After the Wuchang Uprising, Hubei declared independence and officially broke away from the Qing government. In the following month or so, a total of 15 provinces across the country responded to Hubei independence. At that time, many armies of these independent provinces gathered in nanjing, hoping that everyone could work together to overthrow the qing government's rule.
Although there were many troops in Nanjing at that time, the factions were extremely complex, including the new army already stationed in Nanjing, the Zhejiang Army, the Shanghai Army and other units that came to aid Jiangsu, as well as various old-fashioned troops. To rely on such a complex army to carry out the Northern Expedition is tantamount to a fool's dream. The bigger problem before them was the lack of military salaries for the Northern Expedition. Although the revolution requires the efforts of countless volunteers, it is also a money-burning job, and Sun Yat-sen has repeatedly raised funds overseas to carry out the revolution. At that time, there were too many troops in Nanjing, and if you wanted to send troops, you had to get some money out, everyone was miserable, and in the end, Chen Qimei had an idea, he felt that it was better to take Zhang Xun's concubine Xiao Maozi out for the exhibition, and then collect the entrance fee to make money.
Chen Qimei
Xiao Maozi was Zhang Xun's concubine, so how could it fall into Chen Qimei's hands? This has to start with the Wuchang uprising. Zhang Renjun, the governor of Liangjiang at the time, was a conservative bureaucrat himself, because the new army in Wuchang revolted, and he was also suspicious of the new army in Jiangsu, so he not only issued 5 ammunition to each of the new army, but also called Zhang Xun, the viceroy of Jiangnan, to Nanjing, accompanied by Zhang Xun's patrol battalion.
The new army in Jiangsu was the ninth town of the army, and it was commanded by Xu Shaozhen. The reason why Zhang Renjun was suspicious of Xu Shaozhen was because Xu Shaozhen had previously shown sympathy for the revolution and had appointed many league members under his hands. In fact, Xu Shaozhen had no idea of uprising at all, and he was only sympathetic to the revolution, even if the pipe belt of the Ninth Town, Bai Wenwei, a member of the League, and others repeatedly persuaded, he was still unmoved. In the end, in order to avoid conflict between the two sides, Xu Shaozhen simply took the new army of the ninth town out of Nanjing in the name of Qiu Cao and stationed it inside Moling Pass.
This was a retreat in Xu Shaozhen's eyes, but in Zhang Renjun's eyes, he was ready to rebel, and he simply let Zhang Xun and others lead an army to surround Moling Pass. At this moment, Xu Shaozhen had no choice but to agree with the opinions of Bai Wenwei and others and raised the banner of the uprising. Originally, the Ninth Town did not have as many people as the patrol battalion and other units, but it could not withstand the fire of the Xinhai Revolution, and Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places were independent successively, and even Cheng Dequan, the inspector of Jiangsu, also appointed himself as the governor of Jiangsu and transformed into a revolutionary camp. These independent provinces can be regarded as revolutionary comrades, and of course they will not sit idly by and watch the new army in Nanjing be beaten, so they have sent reinforcements to attack Nanjing.
Nanjing was soon unable to resist, and Zhang Renjun quickly summoned Zhang Xun and the Jiangning general Tie Liang and others to discuss abandoning the city and fleeing. Zhang Xun was more mercurial, and when he came to Nanjing, he also brought his favorite concubine Xiao Maozi. Seeing that the catastrophe was imminent, Zhang Xun quickly asked Xiao Maozi to collect the gold and silver and flee from Nanjing by his subordinates, while he himself took more than 2,000 remnants of soldiers and broke through from the Han Ximen with Zhang Renjun, Tie Liang and others. What Zhang Xun did not expect was that he himself successfully broke out, but Xiao Maozi and his party did not leave, but became prisoners of the revolutionary army.
