Beginning at the end of November 1907, the days suddenly began to be dull for Yang Rui. Everyone is busy, there are reading, bleeding, producing, and ......advocating, but he is idle, listening to Chen Guangshou every morning after reading the transactional briefing and scientific and technological information briefing, and then spend a morning to deal with it, Yang Rui's rest of the time is to bask in the sun and drink tea. At this time, he began to think about the details of the revolution in its entirety, and tried to make the whole plan more rigorous.

It was only after his repeated reflection that he still felt that the revolution was extremely variable, and the most crucial factor in this was the great powers, and the most crucial factor among the great powers was Britain. Yang Rui doesn't have any good cards for the British, and even if he has good cards, he doesn't dare to take them out. Now the cooperation with the British Concession is only to maintain normal law and order in the Concession; And the cooperation with Colonel Wingate, who is called MI5, is estimated to be limited to the intelligence department.

Do you want to become a church, believe in Jesus God, and then take the line of the British bigwigs on the side of the church? In desperation, Yang Rui thought of this method. A country with a four-tier structure, white, blue, green, and red, and those bourgeois aristocrats are religious and extremely conservative. In fact, this is not only the case for foreigners, but also for China...... The last time Congress fought over the crime of adultery, the white voters who supported the guilty were either the powerful or the old but powerful gentry. Now that the Conservative Party is in power in Britain, there is still a future for religious beliefs.

Yang Rui smiled as he thought about his kneeling in front of the cross. He was sure that he would receive the support of the American Baptists and the British Baptists as soon as he joined the Church, but he really had no love for God. Don't buy souls. Then you can only buy interests, but for the British, China has all the benefits that China should take. Even if he was promised the Yellow River Valley, it would have to wait for the First World War to be fulfilled, and Qingdao was a fuse in the Sino-Japanese War. Grab the Northeast?

Yang Rui was about to call Chen Guangshou and ask him how Xie Zhangtai was doing in the UK, but he came in. Said: "Sir, Mr. Qiu Jin is here." ”

Qiu Jin was going to come over a long time ago, and the last time I had an excuse, I happened to go to the Northeast. And this time it's undeniable. However, after Yang Rui explained this matter, he forgot about it, and only now did he remember it when people came, "Where is she?" Living room? ”

"Yes, it's in the living room. Miss Cheng is also below. Chen Guangshou said. He didn't understand why Yang Rui dismissed Cheng Ying as soon as he came back. Then he gave all the time to himself as before, but since Yang Rui had decided, he had to take things over.

Qiu Jin wanted to see Yang Rui for a lot of things, the earlier time was to help the Alliance, and this time I wanted to say more things. She hadn't seen Yang Rui before, nor had she seen Yang Rui's photos, and only read a lot of his articles in the journal. In the beginning, she was just like everyone else. thinks that Yang Jingcheng has never been enlightened at all, and his words are general. There is no literary brilliance, but the article on the front page will be read no matter what, and after careful reading, I still feel that the literature and science are smooth, and there is no Confucian sage-style empty vernacular, but also like Western mathematics, the arguments are rigorous, and the conclusions in it are all deduced by numbers, such as the analysis of China's finance and taxation, the analysis of the depreciation of the copper dollar, the analysis of farmers' income, and the analysis of the outflow of silver under the foreign trade deficit, all of which are such paradigms. Such a result made Qiu Jin imagine Yang Rui as a taciturn old pedant wearing thick glasses.

Because of this, I know the relationship between Yang Rui and Cheng Ying in the past few days, and I still feel sorry for Cheng Ying in my heart. But after seeing people, she was very surprised, Yang Rui in front of her was not delicate or heroic, her eyes were not beautiful, and she was even slightly dark, but her eyebrows were straight, her nose was straight, her lips were thick, her jaws were wide, and her tall figure only made her feel that she was standing on a wall in front of her. She was actually surprised by this wall, the literati body is thin, but the martial artist is vulgar, and this wall is elegant at the same time, but there is a kind of calmness and toughness. She suddenly turned her head sideways and smiled at Cheng Ying, then looked at Yang Rui and said, "Mr. Cheng." ”

Qiu Jin looked at Yang Rui in surprise, but Yang Rui looked at Qiu Jin with a feeling that he was still the same. He only felt that Qiu Jin was an unsheathed Yue Nu sword, upright, clean, and sharp. The sword is a good sword, but if you are not careful, you will cut your hand, and when he returned the salute to Qiu Jin, he couldn't help but warn himself.

