Sun Yuanqi was startled, and the pen pierced the manuscript paper, revealing a large cloud of ink on the paper. Hurriedly stood up and asked, "What's wrong?" What happened? ”

Lao Zheng swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and then hissed: "The students gathered on the playground, saying that they were going to the city to make trouble!" ”

Causing trouble in the city? Student tide? Sun Yuanqi was full of excitement: What are you really afraid of! At the beginning of the establishment of the school, in order to avoid this matter, he did not hesitate to run to the barren mountains and mountains. After all the calculations, I still can't hide from it!

Now is not the time to regret, Sun Yuanqi immediately ordered: "Lao Zheng, you go and find all the security guards, block the school gate, and don't let the students out!" I'll be on the playground now! ”

As he spoke, he rushed out of the Cheng Qi Pavilion. As soon as I went out, I heard shouts one after another on the playground: "Expel the Russians and return my three eastern provinces!" "Give me back the rivers and mountains, and protect my homeland!"

After running a few steps and coming to the playground, I saw several students wearing the same military training uniforms, waving paper flags in their hands, and shouting slogans with a few people leading the team in front of them. From time to time, students would run out of the classroom and join their ranks.

When they were carefully identified, they didn't know the people in front of them, especially two of them, who were already in their thirties and forties, and they didn't think they were their students. Just as he was puzzled, Zhang Yuanji appeared in his ears with a wheezing voice: "The two elders, one is called Wu Jingheng, and the other is called Sun Yujun. The young man in the back was Hu Hanmin. They had all been studying in Japan, but in July last year, they clashed with Minister Cai Jun and returned to China. Later, he came to the school to audit. Although they are older, because they are all from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, I did not refuse. Who knows, they would make such a fuss. Alas, a misstep! ”

It turned out that at that time, there was a Chengcheng School in Tokyo for Chinese students, which was a preparatory class for non-commissioned officer schools. The Japanese government stipulates that foreigners entering non-commissioned officer schools must be escorted by their own ministers, but Chengcheng schools are not required to be escorted. However, the Chinese minister Cai Jun believed that this preparatory class was of a military educational nature, so he requested that all those who entered the Chengcheng school should be escorted by him. In July 1902, 26 people, including Wu Jingheng, Sun Kujun, and Cai Yi, went to the embassy and asked Cai Jun to escort nine students to Chengcheng School. Cai Jun refused to send self-financed international students on the grounds that they were not allowed to study military affairs. The students refused to give up, protesting loudly and sarcastically at the embassy. The rest of the Chinese students in Tokyo also expressed their support for a week. Cai Jun was annoyed and angry, thinking that the students were "purely undisciplined and unreasonable", and asked Wu Jingheng and Sun Kuan, who took the lead, to be arrested and sent to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to be detained overnight. In the end, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department expelled Wu and Sun from the country for the crime of obstructing public order. It is known as the "Wusun Incident" in history.

Open the door and steal! Sun Yuanqi secretly ridiculed in his heart: If I block the students now, will I also be regarded as a "cloth slave" by future generations, or a "government eagle dog" and a "court lackey"? Alas, for the sake of school, I had to do Luo Jialun and Yang Yinyu once!

Now that we've gotten to this point, it's better to solve the problem first! Sun Yuanqi took three steps and made two steps, walked to the front of the line, and stopped the students: "What are you doing here?" ”

"As you can see!" Wu Jingheng said impassionedly, "The Russians first slaughtered our Hailanpao and Jiangdong 64 Tun Chinese, and then forcibly occupied the three eastern provinces, and now they refuse to withdraw their troops, aren't these still worthy of our protest?" ”

Wu Jingheng was eleven years older than Sun Yuanqi, and with a full beard, he replied so confidently, it looked like an elder reprimanding a junior.

Sun Yuanqi was not discouraged in the face of national righteousness.

The things mentioned by Wu Jingheng have to start with the dead ghost of Xianfeng.

