joke with Shu'er?" You also complained that her husband was joking too much.

"Ha Luha, happy. Decade! Ten years of lying on the salary and trying the courage to create such a situation! This time, even if Shandong is lost, the worst thing is to rule by rowing the river, and there will be no defeat. ”

"Why are you so happy today?"

"Tell you. Long Qian formally established the General Headquarters of the Mengshan Army in Guangdong, and our Shandong soldiers and horses were organized into the Shandong Army, Ning Shijun was the commander, and Yan Bing was the commander of the Sixth Division, with three brigades and nine regiments under its jurisdiction! With the addition of artillery and cavalry troops, the total strength will exceed 30,000! Thirty thousand horses! ”

"How is it the Sixth Division?"

"Guangdong is the first, second, and third divisions, Shandong is the sixth and seventh divisions, and the northeast is the ninth and tenth divisions. Listen, what's the situation? Thinking about the situation when hundreds of them fought Zheng Jing ten years ago, who would have thought that? It's only ten years! The fifth town marched south, and everyone was worried about opposition, that is, in more than two years, he expanded two divisions! When the time comes, heaven and earth will work together......" Chen Chao closed his mouth, because the next sentence was very unlucky.

Seven divisions! Chen Shu, who had entered the barracks, couldn't imagine how big an army seven divisions were!

This was more than a month ago. The excitement and joy of that day are like yesterday. What are you worried about now? Chen Shu suddenly asked herself, can't you beat Beiyang? Can't you win the court? Didn't my uncle say it, if he really couldn't do it, he would retreat south, retreat across the Yangtze River to meet the main force of the Mengshan Army, and divide the river to rule......

"Do you want to lose Shandong to the Beiyang Army? Lu Nan still has his own hometown. Recently, Chen Shu can always dream of Chenjiaya's small courtyard, where she spent her carefree youth.

"Are you worried that he will be the seventy-two concubines of the emperor's three palaces and six courts?" Chen Shu's heart sank.

"Madame, ma'am, the fight is up, the fight is up!" Sister-in-law Zhang trotted back from the front yard, holding an ink-stained number in her hand!

"Who fought with whom? Texas? Chen Xian rushed out of the West House with her two-month-old daughter in her arms. During this time, Texas was a must-see place for her every day, and her husband was there guarding the north gate of Shandong.

"It's not Texas, it's Guangzhou!" Sister-in-law Zhang sent the diplomatic number to Chen Shu.

That's the anti-Qing power-up at the headquarters of the Mengshan Army!

“…… Negotiate the establishment of a legitimate central government...... Realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation! When Chen Shu read this, tears soaked his eyes, he is not an emperor! He doesn't do the emperor's!

She didn't know what the democratic republic was, but if he didn't call himself the emperor, there would be no seventy-two concubines in the three palaces, six courtyards!

"Ahh Ha Lu Ha, that's great! Chen Xian's scream startled her daughter, and the child began to cry.

Mobilization! Mobilization! As soon as Guangzhou is launched, Shandong has no scruples! Immediately act at the fastest speed, the key is the assembly of soldiers and the deployment of materials, the land of Qilu with the Shandong Army Command order, rapid action, mobilization! Mobilization!

On July 28, after Shandong received a telegram from Guangdong, Fang Shengyuan immediately drafted a response telegram, which was telegraphed to the whole country and accepted the command of the Mengshan Army Headquarters. Shandong's electricity was printed at the fastest speed with the No. 2 external number, and distributed throughout the city.

It is worth mentioning that the power supply in Shandong has not yet been issued, and the power supply in Lushan outside the customs has arrived, and Shandong is even more jubilant!

In the evening of the same day, the leaders of the Shandong Army gathered at the headquarters and once again clarified the division of labor; Fang Shengyuan was appointed as the governor of the Shandong Military Government, responsible for propaganda and government operations; Ning Shijun was appointed as the commander of the Shandong Army, specializing in military affairs, and Chen Chao was the deputy governor of the military government, responsible for mobilization and logistics.

The third, fourth, and fifth numbers were issued one after another, announcing the independence of Jilin, declaring that Shandong had entered a state of war, and declaring martial law in Jinan. Declared military control of Huayuan and the Zhongxing clique, arrested Wang Huaiqing and a few diehards loyal to the imperial court, reappointed the governors of various prefectures, and urged all local officials to sign a circular declaring anti-Qing.

Of the eleven prefectures in Shandong, only the prefects of Linqing and Tai'an were firmly loyal to the Qing court, and the rest of Jinan, Wuding, Dongchang, Jining, Caozhou, Yizhou, Qingzhou, Laizhou, and Yanzhou all "surrendered" to the Mengshan army, declared independence from the Qing court, and accepted the leadership of the Shandong military government.

Shandong doesn't need to be like Guangdong, which controls the whole province almost without bloodshed. This kind of plan has been drilled three times, and it is clear who stands by what position. Fang Shengyuan ordered all loyal Qing court officials to be escorted to Yanzhou for detention. There is one of the most "modern" prisons there. The fact that the prisoners have not yet been imprisoned can also be regarded as handy.