"Mr. Qiu, don't come unharmed." Yang Rui looked at Qiu Jin, who was sitting down generously, and didn't know how to say this.

"Mr. Cheng has seen me before?" Qiu Jin wears Chinese-style clothes, which is for the sake of not attracting attention, but such clothes are not as neat as Western-style, which makes her very unaccustomed. "Sir, let's call me Xuanqing."

"Yes. I saw it when I was in Tokyo the year before last, and Brother Xuanqing's speech was very moving. Yang Rui recalled, at that time, he looked at Qiu Jin and now he looked at Qiu Jin was completely different, he used to want to enter in person, but now he is respectful and far away.

Yang Rui's previous year only made Qiu Jin think of Chen Tianhua, she looked a little sad, and only said: "Xingtai Jun's death is too unworthy, if he can live to this day, he will definitely rejoice in the current revolution." ”

There is Chen Tianhua's sharp head in the textbook of the Farmers' Training Center of the Fuxing Society, reading those words will only make Yang Rui think of the burly young man with a wide face and long hair and a shawl, but he is busy with affairs in the back, but he slowly forgot about this person, and now that Qiu Jin mentioned it, he also sighed: "Xingtaijun is indeed a pity." ”

"Yes, sir. If Xingtaijun was still around, he would not only shout for the revolution, but also hope that all revolutionaries would unite and work together to overthrow the Manchus. It is said that among the students studying in Japan, Qiu Jin was the first to advocate speech, and when Song Jiaoren first arrived in Tokyo, he participated in the speech meeting organized by Qiu Jin, and it seems that Song Jiaoren learned a lot of his oratory skills from Qiu Jin.

Yang Rui saw that Qiu Jin only cleverly pulled the topic from Chen Tianhua to unity, he couldn't help laughing, and said, "Brother Xuanqing is here to persuade me?" ”

"Don't dare to persuade. I just hope that the League and this association can be like brothers and sisters, and unite to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that the old things can be restored as soon as possible. Although there are contradictions between the two sessions in the newspapers, Qiu Jin is willing to go to Tokyo to resolve the grievances of the two sessions for the unity of the two sessions. Qiu Jin's words were not as Yang Rui expected. Or is it a matter of friendly cooperation with the Alliance.

In fact, the relationship between the two associations was considered to have returned to normal at the time of the Hangzhou Uprising last year, but after Yang Rui led the purge, the remarks of the two sessions in the newspapers began to differ. Later, they often debated each other, and during this period, the debates between the two associations began to escalate. Just like the previous debates between the Minbao and Xinmin Cong Bao, a few days ago, the China Times also listed a 12-point program of debate with the League to inform readers:

1. Revival will be the main nationalism; The League will be Western-European.

2. Unity of the Renaissance Church; The League will be free.

3. The Revival Society is based on the constitution of civil rights, and the constitution is the guideline; The League also advocates the constitution of civil rights, but the law of marching and the law of the covenant.

Fourth, the revival will be based on the situation of China. advocate centralization of power first, then prosperity and strength; The League will follow the example of the United States and advocate democracy before prosperity.

Fifth, the revival will be democratic if it is rich and strong; The League will think that democracy is rich and strong.

6. The Revival Society advocates revolution and education as a good policy for national rejuvenation; The League would advocate revolution and assassination. This was considered a shortcut to the overthrow of the Manchus.

7. The Revival Society takes the revolution as the first step in rejuvenation, and the road is long; The League thought that the revolution was full, and that the revolution had been completed after the constitutional republic.

8. The revival will be called the pre-Qin, and the way to govern the country is to take the sons and hundreds of schools of thought; The alliance will be called Tessie. A Western-style republic is the road to a strong country.

9. The Revival Society thought that China had been autocratic for 2,000 years. We must be cautious in changing the original national system; The League believed that China's 2,000-year-old autocracy and the establishment of a Western-style state system were urgent.

10. The Revival Society believes that the revolution should be self-reliant, without the help of outsiders and without any reward; The Confederacy is bent on entangled on the border, trying to intervene with the great powers, and does not know what price to pay.

