The Dragon Gate Inn is a special name for the Fuxing Society, and after the Hangzhou Uprising, these closed inns reopened their doors in the major concessions. It's just that at this time, it is not as grand as before the Hangzhou Uprising, and even the intelligence station is not located in it, it is now just a simple inn, but because of its previous reputation, there are still all kinds of people waiting to live in the inn to ask to see everyone in the Revival Society, but most of the time they don't get a response. However, this time, Yang Du, who was named one of the three heroes of the Congress, had to ask the inn manager to report the news. Zhang Taiyan didn't pay much attention to it when he first heard it, but this Yang Du actually lived in the inn for the New Year, so he had to pay attention.

"What does he want to do?" Yang Du's name Yang Rui is familiar, but what is the matter with this emperor who is looking for himself?

"I don't know. It's just that this person is very famous, and he is bent on seeing, so I think it's better to see him. After all, he lives alone in a hotel under a pseudonym, and he is a member of Congress, so he should dare to leak the meeting, and it is safe to come. Zhang Taiyan has seen Yang Du's article and feels that this person is still right with the revival meeting, although the golden iron doctrine he advocates is fallacious, but compared with others, it is still more than one level higher.

Yang Rui shook his head, what this person wanted to see before, including Liang Qichao, after all, in the impression brought by later generations, these are all capable people, but now when these people are really shown in front of them, that is, those who are praised by later generations may not be so good, and those who are belittled by later generations may not be so bad, and they are still from reality. "It's still missing. He is also a kind of gentry, and he is at odds with us. Yang Rui said.

"I think it's better to see it." Zhang Taiyan insisted. "He didn't come early, he didn't come late, but he came to see Zhu Kuansu when he came out. I think it means to be sincere. Even if it's not Toucheng, it must have something to do with it. If you listen to both, you will be clear, and if you listen partially, you will be dark, and it is good to see what he says. ”

Yang Rui was already extremely tired of Zhu Kuanji's matter, but thinking that Yang Du claimed to be the heir of the emperor, he could indeed listen to his high opinions, so he said: "Then I'll see you." See what he can say. ”

Somewhere in the Shanghai Concession three days later. Yang Du, who had removed the blindfold, finally saw the person he wanted to see in a slightly blurred halo. As an earlier advocate for a constitutional monarchy, after more than a year of fighting between the blue and white parties in Congress, he also understands that the constitutional monarchy is not as perfect as he imagined. According to his own words. If there is a parliament first and then a constitution, then the parliament has great power, such as Britain and France; If the constitution of the National Assembly is produced at the same time, the power of the National Assembly is in power. Such as Germany; First there was the Constitution, then there was the Congress. then the power of the National Assembly is small, as in Japan. At present, the Qing court has a constitution first, and then the parliament is convened, and its power can be imagined. In addition to its small powers, the Congress is not very representative, that is, only those who have 5,000 yuan in assets or other conditions have the right to vote and be elected, and this criterion is stuck, and less than 2 million people participated in the election. It is less than 4 per 1,000 of the population.

Such a parliament under a constitutional monarchy will always be just a tinkering within a small circle. But even if it's a mess, you can't do a lot of things. Of the more than 20,000 Manchu officials, a small half were concentrated in the capital, while the other half were concentrated in more than 200 prefectures, more than 200 Zhili prefectures and Sanzhou, and 1,360 counties, with an average of only three or four officials in each county. There is nothing wrong with the distribution of officials in an agrarian society, but the transformation of an agrarian society into an industrial society is clearly incapable of coping with the increasing number of economic affairs. Coupled with the corruption of the entire system and the strict confrontation between the central and local governments, government affairs can no longer be smoothly conveyed to the bottom. The Revival Society has been attacking the Manchu bureaucracy for its corruption, but the lack of officials is no worse than corruption. The power of the National Assembly, the representativeness of the parliamentarians, the execution and efficiency of the bureaucratic system made Yang Du completely disappointed with the current constitutional monarchy, and as a member of the National Assembly, he smelled that the revolution was irreversible, so he came.

"What do you have to say?" Yang Rui looked at Yang Du, who was a little confused but pretended to be calm, and arched his hand and said.