Since 1901, the Mengshan Army has been based in Lunan with the right flank of the Weisheng Army, and in 1903, Long Qian was stationed in Jinan as the governor of Shandong, and it took eight years before and after. Shandong melons are ripe. It provided a solid base with a strong economic and military foundation for the Mengshan Army to win the national victory.

The vast majority of grassroots regimes are operating as usual. But. Now the object of their allegiance has changed. Most Qing officials knew that there would be this day, so on July 28, after a series of orders were issued by the Shandong army. There was no confusion and it was soon up and running efficiently with the help of the military takeover.

Officials took off their official uniforms and changed into military uniforms provided by the army, and naturally their braids could not be kept. The biggest problem was the Qing court's personnel policy, that is, the issue of officials being officials in different places. A large number of officials who were loyal to the Mengshan army in order to achieve a more prominent future were most worried about the persecution of their families by the Qing court. For this reason, the headquarters of the Shandong Army secretly convened a meeting to appease those Qing officials who were devoted to the Mengshan Army. Fang Shengyuan said to them, as soon as the war starts, Shandong will be blocked, and the news of your allegiance to Commander Long will not reach the imperial court, and there are hundreds of officials above the county order in the province, how can the imperial court screen them one by one? They can't take care of it! If it is arrested in one piece, the Mengshan army can reach it, and all parts of the country will be effective, will the imperial court not dig its own grave?

That's true! After figuring out this section, a large number of Qing officials became members of the civilian system of the Mengshan Army. For example, Zhou Xuexi, Wu Yong, and Zhang Lianfen have long been no problem, and most civilian officials did not hesitate to choose to cooperate with Mengshanjun.

According to the general law, officials, especially civil officials, will have fierce opposition in the face of such earth-shaking changes, and they are all unscrupulous, Shang Dynasty Xia, Zhou Dynasty Shang Dynasty, I don't know how many loyal ministers who sacrificed their lives for righteousness. Not to mention characters like Wen Tianxiang, the Southern Song Dynasty fell, Zhang Xiufu committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea with the young emperor on his back, and Yashan did not want to surrender to more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians of foreign races! The military generals of Shandong have long been destroyed, and the army is unified with the Mengshan army, so there is no need to mention the military generals, and there are as many as 1,000 civil officials, especially those above the seventh grade, these people have grown up reading sage books, and the idea of loyalty to the monarch should be serious, right? However, the fact is that less than 10 percent of the civilian system resolutely refuses to cooperate with the Mengshan Army, and very few of them commit suicide.

What is the reason for this? Analyzing this phenomenon, the biggest "heroes" are in the Manchu government, which deprived the Han literati of their blood and dignity and transformed them into slaves carved out of a mold! Slaves are useful, but there is no mind! It is difficult for a person without a thought to have ideals, and without ideals, there will naturally be no loyalty! The second is that since the implementation of the New Deal in 1901, the ban on speech has been gradually lifted, and the freedom of the press has been gradually promoted, which has led to ideological confusion in officialdom. The Manchu Qing openly promised a constitutional monarchy and promulgated the outline of the King James Constitution, which was tantamount to destroying the fortress of feudal autocracy, and the moral standards of the past were no longer applicable! The third is the successive deaths of Guangxu and Cixi, which deprived them of the specific object of their allegiance. Thinking about the courtiers of the young emperor in the court, the officials suddenly felt that the future was bleak. When these relatively well-informed people will be very conscious of the comparison of the analysis of the strength and the great changes in Guangdong and Jilin, on the one hand, they will continue to be officials and even become heroes of the new dynasty, and on the other hand, they will lose wealth and even fall to the ground, and it is not surprising that they have made such a choice.

The most critical thing is the call of the reserves. Because the two divisions in Shandong, especially the Seventh Division, were in a state of serious shortage. After the mobilization order was issued, the officers and men of the reserve forces were organized into villages, gathered in the county on foot, received military uniforms, equipment, and unit numbers from the county, organized them into companies and battalions under the command of officers of the units on active duty, and then went to the nearest military camp to receive guns and weapons and began high-intensity training. The duration of training depends on the speed of the Beiyang Army's build-up. The lower-ranking officers and soldiers could not know the speed of the war, but they knew the way. War is coming! This is not a suppression of bandits, but a major event to change the dynasty!

The people said goodbye to batches of children with joy, worry, anger or dazedness, they were all soldiers who had served in the Mengshan Army, and after being discharged from the army, they still received reserve salaries, and they regularly received reserve subject training every year.

It was the peasant and working families who were glad that the war broke out, and they were the beneficiaries of the Mengshan army's control of Shandong, with less taxes and less land rent. More income. In particular, there are children who serve as soldiers or work in the army. It is the scholars and the official families who are opposed, they whisper and scold Long Qian, Fang Shengyuan, Chen Chao, and Ning Shijun, this is the anti-thief. This is today's Wu Sangui and Hong Xiuquan! The imperial court was not unethical. The emperor is still in his prime. Bullying orphans and widows?

