Yang Du noticed the subtle change in the expression on Liang Qichao's face, he smiled quietly, and continued: "But everything involves elections, there are many surprises, Zhuo Ru must not be too confident, just like the fisherman of Taoyuan back then, he died before he left the school, which made the hero cry. ”

Listening to Yang Du's reminder of the last sentence, Liang Qichao remembered the sensational assassination of Song Jiaoren back then, and his face couldn't help but change.

"What the Lady said is very true." Liang Qichao's tone became painful, "A few days ago, I saw in the magazine "Zonghengtan" that the details of the assassination of Taoyuan fisherman's father were revealed, and the murderer turned out to be Chen Yingshi, and the mastermind behind it was Sun, which was really unexpected. ”

"I remember that the article was written by a person named 'Ice and Fire', and I saw it from the Beijing Times." Yang Du saw that Liang Qichao listened to his words, and his eyes flashed with relief, "Reading his text, it is thrilling, no less than reading a thriller novel late at night, I really don't know where he got so much evidence." ”

"The evidence referred to in this article is detailed, and the analysis is meticulous and reasonable, but I am afraid that it will be difficult for Sun to defend himself from now on." Liang Qichao sighed.

On March 20, 1913, Song Jiaoren, the acting chairman of the Kuomintang, was assassinated by a conspiracy at the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway Station.

In the eyes of later generations, Song Jiaoren has always been a close comrade-in-arms and good friend of the great revolutionary pioneers, and was called "the first person to shed blood for the Constitution" by the great revolutionary pioneers.

As early as November 23, 1908, Song Jiaoren publicly stated: "With a careerist like Sun as the leader, it is impossible for the Chinese revolution to achieve its goal no matter what." We believe that it is appropriate to study books on politics diligently before there are real leaders. ”

In December 1910, in a conversation between Song Jiaoren and his friend Shinzoki, he clearly stated again: "Sun is already a figure behind the times, and he is not enough to guide the revolutionary movement. ”

A fact that has been deliberately ignored is that within the League and the Kuomintang, Soong Jiao-jen was actually the first to oppose the great revolutionary forerunners of the party leader. However, Song Jiaoren did not openly stand up to challenge the Sun clan like Zhang Taiyan, Tao Chengzhang and others, nor did he organize a separate communist association like Zhang Baixiang, Liu Gong, Sun Wu, Jiao Dafeng and others, but together with Tan Renfeng and others, he confined himself to the alliance and implemented "empty and void" for the great revolutionary pioneers. After the victory of the Xinhai Revolution, Song Jiaoren continued to emptiness the chairman of the board of directors of the great revolutionary forerunners within the Kuomintang on the one hand; On the other hand, he intends to use the responsible cabinet of the parliamentary party in which the Kuomintang has a relatively large advantage, and to implement the same surname and vacancy of the same surname of the great president Yuan Shikai, so as to realize his political ideal of being the prime minister with real power. The success and failure of Soong Jiaoren's political activities are actually rooted in this.

The inner split between Song Jiaoren and the party leader Sun, who was unwilling to cooperate but had to cooperate in an empty and empty manner, can be traced back to February 28, 1907. He introduced in the chronicles of the day that Huang Xing had a fierce conflict between the two because he did not agree with Sun's use of the blue sky and white flag designed by Lu Haodong before his death as the new national flag in the future. Song pointed out in his account that the more intrinsic reason for this conflict was actually Sun's "inability to be open and honest, humble and frank to others, and to act in a way that is close to [***] domineering, and there is an embarrassment to deal with"!

As early as before the Xinhai Revolution, Sun and Song had frequent conflicts, and there were two uprisings of the League to overthrow Sun, and Song Jiaoren did not stand up to speak for Sun at that time, so that Chen Yingshi and other "pro-Sun faction" hated him very much. At the time of the establishment of the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, Song Jiaoren was the opposite of Sun everywhere, Sun advocated the Northern Expedition, and Song Jiaoren advocated peace between the north and the south, and elected Yuan Shikai as president. The Sun family advocated the establishment of the capital of Nanjing, while Song Jiaoren and Zhang Taiyan advocated the establishment of the capital of Yanjing.