"Here we are...... Mr. Jingcheng was a heroic man at that time, and he heard of Mr. Da's name in both strict and benevolent places, and he always admired him. Today, I have a fate, and I came to pay a visit. Yang Du said polite words, only looked Yang Rui's whole body up and down, only to see that this person was tall, indeed heroic, and his demeanor was even more murderous, he was really a hero in troubled times.

Zhang Shizhao and Yang Shouren are both from Hunan, one was keen on revolution and the other was keen on assassination, but now the Manchu Qing Dynasty has established a constitution and both went to study in the United Kingdom. Yang Du and them were originally fellow villagers, and they had heard them mention Yang Rui a lot, but now that no one has introduced them, they have to tell these two people to make their position clear.

"Mr. Huizi doesn't have to see outside, since he meets, he naturally believes in Mr. as a person. It's just that Yang Rui is strange that Mr. had strongly promoted a constitutional monarchy earlier, and had debated with Sun Wenda, a member of the League, for three days and three nights, and then parted ways with the revolution. Why did you think of seeing me today? Yang Rui said, at this time, the tea had already come up, so he invited him to drink tea.

Seeing that Yang Rui actually knew his old things, Yang Du sneered and said: "All the things in the past just can't see through the situation in China. The momentum of revolution in China is now inevitable, even if the Qing court captures Yanzhou, there are also Linxi and Liaodong," he glanced at Yang Rui and said: "I think the swordsmen who come to the northwest will have an inexplicable connection with Fuxing." ”

Yang Rui overheard the swordsman in the northwest, his pupils contracted, and he only said: "Huizi is too worthy of the Revival Society now, Linxi is our place, but Liaodong is not capable of the Fuxing Society, and then there is the northwest land, which is thousands of miles away, why should the Fuxing Society put manpower and material resources there?" ”

Yang Rui refused to admit Liaodong and Northwest, and Yang Du also laughed dumbly, "Du thought that China should adopt a constitutional monarchy instead of revolution, which was two points, one was that the revolution was very destructive, and it was more likely to be interfered by foreign powers, and the other was that the four places of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Tibet would fall apart, so he advocated a constitutional monarchy before." Now the Revival Society has been laid out in Liaodong, Linxi, and Northwest China, where Liaodong should occupy Manchuria, Linxi should occupy Mongolia, and Northwest China should map Xinjiang, but Tibet seems to have no action. There is also a swordsman in the northwest who always likes to kill foreigners, which seems to be inconsistent with the consistent style of the Revival Society. ”

See Yang Du break the earlier arrangement one by one. Yang Rui knew that smart people couldn't hide it, so he only said: "Do you know what those foreigners who went to the northwest were doing?" ”

Hearing this, Yang Du hurriedly said: "Dare to ask." ”

"Those foreigners. It is called archaeology, but it is actually a tomb robbery, digging everywhere indiscriminately, and destroying the entire Western Regions monuments is a mess. Those who rob property are still there, and those who rob antiquities are in addition to those things they have dug up. then the antiquities were destroyed. The swordsmen in the northwest practice this righteousness and protect our Chinese antiquities and national treasures, which can be described as Chinese heroes. The heroes of China. "The killing order in the northwest was personally issued by Yang Rui, although he didn't dare to admit that it was done by the Fuxing Club, but when he talked about this matter, Yang Rui still had a kind of resentment towards those foreigners.

looked at Yang Rui's murderous aura. Yang Du said: "Mr. Cheng." If it is verified by various countries, it will be a big obstacle to the revolution. ”

"The Revival Society has nothing to do with the Northwest Swordsmen, I just think they have done a big thing for the hearts of the people." Yang Rui took a sip of tea and only calmed down a little, "In today's China, most of the literate people are afraid of foreigners like tigers, and the illiterate ones should only slander foreigners as demons." For the tiger and the devil are not advocated by the Revival Association, and foreigners are compared with us. There aren't many good things. The Renaissance Revolution does not want foreigners to interfere, but it cannot hope that foreigners will not interfere. In that case, it would be no different from the Manchus. ”

After Yang Rui finished speaking, he was silent, he only felt that he had said too much. And Yang Du only heard his words clearly, but he was a little different from the previous Sun Wen, and he was no longer polite at the moment, and said: "Mr. Cheng, I heard that there is a former Ming sect in the Revival Society, can this matter be true?" ”

