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Chapter 226: The Rise of the World (Part II)

This method was to let the imperial court take advantage of this great victory of the revolutionary army to promulgate a policy of state-owned railways, and nationalize the road construction rights of the Sichuan-Han and Guangdong-Hanzhou railways, which had been sold to the people, and then sell them to foreigners. In this way, a single decree would be issued to enrich the treasury, and those who were dissatisfied with it would be arrested directly in the name of rebellion, which would be enough to suppress popular resentment.

Since this recital was said to be out of the blue, and the treasury was indeed empty, and the Beiyang faction did not oppose this, the patriarchal faction with Prince Qing Yikuang as the head strongly advocated this matter, and sent the most capable officials to Huguang and Sichuan to supervise the matter. This capable official is named Duan Fang, who was the governor of Zhili, and also participated in the Wuxu Reform and Constitutional Revision Movement in that year. At the time of Cixi's funeral, he was suspicious of Cixi's death, so he took the liberty of stopping the funeral procession, intending to check under the pretext of taking pictures.

Such a rare able official in the Qing court should have reassured the senators, but it was a pity that Duanfang was eager to show himself and re-ascend to a high position, and after taking up the post of superintendent of the Chongqing-Han Railway, he competed with Ruicheng, the governor of Huguang, of the royalist faction. He nationalized the local private railways in Sichuan by extremely forceful means, and Zhao Erfeng, the governor of Sichuan, who was also a veteran, also cooperated with him and massacred the petitioners, which aroused great public anger for a time.

During this time, the League, which had been suppressed by the Qing court, immediately felt that this was an opportunity to turn around, so the members of the League in various places organized the people and established the Baolu Comrades Association on the grounds of protecting the road, and at the same time, the people of the League secretly wooed the squires and landlords from all over the country. Among the many Baolu comrades' associations, Sichuan, the center of the state-owned railway policy, is the most powerful, with more than 100,000 members.

In order to avoid the spread of the situation, Zhao Erfeng took the initiative without consulting anyone and arrested more than a dozen squires and celebrities who were quite prestigious in Sichuan, including Pu Dianjun. However, what he did not expect was that this incident only made the situation even more aggravated, and the people of the League secretly instructed the people to destroy the power lines in various places and set up checkpoints along the road, cutting off the contact between the Sichuan government and the outside world, and completely isolating Sichuan. Subsequently, the League members were asked to organize mass rallies, workers' strikes, merchants' strikes, student strikes, and other fierce movements, which would completely intensify the contradictions between the Qing court and the people.

The Confederacy's methods were indeed very successful, and with their agitation, various movements broke out in Liangjiang, Liangguang, Lianghu, Fujian, Yunnan and other places, and the Qing court immediately panicked and immediately ordered the governor's offices in various places to suppress all kinds of assembly movements. When the Qing court's heavy-handed tactics provoked the people's anger to the extreme, the League decided to launch the largest uprising in history, and the center of the uprising was Wuhan, the center of the Qing court's arms industry.

The reason why Wuhan was chosen, in addition to the fact that it was an important military center of the Qing court, the most important point was that the Qing court sent the able officials to Sichuan in order to suppress the rebellion in Sichuan. He also went to Sichuan with the most elite new army under Ruicheng's command, the 31st and 32nd Biao of the 16th Association, and Zhang Xun was also transferred to Liangjiang, and now the Qing court's military strength in Wuhan can be said to be the weakest in history. Although the Qing court had been aware of it in advance, and the governor of Huguang, Ruicheng, had also issued martial law and searched for members of the revolutionary army throughout the city, he did not know that many of the people he sent were also members of the revolutionary army.

With the sound of a gunshot, the 8th Battalion of the New Army Engineering under the control of the League first revolted in Wuchang, seized the Chuwangtai Ordnance Station near Zhonghe Gate, and seized a large number of guns, ammunition and other weapons. Subsequently, the members of the Revolutionary Army, such as the baggage brigade, the artillery battalion, the engineering team, the 29th and 3O standards of the Eighth Town, and other members of the revolutionary army lurking in the new army, revolted one after another and gathered at the Chuwangtai Ordnance Station.

After obtaining the guns, the troops of the revolutionary army immediately marched towards the governor's palace, although they encountered a strong counterattack from the governor's palace in the middle, but they were unable to resist under the fierce fire of the revolutionary army. In less than two hours, the governor's palace was breached, and then the governor's office and the town headquarters were also captured one after another, and the governor of Huguang, Ruicheng, and Zhang Biao, the commander of the eighth town, escaped from Wuchang, and Wuchang completely fell into the hands of the revolutionary army. Two days later, Hanyang and Hankou revolted successfully, and by this time all the three towns of Wuhan were under the control of the revolutionary army, which immediately overthrew the Manchu banner, established the revolutionary army Hubei Military Government, and changed the name of the country to the Republic of China.

With the complete victory of the Wuhan Uprising, uprisings were launched all over the country, and the high-ranking officials in Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangxi, Anhui, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian and other eight provinces in the south of the Yangtze River who held real power surrendered one after another without resistance, and Zhang Xun, Zhang Renjun and other Qing troops were defeated and fled back to the capital in a hurry. On the Sichuan side, they were killed by their generals halfway through, and those troops were also instigated by members of the revolutionary army to join the current revolutionary military government in Sichuan. The 37th co-commander of the 19th town of Yunnan, Cai Yi, rebelled in Kunming, and soon took control of the military government of Yunnan, and then sent his right-hand man Tang Jiyao to Guizhou to control the military and government of Guizhou, while he and Tang Jiyao were respectively appointed as the governors of the military governments of Yunnan and Guizhou. With the success of the uprising in the southern provinces, Shaanxi and Shanxi, two northern provinces close to the capital, also revolted one after another and established military governments.

The reason why the revolutionary army's uprising was so successful and quickly took control of the southern provinces was that Hu Yueniang of the Outer Dao League played a crucial role. Over the years, Hu Yueniang has gone all out to exert her secular power, and through the various means of guò cultivators, she has gradually mastered most of the real power officials in the provinces south of the Yangtze River. Later, because of the relationship between Huang Jinrong and other Shanghai tycoons, Hu Yueniang got in touch with Chen Qimei, who was a good friend of Huang Jinrong, and the high-level leaders of the Alliance. In the case of the Chen family's industry moving out and the Chen family's side squeezing out the revolutionary army, the alliance urgently needs a strong ally, and Hu Yueniang's appearance just echoes their wishes. The two hit it off, and immediately launched close cooperation in all aspects, and many disciples of the Outer Dao Alliance became members of the Alliance, and the members of the Alliance also gradually infiltrated the Jiangnan officialdom army through the Outer Dao Alliance.

In order to gain the support of the Outer Dao Alliance, the Alliance had to give up some of its interests, and promised that after the uprising was successful, it would hand over some of its real power and official positions to the Outer Dao Alliance. After the success of the Wuhan uprising, the newly established Hubei Military Government immediately elected Li Yuanhong, a member of the Foreign Taoist League, to the post of governor, so as to express to Hu Yueniang that he kept his promise, and Hu Yueniang also reciprocated, and immediately ordered the senior officials of the provinces under the control of the Foreign Taoist League to surrender without resistance after the uprising in the Jiangnan provinces, so that the revolutionary army quickly occupied the provinces in Jiangnan.