Seeing that Ao Jiaxiong had a headache, Zhong Mei smiled and said, "Meng Jiang doesn't need to worry, let's persuade each other with good words first, and those who are not convinced can be dispersed and then reorganized." ”

Ao Jiaxiong was shocked, he hadn't thought of this method before, and hurriedly said: "In this case, then it is the enemy of all the gangs, in case these guilds surrender to the Manchu Qing, it will be very bad for the revolution." ”

Zhong Mei said: "Then if I don't fight them, won't I surrender to the Manchus?" ”

Zhong Mei's words made the eloquent Ao Jiaxiong choke, which is indeed the case. Although there are many salt lords, the number of people in each gang is very small, and the government basically does not take them seriously, so there is no discussion of appeasement. But even so, there are people who take the initiative to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, such as Shen Xiaomei, who took the initiative to join the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"No matter how many parties there are, only those who grasp it in their hands are the power, and it is useless to only join the alliance and not join the union. Xu Baoshan in Jiangsu can use the power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to exterminate the party in various places, so we can also unite all the congregations with anti-Qing righteousness on the one hand, and sell illicit salt to expand the organization on the other. Among them, if they are not convinced, they are Manchu lackeys, and it is okay to kill them quickly. Zhong Mei's words were murderous, and Ao Jiaxiong was shocked when he heard it, knowing that it would be difficult for this Taihu Lake to be quiet in the future. But thinking about it, most of those heroes are evildoers, and it's useless to kill them. There is no need to object at the moment.

Wang Jitong first asked Zhong Mei to rest, and then went to another place with Ao Jiaxiong to talk about the Wentai hall, in addition to Ao Jiaxiong, there were also Feng Bao and Chen Mengxiong, who were both members of the Jiaxing branch of the Fuxing Association.

Jiaxing was originally the hardest hit area of the Hongyang Rebellion, after the chaos was pacified, there were nine out of ten acres of land, so the local officials went around to recruit displaced people to reclaim and cultivate, and the people of Wentai were the most. When they were first recruited, these ownerless wasteland were very little taxed, and they generally only paid local taxes. After decades of recuperation, Jiaxing has been restored to its former prosperity. And the people of Wentai have always been tough and have a spirit of resistance. So last year, Ao Jiaxiong wanted to set up a Wentai hall to pay taxes on behalf of the "guests", and even wanted to hold a group drill to control the two powers of wealth and soldiers.

As soon as his plan was mentioned, Yang Rui was taken aback. Isn't this a simplified version of the agrarian revolution? Resist rent and donations, and train the people. Once persecuted by the landlord or the government. That must be a rebellion. At present, the mention of Ao Jia Xiong is extremely important, not only specially transferred funds for the construction of the hall, but also specially sent people to absorb rural work experience, in order to promote Jiaxing's experience to all parts of Guannai.

"Brother Xu, the hall was completed at the end of the year, which had a great impact. If another guild hall is built in Songjiang, Huzhou, and Hangzhou, then the liaison party will only wait for the time to be ripe, then ......" Ao Jiaxiong is very happy to sponsor him to meet the guild hall in the previous meeting. At the end of last year, the hall was completed, and it wants to spread out in the entire Hangjiahu area.

Wang Jitong frowned and said, "Meng Jiang is the old wisdom of wanting to be a self-reliant army? ”

"If the meeting can issue 'rich votes' like the Self-Reliance Army, then the revolution is just around the corner." Ao Jiaxiong often corresponded with Tao Chengzhang, who opened a brothel in Beijing, and the brothel in Beijing was expected to cost 200,000 taels, which surprised him greatly, if it cost 200,000 taels to open a brothel, then the Fuxing Society should handle more than one million taels of silver every year, so he naturally thought of Tang Caichang's methods back then: 1. Open guild halls in major cities in the Hangjiahu area, and set up organs to entertain the party; 2. In accordance with the tradition of the party association, the party will be opened and the votes will be released, and the change will be 1,000 wen with the votes, and the third will be the party will be unified under the name of the association hall and the army will be established.

"Meng Jiang, after Tang Cai often cut off his salary, this self-reliant army immediately collapsed, not to mention that the party discipline was corrupted, he didn't listen to commands, and he disturbed the good people." Wang Jitong found that it was a mistake to approve 1,000 taels for him last year to build a Wentai guild hall, and the essence of the movement of the people was not whether there were guild halls or not, but whether the people were organized.

