Author: Bo Han
Tang Jiyao, born in 1883 in Huize County, Yunnan, was intelligent at an early age, studied at a private school at the age of 6, studied quite hard, and took the exam at the age of 15. His hobbies are also quite extensive, and he has a special love for poetry and painting. In 1904, he studied in Japan, majoring in military affairs, and the following year joined the League and participated in anti-Qing secret activities. His ambitions are lofty, and he not only utters the bold words of "purifying China into a mountain of lili", but also expresses the grand words of "hegemony in East Asia when it will become", nicknamed "the master of the eastern continent".
In 1910, Tang graduated from the Japanese Non-Commissioned Officer School. After several twists and turns, he returned to Kunming, served in the Kunming Qing Army and the Tangwu Hall, and met with comrades in the army many times to unite the forces of all parties and plan uprisings. The following year, the Wuchang Uprising broke out, Tang and Cai Yi heard the news, and launched the Chongjiu Uprising on the 30th (the 9th of the first month of the lunar calendar), restored Yunnan, and the next day elected Cai as the governor, Tang as the military and political, and the two deputy chiefs of the general staff and the general office of the Wutang.
In January 1912, in order to support the Sichuan Revolution, Tang Jiyao led an army of the Dian Army to the north, and at this time Guizhou was in turmoil, and he changed his route to help Qian quell the rebellion. In March, the Dian army captured Guiyang, and Tang Jiyao was proclaimed the governor of Guizhou. Although Tang Jiyao was once opposed and condemned by the people in Guizhou for slaughtering prisoners of war and hunting down revolutionaries, he managed Qianzhou well, the economic situation improved, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, consolidated his position, and laid a solid foundation for the Yunnan-Qianqian alliance.
In the autumn of 1913, General Cai Yi entered Beijing and recommended Tang Jiyao to return to Dian as the governor of Yunnan. Tang considered sending his brother Tang Jiyu to Qian as the governor of Qiandu and the governor of Dian himself, but when he saw yuan shikai, who was stealing the throne, dreaming of becoming emperor, he issued an oath that "what dares to eavesdrop on the artifact, when it is folded and beaten", actively contacted patriots, and stepped up the expansion of armaments.
After many meetings to discuss Yuan, at the end of 1915, in the face of the critical moment when Yuan Shikai was about to ascend the throne and become emperor, Tang Jiyao dared to pull the emperor down, and on December 25, he took the lead in sending a telegram against Yuan, launching a patriotic movement that shocked China and foreign countries. In January of the following year, under the overall command of Tang Jiyao in Yunnan, Cai Yi, commander of the First Army, and Li Liejun, commander of the Second Army, respectively led the Defending Dian Army into Sichuan and Guangxi. Everywhere he went, he received support from the people, fought bloody battles with the Beiyang Army, and reported frequent successes. In response to the anti-Yuan situation in various places, the southwestern provinces set up institutions in May, appointed Tang Jiyao as the commander of the Military Affairs Bureau, and gathered heavy troops to carry out a large-scale northern expedition to court Yuan. The success of the Patriotic Movement certainly saved the Republic of China.
However, the Patriotic Movement did not shake the power of the remnants of the Yuan clan and the Beiyang warlords, and Beijing remained in their hands. Next, Sun Yat-sen launched a dharma protection movement, united with the southwestern power faction to confront it, and firmly advocated the Northern Expedition to unify the country. Although Tang Jiyao supported the Northern Expedition, he did not want to be led by Sun Yat-sen and always acted autonomously with the strength of the Dian army.
In September 1917, he went to Chongqing to hold a meeting of the five-province coalition army, acting as the hegemon of the southwest, declaring the commander-in-chief of the nine-province coalition army, and his power swelled to the peak. In the process of expansion, his thinking continued to degenerate, his personal ambitions became larger and larger, causing his actions to gradually lose the hearts of the people, coupled with the years of fighting in the Dian Army, resulting in unbearable suffering, the separation of his wife and children, which provoked a mutiny.
At the beginning of 1921, Gu Pinzhen, the commander of the Dian Army stationed in Sichuan, was expelled in Sichuan, and led the main force of the Dian Army back to Yunnan to occupy Kunming, causing Tang Jiyao to be forced to step down and go into exile.
The following year, Mr. Zhongshan intended to ask Tang Jiyao to lead the Northern Expedition of the Dian, Guangdong, and Gui armies, but Tang once again failed to live up to Sun's high expectations, searched for the old department in Liangguang, recruited bandits, and returned to Yunnan to destroy Gu, and the yunnan bandit Pu Xiaohong was among them, and then became the "King of Yunnan" again.
After that, he concentrated on governing Yunnan, establishing education, organizing municipal administration, and developing industry. In December 1922, he personally founded the first university in southwest China, named Ituku University after the owner of the Eastern Continent, and claimed that the university was the university of East Asians, and the first president dong ze. Due to Tang Jiyao's attention and support, Donglu University occupies an excellent position among similar universities in the country. After 8 years, it was renamed Yunnan University and developed into a famous institution of higher learning.
In addition, Tang also founded the Yunnan Aviation School, which recruited male and female cadets, and trained the first air force unit in the great southwest. In terms of urban construction, Tang Jiyao presided over the renovation project of Kunming, renovating streets, opening parks, dredging sewers, installing running water, and further developing urban construction.
In terms of developing industries, Tang Jiyao built a second hydropower station in Kunming, the first of which is the Shilongba Hydropower Station (the first in the country), and the power supply capacity has been greatly strengthened. It also built the first thermal power plant in Yunnan in Mongolia, built an old -- Bisezhai -Shiping Railway, and built the first road in Yunnan from Kunming to Bijiguan in the west of the city, and supported the "Asia Tobacco Company" to start using machines to produce cigarettes, contributing to the economic and cultural development of Yunnan.
Under such a situation, Tang's ambition to dominate the southwest and dominate the whole country swelled, and once the domestic situation changed, he sent troops to Qianguichuan and other provinces in a vain attempt to compete with various warlords for the world. In the meantime, most of the wars were won by the Dian army, and the time was no longer there, and there was no popular support.
At the beginning of 1927, due to the high anti-Tang voices from all walks of life in Yunnan, his subordinates Hu Ruoyu and Long Yun seized the opportunity to launch a mutiny and demanded that Tang hand over power. Tang Jiyao, unwilling to be subjected to this conspiracy, wanted to run away, but was not allowed, and was later placed under house arrest in Kunming, full of grief and indignation, and died in Kunming on May 23 at the age of 44 (there is also a theory that he was poisoned and assassinated).
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Tang Jiyao can use "good governance in the governance of Dianwu (the author believes that there is) good governance, and the protection of the country (the author changed it to establish) Qigong", that is, to rule Dian has good governance, to protect the country's Qigong, to dominate the southwest, to conquer the Central Plains, and to have courage. In the Patriotic Movement, Songpo's reputation is even greater, but it is only a joke, Ji Yao is the commander-in-chief, and has been reused by Dr. Sun Yat-sen many times, which can be called a wizard of the Republic of China.
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