In addition, the political views of the two men were also very different, Sun advocated the implementation of an American-style presidential system, and Soong Jiaoren advocated a French-style cabinet system of responsibility. Sun wanted to be a president with great power and did not want to be restrained by others, on the grounds that the responsible cabinet system "is by no means appropriate for this extraordinary era, because in this extraordinary era, we cannot restore the law of defense to the only person who is confidently elected, and mislead the revolutionary plan." The two sides fought until they were red-faced, and finally broke up unhappily.

Unlike the radical revolutionaries, Soong has always insisted on non-violent parliamentary party elections, sunshine participation in politics, and peaceful competition within the framework of the constitutional system. In this regard, Soong Jiao-jen, the acting chairman of the Kuomintang who presided over the founding of the Kuomintang, has a clear advantage in the party. However, Song Jiaoren's actions invisibly plunged the radical revolutionaries within the Kuomintang, led by the great revolutionary forerunners, Chen Yingshi, and others, into a passive situation in which "heroes are useless," thus creating a dangerous situation in which "the party has internal turmoil." Song Jiaoren's overconfident blind optimism and neglect of precautions about the dangerous situation of "internal coaxing" directly led to the tragic ending of his murder at Shanghai's Shanghai-Nanjing Railway Station!

Song Jiaoren, who was eager to act as the No. 2 figure of the Kuomintang in the style of "Taiping Zaifu", was actually shot and killed by Wu Shiying, a ruffian who was in exile in Shanghai, and Wu Naiwen, who commanded Wu Shiying to shoot Song Jiaoren on the spot, was a first-class section member when Ying Kuicheng was the head of the spy section of Chen Yingshi, the governor of the Shanghai Army. Ying Kuicheng was arrested by the concession patrol, and it was the result of Wu Naiwen's arrangement for his old friend Wang Afa, whom he met in Wuhan, to come forward to report. Chen Yingshi and others, who resolutely arrested Ying Kuicheng and Wu Shiying, but never arrested Wu Naiwen, who was explicitly wanted by the Concession Patrol. Chen Yusheng, who commanded Wu Shiying on the spot with Wu Naiwen, never appeared on the trial seat of Song Jiaoren's case after Zhenjiang was arrested. The real culprit behind the murder of Song Jiaoren, the mastermind of these evidences, is not Yuan Shikai, who is far away in Yanjing, but Chen Yingshi, the former governor of the Shanghai Army and the "big" boss of the Youth Gang, who has the greatest military and political strength, intelligence system and underworld forces in Shanghai! Chen Yingshi took advantage of Sun's absence of knowledge of the incident to kill Song Jiaoren and create a fait accompli, killing two birds with one stone, on the one hand, to avoid suspicion for Sun, and on the other hand, to inspire the party members with Song Jiaoren's death, eliminate the influence of non-radical forces in the party, and then launch an anti-Yuan revolution to remove obstacles for Sun's monopoly on power.

After Song Jiaoren's death, Sun's followers even made this assessment of Song Jiaoren on moral charges such as betraying the revolution and betraying the party leader, and in a way that was close to political reckoning: "On the basis of a group of political forces that have lost their revolutionary surnames and doctrines, they compromise with the counter-revolutionary bureaucracy in order to seize power in a short period of time." To be fairly criticized, the first sinner of the revolutionary party is really the fisherman. ”

"Sun has always regarded himself as a pioneer of the revolution, and if he still acts like this, let alone others." Yang Du said, "Although your party has a great chance of winning this election, it must not be taken lightly. It must be known that the power of this 'Brother Kong Fang' is much greater than any ideal. ”

"Thank you for the reminder." Liang Qichao said with a straight face, "If you don't give up, how about going out of the mountain to help me?" ”

"I'm the notorious culprit of the imperial system, you want me to go out of the mountain to help you, do you still want to win this election?" Listening to Liang Qichao's words, Yang Du couldn't help laughing.

Liang Qichao listened to Yang Du's answer, and couldn't help but sigh again.

"If I get an amnesty for my son, will I be willing to go out of the mountain?"

"There is still a long way to go, Zhuo Ruhao cherishes himself." Yang Du stopped laughing, looked at Liang Qichao, and said word by word, "From now on, I will devote myself to Zen, and I will never ask about political affairs again." ”

Hearing Yang Du's resolute words, Liang Qichao didn't persuade again, he got up silently, bowed to Yang Du, and turned to leave.

Seeing Liang Qichao's figure disappear at the door, Yang Du looked at the newspaper thrown on the table, and also got up and left.

