Everyone has been deliberating all night, and Wang Zhaoming will certainly preach that the comrades in the north will abide by the agreement on peace, but now that Dr. Sun Yat-sen has returned to China, it is time to abandon the peace talks and realize the established strategy of "responding to the north and the south", and the opinions of our comrades in the north cannot be represented by Wang Zhaoming! The next day, the Northern Revolutionary Association held a meeting in the Small White House of the British Concession. The participants painfully stated that Yuan Shikai's persecution of the revolutionaries in recent days was filled with indignation, especially the death of Wang Zhongsheng, which made the audience most shocked.
On December 14, the Northern Revolutionary Association was established in Tianjin, with Hu Egong as its president. This revolutionary association integrated more than ten groups, including the League, the Iron Blood Society, the Zhenwu Society, the Radical Advancement Society, the Kefutang, the Beijing Revolutionary General Regiment, the Republican Revolutionary Party, the Beijing Republican Regiment, the Women's Northern Expedition, and the Women's Revolutionary League. The establishment of the Northern Revolutionary Association, in the words of Hu Egong, is precisely in view of the increasing number of revolutionary groups, "with Wang Zhaoming as the head of the Beijing, Tianjin, and Baozhi departments of the Chinese League, Xian did not want to join the League, but he had to make the best use of it."
Article 6 of the Constitution stipulates: "All funds of the Association shall be provided by the Military Government of Hubei or other military governments. Obviously, Hu Egong's election as president is not unrelated to his being a representative of the Ejun Army.
Hu Egong
However, the ten thousand yuan he brought had been used up, and he had borrowed seven thousand yuan from someone to buy a gun. I have repeatedly gone to Wuchang, and I have not seen any echoes. The officers and men of the Luanzhou Uprising naturally do not need to be launched, but the party inside and outside this pass cannot be a self-made revolution.
For example, Ding Kailing of the Zhenwu Society said that they had 28 road leaders inside and outside the Guan, and they could order thousands of gun members to go to Luanzhou to meet the uprising. It's all some green forest haojie, travel expenses and settlement fees are always needed, Hu Egong asked Ding Kaizhang, how much does it cost per person?
At least a hundred.
Well, the total is one hundred thousand. Where does the money come from?
Hu Egong sighed. Then let's go in stages and batches, each time fifty people come, first put together one or two installments of money.
Now it's only ten thousand yuan, but it's not so easy to raise. In addition, Wang Zhaoming preached everywhere that during the period of the Peace Conference between the North and the South, if the revolutionary party did something wrong, even if it betrayed the alliance, it would not only be morally detrimental, but also unfavorable to the revolutionary cause. According to Wang Zhaoming's opinion, peace negotiation is the only major matter at present, and Yuan Shikai's interests, that is, the interests of the revolutionary party, must not revolt and obstruct peacemakers, but can be assassinated and treated. During this time, Wang Zhaoming traveled back and forth between Beijing and Shanghai, mediating and twisting, and the scenery was very beautiful.
On December 18, five hundred people directly subordinate to Ren Qiu revolted, and none of them responded to Beijing, Tianjin, Baoding, Tongzhou, and Shijiazhuang, and sat by and watched Ren Qiu fail.
The joint meeting of the representatives of the provinces in Nanjing decided to switch to the solar calendar in the era of the Republic of China. Although Hu Egong was in Tianjin, he also saw this news, and he immediately decided that starting from the New Year's Day of the first year of the Republic of China, all chronicles, circulars, and documents would be changed to the solar calendar, and the old calendar of the Qing Dynasty would no longer be used.
On the night of December 27, Hu Egongdu went to sleep and was woken up by two comrades from Beijing. Things are not good!
According to them, Sun Yat-sen arrived in Shanghai on December 25, and Yuan Shikai suddenly felt that Tang Shaoyi's negotiations in Shanghai were incompetent, and planned to send Wang Zhaoming south to negotiate, so he sent his eldest son Keding to find Wang Zhaoming.
The scene they describe is very dramatic:
"When Zhaoming and Kedingxiang saw the night of Shi kai, the room was preset to feast on the occasion. Zhaoming, Ke Ding saw Shi Kai, and prostrated his head four times. Shi Kai sat on the south side, and Zhaoming Keding stood facing north. Shi Kai Gu Zhaoming and Ke Ding yue: The two Ru people are now brothers with different surnames. When Ke Ding is long, he should see Zhaoming as a brother; when Zhaoming is young, he should be treated as a brother. I am old, and I hope that the two brothers of Ru will be brothers with different surnames, more than flesh and bones. Zhaoming and Ke Dingze agreed to enter the word: "Just like the life of the old man." So he bowed his head four times north. After prostrating, Zhaoming and Keding accompanied Shi Kai to eat, and the food retreated. ”
Zhaoming and Ke Ding married a brother with a different surname? When did this happen?
