Before he finished speaking, Mei Xin slapped a slap on the table: "You are really a woman's benevolence, if you tell him to go, you will leave a trouble, and the branches will be born in the future!" The person next to him also said, "Kill it is cool." Dai Fengxiang knew that he could not reverse this decision, so he secretly planned to report a letter to Jiao and Chen and persuade them to walk.
On October 28, the seventh day after changsha's restoration, Dai Fengxiang, officer of the Mabiao brigade in the Ninth Town of the New Army, received an invitation from Mei Xin, commander of the Fifty Biao Battalion, who had just been transferred from Yiyang to Changsha to take over the defense, and Yu Qinyi, who was in charge, inviting him to eat at Xu Changxing's restaurant at 5 p.m. the next day.
Dai Fengxiang went to the place the next afternoon to take a look, and there were eight or nine people present, except for Dai Fengxiang himself, who graduated from the Baoding Army Officer School, and the rest of them were non-commissioned officers studying in Japan -- the atmosphere at that time, the international students were high-spirited, self-contained, and they saw that the students in the interior could not afford it.
Dai Fengxiang
During the banquet, naturally talking about the situation in Changsha after the restoration, some people scolded Jiao Dafeng and Chen Zuoxin for abusing people and using money indiscriminately, saying that they had seen it with their own eyes, and a young man ran to find Jiao Dafeng's important official, and Jiao Dafeng asked him: What will you do, he said, "I will write," and Jiao Dafeng said, "You go and be the secretary!" The young man went out and saw a large bundle of blank tapes on the table, so he took one and wrote "third-class clerk" on it himself, hung it on his body, and swaggered it, but soon he found that the other people's belts were written "first-class clerk" and "second-class clerk", and he could not help but regret that he was too timid.
Some people also said that Wu Lianbin, a native of Xiangxiang, who had launched a party meeting in his hometown, ran to the governor's mansion at this time to focus on Chen and said, "I have made great contributions this time!" I'm going to recruit a bidder. Jiao Dafeng did not dare to bargain with him, gave him a white belt, wrote "a certain standard system", and approved 20,000 yuan to him. Who knew that Wu Lianbin ran to collect the money the next day. The quartermaster had no choice but to say, "Biaotong, you just received tens of thousands of yuan yesterday, and today you are here again, and you must also have a detailed account." Wu slapped the table and shouted: "I am an adult who does big things, and there is a small account!" ”
Other jokes are more. Any soldier, whether you are a new army, a patrol battalion, or a member of the party, as long as you participate in the Changsha Restoration and run to the governor's mansion, you can immediately get a white belt of company commander and platoon leader. With the white belt, everyone realized that they were officers, and ran to the Fancheng Di desert goods store to buy a command knife and sold up the inventory of the desert goods store. Now the streets are full of command knives, sonorous.
Old photos of Changsha
Three years later, Changsha "Gongyan" magazine published a novel called "Tanzhou Dream", that is, it was written that Pan Wu, a Hengyang man, was not admitted to Changsha Kao Middle School, and it was time for Guangfu, so he pretended to be a new party and mixed into Futai Yamen, traveled widely, and actually mixed into an audit, and then extorted money everywhere under the pretext of smoking ban. The novel writes that at that time, all kinds of people in the provincial city were mixed, and "whether they were revolutionaries or bandits is difficult to say in this circle." It is also recorded in the 1924 edition of "Xin Nong Chunqiu":
When the governor of the time did not print the letter, he took the straw paper side, and the upper letter was supervised by Jiao Ling as an official, and the next four were small prints. The four righteous characters, Hongjiang will secretly code also. More than a dozen people were assigned to the Japanese Commission, and all the temples, public offices, and brigades in the city were recruited with flags. Hooligans, beggars, and car servants were all enlisted in the army. No ordnance armor, long belt on the chest, high-bun pompom, said to be a Han official Weiyi.
These jianghu styles correspond to the first impression of Gentlemen such as Huang Pi on Jiao Dafeng and the like. In this way, the impression of the citizens of Changsha on the revolutionary party is only worse than that of the Constitutionalists in the Consultative Bureau. (Of course, no one would have thought at that time that Jiao Dafeng ordered a large recruitment, and one of the recruited soldiers, Mao Runzhi, took a monthly allowance of seven oceans, and told other soldiers the news and truth in the newspaper every day, which was called "retribution" by his comrades.) ）
The gentleman's greatest dissatisfaction with Jiao Dafeng's employment was that he appointed Feng Lianzhi as the commander of the South Road. Feng was the leader of the Hongjiang Society, arrested in 1906 for participating in the Liuli rebellion, stayed in prison for three years, and after his release, recruited 300 people, served as a standard commander, and was stationed in Xiangtan. In terms of the alliance, Feng Lianzhi was a hero who was committed to the revolution, but in the eyes of the gentry clique, he was just a "thief", and now that he has gained the momentum, he recruits troops and horses in Xiangtan, hunts down and kills the old enemy, and the county governor of Xiangtan joins forces with the gentlemen to ask Changsha for help. Tan Yanmin took the distress telegram to accuse Jiao Dafeng, and Jiao Dafeng did not admit these accusations at all. Therefore, there were rumors that Jiao Dudu was also a member of Feng Lianzhi's gang, whose real name was "Jiang Danzhai" and pretended to be a revolutionary to seize power in Changsha.
The more the officers talked, the more excited they became, saying that if this continued, Hunan would be wasted in the hands of Jiao and Chen, and they would have to find a way to do it. Mei Xin blurted out, "If you kill this bastard, you won't get it!" It is said that after Mei Xin arrived in Changsha, she went to see Jiao Dafeng and asked to be promoted to brigade commander, but was refused.
Dai Fengxiang did not agree to do so, he said: Jiao and Chen are just not very senior, one is the party, the other is a platoon leader (he thinks that if Jiao and Chen were non-commissioned officers or military cadets in Japan, they would not be opposed by the officers).
Before he finished speaking, Mei Xin slapped a slap on the table: "You are really a woman's benevolence, if you tell him to go, you will leave a trouble, and the branches will be born in the future!" The person next to him also said, "Kill it is cool."
Dai Fengxiang knew that he could not reverse this decision, so he secretly planned to report a letter to Jiao and Chen and persuade them to walk. After Chen Zuoxin was expelled from the new army, he taught at the Luohanzhuang Sports School for a year, and Dai Fengxiang happened to study there, and he should also do his best for the friendship between teachers and students.
After breakfast on October 30, Dai Fengxiang ran to the Governor's Mansion, Chen Zuoxin had already gone out, asked when to come back, replied "I don't know", and went to look for Jiao Dudu, only to see that in the early morning, the room was surrounded by thirty or forty people, who wanted officials, who wanted money, who did things, who sued for grievances, and who were noisy. Dai Fengxiang couldn't squeeze in at all, he just sighed, knowing that there was no way to save it.
Mei Xin and others dared to plan to kill Jiao Chen's second governor, also because on the 28th when Dai Fengxiang received the invitation, the second and fourth battalions of the Hunan Independent First Association set out to help Hubei, and almost all the soldiers of the New Army Alliance were included. Among the fifty standards of defense, there were quite a few people who were the supporters and sympathizers of Huang Zhonghao, whose head was still hanging on the city tower, and public hatred and private hatred came together.