Seeing that he was on the topic, Yang Rui said: "The Revival Association does not have such a statement. Now those newspapers are nothing more than to increase sales, and they are just spreading false rumors and making up nonsense. ”

Seeing Yang Rui talking nonsense with his eyes open, Yang Du also pretended not to know, but just talked to himself, and said: "If this is the case, then China should be saved." After he finished speaking, he just waited for Yang Rui to ask again, but Yang Rui just drank tea, and in desperation, he had no choice but to say: "Manchu and Mongolia returned to Tibet, only Yili Bari and Mongolia in the Western Regions, the former Ming Dynasty did not have the right to rule, and the strength of Manchurian countries was mixed, although it was the land of the former Ming Dynasty, but the coercion of Japan and Russia also had the possibility of being occupied." Now that the Renaissance Society has been set up in all three places, the map of China will be safe. After the founding of the country, if a constitutional monarchy is implemented and the strength of the whole country is gathered, it will not only avoid the scourge of dividing up the country, but also have the opportunity to revive China. ”

"Mr. Huizi is here to ask us to find a former Ming clan to be the emperor of the Revival Society?" Yang Rui said, he didn't hear anything special from Yang Du's words.

"Only a monarchical China can be saved, otherwise all parts of the country will be scattered, and under the eyes of the great powers, they will only go their own way and kill each other." Yang Du said. After he finished speaking, he felt that the amount of food was not enough, so he stood up and bowed and said: "If the Revival Society implements the constitution, it will definitely join the revolution and help with all its might." ”

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, under the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, there were those who advocated how to save the country, and Yang Du was bent on building a constitutional monarchy, and now the Manchu monarchy was incorrigible, and he ran to the revival society to seek the monarchy. Although some people do not fully fit their positions, as one of the three heroes of the Congress, it is always beneficial to bring them over and make trouble in the Congress. Thinking of this, Yang Rui said: "Mr. Huizi, the revival will not set up any emperors, and the constitutional monarchy is not necessarily an emperor, or in other words, the biggest role of the constitutional monarchy is actually just to borrow the power of thousands of years of autocracy from the imperial power. But if you want to use the imperial power, and use the emperor if necessary, as long as you don't engage in republican democracy like Sun Wen, then you can still use the power of the imperial power to act, and it is no different from the constitutional monarchy...... "After all, the person in front of him is not a member, Yang Rui only said that he did not establish an emperor, but he wanted to borrow the power of imperial power, Yang Du only listened in a daze.

"Mr. Jingcheng, how will the Revival Society be founded? I hope to tell you. Yang Du said hurriedly, the more he thought about it, the more he didn't understand.

Yang Rui looked at him and said, "Then we will know when the country is founded." Mr. Wanzi can decide on his position after seeing it at that time. ”

"But ......" Seeing that Yang Rui didn't tell the truth, Yang Du also understood that the Fuxing Society acted extremely secretively, and it was impossible for him to know if he didn't join the gang, so he really waited until the founding of the country to determine his position, and the situation was completely different from now. After thinking for a while, he said: "Mr. Cheng, Du also has a little influence in the Congress, if there is anything that can be served, please feel free to speak." ”

Seeing that Yang Du only said service and did not talk about joining the club, Yang Rui did not say much. Just a few polite words and let people send him away. Just waiting for him to leave, Yang Rui asked Chen Guangshou on the way to evacuate, "How big is the trouble in the northwest?" Why does Yang Du know it now? ”

"Some time ago, I just killed a few foreigners who robbed tombs, and one of them, an Englishman named Stein, is very famous, so now there is a lot of uproar. Now the Manchus have asked the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu to send troops to clear it. Chen Guangshou said.

"But how did Yang Du know that the Northwest Swordsman was in contact with us?" Yang Rui asked again.