11. The revival will act with complete certainty and will not act rashly; The Alliance's righteousness, when there is a glimmer of hope, will be launched quickly. 12. The Revival Society thinks that it will fight from the cities to the countryside. It is the beginning of the victory of the revolution; The League believed that the victory of the revolution would begin when it was fought from the countryside to the cities.

After the China Times published this debate program. It was the first time that the Revival Society had publicly explained its program after the 16-character program, which not only affected the students, but also affected many gentry. And Qiu Jin also saw that the two sessions were on the same page, so when they met, they talked about this topic at the beginning instead of anything else.

"The two associations of the two associations have different concepts and different purposes, and I do not see any possibility or need for unity. Although the two sessions are now arguing in the newspapers, this is not bad, at least those readers know that there are many kinds of revolutions. Besides, the two associations have not moved their knives or guns now. As for the case in Tokyo, it is a matter of opinion between the wise and the wise. Yang Rui said this paragraph after taking a deep breath, he didn't really want to talk about this matter.

"What incident in Tokyo did you seem to have a bad feeling for the Alliance?" As if sensing Yang Rui's mood, Qiu Jin's words suddenly softened, only thinking that Yang Rui would reduce some of her bad feelings after telling the previous things, and in Yang Rui's telling, she hoped to find the crux of Yang Rui's hostility to the Alliance.

"Let the past be in the past. The case in Tokyo has also been closed, and there is nothing to say. Yang Rui brushed the topic aside, and then asked: "How is the women's newspaper doing now, and are there any difficulties?" ”

"There's nothing more difficult." Qiu Jin replied, but still changed the topic back to just now, "Sir, only a few members of the League have opinions about the shooting in Tokyo, and most comrades still think that it was just a misunderstanding. If the two associations lose peace because of this matter, then the Manchus will laugh at it. ”

"What does Xuanqing think the two sessions should be?" Yang Rui simply threw the topic to her, wanting to see what she thought.

"The two associations should stop the dispute and unite with the outside world, especially now that the uprising of the two associations has failed, and there should be no war of words." Qiu Jin said it in a dignified manner, Yang Rui wanted to speak and stopped, waiting for her next step. "Then, if the two associations launch another uprising, they should work together and work closely together in order to recover China as soon as possible."

When Qiu Jin said this, Yang Rui smiled and said, "Then may I ask, what about after the recovery?" ”

"After the recovery, they will organize a government together, gather the efforts of 40,000 people, and rejuvenate China, and if there is any dispute between the two associations, it can also be resolved by the Congress. Westerners are good at negotiations, while Chinese people often fight, Qiu Jin thinks that the beginning of negotiations can be the beginning of our two sessions. "Qiu Jin has learned a lot after going to Japan, and she still understands the temperament of the Chinese people.

"Xuanqing. How can you guarantee that people will sit down honestly and talk? Yang Rui asked: "Looking at the history of all countries in the world, it has always been cruel to kill the same race than to kill the other, especially the United States, which is known as a republican model. The Battle of the North and South. Not only did the soldiers kill the murderers, but also the civilians, and when Sherman burned Atlanta, he was much more cruel to the British than the Revolutionary War. The logic of the Chinese people is to become a king and defeat a villain, I really don't know how to bypass this level. ”

There was a strong killing intent between Yang Rui's words, and although Qiu Jin felt it, he still thought that he had been on the battlefield for a long time. "Mr. You, Mr. Nakayama understands the righteousness. I don't believe things will come to that point. ”

"But what if someone doesn't understand the righteousness, or if the two of them understand the righteousness, and outsiders see the opportunity to instigate? A country cannot be built on promises that are not secure. This is irresponsible to the state. The League has always advocated assassination, and I believe that once the two associations overthrow the Manchus, that will be the beginning of the assassination. Yang Rui still had a lot of words unspoken in his heart, the assassination of himself and Zhang Taiyan. It's all very strange. For this reason, he also deliberately asked people to check whether there was a person named Chen Qimei in the Alliance. He replied that there was no such person.

"Sir, we can't choke on food. Even if there is a misunderstanding, this is the price of the republic. If we don't advocate negotiations, then in the end the people of the two associations will kill each other. The earlier walls turned into hard stone, which only made Qiu Jin feel that it was difficult to change Yang Ruizhi's thoughts.