Xiao Maozi was originally a famous prostitute on the Qinhuai River, very beautiful, and after Zhang Xun came a few times, he simply took her as a concubine and accompanied him. This time back in Nanjing, Zhang Xun originally held the mentality of revisiting the old place with Xiao Maozi, but he did not expect to make Xiao Maozi a prisoner. Xiao Maozi was captured by Xu Shaozhen's men at Xiaguan, and at that time, angry revolutionaries demanded that Xiao Maozi be used instead of Zhang Xun to show the public. Fortunately, Xu Shaozhen was a kind man, and he not only did not agree, but also specially sent someone to send Xiao Maozi to Chen Shan's home in the curtain bridge and send someone to protect him.
Zhang Xun
Speaking of Chen Qimei, he is not only a member of the old league, but also the eldest brother and leader of the future party-state Chiang Kai-shek. In addition to the new army, where the members of the League developed revolutionary members at that time, there was another large group, that is, various parties. Chen Qimei often wandered around Shanghai, and in order to publicize the revolution, he also joined the largest local organization, the Qing gang, and became a leader of the Qing Gang. After a few years of mixing, Chen Qimei not only developed a bunch of revolutionaries, but also contracted the problem of eating, drinking, and gambling. Xiao Maozi is very famous in the Qinhuai River, Chen Qimei is naturally also famous for a long time, he does not know what considerations, he actually proposed to exhibit Xiao Maozi, but also to charge.
Chen Qimei is not just lip service, he also has a complete plan, that is, to escort Xiao Maozi to Shanghai, and then locked up in Zhang Garden for exhibition, if someone wants to come to visit, they will charge ticket money, and everyone will pay four dimes. Not only that, Chen Qimei even calculated how much money he could make. In his view, Xiao Maozi itself is very famous in Nanjing and even in the Yangtze River Delta region, and is Zhang Xun's concubine, as long as it is put out for exhibition, it can attract at least 250,000 spectators, and the ticket money alone can be at least 100,000. In Chen Qimei's view, his abacus was very shrewd.
What Chen Qimei did not expect was that Xu Shaozhen did not agree. Later, after the establishment of the Nanjing Provisional Government, Mr. Sun Yat-sen gave 8% of the public debt of 1 million yuan to reward his revolutionary deeds, but Xu Shaozhen said that as long as 14,000 yuan was used for the subsidy fee of the "Minli Bao", another 10,000 yuan was taken as the severance payment for the women's Northern Expedition, and the rest was returned to the government. In his opinion, what it is like to sell tickets to the concubines of the exhibition family is simply a disgrace to the face of the revolution, not to mention that he and Zhang Xunben are former colleagues, and they cannot do such a thing.
Soon after, Xu Shaozhen ignored Chen Qimei's objections and directly sent his subordinate Tao Xun to send Xiao Maozi to Xuzhou and return it to Zhang Xun. Zhang Xun was also very familiar with the Entu Newspaper, when 100 trains in the south were detained in Xuzhou, and he gave these trains to Tao Xun to bring back to the railway bureau as a reward. These trains were worth at least 300,000 yuan according to the market price at that time, which was more than Chen Qimei's 100,000 ticket money, and the heavens did not treat the generous people in the end.
However, Xiao Maozi was a little bitter, and she managed to escape the disaster this time, but the ending was still miserable. In 1913, Wang Keqin, a famous female dramatist in Hankou, was favored by Duan Zhigui and forcibly admitted to the government. Soon after, Zhang Xun, who had heard of Wang Keqin's name, snatched Wang Keqin from Duan Zhigui's hand. After having a new love, the old love is naturally forgotten, and the little hair will soon be depressed.
Although Zhang Dashuai grabbed Wang Keqin, he did not get any good results. After the restoration of reunification, Zhang Xun, as the culprit, could only hide in the Dutch embassy and survive. However, Wang Keqin, whom he took to Beijing, was like a caged bird, and immediately hooked up with Zhou Ziming, a young man at Beijing's Hengli Gold Store. Because Wang Keqin swept away all of Zhang Xun's property, Zhou Ziming suddenly became the owner of the gold shop, only suffering from Zhang Xun, who could not come out to see people. This incident was even in the newspaper at the time, and zhang Dashuai became a joke for a while.