Hailan is on the opposite side of the Heilongjiang River, opposite the bank of the Heihe River. The two were originally a town, and the Heilongjiang River ran through the city, and both were originally owned by China. In the eighth year of Xianfeng 58), the Qing government signed the Sino-Russian Aihun Treaty with Tsarist Russia, ceded it to Tsarist Russia, and was renamed Blagoveshchensk, the capital of the Amur Region. However, more than half of the more than 30,000 inhabitants are Chinese.

In 1900, Tsarist Russia saw that the Qing government was crumbling, and hoped to take the opportunity to get a piece of the pie. On July 15, Russian steamers invaded the Aihui River in China, and the Chinese Aihui garrison sent ships to intercept it, and the two sides exchanged fire, with minor casualties on each other. The Tsarist government then used this as an excuse to provoke an incident and first massacre the Chinese residents of Hailanpao. As an eyewitness on the south bank at that time, Yang Jigong, the deputy commander of Aihui, recorded that he wrote:

"At eleven o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st (July 17), I invited the other side, and the Russians drove countless overseas Chinese, surrounded the riverside, and the noise shook the wilderness. At a closer glance, the Russian soldiers each held knives and axes, chopping east and west, breaking the corpses and bones, sonic shock and sour nose, the seriously injured died on the shore, the lightly injured died in the river, and the uninjured were drowned, and the bones overflowed, covering the rivers and oceans. There were more than 80 people who crossed the river with the power of the waves, naked, unconscious and unable to speak. ”

Such atrocities lasted for three or four days, and more than 5,000 Chinese residents were killed. At the same time, the Russian army burned and looted the Chinese territory of Jiangdong 64tun and illegally claimed that the area was under Russian control.

Subsequently, in the name of suppressing the Boxer Rebellion in Northeast China, Russia independently invaded Northeast China on a large scale, with the aim of annexing the three northeastern provinces of China. At this time, the Qing royal family was chased by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and they were too busy to take care of themselves, how could they have the time to care about the safety of Longxing? As a result, Harbin, Aihui, Haicheng, Qiqihar, Shengjing, and Jinzhou fell one after another.

In this unbalanced war, Heilongjiang General Shoushan undoubtedly thought it was a national hero. Before Qiqihar was broken by the Russian army, Shoushan thought that "he could not live up to the country's grace, he could not fight, he could not defend, and he could not meet with Russia", and decided to commit suicide and martyrdom. In the testament he wrote to the Qing court before committing suicide, he still did not forget the affairs of the three eastern provinces, lamented the importance of immigration to the real border, and believed that in order to protect Heilongjiang Province in the future, it was necessary to recruit people to reclaim the banner land and Mongolian land, and "the two cities along the border must be especially adapted to reclaim the land", and "the affairs of Jiang Province cannot be started unless the land is cultivated." With the size of the seven cities and the fertileness of the land, if you win the hearts of the people, you will be able to stand on your own feet in less than ten years." Then he swallowed the gold and lay down in a coffin waiting to die, but for a long time he did not move, so he ordered his men to shoot him to death. His subordinates couldn't bear it, and the first shot only hit the left flank because of the shaking of the hand, and it was not fatal. Then he ordered to shoot again, this time in the lower abdomen, and still did not die. Shoushan shouted loudly, and his men fired another shot, and this third shot finally fulfilled his wish to be martyred.

As with all stories, there are good people and there are bad people. Corresponding to Shoushan, a good person, are scum like Shengjing's general Zengqi and the reformed Taoist Zhou Mian. Before the Russian army captured Shengjing, Zeng Qi fled to Xinmin Hall and was immediately placed under house arrest by the Russian army. Greedy for life and afraid of death, under the coercion of the Russian army, he sent Zhou Mian, a reformer, to Lushun to negotiate with the Russian army, and then signed the traitorous "Fengtian Handover Temporary Regulations" without authorization. - Despite this, Zeng Qi was only dismissed by the imperial court, and then reinstated to his original position, and later did a famous "big thing": Zhao'an Zhang Zuolin.

