Survival Wisdom of the Beiyang Era (224): The Paper Tiger of the Fox False Tiger.
In the three years of Beiyang, the signs of Yuan Shikai's restoration as emperor have gradually emerged, and for the sake of his people who have been broken into slag, he really has to give it a go, but the most basic problem is that stability overrides everything. In Yuan Shikai's view, the provinces where his old Beiyang department was stationed were relatively reliable, and the probability of instability coming from the territory of the League was relatively large, so Yuan Shikai had not been waiting to see the hometown of the two giants of the Alliance, one was Sun Wen's hometown of Guangdong, and the other was Huang Xing's hometown of Hunan. To this end, Old Yuan also deliberately promoted and appreciated the two major executioners who swept away dissidents, one was Long Jiguang, the governor of Guangdong, and the other was Tang Qianming, the governor of Hunan. In the early spring of the year, Li Jiapin, the commander of the Cantonese army under Long Jiguang, was ordered to sweep and arrest dissidents in the villages of Shangqi and Liangjiao. The local celebrities then moved out of Liang Qichao to ask for his life, but although Liang Qichao handed over the words, Yuan Shikai did not buy it.
Later, Yuan Shikai sent a telegram to cheer up Long Jiguang, declaring: "The governor is loyal, courageous, and simple, and relies heavily on him to alleviate the worries of the south." A year later, when Long Jiguang was stabbed, he escaped by chance, and zhong Mingguang, a zhishi who had been arrested, was executed with Ling Chi, a kind of already abolished torture, and Tang Qianming, who sat in Hunan, surpassed Long Jiguang in means, so he also won the name of "Tang Butcher", and Hua Shixi, a subordinate who directly operated the knife, was called "The King of Living Yan", and when escorting prisoners, he would blow a piercing charge horn and shout "kill", and sometimes dozens of "prisoners" were executed at once. Not only that, Changsha has been under martial law for a long time, and even taking a rickshaw will be driven off at any time, check whether there are dangerous goods under the seat cushion, and from time to time in the name of Qingxiang, they will take the opportunity to burn and loot. For Long Jiguang and Tang Qianming, neither of them belonged to Yuan Shikai's beiyang army origin, and Tang Qianming was not a powerful faction that divided the side.
However, in the Hongxian Imperial System, Long Jiguang was able to crown the "King" Knight, and Tang Qianming was even more because he saw the wind and made the rudder, and he has always been a red man in front of Yuan Shikai, of course, behind it is also related to their vicious and resolute implementation in order to help Yuan Shikai eliminate dissidents. But the strange thing is that these two sinister and vicious executioners are also cowards who are as timid as rats. Tang Qianming built a lookout behind the Governor's Office, and took turns to send a platoon of troops to guard it. Moreover, the soldiers on duty were each given a pair of telescopes, and if they did nothing else, they specifically stared at the wind and grass around the governor's office and reported the news at any time.
As for Long Jiguang's garrison in Guangdong, he was even more timid to the point where all the grass and trees were soldiers. The Governor of Rendezvous moved his residence directly to the hill, and there was a sky bridge between the residence and the military office, which was carried up and down the hill by lift, and the lighting lights on the hill had a special generator. From the bottom of the mountain to the mountain residences there are a total of twenty-eight guard posts, the mountain has more than eighty artillery forts, six arsenals, air defense trenches, barbed wire fences, observation decks and searchlights, etc., since Long Jiguang took office as governor of Yue began to build, before and after a total of more than 30 million yuan. For their own safety, the two can be described as painstaking efforts, and it is laughable to compare their fierce and vicious faces when dealing with the weak and different.
In the end, when Tang Qianming and Long Jiguang were expelled from the stage, the fake trick of the Wanmin Umbrella was really faceless and tossed, and the local people were all celebrating, which was enough to show that the executioners of these fox fake tigers were all paper tigers. However, the boss behind them, Yuan Shikai, also found that it backfired, but the road ahead was long, and in the atmosphere of terror created by these executioners, the real warriors were still rebelling against fate, and when Yuan Shikai drifted away on the wrong way, using high pressure to whitewash Taiping, there were still people who were going against the current.