Somehow, the wind outside the window suddenly became stronger, blowing the newspapers on the table to the ground, and some of the newspapers flew to Yang Du's feet, but Yang Du didn't look at them again.

Guangxi, Nanning, Guangxi and Guangzhou.

"This land has long been stained red with blood, and I don't know how long it will take before it will not be stained with blood."

In a small study, Yang Shuoming and Huang Xing, who had not slept all night, sat there silently.

By now, the two had been talking all night.

Huang Xing, who returned from Europe after all the hardships and dangers, was silent at this time, Yang Shuoming did not speak again, for an hour, neither of them spoke, Huang Xing kept smoking cigars, blue and white porcelain ashtrays, full of ash and cigarette butts, and after a cigarette was smoked, Huang Xing would be used to lighting another one, Yang Shuoming, who had no smoking habits, was drinking tea there, and after a cup of tea, he would pour himself another cup.

Smoking, drinking tea, for such a long time, in this study, the two of them just repeat their actions mechanically, and no one breaks the silence.

"When are you going to send troops to Hunan?"

Finally, it was Huang Xing who took the lead in breaking the silence.

"When the time comes."

Looking at the anxious and worried look in Huang Xing's eyes, Yang Shuoming couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart.

"When is the right time? Do you have to wait until all the people in Hunan are dead before you do it? Huang Xing asked loudly.

"If you send troops now, even if you defeat Zhang Jingyao and Tang Tianxi, can you guarantee that there will be no more Zhang Jingyao and Tang Tianxi in Hunan?" Yang Shuoming's voice revealed a hint of hoarseness, "We don't have many troops, we can't withstand too much attrition, what I need most now is time." ”

Listening to Yang Shuoming's answer, Huang Xing fell into silence again.

"Keqiang's investigation in Europe this time must have gained a lot." Yang Shuoming looked at Huang Xing, and his words suddenly changed, "After this trip, can Keqiang sue me, what is the way to strengthen the country?" ”

Huang Xing raised his head, looked at Yang Shuoming with some strange eyes, and said, "My idea is still immature, scattered and unorganized, and I ask Hanzhi to give me advice." ”

"The way I have summarized to strengthen the country, this flag."

Yang Shuoming said, pointing to a red, blue and yellow three-color "human" flag placed on the table.

Looking at the small tricolor flag on the table with Yang Shuoming's fingers, Huang Xing couldn't help but be slightly stunned, obviously not understanding what Yang Shuoming was talking about.

"This flag is divided into red, yellow and blue colors, blue represents the blue sky, red means that the land of China has been stained with blood, and the yellow 'human' character is the descendants of Yan and Huang, which means that our descendants of Yan and Huang have a bright blue sky on their heads, step on the blood-stained land, and be Chinese who stand on top of the sky." The whole flag symbolizes that the Chinese nation has risen up bloodily and stands proudly in the world! ”

When Yang Shuoming said the metaphor of the "quasi-national flag" he designed word by word, Huang Xing looked at the small tricolor flag, listened to Yang Shuoming's explanation, and his eyes gradually released an eager light.

"Be a Chinese...... standing up to the sky," Huang Xing muttered, "What a meaning!" ”

"Actually, the flag has another meaning." Yang Shuoming said.

"Another meaning?" Huang Xing asked a little strangely.

"Now, I want to ask Keqiang three questions."

"Hanzhi, please speak."

"Of these three questions, the first is, what is the current situation in China? The second is to speculate from the latent trend of the current situation, what will China look like in the future? Thirdly, what is our mission? ”

"China's current situation can be summed up by the 'four diseases'." Huang Xing listened to Yang Shuoming's question and replied as if he had been prepared.

"Which four diseases?"

"The so-called 'four diseases' are 'ignorance disease', the second is 'poverty disease', the third is 'soldier disease', and the fourth is 'external force disease'." Huang Xing replied, "Among them, ignorance and poverty have made it impossible for China to form a powerful social force, the disease of soldiers and bandits has led to the rampant warlords, and the disease of external forces has made it difficult for the Chinese nation to develop its industry." Among these four diseases, the disease of ignorance and the disease of poverty have a fundamental surname and cannot be solved in a short period of time, and the disease of soldiers and bandits is the most serious harm to China, which is the main obstacle to social progress and development, and is the most urgent problem to be solved. ”

"Keqiang summed it up well." Yang Shuoming smiled and said.

