Chapter Ninety-Nine: Huang Xing's Confusion
Since the 11th Sun Wen issued a provisional statute that caused public opinion, on March 10, after Yuan Shikai officially assumed the presidency in Yanjing, Yuan Shikai appointed Tang Shaoyi as the premier of the State Council, and on the 15th, ordered all provincial governors to be changed to Chengdu governors, and Zhang Guangjian of Shandong was renamed the governor of Shandong according to Yuan Shikai, but his former civil and military attachés continued to serve as before, and nothing changed. And Chen Jingyun of Fujian was originally the governor of the title, so there is no need to change it.
On April 1, Sun Wen, who had been holding on to his resignation but would not be dismissed, finally announced his formal dismissal under pressure from China and abroad, and the next day the Nanjing Senate passed a resolution to relocate the temporary political axe to Yanjing, and the Senate also moved to Yanjing. Since then, the dispute between the north and the south for the capital has ended with Sun Wen's complete defeat.
Although the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe was to be relocated to Yanjing, the hundreds of thousands of people's troops near Nanjing could not go north together, and at the same time, the revolutionaries in the south were still wary of Yuan Shikai, so it was suggested that the Nanjing Temporary Political Axe should be turned into a left-behind political axe. At that time, the revolutionaries were supporting Huang Xing and Duan Qirui to compete for the post of army chief, but Yuan Shikai would not let go of military power at all, and Huang Xing had no choice but to agree to stay in Nanjing.
Although the Nanjing garrison retained a glimmer of hope for the Southern Revolutionary Party, the trouble he faced was even greater, because with this Nanjing, those people's troops who stayed behind in Nanjing still had to ask Huang Xing for military salaries, and Nanjing's financial difficulties were needless to say. Huang Xing sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai every day asking for military salaries, but Yuan Shikai was not a fool, it would be strange if he could come up with money to raise an army for the enemy, so he directly ordered Xiong Xiling of the Ministry of Finance not to give a single copper!
The north side did not give money, and there was no choice but to raise it by itself, but now Nanjing has even moved away from the temporary political axe, and there is no name to borrow or borrow, let alone any provinces to send them military salaries, so it can be said that there is no source of income.
The troops did not have anything to eat, and some troops far away from Nanjing were fine, and they were able to raise money and food locally by various means, but the troops stationed in Nanjing were not so lucky, and these troops, who had not been paid military salaries for several months and had no food for several days, finally began a large-scale mutiny.
The scale of the mutiny was more than the mutiny in Yanjing, the seventh division of the Jiangxi army stationed in Nanjing first began to mutiny, the rebels in the Nanjing Taiping Bridge, Baimen Bridge area wantonly looted, burned, looted, robbed money and grain, not to mention the killing of merchants, forced annihilation of women from good families, in short, they did what the rebels could do in these years, and then several groups of the people's army began to mutiny, at this time, Huang Xing, who was far away in Shanghai to raise funds, immediately ordered the various units stationed in Nanjing to suppress the mutiny, and then, The troops stationed in Nanjing began to suppress the rebellion, and they took out the strength of a real civil war, using extremely cruel means to kill a dark place in the city of Nanjing, and countless merchants and people were robbed and killed in the melee.
After Huang Xing returned to Nanjing, he looked at the unrecognizable Nanjing and was speechless, and when he walked through the streets, he even felt the hatred of the people cast at him, and he seemed to hear someone scolding him for bringing disaster to the country and the people. He couldn't believe that these people's army, who claimed to be the revolutionary army, could do such a thing, and even for a moment he wondered if what he had been doing all this time was still meaningful. Was the revolution right or wrong?
Thinking of the fact that some time ago, almost all the people in the country abandoned him and Sun Wen and turned to support Yuan Shikai and set the capital of Yanjing, and I was even more puzzled in my heart, what is going on? Why are things different from what I thought I would? Thinking about how heroic it was when the Wuchang incident happened, and thinking about what kind of atmosphere it was when the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe was established, almost all of China regarded the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe as the only hope for the Chinese Republic, but after only three or four months, everything changed, what changed?
After thinking hard all night, Huang Xing finally made a major decision the next day, that is, disarmament! Among the people's armies gathered near Nanjing, the local army was disbanded on the spot, the troops from other provinces were escorted back to their hometowns for dismissal, and at the same time the number of troops was reduced, and so on, and so on, in order to encourage the soldiers to take the initiative to leave their posts in order to be patriotic, in a word, it was necessary to dismiss the hundreds of thousands of people's troops around Nanjing. Immediately, several division commanders and army commanders responded to Huang Xing's call, resigned by telegram, and disbanded the headquarters.
For a time, the people's armies of various departments in Nanjing were completely chaotic, some were disbanded on the spot, some returned to their hometowns, some went directly to the mountains to become bandits, some went north to Beiyang, some went to Yunnan and Fujian to defect to various warlords, and some mutinied. And Huang Xing is also a ruthless person, extracting the elite from his own descendant troops, and then forming an eighth division, not only all the officers are all members of the alliance, but also all the money and ordnance he can loot are used to supply the eighth division, and then whoever dares to mutiny directly sends the eighth division to suppress it.
Under such ruthless methods, most of the people's troops around Nanjing were dispersed overnight, and they are still being dismantled.
