When Zhao Bei came to the governor's yamen, the fire on the street had been extinguished, because the officials were not allowed to live in the people's land, and the nearby shops were mostly the property of the court officials, so Zhao Bei put this fire did not affect the people, and the fire was quickly extinguished under the efforts of the rebel troops, and the ruins of the official office that were burned black by the fire completely lost the majesty of the past, only the governor's yamen was not affected by the fire.

The streets are full of soldiers with torches, some are wearing military uniforms, some are not wearing military uniforms, but they are also tied with white cloth strips on their left arms, they are the Anhui Hui Party armed forces who came to help the war, mainly from the Elder Association and the Green Gang, compared with the soldiers of the new army, these heroes are full of gangsterism, and they are all carefully dressed according to the description in the commentary, everyone has a hero knot on their heads, bayberry in their temples, and some people are still carrying wine and meat in their hands, carrying brand-new foreign guns all over the street.

In this era, it is not only the only means for the grass people to resist the powerful forces, but also the tiger that destroys the social order at the bottom, and in later generations, it is usually called the "underworld".

At the beginning of the revolution, these party forces may have contributed to the rapid spread of revolutionary forces to all corners of society, but when the revolution succeeded, they were left with only a destructive effect.

These militants of the party are still holding silver bills in their hands, and the silver is also charred black, which is the "credit" of the fire set by Zhao Bei, because the treasury and the official money bureau were ignited, and the official silver stored in the treasury was also grilled by the fire, and after the fire was extinguished, the rebel army took out the silver and distributed it to the soldiers and the people who participated in the uprising as a "recovery salary", 20 taels per person, which can be described as extremely rich, and this is probably one of the reasons why some soldiers of the new army are willing to participate in the uprising.

Looking at these "people's army" soldiers, Zhao Bei frowned slightly, although he also knew that the success of the revolution was inseparable from these people, but it was precisely because of the participation of these three religions and nine streams that the revolutionary camp was uneven and the command was chaotic.

Before the Xinhai Revolution, most of the funds raised by the revolutionaries to launch the uprising fell into the pockets of the party members, who joined the revolution for the simple purpose of making money and running for office.

However, it is not possible to rely on these people, the people are numb and unorganized, and only the Hui Party has the spirit and strength to resist, and many of them still carry the banner of "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty" and are the natural allies of the revolution.

Zhao Bei led the team to the governor's yamen, and saw that the gate in front of the yamen had been pushed, and was replaced by a two-person high flagpole, with a large flag hanging on it, hanging down to the ground, with four big characters written on it: Dadu Governor Bear.

The flag is the handsome flag of the former governor's yamen, and the embroidered gold characters on it have been shaved, but the four words "Dadu Governor Xiong" are written with a brush, the font is strong, and the ink has not yet dried.

On the way here, Zhao Bei had already inquired about Wu Zhenhan, and when he was leading the soldiers to maintain order on the street, the uprising headquarters had passed a resolution to establish the "Metropolitan Governor's Office" and support the commander-in-chief Xiong Chengji as the "Metropolitan Governor".

However, the current situation is still quite grim, although the Qing army has been driven out of the city, but under the command of the Qing court officials, some scattered troops have begun to assemble, one is entrenched outside the west gate of the city, the other is to seize the boat across the river, has set up a large camp on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and the rebel army across the river to confront, and on the Yangtze River channel, there are still one or two dull whistles, whether it is the gunboat of the Qing army, it is still necessary to wait for the dawn to reconnoitre.

As soon as the "Dadu Governor's Office" was established, he took his subordinates and staff officers to inspect the city gates, first, to understand the enemy's situation, and second, to appease the soldiers and recruit the civilian army to meet the possible counterattack of the Qing army.

In this way, when Zhao Bei arrived at the governor's yamen, he pounced on the air, did not see Xiong Chengji, so he had to wait for the dispatch with the troops outside the gate, and took advantage of this opportunity to ask for all the "recovery salary" of the troops, and personally sent them to the soldiers, and by the way, they were familiar with all their subordinates, so that everyone could take a closer look at their top bosses, "the first heroes of the city".