There are still a few people who understand and lament that troubled times are coming. It is better to be a peaceful dog than to be a troubled person. When this battle was fought, I can't say how many towns and villages were destroyed by the war. Not anymore. Have you seen those artillery of the army? The barrel of the cannon is comparable to a bucket, and when a flowering cannonball hits, a village is gone. Is the Mengshan Army powerful? The Beiyang Army is not a vegetarian, haven't you heard? Hengshui, opposite Texas, is tied to the Beiyang army, which is preparing to deal with Shandong.

These are the people who understand. There are cultures, there are sources, and they know what the war means to the people.

At the same time as the reservists assembled, the prefectures and counties began to mobilize the people according to the allocated quota, and they all cashed in at the price of half a silver dollar per day. Eat and drink all the tubes. If you have a cart with mules and horses, you will also pay rent. He also promised to compensate for any damage after the war.

A large number of young people walked out of the village and onto the battlefield of the anti-Qing war.

A large number of students who had already returned home from the holidays poured out of the campus and poured into the streets to march in support of the Mengshan Army and hold high the banner of righteousness. They shouted slogans, held small colorful flags, and were elated and lively.

Many college students went to the barracks and asked to join the army, but they were refused, "The headquarters has an order that college and middle school students and vocational and technical school students are not allowed to join the army." War is our business, and you can study in peace. ”

Jinan, July 29. The two principals, Cai Yuanpei and Xu Wenfu, witnessed the grand parade jointly held by Shandong University and High School and Vocational and Technical School.

"You say, can the court win?" Xu Wenfu asked.

"Chunru, why don't you ask if Shandong can win? Have you heard? A large number of people from Jinan Mansion gathered outside the city, and the carriages and horses were out of sight! Mobilize, mobilize, it's amazing! The whole province was mobilized in a day or two! I didn't expect the battle to be fought like this! Not to mention that there are tens of thousands of male soldiers in Guangdong, Shandong Province alone is like a tiger. ”

Cai Yuanpei, who was determined to oppose the Qing Dynasty many years ago, was overjoyed, but also regretted that he had joined the Restoration Society. How good would it be if this was the foundation of the Liberation Society?

Xu Wenfu didn't seem to hear Cai Yuanpei's words, and looked at Nantian in a daze.

"Pure Confucianism, my son is too big to help. Let's take a look. That person, amazing. ”

"I've seen it a long time ago. I didn't believe in fate, but now I have to believe it. As he spoke, Xu Wenfu sighed, and his infinite melancholy was in it.

Xu Wenfu knew that his beloved daughter was beside the person who single-handedly set off the monstrous waves. There should be no danger, but if the identity is unknown, what will happen in the future? Thinking of that person's status, Xu Wenfu didn't know how to face it.

"He has led the troops for almost three years, and Shandong is still as strong as an iron bucket, the court needle can't be inserted, the water can't be splashed, and what if the governor is changed? In these days, soldiers are king. Cai Yuanpei sighed, "The revolution should be like this!" It's a pity that none of us can see that. ”

"Turning over the hands for the clouds and covering the hands for the rain, Cao Apu, Hou Jing and other characters are just people. In the first three years, he led troops to suppress the revolution, and three years later, he took the lead in opposing the Qing Dynasty. ”

"Fortunately, although the telegram is lame, it declares the establishment of a democratic republic, and this is hope." Cai Yuanpei hated autocracy deeply, and was naturally very happy when he saw Long Qian's power.

"Widows! In my opinion, a constitutional monarchy is the way to go. Republic? Democracy? Who understands this? Democracy is ownerless, republic is discord! Long Qian was smart, and he was confused for a while, and he actually dug his own grave! When the Manchu Qing Dynasty was overthrown, it may be the day of the world's scuffle! ”

"Pure Confucian! How do you talk like that? I disagree. ”

"It is human nature to put self-interest first. You know that I believe in Xunzi's doctrine. If he establishes a new dynasty, his group of tiger and wolf generals will naturally fight to the death to be the first in the face of the temptation of the founding princes, and will leave a name in history. If it is according to the law of the founding of the United States, the emperor will take turns, and when he comes to my house next year, even the ministers will be replaced, taking Ning Shijun as an example, will he be willing? By the way, there is also about Jilin, Fang Zhilongqian set up such a powerful killing many years ago, is the reason why those people responded to his call is also for the democratic republic? ”

Cai Yuanpei looked at Xu Wenfu steadily, and suddenly found that his friend was a little incomprehensible.

A group of soldiers came in a neat line, unfurled military flags, and sang loudly, and drove out of the city under the cheers of students and civilians.

"I hope that I will return to unification as soon as possible, and the world will ......be peaceful" Xu Wenfu thought of his son in Suzhou again, and last night his wife urged him to return to his homeland south and avoid this war-torn place. He said that as soon as this battle began, Shenzhou was full of battlefields, and Suzhou was a place of ointment, didn't it respond to the old saying that 'the husband is not guilty, but he is guilty'? If you don't go anywhere, let's die in Jinan. When I think of my children being scattered, I feel even more confused. (To be continued......)