Chapter 197: Turmoil in Hubei
Like many of the rebellious provinces in the south, Hubei has a huge internal contradiction, and this contradiction is almost irreconcilable. During the Wuchang Uprising, after the members of the Communist Party at that time led the soldiers of the New Army to launch an uprising, in order to win over the soldiers of the New Army in Hubei and ensure the continuation of the uprising, they did not choose a revolutionary with no reputation as the governor at that time, but forced Li Yuanhong, a senior general of the New Army, to become the governor with a gun.
At first, Li Yuanhong was naturally reluctant to be the governor of the rebels, even though the revolutionaries forced him to be the governor of the Hubei military and political axe, but he stayed out of the matter and did not care about anything, but later as the situation slowly changed and the overall situation of the republic was slowly determined, his mind also changed, and he began to actively participate in the affairs of the Hubei military and political axe, and later in the north-south peace talks, he actively spoke out, shaping himself into a revolutionary vanguard in one fell swoop, and with this political capital he was successfully elected vice president.
In order to be able to control the military power, after the North-South peace talks, he reorganized the eight uneven towns in Hubei during the Xinhai Revolution, and the name was in response to the disarmament proposition of the central political axe, and the eight towns were reduced to five towns. He also suppressed a large number of revolutionary party officers and promoted a large number of officers loyal to him.
Although Li Yuanhong did not have too many overt acts of opposition to the revolutionary party, there were still fierce contradictions with the revolutionaries in this process, especially Zhang Zhenwu and Fang Wei were even more dissatisfied with Li Yuanhong, and repeatedly threatened to drive Li Yuanhong out of the Hubei military and political axe, so as to return the Hubei military and political axe to a thorough revolutionary environment.
In this case, the contradiction between the two sides slowly intensified, and in the first month, Li Yuanhong had a small plot with Yuan Shikai, preparing to let these two go north, and then borrow Yuan Shikai's hand to kill them. However, these two people did not obediently go north, so this plan did not take shape, and in the past two months, the revolutionaries have openly confronted Li Yuanhong many times under the leadership of these two people, and Sun Wen and Huang Xing and others have also publicly spoken out in support of Zhang Zhenwu and Fang Wei many times.
In the end, Li Yuanhong really didn't want to endure it anymore, and after some preparations, he used the gendarmes and police to arrest a large number of revolutionaries, among which Zhang Zhenwu and Fang Wei were directly killed because of their resistance. In fact, this is Li Yuanhong's purge behavior, the arrest is not only these two people, but also a large number of revolutionaries, if the purge is done more secretively, even if they are scolded a few words as long as they can control the situation, it is nothing, but Li Yuanhong did not control the situation, this matter made the press poke out, when the uproar, the revolutionaries in Hubei were naturally unwilling to sit and wait to be arrested, you must know that they also control a lot of troops in their hands, so under a shout, Some of the three divisions of the Hubei Army participated in the rebellion and directly entered Li Yuanhong's Governor's Mansion, forcing Li Yuanhong to flee.
Immediately after that, Li Yuanhong commanded troops loyal to him and began to suppress the revolutionary troops, and this military rebellion caused a great sensation in the country, and even for two days the newspapers talked about the affairs of Hubei every day, and some newspapers supporting the revolutionaries even claimed that this "second revolution" was a "second revolution," but they ignored the war between the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army in southern Jiangsu. However, it is no longer a day or two since the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army are fighting, and the situation in southern Jiangsu has been tense for a month or two, and people have become numb after watching too much.
The newspapers were overwhelmingly reporting on the situation in Hubei, and various warlords in China also expressed concern about the situation in Hubei, first of all, neighboring Hunan was the first to respond, Tan Yanmin said that Hunan was very concerned about the situation in Hubei, and persuaded Li Yuanhong and the revolutionaries to exercise restraint, and Huang Xing, who had already arrived in Anhui, made a remark, saying that the turmoil in Hubei was a domestic disaster, and strongly demanded that the two sides stop the turmoil, and said that if the chaos could not be quelled for a long time, Anhui would send troops to Hubei.
If these people's remarks can be ignored, then the words of Cai Yi, who had just arrived in Shanghai, have attracted a lot of attention, Cai Yi first fiercely criticized Li Yuanhong's arrest of the revolutionaries, saying that it hurt the hearts of the people of the whole country, but he even more fiercely criticized the revolutionaries in Hubei for ignoring the situation of national reunification and launching a war without authorization, which has damaged the interests of the entire Chinese nation, saying that if anyone is dissatisfied with the army and launches a rebellion, when will China be truly reunified, and what China needs now is not war. Instead, it requires all parties to solve various problems in accordance with legal principles, and anyone starting a civil war is something he Cai Yi does not want to see.