Although Wang Jitong was displeased, Ao Jiaxiong still insisted: "Brother Xiao Xu, at this time, we should do our best to launch the party and raise righteousness as soon as possible." If Tang Caichang could have another 300,000 taels that year, I am afraid that the result at that time would be unpredictable. Now, in the area of Hangjiahu, as long as there are only 100,000 taels a year, after three years, there will be an army of tens of thousands of people, and when the time comes, Hangzhou in the south and Nanjing in the north, the revolution will be just around the corner. ”

Seeing that he was still obsessed, Wang Jitong sighed: "Meng Jiang, haven't you read the text that came before?" ”

Ao Jiaxiong was stunned for a moment, so he had to defend: "Brother Xiao Xu, the hall was set up last year, but it has passed the time to pay the rent, besides, I am a Xiushui person, and the people of Wentai don't trust me too much, so I invited the land from Yueqing to build and the new hall as the officer, but the guests are very difficult to talk to, and they ignore us, only let us drink tea, and the conversation is not good for us to talk." As for the payment of rent, it was only their leader who negotiated with us, and that person was also very distrustful of us, and after a moment of negotiation, he said that he would talk about it when the rent was paid next year. ”

Ao Jiaxiong's more said that Wang Ji Tongxin is the cooler, the hall was completed at the end of last year, he asked how the work in Jiaxing is carried out, Ao Jiaxiong said that because the autumn rent has been paid close to the New Year, he deduced that things will not be able to operate until the next year. After the year, there are many things in the Fuxing Association, and Wang Jitong is so busy that he forgets to read the monthly work report sent by him, as for Yang Rui, the Russo-Japanese War is in full swing, so he has the heart to take care of the real fields where the peasants work thousands of miles away.

"Hey. Meng Jiang ...... "Wang Jitong really didn't know what to say, he suddenly felt that he, the general manager, had not done anything, of course, this was also due to the fact that he did not pay attention to Ao Jiaxiong's work in the early days, in fact, his eagerness for Jiaxing was also because Yang Rui began to remember this matter after the war. "Dream ginger. I don't know if you didn't know how to move the people, so you changed to a sports party, or did you want to have a sports party instead of the people from the beginning? ”

"I ......" Ao Jiaxiong is really hard to explain.

Feng Bao next to him said: "Brother Xiao Xu, the hall is not without sports people, but during the Chinese New Year, Brother Meng Jiang still invited the troupe to sing for the people of Wentai." When we went to the village, everyone thought it was to collect donations and ask for accounts, and then we went a few more times to get better, but once we asked them to join the association, they all walked away. People who were very familiar with the conversation before said that others would only enter him, and he would not enter until the last person. ”

"That's true." Chen Mengxiong, another official of the guild hall, also said: "I only came to Jiaxing at the beginning of this year, and when I went to the village together, those village leaders and patriarchs wanted to drive us away, saying that we were going to join a cult. We didn't let the villagers talk to us, saying that if we came too much, it would bring disaster to the dealer. After several discussions, we still felt that the Games would be better for the party, so that it would be more effective, and in the event of an incident, there would be a force of force immediately. ”

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It can be seen that Jiaxing has really done a lot of work. It's just that the people don't welcome them, Wang Jitong doesn't know what to say about it, he has been studying since he was a child, and although his family has land for rent, he is also an accountant who comes forward to collect rent. I don't know how to exercise the peasant association. In the grievances of the three Ao Jiaxiong, the meeting was fruitless. On his side, he wanted to move the peasants. Ao Jiaxiong and others have no clue and are incompetent; And Ao Jiaxiong and others asked him to approve the plan to expand the hall and recruit the party, but Wang Jitong did not agree. In the work strategy drafted by the Reconstruction Association, except for the strategy of the new army, which is still being prepared, the three fronts in the Kannai, the movement of the common people and the sports party are completely two systems. On the side of the common people, there will be no armed forces, so it will be more advantageous to carry out the work in the early stage, but when the movement of the common people becomes the climate and is suppressed by the landlords and the government, then another story will be said.