Last night.
How do you know so fast?
Well...... It was Cheng Ke who listened to Zhao Bingjun. (Zhao Bingjun again?) ）
As he was speaking, Bai Yayu came, and he reported: Wang Zhaoming has already set off for Shanghai today, and you say, is this not to attach to old Yuan and sabotage the revolution?
Everyone has been deliberating all night, and Wang Zhaoming will certainly preach that the comrades in the north will abide by the agreement on peace, but now that Dr. Sun Yat-sen has returned to China, it is time to abandon the peace talks and realize the established strategy of "responding to the north and the south", and the opinions of our comrades in the north cannot be represented by Wang Zhaoming!
The next day, the Northern Revolutionary Association held a meeting in the Small White House of the British Concession. The participants painfully stated that Yuan Shikai's persecution of the revolutionaries in recent days was filled with indignation, especially the death of Wang Zhongsheng, which made the audience most shocked.
King Bells
Wang Zhongsheng was a well-known new dramatist in the late Qing Dynasty, using new dramas to publicize the revolution, and the newspapers repeatedly reported that everywhere he went, the audience went crazy. At the beginning of the year, Wang Zhongsheng was arrested in Beijing and deported back to his hometown of Shangyu in Zhejiang Province by the Beijing Police Department. After the Wuchang Incident, he fled from his hometown to Shanghai, participated in the attack on the Manufacturing Bureau, and became the chief of staff of the Governor's Office after the independence of Shanghai. In November, Wang Zhongsheng infiltrated Tianjin, which was familiar with the road, to plan the incident. On 2 December, he was arrested by police sent by the governor of Zhili, Chen Kuilong. On December 3, Zhang Huaizhi, the commander-in-chief of Tianjin Town, shot Wang Zhongsheng to death. As soon as the matter came out, Tsumon was in an uproar. The Governor-General Yamen announced that Wang Zhongsheng was a "restless bandit", but there was no criminal deed, and why was he not handed over to the court of trial after his arrest, but shot by the camp office, which was recognized as the darkest? It is said that Wang Zhongsheng once questioned the military judge: On September 9, the party was banned, and no arrest was allowed without breaking the law, I am a revolutionary party, what can you do with me? The governor Chen Kuilong was also embarrassed and directly asked the imperial court for advice. The cabinet headed by Yuan Shikai approved the four words "punish according to the law", and Wang Zhongsheng died.
Hu Egong told the crowd that after Wang Zhongsheng's death, he also asked Wang Zhaoming: During the armistice, he arrested and killed party members without permission, was it not Yuan Shikai's treachery? Wang Zhaoming actually answered: Wang Zhongsheng? He was just a man of few deeds, or was he arrested for violating the concession decrees, and what did he have to do with the revolution?
Some people also said that on the day Wang Zhongsheng was arrested, Wang Zhaoming took an early train from Tianjin to Beijing, and according to Yun, he was called by Yuan Shikai, and it was difficult to guarantee that he had nothing to do with Wang Zhongsheng's affairs.
The more he talked, the more excited he became, and the more he said it, the more angry he became, and the assassination group leader Sun Zhisheng took the lead in crying, and the whole audience cried. In the midst of the crying, a telegram to Mr. Sun Wen in Nanjing was drawn up, asking him to "stop the deputies of the provinces from negotiating peace with Yuan Shikai in the middle of the way, lead the military and civilian comrades in the provinces, sweep away the puppet Manchus, eliminate the bureaucracy, and establish a genuine republican form of government in order to implement the original purpose of the thorough revolution throughout the country."
The day after the telegram was handed over and sent, Ding Kailing came from Luanzhou to Tianjin. He said that a hundred comrades with guns in the first two periods of the Guanxi area had arrived in Luanzhou. At the same time, he brought the three luanzhou military camp commanders Wang, Zhang, and Shi with a quick telegram and invited the revolutionary comrades in Tianjin to luanzhou to guide the revolution.
Then I'll go. Bai Yayu said decisively.
On this very day, all the officers and men of Luanzhou electrified in favor of republicanism. The most tragic and shocking uprising in the north of the Xinhai Year is just around the corner.