"There is a disagreement between the Renaissance Society and the Alliance, and there is no possibility of cooperation at all. But non-cooperation does not mean hostility, let's do our own, why do we have to get together? More people does not mean more power. Only when we all have the same ambition can we work together. If you can't do that. It's just going to make things worse. Xuanqing, aren't you advocating freedom of marriage in the women's newspaper, why are you pulling a matchmaker again now? If you put two organizations with completely different philosophies together, anything will happen. If there is an assassination, thank goodness, and a massacre is as normal as the sun coming out of the west. Revolution is not so just, nor is it so beautiful, revolution is to kill people, kill those who have different ideas, kill all these people, then the revolution will be successful. Yang Rui had a smile in his mouth, and he only regarded killing as simple as drinking water, and only made the room a little colder.

"What is the point of a revolution if it is only a revolution that kills people?" Qiu Jin asked.

"It makes a lot of sense!" I don't know if it's out of the truth, or just out of disgust, Yang Rui only feels that he can't bear more and more people who imagine the revolution as incomparably beautiful. "Revolution means that the Party is the same and the different are different. It was the Manchus who ruled China, because they were aliens, so they wanted revolution; In the future, when the Manchus will fall from power, the various revolutionary organizations will disagree, and it is very likely that this will be the case. This may be the fate of today's China, the reincarnation of history, which is difficult to stop. ”

However, Mr. Nakayama's original intention in organizing the alliance was out of fear that after the revolution, he would kill each other like the rebels at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, so he invited various organizations to join the alliance. Sir, in any case, we should not be the executioners of the massacre of the rebels. Qiu Jin said loudly, listening to Yang Rui's words, she became more and more worried about the conflict between the two sessions after the revolution.

"Xuanqing, we are a generation that connects the past and the next, with the imperial autocracy in the front and the civil republic in the back. It's because the people who come out of the new school are still half-new and half-old, not to mention those students in private schools, illiterate people, what will they think, do they know how to negotiate and understand the republic? Killing people is a last resort, but in order to make the people rich and the country strong, then they have to kill people, and no country's strength is not built on the accumulation of bones, which are either their own or other people's.

Our current China is a weak country, a backward country, she is in internal and external difficulties, the people are not struggling to make a living, do not use thunderbolt means to stabilize the country, quickly seek strength and wealth, then it will not take many years to destroy the country. Yang Rui's voice began to get louder, if it wasn't for Qiu Jin, he would have sent her away a long time ago.

"Maybe Qiu Jin thought it was too simple. It's just that the revolutionaries want to kill each other after throwing their heads and spilling their blood, which only makes people feel frightened. Qiu Jin didn't know whether to be persuaded or to retreat, so she sighed.

Yang Rui smiled: "I used to think that the revolution could kill people, but now it seems that I feel very naïve and ridiculous." Although the Revival Society and the Alliance cannot cooperate, they will not kill each other, but if they cooperate together, there is a possibility of killing each other, and even so, it is better to maintain the status quo. ”

"Why is it not to cooperate to kill each other?" Qiu Jin asked.

"If you cooperate, you have me, I have you. How will the family be separated in the future? Even if there is no separation, who will have the final say on whether China will be a centralist or a republic? The two sessions develop independently. There will be no stumbling blocks, even if there is a conflict, it will only be a battle of words, and when the revolution is successful, everyone can sit down and talk about many things at the beginning of the founding of the country. It really doesn't work, then you can have one country, two systems, and they govern their places according to democracy. We govern our place according to centralized power......" Yang Rui saw that Qiu Jin seemed to have backed down, and only said it euphemistically.

"But isn't this about dividing China into two countries?" Yang Rui said softly, but it scared Qiu Jin.

"Nope. It's just autonomy. Whoever does not admit that he is part of China will be crusaded against. One country, two systems, ancient and modern, both Chinese and foreign. Isn't that what federal system is like in the United States? As long as you don't think about how to expand your territory. Then there will be no fratricidal killing. Yang Rui's words began to be true and false again, according to the current situation, he didn't believe that the alliance would be able to occupy any place, even if the Manchu real power faction rebelled and defected to the alliance, he had a way to deal with it.

