Editor's note: The materials on the Xinhai Revolution published in the first volume of this magazine have different accounts about whether Yao Yiyi was a member of the Alliance and whether Yao was persecuted by soldiers during the uprising. In order to obtain more materials in order to clarify these problems again, this magazine specially asked the Provincial CPPCC Committee to refer it to the Datong Municipal CPPCC Committee to visit Mr. Yao Xingli, who once served as Yao Yijun's quartermaster. The Chengda Tong Municipal CPPCC enthusiastically helped and sent the visit records. The provincial CPPCC committee is now published in the letter:
Yao to price
Upon receiving your letter, we immediately sent Comrade Ma Dong to visit Yao Xingli, and hereby record several issues of the visit as follows:
1. Yao Yi is not a member of the League. I heard Yao Yiyi give orders to everyone before the revolutionary uprising set out: "I am not in the League, but I am going to do the revolutionary cause today."
Second, I do not know whether the League met before the uprising.
Revolution
The day before the Xinhai Revolution in Taiyuan, it is not known whether Yao Yiyi knew that the League would prepare for an uprising. But at 12 o'clock on the night of the revolutionary uprising, Yao Yi had not yet slept, and when I entered his house, I saw a certain battalion and a certain company attacking a certain location, etc., and also told me to saw down the telephone pole in front of the second battalion headquarters (in Di Village). In the middle of the conversation, the officers and men of the first battalion were transferred from 2 miles south of the narrow village to the headquarters of the second battalion, and Yao immediately gave the order to start the action, and the time was three or four o'clock that night.
Fourth, when the revolutionary army revolted to attack Inspector Fu Yamen, Yao Yiyi personally led the battalion commander Yang Zhifu and a company of people to attack Futai Yamen. It was also arranged to fight the Fantai Yamen, the Manchurian People's Congress Yamen, the Bullet Depot, the Uniforms Bureau, the Bank of China, and other places, each with one door, but who led it is not known. I fought with company commander Wang Sichang at the Uniform Bureau.
V. After the success of the revolutionary uprising, Xiong Guobin, commander of the first and third battalions, led the team and personally met with Yan Xishan to ask for orders. After hearing that he saw Yan, when he was urinating, Yan ordered Ma Ben to shoot him. Later legend has it that when the bear beat Yan, he was killed by Yan's horse soldiers. Exactly how he died is unclear. But Yan is a Japanese faction, Xiong is a Hunan person, another faction, and they are not right. The bear died at 12:00 a.m. on the first day of the successful revolutionary uprising, at the headquarters of the second battalion of the second standard, Hou Xiaohe.
6. Yao Yifeng was ordered by Yan Xishan to lead his men and horses to Niangziguan on the second day of the uprising.
Yan Xishan
7. Wu Luzhen led two staff officers, He (Sui) and Ni (Zude), to Niangziguan and contacted the rebels Yan Xishan, Zhao Daiwen, and Yao Yipai several times.
Zhao Daiwen
After the failure of Niangziguan, Yao returned to Taiyuan on the third and fourth day of the first month of the 11th lunar month, and left Taiyuan the next day and fled to Tianjin.
All of the above is a verbal remark by Yao Xingli, a member of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee who now lives in his daughter Yao Jin's home, No. 9, Row 23, Datong Power Plant.
Datong Municipal Cppcc Committee September 9, 1961
Yao Yiguo (1881-1947), a native of Hejin City, Shanxi Province, was a modern Chinese democratic revolutionary. In 1902, he was admitted to the Shanxi Wubei Academy, and was later sent to the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School. After graduating in 1909, he returned to China and taught at the Shanxi Governor's Training Institute. Because of its good management of the army, it enjoys a very high reputation in the new army. After the success of the Wuchang Uprising on October 10, 1911, the revolutionaries in the Shanxi New Army planned a response. On October 28, Yang Pengling, Zhang Huang, and others elected Yao Yigao as the commander of the rebel army. In the early morning of October 29, the uprising was officially launched. Officers and men of the 85th and 21st Battalions who participated in the uprising gathered in Dicun Square to swear an oath. Yao exaggerated the situation of corruption and incompetence of the Manchu Qing government and the deepening of external troubles, and shouted loudly: As soldiers, my generation should rise up to save the country, fight the Manchu Qing to the death, and avenge the shame of hundreds of millions of compatriots. The officers and men in the whole field were excited and vowed to kill the enemy to the death. Yao immediately issued a battle order to capture Taiyuan. After the order was issued and military discipline was pronounced, the rebel troops marched to the provincial capital in three ways. At dawn, the rebel outpost broke through the new south gate, directly attacked the patrol gate, dispersed the pro-army guards of the Fu Bureau, and shot and killed Inspector Lu Zhongqi and co-commander Tan Zhende. The Taiyuan Uprising was declared a success, and Yao made an indelible contribution. In 1947, Yao Yiwei died of illness, and the Nationalist government posthumously awarded the army general.