After the military salary was distributed, Zhao Bei sat down next to the stone lion at the entrance of the yamen, and discussed the military situation with several staff officers who stayed in the Dadu Governor's Mansion, only to learn that because the southern city was not captured in time, most of the Qing Dynasty officials in the city had fled out of the city with the troops, and Zhu Jiabao, the governor of Anhui who sat in Anqing, was also missing.

Half an hour later, a group of cavalry escorted a young man with a big coat on his shoulders to the yamen, followed by a group of officials armed with water and fire sticks, in addition to the soldiers of the new army.

"The bear is here! Salute! ”

The sentinel shouted, and Zhao Bei learned that the young man was Xiong Chengji, the commander-in-chief of the uprising and a member of the Restoration Society, and hurriedly stood up and saluted.

Xiong Chengji jumped off the war horse and came to Zhao Bei, the two young people looked at each other, and they were surprised by each other's youth.

Xiong Chengji is twenty-one years old, younger than Zhao Bei, and his face is white and clean, Si Swenwen, it is difficult to associate him with the "rebellion", if it were not for Wu Zhenhan's recommendation, Zhao Bei almost thought that he recognized the wrong person.

"You are Zhao Bei?" Xiong Chengji couldn't hide the surprise in his heart.

"See the Grand Governor!" Zhao Bei saluted.

"Just now Wu Guandao has told me about your feat of blowing up the city gate, you are a hero, if you didn't fan the flames in the city and disrupt the deployment of the Qing army, it would be really difficult for our army to enter the city. The shells of our artillery team are all unmanaged, thanks to your improvisation, and sent Wu Guan to seize the fire depot. My name is Xiong Chengji, the word Weigen, Yangzhou people's. Xiong Chengji stretched out his hand.

Zhao Bei shook hands with him and said, "Xiong Du has won the award." My name is Zhao Bei, and my name is ...... Zhenhua, Huguang people's family. In his early years, he traveled to Europe with his family, broadened his horizons, and turned to the revolution, but he never found a revolutionary organization. After coming back, I learned that Xu Xilin was martyred against the Qing Dynasty years ago, and I regretted it very much, so I decided to avenge Xu Yishi with action, and asked someone to buy a powerful bomb from a foreign country, and came to Anqing, planning to assassinate the governor of Anhui, but I didn't take action yet, but I happened to meet your army, so I temporarily changed the plan, and responded to your army, and lurked near the city gate before dark, led the rebel army to rush and kill in the city, and responded to the comrades outside the city. ”

Rather than waiting for the other party to ask, it is better to tell it frankly, lest anyone be suspicious and say that his origin is unknown, which will affect unity.

"If your bomb is used to assassinate the puppet Qing governor, it will be too big and too much. By the way, how did you know we were going to start an uprising? Xiong Chengji smiled and shook his head. Before entering the city, he thought that the city gate was blown open by Xue Zhe and his subordinates, but when he entered the city and met Wu Zhenhan, he learned that it was not like that, if it were not for Zhao Bei to insert a pole, the city gate would not have been opened, and if it were not for Zhao Bei leading his subordinates to rush left and right in the city, disrupting the deployment of the Qing army, the battle in the city would not have ended so soon, so he was extremely grateful to Zhao Bei, so he tried his best to override the public opinion and appointed Zhao Bei as the commander of the left wing of the rebel army to reward his merits.

Asked casually by Xiong Chengji, Zhao Bei was secretly vigilant in his heart, frowned, and said: "I heard from some people in the party, and I didn't completely believe it at first, but I just had the idea of giving it a try, but I didn't expect you to really launch an uprising." Commander Xiong, the party's tone is not strict, I am afraid that the rumors have already leaked, otherwise, why did the Qing army suddenly strengthen its vigilance tonight? ”

This is true. However, if they didn't leak the news, how could Zhenhua lurk near the city gate? How can our army enter the city so easily? Xiong Chengji was in a good mood, and he didn't care about blaming the party at this time.

"It's a pity that Zhu Jiabao ran away, and he didn't catch many pseudo-Qing officials." Zhao Bei sighed. In fact, Li Yuanhong's coming to power during the Xinhai Revolution certainly had the political immaturity of revolutionaries, but it did also play a role in stabilizing people's hearts.

