Chapter 559: Road Protection Movement

The governor of Guangxi, Lord Chen, issued an order, and the Si'en Mansion and the Xunzhou Mansion strengthened the investigation and did not let go of a single bandit who escaped from the Taiping Mansion and the Nanning Mansion. As long as the strangers come from these two prefectures, most of them will be detained by officers and soldiers, and they will be executed on the spot after confirming that they are bandits.

Huo Quzhi's core players in the two provinces are only a few hundred, but after the development, there are tens of thousands of troops that have been brought together, and these are his hard work. In fact, it is difficult to confirm that these players are all chaotic, but Lord Chen is the governor of Guangxi, even if he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one, ordinary players have no way.

After Huo Qubing found that it was useless to break it into pieces, he simply ordered Meng Shu to gather the players again and prepare to fight a bloody path. The success rate of such a breakthrough is zero, but after death, he is resurrected in a nearby city, and then it will be no problem to leave Guangxi again.

Lu Rongting led the last 8,000 patrol battalions of the imperial court to fight a bloody battle with tens of thousands of players, but the 8,000 patrol battalions were wiped out, and the tens of thousands of players under Huo Quai's command finally left the encirclement. At this time, Chen Hao was reluctant to send troops to encircle and suppress, he let Meng Shu lead the players to toss, if these people were interested, they would obediently break into pieces and leave Guangxi, otherwise he would transfer elite player troops from Cam Ranh Bay to hunt them down.

Huo Qu accepted it when he saw that he was sick, and he didn't delay in Guangxi all the time, and the average level of players in Guangxi dropped by five levels, and then he continued to make trouble. After Huo Quai's people left, Chen Hao, whether in terms of official status or actual control, completely mastered the entire Guangxi Mansion and became the real lord of Guangxi.

In the several prefectures occupied by Liu Zixuan and Yudie, the patrol battalions were all sent to the front line of Chuxiong Mansion, and they tried their best to support Lord Zhao to exterminate the bandits. Zhao Erfeng has a good impression of the two female generals in Guizhou, who never fight for merit and always silently guarantee logistics for him.

Now the two female generals have sent him more than 10,000 guns to the front line, and they are still a disciplined aboriginal army. How not to move Lord Zhao. Even Governor Zhao felt that if he couldn't exterminate the bandits, he would not only fail the imperial court, but also the two female generals who were silently supporting in the rear.

Liu Zixuan and Yudie sent the patrol battalion to the front line at Chen Hao's behest, for the same reason as the Guangxi patrol battalion. He has the Imperial Mind perk, and NPCs loyal to him will not betray him, so he has to make sure that the troops stationed everywhere are his henchmen. The 2nd and 3rd Divisions could not always be used as local troops. It was too troublesome for the imperial court's patrol battalions to be co-opted one by one, so it would be better to send them all to the front line to be loyal to the court, and then re-recruit soldiers loyal to them.

After Zhao Erfeng had more than 10,000 aboriginal troops, he was more flexible in tactics, and if it weren't for Yang Jie's superb command, Long Fei's losses would have been even heavier. Long Fei saw Chen Baxian's sinister intentions, but he was helpless. This is a yang plot that people use, so they use the patrol battalion of the imperial court to spend it with you, and you can get the most benefit no matter whether you win or lose.

It was impossible for Long Fei to even give up the Dali Mansion, so he knew that it was Chen Baxian who benefited from the fight with Zhao Erfeng, so he had to jump into this pit. However, he learned from Master Chen in a similar way. When the front line of Dali Mansion was under great pressure, he sent his NPC troops to conquer Lijiang Mansion, Yongchang Mansion, Tengyue Hall and Menghua Hall near Dali Mansion.

Long Fei also forced the patrol battalions in various places to fight on the front line, and used the patrol battalions of the imperial court as cannon fodder to resist Zhao Erfeng's ferocious offensive. The war lasted for half a year, and because there were more players receiving court tasks, Zhao Erfeng gradually gained the upper hand. Just as he was about to launch a major campaign to take the entire western part of Yunnan in one fell swoop, the imperial court issued an edict ordering him to return to Sichuan immediately.

The game time goes into 1911. A man who was enough to change the history of China finally stood in the position he had been waiting for for a long time. Sheng Xuanhuai, who advocated radical nationalization, served as the secretary of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, and his actions exacerbated the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

Due to financial pressures. Also out of consideration for further cracking down on political opponents and taking advantage of the opportunity to seek comprador personal gains, Sheng Xuanhuai suggested that the regent Zaifeng nationalize the railway. The government should come forward to negotiate with the foreign powers to obtain good borrowing and management conditions, avoid excessive loss of sovereignty, and strive for the early commissioning of the railway.

Sheng Xuanhuai's rhetoric is very much in line with Zaifeng's spleen and stomach, and he denigrates the Han governor. The power was returned to the Manchus and the royal family. It is of course a good thing that railways can be built "as quickly and as efficiently as possible" and that they can strike at the enemy's large forces.

Zaifeng immediately adopted Sheng Xuanhuai's suggestion, and on May 9, 1911, the Qing court issued the "State-owned Policy on Railway Trunk Roads". It was announced that "the main road business office" and "the branch road still allows the merchants and people to do what they can", and instructed the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Du Branch to formulate detailed rules for nationalization. Eleven days later, Sheng Xuanhuai signed a treaty with a group of banks in four countries, stipulating that the Qing court would borrow 10 million pounds at an annual interest rate of 5 percent, and use 5.2 million taels of gold from the four provinces as collateral to build the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, stipulating that "the railway will be completed in 3 years and the loan will be repaid in 40 years."