Wang Jitong finished discussing with Ao Jiaxiong and others. The main content of the meeting was sent to the Northeast, but Yang Rui's reply was not as fast as before, and he only called back early the next morning to ask for a copy of the work notes of Ao Jiaxiong and others to be copied in Shanghai and sent to him. In fact, Yang Rui didn't know anything about how to mobilize the masses in a peaceful situation, what he knew was nothing more than the agrarian revolution, the division of fields and the division of the hall, now the foundation of the Guannai is not stable, and the Hangjiahu area is not a mountainous area, even if the base area is established, it will not last long, here he just wants to do an experiment, but this experiment will end before it starts. In desperation, he had to find the reason from the first-hand information.

As soon as Wang Jitong arranged for the re-copying of work notes, trouble came. Yu Huizu sent a shopkeeper to deliver a message, saying that something had happened to the Siming Mansion in the French Concession. Wang Jitong inquired carefully, only to learn that the French Concession authorities did not know where they came from to learn that there were coffins in the Siming Office that were not from Ningbo, and they forcibly ordered the public office to be removed.

Siming Mansion is the Ningbo people's hall in Shanghai, which is not only used for gathering with fellow villagers, but also as a place to send coffins. Chinese people have always had a tradition of returning to their roots, and the guild hall can unite all the fellow villagers in Shanghai, and even the extremely poor can be paid by the public office to send the coffin back to their hometown. Although the 30-acre Siming Mansion was established in 1803, when the British and French Concessions had not yet appeared, but after the Concession appeared, the French Concession expanded more and more, and the Catholics did not like to have pagan mounds and statues around them, so in 1874, the Concession forced the Church to move out on the grounds of road construction, and was later boycotted by the Ningbo Townsmen's Association, so it was abandoned, and recognized the Siming Mansion and the stone as evidence. However, twenty-four years later, the French Concession forced the public office to be relocated, but this time, in addition to the resolute resistance of the Ningbo Association, all walks of life in Shanghai actively supported it, so the French had no choice but to give up.

Wang Jitong recalled all kinds of disputes between the Siming Mansion and the French Concession in his mind, and only felt that this time someone deliberately targeted Zou Rong's case, he was restless in the house, and only waited for Mu Xiangyao, who was sent to inquire about the news, to come back, he asked anxiously: "Ask clearly, what's going on?" ”

"We've been calculated!" Mu Xiangyao said affirmatively. "Sir, there must be a reason for this incident."

Wang Jitong nodded and said, "Yes, I feel the same way." This is the bottom of the kettle, as long as Wei Dan's coffin is out of the office, it is estimated that it will ......"

Mu Xiangyao had long known that he had thought of this possibility, and he said eagerly: "Can't the Siming Mansion not obey the orders of the French?" Where the Chinese are, why still listen to foreigners' fingers. "Mu Xiangyao is crazy, and the current China is actually dictated by foreigners. However, the reason why he was anxious was that the disappearance of what he inquired about was that the martyrs of the Revival Society who entered the Siming Mansion yesterday would also be driven out.

"In the evening, I and ...... Let me talk to Yu Qiaqing. Wang Jitong said heavily.

In 1898, when he protected the Siming Office, he made great efforts, if he hadn't instigated the businessmen's strike, the workers' strike, and the Chinese arrest and dismissal, and promised to pay all the striking personnel a monthly salary, it is estimated that the Siming Mansion would have been gone long ago. However, the situation is different now: at the time of the second Siming Gongsho incident. There is an agreement between the public office and the French Concession, that is, the public office can only serve the people of Ningbo, but Zou Rong and the four coffins transported yesterday are not from Ningbo. Yu Qiaqing didn't know how the French knew this. But these don't care, the most tricky thing now is that if the coffin is not moved, then it will be moved, and there will really be a third Siming Gongsho incident, he doesn't want to, especially those people are not fellow villagers.

"With a chapter. You really don't know who the four coffins are in the back? Yu Qiaqing stared at Yu Huizu and asked.

"I don't know, I only know that it was shipped from outside the customs. Ade, what do you mean? "Yu Huizu is not a director, he received the news later, and when he arrived at the office. All the directors are gone.

"Hui Dong means to move the coffin out."