In this context, the detachment sent by the Zhejiang military and political axe to aid Ning, that is, the second division under the jurisdiction of Zhu Rui, began to leave Jiangsu and return to Zhejiang, just like the troops sent from other provinces.
When Zhu Rui led the Second Division back to Zhejiang, it caused an even more fierce conflict to break out in the already turbulent Zhejiang.
Zhejiang, in the revolutionary wave last year, followed in the footsteps of Fujian and other provinces, in November is to complete the recovery, but after the recovery of Zhejiang, the situation in the province is in a state of extreme turmoil like other provinces, first the alliance and the recovery will fight for the position of the governor and quarrel, under the open and secret struggle had to compromise with each other, and finally it is clear that Zhejiang celebrity Tang Shou sneaked to be the governor.
Although it was because of the contradiction between the Alliance and the Restoration Society, it was not small that Tang Shouqian was appointed as the governor of Zhejiang, but the effect was not small, not only temporarily calmed the dispute between the Alliance and the Restoration Society, but also used the fame of Tang Shouqian to successfully restore most of Zhejiang to peace, so that the Zhejiang military and political axe could send a detachment to Nanjing with peace of mind, and in the follow-up time, reinforcements and logistics ordnance and food were sent to the detachment one after another. It's just that the original peace and recovery in Zhejiang is only on the surface, and in many places, local officials directly changed the brand and declared the republic, such as Ningbo and other places, except for changing the name and there is no difference from before.
At the same time, the Ma Cheng First Brigade sent by Chen Jingyun also began to go north to Zhejiang under the name of the Southern Coalition Army, all the way to incorporate the old army in the southern part of Zhejiang, and finally arrived in the area of Jinhua in Shaoxing, and actually controlled the southern region of Zhejiang militarily. It's just that no matter then or now, Chen Jingyun has not accepted the local local government, and when the Nationalist Army marched into Zhejiang, it was under the title of Aiding Ning and the Northern Expedition, and it was in the name of the Southern Coalition Army, so not much attention was paid to it at that time, but now, someone has noticed, but the two divisions of the Nationalist Army have taken root in southern Zhejiang, and it is not a matter of talking about it if you want to drive the Nationalist Army out of Zhejiang. But so far, fortunately, although the Nationalist Army is stationed in the southern part of Zhejiang, because it does not interfere in the local local political axe, plus it can suppress bandits, and because there are 20,000 or 30,000 troops in the future, even if the Beiyang Army goes south, it can help resist. Therefore, the Zhejiang military and political axe has always turned a blind eye to the existence of the national army in Zhejiang.
Chen Jingyun knew that he could not openly accept local political power now, so in addition to the actual control of the garrison, he used the name of the logistics department of the national army to send special commissioners to various prefectures and counties in southern Zhejiang to collect military expenses from the counties, which was to put it bluntly, to collect taxes. Under the pressure of the army, the local political axes in southern Zhejiang can only give a part of the military expenses to the national army, and anyway, these local political axes do not pay taxes to the provincial military and political axes in Hangzhou, but only give the taxes that should have been paid to the national army, which does not affect the actual interests of the local people.
This is the case in the southern part of Zhejiang, but it is even more chaotic in the northern part of Zhejiang. In particular, the dispute between the governors of Zhejiang ran through almost all the words after the Zhejiang Uprising.
After Tang Shou became the governor of Zhejiang in the contradiction between the potential alliance and the Guangfu Society, he found that he was just a puppet governor, almost all the rights of the military and political axes were controlled by the party, and his orders could not even go out of the governor's mansion, in this case, he was naturally disheartened, and said several times that he would resign, but at that time Zhu Rui was still leading the army, for fear that after Tang Shouqian resigned as the governor, the governor of Zhejiang would fall into the hands of others, so he resolutely opposed.
But Zhu Rui's opposition was useless, since January 1912 after the formal establishment of the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, the contradiction between the League and the Restoration Society has become more and more intensified, the two sides have used any means in order to compete for the governor of Zhejiang, in order to make the position vacant They specially nominated Tang Shouqian to serve as the post of the chief of traffic of the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, Tang Shouqian was extremely depressed in front of this puppet governor, and now that he has the opportunity to resign, he immediately announced his resignation, and then went to Nanjing to take up his post as the chief of transportation.
As soon as Tang Shou dived away, the vacated position of the governor of Zhejiang made the people of the Alliance and the Restoration Society fight for the head of the blood, and the contradiction between the Restoration Society and the Alliance broke out completely, Chen Qimei killed Tao Chengzhang for this, and used this as a guide to cause a complete break between the Alliance and the Restoration Society, from the original ally to the enemy of life and death.
As soon as Tao Chengzhang died, the Liberation Society lost its heavyweight leader and lost in this battle, and at the same time, Chen Qimei, who was suspected of assassinating Tao Chengzhang, was not good at serving as the governor of Zhejiang, so he elected Jiang Zungui of the League as the governor of Zhejiang.
Originally, the alliance hoped to use Jiang Zungui to control Zhejiang, but Jiang Zungui himself was not a person who was willing to be a puppet, and as soon as he took office, he reformed the military and political axe in Zhejiang, trying to concentrate power on himself.