"This ......" Chen Guangshou glanced at Yang Rui and said: "First, the newspapers under the Revival Association always publish some pictures of historic sites destroyed by foreigners, revealing that they are regarded as tomb robberies in the name of archaeology, and secondly, the expeditions of foreigners who go to the Western Regions are all loaded with ammunition to reduce casualties and improve efficiency." The General Staff sent more than thirty snipers over. Yanzhou sharpshooters are famous all over the world, and the two correspond to each other, so everyone naturally thinks of the revival meeting. ”

Chen Guangshou said. Yang Rui thought about it, and it seemed that it was his idea to give the staff an idea to snipe those foreign archaeologists who robbed tombs in the northwest. Unlike the current armies of other countries, the Renaissance Army attaches great importance to the training of snipers, and for this reason non-commissioned officers are no longer limited to corporals, sergeants, and sergeants. Instead, it has been set up with eight levels all the way up. The corresponding ranks range from lieutenants, colonels, and major generals, so that those illiterate big-headed soldiers can also enjoy the treatment of major generals as long as they have hard work. As soon as this rule came out, the soldiers were all practicing their combat skills hard, not seeking to mix in the major general category, at least the major level still had ideas, and snipers were the hot direction of choice for the infantry. So far, the marksmanship of the troops is becoming more and more accurate. This would have been a good thing, but in this way the characteristics of the Baath Army also came out. That is melee bravery (white-knuckle combat), long-range combat (guerrilla warfare), and sharpshooters are even more formidable to the enemy.

"Is there a protest from the foreigners?" Thinking of the army he had built, Yang Rui was both proud and bitterly smiling.

"Yes, the Germans, the British, and the Japanese all asked about it, but we all pushed it back. Now they don't have any evidence other than the caliber of the bullet, and the matter is over. Chen Guangshou said.

The snipers used the Swedish M96 Mauser all-steel rifle, caliber 6.5mm, this gun had the highest hit rate of all the guns tested, although it was more expensive than the German Mauser, but it was still selected as a special rifle for snipers. The caliber of this gun is the same as that of the Japanese rifle, and coupled with the relationship between the Japanese and the revolutionary party, many people think that this is the golden hook rifle sold by the Japanese to the Renaissance Society, and then there is the rifle of Cixi's assassination, which is also counted on the head of Little Japan.

"Don't make any baskets." Yang Rui advised, "There is also the airship side, and there are seven or eight hundred kilometers from Shangluo Mountain to Gansu, so you must pay attention to safety on such a long road." ”

Yang Rui explained, Chen Guangshou wrote it down, and then said: "Sir, the representatives of Shaanxi and Gansu are in a hurry, and this time they are making airships to Huanggang ......."

Before Chen Guangshou finished speaking, Yang Rui interrupted: "Whoever let them take the airship, don't they die?" ”

"Mr. Taiyan approved, he thought that the delegates would have to hurry for the New Year, and it happened that there were materials to be distributed to Gansu, so he simply arranged for them to take an airship to Huanggang for the New Year, and then take a boat from Wuhan." Chen Guangshou explained. As soon as the airship came out, everyone who dared wanted to sit down, unaware that this thing was a big bomb from beginning to end.

Thinking of Zhang Taiyan, Yang Rui just frowned, and he said: "Write it down, go back and send a telegram to the general rear line, the airship is forbidden to carry people, especially the representatives of the provinces, and it is forbidden to take it in non-emergency situations... No, all rides are prohibited. Also, how is the helium in the United States, and how much helium is produced? ”

Chen Guangshou didn't have a text in the carriage, so he had to rely on his memory and said: "The telegram from Mr. Zixun at the end of last year said that the cryogenic technology has just made progress, and the oil field has been prepared, but the specific progress has to be inquired in detail to know the progress, is it to send a telegram to Mr. Zixun later?" ”

Hearing Chen Guangshou talk about Yu Zixun and Yang Rui, he was a little uncomfortable, and he was stunned for a moment before saying, "You can wait for the power generation to ask." In addition, when will all the representatives from each base area arrive? ”

"Now the latest is the representative of Sichuan, and it is very inconvenient to come down from Chongqing during the Spring Festival. According to the itinerary, they arrived at about the tenth day of the first month. Chen Guangshou said. This meeting is actually a righteous appraisal meeting, and all base areas of all sizes have to go through the motions and then determine a specific strategy.

"Then arrange them at the end, and advance the ones on the Daxing Mountain." Yang Rui commanded.