Sometimes, the general trend of history can also be artificially created, and history is inherently the practice of chaos theory.

"Our army is weak, and it is a fluke that we can capture this city. Those Manchu officials ran away, and they couldn't run far anyway, and they would be caught and killed one by one in the future. Xiong Chengji waved his hand back. Bring those people in! ”

The soldiers and officials slashed with guns and knives, and a dozen Qing soldiers who were tied up came over, all of whom had blue noses and swollen faces, and their braids were scattered, and they were forced by the soldiers to kneel down in front of the ya.

"Execution!" Xiong Chengji snorted in disgust.

After the gunshot, more than a dozen corpses with bursting brains lay on the ground.

"These people are all cronies of the former governor of the puppet Qing Dynasty, Enming. Last year, Bosun was martyred, and these banner people and dog minions actually ripped out Bosun's liver. Now, let them be used to honor Bethsun. ”

Xiong Chengji's words solved the confusion of Zhao Bei and others.

"Bosun" is Xu Xilin's word, last year Xu Xilin launched an uprising of patrol police officers, personally killed Anhui Governor Enming, and was captured by the Qing soldiers afterwards, Enming's guards were angry that he killed his own food and clothing master, hated it to the bone, and then took out his liver and drank wine, this matter was a sensation, Mr. Lu Xun's short story "Medicine" is based on this matter as the prototype of the creation. Zhao Bei also has some understanding of this history, but what is recorded in the history books is "plucking the heart for sacrifice", not taking the liver and drinking wine.

"Zhenhua, are you interested in joining the Restoration Society?" Xiong Chengji asked Zhao Bei.

"Restoration Society? Is it a revolutionary organization? Zhao Bei asked knowingly.

"To tell you the truth, I'm a member of the Restoration Society. The purpose of the Restoration Society is to 'restore the Han Dynasty, restore our rivers and mountains, promise the country with our bodies, and retire with success', of course, it is a revolutionary organization, and what we do is the life of the Manchu Qing court! ”

"Is your organization the same as the Alliance?" When I was in a foreign country, the word 'Alliance' I heard the most was the word 'Alliance'. Zhao Bei continued to play stupid.

Xiong Chengji pondered for a moment and said with a wry smile: "The Restoration Society has been merged into the Alliance, but the two factions have a big difference, so they have to separate again. The people of the League are just lip service, and they will only stay abroad and ask others to sell their lives, but they themselves sit in the conference room with a map and point at it. ”

According to the research of later historians, several leaders of the Restoration Society have different degrees of imperial thoughts, and their revolution refers to the change of dynasty, which is not quite the same as the establishment of a republic advocated by the Alliance, in addition, the Liberation Society is a fierce action faction, at least in the early stage, its members pay more attention to practice than the members of the Alliance, practice the revolution with practical actions, and even do not hesitate to carry out assassination activities. Its way of doing things is more heroic than the League's overseas remote control of the party's uprising, and many of the cadres of the Liberation Society have killed themselves in this way, which is one of the reasons why the power of the Liberation Society has never been able to grow and develop. Of course, the later cadres of the League also returned to China one after another, risking their lives and personally participating in the uprising, which cannot but be said to be influenced or stimulated by the Liberation Society.

Xiong Chengji held Zhao Bei's hand and said, "Brother Zhenhua, you are a strong man who practices the revolution and should join our Restoration Society." ”

Zhao Bei smiled, nodded, and said, "In this way, since Brother Weigen is loving, if you are willing to be my introducer, I will join the Restoration Society." Finally found the organization! ”

"Good! Good! I'll be your introducer! I immediately wrote to President Tao and recommended you to them. Xiong Chengji said excitedly.

After ordering people to drag away the corpses of Goshha, Xiong Chengji invited Zhao Bei to enter the governor's mansion transformed by the governor's yamen, the two talked for a while, Xiong Chengji wrote a letter of recommendation, and recommended Zhao Bei to Tao Chengzhang, the actual host of the Restoration Society in Shanghai, and after the letter was written, Zhao Bei was about to talk about the attack on Nanjing, but the chief officials at all levels of the uprising headquarters had already received orders to rush to the meeting, and a military meeting was held.