"What?!" Yu Huizu was a little surprised, "You have to know that one of them is a revolutionary party. The government is waiting for you to move out. This Wei Dan is not our fellow countryman. But he died unjustly and is now fighting a lawsuit with the Ministry of Industry. ”

When Yu Huizu spoke, Yu Qiaqing was staring at his face, looking at his unpretentious expression, Yu Qiaqing sighed. He actually guessed early on that Yang Rui was the leader of the Revival Association, but it was just for the sake of his fellow villagers and cooperative friends. He hadn't been able to track it down, but this time the four coffins outside the gate convinced him that Yang Rui was the leader of the Revival Society, and he was in the Northeast.

"With a chapter. Don't you really know what? ”

"You know what? I knew it was the French who were trying to find an excuse to force us to relocate. Yu Huizu was very angry when he heard that the board of directors had decided to remove the coffin, he came out late, and he didn't catch up with the election of the last board of directors, otherwise he would not have let everyone make such a decision if he died in the public meeting.

"But this time it's our fault. We were and ...... before."

"What is the reason to lose money, it is the Chinese who die and not the foreigners, as long as the public office can let it go, what is not good."

"Hanzhang, seven people died in order to keep the public office last time, and twenty people died to keep the public office last time, how many people are you going to die this time?!" Yu Qiaqing, who actually experienced the events of 1898, did not want another massacre, especially since he was still a slaughteree.

"I ......" Yu Huizu really couldn't say anything, his anger had nowhere to vent, so he had to slam his fist on the table, and the teacup shook with a "bang". Although he came to Shanghai late, he often heard his fellow villagers talk about the Siming Gong, when the French demolished the walls of the Gonggong, and the march continued until the morning when the French sailors broke up under the fire of the French sailors, killing 17 people on the spot, and several more wounded died afterwards.

Wang Jitong went to the French Concession to meet Yu Qiaqing after dark, but Yu Qiaqing, who had always been relaxed, suddenly felt deep and made Wang Jitong feel strange, so he didn't know how to endure what he had thought of, he wanted to hear what Yu Qiaqing said.

"Xiao Xu, who is Cheng Cheng?" After being silent for a while, Yu Qiaqing suddenly asked.

"Who?" Wang Jitong said a little more nonsense, so as to delay it and see what Yu Qiaqing was going to say.

"Hey, Xiao Xu, everyone is a brother, you know who I am, why are you still hiding it from me?" Yu Qiaqing's feelings seemed to be a little low, and she seemed to be emotional.

"What the hell is going on, Ade?" Wang Jitong hesitated, Yu Qiaqing helped the Revival Association a lot, especially when the MSG factory was first established, without his endorsement, it is estimated that Lu Xing's side will be squeezed out soon.

"Now the French say that the coffins are all from the revolutionary party, especially those who have returned from outside the customs, and they are all from the Baath Army." Yu Qiaqing didn't know where he heard the news, some people said that it was nonsense, but he felt that it was true, especially in the afternoon, he had examined the corpses, all of them were covered with military uniforms and military flags.

Wang Jitong didn't know that he had seen his hole cards, but with his understanding of Yu Qiaqing, there must be a reason why he would talk to himself like this, so he said: "Well." Yes, they are all members of the Revival Society, and I am also a member of the Revival Society, and I am also a member of the Revival Society. ”

The speculation became a reality, Yu Qiaqing's heart was still shocked, fortunately, he still calmed down, and subconsciously lit a cigarette, but he forgot that he didn't know how to smoke, and coughed for a while before he quieted down, and his blushing face asked, "When did it happen?" ”

"When I rejected Russia in the year of the Chinese New Year, I was the first to initiate it, and then I participated."

"Constitutional, sealed, and self-honored are all right?"

Glancing at him, Wang Ji said, "Hanzhang is not." Ade, I answered all your questions, what are you going to do now? ”

"It's not what I'm going to do! It was the directors who decided that I would let you get all these coffins out! I...... I know it's against my conscience, but I ...... "Yu Qiaqing was the corpse that was examined after the public discussion, although he understood that these people died for the country, but he knew that he couldn't tell anyone about it.

He stood up suddenly and said, "Xiao Xu, I can't be a revolutionary party, but I have always admired the revolutionary party." Whether it's Zou Rong or a few other righteous people, what they can do, I can't do. Not only can't I do it, but I'm going to chase them away, and I... I can't stop with them!! After he finished speaking, he couldn't help it, so he bowed to Wang Jitong, and then couldn't stand it for a long time.

Looking at his appearance, Wang Jitong sighed softly, bowed slightly to him, and then turned around and left. (To be continued......)