Taihang Mountain, Shangluo Mountain, Dabie Mountain, Yimeng Mountain, and Ganzhou in Gansu Province are all sites of the Fuxing Society in the north, while Chongqing in Sichuan, Pingxiang in northwest Jiangxi, and Qingyuan in northern Guangdong are in the south. Among these places, except for Yimeng Mountain, most of the others are secret, even if they rebel, they can only pretend to be thieves who occupy the mountain as the king, only Yimeng Mountain has to raise an incident in the name of the Revival Society in order to share the pressure of Yanzhou. In addition to Yimeng, Yang Rui values Dabie Mountain the most.

The location of this base is similar to the Jin-Cha-Ji base area during the later anti-Japanese war, but it is further north, mainly centered on Wei County. It was within 100 kilometers of the capital, and it only took two days to march quickly. Just for the sake of concealment, the troops can only be scattered one company at a time, but this will make the whole army have no experience in coordinated operations, and if there is no qualified divisional and regimental officer to command, then one-on-one does not know whether it can beat the Praetorian Guard in the plains. At present, several Janissary Guard towns of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are gathered in Beijing, plus more than 20,000 patrols in the capital, as well as various Manchu battalions, the total strength of which is as much as 60,000 or 70,000, and these troops are huddled inside and outside Beijing, and I am afraid that they can only be dealt with by waiting for the Northern Expeditionary Army to reach the outskirts of Beijing.

On the morning of the next day, in the Shanghai Temporary Headquarters, Pei Shoutong, Gong Baoquan, and Chen Zhaowen, a representative of Zhili, briefed Yang Rui on the affairs of Beijing. The first to introduce is Gong Baoquan, he is now Zhang Taiyan's son-in-law, after Tao Chengzhang left Beijing, he was fully responsible for the affairs over there, this time he came to Shanghai in the name of going home for the New Year, mainly for the sake of righteousness in the capital - there are staff officers who can infiltrate Beijing like Shanghai, first send people into the capital to work, and then use airships to issue weapons when the uprising is righteous, and attack the Forbidden City overnight.

This is actually a strategy that belongs to the flowering of the center, that is, to wait for the Northern Expeditionary Army outside Beijing to come over, I don't know when, although the Jinpu Railway is now built again, maybe it can be repaired, but in case the railway is bombed or for other reasons, I am afraid that the people inside will end up like Meng Lianggu. But this is just Yang Rui's idea, if the intelligence is sure that it can be implemented, then he has no opinion on the implementation of this plan, so that the war will end earlier.

"Beijing now has a population of about 750,000, more than 300,000 in the outer city, only 13,000 in the Eight Banners, and 410,000 in the inner city, of which more than 220,000 in the Eight Banners and more than 8,000 men in the clan. According to the unwritten law, in order to prevent too many Han Chinese in the inner city, the population of the inner city, especially the foreign population, is unlikely to be stationed in large numbers. Gong Baoquan cut off half of the staff officers' thoughts with a single sentence, "It's just that now there are rickshaws in Beijing like Shanghai, and if you can send people from Zhili to the capital to establish a rickshaw shop, then maybe you can infiltrate some of the personnel." According to statistics, there are only more than 700 rickshaws in Beijing, referring to other cities, the number of rickshaws can be increased, but most of the gentry in Beijing are in sedan chairs, not too many people sit in sedan chairs, so the number of rickshaws we estimate will not exceed 2,000. ”

"Then there is the fact that the patrol police are now completely referring to Japan, and have established a general bureau of inspection and arrest, and they have secret agents and spies in Beijing's stations, hotels, car dealers, and other places, and they are arresting the revolutionary party and thieves and thieves everywhere, and they are very strict in guarding the entire capital. If the time drags on, it is not difficult to send a few hundred people into Beijing, but is it possible for these people to go a long time without leaking secrets? And if you are a soldier, can you hide the military style on your body? I can send dozens of people and no more than 200 backbone elements to enter the city first, but these people can only be used as surprise soldiers to create some chaos during the siege of the city, and it is still impossible to enter and capture Beijing. ”

Gong Baoquan basically denied the establishment of the General Staff, which only made Bei Shoutong feel a burst of distress, and things were indeed not easy to handle. There is an army in Liaodong, but it can't enter the customs, not to mention whether the Shanhaiguan can go in, even the South Manchurian Railway is estimated to not be able to go, I am afraid that the Shanhaiguan will not arrive at that time, and the Japanese will fight. (To be continued......)