"In addition to these four diseases, there are also 'five ghosts', which mess with my China." Huang Xing continued, "These five ghosts are 'poverty', 'disease', 'ignorance', 'corruption' and 'disorder'. Among them, disease is the cause of our weakness, and ignorance does not need to be proved by us, because of ignorance, the productive forces are low, so the political power is weak, so the knowledge is not enough to help the poor, disaster relief, famine and disease, so there is a lack of experts, so the rule of the country is still in the hands of military and politicians who have no knowledge and learning. As for corruption, it is the greatest characteristic of our nation, and this bad habit has actually become a common habit in all kinds of societies. ”

"Keqiang said well, if you want to sweep away these 'four diseases and five ghosts', you must not mean what this flag means." Yang Shuoming nodded and said.

"May it be auspicious." Huang Xing said.

"This flag is composed of red, yellow and blue, blue represents freedom, yellow represents open cooking, and red represents science, which is the way to strengthen the country."

"Science, boiling, and freedom are not enough to strengthen the country."

Yang Shuoming took the small tricolor flag off the flag stand, spread it flat on the table, and continued.

"Science is the source of social productivity, boiling is the source of civil rights, and freedom is the source of creation. Science can break ignorance and ignorance, boiling can break corruption and disorder, and freedom can break poverty, all three of which are indispensable. ”

"What Han Zhi said is that if you want to get rid of these 'four diseases and five ghosts', you must have science, open cooking, and freedom."

In addition, the yellow of this flag is gold, gold is the symbol of wealth, it is yellow and represents the economy, the red is iron and blood, the reason why blood is red is because it contains iron, and iron and blood is military. The two complement each other and are indispensable. ”

"The color of the blue sea and blue sky is called freedom, and the freedom of the sea and sky is guaranteed by the gold and the iron and blood of the yellow and the red and the iron and blood, that is, the economy and the military are the guarantee of freedom, whether it is an economic power or a military power."

"Internally, a country should seek to enrich the people, and the people must be established by industry and commerce, and if you want to develop industry and commerce, you need to expand the rights of the people, and it is because of the educated people and the free people that wealth can be created."

"A country's external affairs, should seek a strong country, a strong country must be established by the military, only a strong military, can consolidate the national power, and the consolidation of national power, the need for a responsible political axe, there must be a national political axe."

"In the case of China, what does it depend on to enrich the people? It depends on the development of industry and commerce. What does it take to make the country strong? It depends on the strength of the military. This is what it means to build a country by industry and commerce and by military power. In order for the country's economy to develop, it is necessary for the people to be able to continuously create wealth, and the people must have the most basic security guarantee for the lives and property of the people. If people are constantly worried about the threat to their lives and property, then there is absolutely no possibility of economic development for the country. Taking Europe and the United States as an example, the United States has the most developed civil rights, and its economy is correspondingly the highest in the world. Britain is second, so its economy is inferior to the United States. Russia has no civil rights to speak of, so its economy is weak, and this European war, with its reckless military force, has had this revolutionary upheaval. ”

"Without the political axe of the nation, there is no possibility of consolidating national power, so consolidating national power can be said to be the most important thing for the national political axe. The people must have power, and first of all, the people must have freedom. Freedom is the source of creativity, and people have no creativity without freedom. In a country ruled by foreign colonies, the people have no freedom to speak of, so there is no creativity, and the reason why this country is not prosperous. In a constitutional nation, the people have their freedom and creativity on the premise of abiding by the law. And the political axe with national power must be a responsible political axe. ”

Huang Xing stared at the three-color "human" banner on the table, his expression became more and more solemn, Yang Shuoming noticed the change in the expression on Huang Xing's face, and his words became more and more firm and powerful.

"The top priority at the moment is to first establish the political axe of the Chinese nation, so that this political axe can become a truly responsible political axe, which can give the people the most basic freedom. The gradual expansion of civil rights depends on the success of national education, and when national education is successful, then civil rights are successful, and civil rights are successful, then the people can set up industry and commerce, industry and commerce, tax revenue, and the country's economy is developed, and only then can a military power have the foundation and guarantee for its realization, and a free citizen and a developed industry and commerce should build a strong military, and if there is a strong military, then the national power can be consolidated. The goal of making the country rich and the people strong will naturally be realized. ”

(To be continued)