These words are obviously talking about Li Yuanhong in Hubei, but if you compare them, you will know that they are alluding to Chen Jingyun. Although it was not explicitly stated, it has been revealed that Cai Ye is quite dissatisfied with Chen Jingyun's actions.
Although he has not seen this person, but through his many remarks, Chen Jingyun also knows a little about him, this person's starting point is good, I hope that China can be peacefully reunified, and he himself is not greedy for power.
If all the warlords in the south have such a noble name, then China's peaceful reunification is not a dream, and the road to strengthening the country and enriching the people will become smoother and smoother.
But not everyone is as noble as him, he Cai Ye can give up his rights, but others can't.
Such a person is worthy of admiration, praise, and compliment, and such a person can only vomit blood and die in the face of the situation of domestic division in the last time in history, if he had not opposed Sun Wen but united with Sun Wen to support the second revolution, maybe his ending, China's ending would have been very different.
On the morning of 3 November, Chen Jingyun's special train, which had been walking very slowly along the way, finally arrived in downtown Shanghai slowly, and before Chen Jingyun's special train arrived, the two regiments of the guard division had already entered the downtown area of Shanghai yesterday, and had already taken over the defense of Shanghai from part of the original Fourth Division, and stationed troops along the railway line to prevent Chen Jingyun's special train from being attacked. The reason why Chen Jingyun's special train has been running for so long is, to a large extent, to allow a certain amount of time for the guard division to enter Shanghai ahead of schedule, and his special train must not have arrived in Shanghai before the guard division arrives in Shanghai.
Shanghai South Railway Station was crowded with thousands of people waiting for Chen Jingyun's train to arrive, trying to see one of China's most powerful young warlords. In the impression of ordinary people, the impression of Chen Jingyun is only a very blurry black and white photo in the newspaper, based on modern photography and printing technology, even they can't tell what Chen Jingyun looks like, and more impressions come from the large paragraphs of text descriptions in the newspaper.
Most of the current Chinese people's perception of Chen Jingyun is only on the surface, for example, they know that he is very young, born in a wealthy family, has the experience of studying abroad, and was a senior officer in the Fujian New Army before Xinhai. After Xinhai, this person almost rose to the legendary version, and it only took a few months to completely control Fujian, and then in just one year, he held the two provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang. Nothing is known about the more specific cases.
In addition to some curious people, there are also a large number of reporters, these reporters are basically screened, and only reporters from a few newspapers in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces can approach Chen Jingyun for interviews and the like, and except for a few licensed photographers, no one is allowed to take pictures, which is also for safety reasons. Chen Jingyun didn't want to know that a bullet was shot from that corner when the spotlight flashed.
In addition to these people, there are also a large number of high-ranking officials of the Shanghai Municipal Axe, after the Nationalist Army was stationed in Shanghai, for the influence of public opinion and the stability of Shanghai, the original Shanghai Municipal Axe was not removed, but retained the Shanghai Municipal Axe, and was ready to wait for the situation to stabilize before making changes, of course, generally unchanged, but the financial situation was the same as other areas controlled by Chen Jingyun, and the National Army Salary Office immediately sent tax officials to Shanghai to take over the Shanghai financial system and start to carry out Shanghai's tax reform.
In addition to the officers, there were also a large number of officers of the Nationalist Army, most of whom were the officers of the Fourth Division who had originally stayed in Shanghai and the regiments that had arrived earlier in the Guard Division, and in addition to the officers, there were also a large number of soldiers of the Nationalist Guard Division wearing green uniforms.
In addition, there are a large number of military and political dignitaries, gentry and wealthy merchants, some people of high moral standing and some celebrities, including several courtesans who are famous on the beach.
These people add up to several thousand, and they almost squeezed the Shanghai South Railway Station, but under the maintenance of many nationalist troops with guns, the scene remained calm, and there was no stampede or anything like hurting people.
In charge of the scene and maintaining order was Yu Ruofei, deputy commander of the guard division, who arrived in Shanghai with his troops overnight yesterday, and then commanded the troops to take over the defense near the railway station and clean up the dirty and messy situation in the area near the Shanghai South Railway Station.
These tasks have to be done by Yu Ruofei one by one, and it is not easy at all.