On the surface, the terms of this agreement are relatively generous, the management rights after the completion of the railway still belong to the Chinese side, the personnel rights are led by the Chinese side, and the terms of construction and repayment seem reasonable. But the agreement has a number of fatal, principled errors.

At that time, the right of way of several railways was still in the hands of merchant stocks, and the nationalization had not yet begun, and the Qing court actually took out what did not belong to it and sold it. The "Decision on the State-Owned Railways of Trunk Railways" only talked about principles, but handed over the nationalization rules to Sheng Xuanhuai, who proposed different nationalization plans for Lianghu, Guangdong, and Sichuan out of political leaning and comprador selfish desires.

Hubei and Hunan due to the proper management of Zhang Zhidong, the loss of funds is not large, Sheng Xuanhuai proposed to use the "national poly stocks" to replace at 1:1 the par value of the original shares; However, Sichuan lost 3 million yuan due to the "rubber stock market crash", and Sheng Xuanhuai believed that it should not be "generous to the country", so he did not bear it.

It seems that Sheng Xuanhuai is righteous and strict, but in fact, there is a lot of work, and the equity of the Sichuan-Han Railway has always been in the hands of the government, but the people have been allowed to bear all the losses. Half a year after Sheng Xuanhuai took office, he forcibly promoted nationalization, and forced the gentry to make no profit and sell shares at a loss by means of almost "forced buying and selling", giving people a strong impression that the state and the people were competing for profits, and the managers were pretending to be public and private.

The Qing court was the period when the imperial family and the Manchu Shaozhuang faction gained power and launched a liquidation of the Han governors, Sheng Xuanhuai attached Zaifeng to Zhang Zhidong and other Han bureaucrats in an explicit manner, and acted in the opposite direction everywhere in the railway development strategy, which gave people a sense of political speculation. In the specific operation, Sheng Xuanhuai twisted the law for personal gain and listed the Xiangyang Hundreds of Miles Railway as a "branch road" to allow commercial operations, but listed the neighboring Kuifu Railway as a "trunk road" and nationalized it.

Sheng Xuanhuai intensified the contradictions, and under such circumstances, a road protection movement that was enough to bury the Manchu dynasty began!

The first to launch the road protection movement was not Sichuan, but Hunan. Game timeOn May 13, 1911, a player under Xuanyuan Sword received a relevant task and posted a post in Changsha to protect the road, and the next day there was a 10,000-person march petition in Changsha.

In Hubei, where the construction of the Sichuan-Han line had already begun, Sheng Xuanhuai ordered a halt to work in order to forcibly seize the shares, triggering a protest among businessmen and people in Yichang. The Qing court mobilized the army to suppress the bullet, and the system generated a two-way regional mission, and the player could participate in the people's side or join the imperial army. More than 2,000 people were killed and wounded in the clashes, and there was the first bloodshed of the pro-road movement.

On June 16, 1911, Pu Dianjun, chairman of the Sichuan Consultative Bureau, and Luo Lun, vice chairman of the Sichuan Consultative Bureau, convened an extraordinary meeting of Sichuan and Han shareholders in Chengdu and proposed "civilized road protection", gathering 2,400 shareholders. The next day, students and citizens from all walks of life who heard the news brought the number of participants to more than 4,000.

In order to increase the momentum, Pu Dianjun, Luo Lun and other shareholders formed the "Sichuan Baolu Comrades Association", and the NPC of the members of the Baolu Comrades Association swelled to 100,000 in less than 10 days. Originally, the Sichuan railway dispute was only a political disagreement between Wang Wenwen, the governor of Sichuan, and Sheng Xuanhuai, minister of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, but after the establishment of the Baolu Comrade Association, it became a conflict of interests between the Qing government and the people of Sichuan.

The serious consequences caused by the change in nature were not expected by Wang Wenwen and Sheng Xuanhuai, and after its establishment, the Baolu Comrade Association developed rapidly, with more than 200,000 registered members in less than 20 days, all over Sichuan. In addition, it has developed branches in various industries, such as the Association of Comrades in the Academic Circles, the Association of Comrades in the Groceries Gang, the Association of Comrades in the Dried Vegetable Gang Baolu, the Association of Comrades in the Musical Instrument Shop, the Association of Comrades in Women's Protection, and even the Association of Beggars and the Association of Comrades in the Deaf and Mute, etc., and the social mobilization has been extremely extensive and deep.

Many of the people involved in the Baolu Movement did not know what was going on with the Sichuan-Hankou Railway, but because under the political system at that time, there was a sudden opportunity to attack the imperial court secretly supported and instigated by the local government, so those people from all walks of life who had been suppressed for a long time suddenly became excited, and there were tearful scenes in almost every Baolu speech.

Some people wrote bloody letters, others used knives to make accusations, the mood of the masses became more and more agitated, and the situation developed in the direction of getting out of control. Sheng Xuanhuai, who was far away in the capital, was not aware of this at all, he thought that Wang Wenwen's constant telegrams were just exaggerations, not only ignored them, but also continued to make mistakes according to his original form of thinking.

Game timeIn early August 1911, under the repeated urging of Sheng Xuanhuai and Duan Fang, Zhao Erfeng, the acting governor of Sichuan, who was dealing with Long Fei in Yunnan, returned to Chengdu. Wang Wenwen was dismissed, Sheng Xuanhuai thought that he had achieved his goal, but he did not know that the moment to change the fate of Chinese history was coming!

Countless players are rushing to Sichuan, and the direct cause of the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising is that the main force of the Hubei New Army entered Sichuan to deal with the Baolu Comrade Army. After the Wuchang Uprising, the revolutionary party came to power, and no matter which faith it chose, it came time to clear its name. The player can either choose to follow Yuan Shikai in the north, or follow the Revolutionary Party NPC before the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising and change their beliefs. (To be continued......)