After talking for a long time, Qiu Jin was a little relieved when she heard this, at least Yang Rui was not intolerant, and then she asked about the assistance to the Alliance. Yang Rui smiled at this: "Why do we want to help the Alliance, not the Alliance?" ”

Qiu Jin also didn't know what the funding situation was during the meeting. She only knew that the alliance would always be short of money, and Sun Wen asked her to borrow 1,000 yuan last year. At that time, she sold her jewelry not enough, and asked for help everywhere, so she scraped together enough 1,000 yuan to hand over to Sun Wen. She only said: "Now the League is extremely difficult to fund, and the two associations are revolutionary parties, so we shouldn't care who helps whom." ”

"For the revolutionaries themselves, it is not necessary to delve into the question of who helps whom, but if the comrades below are not even fed, let alone have no funds to do, shouldn't the prime minister resign and step down? Everyone is one acre and three points of land, and if the harvest is not good, then raise fewer people, but if it is not good, then pawn the land and find another business; If it is by aiding the revolution, then such a prime minister is the head of state, will the whole Chinese people have to beg for food? "The Military Intelligence Bureau has information on the revolutionary army after the Liangguang Uprising, because of the lack of food, many wounded soldiers died of wounds. Yang Rui saw a lot, and he ridiculed Sun Wen again in his words.

"Regardless of whether the prime minister should step down or not, the livelihood of the righteous people still has to find a way to maintain." Fang Junying's money was not enough, and Cheng Ying couldn't think of any way, so Qiu Jin could only come and ask Yang Rui.

"I am accountable only to the members of the Renaissance Society." Yang Rui shook his head and said, "Yan Zhou and Lin Xi are both short of bullets and salaries, I really can't think of a reason why my own people don't save others if they don't save them." The League was established in 05, and it has been two years now, and in the past two years, it has raised seven uprisings, but none of them have succeeded. It makes people feel like gamblers, rolling the dice again and again, losing again and again. Brother Xuanqing, will you go and help a gambler? I won't anyway! There is nothing more shameless in the world than a gambler who has lost money, putting the blame on those who do not lend him double the money. According to the Alliance's practice, the more money you have, the more people will die, and in the end you will still fail and get nothing. When Yang Rui said that the alliance would be a gambler, Cheng Ying's face on the side suddenly turned red, she used to only think about saving people, but she didn't think about why such a revolutionary righteous man would fall into such a situation, is it really like what Yang Rui said, is it the incompetence of the organizers?

Yang Rui didn't pay attention to her changes, and still said to Qiu Jin: "Xuanqing, I'm glad that you are alive." But I hope that in the future, you will be able to make a revolution not only with your blood, but also with your brains. The world is not black and white, sometimes good people may not do good things, and bad things may not have good results. The whole world is a complex system, implicated in each other, not directly after solving the things in front of you, then you can sit back and relax, the solution of one problem will always lead to the emergence of another problem. Therefore, the revolution is not simply to oust the Manchus, the revolution is very complicated, very long, very difficult, and even more cruel, and I hope that you can understand the joints in it, and then become a real revolutionary, instead of making decisions based on what you see and feel. Yang Rui said this, looked at Qiu Jin eagerly and said, "If Xuanqing agrees, I hope you can go to the UK to study." ”

"Go... United Kingdom...... Study? Qiu Jin was very surprised by Yang Rui's words, she is now a women's newspaper, but she doesn't want Yang Rui to have other arrangements for her.

"Yes. Go to England and study politics, which will make you understand what a real revolution is. Yang Rui said.

"But...... What about the women's newspaper? Qiu Jin still didn't fully reflect, and when she saw that Yang Rui really wanted her to go abroad, she suddenly remembered the newspaper in her hand.

"The number of people who read the newspaper is only a few hundred or thousand, but after you finish your studies, the impact is tens of thousands of people, why choose less and abandon more?" Yang Rui asked with a smile. I was afraid that she wouldn't be able to think about it because of Yin Ruizhi's affairs, so she said again: "Sacrifice is for the revolution, isn't it for the revolution to live?" In my opinion, when it comes to saving the country, those who are alive are more tired than those who have died. Therefore, you should not be bent on sacrifice, but think about how to do more for the people of a new country in the future. And Yin Weijun, don't worry about her, she can go with you if she wants. ”

"But I don't know English......" Seeing that Yang Rui had planned everything, Qiu Jin couldn't cry or laugh, because she hadn't thought of it beforehand.

"I'm not afraid of death, but I'm still afraid of English?" Yang Rui asked rhetorically, he stood up, and the meeting was over, but when he went out, he turned to her and said, "Hurry up, you will come back in the year of Renzi." (To be continued......)