After the Boxer Rebellion ended, the Qing government stationed in Xi'an, and sent Yang Ru, the Russian minister, as the minister plenipotentiary, to negotiate with Russia to accept the three eastern provinces. At this time, according to Yang Ru's recital, the Qing court learned that Zeng Qi had privately signed the "Fengtian Temporary Regulations"! In addition to saying that it was "extremely shocking" and "absolutely absurd," the Qing government had no choice but to order Yang Ru and others to "govern the government and military power in the three eastern provinces, and not lose their autonomy."

It is said that Yang Ru is worthy of being a man, and in the away game of St. Petersburg, in the negotiations with Tsarist Foreign Minister Rams Dufu, he fought the basis of reason and did not give up an inch of land. Even as soon as the Russian side proposed a revised plan, as long as he thought it was unreasonable and did not wait for the Qing government's reply, it rejected it. Tsarist Russia once said to Yang Ru: "You just have to sign a treaty, if the Chinese government dares to offend you with this, Russia will definitely come forward to protect it!" Yang Ruyi replied solemnly: "Why did you say this! Isn't it shameless for me to be a Chinese official and ask Russia for protection? If I do, I won't have any place in China. I think it's very rude for you to say such a thing! Yang Ru may have suffered a stroke during the negotiation and suffered a fall, but he still insisted on participating in the negotiations. On March 25, 1902, when he returned to the embassy after negotiations, he slipped and fell to the ground again and fell unconscious. A year later, on February 17, he died in Russia.

Similar to Yang Ru is Li Hongzhang. He succeeded Yang Ru in negotiations with the Russian minister in China. At that time, he had run out of oil, and in order to support the overall situation, he still persisted tenaciously. It is said that before Li Hongzhang died of illness, the Russian minister still held a treaty in front of his bed to persecute him. But Li Hongzhang gritted his teeth and did not sign until his death.

Due to the great importance of the three eastern provinces, even Emperor Guangxu, who had always been submissive, resolutely did not allow the painting to be detained, and the local governors Liu Kunyi and Zhang Zhidong expressed their opposition one after another, and all walks of life also held protests one after another.

What's more, there are rifts within the great powers, which give China a glimmer of life. Japan, Britain, and Tsarist Russia have always had contradictions, and at this time they naturally did not want Tsarist Russia to be dominant. Japan, in particular, has been coveting the three eastern provinces for a long time, so how can it be possible to allow others to take it for themselves? Tsarist Russia originally wanted to draw France to its side in order to maintain the status quo, but the United States immediately agreed with the British and Japanese proposals. Seeing the resolute opposition of Britain, Japan, the United States and other countries, Tsarist Russia did not dare to use force, so it had no choice but to sign the "Sino-Russian Treaty on the Settlement of the Three Eastern Provinces" on April 8, 1902, and was forced to agree to withdraw its troops in three phases, which would be completed in one and a half years.

At this point, the matter should be over, right? If you think so, you underestimate the greed of polar bears! When it eats the meat in its mouth, how can it be willing to spit it out? Sure enough, the first phase of the withdrawal was very observant, and when the second phase of the withdrawal came, Tsarist Russia saw that Britain, Japan, the United States and other countries did not care about this issue, and immediately played tricks and refused to withdraw their troops. Not only did they not withdraw their troops, but they made seven unreasonable demands to the Qing government!

The news spread, and the whole country was in an uproar. The gentry in Shanghai and Chinese students in Tokyo have held several large-scale rallies to express strong protests. Today, Wu Jingheng, Hu Hanmin, and others want to encourage the students of Jingshi University to go to the major yamen in the capital to protest and petition.

This water of short military uniforms, a young man of the water, and a young man in the water, still go to the major ministries and commissions to make trouble, what do you make the already sensitive Qing government think?

Sun Yuanqi put his hand on his forehead and asked weakly: "You protest, and I also agree." But can you just protest on campus and not go to the city? ”